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Africa Horn
Somalia: Lawmakers adopt martial law on the country
(SomaliNet) Members of the transitional parliament in Baidoa city 245km southwest of the Somalia capital Mogadishu Saturday unanimously approved in their session three months martial law to be imposed on the war torn country Somalia. The MPs began debating last Thursday over the martial law and how it would affect the Somali people. Mostly voiced to amend the controversial law and set up committee to review the text.

Under the martial law, the government will act militarily and hold the country with hard fist.
There were some articles altered after long debate by the MPs. 156 parliamentarians have arrived to the session this morning to pass by the plan put forward by the government. 154 of the 156 MPs have endorsed the martial law while 2 kept silent. Abdulahi Sheik Ismael, the minister of the constitutional federalism read out to members of the parliament about the result of the voting and then announced the implementation of law.

Under the martial law, the government will act as militarily and hold the country with hard fist. The president will have the last decision of the result by the parliament.
Posted by: Fred || 01/14/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I just received the first 419 spam asking help to move money out of the country.
Posted by: Jackal || 01/14/2007 8:47 Comments || Top||


SAS hunts fleeing Al-Qaeda Africans
AN SAS team is hunting down Al-Qaeda terror suspects as they try to flee war-torn Somalia after the crushing defeat of the country’s Islamist forces last week. The suspects are trapped between invading Ethiopian troops — assisted by US special forces and American mercenaries — and the Kenyan army and SAS troops who are acting as “training advisers” but have been leading operations along the border, providing a “screen” to trap terrorists.

Somalia’s interim government yesterday claimed the last stronghold of the Islamic movement had been captured with the fall of Ras Kamboni, a coastal area less than two miles from the Kenyan border.

Eleven suspected Al-Qaeda terrorists were said to have been arrested last week but three key suspects, believed to be responsible for the bombing of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and an attack on an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, were still on the run yesterday.

The dramatic victory by Ethiopian troops was the culmination of months of preparation inside and outside Somalia by American and British special forces, and US-hired mercenaries. The “professional assistance” was recruited by officials based in the US embassy in Nairobi at the end of 2005 as part of a deniable operation, sources claimed. “The brief was to enter Somali territory with the objective of studying the terrain, mapping and analysing landing sites and regrouping areas, and reporting on suitable ‘entry and exit points’,” one source said.

According to a CIA source, American intelligence and military have been bankrolling the Ethiopians since the start of last year, as well as providing them with satellite surveillance, technical, military and logistical support. “They not only gave them money and technical support but even spare parts where needed,” the source said.

Although it was a goal of US policy to overthrow the Union of Islamic Courts which had taken power in most of Somalia, “all the investment in the Ethiopians was ultimately to get to the three suspects,” said the source. “No army in Africa was capable of doing this on its own, and it was unlikely that these Al-Qaeda bad guys were just going to go away, so the United States decided to do something about it. The goal was limited to liquidating these targets. It was certainly not to re-establish ourselves in Somalia, nor to open up a new front.”

Last week America showed its hand when it unleashed an airstrike from an AC-130 gunship on a Somali village where intelligence suggested the three key suspects, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, 32, Saleh ali Saleh Nabhan, 38, and Abu Taha al-Sudani, were holed up. The airstrike missed the men but, according to a senior American official, the attack killed eight to 10 “significant Al-Qaeda affiliates”. A small team of US special operations troops has remained at the scene collecting evidence to identify the victims.
Posted by: Fred || 01/14/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  “They not only gave them money and technical support but even spare parts where needed,”

A logical act, pointed out by a Rantburger some weeks back.
Posted by: Pappy || 01/14/2007 0:10 Comments || Top||

#2  I hope they don't capture any of them....

ifyouknowwhatImean
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 01/14/2007 0:14 Comments || Top||

#3  American mercenaries. The Pentagon finally figured out that mercenaries are worth their weight in gold.
Posted by: Mike N. || 01/14/2007 0:20 Comments || Top||

#4  I very much doubt capture is in the vocabulary of the SAS teams.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 01/14/2007 0:20 Comments || Top||

#5  Excuse me, but can I just mention how disposable cheap mercenaries are? They're the next best thing to proxies.

I wonder if any of them would like to visit Sadr city.
Posted by: Mike N. || 01/14/2007 0:28 Comments || Top||

#6  Umm, let's make clear the SAS aren't mercenaries, ours or anyone else's. The SAS are some of the finest soldiers in the world.
Posted by: Steve White || 01/14/2007 1:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Who Dares Wins
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/14/2007 2:16 Comments || Top||

#8  One huge advantage we now have in this area of spares supply is that half of NATO is former Warsaw Pact. Makes supplying MiG, T-55, Hind, Sukhoi, and related equipment with spares very simple : just hand over some cash to one of the Eastern Bloc NATO countries for an unsupervised visit to one of their depots, and voila! Especially useful when you want to have CAS from Other Than Americans - as is the idea of handing over old Cobra gunships to Ethiopia. If a flight of 4 Cobras in desert camo hits a terrorist camp and shoots the hell out of it, only the one that swings in low for the BDA needs to be from Ethiopia. The other 3 can stay up and provide cover for the scouting one, and that means they can be anybody's. Funny thing is, the US Marine Corps still uses SuperCobras as attack helicopters - no good way to tell the difference visually between Cobra and SuperCobra.
Posted by: Shieldwolf || 01/14/2007 2:18 Comments || Top||

#9  Pappy, I'd say more logistical rather than logical.
Posted by: Jackal || 01/14/2007 8:50 Comments || Top||

#10  SAS hunts fleeing Al-Qaeda Africans

[have to assume that] any "Brit*" who was captured in Somilia was a commited Muslim Nazi and would not hesitate to use a bio weapon, nuke or chem in an attack on our cities.

add: [we have to assume] Muslim Nazis of some stripe are already here; al-Q, Hezz'allah, Abu Sayyaf, Hamass the Qudz Pudz....

