A LOCAL Islamic Jihad commander has been killed and four people wounded in an Israeli air strike on a car driving through Gaza City.
The aircraft fired at least one missile at the car as it drove through northern Gaza City, witnesses said.
The dead man was named as Hossam Harb, 32, a local leader of the Al-Quds Brigade of the hardline Islamic Jihad, medics said. Two of the wounded were members of the same group.
An Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed that the aircraft "launched a raid against the Gaza Strip".
"It targeted a cell of Islamic Jihad responsible for firing rockets against Israel... and which was planning to launch other terrorist activities," she said.
Islamic Jihad has said the car was carrying people on a "holy mission", which is code for an attack on Israel, the Associated Press reported.
Hamas television footage showed a rocket inside a burning car.
The raid was the first of its kind since the Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip from rivals Fatah.
"Israeli attacks are continuing on Gaza, and there are responses from the resistance to these attacks," a Hamas spokesman was quoted as saying by AP.
Islamic Jihad has claimed responsibility for more cross-border rocket attacks against southern Israel than any other group since that time.
A summit will be held in Egypt tomorrow between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah II.
The summit is aimed at bolstering the position of Mr Abbas, of Fatah, in the group's fight with Hamas, which is shunned by the west for its refusal to drop a pledge to destroy Israel.
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"Israeli air-strike averts attack, kills local Islamic Jihad Commander"
Awwwwwwwww.
Ain't that just too bad.
Hope he's enjoying his 72 raisins - in HELL.
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Since "Israel don't exist" Hamas has taken charge Israel should be shooting everyone from the traffic cop to every person sighted with a rifle on the street plus all known leadership or lowly soldgier locations/homes/positions. This should be done via artilery/helicoper/UAV/Aircraft to hold losses down. Of course those hits may bring Gaza to full insanity but the more Hamas they kill the less they will have to later.
Gloves off are so over due. I don't understand scratch that I feel so sorry for the common Israeli that has to wake up everyday with this weak pitifull leadership of Olmert.
News from Occupied Los Angeles (filtered by lib collaborators at the LA Times):
A group of 100 marchers waving American flags headed south on Crenshaw Boulevard on Saturday to protest illegal immigration and what they called its damaging effects on the black community. But they never reached the park that was their destination, and the rally turned into two tense hours of confrontation under a hot sun with counter-protesters on the opposite side of the street. Insults and epithets flew across the asphalt as hundreds of Los Angeles Police Department officers kept guard. Although some people expressed concern about another May 1 melee, in the end, police earned praise for their restraint and efforts to calm the crowd.
Police defused the standoff, both sides dispersed and five people, including organizer Ted Hayes, a longtime activist for the homeless, were arrested peacefully.
The marchers, made up of black activists and Minutemen, homeless people and neighborhood residents, held a city permit for an afternoon rally at the historic Leimert Park in the Crenshaw district.
Nearly 500 counter-protesters, mostly black and Latino, some with Mexican flags and others with antiwar placards, swept down the other side of Crenshaw Boulevard. They converged on the park first and blocked the original marchers from entering. Some said they had heard those marchers would include KKK members, and the counter-protesters denounced what they called racist outsiders trying to incite violence. Dr. Goebbels is apparently alive and well in the Los Angeles invader media.
As the two chanting groups faced off, police kept watch, some on bicycles and some in riot gear, batons held in position. Police negotiators shuttled between the two groups as some protesters heckled them.
The two groups called out contrasting slogans and songs. One marcher bellowed "Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing," also known as the Black National Anthem, through a bullhorn. Other marchers followed with "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." On the other side of the street, some chanted: "The whole world is watching. We remember McArthur Park," referring to the May 1 melee between police and immigrant-rights marchers.
At times, the gathering felt like a street festival, with mothers with babies in strollers and musicians playing drums. Other times, tensions mounted in the heat as some protesters in the park called the police "pigs."
Officers finally donned helmets and stood in lines, quietly facing protesters on both sides of the street. The groups finally dispersed peacefully, and some leaders on both sides praised the LAPD for effectively avoiding a violent situation. "LAPD did a tremendous job in how they handled the protest," said activist Najee Ali. "It could have been very volatile."
Some members of the original march, however, criticized counter-protesters for denying them entry to Leimert Park. where it is their Constitutional right as American citizens to go, but not in occupired Los Angeles it seems.
The march to the park was led by Hayes, who has organized an African American group opposed to illegal immigration. He was joined Saturday by members of the Minutemen Brigade as well as some black marchers who said that illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America are taking their jobs and flooding schools and hospitals. During negotiations, police commanders prevented march organizers from entering the park, saying they were forced to take that step for public safety reasons. The crowd inside the park included many children and families, they explained. Illegals adopting human shield tactics? Probably learned it from their white lefty advisors and enablers. "I realize you have a permit," incident commander Deputy Chief Charlie Beck told black activists and Minutemen jammed on a sidewalk outside stores across the street from the park. "I just don't give a shit about the law or the Constitution"
"I have to deny you access to the park. I do this for the sake of my future career in the Aztlan constabulary public safety," said Beck, speaking through a megaphone.
Many of the marchers protested loudly, characterizing the counter-protesters as Spanish-speaking "illegal aliens" who already were taking their jobs and now were denying their right to enter the park. "What country is this!" a woman yelled at Beck. Beck obviously doesn't know either.
"Don't forget to do it again in Spanish," another called out mockingly.
At one point, a group of women most of them white and grasping rolled-up American flags sat on the pavement across from the park, chanting, "We want our park." Several said they were members of the California Coalition for Immigration Reform, based in Huntington Beach, and had come to South Los Angeles to stand up for the black community and against illegal immigrants, who they said are taking jobs from African American residents. The LA Times did not see fit to identify the illegals' supporters by race and community. I wonder how many were white trustafarians from UCLA, Hollywood Hills, and Berkeley?
They pointed across the street at the waving Mexican flags. "That is the border," a man said.
After spirited and sometimes angry talks with Beck and other police, Hayes told his followers that he planned to be arrested and that others could choose to join him, one by one. The energy ebbed among marchers, some of whom had pushed to march past police lines into the park. One of Hayes' supporters, holding an American flag, waited politely to be handcuffed. Even some of the most outspoken Minutemen members said they would abide by Hayes' decision.
Across the street in the park, many of the counter-protesters faulted the marchers, saying they were invading the Leimert Park community and trying to incite tensions between blacks and Latinos. "They are coming in here, not knowing our community," said activist Bilal Ali. "There are no black and brown problems in this community. These people are too intelligent to fall for that. We see this as a scam." We have found Baghdad Bob.
