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Afghanistan
Taliban attack 2 police checkpoints
Suspected Taliban militants attacked two police checkpoints along a highway in southern Afghanistan, sparking fighting that left 14 insurgents dead, police said yesterday.

About 30 Taliban attacked the police posts late Saturday in Zabul province's Qalat district, 60 miles northeast of Kandahar, Zabul police chief Ghulam Nabi Malakhail said. The Taliban retrieved the bodies of their slain comrades after fighting that lasted about 30 minutes, Malakhail said.

He said there were no casualties among the police. But a purported Taliban spokesman, Qari Yousaf Ahmadi, claimed responsibility for the attack and said at least seven police were killed. He said militants burned one of the police posts. It wasn't immediately possible to verify his claim, nor the death toll provided by police.

The police were deployed at the posts to guard the main highway linking the capital of Kabul with Kandahar, a former Taliban stronghold.
Posted by: Phens Spaimp8136 || 04/17/2006 02:15 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I suggest that we all join together and pray to the allmighty allan that the Taliban have the strength to maintain this attack until there numbers are zero.
Posted by: Mike N. || 04/17/2006 16:25 Comments || Top||

#2  ...and Allan knows best.
Posted by: Seafarious || 04/17/2006 17:14 Comments || Top||


Coalition forces say 7 civilians killed in Afghanistan fighting
As many as seven citizens were killed in a clash between the US-led coalition forces and a group of militants in eastern Afghanistan Saturday night. The battle took place in the Korangal Valley of the mountainous Kunar province, where the coalition forces have launched a massive operation "Mountain Lion" to flush out insurgents from the area. A press release issued from coalition forces' Bagram Airbase here on Sunday said initial reports suggested that seven civilians had been killed and three others suffered injuries in the exchange of fire.
"Mahmoud! It's the infidel forces! We're surrounded!"
"I'll go get the women and children!"
"Good thinking! Put them over there, by the mine field!"
The release said about 10 insurgents were hiding in a house and a cave. The coalition forces used close-air support, artillery and direct fire to suppress fire from insurgents. The civilians injured in the fire were rushed to a coalition base for treatment. "Our hearts go out to the families of the innocent victims of this battle," said Maj Gen Benjamin C Freakley, commander of the coalition's Combined Joint Task Force - 76. He said: "I've directed an investigation to determine the facts in this matter." The commander regretted the loss of the civilians. He said as long as the enemy chooses to fight in or near civilians, the possibility of civilians being endangered will exist.
Posted by: Fred || 04/17/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


14 Taliban killed, injured in clash with police
At least 14 Taliban were killed or injured in an overnight clash with police in the southern Zabul province, officials said on Sunday. Provincial police chief Mohammad Nabi Mulakhel told Pajhwok Afghan News the firefight erupted in the Naurak area of Zabul province on Kabul - Kandahar Highway last night.

He said exchange of fire continued for about 30 minutes after which the assailants managed to flee taking advantage of the dark. Without giving exact figures, Mulakhel said about 14 militants were either killed or injured. He said the government forces did not suffer any casualties; however, a container parked near the police post caught fire and was gutted. Last night, five police personnel were injured when their post came under attack in the same province.
Posted by: Fred || 04/17/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The dreaded Taliban Offensive appears to have hit a snag or two lately.
Posted by: Lancasters Over Dresden || 04/17/2006 2:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Is this a continuation of the Good Friday battle?
Posted by: RR || 04/17/2006 2:28 Comments || Top||

#3  This is an offensive?
Posted by: Mike N. || 04/17/2006 16:00 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm sure the Taliban find it offensive to get shot down in droves like that.
Posted by: Mike || 04/17/2006 16:10 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
US Navy Granted Pirate Hunting Permit
US Navy vessels have been granted permission to patrol Somali waters to fight piracy in what are seen as the world's most dangerous waters. Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi told ministers he agreed the deal on Sunday with the US ambassador to Kenya.
Hunting season now open, get ready to paint a few skulls & crossbones on the bridge
Under the agreement, Mr Ghedi said the US Navy would also develop Somalia's rudimentary coastguard service. The US Navy has recently seized pirates in international waters but has been unable to pursue them close to shore.
Sounds like a little green-water Navy action. We got any Swift boats available?
Hijackings and piracy off have surged in the past year as armed groups take advantage of a lack of law and order in Somalia, which has been without an effective central government since 1991. Mr Ghedi is part of a transitional administration which only controls parts of the country.

Two weeks ago, pirates who seized a South Korean fishing vessel and its 25 crew were able to escape from US and Dutch navy vessels by entering Somali waters. The ship and crew are still being held. In February, 10 Somali men accused of piracy and arrested by the US were transferred to the Kenyan port of Mombasa for trial. Luxury cruise liners and ships carrying food aid are among those targeted off Somalia in the past year.

The maritime gangs generally use speedboats to approach ships - sometimes impounding them and their crew at gunpoint and demanding ransoms before they are released. The International Maritime Bureau has recorded 41 attacks since mid-March last year.

In November last year, Somalia's transitional government signed a two-year contract with US company Topcat Marine Security to help fight piracy. The BBC's Hassan Barise in Somalia says that despite the $50m contract there has been no evidence of patrols or interceptions made by the American firm. The piracy deal would be the first official US military involvement in Somalia since US troops were killed in Mogadishu in 1993.
Posted by: Steve || 04/17/2006 16:08 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Arrrgh! I was hoping for Letters of Marque and Reprisal rather than an agreement with the Somali government. The Somali government! Who even knew there was such a thing?
Posted by: SteveS || 04/17/2006 16:25 Comments || Top||

#2  The Somali government! Who even knew there was such a thing?
It's Larry Smithe at the carwash.
Posted by: 6 || 04/17/2006 16:41 Comments || Top||

#3  I would think "Somali" teritorial waters would not be a barier if they were in hot pursuit anyhow.

