Air Force Fighters Strike Enemy Caves in Afghanistan
5/11/2006
SOUTHWEST ASIA U.S. Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles from the 336th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron here successfully struck two caves with precision-guided JDAMs in the vicinity of Asadabad on May 2.
The caves, carved into the side of a 7,000-foot tall mountain, were used by enemy forces to store weapons and launch attacks against Coalition forces. The strike was planned out of the Combined Air Operations Center in continued support of Operation Mountain Lion.
The aircrew conducting the strike observed secondary explosions, indicating the presence of a cache of explosives or munitions in the cave. Damage assessments indicate that the caves were destroyed. The successful strike will deny the enemy use of the caves for launching mortar and rocket attacks against Coalition forces.
The aircraft and crew are forward deployed to the 336th EFS from Seymour-Johnson Air Force Base, N.C.
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Penguin - I wish - that tech is severely overrated over a depth of 15'-20'. Most of the tunnels found here in San Diego are stumbled upon in the rainy season or unannounced visit to teh anchor buildings....The Tijuana diggers, like the Paleos, have found adequate depth in clay soils hides tunnels
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The Dutch Army's Apache attack helicopters have arrived at an air base in the southern city of Kandahar ahead of their deployment to Tirin Kot, capital of volatile Uruzgan province, where around 1,200 extra Dutch are due in the coming weeks. Two-hundred-and-forty Australian troops will soon be deployed to Afghanistan as part of the Dutch-led international mission. The helicopter's initial mission will be to cover deployment convoys to Tirin Kot and eventually to Deh Rawood district, says Lieutenant Colonel Coos Duinhof, commander of the helicopter wing, on the tarmac of Kandahar base.
The Dutch Army's Apache attack helicopters will be a reassuring presence for its troops in southern Afghanistan even if they are powerless against the main threat: homemade bombs and car bombs. Later they will be supporting patrols across the difficult mountainous terrain in the province, where Taliban insurgents have yet to be fully pursued by coalition forces and the Afghan government is all but absent.
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Amid heightened threats from president Ahmadinejad, Tehran opens a back door into Israel for its penetration-cum-terror agents: Sudan to the Negev. DEBKAfiles intelligence sources reveal that two Iranian Revolutionary Guards companies were dropped at Khartoums military airfield May 2 by a C-130 transport and driven to a secret military installation on the outskirts of the Sudanese capital. Their arrival signals the onset of an Iranian military airlift to Sudan of a fully equipped RG brigade with armor, a major escalation of the clandestine Iranian threat to Egypt and Israel alike.
An armored brigade is hardly clandestine. Possibly there to help defend Khartoum against the proposed UN force
Or just to 'blood' the troops and get them warmed up for battle with...an army to be named later. Or possibly just for the free gun sex.
Iran can airlift a brigade? Reeeeeaally? With what?
DEBKAfiles security sources report the ongoing routine of illicit Sudanese infiltrations into the southern Israeli Negev, shepherded by any of three local smuggling rings: the Palestinian gang headed by Jamal Samhadan, the Hamas governments new appointee as commander of its security forces, Sudanese-Egyptian crime organizations and al Qaedas Sinai network. All three are readily available to operate under the orders of the Iranian RG intelligence officers posted in Sudan.
The scale of the Negev traffic is such that hardly a day goes by without Sudanese infiltrators being caught attempting to steal across the Egyptian border into southern Israel. Many are job-seekers; a few, mules for gunrunners or spies collecting data on army installations in the desert region; some were caught recently near the town of Mitzpeh Ramon. They are led to their destinations by Egyptian intelligence agents familiar with the territory, Palestinian terrorists from Gaza or a sprinkling of Israeli Arabs.
An Israeli security source told DEBKAfile that the current Egyptian-Israeli-Gazan border situation offers Iranian agents and terrorists mixed in among the Sudanese infiltrators an easy route into southern Israel. The RG agents are Arabic speakers, having acquired the language from their stint as military instructors with the Lebanese Hizballah.
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yeah this debka report is one where you need a lorry load and not just a pinch of salt, i cant see armour going there but hey you never know - what with the increasing stupidity of many so called allies of ours who's to say they might not allow passage of materials and sht to sudan if it were to cause the US and its allies hassle. Course dont forget that if they did move into Sudan in strength with every intention of causing trouble whos gonna stop them - kofi?? lol. Nope way i see it they can do what they like with near totall immunity from the 'international comunity'. aslong as the Iranians dont use the atom bombs they have/are building then nothing what so ever will be done about them by anyone. We have been played like chumps by the Iranians and the 'west' has no bottle or reserve to deal with them anymore. Way to go 'west' ,our own complacency has got us in a real sht situation here! I give up on anyone actually doing anything about them, after watching the Iranian affair develop over the previous years i think one would have to be very either foolish or super optimistic to actually think anyone, even like GWB will actually do anything about it. They won we lost. :(
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Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't an Iranian armord brigade have T-72s. Don't you need something like a C-5, C-17 or the big Antonov to move them by air? I did not realize Iran could do this either. Not sure it's a smart move.
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Keep in mind that an "armored" unit in sub-Saharan Africa is likely a Toyota pickup with a 50-cal and some diamond plate.
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these Iranian Revolutionary Guards may claim to be looking eastward but they might well be looking westward and preparing to aid the janjaweed if/when hostilities break out again in durfar
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they will be working with absolutly anyone they can find who has some grudge against the US and israel and the 'west'. I wouldnt mind betting the tanks will arrive in Sudan on either charted russian military transports or simply shipped by seafrom Iran whilst the troops will arrive there by airlift. The more i think about this actually the more credable it seems. Hell they (the iranians) would be dense not to try and expand thier area of influence with there current goals of destroying israel and the US and britain, hell if i were in his shoes i'd be looking to find other areas from which to mount attacks. Personally i dont give a flying fck about Sudan anyway and the clooneys of the world , we did the same thing as they propose in Sudan in Iraq and yet that was 'wrong' according to the clooneys of this world. perhaps clooney can ask the Iranians to be the peace keepers........
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The light just dawned. Just a few days ago, the Sudan offered to protect and store nuclear parts for Iran.
I suspect these guyz are down there to keep unauthorized hands off of their stuff. Especially Sudanese who might double cross them for a large remittance from some unnamed power.
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targets of opportunity. Inflict some anti-tank humiliation on them and their Khartoum bedmates
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More Sudan - Iran links: SUDAN, IRAN BOOST TIES - April 26
Sudan's President Umar Hasan Al-Bashir is ending his three-day visit to Iran on Wednesday. Top officials from both sides are discussing ways to advance their bilateral relations, as well as key regional and international developments, according to a report from Iran's official news agency IRNA. "The Sudanese government and people praise Iran's success in the field of nuclear energy," said Al-Bashir. He then called for further bolstering of the economic cooperation between the two countries.
On his part, Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said several measures had been adopted by Iran to activate the two countries' joint commission and that President Mahmoud Ahmadi Nejad had issued instructions to concerned ministers toward this end. The Media Line's analysts point out that the visit comes to serve both countries' interests, as Iran is looking for international support for its nuclear plan, and Sudan is in urgent need of financial aid in its Darfur crisis.
Iran Says It Will Share Nuclear Skills TEHRAN, April 25Iran's supreme leader said today in a meeting with the Sudanese president that Iran was ready to share its nuclear technology with other countries. "Iran's nuclear capability is one example of various scientific capabilities in the country. The Islamic Republic of Iran is prepared to transfer the experience, knowledge and technology of its scientists," said the supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, to President Omar al-Bashir of Sudan, IRNA news agency reported.
Mr. Khamenei's comments to the leader of Sudan, one of the most unstable countries in Africa, came a few days ahead of the Friday deadline by the United Nations Security Council for Iran to suspend its sensitive uranium enrichment activities.
And let's not forget Iran' puppet: Sudan mediates to ease tension between Lebanon and Syria Sudanese presidential advisor Mustapha Othman Ismail was in Damascus on Wednesday were he handed to president Bashar AlAssad a letter from president Omar al-Bashir detailing the mission to help improve Lebanese-Syrian ties, which strongly deteriorated after the assassination of former premier Rafiq Hariri. Ismail said "We are very interested to continue our role in removing all obstacles between the two countries since both sides agree that relations should be special. I will later visit Beirut. "
The Sudanese envoy confirmed Syria's interest in its mediation after meeting foreign minister Walid Muaallim.
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Doesn't Binny have big plans for Sudan? Alliance?
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The IIGF operated almost 1,000 medium tanks in 1986. Although a large number were British-made Chieftains and American-made M-60s, an undetermined number of Soviet-made T-54 and T-55s, T-59s, T-62s, and T-72s were also part of the inventory, all captured from the Iraqis or acquired from North Korea and China. There was also a complement of fifty British-made Scorpion light tanks. Several hundred Urutu and Cascavel armored fighting vehicles from Brazil joined American-made M-113s and Soviet-made BTR-50-60s...
In 1989, Iran bought armoured personnel carriers, multiple rocket launch systems (MLRS), and 100 T-72 MBTs. In 1993, Iran went into negotiations with Russia for 400 T-42 MBts, and the necessay training and equipment, and 500 BMP-s Armoured Infantry Fighting Vehicles (AIFVs). During FY92, Iran procured 150 BMP-1 AIFVs and 30 Chinese 152mm Type 83 towed artillery.
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Pappy you r right on that but the current readiness levels of the armor is at less than 50%. The crap is just sitting in their motor pools rotting from the budget cuts a few years back. They have been focusing on irregular forces in the RG and I assume its like RC stated that it is toyota trucks with steel panels. I would love to find the RG unit number to look them up and find out their mission sets. My best guess is that they are there to teach unconventional warfare to the Sudanese and to build a force to fight Israel on another front.
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"OK so, you do massive human wave assaults - a lotta you die, then you withdraw....later on you do the same thing"
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The fighting in Siisii area in north Mogadishu has intensified around 6:00 local time and left more people mostly civilian dead and others injured, while fresh fighting between militia loyal to union of Islamic courts and those linked with anti-terror alliance of warlords has broken out in Wahar-adde village of Hurwaa district of north Mogadishu on Wednesday. There is no immediate word over the causalities of the latest clashes and it is too hard to find out the exact death toll. But one person has been killed by mortar shell that has fallen into his house in Tokyo village in Yaqshid district of north Mogadishu. The mortar shell has also killed four cows in the village.
