About those Special Forces Marines in Afgan --
JACKSONVILLE, N.C. Photos of shot-up military vehicles and a classified Army intelligence report confirm that a group of spec-ops Marines was attacked with small-arms fire during a March 4 ambush in Afghanistan, according to the Marines attorneys.
Those claims directly contradict public statements made by the top special operations officer in the region, who said the Afghans who were killed at the site of the ambush were innocent, and that there was no evidence that members of the Marine special operations company took small-arms fire from Afghans after the Marines were ambushed by a car bomb.
Marine Corps Times interviewed five of the seven defense attorneys believed to be representing Marines in this case. Ive looked at the photographs of the [Marine] vehicles, and there are bullet holes, said Mark Waple, an attorney representing the units former company commander, a major who was relieved of duty April 3. There are multiple impact sites on the vehicle. The photographs confirm what [my client] is telling me.
Waple said he has studied pictures of at least two different vehicles in the convoy, which was struck by a car bomb that began an incident that set off an international stir after at least 10 Afghan civilians were killed in the fighting. We know they took fire because there are holes in the vehicles, said Charles Gittins, an attorney for a sergeant wounded during the attack. They were on the run from a complex, planned attack.
Victor Kelley, an attorney hired by a gunnery sergeant in the company, said he has solid information that the platoon took small-arms fire. He declined to discuss details of that information. I think, once the entire story comes out, it will be incontrovertible that they took small-arms fire, Kelley said. Im certain of that.
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Marine Corp's new special operations unit, Army 2-star, difficult-to-judge combat situation - sounds like an Army general not wanting competition for HIS special forces, and using this as a way to get them out of his territory. If this is true, he needs to retire as a butter-bar - next week.
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Something smelled funny from the git go. Why would one shitcan the entire unit and expel them from the country? Somethings not right here.
(SomaliNet) The interim government troops along with the Ethiopian forces Monday raided the biggest weapons market in Somalia capital Mogadishu known as Irtog-te taking away weapons and ammunitions. Witnesses told Somalinet that the Ethiopian soldiers ambushed the market breaking two weapons warehouses. One of the businessmen who asked not to be named said the Ethiopians were informed about the weapons.
The weapons dealers expressed concern over the move in which the Ethiopian soldiers searched the market and took over the arms. No word yet from the Somalias government officials on the Ethiopian move of confiscating the weapons.
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BBC > AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ACCUSES RUSSIA, CHINA OF UN "WEAPONS BREACH". Arming the bad guys while lying to the UNO.
(SomaliNet) A roadside bomb damaged a police pickup truck near the presidential palace in Mogadishu causing human casualties, reports say on Monday. The attack was aimed at the Ethiopian backed Somalia interim government. The casualties were policemen who were removed from the car as witnesses confirmed to Somalinet. I saw five men with blood everywhere on their body. At least three seemed dead because they were not moving at all, said Asho Ali, a resident.
The incident happened around 12:50pm local time in Wardhigley neighborhood when a big explosion rocked the area. No one has claimed the responsibility of the blast so far. Shortly after the blast government soldier cordoned the area firing shots in the sky to disperse the crowds. Unconfirmed reports say that the fired shots killed two persons around the area.
No one has been arrested for the bomb but the security forces began searching houses and cars near the scene. The city enjoyed relative calm after insurgents were defeated a week ago. Most of southern Somalia is now under the control of the interim government.
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(SomaliNet) The Ugandan peacekeepers guarding the main seaport of Mogadishu have foiled Monday an attempt of suicide attack aimed to explode inside the port, reliable sources say. AU peacekeeping soldiers today arrested a suspected man who was trying the bomb the port. The man was taken into custody. The Ugandan soldiers outside of the port captured the man who was confirmed to be a suicide bomber as he was attempting to explode the seaport. It is the first time that Ugandan peacekeepers arrested a man who wanted to explode himself. The Ugandan soldiers are the only African Union peacekeepers in Somalia and control the main seaport and airport in Mogadishu.
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He was brought to the court on completion of his seven-day remand in connection with bomb blasts at a CPB rally at Paltan in the capital on January 20, 2001. In the forwarding report, CID Inspector Anwar Hossain mentioned that Tasnim gave important information about the bomb explosions. So, he should be confined to jail custody until the investigation of the case completes, the IO said. Seeking a ten-day remand for Tasnim in connection with the Ramna bomb blast case, IO Abu Hena said Tasnim is an active member of JMB and vital clue will be found out if he is quizzed. Ten people died and several others were injured on April 14, 2001 when bombs went off at Ramna Batamul during the Bengali New year's celebrations.
This article starring:
ABDULLAH AL TASNIM
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
CID Inspector Abu Hena Mohammad Yusuf
CID Inspector Anwar Hossain
Metropolitan Magistrate Mir Ali Reza
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
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An underground operative was killed in an encounter with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Ataikula upazila of the district yesterday.
Yeah, that's normally the case.
The outlaw was identified as Abdur Rob, 35, a regional leader of Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-Janajuddho).
Another commie bites the dust
Acting on a tip-off, A Rab team raided Goaishbari School premise at Goaishbari village at around 7:00pm where Rob and his accomplices were holding a meeting.
Attending one of those fine continuing education programs, I'm sure.
The outlaws opened fire on the Rab men, forcing the law enforcers to retaliate. Rab sources said Rob received bullets during the "shootout" and died instantly
The PBCP leader was wanted in more than 12 systems cases including eight for murder, the sources added. A gun and eight bullets were recovered from the spot.
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Speedy Trial Tribunal Court-1 in Dhaka on Sunday noon framed charge against four JMB men including Fahima Farjana, wife of executed militant kingpin Siddiqul Islam Bangla Bhai, in the case filed for December 8, 2005 bomb blast in front of Udichi office in the district town, Netrakona police said. The three other accused are -- Asaduzzaman Asad alias Panir, Salauddin alias Sohel, and Yunus Ali alias Kawsar Ahmed, an absconder. Asaduzzaman, Fahima and Salauddin were produced before the court.
This is the first time a charge has been framed against Fahima. Eight people were killed and 50 others injured in a suicide bomb blast in front of Netrakona Udichi office on December 8 in 2005.
This article starring:
ASADUZZAMAN ASAD ALIAS PANIR
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
FAHIMA FARJANA
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
SALAUDIN ALIAS SOHEL
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
SIDIQUL ISLAM BANGLA BHAI
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
YUNUS ALI ALIAS KAWSAR AHMED
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
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Assemblyman Sean Kean today said the planned terrorist attack on Fort Dix by six Islamic terrorists that was foiled last night by federal authorities should provide ample evidence of why he has continued to fight for a need-based system of distributing state homeland security dollars. Luckily in this instance law enforcement officials were able to thwart this possible terrorist attack before it got off the ground, said Kean, R-Monmouth. But hopefully this will serve as a reminder that we need to remain ever vigilant against these threats and that one way to do so is to ensure we are wisely utilizing our state homeland security dollars.
Kean has been leading the effort over the past three years to put a stop to the practice under past administrations through which more than $20 million of homeland security funds meant for local police, fire, and first aid officials was handed out based purely on politics.
In New Jersey? I'm shocked, shocked!
