The ISD GrameenPhone number of Bangla Bhai has been located in Shibganj, reports our Staff Correspondent in Rajshahi.
"Hello, Ma? This is Bangla!"
"Oh, Sonny! I've been so worried! Where are you?"
"I can't say, Ma! The Feds are after me!"
"I saw your picture on the Ten Most Wanted list! I'm so proud of you!"
A man yesterday answered the cellphone after repeated attempts and identified himself as Jem from Dadanchawk in Shibganj in Bogra. Asked how he got the number, the man turned off the phone. Bangla Bhai and his men snatched about 50 GP Pally Phones in Rajshahi during their anti-outlaw operations last year.
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Jem from Dadanchawk in Shibganj in Bogra. I'll have to remember that one for the telemarketers.
Militant kingpin Mufti Abdul Hannan was placed on a five-day fresh remand in connection with the August 17 blasts and former Islamic Foundation director Maulana Fariduddin Masud was shown arrested and remanded in a laundering case yesterday. The Supreme Court senior lawyers have meanwhile demanded that the chief justice should arrange security measures in and around the court involving plainclothes intelligence men with necessary equipment. The SC lawyers made the demand when Chief Justice Syed JR Mudassir Husain invited them to discuss security measures for the country's apex court.
Mufti Hannan
Hannan was remanded for five more days in connection with the blasts on Dhaka University campus. The Bangladesh chapter chief of Harkatul Jihad was remanded for the fourth consecutive time since his arrest on October 1. He was hauled before the Court of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Dhaka on completion of his seven-day remand in the SC blast case. Detectives showed him arrested in the DU blast case and sought 10 days' additional remand. Magistrate Mir Ali Reza allowed Hannan to make his submission without raising political matters. Hannan told the court he is sick and prayed for treatment in a hospital. The court, however, told him the police will provide him treatment, if need be, during his remand.
"I'm sick. I can't go to jail. I got a note from my Mom..."
"What's the diagnosis, doctor?"
"He's depressed."
"Why is he depressed?"
"Because he's going to prison!"
Earlier, Hannan was placed on a 10-day remand in the Farmgate blast case and five-day and seven-day remands in the SC blast case.
"You weren't too sick to blow stuff up, were you? Bailiff, give him a wedgie aspirin and take him away!"
Moulana Fariduddin Masud
The former Islamic Foundation director, detained for his alleged links to the August 17 blasts, was shown arrested in a money laundering case and remanded for two days. Detectives took Masud, arrested on August 22, and produced him before the Court of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Dhaka seeking a five-day remand. Detective Branch (DB) of police Inspector Sirajul Islam told the court Masud used to run an NGO, Islahul Muslemin Parishad Bangladesh, in Rampura in the capital. Masud spent Tk 73.77 lakh earned from different sources legally and illegally and kept it secret. He needs to be quizzed to find out the sources of the money, the DB man said in the forwarding report. Metropolitan Magistrate Nani Gopal Biswas rejected Masud's bail petition and granted the remand. DB Inspector Mohammad Fazlul Haq filed the case against Masud with Khilgaon Police Station on October 23. Masud is also an accused in the August 17 blast case filed with Airport Police Station.
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The court, however, told him the police will provide him treatment, if need be, during his remand.
Shamil Basayev, a leader of Chechen militants, is hiding somewhere in the North Caucasus, Chechen President Alu Alkhanov told a Thursday press conference at Interfax's main office. "The whereabouts of Basayev are an interesting question which should be addressed to law enforcement agencies. According to me, Basayev is somewhere in the North Caucasus," he said.
"Solution to this problem and the neutralization of a number of his abettors and himself will help stabilize Chechnya and the North Caucasus at large," Alkhanov said.
Asked whether Basayev may be outside Chechnya, he said, "absolutely." "Basayev and his abettors do not respect administrative borders. They have far-reaching plans," he said. "This is what we keep saying: dear colleagues, friends, the situation is overwhelming the Chechen Republic, we should intensify our fight in all North Caucasian republics," he said.
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a fine piece of informative work by Interfax, quoting a fine piece of pol speak.
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Russian authorities say a former inmate at the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay has confessed to taking part in the attack on the southern Russian city of Nalchik earlier this month.
He was just there studying Islam with an NGO, though. And his confession was coerced. And it wudn't him.
Was it elk-hunting season?
Investigators say they also have intelligence linking another former Guantanamo detainee with the violence, in which more than 120 people were killed. Russian prosecutors have portrayed the violence in the south as Russia's battle with international terrorism. However, lawyers for those detained in the investigation say police are torturing them into making false confessions.
What'd I tell you?
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All that detainee abuse and catch'n release finally paid off. Unfortunately great Russian chow and smooth talking interrogators managed to harvest the dividends. Timing is everything. Our thanks to Ivan. Lets cut to the chase. Crank up a couple of those Anatov 124's, fly on over to Gitmo (yes that's Cuba - you remember the vector), we've got the rest of those little buggers lined up on the tarmac.
A suspected close associate of al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has told investigators of a plot to shoot down planes in France with missiles, a French judicial official said Friday. The man, a Jordanian like al-Zarqawi, was arrested in Jordan and questioned by police there following a request in December from France's leading anti-terrorist judge, Jean-Louis Bruguiere, the official said.
The Jordanian told his questioners of an Algerian he had contacts with in 2000, according to a copy of his testimony provided by police in Jordan to Bruguiere. Under questioning, the suspect said the Algerian told him he had acquired two missiles from a Chechen, had transported them to Turkey and planned to smuggle them into France to shoot down planes, the official said, without identifying the suspect or the Algerian by name. The Jordanian also claimed he persuaded the Algerian to renounce his plan, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of French laws limiting the release of information from judicial investigations. She said French officials do not know whether there is any truth to the Jordanian's claims.
The French newspaper Le Figaro identified the alleged al-Zarqawi associate as Adnan Muhammad Sadik, who uses the alias Abou Atiya, and said he was al-Zarqawi's representative in the Caucasus.
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Sacre Bleu! If ohnly ze Americains hadznot inwaded ze Iraq. Ou whas it ze Afganystan? Mon Dieu!
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See Frawgs? Y'all kin be as nahce as ya want, but them fundies'll still trah ta kill yew when ya least ex-pect it.
Spain's National Court upheld warrants for the arrest on murder charges of two U.S. Army officers and a sergeant in the killing of a Spanish journalist in Baghdad in 2003.
A state attorney had challenged the warrants, saying the Spanish tribunal did not have jurisidiction in the matter of the killing television cameraman Jose Couso in April 2003. He also cited what he said were procedural flaws in the issue of the warrants.
Couso, who worked for Spain's Telecinco network, was killed while filming from a balcony of the Palestine Hotel in the Iraqi capital. A colleague from Reuters, Ukrainian photographer Taras Protsyuk, also died from the explosion of the round fired
by a U.S. Army tank.
National Court judge Santiago Pedraz rejected the state attorney's challenge, saying "there is sufficient reason to believe they are responsible" for the murder of the men and for the additional offence of "crimes against the international community".
The charges carry jail sentences of 15 to 20 years and 10 to 15 years, respectively.
Pedraz said in Friday's statement that the warrants are not "a reprisal" for the lack of cooperation of U.S. authorities with Spain's investigation into the incident.
Spain is an ally of the United States in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, but relations between Washington and Madrid have been strained since the Socialist government pulled Spanish troops out of Iraq in April 2004.
Pedraz, in issuing the warrants last week, said the move was "the only effective means of assuring the presence of those implicated before Spain's judicial authority, in light of the total absence of judicial cooperation by U.S. authorities in efforts to clear up what happened".
He said he had twice requested assistance from the United States under the terms of existing bilateral accords, asking in April 2004 for specific documents and in June of this year for testimony from the three soldiers.