Also war tension has loomed into new areas in the capital such between Bakaro and Howlwadag junctions in south of Mogadishu, where more militia from both sides have been taking position in preparation to fight. Streets were blocked by stones, with the Islamic militiamen have been deployed near Howlwadag junction, while other militia of warlords occupied near mosque alongside the street. Residents there are too much worried about the militias deployed on them fearing of fresh clashes in the area. The rival militias have taken positions in close range places in north Mogadishu. "We could hear the sounds of artillery shells, mortars and assault rifles from the area the war started" witnesses who were in the near by villages told Somalinet office in Mogadishu. Stray bullets hit neighbouring villages in Mogadishu.
It is not clear the casualties of the latest clashes. But medical officials in Madina hospital in south Mogadishu said we have received at least eight people most civilians who were injured by stray bullets, while Kenseney hospital in north of Mogadishu received nine wounded people on Wednesday. At least 100 people have been killed and nearly 200 wounded since fighting flared up in the capital Sunday, as health officials said on Wednesday.
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The US should supply both sides, and call the operation "Blackhawk Revenge"!!
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Actually, the US should aid the Ethiopians with newer arms and equipment, and permit the Ethiopians to arm the faction they prefer. And that will NOT be the Al-Q leaning bunch -- the Ethiopians have about 1100 years of experience dealing with pushy Mulism neighbors, and generally know which ones to back, and which to kill.
The boss of a Russian mafia gang wanted in Spain in connection with a multi-million euro money laundering scam has been arrested in Dubai.
"Yer coming wit' us, Comrade Moneybags..."
Zuhar Knuyazevich Kalashov was arrested as he left a party held by other Russian mafia leaders in the Gulf city. Kalashov, whose gang is based in Barcelona, is facing extradition to Spain in connection with allegations of laundering millions through Spanish property interests. In June last year, Spanish police arrested 30 people, most of them Russian or Eastern European gang members, in an operation codenamed Wasp. The operation to arrest Kalashov was led by Spanish police working with Interpol and the Emirates authorities.
Sagir murder accused killed in 'crossfire'
An accused in Juba Dal leader Sagir murder case was killed in an encounter between his cohorts and police in the city's Shyampur area early yesterday.
He was identified as Mazharul Islam alias Ripon, 35, son of Mansur Alam of Court-kachari road. Police said Ripon was wanted in 10 systems murder cases including that of Sagir.
Paltan police arrested Ripon at Ashulia Tuesday afternoon.
"Afternoon, Rip. Stick'um up, youse coming down to da station for a talk."
According to his confession,
"I'll be using the Number 4 today, Private Abu. Oh, and a fresh glass of tea."
they (police) took Ripon to Shyampur at about 2:30am to arrest his accomplices and seize hidden firearms.
You should all have this memorized by now...
When police along with Ripon reached Goshaibari, his cohorts opened fire, forcing the law enforcers to retaliate.
"Sergeant, those ruffians are firing at us. Would you be so kind as to return fire. Oh, and shoot the prisoner."
"Shoot him again, sir?"
Ripon received bullets during the "shootout" and died instantly, while his accomplices managed to flee.
Again, vanished into the night like they were never even there
Police recovered a .22 bore revolver and three bullets from the scene.
A .22 revolver? Wow, that budget increase must have come through.
They later sent the body to Salimullah Medical College and Hospital morgue for autopsy.
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12 hours and the case is closed, permanently. Great work RAB!
A BRISBANE high school teacher accused of stockpiling explosives at his home has been charged with terrorism offences.
John Howard Amundsen, 40, of Aspley in Brisbane's north, will face Brisbane Magistrates' Court tomorrow on three terrorism-related charges. Four bombs some embedded with nails and razor blades and 10 detonators were allegedly found at Mr Amundsen's Windrest Avenue home during a police raid on Tuesday night.
Detective Chief Superintendent Paul Wilson tonight said Mr Amundsen has been charged with an "act done in preparation for terrorist acts, using a carriage service to make a threat, and using a carriage service for a hoax threat".
Our Aussie readers may have to help us with this, but "carriage service" is most likely a letter.
He said he had become the first Queenslander to be charged under new Commonwealth anti-terrorism laws.
Mr Amundsen faced court today on a fraud charge stemming from allegedly using false identification to obtain 53kg of explosives and was remanded in custody.
Supt Wilson would not elaborate on the new charges but did reveal an alleged bomb threat was made this month using a "telecommunication device".
OK, phone call or e-mail
Asked if threats were made after police started investigations into the fraud, Supt Wilson said: "That's correct."
He said Mr Amundsen faced a maximum penalty of 25 years in jail if found guilty of an act done in preparation for terrorist acts, and another 10 years for using a carriage service to make a threat. Queensland Police said tonight they had set up Operation Echo Mine with a team of 40 detectives to continue investigations into the matter.
Supt Wilson said all 53kg of the explosive had been located and that "the public can be rest assured that there is no threat from the explosives".
Outside court today Mr Amundsen's lawyer Andrew Boe said there was a "completely plausible and non-nefarious explanation" for the circumstances his client "finds himself" but would not elaborate. "I refuse (to reveal) ... the nature of the evidence, it would not be responsible of me to do so and certainly not responsible for the media to speculate simply because some allegations have been placed before the court," he said.
Mr Boe also lashed out at the media for reporting allegations his client was a terrorist. "Mr Amundsen is not a terrorist, he's not associated with any terrorist organisations," he told reporters. "I think the public should and the media should just drop the ante a little bit about being too preoccupied that this has got anything to do with terrorism it hasn't."
It is alleged Mr Amundsen obtained 53kg of an explosive known as powergel, of which a fifth had been converted into bombs. In court, Mr Amundsen interrupted proceedings to tell Magistrate Noel Nunan: "The powergel substance without the detonator or the exact amperage is benign, totally benign and the police knew that".
"I mean, it's not an explosive until it explodes"
Powergel is described on internet sites as specifically designed for use in "wet blasthole conditions" often used in deep mining.
Books on al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and Nazis also were seized in the raid of Mr Amundsen's home.
Mr Boe said his client, a relief teacher at Ferny Grove High School in Brisbane's north-west, had been cooperating with police investigations, undertaking interviews and a drive around the city with police.
Wistfully hoping it's at 2am looking for arms caches...
Mr Boe started acting for Mr Amundsen today after he decided to represent himself yesterday in court, when he denied being a terrorist and said the explosives were for use in a television production.
Suppression orders relating to an alleged missing amount of explosives and on details about how the bombs were allegedly built were lifted by Mr Nunan.
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and a shutter gun, illegally imported....
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A BRISBANE high school teacher was not a terrorist and had a "completely plausible" explanation for the stockpile of explosives found at his home by police, his lawyer said today. Don't you just love lawyers. The more evidence there is against their client the wilder the explanations.
He has to say something.
John Howard Amundsen, 40, of Aspley in Brisbane's north, today briefly appeared in the Brisbane Magistrates Court charged with one count of fraud after allegedly obtaining 53kg of an explosive using false identification.
Police will not rule out the possibility that four bombs some embedded with nails and razor blades and 10 detonators allegedly found at Mr Amundsen's Windrest Avenue home during a raid on Tuesday night were being stockpiled for a terrorist attack.
Outside of court Mr Amundsen's lawyer, Andrew Boe, lashed out at the media for reporting allegations his client was a terrorist. "Mr Amundsen is not a terrorist, he's not associated with any terrorist organisations," he said. OK, so he's a lone nutcase.
"He's just a man who loves explosives. Really loves explosives."
"I think the public should and the media should just drop the ante a little bit about being too preoccupied that this has got anything to do with terrorism it hasn't."
He said there was a "completely plausible and non-nefarious explanation for the circumstances in which he finds himself" but would not elaborate. "I refuse (to reveal) ... the nature of the evidence, it would not be responsible of me to do so and certainly not responsible for the media to speculate simply because some allegations have been placed before the court," Mr Boe said.
Police say they expect to lay further charges.
Magistrate Noel Nunan remanded Amundsen in custody to again face court for mention on May 18. Suppression orders relating to an alleged missing amount of explosives and on details about how the bombs were allegedly built were lifted by Mr Nunan. Let me guess, he was making a documentary called Jihad/Eco-terrorism/Anti-Capitalist Direct Action for Dummies.
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53kg of explosives in a residental area. Nails and razor blades embeded in one premade bomb. Dude your a terrorist. Your lawyer like all lawyers is an asslown. He evidences that buy his statements about you and some legimate reason you had a nail and razorblade embeded explosive device. Both of you should be taken out and shot against the nearest wall after a quick but fair trial.
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"I refuse (to reveal) ... the nature of the evidence,
Translation, "I haven't thought up a good enough lie yet, give me a bit of time to plant some convincing bits good enough to cast doubt on my nutvase/clients overwhelming guilt."
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Does anyone doubt that society's reason to give him the maximum sentence will ultimately be far more plausible than his explanation?
Queensland police and Australian Federal Police were last night building a profile of Amundsen, whose collection of books on Al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden and Nazis were also seized in the raids.
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Cheez, Steve. Next they'll be trying to paw through his library records. Is there no end to the Howard govt's inhumanity?
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Maybe he wasn't going to use the bombs, maybe he was going to sell them to someone who would. There are only a couple of possibilities here. All of them are nefarious.
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Mmmmm, he's a teacher, they think in terms of teaching not doing.
Maybe he planned to write a "How To" manual, and got caught, you'd have to test to see if it went boom properly, not necessarily on people.
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The explosives were wrapped in razor blades for pete's sake. What would be the possible peaceful use for that? Shaving a room full of men in seconds? Not likely.
This lawyer should be warned to shut up or face charges of some kind for willful disinformation or something.
THE first Queenslander charged with terrorism allegedly sent police an email threatening to launch a jihad or holy war on the suburban streets of Brisbane.
Police received the "anonymous" email this week as they were investigating the alleged purchase of 53kg of explosives by Brisbane high school teacher John Amundsen.
Queensland police have allegedly tracked the email to a computer at a Brisbane internet cafe used by Amundsen.
A VIDEO by an al-Qaeda member posted on the Internet overnight calls on Muslims to attack Denmark, Norway and France for publishing cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.
"Muslims avenge your Prophet .... We deeply desire that the small state of Denmark, Norway and France ... are struck hard and destroyed," said Libyan Mohammed Hassan, who escaped from US custody at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan last July
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who escaped from US custody at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan last July.
.... and hasn't been keeping abreast of the situation. By Allan, even the muslims must be fed up with burning down their own homes and businesses by now.
Denmark's most prominent Muslim leader, who led criticism of a Danish newspaper that published drawings of the Prophet Muhammad, has decided to leave the country, the daily reported Thursday.
