N'DJAMENA, Chad - A Chadian military reconnaissance plane was shot down in eastern Chad on Tuesday, a government spokesman said, and a rebel group claimed responsibility. A government spokesman blamed neighboring Sudan for backing the rebels and said it was "a state of war." According to the ESISC, behind sudan, there's china too.
The plane was downed in Chad's volatile east, close to the Sudanese border, government spokesman Hourmadji Moussa Doumgor said at a news conference. He did not provide other details.
"Today we are in a state of war with forces from Sudan," he said. "We consider ourselves under attack by Sudan."
An opposition Web site quoted rebel spokesman Ali Izzo as saying rebels had shot down a plane and a helicopter using surface-to-air missiles. The account could not immediately be confirmed.
On Oct. 24, someone fired a surface-to-air missile at a French reconnaissance jet, part of a military mission in support of the Chadian government, but the weapon missed its target.
Doumgor told journalists that in response to Tuesday's downing of a plane that "the state of emergency will be reinforced and the military put on the highest alert."
He said the United Nations and African Union should do all that is possible to evacuate Sudanese refugees who are in camps near the border, which he called havens for "the forces of aggression."
Doumgor claimed some refugees were working for the Sudanese government, trying to destabilize Chad. He also repeated allegations made a day earlier that Saudi Arabia finances and supplies the rebels in order to establish a militant form of Islam in Chad. IIUC, that is true, Idriss Deby is secular and a democrat by african standards, and this "opposition" is islamic and backed by islamist foreign powers.
In the eastern town of Abeche, meanwhile, some 60 miles west of the airplane attack, Chadian troops went door-to-door Tuesday, shooting open locks and searching for looted goods.
Rebel fighters stormed and briefly held Abeche Saturday, and civilians ransacked U.N. warehouses and government buildings, including the governor's residence. The rebels withdrew Sunday, and government troops retook the city.
Provincial Gov. Mahamat Nimir Hamata said a courthouse in Abeche, an office of the national bank, a cigarette factory, the repair shop where the U.N. keeps spare parts, and the state archives were also stripped of goods and furnishings.
Under pressure from government troops, residents made piles of stolen goods in the street, including tires, tables, mattresses and satellite television dishes.
Heavily armed soldiers in pickup trucks later patrolled Abeche's mostly deserted streets. Most shops were closed.
Most civilians were too frightened to speak to journalists, and those who did demanded anonymity for their personal safety.
The U.N. said looters plundered around $1.5 million worth of relief supplies. The U.N. and other agencies based in Abeche deliver aid to 218,000 refugees from Sudan's Darfur, which neighbors eastern Chad, and some 90,000 internally displaced Chadians.
The U.N. refugee agency said the looting and the volatile security situation had hampered relief efforts. The agency has reduced monitoring close to the Sudanese border and some U.N. staff were leaving for safe areas, the U.N. statement said.
French troops, who have a base in the area 550 miles east of the capital, N'djamena, deployed to protect Abeche's airport and some 150 foreigners sought refuge in an aircraft hanger there.
About 50 foreigners and a few Chadians boarded two French military planes for evacuation flights to the capital.
Both France and Britain have cautioned their citizens not to travel to Chad and France bolstered its presence in Chad with 100 additional troops, a supply plane and a reconnaissance plane, a military official said Tuesday. The reinforcement brings the total French troops there to 1,200.
President Idriss Deby, who first took power at the head of his own rebel army in 1990, is unpopular in the region.
Rebels bent on toppling Deby have clashed sporadically with the government since 2005. The competition for power has become more intense since Chad began exporting oil in 2004.
The rebels have been able to exploit volatility in neighboring Sudan, establishing rear bases in Sudan's troubled Darfur region.
Besides the rebellion, Chad's government has in recent weeks reported outbreaks of violence pitting ethnic Arab Chadians against ethnic African Chadians. The pattern mirrors the Arab-African clashes in Darfur, and Chad has accused Sudan of inciting ethnic unrest.
Sudan, in turn, alleges that Chad supports Sudanese rebels.
(SomaliNet) The authorities of Islamic Courts in Hiran region called on the people in the settlements of the region on Monday that they should be ready for the jihad on the Ethiopian troops that crossed into Somalia. The appeal came after large number of Ethiopian forces who had already at the border now reportedly to have advanced towards the region heading to Beledwein city,
Since their rise of power into Somalia, the Islamic Courts have been declaring jihad on Ethiopian troops.
the provincial capital of Hiran region in central Somalia.
Cars mounted with speakers could be seen today inside Beledwein city noticing the people to prepare themselves for the holy war against the advancing Ethiopian forces, as quoted from independent journalists in Beledwein which 335 km north of the capital Mogadishu. Since their rise of power into Somalia, the Islamic Courts have been declaring jihad on Ethiopian troops those are blamed to cross into Somalia.
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MAPS OF THE APOCALYPSE > got to remember, like PAULA "KNIGHTS OF MALTA = DELILAH" ABDUL, that she's forever Osama's girl.
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This isn't the Middle Ages where numbers played a significant factor. The "few" can take out the "many" now with the right firepower and training. And I bet Ethopians have both.
