Kuwait said yesterday it was questioning 30 suspects in connection with a deadly shootout between militants and police, as liberals accused the government of promoting terror by supporting Islamists. "The interrogation is ongoing with 30 suspects," Interior Minister Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, told Al-Anba newspaper, after Monday's gunbattle left two intelligence officers and one assailant dead. The minister did not rule out that the perpetrators of the incident, a rare occurrence in Kuwait, could be among those detained.
The arrests came as part of a major crackdown by security forces in areas used by suspected militants following the gunfight, which triggered a new US warning to its citizens in Kuwait. Those arrested include the assailants' alleged ideological mentor, a hard-liner, a security source told AFP. "I don't think it is a terrorist plot because of the circumstances that surrounded the incident," Sheikh Nawaf told the daily, after earlier declining to link the militants to Al-Qaeda until investigations are completed. Security authorities are hunting for an unknown number of militants who fled after gunning down the two officers and wounding two others. A security official told AFP Tuesday that two to three militants, believed to be linked to Al-Qaeda, were being pursued.
"No, no! It's not terrorism! It's... ummm... something else."
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Didn't we read two days ago that Kuwait had arrested TWO, then yesterday we read they had arrested TEN, and now we read THIRTY? Do we sense a pattern developing?
Security forces Tuesday arrested at least 10 Islamic extremists, including three persons from one house in Jaber Al-Ali area, when they conducted raids at several locations all over Kuwait, say sources. Kuwait securitymen took this action after two policemen and a wanted suspect, who they were chasing, were killed Monday in a shoot-out in Maidan Hawally. A reliable security source said, "some key persons, who are suspected to be involved in the killing of two police officers in Monday's shoot-out, may be among the arrested." He said the arrested suspects are being interrogated, adding "security forces will continue with the raids until all the suspects involved in the killing of the two policemen are arrested to know their future plans."
Hope that's a painful process, though I'm not sure it is...
"The Interior Ministry is cracking down on suspected militants across the country," a source told Reuters. He, however, had a lower figure of arrests. "State security is now holding a minimum of six Kuwaitis, who will be questioned on the whereabouts of the gunmen who carried out the crime," the source said.
A shoot-out on Monday night - described by officials of the state as a terrorist attack - between suspected militants and state security forces ended in the death of two state securitymen and a fugitive militant. The fugitive, a Kuwaiti national Fawaz Al-Otaibi, who died in hospital of wounds after the shoot-out, was wanted by the state for crimes against national security, the source said. "Security personnel are back on high alert," said the source. Kuwait heightened security following repeated terror warnings by the US mission in Kuwait ahead of New Year celebrations, but lifted them on Monday morning.
The embassy in Kuwait of the United States, a key US ally in the region, issued a new warning to US citizens Tuesday that armed "terrorists" were at large in the country and that they should exercise caution. "At least one suspected terrorist, known to be armed and dangerous, remains at large. The two terrorists involved in the shooting may have been part of a larger group," said a message from the embassy in the second alert in as many days. The mission had warned its citizens Monday that people were driving around Kuwait planning to "randomly attack Westerners." Energy Minister Sheikh Ahmed Fahd Al-Sabah meanwhile blamed "hardline ideology" for the attack, saying "extremists" were out to destroy society. "The spread of hardline ideology, which has no relation to our religion, traditions and customs, is rejected by Kuwaiti society, the leadership and the international community," he said.
In that case, you should track them down and kill them ruthlessly.
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If they can't attack in Iraq, try Kuwait!! The Saudi's are pissed at Kuwait anyway and have sent in some of their own al-Queda goons to cause trouble. (You Play with fire and get burned yourself)! Never mind, the Western world's punishment for the Saudis is coming like a tsunami.
Two criminals killed in "crossfire" Two criminals were killed in 'crossfire' between their accomplices and separate teams of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and police in Chittagong and Cox's Bazar in the last two days. Plainclothes Rab men arrested listed top criminal Babar Ali alias Petkata Babar from near Chittagong Jail gate Tuesday. Babar, who was just released on bail, was taken to the Rab-7 headquarters at Patenga for interrogation, sources said. The Rab, however, in a press release said he was arrested from Laldighi Par area when he was preparing for a criminal act. Following his statement, a Rab team took Babar to a hill in Chowhdury Nagar Bonobilash Residential Project area under Bayezid Bostami Police Station yesterday morning.
