The outlawed Islamic militant group JMB on Sunday reportedly threatened to blow up two police stations in the district. The threat was conveyed to Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Sylhet through a letter in the name of a JMB (Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh) commander.
Nobody ever said they were subtle...
SM Faisal Alam, the Deputy Commissioner of Sylhet, admitted having received the letter in which JMB has threatened to blow up two police stationsââ Kanai Ghat and Zakiganjââ in the district within the next 15 days. Police sources said the district administration has already taken extra security measures as soon as the letter was received. Vigilance in the district has been increased, the sources added.
Staff Correspondent writes from Chittagong: The Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) submitted the charge sheets and Final Reports in eight cases that were filed for bomb blasts in Chittagong with eight thanas in the port city today. Of the said eight cases, police submitted six final reports in six cases and one charge sheet in this connection. Police submitted the Final Report as police did not find any accused at those thana areas. On the other hand, Bandar thana police submitted the charge sheet against two persons identified as Abdus Sattar Mollah and Arshadul Alam. Besides, Khulshi thana is likely to submit charge sheet against eight persons tomorrow (Tuesday), concerned sources said.
At least 25 bombs were blasted at the 20 spots in the port city Chittagong from 11. 05 to 11. 20 am on August 17 last. Five persons were injured during the blasting of the bombs in the city. Huge leaflets of Jamaatul Mujahideen, Bangladesh were recovered from the spots. Police arrested eight persons from different spots of the city in this connection.
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Suspected rebels launched homemade bombs at a police station and nearby homes in a southwest town near the border with Ecuador, killing seven people, authorities said Monday. More than a hundred fighters with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, fired at least a dozen bombs toward the police station Sunday night in San Miguel, 340 miles southwest of Bogota, said Col. Humberto Guatibonza, police chief in Putumayo state.
The bombs, fashioned by packing explosives into empty gas cylinders, are launched from ramps, and are difficult to aim with any degree of accuracy. Four police officers, two civilians and one army soldier were killed in the attack, he said. Six people were injured and several homes near the station were destroyed by the bombs.
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The bombs, fashioned by packing explosives into empty gas cylinders, are launched from ramps, and are difficult to aim with any degree of accuracy.
You'll put your eye out.
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fashioned by packing explosives into empty gas cylinders, are launched from ramps,
I do believe that's an old IRA trick, a home-brewed mortar. Perhaps those three IRA "aid workers" held a class or two.
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Ah okay, not a homemade rocket - a homemade mortar. That's a little safer.
Security forces have killed three suspected militants holed up an apartment building in Russiaâs restive southern province of Dagestan, local media reported.
Acting on a tip-off, law enforcement agents blocked the five-story building in the republicâs capital Makhachkala late Monday, said Abdul Musayev, a spokesman for the regional branch of Russiaâs Interior Ministry. The militants fired at police, wounding one officer, he said.
Security forces, backed by armored vehicles, then stormed the building in a 10-hour operation that ended early Tuesday. They found the bodies of three suspected militants, Musayev said.
One of those killed was identified as Gadzhimagomed Ismailov whom authorities called one of the leaders of gunmen who have conducted a series of attacks on law enforcement officials in Dagestan, a Caspian Sea province that borders Chechnya to the east, Musayev said.
The second suspected militant was identified as Murad Lakhiyalov, Ismailovâs aide.
Police and government officials in Dagestan have been targeted in a series of bomb blasts and shootings, stoking fears that Chechnyaâs instability and violence was spilling over to other predominantly Muslim Caucasus regions. Officials say more than 40 law enforcement officers have been killed in attacks in Dagestan this year alone.
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Russia is holding a former U.S. prisoner from Guantanamo Bay in the attack this month in the southern Russian town of Nalchik in which 128 people died. Rasul Kudayev, who was returned to Russia in February last year, was detained on Sunday at his home in Nalchik, say his mother and lawyer, reports The Times of London. Russian media said the 24-year-old was arrested on suspicion of taking part in the Oct. 13 raid on Nalchik, capital of the Kabardino-Balkariya republic.
His lawyer Clive Stafford Smith said the allegations were based on a groundless tip-off. Stafford Smith, who is with a British charity, is helping Kudayev and six other Russian Guantanamo prisoners to sue the United States over their treatment. Kudayev was among those arrested by U.S. as "enemy combatants" in Afghanistan in 2001 and taken to Guantanamo Bay.
I'm sure we'll hear that the brutal treatment in Gitmo caused this poor lad to stray to the dark side
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He didn't give up his Jihad apperently. Let the Russians deal with him their way since he didn't learn.
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I'd counsel against the lil caucas moo-hah-jeed's wigged buddy showing his happy face in Nalchik. The Russian police and military tend to be a bit overzealous in exercising their legal self-help remedies at equity, as it were in former soviet states.
Germany is to withdraw about one quarter of its 1,000 peacekeepers from Bosnia, outgoing Defence Minister Peter Struck said in an interview with the Sunday newspaper Welt am Sonntag. Struck said Balkan leaders had to be gradually made to take their own responsibility for the future. "It's my impression that there is a tendency there to take it easy and leave the work to us."
"We'll withdraw 200 to 300 soldiers from Bosnia," said Struck, a Social Democrat who is to hand over his portfolio to a member of Germany's conservative Christian Democratic party as soon as coalition talks in Berlin are completed. He said part of the German forces on peacekeeping duty in Kosovo was also likely to be withdrawn. "As far as Kosovo is concerned, I assume that the status issue will be settled in the course of the next half-year. "After that we can withdraw the soldiers." But he said he could not state a date when all German soldiers would come home from the Balkans. quagmire!
Sooner or later, Europe is going to have to take responsibility for SOMETHING, even if it's only its own destruction. I hope someone over there realizes the free ride is over.
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Last time the Germans were confronted with a mob going on a rampage they stood there and let them burn a church. They really aren't much use.
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Germany is still recovering from WWII, they dont want to fight another war or have anything to do with war.
If you cant handle that then go Fxxk yourself.
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wtf? a 40 year old German was born 20 years after the war ended. Time to grow up and become a member of society again. Enough with the mental anguish of your damn forefathers. Every country has a past of shame, how long does it take to recuperate?
Just an excuse to sit on your collective ends and do nothing.
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a Viking doesn't whine. Get yourself a real nym, pussy
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Just an excuse to sit on your collective ends and do nothing.
Especially egregious when they are culpable for spurring the collapse of Yugoslavia and the reinitiation of ethnic cleansing by their former Ustasi buddies.
We're the ones who should be leaving so they can clean up the mess they made.
Seems you can't trust a themt to pull their own weight. Germany is and will remain a prime example of how to wreck an international relationship. They don't and will not adhere to treaties they have signed and are now joining the cut and run crowd along with the Spanish.
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Oh yeah ... remind me again about how we started the one in the Balkans. Which began when Germany unilaterally decided to recognize Croatia, with leadership that went right back to the Ustasi allies of the Nazis.
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Gosharoonies. Our mess? You fucking moron, this has been YOUR European mess from day fucking one. You couldn't handle it. You've fumbled the issue since Adam. Your European "leaders" stood there wringing their hands for years, moaning, groaning, whining, and dining - what they do best. Our dumbass Clinton came in and saved your asses. Stupid move - look at the fuckwit response for it. Gutless Thankless Whining Asstard.
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Any statements containing "Your Mess", "Imperiaism" and "Empire" made by or comming out of anywhere in Europe or the UK is laughable. Anywhere you turn in the world that is a shit hole or train wreck you can thank Europe for. Look at Africa, look at the Middle East and Asia. All the failed states, train wrecks and places of genocide are former European and British colonies and possesions. Liberia is the only country remotely related to the US in any way.The make-up of most Middle Eastern and African countries was deterimined by Europeans and English men. No one in the US took part.
The mess that is the former Yugoslavia can be laid right at Europe's feet.
Viking grow up. That smell is your own flatulence. A please do fight your own fights. I kind of doubt Europe can or will, since it lacks the manhood to do so.
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Viking, I don't speak your language, but let me say it in German, since we are discussing Germany:
Sprecht Du nicht mehr wie ein unerzogenes Kleinkind. Du zeigst, dass Du ganz und gar nicht von europaische Geschichte weisst, wann Du solche Unsinn schreibst.
