Big surprise, huh?
At least eight inmates released from detention at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have returned to the battlefield against U.S. and coalition troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan, prompting complaints inside the Pentagon that international pressure had undermined the U.S. effort to fight Islamic fundamentalism. The most recent case is that of Abdullah Mehsud, a former Taliban commander released from the detention facility in March, who masterminded the recent kidnapping of two Chinese engineers in Pakistan. One of the engineers was killed during an Oct. 14 rescue attempt by the Pakistani military. The Mehsud case and incidents involving at least seven other former detainees demonstrate that mounting international pressure to either file charges against the prisoners or release them has led to inevitable mistakes, officials say. "I think it's time to question whether we are releasing too many of them," said a senior Defense Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. "The sheer number of people we are seeing on the battlefield is cause for concern." Ya think???
With the fading memory of the Sept. 11 attacks, officials say, international sympathy and legal support have gradually increased for about 550 inmates currently at the Guantanamo facility. Many have been held without charges or court hearings. Since late 2002, the Pentagon has released 202 detainees from Guantanamo, 146 of whom have been freed outright and 56 who have been handed over to the government of their homelands. Officials were also alarmed that Mehsud, a Pakistani national, may have hidden his true identity from U.S. interrogators during his 25 months in captivity. Recently, he has bragged to Pakistani reporters that he convinced his U.S. captors he was of Afghan descent. "If he fibbed, we've said from the beginning that these guys are masters of deception," said Maj. Mike Shavers, a Pentagon spokesman. Major, you sound like an idiot. Continued on Page 49
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The so-called international community hates us, so we can do no right, in their eyes. Big deal. So we must do right in our own interests, which means keeping the Gitmo Gang out of circulation by any means.
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I think we should have released them...into Cuba!
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Cripes... next time, forget about capturing them, just execute them.
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The Black Watch is being deployed as part of a US Marine expeditionary unit to take "decisive action" against insurgents in Iraq, Chief of the Defence Staff General Sir Michael Walker has revealed. General Walker stressed the 850-strong battle group, whose deployment was announced yesterday by Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon, would retain their own rules of engagement. But he said they would be under the "tactical command" of the relevant American corps commander.
General Walker also repeated the Government's promise that the Black Watch would be home by Christmas, saying that, even if they needed replacing in Iraq, those resources already existed within the Multi National Force. "This is all about capabilities not numbers," General Walker told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme. "The Multi National Force corps commander wants to redeploy his troops within his corps, including our battle group in concert with them on behalf of the Iraqi government.
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what is the "black watch"? Can anyopne explain this too me?
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Well it used to be a Scottish regiment you didn't want to screw with in the old days. Not sure about now. I think it might be a major employment project in Scottland anymore. If they are being deployed with teh Marines I think that tells ya something.
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The origin of this regiment was the raising in 1725 of six independent companies of highlanders from clans which had remained loyal to King George I during the Jacobite rebellion of 1715, with the task of keeping peace and order in the highlands. Because of their job of âwatchingâ and the dark colour of the tartan they wore, they became known as The Black Watch.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/ww2/A2780147
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They play a mean sheep bladder.
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When my brother (Silentbrick) and I visited Edinburough Castle and saw the Black Watch museum/chapel in the late 80s, the guide made the amusing observation that the Black Watch had only lost their battle flags twice in their history, and that if we wanted to see them they were hanging at West Point in the US.
More sobering was the small chapel with a large book that contained the names of those members of the regiment who had been lost in action through the centuries.
In 1997 my wife and I saw the Black Watch's band and drum corp in concert on their stop here in Austin, Tx. Very, very cool. What was really amusing were a couple of sword dancers (they danced with and over swords) who we saw chatting it up with some girls after the concert who had their outer shirts/uniforms off. Their T-shirts underneath had various pro-Scotland/anti-England slogans on them.
If you ever see the Black Watch band advertised in your area, it's worth buying a ticket. Enjoyable evening.
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France's anti-terrorist police on Friday identified a young Frenchman killed fighting the United States in Iraq, the first confirmed case of what is believed to be a growing stream of Muslims heading from Europe to fight what they regard as a new holy war. Redouane el-Hakim, 19, the son of Tunisian immigrants, died during an American bombardment of insurgents in Fallujah on July 17, according to an intelligence official close to the case. Intelligence officials fear that for a new generation of disaffected European Muslims, Iraq could become what Afghanistan, Bosnia and Chechnya were for European Islamic militants in past decades: a galvanizing cause that sends idealistic young men abroad, trains them and puts them in touch with a more radical global network of terrorists. In the past, many young Europeans who fought in those wars came back to Europe to plot terrorist attacks at home.
"We consider these people dangerous because those who go will come back once their mission is accomplished," the intelligence official said. "Then they can use the knowledge gained there in France, Europe or the United States. It's the same as those who went to Afghanistan or Chechnya." Hundreds of young militant Muslim men have left Europe to fight in Iraq, according to senior counterterrorism officials in four European countries. They have been recruited through mosques, Muslim centers and militant Web sites by several groups, including Ansar al-Islam, the Kurdish terrorist group once based in northern Iraq. French officials stress that there is not yet evidence of a broad French network funneling fighters to Iraq, and terrorism experts say the vast majority of foreign fighters there come from other countries in the region. But experience with returning fighters from other Muslim holy wars is causing anxiety in Europe. Virtually all of the major terrorists arrested in Europe in the past three years spent time in Bosnia, Afghanistan or Chechnya. Two years ago, French anti-terrorism police broke up a cell of Chechen-trained militants who they believe were plotting a chemical attack in Paris. Those arrests triggered an investigation that is still active into what French counterterrorism officials call "the Chechen network."
