Two NATO soldiers were killed on Friday in separate blasts in southern Afghanistan, while three Taliban rebels died when a bomb they were planting exploded prematurely, officials said.
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which has around 37,000 troops in Afghanistan fighting the resurgent Taliban movement, gave no further details about the dead soldiers. Earlier today, two ISAF soldiers died as the result of explosions in two separate incidents in southern Afghanistan, an ISAF statement said.
However the Netherlands said earlier on Friday that a 21-year-old Dutch corporal became the first Dutch soldier to be killed in action in Afghanistan on Friday when he stepped on a landmine during a foot patrol. Dutch chief of defence staff General Dick Berlijn confirmed the soldier was part of NATOs Operation Achilles against the Taliban in southwestern Helmand province, according to the ANP news agency. There are about 2,000 Dutch soldiers in Afghanistan. The deaths brought to 42 the number of international troops killed in Afghanistan this year. Some 170 were killed there in 2006.
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More than 30 civilians have been killed and 200 wounded in two days of fighting between Ethiopian troops and Islamist insurgents in the Somali capital, elders said Friday.
The fighting is continuing and casualties are increasing day-by-day, said Husein Said Korgab, the spokesman for the Hawiye clan, which is dominant in Mogadishu. I can tell you that more than 30 people have been killed in two days of fighting. The number of wounded people is about 200, Korgab told AFP. The toll is from Thursday and Friday clashes.
The latest round of fighting erupted late Tuesday when at least seven civilians were killed followed by a lull the next day, which was shattered late Thursday when both sides resumed hostilities. The elders accused the Ethiopian forces of targeting sites where there were no insurgents, leading to mounting civilian casualties.
The Aethiops do seem a bit trigger-happy ...
Ethiopian forces are bombing down civilian sites, places where there are no insurgents. This morning, they have shelled places some 15 kilometres away (from the city), and people are fleeing again, Korgab added.
Translating Korgab, I think civilians = ICU gunnies, and civilian sites = mosques.
Meanwhile, more Ethiopian troops deployed to Mogadishu to reinforce their collegues battling the insurgents backed by clan militia, witnesses said. I have seen and counted about 40 Ethiopian armed vehicles this morning on the road from Baidoa to Mogadishu, said Amin Hassan Ado, a resident in Afgooye, 30 kilometres (20 miles) west of the capital. We are very much concerned about this troop reinforcement, it will worsen the situation.
Particularly if you're an ICU hard boy.
I have seen more troops pouring in. They have entered Mogadishu, said Mohamed Hassan Moalim, who lives near Banadir Hospital in the south of the capital.
The deployment comes a day after a suspected suicide bomber hit an Ethiopian military base in the outskirts of the capital.
Ah-ha, there's the reason the Aethiops are pissed ...
The African Union envoy to Somalia Mohamed Foum arrived in Mogadishu and held talks with Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi on the deployment of more AU peacekeepers in the lawless country, officials said. About 1,500 AU peacekeepers from Uganda deployed to Mogadishu early last month have failed to stem the surge in violence. The Ugandans are an advance contingent of about 8,000 peacekeepers the pan-African body plans to send to Somalia someday to help Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed maintain control of the country.
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Paratroopers launched a military operation in Tidjellabine forest against Conquest Squad shelters, one of the most important groups of al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, since last Wednesday. El Khabar attended Thursday afternoon to the military operation against Conquest Squad shelters situated in Belhasnet locality. Our presence coincided with paratroopers arrival to Takherate forest sheltering one of the many safe havens. When they arrived to Belhasnet to launch a rake operation, one of the officers found a bag, discovered by a soldier, containing chemical compositions meant to explosives manufacturing. Two metallic boxes where in the bag containing ammonium, ammoniac and nitrate in addition to a plastic box of acid mixed in order to manufacture explosives.
We tried to know if it was a sign of the existence of explosive manufacturing workshops in Belhasnet shelter, possibly related to April 11 attacks, but no one could provide a reliable answer. However, a source pointed out judicial police are examining the attacks on the capital; they are up to answer more precisely. On another side, we have been told that a Renault Express car has been discovered which spare parts were to serve for explosives manufacturing.
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How interesting. The bad guys aren't mixing it together in advance, to prevent premature explosions. But if the stuff is touchy (as I imagine explosives might well be), how many are having work accidents just before placing the bomb, I wonder.
