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Afghanistan
Top Woman Official Shot Dead
Kabul, 25 Sept. (AKI) - A top women's official in Afghanistan was shot dead by unknown assailants in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar on Monday. Reports say that gunmen on motorcycles struck Safia Ama Jan, head of the province's women's affairs department, as she was leaving her home. Eyewitnesses say that she died on the spot. No one has claimed responsibility for the shooting. Taliban fighters have killed many government officials in the past.

Reports say that Jan served as the head of the women's affairs department in Kandahar since the hardline Taliban regime was ousted in 2001 by the US-led forces. An investigation has been launched into the attack.

Earlier in September, the Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack which killed Abdul Hakim Taniwal - the governor of the eastern Paktia province - the highest ranking official to die in the insurgency.
Posted by: Steve || 09/25/2006 08:29 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  National Association of Gals - *cricket**cricket*
Posted by: Ebbomoling Omiter6310 || 09/25/2006 9:08 Comments || Top||

#2  This is a window into what life will be like in the Islamic democracies. Murder for no reason pleases Allan (ptui).
Posted by: wxjames || 09/25/2006 10:28 Comments || Top||

#3  The Lions are very determined to keep the wimmin in their bags. Women have the capability to destroy this ass backward cult if they gain any power. Thus, massive suppression of the wimmin.
Posted by: SOP35/Rat || 09/25/2006 11:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Teach her not to send out hair rays!!!
Posted by: gromgoru || 09/25/2006 19:07 Comments || Top||

#5  "Show me just what Muhammad brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman..

Cause she's "wimmin who won't submit".
Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 || 09/25/2006 20:59 Comments || Top||


60 more Taliban killed in Afghanistan push
Security forces in Afghanistan have announced they have killed more than 60 Taliban in new clashes, as a British minister played down suggestions the nation's troops deployed here are over-stretched. The rebels were killed in separate incidents in southern Helmand province on Sunday, where the bulk of a British deployment of about 4,500 troops is based and has come under fierce attack to mounting concern at home.

On Saturday, NATO-led and Afghan security forces backed by war planes killed 40 of the rebels in the province's Greshk district, the Afghan defence ministry said. A rebel stronghold was also "totally" destroyed in the raid in which Afghan and foreign troops sustained no casualties, it added. Security forces meanwhile captured 21 suspected Taliban combatants across insurgency-hit southern and eastern Afghanistan, the ministry said in a separate statement.

NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) announced that it had killed 15 insurgents in the province's Now Zad district on Friday after the troops called in air support when they came under fire from about 20 men. Eight more insurgents were killed on Thursday in neighbouring Sangin district after they attacked a helicopter with rocket-propelled grenades as the aircraft was lifting off, another ISAF statement said. Helmand, Afghanistan's top drug-producing province, has seen an escalation of violence this year as ISAF troops have moved into remote areas and confronted rebels and drug lords who have operated for years outside the law.
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The pine-wood boxes just keep piling up for and getting filled with the mangled corpses of dead Talibunnies and Pakis. Allan Akbar!
Posted by: Lancasters Over Dresden || 09/25/2006 0:44 Comments || Top||

#2  I hope the Taliban keeps reading in the press about how overstretched the NATO forces are. They seem to be queuing up to dive into the wood chipper.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/25/2006 0:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Plenty more where those came from.
Posted by: gromky || 09/25/2006 0:50 Comments || Top||

#4  You guys are obviously not reading Time, the NYT, or listening to Anderson Cooper. We are losing...the resurgent taliban are stronger than anytime since late 2001, and it's all nazi-bush's fault.
Posted by: anymouse || 09/25/2006 3:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Sounds like the talibunnies have the second string playing. So why are they leaving the first string on the bench?

The bench is in Hades.
Posted by: Bobby || 09/25/2006 5:53 Comments || Top||

#6  So why are they leaving the first string on the bench?


'Cause they're dead.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 09/25/2006 6:12 Comments || Top||

#7  Unless and until this boil is lanced, and we go to the source (i.e., Pakiland), the talibunnies will simply go back into their hole and germinate, train, rearm, and return.
Posted by: Captain America || 09/25/2006 7:39 Comments || Top||

#8  Back to the 20 multiples. PAOs must have rotated.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 09/25/2006 7:40 Comments || Top||

#9  As long as we had the A-OK from the JAG's...
Posted by: Raj || 09/25/2006 8:12 Comments || Top||

#10  It is going to be a long, cold winter in Pakland, and even colder when the rank and file start counting up their casualties. Ironically, since they will all be bunched together in North Wazoo, it is going to be extra easy to figure out who has survived.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 09/25/2006 14:11 Comments || Top||


23 Talibs titzup
(KUNA) -- NATO forces killed 23 Taliban fighters in two separate operations in southern Afghanistan as the alliance's member countries pledged assistance for people affected during a two-week Operation Medusa, which concluded last week. A NATO statement released here on Sunday said 20 Taliban fighters attacked NATO troops in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand on Saturday. The NATO forces called close air support and the bombing resulted in killing of 15 attackers. The statement said the NATO forces remained unhurt.

In a separate statement released the same day, the military said NATO helicopters dropped a bomb at a group of Taliban in the same region killing eight militants. The statement did not disclose the exact location. Taliban did not issue any comment on the statements made by the NATO forces; however, the militia's purported spokesman Dr Hanif said they had killed five Afghan policemen following an attack at their post in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province. His claim was neither admitted nor rejected by the Afghan officials. Spokesman for police in the province, Colonel Ghafoor said they did not know about any such attack. Meanwhile, the NATO member countries have provided emergency help for people of areas in southern Afghanistan, who have been displaced from their houses and suffered damage during Operation Medusa which concluded last week.

The operation was carried out in two districts of Zerai and Panjwayee of Kandahar province following mounting attacks by Taliban fighters on Afghan and foreign forces in those areas. A statement released from the office of NATO's civilian representative here said Germany had pledged one million euros of immediate assistance to the people of Kandahar province who had to leave their homes before and during fighting linked to Operation Medusa. ISAF had dropped leaflets and consulted tribal elders to warn local people of the impending operation and thousands of people left the area during the fighting in which insurgents were successfully expelled, said the statement. Now, as local people prepare to return, the NATO senior civilian representative in Kabul ambassador Daan Everts, held talks with ambassadors from NATO nations to urge extra assistance for those who have suffered as a result of the fighting. Germany has offered one million euros for immediate assistance, with the possibility of the sum rising to three million euros, said the statement.
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Africa Horn
Shooting at captured Somali port
Islamist guards have opened fire at Somalis protesting at the takeover of the key port of Kismayo - the country's third largest city. Three deaths are being reported after some residents burnt tyres, chanted anti-Islamist slogans and threw stones. Earlier an Islamist leader spoke at a rally which passed off peacefully.

The last southern Somali port outside the Islamic Courts (UIC) movement's control fell overnight as the defence minister's militia withdrew. An MP told the Somali service that three people had died. Some of the protesters had been seen burning Islamic head-dresses.
Was anyone wearing them at the time?
A local journalist said the Islamic militia had taken control of the whole city - the airport, the sea port and the building where Kismayo's former ruler, Defence Minister Barre Hiraale had been based.

Meanwhile, eyewitnesses report that hundreds of Ethiopian troops have crossed the border, heading for Baidoa - the only town controlled by the internationally recognised government. Ethiopia supports the administration of President Abdullahi Yusuf but has denied several previous reports that its troops are in Baidoa. Earlier this month, the African Union agreed to a request by Somalia's transitional government, which controls only a small part of the country, to send in a regional peacekeeping force. Kismayo had been seen as a possible landing point for the peacekeepers.
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Posted by: Steve || 09/25/2006 08:50 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  shouldn't be too hard to blockade this port. Let them take their technicals into naval battle...
Posted by: Frank G || 09/25/2006 15:31 Comments || Top||


Sudanese police arrest 16 suspects in murder of pro-Islamist editor
Sudanese police affirmed on Sunday the arrest of 16 suspects in the murder of the journalist Mohammad Taha Ahmad, editor in chief of the pro-Islamist Al-Wifaq daily. A sniffer dog had recognized two of the suspects based on objects found at the crime's scene. Sudanese police chief, General Mahjub Hassan Saad, denied while speaking to newsmen here, arrest of any foreigners among the arrested 16 suspects. He noted that all contacts in the vicinity of Ahmad's home, his work place, scene of the crime as well as exit and entry through Khartoum airport were detected prior and after the crime.