*How many of the "Brits" spoke the Mother tongue of England as their 1st language?
Posted by: RD || 01/14/2007 10:26 Comments || Top||

#11  Steve, my intent was not to call the SAS mercenaries. The article does also mention mercenaries.
Posted by: Mike N. || 01/14/2007 11:16 Comments || Top||

#12  No probs, just want to be clear. The SAS is one of the world's finest.
Posted by: Steve White || 01/14/2007 12:17 Comments || Top||

#13  American mercenaries, Bounty Hunters, Head Hunters..is a heart throb!! With modern sophisticated weapons and tactics, and painted stripped like a zebra; is what we needed all along, to 'shake up the natives'!!
Posted by: smn || 01/14/2007 18:34 Comments || Top||

#14  Military ops or are the SAS boys just hunting them for sport?
Posted by: SteveS || 01/14/2007 22:24 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Morocco imprisons Belgian for terrorism
(SomaliNet) Morocco has sent a Belgian citizen to prison after finding him guilty of terrorism.
Khaled Oussayeh is a member of the Moroccan Islamist Combat Group, which allegedly carried out attacks in attacks in Casablanca in 2003 and Madrid in 2004. He is also accused of possession of false documents.
The Moroccan born Belgian citizen will spend three years behind bars, a sentence granted by an anti-terrorist Moroccan court. Khaled Oussayeh is a member of the Moroccan Islamist Combat Group, which allegedly carried out attacks in attacks in Casablanca in 2003 and Madrid in 2004. He is also accused of possession of false documents.

Oussayeh was arrested in Syria on possession of false documents, before being sent back to Morocco. Prior to this, he lived on the Belgium- Netherlands border. Oussayeh is set to appeal against this court ruling, his lawyer said.
Posted by: Fred || 01/14/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Bangladesh
Bangladesh bomb kills four family members
A bomb exploded in a western Bangladesh slum Saturday, killing a woman and her three daughters, police and a media report said. The blast happened in Chapainawabganj town, 230 kilometres west of the capital, Dhaka, as the children – ages 4 to 8 – were playing with a metal container that held the explosive, local police official Mohammad Abdul Kader told The Associated Press by telephone from the district.
"Honey! Have you seen my bomb?'
"I put it in a metal container, sweety! It's in the kids' room!"

The blast happened in the family’s home, Kader said. The mother, a 35-year old identified only as Mariam, had picked up the container from a nearby bus station where she had previously worked as a sweeper, the United News of Bangladesh agency reported, quoting other family members. Two children died at the scene, and Mariam and another daughter died on their way to hospital, the agency said. Security officials later recovered three other bombs from a rubbish bin near the bus stop, Kader said.

Police have cordoned off the scene and alerted the residents of the congested slum where low income people, mainly day laborers and rickshaw-pullers, live, Kader said. “We’re trying to find out how the explosives came there,” he said, adding that no one has been arrested yet in connection with the blast. Islamist militants seeking sharia law in mainly Muslim Bangladesh killed at least 30 people and wounded 150 in a spate of countrywide bomb blasts in the second half of 2005. But their campaign suffered a blow after top leaders were arrested early last year and there have been no major bombings since then.
Posted by: Fred || 01/14/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nits make lice. If they had grown up, they would likely have been Islamic murderers.
Posted by: Jackal || 01/14/2007 10:50 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't know, Jackal; since Mom was a sweeper, it is probably a good bet that she wasn't at the top of the pay scale and had 'first dibs' on anything that was left behind. Assuming that the metal box could have a future use in her house, that is what she did. The only positve note, perhaps her actions saved a higher number of casualties if it had gone off at the bus station.
Posted by: USN, ret. || 01/14/2007 19:44 Comments || Top||


Britain
UK preacher in secret web call for jihad
One of Britain’s most vocal, extremist preachers has been using a false name on a secret website to incite Muslim followers to go on jihad, or holy war, in Somalia. Anjem Choudary, former spokesman of the banned group Al-Muhajiroun, has posted a statement on a jihadist internet forum telling followers they must join the “divine call of jihad” in the African state.

His call in the password-protected site came days before America mounted air raids on suspected Al-Qaeda units in southern Somalia and news emerged that seven British passport holders had been captured in Somalia by Ethiopian troops. This weekend the Ethiopian embassy in London said its forces had five Britons in custody, although it has failed to provide any documentary evidence. The Britons are said to have been fighting against the interim Somali government alongside the Union of Islamic Courts, an Al-Qaeda-linked movement.
"Britons," eh? Buncha guys named Nigel and Percy and Clive and Alistaire, you betcha.
Choudary is a well-known figure on the forum called Followers of Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaaah Muntada (Followers of the Prophet and His Companions). The site, which has about 700 members, is visited by some of Britain’s most notorious Muslim extremists, members of groups such as Al-Ghurabaa and the Saved Sect, offshoots of Al-Muhajiroun and banned after the London bombings on July 7, 2005. Applicants have to be recommended by a member.

Choudary, who uses the pseudonym Abou Luqman, declares in the forum: “The Ethiopians, with . . . support (from the Christian crusader regimes) and backed by illegitimate Israel (Zionists), have violated the blood of Muslims in Somalia. By committing such an act of terrorism the Muslims in Somalia and nearby lands have responded to the divine call of jihad.” He then reminds followers of their duty to fight jihad: “The obligation of supporting jihad all over the world is fard ayn (an individual obligation) . . . This honourable act must be carried out according to your own capabilities because our beloved prophet Muhammad said strike the mushrik (infidels) with your wealth, hands and tongue.”

The forum has videos and images produced by Al-Qaeda that call on Muslims to join the jihad. Images of corpses of Ethiopian soldiers are captioned “dead kuffar (infidel) bodies”. Forum members routinely quote the last wills of Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer, two of the London bombers. There are also videos by Omar Bakri, the founder of Al-Muhajiroun who has been banned from Britain. In these, he claims to have lectured in Beeston, Leeds, the home town of three of the bombers.

Forum members also analyse British news. In one posting, George Galloway, the Respect MP, is ridiculed for criticising Omar Brooks, the Muslim extremist who heckled John Reid, the home secretary, in east London. One posting says: “What a dog this Galloway guy is . . . (he) can go to hell.”

The website was set up a year ago by Mizanur Rahman, 24, a web designer from north London found guilty of inciting murder at a protest last year outside the Danish embassy against the publication of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad by a Danish magazine.

