Saudi security forces seized six suspected terrorists and, in a separate incident, confiscated arms and ammunition, security sources said Monday. The sources said the suspects were captured Sunday night while on their way from the holy city of Mecca to the city of Taef in the west of the nation. The suspects first drew the attention of traffic police when they drove the wrong way on a one-way road.
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They tried to pose as schoolteachers, but police uncovered their identity after inspecting their papers and car. In another incident, police seized arms and ammunition in a rest house south of the city of Brida in the province of al-Kassim, 218 miles north of Riyadh. The weapons included big guns, automatic rifles and cases of ammunition, apparently destined for illegal trade, the sources said, noting that the owner is a well-known elk hunter figure and is not wanted for security or terror reasons.
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They probably were schoolteachers. Madrass school teachers.
New Chechen resistance leader Abdul-Khalim Sadullaev told RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service today that he strongly condemns terrorism and that Chechen independence fighters will not attack peaceful civilians, women and children, and will not take them hostage. Sadullaev emphasized that the resistance will continue to attempt to inflict maximum damage on Russian armed forces and Russian military targets, but would try to avoid injuring civilians.
Sadullaev's statement was made in response to email questions submitted by RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service, which broadcasts in the Chechen, Avar and Circassian languages to the North Caucasus region of the Russian Federation.
Sadullaev, a young man in his 30s, was virtually unknown until he was named Chechen president three months ago, following the killing of his predecessor Aslan Maskhadov. It is not known what role Sadullaev may have played in the Moscow theater hostage-taking in October 2002 or last September's hostage-taking in Beslan. Russian officials blamed both Maskhadov and radical field commander Shamil Basaev for those terrorist acts, although Mashkadov also spoke publicly against the use of terrorist tactics.
Asked about his relations with Basaev, Sadullaev hinted at disagreements among the Chechen resistance leadership, but did not mention Basaev by name. Sadullaev said he is trying to maintain unity within the resistance and channel its efforts in a single direction, and for that reason he will neither sever relations with anyone or try to force anyone to cooperate against his will. "Our nation is very small," he pointed out, and so unity is of paramount importance." Chechnya has not been recognized internationally as a sovereign state.
Sadullaev said Maskhadov's death has not resulted in any "hasty" changes in tactics and that Chechens will not give up their goal of independence."Our forces are not becoming weaker, and we are prepared to go on fighting." Sadullaev said, adding that "freedom is impossible in an unfree country, and in an unfree country human rights are worthless and cannot be protected. Russia has shown us this yesterday and continues to do so today."
In response to a question about the policies of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Sadullaev said, "It was Putin who began this war and he has no way to end it. The war cannot end with us being forced to our knees and capitulating, and Putin has left himself without an alternative."
This article starring:
ABDUL KHALIM SADULLAEV
Chechnya
ASLAN MASKHADOV
Chechnya
SHAMIL BASAEV
Chechnya
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New Chechen resistance leader Abdul-Khalim Sadullaev told RFE/RL's North Caucasus Service today that he strongly condemns terrorism and that Chechen independence fighters will not attack peaceful civilians, women and children, and will not take them hostage.
So, is he gonna like tell Basayev this? Dont think so.
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"Our nation is very small" but we have, inshallah, managed to produce a few of the finest mass murdering sociopaths in the caucas and, perhaps the world! Now why would the good Abdul want to go and renouce a hard working sociopath like Old Nasty Pegleg B himself?! Won't win independence with Old Nasty Pegleg B on the ship of fools, can't get it without him either. Abdul should just go get himself martyred now and get it over with.
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I tend to think he's just talking out his butt to try and gain Western support - judging from his bio and the Rantburg search engine, this guy is more or less a tool of Abu Hafs al-Urduni. Color me skeptical that he cares much about civilian casualties.
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"I didn't do it, and besides, I won't do it no more."
SEVEN Russian soldiers and a policeman have been killed over the past 24 hours in the Russian republic of Chechnya, a local official for the Russian-backed administration has said.
Three soldiers were killed and two wounded during one of 10 attacks against Russian military outposts and camps by Chechen separatist rebels, the official said.
Another three soldiers were killed when their truck exploded after driving over a landmine before plunging into a ravine on a road linking Serjen-Yurt and Vendeno in the south of the republic.
In the capital, Grozny, a Chechen policeman was killed in a clash with separatist rebels.
In another firefight in the village of Cim-Cir, near Nojai-Yurt in the south-east, a Russian soldier was wounded and two rebels wounded.
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One year after the Madrid bombings, little has improved in the European Union in terms of practical cooperation in combating terrorism. EU governments are reluctant to share sensitive intelligence and recently decided to restrict the role of Eurojust, the judicial cooperation agency, in the fight against terrorism.
This failure by the EU to coordinate investigations into terrorist crimes is ominous, since the global jihadist movement - including its most prominent component, Al Qaeda - is demonstrably active throughout Europe. The Sept. 11 attacks were planned in Hamburg. After the train bombs in Madrid that killed nearly 200 people, strings of terrorist cells were unraveled from Spain to Scandinavia.
One such organization is Ansar al-Islam, responsible for hundreds of attacks against civilians in Iraq. Ansar al-Islam helped Abu Musab al-Zarqawi establish an underground railroad, for bringing radicals to Iraq through Europe, Turkey and Syria. Even peaceful Scandinavia, hardly a primary target for international terrorist attacks, has been used as a staging ground for political violence. The Nordic countries have individually sought to grapple with terrorist activists residing within their borders, with varying degrees of success.
In May, a Stockholm court sentenced two Ansar members to prison sentences of six and seven years for preparing terrorist crimes. The prosecutor maintained that they were active participants in the Ansar al-Islam network and guilty of sending $148,000 to fund an attack that killed more than 100 people in Erbil in northern Iraq. The court also decided to expel them for life after their terms.
Ansar's founder, Mullah Krekar, has lived for years as a refugee in Norway, where he has been charged with several terrorism-related crimes but subsequently acquitted.
The radical fundamentalist organization Hizb-ut-Tahrir, banned as a terrorist group in Germany, has sunk roots in Denmark, where it reportedly recruits among young immigrant teens and distributes violent anti-Semitic leaflets.
In Sweden, the global terrorist threat and the discovery of radical Islamic organizations have prompted the largest overhaul of civil-military relations since the 1930s. Remarkably, the Swedish military would at present not be allowed by law to respond to terrorist attackers, while the police simply lack adequate resources to withstand a large attack.
This curious state of affairs - a total ban on the military's use of force in the domestic arena - dates from 1931, when soldiers shot and killed five political protesters in Adalen, a town in northern Sweden. The deaths had a powerful impact on the national consciousness; so powerful, in fact, that modern Sweden was left without a credible defense against terrorist attacks. This is bound to change: Sweden's defense minister declared in January that the military will have a role to play in fighting terrorism, without specifying under what circumstances.
Looking ahead, we need to consider what will happen when jihadist fighters return to Europe from Iraq. The U.S. State Department has warned that foreign fighters are transforming the insurgency in Iraq into a training ground and an indoctrination center for jihadists from around the world. In the months and years ahead, a large number of young men who went to Iraq as volunteers could return to Europe as full-fledged guerilla fighters with experience in urban terrorist operations.
Counterterrorism authorities across Europe have started to note an increase in both the number of recruits, as well as in the number of people returning home to develop networks and patiently plan for attacks, according to Magnus Norell of the Swedish defense research agency. Only time will tell if individual European governments and the EU have done enough to ward off the blight of international terrorism within Europe's borders.
(Cecilia Wikstrom is a Swedish member of Parliament and the Swedish Liberal Party's spokeswoman on Middle East affairs.)
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a large number of young men who went to Iraq as volunteers could return to Europe
Not bloody likely! But if it spurs the Europeans to necessary action now, I'm willing to be too polite to contradict Ms. Wikstrom and her friends for the moment.