Counter-protesters carried signs that said, "In our ghettos, black and brown = one love," and "Together under one community." Said Pedro Reyes, a South L.A. resident, "We are all suffering the same injustices. So there is no need to try and divide us."
Supporters of full legalization for illegal immigrants plan a march at noon today in Hollywood. Friendly ground
This is a genuine revolutionary situation, since it is the invaders and their supporters who have official sanction, and the American citizens and legal immigrants who are denied their Constitutional rights.
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the Black community should realize that Illegals are taking the entry-rung ladder steps the traditionally have used to climb to middle class. A useful tool to use in the Immagration Bill fight, except the Black pols rarely represent their constituents that way...
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"they" have traditionally use...dammit, PIMF if I look closer
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good to know the civil rights of Americans are being protected against the mob mentality (sarcasm/off)
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"more politically correct than thou" = American version of Islamists' "holier than thou"?
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It's no secret that many Blacks see increased Hispanic population (from whatever source) as THE most serious competition they have, economically and socially. I see it in a small city near me, where there is a wretched underclass, mostly Black, and a serious drug problem, both of which date back to the late 60s when riots drove the remaining jobs out of the town.
Now the boarded up storefronts are being opened a few at a time. Some sell Latin foods. In others Latina seamstresses make or repair clothes. Unfortunately, the Latin Kings (major violent Hispanic gang) are moving in too.
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Inner City blacks have their backs to the wall, their media-appointed leaders and white liberal patrons have abandoned them, the standard line from those media is that all is well in the worker's paradise of black/brown solidarity, and the Bush/Chamber of Commerce element of the GOP couldn't care less.
Whatever the average R-bruger might think of inner city social programs and entitlements, I think most will agree that access to those goodies should be limited to Americans.
I am looking for an explosion before the summer is over, a bad one. It will leave media fools and lib do-gooders wringing their hands and shaking their heads, "WHAT HAPPENED? WHAT HAPPENED?"
It will be, in fact, the same reaction they showed in the 60s after their social programs and welfare statism created the black under class and, not coincidentally, failed to prevent massive urban riots.
Foreign forces in Afghanistan said on Saturday they had killed around 80 insurgents in the past 24 hours, most of them in a strike on rebels preparing an attack near the Pakistan border.
A group of 45 men and several smaller ones of eight to 10 were spotted just inside the border later on Friday preparing to attack a base in Paktika province, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said. They were clearly armed and they were clearly hostile and that is why they were engaged, ISAF spokesman Major John Thomas said. ISAF forces conducted reconnaissance to confirm their suspicions and the insurgents fired on a coalition aircraft, he said.
Coalition forces then unleashed combined air and artillery strikes as the insurgents tried to escape across the border, he said. The operation was coordinated with Pakistan. An ISAF spokesman for the east of the country, Major Donald Korpi, said up to 60 Taliban were killed.
Suspected Taliban insurgents abducted 17 Afghan mine cleaners who were traveling in Ghazni province on Saturday, Mine Detection and Dogs Centre head Shohab Hakimi told AFP. Ghaznis provincial police chief confirmed the incident but said only 12 de-miners were abducted, along with three sniffer dogs.
The coalition reported separately that its soldiers working with Afghan troops had killed nearly 20 enemy fighters in a seven-hour battle late Friday in the southern province of Kandahar. Several more fighters were killed in the adjoining province of Uruzgan when a battle erupted after troops were shot at with multiple rockets.
The Interior Ministry announced that Afghan and foreign security forces had killed more than 1,500 insurgents in about 80 operations across Afghanistan since March. About 530 more, including 23 would-be suicide bombers, were captured.
The coalition also announced it had detained 20 militants early on Saturday in an operation against Al Qaeda militants in Ghazni province.
An attack on coalition troops in near Langar village in Helmand left one soldier dead and two others wounded on Saturday, the US military said. The nationality of the dead and wounded troops was not disclosed.
The Interior Ministry announced that Afghan and foreign security forces had killed more than 1,500 insurgents in about 80 operations across Afghanistan since March. About 530 more, including 23 would-be suicide bombers, were captured, it said in a statement.
In Kabul, Karzai said those fighting the insurgents were being careless following a spate of civilian deaths, including 25 killed in an air strike on Friday and 53 in the last three days. In the past five or six nights and days, we had huge civilian casualties ... caused by NATO and coalition carelessness, he said.
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The Interior Ministry announced that Afghan and foreign security forces had killed more than 1,500 insurgents in about 80 operations across Afghanistan since March. About 530 more, including 23 would-be suicide bombers, were captured.
re Talibs: Imagine the numbers of untreated or poorly treated shrapnel injuries the Talibs substain when dinged by our weapons...
I doubt if the Talibs even have one case of blood expander [in their entire inventory] with them to avert the wounded from slipping into deadly shock? Most of their severely wounded probably bleed to death before any infection sets in anyway..
Even small wounds from shrapnel will/can fester [get infected]. [perhaps sum Dr. would opine why thisn is the case]
Of course unlike the Talibs we've got the Best trained and Best supplied group of "Docs" the World has ever seen. Every one of our Army Medics, Marine Medics and Navy Corpsmen are Spectacularly Superior to any of the runner ups in the first World let alone DirtStan..
Today our "Docs", just as they did in the wars of yore, are putting it on the line on a regular basis saving our kids. Many of them get killed and wounded doing their selfless work.
These brothers perform the highest duty of all..
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
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Again, Karzai blasts NATO for killing Pashtos (he is one).
Look Karzai: either you do something youself about Taliban use of human shields, or we will continue to support use of broad target weaponry. We want close infantry contact with the enemy only as a last resort, because we seek to preserve the lives of our soldiers. Once we corner terroists on the ground, we want them blasted from above. And we are well aware that Taliban rakes off 5% share of the heroin trade, and that you Pashtos cultivate most of that killer crop.
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Dawg, Ima have buddy in NorthCarolina what is invent this AlphaBandage, it's a sekret weave of stuff. All the Special Operators had it 9 months before FDA is say okay. It like stops bleeding on damn contact. Put it on the wound site a bang! Stop city. It's crazy good. I got 50 square feeta small sample of the stuff. Used it once with a 9 year old with the nosebleed from hell, every seen a good noose hemorage? Anyway, Im cut small part of this materal and have him stick it up hisn nostril,...... wham, bleeder stoped, no enormous gack. Just sooes yawl know.
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noose hemmorhage? Is this the Chemical Ali thread?
...oh...
nevermind
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Karzai was also one of those spectacular islamo unity sounders at one of the OIC meet in M'sia. Which OIC country is sending their boys to die for him?
