From The Nose on Your Face, which bills itself as "News so fake you'll swear it came from the mainstream media"
With the elections just a few days away, Republicans continue to scoff at anti-war hunger strikes as rookie stuff and have quietly suggested that the anti-war movement should elevate their game if they really want results.
Yeah, the notion of Cindy Sheehan surviving on banana smoothies for a couple days really has us up nights, said one Bush staffer. These guys have really got to step it up if they want to be taken seriously. They need to draw on the heritage of their 1960s anti-war predecessors. Im pretty sure that if the bunch of them set themselves on fire, wed take notice.
Self-Immolation has been practiced as a means of protest throughout history, but was most common during the Vietnam War, when several Buddhist monks and American citizens burned themselves to death.
If Cindy Sheehan, Susan Sarandon, Sean Penn and Danny Glover were all simultaneously lit up like torches, wed probably have the troops home in a couple weeks, continued the staffer. I mean, I cant promise anything-- I'm just free-lancing here. But that sort of demonstration of commitment might get us to realize the error of our ways. I might be going out on a limb here, but a crispy Barbra Streisand might be worth a roll back of the tax cuts. Hell, I'd marry a gay Hollywood producer and adopt several Pakistani refugees if you set Alec Baldwin ablaze."
MOGADISHU (Rooters, heavy spin) - Fighting flared on Monday between Islamist forces and troops from the semi-autonomous northern enclave of Puntland in Somalia, which many fear is on the verge of all-out war, the Islamists said. The Islamists said soldiers from Puntland -- whose leaders oppose the religious movement's aim to put Somalia under sharia rule -- ambushed them in the morning backed by fighters loyal to a warlord kicked out of Mogadishu earlier this year.
Excellent! Let's hope the Punters have some military training and discipline.
If confirmed, the clash would be the first violence since peace talks between the Islamists and Somalia's interim government broke down in Sudan last week.
"We were attacked this morning by Puntland troops armed with heavy technicals," Islamist defence chief Sheikh Yusuf Mohamed Siad "Inda'ade" told reporters in Mogadishu, using the Somali term for pickups turned into battle-wagons. "They ambushed our troops when they were sleeping."
Islamist sources said the fighting was taking place near Galinsoor, which lies about 60 km (40 miles) south of Puntland. "We were attacked by Puntland troops accompanied by fighters loyal to Abdi Qaybdiid," one Islamist commander told Reuters by telephone from the field, referring to the warlord kicked out of Mogadishu. There was no immediate information on casualties.
Puntland authorities, who have frequently vowed to resist any attempted Islamist expansion from the south into their province, could not immediately be reached.
The Islamists had moved in recent months to Galkaayo on the border of Puntland, which largely runs its own affairs and is Yusuf's home turf. Islamist defence boss Mohamed said Puntland president Adde Muse had been "waging propaganda" against the Islamists since they set up a new sharia court in Galkaayo four months ago.
Thousands of troops from Ethiopia -- which regards the Islamists as terrorists -- are said by witnesses to be inside Puntland and Baidoa. Addis Ababa denies that, saying only that it has sent a few hundred military trainers to Baidoa. "There are some Ethiopian troops in Baidoa who are training the government forces," said Haji Mahamud Haji Mohamed "Barbar", commissioner for the Bay region in which Baidoa lies. "Whoever is saying the Ethiopians have taken over security of the town is lying. Our troops and the police are patrolling the city 24 hours," he told Reuters.
Both the Islamists and the interim government's forces are facing off near Buur Hakaba, a town 30 km (20 miles) from Baidoa on the road to Mogadishu.
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The Puntland militia has been getting instructions from the US Special Forces, so I don't think they'll be the pushover the Islamists think they are. The Islamists need a few HEAVY defeats. Frankly, they need to face a navy carrier task force or three for a month or so. We don't need another Afghanistan. At least there's no "pakistan" to provide support in Somalia.
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Actually, there is a "Pakistan" in the mix over there, OS, but it is on our side : Ethiopia. The Ethiopian Army has ethnic Somalis in it, from Ogaden, that can easily blend in with the local Puntlanders. That combined with the fact that Ethiopia considers the Islamists to be terrorists and the fact that Ethiopia is much more accepting of casualties, means there are enough trained military troops from Ethiopia to mix in with and lead local Puntland units. Big advantage.
Other big advantage is that Ethiopia is not under any arms embargo and can get all of the spare parts needed to rehad any of the ex-Soviet gear in the hands of the Puntlanders : BMPs and T-55s are wonderous if you need to take on a technical.
Tunisia has freed two top opposition leaders among 55 Islamists released as part of an annual amnesty to mark the anniversary of President Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali's rise to power, human rights activists said on Monday. They said that Mohamed Akrout and Habib Ellouz, two former presidents of the banned Islamist Tunisian Nahda party, one of the north African country's main opposition movements, were among those freed. The bulk of the 55 were believed to have been freed in the past two days, the activists said. The two had served 15 years of a life prison sentence imposed in 1992 for participation in an attempted military coup.
"It (the pardon) is a positive step. We hope that it will be followed by others in the framework of the legislative amnesty", Nahda spokesman Ali Laraydh, told Reuters. Human right groups said about 300 people are still in jail for their religious or political opinions, most of them are members of Nahda.
The heart burns bleeds. [Urps!]
The government, which says it is committed to democracy and respect of human rights, insists there are no political prisoners in Tunisia and that no one has been jailed for expressing an opinion.
Organizing a coup goes a little beyond expressing one's opinion, dunnit?
Tunisia marks the 19th anniversary of Ben Ali's assumption of power in the country of 10 million on Tuesday November 7. The government usually frees a number of prisoners on the anniversary without disclosing how many. The government has confirmed that several people have been freed this year but declined to give details.
A former army general, Ben Ali came to power in November 1987, six weeks after becoming prime minister, when doctors declared president-for-life and founder of modern Tunisia Habib Bourguiba senile and unfit to rule. Ben Ali is widely credited for ensuring political stability and strong economic growth in Tunisia but critics accuse him of running roughshod over human rights and democratic values. The government strongly denies the allegation.
Algerian rebels shot dead eight soldiers in an ambush in the heaviest reported government losses for seven months in the north African countrys lingering political violence, newspapers reported yesterday. The papers Liberte, El Watan and El Khabar said the eight, including an officer, were ambushed in wooded mountains while on a patrol in the Ain Defla region 120-km south-west of Algiers on Thursday. It was the largest reported single loss of state personnel to politically-motivated fighting since Islamist guerrillas killed 13 customs agents in the desert south in April.
Liberte and Khabar said they believed the attack was carried out by the main rebel group, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), which has consistently rejected peace overtures from the government and announced in September it had joined Al Qaeda. The army declined immediate comment. It does not normally comment on security matters. The newspapers said the attackers, estimated to number up to 30, took the arms and uniforms of the dead soldiers and fled.