Nice quiet housing project in the wee hours of the morning when all the witnesses are still asleep....
As Babar's cohorts opened fire to free him from the Rab, Rab members returned fire. Babar fell in the line of fire and died on the spot, Rab sources said.
Just "happened" to be between the cops and the bad guys. Seems to occur couple of times every night.
The team seized three guns, one LG, 10 bullets of AK-47 rifle and four cartridges from the area. Babar was accused in 20 cases including six murders.
In Cox's Bazar, Belal Uddin, 36, son of Neser Hossain of Maizeghona village in Shaharbil, was killed in 'crossfire' between police and his accomplices at Omkhali Char in Chakaria upazila Tuesday night.
See what I mean?
Belal was earlier arrested from Chakaria upazila headquarters that day. He was accused in five cases for murders and committing robberies.Police said they took Belal to Omkhali char to seize his firearms when his accomplices opened fire on them at around 10:00pm. Police returned fire and a bullet hit Belal during the gunfight, leaving him dead on the spot, they claimed.
2 dacoits killed after Bank dacoity in Noakhali
NOAKHALI, Jan 12:—Two dacoits were killed and six policemen injured in a gunfight between them at Chhoto Hossainpur village under Begumganj upazila of the district yesterday, reports BSS. Shahjahan, 35 and Jahangir alias Yakub, 30, leaders of an organized gang of inter-district dacoits, were killed while police was taking them to the village to nab their accomplices.
"Come on you two, let's go round up your gang. Got any last requests?"
Earlier, police arrested them on Monday, a day after the Rupali Bank, Rajganj branch dacoity incident took place. The dacoits looted Taka eight lakh after killing Noor Nobi, driver of an auto rickshaw which was carrying the money with a bank employee. He was also severely stabbed in the incident.
Following the confessional statement of Shahajahan, a member of the gang arrested from Daganbhuiyan upazila in Feni district soon after the incident, police arrested Yakub, 28, and Yusuf, 32, from Rangunia in Chittagong.
On a tip-off, police took the trio to Chhoto Hossainpur in the early hours of yesterday to nab their accomplices who were hiding there.
Say "Goodbye", boys
Sensing the presence of police, their accomplices opened fire on them.
"It's the law! They got the boys, let em have it!"
Police also returned fire on self-defense and, as a result, two dacoits received grievous injuries while trying to flee away. Of them, Yakub died on the spot and Shahjahan succumbed to his injuries on way to hospital.
"He's dead, Jim"
The injured police personnel SI Noor Hossain and constables Khaleq, Ismail, Nojir Miah, Ansar and Muslim were admitted into Noakhali general hospital.
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Damn fine police work. Know exactly where to go, exactly who to look for, exactly what's going to happen. It's almost like they're... psychic, or something.
A United Nations police officer from Nigeria was killed in an apparent car bomb explosion in western Kosovo on Thursday, a U.N. spokesman said. The officer died when his car blew up at 8:20 a.m. as he was driving to work in the town of Prizren, some 50 miles southwest of the capital Pristina. Police were checking "the nature of the explosive device," U.N. police spokesman Neeraj Singh said. A Reuters cameraman said German troops of the NATO-led peackeeping force KFOR had secured the scene in central Prizren as police investigators pieced through the wreckage of the red and white U.N. patrol car. Soldiers manned two checkpoints on the road to Pristina. Some more background info at link.
Lemme see, here... You can't bring a nail clipper on an airplane, and they have to have dogs sniff your shoes, but...
The federal government wants to change its current rules to permit convicted arsonists to get special licenses so they can drive gasoline tankers and trucks loaded with explosives and hazardous materials. But murderers and convicted racketeers will no longer be permitted to drive hazardous materials on the nation's interstates. "Arson is not always an act of terrorism," the Transportation Security Administration declared in proposing the new regulations that would permit the agency to review on a case-by-case basis whether convicted arsonists should get the special licenses allowing them to drive gasoline trucks, or other vehicles carrying hazardous materials.
That makes sense. Not a lot of sense, but sense... Well, no. Maybe it doesn't.