"My work here is done."
Imam Ahmed Abu Laban said he has felt Humiliated® in the aftermath of the cartoon controversy, which led to riots around the world, and that he would leave Denmark to return to seethe and vow Dire Revenge in Gaza with his family, the Jyllands-Posten newspaper wrote. "I have recently felt that I am being viewed as a simple terrorist. No human being can accept that. It is an extreme Humiliation®," Abu Laban was quoted as saying. "I have taken the decision to leave Denmark."
"Plus, I now see that there is greater opportunity for advancement within the organization in a an up-and-coming area like Gaza. Being a holy man, of course, I never have gun sex myself, but my kids like it."
Abu Laban is the leading figure of the Copenhagen-based Islamic Faith Community, representing about 10 percent of Denmark's 200,000 Muslims.
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Perhaps if he was known as a mastermind or even notable terrorist instead of just a 'simple' one he'd feel better when the door hits him in the ass. Maybe Hamas won't read his updated resume'.
No shame for having incited the ignorant muslim world. No taking of responsibility. No reflection that perhaps his actions were wrong.
After all, he's the one who went on a tour of the muslim world with the cartoons from the newspaper AND OTHER cartoons that had nothing to do with the newspaper to fan the flames of hatred and divisiveness.
Instead, he's a "victim." Says he's treated like a terrorist. He's humiliated.
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The Danes are not compelled to let him continue living there.
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In the Name of God
Well done Mr. Abu Laban for your work in Denmark. But I am surprised that you are leaving. Are the Danish bovines no longer recognizing that you are superior to them? Are they no longer giving you preferential treatment over the Christians and the Jews? Are they refusing to recognize that they are soon to become dhimmis? How dare they! I guess we need to humiliate these bovines even more. We've near ruined their bovine industries with our economic boycott. We made them beg for forgiveness. They need even more humiliation? Mr. Abu Laban, stay there in Denmark and work for the Sharia law. Let the bovines know that they are to be dhimmis in the near future. Let them know that they are to submit to the Sharia. Let them know that Muslims will settle for NOTHING LESS than preferential treatment today and mastery over them tomorrow. And show them why they are inferior to you.
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We'll know the war is really on when we start seeing mosques blown up in Europe and muzzies beheaded on Internet video. I don't think that's too far off, personally.
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He can't go to Gaza. The airport's closed, remember?
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Wacha mean he changed his mind, TW2412??? I ordered a fully catered farewell dinner for him. I cannot get my money back!!! Who is going to eat all the Danish ham? It's getting cold......
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Three young Arabs went on trial in Germany Tuesday for allegedly forming a cell of the Qaeda terrorist network. Ibrahim Mohamed K, 30, earlier termed an Iraqi but now believed to be Syrian, allegedly recruited young men to become suicide bombers. He allegedly persuaded two Palestinian brothers, Yasser Abu-S, 32, and Ismail Abu-S, 29, to help him commit insurance fraud. Ibrahim Mohamed K trained at an al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan, met al-Qaeda's chief, Osama bin Laden, and stayed in Afghanistan till July 2002 to fight US forces there, the indictment said.
Security was high at the fortified courtroom in the western city of Duesseldorf where 52 days of hearings have been set aside for the case. A verdict is expected after October. The men were arrested in January 2005 before they could commit any violence. They have all rejected the charges, court officials say. Prosecutors have charged Ibrahim Mohamed K and the elder Palestinian, who was a medical student at the University of Bonn, with forming a terrorist organization. The younger Palestinian is accused of supporting them. They allegedly took out 10 life insurance policies, intending to fake the death of Yasser Abu-S in an "accident" in Egypt and claim payouts to fund their operations. Prosecutors say he planned to kill himself in a suicide bombing in Iraq.
Despite the high media impact of communal killings of Hindus, internal Union Home Ministry data exclusively obtained by Frontline makes clear that Muslims are the principal victims of the jehad that Islamist groups are fighting in their name.
BY PRAVEEN SWAMI
in Jammu
On the politics and practice of massacres in the Jammu region in the wake of the killings in Doda and Udhampur districts.
FOR the most part, the war in the high mountains of Jammu and Kashmir remains invisible. Strung along the banks of the Tawi river in Jammu, if one cares to look, are the makeshift homes of the hundreds of people, Hindu and Muslim, who have fled the Islamist assault that has torn apart communities on the Pir Panjal range. Their stories, though, rarely figure outside of the antiseptic press releases issued by the Jammu and Kashmir Police each evening.
Until, that is, there is a large enough massacre.
Last month, the invisible war once again made its way on to newspaper headlines when 32 Hindu villagers were killed in two separate communal terror strikes in the districts of Doda and Udhampur, northeast of Jammu. Nineteen residents of the mountain hamlets of Kulhand and Tharwa, including an eight-year-old girl, were shot dead outside their homes late on the night of April 30. Also, 13 shepherds were shot dead north of the Lalon Galla, a high-altitude meadow above the town of Basantgarh.
Witnesses say that a group of six terrorists arrived in Kulhand and Tharwa at around 11 p.m. and ordered men from some 40 adjacent buildings to gather at the home of Gopi Chand, the village headman. Once there, the victims were made to form a queue; the terrorists then fired at them with assault rifles at point-blank range until their ammunition was exhausted. Ten people were seriously injured, and survived only because the bodies of others had fallen over them.
Hours before the killing began in Kulhand and Tharwa, another terrorist unit kidnapped two shepherds near Lalon Galla. Mohammad Siraj-ud-Din and his son Rukun-ud-Din were ordered to guide the terrorists to a nearby dhok, or meadow, on which Hindu herdsmen from Basantgarh had set up camp for the summer. Once there, the terrorists marched the 13 men they could find into the forests. Four of the victims were shot near the meadow where they were kidnapped, and the rest, a short distance away.
Neither set of villagers was expecting trouble. Kulhand residents, like many Hindus in Doda, had for long maintained a quiet peace with terrorists operating in the area. When Village Defence Committees (VDCs) were set up in the area after a series of massacres in 1998-1999, local residents refused weapons and training. A police post was set up in the village four years ago, but removed after villagers insisted that its presence was more likely to provoke terrorist retaliation than protect them from harm.
On the night of the massacre, few Kulhand residents anticipated trouble. The men who were marched out of their homes thought the terrorists needed help hauling supplies up the mountains, a task for which they had used villagers at regular intervals. Many could have escaped into the darkness - but saw no reason to do so. The shepherds at Lalon Galla, too, marched willingly into the jungles with the terrorists, perhaps thinking that their labour was needed to build a hideout or bury weapons and ammunition.
What evidence is available so far suggests that the killings were the work of the Lashkar-e-Taiba - the Pakistan-based terrorist group responsible for 16 similar massacres in Jammu and Kashmir since 1993, in which at least 150 civilians have been killed. Notably, Siraj-ud-Din and Rukun-ud-Din identified one of the terrorists who carried out the Lalon Galla killings as Aijaz Ahmad, a long-standing Lashkar operative who hails from Raichak village near Basantgarh.
Intelligence sources told Frontline that they believed both massacres were executed on the orders of `Abu Talha', the Doda-area `divisional commander' of the Lashkar, who is so far identified only by his nom de guerre. Believed to be a Pakistani national, `Abu Talha' narrowly escaped a May 5 encounter which claimed the life of his lieutenant, `Abu Akasha'. The same day, police and Army personnel also made fire-contact with the terrorist group, thought to be responsible for the Udhampur killings, but without success.
What motives might the terrorists who executed the massacres have had? Some are obvious. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was scheduled to meet the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) chairman, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, less than 48 hours after the killings. The Prime Minister was also to hold a round-table conference in Srinagar involving all major political parties later this month. Jehadi organisations, who do not wish to join in the dialogue process, have no interest in its perpetuation.
Terrorist groups, have long used death as an instrument to derail efforts towards détente. In August 2000, a month after the pro-dialogue Hizb ul-Mujahideen commander Abdul Majid Dar declared a unilateral ceasefire, cadre from his organisation and the Lashkar carried out a series of communal massacres in an effort to sabotage the movement towards peace. In less than 48 hours, starting with the massacre of 30 pilgrims near the shrine of Amarnath, six strikes were carried out in the districts of Anantnag, Doda and Kupwara.
However, communal massacres long predate peace efforts in Jammu and Kashmir. After targeting prominent members of the State's Pandit minority for assassination and intimidation in the first phase of jehadi violence, terrorists began executing large-scale killings from August 1993, when 13 Hindus were massacred at Sarthal, in Doda. Three years later, 16 Hindus were again executed in the Doda village of Barshalla. Local feuds over grazing rights often facilitated the violence.
From 1998, communal massacres gathered momentum and scale. In 1998, 132 civilians died in six massacres across the State and in adjoining Himachal Pradesh. After a lull in 1999, the massacres resumed in 2000. In 2001, 108 people were killed in 11 major incidents, while 83 people were killed in five incidents in 2002. Most of these killings targeted poor communities in the State's more remote mountain regions: the groom whose wedding procession was targeted in Chapnari did not even possess sandals.
Although the scale of communal terror strikes has diminished since 2002 - a fact Bharatiya Janata Party president Rajnath Singh omitted to mention when he called for the imposition of Governor's rule after the killings - periodic attacks continue. Just in October last year, a unit of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen-Pir Panjal Regiment targeted two hamlets in Rajouri's Budhal area for such attacks. While women in the village were ordered to prepare food for the terrorists, eleven Hindu men aged between 18 and 57 had their throats slit one by one.
One motivation for this gruesome campaign has been to bring about large-scale migrations of Hindus from Muslim-majority areas north of the Chenab river. Jehadi groups hope that mass killings, and retaliatory communal terrorism directed at Hindus, would help realise a sundering of Jammu and Kashmir along ethno-religious lines. As such, communal massacres are an instrument to replicate the communal logic on which the Partition of India was based - Pakistan's long-standing aspiration.
Partition-based ideas have emanated, in recent years, from the United States-based Kashmir Study Group and Pakistan's back-channel negotiator during the Kargil war, Niaz Naik. Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's recent calls for a division of Jammu and Kashmir into seven separate provinces, although couched in language based on geography rather than religion, would have much the same effect if implemented. Mirwaiz Farooq, interestingly, presented all these ideas to the Prime Minister during their meeting.
Notably, Muslim villagers opposed to Islamist terror groups have also faced savage assault. In 2001, for example, 15 Muslim villagers, including seven children, were executed at the village of Kot Charwal, in Rajouri, for having set up a self-defence group to keep Islamist terrorists out of the area. Muslim VDC members and others hostile to the jehad have regularly been targeted since. In January, for example Rashid Begum and two members of her family were killed in Arnas for campaigning against the Hizb.