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An operative of banned Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) has told a Sunamganj court that he would have been very happy if he had killed Awami League (AL) Presidium Member Suranjit Sengupta. At the court of First Class Magistrate Hazera Khatun on Friday, Naim alias Hafiz admitted responsibility for the bomb blast at a public rally of Suranjit five years ago. He said that the AL leader was their target and he was sorry that he could not kill him. The blast on July 21,2001 left one killed and 50 others injured.
Naim alias Hafiz was produced before the court amid tight security. Investigation Officer Sri Ram Dutta of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) prayed for the detainee to be placed on a 10 days' remand but the court granted for eight days. During the hearing, Naim said he and some other JMB cadres had been assigned to kill Suranjit three months before the blast. He said he has no regrets for those who were killed or injured during the incident.
Immediately after the remand hearing, Naim was brought to the Joint Interrogation Cell (JIC) in Dhaka. He was arrested at Syedpur village under Jagannathpur upazila on September 3.
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Al Qaeda terrorists planned to use "dirty bombs" to blow up the Heathrow Express or a Tube train passing under the Thames, a court heard today. Dhiren Barot, 34, also plotted to strike at the West End's leading hotels and mainline railway stations.
The catastrophic results would have produced "another black day for the enemies of Islam and victory for the Muslims", he wrote.
Barot expected the devastation and loss of life to match 9/11 and the Madrid bombs, the court heard. The attacks would have been coordinated in a series of back-to-back explosions with further strikes on landmark buildings in Washington, New York and Newark, New Jersey.
Barot costed every aspect of the terrorist outrages, then travelled to Pakistan to present them to al Qaeda bosses "like a business plan", the court was told.
But Barot and other conspirators were stopped by a brilliant police operation and meticulous detective work pieced together exactly what the terrorists planned for London.
Barot, from Willesden, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to carry out murder over four years between January 2000 and August 2004.
Part of his plea acknowledges his part in each of the London plots and in the conspiracies to attack the International Monetary Fund and World Bank buildings in Washington, the Stock Exchange and Citigroup buildings in New York, and the Prudential skyscraper in Newark.
As Edmund Lawson QC, prosecuting, revealed the astonishing details of the planned terrorist outrages, the slight figure of Barot, with goatee beard, sat quietly in the dock at Woolwich Crown Court wearing a dark jacket over a dark T-shirt. Mr Lawson said the two atrocities were suynchronised with an attack in America so that - in Barot's own words - "they would be coordinated back-to-back as they were with 9/11 thus forming another memorable black day for the enemies of Islam and victory for the Muslims."
Mr Lawson said: "The principal object [was] to kill hundreds if not thousands of innocent people without warning, but there were other subsidiary and collateral objectives - to cause maximum damage to property, injure and terrorise people and at minimum to cause widespread disruption and subsequent economic loss."
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"another black day for the enemies of Islam and victory for the Muslims", he wrote.
So if we were to blow up Muslim landmarks and public places so as to kill as many people as possible, that would result in a victory for us? I know we're casting about for a strategy for victory and I'm wondering whether Mr. Barot is offering a suggestion.
It's an odd sort of victory that ends with body parts of helpless passerbys strewn about without any bearing on your enemy's military capabilities. Atrocity as victory, with the most ruthless and bloodthirsty cast as the most pious. Brilliant.
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Barot, from Willesden, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to carry out murder over four years between January 2000 and August 2004.
Note the beginning date.
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Part of his plea acknowledges his part in each of the London plots and in the conspiracies to attack the International Monetary Fund and World Bank buildings in Washington, the Stock Exchange and Citigroup buildings in New York, and the Prudential skyscraper in Newark.
In Newark? I really don't see how that would upset the nation in the way attacks on Washington, DC and New York City. Perhaps one of the plotters saw it outside his window every day, and assumed that it must loom over the rest of the country likewise? As for the rest (possibly excepting the IMF and the World Bank -- I don't think they are subject to US rules for such things), starting pre-Y2K and accellerated post-9/11 their transactions are backed up (hourly?) in computers far distant from the work sites, so the tragedies would be that of murder, not at shutting down the nation's/world's economy. More terrorists who aren't as smart as they thought themselves.
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The catastrophic results would have produced "another black day for the enemies of Islam and victory for the Muslims", he wrote.
A few more "victories" like this and Islam will be undone ... probably with nuclear bombs. Muslims had better get a clue as to just how much danger these jihadists are putting them in.
As with their Thundering Silence, the overall lack of reaction by Muslims concerning this peril which jihadis place them in obliges me to assume that they really do not care and tacitly support the terrorists. Silence eventually becomes more than just consent, it becomes a lie.
I doubt there will be the least peep of condemnation chirped by Muslims over Dhiren Barot's plan to kill untold thousands. More likely, in most Islamic quarters there will be secret disappointment.
A Muslim convert considered to be the highest ranking al-Qaida operative captured in Britain faces a sentencing hearing Monday for plotting to bomb US targets, such as the New York Stock Exchange and the International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington, DC.
Dhiren Barot, 34, pleaded guilty last month to conspiring to commit mass murder in terrorist plots on both sides of the Atlantic. The Hindu convert who grew up in Britain faces life in prison - a sentence that would have been prohibited from reporting until The Associated Press, The British Broadcasting Corp., and Times Newspapers Ltd successfully challenged a judge's ruling last week. The judge felt publishing details of the two-day sentencing hearing could prejudice trials of Barot's seven co-defendants.
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Belgrade, 6 Nov. (AKI) - Wahhabi Muslim fundamentalists over the weekend provoked a shooting in a mosque in the southern Serbian city of Novi Pazar in which three people were wounded and two arrested. The incident took place late on Friday, when a group of Wahabists disrupted religious services in Novi Pazar's Arab-mosque, attacking a local imam and trying to impose their 'pure' form of rites. The police said one of the faithful attending services, Habib Fijuljanin, 33, pulled out a gun and fired two warning shots in the ceiling. Another worshipper, Izet Fijuljanin, 37, then opened fire on three Wahabists in front of the mosque when they attacked him and started demolishing his car, police said.
While accounts of the course of events varied, police said both Fijuljanins were detained, and there were traces of blood inside and outside the mosque. The police didnt release the names of the three wounded, believed to be Wahabists, but said charges were pressed against 16 individuals who took part in the incidents.
Novi Pazar is cultural and business centre of the predominantly Muslim-populated Sandzak region, and has only in the past few years felt the presence of Wahabists. Sandzak mufti Muamer Zukorlic has said the numbers of Wahabists are still negligible, though incidents such as that in the mosque this weekend have been on rise.
The wahhabist movement got a foothold in the Balkans during Bosnias 1992-1995 civil war when thousands mujahadeen or fighters from Muslim countries came to give military support to local Muslims. Hundreds have remained in the country, indoctrinating local youths with radical Islam.
Wahabists can easily be recognised by their breeches and long beards, and their insistence that women wear a face veil. The number of their followers has slowly but steadily been on the rise in Bosnia, in Muslim areas of Serbia such as Sandzak and Kosovo, as well as in some parts of Montenegro.