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This is what happens when you give those animals more rights than ordinary citizens. This is what the liberals would have in the States if they had their way. Europeans just can't seem to get it through their heads. This is a war you better start playing to win.
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My fellow reenactor, Sgt. Harvey, is back in country from Iraq. He called me on Sunday and wanted to talk over a few things. He was feeling a bit guilty about having killed Jihadis (4 confirmed) but I think He knows deep down he did the right thing. The other thing that is bothering him his wife left him the day he got back. She moved in with some guy she's been shaking up with and it really tore him up. She cleaned out the savings and is 6 months behind on the mortgage payments. I told him to call any time of night or day if he needed to talk. I went 2 weeks ago and "kidnapped" his horse because she was trying to sell it. To go through what he did for the last year and come home to that is beyond belief. This might not be the place but I would ask you all to say a kind word to your deity of choice for him. He is a kind, decent man.
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Deacon, is it OK if I just hope the bitch gets hers and rots in Hell?
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I second Barbara's motion. And please tell him we think he's wonderful and appreciate him, even if the bitch is a consummate fool. Oh, and may I hope that her hell is here on earth, so she doesn't have to wait for the afterlife to get hers?
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Wooo! I'll second the ladies for fear of incurring their wrath lol :-)
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Deacon,
Already done. Tell Sgt. H. that a) whatever doesn't destroy him makes him stronger, b) there are too many other good women out there to spend his life with that tramp, and c)better he finds out now than after he's got a couple of kids and she can milk him for child support to maintain her shackup's crack habit. The man's a warrior. Things WILL get better for him, and they'll improve with every minute away from that slut.
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It's not the American public that doesn't support these guys, people everywhere have bent over backwards trying to let them know that. Its the A-holes in the media that would rather run allegations of koran abuse on the front page, and leftist politians that are more worried about being able to fillibuster every executive appointment without end. Or the military brass who want to skewer as many foot soldiers as possible on the news because they got passed up for a promotion in 1984 and they are still pissed off about it. I'm not sure where these guys get the impression that we're out to get them, but I'd say they have been reading CNN too much or something.
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Why did they only use previously released on the internet footage for their video? If these guys really served in Iraq why not include some photos or film of themselves in theater?
Four people were killed and three injured in a grenade attack in a popular district in downtown Manila not far from the Malacanang presidential compound Sunday evening, said police.
A two-year-old girl and a housemaid were killed on the spot, while two others died when they were rushed to hospital, said police.
The grenade explosion took place inside a house in the crowded neighborhood of Legarda Street in Sampaloc, Manila, about 07:30 p. m..
Senior Inspector Rudy Moreno, deputy chief of the Western Police District Mobile Patrol, said a grenade was lobbed inside the house of Gutierrez family but the identity of the suspect was not immediately known as it was raining hard when the incident took place.
However, witnesses said they saw a man running away from the site seconds before the explosion was heard.
Moreno said those killed instantly were a two-year old girl and the family's housemaid identified only as Jocelyn.
However, the identity of the girl was not immediately known as there were six children watching television inside the house when the blast occurred.
Police are still determining the motive for the attack, although they have ruled out the possibility of terrorism, said Director Vidal Querol, head of the National Capital Region Police.
The latest terrorist attack in Metro Manila took place on Feb. 14, when a passenger bus was blown up near the financial district of Makati, killing at least four people. The Abu Sayyaf group was blamed for the attack.
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BANGKOK - A Buddhist plantation worker has been beheaded by suspected Islamic separatists in Thailand's restive south, police said on Monday.
Boonjan Saiphet, 59, was found dead early Monday, police Major Suthas Nookhong said. His body was found in a fruit orchard and his head was discovered alongside a nearby road, he added. Police have found no witnesses to the attack, believed to be linked to the Islamic separatist insurgency that erupted in mainly Muslim southern Thailand in January 2004, Suthas said. Six bullet shells were found nearby, although the body had no bullet wounds, he said.
A computer-printed note, written in Thai in red ink, was found on the body reading: "You arrested innocent people, so I kill innocent people," Suthas said.
Boonjan's death was the fourth decapitation since the insurgency broke out. More than 690 people have been killed in near daily attacks. The killing came as a team from the world's largest Muslim group, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), was visiting the area to assess the violence there.
A bloody attack on a military base triggered the violent uprising in Thailand's three southernmost provinces, blamed by authorities on a mix of Islamic separatists, organised crime and contraband smugglers. The attacks originally targeted military and police, but are now random and include teachers, civil servants, monks, and both Muslim and Buddhist civilians.
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It's not unrest, it's calculated slaughter of filthy kufrs.
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The killing came as a team from the worldâs largest Muslim group, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), was visiting the area to assess the violence there.
I look forward to their report, "Blame the Infidel". It's probably already been written.
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The author of this article, much like Muslims themselves, has a serious problem with the concept of causation. He states: "A bloody attack on a military base triggered the violent uprising in Thailandâs three southernmost provinces, blamed by authorities on a mix of Islamic separatists, organised crime and contraband smugglers."
What the hell? The uprising was not CAUSED BY the bloody raid, the bloody raid WAS the uprising... the frigging beginning of the caliphate of South Asia.
Police have expanded their manhunt into more areas of Central Sulawesi province to track down two people believed to be responsible for the market bombing in the predominantly Christian town of Tentena last week that killed 21 people, a senior police officer said on Saturday. "After blockading an island in the Togean island chain, Tojo Una-Una regency, the police are now expanding their investigation into Morowali regency to hunt down the two most wanted suspects," said Sr. Comr. Tatang Somantri, the chief of the police team investigating the case.
Tatang said that as of Saturday, the police had named 18 suspects in connection with the bombing. Ten of the 18 are being questioned in Poso regency, while the rest are being questioned at Central Sulawesi Police headquarters, said Tatang. Among the suspects are Has, the head of a penitentiary in Poso regency, whose office is thought to have been used to assemble the bombs used in the attack, said Tatang. The police also are questioning witnesses in the case, said Tatang as quoted by Antara news agency. While 44 witnesses had been questioned as of Wednesday, by Saturday police had completed questioning 32 more witnesses, said Tatang. "Based on the testimony of witnesses, there is the possibility more people will be named as suspects."
The National Police have devoted extraordinary attention to the high-profile case, the worst bombing in terms of the number of victims since the Bali attack three years ago that killed over 200 people, mostly foreign tourists. There are fears the Tentena bombing could lead to a renewal of religious violence in Poso regency, so that the National Police have deployed generals and specialist personnel to assist in the investigation. The motive behind the attack is still sketchy, but some activists and religious leaders believe the bombing was organized in order to draw attention away from a corruption case being investigated in the province.
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DAMASCUS - Syrian police used tear gas on Sunday to break up a protest by hundreds of Syrian Kurds in the town of Kameshli, where tension has been rising since the burial there of a murdered Kurdish cleric last week, residents said. Residents estimated hundreds of Kurds took part in the protest called by two banned Kurdish parties demanding an investigation into the murder of Sheikh Mohammad Maashouq al-Khaznawi, a moderate cleric not known for opposition to the state.
"They (police) used tear gas after some of the demonstrators fired shots toward the police," said a non-Kurdish resident by telephone from the town. His account could not be verified and officials were not immediately available for comment. One witness said a policeman was shot dead by a Kurdish man who was then arrested.
Later, scores of local Arab tribesmen looted shops, mainly owned by Kurds. "I think the tribesmen were trying to send a message that they are fed up with the tension the Kurdish parties are causing," an Assyrian resident said. "I hope things do not escalate further. There is tension, but there are no clashes."
Arabs busting up the Kurds? Where have I heard that before?
Several banned Kurdish political groups in Syria, home to an estimated two million Kurds, demand the right to teach their language. They also demand citizenship, which is required for state education and employment, for about 200,000 Kurds are classified as stateless based on a 1962 survey.