From 2002 through 2005, $21.3 million of the $22.9 million in grants 93 percent of the total went to towns in Democrat-controlled legislative districts. Police chiefs and public safety directors in towns throughout the state were encouraged to submit applications for the funds, but those applications were discarded without serious consideration by officials who put politics ahead of public safety.
Fort Dix is located in the 8th and 30th Legislative Districts, and adjacent to the 9th Legislative District. Those districts were largely ignored in the funding process presumably due to their Republican representation in the Legislature. There are reports the terrorists were also looking at Fort Monmouth as a potential target. Last month it was revealed that many towns which did receive funding under this program, apparently never needed or cared to utilized those funds. New Jersey municipalities have forfeited $2.78 million in homeland security grants for failing to use those dollars.
We have homeland security dollars that have been squandered and now reclaimed by the state and we should put those dollars to good use, said Kean. We can correct the mistakes of the past by allowing towns snubbed in the last grant process to seek these much needed funds and then actually awarding dollars based on the merit of those applications.
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I don't disagree with the assemblyman, just technically, fort protection ought not be a homeland security responsibility. In fact in this case, I don't really see where DoHS money would have been particulaly useful. An alert citizen called the FBI, the FBI and the military took the matter seriously, and I presume most of the costs were paid by the feds.
Perhaps the HS funding will cover Governor Corzine's motorcade helicopter ride to the press conference...
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Republican STATES don't need as much protection money, because if they are not encumbered by Democrat gun control laws (like New Jersey) Republicans are willing and able to assume a lot of protection duty themselves, at no cost.
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fort protection ought not be a homeland security responsibility.
It isn't that which he wants money for. It's for first-responders and civilian medical facilities. I don't think Ft.Dix has a full-blown hospital capable of handling mass casualties.
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Fort Dix's medical facilities, while excellent during the Cold War, is geared mainly for recruit processing-health and regional unit mobilization. IMO THIS INCIDENT + KEAN'S COMMENTS IS JUST EVER MORE EVIDENCIA THAT THE WOT > WAR TO THE DEATH = WAR AGAINST AMERICA = WAR FOR ANTI-US SOCIALISM, etal. collusory or inter-linked National-Global agendas, WHICH AMER CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE. In the LT end, what will matter most for mainstream Amers ARE WHAT FREEDOMS-RIGHTS WILL BE GIVEN BACK TO THE PEOPLE BY GOVT = PUBLIC AUTHORITIES ONCE THIS WOT IS WON. It doesn't matter to Amer's enemies, including but not limited to anti-Amer Americans = Amerikans, the USSA = SSR/USR, iff America voluntarily or unilaterally adopts [anti-US]OWG and Commie-Socie World Order, or is FORCED to do so by the "World/International Community". NORTH KOREA, etc = Amer Global SSR/USR [OIL STORM] > are PCorrectly = Diplomatically belabeled as independent, sovereignm abdor "democratic"m etc. despite being covertly de facto controlled/
dominated by another State(s). ARE A SLAVE-PEON WHOM JUST ISN'T BEING "LEGALLY" CALLED A SLAVE OR PEON.
UPDATED: May 8 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. authorities arrested six men identified as ``Islamic radicals'' on charges of plotting to kill American soldiers at the Fort Dix Army base in New Jersey. The men were arrested last night and charged with conspiring to use machine guns and other weapons in a planned attack that was thwarted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. They scouted military bases, trained with weapons and discussed killing soldiers, according to a complaint filed in federal court in Camden, New Jersey.
``There is no evidence that they received direction from an international terrorism organization,'' White House spokesman Tony Snow said today. ``There is no direct evidence of a foreign terrorist plot.''
Another case of SJS = Sudden Jihad Syndrome
The arrests followed a 15-month undercover investigation by the FBI that began after an individual went to a retail store seeking to make a copy of a DVD depicting 10 young men shooting assault weapons while shouting ``God is Great'' in Arabic, according to a complaint filed yesterday in Camden. On Jan. 31, 2006, a store official notified the FBI about the DVD, the complaint said. Federal agents used two informants to record meetings and phone calls with the suspects as they weighed attacks on several military bases before settling on Fort Dix, the complaint said. The base, in central New Jersey, is located about 20 miles from the state capital in Trenton.
Four of the suspects were born in the former Yugoslavia, one is from Jordan and another from Turkey, according to Michael Drewniak, a spokesman for U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie. The six men are scheduled for an initial appearance today in Camden federal court. Christie will hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. in Camden.
One of the FBI informants, identified in the complaint as CW-1, developed a relationship with Mohamad Shnewer, one of the accused men, federal authorities said. Shnewer gave the informant a DVD with ``various jihadist images,'' according to the complaint. Shnewer told the informant to review two other video files stored on his laptop computer, including ``what appears to be the last will and testament of at least two of the hijackers'' involved in the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the complaint said. Another video showed ``images of Osama bin Laden and other Islamic extremists making various speeches in which the speakers call the viewer to join the jihadist movement,'' court papers said.
Besides Shnewer, the complaint identifies the suspects as Serdar Tatar, Dritan Duka, Eljvir Duka, Shain Duka, and Agron Abdullahu. The alleged conspirators believed that Abdullahu was a sniper in Kosovo and that CW-1 had experience in the Egyptian military, the complaint said. Shnewer showed the other informant, CW-2, ``a number of videos'' on his laptop that ``depicted armed attacks on and the killing of United States military personnel,'' the complaint said.
At meetings with CW-1 in early August, Shnewer said that he, Tatar and the three Dukas were part of a group planning to attack a U.S. military base, specifically Fort Dix, and a nearby naval base, the complaint said. Schnewer said six or seven jihadists could kill at least 100 soldiers by using rocket-propelled grenades or other weapons, and that they could train in the Pocono Mountains in Pennsylvania, according to court papers. ``Shnewer also said that he and others in the group had saved money to pay for the weapons and that they were not afraid to die,'' the complaint said.
A few days later, CW-2 asked Shnewer ``what made him think of Fort Dix as a target,'' the complaint said. Shnewer replied: ``My intent is to hit a heavy concentration of soldiers.'' In mid-August 2006, Shnewer and CW-1 scouted the Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey and the Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, the complaint said.
The informants recorded many conversations with the Dukas as they discussed plans to buy rocket-powered grenades and machine guns, the complaint said. Tatar told CW-1 that he would get a map of Fort Dix from his father's pizzeria near the facility. The Duka brothers rented a house in Gouldsboro, Pennsylvania, and traveled there in early February with Abdullahu to practice firing the weapons, the complaint said.
CW-2 met with Dritan and Shain Duka on March 10, when the informant asked about Tatar, the complaint said. ``Shain Duka explained that Tatar wanted to join the U.S. Army so that he could kill U.S. soldiers from the `inside,''' the complaint said. ``When CW-2 asked about Tatar again, Dritan Duka remarked, `He had only one mind, how to kill American soldiers.''' The Dukas later said that, ``rather than waging jihad overseas, they could do so in the United States,'' the complaint said.
The case is USA v. Dritan Duka, 07-m-2046, U.S. District Court, District of New Jersey (Camden).
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Jan. 3, 2006: Dritan Duka, Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, Eljvir Duka, Shain Duka and Serdar Tatar conduct firearms training in Gouldsboro, Pa., 30 miles southeast of Scranton.