One man is dead, three are wounded and two businesses have had their windows shot out after a wave of apparently unrelated shootings early Sunday morning. The only shooting to claim a victim occurred at around 7 am, when two men entered Café Louise in the Nørrebro district and opened fire, killing one man and wounding three others.
Earlier, at 4:20 a.m., unknown assailants fired shots from a vehicle which shattered a toy store window on Vestergade in the Latin Quarter, and around 40 minutes later the same happened to a café on Mikkel Brygges Gade, a side road leading into the main pedestrian street Strøget. No one was injured in those shootings.
Ove Dahl, superintendent of Copenhagen police's homicide division, denied that the city has become more dangerous of late. 'It's no different than it's always been. If I looked back into the statistics, I shouldn't see that it's any worse today than it was before,' Dahl said.
Police believe the café shooting at Nørrebro was a hit aimed at one of the injured, a 34-year-old Moroccan man. He is listed in serious condition after being shot four times. The man killed, an innocent bystander, was thought to be a 24-year-old Iraqi, but later reports indicated his ID may have been false and that he is actually Palestinian with Jordanian citizenship.
Rather old to be 'youts', aren't they?
The gunmen were recorded by the café's security cameras, and both are believed to be of immigrant background.
Sunday's shootings were the latest in a wave of gun violence in Copenhagen over the past year, most involving immigrant men. Dahl said there was no particular trend or links in the violence.
Other than it involving 'immigrant' men.
'Every time there's a murder, there are different motives. It can be jealousy, a grude, drugs or other criminal activity, but I can't say there's a trend. Next year there might not be a single shooting.'
And the tooth fairy might start making deliveries again, too. You never can tell .....
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a café on Mikkel Brygges Gade, a side road leading into the main pedestrian street Strøget.
Sweet merciful crap! Strøget is the very innermost heart of Copenhagen. It represents some of the oldest shops all facing onto an ancient street that has been converted into a beautiful pedestrian mall (no cars allowed). The thought of gunfire near there is simply outrageous and these cops act like it is nothing.
Sunday's shootings were the latest in a wave of gun violence in Copenhagen over the past year, most involving immigrant men. Dahl said there was no particular trend or links in the violence.
This appears to be legit, the scanned article is in Le Parisien's paying archive, and can be found through a search (only the intro and the writer's ID). What is incredible is this mass mugging is as disturbing and shocking as the Nice train attack on the New Year's eve... but instead of causing a similar stir... there's NOT a single word on television, radios, national newspapers, about it! The control of information by the french Establishment is not a myth.
The headline reads: "A hundred vandals attack passengers". Apparently the incident happened several days ago but was NOT reported the papers, with the exception of Le Parisien. Vox Galliae reports:
Overcrowded subway lines where assaults are ever increasing, passengers fleeing the subway in a state of total panic, and to top it all off, the police are forced to evacuate the station.
On Tuesday evening around 9:00 P.M., hundreds of "youth" attacked the passengers of lines 4 and 12, between the Marcadet-Poissonniers and Château Rouge stations, stripping them of all their belongings: handbags, MP3 players, cell phones... From the scan, 300-400 Youths were coming back from a public Halloween party; they started by pelting a police car, then entered the subway station; mass muggings of passengers involving at least 100 hoodlums started as soon as the train departed; police intervened by stopping the train, but the Youths had thrown down stolen objects and a few weapons (like an hammer) and passengers were too intimated to identify the muggers, still present with them.
Train restarted, but attacks resumed immediatly. Police had to halt the train again, shutdown the subway station and evacuate the public, escorting the Youths on foot away from the scene.
12 arrests were made when searches found stolen objects.
This terrifying information was made public only by Le Parisien. (local parisian newspaper, lot of local infos on crime and all, not much spin)
An incredible media black-out...
Click the link for the Vox Galliae article, then click the image for an enlargement. Look closely and you'll see that the Paris metro today is identical to an inner-city American public transport. I have not yet located the actual article.
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That is what happens when people lose the right to wear arms: they become used to rely on teh authorities for their protection and unable to take any initiative for their security and beat the crap of their agressors.
People who happen tpo be unarmed but, because they have weapons at home, have kept the mentality of confronting agressors instead of hiding until the police comes wouldn't have allowed themselves to be mugged.
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In other words fellow Rantburgers fight nail and teeth for the Second Amendment or America will become the land of the cowards and the land of the slaves like Europe is becoming.
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You notice the absence of similar problems in Switzerland? Maybe because of tight immigration policies and the standing requirement to have their assigned military weapon and something like 400 rounds of ammo in each home?
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Article: Look closely and you'll see that the Paris metro today is identical to an inner-city American public transport.
Actually, that's wrong. Subway muggings are pretty rare - at least in NYC. I suspect the Metro is probably cleaner, though - unlike Paris, which is subsidized by the central government, the NYC subway is fully funded by New York state. Which is to say it's not very well-funded.
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unlike Paris, which is subsidized by the central government, the NYC subway is fully funded by New York state. Which is to say it's not very well-funded.
It's also much older than the Paris subway -- it's the oldest subway in the world IIRC. It serves a city that has 4 times the population of Paris and surrounding areas of more than twice the population.
I'm not so sure we'd see this on BART or Muni, NS. It's been a while since I lived there, but I ride both of those systems from time to time when visiting family in the Bay area. There are a lot of immigrants that would fight back if harrassed this way -- not to mention some of the native born locals.
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Yup, and the one place that hasn't really changed since then is Baghdad by the Bay. Look at the congressional delegation. But this
300-400 Youths were coming back from a public Halloween party; they started by pelting a police car, then entered the subway station; mass muggings of passengers involving at least 100 hoodlums started as soon as the train departed
reads like it could come from yesterday's Comical. The police might do a better job of putting it down, but I doubt it. That would be a career limiting move under the Newsome administration if they got your badge number.
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The Chicago subways also are old and somewhat unkempt. However, we don't have the crime problem, mostly because the cops here borrowed a page from Guiliani's NYC program and immediately jump on the most minor of infractions.
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Have to agree with lotp. I take BART every day into SF. The Fruitvale and Oakland stops see some nasty element which will work in your favor when a rival "gang" comes-a-lootin'
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Concord-Burlingame? And West Oakland would just join in. Sorry, but it's not my experience that the SF immigrants will stop anything unless they are directly threatened.
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lol! By the very nature of where they are located - our mass transit is located in the "inner cities". Try pulling this stunt in our subways or rail lines and it will be Shoot Out at the OK Corral. It won't be pretty, but I suspect there won't be many "youths" left standing.
If you don't have a gun, stun gun, pepper spray, knife, or other weapon to join the fray, you might want to get down before the shooting starts.
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lotp, Boston's subway predates New York City and like the NYC subwya there is very little crime on the sunway.I lived there for two years and there were only 2 reporrted incidents and one of those happened on the platform. This doesn't mean things wont change but I suspect the problems in Paris are more related to a certain "Religious" group.