Earlier this month, a senior Sudanese security official said "foreign hands" may have been involved in the killing of Ahmad. Ahmad had strained relations with the government of President Omar al-Bashir, who came to power with the backing of Islamists. He had escaped an assassination attempt in 2000 after writing an article hostile to the ruling National Congress Party. The murdered journalist had also angered rebels in the troubled western province of Darfur after articles harshly criticizing them were published in his newspaper.
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Africa North
Algerian Security Forces Destroy Terrorist Blockhouses
Source: Tizi Ouzou La Depeche de Kabylie (Internet Version-WWW) 21 Sep 06
The local security forces are working twice as hard these days to put an end to the small groups from armed Islamism that reign supreme particularly on the immediate periphery of Boumerdes. Our sources have told us that since the start of this week major sections from the National People's Army [ANP] have been blocking off the Merchicha maquis and the Guedara piedmont in order to at the least impede the terrorists' mobility. The toll from the operation? "Not much thus far, aside from the demolition of four blockhouses, in which small quantities of food were found," an officer from the Judicial Police Mobile Brigade, indicated yesterday [20 September].

The local bloodthirsty hordes still have, people are worried about this, other fall-back bases that have not yet been blocked off by the special security agencies. However the military pressure is being kept up especially to the southwest and east of Thenia. At regular intervals there, since June 2004, there have been reports of the arrival of bloodthirsty serriats from the Salafi Group for Call and Combat [GSPC] which had escaped the search operations northwest of Bouira. Over the weekend, one of those small terrorist groups had planned the bomb attack which partially damaged a railway segment in Souk El Had, this still to the east of Thenia.

Acting like free electrons, and affiliated, moreover, with El Farouk's (with a notorious reputation for his misdeeds in Bouira) El Horra serriat, no fewer than 30 or so terrorists were eliminated between 2003 and 2005 in the urban area adjoining the capital city. About 50 other networks providing support to that phalange were dismantled at the same time. But the situation nonetheless remains worrisome: 50 terrorists at the very least are prowling on the outskirts of the former Menerville. That is one-third the number that has been counted, according to cross-checked news accounts, in the main districts that are close to the main town in the wilaya of Boumerdes. "Annihilating these Islamist hordes or constantly harassing them to cut off their resupply lines or any possibility of contact with their supporters," that, in broad terms, is the goal of any search operation. The GSPC, though, gains attention the minute it manages to reactivate one of its networks. As was the case last week in the Hai El Louz site in Thenia, where a homemade mortar [heb heb] attack seriously wounded two gendarmes and partially damaged their vehicle.

Even if the door to surrender remains open, the army, which is increasing the number of its commitments, one of which, two days ago, made possible the elimination of one terrorist in Ghzerwal, is admitting no complacency with the destructive fundamentalism that is advocating a return to the Middle Ages.
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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Khattab's lover aide surrenders in Chechnya
(RIA Novosti) - A suspected aide to the notorious terrorist Khattab has surrendered to police in Chechnya, the North Caucasus republic's law enforcement agencies said Monday. The Jordanian-born Khattab was directly involved in preparing and perpetrating a series of attacks in southern Russia.

An amnesty for fighters who surrendered was announced July 15, after the killing of the region's number one terrorist, Shamil Basayev, and promised leniency for militants not involved in major atrocities. About 300 militants have accepted the surrender offer since its announcement, most of them in Chechnya, according to Nikolai Patrushev, head of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) and the National Antiterrorism Committee. The amnesty was initially valid until August 1, but the deadline was later extended to September 30.

"The [suspected] militant turned himself in to a police station in Gudermes," a spokesman said. "The native of the village of Isti-Su has confessed that he took part in an attack on the town of Gudermes in 2001, while a member of Khattab's gang."
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Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2006 14:33 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Who ever heard of a sheep surrendering?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 09/25/2006 16:22 Comments || Top||


Assailants throw bombs at mosque in Russia
Unidentified assailants threw gasoline bombs at mosque in a central Russian city early Sunday, the country's main Muslim organization said. The incident occurred in the city of Yaroslavl about 240 kilometers northeast of Moscow a day after the country's Muslims began observing the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, the Council of Muftis said in a statement posted on its Web site. The statement said the attackers smashed the mosque's windows and then threw Molotov cocktails at the building. Several cars parked nearby were also damaged, it said.
That's what it feels like to be on the receiving end...
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  France, too.
Posted by: anonymous2u || 09/25/2006 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  For some reason i dont hold any sympathy for mosques i dont know why???!!!!
Posted by: Cheregum Crelet7867 || 09/25/2006 5:29 Comments || Top||

#3  Frankly it's about damn time.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 09/25/2006 6:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Reciprosity is the basis of ethics.
Posted by: gromgoru || 09/25/2006 6:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Yaroslavl???? Darn. I don't think the Nazis ever got that far in 1941.

Are there moskkks in St. Pete? Or Archangelsk?
Posted by: Jackal || 09/25/2006 9:42 Comments || Top||

#6  I believe that the pagan holiday of Halloween would be appropriate for a world wide mosk burning gala, like they used to do in Detroit City.(duh, houses there)
Posted by: SOP35/Rat || 09/25/2006 11:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Throwing bombs at mosques seems cowardly to me. Sure, they do it but they are cowards. The end result is that you kill a few women and children or a some old man named Mo who really wishes this whole Jihad thing was over. If you want to make a difference, go after the specific individuals who are inciting jihad.
Posted by: anon || 09/25/2006 11:48 Comments || Top||

#8  not that I'm encouraging that or anything. Because I'm not. I'm actually very concerned about the fact that we are getting very close to vigilante actions here at home. I can feel it.

If our government continues to fail in preventing the jihadists from endangering our lives, I know that people are going to begin to react. The dialogue is beginning to change and the writing is on the wall. All I'm saying to those who are actually considering taking matters into your own hands - do your homework before you act. Mob action and killing innocents achieves nothing.
Posted by: anon || 09/25/2006 12:09 Comments || Top||

#9  What, it fills in the empty spaces between football games.
Posted by: wxjames || 09/25/2006 15:19 Comments || Top||

#10  Anon, you're right. We shouldn't be throwing bombs at mosques. Instead, after announcing that all Muslims in the US are now persona non grata with 48 hours to leave the country, we should be using bulldozers. Screw the hudnas, keep the taqqiya, just order Muslims to get the hell out and go back to the scumholes they came from. They'd be absolutely no loss.
Posted by: mac || 09/25/2006 17:05 Comments || Top||


Europe
Turkey: 17 wounded by truck bomb
Suspected Kurdish guerrillas set off an explosive-laden minibus across from a police guest house in eastern Turkey, injuring 17 people on Saturday, the governor's office said. The Ford minibus parked across from the police guest house, went off in eastern city of Igdir on the Armenian border, the governor's office announced. Two of the injured were in serious condition, he said. "Thank God, we don't have any loss," Dogan quoted Deputy Gov. Mehmet Yilmaz as saying.

The explosion coincided with complaints by imprisoned rebel chief Abdullah Ocalan about his prison conditions, which were relayed by his lawyers, the pro-Kurdish news agency Firat reported on its Web site on Saturday.
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#1  Turks will now invade iraq soon it looks like.
Posted by: Ulolutle Uluter6688 || 09/25/2006 11:44 Comments || Top||


Norwegian surveillance led to arrest
The Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) has, according to Aftenposten's sources, long been monitoring the 29-year-old man of Pakistani origin arrested in connection with the firing on a synagogue and now charged with planned acts of terrorism. The 29-year-old was arrested by German police during the soccer World Cup. Police there reportedly found drawings of weapons in the car he was driving and suspected him of planning a terrorist act aimed at the World Cup. German authorities contacted the PST, but found no basis for the suspected terrorism and he was released after two days.

The PST has aided Oslo police in their current investigation but would not comment on the matter. Neither police nor the defense lawyers of the suspects would comment on the terrorism charges, but all of the accused denied guilt. "The only thing I can say is that my client views the charges against him as absurd," said John Christian Elden, defense attorney for the 29-year-old. On Friday police filed to remand the suspects in custody for four weeks, claiming that they had planned bomb attacks against the Israeli and US embassies, as well as the Oslo synagogue.
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#1  "drawings of weapons"? What, a notebook with schoolboy doodlings in it?
Posted by: gromky || 09/25/2006 0:46 Comments || Top||


2 mosques vandalized in France
Vandals scrawled swastikas and racist slogans on the walls of two mosques in France and set fire to one of them on Sunday, the day French Muslims started celebrating Ramadan. In the town of Quimper in western France, 6 swastikas were painted in green on the walls of the Penhars Mosque. Local government official Philippe Paolantoni said a neighbour spotted the fire inside the mosque at around 4 a.m. and firefighters were called to the scene. "The community is well known and well integrated," he said, adding that several dozen people regularly attended prayers in the mosque.