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The federal government wants to change its current rules to permit convicted arsonists to get special licenses so they can drive gasoline tankers and trucks loaded with explosives and hazardous material
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Of course this makes sense. Allow arsonists to drive large trucks filled with flammable/explosive materials and they soon become murderers, after which they won't be allowed to drive such things any more. See how clever this is?
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Next up: Knives for Bloods and Crips so they can cut their steaks.
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It makes perfect sense. See, a arsonist could claim to be a pyromaniac, which is a mental illness. Therefore, refusing to hire him would be descriminating against him because of a medical condition which is forbidden by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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I'm not a pyromaniac, but I like to see things explode. Does that disqualify me?
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and thats not the USDoT logo,either, which is a bent over triangle inside a circle (some kind of engine?) That must be TSAs old logo from when they were still within USDoT.
The British and Thai embassies in Jakarta have received telephone calls warning them of possible bomb attacks.
"Hey, thanks for nothing, infidels."
The threats have led to a major security clampdown in the Indonesian capital, with the British Foreign Ministry announcing it is closing its embassy there. Following the telephone warnings, Indonesian police sent bomb squads and anti-terrorism units to the two embassies, which already have Indonesian Army guards, concrete barriers and some blast shield protection. Such warning calls are rare and have sometimes preceded previous attacks which killed dozens of people at major hotels and at the Australian Embassy last September. Both embassies are in the city's central business district close to major hotels. Indonesian police say they are taking the threat seriously.
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Another chieftain of the al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf was killed during an encounter with government troops in Basilan late Tuesday afternoon, the military announced on Wednesday. Reports reaching Camp Aguinaldo named the fatality as Tanakalun Lianson, a known Abu Sayyaf leader in Tuburan, Basilan. Col. Reymundo Ferrer of the Army's 103rd Infantry Brigade said that Lianson was killed during an encounter with their troops in Sitio Bohe-Bohe, Barangay Semut. Ferrer said that the soldiers discovered Lianson's body 15 minutes after the firefight ended. Lianson's killing was reported after a group of Abu Sayyaf gunmen opened fire on a group of militiamen and a certain Mabod Manalumpong was wounded in the shooting.
Sepsis? We can always hope...
... sucking chest wound is always quicker ...
... though the sucking head wound is more spectacular...
The military made the announcement as the government maintained that peace negotiations with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) will push ahead.
The peace processor is set to "pulse" for the time being...
The chief government negotiator, Silvestre Afable, said Wednesday that the incident in Maguindanao was under the control of the International Cease-fire Monitoring Committee and the Malaysian government has already been informed of the incident. The head of committee is a ranking military official in Malaysia. Afable said the official updates the Malaysian government on the development on the cease-fire between the government and the Muslim rebels. The Malaysian government is acting as the third-party facilitator in the government-MILF peace negotiations. Afable said the next round of formal talks set early this year in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, will push ahead as scheduled.
Kuala Lumpur is the Las Vegas of the international terror syndicate. All the best jihadis get their marching orders there.
The extreme anti-Fatah Palestinian faction Jund al-Sham may soon collapse due to pressure from Fatah and Lebanese authorities, sources in the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp said. Sources said the organization is on its way toward dismantlement, as disputes emerge between its members over plans for bombings and assassinations.
"Aaaar! Bomb 'em, I sez!"
"Assassinate 'em!"
"Go fer yer guns, Mahmoud!"
They stressed that some of its members, both Palestinians and Lebanese, are already wanted by Lebanese authorities. "The refugee camp can no longer be a haven for criminals who claim to follow their religion to the extent of fanaticism," they added.
"But... But... It's traditional!"
According to the sources, the number of the organization members exceeds 20. The group is allegedly armed with bombs, missiles and hand grenades, as well as automatic weapons.
So you can tell they're really, really devout...
They said organization members have taken refuge west of Ein el-Hilweh with their military leader Imad Yassin. Recent confrontations prodded Abu Youssif Sharqieh to announce his relinquishing of authority over Jund al-Sham.
"Put yer guns down! I resign!"
"Youse can't resign!"
"Oh, yeah? Stick 'em up!"
"Where'd those guns come from?"