Oh, and I was living in Frankfurt when Yugoslavia fell apart. I had the distinct non-pleasure of having to explain to my Croatian neighbor on one side, and my Serbian neighbor on the other, that President Clinton could not intervene to end the fighting because the EU insisted they would handle it themselves... and the EU continued to refuse to allow American assistence until half of Sarajevo had been killed, and much of the ancient beauty of Croatia was destroyed. So either you are deliberately lying about your own history in order to insult the "stupid Americans" who caught you out, or you really are an ignoramous, in which case insulting the intelligence of your betters is ... umm ... unwise.
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Two points. One, it *is* time for the successor states from the former Yugoslavia to be weaned off the international t!t. Note how only Bosnia and Kosovo require peacekeeping troops and massive doses of monetary aid - Slovenia, Croatia and Montenegro appear to be doing quite nicely without any. Note how both Bosnia and Kosovo are Muslim majority.
Two, any problems from imploding Muslim states in the Balkans will be borne primarily by the states surrounding the region. If Bosnia and Kosovo encounter serious problems in the aftermath of disengagement, expect the refugees to end up in Germany and other neighboring countries. Now, if the Serbs had been left alone to do what they had to do, most of these Muslims would have ended up in Turkey or Albania, and we wouldn't have to worry about spending big chunks of cash and tying down troops in Bosnia and Kosovo. But that was the road not taken.
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Arguably Bosnia, at least, has not achieved proper independence because the garrisoned Peacekeepers were more interested in setting up brothels staffed by the local girls than they were in setting up elected town councils.
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Trying to lay the blame for the mess in the middle east or africa or central asia or venezuela, etc on any other countries is fruitless. Ultimately the inhabitants of these marginal "states" will have to get their collective shit together (or not in the case of the wannabe muslim caliphate).
If not, there will ultimately be a nasty showdown. I think that eventually, every country surrounding the Islamic world will have to decide that enough is enough. The question will be, at that point, do they have enough men of fighting age and the guts to finish the job.
ISTANBUL - A Turkish man was arrested here Monday as part of a probe into an alleged plot by suspected Al-Qaeda militants to attack Israeli cruise ships off Turkey's Mediterranean coast earlier this year, the Anatolia news agency reported. A court in Istanbul interrogated and then placed under arrest Salih Olcay, whose identity was used in a forged card held by Syrian national Louai Sakra when he was detained in August on charges of belonging to Al-Qaeda. The prosecution had asked the court to arrest Olcay on charges of "membership to an illegal organization," Anatolia said.
Olcay said in his testimony he had lost his identity card two and a half years ago but did not know how, the NTV news channel reported.
The suspect also said he did not apply to the authorities for a new card and instead used his driving licence when he needed an identity document, NTV added.
When arrested in August, Sakra shouted to reporters outside the courthouse that he had prepared a tonne of explosives to attack ships carrying Israeli tourists to resorts on Turkey's Mediterranean coast.
Another Syrian, Hamed Obysi, believed to be a go-between for Al-Qaeda and its militants in Turkey, was arrested in the same operation, during which four Israeli ships carrying 3,500 tourists to the southern resort of Alanya were re-routed to Cyprus.
The Turkish police also suspect Sakra of involvement in two sets of twin suicide bombings in Istanbul in November 2003, which claimed about 60 lives and were blamed on a local cell of Al-Qaeda.
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MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Bombs exploded early Tuesday at four courthouses in northern Spain, causing some property damage but no immediate reports of injuries, Spanish media reported. The first bomb went off about 2:30 a.m. local time, with the fourth detonating around 8:45 a.m.
The bombs went off in four northern provinces that the Basque separatist group ETA is trying to turn into an independent homeland.
The attacks follow a statement published by ETA in the Basque newspaper Gara, in which the group reiterated its claim to self determination and took responsibility for several recent bombings.
"We're back!"
Gara reported on its Web site later on Tuesday that it received a warning call in the name of ETA at 8:25 a.m. local time, before the fourth and final bomb, at a courthouse in Guernika, in Vizcaya province. That bomb exploded around 8:45 a.m. The explosions occurred at the courthouses in the towns of Ordizia, in Guipuzcoa province, around 2:30 a.m., then in Amurrio, Alava province, and then in Guernika. It was not immediately clear what time the explosion occurred in the fourth location, in Berriozar, in Navarra province, but Gara reported that it was an incendiary device, not a bomb.
The first three provinces comprise the Basque region in Spain, with its own regional government, while neighboring Navarra province has its own separate regional government. ETA's aim is to create an independent Basque homeland that would comprise those four provinces in Spain along with three departments in southwestern France that also have historic Basque roots and customs.
Interior Minister Jose Antonio Alonso, in a statement, "condemned the terrorist actions carried out early today against four courthouses" and called for national unity to fight terrorism. The minister did not specifically name ETA in his statement, but numerous other Spanish politicians and other leaders did blame ETA for the attacks, in their separate statements of condemnation. The bombings came as speculation continues in Spain that ETA might be preparing to call another cease-fire in its long fight, that started in 1968.
ETA suspects are also due to go on trial this week at Spain's National Court, in Madrid. ETA is blamed for more than 800 deaths and is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States and the European Union.
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Does anyone else occasionally feel that Wilsonian self-determination was a really BIG mistake?
It was an arguable theory in the days of Empires like Austro-Hungary, etc. but does it really make sense to have a tribal vision for sovereignty in this day and age? Think of all the thousands of mini-states that could be split up (some are in the process) from Quebec to Kurdistan to Kashmir to Wales to Basque land etc.
The world seems to be splitting into two camps, those who want sovereignty at the tribal level and those who want sovereignty at the global level (tranzis and Islamists).
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How can one Basque even tell another Basque from anyone else ? Are they so different, or are they different because they live in mud huts and chew leather all night long ?
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some, like my maternal grandmother, emigrated to Nevada from the French Basque country. The language is unlike anything else in Europe, and the disposition can quickly change to nasty, jerk
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Basques are a distinct people genetically. they are non-IndoEuropean culturally and genetically, probably date from the Neolithic in those mountains, if not earlier. They have a long history of demanding to be autonomous and left alone: see: Roman Empire, history of in Spain and France.
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The world seems to be splitting into two camps, those who want sovereignty at the tribal level and those who want sovereignty at the global level (tranzis and Islamists).
Which way out?
Democracy is the way out. Self-determination doesn't always mean "independence". It means the right of peoples to choose how much independendent they want to be.
I want European (and global) unification, but I want it to be a democratic unification. Any state that democratically chooses out, should be allowed to. And every people should be allowed to change their minds -- no irrevocable choices.
ETA's ambitions have nothing to do with either democracy nor Basque freedom any more than Transnistria's or Abkhazia's puppet governments do -- they've already killed Basque democrats opposing them, and they'd keep the Basque people under the tyrant's leash if they had their way, after they also ethnically clean out the Spaniards.
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And as a sidenote there's also a third camp you've not mentioned, which is that of the nationalist imperialist camp -- hypocrites who preach absolute sovereignty for their own nation, but are very eager to intervene in the affairs of other countries if it suits their purposes.
Now for the others. The founder of Basque nationalism was Sabino Arana. A guy who didn't speak Basque. His books and speechs talk of the Basque as a superior race who had to remain pure from inferior and degenerate "Maketos" (ie Spaniards) but also from French, English, Americans and remaining untermenschen. In other words he was a Baske version of your average KKK member. This is the guy who inspires both the oficially non-violent PNV and the ETA.
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Sidenote: The Basque language is among the oldest in all of Europe. I have heard speculation that it is most closely linked to sanskrit. Some notes from a website:
The Basque language is an inflected language whose origin is still somewhat puzzling. The fact that it is not an Indoeuropean language, and shows no ressemblance to languages in neighbouring countries, has led to the formulation of a variety of hypotheses to explain its existence. Owing to some similarities with the Georgian language, some linguists think it could be related to languages from the Caucasus. Others relate the language to non-Arabic languages from the north of Africa. One of the most likely hypotheses argues that the Basque language developed "in situ", in the land of the primitive Basques. That theory is supported by the discovery of some Basque-type skulls in Neolithic sites, which ruled out the thesis of immigration from other areas. Many think it is a very old language because there are words, such as that for axe ("aizkora" or "haizkora") for example, that have the same root as the word rock ("aitz"> or "haitz")
They have resisted cultural intrusion by much larger states (i.e., Spain & France) for millennia, so their's must be a pretty rugged culture.
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Strong pressure not to marry outside the ethnic group, among other things, which in subtle ways is reinforced by the distinctive Basque headshape and earlobes. OTOH, a rather ominous percent of Basques are RH negative, which keeps the birthrate low. That has worked to their advantage in the past, as it provides a natural limit on the local population, allowing subsitance farming plus fishing to support a traditional peasant lifestyle. Some Basques developed large financial fortunes by building fishing fleets or moving into manufacturing -- and none of these supports ETA.