French television and radio reported that racial insults and swastikas were also scrawled on the walls of a mosque in Carcassonne in southern France.

The Movement against Racism (MRAP) condemned the attacks and said they were a consequence of a link that was increasingly being made between Islam and terrorism,
gee, why would that happen?
as well as talk of the "Islamisation" of France by far-right politicians in the run up to next year's presidential election. "MRAP plans to take legal action over this Islamophobe act," the group said in a statement. "It calls once again for more vigilance and a significant mobilisation to stamp out this worrying increase of racism against Arabs and Muslims."

The Quimper mosque had already had been vandalised several times since it was built in February 2003.

Five million Muslims live in France, the largest Muslim minority in Europe.
I don't condone the violence and especially not the racism. But it is disingenuous to pretent that the link between Islam and terrorism is being "made" rather than "observed".
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#1  What's the French word for "pushback"?*

* refoulement
Posted by: Zenster || 09/25/2006 2:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Amalekite civil war.
Posted by: gromgoru || 09/25/2006 6:23 Comments || Top||

#3  It's too little, is it too late ?
Posted by: wxjames || 09/25/2006 7:43 Comments || Top||

#4  So, is MRAP the French version of CAIR?

If this is all legit, that is a very bad thing, but considering Muslim "hate crime" history here in the States, have they ruled out any of the mosque attendees?
Posted by: Swamp Blondie || 09/25/2006 8:02 Comments || Top||

#5  The Mrap is a vintage commie front, which switched its name from the movement against racisme and antisemitism and the coming together of people to the movement against racism and for friendship among people when the commies courted the immigrant bloc back in the 70's IIRC; nowadays, it is a very small movement, a few hundred members, which is totally dependent on gvt subsidies to keep its activities (suing to enforce the PC line about "racism"), and is at the core of the islamo-leftist alliance (hamas flags, hizbollah posters, etc,...).

Its stance is quite anti-western, anti-US, and "anti-zionist" (it's in its demonstrations that Youths cry "death to the jooos", not in the National Front's), and there a split even it this very small org between the commies and the islamists.

Its current leader is mouloud aounit, a kabyle in the full islamo-leftist line (he's in the tariq ramadan circle) who eructs "racists!!!" everytime he can.
Of course, he got the Légion d'honneur medal by yacoub ben shirak for his work, a couple of years ago.

These people have no credibility anymore, but they still are supported by taxpayers' money to sue "racists" (true story : a french guy intervene to stop a mugging by a Youth in a train; he sustains several knife cuts in the process of subduing the perp; the mrap then sues him for racism and excessive force, and the guy is fined about 8000 euros. After that, you wonder why froggies are reluctant to take names and kick asses), and their word is still gospel to the msm (see the ridiculous rapports by the mrap internet experts about the "judeo-nazi" alliance visible in islamophobic french websites, debugged by those who point out the link between the mrap and hamas-supporting charities, etc, etc,... but are quoted by the msm).

These orgs are the armed arm of the PCness.
The mrap is the commie/islamist one, sos-racisme is the socialist front, the licra is the liberal jews org, and the league of human rights is the lair of all the ex-"porteurs de valises" (fln collaborators, IE french traitors who aided the fln butchers) of the algeria "independence" war.

All of them have a negligible manpower (during the 2005 ramadan riots, about 150 leftist orgs called for a demonstration, duly covered by the msm, which brang about... 300 demonstrators!) but since they enforce the officila ideology, they can sue at will whoever steps out of line.

This is a very peculiar french institution, IE the metastazing network of "human rights" orgs who subvert french society with taxpayers money; they represent NOTHING in term of representativity, and many of them are in fact fictituous (the president of one is secretary of two others, while their own presidents are secretary in his own, etc, etc...), but they are a very powerful tool for cultural marxist, given their insane msm relay (an act-up demonstration by 12 persons gets coverage, while 10 000 libertarian demonstrators who protest a strike do not even get mentioned in national news...) and the fact they leech tax payers money and thus can be professional revolutionaries (most of them are civil servants anyway).
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 09/25/2006 8:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Small correction : the original name was "movement against racism and antisemitism and for peace", I recall, the antisemitism bit was dropped when the commie courted arab migrants, gee, I wonder why, and the peace bit was discarded when the commies-owned "pacifist" mvt evolved into anti (western)-nukes mvt.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 09/25/2006 8:35 Comments || Top||

#7  Anyway, there's a looooong list of torched, desacrated, vandalized churches, temples, synagogues, cemetaries,... there were compilations from local press by "islamophobic" french blogs, and it's very scary (one a week), but this gets zero msm coverage. But when someone farts in the general direction of a mosque, then it does the opening of the tv news, with concerned facial expression by the talking head... and by the way, the few muslim cemetaries that were vandalized in 2005, well, know what? Each time the perp was caught, and it turned out to be an "unbalanced" muslim, lol.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 09/25/2006 8:40 Comments || Top||

#8  Sounds kind of like ANSWER or some of the older communist front "civil rights" orgs of the 40s and 50s.
Posted by: Jackal || 09/25/2006 9:44 Comments || Top||

#9  Self-inflicted wounds. How do you say Taqqiyeh in french?
Posted by: mcsegeek1 || 09/25/2006 12:24 Comments || Top||

#10  "Chirac"
Posted by: lotp || 09/25/2006 12:26 Comments || Top||

#11  Self-inflicted wounds. How do you say Taqqiyeh in french?

At the beginning of the 2005 riots, there was an incident which put oil on the fire, IE a teargas cannister landing in a mosque room during a reunion, the ensuing panic filmed by a cellphone, and this becoming another item in the endless victimization list.
Trouble is, police denied firing teargas canister at the mosque, and the type of canister was not the one used for point shooting, only indirect area shooting, no way it could have entered the room horizontally like that; the following investigation found that it was indeed a police canister, but was probably thrown in the mosque, empty, by an unknwon third party.
Fun, and worrying, part of this incident is the fact the mosque crowd panicking was just acting, and this whole mess was a set up.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 09/25/2006 12:32 Comments || Top||

#12  Chicago Rules, boys.
Posted by: mojo || 09/25/2006 12:42 Comments || Top||

#13  Thanks for the info, anonymous5089. Illuminating...
Posted by: Ptah || 09/25/2006 13:10 Comments || Top||

#14  "judeo-nazi" alliance

Okay, THAT'S IT! Someone's head, somewhere, needs to explode for inventing this term. Drag them through rusty thumbtacks and dip them in warm rubbing alcohol until they confess to understanding just what in the hell is "cognitive dissonance". Anon5089, you have my personal condolences if this is the sort of shit you must put up with in what passes for your media. What category does this lunacy spill from? I vote Tranzi, but perhaps someone else could attribute it better than I. As I said, one exploded head, please.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/25/2006 13:37 Comments || Top||

#15  To be more exact, the exact term judeo-nazi wasn't employed, but the mrap internet expert did a rapport about the "racist internet", and denounced an unholy alliance between jews and racist rightwingers (aka nazis, of course), based on their hatred of arabs.
The nazification of jews is SOP, remember, jews = zionists = racists = nazis, this is a very common tactic of the leftists.

This was not a novel accusation by the mrap, it actually dated back to the post-2001 glory days of the "sos-racailles" web hub which jumpstarted a growth of new anti-islam websites and associations; apart from the "buchananite" FN and the conservative catholic MPF, french conservative/rightwing is frather fractured, and range from the national-revolutionaries and national-bolsheviks, rabidly anti-"zionist" (and pro-arab/muslim), to a rather pro-Israel and pro-US islamophobic front (flagbearer would be the France-Echos website), with identity movements between the two (like the pork soup guys, who were beaten up by police a couple of days ago, for having the audacity of serving a "gaul" menu to homeless people).
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 09/25/2006 15:05 Comments || Top||

#16  Hey mojo, #12: Please elaborate. I know the term of art, Hama Rules. What are Chicago Rules? Have I missed something here at the 'Burg?
Posted by: Mark Z || 09/25/2006 16:03 Comments || Top||

#17  Doesn't 'Chicago Rules' come from the film 'The Untouchables'?