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AlphaBandage, it's a sekret weave of stuff. All the Special Operators had it 9 months before FDA is say okay. It like stops bleeding on damn contact. Put it on the wound site a bang! Stop city. It's crazy good.
mr. NotHalfEmpty, thatr be a mighty fine and kool life saving invention, no doubt it will save our peoples lives and our pets lives also. [stock too]
(SomaliNet) Around 11 bomb blasts have trembled overnight the Somalias volatile city Mogadishu despite curfew imposed by the national security commission to restore normalcy there are no immediate casualties from the latest explosions. The explosions followed by gunfire happened in north and south of the capital but this morning the city was quiet as the Somali government troops along with the Ethiopian forces set up checkpoints in the main Mogadishu streets.
The latest violence came as the leader of the Shura council in the defeated Islamic Courts Union Sheik Hassan Dahir Aweys supported what he called the insurgency in the capital as legal force to face against both the transitional government and its allied forces of Ethiopia and Uganda.
He's supporting this from a safe distance, I presume.
Meanwhile, seven people have been killed and dozens more were wounded after clashes that turned from political to clan renewed in the Somalias southern port city of Kismayu between Majerteen and Marehan clans over the citys control.
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Why is anyone stunned by explosions in Mogadishu?
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Everyone knew it was a volatile city with oddles of sophisticated and yummy bombmakers from Araby.
A Yemeni guard opened fire Saturday on a group of foreign oil workers shortly after they landed at a company airstrip, killing one and wounding five - including an American, officials said. The shooting took place at the Occidental Petroleum Corp. in the southern Shabwa province, some 300 miles south of the capital, San'a. The provincial governor, Ali al-Maqqdishi, said the guard was mentally ill.
The American was critically injured. The worker killed in the attack was an Indian national; the others who were wounded included two Britons, a Tunisian and a Yemeni man
The U.S. Embassy in San'a confirmed the attack in a message posted on its Web site and said the American was "critically injured." The embassy canceled travel to the bordering Shabwa and Marib regions "for the near future" and recommended that Americans avoid the area.
A Yemeni security official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to give statements to media, said the victims were all coming off a plane that was landing at the oil company's airstrip in Shabwa when the guard randomly opened fire at them. He said other guards shot the gunman in the foot leg to stop the attack.
The American statement did not mention the other casualties, but Yemeni officials said the worker killed in the attack was an Indian national; the others who were wounded included two Britons, a Tunisian and a Yemeni man.
Also Saturday, Yemeni security officials said they arrested two men suspected of al-Qaida links who confessed to an attack on an oil pipeline Tuesday near the port city of Aden. The men tried unsuccessfully to blow up the pipeline with TNT, the officials reported, speaking on condition of anonymity according to government policy.
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AQ infiltrates guard forces...I'd check the commander of the guard as well as the commander of the airstrip. I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often.
THREE would-be muggers got more than they bargained for when their teenage target fought back and beat them up - and lectured them while she did it.
The 17-year-old girl punched the male thug in the groin and let loose on the two females with him when they jumped on her.
The trio, who were trying to steal the teen's car, ran off "with their tails between their legs".
The incident happened in the undercover car park at Darwin's Casuarina Square last week.
The teenager, who did not want to be identified, said she panicked when the trio approached.
"I was walking to my car alone and they were yelling out 'give me your keys, give me your car, give me your bag'," she said.
"I hopped in the car in a panic and tried to lock the doors but it didn't work. I got dragged out of the car and they hit me a few times.
"I kept thinking 'you're not taking my dad's car - I've already damaged it once'.
"Then the guy tried hopping in the car and grabbed my handbag but the strap got caught on the gear stick.
"I just swung and hit him in the nuts and he hit the ground screaming."
The teen said she then elbowed one of the girls in the face - giving her a blood nose - and they ran away.
The teen's 57-year-old father said he was "bloody mad" about the attack but was proud of his daughter.
"I told her never to do that again as they could have had a knife or anything," he said.
"But it sounds like she certainly showed them a lesson or two. She's never been in a fight before, but she's a pretty tough girl. She told them 'what are you doing out here robbing people, you should be at school'."
Police are investigating and have obtained security footage of the alleged incident.
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Security footage of the lad getting beat up by a girl so badly he lay on the ground screaming? He'll have to move back to Lebanon to escape the shame. Except I think it would be a perfect YouTube posting -- with names of the miscreants listed in sexual order.
Lots of teenagers are pretty sensible most of the time. And highly aware of the cost to the family of damaging the car. Thanks for sharing the good news, Oztralian.
MIRANSHAH: A roadside blast killed three paramilitary soldiers and wounded two on Saturday in Mir Ali town, 20 kilometres east of Miranshah, in North Waziristan, a military spokesman said. Soldiers were on a foot petrol when hit by an improvised device near a military checkpoint. It killed three of them, said military spokesman Major-General Waheed Arshad. No group claimed responsibility for the blast.
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BARA: Armed clashes between two rival groups left eight persons dead and seven other wounded in a remote area of Tirah valley in the Khyber Agency on Saturday. The clashes erupted in the Sanda Pal area of the valley when Mangal Bagh group captured two important trenches of Mehboobul Haq group with the help of hundreds of its supporters.
However, the supporters of Mehboobul Haq group, armed with heavy weapons, retaliated and opened indiscriminate fire at the opponent. Exact number of casualties could not be ascertained. However, according to the unconfirmed reports, eight persons, five from Mangal Bagh and three from Mehbooul Haq group, have been killed so far while another seven persons from both sides have sustained injuries. The exchange of fire was continued till the filing of this report.
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Ten civilians were killed on Saturday inside North Waziristan in a mortar attack from Afghanistan by foreign forces, a military spokesman and tribal sources said. Ten innocent people were reported killed when some mortars hit civilians in Mangroti village in the Shawal region, military spokesman Maj-Gen Waheed Arshad told Daily Times by phone from Rawalpindi. Thirteen others were injured in the fire, he added.
However, locals put the death toll at 20. One report said that the mortar struck a home, while another said a restaurant was hit. Local residents said the dead included a child, a woman and seven men, all from the same family. Pakistan has lodged a strong protest with coalition forces seeking an explanation, Gen Arshad said, adding that the killing of civilians was not intentional. He agreed that such attacks that killed civilians could lessen support for the government for operations against wanted militants.
NWFP Governor Ali Jan Orakzai recently warned tribal people of the danger that they would be attacked from across the border if militants continued to shelter foreigners and kept attacking inside Afghanistan.
NWFP Governor Ali Jan Orakzai recently warned tribal people of the danger that they would be attacked from across the border if militants continued to shelter foreigners and kept attacking inside Afghanistan.
Agencies add: Residents of the Shawal area of North Waziristan said fighting had spilled over from Afghanistan late on Friday and 20 people had been killed. Residents described the dead as nomads. We have recovered 20 bodies including six members of a family, said Wali Mohammad Jhangikhel.