Skull and Crossbones on the bridge indeed. Lots I hope.
Posted by: SPoD || 04/17/2006 16:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Didn't this used to be called a "letter of Marque" and shouldn't the U.S. crews expect a bounty for each pirate ship they capture? Arrrr!
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 04/17/2006 16:50 Comments || Top||

#5  This could be good for the U.S. Not just in a "we signed a meaningless piece of paper from a meaningless government" kind of way. The U.S. Navy will probably make some very good scores. Unless they come up against the Black Pearl and her crew of undead. That Barbosaa, he gives me the creeps.
Posted by: Mike N. || 04/17/2006 17:09 Comments || Top||

#6  I think it's too bad, myself. Now the navy will have to sign on to all sorts of rules and regs, plus the international busybody societies are dusting off their righteous indignation(tm).

And they'll be subject to the whims of this week's warlord pretending to be in charge in Mogadishu.

No thanks, I'd rather have a renegade USN, at least where Somalian pyrates are involved.
Posted by: Seafarious || 04/17/2006 17:10 Comments || Top||

#7  Problem with that is that the Congressional and Executive branches of our Gov. would rather the Navy be limp than be an effective renegade force.
Posted by: Mike N. || 04/17/2006 17:47 Comments || Top||

#8 
Are you blind - this is a blatant attempt by Halliburton to take over Somalia!!!

No Blood for - errr - uh Sand!!!
Posted by: macofromoc || 04/17/2006 18:57 Comments || Top||

#9  Letters of Marque and Reprisal were given to privately-owned ships so they could go to war without being considered pirates themselves. This is where the name privateer comes from. That's irrelevant to a US Navy (or any navy) ship.

I think the prize money system ended in the 19th century, both for England and the US. Besides, how much is a Somali motor boat worth?

I'm waiting though for the first hanging. And, no, not the fictional Tom Clancy version.
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 04/17/2006 19:04 Comments || Top||

#10  Eric:

The prize money system lasted at least into WWI--I've read a couple different accounts of the cruise of the Emden (German commerce raiding light cruiser) in which it's mentioned that the captain convened prize courts.
Posted by: Mike || 04/17/2006 19:31 Comments || Top||

#11  Who the hell is stupid enough to sign a 50 million dollar contract with the Somali "government"?
Posted by: tu3031 || 04/17/2006 20:31 Comments || Top||

#12  Reminds me of STEPHEN DECATUR and his warships USS UNITED STATES and USS PRESIDENT, against the Barbary Pirates. Got an itch to watch HORNBLOWER on Aussie TV tonite.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 04/17/2006 22:43 Comments || Top||


Armed attack results in 30 casualties in village in southern Darfur
Seventeen people were killed and 13 injured in an attack executed Sunday by gunmen on a village in the troubled region of Darfur, western Sudan, a local official in Darfur said. The local official in southern Darfur, who requested anonymity, told KUNA in a telephone call that the unknown gunmen launched the attack on Krumji village, 70 kilometers south of Darfur's capital, Nyala.

Darfur is witnessing an armed conflict which resulted in the killing of over 70,000 people and displacing two million others, according to non-official statistics. The conflict is between the two main rebel movements in the region -- Sudan's liberation army and equality and justice movement -- who had tumbling negotiations with the government, currently underway in the Nigerian capital, Abuja.
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Arabia
Soddies agree to strengthen security ties with Pakistan
Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have agreed to broaden their security ties after a visit to Pakistan at the weekend by Sultan bin Abdul Aziz, Saudi crown prince.

Plans include fresh deployments of Pakistani troops to the oil rich kingdom for security duties; training of Saudi military troops by Pakistan; and the possible first purchase of Pakistani-assembled tanks by the Saudis.

Prince Sultan’s meeting with General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s military ruler, was preceded by reports that the Saudi military had this month begun carrying out tests of the Pakistan-assembled ‘Al Khalid’ tank. Western diplomats said discussions were continuing for the sale of up to 150 tanks in a deal which could be worth up to U$600m.

Pakistani officials see the deal as a vital element in their push to increase exports of low-to-medium tech defence equipment. The country’s emerging defence manufacturing industry in 2005 exported arms worth about U$200m.

“The intention is to expand Pakistan’s role to support the kingdom of Saudi Arabia in meeting its security needs” said one Pakistani official. “A number of ideas are under discussion which have to do mainly with what Pakistan can contribute towards improving Saudi Arabia’s security interests”.

The intelligence agencies of the two countries are known to have regularly exchanged information on the movements of key al-Qaeda suspects, including the Saudi born Osama bin Laden - a target of prime interest to the Saudi authorities.

Analysts said the timing of the prince’s visit was important as it coincided with a deteriorating security situation in Iraq as well as anxieties over tensions between the US and Iran over Tehran’s nuclear programme.

“Saudi Arabia has internal security challenges to meet, primarily the effect of the spillover from tensions surrounding its neighbours and reports of terrorist activity within its frontiers,” said Hasan Askari Rizvi, a widely respected Pakistani commentator on defence and security affairs. “Pakistan’s military has a history of performing security duties in Saudi Arabia. This is the basis of a relationship which the two sides now want to broaden”.

Arab diplomats in Islamabad said Saudi Arabia was keen to recruit troops from Pakistan - a muslim country with a history of security services in the kingdom - to stem criticism from its public for hosting western troops.