The organization was created last year in Ein el-Hilweh's neighborhood of Safsaf from among the ruins of the Usbat al-Nour group, which was eradicated upon the death of its leader Abdullah Shreidi, a fervent opponent of the Palestinian Fatah movement. Fatah accused Jund al-Sham of several bombings in the streets of the camp, which led to several clashes that were eventually settled by the mediation of religious figures in Sidon.The Dinnieh Group, another extremist group that clashed with the Lebanese Army, had allied with Jund al-Sham, adding to the group's problems with the authorities. Jund al-Sham later alienated itself further by issuing statements against Fatah and Hizbullah. Problems culminated in September 2004, when a shooting broke out between members of Fatah and Jund al-Sham that killed a member of the organization and injured Yassin. Jund al-Sham's information officer, Osama al-Shehabi, has also announced his resignation.
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"The refugee camp can no longer be a haven for criminals who claim to follow their religion to the extent of fanaticism". Huh? I suppose this is supposed to be Satire?
Heh! Heh! That is all the Islamist swamps have EVER been. Is there anything we can do to help them TOTALLY ELIMINATE as many killers as possible inside this particular swamp? Then we can surround it and kill the other snakes as they slither out.
Two Palestinian militants were killed in an explosion at a busy crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip on Thursday in what a militant group described as a "martyrdom operation." Rescuers said five Israelis were injured. A statement to The Associated Press from the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, affiliated with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction, said the fighters were killed near the Karni crossing in southern Gaza. Language such as "martyrdom operation" usually indicates a suicide attack against an Israeli target. Israeli military officials said at least two Palestinians were involved in an attack in the area of the crossing. The Palestinians set off an explosive device weighing more than 220 pounds, Israel Radio reported.
A REPRESENTATIVE of revered Iraqi Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has been assassinated along with his son and four bodyguards. "Sheikh Mahmud al-Madahaini, his son and four bodyguards were assassinated as they left night prayers in Salman Pak," a Sunni Muslim majority town some 20 kilometres (12 miles) southeast of Baghdad, an official in Sistani's office said said of the Wednesday night attack. Madahaini had been the target of several threats and attempted assassinations in the past, the official added. Salman Pak lies on the highway linking the capital with Kut, further to the southeast. It is a lawless area where armed men hijack trucks and carry out kidnappings. The killings come less than three weeks ahead of the first democratic elections in Iraq in half a century.
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Article: A REPRESENTATIVE of revered Iraqi Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has been assassinated along with his son and four bodyguards.
If Sistani couldn't protect his people from Sadr, he certainly can't protect them from Zarqawi. Sistani is the ultimate paper tiger - and yet the press repeatedly lionizes himself for the supposed calming effect he has on the Shiite population. The reality is that after decades of having the stuffing knocked out of them, the Shiites couldn't stand up and fight even if they wanted to. This is why the only reliable Iraqi troops are the Kurds, because the Shiites don't have it together, yet - to fight for either Sadr or Sistani.
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ZF - i dont think we want Sistani to have his own independent militia. Despite talk here about a group in Najaf, I think the US has discouraged that. We want Shiites to support the Iraqi Army/ING. Its hardly surprising that a few bodyguards cant stand up to a coordinated attack in the very violent area just south of Baghdad. My understanding is that the more effective ING and army units have NOT been exclusively Kurdish, but I have no cite for that. Do you have one to the effect that Shiite elements in the ING have been ineffective in recent months?
In any case Sistani is STILL important. Stalin may have asked how many divisions has the pope? The pope had no divisions, but mattered on the political scene. Ditto Sistani. He may command no divisions, but the Shia areas are quiet, we were able to beat the Mahdi army in Najaf without it spreading, even Sadr city has been quiet. The Shiites are eager to vote, and are supporting the elections. This has enabled us to concentrate forces in the Sunni triangle, even shifting UK forces from Basra. It is also providing us with our best political arguments on legitimacy.
Certainly Sistani has come through much more effectively than the Sunni Arabs have - even the "moderates" are boycotting the election, the tribal leaders have been ineffective in maintaining order, and some of the ex-generals taken into the army have supported the insurgents. Yet we continue to reach out to the Sunnis. While I understand why we do so, the forebearance of Sistani and the Shiites in the face of this is impressive.
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LH: ZF - i dont think we want Sistani to have his own independent militia. Despite talk here about a group in Najaf, I think the US has discouraged that. We want Shiites to support the Iraqi Army/ING.