Despite the high media impact of communal killings of Hindus, internal Union Home Ministry data exclusively obtained by Frontline makes clear that Muslims are the principal victims of the jehad that Islamist groups are fighting in their name. Last year, for example, just 54 of the 489 civilians killed by terrorists were Hindu. In most years since 1989, less than 15 per cent of the civilian fatalities have been Hindu. Only in 1990 did that figure cross 20 per cent, a figure considerably lower than the Hindu representation in the State's population.
It would be mistaken, moreover, to see communal massacres as a means to an end: in the Lashkar's world view, they are the end. Lashkar ideologues see the conflict in Jammu and Kashmir as a consequence of the fact that, as one of the organisation's articles suggests, "the Hindus have no compassion in their religion". In the world of Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the overall head of the Lashkar, "the Hindu is a mean enemy and the proper way to deal with him is the one adopted by our forefathers who crushed them by force".
What political challenge could there be to this language of hate? Jammu's people have responded to the succession of massacres in the region with little other than peace protests - and something approaching stoic resignation. No major riots, for example, have broken out despite the efforts of communal forces to incite violence. However, there is also a communal current underpinning the apparent peace. Massacres of Muslims by terrorists, notably, have never provoked mass protests in Jammu.
In Kashmir, too, the massacres of Hindus in the Jammu region have never been a catalyst for anything other than polemical condemnation - and, on occasion, baseless claims that these killings have been engineered to defame the anti-India movement in the State. Days after Kulhand and Lalon Galla, old-city Srinagar was convulsed with violent protests against a city pornography ring - but not one shop downed shutters to express grief against the obscene theatre enacted in the mountains.
Politicians need to intervene if this culture is to change. Major political parties such as the Congress, the People's Democratic Party and the National Conference are complicit in, and responsible for, the partitioning of people's grief. Although all parties condemned the killings in Kulhand and Lalon Galla, not one led a mass protest against it in Kashmir. Nor have political groups ever organised demonstrations in Jammu against the killings of innocents north of the Pir Panjal mountains.
Each such act of silence, sadly, makes it that much easier for the armies of the jehad to achieve their objective.
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nobody kills muslims as well as another muslim - it's the Religion of Peace
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You have to ask, though, after all this time, what kind of idiot lives in Kashmir?
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The average Kashmiri has the highest standard of living of any Indian citizen.
He is much better off (literacy, calories consumed per day, life expectancy) than the average Indian living in Bihar or even in a southern Indian state like Kerala.
Helped in no small part by the billions pumped into the state by the Indian Federal government, both as development aid and for military support.
When you base a couple of hundred thousand troops in one place, the economy just booms.
It is also a very beautiful place.
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What motives might the terrorists who executed the massacres have had?
KHAR, Pakistan - Pro-Taleban militants beheaded a man in a remote Pakistani tribal region near Afghanistan on Thursday after accusing him of spying for the United States, an official said. The mans body was found in a village near Khar, the main town in the Bajur tribal region, and he was believed to have been a Pakistani tribesman, said Amir Zaman, the local official.
We found this body and a letter near it today, he said, adding that the letter read as those spying for Americans will face the same fate.
Although militants often kill tribesmen suspected of working for Pakistani and US forces in the North and South Waziristan tribal regions located near the Afghan border, such violence in Bajur is rare. Bajur is about 200 kilometers (120 miles) northeast of Miran Shah, the main town in North Waziristan, where remnants of Al Qaida and Taleban are believed to be hiding. In recent months, Pakistani security forces have killed or captured several terror suspects in Bajur.
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I've heard somewhere on the web that bin Laden is an American puppet - maybe if the rumor spreads the Taleban will behead him?
Islamabad, 11 May (AKI) - At least six people have been killed and nine people wounded when a series of blasts ripped through a police training school in Pakistan's troubled south-western province of Baluchistan. Five bombs were planted at the firing range of the training school in the provincial capital Quetta, according to police official Sulman Saeed. The blasts occured as the police officers were undergoing anti-terrorism training. It is not clear who carried out the attacks but officials reportedly blame "terrorists".
According to local security forces, the blasts took place in quick succession, and were probably many mines located on the ground connected to even more explosives in order to cause more damage. Two suspects have been detained in connection with the blasts.
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LAHORE: An anti terrorism court on Wednesday granted bail to Dr Sarfraz Naeemi, the Tahaffuz-e-Namoos-e-Risalat Movement (TNRM) chief, in four cases registered against him. The court directed him to furnish bail bonds of Rs 50,000 for each case. The Lahore Police had registered cases against Naeemi on February 14 for provocation, arson and vandalising public and private property in the city during protests against the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (may his drip clear up peace be upon him) in newspapers across Europe.
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Security forces have arrested a Tunisian Al-Qaeda militant and his two accomplices with suspected Al-Qaeda links in a raid in North Waziristan tribal agency, said security officials here Wednesday. The Tunisian militant, identified as Abdul Rehman, was arrested on Tuesday along with Pakistani and Afghan Islamic militants, officials told KUNA on condition of anonymity.
Officials said that the authorities were interrogating them at an undisclosed location. The military spokesman was not immediately available for comments. Pakistani forces are carrying out operation against foreign and local in the agency since last month. The operation has so far killed over 100 foreign and local militants and arrested dozens of others including a most-wanted by the US.
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LOYALTY, Iraq Elements of the 6th Brigade, 2nd National Police Division, and 3rd Battalion, 67th Armor Regiment {joint op between police and army?}, seized a large cache of deadly explosives in a residence in eastern Baghdad at approximately 4 p.m. May 10.
The search in the New Baghdad neighborhood by the national police and Soldiers resulted in the discovery of 142 land mines, 58 blocks of C4 explosives, approximately 8,000 feet of detonation cord, 107 fuses, 22 rocket-propelled grenades, a launcher, 59 mortars, 40 pounds of mortar propellant, four shape charges, 43 blasting caps, explosive-formed projectile materials, two gas masks, six two-way radios, multiple mortar launching tubes, maps of Baghdad and Iraq, and anti-Iraqi force literature. {Even by Iraqi standards that qualifies as large.}
The precision operation took place with no rounds fired and no injuries.
Three men were detained in connection with the cache. One female was detained and then released to a local leader under house arrest. A group of more than 300 residents gathered in the area. A local Imam and civic leaders ensured that the group demonstrating did not turn violent. {Another interesting expression of jointness of mission.}
Explosive Ordnance Disposal personnel removed and destroyed the explosives from the house.
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now 4 or 5 weddings will have to go without celebrations!
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If they dial 1-800-UBO-MBME, the USAF can arrange for fireworks at the appropriate time.
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Frank, your just mean. Funny, but mean.
I think we should keep all the explosives in these cache's and have a July fourth celebration in Iraq with them.
Hard to say how true the claims are - Iraqi media are no different than anyone else's and spin news as they see fit. Interesting story though, even if only part truth.
BAGHDAD, May 10 (UPI) -- An Iraqi daily is claiming that a "staggeringly high" proportion of foreign jihadis arrested in Iraq are Iranian. Iran Focus reported on May 9 that al-Taji, a newspaper with close connections to the Kurdistan Democratic Party Massoud Barzani, noted that 1,577 of the 1,972 jihadis arrested since last May were Iranians. Al-Taji, quoting a commander of the Iraqi border guard speaking on condition of anonymity, said that the other foreign militants arrested included nine Nigerians, four Indians, 364 Afghanis, two Pakistanis and one Russian citizen from Dagestan in the northern Caucasus.
The Afghan count seems a bit high and I don't see any Saudis on the list
The Bush administration has consistently maintained that Iran is covertly sending fighters into neighboring Iraq, a charge that Iran has repeatedly denied. Iran Focus is linked to opponents of the Tehran regime.
In an effort to restore diplomatic relations frayed in the aftermath of the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war, Iran has appointed an ambassador to Iraq for the first time since the conflict. The Islamic Republic News Agency reported that Hasan Kazemi Qomi presented his credentials to Iraqi president Jalal Talabani in the capital Baghdad on Tuesday. (via Marc of USS Neverdock)
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I don't know about Jihadi's, but I have been reading about Iranian Republican Guard/Special Forces in Irag the week we captured Bagdad. 6 months ago, the Mesopotamian blog reported there were over 1,000 Iranian Republican Guards in Iraqi prisons.
My sense, from reading Iraqi blogs, is that several thousand Iranian personnel are in Iraq helping the insurgency, and that doesn't count the "independents" who joining the insurgency on their own.
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The Afghan count makes perfect sense, as does the Iranian count. There were hundreds of them that joined the Ansarî and fought PUK in the couple of years before OIF.
Drugs and jihadis travel the same route out of Afghanistan into Iran.
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In the Name of God
Today's diary (All rights reserved. This article may be reprinted for educational use only. "Get down, dhimmi!" is a registered trade mark of the Muslim nation):
I must admit I am brimming with joy at the deaths of the American and British soldiers yesterday. Popcorn time! Add some (Non-Danish) butter please. Thanks. May these disbelievers enjoy their torture in the grave. I am so exited to live in these times. The Muslims are very soon going to conquer the whole world and impose the Sharia law, God willing. You know we Muslims were about to over run all of Europe. We reached Germany from the West and France from the south. We lost one battle in France after which, unfortunately, our Sultan decided to stay content with his conquest of Spain. He should have re-attacked the French. Perhaps all of Europe would have then been either Muslim or dhimmi by now. The Muslim victories today, though small, are giving me renewed hope. The Sharia will be the law of the world, God willing. Here is my plan for the future: Britain will be called the United Caliphate of Britain; America, the United States of Islam. If you don't accept Islam, you must live as a dhimmi. If you refuse to live as a dhimmi, you will be executed. The following jobs will be open for dhimmis in the United Caliphate of Britain and the United States of Islam: Window washers (skyscrapers only). Shoe shiners (you must be able to stay in a low position for a long time). Sweeper (public toilets). Hospital waste collector. Vet. Zookeeper. Sewage treatment worker. Bell boy. Bomb disposal squad (Must work under heavily armed Muslim supervision). Worker in mental hospital. Beggar. (Your zonal area for begging will be allocated to you.) Nuclear Waste disposer (Must work under heavily armed Muslim supervision). For your men:Toilet cleaner for the toilets belonging to Muslim male servants. For your women: Toilet cleaner for the toilets of Muslim maids. All jobs require a Bachelor's degree (minimum). Arabic (spoken and written) is a pre-requisite for all jobs. Farsi and Urdu speakers will have an edge. Other job opportunities may be posted later. In the mean time, unemployed dhimmis will be given fair handouts by the caliphate.