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...Could someone please tell me what faith the Ethiopians follow? My understanding is that they are a Christian sect, but I don't know that for sure - and if they are indeed Christain, that could explain a lot.
Mike
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Mike, you can find most of what you would ever want to know about Ethiopia, or anyplace else for that matter, RIGHT HERE!
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You'll know the Ethiops are serious when everyone getting off the flights from Kiev and Minsk are young men with Slavic accents and mirrored sunglasses.
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Mike K raised a good quesation and I went to the site recommended by Mick. Per the CIA fact book Ethiopia is 45-50% muslim, 35-40% ethiopian orthodox.
I have to admit to being surprised to read ethiopia has such a large (majority) muslim population. If true I can only assume the ethiopian orthodox control the reigns of power. And then again maybe I'm wrong to assume that.
Help me out here:
Anybody have any insight as to why a reported "muslim majority" in ethiopia would take on the muslims in somalia at this time?
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Anybody have any insight as to why a reported "muslim majority" in ethiopia would take on the muslims in somalia at this time?
They don't want to be ruled by qat-chewing nutjobs?
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The Muslims in Ethiopia are in frequent revolt. Their lands abutt the Moslem countries to the east and south. The Christian interior has been center of power.
Ethiopia employees, or has in the past, a significant number of "foreign advisors", especially in their Air Force. It was an odd site in the last war to have Warsaw Pact nationals dogfighting eachother, as the Eritrians also employed "advisors".
(SomaliNet) Sheik Sharif Sheik Ahmed, the leader of executive council of Islamic Courts, has issued on Monday a decree which orders the business people to hand over their weapons to Islamic Courts. The copies of the verdict which distributed to the local mass media warns all the owners of the business companies and other individuals of holding any kind of weapons and put it into the hands of the Islamic Courts that control much of southern Somalia.
In the decision which came from the office of the Islamists leader it said that the Islamic Courts would not allow any one to hold weapon in the capital and other town under their control from today on. The letter said all weapons will be stored in former compound of police command in Mogadishu where some of the Islamic fighters are now based in.
This story reminds me of a theory I've been noodling over...the theory that Big Mo declared dogs to be unclean because they would guard the homes that he and his henchtards were planning to burgle, and possibly prevent them from pillaging the wimminfolk. IIRC, dogs that guarded olive groves and livestock were somewhat okay or at least ignored, but house dogs were strictly verboten. It's also distinctly possible that a dog peed on him when he was a kid.
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Ten soldiers in eastern Algeria have been injured, three of them seriously, in a bomb attack attributed by local media on Monday to Islamic militants. The remotely detonated device exploded on Sunday as a military convoy was conducting a search in the region of Annaba, about 600km east of Algiers, according to the reports.
Last week, three soldiers and two armed civilians were killed in an ambush in the Biskra region, south of the capital. That attack was also attributed by media reports to an armed Islamist group, the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat. At least 50 people, 26 of them members of different security forces, have died in clashes since the beginning of November, according to a tally based on official and press reports.
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Security services have launched a series of arrests among the terrorist-supporting nets and cells. Movable and immovable properties have been seized in several places, in Boumerdés (east of Algiers). Investigations proved it to be the result of money stolen by the terrorists from citizens and public institutions. The possessions are estimated at four billion centimes. That's... ummm... $28.97, U.S... No. Wait. Dropped the decimal point and forgot to multiply by the square root of 41. It's 58,407,846 US Dollar, assuming the centime and the dinar are the same critter.
Reliable sources say security forces apprehended several people last week on activity within terrorist-supporting cells charge. The terrorist groups, the arrested have been suspected to support, belong to the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) zone II. Police moved according to investigations outcome, and discovers the nets members were involved in money bleaching. The stolen money has been used used for investment or meant to by the Salafist group. It was robbed by GSPCs zone II squads under the supervision of the zone chief Abdelhamid Saadaoui alias Yahia Aboulhaitham.
Investigators into terrorists loots estimated the seized properties at four billion dollars, according to the same sources which pointed out that repented terrorists confessions contributed to the operation, allowing police to find out about the money bleaching. The money has been stolen from individuals, post offices and banks. A part of the seized properties had gone to Zone II chiefs relatives in Ain Hamra, Boumerdés.
The Salafist group for preaching and Combat did not deny looting operations against financial institutions, as the GSPCs website (down now after it was busted by American Intelligence Agency) broadcast images of a trap against a money-carrying vehicle, in an isolated area in Tizi-Ouzou. The images also show the moment when the vehicle was unloaded by terrorists. Big amounts, dinars and hard currency as well, were displaying on the website.
Sources in relation to antiterrorism against GSPC east of Algiers expected Yahia Aboulhaitham to be trialed by the Salafist Groups leadership for the investment plan failure and the dismantling of the investment-managing net. He is also blamed for the failure of an arms carrying operation. The arms had to be transported from African Sahel to Northern strongholds, via Algerian Sahara.
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".. and discovers the nets members were involved in money bleaching. The stolen money has been used used for investment or meant to by the Salafist group." I think the Bangla press is on vacation in writing in Algeria, or I should learn to bleach my saw bucks into centimes.
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Unless they were talking about money laundering.
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Unless they were talking about money laundering. thatr waz my first interpretation/translation...