Jan. 31, 2006: The FBI investigation is triggered when a retail video store representative informs agents that someone brought in a video to be duplicated as a DVD. The video depicts the Jan. 3 weapons training session by young men in militia-like garb shouting jihadist chants.
March 2006: A "cooperating witness" infiltrates the group by developing a relationship with Shnewer.
April 14, 2006: The cooperating witness records a meeting with Shnewer in which Shnewer said they need to view a video in private because "it's about something that could lead to prison."
May 26, 2006: The cooperating witnesses is asked to view DVD files on Shnewer's laptop computer, including a file, labeled "19," containing what appears to be the last will and testament of at least two of the 19 Sept. 11, 2001, hijackers.
July 7, 2006: A second cooperating witness is approached by six men, one of whom identifies himself as "Sulayman," a name used by Eljvir Duka.
July 28, 2006: During a meeting with the three Dukas, the second cooperating witness learns that the brothers keep their firearms with Eljvir Duka's brother-in-law, Shnewer, and an individual named "Agim," whom authorities identify as Agron Abdullahu.
July 29, 2006: The second cooperating witness is shown videos from Shnewer's laptop computer depicting armed attacks on U.S. military personnel.
Aug. 11, 2006: Shnewer travels to Fort Dix and Fort Monmouth to conduct surveillance.
Aug. 13, 2006: Shnewer travels to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware and the U.S. Coast Guard Building in Philadelphia to conduct surveillance.
Nov. 28, 2006: Tatar acquires a map of Fort Dix, labeled "Cantonment Area Fort Dix, N.J.," to be distributed to the others.
Jan. 31, 2007: Dritan Duka, Shain Duka and Eljvir Duka collect weapons, including handguns, shotguns and semi-automatic assault weapons to be used in small arms training.
Feb. 1, 2007: Dritan Duka, Shain Duka and Eljvir Duka travel by car from New Jersey to Pennsylvania to conduct firearms training.
Feb. 2, 2007: Dritan Duka, Shain Duka and Eljvir Duka conduct firearms training at Gouldsboro, Pa.
Feb. 26, 2007: Dritan Duka and Eljvir Duka conduct tactical training in Cherry Hill.
March 15, 2007: Dritan Duka and Shain Duka conduct tactical training in Cherry Hill.
April 6, 2007: Dritan Duka orders four AK-47 Kalishnikov fully automatic machine guns, as well as M-16 firearms and handguns.
April 27, 2007: Shnewer orders an AK-47 Kalishnikov fully automatic machine gun.
May 7, 2007: Federal investigators arrest the three Dukas, Shnewer, Tatar and Abdullahu, after several of them are lured to a meeting with a secret FBI informant posing as an arms-seller.
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WASHINGTON, May 8 /Standard Newswire/ -- Attached is the criminal complaint unsealed today in U.S. District Court in New Jersey in connection with the alleged Fort Dix terror plot. Attachment A to the complaint is virtually the same for all defendants.
There is a press conference scheduled for 2:30 PM today at the Federal Courthouse in Camden, New Jersey, to discuss the case.
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The phrase "conduct tactical training in Cherry Hill" in freakin' hilarious.
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"The FBI investigation is triggered when a retail video store representative informs agents that someone brought in a video to be duplicated as a DVD. The video depicts the Jan. 3 weapons training session by young men in militia-like garb shouting jihadist chants."
"It doesn't matter to me whether I get locked up, arrested or get taken away," a suspect identified as Serdar Tatar said in another recorded conversation. "Or I die, it doesn't matter. I'm doing it in the name of Allah."
Another suspect, Eljvir Duka, was recorded saying: "In the end, when it comes to defending your religion, when someone is trying to attack your religion, your way of life, then you go jihad."
White House spokesman Tony Snow said Tuesday there is "no direct evidence" that the men had ties to international terrorism.
This talk about "Allah" and going "jihad" is the evidence of the tie to international terrorism. Maybe it'll take another 6 years for the MSM and the electorate to figger that out.
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The scary part is, pizza delivery folks blend into the scenery and become invisible; all bases have pizzerias nearby and they all make deliveries, and i am willing to bet that 95% never check the fat insulated blanketed bags that the 'pizzas' are in; ou could get a lot of firepower through the gate and recon by the DOminos boy would identify spots to stash same if you wanted to build up an arsenal. It would be a simple matter to have 2 ride in and only 1 ride out. repeat a couple of times ( say friday or saturday night) and come monday you could have enough bad guys on the ground to do some hurt. the local NAS has enough wooded areas that a couple of guys could hide for 48 hours and there are probably other bases that have similiar areas that could offer concealment.
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I expect CAIR to launch a class action suit against "racism" dvd rental operators for reporting their co-"religion"ists to the authorities. I further expect the ACLU to back them and every arts and social science "professor" in the country to agree.
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"Or if I die, it doesn't matter. I'm doing it in the name of Allah."
Shoot him in the name of allan.
Wait a New York minute. The donks said there was no war on terrorism. I heard em all say it during the debates [ I guess because they agreed to surrender.]
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I'm curious, supposed a group like this does attack an army base. Do our troops have ammo for their weapons in their barracks? So that they can actually defend themselves or do they still keep it elsewhere?
In a criminal complaint filed this morning, an FBI agent writes that "SERDAR TATAR's father owned a restaurant near Fort Dix and made deliveries onto the base." The father, owner of Super Mario's Restaurant, told ABCNews.com today that his staff often made pizza deliveries on to the base and to the nearby McGuire Air Force Base.
According to the complaint, Tatar "described a place at Fort Dix they could target that would cause a power outage and allow for an easier attack on the military personnel there."
Tatar's father told ABCNews.com he talked to his son only yesterday, and there was no indication of anything unusual, no indication that his 24-year-old son harbored a deep hatred of the United States. "Theres something wrong here," the father said. "I came here from Turkey in 1992, and this is my country. I love this country." He said his son had not worked at the restaurant for at least a year, and he believed his son was working at a 7-11 convenience store in Philadelphia.
The criminal complaint tells a much different story, describing Tatar as suspicious of the FBI's undercover operative who infiltrated the group. Last November, Tatar allegedly contacted a sergeant in the Philadelphia police department to check the name of the undercover informant.
The restaurant's chef, Joseph Hofflinger, 35, quit today after finding out the news that the owner of Super Mario's Pizza was the father of one of the suspected terrorists. When asked by reporters why he quit, Hofflinger said, "Because I won't work for somebody that has any ties or admission to terrorists." He continued, "My son is in the 82nd Airborne. I won't work for a place that supports terrorism so I'm out."
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From WNBC television:
basic biographical information on the men accused of plotting a terror attack on soldiers in Fort Dix, N.J.:
NAME: Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer.
AGE: 22; Born in Jordan.
HOME: Cherry Hill, N.J.
OCCUPATION: Drives a cab in Philadelphia.
IMMIGRATION STATUS: U.S. citizen.
NAME: Dritan Duka.
AGE: 28; Born in the former Yugoslavia. Ethnic Albanian.
HOME: Cherry Hill, N.J.
IMMIGRATION STATUS: In United States illegally.
OCCUPATION: Operates Colonial Roofing and National Roofing, which list business address at the home of his brothers, Eljvir and Shain Duka.
NAME: Shain Duka.
AGE: 26; Born January 1981 in the former Yugoslavia. Ethnic Albanian.