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Aris, unfortunately your "Democracy is the way out. Self-determination doesn't always mean "independence". It means the right of peoples to choose how much independendent they want to be"
Is the problem rather than the solution. Please define "peoples" in such a way as to not foster tribalism. Are the Basques a "people" that deserve their own vote? Are the Serbians a "people" that deserve their own vote? (did that include Kosovo or not?) Do the Catholics, Welsh, Afro-Americans, 125 flavors of Chinese, the Swahili, Hutus, Alsatians, Northern Cypriots etc. deserve a vote as a "people"?
As far as I've been able to see their is no answer to this. And to continue to claim that Democracy is an answer is worse than useless. To have Democracy you first need an identifiable Demos and WHO gets to make that call? The answer is INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY which makes your sovereign location practically immaterial. If everyone is free and has the same gauranteed rights anywhere then the sovereign classification doesn't matter.
It's when groups have a group identity and want group perks and privs that the problems begin, and that's what the idea of micro states panders to. Your group gets to be the big fish in the little pond and eat all the other fish that you don't agree with.
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Having a functional democracy requires that you have a somewhat educated population whose majority is able to think outside the clan. Otherwise, you end up with knuckleheads who vote for free food and gasoline (not realizing that someone has to pay in some manner for all the free stuff).
On the otherhand, if you make all the boys memorize exclusively the koran or the guiness book of records or slaughterhouse five or whathaveyou --you eventually will have a group of voters who are absolutely worthless to the furtherance of enlightened democracy. In fact, they may end up being culturally akin to the monster that climbed out of that guys belly in the movie "Alien".
Via Jihad Watch A federal judge on Monday denied a request by a U.S. citizen, who has been charged with plotting to kill President George W. Bush, to throw out confessions he signed while in Saudi custody when he claims he was tortured. U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee issued two brief orders denying requests by Ahmed Abu Ali, 24, to throw out the confessions he signed and to dismiss the case. Lee did not explain his reasons but said he would issue an opinion detailing his decision at a later date.
Abu Ali testified last week that he was arrested in Medina, Saudi Arabia in 2003 and said the day after his arrest that officers from the Saudi domestic security police chained him to the floor, blindfolded him and whipped him to make him talk. After begging them to stop, Abu Ali said he agreed to cooperate and began making confessions which continued after he was transferred to a prison near Riyadh, where he was held for 20 months. The Saudi government has denied torturing Abu Ali. U.S. prosecutors, who based much of their case against Abu Ali on his confessions and other statements made in Saudi Arabia, said there was no evidence that he had been mistreated.
Bzzzzzt! Too bad, so sad. Thanks for playing, Abu! See you in court....
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Baggage screeners found bomb components in a carry-on piece of luggage at San Diego International Airport on Tuesday and cleared the area to investigate, Department of Homeland Security spokesmen said. A department spokesman said the screeners found "all components of an IED" (improvised explosive device) in a piece of luggage at around 7:45 a.m. (10:45 a.m. EDT)
Explosives? Wires? Timers?
They then evacuated the commuter terminal of the airport and bomb specialists began to investigate, the spokesman said. Transportation Security Administration spokesman Nico Melendez said an employee noticed a "suspicious item" in a piece of luggage as it was going through the X-ray machine. Officials at the airport were not immediately available for comment.
The Homeland Security spokesman said officials were investigating to see if there was any link between the discovery in San Diego and bomb threats at two Los Angeles-area airports. Searches at the Long Beach airport and a separate threat at nearby Orange County's John Wayne airport were resolved with no bombs found. Melendez said he was unaware of any other incidents at other California airports.
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the San Diego Airport Commuter Terminal is an isolated bldg (old PSA HQ), away from the main Terminals 1 and 2. Relatively difficult to disappear from that parking lot without being caught, and small commuter planes only.... bet it doesn't pan out...
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UNION-TRIBUNE BREAKING NEWS TEAM
10:02 a.m. October 25, 2005
SAN DIEGO â The commuter terminal at Lindbergh Field was evacuated briefly Tuesday morning after baggage screeners found what they thought appeared to be a bomb in a passenger's suitcase.
Threats prompt searches of airports in Long Beach, Orange County
Harbor Police were called after the item was discovered at 7:45 a.m., according to Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Jennifer Peppin. The bomb squad was called and technicians examined the item and found it to be harmless â a child's toy with a cookie attached to it, Peppin said.
The original report said that screeners had detected an improvisedexplosive device as the baggage was X-rayed.
"Screeners are trained to know the items they are looking for and will flag anything they deem to be suspicious," Peppin said.
The all-clear was given at 9:18 a.m. and the terminal was returned to normal operations.
The luggage was returned to the traveler and he went on his way, officials said.
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The only bomb components that really matter are the fuse-initiators. Good ones are hard to fabricate, and poor ones are more likely to kill you than blow up your target.
A serious bomber could make everything else he needed, including reasonably good low-volume explosive, from generic materials found in any hardware store. However, such a bomber would want to use military-spec fuse initiators if at all possible.
This would indicate that this is probably the work of some Internet-trained amateur.
"The luggage was returned to the traveler and he went on his way, officials said."
That investigation sure wasn't going on for long, was it? My complaint is with Rooters (and the rest of the MSM) that throws out half-baked crap hoping to cause a panic. How much investigative journalism would this have taken?
A Saudi indicted by the US authorities for enslaving and sexually assaulting an Indonesian maid was under investigation on Friday for possible links to terrorism. Homaidan al Turki and his wife Sarah Khonaizan were accused of abusing their maid and keeping her hostage at their Aurora , Colorado home in June 2005.
On Monday, Khonaizan was refused a request to return to her home country after learning her motherâs condition was critical; she later died at the King Fahd National Guard hospital in Riyadh on Saturday. A graduate student at the University of Colorado , studying linguistics, al Turki has lived in the United States since 1995.
Well, that's only ten years...
Federal Court documents field by al Turkiâ lawyers detail the investigation against him. They claim the Denver Joint Terrorism Task Force has had al Turki under a âfull fledged investigationâ suspecting âhe is closely aligned to terrorists and may be providing material support to terrorism.â His lawyers said he âadamantly and vehemently denies any links to terrorism.â They add he looks forward to being vindicated of all charges against him in court.
The US Attorneyâs Office said the terrorism investigation was separate from the charges regarding his maid. Speaking to a local TV station, al Turki stressed he was innocent. âThereâs no doubt about it,â he said. Instead, he believed recent brushes with the law were motivated by religion and politics. âI am Saudi, I am a Muslim and I think thatâs an attraction to law enforcement by itselfâ al Turki added.
"The bitch set me up!"
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but Sen. Patty Murray (D-Burqa/Tennis Shoes) sez they spend their money and good will on the poor and desperate?
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âI am Saudi, I am a Muslim and I think thatâs an attraction to law enforcement by itselfâ al Turki added.
Errr all of that and maybe slavery being illegal in this country may have played a part.
Iraqi voters ratified a new U.S.-backed constitution despite bitter opposition in Sunni Arab areas where insurgents are battling to topple the Baghdad government, results showed on Tuesday.
Iraq's Electoral Commission, giving final results from the October 15 referendum, said 79 percent of voters backed the constitution against 21 percent opposed in a poll split largely along Iraq's sectarian and ethnic lines.
Several Shi'ite and Kurdish regions voted between 95 and 99 percent "Yes"; in rebellious, Sunni Anbar 97 percent said "No."
Prominent Sunni Arab leaders rejected the referendum as a fraud, warning it could fuel militant violence and discourage Sunnis from participating in future elections.
U.N. and Iraqi election officials said the vote, which was largely peaceful despite widespread fears of a surge in militant violence, was fair.
The results came as the U.S. military death toll in Iraq rose to 1,999 -- closing on the headline-grabbing 2,000 mark expected to spur new calls for U.S. President George W. Bush to outline an exit strategy for the Iraqi conflict.
Anti-government insurgents, who struck in dramatic fashion on Monday with a triple suicide bomb attack on a Baghdad hotel used by foreign journalists, set off new blasts on Tuesday in Baghdad and the normally tranquil city of Sulaimaniya, killing at least 15 people in total.
Al Qaeda in Iraq said on Tuesday it was behind the Baghdad hotel attack, according to a Web posting.
