Controversial Islamic cleric Abu Hamza has appeared at the Old Bailey charged with a string of offences including soliciting murder. Hamza, 47, spoke by video link for the hearing before the Common Serjeant of London Judge Peter Beaumont. Ten charges under the Offences Against the Person Act of 1861 allege he solicited others at public meetings to murder non-believers, including Jews. Hamza also faces four charges under the Public Order Act 1986 of "using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with the intention of stirring up racial hatred". A further charge alleges Hamza was in possession of eight video and audio recordings, which he intended to distribute to stir up racial hatred. The final charge under section 58 of the Terrorism Act accuses him of possession of a document which contained information "of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism". The hearing was adjourned until December 21. Extradition proceedings to the United States, where Hamza is wanted in relation to other matters, have been suspended pending the outcome of the case.
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I have no great faith that he will see a day in prison longer than his unbailed detention. The court will consider him a hardship case and sentence him to time served.
He was surprised and cornered, caught during a rare reunion with his wife and four children in a small single-story house here in Ingushetia, Russian republic neighboring Chechnya, on Oct. 10. After years of eluding the authorities, he spent his last moments fleeing shoeless through a garden, as Russian commandos riddled him with automatic rifle fire, witnesses and his relatives say.
Don't remember if this has been posted before, but that was such a nice to start my day I thought I'd share.
Russian authorities described Khashiyev as an Islamic terrorist loyal to Shamil Basayev, the Chechen who claimed responsibility for the worst acts of terror to strike modern Russia, including the siege at a public school in Beslan in September in which at least 344 people were killed. Khashiyev trained in a terrorist camp in Chechnya, the Russians said, led a wing of Basayev's separatist group and helped organize attacks, including the seizure of the school. The unsparing pursuit of Khashiyev demonstrates Russia's invigorated efforts to hunt separatists after terrorist attacks have shaken the country this year. The Russian security services, which erroneously announced at least once before that they had killed him, all but openly celebrated his death. "We feel satisfaction," said Major General Ilya Shabalkin, spokesman for counterterrorism forces in the North Caucasus.
Me too. More at the link.
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Killing the underlings would reduce the risk of reprisals substantially. Just my humble opinion submission.
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What sort of #*%^* headline is that? You can just see the NYT weenie's hands trembling as he types this out. "Oh, dear. Now they've done it. Those Chechens might do something radical in retaliation. Who, oh who, will break this cycle of violence?"
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Dallas, has been tried already and did not work that well. I say, an entirely new approach is necessary. Let's call it, euphemistically, a lead poisoning.
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New intelligence methods include tracking associates and relatives of the target, creating ever closer concentric circles of affiliation. The point being that even if you can't directly trace Basayev, you can track those who have some relation to him and through them, get to him. Did the Russians get too eager?
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WhiteKitty, ahm, am quite sure that Russkies have this method on the top of their operational agenda. Some years ago, a couple of their diplos have been kidnapped by some jihadi outfit. The KGB found relatives of the kidnappers, "acquired" them, and started to send deliveries of minor body parts (part of a digit or ear and a note saying that bigger parts would be delivered if the hostages had one hair harmed) to the suspected location for the outfit command. The two hostages were released pretty fast.
South Korea's military went into a high state of alert on Tuesday, tightening roadblocks and traffic checks north of Seoul after finding signs of possible infiltration by North Korean agents, officials said. The increased security along the roads between the tense border and Seoul came as U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell was visiting South Korea to discuss a strategy for restarting stalled talks on North Korea's nuclear weapons programs. South Korean border guards found a hole in the wire fence that forms the southern boundary of the 2.5-mile wide Demilitarized Zone that separates the two Koreas, said Brig. Gen. Hwang Joong-sun of the South Korean Office of Joint Chiefs of Staff. The 16- by 12-inch hole, which was cut through two layers of wire fence meters yards apart, was discovered early Tuesday near Yeoncheon, a border town 40 miles north of Seoul.