LIVES: Cherry Hill, N.J.
IMMIGRATION STATUS: In United States illegally.
OCCUPATION: Operates roofing businesses with his brothers.
NAME: Eljvir Duka.
ALIASES: Elvis Duka, Sulayman.
AGE: 23; Born in the former Yugoslavia. Ethnic Albanian.
LIVES: Cherry Hill, N.J.
IMMIGRATION STATUS: In United States illegally.
OCCUPATION: Operates roofing businesses with his brothers.
NAME: Serdar Tatar.
AGE: 23; Born in Turkey.
HOME: Philadelphia.
IMMIGRATION STATUS: Legal U.S. resident.
OCCUPATION: Works at a 7-Eleven store in Philadelphia.
NAME: Agron Abdullahu.
AGE: 24; Born September 1982 in the former Yugoslavia. Ethnic Albanian.
LIVES: Buena Vista Township, N.J.
IMMIGRATION STATUS: Legal U.S. resident.
OCCUPATION: Works at a Shop-Rite supermarket.
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"NAME: Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer. Born in Jordan. IMMIGRATION STATUS: U.S. citizen"
Try him, convict him, revoke his citizenship, and then shoot his sorry ass.
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Do our troops have ammo for their weapons in their barracks?
Nope. Ammo would be locked up in the armory and only issued before going to the range. Over at Ft. Lee (just down the road), the trainees walk around with dummy rifles, so they don't kill each other. And the gate guards are contact civilians, not even MPs. That's pretty common on all stateside bases thanks to the "Peace Dividend". Yes, your United States Military is protected by Rent-A-Cops.
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1 I'm curious, supposed a group like this does attack an army base. Do our troops have ammo for their weapons in their barracks? So that they can actually defend themselves or do they still keep it elsewhere?
Oh, maybe a hundred years ago. You can see picture of weapons racks on the barracks floors. However, today, they're all kept locked up in the arms room, behind bars, chained to racks. Accountability you know. Ammo is stored at a separate facility and pulled only when needed for specific and scheduled training. You know you just can't trust those kids.
And there are rules for keeping private weapons in post/base housing too.
The military police are armed and locked and loaded. Not to be confused with the 'hire a guard' that now performs the gate checks at the road entrance points to the installation. Not that someone at night couldn't just climb over a fence at some point and be in the barracks/housing area without much confrontation and be unloading before serious counter action can be applied.
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I suspect the two informants were Muslim too. Both were seemingly trusted by the Islamists, which would not have happened if they were not 'good' Muslims. Yet they really were good American Muslims, and ratted out the Islamists to the feds. My question is, "How many other American Muslims were exposed to this plot but chose to remain quiet and betray their country rather than 'betray' Islam and call authorities.
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According to my learned exegesis of the Holy Quran, Fort Dix may be the home of Gog and Magog, the great challengers to Allah at the End of Days. It is a legitimate target of Muslim rage. There is no "america." Sovereignty rests in a Muslim's shoes. Wherever we are, is the House of Islam. I didn't move from secular occupied Egypt to sick America in order to share perverse American values; I am here to impose Islam on you savages. Nothing you can do will stop Muslims from taking over the entire world. There will be no more "presidents"; there will be a Khalif, forcing slaves of Allah to live according to His Rules, as transmitted by His Messenger, Mohammad (Peace Be Upon Him). War be upon America, until it falls.
FYI: I am employed by a US university, but I am employed by Allah. Jihad is the way.
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Boris, is that you? We've missed you during your absence.
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I wish they wouldn't have announced it was the Store Owner who turned them in. Now other terrorist scum around the nation will know better then to do this stupid move.
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FYI: I am employed by a US university, but I am employed by Allah. Jihad is the way.
That's good, Mo. Could you slap a little gravy on those mashed potatoes while you're waiting for the Jihad?
Nah. Our houses are under God, not that Shaytan Allach. You can boast and you can attack and you can impose, but you cannot overpower a loving God. In the end, slavery never wins. In the end, love always wins.
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From a faraway land, he came to cast out the demons from our noses, and to make sure we don't have cucumbers and tomatoes in the same salad. Heed his message, for it is The Wisdom Of Allan.
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IMO don't think they would've gotten very far into the base even iff they tried - this is FORT DIX, one of the US Army's best and most secure, highly disciplined installations.
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How long before CAIR, MSM, Surrendercrats and fellow travelers spin this as a case of entrapment of another little group of stupid, hopelessly inept wannabees, all set up to give the Bushies something to talk about.
NEW YORK -- Six men from New Jersey have been arrested in an alleged terror plot against soldiers at Fort Dix, according investigators.
Investigators said the men planned to use automatic weapons to enter Fort Dix and kill as many soldiers as they could at the N.J. base. Fort Dix was just one of several military and security locations allegedly scouted by this group, authorities said.
Investigators told Newschannel 4's Jonathan Dienst that these arrests are the result of a tip to the FBI and use of an informant to track the suspects. The terror suspects traveled over the last several months from New Jersey to the Poconos where they practiced firing automatic weapons, investigators said.
Investigators said the group discussed targeting numerous locations like Dover Air base, Fort Monmouth and several Coast Guard stations before deciding on Fort Dix as their intended target. Fort Dix is run in part by the Army and is a reserve-training center, but active units take part in training, including some which focuses on counter-terrorism.
It is not clear how far along the alleged terror plot was, or when investigators first learned about it. Investigators said the group of suspects have been discussing and planning for much of the last year. They allegedly pooled their savings to pay for the operation that investigators said targeted soldiers stationed here at home.
The six suspects arrested Monday night will face terror conspiracy charges. Three of the men are brothers, all believed to be islamic radicals. Authorities have told Newschannel 4 that some of the men were born in Albania and the former Yugoslavia. Investigators said most of the suspects have spent several years here in the U.S.
Some of the group's alleged planning was caught on video and audio tape, investigators said.
Spokesmen for U.S. Attorney Chris Christie and the FBI in New Jersey and Philadelphia could not be reached for a comment.
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Authorities have told Newschannel 4 that some of the men were born in Albania and the former Yugoslavia. Investigators said most of the suspects have spent several years here in the U.S.
Albania and Bosnia - the gifts that keep on giving.
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Authorities were alerted in January 2006 after the terror suspects traveled to the Poconos for a training excercise where they practiced firing automatic weapons, investigators said. ...the suspects tried to have a their training video tape converted to DVD at a store in Cherry Hill, N.J., but the store owner alerted authorities.
Can't make up my mind whether these guys should be tried as terrorists, or just shot for sheer stupidity...
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At least they were going after a true military target, instead of a mall.
That's about all the positive I have for those idiots.
Bosnia, biggest mistake, EVER.
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Just goes to show what a good idea it is to continue allowing Muslims into US. Let a few of the nutcases congregate and bad things are bound to happen.
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What is interesting is that these yahoos were plannig this for quite a while. They were sloppy in the way the trained and attempted to acquire weapons. Maybe Al Queda is having a difficult time recruiting quality jihadis? If these were professionals they might have been a lot closer to execution (God forbid). Anyone remember the yahoo who simply stood outside CIA HQ one morning blasting away at employees?
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This is South Jersey where all this is goin' down, remember; these idiots will probably end up as part of some bridge pylon somewhere in Camden-- or in a landfill in Secaucus.