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'Make your own' explosives suggests these guys don't have a national sponsor to supply them with quality military plastique etc. or even artillery shells (Iraq style).
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Algeria is run amok with these Renault car-vans. They are all white and its almost impossible to discern any remarkable features that differentiate. I have a feeling that there are going to be a lot of boom-boom's going off reducing the poplulation of Renault Expresses by a dozen or so.
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April 20, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates faces delicate talks with his Russian counterpart, Anatoly Serdyukov, when he travels to Moscow on April 23. Gates will attempt to allay Russia's opposition to U.S. plans to deploy elements of a missile-defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic. Somehow I doubt Russia's motivations leave room for being allayed. But we gotta try just to say we did when the moonbats start to howl.
Washington insists that the shield aims at countering missile attacks from "rogue" states. But Moscow says the system threatens Russia and has warned of possible retaliation. The Pentagon chief may also be asked to clarify his recent remarks identifying Russia as a potential threat, together with China, Iran, and North Korea.
Sounded pretty clear to me when he said it. Russia is a potential threat. Anything else they want to know?
This war of words reflects the growing chill between the former Cold War foes and suggests that the U.S. shield has grown into more than just a defense issue.
In their eyes, you mean. It's a defensive system for us since we'd prefer not to get hit with an NKor or Iranian missile. That the Russkers see it as a threat to them says something about their own strategic rocket force -- perhaps they aren't as good as we thought they were.
"Clearly, missile defense is an issue, and it gets to the broader questions of not so much whether that missile-defense system would be dangerous, but what it says about the way we're handling our broader diplomacy in Europe," said Michael O'Hanlon, a senior fellow in foreign and defense policy studies at the Brookings Institution, a Washington think tank. "For Gates, he can plead that we are not really acting in a bullish or hegemonic way, but it's probably more useful and convincing for him to try to be very workmanlike on some other problems, where he can show that we're listening and we're trying to cooperate, and try to make some progress on them -- such as the Iranian nuclear program, genocide in Darfur, North Korea."
"Oh yassss, we should give away the store in other areas so that we can get along with the Russians."
Defense analysts say they expect no major breakthrough regarding the missile-shield standoff during Monday's talks.
Aleksandr Goltz, a Russian military expert, says Moscow may even see an interest in deepening the dispute. "The problem is that the issue long ago entered the political sphere. Russia wants to be offended at something," Goltz said. "The United States' unreasonable policy in their eyes in the area of antimissile defense gives [Russia] a chance to be offended and to point to another country's hostile plans. The current Russian leadership views this as an opportunity to boost the country's prestige and revive its superpower status."
U.S. attempts to soothe Russian misgivings over its missile-defense system ended in failure on April 19 at a NATO-Russia meeting in Brussels. Speaking to reporters after the talks, Russia's ambassador to NATO, General Kontantin Totsky, reiterated Moscow's objections. "We cannot easily accept that now, in Europe, for the first time since the end of the Cold War, there is a deployment of a first strategic element," Totsky said. "And we are against the fact that such decisions are taken unilaterally."
We didn't feel the need to consult you since you don't really bring anything to the table. Let us know if that changes.
Also on Thursday, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov poured scorn on the U.S. missile plans, calling them "chimerical."
He ruled out the prospect of Russia agreeing to Washington's offer this week to work jointly in countering the threat of long-range missile attacks.
The United States, however, appears to have been successful in allaying European concerns over the U.S. missile plans.
The Russian bluster prob'ly helped with that.
NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said NATO allies raised no objections to the project during the talks in Brussels. All member states, he said, also backed Washington's assertion that the bases in Central Europe pose no threat to Russia.
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It would be really cool to be working closely with the Russians on things. They have lots of smart people. So do we. It would be fun. But when the Russian leadership plays footsies with the MMs of Iran for money or influence, ships missile systems to Pencilneck in Syria, one has to question their depth of friendship.
The USSR had missile defense. It was called nuke tipped missiles that would take out incoming missiles. Crude but somewhat effective. Now they realize---again---that they cannot keep up. Their economy can't handle it.
The US makes a better friend than an enemy, Russia. BTW, how are things going in Siberia? The Chicoms are interested in your back yard. And your Russian population is shrinking. Abortions exceed births. You have serious homework to do in you are going to be around in the next 100 years. Like I said, the US could be a good friend. You DO need friends. I wouldn't count on the Chicoms, Iran, Syria, et al to be yer buds. They are a bit flakey.