Sistani's not our handpuppet. It's not up to us whether he sets up a private army. He runs many of the mosques that get a bunch of zakat from worshippers. If he hasn't set up an army yet, it's because he's a lousy leader. Between an ex-Baathist running the provisional government, Zarqawi's al Qaeda fighters, Saddam's Baathist remnants and Uncle Sam's proclivity to abandon its supporters (courtesy of American leftists, in and out of the government), Sistani would be crazy not to set up his own militia. My basic point is that the media doesn't know what it's talking about - not that that's anything new.
LH: Do you have one to the effect that Shiite elements in the ING have been ineffective in recent months?
Officers in the field have said that the Kurdish units are the only ones consistently standing and fighting.
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If he hasn't set up an army yet, it's because he's a lousy leader.
Or maybe he DOESNT WANT to be that kind of leader. Everything Ive heard suggests he rejects that kind of role, out of fear it will bring the Shia Islamic clergy into disrepute, as it has in Iran. (I doubt hes read Toqueville, but he could have found the same ideas there) Let SCIRI and Dawa have their militias, but he dont want his own. And he may have confidence in the electoral process - if it goes at all fairly, his allies will have a dominant role in the next govt. Why undermine the govt and its army? In any case his allies have important positions NOW, and Allawi apparently consults with Sistani, or at least his reps. I dont buy the idea that Allawi is running the entire Iraqi govt for the Baathists and Sunnis, with the nefarious backing of the State Department and CIA. Yes, he LEANS that way, as do DOS and CIA, but the current govt in Iraq is a coalition.
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After Khomeini back in the '70's I never thought I'd say this about a Shia cleric, but I have a lot of respect for Sistani. He seems to be an astute politician, but more than that. In some ways his statements remind me of Mahatma Gandhi. He recognizes that Iraq's enemies want chaos and civil war, and is working to resist that. I believe it takes a lot of courage to take that course - it is easier to drive a suicide VBIED than to live knowing one has a 'bull's eye' on one's chest and ignore it.
Authorities shut a natural gas plant and about 2,000 paramilitary forces took over its control after renegade tribesmen fired hundreds of rockets, blowing up a gas pipeline in southwestern Pakistan, officials said on Wednesday.
Those aren't renegades, those're Bugtis!
The soldiers were dispatched to control the situation Tuesday after armed tribesmen stormed the gas plant in Sui, 350 kilometers (220 miles) southeast of Quetta, and "started damaging it," said Abdul Samad Lasi, a senior government official. He said about 2,000 soldiers evicted the attackers, took control of the gas plant and other facilities. "The situation is now under control at least as much as anything in Pakiwakiland can be, and more paramilitary forces are expected to arrive in Sui today," he said. But, authorities had to shut a gas plant and suspend supplies to five industrial units because of the damage caused to a pipeline, said Abdur Rasheed Lone, an official with the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Ltd., which operates the Sui gas field. He hoped that the supplies would be restored within the next 24 hours. Rocket attacks against gas fields are common in Baluchistan province of which Quetta is the capital. But, the latest clashes between a little-known Baluchistan Liberation Force nationalist group and the security forces began last week after a female doctor was allegedly gang-raped by three men at a hospital owned by a state-run gas company. The group has said the attack against the doctor was against their traditions.
Gang-rape is against our traditions, too, but we didn't shut down a pipeline.
The surge in attacks against gas facilities also came hours after Pakistan's President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in an interview with private Geo TV asked tribesmen to halt their activities. "Don't push us ... it is not 1970s, and this time you won't even know what has hit you," he said Tuesday, referring to a 1970s military crackdown on rebels in the region that left most of the separatists dead or captured.
"Youse guys are gonna git it good!"
"I warn them to stop targeting" the country's gas facilities, he said. But his threat seemed to have little effect.
"Neener, neener ...!"
The government has said the tribesmen target security forces and gas facilities to pressure it to get higher royalties from gas extracted from their territory.
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The Israeli Army killed four Palestinians in an upsurge of violence in the West Bank and Gaza yesterday, pouring cold water on the optimism that has greeted the election of Mahmoud Abbas as the new Palestinian leader. Two members of the Islamic Jihad were killed in the Morag settlement in the southern Gaza Strip, one of 21 due to be dismantled later this year. And two Hamas fighters were killed in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The violence was the worst flareup since moderate former Prime Minister Abbas, who has repeatedly called for end to the armed struggle, was elected president of the Palestinian Authority on Sunday. Commenting on yesterday's flareup and the killing of another Palestinian a day earlier, Palestinian Premier Ahmed Qorei condemned "the army's assassination of two Hamas activists and an activist from the (Fatah-linked) Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades". "This does not show positive intentions on the part of the Israeli government," he said.