“There is much sensitivity in Saudi Arabia these days to the movement of western troops. Nobody likes the US presence in Iraq and there would be a lot of anger if western soldiers, especially US soldiers, came to Saudi Arabia in large numbers,” said one. Mr Rizvi said: “Greater acceptability of Pakistani troops by their public could be important for the Saudis as they seek to broaden their ties”.
Posted by: Phens Spaimp8136 || 04/17/2006 02:16 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The intelligence agencies of the two countries are known to have regularly exchanged information...
The Soddies and Pakiwakis together is like the Berlin-Rome axis.
Posted by: Spot || 04/17/2006 8:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Another tour of Kahuta? Centrifuge tourism?

From 1999...
The prince toured the Kahuta uranium enrichment plant and an adjacent factory where the Ghauri missile is assembled with Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif and was briefed by A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan's atom bomb. The site is so secret that former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said she was not allowed to go to there during her tenure in office.
Posted by: john || 04/17/2006 9:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Here we go...pieces being put into place.
Posted by: Jules || 04/17/2006 9:19 Comments || Top||

#4  who gets to define "surrounded"?
Posted by: Frank G || 04/17/2006 10:27 Comments || Top||

#5  Greater acceptability of Pakistani troops by their public could be important for the Saudis

BS

The Pakistani troops are there to safeguard "nuclear assets" transferred to Saudi Arabia - warheads and missiles.

Posted by: john || 04/17/2006 10:39 Comments || Top||

#6  This doesn't scare me too much. Kinda of like when the Klump brothers aligned against me. I kicked both thier asses and never had a problem with them again. United, divided, re-aligned with third parties or otherwise. Shouldn't be to hard to punch Pakistan in it's throat.
Posted by: Mike N. || 04/17/2006 15:57 Comments || Top||

#7  Are the Saudi nuclear assets as well maintained as the Pakistani ones?
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/17/2006 20:29 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Caucasus Corpse Count
Rebels killed two Russian soldiers and wounded five others in an ambush in southern Chechnya, officials said Sunday.

The rebels hit a Russian armored vehicle with a radio-controlled landmine and sprayed soldiers with automatic gunfire, said Roman Shchekotin, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry's branch in southern Russia.

The attack occurred Saturday near the village of Dargo in the Vedeno region in southern Chechnya's mountains.

In the province of Ingushetia west of Chechnya, unidentified assailants on Sunday blew up a cell phone base station in the town of Malgobek, the regional police said. No one was injured.
Posted by: Phens Spaimp8136 || 04/17/2006 02:22 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The Russians deserve everything they get after selling weapons to muslim maniacs.
Posted by: SamAdamsky || 04/17/2006 10:40 Comments || Top||

#2  we sold them weapons too!
Posted by: Greamp Elmavinter1163 || 04/17/2006 14:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Good point.
Posted by: Mike N. || 04/17/2006 15:49 Comments || Top||


Europe
Bomb blast injures 31 in Istanbul
ISTANBUL - At least 31 people were injured, two seriously, in a bomb blast in a residential neighbourhood of Istanbul, police said.

Initially the explosion was blamed on a gas leak and the number of injured put at four or five. “It is not an explosion caused by a gas leak, a bomb went off,” Istanbul police chief Celalettin Cerrah told reporters, according to the Anatolia news agency, but gave no details of the type of explosive used.

The device was planted in a trash bin outside a shop in Bakirkoy, on the European side of the city, Turkey’s largest, and media reports spoke of extensive damage. Earlier media reports had said the explosion had taken place in a restaurant. Bystanders were reported to have attacked people suspected of planting the bomb and television pictures showed police firing in the air to disperse a crowd.
Next time let the crowd have a few more seconds with the perps ...
No responsibility for the attack has been claimed.
Posted by: Steve White || 04/17/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Militants destroy bridge, transformer in Balochistan
QUETTA: Suspected tribal militants fired rockets at security forces and damaged a Hurnai Section bridge and main transformer near Mandbloo. Reportedly, seven rockets were fired on security forces' check posts in Sibi and four in Tandoori. Most rockets landed in open areas but one rocket partially damaged the Hurnai Section bridge halting traffic.

Also, unidentified militants used an explosive device to damage a transformer in Mandbloo. Water And Power Development Authority officials were trying to restart the flow of electricity. Suspected tribesmen attacked a Levies headquarter in Chaman city on Sunday morning. The event occurred when a "miscreant" was handed over to the paramilitary force for attacking a shopkeeper. Later, the "miscreant's" tribe attacked the Levies Headquarter in order to free him but they were repelled.
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#1  oh no they got another transformer - Sounds like the Autobots are taking a beating, need the dinobots.....
Posted by: ShepUK || 04/17/2006 4:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Why is it the only technology that the Islamonuts seem to be in favor of is used to kill people. Inquiring minds need to know
Posted by: Cheaderhead || 04/17/2006 19:01 Comments || Top||


Beheaded ‘US spy’ found in Waziristan
MIRANSHAH: North Waziristan residents have found the beheaded body of a man with note saying he was an American spy and a warning others would face the same treatment, an official said on Sunday. The body was found on Saturday in a market area in the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border. “He was American spy and all of you will face this if you follow him,” a government official who declined to be identified quoted the note as saying.
"We know he was a spy, 'cuz he wuz sniffin' around our wimminfolk!"
The Pakistani army killed an Egyptian al Qaeda member, wanted for involvement in the 1998 bombing of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, in an air strike in North Waziristan on Wednesday. A government spokesman identified the man as Abdul Rehman, one of the aliases used by Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah, for whom the United States had offered a $5 million reward. He was killed along with six other Islamist militants in a missile attack on their hideout, according to officials.
Posted by: Fred || 04/17/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The point of the exercise is to 'terrorize' Waziris to refuse to cooperate with the Americans (or the Pakistani central government.) It makes no difference whether he really was a spy or not - any Muhammed they don't mind killing will do, as long as the note says he was a spy.
Posted by: Glenmore || 04/17/2006 6:54 Comments || Top||