North Korea had no immediate comment, but it has a long history of staging border infiltration and other military provocations in apparent attempts to hike tension and increase its leverage at times of crucial negotiations. South Korea imposed ``Jindogye-1'' around Yeoncheon, the highest level of vigilance the military can issue before an actual sighting of a communist infiltrator, said another ministry spokesman, who also refused to be named. Domestic media carried similar reports. Jindogye-1 reportedly requires military units to move troops for patrol and combat readiness. Soldiers also join police at checkpoints. Ministry officials refused to discuss details of the measures taken Tuesday. ``We are investigating several possibilities. In the meantime, we are conducting our military operations in case there is an infiltration by an enemy,'' Hwang said at a news conference. He refused to elaborate.
Police and soldiers tightened inspections in 54 checkpoints on the roads north of Seoul and established 16 temporary checkpoints, South Korea's national news agency Yonhap reported. The military also barred Yeoncheon farmers from working in fields near the border and posted sentries at foothills, Yonhap said. Police already had boosted security around the U.S. Embassy in Seoul and the main South Korean government building where Powell was meeting senior South Korean officials. They were guarding against possible demonstrations by activists who opposed Powell's trip, blaming President Bush for heightening tension with North Korea.
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The encroachments and excursions will continue, as the North 'flexes' their muscle for points. No sympathy here, I still remember the S. Koreans protests during the Iraqi war and no encouragement to our basing there!
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When they do these alerts they are not kidding around. If they went public with the alert, my guess they missed the infiltration and they are already within the population.
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"an infiltration by the enemy"? Wow, quotes like this would never be used by the US media. Enemy? North Korea is whose enemy, exactly? They're a peaceful agricultural nation.
The brother of an alleged South East Asian militant leader has been found guilty of helping to finance a bomb attack in Jakarta last year. Rusman Gunawan, the brother of militant suspect Hambali, was given a four year jail term by a Jakarta court. Judge Adullah Sidiq said Gunawan had sent US$30,000 to a militant group in Indonesia from his base in Pakistan. He said some of the money was used to fund the 2003 J W Marriott hotel bombing in Jakarta. Twelve people died in the attack, including a suicide bomber. "The defendant has been found guilty of helping others to acts of terrorism, and therefore we sentence him to four years in jail," said Mr Sidiq. Gunawan, 27, told the court he was innocent. He has yet to announce whether he will appeal the verdict. He was arrested in Pakistan in 2003, along with four other students, and deported to Indonesia.
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Almost 80 people died of suffocation in southern Thailand while being taken to detention at a military barracks after a violent demonstration, a justice ministry official said Tuesday. Only six people were previously believed to have been killed in the violence in the Muslim-dominated region on Monday, but the official said 78 others later died of suffocation. "We found no wounds on their bodies," the official, Manit Sutaporn, told a news conference in Pattani, a provincial capital 700 miles south of Bangkok. He said the 78 victims were among hundreds arrested after the 1,500-strong rally was dispersed from outside a police station in Narathiwat province. The deaths appear to have occurred while the men were being taken in trucks to a military barracks in Pattani, a journey that took five hours, Major General Sinchai Nutsatit told the news conference.
Closed trucks, hot day, happens all the time along the US-Mexican border to people being smuggled in.
Army spokesman Akom Pongprom confirmed the toll and cause of death as suffocation. He said the bodies were being kept at the barracks. Troops and police fired live rounds, as well as water cannon and teargas, during a six-hour standoff Monday with the crowd of Muslims demanding the release of six villagers accused of handing over government-issue shotguns to militants. Shots were also fired from the crowd, officials said, adding that some of the protesters were under the influence of drugs or were frail because of fasting during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Six protesters were killed in the violence, and 20 people injured. "This is typical," Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra told reporters when asked about accounts of scores dead. "It's about bodies made weak from fasting. Nobody hurt them."
He doesn't seem too broken up over it. Seething expected from islamic world in 5..4..3..
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Can mooselimbs be fasting more, not just at rama-ding-dong? How about one year long fasting?
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Bad news. This sort of thing is exactly what the Islamists wanted when they started their demonstration. Now, they've got outrage, and more recruits. I don't see this situation in Thailand going anywhere anytime soon.
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I find the 1,500-strong mob attacking a police station to be the outrage.