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My first impression is that the gentlemen were self-recruited, using information (and a video tape) they'd downloaded from the internet, or got from someone back home, where tapes are the common visual format -- not DVDs. As much Sudden Jihad Syndrome as the chap who drove a rented SUV the crowd sitting outside the student union at that university in South Carolina ... apparently he'd been planning to do that for at least a year, but waiting until he completed his degree first.
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Moderate Muslims slugging it out in a modern world. Perhaps cat goat houses should be made available for these poor lads.
And, once again, we are on the correct wavelength, while the donks are blind, deaf, and dumb.
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FoxNews: The suspects were scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Camden later Tuesday.
A news conference was scheduled for 2:30 p.m. at the U.S. District Courthouse in Camden.
The men were identified in court papers as Mohamad Ibrahim Shnewer, Dritan Duka, Eljvir Duka, Shain Duka, Serdar Tatar and Agron Abdullahu. Checks with Immigration and Customs Enforcement show that Dritan Duka, Eljvir Duka and Shain Duka are illegally living in the United States, according to FBI complaints unsealed with their arrests. Five of them lived in Cherry Hill, about 10 miles east of Philadelphia and 20 miles southwest of Fort Dix, Drewniak said.
The suspects were described as "Islamic radicals" by Greg Reinert, a spokesman for the United States Attorney's Office. A law enforcement source told FOX News that all of the suspects are recent converts and were not born Muslims.
Officials said four of the men were born in the former Yugoslavia, one in Jordan and one in Turkey. All had lived in the United States for years. Three were in the United States illegally, two had work permits, and the other is a U.S. citizen.
The FBI was tipped off in early 2006 after someone brought a video to a store to be copied onto DVD, according to the agency's criminal complaint. The video showed 10 men, including the six arrested, shooting assault weapons in militia style and calling for jihad, the complaint said. [Not downloaded from the internet or sent from back home. Just home movies of the lads at play.]
U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., said U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie told him one of the suspects had a job delivering pizzas to the base and used that opportunity to scout out the possible attack. Smith said the men had been under surveillance for 16 months. State Police Capt. Al Della Fave said much of the information obtained in the case came from cell-phone conversations and Internet chats. The Star-Ledger of Newark reported that the men had agreed to buy AK-47 assault rifles from an arms dealer who was secretly cooperating with the FBI.
Republican U.S. Rep. James Saxton, who represents Fort Dix, said, "This serves as a stark reminder that the threat of jihadists around the world and even here at home is very, very real. It is not a threat that exists only in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East."
AP adds: The men were arrested Monday trying to buy automatic weapons in a sale setup by law enforcement authorities who had been investigating the men, the official said.
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And to think they could just have bought a VHS-DVD converter at Wally World & avoided the attention of the video store owner.
BTW, how many other plots are in various stages all over the US at the moment?
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A law enforcement source told FOX News that all of the suspects are recent converts and were not born Muslims.
Oh, really?
Officials said four of the men were born in the former Yugoslavia, one in Jordan and one in Turkey.
Couple of those infamous Turkish/Jordanian Methodists?
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I'm convince that any practicing muslim would be happier somewhere else, like Haiti.
It sure wouldn't hurt to give your theory a try, bk.
That video store guy was brave.
Credit given where credit is due, Sf.
Whatever is done with theses clowns, it should be something that would make a Roman puke.
And no feathers allowed.
The video showed 10 men, including the six arrested, shooting assault weapons in militia style and calling for jihad
Where are the other four? Much more importantly, during the 16 months of surveillance, did the FBI bother to make note of what Muslim-owned stores were patronized by the perps?
They allegedly pooled their savings to pay for the operation that investigators said targeted soldiers stationed here at home.
While internet traffic records may help to determine who financed what, the FBI also needs to investigate all Muslim-owned places of business that these thugs patronized. The halawa network is alive and well in the USA and provides a perfect clandestine source of financing for this exact sort of terrorist operation. America desperately needs to focus on dismantling this underground Islamic money transfer system.
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New Jersey seems to have a muslim problem. Mohammed Atta and the 911 mass murderers, the anthrax follow on attacks, the plot to blow up the Citibank and Prudential buildings, and now this. I'm beginning the doubt the whole "islam is peace" mantra.
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Release my arrested brothers, now! They are innocent by Allah's law. Jihad is like breathing to a Muslim. We will not be judged by sick American kaffir law that allows women to expose their breasts. Allah knows best.
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So we have three illegal Muslim immigrants, two legal Muslim immigrants and one Muslim U.S. citizen arrested for involvement in this plot.
Can someone explain to me exactly how it benefits us to allow more of these security risks into America?
Don't we already have enough surly cab drivers who might snap at any moment?
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Zenster - I'd also be interested in which mosques they visited, and who was "brainwashing preaching"
You're absolutely right, OP. If the imam of the mosque these perps attended is here on a visa, revoke his paperwork and slingshot the sucker back to whatever Islamic hellhole utopia he came from.
There needs to be a set of penalties imposed upon the muslim community for incubating terrorism. First and foremost is the clerical class. They are singlehandedly responsible for so much of the carnage and atrocities. Even a whiff of suspicion should be enough to get these sick fucks deported. As to Islam's clerical aristocracy, they should be executed in as swift and a public fashion as humanly possible.
A bomb tied to a parked motorcycle wounded 19 people in a shopping district in Indias troubled northeast, police said Monday, adding that they suspect separatist rebels.
Three of the injured were hospitalized in critical condition in Assam states capital, Gauhati, said police officer Rajen Singh. No one claimed responsibility for the attack, which took place Sunday. However, Singh said police suspect the separatist rebel group United Liberation Front of Asom, or ULFA, Singh said.
It looks like an improvised time device strapped to a motorcycle that was parked in a busy locality, Singh said. It was the third blast in the insurgency-hit Assam state in four days, Singh told The Associated Press. An explosion wounded two people outside a government warehouse in Gauhati on Thursday. The next day, a car bomb left eight people hurt in the eastern tea-growing town of Tinsukia.
The rebels have intensified attacks after peace talks with the government broke down in September last year after a six-week truce, with both sides failing to meet each others demands. The ULFA, which has been fighting for an independent state since 1979, has since been blamed for the deaths in Assam of more than 70 migrant workers from other parts of India after the truce broke down last year.
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Intelligence agencies have warned the Interior Ministrys Crisis Management Cell (CMC) that a Waziristan-based jihadi organisation has planned suicide attacks at police offices to avenge the killing of its members by security forces.
In a letter seen by Daily Times, the CMC has urged the provincial home secretaries, the provincial police chiefs and the inspectors general of police of the Northern Areas and Azad Kashmir, and the Islamabad chief commissioner to take necessary measures to prevent any untoward incident. The letter warned that militants may carry out suicide attacks on police training centres and police lines in the coming months.
The CMC letter stated that some terrorists had already entered Punjab from Waziristan to launch suicide attacks. Sources told Daily Times that terrorists were planning attacks on the police force similar to the one at Dargai in which more than 40 security personnel were killed. Islamabad Chief Commissioner Khalid Pervez said the police had beefed up security around the National Police Academy and the Sihala Police Training College.