#1) My understanding of the money bleaching is to bleach (remove) the ink of low denominations and reprint the bill with larger values
Movable and immovable properties have been seized in several places, in Boumerdés (east of Algiers).
"It was robbed by GSPCs zone II squads under the supervision of the zone chief Abdelhamid Saadaoui alias Yahia Aboulhaitham.
Investigators into terrorists loots estimated the seized properties at four billion dollars"
More detail on yesterday's story.
A Jordanian who commanded foreign mercenaries in Chechnya and was reportedly al-Qaida's top emissary in the troubled North Caucasus died Sunday in a shootout with police, security officials said. Abu Khavs was killed in a four-hour gunbattle in the Dagestani town of Khasavyurt, near the Chechen border, along with four other militants, said Mikhail Merkulov, deputy director for the Dagestani branch of the Federal Security Service, or FSB.
Merkulov called Abu Khavs "a foreign mercenary of Jordanian origin" who was the main al-Qaida contact for the North Caucasus. State-run television showed a house apparently ravaged by gunfire, along with the bodies of at least five alleged militants. One FSB officer was wounded, said Irina Volkova, a spokeswoman for the service. In Moscow, the FSB's central headquarters said in a statement that Abu Khavs' presence in Dagestan signalled that he may have been trying to flee Russia and called his death a "telling psychological blow to all the fighters remaining in the North Caucasus mountains."
At least one rebel-linked website, daymonk.org, said five militants were killed in Khasavyurt, but made no mention of Abu Khavs. According to Russian security officials, Abu Khavs, whose name has also been spelled Havs or Hafs, was a commander of foreign mercenaries once active in Chechnya. As large-scale fighting has died down in Chechnya, the number of foreigners fighting there has dropped. In recent years, violence in the Russian region has mainly taken the form of hit-and-run attacks against federal forces and local allied paramilitaries.
Russian forces have killed or captured a number of Chechen rebel leaders in recent years, including the notorious warlord Shamil Basayev and Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev, who was the one-time president of the separatists' self-declared government.
Russian security officials say Abu Khavs took over as al-Qaida's top emissary in Chechnya in 2004 after the death of Saudi-born rebel chief Abu Walid. In an interview with a Turkish newspaper that was posted on the rebel-allied website Kavkaz Centre, Khavs maintained that separatist fighters were seeing new successes in their war against Russian forces, and he asserted that few fighters had responded to the amnesty offered by federal officials earlier this year. "The mere fact that the Russian authority has taken such an action testifies to the strength of the Chechen Resistance, and weakness and feebleness of the Russian army," he said according to the interview, dated Nov. 12.
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DEFENSETECH.rog > RAWSTORY.com = Litvinenko, as per one scenario of several for his death by poison, may had uncovered RUSSIA-CAUSED FALSE FLAG TERRORISM, i.e. Russian SVR agents deliberately engaged in terror bombings in order to justify mil operations agz Chechnya. WHose to say they aren't pro-Russian double/triple, etc agents inside the Chechnyan rsistance.
DETROIT A Muslim charity raided by federal agents in September has sued a bank, saying it violated the charitys civil rights by planning to close its accounts. The charity, Life for Relief and Development, based in Southfield, Michigan, also seeks an injunction to stop Comerica Bank from giving other banks any information it might have about the organization.
The charity is challenging the constitutionality of a section of the Patriot Act, which allows financial institutions to share information about suspected money laundering or terrorist activity. The Patriot Act, approved by Congress shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, was designed to give law enforcement agencies more tools to combat terrorism, but some provisions were challenged on constitutional grounds for restricting civil liberties. Comerica had told the charity that it planned to terminate the accounts Nov. 15, but granted an extension, according to the lawsuit. Comerica Vice President Kathy Pitton declined to comment on the lawsuit, filed Wednesday in federal court.
FBI agents assigned to a terrorism task force searched Lifes offices Sept. 18, seizing computer servers, donor records and other financial documents. They also searched the homes of the charitys chief executive, an ex-employee and two board members. The FBI would not say what agents were looking for, but charity officials have said it might be related to relief work the group did in Iraq. The international humanitarian organization also is active in Afghanistan.
No charges have been filed. The charity has sought to reassure the Detroit areas Muslim community that it is legal to donate money to the organization, which was founded in 1992 by Iraqi immigrants.
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Bank pressures landlords to break their lease and evict them.
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I'm not a lawyer, but I don't think they have a leg to stand on. Even if they are forced to wait until after the government files its case, they still can't sue until they're proven innocent of the terrorist financing charges for there to be any "harm" done. I think this is a tactic to try to stir up more trouble and allow them to escape prosecution. It won't go far, unless it's "judged" by a Carter or Clinton appointee.
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QUETTA: The former farrari (fugitive) commander of the late Nawab Akbar Bugti was involved in a landmine incident on Monday, sources said. They said that Saeed Bugti, who was reversing his car in front of his house, drove over a landmine, which appeared to have been deliberately planted as part of a targeted attack. It was not known who was behind the incident. While Saeed escaped without injury, his younger brother, Bashir Bugti, and his son, Naseem Bugti, suffered serious injuries. They were taken to a local hospital, where their condition was said to be serious.