"Now, the new land of jihad is Iraq," the intelligence official said. "There, they're trained, they fight and acquire a technique and the indoctrination sufficient to act on when they return." A network of recruiters for Iraq first appeared in Britain, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Norway within months of the U.S.-led invasion, officials said. Some officials said that the recruitment effort has spread to other countries in Europe, including Belgium and Switzerland. The network provides forged documents, financing, training and information about infiltration routes into the country. The movement to Iraq has increased in recent months, officials say, but they decline to provide specifics. One senior European intelligence official said that there is evidence that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian-born militant believed to be operating in Fallujah, has established a sophisticated network that has helped recruit nearly 1,000 young men from the Middle East and Europe. "These young men know where the action is. They easily cross the borders of Syria or Turkey, and they go directly to Fallujah," the official said.
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Just more evidence the fly paper theory is alive and well.
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"Now, the new land of jihad is Iraq," the intelligence official said. "There, theyâre trained, they fight and acquire a technique and the indoctrination sufficient to act on IF when they return."
I think the ratio of those staying (permanently) and returning is very, very slim.
The Bush Doctrine in action.
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France should be grateful that Bush is taking care of their islamist problem.....
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â¦causing anxiety in Europe
Besides us having to deal with them how is that a bad thing? Europe needs to get enough anxiety to do something beside whining.
"Ja, welcome to the new Nordic Division of Al-Qaeda Global Holdings. We are Ãpen for Business. And Al-Qaeda means business."
Norway has joined 60 other countries where the terrorist al-Qaida network has established a foothold, says the International Institute for Strategic Studies. It said Norway's agreement to send troops to Iraq for "humanitarian" work after the invasion also placed the country on al-Qaida's list of targets, Aftenposten reported Thursday. The man believed to be the terror group's deputy leader, Abu Musab al-Zarkawi, has twice mentioned Norway as a probable terror target.
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I think they mean Ayman al Zawahiri.
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It can't be true...What could Al-Qaeda possibly want in that cold 'icelandic' country? There are not even, any blacks up there???
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I hope they settle in the North of Norway. In a few years Ramadan will be in July. A whole month where there is enough light to distinguish a
white thread from a black one.
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Actually there is no need to go so far to the North. In July 2000 I spent a week in Estonia. At anytime during the night there is enough light to read.
A suspected member of the Muslim extremist Abu Sayyaf group that seized tourists and workers from a Philippine resort three years ago has been captured, police said Saturday.
Galib Daman, who carries a P200,000 (US$3,570; euro 2,810) bounty on his head, was arrested Thursday in the southern port city of Zamboanga by police and army intelligence agents, said the regional police chief, Vidal Querol.
Querol said Daman allegedly was involved in the 2001 raid on the Dos Palmas resort southwest of Manila where the Abu Sayyaf seized three Americans and 17 Filipinos. He is also suspected of involvement in the mass kidnapping of students and teachers on Basilan Island in 2000.
The announcement of Daman's arrest came a day after the Australian government said it had received warnings of possible terror attacks in the Philippines and advised travelers to stay away from southern regions used as bases by terror groups.
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Three Muslim Filipinos acting on orders from the Jemaah Islamiyah Southeast Asian terror network have confessed to plotting a bomb attack on the US embassy in the Philippines, the military said Thursday. The three suspects, Abdul Manap Mentang, his girlfriend, Monawara Usop and Mursid Mubpon, were arrested in Manila over October 6-7 and confessed under interrogation, military spokesman Lieutenant General Edilberto Adan said. They told investigators they were ordered to scout out the US embassy in Manila last month in preparation for another bombing, Adan said in a statement. "Last September 23, Mentang, his lover live-in partner Monawara Usop, and Mubpon conducted casing operations on the US embassy," Adan said. "Mubpon was tasked to design a bomb triggering mechanism utilising a cellular phone in connection with their plan to bomb the said embassy."
No further evidence against the three was given. The three also confessed to bombing the airport and the wharf at the southern Philippines city of Davao last year, Adan said, also after receiving orders from JI. Mentang told investigators he is a member of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), a local Muslim separatist group, and that he assembled the bombs used in the Davao attacks, Adan said. Mentang also said he was trained by a senior Jemaah Islamiyah leader and bomb maker, an Indonesian identified as Zulkifli, who ordered the bombings in Davao. Adan also charged that an Indonesian Jemaah Islamiyah member, Abdul Jabidi, had supplied the explosives used in the Davao attacks as well as three other bombing elsewhere on the southern island of Mindanao between 2002 and 2004.
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Mentang living in sin ith his girlfriend? I guess the Allah's rules don't apply to the most holy of Allah's children, just to the little folks. Some muslim pigs are more equal than others. I hope Mentang did the honorable thing and threw acid on that jezebel's face.
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ShintoLDSMethodist Muslim militants in Indonesia's capital today vandalised a cafe in an area popular with foreigners because it was serving beer during the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan.
Ethel, Fred needs the defibrillator...STAT!
Around 300 members of the Islamic Defenders Front ordered customers at the Star Deli in south Jakarta to leave, before smashing the building's windows and doors, said Alawi Usman, a spokesman for the group.
"This here establishment has been closed on account of health code violations. Off to mosque for all you slackers, or me and my posse here will afford you some personal health code violations. Capische?"
"We are against immorality," he said. "The guys saw the beer on the table and what happened, happened. We are doing this for the future of the country's youth."
Yasss, of course. It's For The Children (TM).
The Islamic Defenders Front was formed in 2000. It has a history of vandalising entertainment centres during Ramadan. Many analysts say that extorting money from frightened bar owners is its primary motive, rather than defending Islamic principles.
Just think of it as an excise tax.
No-one was injured in the attack, which police did nothing to stop, Usman said. Police confirmed the raid occurred, but declined say why they did not try to prevent it.