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Dang, I can't spell this morning, either.
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Nimble,
You might be right but I wasn't referring to the immigrants per se but the inner city types that frequent the trains. Once overhead a discussion on parole hearings that seemed to be a common conversation among them.
I think the Islamic @$%#heads "mis-underestimate" our will to fight back when threatend directly (Flight 93?) At any rate...would like nothing better than to open a large can of whup-ass on them..
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I think it does depend a lot on which route you think of. But the one place in the US where one can imagine this happening is the Bay area. What the reception would be would depend on a lot of factors. I doubt we'll find out, thank goodness.
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I thought London's subway was older than NYC and Boston's subways. I was in NYC two days ago; I was upset by the scratchitti. I'm worried that the trains will be going downhill again.
Deacon, isn't the new Boston fare card called the Charlie Ticket?
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Does Seattle have a subway? Aside from that problem, I agree it is the other fertile moonbat territoty. Funny how those areas have a long tradition of it.
I remember sitting in a very prominent law firm's office with a plaque that noted that the room had been Harry Bridges' HQ for the general strike of 1934. And then there were all the Wobblies in the NW. It's never gone out of the blood. Must be the natural beauty and weather.
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Seattle does not have a subway. We have buses, a train, some light rail in construction, and a defunct monorail (the trains collided and stuck in a narrow section of track a few months ago).
Fortunately, Washington has not let the Seattle mindset override the Second Amendment. WA is a good state for issuing CCLs.
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Maybe CCLs, but remember the WTO riots; the ppl just stood around letting the youts beat the place up. i 'spect that King County would just let them go on and tear the place down rather than take a stand that required any sort of testicular exertion.
I can't, and I've lived in the Bay Area all of my life. If blacks tried this, the Latinos would go beserk. If the Latinos tried it, the blacks would get sideways. If the Asians tried it, blacks or Latinos would get down. Regardless, I'd have my Puma 270 General 4" folding blade out for some imprompteau surgery. There isn't the lack of diversity and enforcement like there is in France.
If and when such shit starts here, I'll apply for a carry permit and start toting.
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Back on topic; This is what happens when people become sheep. The cradle to grave nanny state encourages but is not entirely responsible for this sort of cowardice. It also requires a de-emphasis upon capital punishment, lack of citizen militias and overall diminishment of individual citizen rights to foster this sort of inertia. The train should have arrived at its next station with 100 dead or ass-kicked yoots and some citizens who were curiously unable to explain how such a thing could have occured in La Belle France.
The French state's censorship of coverage relating to this incident is a crime against its own people. To not alert the citizenry about such threats to the public weal is malfeasance. When the MME (Muslim Middle East) is finally glassed over and we begin to sort out the collaborators, France's governmental elite must be put on trial a la Nuremburg for their collusion with Arab tyrannies to create Eurabia.
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People get kinda nervous when I get on a bus or subway with my axehandle, but don't say a word when I carry on my walking cane. Different primary use, same effectiveness as a weapon. It's not what you carry, but what you are that makes the difference. The military trains warriors, not gun-users. A pencil can be a dangerous weapon in a close-in fight. Aim for the eyes or ears.
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Very true OP...car keys between the knuckles works in close also...
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OP is right; it's the attitude, not necessarily the weapon. A man with the backbone to defend himself and his loved ones will usually have made it a point to have the means to do so around but if not, he will have the imagination to improvise, attack and overcome.
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I had heard that during the last "spare-the-air" days in the Bay Area when BART was offering free rides to the general public that there were some problems, especially on the Bay-Point/West Oakland routes.
From what I heard there were a lot of extra people riding the system and some of these decided to take advantage of the situation against their fellow riders.
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I saw an old guy (older than me) pull out his belt with abig metal buckle and whipped the crap out of a mugger armed with a knife in Boston a few years ago. The mugger took off bloody and limping before any of us onlookers could come to the aid of the potential victim. Helped me to decide to take self-defense lessons and learned to use, keys, belts, pens, pencils, sticks, canes and anything else handy as a weapon.
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It's been a long time since I wore high heeled shoes, but thin heels can do a real number on shins and the top of feet.
Used it one time while on a subway at night. Scrape down along the unprotected shin bone and then stopped with the heel on the arch of the foot, HARD.
That's usually good for a couple seconds to get away, if the attacker hasn't been able to grab hair, clothes etc.
Students say they were trying to shoot a music video (KDKA) PITTSBURGH Federal, state, and city law enforcement officials were on hand after signs of explosives were found in a vehicle used by two local college students who allegedly tried to break into Heinz Field overnight. Carnegie Mellon University students Anand Durvasula and Sudeep Paul are now being held on $1 million straight bond each.
"Initially the two said they were CMU students and said they had tickets for the Steelers game. They decided to check things out so they knew where to go for the game," said Pittsburgh Police Chief Nate Harper. Security officers at Heinz Field say the men were caught on surveillance tape opening an unsecured door. "The males later returned to Gate 5 where Durvasula stepped on the chair, scaled the fence. At that time the field security approached and they attempted to walk away and were approached by Zone 1 officers," Harper said. The pair then told police they were working on a music video hoping to shoot the last shot on the field.
Initially, police at the scene did not believe there were any signs of explosives in the vehicle; however, the criminal complaint indicates two different dogs responded positively for hits of explosives inside of Paul's SUV Lexus. So far, Durvasula and Paul have been charged with criminal conspiracy and criminal trespass.
There was extra security on hand for Sunday's game and police say their investigation is far from over. Police say both of the men are U.S. Citizens of Indian descent. The men have a preliminary hearing scheduled for Thursday.
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Don't you go dissing my Browns. I'll get Hugh Hewitt all over you.
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Nope, I saw this yesterday while browsing a lgf thread comments... lemme see... http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06310/736047-66.stm Sudeep Paul, above, 21, of Woodbury, N.Y., and Anand Shankar Durvasula, below, 20, of Morgan Hill, Calif., are arraigned last night after the two Carnegie Mellon University students were accused of trying to sneak into Heinz Field early yesterday.
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Second line, first paragraph: Carnegie Mellon University students Anand Durvasula and Sudeep Paul are now being held on $1 million straight bond each.
A lady working at my Indian grocery store said she'd been back to her native Bombay this spring, and the for the first time ever felt frightened walking through the Muslim section of town. She'd gone there to buy all the things they specialize in, and was shocked at the hostile glances and veiled women, a change from the days of her youth. Also by the open hatred spouted on the special Muslim television channels. And the special greetings they now had for one another, along the lines of, "Peace be with you, and may all the Jews and idolators be die horribly and go straight to Hell." Bombay Muslims used to be much more polite and normal, she said.
GUWAHATI, India - At least 12 people, mostly shoppers, were killed and more than 40 injured in two simultaneous bomb attacks Sunday in the northeastern Indian city of Guwahati, police said. The Press Trust of India (PTI) put the number of those injured at 52 and said 15 of them were in critical condition following the two attacks.