12 detained for Karachi blast
KARACHI: The police have detained a dozen suspected militants in connection with the Nishter Park bombing, Sindh IGP Jahangir Mirza told reporters on Sunday. "The suspects are being interrogated and I am hopeful that we are close to a breakthrough," said Mirza. The department has extended its investigation to other provinces after getting some clue from the detainees, he added. "The department is investigating jihadis because they were involved in such attacks in the past, but we are also looking into other possibilities," he added.
Posted by: Fred || 04/17/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "The number four truncheon, I think, Achmed..."
Posted by: mojo || 04/17/2006 14:52 Comments || Top||


10 policemen killed in Maoist attack in central India
NEW DELHI - At least 10 policemen were killed and six injured in two attacks by Maoists in India’s Central Chhattisgarh state on Sunday, police said. A group of 60 rebels opened fire at an outpost of Chhatisgarh Shashatra Bal (Chhatisgarh Armed Forces) located in Bijapur district, some 500 kilometres south of state capital Raipur.

“The guerrillas, armed with sophisticated weapons launched a massive attack this morning. Six civilians recruited as special police officers and four Chattisgarh Armed Forces personnel were killed in the attack,” said Ram Rattan, a policeman at the Bijapur control room.

Four policemen who were seriously injured were taken to nearby hospitals. “It was an attack that caught the policemen unawares. While a few scrambled for their weapons in an attempt to return the fire, most of them could just manage to save themselves,” a police officer said on condition of anonymity.

The Maoists also set off a landmine blast in the Dubaiguda village in the same district which injured two Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel.

The Maoists, who are fighting to install Communist rule in the state, have carried out a number of attacks in the state since January. Over 100 tribals and security personnel have been killed in the violence.
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Delhi police pick up a dozen people for Jama Masjid blasts
Police Sunday picked up over a dozen people for questioning over Friday's two bomb explosions inside the historic Jama Masjid (mosque) complex in Older Delhi. The Delhi police, however, said no arrests have been made so far and they are carrying out detailed investigations. As many as 13 people were injured in twin bomb blasts after the evening prayers Friday evening in the Jama Masjid complex.

Delhi's Police Chief K. K. Paul said as he was checking security in the area Sunday morning that "We are piecing together all the evidence gathered from the blast site. About 15 people have been interrogated in coordination with intelligence agencies in connection with the blast." According to the police, the nature of blasts indicates that some local group was involved. "As investigations are in an initial stage, we cannot say for sure which outfit is behind the explosions," police officials said, emphasising that the motive of the blasts by all indications was not to kill but to whip up communal passions.

Following the explosions, metal detectors have been installed at all entrances to the Jama Masjid and more police personnel have been deployed in the area. All visitors to the mosque are being frisked and their belongings checked. Amid tight security, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh along with Deputy Foreign Minister E Ahmed visited the mosque Saturday night and met the Shahi Imam of Jama Masjid. He also visited the hospital where the injured are admitted.

Dr Manmohan Singh appreciated the tremendous restraint shown by the people in the wake of the twin blasts at Delhi's historic Jama Masjid on Friday evening and asked them to stand united to defeat all those attempting to disturb communal harmony and peace. Meanwhile, 12 injured in Friday's blasts were discharged from hospital Saturday night after being treated for splinter injuries, health authorities said Sunday morning.
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Four injured in Kashmir grenade explosions
Terror groups struck again Sunday in Srinagar, capital of Indian administered Jammu and Kashmir when they lobbed a powerful hand grenade at a paramilitary force bunker in the downtown, injuring four civilians. News agency Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) quoting police officials said the terrorists tossed a hand grenade at a bunker of the Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) in the city, which missed the target and exploded on the road. "Four civilians were injured in the explosion," a police officer told IANS in Srinagar Sunday.

Security officials are jointly searching the area. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. Meanwhile, the bomb disposal squad of the state police defused two hand grenades lying in south Kashmir Pulwama town, 40 km from Srinagar, Sunday morning.
Posted by: Fred || 04/17/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  terrorists tossed a hand grenade at a bunker...., which missed the target

Like I've said before, anyone with a good throwing arm over there is playing cricket.
Posted by: Steve || 04/17/2006 15:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Or Squamish.
Posted by: 6 || 04/17/2006 16:44 Comments || Top||

#3  I spent many happy Spring mornings as a Deep Brooder.
Posted by: Shipman || 04/17/2006 16:46 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Two Iraqi civilians killed, two injured in Kirkuk
Two Iraqi nationals were killed and two others injured Sunday when unknown gunmen opened fire at a civilian crowd in the northern province of Kirkuk, an interior ministry source said. The gunmen managed to escape, added the source.

Meanwhile, Iraqi police arrested four insurgents and seized a quantity of weapons in Al-Askari area of Kirkuk. In another development, the Multi-National Forces announced in a statement that they killed a number of gunmen who attacked their patrol South of al Huwaija in western Kirkuk.
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Eleven Iraqis killed, 23 injured in car bomb
Eleven Iraqis were killed and 23 injured when a booby-trapped car exploded in a market in Mahmoudiya 20km south of Baghdad. The car exploded around 4 p.m., an interior ministry source told KUNA. He added that the explosion that took place near a hospital targeted civilians and not a police patrol as it has been rumored.
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Gunmen abducts 12 employees from their offices
Unknown gunmen on Sunday kidnapped 12 employees of a private investment company in Baghdad, Iraqi Interior Ministry source told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA). The gunmen, disguised as commandos, stormed the company's offices in Palestine Street and abducted the employees, added the source. The gunmen's vehicle resembled the Iraqi force's camouflaged trucks but did not have official signs painted on it, eyewitness told the source.