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Go ahead, Russia, start building up your armed forces again, it worked for you so well the first time around.
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Not but two or three days ago, A Russian General was warning about this very thing. Look for that article. He stated that Russia and the US and the rest of the west were at risk from rocket fired wmd. Hello?!?!
I saw the syrian upgrade. I saw Iran too.
I think Russia and the US have much deeper things to talk about.
It is their sponsor.
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For fuck's sake, Russia is augmenting the abilities of our most dire enemies yet they expect to crawl under our umbrella to escape the threat that they steadily increase. Putin needs to FOAD.
Police trying to search a suspected hide-out for Islamic extremists in southern Serbia came under attack and killed one of the suspects, authorities said Friday. Officers were attempting to search the suspected safe house of a leader of a local group of Muslims following the extreme Wahhabi branch of Sunni Islam. A hand grenade was thrown at the officers, injuring one of them. Police said they responded with machine-gun fire, killing one of the men inside, injuring another and arresting a third.
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An Ontario journalist was beaten up and threatened with death this week in what is being called a revenge attack for publishing articles critical of a Pakistan-based Muslim group, the Toronto Star reported.
Jawaad Faizi, 35, was pulling into the driveway of his editors Mississauga home on Tuesday night when a car pulled up behind him. He had not yet turned off the engine or taken off his seatbelt when he heard the sound of a blast. Before he knew what it was, the sound came again this time it was his front windshield being smashed.
Three men began assaulting him with bats and yelling Punjabi profanities at him, he said. When the assailants saw me calling 911, they fled, he added. Faizi, who worked as a journalist in Pakistan before coming to Canada in 2002, has been writing columns for the Pakistan Post, a Mississauga newspaper, for more than two years. It was Idara Minhaj-ul-Quran, Faizi said in an interview yesterday. (Attackers) were asking why you publish news about our leader, he said.
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Gee, talk about touchy!
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I love it, the more this kind of shit gets published, the less able the Muslims are to hide their real nature.
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Federal authorities are accusing a former engineer at Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station of illegally taking software codes to Iran and downloading details of control rooms, reactors and designs of the nation's largest nuclear plant. Not good.
Officers arrested Mohammad "Mo" Alavi, 49, in Los Angeles this month and charged him with one count of violating a trade embargo, which prohibits Americans from exporting goods and services to Iran.
Authorities say there is no evidence to suggest the use of the software was linked to terrorists or the Iranian government, which has clashed with the U.S. over attempts to develop a nuclear program.
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"Officers arrested Mohammad "Mo" Alavi, 49, in Los Angeles this month and charged him with one count of violating a trade embargo..."
Good grief... in a sane society, he'd be charged with a helluva lot more than that; a people whose common sense had not been rotted out by liberal bullshit would have shoved this bastard in front of a firing squad by now.
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No, hold the firing squad until you've milked him dry, then assemble the squad.
Preferably at GITMO to provide an "Object lesson" for the future wannabe bullet catchers.
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Nice picture, though the swastika should be replaced by a quarter moon and Venus.
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The software stolen was simulation software. Chances are the guy gave the Iranians the executables plus the files for the layout of the plant. In this regard it doesn't appear likely the purpose for the theft was to advance Iran's nuclear program but to provide a means of showing how a nuclear plant would work, possibly in times of emergency.
The code could be used by terrorists.
That's my generally uninformed take on the arrest.
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Doesn't compute. Palo Verde are CE PWR's where as Bushehr are now VVER-1000 Light Water PWR's from Mother Russia. Not even close to the same safety and security systems. Bushehr used to be a KWU PWR but Iraq bombed the hell out of it during the Iraq-Iran war. If anything, he was trying to show them the differences and where they could improve on the Russian design for safety reasons and how to handle the spent fuel which they would want to enrich and make a booom! Neat thing about PVNPP is that each of the 3 units basically stands alone without sharing common systems and facilities.
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Jack, could you explain the initials. I don't know what you're talking about, but sure would like to.
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KWU = Kraftwerk Union (Seiemens and AEG joint venture).
CE = Combustion Engineering (now part of Westinghouse)
VVER = Vodno Vodyanoi Energetichesky Reactor (water-cooled, water-moderated energy reactor)
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This is another possible take on why iran might want this..