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After Qorei's lips fell off, he added "Yeah... how dare those pigdog Israelis kill our heroic murderous terrorists?!? The brutes! We won't stand for it!"
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Well if you walk around with names like Islamic Jihad and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades , expect not to have a cosy walk in the park .. Try falling in line and communicating with something other than sneak attacks and booooooommmms , it'll go a long way .. Shame not many in Palestine have that much foresight ..
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âThis does not show positive intentions on the part of the Israeli government,â he said.
OTOH it shows a very strong and commendable survival
instinct of the Israeli Gov'mint.
We regretably understand Qorei's dire need for
capering before the so called "activists" because of justified fear for his life.
However he will have to understand that we will kill any and every boomer or terrorist we can lay our hands on.
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Take note, this article leaves the impression that it's the Israelis' actions that are pouring "cold water" on optimism over Mazen's election. Typically, IDF actions are in response to some sort of provocation, such as shootings, bombings, or rocket attacks, and nowhere is it mentioned that the IDF actions were unprovoked (which the author would likely have gone to great pains to point out if there wasn't any discernible provocation), so the reasonable assumption is that the Paleos killed were involved in some kind of attack.
Stumbling over rubble and viewing razed homes left by a vast army incursion in October, Solana described it as âvery movingâ but also slammed Israelâs response to the rocket attacks as âdisproportionateâ.
So, would Solana support the IDF firing rockets into Palestinian territory in response? Somehow, I would think not.
"Those responsible are not the ones who have been punished,â he said.
Oh? And how, pray tell, does he know this? Because they told him so?
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note the IJ snuffies got their white raisins in an Israeli settlement. Ergo - they were there to attack Joooos...and did so, unsuccessfully. Small scale history of the "Paleo culture"
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The Israeli's need to take a page from Bangladesh. Don't imprison these guys. Barghouti has a stage to perform from and a is visible signal of Palestinian resistance. By keeping these people alive (Mandela, Mehsud, Saddam) you are giving the pea-brains that follow them something to fight for. Cut off the dragon's head and his body may convulse for a time but will inevitably die.
An Israeli court jailed five senior Islamists yesterday for passing money to Palestinian security prisoners and for contacts with the Hamas militant group committed to destroying the Jewish state. The five men, including Islamic Movement founder Sheikh Raed Salah, were arrested nearly two years ago. All admitted helping prisoners, while two also admitted "contacts with a foreign agent". They were sentenced to between 2-1/2 and 4-1/2 years.
The case fuelled suspicion among Jewish Israelis about the loyalty of Arab citizens who make up about 20 percent of the population. Arabs have long complained of discrimination but have not been deeply involved in a Palestinian uprising. Hamas has been at the forefront of a suicide bombing campaign that killed hundreds of Israelis since 2000. Raed Salah was given a 3-1/2-year jail term, but is likely to be released in about six months for good behavior. Some of the others are likely to be freed shortly because they had served most of their sentences since being arrested. The court dropped charges of criminal conspiracy, passing information to the enemy and belonging to a terrorist organization.
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Many residents who fled Iraq's shattered city of Falluja will not return until after the 30 January election, if at all, due to uncertain security and the lack of schools and hospitals, the UN has said.
Sounds good to me...
Mahmoud! Bring me my femtoviolin!
About 85,000 residents have entered the city, heavily damaged in a month-long US assault that began in November, to inspect their houses, but only 10 percent of those have decided to stay, the UN's refugee agency UNHCR told a news briefing on Tuesday. "Until the elections take place and until they see what happens, they won't go back because they're scared," spokeswoman Marie-Helene Verney of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) told reporters. "It's still pretty recent." Falluja was estimated to have had a population of around 250,000 before the offensive and heavy bombardment, designed to uproot fighters opposed to the presence of foreign troops in Iraq.
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"Until the elections take place and until they see what happens, they wonât go back because theyâre scared," spokeswoman Marie-Helene Verney of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) told reporters.
Scared of what? American reprisal?