Intelligence agencies fear Muslim extremists from Europe may be going to Somalia, a haven for Al-Qaeda in Africa, to fight jihad. In October six western nationals, including a Briton, were arrested in Yemen, accused of being part of a cell that tried to smuggle weapons into Somalia. Rasheed Laskar, 34, was held for more than a month but has since been released without charge and returned to Britain with his wife and four children. Laskar, a Muslim convert from Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, is to be interviewed by MI5 agents. He said this weekend: “The Yemenis did not tell me what I was arrested for. They beat me and tortured me.”

When The Sunday Times contacted Choudary he refused to confirm whether he was Luqman or if he knew of the website. He put the phone down. Choudary, 39, a trained lawyer from Ilford, east London, has in the past called for the execution of Pope Benedict. Patrick Mercer, Tory spokesman for homeland security, said: “Choudary must be closed down. It’s appalling that the Home Office has not done anything against this man so far.”
Posted by: ryuge || 01/14/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The west is so concernd with trash like this persons "human rights" that we will lose our own to people like him.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 01/14/2007 0:16 Comments || Top||

#2  "His call in the password-protected site came days before America mounted air raids on suspected Al-Qaeda units in southern Somalia and news emerged that seven British passport holders had been captured in Somalia by Ethiopian troops."

Maybe we need to "mount an air raid" over this guy's mosque house.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 01/14/2007 0:21 Comments || Top||

#3  Why bother with a false name?
Posted by: gromgoru || 01/14/2007 3:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Why bother with a false name?
Posted by: gromgoru || 01/14/2007 3:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Sorry about double posting.
Posted by: gromgoru || 01/14/2007 3:16 Comments || Top||

#6  wonder if he's related to Sid Luqman
Posted by: Frank G || 01/14/2007 8:03 Comments || Top||

#7  I cannot count how many times this Choudary rascal has been interviewed on the BBC. And yet his head has not even once been impaled on a spike and set to decorate Tower Bridge.
Posted by: Excalibur || 01/14/2007 9:29 Comments || Top||

#8  I thought the name sounded familiar. His bunch staged the anti-Catholic screamathon outside London's Westminster Cathedral (2005). Pics here .
Posted by: mrp || 01/14/2007 9:31 Comments || Top||

#9  uhh... 2006
Posted by: mrp || 01/14/2007 9:32 Comments || Top||

#10  Imams are the generals of jihad
Posted by: Spomort Greling4204 || 01/14/2007 9:33 Comments || Top||

#11  wonder if he's related to Sid Luqman

Nope, he's got classic Arab Arm.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/14/2007 10:00 Comments || Top||

#12  It's time for an accident for this POS.
Posted by: SpecOp35 || 01/14/2007 12:30 Comments || Top||

#13  It's time for an accident for this POS.
No, it's time to hunt him down on the street, shoot him with about 70 rounds of 7.62, and then burn his body, as an example to others. Anyone that bitches about the treatment gets the same, and that includes native Brits as well as muzzies.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 01/14/2007 15:07 Comments || Top||

#14  Make no mistake about this, he is a terrorist. Another Koran inspired Muslim terrorist. Hang him, no behead him and feed his body to menstruating female pigs.
Posted by: Icerigger || 01/14/2007 15:19 Comments || Top||

#15  Yes, we are indulging these pigs. On 9-11, the FBI was prohibited from monitoring preachings from mosques. Now they only do it on rare occasions. Muslims have shown repeatedly that they have not earned the trust of the civilized majority.
Posted by: Sneaze Shaiting3550 || 01/14/2007 17:24 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Five militants surrender in Chechnya as amnesty deadline nears
(RIA Novosti) - Five members of illegal armed formations have surrendered in the Republic of Chechnya in Russia's North Caucasus two days before the amnesty deadline, local law enforcement agencies said Saturday. The militants turned themselves in to police in Grozny and the Achkhoi Martan area, in western Chechnya.

Following the killing of Chechnya's number one terrorist, Shamil Basayev, Russian authorities announced a partial amnesty July 15, 2006 for militants who were not involved in major atrocities. A law granting amnesty to militants and servicemen guilty of offenses during the North Caucasus antiterrorism campaign went into force in late September 2006. According to the National Antiterrorism Committee, 470 militants have accepted the surrender offer since its announcement, mainly in Chechnya, and returned to normal life. Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov said earlier he does not think the amnesty, which ends January 15, should be extended.
Posted by: Fred || 01/14/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Newspaper editor killed
KARACHI — Unidentified armed men yesterday killed the owner and editor of regional language newspaper 'Nijat' in Khora Town, some 500 kilometres from here.

Police said that a group of four or five armed men intercepted Makhdoom Rafiq in the bazar of Khora Town in the morning and opened fire with automatic weapon, killing him on the spot. The assailants ran away fled from the scene.
Posted by: Steve White || 01/14/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Indignant, and prolonged, reports in MSM in 5..4..3
Posted by: gromgoru || 01/14/2007 3:13 Comments || Top||


Lashkar operative spills beans on IISc attack, Delhi blasts
Imran, the arrested Lashkar-e-Taiba operative, has revealed during narco-analysis that he knows the people who carried out the attack on the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in December 2005 and those who triggered the serial explosions in New Delhi earlier the same year.
"More giggle juice, Imram?"
"Yersh, shankew!"

The nine-hour test at Bowring Hospital on Saturday has provided the police with vital clues on LeT's targets in Karnataka, Imran's LeT connections, Pakistan visits, and the source of the satellite phone and the AK-47 and AK-56 rifles recovered from him. He will be subjected to further tests shortly for more details on the revelations.

Imran alias Bilal also revealed to the police the LeT's gameplan in Karnataka and the number of operatives in the state. According to him, LeT has deployed over 400 people in Bangalore, Mysore, Mangalore, Chikmagalur and communally sensitive areas. LeT activists are operating under pseudo-identities in Bangalore and Mysore, the police said, adding that Imran had revealed these locations. He also spoke of LeT's plans to attack campuses of software giants Infosys, Wipro and several firms in Electronic City along with the Bangalore airport. Imran told interrogators that LeT headquarters often changed the frequency and bandwidth of satellite phones.