Suppose you can mange to get an attack team into the generating facility. With foreknowledge of the saftey procedures and detailed information of the systems, you can quickly and efficiently cause a malfunction (or series of them) that will lead to a meltdown or similar.
just a thought
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The investigation has not led us to believe this information was taken for the purpose of being used by a foreign government or terrorists to attack us," FBI spokeswoman
And there's no such thing as Sudden Jihad Syndrome.
Fresh gunbattles between militants and government troops in the revolt-hit Indian Kashmir left two dead on Friday and sparked a noisy demonstration, police and residents said. Indian soldiers killed two militants during an early morning skirmish in southern Pulwama, army spokesman AK Mathur said.
Another battle on the outskirts of Srinagar sparked an anti-government demonstration after troops, backed by police, blew up a house where the rebels were reportedly hiding. Police said the militants managed to escape from the building but residents insisted there were none there in the first place.
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Unidentified men fired a rocket at the residence of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman in Dera Ismail Khan, but there were no casualties, Aaj television reported on Friday night.
We couldn't be that lucky ...
The channel said that Rehman was not at home when the rocket was fired, adding that the rocket damaged the upper portion of the house. The channel quoted Rehman as saying that his family was safe. The channel said that JUI-F leader Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haidari has announced that the party would hold a countrywide protest on April 27 against the incident.
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Students of a Madrassa near Kasur detained three Geo television employees on Friday when they were spotted filming the madrassa following complaints of two missing students. The detainees were later released at the intervention of police, Geo television reported. The channel reported that Shaharyar and cameraman Irfan were filming the Jamia Rahimia in Jhamabar for a story involving two missing girl students from the madrassa. Male students, seeing the reporter, came outside and snatched the camera from Rasheed. They forced the two and their driver into the madrassa and tortured them. The channel contacted police who obtained their release and directed the channel to obtain police protection before filming madrassas.
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Ima thinkrn that "Madrassah" is the new "cess pool". They need to be emptied periodically
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We need to rush some new orbital technology into production, Madrassa attendees deserve to be "spaced"
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Frank - or like an outhouse. Tear it down and fill in the hole. Then modernize with indoor plumbing. Maybe a sewer-connected self-flushing toilet? I think I like where your analogy leads.
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We need to rush some new orbital technology into production, Madrassa attendees deserve to be "spaced"
Much easier to cut their Achilles tendon an toss them in the Indian Ocean a few miles offshore. 100% pure organic recycling (with the help of a few underfed sharks).
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I would liken Madrassahs to prairies which are known to benefit from periodic wildfires.
Local Taliban have threatened to launch an attack on the city of Bannu if local police do not release seven of their associates. According to posters displayed by Taliban throughout the city, Bannu police have been warned to either release their fellows, or prepare for severe consequences, a private TV channel reported on Friday. Bannu police arrested seven local Taliban including commander Fazal Karim a week ago for forcefully preventing people from beating drums during a marriage ceremony.
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The boy with the knife looks barely 12. In a high-pitched voice, he denounces the bound, blindfolded man before him as an American spy. Then he hacks off the captive's head to cries of "God is great!" and hoists it in triumph by the hair.
A video circulating in Pakistan records the grisly death of Ghulam Nabi, a Pakistani militant accused of betraying a top Taliban official who was killed in a December airs trike in Afghanistan.
An Associated Press reporter confirmed Nabi's identity by visiting his family in Kili Faqiran, their remote village in southwestern Pakistan.
The video, obtained by AP Television News in the border city of Peshawar on Tuesday, appears authentic and is unprecedented in jihadist propaganda because of the youth of the executioner.
The footage shows Nabi making what is described as a confession, being blindfolded with a checkered scarf. "He is an American spy. Those who do this kind of thing will get this kind of fate," says his baby-faced executioner, who is not identified. The film, overlain with jihadi songs, then shows the boy hacking and slashing at the man's neck until the head is severed.
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This is why I don't care when it's breathlessly reported that our troops have killed "children." Nits make lice.
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How much longer must I take a beating for hoping that kids who kick around our deceased soldiers' body parts get blown to bits? Regardless of age, those who are willing to participate in such ghoulish activities need one thing only: The dirt nap.
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It isn't knives that kill people. It is ghoulish Orc brats chanting in the Black Speech while making hacking motions with knives that kill people.