Police said the first bomb ripped through the upscale Fancy Bazaar shopping arcade in the heart of Guwahati, the largest city in the nations strife-torn state of Assam. We have eight people killed in first blast which took place at around 6:40 pm (1340 GMT), said Deepak Narayan Dutt, Assams police chief. And some 40 people are injured in the two attacks, Dutt said in Guwahati, Assams largest city and de facto state capital.
Half of the injured victims were shoppers and vendors at the marketplace, Guwahati deputy police chief Rajan Singh said and added the popular complex was crowded with people when the explosion occurred. An IED (improvised explosive device) caused both the blasts, he said as military and police explosives experts fanned into other city markets and malls, trawling for concealed bombs.
The second bomb went off almost simultaneously in Patharkuwari on the citys outskirts, leaving at least four civilians dead, state police chief Dutt said, updating the earlier toll by one. PTI said 45 of the victims were injured in the market blast while seven were hurt in Patharkuwari.
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Four members of a family and two suspected Islamic militants were killed in two separate incidents on Sunday in Indian-held Kashmir, said police. Suspected insurgents entered the home of Mohammed Ada Bhat, a 55-year-old farmer, and fatally shot him, his wife, a daughter and a niece in Dalwa village, said Basant Kumar Rath, a senior superintendent of police. Police were investigating the surviving family members claim that suspected rebels killed the four after Bhat refused to marry his two daughters to the insurgents, said Rath.
Separately, government forces killed two suspected rebels during a shootout in Phagsoo. Also on Sunday, an 8-year-old boy was killed and three others were critically wounded when an explosive they found while playing in a village field exploded, said Viplav Kumar, the senior superintendent of police.
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Suspected militants shot dead a pro-government tribal elder, while separately three others were gunned down in a Pakistani tribal zone bordering Afghanistan, said officials on Sunday.
Malik Wali Zar, a member of a government-sponsored committee working on expulsions of foreign pro-Taliban militants, was shot dead on Saturday at Inzar village in South Waziristan, said a security official. Zar was returning home after attending a meeting in Wana when he was snatched from a passenger van by masked gunmen and shot dead, said a security official.
Separately, unidentified gunmen shot dead three tribesmen in North Waziristan on Saturday, said another security official. The three were hauled from a van in Dangeen village, and shot dead. The attackers then fled in a waiting car, he said. It was not immediately clear whether pro-Taliban militants were behind the attack, the official said, adding that an investigation had been launched.
In another incident, senior local administration official Faizullah was travelling in a passenger van when he was kidnapped by armed gunmen in Mir Ali on Sunday, said the official. The government signed a peace deal with tribal elders in North Waziristan in September, under which Al Qaeda and Taliban fighters would be expelled from the area.
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Several young officers from the Pakistan Air Force with access to President Pervez Gen Pervez Musharrafs innermost security circle were among 50 people arrested for trying to assassinate him soon after he returned from a visit to the US and Britain in late September, according to a report published in The Sunday Telegrph on Sunday.
The rocket strike was aimed at the presidents high-security personal residence-office in Rawalpindi.
About 50 people are being held on suspicion of involvement in the September attack, which involved a battery of Russian-made 107 m projectiles launched by a signal from a mobile phone.
About 50 people are being held on suspicion of involvement in the September attack, which involved a battery of Russian-made 107 m projectiles launched by a signal from a mobile phone, Pakistani intelligence sources were quoted as saying by The Sunday Telegraph.
No one in Pak-land's any good at knife work anymore?
Alarmingly, many are understood to be young officers serving in the Pakistan Air Force, some of whom have access to high-security zones of the presidential offices, parliament and the intelligence service, they said.
The report said that although interrogations had not revealed any of them to have links with Al Qaeda or the Taliban, they were none the less believed to have acted out of growing anger at Musharrafs alliance with America in its war on terror.
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Historically, air forces have been the major source of coups in third world countries. That is a major impetus behind the gelding of most air forces in Africa : if they don't have the ability to overthrow the government, they are tolerated. Of course, that tends to render them combat-ineffective against anything other than dirt farmers with bolt-action rifles.
Plus, the old Soviet command structure that most third worlders fob off on their militaries reduces that danger, by reducing any sort of freedom of movement for the air force.
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Are the youngsters colonels or the equivalent? There seem to have been a lot of stories from insecure places of colonels getting feisty. I wonder why that is?
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Generals are either implicated in the regime or figure they don't have a shot at power. Colonels are high enough to have troops that will follow them and junior enough to have ambitious plans for advancement.
Two suspected Pakistani militants of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were killed by security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district on Saturday night, said police.
Based on a tip-off, the security forces launched an operation to nab the suspected militants hiding in Phagsoo area of the district, about 180 km from Jammu. Senior Superintendent of Police (Doda) Manohar Singh said the forces established contact with the militants late Saturday, leading to a two-hour-long gunfight in which the militants were killed. They have been identified as Mohammad Ahmed alias Abu Furkar and Mohammad Irfan alias Abu Abdullah - both belonged to Lashkar-e-Taiba and were suspected Pakistani nationals. Security forces seized arms and ammunitions, 10 kg of explosives and two rocket-propelled guns, said Singh.
Abu Furkar?
Cousin to Abu Fubar.
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(KUNA) -- A curfew declared by the authorities to maintain law and order during the expected last hearing of the marathon trial of the ousted dictator Saddam Hussein went into effect early on Sunday. Iraqi security personnel and policeman took positions at public locations while heavily-armed American troops staged intensive patrols on streets of the city, where the hearing would be held in the heavily-guarded "green zone." The court, holding the 41th session of the historic prosecution of one of the most notorious modern-time dictators, is expected to issue a death sentence against the 69-year-old ex-ruler and seven of his former advisors.
Meanwhile, the American Army said a US soldier was shot dead in the western part of Baghdad late on Saturday. Authorities have taken special precautions in and around Baghdad and other cities and towns, as a precaution against possible violent action by supporters of the ousted regime.
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Woman wearing explosive belt approaches Givati soldiers manning temporary checkpoint in Beit Hanoun, blows herself up. One soldier lightly injured, terrorist killed. Suicide bomber apparently affiliated with al-Quds Brigades. Hanan Greenberg
A female suicide bomber blew herself up Monday afternoon near IDF forces in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza. The suicide bomber, Marvat Masud, was affiliated with the al-Quds Brigades, Islamic Jihad's military wing. The incident took place at about 3:30 p.m., when the woman arrived at a temporary checkpoint set up by Givati soldiers in town. The crossing was established in the framework of efforts to apprehend wanted suspects.
IDF sources reported that the soldiers identified the suicide bomber after she approached them and raised their suspicion. The soldiers called on her to stop and remove her overcoat, at which point she activated the explosive belt. The officials noted that the troops' alertness prevented a large-scale attack. The soldier who was lightly injured was evacuated to the Barzilay Hospital in Ashkelon for treatment.