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MIRANSHAH: Suspected pro-Taliban militants killed a cleric in a tribal area on the border with South Waziristan, accusing him of spying for US forces operating in neighbouring Afghanistan, officials said Monday. Authorities found the bullet-riddled body of Maulana Gul Thaheem, 47, in a ravine in Makeen village, a security official told AFP. A note found on the body said Thaheem spied for Americans and he was a friend of Maulana Salah-ud-Din, and Maulana Hashim Khan, two clerics shot dead previously, accused of spying, the official said. Suspected militants have killed several tribesmen in the past few months, accusing them of spying for the US-led coalition forces across the border.
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We had to kill him. He wuz a Hatfield. Besides, he had TWO teeth.
- Mohammed McCoy
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Eliminating all those that stand up to them. A page right out of the communist handbook. I wouldn't be surprised to see Russia's hand in helping the Taliban, payback for our assistance to them against the Russians. Until we bomb the NWFP back beyond the neolithic, we - and the Pakistanis - are going to have this kind of problem along the border.
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And he had a book that wasn't the koran, the hadith, nor even a book about the koran, hadith, etc. Obviously an American spy.
MIR ALI: Paramilitary forces in North Waziristan killed four suspected terrorists, sources said on Monday. BBC Urdu quoted security force officials as saying that some anti-state elements had attacked a paramilitary base near Mir Ali between Sunday night and Monday morning. The paramilitary forces retaliated, killing the four militants on the spot. While the militants removed the bodies of three of the dead men, paramilitary forces managed to recover one corpse. The dead man has been identified as Abdul Rehman, a resident of Spin Wam.
In a separate incident, a remote control device exploded a check post in Bannu. However, sources said that no loss of life had been reported.
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The picture of the dead Talibunny, a smudge of humanity, juxtaposed above the chicken breasts is pure coincidence, right?
(PTI): Two Lashkar-e-Taiba militants were killed and a policeman were injured in a gunbattle with security forces that erupted at Pampore on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway today, officials said. They said personnel of the Special Operations Group and 50 Rashtriya Rifles had on the basis of specific information, launched a joint operation at the Neij village in Pampore, 15 km. from here, this afternoon. As security forces zeroed in on a particular house in the village, they came under heavy fire from militants holed up inside which was retaliated.
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(PTI): The police today claimed to have successfully solved the September 8 Malegaon serial blasts case and said two Pakistani nationals were involved in the explosions carried out allegedly by the banned Students Islamic Movement of India. "We have successfully detected the Malegaon blasts case. We are, however, on the lookout for eight more suspects in the case," Director General of Police P S Pasricha told reporters here.
The Anti-Terrorism Squad probing into the case has already arrested eight suspects, including two booked in the July 11 Mumbai serial blasts, in connection of four explosions that rocked the town killing 31 people and injuring more than 200. Pasricha said that one of the prime conspirators of the blasts, Shabbir Batterwalla, had received training at a camp near Karachi in Pakistan in 2003 but did not confirm if the Lashkar-e-Taiba was behind it. To a specific query regarding the involvement of Pakistani intelligence agency ISI, Pasricha said, "I have spoken about the country where he received the training. There may have been some help."
According to him, a Pakistani national by the name of Muzammil had assembled the IEDs (Improvised Explosive Devices) at Malegaon in the third week of July after Mohammed Ali (July 11 accused), along with Junaid and two others delivered the RDX to prime accused Shabbir Batterywalla. "Ali had sent 15 kg of RDX but only two kg was used to trigger the explosions. We are on the lookout for the remaining quantity," Pasricha said.
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Pilot not found. Crash site initially controlled by insurgents. Sounds like they may have captured him or recovered his body. Not good.
USAF F-16 CRASH INVESTIGATION BEGINS
SOUTHWEST ASIA The interim safety investigation board convened by U.S. Central Command Air Forces has begun its efforts to gather evidence to determine what caused a United States Air Force F-16C to crash approximately 20 miles northwest of Baghdad at about 1:35 p.m. Monday.
The single-seat jet was in direct support of extensive coalition ground combat operations when it crashed in an uninhabited field.
Coalition reconnaissance assets and fighter aircraft were overhead when the crash occurred and confirmed that insurgents were in the vicinity of the crash site immediately following the crash.
Ground forces secured the crash scene Monday as soon as the extensive ground combat operations in the area had ceased. The primary concerns of USCENTAF in responding to this incident have been the safety of Coalition forces and the recovery of the pilot. The pilot was not found at the crash site and his status cannot be confirmed at this time. The investigation board has collected DNA samples from the crash site and will release results upon completion of testing.
The F-16 was deployed to the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing at Balad Air Base, Iraq. The accident investigation convening authority is Air Combat Command.
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...Al-jizz is saying now it was shot down by the bad guyz. If that's the case, then the gloves need to fu*king come off, and NOW. The only place they could have gotten man-portable SAMS is from Syria and Iran.
Kill a few of their airplanes and see what they think.
Mike
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U.S. forces investigating the crash of a single-seat Air Force jet in Iraq said that insurgents reached the site before American forces could and the pilot remains missing.
Videotape pictures obtained by Associated Press Television News appear to show the wreckage of the F-16CG jet in the farm field where it crashed Monday and the remains of a U.S. serviceman with a tangled parachute nearby.