The three men named in the warrants are Sgt. Thomas Gibson, Capt. Philip Wolford and Lt. Col. Philip de Camp.
Couso's relatives, backed by organizations including Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists, are pressing the criminal case after rejecting a Pentagon report clearing U.S. military personnel of any wrongdoing in the incident.
Sgt. Gibson was the one who fired from an M1 Abrams tank after seeing someone was using binoculars to observe his group from Baghdad's Palestine Hotel, where most of the foreign journalist covering the U.S. invasion of Iraq were staying.
A month after the incident, Gibson told Telecinco, "I didn't fire on him immediately. I called my superiors and told them what I had seen. Ten minutes later, they called me and told me to fire on him, and so I did."
His immediate superior, Capt. Wolford, authorized him to fire after the gunner told him he had seen someone in the hotel using binoculars, according to an interview Wolford gave the French weekly Le Nouvel Observateur.
Lt. Col. De Camp, in an interview published in the Los Angeles Times in April, also acknowledged that he authorized the firing on the hotel.
The three men named in the Spanish warrants cannot be arrested in the United States. But they would be subject to detention, with an eye to extradition to Spain, if they travel to a nation that has an extradition treaty with Madrid.
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I told Jose to stay down here with us. Have Achmed turn up the TV over the bar and there's all the war news ya need. But he was one of the crazy ones who liked to point cameras at guys in tanks.
Achmed, let's have a double in memory of Jose. War is hell, I tell ya...
Judge Santiago Pedraz has confirmed his decision of not processing to the ETA prisoner Of Juana Chaos by the crimes of property to ETA and terrorist threats. Also he has reproached to the public prosecutor the one that has not credited in what their accusations are sustained. The Hearing considered yesterday that the ETA member must follow in prison in a nonbinding decision, but this same court will decide on the resource interposed by the public prosecutor.
He'd probably like the 3 Stooges on the 9th circuit who tried to thwart the recall a couple of years ago out here in CAL.
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I'm sure the US will be washing it's collective hair the next time a Spanish colonialist occupied enclave in North Africa is overrun. And let's not even talk about the highly sensitive subject of Andalusia, which the rightful owners had ruled for 700 years years before being stolen by religous zealots from Aragon. If it should come up, we'll be out to dinner with the cell phone off.
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An all-out American boycott of all things Spanish will teach the disgraceful descendants of my heritage that they (a) dishonor Spain's great heritage and history, and (b) that they are a bunch of sclerotic Socialist-loving losers that will quiver in fear when the Islamists re-build their Iberian network and hit them again!
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Hey, Pedraz. You remember the last time we disagreed? 1898 wasn't it? That worked out so well for you that you want a rematch? This guy is just like Chuck Schumer, a schmuck who never met a TV camera he didn't like.
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Never take a webcam to a tank fight. Did he always take cover on open balconies? Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're "Stuck on Stupid" For future reference, unless new management has arrived, the menu and wine list at the Palestine Hotel resturant is hopelessly boring. Avoid it if at all possible.
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Hey, Spain cooperates with terrorists. Blockade their ports, shoot down all air traffic, destroy their infrastructure and kick them out of NATO. Then after their country turns into another Somalia, ask them again, "What was that you wanted?"
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Let's don't blame all of Spain for the stupidity of a few leftist politicians. However, after saying that, I think the US should:
A) End our membership in NATO. Let it become the EUroweenie Warfighting and Dancing Group. Instead, create a better alliance with Britain, Australia, and Japan.
B) Close what few bases we still have in Spain, and pull all American troops out. We don't really need Rota Naval Base, Zaragosa or Torrejon AB.
C) Reduce our embassy staff to a Charge de Affairs and a couple of admin clerks. Print all Spanish Visa applications in Sanskrit. Recommend Portugal or Italy as an alternative vacation spot for American tourists.
D) Broadcast Voice of America to Spain in Swedish.
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I'll be in the neighborhood soon, anyone got a home address for this fuck??
I'd love to show him some Southern Hospitality and discuss the horrors of war over tea.
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At the same time the same Pedraz has been at the center of several controversial decisions of releasing multi-murderer (20 something) and unrepentant ETA terrorists. For instance
de Juana Chaos who was sentenced to thousands, of years in jail and who told "I take pleasure in seeing the pain in the faces of the rrelatives of the victim" who was also a proponent of alliance with the Islamists and who made a party with them after the Madrid bombings. That judge ordered his release after just 17 years due account between others, the fact of having taking universiy courses (who later were proven false); in Spain that reduces the term. Fortunately the liberation was appelaed and overuled on the basis that de Juana Chaos had continued collaborating with ETA from his cell.
But it tells you waht kind of guy is Pedraz. Unfortunately in Spain as in most of Europe a judge is a guy who has succeeded at an exam, he is not elected by the people, he is not nominated by someone elected by the people, just that an exam. And once he has got that exam there is no way for the people, directly or indirectly to fire or even displace him without his consent.
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You have got to really thank GOD that Gore and Kerry is not the President. You know that those two would bend over at the first opportunity and take it from these yahoos. I have a better answer for Spain: COME AND GET THEM!
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"Couso's relatives, backed by organizations including Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists, are pressing the criminal case after rejecting a Pentagon report clearing U.S. military personnel of any wrongdoing in the incident."
This is an example of something I have mentioned here before: The institutional media have long assigned quasi-governmental status to media-oriented NGOs. Media-influenced governments have begun to recognize this status, especially in Europe.
"Media oriented" NGOs are those that exist primarily to raise funds through a high-profile media presence, invariably with the connivance of the media themselves. They are, in fact, a component of the institutional media culture itself, providing ready-made authority for media culture memes and, in return, receiving billions in free fund-raising propaganda.
"Greenpeace", originally a 60s style outlaw gang, has evolved into a pillar of the media establishment and is the prototype for this category of NGO. Today, it openly presumes governmental authority and places enormous emphasis on its network of corporate sponsors, of whom there are hundreds.
Leftist Spain is even more stuck in the 70s media world than the rest of Europe, so it is no surprise that a Spanish judge would act essentially on the orders of media-based NGOs.
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The poor boy can't help himself. When one is as young and pretty as he, with such flowing locks, and has passed an exam as well! It's only a matter of time before he somehow becomes related to Kofi Annan or Jacques Chirac anyway. And in the meantime, so many parties to go to, thrown by the right sort of people, you do know how it is.
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The court may want to send investigators to the US in support of this case. They will probably be refused, but it is just possible that cowards and quislings in the State Department will let them in. If so, the first local jurisdiction that can get its hands on them should arrest them for conspiracy to kidnap American citizens and conspiracy to incite terrorism. These are crimes in many jurisdictions, and Pedraz himself is vulnerable if he comes here. If he comes to Texas, I will urge the Attorney-General to seek an arrest warrant for him charging promotion of terrorism and conspiracy to commit official oppression.
#36
They'll show up-- if they can drive to court in their tank.
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D) Broadcast Voice of America to Spain in Swedish.
Ve vill noot tollerate sech fun-making aboot us serious suicide-prone and right-thenking politically newtrall arms-distributeing inspiring of Stolkholm Syndrome progressive ewetopic globall ceetizens!!!
Police arrested four Danish Muslims Thursday on suspicion of belonging to a network planning a suicide terror attack in Europe, officials said. The suspects, all males between 16 and 20 years old, were ordered held in jail while police investigate the allegations, police spokesman Joern Bro said.
Between 16 and 20. Teenagers.
He said at a news conference that the network had planned to carry out the suicide attack in Europe, but he declined to provide further details. The suspects, who were not further identified, faced a judge in a closed-door hearing late Thursday in Glostrup, a suburb of Copenhagen. Danish media quoted Bro as saying that the arrests in Copenhagen were linked to an investigation in the Balkans in which arrests were made this month and large quantities of explosives were found. He did not specify where the Balkan investigation took place but Bosnian police said last week they arrested three people in Sarajevo on suspicion of undertaking terrorist activities. Police said they found explosives, firearms and other military equipment in connection with those arrests on Oct. 18 and 19.