The referendum's final results showed that only two of Iraq's 18 provinces, the insurgent stronghold of Anbar in the west and Saddam Hussein's home region of Salahaddin, had mustered a "No" vote of at least two-thirds -- one short of the three provinces necessary to veto the measure.
The northern province of Nineveh, thought to represent a third possible "No" due to its large population of Sunni Arabs, ended up with only 55 percent of voters rejecting the charter.
Commission spokesman Farid Ayar rejected suggestions that the results had been tampered with, pointing to the lengthy audit of balloting before the results were announced.
"We didn't invent these figures. It took us a long time to get them," he told a news conference.
Passage of the constitution is a boost for Washington and the Shi'ite- and Kurdish-led government in Baghdad, paving the way for a parliamentary election on December 15 that both hope will mark Iraq's emergence as a stable, federal democracy.
But much will depend on Sunni Arabs, who represent 20 percent of Iraq's population and have fought the charter as a plot to deprive them of power and access to Iraq's oil wealth in Shi'ite- and Kurdish-dominated areas.
"Politics is linked directly to security on the ground. The situation can only get worse now," said Hussein al-Falluji, part of a Sunni team that negotiated the constitution, told Reuters, describing the results as a "fraud."
Another Sunni politician, Saleh Mutlaq, said the vote could backfire on government efforts to defuse the insurgency by persuading Sunnis they have no role in the political process.
A top U.N. election specialist, Carina Perelli, said she was confident the election had not been fixed: "The result is accurate. It has been checked according to the processes that we all follow when we have elections."
But U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan's representative in Baghdad, Ashraf Qazi, said the poll once again demonstrated how dangerously polarized Iraq has become.
Both the United States and Britain have sought to ease Sunni fears by emphasizing that the constitution can be amended after the new parliament is elected -- an enticement for Sunni groups to field candidates and make their voices heard.
Proof of insurgent anger was displayed again this week with the bombing of Baghdad's Palestine and Sheraton hotels, the base for several international media organizations and a symbol of the foreign presence in the capital since the 2003 invasion. This is bad media spin. Zarqawi has taken credit for the attacks, which means the boomers are every bit as "foreign" as the journalists they targeted.
The bombings, at dusk in front of rolling television cameras that guaranteed global media coverage, broke a relative lull in insurgent violence over the past two weeks.
Body parts were still strewn outside the hotel complex on Tuesday morning after the blast, which police said killed at least 12 Iraqis and injured 22.
On Tuesday, a suicide car bomber targeted a U.S. military convoy in Baghdad, killing one civilian and injuring five, police said. A roadside bomb exploded near a Baghdad hospital, killing one person and injuring another.
In the northern city of Sulaimaniya -- a Kurdish area rarely troubled by the violence of the past two years -- another car bomb killed at least 12 people, hospital sources said, while a separate bomb attack killed a politician's bodyguard.
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The Sunnis will never learn, will they? The old days are over. You can't go home again, Charlie Brown. It's time to accept the current status quo, and work within it. That will not happen. These people hold grudges for GENERATIONS. The only thing that will work is force. It's time to take the gloves off, and show the Sunnis just who is the "meanest dog in the fight".
Hearts and minds cannot be won when the people who you're trying to influence hold you in contempt. We need to break that contempt, and put the fear of God AND the American military into these people. I would suggest ar Ramadi be the example. Pull all American and Iraqi forces out, wait three days, and then LEVEL the city and everything within ten miles of it. Use bombs, rockets, tanks, artillery, napalm - hell, catapults, if they'll do damage - and simply turn Ramadi into a pile of small, blood-soaked, fried pebbles. It'll save lives, time, energy, and treasure in the long run. There won't be an Arab city anywhere that won't think "It could happen here, next". It will also take a LOT of the starch out of the surviving Sunnis.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility Tuesday for the triple suicide bombings of Baghdad hotels that killed as many as 17 people. The claim, made in an Internet statement posted on a Web site that carries extremist material, said the attack targeted the ``dirty harbor of intelligence agents and private American, British and Australian security companies.''
"We're sorry of any inconvience we might have caused to our friends in the press"
Monday's bombings targeted central Baghdad's Palestine and Sheraton hotels, which house Western journalists and contractors.
Referendum? What constitutional referendum?
It's all about us, US, US!!!!!
hello? anybody broadcasting this??? Hey, don't go away! We're the STORY!!!!
Hello????
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When doses anyone in the press get common sense, and realize these guys would kill thier own mother to prove a point. Quit giving these guys good press.
EFL: BAGHDAD, Iraq â Iraq's landmark constitutional was adopted by a majority of voters during the country's Oct. 15 referendum, election officials said Tuesday. Results released by the Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq showed that Sunni Arabs, who had sharply opposed the draft document, failed to produce the two-thirds "no" vote they would have needed in at least three of Iraq's 18 provinces to defeat it.
The commission, which had been auditing the referendum results for 10 days, said at a news conference in Baghdad that Ninevah province, had produced a "no" vote of only 55 percent. The constitution, which many Kurds and majority Shiites strongly support, is considered another major step in the country's democratic transformation, clearing the way for the election of a new Iraqi parliament on Dec. 15. Such steps are considered important in any decision about the future withdrawal of U.S.-led forces from Iraq.
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Suicide bombers blasted through the concrete walls surrounding the Palestine Hotel in central Baghdad yesterday in an apparent effort to take over the hotel and grab foreign and Arab journalists as hostages, the Iraqi national security adviser said. At least 20 passers-by were killed, but only about seven people inside the hotel â home to a number of foreign and Arab journalists and foreign contract workers â were wounded. No one inside the hotel was badly hurt. Iraqâs national security adviser, Mouwafak Al-Rubaie, said the attack â which appeared well planned â was a âvery clearâ effort to take over the hotel and grab foreign and Arab journalists as hostages. Security still photos showed a clear attempt to attack the hotel.
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hostages are only good if someone wants them back...
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Using allies as hostages is never a smart move...
The number of terrorists involved and the follow-on small arms attacks make it clear that the overall goal was to use suicide vehicle bombs to breach the security perimeter, then take over the hotel and hold the international guests as hostages. Instead, they failed to achieve those objectives and the attackers were killed.
If their intent was the make the journalists hostages, why does that not bother me? I mean they're insurgents fighting the good war as far as the journalists are concern. I'm sure the elite MSM would howl mainly because of the insurance costs that have kept so many of their top notch writers parked around the bar in the hotel. However, the thought of 'demands' being issued from the hotel by terrorists insurgents upon the threat of death to their best allies is just so amusing.
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Fox had an interview with the specialist who dropped the cement truck driver and his captain (who looked about 15 - I'm getting old). The Captain said that if they were trying to take hostages they would have dismounts ready to storm the breach the explosions made. Since there were none, his opinion was that it was a straight out car bombing, albeit a complex one.
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CRS, did the Spc. confirm he shot the driver before the concrete truck blew up at the inner concertina wire barrier? I was wondering why the truck did not make it to the hotel before blowing up. (From an early vid, I mistakenly thought the inner barrier was concrete.)
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Terrorists targeting journalists? Things must be going poorly if the terr's are turning on their own.
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Ed, the Spc said he "dropped him" as he drove in following the first 2 explosions, and prevented the truck from making it through the holes blown by the earlier bombs. They also said that there were two rings of barriers, which prevented the trucks from getting close.
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OT - the Specialist looked about 35 or so, and the Captain looked like a teenager. When they showed them on-screen, I thought to myself, "That Captain looks like he's been around." Then the reporter asked the Specialist to describe what happened and the "old" guy started talking. Just goes to show you can't judge a book by it's cover.
RABAT - Two employees of the Moroccan embassy in Baghdad have disappeared on the road between the Jordanian capital Amman and Baghdad, the Moroccan ministry of foreign affairs and cooperation said on Monday. âThe Moroccan embassy in Iraq has not heard from two Moroccan staff of the chancellery since Thursday,â the ministry said in a statement.
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...But several countries, led by developing nations, now argue that since the Internet is a global tool, no one country should control it. They contend that decisions should fall under the jurisdiction of an international body, such as the United Nations. Their argument received an unexpected boost late last month when an EU commissioner proposed removing U.S. oversight of Icann, reversing the EU's support of the current arrangement.
Viviane Reding, the EU commissioner for Internet and media affairs who made the proposal, told the BBC in a recent interview: "There must not be any government involvement in the day-to-day management of the Internet, neither one of the U.S. government nor by any other government."
Hmmm...it's ALL about control, madam, and some tranz international body who can't even control themselves sure as shit will fuck it up.