Al-Jazeera satellite television showed similar pictures on Monday, but declined to include the scenes of the dead pilot, saying they were too graphic to air.
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From Voice of the Baath AP: Videotape pictures obtained by Associated Press Television News appear to show the wreckage of the F-16CG jet in the farm field where it crashed Monday and the remains of a U.S. serviceman with a tangled parachute nearby.
Not likely shot down. The F-16CGs use the LANTIRN targeting pods and the pilot was up there at 20,000 ft looking for suspicious activity, waiting for a ground support mission. My guess is engine failure and the pilot punched out.
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Take the gloves off anyway and give the "religion of peace" a dam good slapping
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Ed,
I'm familiar with LANTIRN, and that would make sense but our news folks are specifically reporting 'strafing run', so at this point I'm not sure what he was up to.
(SECOND THOUGHT) ...Even Fox might call a bomb run from 20K feet strafing...
Mike
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...Am hearing now that it's a bird from the 27FW/524 FS at Cannon AFB, NM.
Mike
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Take a breath - you sound silly with the "gloves off" comment. Nothing will happen. Do you honestly believe we would attack Iran or Syria over 1 pilot? No.
We're buying time and sacrificing our guys so W and his cronies can save face and "stay the course" I was a huge supporter of him before and at the beginning of the war but have lost all respect and trust of him and his circle. They are after all politicians, and politicians are the same regardless of the letter R or D before their name. They have surrounded themselves with military "Yes" men who at that level are only politicians with ribbons on their chest.
This thing could have been won decisively, but the will from the government as a whole is complacency and apathy - the "not my fault or problem, I just work here attitude."
They have already achieved their goal and do not know what to do now. W went in there to get Saddam because Saddam tried to kill his dad. Well, "Mission Accomplished". Now what changes have you seen since then? None. Our guys go out on patrol, get shot at and IED'd, and go back behind the wire - repeat and repeat. The Iraqis are finally free to settle their generational blood fueds and the media gets hyper.
Anyone who follows events must have questioned why we went after Saddam instead of Iran - who was openly developing nuke tech. and funds most of the ME terrorist orgs. It made absolutely no sense.
Iran has masterfully played its position and you have to give them credit. They are better at this then we are. They sat on the side, trained bad guys and observed us in Iraq to learn our strenghs and weaknesses, getting closer everyday to nukes, still keeping Israel busy in Lebonon and Gaza, Getting tight with the North Koreans and Chavez (both of who can keep us distracted or tied down at a moments notice with a nod from Iran) and are finally getting a brother Shia government in Iraq, courtesy of W.
We won't do anything because we can't do anything. Yes, we can bomb them but we cannot hold the groud there. If we bomb them, I'm sure N Korea will pull something, Venz. may stop oil imports trying to affect our economy, and the Euros will go goofy - the Coalition of the Willing nonesense will not work this go around. But what has really been accomplished other then bombing some sites? The Iranians will be the Islamic world hero.
It all comes down to politics. W is a lame duck and a lame duck will not/cannot do anything. The incoming party, more likely democrate at this point because of W, will not do anything because they don't want too and Iran will have Iraq under its influence, nukes, and world sympathy on their side because they are a "victim" of us.
(like any of this rant matters one bit)
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Yosemite Sam-
No offense taken, but the F-16 community is near and dear to my heart, having spent 6 years of my career with the 8TFW in Korea and the 20FW in SC. I would have liked very much to go medieval on both those countries before - now, to a certain extent, it's personal.
Mike
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Mike
Glad to know you weren't offended. It really frustrates me knowing high quality people are paying the ultimate price while politicians play their games. They are just repeating history and making the same mistakes.
Nimble Spemble - thanks. I'm always checking this site out - just lurking in the shadows and reading others input.
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I'm not a military type so I don't know. Why don't we send in about 30 copters and enough warthogs to recover a guy like this? Or am I missing something.
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All of you should check out irandefence.net and read the arrogance writers and their little posts.
I'm not sure if this is a website out of Iran or based in the US and drawing on the usual Fifth Columnists including Iranians living here who need to be deported soon. I recommend a slow moving, leaky boat to China.
These guys are full of piss and vinegar (and bloodcurling anti-Jewish hatred). They're so confident in Iran's conventional military capabilities that they're taunting and itching for a fight.
This of course is what happens when we pussyfoot around: Our enemies grow a pair, gain some chest hairs, and suddenly think they can defeat us. But then again, when Mooky al-Tatar Tot is still alive and President Gimple is asking Iran and Syria to help out in Iraq, we shouldn;t be surprised.
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Big Jim, There are SAR teams out there. The execution time line of the mission depends on distances. It can take an hour somtimes for the SAR teams to reach a site. Supporting jet aircraft is difficult due to the great distances they can travel. I'm am a bit surprised there was not an A10 closeby to buy time for the crew member until the SAR team could arrive. I hope this guy was killed from the ejection and not on the ground. God bless him and his family.
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Aren't there Geneva Convention requirements for the repatriation, or at least proper handling, of remains? If so, where are all the tranzis screaming about the need to stick to the GCs?
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Agree wid #4 ED, as based of current TV footage.