You might ask why you must be a second class citizen in an Islamic state or why you don't have the same rights as Muslims. This is because you are (excuse me) inferior; spiritually, morally and physically. How is that you might ask? Read on...
Spiritually.
You believe that a man is God i.e. Jesus Christ (God's peace and blessings be upon him.) This is, well, intellectually not much "higher" than saying that a cow is god (Hindus). I mean both man and cow are mammals. That doesn't make you much brighter than a cow worshipper. (Sorry to say). We Muslims believe that God is neither a man nor a cow. He is Unique; One of a kind. You cannot imagine or visualize Him. He is outside the Universe which He created and controls. The Universe is to Him is like a tiny mustard seed in your hand. Wow! What a creed we've got! -a creed that can and will conquer the entire world, God willing!
Morally
You have no shame (or very, very little). Just take a look at your leaders' behaviours. When Bush meets Blair, they shake the hands of each others' wife. They even kiss the others' wife. And they switch wives as they walk in public. Don't they have any shame, any jealousy? If any other man even stares at my wife, I'll floor him with one punch. When you take showers in gyms or locker room areas you don't mind other men looking at your naked body. Don't you have any shyness? Or are you just like animals?
Physically.
You are not clean. When you clean your behinds after defecation, you don't use water. You use tissue paper. Yuck. So you have feces clinging to your underwear. Yuck. You may use your left hand to eat, the same hand you clean your feces with. Yuck! You don't shave your armpits and pubes. You use deodarant to make them smell good; smelly, unclean and hairy armpits covered up with perfume. Yuck. When you finish urinating you don't douse your penis with water and you urinate standing up! Yuck; urine splatter on your pants. You keep dogs for pets. Yuck. Dogs don't have body pores, so they don't sweat. Therefore all their bodily excretions come out on their tongues. And they lick you. Yuck. You eat swine (ham and pork.) A swine will eat anything-dung, feces, garbage...it will drink urine! Yuck. And you eat that animal! They say, "you are what you eat"-swine! (yuck and excuse me!) All the above acts are forbidden to us Muslims by God. We must eat with our right hands only. We must clean our private parts with our left hands only. We must shave our armpits and pubes every 40 days (mimimun) . We must use water for cleaning our private parts. We can't keep dogs for pets. We can't eat swine. All these have been forbidden to us by God. So we are clean and you are impure and dirty. Therefore if you don't become Muslim but choose to retain your impure and inferior religion or way of life other than Islam, you must then acknowledge your inferiority. And you do this by becoming a dhimmi! You must pay a tax to us Muslims for being inferior-called a dhimmi tax. You shall also have to obey special dhimmi laws-all of this because you yourself CHOSE to be inferior. If you reject being even a dhimmi then, according to islamic law, you must be publicly executed. I mean what can we do with someone who wishes to be lower than even a lowly dhimmi except send him to his grave to be tortuerd by God's angels? Now what are the laws for those who CHOOSE to remain dhimmis in an Islamic state? Some of them are as follows:
1. Dhimmis may only wear black, red, yellow, pink, orange and purple colored clothing. Jews must wear very bright colors (high on the u.v. spectrum)-red, orange etc.
2. Dhimmis cannot walk on the better part of the sidewalk. They must give way to Muslims when walking. The better parts of roads are reserved for Muslims.
3. Dhimmis cannot build their houses higher than Muslims.
5. Dhimmi automobiles will be colored yellow. Dhimmis must buy old, slower cars
4. Dhimmis cannot preach their religion. This is so that Muslims are not provided any temptation to apostate. Only Muslims can preach their religion.
5. No cross or Jewish star is to be displayed on places of dhimmi worship.
6. Dhimmis cannot walk to their places of worship as a congregation. They must walk individually.
7. Dhimmis cannot drink alcohol, worship or listen to music in public. They may only do so privately in their dhimmi homes.They will be lashed if they break this law.
8. Dhimmis must invite in any Muslim who passes by their homes.
9. Dhimmis must walk with their heads bowed in public in a subdued manner. If they walk with pride they will get beaten up by Muslim security.
10. Dhimmis cannot participate in the Muslim armed forces.
11. Dhimmis cannot hold jobs in any areas of caliphate administration and security.
12. Dhimmis must pay a yearly tax for their CHOICE of CHOOSING to be a dhimmi.
13. A Muslim man may marry a dhimmi woman but a dhimmi man may not marry a Muslim woman. All children must be Muslim.
14. All Dhimmis will be treated with fairness and justice by the Muslim Caliphate. Dhimmi protection is guaranteed by the Muslims.
Any dhimmi who chooses to become Muslim will have all the rights Muslims have. He becomes one of the Muslims, like us. He becomes superior to the lowly dhimmis-this is the justice and equality of Islam.
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How about we just kill you all instead?
Guess it's time to play "Cowboys and Muslims".
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In the Name of God
How DARE YOU talk to me like that! You swine eater and "boo boo in underwear" creature. Don't you know your level in humanity? You a polytheist-a "to be dhimmi". I am a Muslim, a Monotheist. I am better than you. It angers me that a "to be dhimmi" can talk with such freedom. It angers me that he can express his opinions freely and talk to me like this. It angers me that he can be free. But very soon we will put you in your place. Remember who we are. We were your masters only a few hundreds years ago. And we are coming back to take our rightful place. You will live under the caliphate. You will submit, God willing, very soon, you lowly polytheist!
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Why does your god keep sending earthquakes to destroy Iran and Pakistan, George Bush to conquer Afghanistan and Iraq, Israel to destroy the armies of the Arabs? Why do the Lions of Islam go to Iraq, only to evaporate from the face of the earth in their tens of thousands? I don't think your god likes you very much, Mr. Get Down. And if you try to take Western women as you take your sisters and your daughters, you will find they are very good with kitchen knives and fingernails. And then you won't want any women anymore, nor even that beautiful she-goat belonging to your uncle.
We have weapons beyond your capability to dream of, and men and women strong enough to wield them to destroy you so that your god won't even be able to find the dust of which you were made. Push us hard enough, and even the dust your babies play in will be turned to glass; there will be no Qur'ans left to read, nor eyes to read them with, and none throughout the world will remain who starts his letters with, "In the name of God and his prophet Mohammed." If that is your wish, that you and your children and your seed to the last generation are destroyed, and none are left to worship your god even when he calls at the End of Days, then keep pushing.
Just have to make you convert to the religion of your true calling.... Church of the SubGenius
You will fit right in with that slacker culture...
And they believe in UFO's TOO!
For the third straight day, coalition aircrews targeted an abandoned train station in Ramadi today, military officials in Iraq reported. Coalition forces have delivered precision munitions at the same train station multiple times in the past three days in response to hostile insurgent activity, officials said, adding that the station is a known hub of insurgent activity. Officials did not provide a casualty or damage assessment.
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A train headed to Hell has left the station. All terrs aboard!
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'...have delivered precision munitions at the same train station multiple times in the past three days in response to hostile insurgent activity...'
What tha f***?? Why isn't there a nice size crater at this location by now? The only way to keep the roaches from scurrying back to their dens is to provide all around open space!
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Sometimes, it is better to let the enemy have what it thinks are useful gathering sites. It makes the probabilities of mass causulties on their part more likely when you hit the locations.
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We need to learn from our friends, the Israelis; A sniper nests in a building...it's bulldozed; rockets are launched from the square... the block is razed!!
Up to 11 people were killed and six others were wounded Wednesday in an ambush in Diyala province in north east Baghdad, the Iraqi police said. A source in the joint coordination center said in a press release that a bus of workers stopped near a car that was parked on a roadside in Diyala with human bodies inside. The source added that a bomb planted inside the vehicle blew up when one of the workers went to check the car.
Meanwhile, a statement for the US army said that death toll of Talafar suicide bombing rose to 16 and 134 wounded. The statement added that the US army offered medical aid to about 60 injured people. The Iraqi police declared on Tuesday that 52 people were killed and wounded in a car explosion in Talafar in northern Iraq.
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Gunmen assassinated early on Wednesday a chief of criminal intelligence in the town of Baacouba northeast of the capital, a source of the Iraqi Interior Ministry said. The source told KUNA the gunmen gunned down Kenaan Hassan and two bodyguards while the trio were heading to the work office in the town.
Separately, gunmen killed a leading member of Al-Badr militia of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, Ibrahim Al-Khazraji, in Al-Dujail province, 70 kilometers north of the Iraqi capital late on Tuesday, the source said. In the Baghdad district of Al-A'thamiah, armed elements gunned down justice Muhaimen Mahmoud on Tuesday.
Also on the security front, fire gutted a crude pipeline in the region of Al-Jarf in Al-Musayeb province, 70 km south of the capital, after it was blown up with explosives.
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Up to 27 armed men were arrested during wide-scale raid operations in several areas across Diyala province northeast Baghdad, the Iraqi police said on Wednesday. An Iraqi police source said in a press release Wednesday that joint US-Iraqi forces stormed several villages in south Baqouba during which 27 militants were arrested, including suspects wanted by the Iraqi government. The source added that huge amounts of weapons and explosives were also confiscated. According to the source, the operations were backed up by US army helicopters.
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Three Iraqi civilians were wounded on Wednesday in Kirkuk, northern Iraq. Iraqi police sources in Kirkuk told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that an explosive device blew up nearby a gas station in central kirkuk, wounding a woman while in her residence. A similar attack took place on a road in western Kirkuk that targeted a civilian vehicle, wounding two Iraqi citizens.
Also, the source said that four Katyusha missiles hit a US military base. Iraqi police patrols headed to the source of fire and found four bases used for launching missiles.
Meanwhile, unknown gunmen assassinated the Director of Information and Relations in the Iraqi Defense Ministry Mohammad Al-Ameri in western Baghdad. A security source in the Ministry of Interior told KUNA that Al-Ameri was showered with bullets while driving his car to work. He was killed on the spot, while the attackers managed to escape. In two similar incidents, unknown gunmen assassinated a Ministry of Finance employee in Shu'lah neighborhood in northwestern Baghdad, while other gunmen assassinated a high ranking criminal intelligence official and two of his bodyguards in Baquba, northeast of Baghdad.
Also, an Iraqi police source told reporters that an Iraqi soldier was killed and two were wounded, while a military vehicle was damaged when a road-side bomb blew up targeting an Iraqi Army patrol in Alawiyah area in Baghdad.