Malone: You wanna know how you do it? Here's how, they pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way, and that's how you get Capone! Now do you want to do that? Are you ready to do that?
Posted by: Tony (UK) || 09/25/2006 16:12 Comments || Top||

#18  I dunno for Chicago rules, but Metallica rulz, dude!
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 09/25/2006 16:32 Comments || Top||

#19  Moscow Rules was pretty good.
Posted by: 6 || 09/25/2006 16:54 Comments || Top||

#20  Thank you Tony (UK).

BTW, do you have your passport in order? With the greatest of respect, you and your loved ones may need to relocate to the USA in the not too distant future while England is disenfected.

Cheers.
Posted by: Mark Z || 09/25/2006 16:58 Comments || Top||

#21  Heh Mark Z, Yes I do - but as I'm not a minority, speak English, have a PhD, don't hate Bush, think Western Civilisation and modernity in general is pretty damn cool, have no criminal record and have savings to boot, I guess I'm not elligible ;)

I kill me, really I do ;)
Posted by: Tony (UK) || 09/25/2006 17:12 Comments || Top||

#22  Excuse me Dr. Tony, you work near Salisbury, PD by chance?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/25/2006 17:21 Comments || Top||

#23  Err, no Besoeker. Bit confused here, Salisbury PD?
Posted by: Tony (UK) || 09/25/2006 20:48 Comments || Top||

#24  A 5089

You mention France-Echos, what happened to their sites?
Posted by: SwissTex || 09/25/2006 20:57 Comments || Top||

#25  Porton Down. Thanks.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/25/2006 21:24 Comments || Top||

#26  Nope, not there Besoeker. I'm not in the defence industry, and biology/chemistry was never my strong suit ;)
Posted by: Tony (UK) || 09/25/2006 22:37 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
US attacks used 'common anthrax'
Investigators believe anthrax used in a series of attacks in the US in 2001 was not of military grade as originally thought, a US newspaper reports. The Washington Post paper says the FBI has widened its investigation into the source of the anthrax after finding it was of a more common variety. "There is no significant signature in the powder that points to a domestic source," an expert told the paper.

Anthrax powder, sent by mail, killed five people in the US in October 2001. At least 17 people were taken ill after coming into contact with the powder, which was sent in envelopes to US government offices and media organisations.

Coming weeks after the 11 September attacks, the anthrax mailings caused panic in the US. Suspicion originally centred on scientists with access to US defence laboratories. But no one was charged over the attacks, and according to the Washington Post, the pool of suspects has now been widened.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Steve || 09/25/2006 09:05 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Original Washington Post Article. The BBC article ignored the second page.

Apparently there is no dispute that the DNA evidence points to the Ames strain. However, investigators now admit that the Ames strain is distributed world-wide, including Russia.

There has been a lot of controversy concerning additives. The phrase 'widely-circulated misconception' implies public rumor. However, the confusion is at the expert level, and much conflicting testimony has been given.

For considerable detail and references to the testimony, refer to the Wikipedia article.
Posted by: KBK || 09/25/2006 9:54 Comments || Top||

#2  US attacks used 'common anthrax'

This otherwise stunning un-news could have been revealed long ago except that in their zeal to score the Fumbling Bunch '0 Idiots and their Media Receptacles Spittoons ruined another US Citizen and heh lets face it what Careerist in the Gubmint or the Media will admit that they f*cked up.
Posted by: RD || 09/25/2006 13:01 Comments || Top||

#3  "There is no significant signature in the powder that points to a domestic source," an expert told the paper.

i.e. foreign?
Posted by: Ptah || 09/25/2006 13:12 Comments || Top||

#4  of course #2 was just my opinion, and we'll have to see; but credit due to FBI chemist Douglas J Beecher for producing a straight up report.

friend of mine...Chief chemist says many times they do good science and yet some yahoo in the agency will twist up the results so badly it doesn't resemble their reports one bit!!
Posted by: RD || 09/25/2006 13:13 Comments || Top||

#5  high probability anthrax attack was by a govt scientist who worked at or near Ft Dietrich,or on a subsontract to Dietrich 1. attack took place within days of 9/11.no evidence of coordination of attack so it was a target of opportunity.guy who wants attn to his cause reads 9-11 hdlines, rushes to mail in stuff he has been working. no chance to go and find anthrax,had to be instantly available tosomeone who knew how to handle it.2.Postmark on ltrs identified ,if memory serves as a local drop in N J.,within two hours of Dietrich.3. despite success of atack,no repeat.This was a home grown terrorist trying to attract attn. I think the FBI had the right guy but let him go for lack of evidence.
Posted by: john e morrissey || 09/25/2006 13:31 Comments || Top||

#6  Uh-huh. Pull the other one, it's infected.

Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/25/2006 13:47 Comments || Top||

#7  So they didn't add the "special sauce" that makes it "military anthrax" eh? Any chance that it is still made by another nation that doesn't use Betty Crocker's recipe and that's why it doesn't have all the fancy extras?

Whatever, this article tells other nations to just make stuff straight and frill free and the US will blame it on a wack job citizen. Nice.
Posted by: Laurence of the Rats || 09/25/2006 13:52 Comments || Top||

#8  Not at all, Mr. Morrisey.

Some evidence that M. Atta was treated for anthrax before 9/11, in South Florida.

If it is non-weaponized Ames, Iraq had it, as well as any number of other foreign nations.

There is some evidence that hoax messages from the same author existed prior to 9/11.

Zero evidence that Drs. Hatfill or Berry were involved though both have had their lives ruined by the FBI.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins || 09/25/2006 15:19 Comments || Top||

#9  It is still my belief that the anthrax attack was the work of Saddam in co-operation with bin Laden.

People forget that the first person killed worked for the publisher of the National Inquirer which is American Media. Saddam called up his operatives here and told them to send the antrax to the american media. They do a search for 'american media' using there favorite jihad search engine and up pops American Media. They dutifuly send it off to American Media and report back to Saddam that they have sent it. He asked them which media outlets they sent it to but Saddam gets upset when told it was sent to just one media outlet and it was one he had never heard of so he tells them to send to NBC, etc, and for good measure send some to the US Senate. That is my theory on the anthrax attach and I believe it is the most plausible.
Posted by: Bob || 09/25/2006 16:05 Comments || Top||

#10  mr simmins makes some good points,however I would argue that following: 1/ Mo attas skin lesions never positively identified as anthrax until after the anthrax attack when doctors looked at case and said "well, it could be".in any event since Mo and all his chums died 9/11 they certainly did not mail letters in Trenton on 9/18.2)the material used was originally developed at Ames and subsequently (prior to 2001) shipped to labs around the world including i believe Russian labs and was a strain worked on at Dietrich.3) the first five ltrs all went to media outlets(suggesting someone who wanted publicity more than someone who wanted to kill as many people as possible),to addresses shown in the NYC telephone directory from a post box near Trenton.Whoever mailed this ,mailed what he had on hand(so tha he was a researcher dealing with the anthrax) rather than taking the time to prepare a more lethal variety as was in the second round of the ltrs .The 9/18 ltrs all contained a coarse granular form of anthrax,considered among the least deadly form of the germ ., Assuming the killer did not want to be caught, i would guess he drove an hour or two away from his home to an urban area, possibly on his lunch.The Dietrich area is the only lab within a two hour area from Trenton.I may be wrong on this but I believe at one time the P O said that the stamped time and date on the letters was in the early afternoon of 9/18.My guess is that he took an early luch. I d love to see the security sign out sheet for 9/18 from Ft Dietrich to see who took a long lunch hour that day. 4) the 9/18 ltrs all contained a coarse granular form of anthrax,considered among the least deadly form of the germ.the second round of letters had a more finely dispersed powder,and the crude lettering on the envelopes looked to me that they were made by someone trying to make them stand out in the hope that they would be caught before delivery. As to Hatfill I followed the case years ago, but have lost track.I do know that Hatfill was known to be angry that he was not getting the research funds he tought the topic deserved and said so publicly in a number of papers delivered at symposiums.After the FBI dropped charges for lack of a good case, Htfill announced and infact filed a suit suing the FBI.We have heard no more about it so I suspect that he dropped the case learning from Alger Hisses lesson,that civil suits do not have the same high stds for evidence..best to let sleeping dogs lie.This is of copurse all pure conjecture and I may be wrong but as my website implies not always rightbut NEVERINDOUBT.best wished.
Posted by: john e morrissey || 09/25/2006 16:24 Comments || Top||

#11  Hatfill has lived in two different African countries formerly ruled by white minority regimes, and he appears in the past to have claimed a "military background" or "combat experience" in one of those countries, and "reserve" and "consultant" relationships with the army of the other. Hatfill "served in the armed forces of two white racist governments," as New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof has put it. Documentary and testimonial corroboration of this "fact" (sometimes attached to vaguely sourced "suspicions" that Hatfill helped the racists kill black people with germs) is very hard to find, as it happens. And, oddly enough, what little, shaky evidence there is, insofar as anyone ever bothers to cite it, inevitably traces from -- or through, or back to -- an outfit called the Jewish Defense Organization (JDO).