And, yes, kill them when they abuse bodies of the troops. Kill them when they swarm cars. Kill them when they throw rocks. Kill their brood mothers. Kill their fathers and uncles when they march in the street or "mourn" at mass funerals. Kill all of them. But take special care to hunt down and kill this one and all its relations. Kill everyone in its village and salt the earth.
The chairman of Fallujah's city council, an outspoken critic of al-Qaida who took the job in the former Sunni insurgent stronghold after his three predecessors were assassinated, was killed in a drive-by shooting on Saturday, police said.
The assassination of Sami Abdul-Amir came as insurgents target Sunnis willing to cooperate with the U.S. and its Iraqi partners, particularly in Anbar, the volatile province that includes Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad.
Police said the 65-year-old sheik was shot to death by attackers in a passing car as he was walking outside his home. His predecessor, Abbas Ali Hussein, was shot to death on Feb. 2.
Both men were critics of al-Qaida in Iraq, which is battling a growing number of Sunni tribes that have turned against it in a violent struggle for control of Anbar a center for anti-U.S. guerrillas since the uprising in Fallujah in 2004 that galvanized the insurgency.
U.S. officials say tribal leaders and even some other insurgents are increasingly repelled by the group's brutality and religious extremism. The tribes also are competing with al-Qaida for influence and control over diminishing territory in the face of U.S. assaults.
Abdul-Amir was the only nominee to lead the 22-member council because the other potential candidates were afraid to take over the post, according to others on the panel.
Some residents, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of security concerns, said they had warned Abdul-Amir not to take the job because of the dangers involved.
Gunmen also broke into the home of Najim Abdullah Suod, the city council chief who preceded Hussein, killing him and his 23-year-old son on Sept. 24, 2006, while Sheik Kamal Nazal was gunned down as he walked to work on Feb. 7, 2006.
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Abdul-Amir was the only nominee to lead the 22-member council because the other potential candidates were afraid to take over the post, according to others on the panel.
was he a fool, or did he have balls the size of melons?
either way i hope someone fills his spot and continues his work. we need allies on the ground.
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"And so here he was, stretched out on the floor, stiff, pale, gray, and swollen in death, his spiritual adviser, Sheikh al-Rahman, lying alongside him. The men had been killed, along with two women and two small children, when an American F-16 had steered first one and then another 500-pound bomb into the house they occupied "
TF 145 caused the deaths of 4 'innocent' women and children in getting Zarqawi. To many that is unacceptable collateral damage. In the context of the article preceding this (head-chopping Tali-kid) I think it should be considered a feature and not a bug.
You took the words right out of my keyboard:) That summarizes quite nicely the whole problem with the media, progressives and other sorted ilk. War kills people, duh?
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TF 145 caused the deaths of 4 'innocent' women and children in getting Zarqawi. To many that is unacceptable collateral damage. In the context of the article preceding this (head-chopping Tali-kid) I think it should be considered a feature and not a bug.
If someone bleats about Geneva in connection to this, point out that under the Geneva Conventions, Zarqawi is responsible for the deaths of the women and children. By hiding among non-combatants, he was committing a war crime.
They'll either sputter about how we should be above all that, or that it doesn't matter, or that that's not really what the Conventions say.
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If they were in the ame house as Zarqui, they were NOT "Innocent Victims".
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IIRC one of the "children" was Zarq's young wife, aged 14, whom he used for delivering messages. Innocent child, yes. I doubt if she had any say in the matter. Zarqawi is still responsible for her death.
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The rest of you may not be, but trailing daughter #2 believes I'm too innocent to be allowed out without protectors. She keeps translating vocabulary for me, too. I keep telling her that since I found Rantburg I've learned lots of keen new words, but she just smiles gently.
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This detailed exposure of our methods and their results is disturbing. This could have waited. I am sure every senior insurgent will now have a translated copy of this article and know what to expect in interrogation. Damnit.
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This detailed exposure of our methods and their results is disturbing.
all the better reason to sub-contract the real interrogations to the egyptians.. knowing those methods won't really help you.
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Steve White & Icerigger
re: #'s 13 & 14 - Sorry, didn't mean it like that...
#12 was a slam (unfortunately lacking referential context) on the piece of puke, Chief Ward Churchill, for his ideal that no westerner (technocrat) is innocent, and therefore deserving of a 9-11 fate. The scumbags who screech and wail about the conduct of our brave, honorable, and EXTREMELY RESTRAINED US military (hey Joe M, that FELT pretty good!) in situations like Zarqs comeuppance are simply using the same disgusting strategy.