A flock of real commando forces have been cruising near the abduction scenes and warning against the fake commando car. During the last few weeks, gunmen abducted about 50 employees and another 14 engineers.
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10 Iraqi construction workers killed, injured in ambush
Seven people were killed and three were injured on Sunday, when unknown gunmen opened fire at construction workers in the city of Mosul, police said. An Iraqi police source said the gunmen sprayed bullets at a car carrying the workers in midtown. The workers were heading to work where they are rebuilding a police station that was attacked previously by terrorists, the source added.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel hits back in Gaza strip
THE Israeli army has carried out a raid in the west of the Gaza strip, hours after a Palestinian suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, according to a security source and witnesses. Israelis fired several missiles on a metal factory in the Zeitoun neighbourhood, the sources said, adding there were no known victims, but there was considerable material damage. The Israeli army has in the past carried out several attacks on the factory, claiming home-made rockets were assembled there by militant Palestinian groups.
Posted by: Oztralian || 04/17/2006 19:06 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Israel hits back in Gaza strip

it's a start,

and while we're at it lets cut the 2 billion per annum to Egypt.
Posted by: RD || 04/17/2006 21:25 Comments || Top||

#2  hope there's more than that - something "hammer of God" mode..
Posted by: Frank G || 04/17/2006 21:27 Comments || Top||

#3  A Zeitounian factory? Sounds like a dangerous place, maybe WMD or something nasty made there. Thank Alan and Greyhound it's gone.
Posted by: Besoeker || 04/17/2006 21:31 Comments || Top||

#4  I think they should kill the bomber's remaining family members. It wouldn't stop all future bombings - let's remember how depraved these terrorists are - but murdering the bomber's family Don Corleone style would be a big deterrent for many wannabe shaheeds. Among the various motivations they use to brainwash and coerces these young fools, providing money and glory for family is among the biggest factors, up there with burning hatred, and religious conviction that you are bound for paradise where you will be shortly getting hot & heavy action from a 72-year-old virgin (or something like that).

As for international condemnation, well Israel has already lost the propaganda war and they are considered a paraiah state in many parts of the world. Their restraint will not change that and resorting to uncivilized tactics is unlikely to change anybody's mind - who isn't already decided on this issue? Actually, I suspect it would earn them a new level of respect and fear among the Muzziess, who would lament outwardly (then again, they're always outraged about something) but inwardly think 'oh-ho, the Israelis are doing what we would do.' It would also earn them respect among people like me - who are more numerous than most suppose - who are fed up with half-measures, niceties and restraint of asymmetrical warfare.
Posted by: Monsieur Moonbat || 04/17/2006 21:53 Comments || Top||

#5  This is the well noted "effect" part the Paleos can't grasp do to ignorance islam and tribalism require of them. I hope this is not just this single act as a response from Israel.
Posted by: SPoD || 04/17/2006 22:52 Comments || Top||


At least 7 dead in IslamicJihad Suicide bomb in Tel Aviv
A Palestinian suicide bomber killed seven people and wounded at least 30 others, seven of them seriously, in an explosion near the old central bus station in southern Tel Aviv on Monday afternoon.

Two of the victims died after they had arrived at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv. One of the wounded was in extremely critical condition, six people were seriously hurt, 12 sustained moderate wounds and the rest were lightly hurt.

The wounded were taken to Ichilov, Wolfson Medical Center in Holon and Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer.

Palestinian sources identified the bomber as Sami Salim Hamad, an Islamic Jihad activist from the village of Qabatiyah, on outskirts of the West Bank city of Jenin.


Posted by: mhw || 04/17/2006 09:14 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Send 'em a message...
Posted by: borgboy || 04/17/2006 9:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Of course the news will read: "Israel broke their side of a temorary daylong ceasefire....in response to a Paleostinian attack ...."

I'm thinking arclight
Posted by: Frank G || 04/17/2006 10:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Gonna be a hot time in the West Bank...
Posted by: mojo || 04/17/2006 10:23 Comments || Top||

#4  How long til Iran's President praises the suicide bomber?
Posted by: mhw || 04/17/2006 10:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Respond with heavy artillery. Not into empty fields as the Israelis are want to do, but at night into neighborhoods where Fatah and Hamas leaders live. Level the places and work your way out.
Posted by: ed || 04/17/2006 10:46 Comments || Top||

#6  Targeting civilians means blowing up and mangling your mother, father and children. How would you feel? Like Israel. Just letting this happen to innocents while truncating Israel. What a disgrace Kadima is.
Posted by: SamAdamsky || 04/17/2006 10:50 Comments || Top||

#7  Olmert is carrying out the same policy of aggressively attacking Islamic Jihad and AAMB that Sharon did. As for the border, Likud never annexed any part of the West Bank (beyond the Jerusalem city limits) Olmert is considering EXPANDING Israel, not truncating it.
Posted by: liberalhawk || 04/17/2006 10:53 Comments || Top||

#8  mhw - Hamas has justified the attack as "self defence" The same Hamas that Russia is now making donations to.

And yet we will attend a G8 conf in Moscow. I can only assume that things are proceeding behind the scenes on Iran, and Russia will be supporting us. If not, the continued soft line on Russia is starting to become incomprehensible.
Posted by: liberalhawk || 04/17/2006 10:55 Comments || Top||

#9  Ehud Olmert's two sons are both draft dodgers who have permanently left Israel - one son lives in New York, the other one in Paris.

The same applies to the other leaders of Olmert's ruling Kadima party - most of their children have permanently abandoned Israel and now live in Europe or the United States. And the same is true for the leaders of the Marxist Labor party: for example, Labor party chairman Amir Peretz's daughter lives in London.
Posted by: SamAdamsky || 04/17/2006 11:11 Comments || Top||

#10  LH - it's worth sending somebody to the G* just to keep an eye on 'em, make sure they don't give away the store while we're not looking.