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MUSLIM militants in Indonesia's capital today vandalised a cafe in an area popular with foreigners because it was serving beer during the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan. Around 300 members of the Islamic Defenders Front ordered customers at the Star Deli in south Jakarta to leave, before smashing the building's windows and doors, said Alawi Usman, a spokesman for the group. "We are against immorality," he said. "The guys saw the beer on the table and what happened, happened. We are doing this for the future of the country's youth." No-one was injured in the attack, which police did nothing to stop, Usman said.
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Sounds like France, same time next year.
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During daylight hours? Then this makes perfect sense - to a Mooselimb. Sheesh. Is Indo a buncha amateurs at this IslamoRamaDamaDingDong stuff?
For your non-Mooslimbs and "bad" Mooselimbs, what you're supposed to do during daylight hours is:
1) Let people in the back door. Using the front door is like rubbing their noses in it. We're eating and drinking. You're a dumbass Mooselimb and you're starving. Tough shit, right? No, wrong. That's like a bad move, K? When the mutawa get on the case, not even the local cops will say diddley-squat. So be cool.
2) Avoid cooking shit that they can smell 5 blocks away, like barbeque over hickory or mesquite and choice beef slathered with secret sauces that make Mooselimb mouths water. I know it's a joy beyond words, but it's really hard on the guys fasting til sunset. Pisses 'em off. Seriously.
3) Draw all the curtains and seat people at interior tables so the pitiful Mooselimbs languishing on the sidewalk outside can't see all that ice cold beer and hear the laughter and clinking of cutlery as you dine on fine foods while they starve and blame the Jooos for their discomfort.
4) When your non-Mooselimb customers have sated themselves and paid the bill, adding a nice tip for the privilege of fucking Ramadam's rules, they should discreetly exit by the back door in ones and twos - and avoid coming around the corner and issuing large belches which, again, piss off the Mooselimbs - hell, during the daylight hours of Ramafuckingdan what doesn't piss off the Mooselimbs?
5) And remember, the Ramafuckingdan restrictions are: no eating, drinking, smoking, or public fornication during daylight hours. So put out your stogies and dismount before going back out in public.
There, that oughtta keep our Indo friends from such silly mistakes during the remainder of Ramafuckingdan. Rookies.
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Which Paris cafes will be closed this month for breakfast, lunch, and dinner?
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raptor - In a word, yes, but I thought it might be interesting to those who've not experienced the joys of Ramadan in a country under the thumb of Official Islam to see what we actually DID do. What I posted above is common sense and true in practice. Most restaurants are closed during Ramadan. Everyone "knows" who's open and is quickly taught the rules of the game.
Lemme tell you, when you're sitting in your car in the parking lot, sneaking a smoke and a cup o' joe from your Thermos, and you look around and see smoke rising from the slightly-opened windows of 3 or 4 other cars scattered around the lot, and then you see some asshat muttawa roaming the parking lot looking for you and all the smoke stops cuz the windows go up, it stops being funny and gives you just the slightest hint of what "police state" means. Definitely un-funny. Fuck Ramadan.
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Sorry if I sound melodramatic, bro - it's just that it's all true and it was a bitch of a month to get through. I survived 5 of the mofo's - and they sucked like an F5. I could even say they're seared, seared! -- nah, I won't go there, heh. Plz forgive my lack of humor on this topic!
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Lol! Hmmmm. I dunno, am I doing it right? I always thought seething was more of a feeling thingy than a factual thingy. Y'know, reality isn't just a set of conditions I have to deal with (facts), it's how I feel about, um, y'know, like uh, everything. Heh. Those things I posted were actual facts, so I think I'm still doing it wrong, I bet. I've always been wedded to facts (So that was the problem!) - so I'm afraid I'll prolly need seething training.
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"Alcohol, the cause of and solution to all mankind's problems."
- Homer Simpson -
Does anyone else get the feeling that Muslims are born with their panties in a wad? However poor in form it is to generalize, I'm getting absolutely f&%king sick of how just about anything remotely related to pleasurable human existence is a dire offense to all Islam.
The only way they'll get a bottle of beer out of my hand is when I shove the empty up their whiny ass. And you can be confident that I'll make sure to be drinking out of a 40 ouncer when it happens.
BAGHDAD, Iraq — Driving fuel, water, ice and the U.S. mail across Iraq is dangerous business, but for many civilian contractors it is worth the risk for a chance to serve their country. This is the untold story of America's unsung heroes working in Iraq. "This job is unlike any other job in the world. Soon as you go outside the wire, you know, I mean, it's dangerous," said driver Paul Chevalier.
Civilian contractors working for KBR, the Houston-based Halliburton subsidiary, drive more than 3.3 million miles a month in Iraq to transport fuel and supplies for the U.S. Army. Seventeen drivers have died in ambushes. Many braving the job came for the opportunity to earn three times their normal salary, but have discovered a calling to help the Iraqi people since getting behind the wheel in the liberated country. Ruthie Brisbane, a 54-year-old grandmother working in Iraq, explained what she wants for the Iraqis: "That they can be free and live without fear ... I want to see them live a life very close to ours."
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I hope that this works and that they will be successful in stopping the madness in Darfur. We contribute the airlift and the Africans contribute the muscle and troops. I would like to see the Africans step up to the plate more. It will build some precidents for future actions and will take the stress off of our troops.
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No French airlift contribution?
IC. If ya broke as a joke, then ya broke.
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France has little or no Airlift capability. As a matter of fact they rely on the U.S.A.F. to shuttle their troops around when they are sent on 'peace keeping' missions. Of course we get little credit when we do give the French a lift somewhere.