Syrian officials denied accusations by some Kurdish politicians that Khaznawi was killed by the state and said it was the result of common crime. State-run television on Thursday aired confessions by two dupes men admitting involvement in the crime.
The Arab Human Rights Group in Syria said in a statement on Sunday that the authorities had arrested Riyadh Dardar, a human rights activist who gave a speech at the funeral of Khaznawi. The group said he should be released or sent for trial at a regular court. It did not comment on the content of his speech, which appears to be the reason behind the arrest.
You think?
The Kameshli clashes coincided with a three-year jail term passed by the Supreme State Security Court against Ahmad Qasem, a junior Kurdish politician convicted of belonging to the separatist Kurdish Democratic Progressive Party in Syria.
The demonstration was organised by two other banned Kurdish parties, Yekiti and the Azadi Kurdish Party in Syria. A Yekiti official, Hasan Saleh, said the protesters demanded an investigation into the killing of Khaznawi. "They (the authorities) prevented us from reaching the place where we were planning to demonstrate. We were a peaceful crowd but they beat up many of the participants," Saleh said by telephone from Kameshli.
Another Kurdish politician in Damascus said the protesters were seeking an end to what he described as the extraordinary treatment of Syrian Kurds. He said several Kurds were injured.
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Syrian authorities recently arrested two human rights activists, one of whom was allegedly detained for speaking at a memorial service for a slain Kurdish cleric, rights groups said. Riad Arrar was arrested Saturday in northeast Syria "for having given a short speech at a ceremony honoring the memory of Sheikh Maashuq Khaznawi," said the Syrian Centre for Legal Studies. Khaznawi, a popular Kurdish Islamic figure, was abducted and murdered last month by what the Syrian government later called a "criminal gang." Khaznawi's followers suspected the Syrian government was behind the kidnapping and said his body showed "signs of torture."
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How come you don't see Amnesty busting Assad's balls
about human righs in Syria? Is Assad a liberal or something? Seems to me like there would be more work to be done in a place like that.
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Amnesty can't even distinguish between Guantanimo and a Gulag or Nork "prison" camp so how can they even begin to recognize what is going on in Syria. Amnesty would have given Hitler, Stalin, Il Duce and Tojo a pass. The Amnesty skewed focus would have been on the US internment camps and the fact that marines in the Pacific theatre didn't go out of their way to screw around with japanese soldiers playing squirrel in the process of "surrendering."
The Iraqi government announced Monday it detained nearly 900 suspected militants and set up more than 800 checkpoints in a two-week sweep that appears to have somewhat blunted attacks in the capital.
Wrote the AP reporter through clenched fingers.
[Snip] a whole bunch of irrelevant stuff about insurgency violence and body counts.
The latest figures released from Operation Lightning, which began May 22 in Baghdad, included at least 887 arrests and the establishment around Baghdad of 608 mobile and 194 permanent checkpoints. Also, 38 weapon stores were raided. The operation is the biggest Iraqi-led offensive since Saddam's ouster two years ago. Before it began, authorities controlled only eight of Baghdad's 23 entrances. Now all are under government control.
Hmmm...Bad Guyz locked up + capturing weapons caches and hidey holes = fewer attacks...who'da thunkit?
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There's a very old saying in kentucky: don't piss down my back and tell me it's ....wait, that's not it. Oh, I got it, you either kick @ss or kis @ss, yeah, that's what I was thinking of. Anyway, cudos to the boys.
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I didn't get that nimrod, could you say it again?
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Thanks for your opinions, TE3695. Now that we know what you don't like, can you give us any suggestions? What is your plan for the management of Iraq Iran and NorKland?
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Thineger Ebbeth3695, if that's your real name, you are an @ssmonkey. TE3695's remarks are so inane S/He/IT felt the need to post them 7 times.
I love the logic -- we attacked a country that was trying to get nuclear weapons, so we're bad, but we haven't attacked two countries that either have or are trying to acquire nuclear weapons and we're . . . listen for it . . . bad! If attacking countries that give us the finger and have nuclear weapons were the correct criteria, we'd be attacking France. Come to think of it, maybe Ol' Piss and Thinegar is onto something . . . .
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Considering the number of times T-E hit "submit," he must be ready for dhimmitude.
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Had our troll only posted his rant once, we'd have perhaps taken the time to argue with him, but seven times earns you a trip to the sink trap. For those who're interested, he said
Another PR offensive. Next will be Operation: Pinprick or Operation: Mousefart. Come on, do you really think the U.S. and its puppet "Iraqi" "government" forces are winning?
Are you some sort of military expert, to tell us they're not? We've already won, Beauzeau. We won when Baghdad fell. They can bitch and moan or they can help rebuild their country, but we won. The hard boyz, domestic and imported, aren't going to make us leave. There's too much at stake strategically.
Two days ago the Army admitted it will be at least two years before the puppet forces are trained enough to start replacing the Americowards.
Using that particular term tells me you're a dipshit. I also strongly suspect that your own supply of physical bravery is severely limited and that you feel you're entirely too valuable to something or other to demean yourself by doing anything as plebian as putting on a uniform and submitting to discipline. Asshole.
Ever notice how the puppet "Iraqi" soldiers always wear ski masks? What's that tell you?
Ever notice that the hard boyz are willing to knock off little old ladies and little kids because their men are policemen or soldiers? And how often do you see a terr without a mask?
Ever notice how Iraq is so "secure" that Kindasleeza Rice and Rumsfeld and the rest of the apparatchik whores have to fly in before dawn in "surprise" visits to Iraq and if their plans become disclosed beforehand they're cancelled?
"Kindalseeza." That gives us another look into the sophomoric depths of your intellect.
Ever notice how when they do fly in they can't venture outside of the Green Zone or another U.S. military base?
Two points: the country's not secured, there are lots of bad guys with lots of weapons, who'd turn themselves inside out to kill them. Even though you'd like to see them dead, the military doesn't. And the second point is that's where their business is.
Ever notice how, even though one can't drive in America for a mile without seeing a hundred cars with "support our troops" and "these colors don't run" and other garbage festooned on them, but when the chips are down so to speak, the Army isn't getting nearly enough recruits even with bribery? How do you explain this discrepancy?
Strangely enough, Beauzeau, the combat arms are getting enough volunteers. It's the support elements that aren't. I think there's an article on that on Rantburg today. And I guess the bumper stickers are doing their job if they piss off dolts and blockheads like you.
Could it be that the American people are all in favor of bashing a small country when it appears it can't defend itself but once it turns into something like a real war, then America loses stomach for it?
It could be that there are a certain number of people in the country who're much like you, but I think most people support the military and they support what Bush and Co. are trying to do, not wanting to do it, but realizing that it needs done.
All the while, North Korea and Iran are giving Bush and America the middle finger every day and saying "what are you going to do about it?".
They're feeling pretty safe and secure in the knowledge that the military's busy in Iraq and that we're not going to do anything right now.
And what does America do? NOTHING. Where's the swaggering bravado and belligerent rhetoric when it appears North Korea has NUCLEAR weapons and Iran is actively pursuing the idea??
While we're busy militarily in Iraq, we're also doing lots of stuff diplomatically and politically. That's probably a bit too complicated for you to follow, what with your short attention span and all. At the same time we're putting increasing pressure on Syria, which is Iran's lapdog. Not being the bloodthirsty war mongers a simpleton like you expects us to be, we try to use all the tools available to accomplish our goals without killing a lot of people. Chances are North Korea will collapse before we get around to them. Chances are Iran will do a slow move away from being a terror haven ruled by man turbans. Chances are Qaddhafi will see the error of his ways and... Oh. Wait. He's already done that.