If they're afraid of the possibility of another U.S. military assault, they should know by now how to prevent that...
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This is actually good, I think. A scattered community cannot effectively support terrorism and insurgency, when there is no midst for the bad guys to be in ;-)
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Fallujah will probably get *more* residents then it had before, once the US starts handing out the checks for repairs *and* the central government hands out checks to help them rebuild.
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They shouldn't have pissed us off. We warned them. They should also know that on the piss off meter, we were only midly pissed. These slack jawed brain dead Islamofacists who caused this should consider that we have not even begun to approach the phase of: "O.K. no more mister nice guy."
The Marines were just fulfilling their credo...if it has to absolutely be destroyed overnight. Considers the Marines the Fed Ex of the Armed Forces.
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The fingerprinting and the recording of retinal scans probably scared off a good many of the former inhabitants. They're scared that their role in the earlier Islamofascist activities (with the Baathists and/or with the terrorists) will come to light and they will find out what justice means in the new Iraq.
I remember when they killed the 4 contractors, one kid stepped on the body and said "This is what will happen to Bush if he comes here." I wish I had that link.
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#6 Anonymoose: Fallujah may get more residents, but they all will have to have Iris scans and fingerprints. That should stem the flood of free money applicants.
#8 RWV: Your comments are right on. This a very painful time of change for former Baathists and Sunnis. They have been in the catbird seat for decades and now they are out of power. The price for their maltreatment of Iraqis under Saddam will have to be paid. This will be a very high price, consequently the former Baathists and Sunnis involved in Saddam's behaviors will be shit out of luck for a long time. That is what it really comes down to.
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Sunni will learn the meaning of American colloquial expression "payback's a bitch.
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Several civilians and two Iraqi soldiers were killed as twin car bombs rocked Mosul yesterday while US troops detained six men suspected of killing Baghdad's governor. In the troubled city of Mosul, a white van tried to swerve inside a joint convoy of US and Iraqi military vehicles, but exploded prematurely, killing several civilians, US Army Sgt. Chris Schaeffer said. A second car parked on a street, not far away from the first blast, exploded and killed two Iraqi soldiers, Schaeffer said.
The militant group Ansar Al-Sunnah Army, in an Internet statement, claimed responsibility for an attack in Baghdad in which four bank guards were burned to death in a van carrying new bank coins. Also in the capital, a policeman was shot dead and the director of municipal services in the flashpoint city of Baqubah was gunned down, police and witnesses said. With US forces on the offensive hoping to break up rebel cells ahead of the elections, US troops in the capital snatched six men linked to last week's assassination of Baghdad Gov. Ali Al-Hadri, the US Army said.
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US troops in the capital snatched six men linked to last weekâs assassination of Baghdad Gov. Ali Al-Hadri, the US Army said.
Fighting is spreading in Sudan's Darfur region and may intensify in the short run, a senior UN official says. Jan Pronk, the special UN envoy to Sudan, said on Tuesday arms were flooding into the troubled western region, violence was spreading beyond camps for the homeless, banditry was increasing and rebel groups were launching attacks in the area of oil facilities. The renewed fighting comes just days after Khartoum signed a peace deal with rebels in the south. "We may move into a period of intense violence unless swift action is taken," Pronk said. "I do not exclude the possibility that the signature of the north-south agreement will be followed in the short term by an intensification of violence in and around Darfur."
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The renewed fighting comes just days after Khartoum signed a peace deal with rebels in the south. ....ahhh...as we rantburgers know, this is just the logical conclusion to an arab "peace deal".
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Fighting is spreading in Sudanâs Darfur region and may intensify in the short run, a senior UN official says. Jan Pronk, the special UN envoy to Sudan, said on Tuesday arms were flooding into the troubled western region, violence was spreading beyond camps for the homeless, banditry was increasing and rebel groups were launching attacks in the area of oil facilities.
Soooo.....whutcha gonna do about it? You gonna do anything?
Of course UN is going to do something. It's going:
(a) Condemn Israel for mistreating Palestinians.
(b) Criticize US on Iraq.
(c) Ask US for more $$$.
(d) Condemn Israel.
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With all these attacks going on why the casualty number is steady at 70,000? PS UN, AU, MSF, this alphabet soup does nothing but sit on their thumbs and criticize the wealthy nations. By the way none of you would have a forum if it wasn't for the wealthy. Lastly, rumor has it Syria's been testing some WMD in Darfur. I suppose that's Israel's fault as well.
