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-Lurid Crime Tales-
More decapitations in Acapulco
Somehow I missed the first 4. What is this, the latest trend among thugs? Coming to a neighborhood near you - your gang can step up to the latest in violence ....
Authorities found two more human heads in front of a government office in Acapulco on Friday, accompanied with threatening messages linked to the drug trade.

The new discovery brings to six the number of severed heads found in the resort city this year.

The heads were dumped in front of the Guerrero state Finance Department with a note that read, "One more message, dirtbags, so that you learn to respect."

Authorities were trying to determine if the heads belonged to two decapitated bodies discovered Friday in a vacant lot on the edge of Acapulco, near the small beach community of Pie de La Cuesta.

Neither the heads nor the bodies have been identified.

On Thursday, police found the head of a former Mexican soldier, Hugo Carpio Garcia, by the main entrance to City Hall with a similar note signed by "Z." Authorities said it refers to "Las Zetas," a group of former elite Mexican soldiers who now work for the Gulf drug cartel.

Earlier this month, a severed human head washed up on the beach in the heart of Acapulco's tourist zone.

In April, the heads of two decapitated police officers were left in front of the Guerrero state Finance Department with a note that also warned, "So that you learn to respect." Four drug traffickers were killed during a shootout with law enforcement outside the office earlier this year.

Acapulco, located 180 miles southwest of Mexico City, has been shaken this year by more than a dozen high-profile gun slayings as well as several grenade attacks on police stations. Federal investigators link the violence to a turf war between drug gangs in northern Mexico for lucrative smuggling routes into the United States.
Posted by: lotp || 07/01/2006 14:55 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Somehow I missed the first 4. What is this, the latest trend among thugs? Coming to a neighborhood near you - your gang can step up to the latest in violence ....

Distance learning.
Posted by: xbalanke || 07/01/2006 15:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Mexican drug gangs are having a turf war with the recent arrests of Arrellano Felix leaders in Tijuana. This is a way of sending a message...
Posted by: Frank G || 07/01/2006 15:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Mexico had better start to reconsider its opposition to the death penalty, and soon. It is not impossible that they could return to the utter horror of their Civil War.

To recap, Mexico under Porfirio Diaz was like Iran under the Shah, pushed to modern development too quickly. But unlike Iran, when Mexico fell apart, it was like the Spanish Civil War--a horrific bloodbath.

Almost a million people were butchered in eleven years of chaos. It ended because of the PRI party and its iron fisted approach.

Any civil war today would not be a popular uprising, but more like gangs oppress the people of Iraq. Literally a war against the government and the people.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/01/2006 16:37 Comments || Top||

#4  I can hear Elvis singing now: "Acapulco. De-cap-i-ta-tion."
Posted by: anymouse || 07/01/2006 19:53 Comments || Top||

#5  Authorities were trying to determine if the heads belonged to two decapitated bodies discovered Friday in a vacant lot on the edge of Acapulco, near the small beach community of Pie de La Cuesta.

No, they probably belong to two other decapitated bodies. Sheesh.
Posted by: Chearong Unoper9371 || 07/01/2006 23:12 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
20 dead in fresh Afghan violence
(KUNA) -- Fighting between Taliban and Afghan and coalition forces in southern and eastern Afghanistan claimed at least 20 lives and injured several others on Friday. Separately, the US-led coalition forces said they had arrested eight suspected Taliban during a raid in Kandahar carried out as part of the massive "Operation Mountain Thrust."

In the eastern and remote province of Nuristan, the US forces attacked a Taliban compound in the Kamdesh area which resulted in killing of 14 militants. A statement by the coalition forces said they had located the insurgents traveling in the area with Kalashnikovs and rocket-propelled grenades. As the armed militants entered their compound, the coalition forces stormed it. Two buildings were fully destroyed in the raid and later 14 bodies of Taliban were recovered, said the military statement.

In the southern Helmand province, the coalition forces, in collaboration with Afghan police, clashed with Taliban and killed four of them. The statement said the joint patrol of Afghan police and coalition forces was attacked by Taliban. In the neighbouring province of Kandahar, the coalition forces said they had arrested eight suspected Taliban and killed one during a raid on their hideout last night. The raid was part of the ongoing "Operation Mountain Thrust" and was jointly conducted by the Afghan and coalition forces. The military statement said the detainees were involved in planning and carrying out attacks on coalition and Afghan forces in Kandahar and Helmand.
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Posted by: Fred || 07/01/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I count 19 Taliban and one innocent bystander in this article.
Posted by: Glenmore || 07/01/2006 15:27 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
U.S. says funds flow in from Saudi Arabia to Somalia
So much for the secrecy of tracking these moneys
WASHINGTON, June 29 (Reuters) - Funds are flowing into Somalia from Saudi Arabia and Yemen to support the Islamic Courts movement that seized the capital Mogadishu this month, said a senior U.S. official on Thursday.

The State Department's point person on Africa, Jendayi Frazer, told a hearing on Capitol Hill that the United States and others were reaching out to the Arab League about the flow of funds into Somalia from Arab countries.

"I don't want to say the Saudi government is supporting any particular (Islamic) court but I do know that there is money coming in from Saudi Arabia," Frazer told the House of Representatives International Relations Committee.

"There is money coming in from Yemen and arms from Eritrea and other places (into Somalia)," she said, adding that some of the funds came from Somali businessmen based in Saudi Arabia.

Asked what the United States was doing to put pressure on Saudi Arabia to curb the flow of funds, she said "we definitely want to reach out to the governments of Saudi Arabia, Yemen and others in the Middle East."

Frazer said conflicting messages were coming from the Islamic courts, which has extended its power outside of the capital, with its "moderate face" Sheikh Sharif Ahmed writing a conciliatory letter to Washington.

However hard-line cleric Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, who is on a U.S. list of al Qaeda associates and was named head of the Council of the Islamic Courts last weekend, had showed "aggression" towards the United States, she said.

The rise of Aweys has alarmed the United States, which fears the Islamists want to establish Taliban-style rule in Somalia, despite repeated denials by Ahmed.

The United States has been criticized for its support of a group of self-styled anti-terrorism warlords who were driven from Mogadishu by the Islamists on June 5.

Frazer defended U.S. policy and said the main goal was to ensure Somalia did not become a haven for terrorists, in addition to boosting the credibility of the transitional government which is too weak to enter the capital.

She said the United States would also encourage dialogue between the transitional government and the Islamic Courts.

"The strategic objective here is to prevent an attack on Baidoa," said Frazer, referring to the southern provincial town where the interim government is based.

Pressed on whether the United States would deal directly with the Islamists, she said it was important that Washington not help create an alternative to the transitional government.

"Opening a dialogue there is not necessarily in our interests," said Frazer.

Earlier this week, the State Department made clear that it would have no dealings with Aweys but would reserve judgment on dealing with the group as a whole.
Posted by: Sherry || 07/01/2006 14:10 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The United States has been criticized for its support of a group of self-styled anti-terrorism warlords who were driven from Mogadishu by the Islamists on June 5.


Criticized by who? The press and our enemies, but, of course, I repeat myself. Nobody we should listen to has criticized anything by name....anonymous statements like this are bias masquerading as journalism. We should've done more, now we have another Taliban state to deal with. Kill em
Posted by: Frank G || 07/01/2006 14:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Follow the money. Identify the financiers. Take them and their money out of circulation. No fanfare, no hearings. End of story. Saudi Arabia is our enemy. They and Iran back terrorism with money. There is only one way to stop terrorism, and the Israelis are trying to do it, hesitantly. We will not win this war unless we have the will to do the dirty work needed to get the job done.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/01/2006 15:18 Comments || Top||

#3  I think we could end this war much faster if we just wacked the money men instead of watching them root and grow forever and a day.

This is my pet peeve. I understand the benefit of watching to see whose who - but there is a benefit to eventually doing something in a timely manner beside just watching somemore. But you could never convince law enforcement about that.
Posted by: 2b || 07/01/2006 15:22 Comments || Top||

#4  2b---I feel your pain. This is war, not law enforcement. People do not understand this. We do not have enough law enforcement resources do deal with terrorists. The terrorists will always be on the offense and we will be on defense with the law enforcement mindset.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/01/2006 15:54 Comments || Top||

#5 
I can think of someplace where we could test some of these older nukes. Like the Magic Kingdom for starters.

What do the Saudi's have to do, take out an ad in the NYT? Seriously, what does it take for sane people to realize that these cave people are our enemies.

That's assuming there are any sane people in our Government. That haven't been bought by the Saudi's... Time for a house cleaning.
Posted by: Manolo || 07/01/2006 16:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Here's an alternative. There is no way that we can ever convince the Saudis that sending money somewhere to back Moslems is bad, so let's make them a deal.

They have lots of men that are unemployed. Not radicals, just guys who need work. So we say to the Saudis that if their money goes somewhere, so do Saudis to make sure it is spent properly, and not on radicals.

There are tons of legitimate uses for their money that we would have no objection to. In fact, the only people who would object are those that would misuse, even by Saudi standards, their money.

If nothing else, it would create accountability of the flow of funds, with the US as auditor.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/01/2006 16:59 Comments || Top||

#7  And if they don't spend the money wisely we'll Nuke 'em.
Posted by: 6 || 07/01/2006 18:53 Comments || Top||

#8  So we say to the Saudis that if their money goes somewhere, so do Saudis to make sure it is spent properly, and not on radicals

If .com were here, he'd tell you that Saudi men with any status at all don't work.
Posted by: lotp || 07/01/2006 18:55 Comments || Top||

#9  We could easily blockade the banks through which the money flows, as we are doing to the P.A. and such, as a preliminary step. (Did we ever get around to doing that to the Taliban when they ruled Afghanistan?) Freezing financial accounts strikes me as a legitimate step, too. Murdering another country's citizens, especially in-country, even more especially in the numbers likely required by the evidence, isn't a good starting point. Let's save that for when we'e ready to openly declare war on Saudi Arabia, after the Iran threat is neutralized.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/01/2006 19:46 Comments || Top||

#10  Even better - hack their accounts annd empty them
Posted by: Frank G || 07/01/2006 20:09 Comments || Top||

#11  That's the ticket, we jus need some dialogue with the terrs @ Islamic court.
Posted by: Captain America || 07/01/2006 20:38 Comments || Top||

#12  Question: Does the State Department intentionally recruit people without a spine or do they lose it after they've worked there a while?