What a pussy nation, that will be so quick to bludgeon a country it THINKS won't fight back, but shrinks from a REAL threat like from Iran or North Korea, whining about diplomacy and sanctions!! Don't that just make you burst with pride at being an American?
Sure does. It means we're not idiots, that we do have more than one tool in the box. If all the options are used up, then we might have to fight it out, but not before then.
You can proudly say your country is the WORLD'S BIGGEST SUPERPUSSY!!!
You don't regard yourself as part of the country, Beauzeau? I see you're posting from Potomac, Maryland, by your IP address. Is your IP address cloaked or are you sitting in a house that cost Mom and Dad two or three million bucks, sneering at us redneck lowlifes? Or are you the offspring of one of the South Asian immigrants who've made good and live in Potomac? Weren't Mom and Pop stoopid to come here to Pussyland and make all that money, when you could be back in Lahore having fun?
Don't post here again. Nobody likes you.
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Don't post here again. Nobody likes you
sounds like what Mom and "Dad" say, huh? The only reason they gave you a computer is that your public chronic masturbation proved too unseemly, even for your bloodline. Back in the box, Gimp
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Whoever the troll is, they appear to be American - American spelling and cultural references. Posing as a foreigner, presumably because they're scared the 'burg might come to them...
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Another PR offensive. Next will be Operation: Pinprick or Operation: Mousefart. Come on, do you really think the U.S. and its puppet "Iraqi" "government" forces are winning? Two days ago the Army admitted it will be at least two years before the puppet forces are trained enough to start replacing the Americowards. Ever notice how the puppet "Iraqi" soldiers always wear ski masks? What's that tell you? Ever notice how Iraq is so "secure" that Kindasleeza Rice and Rumsfeld and the rest of the apparatchik whores have to fly in before dawn in "surprise" visits to Iraq and if their plans become disclosed beforehand they're cancelled? Ever notice how when they do fly in they can't venture outside of the Green Zone or another U.S. military base? Ever notice how, even though one can't drive in America for a mile without seeing a hundred cars with "support our troops" and "these colors don't run" and other garbage festooned on them, but when the chips are down so to speak, the Army isn't getting nearly enough recruits even with bribery? How do you explain this discrepancy? Could it be that the American people are all in favor of bashing a small country when it appears it can't defend itself but once it turns into something like a real war, then America loses stomach for it? All the while, North Korea and Iran are giving Bush and America the middle finger every day and saying "what are you going to do about it?". And what does America do? NOTHING. Where's the swaggering bravado and belligerent rhetoric when it appears North Korea has NUCLEAR weapons and Iran is actively pursuing the idea?? What a pussy nation, that will be so quick to bludgeon a country it THINKS won't fight back, but shrinks from a REAL threat like from Iran or North Korea, whining about diplomacy and sanctions!! Don't that just make you burst with pride at being an American? You can proudly say your country is the WORLD'S BIGGEST SUPERPUSSY!!!
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Another PR offensive. Next will be Operation: Pinprick or Operation: Mousefart. Come on, do you really think the U.S. and its puppet "Iraqi" "government" forces are winning? Two days ago the Army admitted it will be at least two years before the puppet forces are trained enough to start replacing the Americowards. Ever notice how the puppet "Iraqi" soldiers always wear ski masks? What's that tell you? Ever notice how Iraq is so "secure" that Kindasleeza Rice and Rumsfeld and the rest of the apparatchik whores have to fly in before dawn in "surprise" visits to Iraq and if their plans become disclosed beforehand they're cancelled? Ever notice how when they do fly in they can't venture outside of the Green Zone or another U.S. military base? Ever notice how, even though one can't drive in America for a mile without seeing a hundred cars with "support our troops" and "these colors don't run" and other garbage festooned on them, but when the chips are down so to speak, the Army isn't getting nearly enough recruits even with bribery? How do you explain this discrepancy? Could it be that the American people are all in favor of bashing a small country when it appears it can't defend itself but once it turns into something like a real war, then America loses stomach for it? All the while, North Korea and Iran are giving Bush and America the middle finger every day and saying "what are you going to do about it?". And what does America do? NOTHING. Where's the swaggering bravado and belligerent rhetoric when it appears North Korea has NUCLEAR weapons and Iran is actively pursuing the idea?? What a pussy nation, that will be so quick to bludgeon a country it THINKS won't fight back, but shrinks from a REAL threat like from Iran or North Korea, whining about diplomacy and sanctions!! Don't that just make you burst with pride at being an American? You can proudly say your country is the WORLD'S BIGGEST SUPERPUSSY!!!
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Another PR offensive. Next will be Operation: Pinprick or Operation: Mousefart. Come on, do you really think the U.S. and its puppet "Iraqi" "government" forces are winning? Two days ago the Army admitted it will be at least two years before the puppet forces are trained enough to start replacing the Americowards. Ever notice how the puppet "Iraqi" soldiers always wear ski masks? What's that tell you? Ever notice how Iraq is so "secure" that Kindasleeza Rice and Rumsfeld and the rest of the apparatchik whores have to fly in before dawn in "surprise" visits to Iraq and if their plans become disclosed beforehand they're cancelled? Ever notice how when they do fly in they can't venture outside of the Green Zone or another U.S. military base? Ever notice how, even though one can't drive in America for a mile without seeing a hundred cars with "support our troops" and "these colors don't run" and other garbage festooned on them, but when the chips are down so to speak, the Army isn't getting nearly enough recruits even with bribery? How do you explain this discrepancy? Could it be that the American people are all in favor of bashing a small country when it appears it can't defend itself but once it turns into something like a real war, then America loses stomach for it? All the while, North Korea and Iran are giving Bush and America the middle finger every day and saying "what are you going to do about it?". And what does America do? NOTHING. Where's the swaggering bravado and belligerent rhetoric when it appears North Korea has NUCLEAR weapons and Iran is actively pursuing the idea?? What a pussy nation, that will be so quick to bludgeon a country it THINKS won't fight back, but shrinks from a REAL threat like from Iran or North Korea, whining about diplomacy and sanctions!! Don't that just make you burst with pride at being an American? You can proudly say your country is the WORLD'S BIGGEST SUPERPUSSY!!!
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Another PR offensive. Next will be Operation: Pinprick or Operation: Mousefart. Come on, do you really think the U.S. and its puppet "Iraqi" "government" forces are winning? Two days ago the Army admitted it will be at least two years before the puppet forces are trained enough to start replacing the Americowards. Ever notice how the puppet "Iraqi" soldiers always wear ski masks? What's that tell you? Ever notice how Iraq is so "secure" that Kindasleeza Rice and Rumsfeld and the rest of the apparatchik whores have to fly in before dawn in "surprise" visits to Iraq and if their plans become disclosed beforehand they're cancelled? Ever notice how when they do fly in they can't venture outside of the Green Zone or another U.S. military base? Ever notice how, even though one can't drive in America for a mile without seeing a hundred cars with "support our troops" and "these colors don't run" and other garbage festooned on them, but when the chips are down so to speak, the Army isn't getting nearly enough recruits even with bribery? How do you explain this discrepancy? Could it be that the American people are all in favor of bashing a small country when it appears it can't defend itself but once it turns into something like a real war, then America loses stomach for it? All the while, North Korea and Iran are giving Bush and America the middle finger every day and saying "what are you going to do about it?". And what does America do? NOTHING. Where's the swaggering bravado and belligerent rhetoric when it appears North Korea has NUCLEAR weapons and Iran is actively pursuing the idea?? What a pussy nation, that will be so quick to bludgeon a country it THINKS won't fight back, but shrinks from a REAL threat like from Iran or North Korea, whining about diplomacy and sanctions!! Don't that just make you burst with pride at being an American? You can proudly say your country is the WORLD'S BIGGEST SUPERPUSSY!!!