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I'm experiencing strong feelings of apathy. The Pak citizenry accepts being ruled by alternating military geniuses and kleptocrats, and turn out in droves to howl support for beturbanned lunatics, let them enjoy the benefits. The higher the corpse counts the better, as long as they stay away from civilized folk.
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I've finally defined the appropriate ARCLIGHT box for Pakiwakiland. It covers the entire country, with considerable overlap in the Tribal Areas and Paki occupied Kashmir. Let the bombing begin...
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The DoD on Tuesday announced the 10 brigade combat teams involving approximately 35,000 personnel who will deploy to Iraq by the end of the year.
Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said the units, which will begin deploying in August, are replacements for others currently operating in Iraq, not any addition to the surge.
"This deployment announcement of the next 10 units that are in the queue has nothing to do with a decision to extend the surge," Whitman said.
"It would be inaccurate to look at this announcement today as some sort of decision with respect to the surge.... It is simply identifying units that will receive deployment orders," he said.
However, Whitman did indicate that the replacement troops would give US commanders the ability to maintain the higher troops numbers of the surge through the end of 2007.
The Pentagon statement said the "deployments will provide commanders in Iraq the flexibility to maintain the appropriate level of effort based on their assessment of the security situation on the ground."
The specific units affected include:
3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, Fort Hood, Texas.
1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Ky.
3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Ky.
2nd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Ky.
4th Brigade, 10th Mountain Division, Fort Polk, La.
1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas.
4th Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Stewart, Ga.
2nd Brigade, 25th Infantry Division, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii
2nd Cavalry Regiment (Stryker), Vilseck, Germany.
2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division, Baumholder, Germany.
DUBAI - The self-styled Islamic State in Iraq, an Al Qaeda-led militant group, said on Monday it was holding nine Iraqi police and defence personnel and demanded the release of all Sunni Muslim women prisoners to free them. The group, calling itself the soldiers of the Islamic State in the Diyala (governorate), said in a statement posted on the Internet that those arrested included high-ranking officers.
It also posted a video showing the men wearing uniforms on a Web site used by Iraqi insurgent groups and said it gave the Shia-led government 72 hours to meet its demands that included handing over officers involved in the alleged rape of Sabreen Janabi, a Sunni Muslim woman. The group also demanded that the government hand over officers it said were involved in atrocities against Sunni Muslims in the northern town of Tal Afar. It gave no details.
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Three suicide car bombers killed 55 people and wounded dozens more in Iraq on Monday in separate attacks that police blamed on Al Qaeda and sectarian violence.
The attacks were the latest in a succession of car bombings across Iraq in recent weeks that have killed hundreds despite a major US-backed security crackdown in Baghdad and its outlying areas. Mondays first bomb went off in a packed market at Albu-Thiyab, said Tareq al-Thiyabi, a police colonel and government security adviser in Anbar province. He said 13 people were killed at the market, including women and children. Nearly 20 people were wounded.
The second car bomb exploded soon after at a police checkpoint in a town called Al-Jazeera, where 12 people including five policemen were killed, he said. More than 25 were wounded. They were terrorists from Al Qaeda, said Thiyabi, when asked who he thought was behind the twin blasts.
Another car bomb in a wholesale food market in Baghdad claimed 30 lives, according to the Associated Press. The bombing occurred around noon in the Baiyaa district. Police said around 80 people were injured in addition to the 30 dead. Following the blast hospital officials said two pickup trucks filled with body parts were brought to the morgue.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack yet, although the fact that most of the shops in the market were Shiite is causing many to believe that Sunni hardliners are responsible.
Another suicide car bomber struck Samarra, a Sunni city north of Baghdad. The bomber targeted police headquarters. Following the blast, dozens of insurgents some wearing masks and wielding video cameras opened fire on the building and at least one police checkpoint, witnesses said. The police chief, Col Jalil Nahi Hassoun and 11 other policemen were killed, officials said.
The violence in Anbar came a day after eight American soldiers were killed in Iraq, including six who died along with a journalist in a roadside bomb attack north of Baghdad.
According to the Associated Press, Dmitry Chebotayev, 27, was killed on Sunday while travelling with American troops from Baghdad to Baqouba, Russian Newsweek editor Leonid Parfyonov said. Chebotayev, a freelance photojournalist was on assignment for the magazine at the time, he added. It is a big loss for us, Parfyonov told AP.
Meanwhile, US-led forces detained 15 suspected militants on Monday in a series of raids targeting Al Qaida leaders in Iraq, the military said. Troops on a raid in Hillah captured nine suspects, including one person believed to be an Al Qaeda leader, the military said.
Four Iraqis were arrested after soldiers found a load of explosives planted under an oil pipeline that carries crude oil from Iraq to Turkey, the Iraqi Army said. About 150 kilograms of TNT were discovered under a stretch of the pipeline in the Al-Kisk area said Col Muhammed Ahmed, a spokesman for the 3rd Iraqi Army division. The explosives were removed and safely destroyed without injuries, he said.
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One person was wounded on Monday when an IAF fighter jet fired a missile at a car in the northern Gaza Strip. The IDF said the vehicle was filled with Kassams and was carrying terrorists preparing to fire the rockets at Israel. The army said there were several secondary explosions after the missile hit the car.
Zap from above, several secondaries. How'd the mook get away with only being wounded?
The airstrike occurred shortly after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned of severe consequences if recent rocket fire out of Gaza continued. The blast occurred near Beit Hanun, a frequent launching ground for Palestinian rocket attacks on Israel. Islamic Jihad said its members were in the car on a "holy mission." It said two of the group's operatives escaped the vehicle seconds before the attack, and one passerby was wounded in the blast. Medical officials said the man, whose identity could not immediately be confirmed, was in moderate condition. Defense officials said that the IDF would continue to target Palestinians involved in Kassam rocket attacks.
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This is nice, but too surgical and too expensive. Bring up the 155's.
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ISRAELI IDF Officio > MISTAKES BY IDF IN LEBANON MUST NOT BE REPEATED IN GAZA. Lest Israel = IDF lose its ability to hold its nation's center regions, ala [Islamist]"divide-and-conquer".
Jordan's appeals court has ordered a retrial in the case of 12 al-Qaida-linked militants allegedly involved in a chemical attack plot, a judiciary official said Monday. In a separate case, the same court upheld the death penalty for a Jordanian man of Palestinian origin who was convicted last December of the fatal shooting of a British tourist he saw as an enemy of Islam.
In the first case, the appeals court ruled that the original prosecutor was one of the defendants' targets, and his involvement in the trial had harmed the integrity of the court, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he is not allowed to speak to the press. "If the prosecutor is an adversary, he is not fit to take part in the hearing and all the hearings are considered void and the documents of the trial will be sent back to the State Security Court," according to the court ruling, which occurred in late April. The military court is now required to retry the defendants.
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A bomb killed four people and wounded 29 when it tore through a billiard hall in the southern Philippines on Tuesday in an attack military officials blamed on an al Qaeda-linked Islamist group. The blast took place at a busy street corner in Tacurong City, officials said. Tacurong is on the troubled island of Mindanao, about 950 km (600 miles) south of Manila.
Major-General Raymundo Ferrer, army commander in Cotabato on Mindanao, said initial inquiries indicated it was the handiwork of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), a regional militant network. "It has all the signature of a terrorist attack," Ferrer told reporters, ruling out politics behind the attack. "We have strong suspicions the JI carried out the attack to remind us they're still very much around. The target was obviously innocent people."