Several incidents have taken place in Beit Hanoun throughout the day and a number of gunmen were shot by IDF forces and air force planes. Army sources reported that some 50 terrorists had been killed since the onset of Operation Autumn Clouds in Beit Hanoun, but added that some gunmen were still operating in the area.
The suicide bombing Monday appears to be part of the terrorists' efforts to carry put a massive attack against military forces in the region. Earlier Monday IDF forces attacked a target in Jabalya, killing 17-year-old Mahmoud Ashrafi and wounding seven other Palestinians, mostly teenagers. Palestinian sources said the IDF fired a missile from the air, while army officials claimed the attack was launched by ground forces. The IDF said soldiers spotted a Qassam-firing cell that planned to collect launchers used in Sundays rocket attack on Sderot; the force proceeded to open fire at the suspects and identified a hit, according to the IDF.
Meanwhile, it was reported that the ongoing IDF operation in Beit Hanoun is expected to conclude in a number of days; army officials have expressed their satisfaction with its results, despite the fact that the Qassam attacks on the western Negev have not ceased. On Monday Palestinians in Gaza fired another Qassam rocket toward Israel; the rocket landed in an open field near Kibbutz Yad Mordechai; no injuries were reported.
The Palestinians, who refer to the operation as a massacre, said some 50 people have been killed so far and called on the international community to intervene. On Sunday the captors of Corporal Gilad Shalit said the operation is endangering his life. It is estimated that an even broader IDF operation is in the cards, although it has not received cabinet approval as of yet.
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Near as I can tell there is no specific established afterlife bonus for female suicide bombers (what they call matyrs).
However, I suspect the buzz among females is that female matyrs either become rulers of afterlife harems, or first among 72-virgin cohorts or that their matyrdom absolves a number of sins (mainly sexual in nature) within their family or clan.
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I believe the theory is the splodeydope can vouch for a couple dozen others so they can get into paradise.
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IIRC, in addition to his reward, a shahid can vouch for 70 members of his family; of course, since at the End of time, each and every muslim destinated to hell will in fact be replaced by a christian or a jew, and go to paradise instead, this really doesn't matter.
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Some of the female bombers find themselves in honor predicaments- "Since we found you with that man, we must now slit your throat for the honor of your family. Or you can die gloriously for Allan with this handy suicide belt."
Others are just really pious and really, really mean.
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Earlier Monday IDF forces attacked a target in Jabalya, killing 17-year-old Mahmoud Ashrafi and wounding seven other Palestinians, mostly teenagers.
Wow! Israel is really cleaning out the Palestinians' "senior" terrorist staff.
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I saw some footage a while back of a couple of suiciders who were standing next to a chain link fence when they popped, and strained themselves through the fence.
Two Palestinians were killed late Sunday night in the Jebalya refugee camp in northern Gaza. The Palestinians reported the men were killed by an IAF airstrike on his vehicle, but the army insisted it was not operating in the area at the time.
"Wudn't us. Have you checked with the... ummm... Turks?"
According to Palestinian sources, the men were members of Hamas's armed Izzadin a-Kassam wing.
And among their best, we're sure.
The Palestinians said the men in the car were gathering information along the Israel-Gaza border when the car exploded.
It couldn't possibly have been that one of them was holding a bomb in his lap?
A total of 48 Palestinian terrorists have been killed in the recent IDF operations in the Gaza Strip, while an additional 92 have been wounded, according to a senior IDF officer.
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Israeli forces killed four Palestinian militants and a police officer and kept up missile strikes against militant targets in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, residents and medical officials said. Israel's latest air strike killed a militant from Hamas, which leads the Palestinian government, near the northern Gaza town of Jabalya, Palestinian hospital officials said. The Israeli army had no immediate comment. Witnesses and security sources had said earlier another Hamas militant died in the attack, but doctors said the man was wounded and remained in critical condition.
Oooh. Gut shot and in terminal agony. I like it.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Israel's assault on rocket-launching squads and gunmen would not be open-ended but declined to say when it would finish. He appeared to acknowledge the rocket threat could not be wiped out by the operation.
Like me olde Pap used to say, "Maybe I can't make you, but I can make you wish you had!"
Several homemade missiles fired by Palestinian militants in Gaza hit southern Israel. No one was hurt. Israeli forces have killed at least 48 people, more than half of them gunmen, in the five-day operation in northern Gaza, Palestinian medical officials have said.
The other half were puppies, kittens, fluffy bunnies, and baby ducks, that sort of infant livestock.
"We have no intention of conquering Gaza," Olmert said at the start of a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem.
That's too bad.
"We have declared that we will never accept the ongoing (rocket) fire and that we would take any steps needed to considerably reduce the fire and prevent terror activity."
That will eventually involve bouncing rubble.
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Six people were killed and nine wounded in a string of weekend shootings and bomb attacks in Thailand's restive south despite government efforts to bring peace to the Muslim-majority region, police said.
A homemade bomb exploded on a roadside late Sunday, killing two soldiers and injuring three others, as they drove an army truck in Yala, one of three insurgency-torn provinces bordering Malaysia, a police spokesman said. The soldiers were returning to their army camp after meeting with a group of protesters who had formed a human shield to prevent the military from entering the road leading to a border patrol base.
Some 1,000 villagers, mostly women and girls, joined the human shield to demand the government remove 30 border patrol policemen from the base who the locals accuse of killing a Muslim villager a few days ago, the unnamed official said. The meeting ended peacefully hours later as senior provincial officials promised the angry villagers they would relocate the patrol policemen, but the soldiers were bombed on the way back to their base.
Earlier Sunday, four people were shot dead and six wounded in a spate of drive-by shootings and simultaneous bomb attacks in the south. In Narathiwat, three bombs went off simultaneously before midnight in and around two karaoke bars.
On Saturday, three schools in Yala were totally gutted with another school partially damaged in suspected arson attacks, and Islamic militants ambushed an army convoy heading toward the arson site Sunday, wounding one soldier. The military countered the ambush in an ensuing 15-minute gun battle against more than 10 militants.
Local government officials, police, military and Buddhists are often targeted by Islamic militants but Muslims seen as sympathetic to the government are also attacked.
A couple days old.
Iran has announced it had successfully test-fired new armour-piercing weaponry and an anti-helicopter missile system on the third day of its latest war games.
"The new generation of anti-helicopter and anti-armour weapons were successfully tested on day three of the manoeuvres," an announcer on state television said as pictures of the test-firing were broadcast Saturday.
In the "Great Prophet II" war games, due to last 10 days, Iran has so far fired its Shahab-3 longer range missile for the first time in manoeuvres as well as new types of land-to-sea and sea-to-sea missiles.
The armour-piercing weapons tested Saturday include a rifle equipped with special sights that can identify an enemy seven kilometres (four miles) away and can penetrate a target wearing a bullet-resistant vest from a distance of three kilometres (one-and-a-half miles).