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Whoa - so many questions, so little sense! We don't hafta like paint little roundels or something on the wings first, do we? That'd be so embarassing. Are they good tippers? Do we hafta serve funny food? Do they get to drink wine onboard? I'll bet they don't stay seated and mill around making a nuisance of themselves. I've been on Air Phrawnce - for a 14 hr leg - and know whereof I bitch!
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We're not the only nation in the world with airplanes! It never fails to amaze me how the US continues to stretch it's reserves on countries other countries could help, while we're at war!
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AP is right: better supplying transport than troops at this point. Canada & Australia are kicking in, too. I just hope the Europeans come through at their end.
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Better we help ferry in some one elses troops than our own. Its time for Africa to step up to the plate and help put the continent into some kind of shape. But if we could get the French to loan us a few Airbuses we could make the trip one way. Actually when they get the A380(?) flying a couple of squadrons of these would do wonders for airlifting of troops. Maybe Boeing could do double decked 747. Top deck for troops and the bottom for Hummers and Stykers
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I would imagine that we are dealing with Herc strips in that area of the world. Gravel if you are lucky, but probably just dirt strips. Airbuses won't cut it.
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I know Airbuses wouldn't cut, just hoping the birds would get bent enough to be turned into lawn ornaments
The bullet-riddled body of a Palestinian was found near a trash bin on a Gaza City street Saturday, and Hamas said it killed the man on suspicion he passed along information that helped Israel assassinate the group's founder and nine others. Also Saturday, five Tunisian doctors were en route to the West Bank to examine Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who has the flu. A Tunisian diplomat said Arafat is recovering, and that the exam is a precaution. Palestinian militants have killed dozens of alleged informants in the West Bank, but such attacks have been rare in the Gaza Strip, where the Palestinian security services still function to some degree. Hassan Musallam, in his 20s, had been missing for several days. His body was found two days after Israel killed the deputy chief of the Hamas military wing, Adnan al-Ghoul, in an airstrike. The secretive Al-Ghoul, a top bombmaker and weapons engineer, had been on Israel's most-wanted list since 1990. The Hamas military wing, Izzedine al Qassam, said Musallam was interrogated and "provided us with information and details about the way he assisted the Zionist enemy in carrying out the crimes of assassination."
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welcome to Paranoia and Purge City, County of Gaza
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Five doctors for a flu follow-up? That's a lot of collaboration too!
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Tom "Five doctors for a flu follow-up? That's a lot of collaboration too!"
One to check on the Rais, the other four to be kidnapped and held for ransom.
Two French soldiers with the NATO-led peacekeeping force in Afghanistan died in a road accident near Kabul this week, the alliance said Saturday. The soldiers' vehicle overturned on a road north of the capital on Thursday, said spokesman Lt. Col. Patrick Poulain. No other vehicle or person was involved in the accident. They were the first French soldiers in the nearly 9,350-strong multinational peacekeeping mission to die in Afghanistan, and the accident is under investigation. The spokesman did not name the soldiers, who served in a reconnaissance squadron, part of the Third Regiment of the Hussards, based in Germany.
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Are these the first French casualties in the greater WoT, besides of course, the French national terrorists?
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Rest in Peace.
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Suspected Islamic militants killed 16 people heading to a soccer match in a pre-dawn ambush south of Algeria's capital Saturday _ the first bloodshed since the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, an official statement said. The victims, mostly youths, were driving to Algiers for the match when they were ambushed on the road near Medea, 30 miles south of the capital. They were buried Saturday, and the mourners included Interior Minister Noureddine Yazid Zerhouni. In the past, Algeria's Islamic rebels have intensified their campaign of violence during Ramadan, killing about 1,200 people during the month of fasting in 1997 at the height of their insurgency.
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If you kill 16 people are you still a suspected militant?
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Well, during Ramadan, it could just be put down to "religious exuberance"
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Lol, Para! Prolly like the UN thingy where they have some magic criteria for "genocide" vs regular old run-of-the-mill mass murder. So I'll bet there's a secret nuance code for when someone graduates from "suspected militant" to "murdering terrorist".
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Well, Para, we're going to have to stop joking about suspecting Presbyterians in these attacks, since some of that faction's most noted authorities have joined the "militants" themselves..
A suicide attacker killed himself and wounded at least seven others, including three members of the NATO-led peacekeeping force, in a grenade attack on a busy shopping street in central Kabul on Saturday. Kabul police chief General Baba Jan said the attacker had six hand grenades strapped to his body, of which three failed to detonate.
"Not that it mattered much to him, as it turns out."
"One person was killed who is believed to have been the attacker," said Lt Colonel Patrick Poulain, spokesman at the headquarters of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the Afghan capital. The bloody corpse of the attacker lay on the sidewalk, near a damaged ISAF vehicle, Reuters eyewitnesses said. The attack happened on Chicken Street, a well-known haunt for foreigners shopping for carpets, jewelry and antiques. Poulain said seven people were wounded in the blast. One of the ISAF troops was in a serious condition, while the other two were only slightly hurt. There were no details on their nationalities. Poulain said one of the civilians wounded was believed to be a foreign woman, but added that this was unconfirmed.
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Anyone want to bet on how many more of these murder bombings will be required for the Islamic world to see just how foolish it is to inculcate a mentality of mindless violence in its believers?