Never read so many weasel words before...sheesh
Posted by: Captain America || 07/01/2006 20:42 Comments || Top||

#13  Check with the NYT and let them debunk this story. Terrorist money transfers indeed!
Posted by: Inspector Clueso || 07/01/2006 22:37 Comments || Top||


Britain
Six Iraqis in British anti-terror row 'linked to Al Qaeda'
Six Iraqis at the heart of a dispute over Britain's anti-terrorist legislation are allegedly linked to Al Qaeda in Iraq and were sent to Britain to carry out attacks, two newspapers said Friday. Unnamed government sources told The Guardian and The Times that the men had been detained in November and December last year in central and northern England on suspicion of planning a bombing campaign against British targets. The six suspects, who have not been named, are thought to have been sent to Britain by the late leader of Al Qaeda in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

After being picked up by the authorities, the men were placed under highly restrictive control orders. This meant they were kept under 18-hour curfews, amounting to virtual house arrest in one-bedroom flats. The future of such control orders was called into question Wednesday, however, when the High Court quashed the restraints on the six Iraqis. A spokesman for Home Secretary John Reid, said he "strongly disagreed" with the judgment and would seek to overturn it on appeal. The six Iraqi men arrived in Britain as asylum seekers.
Posted by: Fred || 07/01/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Cuddly little terrs
Posted by: Captain America || 07/01/2006 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Man bites dog!
Posted by: gromgoru || 07/01/2006 6:34 Comments || Top||

#3  The robed radical left-wingers disguised as judges are going to get a lot of people killed.
Posted by: Clolutle Slans5753 || 07/01/2006 8:35 Comments || Top||


Europe
Two Turkish forces killed, five injured in landmine blast
(KUNA) -- Two Turkish soldiers were killed and five injured in a landmine explosion in southeast of Turkey, in an attack attributed to the Kurdish rebels, Ihlas news agency reported Friday. Ihlas quoted security sources as saying an army patrol stepped on the landmine in the Bungol province. A group of Kurdish rebels attacked last night a security forces center in Bungol and exchanged fire with the government troops.
Posted by: Fred || 07/01/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: WoT
Free Download: Al-Qaeda's Plans For America
The West Point Counter Terrorism Center has translated a captured al-Qaeda document, and has posted a download link to the book.

It is more comprehensive than the "Al-Qaeda Manual." Frankly, based on what I read, we should deport (stripping citenship if necessary) anyone who credible witnesses say, expressed support for al-Qaeda. I re-call a Paki co-worker telling non-Muslims, "We support Osama (bin Laden) because he is the only one doing anything for us." I would broaden counter-terror legislation, to prohibit comments like that.
Posted by: Anginens Threreng8133 || 07/01/2006 13:08 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  O people! The viciousness of the Russian soldier is twice that of the
American soldier. If the Americans suffer one tenth of the casualties the
Russians suffered in Afghanistan and Chechnya, they will flee and never
look back. That is because the current structure of the American and
Western armies is not the same as their structure during the colonial era.
They have reached a stage of effeminacy that makes them unable to sustain
battles for a long period of time, a weakness they compensate for with a
deceptive media halo.
—Abu Bakr Naji, The Management of Barbarism,1 2004


Interesting jihadi document
Posted by: Jesing Ebbease3087 || 07/01/2006 19:56 Comments || Top||

#2  Very interesting, Anginens Threreng8133 -- thanks! I saved the url to finish later. One comment though -- it's important to read this with the eye not only to what the AQ writer believes, but to external reality. For instance, the writer waxes indignant that the Egyptian people turned against Islamic Jihad in Egypt after the government publicized the incidental murder of a schoolgirl resulting from a failed attempt to assassinate the Prime Minister, feeling the people shouldn't have believed gov't propaganda about the danger such jihadi actions posed to them instead of trusting jihadi good intentions. In another example, this AQ writer believes Western military action on Arab soil, eg the invasion of Iraq, can only redound to the benefit of AQ, as the entire people will turn to them to evict the kaffir, and as the myth of Western military superiority proves unfounded. This ignores the fissured nature of Iraqi society as each person negotiates a variety of loyalties (and hatreds), dangers and opportunities. For instance, how does the growth and growing effectiveness of the various Iraqi army and police forces figure in to the situation?

AQ's philosophy, beliefs and plans are a reality that must be accepted and dealt with, and such translations help us do it. But that is only a small part of the whole, and they don't seem -- in Iraq at least, to be dealing very well with the reality we brought with us to the world they plan to own. How will they react, for instance, when the Iraqi Prime Minister mockingly quotes from such writings as this, highlighting where they've failed? Or the interrogator at the internment center that isn't Guantanamo?
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/01/2006 20:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Trailing Wife:
Good points. For a critical take on Muslim "Hadith" (sayings of the 2-bit "prophet") you might want to download this book:
Posted by: Anginens Threreng8133 || 07/01/2006 21:45 Comments || Top||

#4  Link didn't take. Can cut and paste this one.

http://www.voi.org/books/uith/
Posted by: Anginens Threreng8133 || 07/01/2006 21:47 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Baluchis blow up Pakistan railway track to Iran
QUETTA, Pakistan - Suspected tribal militants, fighting for greater political and economic autonomy, blew up a railway line linking southwestern Pakistan to Iran early on Saturday, a railway official said.

Four bombs exploded at the railway track near the town of Noshki in southern Baluchistan province several hours before the train bound for the Iranian border town of Zahedan was due to pass. Noshki is 60 miles (100 km) southwest of Quetta, capital of Baluchistan. “The train was stopped shortly after it left Quetta. No one was hurt in the blast,” Mohmmad Mushtaq, a senior railway official in Quetta, told Reuters.

He said a fifth bomb remained unexploded and efforts were being made to defuse it.

No one claimed responsibility for the blasts but the government has previously blamed Baluch militants for such attacks.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/01/2006 23:57 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Militants blow up Pakistan railway track to Iran
Suspected tribal militants, fighting for greater political and economic autonomy, blew up a railway line linking southwestern Pakistan to Iran early on Saturday, a railway official said.

Four bombs exploded at the railway track near the town of Noshki in southern Baluchistan province several hours before the train bound for the Iranian border town of Zahedan was due to pass. Noshki is 60 miles southwest of Quetta, capital of Baluchistan.

"The train was stopped shortly after it left Quetta. No one was hurt in the blast," Mohmmad Mushtaq, a senior railway official in Quetta, told Reuters.

He said a fifth bomb remained unexploded and efforts were being made to defuse it.

No one claimed responsibility for the blasts but the government has previously blamed Baluch militants for such attacks.

Meanwhile, security forces have detained 13 suspected militants in a crackdown, backed by helicopter gunships, in the town of Dera Bugti, a stronghold of a rebel tribal leader.

There were no immediate reports of any casualties in the operation that was carried out late Friday night, a local official said on condition of anonymity.

Baluchistan, bordering Iran and Afghanistan, is the largest but the poorest of Pakistan's four provinces and has the country's largest gas and oil reserves.

Baluch militants regularly blow up railway links, gas pipelines and power pylons, and launch attacks on government buildings and army bases to press for their demands for more benefits from oil and gas exploration. The simmering revolt escalated in December when rebels fired rockets during a visit by President Pervez Musharraf to the town of Kohlu.

Musharraf has announced plans for major infrastructure projects in Baluchistan but has vowed to deal firmly with the rebel leaders.




Posted by: lotp || 07/01/2006 18:43 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Three get death for Akshardham attack
AHMEDABAD: A Pota court on Saturday sent three terrorists to the gallows and sentenced one to life for one of the most heinous attacks on civilians in India — at the Akshardham Temple.

Thirty-three people — including two commandos — were killed and 81 injured when two militants stormed the temple complex in Gandhinagar and sprayed bullets on September 24, 2002.

Those awarded death were Adam Suleman Ajmeri, Abdul Qayyum alias Muftisaheb Mohammed Mansuri and Chandkhan Sajjadkhan alias Shanmiya — all linked to the Lashkar-e-Taiba.

Mohammed Salim Mohammed Hanif Shaikh was sentenced to life imprisonment (till death). Altaf Hussain Akbar Hussain Malek and Abdullahmiya Yasinmiya Kadri were sentenced to five and 10-year RI respectively.

All six accused will also have to pay a fine ranging between Rs 85,000 and Rs 1 lakh under various Sections of IPC and Pota. All the accused were convicted for murder, conspiracy and waging war against the state.
Posted by: john || 07/01/2006 16:26 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The akshardham web site has some great photos of the stunning temple complex.

Amazing that such structures are still being created
Posted by: john || 07/01/2006 16:32 Comments || Top||

#2  A Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) court on Saturday sentenced to death three persons in the case relating to the attack on the Akshardham temple in 2002.

Designated POTA Court Judge Sonia Gokani also awarded imprisonment from five years to life to three others. The judgment was delivered in camera inside the high-security Sabarmati Jail here.

Briefing the media, Government Pleader Sudhir Brahmbhatt said the death sentences would be subject to confirmation by the Gujarat High Court.

It was the first major judgment of the designated court trying cases under the Prevention of Terrorism Act (POTA) in the aftermath of the communal riots in the State in 2002.

At least 33 persons were killed and 76 injured in an attack by two Pakistan-based terrorists on the famous Akshardham temple on September 24, 2002. Both the terrorists were gunned down in a night-long battle by the NSG commandos. Police later arrested six people in this connection while declaring 26 others as absconders.

Adambhai Sulemanbhai Ajmeri, Abdul Qayuum Mufti Mohammad Mansuri and Chand Khan Sajjad Khan were sentenced to death. Ajmeri was the autorickshaw owner who took the two terrorists around the city to help them choose a target. Mansuri had conducted the `fidayeen Namaz' for the terrorists and written the letters, calling for the "bloodbath of Hindus", which were found on the terrorists bodies. Chand Khan had arranged the supply of arms and ammunition.

Mohammad Salim Mohammad Hanif Sheikh, who arranged for shelter of the two terrorists, was awarded life imprisonment. Abdulmiyan Yasinmiya Quadri, a co-conspirator, received 10 years' imprisonment. Altafhussain Akbarhussain Malek, who was then residing in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, and helped raise funds there to organise the attack, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment.

Malek was arrested when he came to Hyderabad for a visit. Barring Chand Khan, who was originally a resident of Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh but running an automobile garage in Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir, the others were from Ahmedabad. Most of the 26 other accused, charged with conspiracy and planning of the Akshardham attack, are not Indian citizens. They reside in Pakistan or the Gulf countries. Police told the court there was no chance of their extradition as they had no details of addresses or passports to issue warrants.

Delivering the 500-page judgment in the presence of the accused, judge described it as the "rarest of rare cases" as defined by the Supreme Court, and said the accused needed to be handed down "salutary punishment."
Posted by: john || 07/01/2006 17:22 Comments || Top||


Constable killed in bomb blast
LAHORE: A bomb blast in Malakwal police station near Mandi Bahauddin district killed one constable and damaged the station building, Geo Television reported. Malakwal police recovered and defused a bomb from an imam bargah on Friday. The bomb later exploded in the police station, the channel reported.
Posted by: Fred || 07/01/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Bara authorities stop people from carrying weapons
BARA: Political administration of Bara in Khyber Agency on Friday banned people from carrying weapons in Bara Bazaar and decided to set up security check posts in the agency. Frontier Corps, Frontier Constabulary and Khasadar force personnel will be deployed at the check posts which would be set up at Bara Qadeem, Niaz Market, Sheikhan Pul, Sheikhan Bara and Sholobar Road.
Posted by: Fred || 07/01/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What, they issued Concealed Carry permits to everyone?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 07/01/2006 9:37 Comments || Top||


Taliban stage public execution in North Waziristan
MIRANSHAH: The local Taliban staged the public execution of an alleged killer near the North Waziristan headquarters on Friday. The man who was executed, Ehsanullah, had allegedly killed two other men, and was shot by the victims' relatives. "The man was shot with AK-47 assault rifles by relatives of the murdered men," said eyewitnesses in Ipi, a town near Mir Ali where the execution was carried out.