The other new anti-armour weapon tested was a system aimed at penetrating the armour plate of tanks that "can be carried by a person, with high accuracy, high speed and high explosive power".
"The bullet of this system penetrates the armoured equipment and then explodes," state television said.
The anti-helicopter weaponry was described as highly portable and accurate. Four anti-helicopter missiles can be fired from each system.
"The anti-helicopter weapon can hit helicopters in different circumstances," the television added.
"The anti-armour weapon has the ability to penetrate different kinds of advanced bullet-armour vests" as well as the armoured exterior of tanks, it said.
The war games come against a backdrop of rising international tension over Iran's nuclear programme, with the United States leading a drive for UN sanctions against Tehran over its failure to suspend uranium enrichment.
They also coincide with manoeuvres by a US-led naval force in the Gulf off Iran in a test of capabilities to halt trafficking in weapons of mass destruction, the first time such an excercise has been held in the area.
The head of the Iranian parliament's security commission, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, on Saturday lashed out at the US-led manoeuvres, which he said would increase tension in the region.
"The imperialist countries like the United States are here with bad intentions. They are unwanted guests whose presence is a source of instability and trouble in the region," he said according to the IRNA agency.
A bomb exploded near a police barracks in Beirut on Sunday night, the latest in a series of attacks targeting police stations in the Lebanese capital, security officials said.
The explosion occurred near the police station in Tarek Jdeideh, a predominantly Sunni Muslim neighborhood in West Beirut, the officials said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
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It took only an hour or so after the direct broadcast of Saddam Husseins death sentence for the supporters of global Jihad to post in the main Jihadi-Salafi forum-Al-Hesbah-a well-reasoned fatwa if to regard him a Martyr (Shahid) in Jihadi-Salafi eyes.1 The fatwa by the Jihadi-Salafi Kuwaiti Sheikh Hamed al-Ali, has been probably written before the expected sentence. Sheikh Hamed al-Ali can be viewed today as the leading living scholar of the younger generation of Jihadi-Salafiyyah in Arabia, after the death and imprisonment of some of his Saudi colleagues. He is very popular within the "Jihadi virtual community" on the Internet, and his residency in Kuwait seems to provide him some more freedom. Despite his arrest for a short while two years ago, it seems that the Kuwaiti authorities do not limit his freedom of speech, as long as he does not attack them. Only last week Al-Ali was "crowned" by one of the leading clerics of the older generation of Jihadi-Salafis-Abu Basir al-Tartousi in London. On November 1st 2006, Al-Tartousi posted on the front page of his web site an extraordinary letter in support for Al-Ali.2 In the past year, Abu Basir has regained his senior position among Jihadi-Salafi circles, after a harsh criticism over him following his positions against the suicide operations in London in July 2005, and his hinted criticism over Zarqawis extremist Takfiri doctrines in Iraq. The killing of Zarqawi in June 2006, the takeover by Dr. Ayman Zawahiri of directing Al-Qaeda in Iraq, and the absence of leading imprisoned scholars such as Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi, Abu Qutadah, and the Saudi Suleiman al-`Alawan from the Jihadi scene, assisted Abu Basir to regain his senior position. The public "letter of decoration" to Hamed al-Ali is a kind of transferring "the torch" to the younger generation of Jihadi-Salafi clerics, whose fatwas are vital for Al-Qaeda and affiliated groups, and their supporters. Therefore, the present fatwa by Hamed al-Ali on Saddam Hussein should be regarded important, not only in reference to the Jihadi-Salafis, but also for the future relations between the various components of the Iraqi Sunni insurgency.
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Al-Alis fatwa reflects a forgiving attitude on one hand, and a change that took place in the Arab world on the background of the occupation of Iraq and the situation there, where stability, even a vicious one, was replaced by what is viewed by them a hopeless reality that might tear Iraq into at least three pieces. Among the first responses to the sentence we should also note that all the Islamic movements from the school of the Muslim Brotherhood condemned the sentence as well, including the less anti-American Hamas, and the Iraqi Brotherhood (the Iraqi Islamic Party), which supports the democratic process in Iraq. Al-Ali did not fully answer the question and left the Martyrdom issue to Allah to decide. However, he used a very softened tone that might sound to his Jihadi-Salafi followers as an opposition to the sentence, and a kind of defense on Saddam Hussein, who in his terms, acted according to the norms of the other Arab dictators, who were tools in the hands of the "Zionist-Crusader" plot against Islam and the Muslims.
But, the more important implications of this fatwa should be viewed on the background of the present Iraqi scene, especially among the Iraqi Sunnis. The fatwa sends a message to the non-Jihadi groups that take part in the Iraqi Sunni insurgency, that Al-Qaeda is open to cooperation with any Sunni element that is fighting the real enemy - the United States and the Shi`ah. Saddam Hussein the individual is not important and all the Jihadis can do is wishing him the mercy of Allah. He is not declared a Shahid but they do not oppose it if Allah accepts his repentance. However, he is not an enemy, an infidel, or a cruel dictator. He is just a victim of the global plot against the Muslims, who has already been punished in this world, unlike the other Arab rulers.
Just few weeks ago Al-Qaeda declared the foundation of a "Sunni Islamic independent State." For some reason, this declaration has not gained almost any notice in the Western media, which may view it as a pretentious episode. However, whoever carefully reads the Jihadi-Salafi forums in the last months, can see how keen are ALL the various Sunni Iraqi insurgent groups to use these Jihadi forums as a platform for their messages and indoctrination, regardless of their disputes, competition, or different original ideology. No matter how serious the "Islamic State" is, there seems to be a notion of more united strategy among the Sunni groups. The fatwa of Hamed al-Ali provides this notion a better chance from the side of the Jihadi-Salafis. more at link
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Another excursion into the Twilight Zone of what passes for Islamic thought. Saddam is now a "martyr" due to being deposed by Crusader forces, despite having murdered untold millions of fellow Arabs. The mental gymnastics required to achieve such contortions of logic go well beyond the comprehensible.
It's all just one more reason why we need to begin offing all the wankers who spew this incoherent propagandistic bullshit. Everything will always be the West's fault until we kill off each and every single one of these lying bastards. We have not attached any sort of price tag to this sort of perfidious conduct. It will remain the norm until enough of its practicioners are at room temperature.
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Me guesses to be truly safe, the USA-West all have to convert to Radical Islamist respected, non-mentioned, "Man is/becomes God" BUDDHISM. FOX documentary > besides Islam, Buddhism is the only other general world faith/ -ism NOT slated for inevitable attack + destruction at the hands of Radical Islamism = Radical Muslim Fundamentalism.
"Wait," you say, "there are no Buddhists in Pakistan!"
Exactly. Only a few scraps of carved stone that were once giant carved Buddhas. The Buddhists were killed long ago; destroying their monuments took the Muslims a bit longer.
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PS: The fatwa by the Jihadi-Salafi Kuwaiti Sheikh Hamed al-Ali, has been probably written before the expected sentence. Sheikh Hamed al-Ali can be viewed today as the leading living scholar of the younger generation of Jihadi-Salafiyyah in Arabia
We need to find Sheikh Hamed al-Ali and off his fatwa spewing ass.