Leave us remember how the "police action" in Korea got authorized.
Posted by: mojo || 04/17/2006 12:10 Comments || Top||

#11  I dont follow personal attacks on Israeli polticial leaders, esp on their children. Go play at INN.

Calling the marginally social democratic ILP "marxist" just shows where youre coming from.
Posted by: liberalhawk || 04/17/2006 12:12 Comments || Top||

#12  mojo

The G8, unlike the UNSC, is NOT a legal body, its just a relatively formal summit meeting.
Posted by: liberalhawk || 04/17/2006 12:13 Comments || Top||

#13  LH-

Russia is surely very conflicted on this. They have their own problems with Muslims in Chechnya. They want good relationships with the Muslim world because it brings them prestige and power (Putin represented Russia at the Org of Islamic States last meeting). They also don't mind high oil and Natgas prices since they are an exporting nation. Lastly, they want to seem to be a civilized player in what they see as the big four (with themselves as a fourth). They will, no doubt, make some anti suicide bomber noises. What I'm looking for is whether they then start to delay implementing their funding commitments to the PA. We won't know about this for a few months.
Posted by: mhw || 04/17/2006 12:13 Comments || Top||

#14  "They have their own problems with Muslims in Chechnya."

all the more reason this is hypocritical.

"They want good relationships with the Muslim world because it brings them prestige and power "

So does Britain and France. Esp France. Yet France has so far kept to the boycott.

"(Putin represented Russia at the Org of Islamic States last meeting). They also don't mind high oil and Natgas prices since they are an exporting nation."

Boycotting Hamas is hardly likely to reduce the price of oil.

" Lastly, they want to seem to be a civilized player in what they see as the big four (with themselves as a fourth). They will, no doubt, make some anti suicide bomber noises. What I'm looking for is whether they then start to delay implementing their funding commitments to the PA. We won't know about this for a few months"

They SHOULD immediately reverse their donations. making a promise and then delaying the delivery is good enough for KSA, or Qatar. Russia isnt an arab state, it pretends to be a member of the quartet, and a mediator. Even the symbolism of offering support was undermining to what the west was trying to do.

I continue to be baffled by the folks who pour scorn on Europe, but make excuses for Putin.
Posted by: liberalhawk || 04/17/2006 12:18 Comments || Top||

#15  "They have their own problems with Muslims in Chechnya."

all the more reason this is hypocritical.

"They want good relationships with the Muslim world because it brings them prestige and power "

So does Britain and France. Esp France. Yet France has so far kept to the boycott.

"(Putin represented Russia at the Org of Islamic States last meeting). They also don't mind high oil and Natgas prices since they are an exporting nation."

Boycotting Hamas is hardly likely to reduce the price of oil.

" Lastly, they want to seem to be a civilized player in what they see as the big four (with themselves as a fourth). They will, no doubt, make some anti suicide bomber noises. What I'm looking for is whether they then start to delay implementing their funding commitments to the PA. We won't know about this for a few months"

They SHOULD immediately reverse their donations. making a promise and then delaying the delivery is good enough for KSA, or Qatar. Russia isnt an arab state, it pretends to be a member of the quartet, and a mediator. Even the symbolism of offering support was undermining to what the west was trying to do.

I continue to be baffled by the folks who pour scorn on Europe, but make excuses for Putin.
Posted by: liberalhawk || 04/17/2006 12:18 Comments || Top||

#16  Well you see LH Europe was suppose to be are allies, but are not Americans hate traitors. Putin is Russian we expect bad behavior. It is not fair, but that how it works
Posted by: djohn66 || 04/17/2006 12:25 Comments || Top||

#17  Here's a theory: the Israel-Palestine conflict (and the wars it generates) raises the price of oil.

Russia is an oil exporting nation.

Fueling war and destruction in the region ultimately raises the price of oil and damages its competitors.

This explains funding Hamas.

This explains selling nuclear bombs to Iran.

After Iran and Israel finish nuking each other (and the Saudi oilfields get caught in the crossfire) Russia will be in a position to make serious money.
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman || 04/17/2006 12:25 Comments || Top||

#18  Since Hamas has signed off on this then surely the Paleo electorate is simply bursting with pride.
Posted by: Chailing Glomong4348 || 04/17/2006 12:55 Comments || Top||

#19  The french and russians are members of Nato, they are obliged under that alliance to join us in repelling an attack on our territory in North America, as we are when their territory in Europe is attacked. They are NOT obliged under the treaty to join us in an attack on country that we consider a potential future threat, however justified we may be. Nonetheless several Euro countries DID join us in Iraq. Some did not, just as we did not join Britain and France in attacking Nasser in 1956, but in fact applied pressure on them to make a deal with Nasser.

Russia, OTOH, received loans from us in the 1990's and major diplomatic deference, including membership in the G8 that they really arent qualified for. While the EU works with us on Iran, the Russians undermine us. The EU works with us on Hamas, the Russians undermine us. The Russians support dictatorship in Belarus, undermine democracy in Ukraine and Georgia, and along with their Chinese friends attempt to protect genocide in Sudan.

Posted by: liberalhawk || 04/17/2006 13:08 Comments || Top||

#20  Interesting theory, Mr. Snowman. Certainly, any hint of instability in the Mid East affects the price of oil -- the current jumps are being explained as concern about the situation with Iran. And Russia benefits from the situation short term, even without actual mayhem ensuing. In the queerly laissez-faire oligarchy that Russia is at the moment, perhaps that suffices, without looking further down the road to the result of their little fiddlings.