Ehsanullah had been accused of killing two men on June 22 and the matter was brought to the Taliban's notice. Eyewitnesses said that the Taliban had "arrested" the man and had asked the victims' relatives to kill him in public. "The militants blindfolded him and tied his hands together, dragged him to a public area in the village and gave assault rifles and three bullets to one of the relatives of each of the dead," the eyewitnesses said. "The sound of the gunshot echoed in the area, as people chanted 'Allahu Akbar' (God is great)."
Posted by: Fred || 07/01/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh, for the good ole days, when the talibunnies could jus shoot folks on the track
Posted by: Captain America || 07/01/2006 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't quite get the point here? Are they trying to show the world they "Can" administer Justice?
Or attempting to be "Honest and Fair?"
If so, not working, no trial, just drag the accused out and (Twist) let the vicrim's relatives shoot him. How about some kind of trial, with witnesses?

I thought it quite revealing that the executioners were only given three bullets, no turning around and hosing down the Tali-Thugs.
Posted by: RedneckJim || 07/01/2006 7:03 Comments || Top||

#3  The article doesn't mention how many others were hit by poorly aimed bullets.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/01/2006 16:18 Comments || Top||

#4  So we got killers executing killers.
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/01/2006 16:39 Comments || Top||


Three militants killed in a shootout in SW Pakistan
(KUNA) -- Three suspected Baluch militants were killed and two wounded in a shootout with security forces in Southwestern Pakistani Baluchistan province, said officials Friday. Militants attacked paramilitary forces in Naal town, 350 kilometers east of Quetta, the provincial capital, on Thursday night, Razaq Ali, a local government official, told KUNA. He said following attack, forces launched a retaliatory operation that ended Friday at pre-dawn. He added that three militants were killed and two were wounded. There were no casualties reported at forces side.
Posted by: Fred || 07/01/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Cleric gunned down in S. Wazoo
(KUNA) -- Some unknown gunmen Friday killed a cleric and wounded three including two women accompanying him in a drive-by shooting in Pakistani tribal agency, said officials. Unknown masked gunmen opened firing at the vehicle of Pir Lala Khan while was he traveling with his family in South Waziristan tribal agency, bordering Afghanistan, local security officials told KUNA. Firing killed Pir Lala on the spot and critically wounded three including two women and the driver, said officials. They said assailants managed to escape. It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack but authorities said Pir Lala was killed out of old enmity.
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#1  ...authorities said Pir Lala was killed out of old enmity
The holy men of Islam do get around.
Posted by: gromgoru || 07/01/2006 5:55 Comments || Top||


Kashmir Korpse Kount
(KUNA) -- A senior Indian Army officer and two gunmen were among the four people killed in an encounter Friday in Bandipore in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. Lt. Col Chauhan of the Indian Army was killed in the heavy firing during the encounter. Besides, two guerrillas and a civilian were also killed, news agency Indo-Asian News Service reported. Three injured security personnel have been shifted to a hospital for treatment. The Indian security forces were carrying out further investigation, the news agency reported.

Posted by: Fred || 07/01/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Police were trying to establish the dead men’s identities and the militant group they belonged to

*cough*ISI*cough*
Posted by: Frank G || 07/01/2006 10:56 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Syrian group claims Baghdad bombing
An unknown Syrian group claimed the bombing that killed 62 Iraqis and wounded 114 in a popular market in the Shi'ite slum of Sadr City on Saturday. A message posted on the organization's website declared that the attack was meant to exact "revenge" on the Shi'ites, Israel Radio reported. News footage showed a huge plume of gray smoke rising from the scene and flames shooting through the windows of several scorched cars.

The explosion, which occurred at 10:00 a.m., also devastated several shops in the sprawling district in eastern Baghdad, police Col. Hassan Jaloob said. He said 45 people were killed and 41 were wounded, while 14 vehicles and 22 shops and stalls were destroyed. A spokesman for the Imam Ali Hospital in Sadr City, Said Rasoul Zaboun, said earlier that at least 35 people were killed and 46 wounded.
Posted by: Fred || 07/01/2006 17:08 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A day without muslims killing muslims in the name of allan is like a day without sunshine.
Posted by: anymouse || 07/01/2006 17:38 Comments || Top||

#2  Syria is playing with fire on many fronts and is going to wind up on the ashheap of history.
Posted by: RWV || 07/01/2006 20:51 Comments || Top||


Group claims deadly Baghdad attack
A previously unknown Iraqi Sunni group has claimed responsibility for a car bomb blast at a Baghdad market in which at least 62 people were killed, saying it was avenging Sunnis killed by Shia Muslims. The explosion went off at a crowded market in the poor Shia district of Sadr City at about 10am and scorched many nearby cars. Sources at the interior ministry said the number of deaths had risen to 62 during the morning, with 114 people wounded. Nizar al-Samaraei, an Iraqi journalist, told Aljazeera the market was busy as it was the first day of the week when citizens usually go shopping.

A statement by The Supporters of the Sunni People posted on a website regularly used by Iraqi groups said: "Every day the world sees what rejectionist (Shia) militia ... do to the Sunni folk in Iraq with blessing and support from the rejectionist government led by [Nuri] al-Maliki. You have started and here we answer your aggression."
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66 killed in car bombing at Baghdad market
A parked car bomb exploded at a popular market in a Shiite slum of Baghdad, killing 66 people and wounding 87, authorities said. AP Television News footage showed a huge plume of gray smoke rising from the scene in the Sadr City neighborhood, and flames shooting through the windows of several scorched cars. The explosion, which occurred at 10 a.m., devastated several shops in the sprawling district in eastern Baghdad, police Col. Hassan Jaloob said. Rasoul Zaboun, an official from Imam Ali Hospital in Sadr City, said 66 people were killed and 87 wounded. He cited that as the final casualty figure after several conflicting reports from police.
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Shiites guilty of genocide: bin Laden
AL-QAEDA leader Osama bin Laden has accused Iraqi Shiites of waging "genocide" against Sunnis and warned of retaliation, in a second audio recording attributed to him and posted on the Internet overnight.
"The unarmed Muslims in the Land of Two Rivers are subjected to a campaign of genocide at the hands of the gangs of grudge and treachery," the speaker, purported to be bin Laden said in a reference to Shiites.

Those "gangs" were "deployed in all key posts in the former government of (Ibrahim) al-Jafari and are present today in the incumbent (Nuri) al-Maliki government," the speaker said of Iraq's previous and incumbent Shiite prime ministers.

"The (Sunni) Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq has warned against the genocide they (Sunnis) are being subjected to," he said.

"It is not possible that many of the people of the south (who are predominantly Shiites) join America and its allies in attacking (the Sunni bastions of) Fallujah, Ramadi, Baquba, Mosul, Samarra, Al-Qaim and other cities and villages and (expect) their regions to be spared a reaction and harm," the speaker said.

The speaker accused the Maliki government of being "treacherous and apostate," saying it was walking in the footsteps of the Jafari cabinet.

"The first step required to bring stability to Iraq is to drive out the crusader armies by force, then to punish the leaders of (Shiite) parties" who "lied to the people by telling them that participation in the political process is the way to drive out the occupiers," he added.

The new statement was posted after the CIA authenticated a message by the fugitive Al-Qaeda leader released on Thursday in which he warned that jihad, or holy war, would go on in Iraq despite the killing of the network's leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in a US air raid last month.

It was posted on the same Islamist website, which had announced earlier that it would release a new message.
Posted by: tipper || 07/01/2006 16:35 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ironically, Bin Laden committed genocide against the Shias of Gilgit (in Pakistani Kashmir).
Then Pak dictator, General Zia Ul Haq had a trusted officer, Pervez Musharraf, organize a pogrom of the shia, using an arab tribal lashkar, led by bin Laden.

Posted by: john || 07/01/2006 16:42 Comments || Top||

#2  More big words from a little man behind a camera. When is this guy going to stop talking shi* ? Get off ur ass, stop hiding & go fight for the cause you so strongly believe in.
....COWARD....
Posted by: Oztralian || 07/01/2006 18:28 Comments || Top||


Munitions Found in Iraq Meet WMD Criteria, Official Says
If this has been posted, mods, please remove, thanks
By Samantha L. Quigley
American Forces Press Service

WASHINGTON, June 29, 2006 – The 500 munitions discovered throughout Iraq since 2003 and discussed in a National Ground Intelligence Center report meet the criteria of weapons of mass destruction, the center's commander said here today.

"These are chemical weapons as defined under the Chemical Weapons Convention, and yes ... they do constitute weapons of mass destruction," Army Col. John Chu told the House Armed Services Committee.

The Chemical Weapons Convention is an arms control agreement which outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons. It was signed in 1993 and entered into force in 1997.

The munitions found contain sarin and mustard gases, Army Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples, director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said. Sarin attacks the neurological system and is potentially lethal.

"Mustard is a blister agent (that) actually produces burning of any area (where) an individual may come in contact with the agent," he said. It also is potentially fatal if it gets into a person's lungs.

The munitions addressed in the report were produced in the 1980s, Maples said. Badly corroded, they could not currently be used as originally intended, Chu added.

While that's reassuring, the agent remaining in the weapons would be very valuable to terrorists and insurgents, Maples said. "We're talking chemical agents here that could be packaged in a different format and have a great effect," he said, referencing the sarin-gas attack on a Japanese subway in the mid-1990s.

This is true even considering any degradation of the chemical agents that may have occurred, Chu said. It's not known exactly how sarin breaks down, but no matter how degraded the agent is, it's still toxic.

"Regardless of (how much material in the weapon is actually chemical agent), any remaining agent is toxic," he said. "Anything above zero (percent agent) would prove to be toxic, and if you were exposed to it long enough, lethal."

Though about 500 chemical weapons - the exact number has not been released publicly - have been found, Maples said he doesn't believe Iraq is a "WMD-free zone."

"I do believe the former regime did a very poor job of accountability of munitions, and certainly did not document the destruction of munitions," he said. "The recovery program goes on, and I do not believe we have found all the weapons."

The Defense Intelligence Agency director said locating and disposing of chemical weapons in Iraq is one of the most important tasks servicemembers in the country perform.

Maples added searches are ongoing for chemical weapons beyond those being conducted solely for force protection.

There has been a call for a complete declassification of the National Ground Intelligence Center's report on WMD in Iraq. Maples said he believes the director of national intelligence is still considering this option, and has asked Maples to look into producing an unclassified paper addressing the subject matter in the center's report.

Much of the classified matter was slated for discussion in a closed forum after the open hearings this morning.
Posted by: Sherry || 07/01/2006 13:41 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Updated Democrat/MSM talking points:

Bush lied, still no WMD's*

* - Except for the Sarin, which doesn't count cause Bush is a lier
Posted by: DMFD || 07/01/2006 15:28 Comments || Top||

#2  If you want to read about this in the Sunday NYT, look on page 137 of the classifieds. It's under "W", after "W Lied Banners For Sale" and "Western Government Secrets For Sale". It's the one in the extremely small font that says "WMD Close-Out Sale. Hurry, quantities are limited since Putin and Assad helped Iraq with the clean-up."
Posted by: Darrell || 07/01/2006 16:03 Comments || Top||

#3  It doesn't matter what they find going forward - even weaponized WMD made post-sanctions. The deniers will still deny and insist "Bush lied!" Reality simply doesn't impinge on those people. And the NYT and WaPo would publish one or two op-eds minimizing the find and describing how little value they actually have on a battlefield. The story's been told - it simply cannot be allowed to change now.
Posted by: xbalanke || 07/01/2006 21:33 Comments || Top||


"Remarkable" decline within multinational forces losses in Iraq
The US-led multinational forces in Iraq have observed a remarkable decline in its losses and that 74 percent of terrorist attacks have its focus on innocent civilians, said on Thursday the spokesman of the forces, Maj.Gen. Willian B. Caldwell IV. Addressing a news conference, Caldwell said at least 60 to 70 foreign terrorists are killed in Iraq every month. He noted that 57 foreign fighters were killed at the hands of American and Iraqi forces since early June.