Possible connections with South African Medical Special Operations Battalion and Wouter Basson probably led to the rush to judgement by the FBI and labeling as "person of interest." Low hanging fruit as it were.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/25/2006 17:03 Comments || Top||

#12  SO you're saying the fact that _you_ haven't heard any more of Hatfill's suit maintaining his innocence is really in fact an admission of guilt?
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman || 09/25/2006 17:43 Comments || Top||

#13  Wahahhaahhaha.... no, indeed I have not. Not been following Stephen much I must admit.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/25/2006 17:47 Comments || Top||

#14  I was replying to the comment before yours; number 10, I think.
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman || 09/25/2006 18:04 Comments || Top||

#15  Right, sorry mate.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/25/2006 18:05 Comments || Top||

#16  I am not claiming that this is dispositive, but Hatfill failure to follow thru certainly raises suspicions. at last sight he was highly indignant why not follow thru? .As i said we may nevr know who did it,but to say that circumstantial evidence points to him is certainly reasonable.mailing a deadly poison to get publicity is not easy to pin down..there are no eye witnesses, the perp ,unless he is truly an idiot ,goes out of his way not to leave clues ...as witness the mailing from trenton...there are no ballistics matches...so if you want to get to who did it ,you have to make reasonable inferences. remember, there was not enough evidence to charge alger hiss,and his friends in the media kept badgering him to file a libel lawsuit...once he did he was on the way to prison.what is Hatfill afraid of?
Posted by: john e morrissey || 09/25/2006 18:16 Comments || Top||

#17  You assume that since you haven't seen any news on it, that Hatfill must have dropped the lawsuit and that that constitutes an admission of guilt on his part.

Neither of these chains of reasoning, IMHO, hold up.

A quick web search showed that the government has tried delaying the lawsuit from going forward because it would allegedly interfere with their ability to proceed with the investigation and possibly compromise what they consider to be classified information. Also, two of Hatfill's four claims were dropped due to legal reasoning about a year ago: link. This indicates that about a year ago, the case was still ongoing. That's the most recent news item on it I could find.

Second, if he were to run out of money to fund the lawsuit, I am unsure as to whether that would actually prove anything about what really happened.
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman || 09/25/2006 18:52 Comments || Top||

#18  Note: dropped by the presiding judge, not by Hatfill.
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman || 09/25/2006 18:53 Comments || Top||

#19  This issue is confused by the fact that more than one grade of anthrax was used in the attacks. The stuff sent to the New York media outlets was crap, but that only gave people cutaneous cases. It was the Senate anthrax that gave people inhalational cases, and the first letter sent to American Media -- that stuff was the killer.

What's everyone's take on Dr. Tsonas' diagnosis of anthrax on the finger of one of the 9-11 hijackers, Ahmed Ibrahim A. Al Haznawi? And on what date did that letter arrive at American media, the letter that killed Stevens and severely sickened Blanco? It may have arrived before the eleventh.

The US gov't seems eager to bury any foreign connection to the anthrax, and equally eager to spread the impression that anyone could have made the stuff in a bathtub, instead of a team of experts working in a biosafety level 4 laboratory.

I suppose the USAMRIID scientists interviewed by Richard Preston were just making up stuff about the van der waals force-defeating coating on each individual spore in the Senate anthrax.

I think the anthrax trail ultimately leads to Iraq.
Posted by: Rory B. Bellows || 09/25/2006 19:10 Comments || Top||

#20  Rory: I believe you are correct, and I also believe this incident was at least part of the justification for the current conflict and for removing the Saddam regime. The gov't hesitation to point the source to an off-shore location may in fact be quite prudent. Why road-map it for others.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/25/2006 19:16 Comments || Top||

#21  Before we dismiss the NYC anthrax, let's remember that 2 of the five deaths happened there. The deaths of Kathy T. Nguyen and Ottilie Lundgren have never been explained, and alleging poor quality spores makes their deaths even more unusual.

I'm afraid the latest news suggests that we cannot rely on any former description of the quality of the spores as accurate. Indeed, I'd toss out all the info leaked to date as potentially worthless.

I agree with the reason for the American Media attack. The mook opened a phone book, saw "American Media" and sent the letter.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins || 09/25/2006 19:23 Comments || Top||

#22  crap - I'm listed under "Crusading Infidel" in our white pages
Posted by: Frank G || 09/25/2006 19:35 Comments || Top||

#23  the florida fatality of robert stephens was on 9/30.he had left his office at ami for vacation on 9/26.(http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/terrorism/anthrax.html)the ltr was nevr found but reconstruction by AMI employees led to the belief that the original letter was addressed to a jennifer lopez and post dated 9/18.Stephens became ill on the 30 and died shortly after. for a review see http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/terrorism/anthrax.html
Posted by: john e morrissey || 09/25/2006 19:47 Comments || Top||

#24  well, of course, because Jennifer Lopez works for that damn American Media....
Posted by: Frank G || 09/25/2006 19:58 Comments || Top||

#25  I believe the American Media building was visible from the highway in the area some of the hijackers lived.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/25/2006 20:04 Comments || Top||

#26  Ah, "common houshold anthrax"...

Well, never mind then.
Posted by: Cravins Jerenter1327 || 09/25/2006 21:47 Comments || Top||

#27  American Media may seem obscure to those of us who read The New York Times or The Daily Star (to keep track of the shuttle guns!) but to people who do their research from supermarket tabloids they are very high profile.
Posted by: Odysseus || 09/25/2006 21:50 Comments || Top||

#28  how else would we keep track of Shelly Long, Oprah, and Bin Ladin!
Posted by: Frank G || 09/25/2006 22:05 Comments || Top||

#29  There may have been more than one J-Lo letter sent to American Media. (Link)Some of the data from Sverdlovsk indicates that the incubation period for inhalational anthrax can be lengthy -- the longest incubation period there for an inhalational case was 43 days.

Several are focusing on a letter that arrived at the company about a week before the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. It was described by sources as a “weird love letter to Jennifer Lopez”—similar, outwardly, to the types of mail the tabloids often get. But inside the oddly-worded letter was what was described as a “soapy, powdery substance” and in the pile of that a cheap Star of David charm. The letter, per routine, was taken in by the joint mailroom of the company. Employees said the letter was handled both by Stevens and Blanco.

Chuck Simmins wrote: "I'm afraid the latest news suggests that we cannot rely on any former description of the quality of the spores as accurate. Indeed, I'd toss out all the info leaked to date as potentially worthless."

I disagree, or at least I would heavily qualify that statement. There is undoubtedly some truth in the information realeased to date, but there is also a tremendous amount of disinformation introduced by official or semi-official sources. So we must carefully parse each piece of data in this wilderness of mirrors. It's not a task that will yield quick and easy answers.

Chuck again: "I agree with the reason for the American Media attack. The mook opened a phone book, saw "American Media" and sent the letter."

Perhaps. But Gloria Irish, the wife of a Sun editor Micheal Irish, rented an apartment to Hamza Alghamdi and Marwan al-Shehhi.
(Link)This may be pure coincidence, but it does introduce an element of uncertainty here. The target may not have been totally random.

"Before we dismiss the NYC anthrax, let's remember that 2 of the five deaths happened there. The deaths of Kathy T. Nguyen and Ottilie Lundgren have never been explained, and alleging poor quality spores makes their deaths even more unusual."

You're right -- these deaths are the most mysterious. Lungren lived in Connecticut if memory serves. And the fact that two apparently unconnected women many miles away from the fatal attacks perished makes the case for weaponized anthrax much stronger.

Besörker said: "Rory: I believe you are correct, and I also believe this incident was at least part of the justification for the current conflict and for removing the Saddam regime. The gov't hesitation to point the source to an off-shore location may in fact be quite prudent. Why road-map it for others."