'Come Closer to Allah Through the Blood of Infidels' Saud Bin Hamoud Al-Utaybi, who is wanted by the Saudi authorities, wrote the following in the journal's opening editorial: "Muslims! Go out to [fight] Jihad for the sake of Allah! Paradise has already flung open its gates and the virgins of paradise are already decked out in anticipation of their grooms this is Allah's promise. He [Allah] will not grant peace of mind to anyone who has a heart until he has gone out to fight against Allah's enemies, as he was commanded. He who does not act [i.e., fight the Jihad ] out of obedience to Allah's command, and out of zeal for the honor of the Muslim women which was defiled at Abu Ghreib and in the other prisons of the leaders of unbelief, and out of fervor, and out of mortification at [the thought of] shirking [battle] what else could arouse him [to go to battle] other than all of these?âŠ
"Muslims! You should at the very least pray for your brothers the Jihad fighters, who gave their lives and spilled their blood for Allah in defense of the holy sites that were desecrated and in revenge for the pride of the Muslim nation that was wounded by the cross bearers and by the Jews. Don't forget to pray for your brothers in FallujahâŠ
(because they are as depraved & wacko as the brain dead mook he wrote this crap)
"We pray for the Jihad fighters in Fallujah and in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya, the Arabian Peninsula ⊠in wounded Palestine, which the most wicked of all humans have been flooding with iniquity for more than 50 years, without there being anyone to stop them, and in Egypt, in whose borders your valiant brothers took action and attacked a hotel in which Jews were gathered and killed dozens of them as an offering to Allah before Ramadan. We ask of Allah that he not deny them [their] reward for this colossal feat. (Sooooo peaceful)
"Don't forget your brothers in Algeria who have been fighting for Allah for more than ten years. [These fighters] have suffered from the abandonment of those close to them, from the enmity of those far from them, from the enemy's assault and from [various] afflictions and tribulations, but this has not weakened them. We appreciate them, and Allah will grant them their reward. We ask Allah to grant victory to them and to the other Jihad fighters everywhere⊠(Oh grand mufti of morons let us blow up before the Marines blow us away.)
"Oh, men of Jihad everywhere! There are two types of Jihad in Ramadan: The diurnal Jihad [expressed by] fasting and the nocturnal Jihad [expressed by] prayer. Perform the J ihad against your enemies with your [own two] hands, sacrifice your souls and your property in fighting your enemy, as an imitation of [the acts of] your Prophet [Muhammad] in the month of Ramadan [and in order to] enrage your enemies. I bet they can't buy medical insurance due to a pre- existing 'condition'.
"Oh, men of Jihad, the victory of Allah's religion will be as [Allah] said: 'Fight them until there is no civil strife [ fitna ] in the country, and God's religion shall reign supreme.' [ Koran 8:39] For the country is full of civil strife and unbelief. wild stuff
"Oh, men of Jihad, cleanse the country of unbelief and unbelievers by means of Jihad and war [and by means of] the sword and the spear. Do not be led astray by the power of the infidels because their strength, be it what it may, is under Allah's control and His agenda. 'Agenda'? similar to Kerry's election agenda?
"Know that Allah grants you victory and supports you as He promised. Make use of this glorious month because it brings together great elements: fasting, nocturnal prayer, the reciting of the Quran and other good deeds. Therefore, trust in your Lord, fight your enemies, and cleanse the Arabian Peninsula of the unbelievers." After they 'cleanse' Arabia there might be two terrorists & three camels remaining plus a lot of sand. The oil is tarnished by 'infidels' so blow it up
Sick is not the word for this jihadic dribble. Is there a team of psychotherapists in the house, or some mean psychiatrists? How about a group of exorcists? Better yet, an urgent shipment of nutron bombs to our Coalition forces where ever required.
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Well, I guess hugs and singing Kumbayah is not going to work with these chaps.
After reading this madness, I have a great need to take a shower and use up a whole bar of soap. My wife, who is a psychologist, says that they are broken people that cannot be fixed, and she has dealt with all types. So I guess that it is just the Orkin Man, now.
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Seriously folks I think these assholes need to get laid. They are so sexually frustrated and impotent (maybe that explains the big turbans and robes "ifs you gotta ta be impotent yh gots ta dress impotent") the only release they have is violence.
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Love the picture, looks like Ming the Merciless with constipation.
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Cheaderhead, you go ahead and take care of the laying, if you feel its that important. I think I can speak for most females in this case when I say, ICK! No thank you!
The U.S. military has arrested a "senior leader" in the network run by Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, along with five others during overnight raids in the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, officials said Saturday. American forces have stepped up operations in Fallujah in a bid to root out al-Zarqawi's terror group, Tawhid and Jihad, which is believed to operate from there. The group has been blamed in numerous suicide bombings and beheadings of foreign hostages, including recent twin blasts inside Baghdad's Green Zone, which houses the U.S and Iraqi leadership. The 1:30 a.m. raid in southern Fallujah targeted a site being used as a safe haven by al-Zarqawi's inner circle, according to a military statement. Intelligence sources said the man captured was previously thought to be a relatively minor member of the terror network. But because so many of al-Zarqawi's associates have been captured or killed, he moved up to take a more important role.
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Exxxcccceelllennntt!
(/Montgomery Burns)
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Anyone noticed that like his Hamas colleague this leader of suicide bombers allowed himself to be taken alive.
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"please don't kill me! I want the reward, really!"
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I suspect this raid actually happened several days prior and led to subsequent targeted bombings. Open wide Zarqawi, this one's aimed at your hindquarters..
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Fingers still crossed that our boys can serve his head up on a platter for W before the election.