Imran had told the police during interrogation that a certain Rajesh had given him a consignment of arms in Pune. The arms were kept in his Hospet house. Imran was nabbed in Bangalore while bringing the consignment in a bus after a satellite phone conversation with his LeT bosses. During interrogation, Imran had said he was merely a courier, but he contradicted this during the narco-test. Further clarification will be sought during the second narco-test, a police officer said.
Posted by: Fred || 01/14/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Narco-analysis . . .Now that's a politically correct term if I've ever heard one.

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al || 01/14/2007 14:04 Comments || Top||

#2  the advantage of having allies, who can do things we cant do.
Posted by: liberalhawk || 01/14/2007 16:28 Comments || Top||

#3  LH: the advantage of having allies, who can do things we cant do.

They're like illegal aliens - they do the jobs that Americans won't do.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 01/14/2007 23:31 Comments || Top||


Kashmir: Two suspected Islamic militants killed
A gun battle in Kashmir between Indian forces and suspected Islamic militants left two suspected militants and a civilian dead Saturday, the army said. There was no independent confirmation of the incident in Sumlar village, about 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Srinagar, the summer capital of India's Jammu-Kashmir state. An army soldier was also wounded in the clash.
Posted by: Fred || 01/14/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq
Iran demands release of nationals
Iran has demanded that the US military immediately release five of its nationals detained in a raid in northern Iraq on Thursday. Iran's foreign ministry says the men are diplomats and were working at the Iranian liaison office in Irbil.

US officials say they are linked to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard which they say trains and arms Iraqi insurgents. The US has the authority to pursue Iranians in Iraq who "put our people at risk", a top US official has said.

"We are going to need to deal with what Iran is doing inside Iraq," said National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley on Sunday. "We know there are jihadists moving from Syria into Iraq. ...We know also that Iran is supplying elements in Iraq that are attacking Iraqis and attacking our forces," he told ABC Television.

If Iranians in Iraq "are doing things that are putting our people at risk, of course we have the authority to go after them and protect our people," Mr Hadley said.

The US has often accused Iran, or factions within the Iranian government, of aiding Shia groups in Iraq militarily and politically, but has offered little proof of Tehran's alleged activities. The latest raid followed a warning by President George W Bush on Wednesday that the US would take a tough stance towards Iran and Syria, whom he accused of destabilising Iraq.

Tehran vehemently denies the charges. Iran's foreign ministry has said the detained men were "involved in consulate affairs". "Their activities were legal and in the framework of the law," Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said in response to the allegations.

The Iranian government has also demanded compensation for damage to the building where the men were seized. Mr Hosseini said the building the Americans attacked opened in 1992 and was officially registered as the Iranian consulate. The Iraqi authorities have said it was a liaison office in the process of being registered as a consulate.
Opened while Saddam was still in charge? Right after the Iran-Iraq War and the Gulf War? Uh-huh, sure it was.
Iran is adamant the office and the staff inside should have had diplomatic protection and that America's action was illegal.
And Teheran knows a thing or two about illegal actions with diplomats.
"What the Americans claim is incorrect. The Americans want to radicalise the atmosphere in Iraq to justify their occupation, but we will act wisely," he said.
Posted by: 3dc || 01/14/2007 02:51 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Iran demands release of citizens

How'bout after 444 days?
Posted by: twobyfour || 01/14/2007 3:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Does this picture make it perfectally clear Iran...
Posted by: RD || 01/14/2007 3:16 Comments || Top||

#3  We only got 5 of 'em 2x4 so we gotta keep 'em 4600 or so days.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/14/2007 6:40 Comments || Top||

#4  wasn't a consulate and they weren't diplodinks. F*ck off. We're not done with em or the info confiscated....making a powerpoint for the presidential speech notifying why we attacked Iran
Posted by: Frank G || 01/14/2007 7:41 Comments || Top||

#5  I wouldn't hold them for long. Just long enough to get their confessions (freely given or otherwise). Then return the corpses to Iran.
Posted by: Jackal || 01/14/2007 10:51 Comments || Top||

#6  I wonder if we intend to provoke the Iraniacs until they do something overtly stupid.
Posted by: SR-71 || 01/14/2007 12:15 Comments || Top||

#7  Mark my words, the 'tit for tat' is coming. As we speak, the Iranians are trying to find or 'appropriately' apprehend western or American contractors, journalists, or statesmen for the eventual 'swap'! The ante will be upped!
Posted by: smn || 01/14/2007 14:51 Comments || Top||

#8  Go ahead and release 'em.

In boxes.

COD.
Posted by: Ebbigum Fluting4682 || 01/14/2007 15:28 Comments || Top||

#9  Keep Teheran on the defensive. Release info as appropriate to show their true intentions. Grab some more "diplos" as appropriate. Start putting the heat on Iran. We are several years late in this endeavor, so we better get crackin'. Best defense is a good offense. And do the actions without a bunch of verbage. Let the MMs and dinnerjacket seethe and rave if they wish.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 01/14/2007 17:41 Comments || Top||

#10  I say baptize them as Christians. Salvation should be an effective punishment.
Posted by: doc || 01/14/2007 18:03 Comments || Top||

#11  How do you say, "Up yours" in Farsi?
Posted by: anymouse || 01/14/2007 18:11 Comments || Top||

#12  Oh, dear. #8 EF was me, from work.

Cookie monster struck again.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 01/14/2007 18:59 Comments || Top||

#13  Release them after placing the Halliburton NuTJoB-12™ GPS/NeoCon® Industries microphone/ZiON Corp. iNFIDEL? mind-controlling microprocessor/transmitter are placed in their bodies.

Maybe consider the ZiON Corp. AutoPork™ bacon-injector option too.
Posted by: Brett || 01/14/2007 19:19 Comments || Top||

#14  Grrr. The iNFIDEL™
Posted by: Brett || 01/14/2007 19:20 Comments || Top||

#15  I think a simple "No" and then hang up would do just fine. No long explanations, no apologies or rationalizations. Just "No."
Posted by: USN, ret. || 01/14/2007 19:49 Comments || Top||

#16  USN,ret.

I like that!I second that motion!