At least 587 terrorist suspects have been detained in the week ending June 28, the spokesman said, expressing believe that most of the foreign fighters who are taking part in armed operations in Iraq were of Egyptian nationality. "Most of the foreign fighters taking part in attacks in Iraq are Egyptians, followed by Syrians, Sudanese and Saudis", he said.

He said the objective of the multinational forces is to arrest the number one suspected terrorist "Abo Ayoub al Masri", who took over control of al Qaeda in Iraq after the killing of Abu Musaab al Zarqawi earlier this month.

On the mission of the border guard force, Caldwell said the force was operating well in suspending terrorist infiltrations into Iraq.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/01/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sudanese? Is the war back home not good enough for them? Or did they work their way up in Al Qaeda, and take a transfer to the main office?
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/01/2006 0:35 Comments || Top||

#2  We will kill them here,
We will kill them there,
We will kill them anywhere!

appologies to Dr. Suess
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/01/2006 0:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Yup, Losing Zaqusri's computer records hurt them badly, hard to shoot when you're no longer anonymous (Or living)
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/01/2006 7:22 Comments || Top||

#4  Most of the foreign fighters taking part in attacks in Iraq are Egyptians, followed by Syrians, Sudanese and Saudis", he said.

Those must be the Michael's Minutemen. One minute your alive. Next.
Posted by: john || 07/01/2006 7:49 Comments || Top||

#5  that 74 percent of terrorist attacks have its focus on innocent civilians,

Ah, the Brave Lions of Islam.
Oh wretched left, tell me again how many women and children were killed at Abu Ghrab?
Posted by: Uninter Whereting4376 || 07/01/2006 9:18 Comments || Top||

#6  Arrest Masri? Why not eliminate him.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/01/2006 11:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Those must be the Michael's Minutemen. One minute your alive. Next.

lol!
Posted by: 2b || 07/01/2006 12:56 Comments || Top||


Militant involved in helping foreign fighters enter Iraq arrested
(KUNA) -- US Army announced Friday that Iraqi security forces arrested a militant accused of helping foreign fighters enter Iraq and of attacking Multi-National Forces (MNF) and killing three soldiers of them. US Army statement distributed here Friday said Iraqi security forces broke into the home of Abdullah Haidar Nasir Al-Jabouri in Arab Jabbor district in the southern district of Baghdad.

Meanwhile, MNF said Iraqi Army and police performed a wide-range operation and arrested dozens of militants in Tel-Afar town in the Ninawa Governorate. An MNF press release distributed here Friday said Iraqi soldiers and policemen performed last Tuesday Operation Desert Storm in the western region of Ninawa. According to the release, 580 suspected were held for short periods, 36 others were captured to investigate with them, and two arrestees are wanted by the government. Forces also arrested a leader of a militant group, who is accused of relations with attacks that killed civilians and members of local security forces, and a photographer related to Abu Mosaab Al-Zarqawi group and specialized in taking photos of terrorist attacks.
Posted by: Fred || 07/01/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "militants?" Must be "journalists" writing about them .

militant= terrorist
journalist = fellow traveler and and unquestioning supporter.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 07/01/2006 5:26 Comments || Top||


US army denies incursions into Sadr City or rescuing 300 hostages
(KUNA) -- The US army denied on Friday involvement in incursions into various neighborhoods in Sadr City or in rescuing 300 hostages, among them being a high-ranking Health ministry official.
Okay. We're confused. Who did it, then?
US army spokesman Major General William Caldwell told KUNA reports of these incidents were "inaccurate." The US army had no information to substantiate such reports up until today, he asserted. "According to our information, there are no other forces that might have had any connection with goings on in Sadr City" or with regard to hostage rescue, said General Caldwell.
Weird. Space aliens? Time travelers? Samoan mercenaries?
Reports earlier today had claimed that the US Army had freed 300 hostages in one of the Sadr City neighborhoods and that one them had been Raad al-Mahdawi, director of Health services at Diyala, who had been kidnapped a number of weeks ago from the ministry of Health building in Baghdad.
Posted by: Fred || 07/01/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Buck the Marine had a day off?
Posted by: gromgoru || 07/01/2006 6:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Aren't the Spetznaz(sp)visiting?
Posted by: RedneckJim || 07/01/2006 7:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Buck the Marine had a day off?

LOL. Coulda been Blackwater guys.
Posted by: lotp || 07/01/2006 8:01 Comments || Top||

#4  It must have been that new, international Superman they just made a film about.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/01/2006 8:09 Comments || Top||


Five Iraqi soldiers, three civilians killed in Kirkuk
(KUNA) -- Five Iraqi soldiers, three civilians and seven were injured in two separate attacks in Kirkuk northern Iraq Friday, the Iraqi army and police said. A source at the army told KUNA the five soldiers, including an officer, were killed in an attack at a checkpoint in the west of Kirkuk.

The police meanwhile said a bomb exploded near Mulla Abdullah village killing three civilians and wounding seven others. The Iraqi police have found six bodies in different parts of Kirkuk, in addition to four headless bodies.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Abbas denies kidnap negotiations at impasse


Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas denies that talks to free an Israeli soldier held by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip have reached an impasse, saying mediation efforts are continuing.

Three militant groups kidnapped 19-year-old Corporal Gilad Shalit on June 25 in an attack on an Israeli guard post.

The groups have issued a statement demanding the release of 1,000 Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails in exchange for the release of the Corporal.

However, Israel has refused to do a prisoner swap.

Mr Abbas, who has been in around-the-clock talks with the Hamas Government, says the talks are not deadlocked.

"Things have not reached an impasse and efforts continue to find a solution that is acceptable to all parties and resolve the issue of the prisoner in exchange for some things," he said.

"People are looking for a satisfactory solution and hopefully we will get that solution."

Mr Abbas did not elaborate on what Israel would have to give the militant groups to secure the Corporal Gilat's release.

Mark Regev, a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, says the Palestinians can resolve the crisis by releasing Corporal Shalit.

"What is progress? Progress is when our servicemen is set free, allowed to come home, return to his family and our military operation therefore becomes superfluous," he said.

"But we can't say we're there yet. We'd like this to end peacefully, we'd like the Palestinians to make the right choices and prevent this crisis from getting any worse."
Posted by: Oztralian || 07/01/2006 19:40 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So, they kidnap a soldier, and use it to get stuff they want. Blah blah blah. Israel is smart enough to know that if they accept the negotiation deals of swapping prisoners, then these palestinian scum buckets will just keep kidnapping to try to get their own way. Its always one step foward and ten steps backwards with these backwards palestinian retards..
Posted by: Oztralian || 07/01/2006 19:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Riving up the little tikes for cannon fodder in 2010
Posted by: Captain America || 07/01/2006 20:59 Comments || Top||

#3  were his lips moving?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/01/2006 21:05 Comments || Top||

#4  The soldier is dead and paleos can not resurrect him...
Posted by: Matt K. || 07/01/2006 21:18 Comments || Top||

#5  Notice that the Paleos who are usually so media savy and adept at videos have not produced a video of the young Israeli soldier. Sad to say, I think that Matt K is right and the Paleos are too stupid to say so. The longer they wait the worse it will be. Think Rome and Carthage.
Posted by: RWV || 07/01/2006 21:31 Comments || Top||

#6  good point RWV - I've thought he was dead from the day they abducted him
Posted by: Frank G || 07/01/2006 21:49 Comments || Top||

#7  I thought he was dead too, but they figured they were up shit creek and are afraid to tell the Israelis he croaked.
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 07/01/2006 23:00 Comments || Top||


Peretz opens Karni crossing for Gaza aid
I'm getting whiplash from the back and forth between Peretz and Olmert.
Defense Minister Amir Peretz decided on Saturday to reopen the Karni Crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip starting Sunday in order to facilitate the transfer of urgent humanitarian aid.
remember, Peretz is from the socialist side of Israeli politics. OTOH, we'll see if this actually happens in the next 12 hrs. If Debka is right, it would be dangerous at best for the Israeli forces
Peretz has allowed 150 trucks to pass through Karni every day for the next four days.

Staple foodstuffs and medicine will be distributed to the Palestinians, mostly by the UNRWA and other international aid organizations.

Peretz also decided to open the gas depot at Nahal Oz to ease the severe fuel shortage experienced by Palestinians in Gaza since the recent IDF incursion.

Earlier Saturday, Peretz met with senior defense and intelligence officials on the crisis in Gaza since IDF Cpl. Gilad Shalit was kidnapped in an attack on IDF forces near Kerem Shalom last Sunday. Post comment | Terms


Posted by: lotp || 07/01/2006 19:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So how long will Peretz continue as Defence Minister?
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/01/2006 20:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Peretz reminds me of Jimmy Carter, sanctimonius and singularly inept.
Posted by: RWV || 07/01/2006 21:32 Comments || Top||


DEBKA: Cairo admits talks have failed; Hamas preparing for all-out war
The ball landed squarely in the Israeli court Saturday night, July 1, after Cairo admitted its bid to negotiate an end to the Gideon Shalit hostage crisis had ended in fiasco six days after his capture. The IDF, whose armored forces are standing 3 km inside the southern Gaza Strip since Wednesday, June 28, and camped on the fringes of its northern sector, are awaiting their next orders. It is up to prime minister Ehud Olmert to tell the troops how to complete their incursion of the territory and approach their confrontation with Hamas.

He is holding emergency conferences with security and military chiefs Saturday night on whether to approach the inevitable clash at once, or in stages; incrementally, or by a blitz operation entailing the reoccupation of all or most of the Gaza Strip.

Casualties on both sides are unavoidable.

Hamas is gearing up for action. Seven Fatah-al Aqsa Brigades factions have rallied to Hamas and are pledged to fight – not with RPGs or roadside bombs but by hurling themselves bodily against incoming Israeli tanks as martyrs.

The signal for war came Saturday night from Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas. He was urged by the Egyptians to state that diplomacy had run out of steam in the absence of a Hamas partner for dialogue on the fate of Gideon Shalit.

DEBKAfile’s sources disclose that Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and his aides derailed their own mediation effort out of hubris, while Mahmoud Abbas is picking up the pieces in the hope of maneuvering Israel into doing his dirty work and toppling the Hamas regime.

In an interview Friday, June 30, to the Cairo daily al Ahram, Hosni Mubarak boasted he had brokered a deal with Hamas leaders on terms for the Israeli hostage’s release, but accused Israel of rejecting them. This was the reverse of the real situation. Mubarak had no clearance from Hamas before he went public, but Olmert was willing to listen. Egypt’s intelligence chief Omar Suleiman was supposed to travel to Jerusalem Saturday, July 1, to present the deal in detail.

DEBKAfile disclosed those terms that same day:

1. Gilead Shalit will be freed and handed to the IDF.

2. Israel will then pull its troops back from the Gaza Strip.

3. The 87 Hamas leaders Israel detained on the West Bank last Thursday, June 29, will be released.

4. Olmert will give Mubarak his personal guarantee to free groups of Palestinian prisoners at a suitable future opportunity as a gesture of goodwill.