Meanwhile, according to a private TV channel, coalition fighter planes pounded Angoor Ada in South Waziristan, destroying more than 15 houses. Local residents and witnesses talking to BBC reported that a US gunship helicopter fired several rockets on a small hotel on the night between Friday and Saturday at about 3:00 am, killing at least 12 people and destroying the hotel, houses and vehicles parked in nearby areas.
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reported that a US gunship helicopter fired several rockets on a small hotel on the night between Friday and Saturday at about 3:00 am
At that time of night is must have been well deserved!
Which makes me believe it wasn't any more than five, in the Western version of reality. And probably all of those were Uzbeks or other hated Al Qaeda foreigners.
Imam Kaaba says women not to be used as shields As reported in daily Jang, the Imam Kaaba, Sheikh ul Quran Dr Abdur Rehman Alsadees bin Abdul Aziz, said that the organisers of Lal Masjid are using women and children as shields. He stressed that ulema shall not use the mosque for fitna (mischief). Jihad can only be declared by acquiring enough power from the government. He said no person can declare jihad on his own. He also said that killing people in the name of difference of sects (maslak) is against Islam. Islam accepts the power of logic and the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) had dialogues with people of different faiths and left them on their own.
Senator Anwar Beg is mentally ill
As reported in Daily Pakistan, Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman, Nasim Ashraf, said that he would file a case of defamation against Senator Anwar Beg for his remarks against him. A member of the Senate Standing Committee on sports, Anwar Beg called Nasim Ashraf dishonest and incapable. Nasim Ashraf said that Senator Anwar is mentally ill and has crossed all limits.
Goodbye to enlightened moderation
As reported in daily Jang, Nazir Naji wrote that Pervez Musharraf seems to be retreating from the slogan of enlightenment and moderation. The case of Nelofar Bakhtyar is one example of the governments attitude. She jumped from a plane to raise money for earthquake victims and hugged the aged trainer according to local traditions. A hue and cry was raised by the opposition and her government didnt come to her rescue. She resigned after she felt isolated.
Was the education minister a prohat in his earlier life?
Sarerahe wrote in daily Nawa-e-Waqt, that the Federal Minister for Education, Javed Ashraf Qazi said that Ashoka and the Guptas cant be removed from history books. He is the same Qazi who said the Holy Quran had 40 chapters. Sarerahe wanted to tell him that he didnt want to remove Hindus from history books, yet the Hindus are planning to remove us from the Subcontinent. Qazi is fond of installing the statues of Hindu personalities in our educational institutions. Was he a priest (prohat) in his earlier life that he wants to please Hindus?
Federal government threatening CD shops in NWFP
As reported in daily Nawa-e-Waqt, 50 CD shops in Charsada have been closed due to bomb attacks and threats. According to the BBC, a local CD shop owner said that trade activities have suffered because of these threats. This area is the stronghold of Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao and ANP Chief Asfandar Wali Khan. The Interior Minister of NWFP, Asif Iqbal Dadozai, said that federal agencies are involved in the threats to educational institutions and CD shops in an effort to malign the MMA government.
Pickpockets attend funeral
As reported in daily Jang, pickpockets joined a funeral of 60 year old Anayat, who was killed in a bomb attack in Quetta. They picked the pockets of eight people in the funeral procession in the factory area and deprived them of thousands in cash and other valuables.
Threats from Taliban commander in Waziristan
As reported in Daily Pakistan, the Taliban commander in South Waziristan, Haji Omar, threatened war if the government didnt stop action against the mosques and madrassahs of Islamabad. He told the BBC that he is constantly in touch with Maulana Abdul Aziz of the Lal Masjid. Maualana Abdul Aziz admitted that the majority of madrassah students have armed parents from Dir, Bannu and Kohistan and would rise against the attack on madrassahs.
Bomb attacks on CD shops in Kohat
As reported in daily Nawa-e-Waqt, bomb attacks at two different places destroyed one CD shop completely. According to police information, a CD shop in Mustafa bazaar was burned mysteriously in the middle of the night. The fire completely gutted the shop.
War of number 9 and number 1
In Daily Pakistan Magazine, the numerology expert from Gujrat, Javeed JM, said that 9 is the number of Pervez Musharrafs name. He predicted that the opposition parties would create trouble for Pervez Musharraf after the elections. He said the deal between Musharraf and Benazir or with Nawaz wouldnt help as both the opposition leaders number is 1. People with number 9 and number 1 cant get along with each other as both numbers dont accept the leadership of anyone.
Earthquake relief goods looted
As reported in daily Express, Al Khidmat Foundation relief goods were looted on their way to earthquake victims. The Secretary General of the Al Khidmat foundation asked the chief minister of Punjab to help recover the goods. The container of plywood sheets and other goods was on its way from Karachi to Buttagram when it was looted near Renala Khurd.
Flying saucer seen in Bangalore
As reported in daily Jang, a resident of Bangalore, Afzal Khan, said that he saw a bright light in the sky traveling at slow speed and guessed that it was not an airplane. He and his relative took pictures of it and published them on the internet. He said that during the same time an airplane also took off from the Bangalore airport and passed very close to this bright object, and that the pilot must have seen it.
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The UFO report is sort of interesting. Especially since this occurs about the amse time oof all the reports of the 2 big UFO's sighted in the UK by the airline Pilot and passengers that is all the news lol
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Ima laughed and laughed. Got some damn serious Nuggets this week, enough for this dawg to naw under the hause in the shade... and laugh! Laugh Laugh! Woof!
Beg called Nasim Ashraf dishonest and incapable. Nasim Ashraf said that Senator Anwar is mentally ill and has crossed all limits.
It's too easy to yank out a para in the Nuggets they like stand along for all times ses this Jang.
Still, sadly, No Tree Jinns, No Monekymen Laka Upazilas. 9.7/
/Angry crowd rips NotHalfEmpty limbs off in a show of Muzz solidarity.
Hard-line religious students from Lal Masjid yesterday released nine hostages, who had earlier been taken from an alleged brothel in Islamabad, sources said. Students from Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa female madrasa early in the day raided an acupuncture clinic, which they said was a brothel, and kidnapped the nine hostages, including six Chinese women.
They were released after several hours. The foreign women were involved in prostitution in a massage center, the students said before their release. After the administration assured us they would close down the parlors, and in view of the Pakistan-China friendship, we are releasing all nine men and women, said Abdul Rashid Ghazi, deputy head of the mosque.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang confirmed that the Chinese hostages had been released. The abductions were the most provocative action by the students associated with the Lal Masjid in their self-styled anti-vice campaign. China is Pakistans most steadfast ally. The Pakistani government called the kidnappings from what it said was a health clinic shocking.