I'm watching Bushs interview right now. He said he doesn't worry about his legacy. Worry about it or not, his legacy started Wednesday and Iran is part of it.
Posted by: Mike N. || 01/14/2007 20:40 Comments || Top||

#17  RUSSIA > Foreign Minisrry > ERBIL incident shows US-sepcific abuse of UN-International Mandate = diplom protocols. Demands conclusive evidence agz captured Iranians + guarantees for protection of Russian diplom personnel within Iraq.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 01/14/2007 23:30 Comments || Top||


Iraqi Commander for Baghdad Mission not First Choice
Not ours, not anyone's. Sounds very much like a political general, in the Arab sense of the term.
Three Iraqi generals told The Associated Press that the Iraqi commander who will lead the Baghdad security mission was the government's second choice and only got the job after the U.S. military objected to the first officer named to the post by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

On Wednesday, Iraqi military officials said al-Maliki had chosen Lt. Gen. Abboud Gambar a week ago as commander of the new security plan in the capital, where sectarian bloodshed built to a crescendo at the end of last year, with more than 100 people killed on many days.

On Saturday, three Iraqi generals, who spoke on condition of anonymity because Gambar's appointment had not been publicly confirmed, said al-Maliki's first choice - Lt. Gen. Mohan al-Freiji - had been vetoed by American officials.

The U.S. military did not respond to an AP e-mail asking for verification of the dispute.

The army generals who spoke to AP said al-Maliki appointed Gambar a week ago when he told the nation that a new security plan was to be launched within days, but the prime minister has refused to confirm the appointment. The generals said al-Freiji and Gambar topped the list of candidates to run the drive.

The generals said Gambar, a Shiite veteran of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war and the 1991 Gulf war, would have two deputies, a Shiite and a Sunni, one on each side of the Tigris River that curls through the center of Baghdad. During the 1991 Gulf War, one of the generals said, Gambar was captured by U.S. troops on the Kuwaiti island of Fialaka and briefly held prisoner in Saudi Arabia.

Under Saddam Hussein's rule, military men normally were fired if taken prisoner, but the former president made an exception for Gambar and his brigade because of their brave defense of Fialaka Island. Gambar, in his early 60s, was decorated by Saddam.

Gambar will report directly to al-Maliki.
Posted by: Steve White || 01/14/2007 01:53 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Better headline would be Iraqi Commander of Baghdad mission not first choice of abu Maliki.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/14/2007 10:11 Comments || Top||


General: Kurd Brigade Will Go to Baghdad
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A Kurdish army brigade from northern Iraq is undergoing intensive urban combat training for deployment to Baghdad, where it expects to take on the Mahdi Army Shiite militia, its commander said Saturday.

In the northern city of Irbil, Brig. Gen. Nazir Assem Korran, commander of the 1st Infantry Brigade, 2nd Division of the Iraqi army, said ``we will head to Baghdad soon. We have 3,000 soldiers who are currently undergoing intensive training especially in urban combat and how the army should act inside a city.''

Korran told the AP he did not know how the operation would unfold but said the Defense Ministry had asked his brigade to take part in the security operation along with thousands of other Iraqi and U.S. troops. The forces were to conduct neighborhood-to-neighborhood searches to clear the city of Sunni Muslim insurgents and local militias such as the Mahdi Army of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who has been an ally of al-Maliki.

``We are going to confront any terrorist elements or militias. We will confront any outlaws,'' the general said. He did not name the Mahdi Army, but the Shiite militia is blamed for much of the capital's sectarian killing and is the only true militia presence in Baghdad.

Korran, the general in Irbil, said his troops would face a language barrier and rely on translators because 95 percent of the brigade is Kurdish and unable to speak Arabic. Kurds, a separate ethnic group, are largely Sunnis but not Arabs.

His brigade is one of two coming from the Kurdish region. The other will arrive from the northern city of Sulaimaniyah. Another brigade will come from southern Iraq. ``We do not represent any sect or ethnic group,'' Korran said, adding that he expect to be fighting against ``militias in residential areas.''
Posted by: Steve White || 01/14/2007 01:46 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I see someone has been reading the manuals and histories from the American Indian Wars : using a totally unrelated and/or hostile tribe for the hammer in a hammer and anvil operation against the tribal militias. The Kurds as the hammer and the US as the anvil will work especially well since the Kurds have NO interest in aiding either side of the Sunni/Shia battle. Especially since the Kurds are not ethnic Arabs, with their own language and culture; however, the Kurds are Sunnis. But that never stopped Saddam or the Baath Party from slaughtering them by the thousands.
Posted by: Shieldwolf || 01/14/2007 2:29 Comments || Top||

#2  But that never stopped Saddam or the Baath Party from slaughtering them by the thousands.

Which, of course, gives the Kurds a vested interest in protecting the lives of Baghdad Sunnis.
/Crystal Ball mode on.
Expect the attitude to Kurds as "staunch allies of USA" to change presently.
/Crystal Ball mode off.
Posted by: gromgoru || 01/14/2007 3:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Which, of course, gives the Kurds a vested interest in protecting the lives of Baghdad Sunnis.

Explain, gromgoru.

I think they don't give a shite whether a particular Arab or a group of them thereof is sunni or shia.
Posted by: twobyfour || 01/14/2007 3:19 Comments || Top||

#4  Which part of slaughtering them you don't understand 2x4?
Posted by: gromgoru || 01/14/2007 3:24 Comments || Top||

#5  The Kurds will be happy to kill Arabs without bothering too much about their religion.

Don't see why the US allies will status will change despite Iranian meddling.

Question: Who should you trust, A Turk, an Arab or a Persian.

Answer: If you a Kurd, none of them.
Posted by: phil_b || 01/14/2007 5:10 Comments || Top||

#6  I'll bet this is the same Kurdish (Commando?) brigade that did pretty well in Fallujah.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/14/2007 6:47 Comments || Top||

#7  Payback's a bitch, ya know?
Posted by: SR-71 || 01/14/2007 12:17 Comments || Top||

#8  The sound you are about to hear is the first shoe.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/14/2007 12:26 Comments || Top||

#9  The kurds presumably will be LESS inclined to arbitrarilly kill Sunni Arabs than SOME Shia dominated units are. That is, I assume, WHY they were chosen (as well as their willingness to take on the Mahdi Army when necessary) It is most definitely NOT US policy to engage in slaughter of Sunni Arab civilians. It IS our policy to kill and capture insurgents, which I expect the mainly Kurdish units will do. They MAY be a tad more inclined to kill rather than capture, as compared to our own troops.
Posted by: liberalhawk || 01/14/2007 16:31 Comments || Top||

#10  Yeah, Im think you got it LH.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/14/2007 16:42 Comments || Top||

#11  ``We do not represent any sect or ethnic group,'' Korran said, adding that he expect to be fighting against ``militias in residential areas.''