After reading Mubarak’s al Ahram interview, Hamas leaders in Damascus and Gaza blew up. The Damascus-based Hamas leader, Khaled Meshaal, ordered the special emissary he sent to Cairo last week (as reported earlier by DEBKAfile) to notify the Egyptian president that Hamas utterly disowns his proposals for a hostage deal.

The Israeli corporal’s captors, a coalition of three terrorist groups, thereupon posted their new demand for the release of another 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, on top of the 450 demanded earlier. There was no offer to free Gilead Shalit. This reverse thoroughly confused the situation as presented in the media.

Olmert and Mubarak then found out from their intelligence agencies that Hamas had not let the grass grow under its feet. Taking advantage of the time gained by the hold-up in Israel’s advance into Gaza and Egypt’s mediation bid, Hamas used last week to recruit the seven armed Fatah suicide squads in the Gaza Strip and build a new alliance called “The National General Command of Asifa Palestine.”

The new grouping passed two resolutions.

1. Its members no longer recognize Mahmoud Abbas’s authority.

2. A concerted effort by all the allied factions will be mounted to fight Israeli forces if they deepen their incursion of the Gaza Strip.

Saturday night, July 1, the NGCAP announced its principle weapon would be suicide fighters. Israel military sources believe Fatah will have no difficulty in rounding up large numbers of recruits for a mass suicide assault.

In an effort to save his face, the Egyptian president made Abbas publicly state that night that the failure of Cairo’s mediation bid to free the Israeli hostage was not the fault of Egypt or Israel, but the lack of a responsible Hamas party to address.

DEBKAfile’s Palestinian sources report that Abu Mazen has calculated cynically that Olmert is in a fix: he can hardly keep on dragging out Operation Summer Rain any longer, and he will end up destroying the Hamas government on behalf of the Palestinian leader. This will not of course prevent Abbas from calling on the world to intervene and rescue the innocent Palestinian people from the Israeli armed forces.

Our political sources note that Israel’s leaders fell into the disastrous error of putting their trust in the Egyptian ruler instead of entrusting the IDF with a swift, comprehensive offensive to vanquish Hamas. The result of their dilly-dallying is that Israel is being dragged against its will into a far broader and more costly conflict whose outcome is incalculable against an enemy which has used the time gained to prepare for the fray.

Saturday too the Lebanese Hizballah placed its forces on the ready. Hassan Nasrallah, the terrorist group’s leader, explained that when the IDF attacks Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian organizations in Lebanon will be set loose against Israel’s northern border.

Posted by: lotp || 07/01/2006 19:07 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Ohh. Iranian back Hizzies from Lebananon are threatening DIRE REVENGETM if IDF goes into Gaza. What the Paleos continually forget is that the Isrealis have kicked collective Arab a** so many times since 1948 I've lost count. On top of that Isreal has proven time and time again that they are smarter, more ruthless, and more cunning. The best...the ONLY thing the Paleos know how to do is homicide bombs. I guarantee that 95% of the martyrs will die on first movement: shoot, no questions asked, and move to the next TOA. The Paleos and Iran will be the big losers here...as well as AQ because Israel will not play fair like we are doing in far-off Afghanistan and Iraq. This self-preservation and survival.
Posted by: anymouse || 07/01/2006 19:51 Comments || Top||

#2  "Paleo air power will annihilate the Joooos! We have ....um... armored kites...and ferocious hang gliders (but no high ground)...and uh....RC planes..."

STFU with the threats and prepare to meet allan in hell, boyz
Posted by: Frank G || 07/01/2006 20:54 Comments || Top||

#3 
"...no difficulty in rounding up large numbers of recruits for a mass suicide assault."

EXCELLENT!!! Bring them on, they can be having tea with Allan by morning.

-M
Posted by: Manolo || 07/01/2006 21:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Diesel only has a day or two left.
then then they are drinking the bathtubs of water.
Some have surely started.
5 more days and they won't need a sucide attack as they will have already died of thirst.

Posted by: 3dc || 07/01/2006 21:36 Comments || Top||

#5  ... by hurling themselves bodily against incoming Israeli tanks as martyrs.

Dead martyrs tell no tales....the paleo hurling team will be just martified.
Posted by: Inspector Clueso || 07/01/2006 21:41 Comments || Top||

#6  To allegedly prepare for "all-out war" is to presume that HAMAS was engaged in "peace" with an Israel it has refused to recognize. Amer's enemies > Israel = Western democracies > future survival is contingent on America winning the WOT.
The WOT is a WAR TO THE DEATH > ISRAEL = AMERICA > any [TEMPORARY]STALEMATE/ARMISTICE means get to be get be killed later, once the enemy has revamped itself with or without PC anti-Western Western aid.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/01/2006 21:55 Comments || Top||

#7  Minor correction:

"hurling themselves bodily against incoming Israeli tanks as martyrs tread grease".

HEH!
Posted by: Oldspook || 07/01/2006 22:27 Comments || Top||

#8  I kinda like that "hurling themselves bodily at tanks" idea. Let's have lot's of that, please.

Just for a change of pace from hiding behind women and children.
Posted by: Chearong Unoper9371 || 07/01/2006 22:29 Comments || Top||

#9  I regret that Shalit has but 1 life to give for his country.

Find that house and bomb it. Hopefully w/lots of vermin inside.
Posted by: anonymous2u || 07/01/2006 22:47 Comments || Top||

#10  Why do I get a sickening feeling that Israel's Paleo policies are generated by Woody Allen? The neurotic, self-hating, self-doubting, hesitant leadership that when confronted with a murderous enemy still tries to see their side of it and doesn't want to offend.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/01/2006 23:39 Comments || Top||


Israel hits Palestinian PM's Gaza office
This version says "aircraft" rather than helicopter gunship. It's the middle of the night, so there's probably serious confusion.

Anyone else remembering the old song, "I gotta get a message to you"? Isreael's sending messages, it's not clear how many are getting them.
Israeli aircraft attacked the office of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas in Gaza City early Sunday, witnesses said, setting the building on fire.

The Israeli army confirmed it attacked Haniyeh's office. There were no immediate reports of casualties.

Witnesses said two missiles hit the south side of the building at about 1:45 a.m. local time, setting it ablaze. Because of the late hour, the building was empty, they said.

On Thursday, Israeli planes attacked the Interior Ministry, part of Israel's campaign to force release of a soldier abducted by Palestinian militants last Sunday.

Posted by: lotp || 07/01/2006 19:06 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Here's how it happened ... :D

Posted by: Oztralian || 07/01/2006 19:34 Comments || Top||

#2 
Posted by: Oztralian || 07/01/2006 19:35 Comments || Top||

#3  Bah. They're shooting buildings again, when they need to be shooting people.
Posted by: Scooter McGruder || 07/01/2006 19:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Isreael's sending messages, it's not clear how many are getting them.

A greater problem is that it's not clear what the message is. At this point it seems to be "We're afraid of hurting any one." Israel needs to start the trials and executions.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/01/2006 22:26 Comments || Top||


Israel reportedly strikes Palestinian PM's office

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - An Israeli helicopter gunship fired at least one missile at the Gaza City office of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh early on Sunday, witnesses said.

They said Haniyeh, a top Hamas official, was not believed to be in the office at the time.

On Saturday, Palestinian militants holding an Israeli soldier issued a new set of demands, calling for the release of 1,000 prisoners and a halt to Israel’s military offensive in Gaza. But Israel rejected them.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian deputy minister of prisoner affairs, Ziad Abu Aen, said mediators had told him the Israeli soldier, Cpl. Gilad Shalit, was injured in the June 25 raid in which he was captured but was alive. “He has three wounds. I guess shrapnel wounds,” Abu Aen said, adding that Shalit was in stable condition.

Posted by: Sherry || 07/01/2006 19:03 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Haniyeh hasn't left the protective cover of his daughter's bed in a week....
Posted by: Frank G || 07/01/2006 19:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Israel has repeatedly threatened to target Haniya following the capture on June 25 of an Israeli soldier by three Palestinian militant groups, including the armed wing of the premier's Islamist Hamas movement.

A senior official from Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas' office had warned overnight that Mr Haniya's life could be on the line if a solution were not reached soon allowing the release of the 19-year-old Israeli corporal, Gilad Shalit.

"His life is at risk if the Palestinian groups do not free the Israeli soldier," a high-ranking official had said.

courtesy of news.com.au

Get em boys.... Muahahaha
Posted by: Oztralian || 07/01/2006 19:39 Comments || Top||


Group says second Israeli soldier held
Al-Jizz...salt lick's on the bar
Palestinian fighters have kidnapped a second Israeli soldier and threatened to kill him unless Israel ends its military offensive in the Palestinian territories, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades announced overnight on Friday.

In a statement received by AFP in Gaza City, the armed group, loosely affiliated to the Fatah movement, called for "the end of the Israeli offensive" and "the lifting of the blockade" in the territories.

"If our demands are not met, the Al-Aqsa Brigades will kill the kidnapped soldier," the statement said, without giving any details.

The soldier was seized in the West Bank, the group said. They named him as Hoffmann Kfeir Samuel, 24, a resident of Hulul, south of Tel Aviv. There was no immediate Israeli response.

The group also demanded the release of Hamas ministers and deputies arrested by Israeli forces following the earlier kidnapping of 19-year-old army corporal Gilad Shalit, along with the release of "all the other detained Palestinians"
Posted by: Frank G || 07/01/2006 17:07 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  HT to Ace of Spades. I agree with his recommendation: kill three or four of the terrorist cabinet
Posted by: Frank G || 07/01/2006 17:11 Comments || Top||

#2  The cabinet are Hamas, yes? This is a Fatah group - they would be quite pleased to have Hamas officials out of the way, I suspect.
Posted by: lotp || 07/01/2006 17:13 Comments || Top||

#3  The other day a second Israeli lad found murdered after being kidnapped, too, making the count two boys murdered, plus two soldiers -- if AFP's report is true. Both boys were killed in the West Bank, I think. The Al Aqsa Martyr Brigades are salaried employees of Fatah/PLO, whether or not Mr. Abu Abbas orders their actions directly. As soon as the negotiation hudna is ended, Israel should start picking up Fatah officials to add to their collection.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/01/2006 17:27 Comments || Top||

#4  I'm still OK with it. That's like saying the political and military arms of either Hamas or Fatah are separate entities. The IRA pulled that crap for decades. Fatah should also be targetted, which is why there's been ops in the WB area by the IDF
Posted by: Frank G || 07/01/2006 17:28 Comments || Top||

#5  Couple more days and the Brigade should be down to a squad.
Posted by: Inspector Clueso || 07/01/2006 17:44 Comments || Top||

#6  Correction: Couple more days and the Brigade should be down to diddlysquat.

Posted by: twobyfour || 07/01/2006 18:32 Comments || Top||

#7  Naked ministers working on a new proposal in the prison courtyard.
Posted by: 6 || 07/01/2006 18:59 Comments || Top||

#8  There's no mention of this on Haaretz or the J-Post. I previously read a story that the Pals were showing the stolen identity card of an Israeli who was safe and sound.
Posted by: Apostate || 07/01/2006 19:02 Comments || Top||


U.S. to pay $48 million to cover damages to Gaza power station???
United States officials said they expect that U.S. funds will be used to pay for the damages caused by an Israel Air Force strike Tuesday on a Palestinian power station in the Gaza Strip. The power station was insured by a U.S. government agency, according to The Boston Globe.