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Yo wassup, Bro?
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Two of the three arrested in Bosnia had dual Swedish and Turkish citizenship, and we have all read what cesspools cities like Malmo have become. Are the Swedish intelligence services working feverishly to find the Swedish connections or will they continue to do what they are famous for, looking the other way?
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Amen to that Ed. The only good thing out of Malmo lately has been the Volvo.
Eleven inmates held at a detention centre at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam died overnight while 15 others were injured. Police are still looking for escaped detainees. Three escapees have been arrested, but police are uncertain how many are still on the run. Some 43 people were in the wing that caught fire and those confirmed dead were prisoners, most of whom were drug couriers and illegal immigrants. The injured included firefighters and police. Problems trying to evacuate the detainees arose because cells had to be opened manually. Suffocating detainees kicked and screamed to be let out. One inmate told Dutch media that guards had initially ignored their warnings of a fire.
"They didn't open the door. They kept us locked up. Our throats started hurting. We were kicking and screaming," BBC quoted the prisoner saying.
Public prosecution spokesman Martin Bruinsma told AFP news agency that emergency services acted "very quickly", but confirmed that cell doors could only be opened manually, one at a time. The fire was not contained for several hours. There were about 350 people being held in the detention centre when the blaze erupted.
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Insh'allah calling all Amnesia Itramuralestas, United Nabucks, for a trial at the Hagfish. we're gonna sue sue sue sue..outrage and shit konniptions aplenty.
#2
Drat it all, that cell block key's gotta be around here somewhere. Will youse guys shutup with all that screaming and yelling, it's ruining my concentration! Oh great, the room's filling with smoke, now I'll never find that key ...
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Good news, each of the toasted eleven will receive his 70 virgins. Bad news, Peter Van Gogh is now in charge of the virgin assignments division. No worries, Van Gogh did a bit of "kicking and screaming" as well. I'm sure He feels your pain. Inspector Bruinsma, you have 24 hours to find the rest of the detainees or your next assignment will be on Texel herding sheep!
An engineer who helped design the B-2 stealth bomber (search) has been arrested and accused of selling U.S. military secrets involving the aircraft to a foreign country, the FBI said.
Noshir S. Gowadia, 61, of Haiku was arrested Wednesday. According to the FBI, Gowadia in 2002 faxed a document detailing infrared technology classified top secret by the Air Force to a foreign official. The FBI (search) would not identify the country and did not disclose how much he allegedly received. Gowadia had been an engineer with Northrop Grumman Corp. (search) from 1968 to 1986 and had helped design the radar-evading B-2.
He was jailed without bail on a charge of willfully communicating national defense information to a person not entitled to receive it, an offense punishable by up to 10 years in prison. It was not immediately known whether he had a lawyer.
According to state records, Gowadia and his wife own an engineering and consulting company.
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watch him wrigle and walk outa this becoming a MSM superstar in the process.
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Betya its France and not china or Russia he sold the secrets too. not Chinas style if you ask me, not Russia for a mumber of reasons one being that plasma stealth tech they have, France because they have several active stealth programs including a neat stealth UAV and well cos there France and an unofficial eneamy
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Officials said they found proof he's had a lucrative side business, selling stealth secrets to foreign countriesss.
1968 to 1986 Northrup, He also worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and on many other projects..conferences all over, NASA you name it. and His wife helped him.
FBI:
He wrote in his limited English [WTF?] that he "disclosed classified information. I wanted to help this countries to further their self aircraft protection systems. I knew it was wrong and I did it for the money."
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Noshir, Noshir, Noshir Gowadia....??? That name sounds so familiar. Wasn't there a 'Noshir' who fought under J.E.B. at Chancellorsville? No shir, there damn sure wasn't! Maybe it was at the 7-Eleven, my memory fails me? My bad, must have shipped him in with all the other riff raff after the war. Too bad we can't find English speaking aka native American engineers anymore. B-2 bad to see this piece of filth hung next to his wife. Like to hear that "Giant Sucking Sound" as they gasp for that last breath of US air.
Second, life in prison, no parole, the entire time in solitary. He'll get what's coming to him.
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I beg to differ. Yes, dispatch him as soon as possible. Why should any citizen have to pay taxes to keep his treacherous greedy A*% alive after he was already essentially paid by us to work on the technology that he then handed out for further profit. Scum and traitor. Arrest, try and convict if possible, suck all possible information out of him, then dispatch him with all possible speed. Let those who think about doing this sort of thing have pause to consider the price for treacherous enterprises. You cannot deter (only remove forever) those driven by ideological motivation but greed is usually tempered with consideration of one's mortality.
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The combination of an Asian Indian surname and the "limited English" line leave me wondering how this guy got a security clearance. Is this guy even a citizen and, if so, why does he have "limited English" if he started working for Northrop Grumman Corp. -- presumably in the U.S. -- in 1968? And how does he get contracts with "limited English"? Very strange.
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Hello, Mr. Gowandia, is this Mr. Noshir S. Gowandia...? Good good, this is Special Agent Smith from DIS, I'm calling to do your 5 year bring-up. Yes, the bring-up might indeed assist your appeal. Sorry to interupt your chat session sir, oh, you were chatting with your publisher... I am very sorry sir. I know you have been incarcerated at Eglin AFB for over 3 years now and you are about to go cash your social security check and depart for Christmas 2009 furlow, but I must ask you as few questions. I'll skip the traveled abroad portion to save time Mr. Gowandi, during your confinement at Eglin, have you had any contact with.......maybe at the library or snack bar? You have not, good, thank you Mr. Gowandi.... lets move on to section V, shall we.....? No PROBLEM!
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After some Googling, I'm gonna say Noshir Gowadia is from Iran and his photo from post #8 is consistant with that. What country above all is the B2 likely to be used against next? If the Iranians now know the infrared characteristics of the B2's exhaust, could they design a detector tuned for it?
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From the link in #8:
In recent years, Gowadia (pictured, right), 61, worked as an independent engineer in defense research. He built a luxury home on the slopes of Mount Haleakala. Agents arrested Gowadia Wednesday, two weeks after federal agents raided his home.
I say take this bastard to Alaska immediately. Confiscate his pad and make a soldiers rehab out of it. Then, let's make sure he is seen on TV nightly walking with his ankles chained across the tarmac to his daily questioning. And with his ACLU lawyer chained to him.
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from the Star Bulletin article Darrell linked to:
At a news conference yesterday, FBI Special Agent in Charge Charles Goodwin read from a written statement and declined to answer questions on the investigation. "This is a very sensitive, ongoing investigation," he said.
Neither the affidavit nor Goodwin revealed which countries Gowadia allegedly sold secrets to, or whether they were allied or enemy nations. Goodwin did say that Gowadia was born in India and is a naturalized U.S. citizen.
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Gowadia was born in India
I stand corrected. So any bets on who is the odds on favorite to be the recipient: India, Russia, or a third party to be named later?
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Gowadia was born in India
That was supposed to italicized. I really should start previewing.
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1) Permanent solitary confinement subsequent to exhaustive interrogation.
2) No conversation with guards, no television, radio or internet, no recorded music or speech, no white noise sleep promoter or even a ticking alarm clock, no books, pictures or reading material of any sort ... nothing.
3) Acoustically dampened and mechanically padded video monitored cell without daylight exposure, direct ventilation or outside contact of any sort. Bare walls of pastel beige without detail, ornament or features. Indirect artificial lighting of minimum wattage to see.
4) Unvaried bland diet of pureed food containing subsistence levels of fiber, texturized vegetable protein and salt with no other spices or flavorings and hydration quantities only of room temperature water to drink.