Bullshit, they're going to send tater and his freaks through the meat grinder and everyone in Iraq knows it.
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 01/14/2007 17:15 Comments || Top||

#12  Actually, he was being truthful : they are not after any one specific militia, they will grind up both ethnic militias when they are sent after them. The Kurds are NOT Arabs, so Sunni/Shia doesn't matter to them - revenge against the Arabs for what they did to their families in Kurdistan is what is important to the Kurds. Remember, Saddam used Sunni and Shia troops against the Kurds, and one of the top generals in the Baathist -controlled army that was used against the Kurds is a Iraqi Christian. So the major group that Kurds want to hurt/kill/main is Arab, which defines everyone in Baghdad that is in a militia. Baghdad is the best hunting area for Kurdish revenge that there is, since anyone they killed will be Arab - no matter the sect or religion.
Posted by: Shieldwolf || 01/14/2007 18:57 Comments || Top||

#13  The kurds will not care. It's tribal which goes beyond religious sects. In fact, many (arab) tribes have both shia & sunni members within the same tribe. Which is why a lot of Iraqi Shia look at the Iranians w/a jaundiced eye. Will they take support from Iran, evidently, will they want to listen to every crazy demand from the MM's - in my experience - doubtful. Persian Shia are not Arab Shia - again, different tribes, different languages, different norms, etc. Plus, the Iraq/Iran war is still a current memory, unlike Americans, the arabs don't forget sh*t - as many of you well know.
Posted by: Broadhead6 || 01/14/2007 21:39 Comments || Top||


Moldovan plane that crashed in Iraq was downed
(RIA Novosti) - A Moldovan An-26 cargo plane that crashed in Iraq January 9, killing 34 people, was downed by a missile, an eyewitness said Friday. "The plane is said to have crashed due to fog, but I saw no fog," Ozcan Sahin, a brother of Hamdi Sahin, a Turkish worker killed in the crash, told Turkish NTV television. He said he was 300-400 meters from the crash site, near Balad, north of Baghdad.

"The plane was downed by a missile that struck the right section of the fuselage. Employees of other companies also saw it. More than 20 F-16 fighters took off from an American base that day, and had there been fog they would have been grounded," he said.

It is not the first claim that the An-26 was shot down rather than having crashed as the result of bad weather. The Islamic Army in Iraq group claimed responsibility Thursday for the downing.

The plane, which was owned by the Moldovan company AerianTur-M, was transporting mainly Turkish workers to Iraq from the Turkish city of Adana. Thirty-four people, including five Moldovan crewmembers and one American, died in the crash. One Turk survived.

Earlier, Turkish authorities told CNN-Turk television that there were 29 Turkish workers, three Moldovans, a Russian, a Ukrainian and an American on board. Later, the Russian consul general in Antalya said the Russian and the Ukrainian also had Moldovan citizenship.
Posted by: Fred || 01/14/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Weather has been bad here for the past two weeks and continues to be bad. The acft at the link is not a 26. Info here was it was a second go around on a missed approach. I doubt the validity of this article. If you had a MANPAD, would you waste it on a turboprop Turkish TCN haul?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/14/2007 2:30 Comments || Top||

#2  Nope, if a terrorist had a Stinger/Strela class missile, he would have gone for one of the F-16s at takeoff or landing. That is when planes are most vulnerable - no space to jink or dive.
Posted by: Shieldwolf || 01/14/2007 4:51 Comments || Top||

#3  "The plane is said to have crashed due to fog, but I saw no fog,"

I question the credibility here as well. Perhaps Ozcan couldn't see the fog due to the heavy mist and light rain in the area.
Posted by: Grack Whaitle3696 || 01/14/2007 11:46 Comments || Top||

#4  LOL!
Posted by: Shipman || 01/14/2007 12:27 Comments || Top||

#5  I call BS.
Both Strela and Stinger are heat-seeking missiles. They would NOT have hit the fuselage of the aircraft unless it was on fire. They would have homed in on the engine exhausts. The photo on the page shows two SA-3 resupply vehicles (Zil-135 [1938 Ford4x6] trucks). SA-3 missiles are radar-guided, but require a TON of infrastructure to hit anything (launchers, acquisition radar, tracking radar, guidance radar, IFF, missile guidance vans, etc.). Sounds like someone just wants to bitch.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 01/14/2007 17:21 Comments || Top||


Mahdi Army lowers its profile, anticipating arrival of U.S. troops
Mahdi Army militia members have stopped wearing their black uniforms, hidden their weapons and abandoned their checkpoints in an apparent effort to lower their profile in Baghdad in advance of the arrival of U.S. reinforcements. "We have explicit directions to keep a low profile . . . not to confront, not to be dragged into a fight and to calm things down," said one official who received the orders from the anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

The official asked not to be named because he was not authorized to reveal the militia's plans. Militia members say al-Sadr ordered them to stand down shortly after President George Bush's announcement that the U.S. would send 17,500 more American troops to Baghdad to work alongside the Iraqi security forces.

The decision by al-Sadr to lower his force's profile in Baghdad will likely cut violence in the city and allow American forces to show quick results from their beefed up presence. But it is also unlikely in the long term to change the balance of power here. Mahdi Army militiamen say that while they remain undercover now, they are simply waiting for the security plan to end. "If the Mahdi Army is attacked, they will defend themselves," said Sheikh Abdul Razzaq al-Nidawi, a senior al-Sadr official in Najaf. "American troops are the enemy troops . . . if the Americans want armed resistance, we are ready, but we will work hard not to get involved in an armed opposition and we will work hard to endure the pressure even if we make sacrifices to keep our people and country safe."

Mahdi Army sources said that their heavy weaponry had been moved from Sadr City or hidden since the announcement. Across the capital residents described a changed Mahdi Army - in Sadr City, a Shiite slum of more than 2 million people, in Talbiyah on the outskirts of Sadr City, and in Hurriyah, a formerly Sunni Muslim neighborhood in the north of the capital that in recent weeks has been taken over by the Mahdi Army. Checkpoints in those locations were gone. Instead, young men in jeans and buttoned shirts directed traffic, helped the Iraqi army and wandered the streets nonchalantly.