Ghazi said seven of the nine, who were held at a religious school next to the Lal Masjid, were Chinese and two Pakistanis. Six of the Chinese were women, he said. We greatly respect Pakistan-China friendship but it doesnt mean that foreign women can come here and indulge in such vulgar activities, Ghazi said before their release. We had complaints that these women did massage for men but it was more than that.
Chinas Xinhua news agency said Pakistan Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao had telephoned Chinas ambassador to apologize and assure him the hostages would be speedily released.
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Hard to expect the Chinese to continue selling you weaponry when you're kidnapping their people.
Local Iraqi government officials and Multi-National Division Baghdad Soldiers hosted a micro grant meeting for the Doura Market Complex at the Rashid District Council Hall in the southern portion of the Iraqi capital June 21.
The meeting, hosted by the Rashid District Council and the 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, was held to encourage owners and vendors in the Doura Market to return and reopen their shops.
During the meeting called by Sabeeh Al Kaabi Rashid District Council Chairman and leadership and Al Rashid Chamber of Commerce, 2-12 Inf. Regt. Warriors collected and processed applications for 43 qualified Iraqi shop owners for Commanders Emergency Response Program Micro Grants.
The Micro Grant program gives local nationals access to capital, up to $2,500, or items in kind, said Maj. Rick Banks, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, civil military officer. For example, instead of giving them cash to buy an oven, we buy them an oven. The hope is that this infusion of money will assist them in getting a small business started or keeping a small business going. Once the business is going smoothly, they may be self sufficient, or have enough capital or assets on hand to increase the size of the business, and thereby increase employment.
Without this program, it is difficult for local nationals to acquire capital since there is not yet a robust banking system in Iraq as you would find in most western countries, he added.
All shop owners at the meeting had their fingers printed, retinas scanned and their pictures taken as part of a census to ensure no funds would be paid to terrorist organizations. Micro grants and micro banks can have just an amazing impact on an economy. A great secret is that the vast majority of employment and most growth in most countries is in small business.
BAQOUBA, Iraq - The U.S. commander of a new offensive north of Baghdad, reclaiming insurgent territory day by day, said Sunday his Iraqi partners may be too weak to hold onto the gains. The Iraqi military does not even have enough ammunition, said Brig. Gen. Mick Bednarek: "They're not quite up to the job yet."
His counterpart south of Baghdad seemed to agree, saying U.S. troops are too few to garrison the districts newly rid of insurgents. "It can't be coalition (U.S.) forces. We have what we have. There's got to be more Iraqi security forces," said Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch.
The two commanders spoke after a deadly day for the U.S. military in Iraq. At least 11 soldiers were killed on Saturday from roadside bombings and other causes, leaving at least 31 dead for the week.
Between 60 and 100 suspected al-Qaida fighters and one U.S. soldier have been killed so far in the fighting in western Baqouba, said Bednarek, the 25th Infantry Division's deputy commander for operations. About 60 insurgents were detained, he said.
He said U.S. forces now control about 60 percent of the city's west side, but "the challenge now is, how do you hold onto the terrain you've cleared? You have to do that shoulder-to-shoulder with Iraqi security forces. And they're not quite up to the job yet."
Across Diyala province, where Baqouba is the capital, Iraqi troops are short on uniforms, weapons, ammunition, trucks and radios, he said.
Lynch, commander of the 3rd Infantry Division and of an operation clearing Baghdad's southern outskirts, was asked at a news conference whether he thought Iraqi troops would be able to secure his gains.
"There's not enough of them, there's not enough of them," Lynch replied. "So I believe the Iraqi government has got to work to create more Iraqi security forces."
"All is pointless. We can't win. Withdraw now, while we can still blame Bush." - Sen. Reid.
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Glenmore...that actually may be W's strategy. Hand it to the donks, like the donks handed Vietnam to Nixon. The American public, G*d bless them, is woefully ignorant and has the memory of Alzheimer patient.
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If you think about it, of course the IA and police up in Diyala are not up to snuff. If they were, could the situation now there have developed?
It was the same way before the US showed up elsewhere, and had hands on training and evaluation with the IA and police.
Right now, no doubt, we are critiquing those forces, cleaning them up, retraining them, fortifying them, all with the idea of their not cleaning up Diyala, but in their keeping it clean once we move out of the area, a much easier job.
"when Buckeye was first introduced, successful roadside bomb attacks plunged 90 percent in some cities. The terrorists tried to adapt, but since Buckeye will detect something as small as a penny, the bomb planting teams had an impossible time"
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Necessity is the mother of invention. Now we need a detector that will sniff out islamo-cockroaches, and send them to the roach motel.
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The media doesn't report success, except the enemy's. Roggio et al, have been reporting that most US combat deaths are occurring at close quarters. The battle is being taken to the enemy.
This received from an unidentified correspondent in the Department of Defense:
"Towel Heads"
Recently I received a warning about the use of this politically incorrect term.
Please try to pay attention. We have been informed that the Islamic terrorists do not
like to be called "Towel Heads" since the item they wear on their heads is actually a small folded sheet. Therefore, from this point forward, please refer to them as "little sheet heads."
Thank you for your support on this delicate matter.
Apologies to Bobby for the previous snip, it was not a duplicate. Story reproduced below. AoS.
BAGHDAD - An Iraqi court on Sunday sentenced Saddam Hussein's cousin known as "Chemical Ali" and two other former regime officials to death by hanging for their roles in a 1980s scorched-earth campaign that led to the deaths of 180,000 Kurds. Ali Hassan al-Majid, Saddam's cousin and the former head of the Baath Party's Northern Bureau Command, trembled and stood silently as the judge read the verdict.
Trembled did he? Reminded of his own mortality? Excellent!
The judge, Mohammed Oreibi al-Khalifa, said al-Majid was convicted of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for ordering army and security services to use chemical weapons in a large-scale offensive that killed or maimed thousands. As he was led out of the court, al-Majid said, "Thanks be to God."
I was thanking Him too, if you count my ululating.
The decisions, if upheld on appeal, would bring to a close the second trial against former regime officials since Saddam was ousted in the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Saddam, who also had been a defendant in the so-called Anfal trial, was hanged Dec. 30 for ordering the killings of more than 140 Shiite Muslims from the Iraqi city of Dujail following a 1982 assassination attempt against him.
Kurds welcomed the trial as their chance to taste vengeance, although the case did not deal with the most notorious gassing the March 1988 attack on the northern city of Halabja that killed an estimated 5,000 Kurds. "Finally, the past hard days are gone. I am ready to start over without this burden on my chest," said Lokman Abdul-Qader, a 40-year-old resident of Halabja who lost six relatives in the chemical attack and says he has suffered from acute asthma attacks since he inhaled the nerve and mustard gas that was used.