Humble open source folks, paying close attention, can develop this idea and run with it. ,(Link) A hostile state with the resources of an intelligence agency can do even more. So I have to ask, who is the government hiding this from?
Posted by: Rory B. Bellows || 09/25/2006 22:05 Comments || Top||

#30  Rory...that's link-crazy!
Posted by: Frank G || 09/25/2006 22:07 Comments || Top||

#31  Ay! For some reason, all of my links show up in bold, and I forgot to close a tag. Sorry.
Posted by: Rory B. Bellows || 09/25/2006 22:07 Comments || Top||

#32  :-) no prob
Posted by: Frank G || 09/25/2006 22:11 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Supreme Court upholds death penalties for 12 accused in bombings on Perv
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan The Supreme Court on Monday upheld death sentences for 12 soldiers and civilians accused in December 2003 bombings against Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf that killed at least 16 other people. A three-member bench of the Supreme Court in Islamabad upheld the sentences passed down by military courts, Chief Justice Iftikar Muhammad Chaudhry said.

Earlier this year, a High Court in Lahore had also rejected appeals by the convicts, on the grounds that it had no jurisdiction to hear cases already decided by a military court. "For the reasons to be recorded later on, the impugned order of Lahore High Court is maintained, consequently the appeals are dismissed," Chaudhry said, reading a written verdict in the court in Islamabad on Monday.

Musharraf narrowly escaped two bombings targeting his limousine in the garrison city of Rawalpindi within 11 days in December 2003. In the second blast, a suicide attack, at least 16 people died, mostly police.

The accused include three low-ranking air force personnel, an army soldier, and seven civilians. Defense lawyer Mohammed Akram argued in the court that the High Court had the jurisdiction to hear the defendants' appeals. A lawyer for the Defense Ministry, Mujaeeb ur Rehman, argued that it did not and to do so would be unconstitutional.

Musharraf has survived at least three known assassination attempts, all blamed on al-Qaida-linked militants. The alleged mastermind of the December 2003 attacks, Libyan al-Qaida leader Abu Farraj al-Libbi, was handed over to the United States.
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CIA paid Pakistan for al-Qaeda suspects: Musharraf
The US Central Intelligence Agency paid Pakistan millions of dollars for handing over more than 350 suspected al-Qaeda terrorists to the United States, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has reportedly said.

The assertions come in the military ruler's upcoming memoir "In the Line of Fire," serialized in The Times newspaper. Musharraf does not reveal how much Pakistan was paid for the 369 Al-Qaeda suspects he ordered should be handed over to the United States, the newspaper said, noting, however, that such payments are banned by the US government. The newspaper does not, however, print or quote the excerpts which make the allegations.

In response a US Department of Justice official was quoted as saying: "We didn't know about this. It should not happen. These bounty payments are for private individuals who help to trace terrorists on the FBI's most wanted list, not foreign governments."
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: john || 09/25/2006 07:31 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Musharraf also writes that he was so angered by American demands in the wake of the September 11 attacks, which he calls "ludicrous," that he "war-gamed the United States as an adversary."


And after seeing the results, he decided he'd rather cooperate than watch his banana republic dismantled.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 09/25/2006 8:23 Comments || Top||

#2  "such payments are banned by the US government"
Oh? I seem to remember the US government being very public about putting bounties on terrorist's heads, and I've never heard anyone complain.

"war-gamed the United States as an adversary."
ROTFL! That should have taken about half a second!

Perv is getting a little too proud of his sash and sprockets. I don't know how much of this is for home comsumption and how much is to sell books, but he was barely tolerable before for me. Now he's over the tipping point. Perhaps Richard Armitage is available to deliver a message.
Posted by: Darrell || 09/25/2006 8:35 Comments || Top||

#3  I don't know how much of this is for home comsumption and how much is to sell books,

And whether there's a difference.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 09/25/2006 8:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Never too late to ....bite the hand that feeds you, right Pervez?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/25/2006 8:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Time to send him hunting, with Dick Cheney
Posted by: Canucki-Stan || 09/25/2006 9:00 Comments || Top||

#6  So? I have'nt heard him say anything yet, that I have a problem with. Would'nt mind hearing him give Wartistan or whatever you call it, independence.Then we can bomb them to the stone age (well older stone age).
Posted by: plainslow || 09/25/2006 9:27 Comments || Top||

#7  I hope we got a receipt.
Posted by: mojo || 09/25/2006 10:20 Comments || Top||

#8  If he thinks what he is saying is going to make Americans mad he don't know us to well. Everybody I talked to about this always says "about damn time we said something like this".
Posted by: djohn66 || 09/25/2006 10:53 Comments || Top||

#9  Why should the CIA have to pay for known fugitives????

It sounds like Perv only joined our side because he could not beat us militarily.That does not strike be as a member of the 'Coalition of the willing'

He has come out with these comment to carry favour back home with the inbreds/religious fanatics that keep him in power!!!!
Posted by: Cheregum Crelet7867 || 09/25/2006 11:01 Comments || Top||

#10  The answer, to quote President Bush, is: “He wants you to buy his book.”

The feeling among most Pakistanis here is of shock and horror, as most who were interviewed by Dawn said that even if the report of threat was true, why Gen Musharraf used this occasion to reveal it.

Many Pakistan in New York and Washington also questioned President Musharraf’s almost three week long stay in the United States, along with a 70 odd member delegation, including 10 federal ministers.

“It could cost the Pakistani exchequer quite a penny only to promote the book by the general,” one of them said, adding: “Isn’t it misuse of taxpayers’ money?”

“It is incomprehensible that so much of country’s precious foreign exchange is being squandered”, said another.
Posted by: john || 09/25/2006 11:10 Comments || Top||

#11  does not strike be as a member of the 'Coalition of the willing'

Coalition of the willing: Taking setbacks, money, or economic/military aid in order to have other national leaders stand up and say they support us, reality not withstanding.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 09/25/2006 11:22 Comments || Top||

#12  I believe he knows he's about to be "replaced" from within, so trying to bolster his prestige among his mad dog countrymen. However, blabbing like this means he also knows his uesfulness to US is nearly over. Time for the Pervert to pak his bags.
Posted by: SOP35/Rat || 09/25/2006 11:30 Comments || Top||

#13  Musharraf also writes that he was so angered by American demands in the wake of the September 11 attacks, which he calls "ludicrous," that he "war-gamed the United States as an adversary."

So, America is attacked. The entire world is sympathetic. Pakistan's neighbor, India, who, despite buying billions worth of Soviet equipment, never conducted a joint exercise with the Russians or allowed their troops on its soil, gets over its colonial hangover and offers its bases to US forces. The first time since Indian independence that foreign forces would be allowed to base from Indian soil.

What does the US want from Pakistan? Bases, overfly rights, shutting down of terror camps, withdrawal of support for the odious Taliban regime.

That was so damn hard? Enough for Perv to wargame fighting the US?
The US is enraged, India is offering help and Perv still considered fighting the USA?

So if he had missiles that could reach the US mainland he would have resisted Armitage?

I'm wondering how this guy's mind works...
Posted by: john || 09/25/2006 11:45 Comments || Top||

#14  And all his book has done to to expose him to two audiences.

Pak population will think him weak for caving into the kaffir american demands. No Lion of Islam is he.

Rest of the world now knows of his anti-US mindset.
Posted by: john || 09/25/2006 11:47 Comments || Top||

#15  Wonder if he's going to need a follow-up at that clinic in Texas. Might be safer than going back to Islamabad. At least he's got a royalty stream here.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 09/25/2006 12:27 Comments || Top||

#16  Nah.. Amazon has already discounted his book from $28 to $16 because of the rumors over his heart operation.

Nobody cares about former Pak presidents.
He will join Iskander Mirza, Ayub Khan and Yahya Khan in quiet retirement
Posted by: john || 09/25/2006 12:45 Comments || Top||

#17  nice set of triangle medalions Musharraf, book release 6 weeks before our elections. .
Posted by: RD || 09/25/2006 13:27 Comments || Top||

#18  The US Central Intelligence Agency paid Pakistan millions of dollars for handing over more than 350 suspected al-Qaeda terrorists to the United States, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has reportedly said.

That we got any al Qaeda suspects out of Pakistan only makes sense when you factor in the millions spent.

he "war-gamed the United States as an adversary."