A U.N. information society summit to take place in Tunis, Tunisia, in mid-November will address the issue.
Experts place the current tiff in the context of other nations' discomfort with the U.S. as the world's only superpower, unafraid of taking unilateral action. In June, the U.S. Department of Commerce released a statement that the U.S. would retain control over the governing of the Internet, at least for the foreseeable future. Previously, the U.S. had indicated that it would sever any government connection to Icann.
The matter intensified in August, when the U.S. government asked Icann to table an initiative to add a new domain name for pornography Web sites. Icann had tentatively approved the new domain name, called .xxx, several months earlier, but at the last moment the Department of Commerce removed its support, after it said it received thousands of letters of complaint from conservative Christian groups and others.
Regardless of the merits of the decision, the move was proof to critics of Icann that it is controlled by the U.S., said Lee McKnight, an associate professor for information studies at Syracuse University. "Until August, the U.S. had not done anything to upset other governments," said Mr. McKnight. "Then just before these meetings, it did do something unilaterally."
The original idea behind Icann was to keep decisions about the Internet's architecture in the private sector and largely free of government meddling.
"Governments have not really understood the inner workings of the Internet," said Mr. McKnight. In the past two years, "they have gotten educated and now they want to get their hands on the levers."
Such rethinking about the Internet has arisen in part because of its global growth and growing importance in many areas. Widely available to the public and for commercial purposes only in the past decade or so, the Internet now has close to a billion users, estimates the Paris-based Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development. In that time, the Internet has become a critical means for conducting business, as well as for receiving other services, such as video and phoning.
Few expect any immediate changes to the current structure from the U.N. summit, since the U.S. government would need to approve them.
Then, screw them all.
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They can pry this keyboard from my cold, dead hands.
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Why wait? Bring it on and let's get this wimpy squeak removed.
If it's a UN thingy, we veto it. End of story.
Fuck it. The Internet's important precisely because it was not controlled by anyone with a political agenda.
The fuckup by Dept Commerce to open its big fat irrelevant yap created this squeak. Seppuku to them for both caving to outside pressure and for thinking they had any say. ICANN (It's an acronym - cap it morons) should've told 'em to go fuck a rolling donut. Cowards all.
A juicy bit of irony here is that this started over the US Dept Comm not wanting ICANN to create the .XXX TLD. The countries who are using this to launch the power grab want to prevent access to precisely the same sort of sites which would've jumped to the .XXX TLD. And more, of course. Cognitive dissonance, anyone?
C'mon let's get this little dustup underway and see what's what.
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Does that mean that when the radical Muslim's get a say in this at the UN, Looney Tunes won't be able to have a web page because they have Porky Pig?
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Agreed, JSU, except you couldn't force anyone to change, so many would've kept their .com (heh) and other TLD's. Of course it wasn't "we", either, it was some self-sanctified group who puffed themselves up to pretend to be "we" - the assclowns. Dept Comm and ICANN are cowards for even considering some mouthy little group of single-issue busybodies.
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They can build their own sub-net WITHOUT any overlapping URL addresses, or they can go piss up a rope.
Passing control of the Internet to the UN is like giving a teenager the launch codes for a nuclear arsenal. The UN's web site deserves continuous hacking just for suggesting such a travesty.
Where is the outrage that Microsoft, Sun, AMD, Intel, Cisco and all the other major players should be exhibiting at this naked grab for a stranglehold on the world's most powerful computing resource? This goes beyond ridiculous.
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some of Congress has been backing the Admin in telling these punks to F*&K OFF. Time to let your congresscritter know how you feel about a less-than-total-support for this position
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I thought .com owned the XXX TLD. Is the UN horning in on his business?
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How 'bout a win-win situation. The EU sets up their own alternate top-level DNS service. And everyone ignores it. That way they can add .xxx, .surrender, .wine, .whine, .antisemetic, .eurocrat, and .cheeseeatingsurrendermonkey
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Any politwit who turns the reins over to the "unapproved" EU or irrespoonsible UN will end their fucking career, along with his/her party.
This is only a microcosm of the bigger issue with the internationalists: penis envy. We got one; they want one.
You think we're pissed, wait until John Q (American) Public gets a full load of this horse shit.
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Here's the process:
We built it
We use it
We share it (liberal speak for sure)
Now, They want it
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Does that mean that when the radical Muslim's get a say in this at the UN, Looney Tunes won't be able to have a web page because they have Porky Pig?
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Some one please, tell me why the hell we need UN? Next thing the bastards of UN and EU will ask us to hand over our Presidency to them since, US is the only super power in the world
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Few expect any immediate changes to the current structure from the U.N. summit, since the U.S. government would need to approve them.
Waitasecond, so it only comes out NOW that despite the hoopla, the US has held the keys to the door the whole time and the tranzis didn't figure this out before proposing the whole thing?!
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHA!
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Let the UN rent the internet, a million a minute and the second they miss a payment the UN gets shut out og the web.
That should do it.
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"Title sites '.xxx'..."
Honey? Why do all the sites under "history" for the past nine years say ".xxx"?
Oh shoot.
As to #8 They can build their own sub-net WITHOUT any overlapping URL addresses, or they can go piss up a rope.
Passing control of the Internet to the UN is like giving a teenager the launch codes for a nuclear arsenal. The UN's web site deserves continuous hacking just for suggesting such a travesty.
Where is the outrage that Microsoft, Sun, AMD, Intel, Cisco and all the other major players should be exhibiting at this naked grab for a stranglehold on the world's most powerful computing resource? This goes beyond ridiculous.
DARN SKIPPY. Or, should i say, F*#% that B*$#% F&@%in' F@%@ed-Up S&@# up the @#$, to be politically correct?
And what about this: ANY MALE BETWEEN 10 AND 60 WILL JUST TYPE ".xxx" AND GO BONKERS!!!
Lebanese Maronite Patriarch Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir met with the leader of the Free Patriotic Movement MP Michel Aoun on the night of the prelate's arrival to Lebanon. Sfeir had said earlier in the day that he had to meet with the concerned political parties before taking any initiatives or decisions in the presidential issue.
Speaking at the Rafik Hariri International airport upon his arrival from a 23-day trip to the Italian capital, where he participated in a synod presided by Pope Benedict XVI, Sfeir said: "The presidential file does not concern me alone but concerns all the Lebanese and in any case we will see what to do about this file once we meet with all the concerned parties." Following the release of UN chief Detlev Mehlis' report into the murder of former premier Rafik Hariri, calls have intensified for President Emile Lahoud's resignation. Lahoud has been adamant he will remain in his post until the end of his term.
My gut tells me he's going to hang on to the bitter end, and that there will be a bitter end.
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THE head of the UN team investigating Syrian involvement in the murder of Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese Prime Minister, disclosed yesterday that his staff had received "credible" threats and said that the danger to them was increasing.
Detlev Mehlis, the steely German prosecutor leading the UN inquiry, told the UN Security Council that he was concerned about the safety of his team after last weekâs report implicating senior Syrian and Lebanese officials in the plot.
"The level of risk, which was already high, will increase further, particularly after the issuance of the report," he said. "The commission has received a number of threats which were deemed, in the assessment of our security personnel, to be credible." Mr Mehlis later told a press conference that the threats came from "unknown groups" and not from any Syrian or Lebanese officials.
"There were fliers that were being distributed in southern Lebanon threatening the commission and myself," he said. "There were other more credible threats from alleged groups."
Extra security measures have already been taken around the fortified UN offices in central Beirut, with additional concrete barriers installed. Even so, Nejib Friji, the UN spokesman in Beirut, had to be pulled out of the country "for his own safety" and has been temporarily reassigned to another UN mission.
The United States was poised last night to distribute a draft Security Council resolution demanding Syrian co- operation with the UN investigation, after Mr Mehlis complained of Syrian obstruction. Diplomats said that the draft would fall under the "enforcement provisions" of the UN Charter, effectively laying the groundwork for sanctions if Syria did not come clean.
Washington has called for a foreign ministersâ meeting of the 15-nation Security Council on Monday to vote through the draft. But it was unclear last night whether Russia and China would water down the text beforehand.
President Bush said he hoped that Syria would co-operate with the UN inquiry. "I am hoping they will co-operate. [Military action] is the last â very last â option," he told al-Arabiya television.
Mr Bush said that Syria had to meet a set of demands from the international community, including expelling Palestinian militant groups, preventing insurgents from crossing its borders into Iraq and ending Syrian interference in Lebanon.