Meanwhile, the Iraqi Defense Ministry announced that the Iraqi Army killed three gunmen and detained 64 others in several operations in Iraq. The ministry said in a press release that the Iraqi Army arrested 33 gunmen in Naynawa Province, northern Iraq, most of them from Talafar area nearby the Syrian-Iraqi borders. It added that a gunman was killed and 10 others were arrested in Salahuddine Province in northern Baghdad, noting that weapons caches and explosives were seized in the operation. The press release noted that 20 gunmen were arrested in several operations in the areas of Doura, Dawreyen, and Adhamiyah, while two gunmen were killed in Baghdad. A gunman was also arrested in Anbar Province in western Iraq.
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An Iraqi civilian was killed and three others were wounded in the explosion of two bombs in the northern city of Mosul, an Iraqi police source said. The source said one of the two bombs targeted a convoy of US forces but the explosion killed one person and wounded two others. The second bomb, added the source, took place near Al-Yarmouk Square and wounded one civilian.
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The Shin Bet released for publication Thursday that two Hamas operatives from the Jabalya refugee camp were arrested in April after infiltrating from the Sinai Peninsula. They confessed to planning to establish a terror cell in the West Bank and in Israel, with the goal of kidnapping soldiers and carrying out terror attacks.
The two, Razek Ahmed Mahmad Sha'aban and Gama Ibrahim Issa Aza were caught near Mount Harif in possession of two guns, two grenades and some $2,300. They said that they received instuctions from senior Hamas operatives in the Gaza Strip, who told them that they were to be absorbed into the West Bank. They were apprehended three weeks after another Hamas operative was arrested in Tulkarm on April 29, after being sent to the West Bank from Gaza. He was also planning to begin laying the infrastructure for a new terror cell.
Sha'aban was released in 2002 from an Israeli jail after serving a five year sentence for Hamas membership and involvement in planning terror attacks and kidnappings. During his interrogation he told the Shin Bet that Aza asked for Sha'aban's assistance with his Hamas-sponsered terrorist activities.
After agreeing to the request, head of Hamas in Jabalya Imam Mansur ordered Sha'aban to go to Ramallah with other Gaza-based Hamas operatives to establish a terror cell with the ultimate goal of kidnapping soldiers and carrying out attacks. Mansur told Sha'aban that to reach the Gaza Strip he needed to infiltrate through the Sinai Peninsula and travel to Beersheba, driven by Palestinians illegally residing in the country.
In his interrogation, Aza revealed that the planned West Bank terror cell operated under the direction of the official Hamas leadership. He said that he met with the head of the Hamas military wing in the northern Gaza strip, and another top Hamas operative. "The arrest of these operatives is another example of Hamas's incessant involvement in terrorism," said security officials.
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shut off their money, water, gas, let em cringe and die. They have no moral authority as a government and no standing other than "enemy" til death
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who told them that they were to be absorbed six feet under into the West Bank. ....
Five Palestinians were wounded in the northern Gaza Strip in four separate shooting attacks Thursday, just a day after Hamas and Fatah leaders agreed to stop the chaos that has plagued Gaza. Neither Hamas nor Fatah officials blamed the other side for the violence. The two groups have been in a power struggle since Hamas won January parliamentary elections.
In one attack, two brothers who are Fatah members were moderately wounded when masked men in a car shot at their vehicle between the northern Gaza towns of Jabaliya and Beit Lahiya, hospital officials and witnesses said.
Three Hamas members in different locations in northern Gaza were also shot and wounded, one as he walked to mosque, another as he stood outside his house and the third in a drive by shooting, Hamas officials said.
No one claimed responsibility for any of the attacks. Palestinian security officials said they were investigating the incidents.
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You can always rely on Lord of the Flies in Paleostinestan.
The governing Hamas movement and the former ruling Fatah faction sought to draw a line under intra-Palestinian violence by jointly agreeing on Wednesday to outlaw the carrying of arms by militants. Three people have been killed and more than a dozen wounded since the start of the week in clashes between the factions in Hamas' Gaza Strip stronghold.
Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, the de facto leader of Fatah, and Hamas' premier Ismail Haniya had both issued appeals for calm but the sense of bitterness between the two sides was underscored on Tuesday evening when clashes broke out at funerals for two victims of the violence.
Following the funeral gunfire, Haniya and Fatah representatives met for emergency talks in a bid to put an end to the spiral of bloodshed in a territory where gunmen from a series of armed factions have come to regard themselves as above the law. The two sides emerged in the early hours to announce an agreement that no members of the factions would be able to carry their weapons in public.
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You mo-fos are crazy! We can't trust you with guns....
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With their demonstrated marksmanship, or lack there of, I think 2x4 might have an even bloodier battle on his hands with clubs and knives.
Never happen. Not enough collateral damage from clubs and knives. Can't have a Palestinian Party without innocent bystanders catching rounds and/or shrapnel.
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Well, Rob. They would have the suicide bombers in there to add to the "innocent" bystander count.
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But when you are going a begging for money, banning weapons is enough to allow the donors to rationalize the giving. Enforcement of the ban can then be ignored by all parties.`
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"Hamas, Fatah ban carrying of arms"
GFL with that one....
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Actually, now the IDF can stafe, bomb or otherwise just shoot the hell out of anybody carrying, and the gov't ( yeah, right) of the Paleos can't say anything 'cause they just said you can't carry.
no downside methinks.
The Jordanian security forces have arrested 20 Hamas activists in connection with arms smuggling charges, the governments spokesman Nasser Judeh announced yesterday. He told a press conference that the investigations had revealed that the Hamas men tried to recruit volunteers from the Palestinian territories to receive military training in Syria and Iran.
Comes as a surprise, doesn't it? Hamas just announced its alliance with Iran a few weeks ago...
He said part of the arms smuggled included weapons made in Iran.
Well, I'm floored...
We have discovered new caches of arms and we are searching for others, he added. Judeh made the revelation as a Palestinian intelligence team met with Jordanian officials to discuss evidence about the involvement of Hamas elements in the arms smuggling operation.
I wonder if they'll hear only what they want to hear? Hamas didn't even show up...
The 6-member Palestinian team is led by the Palestinian Intelligence Chief Tareq Abu Rajab and does not include any representatives for the Hamas-led government.
Afraid they'd get arrested, maybe?
We will present the Palestinian delegation with categorical evidence about the involvement of Hamas elements in the smuggling of arms, storing them and trying to target civil and military officials in Jordan, Judeh said.
I'm guessing they've actually got something and that they're cheezed. Not that such things last long in the Muddle East, mind you...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told the Jordanian government earlier this week that the Hamas-led government was unwilling to take part in the political-security Palestinian team which arrived earlier yesterday to take part in the wide-ranging probe into the arms smuggling accusations. However, the Hamas government, which categorically denied the original charges announced by the Jordanian authorities at the end of April, said that such talks should be conducted directly between the Jordanian government and the exiled Hamas leadership.
They're safe in Damascus. They Jordanians would have to go to them, so they couldn't arrest them and toss them in clink...
The senior Palestinian diplomat in Jordan, Atta Khairy, said Abu Rajab was briefed on the facts and shown evidence on the arms smuggling allegedly by Hamas activists. Hamas officials, along with the Syrian government which hosts Hamas exiled leadership have denied the allegations since the caches discovery three weeks ago.
"No, no! Certainly not!"
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"Afraid they'd get arrested, maybe?" Certain They would be arrested.
Jordan watch your 6. Iran has it in for your King and government. Not "islamic" enough by far. Same goes for SA.
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Just remember where the name "Black September" comes from : the Jordanian crushing of the Paleos in the 70s when they threatened the old King. Jordanian security forces are rather good at killing Paleos that overstep their bounds.
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does not include any representatives for the Hamas-led government.
When it comes to "Resistance" groups, Plausible deniability is a real buzz killer for quality recruitment. But hey...Its a long way to the top if ya wanna Rock-n-Roll.
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definitive evidence that Hamas is planning terror acts in Jordan could have severe consequences. In the past theyve just been "militants" motivated by "occupation". As long as they only killed Israelis. But this would make them bona fide, certified, international terrorists, no better than Al Qaeeda. Expect that they will claim that the confessions were all extracted by torture. Hope that the Jordanians have everything very well documented, 100% kosher.
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Could be good news for strangling Hamas as terrorists outright. 'Course, Jordan is going to have to be able to counter the "Lies, damn lies" and "Mossad planted the arms. It was the jooooos!" with evidence solid enough to convince the muslim mind.
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the muslim mind? They either think the Umma is to incompetent to do 9/11 so it must be the Mossad or the Americans did it themselves, or Osama the great did it and is still winning - from his unheated cave in bumfuck pakland....f*cking brainless twits
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ZAMBOANGA, Philippines - The Philippines military said on Thursday it believed a militant Islamic group with links to Al Qaeda was behind the kidnapping of a nine-year-old girl in the southern island of Basilan. Gunmen believed to be Abu Sayyaf rebels abducted Donna May Ramos, the daughter of a village official, along with a friend while they were playing Wednesday, it said. The other girl managed to escape. The girls father is a town councilor in Basilan, a stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf and other armed Muslim groups.
Provincial police chief Superintendent Clifford Gairanud said there were no immediate demands for ransom and the motive for the abduction was unknown.
Local officials have sent intermediaries to negotiate with the abductors.
The Abu Sayyaf, or Bearers of the Sword, is a small group of self-styled Islamic militants blamed for a series of high profile abductions. In 2000, the group kidnapped over a dozen European and Asian hostages and ransoming them off for millions of dollars. A year later, they kidnapped a group of tourists, along with three Americans. Two of the American hostages died -- one of them beheaded shortly after the abduction, the other during a rescue attempt a year later. The third was rescued after a year in captivity in Basilans jungles.
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"Islamic Lions of the Jungle" - kidnapping pedophiles
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Local officials have sent intermediaries to negotiate with the abductors.
How much is that puppy hostage in the window? The one who looks like she's nine years old....
Zamboanga City, 11 May (AKI) - A court in the Philippines has granted a plea by Nur Misuari, founder of the Moro National Liberation Front, to be placed under house arrest. The court also allowed Misuari, who has been in prison for five years on charges of rebellion, his request to seek medical attention. Despite being well-received, the news of the court decision did not satisfy Ulka Ulama, one of Misuari's lawyers, who told Adnkronos International (AKI) his client's detention was illegal and predicted that Misuari will be released soon. He said freeing the former rebel leader will be useful for the peace process in the region.