Former defense minister Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai also was sent to the gallows after the judge ruled that he had ordered a large-scale attack against civilians and used chemical weapons and deportation against the Kurds. Al-Tai, who was wearing a traditional Arab robe and a white headdress, stood in silence as the verdict was read but insisted he was innocent afterward. "I will not say anything new, but I will leave you to God. I'm innocent," al-Tai said as a guard escorted him out of the room after the verdict.
The former deputy director of operations for the Iraqi Armed Forces, Hussein Rashid Mohammed, also was sentenced to death after he was convicted of drawing up military plans and other allegations against the Kurds. Mohammed interrupted the judge as the verdict was being read, insisting the defendants were defending Iraq by acting against Kurdish rebels accused of collaborating with Tehran during the 1980-88 Iraq-Iran war. "God bless our martyrs. Long live the brave Iraqi army. Long live Iraq. Long live the Baath party and long live Arab nations," he said.
All of which may survive you. By minutes.
Two other former regime officials Farhan Mutlaq Saleh, former head of military intelligence's eastern regional office, and former director of military intelligence under Saddam Hussein, Sabir al-Douri, were sentenced to life in prison.
I really would have liked to have seen al-Douri swing.
The judge said the charges were dropped against Taher Tawfiq al-Ani, the former governor of Mosul and head of the Northern Affairs Committee, because of insufficient evidence. That decision had been expected as the prosecutor had requested that al-Ani be released.
The three men sentenced to hang on Sunday would raise to seven the number of former regime officials executed for alleged atrocities against Iraqis during Saddam's nearly three-decades rule.
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Ali Hassan al-Majid
Farhan Mutlaq Saleh
Hussein Rashid Mohammed
Sabir al-Douri
Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Tai
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U.S. soldiers tightened their cordon around al Qaeda fighters holed up in the Iraqi city of Baquba on Saturday, advancing carefully through streets lined with roadside bombs and booby-trapped houses. "We are enveloping the enemy into a kill sack," said Command Sergeant Major Jeff Huggins from the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade. Around 10,000 American and Iraqi soldiers are into the fifth day of major push against al Qaeda militants in Diyala province just north of Baghdad.
U.S. troops have killed dozens of suspected al Qaeda fighters. One U.S. soldier has been killed. Much of the focus is on Baquba, an al Qaeda stronghold that has become a sanctuary for militants escaping a four-month-old security crackdown in the capital. Major Doug Baker, also from the 5th Battalion, said he had cleared three-quarters of the neighbourhood he was assigned to. But around 100 al Qaeda fighters were hunkered down in the northwest corner of the Khatoon district in west Baquba. "That is where we are expecting the stiffest resistance," said Baker, speaking late on Friday at a military base.
The Diyala campaign, dubbed Operation Arrowhead Ripper, is part of a broader offensive involving tens of thousands of U.S. and Iraqi soldiers pushing on with simultaneous operations in Baghdad and to the south and west of the capital. A major focus of the operations is al Qaeda's car bomb networks. U.S. officials accuse the Sunni Islamist group of using car bombs and assassinations against Shi'ite targets in an attempt to spark full-scale sectarian civil war.
Some residents in Baquba have complained there has been no water or electricity since Operation Arrowhead Ripper began. Baker said the incursion had lifted a strict regime where smoking was banned and fruit was not allowed to be placed next to vegetables in the market.
Soldiers had also found a house that appeared to have been set up as an al Qaeda court, with a room divided by a curtain. Behind this was a large chair from which judgment was apparently delivered. Hardline insurgents have been trying to establish a Taliban-style rule in Diyala for months, forcing young schoolgirls to wear veils and attacking restaurants and Internet cafes deemed "un-Islamic".
U.S. soldiers said homes taken over by al Qaeda militants had been fortified, with windows sandbagged and firing platforms built inside to make them easier to defend. The military was using air strikes and precision-guided bombs and missiles to destroy such targets. "We're not carpet-bombing these things. People know if we get resistance from a house, we'll take that house out and the people in it, but not take out the entire street," said Baker. Soldiers on foot are also having to negotiate booby-trapped houses and so-called deep-buried, improvised explosive devices -- large bombs up to three metres (10 feet) under the ground.
U.S. military commanders have said the combined operations were taking advantage of the completion of a build-up of U.S. forces in Iraq to 156,000 soldiers. President George W. Bush has sent 28,000 more troops to Iraq to buy time for Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to reach a political compromise with disaffected minority Sunni Arabs, who are locked in a cycle of violence with majority Shi'ites.
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We are enveloping the enemy into a kill sack
Bwahaha! [Wringing hands in anticipation and thinking "faster, please!"]
Behind this was a large chair from which judgment was apparently delivered
Brave.
fruit was not allowed to be placed next to vegetables in the market
Ooh, that's going to be make them popular!
The military was using air strikes and precision-guided bombs and missiles to destroy such targets
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fruit was not allowed to be placed next to vegetables in the market
"Idiot! You put the tomatoes with the vegetables!"
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"We're not carpet-bombing these things. People know if we get resistance from a house, we'll take that house out and the people in it, but not take out the entire street," said Baker. Soldiers on foot are also having to negotiate booby-trapped houses and so-called deep-buried, improvised explosive devices -- large bombs up to three metres (10 feet) under the ground.
I'm with you Perfessor. This is what's wrong with this whole operation. Our military seems perfectly content to sacrifice OUR soldiers life and limbs( and what sort of life have you got left after loosing limbs or suffering massive brain impairment) instead of inflicting damage to the locals who are cooperating or being coerced by the thugs. Take them out in big bunches. When the pain threshold is high enough they'll come around as certain Sunni sheiks have started to do. Why are we willing to lose our guys to protect these dirtdevils ? When did this idiot thinking start ? And they wonder why they have trouble meeting recruiting levels ? What a bunch of dumbshits.
I think the Islamists believe they're boiling a frog and so therefore continue to snipe and attrit the US forces and will of the people, all the while safe in the knowledge that the US won't 'notice' until its too late.
I think they're wrong. I think they're dealing with an entity that is doing all it can not to unleash the power it has. God help them if the US decides 'the hell with it', because sure as shit, there's not going to be a power on Earth that will be able to help them then...
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Tony, the Arab image of America is one that they have simplified for their own understanding. In my mind the Iranian backed Jihadis are engaged in something akin to simultaneously siphoning gas while smoking a cigarette, talking on a cell phone and engaging in self-pleasure. I think the end will be both rather quick, unexpected and not as pleasant as anticipated for the perpetrators.