...and a U.S. Air Force jet crashed in Anbar province, a hotbed of the Sunni-Arab insurgency, officials said. Al-Jazeera reported that the pilot was killed.
After the F-16CG jet went down, a witness said other U.S. warplanes rushed to the crash site about 20 miles northwest of Baghdad and circled above it. The U.S. military, which released a statement on the crash, did not have any information on the suspected cause or the fate of the pilot.
But Al-Jazeera television showed videotape of the wreckage in a field and what appeared to be portions of a tangled parachute nearby, and the broadcaster said the video included scenes of the dead pilot but that they were too graphic to air.
One shot showed an Air Force seal that said Air Combat Command.
Mohammed Al-Obeidi, who lives in the nearby town of Karmah, said by telephone that he saw the jet flying erratically before it nose-dived and exploded in a field.
CNN is saying this morning that USAF has 'DNA samples' from the crash site and will release the test results 'as soon as they have them'. They seemed disappointed that that an earlier report that the bad guys got to the pilot may not be true.
Mike
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This sounds like some sort of islamo-doublespeak: since when has anything been 'too graphic' for the towel-heads to air, especially if it involves infidels? this sounds like a case of nothing to show and that the pilot was probably dead from the ejection / crash/ both of the above. God rest his soul.
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USN,
Remember a year or so back when Al-jizz wouldn't show the footage of an Italian hostage being executed because it 'was too graphic', and it turned out later that not only did he fight back ("This is how an Italian dies!"), he may have taken one with him?
I have a feeling that Viper driver may have shown them how a United States Air Force fighter pilot dies.
Mike
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According to the ESISC, it was an operative from the Service Action (similar to CIA's SAD, IE special operations type), not an analyst or a similar agent.
PARIS, Nov 28 (KUNA) -- A French intelligence operative has been killed in Iraq at a checkpoint near the southern town of Basra, sources at the Defense Ministry confirmed late Monday. The Defense Ministry declined to give any details and the Foreign Intelligence Agency (DGSE) never discusses its operations.
There was no plausible explanation for the presence of the French agent in Iraq as France has few interests there and is not part of the international coalition that is supporting the Iraqi government in its fight against insurgency. Speculation is that the agent was on a mission to protect the French diplomatic contingent in Iraq, but that would not explain his presence in Basra.
French magazine "Le Point" said on its web site that a second intelligence operative has been seriously wounded in the attack.
France's Foreign Ministry also confirmed the death of the agent, saying simply that "a non-commissioned officer of the DGSE was killed by local militia during an inspection in Basra, southern Iraq."
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HT No Pasaran, linking to the leftist rag "libération"; the SA agent killed was a paratrooper-commando NCO, and the acknolwledged DGSE team in irak is the one which was involved in the french hostages crisis, though the particular mission this man was doing in basra along with his colleague(s) has not been disclosed.
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This is classic. I quit reading AP articles about 4 year ago. How can the majority of the American public not be turning against the war with a 24/7 drumbeat of death and disorder?
You would have to have a brain to resist....
Didn't Lincoln shut down a few newspapers during the War Between the States? The line is constantly being blurred between freedom of speech and enemy propoganda. I actually watched the NBC nightly news last night (why?) and you should have seen how the splashed "Iraq: The Civil War" all over the screen. Just wait until they get their wish and it doesn turn into a civil war. What are they going to call it then?
Iraq: Bush's _______________ (fill in the blank)
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I do not believe or sense that mainstream America is against the WOT or for pull-out = "redeployment" from IRAQ-ME. Americans like SHORT, DECISIVE WARS where after we kick butt we go home, be it to pet our dogs andor to make our wives and girlfiriends pregnant [post-1945/WW2 baby boom].
THE GOP LOST IN 2006 BECUZ, FOR ONE MAJOR MAJOR REASON, THE US VOTER SAW LITTLE TO NO EVIDENCE OF [DEMO] "REGIME CHANGE" TAKING PLACE IN IRAN = NORTH KOREA. THE US VOTER WANTS TO SEE RADICAL ISLAM DE FACTO, 1000% DESTROYED AND DE FACTO DEMOCRACY 1000% EMPLACED IN IRAN-NK, NOT "US BOYZ FIGHTING IN IRAQ FOREVER", regardless of the merits or strategeeery.
As argued times before, no American should be scared of either AMERI HIROSHIMA/NEW 9-11's = GLOBAL NUKE WAR, or a DRAFT, becuz the Failed-Angry Left has already decided to DESTROY AMERICA IFF AMER DOES NOT ACCEPT ANTI-AMER OWG + SOCIALISM. IS WHAT CHINA MEANS BY "2014", RUSSIA by "2018", etal. The only issues for the Failed-Angry Left is whether America [by extens West] accepts VOLUNTARILY-UNILATER, or [MILPOL]FORCIBLY ala ASSASSIN'S MACE + ASYMMETRIC WARFARE + "LOCAL/WAR/BATTLE ZONE(S)" STRATEGEMS. WHOMEVER SURVIVES ANTI-US-specific MAD GLOBAL NUKE WAR GETS TO RULE WHATS LEFT OF THE EARTH, and gets to "rule" exclusive of Year 2029-30 + COMET APOPHIS, + GABRIEL'S SWORD ETAL. EVENTS. *EVENTS, PLURAL, NOT SINGULAR. ONCE UNLEASHED, NOT EVEN MOTHER MARY WILL CAUSE GABRIEL TO SHEATH HIS SWORD, AND THE WORLD BETTER BELIEVE IT T'AINT PYWAR. "GOD/RELIGION IS FAKE" > WORLD HUMAN GOVTS/INSTITUTIONS WILL GET THEIR CHANCE(S) FROM GOD HIMSELF TO PUT THEIR $$$ + ASSES + NATIONS + PERCEIVED POWER WHERE THEIR MOUTH IS, i.e. to DO ANTI-GOD GODLY THINGYS TO PROVE TO GOD YOU ARE HIS EQUAL, LET ALONE HIS SUPERIOR.