I can hear it now:

[Musharraf with pointer in hand over war map]

"As I see it comrade generals, we'll launch a barrage of radioactive dust clouds from our hidden silos in this valley, have armored implacements of smouldering glowing glass over there and encircle these slagged cities here, here and here. Any questions?"

Posted by: Zenster || 09/25/2006 13:52 Comments || Top||

#19  "There would be a violent and angry reaction if we didn't support the United States," an excerpt from his book reads. "The question was: if we do not join them, can we confront them and withstand the onslaught? The answer was no."

Well at least Perv credit for not being a total friggin idiot...
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/25/2006 16:45 Comments || Top||


Splinter rebel group says killed Nepal legislator
KATHMANDU - The leader of a splinter faction of Nepal’s Maoist rebels said on Sunday his group had shot and killed a member of the Himalayan nation’s parliament. Three gunmen on motorcycles shot Krishna Charan Shrestha on Saturday in Belaha village, about 150 km (93 miles) east of the capital, Kathmandu.

Jay Krishna Goit, leader of leader of breakaway faction Janatantrik Terai Mukti Morcha told reporters that his men had killed the legislator. ‘Shrestha was killed because he was involved in the exploitation and oppression of the people,’ Goit said.
Any chance the authorities could, you know, capture Goit? Perhaps the Ghurkas aren't busy?
Authorities said one of Shrestha’s aides was also killed and two of three assailants were later caught and killed by villagers.

Shrestha’s pro-monarchy Rastriya Prajatantra party is the fourth largest group in parliament, but it is not a member of the ruling seven-party alliance.

This is the first time a senior politician has been killed by the faction, which broke away from the main Maoist rebels in 2004 and now operates in some pockets of Nepal’s southern Terai region, bordering northeastern India.
And of course the main Maoist rebel group isn't responsible, can't control them and does nothing more than tusk-tusk every time the Janatantrik hardboyz off another opponent.
Posted by: Steve White || 09/25/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "We woulda killed more, but the People's Truck ran outta gas."
Posted by: mojo || 09/25/2006 12:43 Comments || Top||

#2  This is the old IRA/Sinn Fein dodge : create a "political wing" and "split off" the hard boyz into a new "military wing". Worked in Northern Ireland, so the Maoists figure it is worth a shot in Nepal.
Posted by: Shieldwolf || 09/25/2006 13:22 Comments || Top||

#3  They took a page from the Soviet handbook on liberation movements.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/25/2006 21:11 Comments || Top||


Suspected Pakistani guerrillas shot dead along border in Western India
(KUNA) -- Three suspected Pakistani armed infiltrators were gunned down by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) while they were trying to illegally sneak into India through the international border in Sriganganagar district of Western Indian Rajasthan. "The incident occurred near the border town of Anoopgarh in Sri Ganganagar district when four people after cutting the wired fence tried to enter into the Indian territory illegally," news agency Indo-Asian News Service quoting BSF officials reported Sunday.

"We tried to challenge them, but they started firing at us. The gunfight went till early hours of Sunday and the three infiltrators were killed," the officials added. The fourth person rushed back into Pakistan territory, the BSF officials said. "We have recovered three AK 47 rifles, three pistols and more than 10 grenades from them," the officials told the news agency. This was the first time in Western India that an attempt was made by suspected guerrillas to sneak into the Indian side from across the border.
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "This was the first time in Western India that an attempt was made by suspected guerrillas to sneak into the Indian side from across the border."

And judging by the results ... it may well be the last time they try such a lethal and stupid stunt.
Posted by: Lancasters Over Dresden || 09/25/2006 0:46 Comments || Top||

#2  These "freedom fighters" (as Perv would describe them) were probably trying to assist the Rajastani hindu people in their fight against the occupying Indian army.

Just brotherly love, pakistani style
Posted by: john || 09/25/2006 8:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Taking their firearms and escaping the banana republic were they?
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/25/2006 8:45 Comments || Top||


Kashmir Korpse Kount: 6
"Six! Six toe-tagged turbans!"
As many as six guerrillas were killed in two separate encounters in the northern part of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir Sunday. Four guerrillas were gunned down by the Indian army in the Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir Sunday, the news agency Indo-Asian News Service reported. "Arms and ammunition, including four AK-47 rifles, 15 hand grenades, 10 detonators, 315 rounds, three wireless sets and one pistol were recovered from the gun battle site," the news agency quoting local police, said. Police said the guerrillas had infiltrated to this side from across the border and were intercepted by Indian security forces. In another incident two guerrillas of Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) were killed in an encounter with the Indian Army Sunday morning also in the Baramulla district, the news agency reported.
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Iraq
Omar al-Farouq 'killed in Iraq'
British forces have killed a senior al-Qaeda fugitive in a raid on a house in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, security sources say. Officials named the dead man as Omar Farouq, a top lieutenant of Osama Bin Laden in south-east Asia. Farouq was captured in Indonesia in 2002 but escaped from a US military prison in Afghanistan last year. Security sources say he was hiding in Basra and was not known to be actively operating in the area.
If I just wanted to hide out, I'd pick someplace quieter.
Pretty significant kill here. Omar would be Binny's/Ayman's in-country controller.
A British military spokesman said forces came under fire and that the man they were trying to detain was killed in the exchange.
Ummm... Which upazila in Basra did the Brits catch him in?
He said there was apparently nobody else in the building, so there were no further casualties, either among the British troops or anybody else.
So who bumped Omar off? The Brits? Or his "bodyguards"?
The British military said only that they believed the wanted man belonged to a terrorist group, but security sources in Basra later named the dead man as Omar Farouq.
"Omar, speaking for Boskone, out!"
They said he was a significant figure in the international al-Qaeda movement.
Y'might say that...
Born in Kuwait of Iraqi parents, Farouq is believed to have joined al-Qaeda in the early 1990s and trained in Afghanistan. He became a top lieutenant of Osama Bin Laden in south-east Asia and he is believed to have been planning a series of bomb attacks on US embassies there when he was arrested in Indonesia in 2002.

To the considerable embarrassment of the Americans, he and three others escaped from the US military prison at Bagram airbase in Kabul last year. He even appeared in a video on an Arab TV station to boast about it. But he was tracked to Basra. Security sources say he was simply hiding out there and that his presence did not mean there was an active international al-Qaeda cell operating in the Basra area.
Right. I'll buy that for a dollar.
Posted by: Steve || 09/25/2006 08:38 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  it's the Basra nightlife that attracted him
Posted by: Frank G || 09/25/2006 9:36 Comments || Top||

#2  The nightlife, and the mini-golf.
Posted by: Seafarious || 09/25/2006 11:32 Comments || Top||

#3  "He even appeared in a video on an Arab TV station to boast about it. But he was tracked to Basra."
That's the problem with opening your yap too much.

Al
Posted by: frozen al || 09/25/2006 11:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Ummm... Which upazila in Basra did the Brits catch him in?

Basra update: security cam at the local 7-11

Posted by: RD || 09/25/2006 12:21 Comments || Top||

#5  They're fallin like dominos lately. I do hope this is a turning point. Stop it.
I'm sorry, really I know that we must decimate, decimate, decimate before we get their attention.
I just had a flash of unbridled optimism. It won't happen again.
Posted by: wxjames || 09/25/2006 12:29 Comments || Top||

#6  Only three rounds of decimate wxjames? That still leaves 0.9^3 left which is 73%... bah!, far too many methinks!

"those bloody Romans, what have they ever done for us?"
Posted by: Thritch Ebbealing5597 || 09/25/2006 17:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Thritch was me BTW...
Posted by: Tony (UK) || 09/25/2006 17:24 Comments || Top||

#8  Do we know he really was killed? I think if I had caught him alive I'd say he was killed so whatever info we might be able to squeeze out of him might have a little bit longer useful life, and so I could avoid the 'difficulties' of defending the conditions of his interrogation and imprisonment.
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/25/2006 18:44 Comments || Top||

#9  A British military spokesman said forces came under fire and that the man they were trying to detain was killed in the exchange

RAB tactics spinnin' through the web?
Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 || 09/25/2006 21:08 Comments || Top||


Iraqi forces kill, arrest 30 militants
(KUNA) - Iraqi forces killed 5 and arrested 25 militants in a raid south of Baghdad, a government press release said on Sunday. Iraqi forces and multi-national forces launched an attack on the militants in Sayed Abdullah district in Al-Mahmoudiya, killing five militants and arresting 25 others. The forces defused five bombs, destroyed six vehicles carrying insurgents, and seized three others, the release added.