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Another PR offensive. Next will be Operation: Pinprick or Operation: Mousefart. Come on, do you really think the U.S. and its puppet "Iraqi" "government" forces are winning? Two days ago the Army admitted it will be at least two years before the puppet forces are trained enough to start replacing the Americowards. Ever notice how the puppet "Iraqi" soldiers always wear ski masks? What's that tell you? Ever notice how Iraq is so "secure" that Kindasleeza Rice and Rumsfeld and the rest of the apparatchik whores have to fly in before dawn in "surprise" visits to Iraq and if their plans become disclosed beforehand they're cancelled? Ever notice how when they do fly in they can't venture outside of the Green Zone or another U.S. military base? Ever notice how, even though one can't drive in America for a mile without seeing a hundred cars with "support our troops" and "these colors don't run" and other garbage festooned on them, but when the chips are down so to speak, the Army isn't getting nearly enough recruits even with bribery? How do you explain this discrepancy? Could it be that the American people are all in favor of bashing a small country when it appears it can't defend itself but once it turns into something like a real war, then America loses stomach for it? All the while, North Korea and Iran are giving Bush and America the middle finger every day and saying "what are you going to do about it?". And what does America do? NOTHING. Where's the swaggering bravado and belligerent rhetoric when it appears North Korea has NUCLEAR weapons and Iran is actively pursuing the idea?? What a pussy nation, that will be so quick to bludgeon a country it THINKS won't fight back, but shrinks from a REAL threat like from Iran or North Korea, whining about diplomacy and sanctions!! Don't that just make you burst with pride at being an American? You can proudly say your country is the WORLD'S BIGGEST SUPERPUSSY!!!
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Another PR offensive. Next will be Operation: Pinprick or Operation: Mousefart. Come on, do you really think the U.S. and its puppet "Iraqi" "government" forces are winning? Two days ago the Army admitted it will be at least two years before the puppet forces are trained enough to start replacing the Americowards. Ever notice how the puppet "Iraqi" soldiers always wear ski masks? What's that tell you? Ever notice how Iraq is so "secure" that Kindasleeza Rice and Rumsfeld and the rest of the apparatchik whores have to fly in before dawn in "surprise" visits to Iraq and if their plans become disclosed beforehand they're cancelled? Ever notice how when they do fly in they can't venture outside of the Green Zone or another U.S. military base? Ever notice how, even though one can't drive in America for a mile without seeing a hundred cars with "support our troops" and "these colors don't run" and other garbage festooned on them, but when the chips are down so to speak, the Army isn't getting nearly enough recruits even with bribery? How do you explain this discrepancy? Could it be that the American people are all in favor of bashing a small country when it appears it can't defend itself but once it turns into something like a real war, then America loses stomach for it? All the while, North Korea and Iran are giving Bush and America the middle finger every day and saying "what are you going to do about it?". And what does America do? NOTHING. Where's the swaggering bravado and belligerent rhetoric when it appears North Korea has NUCLEAR weapons and Iran is actively pursuing the idea?? What a pussy nation, that will be so quick to bludgeon a country it THINKS won't fight back, but shrinks from a REAL threat like from Iran or North Korea, whining about diplomacy and sanctions!! Don't that just make you burst with pride at being an American? You can proudly say your country is the WORLD'S BIGGEST SUPERPUSSY!!!
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Another PR offensive. Next will be Operation: Pinprick or Operation: Mousefart. Come on, do you really think the U.S. and its puppet "Iraqi" "government" forces are winning? Two days ago the Army admitted it will be at least two years before the puppet forces are trained enough to start replacing the Americowards. Ever notice how the puppet "Iraqi" soldiers always wear ski masks? What's that tell you? Ever notice how Iraq is so "secure" that Kindasleeza Rice and Rumsfeld and the rest of the apparatchik whores have to fly in before dawn in "surprise" visits to Iraq and if their plans become disclosed beforehand they're cancelled? Ever notice how when they do fly in they can't venture outside of the Green Zone or another U.S. military base? Ever notice how, even though one can't drive in America for a mile without seeing a hundred cars with "support our troops" and "these colors don't run" and other garbage festooned on them, but when the chips are down so to speak, the Army isn't getting nearly enough recruits even with bribery? How do you explain this discrepancy? Could it be that the American people are all in favor of bashing a small country when it appears it can't defend itself but once it turns into something like a real war, then America loses stomach for it? All the while, North Korea and Iran are giving Bush and America the middle finger every day and saying "what are you going to do about it?". And what does America do? NOTHING. Where's the swaggering bravado and belligerent rhetoric when it appears North Korea has NUCLEAR weapons and Iran is actively pursuing the idea?? What a pussy nation, that will be so quick to bludgeon a country it THINKS won't fight back, but shrinks from a REAL threat like from Iran or North Korea, whining about diplomacy and sanctions!! Don't that just make you burst with pride at being an American? You can proudly say your country is the WORLD'S BIGGEST SUPERPUSSY!!!
After making an attempt on the life of Somalia PM, the terrorists are said to have moved into Kenya and intelligence officers are following leads to their capture . Kenya's security forces are on high alert following information that two groups linked to terror mastermind Osama bin Laden may have entered the country.
Kenyas' security apparatus, say sources, has information to the effect that Zarqawi previously had terror cells in both Kenya and Somalia. But the security sources were quick to state that they are in control of the situation. "As long as we have a clue on what could be going on, there is no cause for panic. It would have been a different story if we did not know what is happening," the sources said.
The sources say the two groups were responsible for the attempted murder of Somalia Prime Minister Mohamed Ali Gedi last month. Gedi, who has since returned to Kenya, narrowly escaped death when a grenade exploded at the Mogadishu stadium just as he was preparing to address a rally. He was quickly whisked away and flown back to Kenya where he has been living since the transitional Somali government was elected last October. Also living in Kenya is Somalia President-elect Abdullahi Yusuf.
Sources in Kenya's Intelligence community say that after a period of inactivity in the region, Zarqawi, who is blamed for most bombings in Iraq, may have revived his contacts, hence the new alert. Zarqawis' Kenyan link is suspected to be the conduit for passing money to terror recruits at Kiamboni in Somalia and operates under the fake name of Abdul Karim.
According to the sources, Zarqawi first established contacts in Kenya at Lamu and at Ras Kiamboni, in the South of Somalia, 1996. Ras Kiamboni, an Indian Ocean island, is a stone's throw away from the Kenyan islands of Siyu and Faza near Lamu. Both Kenya and the US intelligence concur that Zarqawi, at the behest of Osama bin Laden, was the key planner and financier of the twin terrorist attacks on the American embassies in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam on August 7, 1998, that left close to 200 people dead. Zarqawi is one of the most wanted terrorists in the world. The US government has a 25 million dollar (Sh2 billion) prize on his head.
Kenya and US Intelligence believe Fazul and a Yugoslav national were masterminds of the bombing of the Paradise Hotel on November 22, 2002. Fifteen people were killed in the attack. Four alleged accomplices of Fazul are already undergoing trial before Nairobi Chief Magistrate Aggrey Muchelule.
Ras Kiamboni is believed to be the hideout for Al-Ittihad operatives which is a cell within bin Ladens' Al Qaeda network. Security sources say Kiamboni has a secret training camp for terrorist cells courtesy of bin Laden and his sidekicks, Zarqawi and Fazul.
Another suspected link to Zarqawi is Hassan Awil, a graduate of Al-Awal University in Baghdad. He is on record as vowing that the Somali government currently in Nairobi would settle in Mogadishu "only over his dead body." Awil is suspected to have had a direct hand in the bombing at Mogadishu stadium three weeks ago and in which the Somali prime minister-elect narrowly escaped death.