According to Ulama, Manila does not have any legal basis for keeping Misuari in prison, or any proof or testimonies to win the case in court. "In the first place the provision of the Filipino legal system for a speedy trial to take place within two years has already been violated," said Ulama. "Moreover, the government has already admitted that it is lacking evidence and witnesses for the trial," he said.
Misuari is the founder and leader of the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) the rebel group in the south of the Philippines which first appeared in 1972 struggling for the creation of a Moro Nation. Followers of Islam - called Moros or Moors by the Spanish - make up a sizeable population of Mindanao. Under Misuari's leadership, the MNLF signed a peace accord with Manila and laid down its arms accepting partial autonomy of the region in 1996. Part of the agreement saw the formation of the Autononomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) in four provinces of the island. Misuari was made the governor of ARMM.
Problems arose however when it became clear that the ARMM was unable to resolve the economic problems of the minority Muslims. That led to a break-up of the MNLF and the split between Misuari and Manila which accused Misuari of having backed down from the promises made at the time the peace accord was signed.
Manila also accused Misuari of having led rebellion at a military camp in Jolo, in November 2001 which led to the deaths of 100 people. Misuari fled to Malaysia, where he was arrested and deported back to the Philippines.
Requests have been made on several occasion for Misuari's release both by the Organisation of Islamic Conference and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the rebel group formed in 1977 as a break-away of the MNLF.
According to Ulama, Misuari's release will also be important for the peace process currently underway in the region. "There still are many Misuaris diehards in the forests of Jolo," said Ulama. "If he were to be released, it is quite likely that they would return home avoiding further clashes and further victims," he said.
Why? It looks like they're winning
According to Philippines armed forces, Misuari's followers are still in the forest, operating together with the Abu Sayyaf, a radical Islamic group that was formed from a cell within the MNLF in 1991 and is now considered a terrorist organisation by Washington, Brussels and Manila. The accusations have been rejected by the MNLF which instead blames the military for carrying out indisciminate attacks. Amid the mutual accusations sporadic clashes continue between the MNLF and the army continue in Jolo.
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"Oops... Looks like he tripped and fell, accidentally shooting himself in the back of the head six times... Kinda like Aquino..."
At least 17 Sri Lankan sailors and 50 Tamil Tiger rebels were reported killed Thursday in a fierce sea battle off the island's north - an action that possibly took the country closer to a return to civil war.
I'm not sure you could get any closer
Tamil rebels sank a navy fast-attack craft by ramming it with a boat loaded with explosives, military spokesman PD K Dassanayake said, adding that the navy vessel was among escorts for a ship transporting 710 soldiers. "We lost a Dvora [fast-attack craft] but managed to save Pearl Cruise II and the 710 men aboard it," Dassanayake said. At least 17 Sri Lankan sailors and 50 rebels died in the 2-hour battle.
Other military officials said the transporter sustained light damage and was sheltering in Indian waters after the confrontation.
According to Sri Lanka's military, it sank five rebel boats in immediate retaliation for the sinking of the navy craft, which happened as a convoy moved army personnel from Point Pedro in the northern peninsula of Jaffna to the northeastern port of Trincomalee. Other reports were that the navy had lost two of its fast-attack craft.
Sri Lanka's air force scrambled fighter jets and helicopter gunships to the area in the worst outbreak of trouble since a 2002 cease-fire halted two decades of civil war that claimed at least 60,000 lives. "The air force has bombed our territory, but nothing has fallen here," said rebel media coordinator Daya Master from Kilinochchi town. "We have no word on casualties yet."
Aid workers in Kilinochchi said they had heard one loud explosion nearby, though the sea battle was about 50 kilometers from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam's northern stronghold.
"Our monitors saw several Tiger boats attacking the troop transporter and firing," said Helen Olafsdottir, spokeswoman for the unarmed Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission. "We have a monitor on that boat." Olafsdottir also said two of the government's Israeli-built fast-attack boats had been sunk.
The Tigers, who are fighting for a separate homeland for ethnic Tamils in the north and east, have withdrawn from peace talks indefinitely, warning ominously on Tuesday that Sri Lanka was moving towards the "fringes" of war. In a separate incident in the island's restive eastern district of Trincomalee, the military said rebels had fired mortars and bursts of gunfire at a navy post but no one had been hurt.
The violence comes after a rash of attacks in April, one of the bloodiest months of the island's four-year cease- fire, and just a day after a Japanese peace envoy left the island after an abortive bid to coax the Tigers to return to peace talks. Bombings and land and sea clashes have killed more than 200 people in the past month. The Tigers and the majority- Sinhalese government each accuse the other of ethnically motivated attacks.
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Sounds like the Navy wasn't maintaining very effective war watches on the escorts, though there's not enough detail in the story to say for sure.
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May 11, 2006 - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels today sank two navy gunboats in separate incidents and were firing at a ferry transporting some 700 troops, a spokesman for the Scandinavian truce monitors said. The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) sank a fast attack craft escorting MV Pearl Cruiser, which is carrying 700 soldiers off the island's north, and another gunboat at Point Pedro, Helen Olafsdottir said. "They are now attacking Pearl Cruiser and are putting the lives of our monitors in danger," Olafsdottir said, adding that members of the Scandinavian Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission had three close calls today.
Just how crappy a navy does Sri Lanka have anyway?
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Crappy navy, their personnels are known also for much atrocities. At the start of this mad war, an indiscipline SL army sparked it off when they killed and raped a nearby village after a landmind killed a few of their their comrades in the eighties. The government side was/is no less blameworthy.
How else could an honor guard(later) once broke rank and attacked Rajiv Gandhi with his rifle butt on a parade ground. That disciplined!
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Attacking an escorted troop carrier sounds like a standard scenario in Harpoon. Maybe the Sri Lankans should allocate part of their military budget for a couple of copies.
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It isnt just the Russians and the Germans Irans major suppliers who would be hit hard by any success by Washington to use economic sanctions to force Teheran to end its nuclear weapons efforts.
The most critical item would be Irans gasoline imports, running at about half its consumption. And India supplies about 15 percent of that market totaling some $4.5 billion a year and rising rapidly despite the Mullahs public declarations to restrain it. In fact, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad publicly announced Iran might face rationing from September after the Majlis voted only a six-month appropriation for imports. The peasants depend upon the $0.36/gallon gas to keep them happy. Start rationing it, and you get a pi$$ed-off populace, with the MMs winding up on lamp posts or in Switzerland.
Although Iran is the worlds third or fourth largest crude oil exporter, years of mismanagement, the effect of the U.S. unilateral sanctions and a sharply rising consumption pattern have reduced its refining capacity to cope with demand. Gasoline imports now amount to 10 percent of its crude oil export revenues. Because of the low subsidized price of gasoline some estimate that 20 percent of imports are smuggled out to neighboring countries, even including war-torn Iraq.
The gasoline imports are critical, not only for motorists but for the truck transport, which carries Irans imports inland from the Persian Gulf ports. Iran is, for example, deficit in its stable grain, rice.
About a quarter of Irans gas imports come from other Persian Gulf producers and smaller amounts come from as far away as China and Brazil cargo on incoming tankers loading up with crude.
India has been toying with the possibility of a natural gas pipeline from Iran, which would help meet its own growing energy needs, with 70 percent of oil now being imported. Washington has publicly condemned the project with both New Delhi and Islamabad it would have to cross Indias feuding partner, Pakistan publicly saying they would go ahead. But even Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has said publicly financing for such a huge project might not be available if it faced U.S. opposition.
Meanwhile, Reliance Industries Ltd. has been pumping out product for Iran from its huge refinery near Mumbai [Bombay], one of the largest in the world. In the face of opposition from Indias monopoly state-owned oil company, the Ambani family built the $3.4 billion refinery six years ago as its cornerstone in an effort to create a privately owned Indian integrated oil company against the opposition of Indias monopolistic state-owned company. The Ambanis, among the worlds richest industrialists, carry great weight in Indias complicated political scene. It would sure benefit the whole world if the MMs were toppled from power. The middle east could really take off. Only problem is that some other nutcase would take over the helm.
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That's why I keep saying that Iran should be partitioned. Nothing else will prevent a unified Iran from achieving what the man on the street wants: a nuclear weapon.
Only when Iran is reduced to just Persia will some balance return to the region.
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It would sure benefit the whole world if the MMs were toppled from power. The middle east could really take off. Only problem is that some other nutcase would take over the helm.
With the hard core Turbans in charge along with their apprat the change will be nothing if not bloody.
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gasoline won't go away if Iran is too crippled to receive it..."fungible" anyone?
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There is one word that describes this Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline idea: DUMB
You only need to read Pak newspapers to understand why. It is primarily seen as providing "leverage".
leverage.. as in "give us Kashmir or give us Junagadh or give us Hyderabad or we'll cut off the supply".
Indian industry gets reliant on this gas and then pressures the Indian government the next time there is a Pak sponsored terror attack.
So the pipeline will constrain any Indian response to terror.
The other problem is the transit fees- 600 million dollars by some accounts.
This is not 600 million going into the treasury of say Jamaica. It is 600 million into the Pak treasury. That means it will be used for Jihad.
So the Jihad in India becomes self financing. India directly funds the terror against it.
Then you have the tribals - the bugtis and mazaris who just love to blow up pipelines.
Zero energy security.
Then you have Iran, which does not honor agreements - it now wants to renegotiate the LNG contracts it made with India.
Iran refuses to provide "rich" gas - which India desires because it can be used as feedstock for plastic manufacturing etc. Iran wants to supply gas fit only for thermal power plants.
DUMB
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agreed, John. Why would they allow it, much less encourage it? Perhaps we can route US oil wells in the Gulf through Cuba before it reaches our shores...just about as dumb
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The more I see the MMs making crazy through their Adminijacket mouthpiece, the more that I marvel at their vulnerability to be toppled and become lamp post festoons.
If Iranian crude stops flowing through sanctions, then the price goes up and everyone adjusts for a while. Then Reliance Industries, Ltd. over in India will have to find another source of crude feedstock for their refineries to replace M2C (Mad Mullah Crude). The MMs lose their low cost gasoline "soma" that keeps the masses at bay and they go apesh*t.
The Iranian Mullocracy is a deck of cards waiting to come down. But it will require our will to make it happen.
John---I agree with your assessment of a Pak pipeline from Iran to India. It will be nothing but a big baksheeh hole. Hell, it probably will be 1000 psi or so at the beginning, and by the time it gets to India, it will be 100 psi swamp gas. Talk about India outsourcing their energy security to the Paks! The whole idea is beyond stupid. But this is the ME, so it is SOP.