And for what its worth, just to grind it in their faces, the T-shirt Ive worn when confronting and challenging Churchill, his supporters, and the CU administration for protecting and promoting that wet bag-of-shit, displays on the back Proud American Technocrat, and on the front a photo of my high school buddy who died in the North Tower.
US forces killed eight suspected insurgents and captured 41 others in raids across Iraq on Friday, the military said. Seven suspects were killed after they fired on American troops entering a building near Mahmoudiyah, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad, the US military said in a statement. Another 15 men were detained.
In two more raids in the same city, US forces detained eight suspects and destroyed seven tanks of chlorine, the statement said. Chlorine has been used in car bombs in recent months by Sunni insurgents, mostly in Iraq's western Anbar province.
In Baghdad, one suspect was killed when US troops entered a building to disrupt a car bomb-making cell, the military said. Six suspects were detained in the raid, and troops uncovered explosives, it said. The statement added that two more suspects were also captured in another raid in Baghdad.
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I think this story is the CentCom press release from yesterday, actually picked up and published. Of course it's in an Israeli paper, not an American one.
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You're right Glenmore, but the numbers are not quite the same:
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, April 20, 2007 â Coalition forces killed 10 terrorists and detained 42 in operations throughout Iraq today, and a car bomb detonated in Baghdad yesterday, killing five Iraqis and wounding 10, military officials reported.
Near Mahmudiyah, coalition forces detained eight suspected terrorists today. Another raid uncovered a building containing seven tanks of chlorine, which coalition forces destroyed.
Seven armed terrorists were killed after they fired upon coalition forces who were entering a building today. Forces on the scene detained 15 suspected terrorists who are allegedly tied to al Qaeda in Iraq.
One armed terrorist was killed today when coalition forces entered a building in Baghdad to conduct an operation to disrupt the Baghdad car bomb network. Six suspected terrorists were detained, and coalition forces found car bomb components in the building.
Another operation in Baghdad netted two individuals with suspected ties to the Baghdad IED network. Near Mosul, coalition forces detained 10 suspected terrorists in two separate operations to disrupt the al Qaeda network in northern Iraq.
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There were a total of 10 killed. Central Command covered it in two separate pressers. AFPS normally consolidates all the pressers for one daily article.
For Terrorist Death Watch I start with MNF-Iraq and Central Command, then I check ISAF and finally AFPS. The links for Task Force 82 have been broken for weeks on the DoD sites, at least I cannot access the site.
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Don't know where the tag came from, but... Please don't call the perps Sunni insurgents. They are al Qaida. Period. Probably largely Sunni, but the latter is far more accurate and doesn't slam the peaceful Sunni who are the majority.
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Don't know where the tag came from, but... Please don't call the perps Sunni insurgents. They are al Qaida. Period. Probably largely Sunni, but the latter is far more accurate and doesn't slam the peaceful Sunni who are the majority.
noted Wholush Lumumba4246,
and I noticed that you said please.
Stick around and pick a nic, if you are an Iraqi I'm sure many would like to ask you a few questions.
re: Islamic Terrorism
One thing I'd keep in mind though 4246,
Rant-Burgers have heard every denial ten thousand times each, and ALL the excuses justifying Terrorist Acts [deeds] under the sun and moon.
Masked gunmen have detonated explosives at the American International School in Gaza, causing damage but no casualties, Palestinian security officials say. The attack happened before the start of school when the buildings were empty. Several security guards at the site were overpowered but were not harmed by the attackers.
The school is part of an association of American schools in the Middle East, but US embassy officials say it has no connection with the US government. Foreign teachers at the private school, which has 150 pupils, left last year after two of them, the Dutch head teacher and an Australian teacher, were briefly kidnapped by Palestinian militants in March 2006.
The school, located at the northern end of Gaza City, was attacked by the unknown militants at about 0500 (0200 GMT) on Saturday. The assailants overpowered and tied up the guards and then detonated a series of bombs in various locations around the school causing extensive damage. The militants also stole computers and other equipment before making their escape.
The current school head, Dr Iyad Saraj, said whoever was behind the attack was an "enemy of the Palestinian people". He vowed that the attack would not prevent the school from continuing in its efforts to educate. "We will continue teaching in our school even if we have to do so under canvas," he said.