Maybe they'd like to try again tomorrow? see if they continue to die in large numbers for nought. It warms my heart to see that Thailand is not ready to submit to Islamofascism.
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The Moslems can't afford to have close to one hundred of their young and vigorous men meet their raisins every day.
What they can afford is to give up their Islamofascist ideology, should they want to enjoy a peaceful life. Otherwise, give them what they value -- death.
Indonesia's new president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has said the Islamic extremist group Jemaah Islamiyah may be declared a banned organisation as part of the country's bid to crack down on terrorism. The former general said in an interview with Time magazine he would review the steps being taken against the Al Qaeda linked network, which is not illegal in Indonesia despite being blamed for a string of deadly attacks including the Bali bombings. "If there are explanations and proof that JI (Jemaah Islamiyah) as an organization does exist in Indonesia, and if it is legally proven that its members are involved in terrorist activities, then it will be declared a banned organization," he told the magazine. "We will use the legal process in order for this to become a legal and law enforcement issue, not a political one," he added in his first interview since being sworn in on October 20. Despite the lack of a ban, Indonesia has made a major effort to arrest key members of JI -- which on Friday was slapped with another two-year order by the US State Department branding it a foreign terrorist group.
The president said he would generally improve the country's police and intelligence services, adding that he was "certain that by taking these steps we'll be able to prevent the growth of terrorism in Indonesia". Yudhoyono, who won a landslide election victory over his former boss Megawati Sukarnoputri last month, acknowledged that there were "so many fundamental issues that I have to face" in running the country. He repeated the pledge he made at his first cabinet meeting on Friday to tackle Indonesia's rampant corruption problem. "The eradication of corruption will be my priority over the next five years. We have to eradicate it structurally and culturally," Yudhoyono told Time.
He said the country would be "destroyed" if levels of graft continued. A global corruption index last week ranked Indonesia as one of the most corrupt countries in the world. "There needs to be some shock therapy so that the people know that this government is serious about corruption," he added. Turning to another of the major challenges facing the country, Yudhoyono said there were signs that a peaceful solution could be reached to a bloody separatist uprising in Aceh province. "There is an opportunity for us to end the conflict in Aceh with a new policy," with the region receiving "special autonomy" if the rebels of the Free Aceh Movement disarmed, he said. Yudhoyono added that he would offer amnesty to any rebels who surrendered.
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And I turned twenty-one in prison doing life without parole.
No-one could steer me right but Mama tried, Mama tried.
Mama tried to raise me better, but her pleading, I denied.
That leaves only me to blame 'cos Mama tried.
Baghdad, Iraq -- One Task Force Baghdad Soldier died and five others were wounded Oct. 25, when an improvised explosive device detonated at about 11:15 a.m. in western Baghdad. A two-and-a-half-ton truck was also damaged in the blast. The injured were evacuated to a nearby military medical facility. This is a squad from the 45 member Estonian contribution to the Coalition. They have now lost two soldiers supporting the Liberation of Iraq.
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I have a good friend that is a retired general. He is over in Estonia right now for 3 weeks training their military. The Estonians were under the jackboots of the Soviets for half a century or so. They know that freedom is not free, and they are willing to make sacrifices to keep their freedom.
OTOH, the French and others....many of them have forgotten the price of freedom paid to keep them free. They have lived under the US and Nato umbrella for too long without having paid the price of preventative maintenance to keep their freedom. Their day of reckoning is coming. Spain 3-11 boom was the free introductory offer. Demographics will make this day of reconing a certainty. And there will be no US help in getting their collective asses out of the sling this time.
I salute the Estonians for their sacrifices in this war against this evil threat to civilization.
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Second what AP said. Plus the Estonians are a very intelligent people. Intelligence and integrity-a great combo.