Ferrer said four people were confirmed killed and 29 were wounded. Earlier, officials had reported five dead and 35 wounded, but Ferrer said some casualties had been counted twice in the initial confusion after the blast.
Benjamin de los Santos, Tacurong City's deputy police chief, said a suspect with known links to local Islamist militants had been identified. "We have identified a possible suspect who was seen carrying a bag before the explosion," he told reporters.
More than 1,000 demonstrators protested Tuesday against the arrest of 21 Muslims in Pattani, using a convoy of pickups and motorcycles to make their message heard in the historical capital of Thailand's troubled deep South.
The protestors have been gathering since Saturday outside Ingkhayuthboriharn army camp in Pattani, to demand the release of 21 men arrested weeks ago on charges of firing upon a motorcade of a close aide to Her Majesty the Queen, as well as other acts of violence in the region. The army has refused to release the suspects, claiming it has strong evidence of their guilt.
After holding their tense demonstration at the camp for several hours Tuesday, the crowd dispersed but took their protest to the streets in more than 20 pickups and groups of motorcycles, witnesses said. Authorities were so intimidated by the large show of strength by the Muslims that they used a helicopter to drop pamphlets rather than approach the protesters.
The pamphlets pleaded with protesters not to fall into the "trap of ill-intentioned people or insurgents, who want to create turmoil" and possibly turn peaceful gathering into violence. The protest against the government officials' operation is unlawful, they said. However, it was clear that officials were unwilling to take any action against the crowd, and authorities said they would seek negotiation and consider the protesters' demands.
Meanwhile, suspected separatists set fire to two public schools in Pattani province while police discovered the body of a Thai Buddhist labourer who had been shot and then burned in nearby Yala province. The badly burned body of Puan Namsa, 43, was found in the Thanto district with three bullets in his head and one in his chest.
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The Thais need to go Chinese on the muslims in the south, and stat. Killing a few hundred, burning villages, tying up the head men without their heads, etc., would do wonders to the situation. Also, put a squad guarding every school, and make sure at least four people are awake all the time. Kill those that try to interfere. Have the teachers "live in" if that's the only way to protect them. Burning a few dozen ammo dumpsmosques might also be appropriate. If worse comes to worse, turn the territory over to Thai opium smugglers. I'm sure THEY can protect "their" turf.
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Sri Lankas air force bombed a Tamil Tiger training camp near the rebels northern stronghold on Monday, officials said, as the government vowed to put national security before a tattered truce with the insurgents.
The military said air force jets pounded the site south of the Tigers de facto capital of Kilinochchi in the islands far north, but had no details on any casualties. The Tigers were not immediately available for comment. Defence spokesman and minister Keheliya Rambukwella said the government would breach the terms of a 2002 ceasefire - which has broken down on the ground but still technically holds on paper - if necessary to safeguard national security.
He said the government had also asked mediator Norway to re-examine the truce pact to see if it should be axed. Officials have long argued it conceded too much to the Tigers and many privately say it should be abandoned. (The ceasefire) has been violated over 10,000 times. As far as we are concerned national security is utmost, and we will not compromise with national security, Rambukwella told a media briefing.
While committed to the truce, the government reserved the right to act as needed for security, even if that resulted in further violations, he added. Rambukwella said the air force would step up spy plane flights over rebel territory, which are truce violations in themselves.
Both the government and the Tigers have repeatedly ignored international community calls to halt a new chapter in the islands two-decade civil war, and Rambukwellas comments come after Britain last week withheld millions of dollars in aid citing human rights and defence spending concerns.
Domestic flights were restricted and amphibious aircraft were banned from using irrigation reservoirs following Tamil Tiger air attacks, officials said Monday. The military banned Sri Lankas national carrier, Sri Lankan Airlines, from operating a lucrative domestic service of Single Otter aircraft using reservoirs for take-off and landing, a defence ministry official said.
The move was part of measures taken by the security forces to deal with the new threat of air attacks by Tamil Tiger rebels who demonstrated their air capability in March by using light aircraft to bomb targets here. Foreign tourists were using the air-taxi service to travel to a golf course and upmarket hill resorts, instead of travelling on the highly congested local roads.
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All of Hezbollah's policies and activities are coordinated with the leadership of Iran, including the firing of rockets into Israeli population centers for which direct Iranian approval is required, said a senior Hezbollah official in a rare admission. "Even when it comes to firing rockets on Israeli civilians, when they [Israel] bombed the civilians on our side, even that decision requires an in-principle permission from [the ruling jurisprudent]," said Sheikh Naim Qassem, the deputy chief of Hezbollah, in an Arabic language interview translated yesterday by the Information and Terrorism Center at Israel's Center for Special Studies.
According to the Center, "the ruling jurisprudent," or "al-wali al-faqih" in Arabic, is the title of Supreme Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
In the interview, given last month to the Al-Kawthar, Iranian Arabic-language TV channel, Qassem says Khamenei's authority is crucial for all Hezbollah operations: "Hezbollah relied and relies still in its Islamic religious position, which has to do with its activity in general and its jihadist activity in particular, on the decision of (Khamenei). The ruling jurisprudent is the one who allows and the one who prohibits."
He said Khamenei approves acts suicide terror. "We ask, receive answers, and then apply [them]. This is even true for acts of suicide for the sake of Allah no one may kill himself without a jurisprudent permission (from Khamenei)."
During Israel's war in Lebanon last summer, Hezbollah fired over 3,000 rockets into Israeli civilian population centers, killing 43 civilians and injuring thousands. There were multiple reports, denied by Hezbollah, of Iranian officers operating in Lebanon to aid the militia.
Qassem's statements come as Israeli defense officials told WND this weekend Hezbollah has replenished its rocket arsenal and is stronger now than before last summer's war. According to the officials, Hezbollah, aided by Iran, is preparing for another conflict with the Jewish state.
In an interview Saturday with Al Jazeera, Hezbollah's Qassem admitted his group rebuilt its militia and is ready for war. He claimed Israel will attack first. "We have new military plans. We have completed our ground work in preparing our men, as well as our land, so that we would be ready if the Israeli government thought one day (of launching an attack)," said Qassem.
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Iranian-Hizbullah rocket effort was futile. In first 39 minutes of 2006 summer war most of the long range rocket launchers were destroyed by IDF. That left Hizbullah with cheap, short range and inaccurate Katyusha rockets.
Hizbullah was hardly able to hit anything firing Katyusha from Israeli border. Now, they would have to fire from positions north of Litani river, which will make Katyushas even less useful.
I think that Qassem speech is nothing but an empty rethorics. In some future conflict, IDF would destroy heavy launchers again, which make good targets for airstrikes and commandos.
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trenchsol, I find it hard to believe that Hizb'allah has no launchers emplaced south of the Litani river, just because the ceasefire agreement said they mustn't. It's not as if the UN troops stopped them from doing anything at all, nor the Lebanese army for the first few months, nor would I expect the villagers to be able to stand up to Hizb'allah's armed bully boys returning to old haunts. Not that I expect them to be any more effective the second time around, although admittedly I have no expertise in such things whatsoever (we have to go back to my grandfather's Iron Cross in WWI for my family's most recent fighting experience -- the Dutch Underground (Mama) and chemist for pre-Independence Haganah (Daddy) don't really count, nor Mr. Wife's studying various martial arts styles).