Muslim clerics seeking to establish an Islamic state in Somalia set up Al-Itihaad in 1980s. Following the ouster of President Said Barre and the disintegration of the Somali state in 1991, the Al-Itihaad formed it's own militia with its main training camp at Ras-Kiamboni. Terror activities by the group first came into limelight in 1996 when Ethiopian authorities claimed the group had attempted to assassinate an Ethiopian cabinet minister and attacked hotels in the capital Addis Ababa. And last week, Ethiopia Prime Minister Meles Zenawi alleged that the group has re-activated operations with targets in his country and Kenya.
This article starring:
ABDUL KARIM
Takfir Wal Hijra
Ethiopia Prime Minister Meles Zenawi
HASAN AWIL
Takfir Wal Hijra
MUSAB AL ZARQAWI
Takfir Wal Hijra
Nairobi Chief Magistrate Aggrey Muchelule
President Said Barre
Somalia President-elect Abdullahi Yusuf
Somalia Prime Minister Mohamed Ali Gedi
Al-Itthad-al-Islamiya
Al-Takfir Wal Hijra
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What kind of beef could the dune loons possibly have with Kenya?
The US military said Monday it had smashed two bunkers in Iraq that served as insurgent lairs, while 15 Iraqis were killed in an unyielding spate of attacks.
US forces destroyed a former Republican Guard bunker system in the Yusifiyah area southwest of the capital on Thursday following a tip-off by local residents and surveillance of the site, said a military statement.
It said the bunker, located in an area that housed a large part of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein's former military-industrial complex, was being used by insurgents to store ammunition.
"Coalition forces engaged the complex with five high-precision smart-bombs," it said.
"Secondary detonations emanating from inside the complex" continued for about six hours after the strike, the statement added.
On Sunday, US troops destroyed another bunker system built in an abandoned rock quarry in Karmah, near the former rebel bastion of Fallujah west of Baghdad, which had been found four days earlier.
About 150kg of plastic explosives were used to destroy the network and the weapons stored inside, the military said, adding that 12 weapons caches were also found within an 8km radius of the bunker.
The whole complex was 170m wide and 275m long or bigger than four football pitches and fresh food inside showed the hideout had been recently inhabited.
Fully furnished living spaces were found in the warren, along with a kitchen, showers and an air conditioner, hi-tech combat equipment such as night vision goggles and a large haul of weapons and ammunition.
As US and Iraqi forces pressed on with Operation Lightning aimed at routing out insurgents in Baghdad and surrounding areas, rebels struck again Monday against their favoured targets.
At least 15 Iraqis and one US soldier have been killed in attacks since late Sunday, according to the US military and Iraqi security sources.
An Iraqi civilian was killed and two wounded in a mortar attack against an Iraqi police checkpoint in the northern city of Mosul, police said.
Five civilians, including two children, died Sunday in a similar attack west of Mosul, the US military said without giving details.
Two Iraqi soldiers were killed in an attack on their checkpoint near Samarra, north of Baghdad, police said.
Nine Iraqi soldiers were wounded in suicide car bomb attacks in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, north of the capital, and Haswa to the south, said Iraqi security sources.
Three members of the elite Iraqi commando force were wounded in a car bombing in the capital's southwestern Al-Amil neighbourhood, said a source at the interior ministry.
The US soldier died Sunday after his patrol was struck by a roadside bomb near the northern oil city of Kirkuk, the US military said.
The Iraqi government said its forces rounded up 89 suspects in raids in and around Baghdad since late Sunday as part of Operation Lightning.
This brings to over 1,300 the number of those detained since the launch of the operation at the end of May, one of the bloodiest months since the US-led invasion of March 2003 that saw almost 700 Iraqis killed in a frenzy of attacks throughout the country.
Both US and Iraqi officials blame the ongoing insurgency on Saddam loyalists and foreign militants bent on waging jihad, or holy war, against foreign troops and those perceived as collaborating with them.
Meanwhile, Iraq offered a reward of US$50,000 for information leading to the arrest of Abu Abdullah al-Shafi, the alleged leader of Ansar al-Sunna, a group tied to the Al-Qaeda terror network.
"Intelligence sources believe that foreign Arabs under the direct control of al Shafi actively recruit and train terrorists," a government statement said. The interior ministry had announced Sunday the arrest in the northern city of Mosul of two senior members of the organisation of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari told CNN television that unrest was likely to continue even if Iraqi or US forces capture Zarqawi.
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I wonder which bunker was storing the WMDs. If it took this long to find a bunker the size of 9 football fields, there are probably a few other undiscovered treasure troves.
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Just for curiousity, if the bad guyz had this and (presumably) other equipped underground locations, why then did Saddam bury himself in a rat hole?
Why wouldn't be locate himself in an air conditioned facility?
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This Secret Underground Hideout(TM) has only recently been renovated. I think you guys are smart enough to ask who fronted the cash to pay for that ...
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Six hours of secondary explosions!?! Wow. I mean, I know that the sound of weapons caches being exploded is pretty much omnipresent in that part of the country, but even so.
Gee whiz, Frank, I never would have thought of the Hessians! ;-) If only I had a mind for things military (she said mournfully)
Seafarious, do be a darling and let me know what station that will be playing on -- I'll need to do some redecorating soon ;-p
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I don't remember who on rantburg said it but it bears repeating, "Teacher said every time there is a secondary explosion 10 jihadiis get their wings."
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every time there is a secondary explosion 10 jihadiis get their wings.
I know Thin is In and everyone is simply mad about tiny little smart bombs, but dag nabit, there's nothing like a really fine primary blast!
So 6 hours of secondary, eh? That would seem to imply one big-ass pile of ordnance. Or else, a really, really long room.
June 6, 2005: U.S. Navy aircraft carriers in the Persian Gulf still provide bombers for combat operations in Iraq. In addition to some patrols over the Persian Gulf, each carrier typically puts 28 sorties over Iraq each day. Each sortie lasts 5-6 hours, and most of that time is spent just circling, waiting for the call from down below. Flight operations usually end at about 1 AM. Even the terrorists don't like to work the pre-dawn hours. Flight operations usually start again just before noon. The carrier takes a break every 14 days, to give the flight and deck crews some time off.
Few bombs are dropped by these carrier aircraft because, despite breathless media reports of each terrorist attack, there are not that many attacks, and the enemy has learned not to be around right after an attack is made. Any terrorist dumb enough, or unlucky enough, to get into a prolonged fight, will quickly receive a 500 pound smart bomb. And the battle will be over. So the carrier fighters, usually F-18s, sometimes get called on, especially at night, to use the night sensors on their targeting pods, to check out what's going on down below. The F-18s can also fly quite low, as Iraq has been declared a "low threat" zone, because of the infrequency of ground fire. Sometimes the F-18s come in low and hit a target with their 20mm cannon, but most of the time, a 500 pound smart bomb will do the job.
The call for F-18s to scan the ground below is all because of the new Advanced Targeting Forward-Looking Infrared (ATFLIR). This $1.2 million device, which is considered about five times more effective than earlier models, can clearly see people on the ground from 40 kilometers away, and 6-7 kilometers up. Pilots can see people with guns hiding on roofs, or behind buildings, waiting to ambush approaching coalition or Iraqi troops or convoys. Magnification at night is 30 times, and 60 times during the day. But at night, the ATFLIR gets sharper images because it is sensing differences in heat below. Things cool off rapidly in Iraq after the sun goes down, everything except the few people running around at night. The pilots like using the ATFLIR for this kind of reconnaissance, because they know it saves the lives of troops who would otherwise get ambushed. Unfortunately, there are only enough of the new ATFLIR to equip 20-30 percent of the F-18s on a carrier. So the 429 pound ATFLIR has to be constantly swapped on and off aircraft to keep most of those F-18s on patrol equipped with it. This takes about 45 minutes, and causes more wear and tear on the ATFLIR. Only four ATFLIRs are being produced each month, and it only entered service earlier this year. Whenever there is a major operation on the ground, the F-18s and their ATFLIR are in demand, because of the combination of clear pictures (on a TV screen in the cockpit) of what is going on down there, and half a dozen smart bombs on board.