Continuous uninterrupted silence with ZERO access to any object by which he might take his own life. Let this traitorous turd slowly go mad in total isolation.
With his Hawiian estate, this maggot obviously thought he would get away with such treason. He intended to live amongst those he had sold downriver. Although physical torture might be disallowed, the above solitary confinement is a great substitute.
I worked on the B-2 project. Our R&D group developed a critical adhesion-promoting coating that was vital to reliable assembly and flight performance of the vehicle's surface skin. The solution was incredibly simple and I have never told a single soul what the actual compound was to this day. It has never occurred to me to sell it to anyone nor would I, even if money was offered.
This rectal cavity must be made to endlessly suffer in permanent solitary isolation.
#30
Kill him. Let his corpse rot, publicly.
Seize his estate. Let it rot for 100 years as ill-gotten gains. In three generations auction the property to benefit the country he betrayed.
Hat tip 4th Rail.
CAMP BLUE DIAMOND, AR RAMADI, Iraq â Coalition Forces killed terrorists in Ramadi Oct. 27 while conducting a cordon and search operation at the Malaab Soccer Stadium in the eastern part of the city. Nah...they were simply there to Bend it like Beckham...poor blokes.
At approximately 11:00 a.m. a sniper team that was conducting security for the operation observed a military age male surveying the stadium with binoculars shortly after Coalition Forces were attacked with a rocket propelled grenade. The dude was looking for chicks...or sheep.
Did he mistake the Marines for elks?
The sniper team determined hostile intent and engaged the terrorist with one round, resulting in the death of the insurgent. Sniper team also determined infinite stupiditiy. Enter: 1 50 cal terrorist's head. Stupidity will no longer be a problem for terrorist now rotting in Hell.
At approximately 11:30 a.m., Coalition Forces were attacked with small arms fire from multiple positions on rooftops surrounding the stadium. Coalition Forces returned fire, but were not able to confirm damage to the enemy. At 11:45 a.m., a sniper team at the stadium observed two insurgents armed with AK-47s southwest of their location moving into position on the roof of a building. Carlos Hathcock is smiling right now...may his Soul rest in peace.
The sniper team engaged the terrorists and were able to confirm both enemy killed in action. Splash two cockroaches.
No Coalition Forces were injured in todayâs attacks. Score: Marines 3. Islamo-cockroachers 0.
None of our boys injured while they did their jobs -- best news of all.
The cordon and search resulted in the seizure of 30 lbs. of plastic explosives, typically found to be used in Improvised Explosive Devices and vehicle car bombs. The contents of the cache will be destroyed. Semper Fi, brothers!
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I know there is a God, who else could have authorized the creation of the United States Marine Corps! Thank you Devil Dogs, no tellen how many good men you saved by wasting those pieces of fecal matter. Now, GET out there and waste a bunch MORE! Hoorah!
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Great story. Should not this be a movie-outline and not the Clooney-Penn millionaire traiterous propaganda that oozes out of our media. I admire and support you; the best of the best, our soldiers. Most important, our leaders should cut you loose and use our force to protect our soldiers. We need them. World opinion is worth nothing if bought with soldiers blood.
The Multi-National Forces declared Thursday that it will hand over on Friday the security mission in eastern Diyala province to the Iraqi army forces. A statement for the Multi-National Forces said that about 3,000 US soldiers from Task Force Liberty and the 278th Regimental Combat Team will conclude their mission tomorrow in eastern Diyala. The statement added that the security mission there will be handed over to the 1st Brigade of the Iraqi army's 5th Division in Diyala "because of their proven operational capabilities". This will he held during a ceremony on Forward Operating Base Caldwell.
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Well done lads. This is real progress, given that the province has a small Sunni majority. The right time for US forces to withdraw from Iraq will be when the Sunni Arabs no longer want them to go because they are so shit scared of what the Iraqi Army might do to them. And there won't be any MSM fuckers in the country to report any abuses either.
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great news, too good for MSM to devote much attention to which is always a good sign.
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"The right time for US forces to withdraw from Iraq will be when the Sunni Arabs no longer want them to go because they are so shit scared of what the Iraqi Army might do to them"
an interesting point, Apostate. Im gonna think on it.
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Makes sense as the east is Iranian border.There are also Kurds in the area because the 278th has soldiers from my hometown and one that works with me told us he mixed with all 3 types. But,probably more Shiite and Kurd,Diyala is the "best" of the Sunni triangle province,we lost 10 soldiers from the regiment in 11 months,the Marines have lost TONS more in Anbar.
DEBKA: A car carrying a Qassam missile crew was bombed, one Fatah-al Aqsa Brigades operative killed, in second Israeli air force raid of missile launching sites in N. Gaza Friday. The air force struck after another 5 Qassam missiles were shot into Israel. One exploded in an empty space near Netiv HaâAasara, and another near the Erez crossing to the north. No casualties.
A second Israeli artillery battery was posted opposite S. Gaza Strip as Palestinian Qassams kept coming. The second artillery battery was deployed near Nir Yitzhak opposite the S. Gaza town of Khan Younes. It is assumed that the Jihad Islami after failing to hit Western Negev locations from the northern Gaza Strip will try shooting from the south at closer range of their Israeli targets over the weekend.
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Great. Now they can impress all the Gaza hookers with their war stories about how they bravely shelled the Zionist Entity in a blow for Paleos everywhere. They'll leave the "we didn't hit anything" part out though...Gaza chicks don't dig that.
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You know Israel should sponsor a tripoli bowling ball lofting competion sans parachute. They could designate an impact area and track the rockets by radar to find out who wins the altitude, points could be given for best impact and or secondaries.
"once the rocket goes up, who cares where it comes down!"
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Paleo-Toasties. The official breakfast of Gaza.
In a grove of date palms in the center of this Gaza Strip city, Palestinian gunmen contemplate their future.
Pretty depressing, eh boys? Maybe you should have studied computers in school.
It is 4 p.m., when thirst and the ache for a cigarette following the day's Ramadan fast are at their height. A cellphone rings and bears the news that dozens have been wounded in a suicide bombing in Hadera. The six members of the Fatah-linked Aksa Martyrs Brigades register the information and move on, talking about their own "resistance" against Israel.
The world may have thought otherwise, but in the warrens of Gaza's refugee camps the war against Israel is very much still on. The Palestinian Authority announced on Sunday that it planned to move the foxes into the henhouse disarm the Brigades and absorb its members into the PA security forces, but these gunmen seem anything but ready to disarm.
The IDF and Gaza-based terrorist groups had exchanged frequent fire since Israel quit the Gaza Strip six weeks ago. But over the past week, the groups amplified their rallying cries against Israel and even the Palestinian Authority. Hamas publicly reiterated its dreams of creating an Islamic state between the Jordan and the sea, and Islamic Jihad pressed forward with terrorist attacks and vowed more.
Oh well, guess the IDF will just have to pay a visit.
The Aksa Martyrs Brigades would not be outdone. In an interview in an orchard, Hassan Abu Ali, the group's commander here, claimed that the brigades have developed a new rocket, the Aksa-3. These rockets have a maximum range of 17 km., he tells The Jerusalem Post. The IDF would not comment directly, but outgoing OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Dan Harel was quoted on Thursday saying that "Ashkelon [nine km. from the northernmost edge of Gaza] is already within range... It is now not a question of range, but of deterrence."
What had started with stones, then moved on to guns and suicide bombers, has graduated to rockets, the wave of the future, claimed Abu Ali. He said his group had recently tested an unarmed prototype of the Aksa-3 along the Gaza beach. Often, launching the missiles is more costly than dispatching suicide bombers, Abu Ali said. More of his men have been hospitalized unleashing the erratic rockets than Israelis on the receiving end. And dozens more have been killed in Israeli reprisals.
Guess the information the spooks slipped them about rocket guidance ... oh, sorry, shouldn't talk about that.