The Foreign and Defense Ministry departments that oversee foreign relations were unaware of the decision to target civilian facilities in the Strip, or the decision to attack the power station. Because of this, officials did not know that the station was insured by a U.S. government agency. Israel did not inform the U.S. prior to attacking the power station.

The power station in Gaza was built over a period of five years, at a cost of $150 million. In 1999, the Enron Corporation, along with Palestinian businessman Said Khoury, began working on the project. In 2000, Khoury's Morganti Group purchased Enron's share of the project.

The power station began operating in 2002, reaching full commercial capacity in 2004. The owners of the power station insured it, through the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, for a sum of $48 million due to "political risks." OPIC is a U.S. government authority that insures U.S. investments in developing markets.

A spokesman for the agency said the insurance purchased by the Morganti Group covers instances of political violence, which include wars and acts of terror.

The plant supplies electricity to some 860,000 people.
However, this comment on the Haaretz site suggests the article is not correct.:
Not accurate, Congress barred Hamas infrastructure payments
Name: Dr. L. Brnd
City: San Diego State: USA

Check your facts again. Not only do I doubt that "acts of war" are covered in the policy, and acts of the insured in precipitating the damage are certainly not covered (Hamas conduct directly caused the attack; it wasn`t incidental damage due to war). More importantly, recent US law passed by Congress forbids US government funds being used for any infrastructure payments in PA territory; this would supercede any prior obligation to fund, build or rebuild the power plant. Further, this is minor, petroleum-fueled back-up plant, most of the Gaza electricity comes from Israel, which Hamas can expect to stop forever if Gilad is harmed. Likewise, any replacement of the massive turbines for the destroyed plant (regardless who pays) can only be delivered through Israel`s Ashkelon port and Erez crossing -- and that will NEVER happen if Gilad is harmed. Israel is under no obligation to make Ashkelon available to Hamas. So...the 48 mil is irrelevant. Hamas is screwed either way if they harm Gilad
Posted by: lotp || 07/01/2006 16:10 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So the $48million is the insurance deductible? I'm very confused.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/01/2006 16:26 Comments || Top||

#2  OPIC regularly insures some major projects built overseas with US aid. In this case, the $48 million would be the designated amount to be paid of the power plant was damaged due to various "political risks".

However, see the comment added above to the article, which says Haaretz is wrong and this damage won't be covered.
Posted by: lotp || 07/01/2006 16:27 Comments || Top||

#3  I hope the U.S. hires my HMO to process this. They should be able to delay payment almost forever. First, they send a "Coordination of Benefits Information Request" to the Palestinians requiring response within ten days, but they don't actually mail it until day 20. Then they lose it when it is returned "late". Then, when Abbas manages to get through the phone menu maze, which is unlikely, they keep Abbas on hold for a few years. Then they tell him it's "in processing" which is better than "the check is in the mail" because that would be a lie. Then, the next time he calls, they tell him not to be so impatient -- it's still in processing. Repeat until he files an appeal. Require two months to process the appeal, then tell him he has won and the payment is -- you guessed it! -- in processing. If all else fails, send him a check that is only valid for 90 days -- and backdate it 91 days.
Posted by: Darrell || 07/01/2006 16:40 Comments || Top||

#4  ;-)

Years ago I worked with a Russian emigre consultant. He had dealing with bureaucracy down to a science -- would show up for IRS audits with all his receipts in a shoebox, his English was suddenly much poorer, he would tremble and ask if he was in trouble - he was from Soviet Union, no trouble please .... quite good at it, he was.
Posted by: lotp || 07/01/2006 16:46 Comments || Top||

#5  It was the stress of the situation, surely, lotp. My German deteriorated dreadfully that time the police officer didn't like how I drove through the neighborhood... (I don't understand it -- I wasn't going much above the speed limit, and I'd come to a rolling stop at the sign)
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/01/2006 16:58 Comments || Top||

#6  tw, Boris' language problems were QUITE specific. ;-)
Posted by: lotp || 07/01/2006 17:12 Comments || Top||

#7  I hope the U.S. hires my HMO to process this.

Now there's an RB original line.
Posted by: 6 || 07/01/2006 19:17 Comments || Top||

#8  The $48M is probably the replacement cost and does not include the other $102M siphoned off from the original $150M construction by various Palestinian political thieves for permits and expert consultation.
Posted by: RWV || 07/01/2006 20:55 Comments || Top||


Israel giving Egypt's mediation a chance
A senior defense official said that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's decision to halt this week's IDF incursion into the Gaza Strip was intended to give a chance to mediation efforts on the part of the Egyptian government.

According to the defense official, speaking to Israel Radio on Saturday, the IDF could resume the operation at any moment, since it involved advancing only a few kilometers.

Olmert held off on a planned incursion into the northern Gaza Strip Thursday night, ordering the military to suspend its plans to take over the Kassam launch sites and to give diplomatic efforts a chance to retrieve kidnapped IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit.

Columns of tanks and an entire infantry regiment had been put on standby outside Kibbutz Mefalsim near northern Gaza in preparation for the planned incursion initially scheduled for Thursday night.

Speaking of IDF officers reported to have criticized the decision to halt the incursion, the defense official said that anonymous angry officers were a feature of every military operation. According to the official, the question was who would take responsibility for the results of the operations, including operational failures and possible casualties among IDF troops.

It was a good thing that the government did not accept IDF recommendations blindly, but rather incorporated IDF recommendations into general government policy, the official concluded.
Posted by: tipper || 07/01/2006 11:09 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  anonymous angry officers were a feature of every military operation

Ha! Indeedy yes.
Posted by: 6 || 07/01/2006 14:24 Comments || Top||


'Small group of IDF tanks move north from Rafah
EFL
About five IDF tanks and bulldozers moved into the mostly empty Abasan area near the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis on Saturday, Palestinian security officials said. There were no reports of fighting or casualties.

IDF activity in the Gaza Strip was continuing Saturday, with Navy and ground artillery shelling targets in both the northern and southern parts of the Strip.

The shelling of the southern regions were done out of concern that the Palestinians were preparing to transport kidnapped IDF soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit to a new location. An army assessment believed he was being held in southern Gaza.

The targets in the north were Kassam rocket launch sites. Since Thursday night, Palestinians have fired seven rockets into Israel in the direction of Sderot.

In the context of ongoing operations in Gaza, IDF troops had already taken up positions in vacant areas near the town of Rafah, but the move into Abasan was the first time troops entered the Gaza Strip north of that area. The troops crossed the border with Israel and moved several hundred meters into Abasan on Saturday afternoon, Palestinian security officials said.

The army said the raid in Abasan was a limited operation and the soldiers were expected to leave soon.

Channel 1, citing a senior Israeli security official, reported Friday that a Palestinian doctor treated Shalit for minor shoulder and stomach wounds, and that the soldier was in good condition.

A Palestinian report likewise indicated that Shalit was alive and well, quoting the doctor who visited Shalit as saying that his condition was good and that he was wounded in his stomach and shoulder, according to Israel Radio late Friday.

The doctor's visit, which apparently took place on Thursday, came after pressure from Egypt led Damascus-based Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal to approve the checkup. The kidnappers had originally refused to allow a visit.

According to Palestinian sources, Shalit was wounded in his shoulder and stomach from shrapnel, but his wounds were treated and his life was not in danger.

Less than an hour earlier, the IAF hit seven main roads in central Gaza. According to the army, the purpose of the strike was to make movement more difficult for the kidnappers and to crack down on Kassam rocket launchers.

According to Cpt. Jacob Dallal of the IDF Spokesperson's Unit, the operation's purpose was simple: "To gain the release of Cpl. Gilad Shalit."

Speaking to The Jerusalem Post, Dallal said that the strikes would be "ongoing," though the operation was being done "in a calibrated, studied fashion," the IDF "has many means at our disposal" for escalating the attacks.

We hope that this will work and that he will be freed as soon as possible," Dallal concluded.

350 shells were fired at Kassam launch sites in northern Gaza overnight. The shelling continued into Saturday morning.

Hizbullah head Hassan Nasrallah called on the kidnappers on Friday not to release Shalit without an Israeli release of Palestinian prisoners.

Earlier Friday, an IAF missile struck a car traveling in Gaza City, causing an enormous explosion and, according to Israel Radio, wounding two people in the vicinity. Palestinian reports indicated three were wounded, one seriously.

Four men suspected of being responsible for launching Kassam rockets at Israel were apparently in the car.

The missile did not directly hit the vehicle, but exploded next to it, allowing those inside to run out, witnesses said, identifying the occupants as members of Islamic Jihad.

The IDF confirmed that it had carried out a missile strike in the area, while an IDF spokesman said the army would continue to target Palestinian terrorist infrastructure in the Gaza Strip in order to put an end to Kassam rocket attacks from there.

Hours after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert put the brakes on a massive ground incursion into northern Gaza, IAF fighter jets struck close to a dozen targets before dawn Friday hitting the Palestinian Authority Interior Ministry and a Fatah office in Gaza City. Missiles also struck a Hamas training camp on the outskirts of the city.

Other targets hit by missiles included a Kassam rocket production warehouse affiliated with the Fatah-backed Aksa Martyrs' Brigades.

An IAF helicopter also fired upon and critically wounded an Islamic Jihad operative who tried to launch a rocket at Israeli forces. The man, 25-year-old Abdel Rael, later died of his wounds. His death marked the first fatality since the IDF incursion began on Tuesday.

An IDF statement said that the strikes would continue as long as Hamas terrorists refused to release Shalit.

IDF artillery cannons also pounded Kassam launch sites overnight Friday. Since the beginning of the current Gaza campaign, dubbed "Operation Summer Rains," the IDF has fired over 400 artillery shells.

The IDF said the attack on Interior Minister Said Siyam's offices in Gaza City was caused by its being used as "a meeting place to plan and direct terror activity."

Also early Friday, IDF troops in southern Gaza noticed several Palestinians approaching an IDF position with an anti-tank rocket launcher. Troops fired at the cell, causing it to flee.

According to the IDF Spokesperson's Unit, two of the attackers were believed to be wounded, but all managed to escape.

The details of the incident were still being investigated.
Posted by: lotp || 07/01/2006 08:58 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I suspect the army has been given nonsensical ROE, such as "don't kill anybody unless you absolutely have to", "blow up the places where missiles have been launched from before", and "don't do anything that might make them mad."
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/01/2006 10:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Hassan Nasrallah should be #1 on the target list after that statement.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/01/2006 10:33 Comments || Top||

#3  There is no end in site for this whole mess and things are going to just become worse and worse. Anybody got a good link for a reference map?
Posted by: 2b || 07/01/2006 10:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Israel needs to step up the pressure, not halt it. Every hour that offensive operations are halted buys time for the Paleo Propaganda Machine (infamous PPM). Hamas ministers' heads on pikes would be a start. I do not mean to be barbaric, but I have come to the conclusion that this is the only way to break through to these people. Mo's buddies used to do this to their enemies, so what's the diff? You do not negotiate with terrorists and you do not mediate.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/01/2006 11:56 Comments || Top||

#5  I think the only way to win this is swift and certain justice - not for the poor-poor-piteous-paleo cave people, but for their leaders and money men. Step right up and be dead.