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Hat tip to Jihad Watch:Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Thursday that his letter to President George W. Bush did not concern the nuclear dossier, but rather was an invitation to Islam and the prophets culture. He made the above remarks in reply to a reporter while attending press conference on his letter to President Bush in Jakarta in the afternoon of the third day of his stay in Jakarta.
Stressing that the letter was beyond the nuclear issue, the chief executive said that in principle, the country's nuclear case is not so significant to make him write a letter about it.
"We act according to laws and our activities are quite clear. We are rather intent on solving more fundamental global matters.
"The letter was an invitation to monotheism and justice, which are common to all divine prophets. If the call is responded positively, there will be no more problems to be solved," added the president.
The president said that the letter actually contained a clear message of invitation to human beliefs, adding that its response will determine the future. From Robert Spencer at Jihad Watch: "Both bolded statements suggest that the letter was indeed the call to Islam that must precede any attack, in accord with Muhammad's words (in Sahih Muslim 4294) about inviting the unbelievers to accept Islam or dhimmitude and fighting him only if he refuses both. We shall see."
Lock and load
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"Both bolded statements suggest that the letter was indeed the call to Islam that must precede any attack, in accord with Muhammad's words (in Sahih Muslim 4294) about inviting the unbelievers to accept Islam or dhimmitude and fighting him only if he refuses both. We shall see."
That was one of the first things I thought of after reading parts of the letter. Learning about OBL's past messages were very instructive in that regard.
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"invitation to monotheism"? Gee that's interesting, since Both Judaism and Christianity are MONOTHEISTIC repligions which predate Islam by hundreds if not thousands of years. What a f*cking idiot.
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My take on the letter was that Mahmoud seemed to insist that Christians, as followers of Jesus are actually muslims anyway because Jesus is a prophet of Allan. So we're all muslims anyway and just haven't accepted that. This whole democracy thing is a the result of denying our true religion. And the sooner we realize we are muslims and embrace islam, the sooner Mahmoud's Mahdi pops out of his well.
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I wonder if his psychology is that he has to offer conversion before killing someone? If so, his letter might represent a death threat before an actual attempt.
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I wonder if his psychology is that he has to offer conversion before killing someone? If so, his letter might represent a death threat before an actual attempt.
That's all it is, 'moose. This sick fu&k is out to kill us and is merely following the prescribed protocols. We need to snuff this wingnut's @ss ASAP. This is no lauging matter. Ahmadinejad is almost a greater threat than Osama bin Laden. After all, which one is serious about getting some nukes?
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I was just another delecration of a 30 year old war that may hot up soon, or not.
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"invitation to monotheism"? Gee that's interesting, since Both Judaism and Christianity are MONOTHEISTIC repligions which predate Islam by hundreds if not thousands of years. What a f*cking idiot.
Nope. As far as mainstream Islam is concerned, Christianity is not a monotheistic faith. Oh, it WAS, in its original form, which was indistinguishable from Islam. But once people started buying into that whole "Son of God" and "Resurrection" stuff, it stopped being the True Faith and became a big ass lie. Let's not even go into the whole Trinity...
I did read it as a demand to accept Islam.
That's what it was. Dawaa; the call to Islam. It's required before you can attack.
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My point is, what if he meant that letter to be a personal threat to Bush? As in, prior to an assassination attempt.
Come to think of it, a multi-person, 9-11 style, violent and destructive, if unsuccessful assassination attempt would really open some doors for the US internationally, as far as causus belli are concerned.
Russia and China would be politely told to STFU if the Iranians tried to kill Bush, and it would be Wang Chung tonight as far as our fleet was concerned.
President Ahmadinejad's letter to President Bush, widely interpreted as a peaceful overture, is in fact a declaration of war. The key sentence in the letter is the closing salutation. In an eight-page text of the letter being circulated by the Council on Foreign Relations, it is left untranslated and rendered as "Vasalam Ala Man Ataba'al hoda." What this means is "Peace only unto those who follow the true path."
It is a phrase with historical significance in Islam, for, according to Islamic tradition, in year six of the Hejira - the late 620s - the prophet Mohammad sent letters to the Byzantine emperor and the Sassanid emperor telling them to convert to the true faith of Islam or be conquered. The letters included the same phrase that President Ahmadinejad used to conclude his letter to Mr. Bush. For Mohammad, the letters were a prelude to a Muslim offensive, a war launched for the purpose of imposing Islamic rule over infidels.
Sobering.
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That's right. Since the mohamedans can't do anything original, this is just Ahmadinejad's letter to Heraclitus with Geo Bush starring as Heraclitus.
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Air Force Fighters Strike Enemy Caves in Afghanistan
The Dutch Army's Apache attack helicopters have arrived at an air base in the southern city of Kandahar ahead of their deployment to Tirin Kot, capital of volatile Uruzgan province, where around 1,200 extra Dutch are due in the coming weeks. Two-hundred-and-forty Australian troops will soon be deployed to Afghanistan as part of the Dutch-led international mission. The helicopter's initial mission will be to cover deployment convoys to Tirin Kot and eventually to Deh Rawood district, says Lieutenant Colonel Coos Duinhof, commander of the helicopter wing, on the tarmac of Kandahar base.
Amid heightened threats from president Ahmadinejad, Tehran opens a back door into Israel for its penetration-cum-terror agents: Sudan to the Negev. DEBKAfiles intelligence sources reveal that two Iranian Revolutionary Guards companies were dropped at Khartoums military airfield May 2 by a C-130 transport and driven to a secret military installation on the outskirts of the Sudanese capital. Their arrival signals the onset of an Iranian military airlift to Sudan of a fully equipped RG brigade with armor, a major escalation of the clandestine Iranian threat to Egypt and Israel alike. 
The fighting in Siisii area in north Mogadishu has intensified around 6:00 local time and left more people mostly civilian dead and others injured, while fresh fighting between militia loyal to union of Islamic courts and those linked with anti-terror alliance of warlords has broken out in Wahar-adde village of Hurwaa district of north Mogadishu on Wednesday. There is no immediate word over the causalities of the latest clashes and it is too hard to find out the exact death toll. But one person has been killed by mortar shell that has fallen into his house in Tokyo village in Yaqshid district of north Mogadishu. The mortar shell has also killed four cows in the village. 
The boss of a Russian mafia gang wanted in Spain in connection with a multi-million euro money laundering scam has been arrested in Dubai. 
Sagir murder accused killed in 'crossfire'
A BRISBANE high school teacher was not a terrorist and had a "completely plausible" explanation for the stockpile of explosives found at his home by police, his lawyer said today. 
Denmark's most prominent Muslim leader, who led criticism of a Danish newspaper that published drawings of the Prophet Muhammad, has decided to leave the country, the daily reported Thursday. 
Three young Arabs went on trial in Germany Tuesday for allegedly forming a cell of the Qaeda terrorist network. Ibrahim Mohamed K, 30, earlier termed an Iraqi but now believed to be Syrian, allegedly recruited young men to become suicide bombers. He allegedly persuaded two Palestinian brothers, Yasser Abu-S, 32, and Ismail Abu-S, 29, to help him commit insurance fraud. Ibrahim Mohamed K trained at an al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan, met al-Qaeda's chief, Osama bin Laden, and stayed in Afghanistan till July 2002 to fight US forces there, the indictment said. 
LAHORE: An anti terrorism court on Wednesday granted bail to Dr Sarfraz Naeemi, the Tahaffuz-e-Namoos-e-Risalat Movement (TNRM) chief, in four cases registered against him. The court directed him to furnish bail bonds of Rs 50,000 for each case. The Lahore Police had registered cases against Naeemi on February 14 for provocation, arson and vandalising public and private property in the city during protests against the publication of cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad (
For the third straight day, coalition aircrews targeted an abandoned train station in Ramadi today, military officials in Iraq reported. Coalition forces have delivered precision munitions at the same train station multiple times in the past three days in response to hostile insurgent activity, officials said, adding that the station is a known hub of insurgent activity. Officials did not provide a casualty or damage assessment.
Up to 11 people were killed and six others were wounded Wednesday in an ambush in Diyala province in north east Baghdad, the Iraqi police said. A source in the joint coordination center said in a press release that a bus of workers stopped near a car that was parked on a roadside in Diyala with human bodies inside. The source added that a bomb planted inside the vehicle blew up when one of the workers went to check the car.
Gunmen assassinated early on Wednesday a chief of criminal intelligence in the town of Baacouba northeast of the capital, a source of the Iraqi Interior Ministry said. The source told KUNA the gunmen gunned down Kenaan Hassan and two bodyguards while the trio were heading to the work office in the town.
Up to 27 armed men were arrested during wide-scale raid operations in several areas across Diyala province northeast Baghdad, the Iraqi police said on Wednesday. An Iraqi police source said in a press release Wednesday that joint US-Iraqi forces stormed several villages in south Baqouba during which 27 militants were arrested, including suspects wanted by the Iraqi government. The source added that huge amounts of weapons and explosives were also confiscated. According to the source, the operations were backed up by US army helicopters.
Three Iraqi civilians were wounded on Wednesday in Kirkuk, northern Iraq. Iraqi police sources in Kirkuk told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that an explosive device blew up nearby a gas station in central kirkuk, wounding a woman while in her residence. A similar attack took place on a road in western Kirkuk that targeted a civilian vehicle, wounding two Iraqi citizens.
Five Palestinians were wounded in the northern Gaza Strip in four separate shooting attacks Thursday, just a day after Hamas and Fatah leaders agreed to stop the chaos that has plagued Gaza. Neither Hamas nor Fatah officials blamed the other side for the violence. The two groups have been in a power struggle since Hamas won January parliamentary elections. 
The governing Hamas movement and the former ruling Fatah faction sought to draw a line under intra-Palestinian violence by jointly agreeing on Wednesday to outlaw the carrying of arms by militants. Three people have been killed and more than a dozen wounded since the start of the week in clashes between the factions in Hamas' Gaza Strip stronghold.
The Jordanian security forces have arrested 20 Hamas activists in connection with arms smuggling charges, the governments spokesman 
May 11, 2006 - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels today sank two navy gunboats in separate incidents and were firing at a ferry transporting some 700 troops, a spokesman for the Scandinavian truce monitors said. The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) sank a fast attack craft escorting MV Pearl Cruiser, which is carrying 700 soldiers off the island's north, and another gunboat at Point Pedro, Helen Olafsdottir said. "They are now attacking Pearl Cruiser and are putting the lives of our monitors in danger," Olafsdottir said, adding that members of the Scandinavian Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission had three close calls today. 