President Jalal Talabani finally left Iraq for Iran on Monday after the end of a three-day curfew reopened Baghdad airport and allowed new clashes to erupt in the war-torn capital, leaving 16 dead.
Meanwhile on Monday, a US F-16 fighter jet crashed while flying in support of American ground troops fighting a battle just northwest of Baghdad, as the Defence Ministry in Paris announced that a French intelligence agent was killed last week by a militia member at a checkpoint in Basra. There was no initial news on the cause of the crash or the condition of the planes single pilot, but a US military spokesman said the crash site had been secured.
Talabani was heading to Iran to seek aid from Iraqs massive Shia neighbour in stemming bloodshed that has been wracking the country for the past year. Accompanying him were the ministers of oil, foreign affairs, education, industry and science, as well as a number of parliamentarians and advisors, said his office.
Separately, UN chief Kofi Annan said on Monday that Iraq was already almost in a state of civil war or would soon be if drastic steps were not taken to halt the sectarian violence there.
Even with a curfew, bodies continued to appear on the citys streets and rival neighbourhoods lobbed mortars at each other. With the lifting of the curfew more clashes erupted around the city, leaving over a dozen dead.
The Iran visit comes amid a flurry of diplomatic activity to resolve the worsening situation in Iraq, with US President George W Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki set to meet on Wednesday in the Jordanian capital Amman.
Nine of those killed in Baghdad on Monday were policemen while the rest were passers-by, said a medical source at Yarmuk hospital, adding that 20 policemen were also wounded. The clashes took place in the western neighbourhood of Yarmuk and the southern areas of Saidiyah and Dura. Further south mortars came crashing down on the Jisr al-Diyala neighbourhood, killing three and wounding 15 others. Gunmen also attacked Baghdads municipal offices in the city centre and clashed with guards, wounding four. They then kidnapped three others. Five corpses were also found in the eastern half of the city. Just north of the capital, violence also ripped across Diyala province with 14 people being killed in several incidents, including two Oil Ministry employees murdered in the town of Khalis. South of the capital, near the town of Haswa, police found four bodies of people who had been shot in the head.
On Sunday, a car bomb ripped through the towns market, killing eight people. The agricultural region south of the capital has long been a battleground between Sunni tribes and Shiite villagers. Four bodies were also found in Iskandiriyah, south of Baghdad, police said. In nearby Mahmudiyah, meanwhile, a massive pillar of jet-black smoke could be seen in the sky following an oil pipeline rupture. In Al-Anbar, Iraqi military forces conducted several raids in the Ramadi area, arresting 50 suspects and killing 14 insurgents, reported the Interior Ministry.
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Despite the Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire, two Kassam rockets, fired from the Gaza Strip, landed in open territory in the Sderot area on Monday afternoon. No one was wounded and no damage was reported. Although the Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Fatah party, claimed responsibility for the attack, many in the Palestinian Authority said that the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) were actually the ones responsible as it was one of their group who was killed by IDF forces late Sunday night.
Earlier Monday, a leader of the Islamic Jihad in Jenin, Mahmoud Al Saadi, threatened that his organization would carry out suicide bombings deep inside Israeli territory in response to Israeli violations of the cease-fire in the West Bank. Al Saadi called on his counterparts in Gaza to reject the fledgling truce unless it covered all the Palestinian territories and warned that his group might launch a suicide attack on Israel. "We live in the same homeland and it is forbidden to divide our homeland, " he said in a statement.
Popular Resistance Committees spokesman Abu Mujahed also warned that continued attacks in the West Bank would lead to a collapse of the cease-fire. "We warn the world that if the Zionist aggression in the West Bank doesn't stop, this truce will collapse," said Abu Mujahed.
The threat came in the wake of an IDF overnight operation in in Kabatiya, south of Jenin, in which troops killed a PRC commander and a 50-year-old woman. The woman took the dead PRC commander's weapon and tried to run off, the army said, saying that troops did not immediately identify her as a woman in the pre-dawn darkness because she had been wearing trousers. Senior PRC official Yasser Maza'al said that Israel should "expect revenge in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip" in the wake of the deaths, Israel Radio reported. During IDF operations in the area, troops were fired on several times by Palestinian gunmen. No one was wounded, but an IDF vehicle was damaged.