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There was an article last week about the Estonians - called the "Stone Platoon" by the US troops they're attached to. Well enough respected that the US unit gave them the right to wear their combat badge
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another lost member of the "coalition of the coerced and bribed". F*&k John Kerry. I bet this brave Estonian solier spent more time in Iraq than JFnK spent in VN
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damn.....soldier
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U.S. troops cut roads and reinforced positions around Falluja Tuesday after an air strike aimed at Arab militants said to roam the rebel-held city. Witnesses said U.S. tanks and armored vehicles blocked the main highway to Jordan that runs just north of Falluja, as warplanes criss-crossed the skies. Troops took up positions in empty buildings on the Sunni Muslim city's southern perimeter. A civilian driver was shot dead near a U.S. checkpoint on the highway, witnesses said. The military said it was checking the report. Only one road leading northwest out of Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, was open to civilian traffic. Many families have already fled Falluja fearing a widely expected U.S. assault designed to bring the city under the interim government's control before elections due in November January. The U.S. military said it had carried out a "precision strike" at 3 a.m. (0000 GMT) on a safe house used by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's network in Falluja, killing one of his aides. It did not name the man or state his nationality. Residents said one house was destroyed and three damaged in the strike. Hospital officials reported no casualties.
Give them time, it takes awhile to round up baby ducks.
It was the second time in a few days the military had claimed to have eliminated a Zarqawi associate without identifying him. Saturday it said it had captured a "senior leader" of the group in a raid in southern Falluja.
That's about enough time to get intel from him for these strikes.
Interim Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said the government was seeking a political solution in Falluja to "separate the local population from the foreign fighters, the terrorists."
"So we can kill them"
"We are trying to exhaust all political channels and avenues before any final decision is made," he told the BBC. Zebari said a failed U.S. assault on Falluja in April was "mismanaged," after a lack of consultation with Iraqi leaders. Falluja residents deny foreign fighters led by Zarqawi are in their midst. They say they will accept the return of Iraqi security forces, but want no Americans to set foot in the city.
Will Kurds be ok?
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Residents said one house was destroyed and three damaged in the strike. Hospital officials reported no casualties.
Patience: It takes time to get together all the casualties in quart-size ziplocs
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Falluja residents deny foreign fighters led by Zarqawi are in their midst. They say they will accept the return of Iraqi security forces, but want no Americans to set foot in the city.
Screw these twerps. Fallujah's residents aren't going to be satisfied with anything. If the place needs to be pacified, then enough with the pussyfooting; let's get on with it. Crikes.
Marines from Scout Sniper Platoon, Headquarters and Support Company, 1st Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 7, won a decisive battle against a heavy insurgent threat recently. The snipers were called to action after they received reports that hundreds of heavily armed insurgents, dressed in black garb, were occupying the city. "We are the eyes, ears and trigger finger for the battalion commander," said Sgt. Herbert B. Hancock, the chief scout sniper for the platoon. "Anything that he sees as a threat, we are sent out to check up on."
The snipers were the first Marines to enter the city and observe the threat. Once the snipers had located the insurgents and established positions to assess the situation, the snipers realized just how right the reports had been. "They were all out in the open doing whatever they wanted to," said Hancock, 35, a native of Bryan, Texas. "They were in control of that side of the city, rerouting traffic, threatening to kill people and terrorizing people. Any convoy that looked like it had anything to do with the coalition was attacked and hit by (improvised explosive devices). There were civilians and civilian cars in the area, but they didn't care. They were being blatant about the fact that they were in control."
After witnessing the insurgents pull people from their cars, shoot at civilians and detonate IEDs in the traffic circle, the snipers began to fire at them. Sergeant Milo S. Afong, a sniper with the platoon, took the first shot. "I had a perfect silhouette of his body and his weapon," said Afong, 23, a native of Vista, Calif. "It had been the first time I saw people out here with weapons."
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Most excellent job1/23. Nothing like death from afar to put fear in the hearts (if they have any) of the thugees.
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Ye gods. Our guys are good!
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The 1/23 is a reserve unit comprised of Texas and Louisiana boys. The H&S (Headquarters & Support) Company is from Houston. My son is in the H&S Company, but not a sniper. I knew they were good, just not how good. I don't think I'll show this to his mother.
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Notice they dont mention which city is involved. Fallujah or elsewhere? To me, one of the really encouraging signs recently is that there is less and less reporting coming out of the Sunni triangle. Must be getting lonely in there.
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The city is Hit. A few weeks ago there were news reports of about 100 foreign terrorists that were fleeing other cities (Samara?), being discovered and killed in Hit.