I won't use the term tragic. There is no tragedy to a death by auto-erotic asphyxiation. It is well deserved.
Unlike many Americans, I won't propose facilitating regime change in Iran. Their society is more complex and disfunctional than what is present in Iraq and well beyond any one person's prediction of the outcome. As for a policy of enagement, I would as soon invite OJ Simpson for an X-mas houseguest.
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SuperHose - 'thanks' for that visual. It rather sums up the current situation though, doesn't it?
Were you thinking just Baquba or wider...
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Tony, I was thinking globally. Americans for instance, try to extrapolate Tony Blair, Harry Potter and Sean Connery to cover the entire male population of London .. then they catch an episode of the Young Ones and become very confused.
I am currently wading through In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs to try to understand Iran since the Hostage Crisis. The book has not been an easy read for me. I am now more interested in Iran than I was before I started reading, but I don't feel like anyone can accurately predict what is going to take place there in the next ten years.
I do feel like the best American course of action is to remain disengaged from Iran and to scald them wherever possible with respect to their international mischief in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Lebanon.
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Hamas will go after "Israeli spies" in Gaza i.e., Fatah supporters
and might use bombs in its struggle with Fatah in the West Bank, a leading Hamas hardliner in Gaza was quoted as saying Saturday. As I said on numerous occasions: it ain't serious until they start suicide booming each other.
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gorb, are you mixing apples and oranges?
...err... Hamas and Hizbullah?
Yea, I know that their common denominator is that they're both financed by Iran and both are fanatical Islamists, but that is about all they have in common.
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2x4, are you suggesting that Haniyah is a spy, too?!
Naah, Haniyah is just a typical Hamass idiot. Now Mashall, in Syria - there's a guy to keep your eye on. He's so crooked he watches his own back. Besides, what does Israel need with human spies that could feed them BS when they have tens of thousands of miniature microphones, cameras, and other spy devices all over the area? Hamass will learn the only way to stop the Israelis from spying is to destroy EVERYTHING, down to the dirt (they're going to do it anyway, might as well give them some encouragement).
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As OP said, the Zionist micro-spies are everywhere, in everything. Add to that the Zionist mind rays...
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the Jooooos could kill any Hamas big they wanted. The fact that the current Hamas leadership is alive is proof they are Joooooo tools. Quod erat demonstrandum
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oh, and Gazans? A by-the-way for your Paleo Peabrain consideration. The Jooos keep the electricity, water and sewers running, ever think about why? They are all spying on ya. Any device using the electricity or conveying water or sewage can be used to spy on youz. Better to smash and cut them off, dontcha think?
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Today's story of Islamic Jihad boomers pre-boomed by timely Israeli intervention suggests that Gaza is indeed riddled with Israeli spies. The chances of Hamas correctly identifying them is almost nil. But that's hardly the point.
Islamists are particularly prone to blackmail. In a culture that will prosecute you for a handshake, evidence of an indiscretion, whether actual or created, is a deadly serious reason to turn.
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Israeli Forces yesterday arrested a prominent Hamas leader in the West Bank as sacked Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called for talks between his Islamic movement and Fatah. Hamas said in a statement that Saleh Al-Arori, a founder member of Hamas armed wing Ezz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, was arrested in his home village of Arora and taken to an unknown location for interrogation. Israeli security sources confirmed his arrest. Arori, 42, was released last March after serving 15 years in an Israeli jail. Hamas strongly condemned the arrest and charged that the Israeli move was meant to empty the West Bank of sincere national voices opposing the (Israeli) occupation, and to pave the way for corrupt Palestinian figures attached to Israel to control the region.
In Gaza, Hamas leader Mahmoud Al-Zahar was quoted as saying his group might carry out bombings and other attacks in the West Bank in response to an arrest sweep there. Dozens of Hamas activists have been arrested by the Palestinian security forces in the West Bank since the Gaza takeover. Other Hamas activists have hinted at a bombing campaign to try to destabilize the West Bank, a stronghold of Abbas Fatah movement. Zahars comment to the German news magazine Der Spiegel marked the first public confirmation of such a plan.
Hamas also reacted angrily yesterday to recommendations by the Palestine Liberation Organization that early elections should be held under changed rules that would effectively exclude the Islamists. Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhum described the proposal from the PLO Central Council, a body of which his movement is not a member, as something which should be condemned.
The PLO Central Council has no legitimacy and any changes must be adopted by the Legislative Council, the Palestinian Parliament in which Hamas won a large majority in January 2006 elections, Barhum said. Hamas has not been consulted and that represents a sort of dictatorship that rides roughshod over Palestinian legitimacy by brutal means, he added.
The PLO central council adopted the recommendation on Thursday, a day after Abbas, who is also PLO chairman, delivered a withering attack on Hamas in his first public comments since the Islamists bloody takeover of the Gaza Strip. The council called for early parliamentary and presidential elections on the basis of changed rules that would require all parties taking part to respect the PLO program, including its nearly 20-year-old support for a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict, effectively excluding Hamas.
The recommendation still has to be officially promulgated and endorsed by Abbas. In a telephone conversation with Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, Haniyeh yesterday said: The way out of the current situation is launching a Palestinian dialogue without preconditions. He said dialogue should be resumed on the basis of no loser and no winner and on the basis of a national unity government committed to Makkah agreement.
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FAWZI BARHUM
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ISMAIL HANIYEH
Hamas
MAHMUD AL ZAHAR
Hamas
President Ali Abdullah Saleh
SALEH AL ARORI
Hamas
Ezz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades
Palestine Liberation Organization
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Terrorists Suspected militants killed two soldiers and two villagers in ambushes in Thailand's rebellious Muslim south on Sunday, police said.
The soldiers were executed and their bodies burned by suspected Muslim snipers on a road in Narathiwat province after their motorcycle came under fire, police said. In nearby Pattani province, two elderly civilians riding on a motorcycle were attacked by pistol-toting gunmen. The two men were doused with benzene and set on fire, police said.
The military had detained 130 Muslim militant suspects and sympathisers during a security sweep through Narathiwat and nearby Yala province since Wednesday, army spokesman Akara Thiproj told reporters on Sunday.
Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont reiterated on Saturday his government would stick to its disastrous policy of trying to defuse the situation in the south through peaceful dialogue with the militants.
A Sri Lankan sailor was shot dead while guarding a checkpoint in the countrys volatile northwest, while soldiers killed two suspected Tamil rebels in the north, the military said Saturday. The sailor was standing guard in Mannar district when he was attacked by the insurgents late Friday, military spokesman Brig. Prasad Samarasinghe said.