On Sunday morning, an IDF Duvdevan unit arrested Islamic Jihad fugitive Tamr Abudiyeh, 20, in Bethlehem. Abudiyeh, a weapons dealer involved in planning shooting attacks against Israelis, was part of a terror cell led by Ta'ar Hassan, an Islamic Jihad operative who attempted to detonate a car bomb on the Minharot road and who was killed while the IDF was trying to apprehend him. Abudiyeh was detained by security forces for interrogation.
Meanwhile, the IDF arrested 15 Palestinian fugitives in overnight operations throughout the West Bank. In one such operation in Nablus, in which six Fatah fugitives were nabbed, Palestinian gunmen shot at IDF troops. No one was wounded, and no damage was reported.
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continued attacks in the West Bank would lead to a collapse of the cease-fire
But the rocket attacks, which were precisely what were to be stopped, don't break the Fragile Cease-Fire™.
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The Israelis have to quit farting around and do a serious job of crushing Hamas, Hezbollah, and Fatah, as well as all their "splinter" groups, and their supporters - which means just about everybody in Gaza and the West Bank. Start by shelling the city of Gaza, Rafah, Ramallah, and Nablus. Screw "public opinion" - it's against them anyway. Kill, maim, mangle, and destroy enough that the rest just want to flee to the farthest corners of Sudan or Chad to get away. Nothing less will ever allow even the possibility of "peace" in the MME.
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Nope, Sea, I like reading the headlines for Fred's additions. Start the day with a laugh and some eye candy.
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That is quite a screw. One must be careful, lest one bust a nut.
Sorry. I'll stop.
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Same here, Deacon - first thing.
Which reminds me - I tend to be an early riser, so my comment review of stuff posted after 8 pm or so is typically the following morning. I find I am unable to go to the sinktrap to view yesterdays spew. Sometimes I find it entertaining. Can access be maintained another 24 hours?
Please?
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I find I am unable to go to the sinktrap to view yesterdays spew.
AFAIK, you can access previous days without problem (unless that was modified in the latest update), I do that sometimes when I'm bored, this helps me suppress the self-realization of my ineptness and the urge to log out and get a life.
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Ten soldiers in eastern Algeria have been injured, three of them seriously, in a bomb attack attributed by local media on Monday to Islamic militants. The remotely detonated device exploded on Sunday as a military convoy was conducting a search in the region of Annaba, about 600km east of Algiers, according to the reports.
Security services have launched a series of arrests among the terrorist-supporting nets and cells. Movable and immovable properties have been seized in several places, in Boumerdés (east of Algiers). Investigations proved it to be the result of money stolen by the terrorists from citizens and public institutions. The possessions are estimated at four billion centimes.
DETROIT A Muslim charity raided by federal agents in September has sued a bank, saying it violated the charitys civil rights by planning to close its accounts. The charity, Life for Relief and Development, based in Southfield, Michigan, also seeks an injunction to stop Comerica Bank from giving other banks any information it might have about the organization.
MIRANSHAH: Suspected pro-Taliban militants killed a cleric in a tribal area on the border with South Waziristan, accusing him of spying for US forces operating in neighbouring Afghanistan, officials said Monday. Authorities found the bullet-riddled body of Maulana Gul Thaheem, 47, in a ravine in Makeen village, a security official told AFP. A note found on the body said Thaheem spied for Americans and he was a friend of Maulana Salah-ud-Din, and Maulana Hashim Khan, two clerics shot dead previously, accused of spying, the official said. Suspected militants have killed several tribesmen in the past few months, accusing them of spying for the US-led coalition forces across the border.
MIR ALI: Paramilitary forces in North Waziristan killed four suspected terrorists, sources said on Monday. BBC Urdu quoted security force officials as saying that some anti-state elements had attacked a paramilitary base near Mir Ali between Sunday night and Monday morning. The paramilitary forces retaliated, killing the four militants on the spot. While the militants removed the bodies of three of the dead men, paramilitary forces managed to recover one corpse. The dead man has been identified as Abdul Rehman, a resident of Spin Wam. 
(PTI): Two Lashkar-e-Taiba militants were killed and a policeman were injured in a gunbattle with security forces that erupted at Pampore on the Srinagar-Jammu national highway today, officials said. They said personnel of the Special Operations Group and 50 Rashtriya Rifles had on the basis of specific information, launched a joint operation at the Neij village in Pampore, 15 km. from here, this afternoon. As security forces zeroed in on a particular house in the village, they came under heavy fire from militants holed up inside which was retaliated.
(PTI): The police today claimed to have successfully solved the September 8 Malegaon serial blasts case and said two Pakistani nationals were involved in the explosions carried out allegedly by the banned Students Islamic Movement of India. "We have successfully detected the Malegaon blasts case. We are, however, on the lookout for eight more suspects in the case," Director General of Police P S Pasricha told reporters here. 
President Jalal Talabani finally left Iraq for Iran on Monday after the end of a three-day curfew reopened Baghdad airport and allowed new clashes to erupt in the war-torn capital, leaving 16 dead.
Despite the Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire, two Kassam rockets, fired from the Gaza Strip, landed in open territory in the Sderot area on Monday afternoon. No one was wounded and no damage was reported. Although the Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Fatah party, claimed responsibility for the attack, many in the Palestinian Authority said that the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) were actually the ones responsible as it was one of their group who was killed by IDF forces late Sunday night. 