The UN is to receive a second report on Syria as early as today from another UN envoy, Terje Roed-Larsen, that is expected to accuse Damascus of continued meddling in Lebanon. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz says that he will accuse Syria of continuing "to maintain its direct military control of Lebanon through its agents in the Lebanese presidential palace, the army and intelligence organisations" and of continuing to supply Hezbollah and Palestinian militants in Lebanon with weapons.
Mr Mehlis, whose investigation has been extended until December 15, called on Syria to hold its own "open and transparent" investigation into Mr Haririâs killing.
BEIRUT, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Unidentified gunmen fatally wounded a civilian Lebanese army contractor near the Syrian border on Tuesday, the military said. The army said in a statement Mohammed Ismail, 50, was killed by a bullet in the chest while he was among a team surveying the border in the eastern Bekaa Valley. It said Ismail was rushed to hospital where he died a short time later. It did not identify the gunmen but said soldiers were hunting them down.
A security source said the shot came from a position maintained by a pro-Syrian Palestinian guerrilla group, Fatah Uprising. A senior official in the group denied any involvement.
"Nope, wasn't us. Musta been them Joooos again. Best if you kept away from here, could be dangerous"
The issue of armed pro-Syrian Palestinian groups in Lebanon has moved to centre stage after the U.N. Security Council resolution last year demanded the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Lebanon and the disarming of all armed groups. Syria ended its 29-year military presence in Lebanon in April. Prime Minister Fouad Siniora has said the government was planning to revive an agreement between Lebanon and Syria on the border's demarcation but gave no further details. ADDITIONAL:
A Lebanese army civil contractor was killed Tuesday in a shootout with Palestinian militants in southeastern Lebanon near the border with Syria, a Lebanese security official said. The contractor, Mohammed Ismail, was accompanying a Lebanese army patrol along the Syrian-Lebanese border when they clashed with Palestinian guerrillas in the remote village of Helweh, a few kilometers (miles) from the Syrian border, according to official.
The militants were from the pro-Syrian radical Fatah Uprising group and were spotted training at their base in Helweh before the attack, said the official. The militants opened fire on the patrol and a clash with machine-guns ensued, during which Ismail was seriously wounded. The official and the state-run National News Agency said Ismail died from his wounds at hospital. No other details were immediately available.
On Oct. 2, Syrian gunmen killed a Lebanese farmer in a suspected land dispute in the northeastern Lebanese border village of Aarsal. In recent weeks, the Lebanese have alleged that pro-Syrian Palestinian guerrillas have brought weapons into this country with the aim of causing disturbances. The Palestinians have denied the accusations.
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BEIRUT, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Lebanon's pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud vowed on Tuesday to stay in office until the last minute of his term, defying fresh calls to resign after a U.N. probe implicated Syria in the murder of an ex-prime minister. "President Emile Lahoud confirms...his determination to continue shouldering his responsibilities until the last minute of his constitutional term," a statement from his office said.
"Or the last flight out, whichever comes first."
Lahoud has faced mounting pressure to step down since the February killing of Rafik al-Hariri threw Lebanon into its worst political crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war. With the U.N. investigation last week implicating Syrian security officials and their Lebanese allies in the murder, Lahoud is facing fresh calls to go.
The inquiry reported that a man suspected of involvement in Hariri's murder had called Lahoud on his mobile phone minutes before the truck bomb that killed the former prime minister and 22 other people in Beirut. Lahoud's office has denied that he had any contact with the suspect, Mahmoud Abdel-Al, who has since been detained in connection with the assassination. Also detained are four pro-Syrian generals including Republican Guard chief Mustapha Hamdan, a close aide of Lahoud.
The president's original six-year term was extended last year through a constitutional amendment to allow him to remain in office until 2007. But some Lebanese deputies say it was only passed under intense Syrian pressure. Syrian forces withdrew from Lebanon in April, ending a 29-year presence, amid local protest and international outcry over Hariri's murder. Elections in May-June returned a parliament that has been critical of Syria, leaving Lahoud increasingly isolated.
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A man with a death wish. Anybody want to start a betting pool?
The US and France have said they are trying to mobilise support for a UN resolution demanding Syria's full cooperation with the investigation into the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri. "We will certainly insist on Syrian cooperation," US Ambassador John Bolton said on Monday. "This is true confessions time now for the government of Syria. No more obstruction. No more half measures. We want substantive cooperation and we want it immediately."
French Ambassador Jean-Marc de La Sabliere said the council must use "its weight" to discover "the whole truth" after last week's report by UN investigator Detlev Mehlis that found evidence of Syrian involvement in al-Hariri's assassination and a lack of cooperation from Damascus.
UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he planned to raise the issue of cooperation wth Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk al-Sharaa, who he said had asked to meet him on Tuesday and was flying to New York. But shortly afterwards, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric announced that Syria's UN Mission had informed the UN al-Sharaa would not be coming. Al-Sharaa was accused in the Mehlis report of lying in a letter to the investigating commission. Mehlis is to brief the UN Security Council on the report at an open meeting on Tuesday.
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Ooooh, a resolution!!! Yeah, that'll put the fear of God into them....
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actually, the French are holding out against any sanctions. Has there ever been a more disgusting toothless syphilitic whore on the international stage than the Chirac/DeVillepin France?
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"true confessions".y Mom used to get that mag,"60's"porn for the ladies.
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The french are hoping Syria will cave and do a deal before sanctions become necessary, and so they can avoid a split with Russia and a worsening of relations with much of the Arab world. But for now, theyre pushing in the direction we want to go. Like Condi says, if they want a sequence, let them sequence.
Dubai, 25 Oct. (AKI) - One year since the broadcast of Osama bin Laden's last video message, in which he addressed the American people shortly before their presidential elections, the al-Qaeda leader's absence has raised questions over his fate. In December an audio message appeared, attributed to the Saudi terrorist leader, in which he talked about the attack on the US consulate in Jeddah ten days earlier, but since October 2004, all other video messages have featured bin Laden's deputy, Egyptian doctor Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Bin Laden's absence has increased the doubts of anti-terrorism experts over the possible fate of the founder of al-Qaeda. According to the latest theory, put forward recently by the Indian media, bin Laden was killed in the devastating earthquake that struck Pakistan-administered Kashmir on 8 October, after seeking refuge in that area at the beginning of the month to avoid the military offensive in Waziristan.
However, this version has been denied by Kamal Habib, a former leader of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad group. During an interview with Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television, he claimed the Saudi terror leader's absence is part of a strategy, in which only al-Zawahiri appears for security reasons.
Abdel Rahim Ali, an Arab journalist and expert on Islamic movements, also rules out the death of bin Laden. "If that had happened, certainly al-Qaeda would have released the news by making an official announcement," he explains. Instead, Ali believes it is very likely that the founder of the terror organisation is seriously ill and is unable to receive the medical treatment he needs in the tribal areas where he is currently believed to be hiding.
The third and final hypothesis being considered by anti-terrorism experts is that bin Laden has fled, abandoning Afghanistan and Pakistan in order to receive medical treatment in a neighbouring country. It is thought that bin Laden may have left Afghanistan with the help of various Islamic cells spread throughout Central Asia.
All these theories suggest that al-Zawahiri has now effectively become the leader of al-Qaeda on the battlefield. Meanwhile, the Jordanian militant and leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been given the task of exporting the Jihad, or holy war, to the Middle East and Europe, as many intelligence reports claim, as well as intercepted correspondence between the two terror leaders.
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Actually I truly hope that he, and whatever vermin were with him, are buried alive in a cave under millions of rock and rubble...with no way out.
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My personal belief is his disappearance is strategic. Dan Darling's posting yesterday about the Caribbean basin is very interesting, as there has been a lot of increased disorder and crime in the region lately. Remember the report that Bin Laden met PERSONALLY with Colombian drug lords to buy cocaine to poison Americans? Shipping traffic to the region is largely unregulated and he would escape notice in the interior of South America. I think he is laying low and plotting a major blow to America. He is also a trained economist and illegal immigration is economic terrorism. By the way, which side was al-Zawahiri's AK-47? He previously was sitting between two of the Russian weapons, with a change of dress and turban. Has he moved, as well?
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The day it known where Usama is at a specific moment in time is the day it is capured or killed and its DNA is verified as belonging to the savage. All the speculation until them serves only to inspire boredom.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Terrorists Militants attacked security forces on two sides of Kabul, killing seven people in some of the deadliest attacks near the Afghan capital in months, police said Tuesday. Security forces also uncovered a cache of bombs inside the city of 4 million. Terrorists Militants were suspected of plotting to use the weapons against international peacekeepers, police said. It was not immediately clear whether the two attacks were coordinated, but they underscored the security threat facing the tightly guarded capital, home to thousands of foreign aid workers and diplomats, among others.