Must be time for the Bugtis to hold a loya jirga...
More than 2,500 paramilitary forces and regular troops took control of Sui after tribesmen fired hundreds of rockets, blowing up a gas pipeline and triggering a battle that left eight people dead, officials said on Wednesday. Authorities also shut the gas plant, saying gas was suspended to five industrial units because of the damage caused to a pipeline. They hoped that the supplies would be restored within the next 24 hours. Pakistan Army spokesman Maj Gen Shaukat Sultan said troops and also helicopter gunships were being deployed in Sui.
"Our gas installations have national importance, and we are deploying troops in Sui to protect our facilities and the staff working there," he said. However, he refused to elaborate on how many troops had been sent there, although another official said about 1,000 soldiers and "some helicopter gunships" had reached Sui, and more were on their way to the area. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, would not say whether any army operation was being considered against the attackers. "Such details can't be shared with the media, but the troops are going to Sui to restore the writ of the government," he said.
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Peshawar Corps Commander Lt Gen Safdar Hussain continued meeting an 80-member jirga (tribal delegation) from South Waziristan Agency on Wednesday to restore trust between tribesmen and the army. He announced the release of all tribesmen belonging to Shakai Valley arrested for their involvement in militancy and for harbouring foreign terrorists.
No doubt they're promised on the Koran to be good little tribesmen and never, ever do it again...
An Inter-Services Public Relations statement said that in recognition of the tribesmen's support and cooperation, the military had decided to release tribesmen from Shakai Valley before Eidul Azha (January 21). Edda Khan and Dawar Khan, who were prime suspects for harbouring foreign terrorists in Shakai Valley, were among the men to be set free. Compensation for the victims of the Mandata operation was also announced during the meeting. "With the active cooperation of all tribes, terrorism has been eradicated and peace has returned to South Waziristan Agency," Lt Gen Safdar told the delegation led by Senator Malik Faridullah Khan.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Kuwait said yesterday it was questioning 30 suspects in connection with a deadly shootout between militants and police, as liberals accused the government of promoting terror by supporting Islamists. "The interrogation is ongoing with 30 suspects," Interior Minister Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, told Al-Anba newspaper, after Monday's gunbattle left two intelligence officers and one assailant dead. The minister did not rule out that the perpetrators of the incident, a rare occurrence in Kuwait, could be among those detained.
Security forces Tuesday arrested at least 10 Islamic extremists, including three persons from one house in Jaber Al-Ali area, when they conducted raids at several locations all over Kuwait, say sources. Kuwait securitymen took this action after two policemen and a wanted suspect, who they were chasing, were killed Monday in a shoot-out in Maidan Hawally. A reliable security source said, "some key persons, who are suspected to be involved in the killing of two police officers in Monday's shoot-out, may be among the arrested." He said the arrested suspects are being interrogated, adding "security forces will continue with the raids until all the suspects involved in the killing of the two policemen are arrested to know their future plans." 
Two criminals were killed in 'crossfire' between their accomplices and separate teams of the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and police in Chittagong and Cox's Bazar in the last two days. Plainclothes Rab men arrested listed top criminal 
The federal government wants to change its current rules to permit convicted arsonists to get special licenses so they can drive gasoline tankers and trucks loaded with explosives and hazardous materials. But murderers and convicted racketeers will no longer be permitted to drive hazardous materials on the nation's interstates. "Arson is not always an act of terrorism," the 
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The soldiers were dispatched to control the situation Tuesday after armed tribesmen stormed the gas plant in Sui, 350 kilometers (220 miles) southeast of Quetta, and "started damaging it," said Abdul Samad Lasi, a senior government official. He said about 2,000 soldiers evicted the attackers, took control of the gas plant and other facilities. "The situation is now under control 
An Israeli court jailed five senior Islamists yesterday for passing money to Palestinian security prisoners and for contacts with the 
Many residents who fled Iraq's shattered city of Falluja will not return until after the 30 January election, if at all, due to uncertain security and the lack of schools and hospitals, the UN has said.
Fighting is spreading in Sudan's Darfur region and may intensify in the short run, a senior UN official says. 
Peshawar Corps Commander Lt Gen 