Palestinian mortarmen have yet to target Ashkelon, and given the likely Israeli response, might never do so. During the interview, an F-16 swooped low, breaking the sound barrier with a jarring boom. The militiamen shifted uneasily in their plastic chairs.
They would happily retire, said the group's Gaza spokesman, who identified himself as Abu Mustafa, once Israel leaves all of the West Bank and Jerusalem. "Retaliation will come from Gaza if the West Bank is attacked," he said. "[Palestine] is one homeland."
Echoing the complaints of many Palestinians, Abu Mustafa dubbed Israel's much-lauded withdrawal a "trick" that has turned Gaza into "a large prison, with no way in or out."
Rats. They noticed.
Palestinian public opinion supports the retirement of all gunmen not under PA command. A poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Public Opinion showed that more than 80 percent opposed the blatant use of force by "militants," what the poll called security chaos and "the multi-authority society."
PCPO director Dr. Nabil Kukali observed that "all these groups want to get across their mujahideen bona fides" before the January 25 Palestinian Legislative Council elections. While the terrorist groups grandstand, the Palestinian street remains silent. Kukali said that to "protect themselves they haven't demanded that this activity cease."
A brainchild of jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti and others, the Aksa Martyrs Brigades were Fatah's answer to Hamas and Islamic Jihad. But Israel's incursions into the West Bank and Gaza knocked out the group's infrastructure, often leaving smaller factions not only to fend for themselves but, more dangerously, make their own decisions. Today, they might pose the biggest challenge to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. If Abbas cannot control his party's own militia, Gazans ask, how can he control anything else?
Did anyone ever think he could control anything in the first place?
Explaining his group's periodic mutinies against the PA, Abu Ali noted that "conventional sit-ins and flag waving no longer work, so the [fighters] have chosen other ways" to catch their leader's attention. In Gaza, Khan Yunis specifically, disgruntled gunmen are in the habit of taking Western hostages when they want to remind the PA that they remain jobless.
Through various types of protest, some 40 percent of Fatah gunmen secured jobs with the PA, said Abu Mustafa proudly. Pollster Kukali agreed that the single most important issue right now for all Palestinians is not fighting Israel "but finding work." Everyone in Gaza seems to condemn the kidnappings, but then explain that the men need jobs.
Col. Ali Rahajan of the PA Preventive Security Service, currently tasked with security in the former settlements, said that "everything is being done to create a sense of security," and that the "kidnappings will not happen again."
But winning the loyalty of the militiamen may not be as easy as doling out the NIS 1,600 monthly salary allotted to PA policemen. "If Abu Mazen [Abbas] ensures our involvement in the PA, and ensures our rights, then we are with Abu Mazen," Abu Mustafa said. Those rights, he noted almost as a caveat, are the right to carry arms and fight Israel when they see fit.
Sensitive to the public's fatigue and the effects of the IDF's constant pressure, the brigades have issued a leaflet explaining their reasons for firing rockets. According to Abu Ali, the leaflet explains the necessity "of terrorizing an entire city like Sderot." Otherwise, the people "might misunderstand us," he said. Check out the picture at the link. The 2 guys with RPGs look like imported gunnies.
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It was a dark and stormy night and a F-16 swooped low, breaking the sound barrier with a jarring boom...the militiamen shifted uneasily in their plastic chairs. BAM
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More of his men have been hospitalized unleashing the erratic rockets than Israelis on the receiving end.
Bwahahahahahaha! That's truly rich. Buncha maroons. They should stick to parading their rockets around on trucks at heavily attended festivities.
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Homemade rockets are killers. Leave making the motors to the professionals.
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Otherwise, the people "might misunderstand us," he said.
Most people don't care about "struggle". They just want a safe place to sleep and 3 square meals a day for themselves and their families, and hope that their children will have a better life. These A**hats are standing in the way of that for "the struggle", and people are just weary to the bone.
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"Everyone in Gaza seems to condemn the kidnappings, but then explain that the men need jobs." Nazis were hard to find in post-war Germany as well. Bombing and killing unarmed civilians in order to gain "employment"...? Duh, isn't that a bit like stealing a 70 inch big screen TV to combat hunger?
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So I guess Israel needs to expand the "no man's land" buffer area to 17km from its border to avoid aksa-3 strikes? They are running out of land quick in palestine like this.
An Iranian-sponsored insurgency group, flushed with significant funding, has established a support network in Israel. Israeli officials said Islamic Jihad has spent tens of thousands of dollars to establish sleeper and support cells in Israel. The officials said the cells facilitated the entry of Jihad insurgents for attacks in major Israeli cities. "For years, Jihad was at the mercy of other terrorist groups for logistical support," an official said. "That is no longer the case. Jihad has now bought its own network in Israel."
On Wednesday, five Israelis were killed and 38 people were injured in a suicide bombing in the northern city of Hadera. Officials said Jihad used the Israeli sleeper network to help transport the 21-year-old bomber from his home in the West Bank town of Kabatya to Hadera, about 50 kilometers north of Tel Aviv.
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Is this a bluff to end the bombings, or an excuse to harass (and expell) their own sand monkeys ?
Jakarta, 28 Oct. (AKI/Jakarta Post) - The Indonesian government has confirmed that al-Qaeda linked Asian militant group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI)'s alleged spiritual leader, Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, will have his jail term cut further to mark the Idul Fitri Islamic holiday next week, despite a request by Australia's government. Prosecutors had asked for an eight-year prison term for Bashir, for inciting the 2002 bombings of a Bali nightclub that killed 202 including 88 Australians.
Sooner he gets out, sooner the SAS can 'visit' him.
Indonesia's justice and human rights minister Hamid Awaluddin would not reveal the length of the remission, but said that like other prisoners, Bashir was entitled to have his jail term cut owing to his good conduct while serving his 30-month imprisonment for conspiracy in the 2002 Bali bombings. "Under the prevailing regulations on remission, Bashir is eligible for the remission," Hamid said. The government is revising the regulation upon the request of Australia, which Hamid said would only be issued by the end of November. Bashir was previously granted a four and a half-month remission in observance of Indonesia's Independence Day in August.
JI militants are believed to have masterminded the deadly Bali nightclub bombings in October, 2002, as well a number of other bomb attacks, including - most recently - the 1 October suicide bombings of tourist targets on Bali that killed 22 people; a bombing outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta in September 2004; and a similar strike at the JW Marriott hotel, also in Jakarta, in August, 2003, which left 12 dead. JI's goal is the establishment of an Islamic state in Indonesia and in other parts of South East Asia.
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202 people/ 30 months = .24 days per person. That is a shitty-ass testiment to the Indonesian government and muslims in general.
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Indonesia and their anti-terrorism campaign can go piss up a rope. I'm amazed they didn't commute Amrozi's sentence to life for good measure. Cap Bashir and let that murderous scum-sucking dirtbag's martyrdom begin immediately. [spit]
THE MILITARY is running after 21 other members of the Rajah Solaiman Movement (RSM), intelligence officials said, following the pre-dawn arrest on Wednesday of the leader of the radical Islamist group.
This developed as President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo ordered security forces on Thursday to finish off remaining terrorist suspects in the country after they captured RSM chieftain Hilarion del Rosario Santos III, alias Ahmad Santos.
"Terrorism is an extraordinary crime and a threat to the world and to the country. There are more battles out there to be won,â Arroyo addressed the Armed Forces of the Philippines' top brass at a news conference in Camp Aguinaldo military headquarters.
âI encourage you to continue fighting this war against terrorism," she added.
Santos and seven of the eight other terror suspects who were arrested with him at a safehouse in Zamboanga City were presented to the media during the said briefing.
A child suspect was not presented to the media.
The 12-year-old boy is in the care of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD).
Rear Admiral Tirso Danga, deputy chief of staff for intelligence, said investigators have yet to determine if the eight others arrested with Santos are also members of the RSM.