And always they, like France and Germany, depend on the US to protect them from the consequences of their selfish behaviour.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/17/2006 13:19 Comments || Top||

#21  Russia's a member of NATO?

I can't do that british quiz show chick voice, but... Is that your final answer?
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman || 04/17/2006 13:20 Comments || Top||

#22  No, I didnt say they were.
Posted by: liberalhawk || 04/17/2006 13:30 Comments || Top||

#23  Well actually you did say that the russians are members of NATO but I took it as a mistake.,
Denying that you typed it when it is sitting right there in front of you is strange.
Posted by: jim#6 || 04/17/2006 13:36 Comments || Top||

#24 

LH,

#19,
"The french and russians are members of Nato"

I think that you meant Germans, of course.
Posted by: Ernest Brown || 04/17/2006 13:40 Comments || Top||

#25  d'uh.

EB is correct, I meant French and Germans, of course. I didnt even look back to my post, I assumed the Russian mention was taken from my long discussion of the Russians. Thanks EB, for reading in context, and using context to figure out the typo.

Posted by: liberalhawk || 04/17/2006 13:42 Comments || Top||

#26  As Gary Larson once said, Dyslexics of the world... untie!
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman || 04/17/2006 13:53 Comments || Top||

#27  If Israel can't bring itself to cut off water/and-or/electricity to the Palos after infinite acts like this - why oh why - would the Iranians ever believe that Israel has the guts to respond in kind to a nuke attack.

Israel looks weak with its limited responses.
Posted by: 3dc || 04/17/2006 14:59 Comments || Top||

#28  I view Russia like a prostitute, they will sell themselves to the highest bidder and make deals that will eventually make them more money. To Russia its show me the money, even tho they give it away they expect it to return somewhere else.
Posted by: djohn66 || 04/17/2006 15:02 Comments || Top||

#29  Ironic when you remember what Lenin said about capitalist rope salesmen.
Posted by: SR-71 || 04/17/2006 15:18 Comments || Top||

#30  LH. You're dead on about Europe and Russia. I am not a big fan of Europe(Esp. France)but, they are better allies than Russia. No contest.
Posted by: Mike N. || 04/17/2006 15:44 Comments || Top||

#31  As I predicted (comment 13 above), Russia has issued a standard anti suicide bomber statement.

We'll see about the aid thing.
Posted by: mhw || 04/17/2006 16:03 Comments || Top||

#32  AS: Here's a theory: the Israel-Palestine conflict (and the wars it generates) raises the price of oil.

Here's another theory - Russia has the problem of Iran becoming a big power, and therefore a geopolitical threat to its south. So it arms Iran, fully expecting that Uncle Sam will take care of its problem, simultaneously weakening Iran and reducing Uncle Sam's appetite for overseas adventures. This is what the Soviets did with respect to Germany before WWII - and they were right in one respect - Germany attacked Western Europe first - unfortunately, they rolled right over Western Europe and turned their attention to the Soviet Union. In the current situation, it's not likely that Iran will defeat the US. So the only risk to Russia is if the US doesn't do anything. But the Russians probably think the risk of American inaction is negligible. And they're probably right.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 04/17/2006 18:26 Comments || Top||

#33  Following the logic of the Middle East, Israel should attack the bombers home town with an artillery barrage, then blame France and Russia for it.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 04/17/2006 19:29 Comments || Top||

#34  Line up a few battalions of 155mm arty and let the Queen of Battle speak her piece.
Posted by: Brett || 04/17/2006 20:10 Comments || Top||

#35  Wait for the Hamas "government" to convene and 'cap them all at once. The Palestinians can have as many "democratic" elections as they like. They just can't have lasting terrorist governments.
Posted by: Angolurong Snock7994 || 04/17/2006 20:18 Comments || Top||

#36  Angolurong Snock7994 = Zenster
Posted by: Angolurong Snock7994 || 04/17/2006 20:18 Comments || Top||

#37  are you snok-ing us again zen?

Uloluper Crang5354 = RD
Posted by: Uloluper Crang5354 || 04/17/2006 21:21 Comments || Top||

#38  I like the way you think, Zen.
Posted by: Scooter McGruder || 04/17/2006 21:22 Comments || Top||


Israeli army arrests six infiltrators
Israeli occupation forces arrested six infiltrators who snuck in from Egypt to Naqb area in southern Israel, an Israeli Army spokesman told the Israeli radio Sunday. The six infiltrators were not armed when they were arrested yesterday and the have been handed over to Israeli security agencies for interrogation, he said. The names and nationalities of those detained were not disclosed.
Posted by: Fred || 04/17/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The names and nationalities of those detained were not disclosed.

Nationalities? That could be very interesting when revealed. Al Qaeda's first formal move? Something Israel can use to blackmail, as it were, the nations not mentioned?
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/17/2006 13:22 Comments || Top||

#2  I think with some of these terrorists it's difficult to pinpoint what nation they actually belong to. Probably better to not make the assertion until they are certain.
Posted by: Mike N. || 04/17/2006 17:15 Comments || Top||


Israeli forces injure four Palestinians
Israeli forces injured four Palestinians in Yabod south of Jenin during an Israeli incursion in the town on Sunday. Palestinians sources said confrontations between Israeli soldiers and young Palestinian men began when the Palestinians started throwing rocks at the Israeli patrols. The sources added that the Israeli forces arrested four Palestinians and took over five buildings turning them into military barracks.