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The Macedonian government confirmed Friday the death of three Macedonian hostages in Iraq, the MIA news agency reported. The preliminary report of the Macedonian governmental expert team confirmed the death of three Kumanovo (northern Macedonia) citizens, Dalibor Lazarevski, Zoran Naskovski and Dragan Markovic,said the spokesmen of the government and Foreign and Interior Ministries at a press conference in Skopje. The expert team checked the videotape, showing the execution ofMacedonian hostages, at the Al-Jazeera TV station in Qatar and sent a report to the government, they said, adding that a new expert team from Macedonia would be sent to Iraq to find the bodies of the victims. (Thinking Americans have Fox, Muslim terrorists have Al-Jazeera)
Macedonian President Branko Crvenkovski and Prime Minister HariKostov reiterated respectively Friday that the murder of three Macedonians would not make Macedonia withdraw its soldiers from Iraq. The three Macedonians, who worked for a US building company, were seized by militants in Iraq on August 21st. The Al-Jazeera broadcasted Monday the segments of the videotapeprovided by the rebel group, Islamic Army of Iraq, showing that the group had killed two of the three, Dalibor Lazarevski and Zoran Naskovski, due to "espionage in favor of US forces". According to MIA's report, the third, Dragan Markovic, was alsokilled. His family in Kumanovo recognized his clothes in the photographs presented to them by state organs Thursday night. A three-member expert team of Macedonian government, led by theDeputy Foreign Minister Fuad Hasanovic, departed Tuesday for Qatarto verify the information.
(Maybe Kerry can throw some insults in this direction---> Macedonia, a country of the US-led coalition, has 32 troops stationed in north of Baghdad. In addition, there are hundreds of Macedonian citizens, whose accurate number has not been available,working in Iraq for foreign companies.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces have nabbed a senior member of wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's inner circle during a raid in southern Falluja, according to the Multi-National Forces-Iraq. Five other people were also detained in the raid on the safe haven, which happened around 1:30 a.m. Saturday, the MNF-I statement said. Initially, the individual targeted and detained was thought to be a minor member of al-Zarqawi's circle. However, the MNF-I said that "due to a surge in the number of Zarqawi associates who have been captured or killed by MNF-I strikes and other operations, the member had moved up to take a critical position as a Zarqawi senior leader."
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Also from the linked article:
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has "serious doubts" that the special tribunal chosen to try Saddam Hussein and his top associates could meet judicial standards for fair and open proceedings, a U.N. spokesman said Friday. "It's doubtful whether U.N. officials should be involved in the establishment of a tribunal that is not a U.N. body," Stephane Dujarric said. "We have serious doubts regarding the capability of the Iraqi special tribunal to meet the relevant international standards."
Statements like this from Kofi has been a serial genocide enabler are a laugh. Kofi the Iraqi's will be glad to strech Saddams neck a quickly as they can. Don't worry they don't need your help. In fact I hope they kept that chipper around in case they decide to use it on him.
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Keep killing them at a rate such that novices become senior level within a week. Up and out personnel management courtesy of the US Armed Forces.
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"It's doubtful whether U.N. officials should be involved in the establishment of a tribunal that is not a U.N. body," Wonder if he means something like the IWCT at the Haque.Talk about a waste of time and money.
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Raptor, why do you think the Hague tribunal is a waste of time and money?
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Re #1 (SPD) Kofi has been a serial genocide enabler
In what ways has Kofi Annan been a serial genocide enabler?
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Mr. Sylwester, you are being disingenous. Use the brain you were born with.
Has the Hague tribunal managed to convict anyone yet? How long have they been working on this? What has been their per diem just for lunches, do you suppose?
Kofi Annan was in charge on the ground in Rwanda, and refused to pass on the military commander's urgent demands for more troops to prevent the upcoming massacre. Nor did he do anything once the massacre started.
Mr. Annan has been in charge during the entire series of events in Sudan: first the massacre of the black Christians and animists in the South, now the massacre of the black Muslims in Darfur region.
You have been reading Rantburg for some time. You know these things at least as well as this little housewife does. I shall expect proper answers to these questions, with working links, by the end of the weekend, as I'm sure you'll want to spend some time with your family.
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Tell me,Mike,just what has the IWCT done?How many war/genoicde/ethnic cleanser have been braught to trial?Don't you think that they should have managed to put people like Milosavich,and Koradic in prision by now.If you can't give me a deffinative answer,then you should at least concede that TW,and I just might be right.For the life of me I can not understand your blind loyalty to failed international orginazations.
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please provide evidence that Mike S has a brain. I'm looking forward to the evidence and will return here at 11AM PST to see what has been documented. Thanks in advance everyone. Provide footnotes, dates, and corroborating witnesses with affadavits (notarized). Thanks.
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Re #7 (Trailing Wife) Has the Hague tribunal managed to convict anyone yet?
Yes.
What has been their per diem just for lunches, do you suppose?
Above what level would the per diem indicate that Kofi Annan is a serial genocide enabler?
Kofi Annan was in charge on the ground in Rwanda, and refused to pass on the military commander's urgent demands for more troops to prevent the upcoming massacre. Nor did he do anything once the massacre started.
Pass on the demands to whom? If the demands had been passed on, then would the UN have sent more troops? What do you think Annan should have done once the massacre started?
Mr. Annan has been in charge during the entire series of events in Sudan
Mr. Annan has been in charge of the UN Secretariat, which implements the decisions of the UN Security Council. He has implemented all such resolutions about Sudan.
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And he happily pretends that the current state of affairs in Sudan is desireable; he pretends that the security council, or more accurately Sudan's economic partners France and China, and their veto power at the council, proves that the situation in Sudan is good.
I suspect it would be healthier for you if you pretended to believe in a pooka named Harvey. He's much nicer. I'll introduce you to him if we ever meet. He's the best friend anyone could ever have!
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Comment: Re #7 (Trailing Wife) Has the Hague tribunal managed to convict anyone yet? Yes.
Where's your proof,Mike?Let's see some documentation?Your always demanding others provide proof.Where's yours?Time to pony-up skippy!
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Here is a puff piece: Hague tribunal comes of age
Formed in 1993. Ninety-two accused war criminals have been brought before it, 42 of them already tried (including guilty pleas). It has completed no fewer than 22 trials; seven convicts have already served their time. Also: 1300 staff and a 100-million-euro budget (per year).
Let you decide if it is worth it.
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Just popping to check on that MS- brain evidence thing? Any luck yet?