The RSM is a group of Islamic converts with alleged links to the Abu Sayyaf and the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), the alleged arms of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terror network in the Philippines and the Southeast Asian region respectively.
A cache of explosives was also seized from Santos' safehouse during the pre-dawn raid on Wednesday. Senga said the materials "could easily be converted into improvised explosive devices."
"A close working relationship between the ASG and the RSM has long been suspected and his [Santos'] group has been linked to a number of bombing activities in Metro Manila in coordination with the ASG and the JI," Senga told the President.
Before his capture in Zamboanga City, Santos stayed with the group of Abu Sayyaf chieftain Khadaffy Janjalani, Indonesian JI Dulmatin, who allegedly masterminded the 2002 Bali bombings, and another JI member, Umar Patek, Danga said.
"He was with Umar Patek all the time in Talayan [Maguindanao] and left for Zamboanga City to seek refuge," he said.
Senga said Santos masterminded a foiled Bali-type attack on the restaurant strip in Manila's Malate district during the Lenten holiday using a 1,000-kilogram improvised bomb.
"The area [Malate] is where Caucasian people conglomerate for happy times," said Danga.
Santos' brother, Daud, was arrested in March in connection with the Lenten bomb plot but was later released on bail.
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good job filipinos! keep it up
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Suspected Muslim insurgents seized dozens of weapons in 34 coordinated nighttime attacks across southern Thailand, leaving six people dead, the military said Thursday. The attacks took place over several hours along the Malaysian border in Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani provinces, said regional military spokesman Col. Somkuan Saengpataraneth. The violence killed four villagersâtwo of them village chiefsâand two insurgents and injured seven other people, Somkuan said. Initial reports showed that insurgents attacked at 34 places in the three provinces, and âtook away dozens of guns from the houses of the village chiefs and from the village defense volunteers,â military spokesman Lt. Gen. Palangul Klaharn said on broadcaster ITV. Somkuan said the situation was âunder control.â Local authorities offered rewards of 20,000 baht (US$490; euro400) for the return of any of the weapons.
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Reward for weapons ? It's time to crash the Lions next team meeting. Thailand is becoming a vast killing field. It's Islam against the world, and I don't mean figuratively.
TONY BLAIR gave warning last night that the West might have to take military action against Iran after worldwide condemnation of its Presidentâs call for Israel to be âwiped off the mapâ.
Ending a one-day European Union summit, the Prime Minister called the explosive declaration by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Wednesday a disgrace. Promising discussions with Washington and other allies over how to react, Mr Blair said that he had often been urged not to take action against Iran.
But he added: âIf they carry on like this the question people will be asking us is â when are you going to do something about Iran? Can you imagine a State like that with an attitude like that having nuclear weapons?â
It was the first time Mr Blair had even hinted at military action and his words are likely to alarm Labour MPs. Mr Blair, clearly angry at the Presidentâs outburst, said that there were people in Iranâs leadership who believed that the world was sufficiently distracted that it could not afford to focus on the nuclear arms issue.
âThey will be making a very big mistake if they do that. Those sentiments are completely unacceptable,â he said. âI have never come across a situation in which the president of a country has said they want to wipe out another country. That is unacceptable.â
Mr Ahmadinejadâs words triggered international condemnation, with Israel demanding Iranâs expulsion from the United Nations. âA country that calls for the destruction of another people cannot be a member,â Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister, said.
Russia, which has been helping Iran to develop its nuclear programme, called the words unacceptable. Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary-General, expressed dismay. The Bush Administration demanded that Iran behave as a responsible member of the international community.
Unlike the US, the EU has always emphasised the need to engage Iran diplomatically, but it also abandoned its more cautious stance yesterday. âCalls for violence and for the destruction of any state are manifestly inconsistent with any claim to be a mature and responsible member of the international community,â the leaders said in an agreed statement.
Mr Blair said of Iran: âTheir attitude towards Israel, terrorism and nuclear weapons is not acceptable. If they continue down this path people are going to believe that they are a real threat to world security and stability. I feel a real sense of revulsion. It shows how much some of these places need to reform themselves. How can we build a more secure world with that type of attitude? It is a disgrace.â
The EU leaders said that the Presidentâs comments would cause concern about Iranâs role in the region and its future intentions. That his comments were made on the same day as the attack on Israeli civilians at Hadera only reinforces the lesson that incitement to violence, and the terrorism it breeds, were âdespicable and unacceptable actsâ, they said.
Britain, France and Germany have been responsible for handling the EUâs relations with Iran in international forums, and have been notably careful in their diplomatic language, particularly in reference to the prospect of any military action against Iran. By contrast, Washington has conspicuously refused to rule out such action.
But fears in Western governments have grown since the removal last June of Mr Ahmadinejadâs predecessor, Mohammad Khatami, who had been much less hostile to Israel and of whom both Tony Blair and Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, had hopes of a better relationship. His successor, the former mayor of Tehran, was an unknown quantity to the West. On Wednesday he made his hardline views clear when he cited the founder of Iranâs Islamic revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini: âAs the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map.â
Fears about Iranâs nuclear ambitions have been augmented by worries about its activities in Iraq, where it has been suspected of supporting insurgents. There have been reports that high-ranking members of al-Qaeda have been allowed to roam freely in Iran. Tehran has denied any link to or support for the terrorist group.
WHAT THE PRESIDENT SAID:
âAnybody who recognises Israel will burn in the fire of the Islamic nationâs fury [while] any [Islamic leader] who recognises the Zionist regime means he is acknowledging the surrender and defeat of the Islamic world . . . As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the mapâ
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Mahmoud: "oops"
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BLAIR understands it - to destroy ISRAEL is to destroy by extension both AMERICA, BRITAIN, AND THE ENTIRE WESTERN WORLD. Russia's wafflins reminds me of that great skit in BLOOM COUNTY comics from the 1980's, where the Terrorist demands only one hour or something, but Amer Big Media unilat keeps giving more airtime than what was demanded, and giving more airtime, "plus a spot on COSBY", while labeling the terrorist as an "animal".
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I thank God there are strong able leaders (judges) like Tony Blair who have been able to rise to the top of their country in spite of the fact he has had to overcome thousands of evil opponents like George Galloway and had to endure a mass of ignorant and unappreciative subjects.
May God grant Tony Blair victory over the ayatollahs and grant him eternal rest.
May God be merciful and protect His people Israel from Islamic nuclear annihilation.
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He could be successful yet - just hope that British aircraft join in. Good on you Tony...
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It was the first time Mr Blair had even hinted at military action and his words are likely to alarm Labour MPs.
Yet psychotic anti-Semitism that suggests Israel should be "wiped off the map" does not alarm these Nancy-boy MPs even more? They should be bloody d@mned grateful that someone amongst them still has a functioning set of ballocks.
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Wot Frank G, JosephMendiola, Rex Mundi, Kristeen Kid, Dishman, Howard UK and Zenster said.
BTW where's Mrs. D?
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The statement was too obvious and outfront for the traditionally evil and anti-semitic, anti-Israel Arabist Blair and the English. After the WW2 no country allowed Jews enrance. They were still kept in camps. The English killed these newly freed concentration camp victims as they fled Europe. Arabs told them to. The EU is solidly against Israel as European mindless historic anti-semitism impels. Besides Arab money owns most of Europe so those lazy socialists must jump.
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Bardo's spelling seems OK. It's his word selection that leaves something to be desired. Nothing repeated use of the Delete key won't fix.
Everybody should lean back and relax. Tony and George have decided it's time to do something. But neither has his domestic base behind him. Now is when the WMD screw up really comes home to roost. Tony and George are going to have to get more statements like the recent one from the MM to mobilize the home front. Pressure via Syria. Leading up to a Congressional declaration of war by another name in the summer of 2006 just before the mid term elections. Just after the elections, we will strike. So stock up on popcorn now. My son's pack is taking orders now.