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The admission by Hezbollah that all of their activities are coordinated with the leadership of Iran is very uncharacteristic indeed. One should consider the source of this information and flesh out wheather it is translation or speculation.
The Information and Terrorism Center at Israel's Center for Special Studies.
Part of their usual Mission statement: "We in the Center for Special Studies are dedicated not only to commemorating the fallen of the Israeli intelligence community and to preserving its heritage but no less to harnessing the accumulated capabilities of our veterans to serve the current needs of truth- seeking audiences. Thus, as we look to the past, we make an effort to disseminate information contributing to the current war on terrorism."
Here are just two examples of rockets fired several days after fighting began:
14 Jul 06: The Israeli SAAR-5 Corvette Ahi-Hanit was hit and badly damaged with an (assessed) C-802 type shore-to-ship missile. Four crewmen were killed.
31 Jul 06: 302mm rocket (range around 100km, 175kg warhead) landed in Afula. Three more landed near Hadera, around 70km inside Israel, on 04 Aug 07).
More to the point, just because 107s are cheap, short range and inaccurate, it doesn't mean that they're not an effective weapon. The fact that they're small and cheap allowed Hezbollah to fire over 1,500 of them. Forty-three civilians were killed by rocket fire during the war, as were several soldiers. A low number of deaths, you may argue, but the civilian population in the north was clearly scared.
Also, I'm not sure that your 39 minutes claim is accurate. This seems rather quick, given that it took the Israelis an hour to get over the border, where they took one hell of pasting and spent several hours attempting to recover the remains of a tank crew...
Perhaps the most significant point I can make is that rockets are not good targets for commandos. We saw previously that once troops are put on the ground in a pre-prepared battle-ground they will be engaged with an effective combination of small arms, ATGWs, IEDs, MANPADS...
Do not underestimate the rocket threat!
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I didn't say that all the launchers were hit in first 39 minutes, but the most of them. That is what some Israeli source says, and the fact is that there were few large missiles fired. I can find the link if anyone is interested.
Silkworm missile is a an anti-ship missile, and I don't think that it was a threat for civilian targets. Maybe it was not the priority target.
Katyusha is a primitive weapon launched from rails which are mounted on vehicles, far as I know. Hizbullah can move them south of Litani. But, former network of bunkers there is destroyed now, and IDF could have more freedom of movement when hunting for them.
Couple of days ago there was an article on this site in which some Hizbullah person bosts that they have new lines of defense north of Litani. He obviously considers it an achievment.
Two Palestinian fighters were killed and as many injured on Monday in a clash between rival factions at a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, security sources said. They said the clashes erupted at Ein el-Hilweh camp after a member of the Muslim militant Jund Al-Shams group opened fire at fighters from Fatah, killing one. Another Fatah member was killed and two other men injured in the fighting that ended after officials from various factions intervened. The Jund Al-Shams is a tiny faction that has been involved in several clashes with Fatah, the largest Palestinian group in Lebanon, home to some 400,000 Palestinian refugees.
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YNETNEWS > AL QAEDA: HAMAS IS "AGAINST GOD". Criticizes HAMAS as un-Islamic and intent on imposing anti-jihadist, anti-Islamist SECULARISM. AQ discovers "WHAT IS A POLITBURO" vv the Hamies???
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It has been a long time since civilization faced a religious belief that advocated child sacrifices. My memory is that Baal was the god into which believers tossed live babies to die in a furnace. Now the ALQ wants children to tie a bomb on their backs and die in an explosion, suitable for an Al Jazerra news replay. ALQ destroys its followers and sacrifices children. Evil.
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Islam promises heaven to those who die while implementing God's orders, but many top Muslim clerics have said suicide operations like those carried out by al-Qaeda violate Islam.
So, which is it: Dessert topping or floor wax?
We've got a whole bunch of Pakistani clerics decrying Muslim bomb vest murderers, but none of them have bothered to condemn renowned Islamic scholar Yusuf Qaradawi for sanctioning such hideous attacks. Could it be because such atrocities were only intended to inflict harm upon Jews and Infidels?
Issue a death fatwah against Qaradawi or shut the fuck with your whingeing about how your own vile strategies have been turned against you.
#4
I think listing the numbers of Comments was preferable to the new policy of revealing "View" totals. However, it is no big deal.
I would tend to agree; first, it makes RB lose a part of its "mystery" by seeing what its traffic is, and second, I preferred the numbers of comments, as it enabled me to cherrypick articles... either by going to those with significant amount of comments (and thus to check what had been said), or to avoid those with *too much* comments (I did this while Aris was here, and the subsequent "why bother" 100+ comments threads).
#6
One of the benefits of the new system is to observe that not everyone comes to the front page - or at least it doesn't have the most views - which is a puzzle all unto itself! Why would anyone not want to start their day with the front page?
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I'm a "Kat" fancier, oh yes!
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05/08/2007 6:27 Comments ||
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And it sort of lets you know which titles are most interesting to folks out there, even if they don't comment. Then again, I might click on some juicy looking gossip, but I don't want people taking that to mean that is what I am most interested in.
#10
It's just me, but I start at the "local" and work my way up.
Sort of like starting the newspaper by reading the funnies first.
And... just to divert the straight woman/gay male Rantburgundians, can Fred throw us some tasty beefcake, now and again? Once a month is fine. ;-)
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I dunno, guys, she's got one of those "do I have a surprise for you" look in her eyes. I'd check to see who recently got a new black belt in karate...
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
(SomaliNet) The interim government troops along with the Ethiopian forces Monday raided the biggest weapons market in Somalia capital Mogadishu known as Irtog-te taking away weapons and ammunitions. Witnesses told Somalinet that the Ethiopian soldiers ambushed the market breaking two weapons warehouses. One of the businessmen who asked not to be named said the Ethiopians were informed about the weapons. 
An underground operative was killed in an encounter with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Ataikula upazila of the district yesterday. 
Speedy Trial Tribunal Court-1 in Dhaka on Sunday noon framed charge against four JMB men including 
Intelligence agencies have warned the Interior Ministrys Crisis Management Cell (CMC) that a Waziristan-based jihadi organisation has planned suicide attacks at police offices to avenge the killing of its members by security forces. 
DUBAI - The self-styled 
Three suicide car bombers killed 55 people and wounded dozens more in Iraq on Monday in separate attacks that police blamed on Al Qaeda and sectarian violence.
One person was wounded on Monday when an IAF fighter jet fired a missile at a car in the northern Gaza Strip. The IDF said the vehicle was filled with Kassams and was carrying terrorists preparing to fire the rockets at Israel. The army said there were several secondary explosions after the missile hit the car. 
Two Palestinian fighters were killed and as many injured on Monday in a clash between rival factions at a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, security sources said. They said the clashes erupted at Ein el-Hilweh camp after a member of the Muslim militant Jund Al-Shams group opened fire at fighters from Fatah, killing one. Another Fatah member was killed and two other men injured in the fighting that ended after officials from various factions intervened. The Jund Al-Shams is a tiny faction that has been involved in several clashes with Fatah, the largest Palestinian group in Lebanon, home to some 400,000 Palestinian refugees.