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Hit, pronounced, at least by the Marines, "heat" is up river from Ramadi.
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I love this story. I had to come back and re-visit it. Is that a Barrett 50 cal pictured? Looks like it can definitely reach out and touch someone! Attaway Marines-semper fi.
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John Q. That is a Barrett. It is not for use on Baby Ducks.
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Sixteen Palestinians were killed and scores wounded, and an IDF officer and soldier were seriously wounded, in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday. Ground forces, armored and engineering units with Air Force backup, have been operating in the area since late Sunday night in an attempt to halt mortar shell attacks on settlements and IDF posts in Gush Katif. IDF officers said that security forces shot and killed 17 armed Palestinians since entering the camp. Palestinians claimed that Hisham Ashour, a 10-year-old boy, was among those killed by the IDF. The army said that since the beginning of September more than 200 mortar shells have been fired at Israeli communities and army posts in Gush Katif.
On Monday night, Palestinians fired four mortar shells at settlements in south and central Gaza. There were no reports of casualties or damage. In the morning two Kassam rockets were fired into the western Negev, landing in open areas and causing no damage or casualties.
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If they keep pushing this, it's going to make me (and others) feel the UK troops are pussies who can't take real heat - and that had better not be true. This is a fucking war zone and it's about to get hot again to clean up the mess caused by Tayyip's gutless kowtowing to Chirac for the crumbs of the EU table. Neither the US nor the UK created it, but we still have to handle it. We're supposed to be allies - again. The US suffered through the farce of Monte's motherfucking Market Garden, the UK can pull some of the load in the hot zone of Iraq for a little while. We're either in it together - or we're not. Period. Geezus the press are assholes. This shit really pisses me off.
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If they keep pushing this, it's going to make me (and others) feel the UK troops are pussies who can't take real heat
The Ladies from Hell - if you can survive Glasgow, the Sunni Triangle should be a cinch. If the Americans don't get stuck into Fallujah soon I'll start thinking the same about them ;)
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.com , am sure our boys on the ground really wanna get stuck in . Our hands are tied by the fookwit politicians who's only real concern is to get elected again . As for calling UK troops pussies > I think u being a tad harsh m8 ) . This is a report based on one of our less professional regiments ... (but they are still professional ) OUTNUMBERED British soldiers killed 35 Iraqi attackers in the Armyâs first bayonet charge since the Falklands War 22 years ago.
The fearless Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders stormed rebel positions after being ambushed and pinned down.
Despite being outnumbered five to one, they suffered only three minor wounds in the hand-to-hand fighting near the city of Amara.
The battle erupted after Land Rovers carrying 20 Argylls came under attack on a highway.
After radioing for back-up, they fixed bayonets and charged at 100 rebels using tactics learned in drills.
When the fighting ended bodies lay all over the highway â and more were floating in a nearby river. Nine rebels were captured.
An Army spokesman said: âThis was an intense engagement.â
The last bayonet charge was by the Scots Guards and the Paras against Argentinian positions.
. As for the press in this country , yeh they are a bunch of maggots who only pick up on negativity and 'failures' but we are all clever enough to read between the lines arent we ?
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Thanks for your help. Ilegitimi non carborundum est.
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NBCNEWS Jim Miklaszewski quoted one official: "Recent disagreements between the administration and the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency makes this announcement appear highly political." No shirt shitlock.
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The enemy knows this is the last week before the U.S. Presidential election. The rash of mass-murders, bombings & economic sabotage may even worsen before November 2nd, because in the sick jihadist mindset they are hoping for another 'Spain'. They will fail.
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Egypt announced on Monday the arrests of five suspects involved in the suicide-bomb attacks in Sinai three weeks ago, and claimed that the mastermind was a Palestinian originally from Gaza who died with his accomplice in the Taba Hotel blast.
How clumsy of him! How convenient for the Egyptians!