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Thanks for the link, Ed. Are you satisfied with that, Raptor?
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Sounds expensive, even adjusting Nuremburg for inflation. But I guess it helps soften the Euro unemployment rate.
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More to the point... are the Hague Tribunal and its supporters willing to do anything to stop the ongoing genocide in Sudan or not?
Or are they merely a bunch of guys willing to show up after the battle is won by someone else and bayonet the enemy wounded?
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Hmmm - past 11AM - no evidence...
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LOL! I missed another train wreck at RantBurg Station.
Oh, no! They got Jean-Francois!... Errr... No. It was somebody else...
Intelligence agents have identified the first French national known to have been killed fighting with the insurgency against US forces in Iraq, officials said Friday. The 19-year-old, named as Redouane El Hakim, is believed to have travelled to Iraq via Syria at the start of the year and been killed in a US bombardment on Fallujah in July.
You're welcome, Jacques!
Officials close to the case, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Hakim was one of several French citizens of Muslim background who have gone to Iraq to fight along insurgents there. "It's difficult to estimate their number, but there mustn't be more than around 10 or so," one official said. "There is no organised network, it's more thrown together." According to Le Figaro newspaper, intelligence agents know of two other Frenchmen in Fallujah at the moment.
That'd be Jean-Pierre and Jean-Claude, no doubt...
Hakim, who was of Tunisian origin, had lived in the Paris region and was accompanied by his brother Boubakeur, 21, the officials said. But Boubakeur was detained by the Syrian authorities and remains in custody there. Hakim was buried in Iraq, one source said, adding that the exact date of his death was not known. He and his brothers were known to frequent a radical Islamic group that was investigated earlier this year in the western Paris suburb of Levallois-Perret. The French sources said the French militants heading to Iraq appeared to be entering through Syria. Other Muslims looking to join the jihad, or holy war, against the US-led forces "make it to Iraq via Britain then Saudi Arabia on the pretext of making a pilgrimage, and then Syria before entering Iraq," one official said.
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Drop the late Redouane's shoes over Paris.
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Two weeks after coordinated bombings at several Red Sea resorts in Egypt, Israeli and Egyptian investigators have yet to assemble a clear picture of how the attacks occurred or identify the people or group behind them, according to officials who described a frustrating shortage of evidence, the same problem that plagued other major terrorism inquiries in the early stages.
The Oct. 7 attacks along the Sinai Peninsula's rugged east coast killed 34 people, many of them Israeli tourists in the midst of a long holiday weekend. In the past two weeks, investigators from Egypt and Israel have pored over evidence from three crime scenes. Egyptian officials have questioned dozens of tribesmen from the remote desert region, which provided the attackers with vulnerable targets and a seemingly traceless escape.
Drawing on fragments of evidence and traits the case appears to share with large attacks in Africa and Europe since May 2003, Egyptian and Israeli investigators say they believe the Sinai bombings were carried out by Egyptians who belong to a previously unknown cell inspired by the global ambitions of al Qaeda and guided by experienced foreign militants. Those initial conclusions fit a pattern that emerged from investigations into bombings in Madrid, Istanbul and Casablanca, Morocco, but only after months of following leads that at various turns pointed to different organizations with vastly different motives. As in those cases, the first phase of the Sinai inquiry highlights how difficult investigating terrorism has become at a time when rising violence in the Middle East is moving scores of anonymous young men to take up arms against the United States and allied governments. "This is an octopus with al Qaeda at its heart," Col. Zohar Alafi, deputy director of the Israeli military's intelligence research division, said last week during a hearing of the Israeli parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee. "It is composed of independent cells whose common denominator is hatred of Jews and Christians and the desire to topple 'heretic regimes' that cooperate with the United States and Israel."
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Mossad was responsible. Only the Jews could cover their tracks so completely.
/Cairo intellectual
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Pakistani Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed told VOA that terror suspect Abdul-Rahman, arrested this week, had been a messenger for the al-Qaida network.
So he was a runner...
"We have arrested Abdul-Rahman, who was dealing with the communications for al-Qaida. This man, we have arrested from Peshawar," Mr. Ahmed says. The arrest of alleged al-Qaida communications operative Mohammed Naem Noor Khan earlier this year reportedly led authorities to several other key al-Qaida figures. But Mr. Ahmed said it is unclear whether Abdul-Rahman's capture would lead to other fugitive suspects.
He's probably got only a single route, so he'll know his controller and anywhere from a couple to a half dozen operatives. Other than revealing his little piece of the organization chart, he probably doesn't have any useful information...
The news comes as Pakistan's military continues operations against alleged foreign terrorists in its semi-autonomous South Waziristan tribal agency. Military spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan Khan says five soldiers and an unknown number of suspected militants were killed in fighting Wednesday at the Waziri town of Spinkai Raghzai. Pakistani political commentator Ayaz Amir says the general public is now questioning whether the campaign is in the country's best interest. "Rightly or wrongly, whatever is being done over there is being seen as coming because of American pressure. And that is why there is not much public support for all this," Mr. Amir says.
You either run your country or you don't. If you don't, you've got no bitch when somebody else comes in and cleans out the corners that have started to stink. They can cooperate with the Americans or not, but if they don't, they've got the example of the Taliban right next door. Actually, they've got it in exactly the area that's being thumped.
But he says the government believes flushing militants out of tribal areas is necessary for domestic security and not meant as a diplomatic gesture to the United States.
That's about what I just said, with a dollop of national pride tossed in.