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Excuse the spelling, Bonehead. You spell it for me. My meaning is England is Churchillian, unfortunately it's Ward. I miss Winston who was tossed out by the electorate in 1952 for labour Clemente Attlee who threatened by Arab oil loss did the English thing and frenched-out. England did not vote for Israeli statehood at the U.N in 1948. The English people are another story and filled with decency and heroism.
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There's a theory going around that Blair said this to make headlines and distract from the fact that the Euro summit he was hosting has been a complete failure.
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The left can't win the 'bring the boys home' debate. Every time there is a lul, one of these sand monkeys makes an untimely move. If it's not a clandestine statement, then it's a Bali bomb.
The left should realize that being the third wheel in a conflict like this is a ridiculous strategy, and join the fun.
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im not convinced Tony wants war now. I do think this statement helps to set the stage should he and Condi think its necessary later. But there are other geopolitical issues that give him an incentive to focus attention on Iran, esp when the Iran prez says something this outrageous.
Blair sees UK as being the bridge between the US and Europe, and gaining leverage and power from that. Its real hard to make such gains when the US and the core Euro states (France and Germany) are at each others diplomatic throats, as they were during 2003, 2004. UK has a stake in reconciling US and Europe. This Iranian statement tends to push France and Germany in the direction of the US (and away from Russia) and this eases the whole UK position, at least from Blairs view (of course to the UK left, its unwise to be as close to the US as Blair is, while to the UK right, its unwise to be as close to Europe as Blair is)
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The EU summit became a failure when Gerhard Schroeder decided that he would go instead of sending incoming Chancellor Angela Merkel. I believe it was Tony Blair who cut the summit from two days to one, and essentially wiped clean the agenda -- no point in making pretty PowerPoint thingies when no decisions will be taken anyway.
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MM's are trying to get Israel to strike, definitely, but we're holding that dog's chain until the right time and until we've built the Iraqi army up enough to assist with some "border control" as we'll call it for now. The hammer and the Anvil will be in place soon enough and then we will strike.
We will destroy Iran and beg Syria to do shit, anything about it, if we don't just roll over syria on the way there.
But before any of this happens we must connect the Iranians and/or Syrians to a direct attack on European soil, which has probably yet to happen. We'll use such an opportunity to paint them as the evil meglomaniacal Islamofascists they are, as if we needed anything new.
We need to make sure the European populace is engaged in this war sufficiently enough to guarantee a bit of Euro participation in this one.Albeit limpwristed, it couldn't hurt. Hopefully they'll help flit the bill too as these campaigns are sure to be costly.
Those nifty neutron bombs could come in real handy for cleaning out the rabble or we can always rename Tehran Kryptonite town and use a few of our nukes that are collecting dust.
When we make Iran's mosques' dusty ruins glow for a thousand years, it will be too bad.
Iran can then be the global billboard that reminds China that we can throw a little party for them too if they like.
I bite at the bit waiting for Iran's annihalation.
The next five years will be very, very, interesting.
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I feel a real sense of revulsion. It shows how much some of these places need to reform themselves. How can we build a more secure world with that type of attitude? It is a disgrace.â
I have to admit it, TB gets my vote. Is there a better leader on the world stage? He says it like it is. Soon he will declare islam as the enemy.
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Still wondering whether they don't already have one or two. ..
"We need to make sure the European populace is engaged in this war sufficiently enough to guarantee a bit of Euro participation in this one.Albeit limpwristed..."
It would be a powerful thing to have Euros, who if nothing else are world-class gabbers, yack in large numbers at multiple international venues about the need to take out Jew-hating Iranian leaders. Word of mouth is such a powerful force. But no begging to get Europe to do it-they need to come to this conclusion on their own. And if history is any lesson on that, they'll come to the conclusion too late.
The only reason we would wait til elections is because we're curious about how our skin will look with nuclear blast blisters. Waiting til fall of 06 is not an option.
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I do not give much credence to prophecy but St. Bernadettes's one on Iran(Persia)'s is seemingly getting fulfilled sooner rather than later, it would seem. After all it was made as recently as merely two century ago only.
The Lebanese Sunni Muslim group al-Ahbash, which describes itself a charitable organisation promoting Islamic culture, is at the centre of the UN probe into the murder of former prime minister Rafiq Hariri.
"Charitable organization" means it lives off money donated by other people. "Promoting Islamic culture" usually involves explosives. I think we speak the language by now, thank you...
The UN inquiry probing the assassination has named Ahmad Abdel-Al, believed to have been a top leader of Ahbash, as its key suspect over the February 14 car-bomb attack that killed Hariri and 20 others. The Lebanese authorities on Wednesday charged Ahmad and his brother Mahmoud â who is also a member of the Syrian-linked Ahbash â in connection with the murder.
"Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!"
According to the UN report released last week, Mahmoud telephoned President Emile Lahoud just minutes before the blast.
Bad Emile!
He was arrested after the report was released while his brother Ahmad was seized more than a month ago for illegal possession of arms in a case also involving a close aide to General Mustafa Hamdan, the head of Lahoud's presidential guard. Their brother Walid Abdel-Al, who also belongs to the the shadowy Ahbash, is a member of the guard.
I'm wondering if anybody who's not a member of the Abdel-Al family belongs to Ahbash...
According to the Mehlis report, a shop owned by an alleged member of the group with close ties to Ahmad sold six pre-paid mobile phone cards "which telephone records demonstrate were instrumental in the planning of the assassination."
That'd be cousin Manny Abdel-Al, of course...
"The investigation of the prepaid telephone cards is one of the most important leads in this investigation in terms of who was actually on the ground executing the assassination," the report said. The alleged implication of Ahbash in Hariri's assassination has put the spotlight on the group in Lebanon, where many believe the organisation to be a tool in the hands of Syrian intelligence. "We are innocent of all the accusations levelled against us," Ahbash spokesman Abdelkader Fakahani told AFP. "We are pure as snow," he said, adding that Ahbash had no links with Ahmad.
Yup. Yup. Pure as the driven snow. And I, for one... ummm... don't believe him.
"Ahmad Abdel Al's only mistake is to have known the person who lived in the alleged arms depot," he said in reference to an arms warehouse linked to the group and uncovered by the Lebanese army in July.
Who was that? Pop?
Such remarks have failed to convince many Lebanese including the country's top Sunni Muslim religious leader, Sheikh Rashid Kabbani, who has announced plans to regain control of several mosques that Ahbash seized in recent years. "During the Syrian occupation of Lebanon, the organisation took by force these mosques thanks to its ties to the Syrian intelligence services which gave it cover and protection," a source close to Kabbani told AFP.
"That gravy train is now officially derailed."
Ahbash first came to light in 1983 and gathered strength during the Syrian military presence in Lebanon, which ended only in April after strong international pressure following Hariri's killing. The departure of Syrian troops and intelligence operatives from Lebanon has untied many tongues and residents of the neighborhood near the group's headquarters in Beirut are now keen on expressing their views. Ahbash "recruited all sorts of people, including former convicts, the unemployed and failed students," one of them said.
Pretty common with charitable organizations disseminating Islamic culture, isn't it?
A former employee, Samira, charged that Ahbash "exploited poverty" to push ahead with its plans while her brother Saad insisted that the organisation "had nothing to do with Islam." "It only existed to back Emile Lahoud, Syria's man in Lebanon," Saad said.
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Sounds awfully uncomfortable, and a tad adventurous...
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"Such remarks have failed to convince many Lebanese including the country's top Sunni Muslim religious leader, Sheikh Rashid Kabbani, who has announced plans to regain control of several mosques that Ahbash seized in recent years"
The Lebanese Army has allowed Hizbullah to increase its armed presence near the border with Israel. A United Nations report said the government of Prime Minister Fuad Siniora has embarked on a policy to reduce the military presence in southern Lebanon. At the same time, Siniora has ordered the army to increase deployment along the Syrian border.