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I'm waiting for some "Greatest Hits" video from these units, assuming they can record the imagery.
BAGHDAD, Iraq Authorities in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul have announced the arrest of yet another key terrorist leader of the al-Qaida in Iraq terrorist organization. The suspect is identified as the financier of the group's cell in Mosul. The suspect, Mutlaq Mahmoud Mutlaq Abdullah, aka, Abu Raad, was arrested on May 29th. He's considered a key facilitator and financier for a militant identified by the alias Abu Talha, the purported head of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's terror cell in Mosul.
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How exciting -- a financier! Did they find another US $6 million stash?
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tu3031, I rather imagine that allowing oneself to be captured lowers one's NYT rating considerably. Now if it were a Democratic administration that were involved instead...
BAGHDAD, June 6 (UPI) -- A suicide bomber detonated his booby-trapped car north of Baghdad Monday, injuring four Iraqi soldiers despite security raids near the Iraqi capital. Security sources said the attack occurred outside a U.S.-Iraqi military base in Tikrit, hometown of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Baghdad.
An estimated 1,000 Iraqi troops and police continued security raids for the second straight day Monday in the towns of the so-called "Triangle of Death" south of Baghdad, rounding up more than 200 suspected insurgents. The security plan dubbed "Operation Lighting" covered the towns of Latifiya, Youssifiya, Mahmoudiya and Madaen, with the aim of curbing rampant violence. Security sources said as many as 1000 people have been rounded up since the operation kicked off in Baghdad a week ago. They said government forces are receiving assistance and tips from the public, helping them dismantle terrorist cells and seize insurgents and arms.
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The carbomb attacks seem to have dropped off to about one a day. Seems like about three a day before the boys began unfairly targeting securing Sunni areas
KABUL, Afghanistan, June 6 (UPI) -- Afghan troops have captured a high-ranking Taliban commander who is thought to have led attacks on Afghan and U.S. troops, military officials announced. Haji Sultan, who was wanted by the U.S. military, was captured in the province of Farah in the west of the country, the BBC reported Sunday. Another senior Taliban fighter, Mullah Mohammed Rahim, also was arrested. Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman Zahir Azimy said that Haji Sultan had been handed over to the U.S. military for questioning.
For us? Why, thank you.
The United States has said the Taliban are down to around 2,000 men, with a declining appeal to former leaders and to the population. However, Taliban insurgents have stepped up attacks on Afghan and U.S. troops in the past two months, following a winter lull in their activities and prior to parliamentary elections scheduled for September.
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Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman Zahir Azimy
HAJI SULTAN
Taliban
MULLAH MOHAMED RAHIM
Taliban
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Pakistan has handed over to the United States senior al-Qaida suspect Abu Farraj al-Libbi, who was wanted for two assassination attempts against President Gen. Pervez Musharraf, an official said Monday. Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Jalil Abbas Jilani confirmed a reported comment by Musharraf published in a newspaper in the United Arab Emirates on Monday that al-Libbi had been handed over, but gave no further details.
"The president made a statement to this effect. The president's statement was self-explanatory. I don't have further details," Jilani said at a news conference in Islamabad.
"I can say no more"
Some officials have described al-Libbi as al-Qaida's No. 3 leader, after Osama bin Laden and Egyptian surgeon Ayman al-Zawahri. However, he does not appear on the FBI list of the world's most-wanted terrorists, and his exact role in al-Qaida is murky. He was arrested May 2 after a shootout in northwestern Pakistan.
An intelligence official said al-Libbi was whisked out of Pakistan with U.S. officials aboard an airplane "a few days ago."
"I'm a leaving, on a jet plane. Don't know when I'll be back again..."
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the clandestine nature of his job, did not know where al-Libbi was taken.
(cough)Diego Garcia(cough)
A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad was not immediately available for comment.
On May 31, Musharraf told CNN that Pakistan would hand al-Libbi, who is a Libyan, to the United States. In an interview with United Arab Emirates daily al-Ittihad he confirmed that had happened. "Yes, we turned Abu Farraj al-Libbi over to the United States recently, and we don't want people like him in our country," Musharraf was quoted as saying. The Pakistani leader did not say when or how al-Libbi was handed over or provide other details.
In Pakistan, al-Libbi was wanted for allegedly masterminding two attempts on Musharraf's life in December 2003. The president was unhurt, but 17 people died in the second attack. The assassination attempts carry a maximum penalty in Pakistan of death by hanging. The personal nature of the attacks led many to believe Musharraf would seek to try al-Libbi here.
We can always give him back, after his brains have been removed
Pakistani officials also have said that al-Libbi was behind a suicide attack against Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, weeks before he took office last year. Nine people died, including Aziz's driver. It was not entirely clear what charges if any al-Libbi might face in the United States, or if he has been indicted by any U.S. court. In Washington last week, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said the United States was talking to Pakistan about al-Libbi but had not yet discussed his extradition.
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ABU FARRAJ AL LIBI
al-Qaeda
AIMAN AL ZAWAHRI
al-Qaeda
Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman Jalil Abbas Jilani
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz
State Department spokesman Richard Boucher
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Damn! He's still alive. Oh, well, call the Americans.
Mauritania has accused Islamic insurgents from Algeria of attacking a Mauritanian army base in the Sahara desert killing at least 15 soldiers. Defence Minister Baba Ould Sidi said the gunmen were from the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) - suspected of links to al-Qaeda. He said 17 other soldiers were injured in an attack on Saturday, in the remote north-east near Algeria and Mali. The United States warns the area is a training ground for Islamist recruits.
At least five attackers were killed in the attack, the minister said, adding that they took six military vehicles and burnt two others. "They killed in cold blood the soldiers they had taken prisoner before fleeing," he told a news conference in the capital, Nouakchott. Following the attack, the army was placed on full alert and reinforcements and reconnaissance aircraft were sent to the region. In recent months the Mauritanian government has arrested about 50 people accused of links with al-Qaeda. Critics accuse the government of using the US-led war on terror to crackdown on Islamic opponents. Mauritania's President Maaouiya Ould Sid Ahmed Taya has angered Islamists by establishing links with Israel. There have been three coup attempts since June 2003.
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A LEADING Muslim cleric has contradicted reports he has seen Douglas Wood in the flesh, saying he has seen only footage of the Australian hostage indicating he is alive. The Sheik is full of shiite
The Sheik is playing the usual double game here. Wonder what he says in Arabic?
Sheik Taj al-Din al-Hilaly, the Sydney-based mufti of Australia, is in Iraq to try to secure the release of Mr Wood, who was captured in late April. "I have seen a recent CD video lasting 12 to 15 minutes where Wood is alive and good and in honest hands," the sheik told The Associated Press in Baghdad today.
Asked if had met Mr Wood during his latest mission to Iraq, the Egyptian-born cleric said he had seen only footage of the captive, which he had passed on to Australian authorities. "He looked normal and said 'I am OK, I am fine' and that he needs help from his family and the Government," Sheik al-Hilaly said.
His comments came a day after a senior Muslim leader in Australia claimed Sheik al-Hilaly had said he had seen Wood "eye to eye". Ikebal Patel, from the Federation of Islamic Councils, said he had spoken with Sheik al-Hilaly in a brief mobile phone conversation, and the mufti had confirmed he had seen Mr Wood. "He said to me 'I've seen him eye to eye', those were the words he used, eye to eye, it was Douglas," Mr Patel told Channel 7.
"What we do know is he is alive, the mufti's words is: 'He is okay under the circumstance, he is well', and the aim is to now try and get him out of there ASAP, to try get him the urgent medical attention that is required. "Medication has been given to him, so that is very welcome news."
But as news of the sheik's comments spread, another of his spokesmen revealed the latest development should not have been made public. The spokesman in Sydney, Keysar Trad, said the sheik had feared negotiations to win Mr Wood's freedom could suffer if the information was widely circulated.