Israel would have to conquer the entire middle east to "win" this one. Even Europe works against them. Even if they tried, they couldn't kill enough people. And besides, that just continues the conflict for centuries more. They really don't have much of a choice but to find a new way.

I don't understand why they don't just wack the money men in Saudi Arabia and everywhere else around the world. Until they do, this will never stop. Just keep wacking em'. Eventually there won't be any left.
Posted by: 2b || 07/01/2006 12:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Works for me 2b, I think if we'd had more wetwork a while back we may not be looking at the aggro we have today.

Posted by: Tony (UK) || 07/01/2006 17:05 Comments || Top||


Foreign Ministry: Either Shalit is freed or we will act to free him
Israel said Saturday that it rejects a demand by the three Palestinian militant groups holding an abducted Israel Defense Forces soldier to free 1,000 security prisoners being held in its jails and end the IDF offensive launched in Gaza in the wake of his kidnap.

Corporal Gilad Shalit was abducted Sunday morning in an attack on his IDF post near the Gaza border. Two IDF soldiers were killed in the attack.

Meanwhile, a Palestinian deputy minister said Saturday that Shalit has received medical treatment for wounds sustained during his abduction and that he is in stable condition.

Speaking at a news conference in Ramallah, Deputy Minister for Prisoner Affairs Ziad Abu Ein cited unidentified "mediators" as telling him that Shalit had been wounded during his abduction.

"He has three wounds," Abu Ein said. "I guess shrapnel wounds." He did not give further details.

But Abu Ein told Haaretz later Saturday that he had simply been quoting media reports and had not received any new information.
no contradiction - we all know what role the Palestinian/Arab media play
Channel 1 television, citing a senior Israeli security official, reported Friday night that a Palestinian doctor treated Shalit for minor shoulder and stomach wounds, and that the soldier was in good condition. Israel Radio said the doctor's visit took place Thursday.

A statement released overnight Friday by the three groups did not say explicitly that the soldier would be freed should their demands be met. But a spokesman for the military wing of the governing Hamas party, one of the three factions involved in the kidnapping, said the demands specified in the statement were in fact conditions for releasing Shalit.
uh huh. but it isn't explicit, so they can reneg.

Does it sound as if I'm sick and tired of a certain cultural pattern that includes lying for tactical and strategic advantage? It DOES??? Fancy that.
Repeating Israel's refusal to bargain for Shalit's release, Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said in response to the statement that "Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has reiterated that there will be no deals, that either Shalit will be released or we will act to bring about his release."

IDF troops entered the southern Gaza Strip in the early hours of Wednesday, in a bid to pressure the Palestinians to release Shalit.

The militants' demand Saturday for the release prisoners was the second statement by the groups since Shalit's abduction. "We are declaring to the public our just and humanitarian demands," the statement said.

The statement repeated an earlier demand for the release of women prisoners and minors in exchange for information on Shalit, but made the added request for Israel to free 1,000 "Palestinian, Arab and Muslim prisoners." It said these would have to include all Palestinian faction leaders as well as humanitarian cases.

The statement cast doubt on hopes voiced by mediators that Shalit could be freed soon.
by the Palestinians, anyway.
"In spite of the good efforts of the mediators who tried in silence to speed up the treatment of this humanitarian matter, the enemy and their political leadership are still under the pressure of the security and military command," it said.

"The escalation and arrogance mean the enemy will be responsible for the bad consequences," it said.
Bull shit.
Also Saturday, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said that while the crisis is reaching a critical moment, diplomatic efforts to resolve it were yet to bear fruits.
Quel surprise!
"The next hours are critical, sensitive and serious. And though the efforts are still ongoing, we have not reached an acceptable solution until now," a statement from Abbas' office said.

"After a week of continuous and long contacts with all parties, Palestinian, Arab, international and particularly Egyptian, the [Abbas] ... is still exerting efforts to stop the Israeli aggression and avoid more disasters for the Palestinian people," the statement said.
Uh huh. Be nice if the same exertion had prevented all the attacks on Israel since the withdrawl, or the military attack on the Israeli soldiers, or ....
Abbas also appealed to all parties to work to find "an acceptable solution" to the crisis.

Meanwhile, the Israel Air Force attacked several sites late Friday and early Saturday in the latest round of raids across the Gaza Strip. There were no casualties in any of the incidents, Palestinian medical workers said.

The attacks were on what the IDF called a "terrorist training facility" in the south of the Strip, and on a building in Gaza City which Palestinians said was used by Hamas militants.

The military confirmed attacking a Hamas facility in Gaza and a former Israeli settlement near Rafah, close to the Egyptian border, which was abandoned in last year's Israeli withdrawal and taken over by militants.

Palestinians said the new occupants, activists of the Abu Rish Brigades, loosely affiliated with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah, recently evacuated the complex, fearing just such a strike.

The military could not confirm reports of a missile landing on open ground near the southern town of Khan Yunis.

Also early Saturday, IAF aircraft reportedly hit a Hamas training facility in central Gaza. There were no injuries, but the building was set on fire, Palestinian officials said. The IDF said it was looking into the claim.

Earlier Friday evening, three Palestinians were hurt in an IAF strike in the northern Gaza Strip, Palestinian security sources said. According to witnesses, an IAF missile was fired and landed adjacent to a vehicle in Gaza City. The IDF said the strike targeted an Islamic Jihad Qassam rocket-launching cell. Palestinian sources said four militants were in the vehicle at the time of the strike. Three managed to flee.

Also Friday, a Qassam rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed within hundreds of meters of Ashkelon, in what police said was the closest a Qassam strike has come to the southern city. Police confirmed that the rocket was an improved version of the Qassam. No injuries were reported in the incident.

Early Friday, the IAF struck the Palestinian Interior Ministry in downtown Gaza City, Palestinian witnesses said, setting it on fire. There was no word of casualties.The Interior Ministry is nominally in charge of Palestinian security forces, though Abbas removed most of its authority.

The IDF confirmed its planes hit the office of Interior Minister Saeed Siyam, which it called "a meeting place to plan and direct terror activity."

A Palestinian militant injured in the strike died of his wounds early Friday, the first fatality in the IDF incursion in Gaza, hospital officials said. The local leader of Islamic Jihad, Mohammed Abdel Al, 25, had been seriously wounded in an air strike in Rafah in southern Gaza.

Three Fatah militants said they were wounded early Friday in a gun battle with IDF forces in northern Gaza, while the army denied troops had entered or fired into the territory, where forces have been massing.

Palestinian hospital officials said a 5-year-old girl was wounded in an air strike in northern Gaza early Friday. Doctors said her condition was not serious.

On Thursday night, IDF artillery shells hit the electricity distribution network in the northern Gaza Strip, plunging parts of the area into darkness.

Palestinian officials said two power transformers were struck, and two security officers were wounded by shrapnel. Dr. Ali Mousa, director of the Abu Yousef al-Najar Hospital in Rafah, also said a 15-year-old boy was moderately wounded by shrapnel in the blast.

The strike came two days after IAF aircraft attacked a major Gaza City power station, reportedly leaving roughly two-thirds of Gaza's 1.3 million residents without electricity.

The IDF confirmed it had been firing artillery at open spaces in the area at the time of Thursday's incident. The army said it has a report of an electrical pole being hit and was checking if the artillery fire was in any way related.

According to information gleaned by the PA, Shalit is being held in the Khan Yunis refugee camp in southern Gaza. Peretz said Thursday afternoon that the IDF would sustain its blockade on the Gaza Strip until Shalit is brought home safely.

In the West Bank, IDF troops Friday shot and killed two Palestinian militants during a fierce gunbattle in a Nablus cemetery, Palestinian security officials said.

The soldiers surrounded the cemetery, trapping four militants inside. Initially, two of the militants were arrested, one fled and one was killed, the security officials said. The militants belong to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, which is tied to Fatah.

A military source said shooting broke out when troops entered Nablus on a raid to arrest militants. The troops fired back, killing the first militant, the IDF said. The second militant was killed in a exchange of fire which pursued after he had already been arrested by troops.
Posted by: lotp || 07/01/2006 08:44 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  shut off ALL power AND water - let em sh*t in their hovels in the dark
Posted by: Frank G || 07/01/2006 10:20 Comments || Top||

#2  DEBKA says the report that Shalit got medical attention and is in good condition is false.
Posted by: lotp || 07/01/2006 13:01 Comments || Top||

#3  This is just a propaganda ploy by Hamas to buy time. My gut feeling sez that the terrorists have already killed Shalit, so they have nothing to give over except a body, if that.

I hope and pray that I am wrong, but that's how I see it.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/01/2006 13:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Now, Frank, just ask yourself: What would Kofi do?
Posted by: Captain America || 07/01/2006 13:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Get a bribe from both sides using Kojo as an intermediary, all the while tut-tutting about Israeli intransigence in negotiations?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/01/2006 14:04 Comments || Top||

#6  We're coming up on an important 30'th anniversary.
Perhaps our Israeli friends can give us ANOTHER 4th of July victory against terror.
Posted by: Spaing Glaiper6597 || 07/01/2006 16:58 Comments || Top||

#7  You are such a romantic, Spaing Glaiper6597. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/01/2006 17:17 Comments || Top||

#8  I swear the brutal overlords of Zion are piss poor killing machines.
Posted by: 6 || 07/01/2006 19:21 Comments || Top||

#9  No need for the Israelis to kill anyone, just rev up the D9s and raze Gaza one building at a time until they find their man. This is a crisis that cries out for Catapillar.
Posted by: RWV || 07/01/2006 21:36 Comments || Top||


Al-Aqsa hard boy killed in clashes in Nablus
(KUNA) -- An activist of Al-Aqsa Brigade, the military wing of the Fatah Movement, was killed in armed clashes with Israeli forces in Nablus city. Eyewitnesses told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) Israeli troops besieged a cemetery in the eastern part of the city and clashed with the militants. One was killed, another wounded and the third arrested. Eyewitnesses said the twenty-year-old Mahmoud Zakaria, received a bullet in the shoulder near the heart which led to his death immediately.

Eyewitnesses said the Israeli army forced the mother of one of the militants at gunpoint to to ask her son to turn himself in. Israeli troops occupied rooftops of a number of houses, buildings close from the cemetery and used them as locations to open fire towards militants. They went on an incursion operation in Nablus using more than 14 tanks.
Posted by: Fred || 07/01/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One Gazan down, approximately one million to go....
Posted by: Scooter McGruder || 07/01/2006 0:20 Comments || Top||

#2  Scooter, I think Nablus is in the West Bank.
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 07/01/2006 1:49 Comments || Top||

#3  is the kuwait news agency reliable?--um....as the A.P.
Posted by: yo momma || 07/01/2006 1:52 Comments || Top||

#4  Israeli troops besieged a cemetery in the eastern part of the city

Better hunker down there boyz.
Posted by: 6 || 07/01/2006 8:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Why, they're not going anywhere.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/01/2006 9:34 Comments || Top||

#6  Reminds me of the Joke Headline,
"Small four passenger Plane Crashes In (Name your stupid ethnic)Cemetary"
Rescuers have recovered 92 bodies as overnight search continues.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/01/2006 9:56 Comments || Top||

#7  Good one, Redneck Jim!