The forces also seized a large number of publications and CDs of Abu Hamza Al-Mohajir, Abu Musaab Al-Zarqawi's successor, and others with video recordings of attacks targeting the Iraqi army and citizens. Al-Mahmoudiya is located in the Triangle of Death, an area south of Baghdad that witnesses violence, assassinations, and forced displacement of people.
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When we arrested folks, the Iraqis let 'em go. (Well, some anyway; the MSM would have us believe they were all relaeased.)

I'm guessing the folks arrested by Iraqi forces won't be treated so gently.
Posted by: Bobby || 09/25/2006 6:00 Comments || Top||

#2  I did a double-take on the headline. I thought they killed 30, then arrested them all.
Posted by: Jackal || 09/25/2006 9:47 Comments || Top||

#3  That's RAB SOP.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 09/25/2006 9:51 Comments || Top||


22 killed in scattered violence around Iraq
At least 22 people were killed and double that number injured Sunday in scattered violence around Iraq, including a mortar attack on the Health Ministry followed by a car bombing targeting a police patrol. Two U.S. Marines with Regimental Combat Team 5, died in fighting in Anbar province west of Baghdad, the military said without releasing any further details. Police also discovered another 13 bodies.

The Health Ministry in northern Baghdad was hit by two mortar shells at 8:40 a.m. (0440 GMT), which slammed into the building and its garden, seriously injuring three civilians, police Lt. Ahmed Mohammed Ali said. The attackers were not identified. As police patrolled the area later, a roadside bomb exploded killing four policemen and wounded four more, while killing two civilians and injuring two others, police said.

In eastern Baghdad a car bomb targeting another police patrol killed five people, and wounded 17. The bomb was detonated in a parked car as the patrol went by at 10:15 a.m. (0615 GMT). Three policemen was among the dead, while seven were injured, police Lt. Bilal Ali said.
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Gun battle outside West Bank church
Palestinian police guarding a West Bank church exchanged fire with assailants and chased them away early Saturday, witnesses said. Churches in the West Bank and Gaza have been attacked by firebombs and gunfire in recent days, as part of a Muslim uproar over remarks by Pope Benedict XVI last week, seen as insulting to Islam.

Shortly after midnight, the sound of heavy gun fire was heard outside the Roman Catholic Church in the West Bank city of Nablus. Resident Abdel Salam Abu Rob said police guarding the church were exchanging fire with wouldbe assailants. Police guards were posted at churches in the West Bank and Gaza last weekend, after a first spate of attacks. Residents said they heard intensive fire for about 20 minutes. There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage to the church.
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition, boys!!!
Posted by: Ebbineter Throluger3895 || 09/25/2006 0:48 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Six arrested in Hat Yai bombings
SONGKHLA (TNA) - Police have arrested a total of six persons suspected of staging the bombing attacks in the southern region's commercial centre of Hat Yai. Two suspects arrested Saturday are being held for questioning along with four others arrested earlier for possible involvement in six bomb attacks in major downtown commercial and tourist locations on September 16.

The four suspects arrested earlier have refused to cooperate in the inquiry. They are being detained at Provincial Police Region 9 headquarters in Yala under the Emergency Decree. Pol. Maj. Gen. Thani Tawitsri, Deputy Commissioner of Provincial Police Region 9, said so far it has not yet been established that the six suspects were definitely involved in the September 16 bombings.

Earlier Saturday, Songkhla Deputy Governor Jit Pasompong attended the cremation of Canadian teacher Jesse Lee Daniel, one of the four persons killed in the bomb attacks. The explosions on September 16 killed four people, and injured more than 70 others. Twenty persons are still hospitalised, receiving treatment at three hospitals in Hat Yai.
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Sri Lanka
Sri Lankan Navy Attacks Rebel Ships
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) - The Sri Lankan navy said Monday it had sunk eight Tamil Tiger rebel ships loaded with troops and weapons during a five-hour sea battle, killing around 70 separatists.

The fighting began late Sunday night when the navy spotted 25 rebel ships sailing south. Navy Cmdr. D. K. P. Dassanayake told The Associated Press "more than 70 cadres are dead" and two other ships, believed to have been transporting arms and ammunition, were burning at sea.
The remaining rebel boats retreated after the hostilities just off the coast of the eastern town of Pulmoddai, about 140 miles from the capital Colombo, he said.

One navy vessel was damaged, injuring five sailors, he said. But it had made it back to port.
A spokesman at the Defense Ministry's press office confirmed the attack, but had no additional details. The rebels were not immediately available for comment.
They were dog-paddling.
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Iran manufactures new generation of drones, also 'early warning laser system'
Details of said drones a bit...lacking. Perhaps the New York Times or Sy Hersh will have more.
The Iranians have learned how to photoshop images and videos of Chinese military equipment, so the 48 hr rule definitely applies.
Iranian Defense Minister Mostafa Mohammad Najar announced Sunday that his country managed to manufacture a new generation of Drones. Mehr News Agency quoted the Minister as saying "The drones were made by Defense Ministry's engineers and they would be handed over to the military later on." The drones would also be provided to Interior security forces and the police for the purpose of monitoring the nation's borders for any illegal operations, added the official.
AND:
Iran has announced the manufacturing of an anti-air early warning laser system. The Iranian Defense Minister Brigadier General Mostafa Mohammad Najjar said here today that the system could enable the anti-air defenses derail missiles and laser-guided bombs. He said the system has been designed and manufactured at the University of Malik Alashter of the Iranian defense ministry. The Iranian Defense Minister said "with the introduction of the production line, the defense capacity of the Iranian armed forces would remarkably increase." He stressed that the production of this system comes in the context of the development of modern techniques for defensive purposes, relying on national talent, to meet the national and regional needs.
Posted by: Seafarious || 09/25/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Iran manufactures new generation of drones

In America, we call them imams.
Posted by: Zenster || 09/25/2006 1:48 Comments || Top||

#2  LOL Zenster.
Posted by: gromgoru || 09/25/2006 6:21 Comments || Top||

#3  "...Yadda, yadda, yadda, the Wunderwaffen will send the Allies reeling back to the Channel Gulf..."

Same pattern as always, and it didn't win Goebbels the war, either.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 09/25/2006 7:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Until they perfect the death ray, yawn.
Posted by: Captain America || 09/25/2006 7:44 Comments || Top||

#5  relying on national talent
Ah yes, Islamojuche!
Posted by: Spot || 09/25/2006 8:34 Comments || Top||

#6  It seems that most of the Iranian scientists didn't return from the West after the Shah fell and that science and math have not been priorities in the Iranian education system. With respect to the comments about the laser system, this is pure propaganda, it didn't translate well, or someone is running a big scam on these guys.
Posted by: RWV || 09/25/2006 9:38 Comments || Top||

#7  The NYT wouldn't publish any data since that might betray military secrets. Only American secrets.
Posted by: Jackal || 09/25/2006 9:48 Comments || Top||


G'morning...
Toxin 'may have sneaked out assets'60 more Taliban killed in Afghanistan pushIraqi forces kill, arrest 30 militantsFrench hostages in Yemen to be freed Suspected Pakistani guerrillas shot dead along border in Western IndiaAbbas to give Hamas last chance before dissolving PAOil nudges under $60 a barrel
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ...Now THAT'S how to start a day. :) Thank you, Fred.
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 09/25/2006 7:14 Comments || Top||

#2  I get a fat Anna Nicole Smith vibe from this girl.
Posted by: Scott R || 09/25/2006 10:27 Comments || Top||

#3  Think slender, smart Anna Nicole Smith.
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2006 15:57 Comments || Top||

#4  There was a link to her website, yesterday, she's 70's and NSFW; once a tease...
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 09/25/2006 16:34 Comments || Top||

#5  Please tell me she didn't do a NSFW photo shoot at age 70. :/
Posted by: Thoth || 09/25/2006 20:29 Comments || Top||

#6  Yep. She's not half bad (aside from being a moonbat).

Frank would do her.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/25/2006 20:47 Comments || Top||

#7  Thoth, just look at the website (NSFW though) - this lady is not your average 70 year old.
Posted by: Tony (UK) || 09/25/2006 20:52 Comments || Top||

#8  Is there a picture of Gwen Verdon in the archives?
Posted by: mrp || 09/25/2006 21:11 Comments || Top||

#9  Frank would do her

So? Standards are malleable.....
Posted by: Frank G || 09/25/2006 21:23 Comments || Top||



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