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Two soldiers and three civilians were killed in clashes between security forces and militants in different parts of the South Waziristan tribal region on Friday. Unofficial reports said that two soldiers were killed when a remote-controlled bomb exploded near the Laddah Fort at Friday noon. Nine other soldiers received injuries in the incident and they were shifted to a military hospital in Wana. The area is inhabited by the Mahsud tribe. Residents said that soon after the bomb explosion the security forces started intense firing from the Laddah Fort. They said that a woman and her minor boy were killed when their cab came under fire in the area. Her four-year-old daughter also received injuries in the firing.
Army spokesman Maj-Gen Shaukat Sultan told Dawn by telephone that only four soldiers were wounded in the bomb explosion. He said that the militants attacked a military convoy in Jandola in which a few soldiers received "minor injuries." According to reports, the situation at Spinkay Raghzay is also tense as heavy exchange of fire has continued between the security forces and the militants holed up in the mountainous area encircled by the army troops for the last four days. Residents said that an artillery shell hit the residence of Haji Mian Wali Khan, killing his 22-year-old son Attaullah Khan whereas two of his close relatives received injuries. The injured have been identified as Mahmood Khan and a six-year-old boy Haneef Khan.
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Associates of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat said on Friday that his health was in decline again, Channel One has reported. Hadash MK Ahmed Tibi dismissed the reports, stating that Arafat was only suffering another bout of the flu.
"Inclining, perhaps, or reclining, but certainly not declining."
Just like Generalissimo Franco.
The chairman has apparently had a temperature, fatigue and other signs of the disease in recent days. However, one of Arafat's aides had said on Tuesday that Arafat's health had improved.
"Piffle! He's the very picture of health."
Arafat apparently caught his cold two weeks ago on Tuesday, while walking in the windy courtyard of his headquarters, aides said. That evening, he felt nauseous during dinner, couldn't finish his meal and went to bed early, an aide added. His condition was so bad Friday that he was unable to complete the first day of Ramadan prayers and unlike past years, he did not receive delegations arriving at his headquarters known as the Muqata in the West Bank city of Ramallah for his holiday blessings.
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...Faster, please.
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A face only a mother camel 'might' love..
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That photo in the original post....he already looks like death warmed over.
Ah say, ah say, boih, yuh look lahk two miles o' rough road!
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That's his Yassin look.
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ugh! What's that smell?
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Arafatâs health declines again
Too bad the Israelis can't be of more assistance in this particular case. Israel most richly deserves the satisfaction of blowing Arafat's terrorist carcass straight to hell. No amount of slow torture or prolonged suffering could ever compensate for the wanton violence and bilious hatred that Arafat has spread throughout his all too lengthy lifetime. The only forewarning he deserves is to get a brief glimpse of the missile launch that finally parks him for his dirt nap. This maggot cannot die soon enough or painfully enough.
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France's anti-terrorist police on Friday identified a young Frenchman killed fighting the United States in Iraq, the first confirmed case of what is believed to be a growing stream of Muslims heading from Europe to fight what they regard as a new holy war. 
Three Muslim Filipinos acting on orders from the 
The bullet-riddled body of a Palestinian was found near a trash bin on a Gaza City street Saturday, and Hamas said it killed the man on suspicion he passed along information that helped Israel assassinate the group's founder and nine others. Also Saturday, five Tunisian doctors were en route to the West Bank to examine Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who has the flu. A Tunisian diplomat said Arafat is recovering, and that the exam is a precaution. Palestinian militants have killed dozens of alleged informants in the West Bank, but such attacks have been rare in the Gaza Strip, where the Palestinian security services still function to some degree. Hassan Musallam, in his 20s, had been missing for several days. His body was found two days after Israel killed the deputy chief of the Hamas military wing, 
"One person was killed who is believed to have been the attacker," said Lt Colonel Patrick Poulain, spokesman at the headquarters of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the Afghan capital. The bloody corpse of the attacker lay on the sidewalk, near a damaged ISAF vehicle, Reuters eyewitnesses said. The attack happened on Chicken Street, a well-known haunt for foreigners shopping for carpets, jewelry and antiques. Poulain said seven people were wounded in the blast. One of the ISAF troops was in a serious condition, while the other two were only slightly hurt. There were no details on their nationalities. Poulain said one of the civilians wounded was believed to be a foreign woman, but added that this was unconfirmed.
'Come Closer to Allah Through the Blood of Infidels' 
The U.S. military has arrested a "senior leader" in the network run by Jordanian terror mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, along with five others during overnight raids in the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah, officials said Saturday. American forces have stepped up operations in Fallujah in a bid to root out al-Zarqawi's terror group, Tawhid and Jihad, which is believed to operate from there. The group has been blamed in numerous suicide bombings and beheadings of foreign hostages, including recent twin blasts inside Baghdad's Green Zone, which houses the U.S and Iraqi leadership. The 1:30 a.m. raid in southern Fallujah targeted a site being used as a safe haven by al-Zarqawi's inner circle, according to a military statement. Intelligence sources said the man captured was previously thought to be a relatively minor member of the terror network. But because so many of al-Zarqawi's associates have been captured or killed, he moved up to take a more important role.
U.S. and Iraqi forces have nabbed a senior member of wanted terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's inner circle during a raid in southern Falluja, according to the Multi-National Forces-Iraq. Five other people were also detained in the raid on the safe haven, which happened around 1:30 a.m. Saturday, the MNF-I statement said. Initially, the individual targeted and detained was thought to be a minor member of al-Zarqawi's circle. However, the MNF-I said that "due to a surge in the number of Zarqawi associates who have been captured or killed by MNF-I strikes and other operations, the member had moved up to take a critical position as a Zarqawi senior leader."
Two weeks after coordinated bombings at several Red Sea resorts in Egypt, Israeli and Egyptian investigators have yet to assemble a clear picture of how the attacks occurred or identify the people or group behind them, according to officials who described a frustrating shortage of evidence, the same problem that plagued other major terrorism inquiries in the early stages.