How about this one, an oldie but a goodie:

A plane crashes and comes to rest right smack dab on the border line between Canada and the United States. Where do they bury the survivors?
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/01/2006 12:16 Comments || Top||

#8  Yep, oldie but goodie, I won't give away the punchline.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/01/2006 13:00 Comments || Top||

#9  Onbarrio? Hell, come on.... I've been sheltered.
Posted by: 6 || 07/01/2006 19:23 Comments || Top||

#10  "blew a seal? No it's just ice cream"?

oh wait, that's not it....
Posted by: Frank G || 07/01/2006 19:29 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Gitmo Authorities Use "Harsh Methods" To Break Hunger Strike
Time Mag - natch. HT to Drudge. Watch the tears and handwringing. I say let em die
At Guantanamo, Dying Is Not Permitted
A TIME Investigation: The Supreme Court handed the prisoners at Gitmo a victory, but authorities there continue to use harsh methods to break one of their most common methods of protest — the hunger strike

The prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, won a major victory this week when the Supreme Court struck down the Bush administration's planned military tribunals. Til they find out we can hold them til the day they die..nice spin assholes But for many prisoners at the detention facility, the protests haven't stopped. Hunger strikes persist, in what Guantanamo commander Rear Adm. Harry Harris, Jr. has called "asymmetric warfare" — a means to attract attention to their increasingly controversial detention. As a result, the camp's administrators have sought to keep prisoners alive at all cost — because a prisoner's death (as the U.S. found out three weeks ago, when three Gitmo inmates committed suicide) can be a major embarrassment for the U.S. and add fuel to widespread demands for the facility to be shut down. Oh the humanity!

Civil-liberties advocates point out that Guantanamo's 460 inmates have few other means to make their voices heard, given that most have been detained for more than four years without even being charged with a crime. Indeed, though the U.S. has condemned the hunger strikers at Gitmo, just last year the White House hailed a hunger-striking Iranian dissident for showing "that he is willing to die for his right to express his opinion."
"Civil Liberties Advocates" should be required to spend a weekend with the crazed killers in their cells...they can take dictation of the protests

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Posted by: Frank G || 07/01/2006 10:24 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Shark chum.
Posted by: 3dc || 07/01/2006 10:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Nothing like the smell of a steak sizzling on a grill to weaken the refusal to eat. Time to expand the methods. If you can play music round the clock, why not aerate the cells with cooking aromas? Start with steak, then maybe some nice apple pie bubbling in the oven, then by mid day when it's hot, the tart aroma of lemons being squeezed...you get the idea.
Posted by: Jules || 07/01/2006 10:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Civil Liberties Advocates™ gonna get you, Jules

:-)
Posted by: Frank G || 07/01/2006 10:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Hanging is a "method" once used for Treason.
Posted by: RD || 07/01/2006 10:54 Comments || Top||

#5  :) I'll ply them with food, too, Frank. I love to cook.
Posted by: Jules || 07/01/2006 11:04 Comments || Top||

#6  Where is Al Quada's detention facility for prisoners? I would like to inspect it and speak with the person in charge. I have concerns about the treatment of U.S. captures and kidnapped personnel. How are they treated? Under what conditions must they exist?
Posted by: airandee || 07/01/2006 11:37 Comments || Top||

#7  We ought to treat these jihadi bastards like their friends treated the two captured American soldiers last month. I haven't a scintilla of mercy for them and no compunction whatsoever about seeing the lot of these scumbags executed. Coat the remains with pig blood and throw them overboard. The sharks off Guantanamo would be glad to eat them.
Posted by: mac || 07/01/2006 11:55 Comments || Top||

#8  Do we still have some of Saddam's industreal shreadders around?

The MSM doesn't seem to have a problem with feeding people to them alive so I guess its ok with AI, HRW, NTY, LAT, and the MSM.....

(NOT advocating this - just pointing out the double standard)
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/01/2006 12:04 Comments || Top||

#9  Bacon sandwiches ! yummy

Force feed em bacon sarnies ! who could resist the allure of freshly fried pig , not even these tards , i bet !! Religious beleifs go right outta the window for a bacon sarnie !!

Get the picture ? bacon sarnies rule !!

so there!

bacon sarnies
bacon sarnies
bacon sarnies
bacon sarnies


Ohh and a few beers watching Englands dire WC performance :)
Posted by: MacNails || 07/01/2006 12:33 Comments || Top||

#10  Fresh goat burgers just like the old black bag used to make.


Posted by: 6 || 07/01/2006 14:20 Comments || Top||

#11  All of us know, of course, how the MSM would react if one of these mooks did manage to starve himself to death ...
Posted by: Steve White || 07/01/2006 15:19 Comments || Top||

#12  Feed 'em Journalist Burgers - tastes like chicken.
Posted by: DMFD || 07/01/2006 15:31 Comments || Top||

#13  Is there one involving light bulbs?
Posted by: Elmath Threasing8506 || 07/01/2006 15:59 Comments || Top||

#14  Enough with the light bulbs already! ;-)
Posted by: lotp || 07/01/2006 16:00 Comments || Top||

#15  Let 'em starve themselves to death.

How could the lefties object? Don't they believe in self-actualization?
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 07/01/2006 16:05 Comments || Top||

#16  Call me a great humanitarian, but I'd make the food available twice a day and put a "Do Not Resuscitate" sign on the door. If they choose not to eat, they reap the consequences of their own actions. Darwin is our friend.
Posted by: Darrell || 07/01/2006 16:14 Comments || Top||

#17  Oh, and we're using 3 mm (0.1 inch)nasal tubes? Cry me a river. I'm thinking a 1/2 inch automobile funnel down the mouth would be a lot more effective.
Posted by: Darrell || 07/01/2006 16:19 Comments || Top||


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Posted by: Fred || 07/01/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  First! (but I have nothing of importance to say, except hey Sweetie!)
Posted by: jay-dubya || 07/01/2006 12:23 Comments || Top||


Important editorial notice:
No more stories about the Paki bugger with the light bulb. Really.
Posted by: Steve White || 07/01/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  What? The surgery was a success but a pain in the...
Posted by: Captain America || 07/01/2006 0:06 Comments || Top||

#2  ahh, crap I showed up late ain't heard about any light bulb yet.
Posted by: macofromoc || 07/01/2006 0:32 Comments || Top||

#3  Ok. So how many light bulbs does it take to...

Oh never mind!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 07/01/2006 1:30 Comments || Top||

#4  wayte, musta misst that. kan sumwun pleeze post.

:p
Posted by: muck4doo || 07/01/2006 1:35 Comments || Top||

#5  macofromoc

you didn't miss much

recap: tunnel + light bulb + pain

mystery cleared, turns out the Paki prison in question was built when Uranus was ascending.
Posted by: RD || 07/01/2006 1:36 Comments || Top||

#6  No. Nobody post. Or post again. And again.

It's a man, a lightbulb, and a really embarassing ER visit. Where's the humor in *that*?
Posted by: Seafarious || 07/01/2006 1:58 Comments || Top||

#7  Thanks for enlightening us, Seafarious.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 07/01/2006 2:41 Comments || Top||

#8  It sure is dark in here
Posted by: The Lightbulb || 07/01/2006 4:38 Comments || Top||

#9  I thought the story illuminated some shit.
Posted by: phil_b || 07/01/2006 4:52 Comments || Top||

#10  "Eureka! I have a great idea!"

"No, it's not permitted."
Posted by: Gromorong Cruper1582 || 07/01/2006 4:58 Comments || Top||

#11  Watt was that ? aahh yes in-lightening . I rarely pity inanimate objects but this lightbulb got the shitty end of the stick , for sure
Posted by: MacNails || 07/01/2006 6:28 Comments || Top||

#12  Boo Hoo!

Posted by: DanNY || 07/01/2006 6:30 Comments || Top||

#13  Sorry, Sea, but these guys don't see the light yet.
Posted by: Swamp Blondie || 07/01/2006 7:00 Comments || Top||

#14  Dimwit
Posted by: RedneckJim || 07/01/2006 7:05 Comments || Top||

#15  No more? Darn, this could have shed some light on the inner workings of the Muslim mind...
Posted by: Dave D. || 07/01/2006 7:06 Comments || Top||

#16  I pity the nezt Bugger.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/01/2006 7:10 Comments || Top||

#17  Not being funny, there was a famous sword swallower in the mid 60's that used a flourescent tube in his act, when he had swallowed it, he turned it on, his manager made him stop, women were fainting in the audience. Looked somewhat like a Live X-Ray.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/01/2006 7:18 Comments || Top||

#18  Memo to self: Paki colonoscopy bad idea.
Posted by: john || 07/01/2006 7:44 Comments || Top||

#19  If anyone wants to read it it's on Muck4Doo's blog, Freepers and Hippies and Trolls. (Meatismurder)
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 07/01/2006 8:55 Comments || Top||

#20  Yep, it's DeadLast on Fred's Blogroll. :>
Posted by: 6 || 07/01/2006 9:24 Comments || Top||

#21  That guy's not very bright.
Posted by: 2b || 07/01/2006 10:08 Comments || Top||

#22  We had hardly scratched the surface of such things as the lemon bit, "glowing" reports of his improvement, the "rectal foreign bodies" website, the "two bowling balls and an armadillo" joke, the gas-launched pvc pipe gerbil mortar, Richard Gere, butt plug lore, and all sorts of funny pictures and other assorted trivia.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/01/2006 10:10 Comments || Top||

#23  wait, wait...how about...

it didn't turn out to be such a bright idea in the end.
Posted by: 2b || 07/01/2006 10:11 Comments || Top||

#24  That guy's not very bright.

Not before, clearly, and not afterward, but during? Absolutely!
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/01/2006 10:12 Comments || Top||

#25  at least it wasn't a poolstick
Posted by: Vito Spatafore || 07/01/2006 10:44 Comments || Top||

#26  So how many Pakis does it take to change a light bulb?
Posted by: Adriane || 07/01/2006 11:12 Comments || Top||

#27  One. But he has to be upside-down.
Posted by: Fordesque || 07/01/2006 11:50 Comments || Top||

#28  Hey, the guy was probably Taliban and was having trouble seeing because he went through life with his head shoved up his azz.
Posted by: grb || 07/01/2006 11:55 Comments || Top||

#29  So how many Pakis does it take to change a light bulb?

It depends on whether he can get enough rectal rotation on his own or he needs some of his mates to give him a turn.
Posted by: phil_b || 07/01/2006 11:58 Comments || Top||

#30  Note to Fred, Never say "Don't" to this punny bunch of humorists, it'll all come out in the end.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/01/2006 12:53 Comments || Top||

#31  This just in from the world acclaimed proctologist:

On behalf of myself and the World Proctology Association, we collectively seethe at the decision by Rantburger moderators not to post our in-depth work. Signed, Annus N. Rectum
Posted by: Captain America || 07/01/2006 13:20 Comments || Top||

#32  It seems that Sea's efforts to reign in this gaggle of dark humor rouges has been for naught.
Posted by: GK || 07/01/2006 15:57 Comments || Top||

#33  Rantburg is a pretty freewheeling place. No need to delete this, but we do ask that you stop innundating us with this story -- honestly, 2 days is enough and the jokes are starting to smell, they're that old by now. ;-)
Posted by: lotp || 07/01/2006 15:59 Comments || Top||

#34  So put a cork in it, you guys:

http://tinyurl.com/zv5wj

(may be NSFW)
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/01/2006 17:21 Comments || Top||



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