"If you boys reveal that the Sheik has been two-timing everyone it's going to go badly for you!"
"Unfortunately what's happened in this matter is that some comments which were meant to be privately delivered to the Wood family went public," he told Sky News after speaking with the sheik. "And it's a very difficult situation.
"Sometimes these matters becoming public can hinder the efforts rather than help them, and the mufti is quite concerned about the number of statements that have gone public in relation to this matter."
Mr Trad confirmed that Sheik al-Hilaly had been able to provide evidence to satisfy Australia's negotiating team in Iraq that Mr Wood was still alive. "He has been able to provide proof to the negotiating team that Mr Wood is alive," he said, but did not elaborate. "And now it's just a matter of everyone co-operating together."
Mr Wood, 63, was abducted in Baghdad in late April and on May 1, a militant group calling itself the Shura Council of the Mujahideen of Iraq released a DVD showing him begging for his life. He pleaded with Australia to withdraw its troops from Iraq and save his life, but the federal Government said it would not bow to the demands of terrorists.
Mr Wood's family had reacted with cautious optimism to Sheikh al-Hilaly's reported sighting. "The family is pleased that the mufti is continuing his efforts in Baghdad," a spokesman for the family said. "Anything that he can do towards helping Douglas get released is most welcome."
Foreign Minister Alexander Downer did not comment on Sheikh al-Hilaly's claim that he had seen Mr Wood, except to say the cleric was making a good contribution. He said Australia's specialised hostage crisis team, which has been operating in Iraq since a few days after news of Mr Wood's abduction, was working hard to secure his release. "My only comment about it would be that we remain very determined in our drive to get him released and we are still working very hard at it," Mr Downer said.
Meanwhile, the federal Opposition has warned against provocative commentary on Iraq policy, which it says may jeopardise efforts to release Mr Wood.
Don't think I could have said it better myself. Although, couldn't the Sheik just bullshit us from his Mosque in Sydney? I'm sure the press would travel the extra distance to get the story. Being the biggest bullshit artist cleric in Australia, shouldnt he be building suicide belts or collecting for Hamas or something?
Another in a continuing series to remind you not to forget to attend.
Shout out to JerseyMike...tell your bro to bring the wife and kiddies along...lots to do in DC on a fine July weekend...I'll see if I can hook you up with a hotel.
Saturday July 9
3 p.m.
Venue submitted for sealed bids...may the best brew win!
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Hey Sea, persuading him to go isn't the problem, its his better half that needs working on. I'm trying to clear the decks here to see if I can make it down, probably won't know for sure for another 2 weeks or so. I'll keep you posted.
Don't worry Ship, he's only dangerous if you're between him and an all you can eat buffet.
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If anyone on the west coast wants to get together for a Rantapalooza v2.0 on the West Coast let me know I am eager to attend. Sacramento or Reno offer lots of venues (I have a preference for Sacramento). We could call the other group and telconference with them If willing I will bring my laptop and when can video-conference. Let me know and will will try to hook up on that date.
A powerful bomb blast on Saturday night at a school at Spinkai in the Sarwakai, South Waziristan Agency, destroyed two rooms and made deep cracks in the building. No one has claimed responsibility for the bomb which severely jolted the area. No casualty was reported. A few days ago, a similar blast in another school at Shahoor also destroyed three rooms.
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Immediately after the smoke cleared a large crowd of muzzies began chanting "death to America", for some unknown reason.
Fourteen men charged with plotting terrorism and sparking riots which killed six people in southern Jordan in 2002 have told a military court that their confessions were extracted under duress. "Interrogators forced me to sign a guilty confession under beating and torture," testified defendant Muhammad Ahmad al-Chalabi on Sunday, the purported leader of a 108-member cell which allegedly plotted to strike in the southern city of Maan. "I neither committed any act of terrorism, nor have I plotted to strike Maan or kill anyone," added al-Chalabi, also known as Abu-Sayyaf, echoing testimonies by the other 13 alleged cell members in police custody.
The 14 defendants, along with 94 others at large who are being tried in absentia, are charged with seven crimes which include launching terrorist attacks in November 2002 in Maan, 210km, south of Amman. Six people, including two police officers, were killed in shootouts between armed men and police during unrest in the southern desert city. Prosecutors claim al-Chalabi urged his followers to rebel against Maan city officials, including the mayor and police chief.
This article starring:
MUHAMAD AHMED AL CHALABI
al-Tawhid
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gotta feelin jordans meedeya aint gonna hoot an hollern bowt this. sumone needers to sen sum loyyers there way.
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I guess it was worth a try, but after they press got hold of their "manual" that tells them they have to say they were tortured one might think their claims would cause less of a stink. But that doesn't make for near as good of print than torture allegations to undermine the current administration.
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"Ia was tortured most horribly with many instruments of infamy and destruction. Continued on page 32. And then I was tortured even more by mean to horrible to relate."
Militants loosely affiliated to the Fatah Party of Mahmoud Abbas stormed public offices in Nablus under a hail of gunfire, accusing the Palestinian president of failing to honor security promises. The drama occurred as Abbas was locked in talks with his governing Fatah Party, which is facing a deepening rift with rivals Hamas over his decision to delay parliamentary elections. Some 15 members of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades fired in the air at the entrance to Nablus Governor Mohammad al-Aalloul's office and stormed into the Interior Ministry in the West Bank city. Nablus governor Aalloul was in Ramallah at the time. "We demand that the Palestinian Authority, especially Abu Mazen (Abbas), keeps their promises. He promised us jobs in the security services and that he would secure our safety. We have seen none of it," Al-Aqsa said in a statement.
Witnesses said an employee at the governor's office was slightly wounded in the incident. A spokesman for the brigades said the gunmen shot him accidentally. The takeover was the latest sign of chaos in the West Bank and Gaza, where armed gangs have become increasingly powerful in more than four years of Israeli-Palestinian fighting. Abbas has promised to restore order, so far with few results. In Gaza, Palestinian officials said around 40 Fatah-affiliated militants who closed off access to the Egyptian border crossing in a similar protest would be granted security jobs.
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He promised us jobs in the security services and that he would secure our safety.
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Sorry, Mahmoud, but you're gonna have to face it, a high percentage of your people are insane. And not only that, but they want you to find them jobs in your government.
Good luck with that...
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How can the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade be described as "loosely affiliated to the Fatah Party"? Since the Fatah party finances them they are directly linked to Fatah. On another note I keep hoping for a MOAB to hit dead center of one of these "Martyrs" parades and make their dreams come true.
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.
Saudi security forces seized six suspected terrorists and, in a separate incident, confiscated arms and ammunition, security sources said Monday. The sources said the suspects were captured Sunday night while on their way from the holy city of Mecca to the city of Taef in the west of the nation. The suspects first drew the attention of traffic police when they drove the wrong way on a one-way road. 
Police have expanded their manhunt into more areas of 
Syrian authorities recently arrested two human rights activists, one of whom was allegedly detained for speaking at a memorial service for a slain Kurdish cleric, rights groups said. 
The Iraqi government announced Monday it detained nearly 900 suspected militants and set up more than 800 checkpoints in a two-week sweep that appears to have somewhat blunted attacks in the capital.
Pakistan has handed over to the United States senior al-Qaida suspect 
Mauritania has accused Islamic insurgents from Algeria of attacking a Mauritanian army base in the Sahara desert killing at least 15 soldiers. Defence Minister 
A powerful bomb blast on Saturday night at a school at Spinkai in the Sarwakai, 
Fourteen men charged with plotting terrorism and sparking riots which killed six people in southern Jordan in 2002 have told a military court that their confessions were extracted under duress. "Interrogators forced me to sign a guilty confession under beating and torture," testified defendant 
Militants loosely affiliated to the 