The first attack was late Monday when rerrorists rebels fired rockets at a U.S.-led coalition convoy 10 miles south of Kabul. But the rockets missed their target and instead hit three civilian cars, killing six Afghans, said Khan Mohammed, the police chief in Logar province.
Sounds like Heks boys are at it again
Three civilians were also wounded. A child was among the dead, he said.
The civilian cars were traveling close behind five military Humvee vehicles on a main north-south road when they were hit by two rockets and small-arms fire, Mohammed said. The police chief said extra security forces rushed to the area and surrounded a run-down fort where the assailants were thought to be hiding. A coalition spokeswoman, Sgt. Marina Evans, said she had no details on the attack.
The second assault came hours later, just before dawn Tuesday. Terrorists Militants opened fire with assault rifles on a police vehicle 30 miles east of Kabul, near a key trade route linking the capital with the eastern Pakistani border, said Ghafor Khan, a police spokesman in the eastern town of Jalalabad.
"hours later" and "30 miles east". Yeah, a closely coordinated attack
The attack killed a senior police officer who was a teacher at a police academy. Two others were wounded, he said. Khan said investigators suspect the victims were targeted because they "are teaching new police recruits and are crucial to bringing peace to our country." The fledgling police force has been hit hard in recent months in a string of ambushes that have left dozens of officers dead.
The bombs discovered in Kabul were found in a junkyard of old military vehicles in the northern part of the city, said Interior Ministry spokesman Yousuf Stanekzai. The explosives were made from old anti-personnel mines, and terrorists rebels were "suspected to be planning to use them against ISAF," he said, referring to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, which guards the capital.
Terrorists Militants fired rockets at the northern city of Fayzabad during the past two nights, wounding a local U.N. staff member and damaging a compound belonging to the government's intelligence agency, police chief Fazil Ahmad Nazari said.
Taliban-led terrorists rebels have stepped up violence in the past half-year and killed more than 1,400 people. The bloodshed has left many southern and eastern regions off limts to aid workers and raised fears for the country's fragile democracy.
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A Pakistani newspaper Ausaf published from Multan has reported that Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden died four months ago in a village near Kandahar of severe illness.
According to the newspaper report, Bin Laden was campaigning at Bamiyan, fell very ill, returned to Kandahar where he died and was buried in the Shada graveyard in the shadow of a mountain.
The controversy continues to surround Osama bin Laden and while US and Pakistan officials have often been quoted by the media as saying that his mortal status was just a matter of detail, the hunt is still on and the issue remains a topic of great interest for the media and governments alike.
Funeral prayers have been said for Osama bin Laden over these years with one reported now by the Ausaf, and another in an Egyptian newspaper Al Wafd as far back as December 2001.
Osama bin Laden has a reward of $25 million on his head. Despite this he remains elusive, and could remain that way for a long time, alive or dead.
He survived the quake too and is still out there plotting. We'll get sooner or later ...
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Nothing less than DNA verification of exhumed remains will justify any assumption of bin Laden's demise. Absent such proof, continue the search for this mass murderer until he is captured or killed.
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Don't sew the corpse up in pigskin and dump it in a cesspit, just spread enough rumors that you have already done that. Why go to all the effort when Muslims will believe anything if told often enough.
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Right up to the moment Binny delivered his campaign commercial for John bin K'erry last November looking all radiant and well-groomed and the picture of health and clean living, the savage was supposed to be diseased and dying, surgically altered and living, or simply dead.
I do not care. The publisher of the New York Times or Leslie Moonves who controls CBS or any number of other mass media masterminds are vastly more dangerous to America than Binny.
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I killed Bin Laden and buried him in the shadow of a mountian. There wasn't that much of him left to identify but DNA was sent to Langley for verification. I assume the higer-ups decided it was better to keep the idea of Bin Laden alive and hunted going, atleast for a while. Maybe Fox News will cover it so you can all have permission to belive it.
This raises questions about the cause of the disaster. None of the 111 passengers and 6 crew survived.
The Boeing 737 bound for Abuja 50 minutes away came down 2-3 minutes after takeoff 20 miles north of Lagos at Lissa, where villagers report a large bang followed seconds later by a huge explosion. This could suggest a mid-air explosion in an engine, in the cabin or the cargo bay. One local account suggests the possibility of the airliner being struck by a heat-seeking missile. Others that one of the planeâs two engines was shaken loose from its wing by a thunder storm and hit the ground with enormous force still running â before the plane came down. The impact was great, flinging the planeâs fragments across a vast area, sinking a crater 70ft deep and mangling the bodies.
Both engines were towed out of the crater overnight for a photo.
The pilotâs distress signal coincided with the moment that the Lagos airport tower lost visual sight of the plane.
Aviation experts noted to DEBKAfile that it took the Nigerian authorities most of a day to locate the crash site just north of the capital. First, they reported the plane came down in the Atlantic, then 100 miles north of Lagos; first that half the people on board were safe, then that none had survived. The number of people aboard likewise fluctuated. Bellview which also flies to London has never had a crash in its 12-yearâs operation and is considered one of the few safe airlines in Africa, in contrast to Nigeriaâs sloppy record.
Among the passengers was an African economic minister.
Nigerian president Obasanjo joined the rescue operations Monday hours after his wife Stella died of surgery in a Spanish hospital
MY NAME IS SAMUEL AKUMBUBA. MY FATHER IS RECENTLY DEAD FROM AN AIRCRASH HERE IN NIGERIA. FOR MANY YEARS HE HAS HELD THE POSITION OF MINISTER OF FINANCE ...
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... one of the planeâs two engines was shaken loose from its wing by a thunder storm and hit the ground with enormous force still running â before the plane came down ...
Both engines were towed out of the crater overnight for a photo.
So which was it? An engine that is "shaken loose from its wing" doesn't usually find its way into the impact crater.
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Engines do NOT keep running when off the wing, the fuel consumption is huge, and it will quit in seconds.
Now if the engine AND a hunk of wing are still connected, AND if the wing section has a fuel tank, then the engine will still quit the second the wires are ripped loose from the fusilage (Fuel pump quits)
Bullshit, the engine was NOT running.
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A Delhi court today convicted Pakistan-based Lashkar-i-Toiba militant Mohammad Arif alias Ashfaq and six others in the December 2000 Red Fort attack case. The court acquitted four others. Additional Sessions Judge OP Saini convicted Ashfaq for waging war against the government of India, murder, criminal conspiracy, cheating, forgery, and under Foreigner's Act, and Explosives and Arms Act. His wife, Rehmana Yusuf Farooqi, has been convicted for waging war against the country, criminal conspiracy and providing shelter to Ashfaq. Matloob Alam, Nazir Ahmed Qasid and his son Farooq Ahmed Qasid, Babar Mohsil Bagahwala and Sadaqat Ali were convicted for criminal conspiracy and forgery. Those acquitted are Rajiv Kumar Malhotra, Moolchand Sharma, Devender Singh and Shahenshah Alam. Two Lashkar-i-Toiba militants had stormed the 17th-century monument on 22 December 2000 and killed two jawans [soldiers] and a civilian.
This BBC article about the original attack is interesting; the attack happened on a Friday and LeT called the BBC themselves to claim credit for the deed. Also, LeT struck the day after the Indian Government had extended its current unilateral ceasefire in Kashmir by a month. I recommend reading the entire article.
WANA: A Pakistani soldier was killed and 11 were wounded on Monday when a bomb blast hit their truck in a tribal area near the Afghan border, an official said. The afternoon attack took place near Laddah fort, 40 kilometres northeast of South Waziristanâs main town of Wana. âOne paramilitary soldier was killed and 11 were injured, nine of them seriously, when a remote-controlled bomb exploded near their moving truck,â the official said. Military last year killed hundreds of Al-Qaeda-linked militants in the region. This month paramilitary troops killed six suspected militants and arrested two in the same area.
Meanwhile, officials arrested an Afghan refugee on suspicion of planning to attack Muslim seminaries, in Miranshah, a tribal administration official said. âThe military intelligence had intercepted his telephonic conversations from where they learned about his plans to bomb two local madrassas,â he said.