The Israeli forces penetrated Jenin and sealed it off completely imposing a tight curfew as they conducted door-to-door search raids. In Nablus, Israeli forces launched search raids arresting five nationals before they pulled out.
Posted by: Fred || 04/17/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I injured myself shaving this morning. I didn't seem to make Rantburg. Mebbe 'cause I'm not an injured "Palestinian"?
Posted by: borgboy || 04/17/2006 9:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Whatever do you mean? I read about your shaving incident on Rantburg. Rantburg is obviously very concerned with the well-being of it's fans.
Posted by: Mike N. || 04/17/2006 17:39 Comments || Top||

#3  the sympathy was...well....not pegged, sorry
Posted by: Frank G || 04/17/2006 20:02 Comments || Top||


Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades attack Kfar Azza province with Aqsa 2 rocket
Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of the Fatah Movement announced Sunday its responsibility for shelling Kfar Azza province in eastern Gaza with a rocket, Aqsa 2, the brigades said in a statement. The brigades stressed that this came in retaliation for Israeli massacres against Palestinians and that it will continue to resist so will the Jihad.
First of all, they retaliated by shelling their own land? That might make sense in an Islamic way, but even then I have my doubts. And second, Gaza has provinces? The whole thing isn't much bigger than Brooklyn.
Al Quds Brigades, the Military wing of Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine also announced its responsibility for bombing Al Majdal province southern Israel with a medium range missile, Quds. Al Quds Brigades said it will retaliate to Israeli attacks and that it will keep on fighting, launching missiles and carrying out "martyrdom operations".
Posted by: Fred || 04/17/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "province" = "our turf"
Posted by: Frank G || 04/17/2006 8:07 Comments || Top||

#2  Kfar = Village, in Hebrew. Dont know what it means in Arabic. Aza = Gaza, in Hebrew, and probably in Arabic too.

So it sounds like they attacked an Israeli village, FROM eastern Gaza, but Kuna (?) mistranslated the statement.
Posted by: liberalhawk || 04/17/2006 10:39 Comments || Top||

#3  a quick search shows there is a kibbutz called "Kfar Aza". I presume this is the place.
Posted by: liberalhawk || 04/17/2006 10:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Thanks LH, now it makes sense. Appreciate it.
Posted by: Steve White || 04/17/2006 11:15 Comments || Top||

#5  oddly, the name in Chronicles, 7:28, that the KJV translates as Gaza, and the ASV as Azza, doesnt have the letter Zion in it, and is thus "Aya". I presume its spelled WITH a Zion elsewhere in Taanach, but im not sure.
Posted by: liberalhawk || 04/17/2006 13:16 Comments || Top||

#6  from some guys blog

"But since Gaza is in the news, I thought it might be interesting to discuss why Gaza is called Gaza when it is spelled in Hebrew with an 'ayin. Now, it is hardly a secret to Ashkenazi Jews who do not distinguish between an 'aleph and an 'ayin that there is a difference. Many people know this and would suppose that this is why Gaza is transliterated with a "G". The guttural 'ayin becomes a hard g in English. Not so pashut. Moses' father, Amram, isn't Gamram.

In fact the reason why Gaza is Gaza and not 'Aza is because of Origen's Hexapla. Origen was a 2nd century Christian scholar who wrote an edition of the Bible in six versions side by side; Hebrew, Hebrew in Greek letters, the targum of Aquila, Targum Symmachus, the LXX and Theodotion's.

The column of Hebrew in Greek letters is especially exciting to Bible geeks, because it gives us greater understanding of how Hebrew was pronounced. In the Hexapla, 'Aza is rendered Gaza, notably because the 'ayin sound does not exist in Greek. However he didn't choose the "a" sound, as one would in English. One might think this was purely arbitrary. A guttural can go other way. Take it all the way to "g" or just leave it out. But no, his 'Amram gets the "a" treatment. Why?

In Arabic there is a letter called ghayn as well as 'ayn. The ghayn is basically a harder version of the 'ayn, but not yet a hard g. This letter doesn't exist in Hebrew. But perhaps, perhaps during the 2nd century, at least, there were some 'ayins in Hebrew* that were pronounced like a ghayn and some like an 'ayn. How would a speaker know which was which? Well, they'd just know intuitively. But we don't. It is for this reason that the twin city of Sodom, 'Amorah, became Gomorrah. Gaza, Gomorrah and Amram."
Posted by: liberalhawk || 04/17/2006 13:29 Comments || Top||

#7  Tomaato, tomahto, we're just 'ayn.
Posted by: john || 04/17/2006 14:36 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Abu Sayyaf attack during Holy Week foiled
Authorities foiled a plan by the Abu Sayyaf to bomb this city during the Holy Week, following the seizure of hundreds of bomb components and explosives in separate raids in suspected hideouts, the military said.

Col. Edgardo Gidaya, chief of Task Force Zamboanga, said concerned citizens tipped the military and police about the presence of suspicious persons occupying safe houses in Barangays Rio Hondo and Baliwasan.

Gidaya said the raids were carried out Thursday at 9 a.m. but the terrorists had fled before the troops arrived.

The raiding team found 300 pieces of blasting caps and C4 explosives in Barangay Rio Hondo and three electronic timers in Barangay Baliwasan.

Most of the blasting caps were made in India.

The police and military authorities believe that the Abu Sayyaf is planning to carry out a series of bombings in the city.

Gidaya appealed to the public to be vigilant and to immediately report any suspicious people and unattended baggage.

On April 11 the Abu Sayyaf’s Urban Terrorist Group leader, Amilhamja Ajijul, and his father, Andalul, were killed in a firefight with government forces in Barangay Calabasa, 50 kilometers east of the city.

Four of Ajijul’s followers were also captured during the gun battle.

Ajijul was believed to be responsible for the October 17, 2002, bombing of Shop-o-Rama and Shopper’s Central department stores in downtown Zamboanga City that resulted in the death and injury of dozens of civilians.

He was also implicated in the bombing of an eatery outside Camp Gen. Arturo Enrile in Barangay Malagutay in early October 2002 that killed an American soldier participating in joint US-Philippine military exercises.
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