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If we cannot summon sufficient collective will required for bringing the Palestinians to some sort of accounting for their evils, then we must at least barricade them inside their pestilential shitholes and let them devour themselves. It is difficult in the extreme to imagine a more worthless collection of vicious and barbaric thugs than this group of relentless killers.
A bomb went off near a section of the security fence next to Beit Shemesh on Friday morning, lightly wounding a nearby tractor driver. The medium-sized bomb was apparently planted in a vineyard close to the fence. Police found fliers attacking the Gay Pride Parade expected to take place in Jerusalem in June.
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Open link and look at that kid in blue tee-shirt. Does that look like a potential school-shooter or what? Also, what are the chances of a Gay Pride parade in say, Saudi or Kuwait or Yemen? I'd actually fly first class to go to Riyahd and watch that blood bath.
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Fred Phelps?
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A roadside bomb killed three soldiers and wounded one seriously in Thailand's Muslim-majority far south on Saturday, a day after Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont visited the region, police said. One soldier was killed instantly and two died later in hospital. Another soldier was being treated for serious head wounds, a hospital official said.
The soldiers were in a Humvee on patrol in Pattani, one of three provinces in the Muslim deep south, when the buried pipe bomb exploded as they drove past, police said.
On a tour of the deep south on Friday, Surayud said he supported a move to offer some sort of amnesty to the insurgents, but details of the idea floated by local army commanders were unclear. "We should give it careful consideration and that is what the government is doing," he told reporters.
Surayud has vowed not to reverse a softly-softly approach to resolving the insurgency despite growing calls on the government to take tougher action against the militants after the savage murder of a Buddhist woman earlier this month. "We will seek to establish peaceful dialogue with good people and deal with the bad people through the legal process. We will not resort to measures outside the law in tackling this problem," Surayud said.
Insurgents opened fire on a group of soldiers guarding a monk during morning alms rounds in the restive South on Saturday morning. No one was injured in the shootout.
Police said three insurgents opened fire on four soldiers who were guarding a monk on a road in Rangae district of Narathiwat. The soldiers immediately returned fire. The shooting went on for about five minutes before the insurgents fled, according to police. The monk, from Wat Sangkatitaram, was then quickly brought back to the temple.
In Pattani, insurgents set fire to a schoolhouse in Ban Kohchan in Mayo district on Saturday morning. The fire partly damaged the school as firemen were able to control the flame within half an hour.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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More than 30 civilians have been killed and 200 wounded in two days of fighting between Ethiopian troops and Islamist insurgents in the Somali capital, elders said Friday.
April 20, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates faces delicate talks with his Russian counterpart, Anatoly Serdyukov, when he travels to Moscow on April 23. Gates will attempt to allay Russia's opposition to U.S. plans to deploy elements of a missile-defense shield in Poland and the Czech Republic. 
Police trying to search a suspected hide-out for Islamic extremists in southern Serbia came under attack and killed one of the suspects, authorities said Friday. Officers were attempting to search the suspected safe house of a leader of a local group of Muslims following the extreme Wahhabi branch of Sunni Islam. A hand grenade was thrown at the officers, injuring one of them. Police said they responded with machine-gun fire, killing one of the men inside, injuring another and arresting a third.
An Ontario journalist was beaten up and threatened with death this week in what is being called a revenge attack for publishing articles critical of a Pakistan-based Muslim group, the Toronto Star reported.
Fresh gunbattles between militants and government troops in the revolt-hit Indian Kashmir left two dead on Friday and sparked a noisy demonstration, police and residents said. Indian soldiers killed two militants during an early morning skirmish in southern Pulwama, army spokesman AK Mathur said.
Unidentified men fired a rocket at the residence of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman in Dera Ismail Khan, but there were no casualties, Aaj television reported on Friday night. 
The boy with the knife looks barely 12. In a high-pitched voice, he denounces the bound, blindfolded man before him as an American spy. Then he hacks off the captive's head to cries of "God is great!" and hoists it in triumph by the hair. 
US forces killed eight suspected insurgents and captured 41 others in raids across Iraq on Friday, the military said. Seven suspects were killed after they fired on American troops entering a building near Mahmoudiyah, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad, the US military said in a statement. Another 15 men were detained. 