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An unidentified merchant vessel is feared hijacked in pirate-infested Somali waters in the latest in a surge of attacks on commercial shipping that have sparked dire maritime warnings, an official said Monday. Contact with the ship, which was transporting cargo from Dubai to Somalia, was lost late last week shortly after two Maltese-registered vessels were reported hijacked in the same area off the coast of the lawless country, the official said. âThe ship transporting general cargo from Dubai to Somalia was hijacked off the Somali coast, it has not been in contact since late last week,â said Andrew Mwangura of the Kenyan chapter of the Seafarers' Assistance Programme (SAP). âNormally, if the vessel sank, they would have sent an SOS which would have been received in several ports, but in the case of a hijacking there is no SOS dispatched, meaning it was hijacked,â he told AFP from the Kenyan port of Mombasa.
Y'know, this wouldn't really be that hard a problem to solve. It'd be kind of hard on the ships, of course, but they're insured, if you catch my drift...
Details of the ship's ownership and registry were not immediately clear, Mwangura said, adding, however, that the vessel was neither of the two Maltese-registered freighters that were hijacked earlier in the week. On Thursday, the Greek merchant marine ministry reported the loss of contact and apparent hijacking, later confirmed by the SAP, of the Greek-owned, Maltese-registered MV San Carlos oil tanker with 25 crew onboard. A day earlier, the SAP said the Maltese-flagged MV Pagania and an unknown number of Ukrainian crew members had been hijacked by Somali pirates who were demanding a $700,000 (583,000 euros) ransom for their release.
The third hijacking comes as officials in Somalia's fledgling transitional government and the International Maritime Board (IMB) appealed for urgent help from regional navies and coast guards to stop the spate of pirate attacks.
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This would make it the twenty-sixth incident since March.
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Let's see, intercept the ship before it gets to the pirates area, replace the crew with about twice as many heavily armed seals, sail on. When pirates attack ship, seals attack pirates. Pirates die or drown. Pirates claim foul, threaten law suit.
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Buy cheap tramp frighter on e-bay, convert to Q-ship by adding a couple of A-10 Vulcan cannons on pop-up mounts. Troll for pirates, kill same. Rinse, repeat.
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Actually, a lot of this could be stopped by Lloyds better than by SEALS, SBS or SAS types. Just don't insure ships that go to Somalia. Worthless damn country to begin with. Let the UN handle it. There good at rooting out corruption, feeding refugees and peacekeeping.
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Are ships that stop at Somalia covered by Lloyds? If so that's semi-nutz. That's not taking on risk, that's taking on liability.
A US military helicopter made an emergency landing in a mountainous region of Afghanistan at the weekend, injuring four special forces soldiers, the US military said on Monday. The chopper, a UH-60 Blackhawk, landed during combat operations in the troubled province of Uruzgan on Saturday, the military said in a statement. "In combat there are a lot of risks. Here in Afghanistan, we sometimes have to land on rocky, uneven terrain," the statement said.
Three of the injured soldiers received immediate medical attention, while one was sent to a US medical facility for further treatment, it said, adding that an investigation had been launched.
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Know the feeling. Nothing like a jarring spike to the old cocyxx to make sure you will never be able to drive a car for more than hour at a time before the pain in the legs makes you wish you back in a helicopter getting there quicker.
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The Indian Army has started removing landmines at places along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir where three relief camps will be set up for quake victims from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
Army officials said units were busy removing thousands of mines along vast stretches of land at Poonch, Uri and Tangdhar. Many of the mines were laid during 2002, when India and Pakistan had mobilised nearly a million troops during a standoff. The officials said the de-mining operations would be completed by Monday evening. Soldiers will create a three-foot wide path for people from Pakistani Kashmir to cross the LoC.
"Watch yer step, Mahmoud, don't go to the [BOOM] ... left."
India on Saturday offered to set up three relief camps and meeting points along the LoC as a goodwill gesture toward families in the divided parts of Kashmir that were affected by the Oct 8 quake, which has killed thousands in the region. The offer was made by India in response to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's proposal for opening the LoC to allow quake-hit divided families to meet.
The Indian Army has been given orders to make the three meeting points along the LoC operational by Tuesday morning, though Pakistan is yet to formally communicate its position on modalities for the crossing points in Jammu and Kashmir. "We will do our job. The rest is for the governments to decide," an officer said on condition of anonymity.
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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
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The outlawed Islamic militant group JMB on Sunday reportedly threatened to blow up two police stations in the district. The threat was conveyed to Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Sylhet through a letter in the name of a JMB (Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh) commander.
Suspected rebels launched homemade bombs at a police station and nearby homes in a southwest town near the border with Ecuador, killing seven people, authorities said Monday. More than a hundred fighters with the 
ISTANBUL - A Turkish man was arrested here Monday as part of a probe into an alleged plot by suspected Al-Qaeda militants to attack Israeli cruise ships off Turkey's Mediterranean coast earlier this year, the Anatolia news agency reported. A court in Istanbul interrogated and then placed under arrest Salih Olcay, whose identity was used in a forged card held by Syrian national Louai Sakra when he was detained in August on charges of belonging to Al-Qaeda. The prosecution had asked the court to arrest Olcay on charges of "membership to an illegal organization," Anatolia said. 
MADRID, Spain (CNN) -- Bombs exploded early Tuesday at four courthouses in northern Spain, causing some property damage but no immediate reports of injuries, Spanish media reported. The first bomb went off about 2:30 a.m. local time, with the fourth detonating around 8:45 a.m.
A federal judge on Monday denied a request by a U.S. citizen, who has been charged with plotting to kill President George W. Bush, to throw out confessions he signed while in Saudi custody when he claims he was tortured. U.S. District Judge Gerald Bruce Lee issued two brief orders denying requests by Ahmed Abu Ali, 24, to throw out the confessions he signed and to dismiss the case. Lee did not explain his reasons but said he would issue an opinion detailing his decision at a later date. 
Suicide bombers blasted through the concrete walls surrounding the 
RABAT - Two employees of the Moroccan embassy in Baghdad have disappeared on the road between the Jordanian capital Amman and Baghdad, the Moroccan ministry of foreign affairs and cooperation said on Monday. âThe Moroccan embassy in Iraq has not heard from two Moroccan staff of the chancellery since Thursday,â the ministry said in a statement.
Lebanese Maronite Patriarch 
BEIRUT, Oct 25 (Reuters) - Lebanon's pro-Syrian President Emile Lahoud vowed on Tuesday to stay in office until the last minute of his term, defying fresh calls to resign after a U.N. probe implicated Syria in the murder of an ex-prime minister. "President Emile Lahoud confirms...his determination to continue shouldering his responsibilities until the last minute of his constitutional term," a statement from his office said. 
The US and France have said they are trying to mobilise support for a UN resolution demanding Syria's full cooperation with the investigation into the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri. "We will certainly insist on Syrian cooperation," US Ambassador 
Dubai, 25 Oct. (AKI) - One year since the broadcast of Osama bin Laden's last video message, in which he addressed the American people shortly before their presidential elections, the al-Qaeda leader's absence has raised questions over his fate. In December an audio message appeared, attributed to the Saudi terrorist leader, in which he talked about the attack on the US consulate in Jeddah ten days earlier, but since October 2004, all other video messages have featured bin Laden's deputy, Egyptian doctor Ayman al-Zawahiri. 
A Delhi court today convicted Pakistan-based 
An unidentified merchant vessel is feared hijacked in pirate-infested Somali waters in the latest in a surge of attacks on commercial shipping that have sparked dire maritime warnings, an official said Monday. Contact with the ship, which was transporting cargo from Dubai to Somalia, was lost late last week shortly after two Maltese-registered vessels were reported hijacked in the same area off the coast of the lawless country, the official said. âThe ship transporting general cargo from Dubai to Somalia was hijacked off the Somali coast, it has not been in contact since late last week,â said Andrew Mwangura of the Kenyan chapter of the Seafarers' Assistance Programme (SAP). âNormally, if the vessel sank, they would have sent an SOS which would have been received in several ports, but in the case of a hijacking there is no SOS dispatched, meaning it was hijacked,â he told AFP from the Kenyan port of Mombasa. 
A US military helicopter made an emergency landing in a mountainous region of Afghanistan at the weekend, injuring four special forces soldiers, the US military said on Monday. The chopper, a UH-60 Blackhawk, landed during combat operations in the troubled province of Uruzgan on Saturday, the military said in a statement. "In combat there are a lot of risks. Here in Afghanistan, we sometimes have to land on rocky, uneven terrain," the statement said.
The Indian Army has started removing landmines at places along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir where three relief camps will be set up for quake victims from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir.