There was no mention of al-Qaida involvement in the reports. Israeli security officials said that while a joint investigation is being carried out by both countries, they have yet to receive an official report from Egyptian officials concerning the latest developments and were therefore unable to comment. So far the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, claiming to be an al-Qaida affiliate, published three statements claiming responsibility for the attacks. The latest claim of responsibility was published last week, said Dr. Yoram Kahati, research fellow at the International Policy Institute for Counterterrorism at the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya. "In the statement the group vowed to continue launching attacks against Israel. I believe it is only the beginning and not the end," he told The Jerusalem Post. Kahati stressed that while there is no conclusive evidence linking al-Qaida to the attacks, it bears all the hallmarks. "It clearly required a long process of complex intelligence and preparations," he said, adding that the terrorists required local assistance from either Beduin in Sinai or Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
On Monday, the Egyptian Interior Ministry claimed that five Egyptians had been arrested and two suspects remained at large. Egyptian officials also said that Ayad Said Salah, a Palestinian originally from Gaza who lived in Sinai, masterminded the attacks to avenge Israel's actions against the Palestinians. According to the report, Salah had a criminal past and had become a religious fanatic with ties to terrorist organizations in Gaza.
But we repeat ourselves.
The report says Salah, together with an Egyptian identified as Suliman Ahmed Salah Flayfil, had planned to detonate the bombs at the Taba Hilton hotel and leave the area, but they were killed when the bombs blew up prematurely due to a faulty activator. An Associated Press report said the two were identified by DNA tests.
The five caught by Egyptian security forces were described as having low-key roles in the plot and were responsible for purchasing the explosives and cars used in the attacks. They were identified as Muhammad Ahmed Suweirky, known to deal in stolen cars; Ihab Mahmoud Eid Mosbah, who worked in an electrical appliance store and is accused of helping to steal one of the vehicles used in the attacks; Hamdan Salameh Salem al-Ahmar, who operates a Sinai tourist camp on the Gulf of Aqaba and is suspected with providing information on the camp sites; Muhammad Gaiz Sabah Hussein, who works at the Egyptian government's Irrigation Department in central Sinai and is accused of preparing the explosives used in the cars and providing the timing devices; and Muhammad Abdullah Raba Abdullah, the owner of a metal workshop in El-Arish who is believed to have placed the bombs in the cars.
The two suspects who remain at large were identified as Suliman's brother Muhammad Ahmed Salah Flayfil and Hamed Gamma Gomeh. They are believed to have driven the vehicles that blew up at the Ras a-Satan campsite. Muhammad worked in the El-Arish area and Gomeh worked as a driver. Both were described by the Egyptian authorities as being involved in "illegal activities." According to the report, the three cars used in the bombings were stolen and the bombs were prepared with explosives and spare parts from washing machines and other equipment.
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The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) government is providing flour at cheaper rates to seminaries only, and the other people of the province have been left at the mercy of profiteers, said Agha Syed Ali Shah, president of the NWFP Pakistan Muslim League (PML). The MMA government has failed in clamping down the price hike and decreasing unemployment in the province, said Mr Shah while addressing an anti-price hike and unemployment rally at Soekarno Chowk on Monday.
He said that Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan governments had announced special Ramazan packages to give relief to their people while the NWFP government had not bothered to announce such a package. "The skyrocketing price hike has compelled the people to observe fasts throughout the year," said the provincial PML president. "It is ironic that clerics are leading a luxurious life and doing nothing to resolve the problems of the people," he said.
Ironic, perhaps, but not in the least surprising...
"Doesn't Allan deserve a new Toyota Landcruiser? And he wants me to drive it."
He called on the provincial government to take steps to end the price hike and bring the prices down to give relief to the people. "PML workers will take to the streets if the MMA government does not take an immediate step to tackle the price hike issue," he said. The MMA government had neither implemented Sharia in the province nor had given relief to the people, said Mr Shah. He added that the MMA was practicing the politics of confrontation instead of doing something for the province and its people, who had voted for them. Mr Shah said President General Pervez Musharraf's policies would bring prosperity to the country.
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Oh, allan won't you buy me a mercedes-benz...
my mullahs all drive porsches, I must make amends...
A single bench of the Lahore High Court Rawalpindi Bench headed by Justice Ali Nawaz Chauhan on Monday directed the Interior Ministry to make a detailed report on the detention of Naeem Noor, who was arrested on May 13 for suspected ties to Al Qaeda. Dr Baber Awan made a petition in court on behalf of Noor Muhammad, the prisoner's father.