ID checks for Sunni names like Omar have been replaced by a sort of Shiite code. "Mawlak?" a Mahdi Army member will inquire. "My master?"

A Shiite will answer, "Mawlak al Hussein" - "My master is Hussein," referring to a revered Shiite saint. They check for the Shiite accent common in the south versus the Baghdadi accent of the Sunnis.

But Shiite residents said the weapons were nearby. "We expect the American troops or even some Iraqi troops to besiege Sadr City," said Raed Mohammed, a 37-year-old taxi driver.

Some Sunnis worry that the new Baghdad security plan will clear the way for the Mahdi Army to finally cleanse Sunnis from Baghdad. In announcing the plan, President Bush said that U.S. forces would concentrate on defeating al-Qaida and the insurgency. But Sunnis note that in most Sunni neighborhoods, local men unaffiliated with the insurgency also carry weapons to protect their families from militias and the Iraqi security forces, who they distrust and believe are heavily infiltrated by the Mahdi Army.

On Saturday, many Iraqis stockpiled canned foods, water and kerosene in preparation for violence. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite whose political backers include al-Sadr, has told legislators and advisors that security forces under the new plan will first go after the Sunni insurgency, which is responsible for most of the capital's car and roadside bombs that target Shiites and U.S. forces. After that, he's said he'll move to quell militias, including the Mahdi Army, who are suspected in the killings of dozens of Sunnis.

American officers here say they have no plans to go after militia groups as long as the militias do not attack. "We're not necessarily going after the militias if the militias don't come after us," said Army Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl, a military spokesman for the Multi-National Division-Baghdad. "Our mission is not to take down the militias, that's a function of the government."
Posted by: Fred || 01/14/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We're not necessarily going after the militias if the militias don't come after us

Oh joy!
Posted by: gromgoru || 01/14/2007 3:23 Comments || Top||

#2  How many milita members can hide under a bed? I don't know the answer, but I'll bet it depends on whether or not they kick the kid out from under the bed.
Posted by: gorb || 01/14/2007 3:36 Comments || Top||

#3  However, nothing in what that American commander said limits the actions of the Kurdish brigades. Expect them to be used against both the Sunni and Shias. Besides which, Maliki has been warned that it is HIS job to take on the militias, not ours. If he cannot or will not, why should we? We need to be concerned with Al-Q and the Baathists, the ongoing tribal slaughter is only incidentally related to the primary American concerns.
Posted by: Shieldwolf || 01/14/2007 4:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Shouldn't that be the powerful Mahdi Army? Amazing how the locals fall in line once you send in the Legions.
Posted by: Excalibur || 01/14/2007 9:32 Comments || Top||

#5  The Increasingly Powerful Mahdi Army

ExMan.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/14/2007 16:48 Comments || Top||

#6  Let the Kurds manhandle them for a while, soften them up a bit for us.
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 01/14/2007 17:10 Comments || Top||

#7  One has to wonder if Mr. Maliki might not have a "crossfire" moment here fairly soon.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 01/14/2007 17:22 Comments || Top||

#8  Watch what is done and not what is said. I wonder if the Kurds were really upset about the raid on the Iranian *cough cough* consulate....Just a thought.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 01/14/2007 17:46 Comments || Top||

#9  One thing that hasn't been said is anything by the Iraqi Prime Minister that he supports W's initiative. A lot of second-hand, mushy quotes is all I've read.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/14/2007 18:32 Comments || Top||

#10  All this pre-deployment rhetoric has done is give the tator tots time to blend in. After a few months of doing not much, there will be a pull out and then the tators will re-don their black uniforms, etc, etc.
should have capped Tator's arse and all his minons long ago and been done w/ it.
Posted by: USN, ret. || 01/14/2007 19:57 Comments || Top||

#11  I'd still wetwork tater and tell Maliki "insh'allah".
Posted by: Broadhead6 || 01/14/2007 21:30 Comments || Top||

#12  F this - we should kill our enemies as they try to kill us.
Posted by: jds || 01/14/2007 21:49 Comments || Top||

#13  we should kill our enemies as before they try to kill us.

Fixed that for ya', #12 jds. :-D
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 01/14/2007 22:58 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Four Kassams hit western Negev
Kassam rockets were fired at Friday from the Gaza Strip at southern Israel, as IDF troops operating in Gaza and the West Bank discovered and safely detonated two bombs.
Amazingly, the ceasefire still holds...
Four Kassams landed in the western Negev on Friday afternoon. No one was wounded and no damage resulted from any of the hits. Near the Gaza-Israel border fence, IDF soldiers discovered a 12-kilogram bomb. Sappers detonated the device in a controlled explosion, and no one was wounded. Another bomb was discovered in the West Bank. Sappers destroyed the 35-kg. bomb without incident. No damage was caused by either of the two devices.

In another development Friday, the IDF and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) announced that they had arrested on Tuesday a Palestinian suspected of perpetrating a shooting attack on an Israeli neighborhood. Zaahad Dagrah, 36, was also suspected of being an active member of a terror cell planning attacks against Israelis. He was apprehended by security forces near Ramallah and detained for interrogation.

Overnight Thursday, IDF troops arrested four Palestinian fugitives and uncovered a weapons cache in separate operations in the West Bank. Three Hamas operatives were arrested near Bethlehem and a fourth Hamas member near Hebron. IDF soldiers also found an M-16 rifle and dozens of bullets while conducting sweeps in Kfar Ekev, near Ramallah.
Posted by: Fred || 01/14/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Olmert! Restrain yourself!
Posted by: gorb || 01/14/2007 3:38 Comments || Top||

#2  whats the record for number of missiles fired, none of which cause any damage?
Posted by: liberalhawk || 01/14/2007 16:23 Comments || Top||

#3  Kananahura, of course.
Posted by: liberalhawk || 01/14/2007 16:23 Comments || Top||

#4  What does Kananahura mean?