Lebanon, the report said, has failed to fulfill Resolution 1559, passed in September 2004 and which called for the disarming of Hizbullah and Palestinian insurgency groups. The report said the Beirut government has also refused to impose its authority over Hizbullah-dominated areas in southern Lebanon. The report, authored by UN special envoy Terje Roed-Larsen, said that in June 2005 the Lebanese Army reduced its presence in southern Lebanon. As a result, the report said, Hizbullah increased its presence near the Israeli border.
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counting on the Joooos to eradicate this pestilence?
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Hizbullah wants to camp out in the frying pan, who are we to stop them. Seems like an opportunity to sell some life insurance.
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remember, in discussions of the "govt" of Lebanon, theres the new cabinet, and the old pro-Syrian president, Lahoud, who is still in office. Which is why the Lebanese cabinets indictment of intell figures is important - theyre cutting into Lahouds base. I dont know exactly who has authority over the Leb Army - they seem to have been pursuing an antisyrian agenda in blockaded the PFLP bases - one is inclined to think the above is not in contradiction, but Im not sure.
Indian security forces are hunting down a terrorist linked to the al-Qaeda network, who may have succeeded in entering the country with the aim of targeting American interests in India. Behind the recent alarm issued to the US consolates and cultural centres in major Indian cities, is the figure of Mohammed Majoodi, according to national intelligence sources cited in the national daily, 'Times of India'. Majoodi is an Islamist expert in car-bombs who until now has been based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. "The threat to American interests in the country is from Majoodi," said the sources. What is worrying the intelligence agents in New Delhi are the links Majoodi has with militant groups such as Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Taiba, that are active in the separatist struggle in the region of Kashmir.
On 10 October, Ruth Lincoln, of the American consolate in Chennai, (formerly known as Madras), sent out an e-mail in which she told all the American citizens in Chennai and also those in New Delhi, Mumbai and Kolkata (formerly known as Calcutta) and Hyderabad, to be on guard against possible terrorist atacks in the near future. In the e-mail, Lincoln indicated that "facilities associated with the United States or locations where US citizens and other foreigners congregate or visit could be targeted. Information received by the US government suggests that attacks could include, among other things, suicide car bombings." A statement was then released by the American embassy that defined as "reasonably serious" the threat behind the alert.
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Certainly hope the little buggers don't target the Lahore based, US Airline off-shore call centers... KABOOM! "excluse mi sowwi sir, there is a biggie boom outside mi windee, sowwi sir, mi puter is not now workie properly sowwi sir, there is a piece of cow on my desk!! eeeeks!! No no no sir, sowwi, we that flight is no longer avialable....frequent miles, no sowwi sir, miles has gone home for the day."
Authorities quizzed Thursday an Egyptian who returned to Cairo a day earlier after completing a U.S. prison sentence for aiding his detained brother, who was a key planner of the 1993 bombing of World Trade Center, officials said. Mohammed Abouhalima, 41, was sentenced to eight years prison in late 1998 for helping his brother, Mahmoud, flee New York after the Feb. 26, 1993 attack that killed six people and wounded more than 1,000. Mahmoud Abouhalima was arrested in Egypt several weeks after the 1993 bombing and was eventually sentenced to 240 years in prison for his primary role as a key planner of the attack.
It was not immediately clear how long Egyptian authorities would hold Mohammed Abouhalima. U.S. security personnel handed the Egyptian over to local authorities at Cairo's international airport, the officials said. There was initial confusion over the identity of the man returned to Egypt and it was unclear if he returned as a result of completing his U.S. prison term or for another reason. His brother was linked to a radical Egyptian cleric, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, who Egyptian authorities blame for a wave of extremist violence in the mid-1990s.
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Afghanistan will soon put on trial 14 members of the fundamentalist Taliban who became the first insurgents loyal to the government ousted four years ago to be extradited from Pakistan, officials said. The men were being questioned by the national intelligence agency in Kabul, said presidential spokesman Khaleeq Ahmad. Pictures showed some of them arriving in the city on Wednesday blindfolded and handcuffed. "They will be put on trial... Soon, in the coming days, weeks," Ahmad said.
Hey! I got a hat like that!
One of them is Abdul Latif Hakimi, a spokesman for the Taliban who was arrested in Pakistan this month. He frequently called the media to say the Taliban were responsible for attacks on Afghan and US-led forces and civilians. Another was Mohammad Yasir, also a one-time spokesman for the Taliban who was reportedly arrested in August.
Investigations would determine the charges the men would face, another presidential spokesman, Karim Rahimi, said. "After the investigations are completed they will be put on trial," he said. Evidence against Hakimi included a recording of a telephone call in which he is allegedly heard to order killings, another government official said on condition of anonymity. The arrests showed "they can't hide inside Afghanistan and they can't hide outside Afghanistan. They will be caught no matter where they are," he said.
An intelligence official said Hakimi would in particular be questioned about his links to the Taliban leadership including Mullah Omar, the elusive one-eyed zealot who headed the hardline government that controlled most of the country from 1996 to 2001. "It could take a while," the official said.
"... and it could be very painful."
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I'm cool with the hat, but that cheap copy of a Mandela shirt really blows. Good news Abdul, free lodging and meals - bad news, SP4 Charles A. Graner and PFC Lynndie England have been pardoned and are now contractors headed for year long assignment in Kabul. If Lynndie can find her leash, Chuck has been authorized to take his Pitbull. Good luck!
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Russian authorities say a former inmate at the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay has confessed to taking part in the attack on the southern Russian city of Nalchik earlier this month.
Police arrested four Danish Muslims Thursday on suspicion of belonging to a network planning a suicide terror attack in Europe, officials said. The suspects, all males between 16 and 20 years old, were ordered held in jail while police investigate the allegations, police spokesman Joern Bro said. 
Eleven inmates held at a detention centre at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam died overnight while 15 others were injured. Police are still looking for escaped detainees. Three escapees have been arrested, but police are uncertain how many are still on the run. Some 43 people were in the wing that caught fire and those confirmed dead were prisoners, most of whom were drug couriers and illegal immigrants. The injured included firefighters and police. Problems trying to evacuate the detainees arose because cells had to be opened manually. Suffocating detainees kicked and screamed to be let out. One inmate told Dutch media that guards had initially ignored their warnings of a fire. 
An Iranian-sponsored insurgency group, flushed with significant funding, has established a support network in Israel. Israeli officials said 
Suspected Muslim insurgents seized dozens of weapons in 34 coordinated nighttime attacks across southern Thailand, leaving six people dead, the military said Thursday. The attacks took place over several hours along the Malaysian border in Narathiwat, Yala and Pattani provinces, said regional military spokesman Col. Somkuan Saengpataraneth. The violence killed four villagersâtwo of them village chiefsâand two insurgents and injured seven other people, Somkuan said. Initial reports showed that insurgents attacked at 34 places in the three provinces, and âtook away dozens of guns from the houses of the village chiefs and from the village defense volunteers,â military spokesman Lt. Gen. Palangul Klaharn said on broadcaster ITV. Somkuan said the situation was âunder control.â Local authorities offered rewards of 20,000 baht (US$490; euro400) for the return of any of the weapons. 
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The Lebanese Army has allowed 
Indian security forces are hunting down a terrorist linked to the al-Qaeda network, who may have succeeded in entering the country with the aim of targeting American interests in India. Behind the recent alarm issued to the US consolates and cultural centres in major Indian cities, is the figure of 
Authorities quizzed Thursday an Egyptian who returned to Cairo a day earlier after completing a U.S. prison sentence for aiding his detained brother, who was a key planner of the 1993 bombing of World Trade Center, officials said. 