The petition said that law enforcement officials arrested Naeem Noor from the Lahore Airport when he was going abroad to work. He said he had received a number of telephone calls in which unidentified people told him that his son was apprehended on charges of having close ties to top Al Qaeda officials. Mr Muhammad said that his son was a computer engineer and law enforcement officials were accusing him of drawing maps and providing other items to aide the Al Qaeda leadership. Mr Awan said that there had been several incidents in which secret service officials arrested people without charging them. These individuals were detained and their relatives were told nothing, he said.
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Him you honor, he has gone "overseas" on an extended and secret mission.
Pakistan Army soldiers on Monday morning fought militants in South Waziristan Agency's Karwan Manzai region. The clash lasting for hours reportedly left three soldiers injured, one of them critically, sources said. Unconfirmed reports stated that one militant was killed and three were injured. However, a military source told Daily Times that no such clash took place and Monday was relatively quiet. "I have checked with all channels and there was no confirmation of the clash that your (Daily Times) sources said," he added.
If it wasn't you, who was it?
"Effendi, no, no, certainly not! How could you say such a thing?"
Meanwhile, Frontier Corps (FC) personnel continued searching houses in Mandana Kallay in the Spinkay Raghzai area on Monday, but failed to track down militant Abdullah Mehsud, wanted by the government for kidnapping two Chinese engineers earlier this month. Several tribal elders gave "written complaints" to senior political administration officials against "missing households items" during the search operation. They alleged that the FC personnel took away household items and money from their houses. However, there was no independent confirmation of the allegation. Meanwhile, Peshawar Corps Commander Lt Gen Safdar Hussain will host an iftar for Mehsud tribal elders in Peshawar today (Tuesday) for their support of the commando operation to free the two Chinese hostages, a Mehsud elder told Daily Times.
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â¦missing households items, daughters and wives. Also several puppies, kitten and baby ducks are missing.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Controversial Islamic cleric Abu Hamza has appeared at the Old Bailey charged with a string of offences including soliciting murder. Hamza, 47, spoke by video link for the hearing before the Common Serjeant of London Judge Peter Beaumont. Ten charges under the Offences Against the Person Act of 1861 allege he solicited others at public meetings to murder non-believers, including Jews. Hamza also faces four charges under the Public Order Act 1986 of "using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour with the intention of stirring up racial hatred". A further charge alleges Hamza was in possession of eight video and audio recordings, which he intended to distribute to stir up racial hatred. The final charge under section 58 of the Terrorism Act accuses him of possession of a document which contained information "of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism". The hearing was adjourned until December 21. Extradition proceedings to the United States, where Hamza is wanted in relation to other matters, have been suspended pending the outcome of the case.
The brother of an alleged South East Asian militant leader has been found guilty of helping to finance a bomb attack in Jakarta last year. 
Sixteen Palestinians were killed and scores wounded, and an IDF officer and soldier were seriously wounded, in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday. Ground forces, armored and engineering units with Air Force backup, have been operating in the area since late Sunday night in an attempt to halt mortar shell attacks on settlements and IDF posts in Gush Katif. IDF officers said that security forces shot and killed 17 armed Palestinians since entering the camp. Palestinians claimed that Hisham Ashour, a 10-year-old boy, was among those killed by the IDF. The army said that since the beginning of September more than 200 mortar shells have been fired at Israeli communities and army posts in Gush Katif. 
Egypt announced on Monday the arrests of five suspects involved in the suicide-bomb attacks in Sinai three weeks ago, and claimed that the mastermind was a Palestinian originally from Gaza who died with his accomplice in the Taba Hotel blast. 
NWFP Pakistan Muslim League (PML). The MMA government has failed in clamping down the price hike and decreasing unemployment in the province, said Mr Shah while addressing an anti-price hike and unemployment rally at Soekarno Chowk on Monday. 
A single bench of the Lahore High Court Rawalpindi Bench headed by Justice Ali Nawaz Chauhan on Monday directed the Interior Ministry to make a detailed report on the detention of 