Here's your chance to hoist a cold one tomorrow in the company of me and whichever DC 'Burgers care to join me. We'll be going to a watering hole in Friendship Heights on the Red Line, just north of the WTTG FOX 5 studios. I haven't picked the exact one yet, I need to see who's got the most TV's.
We'll assemble at 8, just as the East Coast polls close and hang for a while, I can't stay too late as it's a school night.
Please put a note in comments or send me an email if you'd like to join us. Emails will be replied to much later 2nite...
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I'll be there electronically, Seafarious, accompanied by my older son's dog, Karma.
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I'll check in (electronically) when I get back from our monthly rescue squad meeting.
Fingers crossed....
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...I will be in the Ft Jackson SC hospital tomorrow but I HOPE I'll be able to get back here to Georgetown and vote in plenty of time to check in and get the reports..wish like heck I could be there!!
Mike
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I can't make it, sadly. I'll be at the Lansburgh Theatre across town seeing The Beaux's Strategem; I do have to work the next day anyway. For some reason they always schedule their first preview night for Election Day, and I'm a cheap subscriber.
I will do the most important thing in the morning: vote.
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ARGGG, I will be in DC friday.
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So far it's just me and my cellphone at the bar...
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If I hadn't promised my girlfriend that I'd watch the results with her when she gets off work, I'd happily join you.
If the Republicans win (keeping my fingers crossed), perhaps we should have a victory party for DC 'Burgers. Though I doubt my girlfriend will want to join me for that. She is a Democrat, after all, despite my best efforts to enlighten her otherwise.
Just curious, are there a lot of DC 'Burgers out there?
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I would not recommend a victory party, eltoroverde. I would hope that a moderate Republican success would mean that the Republicans in Congress, as well as the President would get the OldSpook treatment. I.E., they need to feel REAL HEAT about doing what they should have done in the first place. So it should be sort of a stokin the fire with coal party, heh.
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There's more than a few of us, though apparently they are all washing their hair or somethin' tomorrow.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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MOGADISHU (Rooters, 
Tunisia has freed two top opposition leaders among 55 Islamists released as part of an annual amnesty to mark the anniversary of President Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali's rise to power, human rights activists said on Monday. They said that 
Algerian rebels shot dead eight soldiers in an ambush in the heaviest reported government losses for seven months in the north African countrys lingering political violence, newspapers reported yesterday. The papers Liberte, El Watan and El Khabar said the eight, including an officer, were ambushed in wooded mountains while on a patrol in the Ain Defla region 120-km south-west of Algiers on Thursday. It was the largest reported single loss of state personnel to politically-motivated fighting since Islamist guerrillas killed 13 customs agents in the desert south in April. 
An operative of banned Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) has told a Sunamganj court that he would have been very happy if he had killed Awami League (AL) Presidium Member Suranjit Sengupta. At the court of First Class Magistrate Hazera Khatun on Friday, Naim alias Hafiz admitted responsibility for the bomb blast at a public rally of Suranjit five years ago. He said that the AL leader was their target and he was sorry that he could not kill him. The blast on July 21,2001 left one killed and 50 others injured. 
A Muslim convert considered to be the highest ranking al-Qaida operative captured in Britain faces a sentencing hearing Monday for plotting to bomb US targets, such as the New York Stock Exchange and the International Monetary Fund headquarters in Washington, DC. 
(KDKA) PITTSBURGH Federal, state, and city law enforcement officials were on hand after signs of explosives were found in a vehicle used by two local college students who allegedly tried to break into Heinz Field overnight. Carnegie Mellon University students Anand Durvasula and Sudeep Paul are now being held on $1 million straight bond each.
GUWAHATI, India - At least 12 people, mostly shoppers, were killed and more than 40 injured in two simultaneous bomb attacks Sunday in the northeastern Indian city of Guwahati, police said. The Press Trust of India (PTI) put the number of those injured at 52 and said 15 of them were in critical condition following the two attacks.
Four members of a family and two suspected Islamic militants were killed in two separate incidents on Sunday in Indian-held Kashmir, said police. Suspected insurgents entered the home of Mohammed Ada Bhat, a 55-year-old farmer, and fatally shot him, his wife, a daughter and a niece in Dalwa village, said Basant Kumar Rath, a senior superintendent of police. Police were investigating the surviving family members claim that suspected rebels killed the four after Bhat refused to marry his two daughters to the insurgents, said Rath. 
Suspected militants shot dead a pro-government tribal elder, while separately three others were gunned down in a Pakistani tribal zone bordering Afghanistan, said officials on Sunday. 
Several young officers from the Pakistan Air Force with access to President Pervez Gen Pervez Musharrafs innermost security circle were among 50 people arrested for trying to assassinate him soon after he returned from a visit to the US and Britain in late September, according to a report published in The Sunday Telegrph on Sunday.
Two suspected Pakistani militants of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) were killed by security forces in Jammu and Kashmir's Doda district on Saturday night, said police. 
(KUNA) -- A curfew declared by the authorities to maintain law and order during the expected last hearing of the marathon trial of the ousted dictator Saddam Hussein went into effect early on Sunday. Iraqi security personnel and policeman took positions at public locations while heavily-armed American troops staged intensive patrols on streets of the city, where the hearing would be held in the heavily-guarded "green zone." The court, holding the 41th session of the historic prosecution of one of the most notorious modern-time dictators, is expected to issue a death sentence against the 69-year-old ex-ruler and seven of his former advisors.
A female suicide bomber blew herself up Monday afternoon near IDF forces in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza. The suicide bomber, Marvat Masud, was affiliated with the al-Quds Brigades, Islamic Jihad's military wing. The incident took place at about 3:30 p.m., when the woman arrived at a temporary checkpoint set up by Givati soldiers in town. The crossing was established in the framework of efforts to apprehend wanted suspects. 
The suicide bombing Monday appears to be part of the terrorists' efforts to carry put a massive attack against military forces in the region. Earlier Monday IDF forces attacked a target in Jabalya, killing 17-year-old Mahmoud Ashrafi and wounding seven other Palestinians, mostly teenagers. Palestinian sources said the IDF fired a missile from the air, while army officials claimed the attack was launched by ground forces. The IDF said soldiers spotted a Qassam-firing cell that planned to collect launchers used in Sundays rocket attack on Sderot; the force proceeded to open fire at the suspects and identified a hit, according to the IDF. 
Israeli forces killed four Palestinian militants and a police officer and kept up missile strikes against militant targets in the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday, residents and medical officials said. Israel's latest air strike killed a militant from Hamas, which leads the Palestinian government, near the northern Gaza town of Jabalya, Palestinian hospital officials said. The Israeli army had no immediate comment. Witnesses and security sources had said earlier another Hamas militant died in the attack, but doctors said the man was wounded and remained in critical condition.