Liberalhawk, I think the question you meant to ask is What's the record for the number of Palestinian missiles fired, none of which caused any damagein Israel? The Kassams tend to land and cause damage to the originating side of the border, or to the habitat of the now-threatened Egyptian Sinai lizard (surely such a species exists... and has recently become threatened).
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/14/2007 20:01 Comments || Top||

#5  PIMF, darn it! I thought I closed the italic tag after "in Israel", but obviously I messed up.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/14/2007 20:04 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Buddhist beheaded, 2 others killed in southern Thailand
A Buddhist man in restive southern Thailand was beheaded by suspected Muslim insurgents who left a note by the body warning Buddhists to leave the area that has been gripped by bloody violence for three years, police said. Two others were also killed Sunday. The man and his wife were shot to death while working at a rubber plantation in Yala province, said police Lt. Kittiphong Phuduangjit.

After shooting the man three times in the chest, the assailants beheaded him and left the head a few meters (feet) from the body with a note that said: "You crazy Buddhists. We will continue to kill you all unless you leave our land," said Kittiphong. It was signed by a group that called itself the Pattani Fighters, a reference to one of the region's troubled provinces, he said. Two other notes were left near the body with similar messages.

In a separate attack, another Buddhist was killed in Yala by a gunman on a motorcycle, said police Lt. Narasak Chiangsuk, who blamed the attack on insurgents.

Drive-by shootings and bombings occur almost daily in Thailand's three southernmost Muslim-majority provinces of Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani, where an Islamic insurgency that flared in January 2004 has killed more than 1,900 people.

Police, soldiers and others viewed as collaborators with the government are targeted, along with Buddhists. Buddhist monks have been beheaded, Buddhist teachers slain, and leaflets have been distributed around Buddhist villages warning that raising dogs and drinking alcohol are offensive to Muslims.
Posted by: ryuge || 01/14/2007 06:56 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I love the smell of islam in the morning. Smells like peace!
Posted by: Excalibur || 01/14/2007 9:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Smells like peace!

Smells like Mujihideen spirit!
Posted by: Shomosh Jomoque2021 || 01/14/2007 10:12 Comments || Top||

#3 
How very uncharacteristic for the ROP
Posted by: macofromoc || 01/14/2007 10:17 Comments || Top||

#4  obviously a rogue element
Posted by: Frank G || 01/14/2007 10:52 Comments || Top||

#5  Perhaps the Buddhists have decided they have no need for their heads. Obviously they aren't using them or they would realize they are in a fight to their deaths and would begin to resist in a manner that the Muz wouldn't forget for two or three generations.
Posted by: SpecOp35 || 01/14/2007 12:37 Comments || Top||

#6  "Must leave their land" oh really? When will the Thai government get it's act together and go Sherman on these folk? It's the only thing that works. Make ALL the Muslims in the south feel so much pain and misery that the will to fight leaves them.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 01/14/2007 14:08 Comments || Top||

#7  The religion of Pieces is acting so pissfully. Praise be to Muhamhead, pork be upon him.
Posted by: Icerigger || 01/14/2007 15:26 Comments || Top||

#8  Seems like non-confrontational Buddhists are sitting ducks when it comes to belligerents like these. We can only hope they crack and get Shaolin on their asses.

By the way, is the 'insurgency' of the Salfi/Wahhabi variety? Curious who these guys are/what their beef is.
Posted by: Jump Wheatch9614 || 01/14/2007 15:32 Comments || Top||

#9  IIUC - spillover from Malaysia and Indo jihadis. One of 49Pan's buddies is there, I'd defer to him or Phil B for local take
Posted by: Frank G || 01/14/2007 15:58 Comments || Top||

#10  ROP shows its kinkier side; Radical bodyart... No heads, no hands, other nicities....

Allan at the bar... Alcohol free, of course!
Posted by: BigEd || 01/14/2007 16:04 Comments || Top||


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Posted by: Fred || 01/14/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  TW is that you?
Posted by: RD || 01/14/2007 3:31 Comments || Top||

#2  looks like Kyle Maclachlan in drag
Posted by: Frank G || 01/14/2007 7:53 Comments || Top||

#3  Agree, RD.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 01/14/2007 8:17 Comments || Top||

#4  looks like Kyle Maclachlan in drag

sheeech Frank, oh thats meeean and not nice even... lol

I truely ment it as a compliment, reference: you know from films the charming classic persona that TW does so elegantly.. a lovely teasing manner from another time, and another era..

"and then you ruined it all forever you CAD!" bad Frank! ..;-)
Posted by: RD || 01/14/2007 9:04 Comments || Top||

#5  Agree RD.

Bad Frank! Bad! This goes into your permanent RB record.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/14/2007 9:58 Comments || Top||

#6  'Fraid not, although I appreciate the sweet compliment, and as always enjoy Frank's bluff engineer's honesty. :-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/14/2007 10:39 Comments || Top||

#7  I failed diplo-school. I also never meant to insinuate that the fair TW resembled Kyle, just the profile of Dot there.... I'll stay after school and clean the erasers and the floor mats in the O-Club...
Posted by: Frank G || 01/14/2007 11:03 Comments || Top||

#8  tw's lyin.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/14/2007 12:19 Comments || Top||

#9  Frank, better be careful, or you'll have to clean out the sinkgreasetrap.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 01/14/2007 13:32 Comments || Top||

#10  You don't insinuate, Frank, so I understood it the same way you meant it. Please do no penance on my account, my dear. I don't lie, Shipman, because everyone can tell when I try, so even the effort is counterproductive, darn it!
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/14/2007 14:12 Comments || Top||

#11  Next, we'll find out her first name is Dorothy.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 01/14/2007 16:08 Comments || Top||

#12  TW? Nope....
Posted by: Frank G || 01/14/2007 16:25 Comments || Top||

#13  What a neck... she might as well have a tattoo saying "Kiss me RIGHT here."
Posted by: Free Radical || 01/14/2007 18:16 Comments || Top||

#14  Yep, that kinda picture outa be banned, this is a family blog.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/14/2007 18:52 Comments || Top||

#15  I dunno, you guys may be getting all lathered up, but if you can look at her 1000 yard stare and ignore all the bling, I think what you may have is a Hollywood style mugshot. All that's missing is the little reader board that gives the (alledged ) perp's id, date and locale.....
Posted by: USN, ret. || 01/14/2007 19:36 Comments || Top||



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