In northern Jaffna peninsula, soldiers shot dead two suspected rebels who were acting suspiciously and later recovered a roadside bomb and other explosive devices found with the bodies of the dead men, Samarasinghe said. There was no immediate comment from the rebels, and no further details were available on the attacks. Jaffna peninsula, which lies at the northern tip of Sri Lanka and is the heartland of the island nations ethnic minority Tamils.
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SEVEN Australians suspected of involvement with an al-Qaeda-linked terror group have been arrested following raids by the Lebanese army in which 11 people were killed.
Foreign militants were among the dead, including one man who may be Australian. Lebanese authorities were working last night to establish his nationality.
Five of those arrested, among them Sydney accountant Ibrahim Sabouh, were seized during a round-up of foreigners near the northern city of Tripoli last Thursday.
Information believed to have been passed on as a result of that raid led the Lebanese military to an apartment building in the city.
Security sources said that as troops approached on Saturday morning, a militant posing as an ice-cream seller outside the building opened fire with an automatic rifle, sparking a 10-hour siege that ended with six extremists, a soldier, a policeman and three civilians dead. Fourteen people were wounded.
The policeman, his two daughters, aged four and eight, and his father-in-law died after being used as human shields.
Two Australians were captured as they attempted to flee across open fields.
It was reported last night that those arrested were not members of the al-Qaeda-linked terror group Fatah al-Islam, which has been engaged in a brutal insurgency in northern Lebanon for the past month.
But Lebanese authorities confirmed that the seven Australians were being held on suspicion of being members of a terrorist organisation, although no charges had been laid.
The Australian understands that Mr Sabouh, an accountant from Auburn in Sydney's west who migrated to Lebanon with his wife and three children more than a year ago, was arrested during a raid on his Tripoli home.
Sources said the other Australians were arrested in his home.
Mr Sabouh's wife is understood to have contacted relatives in Australia and told them the authorities had not found any weapons or other incriminating material at her home.
Last night, The Australian visited the house in Auburn were Mr Sabouh lived before he left for Lebanon and was told by a man that the family did not wish to comment.
It is believed Mr Sabouh is a follower of the Salafist brand of Islam a hardline interpretation espoused by the Fatah al-Islam terrorist group which has been fighting to overthrow the Lebanese Government. The group claims the Government is un-Islamic and unrepresentative of the people.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade yesterday said the reasons for the arrests were still not clear but consular officials from the Australian embassy in Beirut were in contact with the Lebanese security forces and had requested consular access to the arrested men.
Consular officials in Canberra were also assisting the men's families in Australia, a spokesman said.
The arrests follow an announcement last Thursday that the uprising by Fatah al-Islam had been crushed.
Authorities had been battling the insurgency since last month after militants launched attacks on troops on the outskirts of the Nahr al-Barad Palestinian refugee camp in the north of the country.
In a statement issued last night, Lebanese authorities said the policeman and his daughters killed on Saturday were visiting the father-in-law, who lived in the building, when the militants stormed their flat and seized them at the start of the clashes. The militants later killed them.
The army said it had found weapons, ammunition and electronic booby-trap equipment in the apartment. Two floors of the five-storey building were blackened and burned in the fighting. Holes from shells, grenades and bullets punctured its facade. A pool of blood lay on the pavement.
Last week's declaration by Lebanese Defence Minister Elias Murr that Fatah al-Islam had been smashed followed a month of heavy fighting in which more than 60 Lebanese soldiers were killed.
At least three Spanish UN peacekeepers were killed and six others wounded in an attack on a UNIFIL patrol in southern Lebanon on Sunday afternoon. The incident took place near Al-Hijam, south of Marj Ayoun, on the eastern part of the border with Israel. UNIFIL forces were on route to the site of the attack to investigate.
According to Israel Radio, a car bomb detonated near a UNIFIL patrol vehicle. UNIFIL was unable to confirm the report, saying that it was unclear whether the incident was a terror attack. Officials said that the patrol may have run over a mine. However, they were not able to confirm that theory. The problem with trying to appease Muslims is that there are sooo many groups---and every single one has a different agenda.
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In theory a UNIFIL force should serve as a tripwire. I think all concerned understand that like Rawanda, it is a tripwire connected to an explosive device where the charge has been removed and a yoyo substituted. The only conequence to the killing of UNIFIL personnel is that the West will denounce itself and Israel. Unlike a tripwire, a yoyo string is no end of fun to pull repeatedly. I think most of the UNIFIL personnel will soon agree that it sucks to be a patsy.
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"At least three Spanish UN peacekeepers were killed and six others wounded in an attack on a UNIFIL patrol"
But..but..but Spain rolled over for the moslems! Isn't that supposed to keep their people safe?
/sarcasm
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Unifil troops, if everbody gets to go home, will now be most satisfied to sacrifice just 5 members for a fatter wallet while serving there. What was Tipsy Livni saying about such jokers ever really fighting?
NAHR Al BARED, Lebanon - Islamist militants shot dead a Lebanese soldier and one of their booby traps killed three other soldiers at a Palestinian refugee camp on Saturday, drawing fierce artillery shelling from the army.
Al Qaeda-inspired Fatah Al Islam snipers gunned down the soldier and wounded three others at Nahr Al Bared camp in north Lebanon, scene of five weeks of battles. Shortly afterwards a booby-trap blast killed three more soldiers and wounded one, security sources said. The soldiers had been on a demining mission. The deaths were the first military fatalities since the army declared an end to major combat on Thursday and brought to 80 the number of troops killed in the fighting.
Heavy 155 mm artillery shells slammed into the heart of the camp where the militants had deployed after retreating from outlying positions captured by the troops. Militants responded with small arms fire and grenades, security sources said.
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The Lebanese Army Command said Friday that 'surrender of the criminals' is the first step in achieving justice in the ongoing confrontation with Fatah al-Islam terrorists in the northern Nahr al-Bared camp. "The army command highly values initiatives and efforts aimed at finding a settlement to the current crisis," a statement said. However, it noted that the army command "has no right to make concessions related to justice achieving justice starts with surrender of the criminals who committed massacres against (Lebanese) troops," the statement added.
The confrontation, which has claimed more than 172 lives, broke out on May 20 when Fatah al-Islam terrorists slaughtered 27 troops around the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp, during their sleep. The army command said troops have "tight field control" over all the "facilities, command centers, fighting outposts, training bases and information offices" that had been used by Fatah al-Islam terrorists in the camp. Such control included "demolishing "tunnels" used by Fatah al-Islam militants in the fight, the communiqué explained. The terrorists, according to the statement, have "fled towards the depth of the camp where they use civilians as human shields."
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"Jeebus. I missed that."
"Lebanon now understands that this is an all-or-nothing fight."
I had missed the sleeping soldier attack also. I guess that explains the Lebanese army's newfound stones. I had wondered if perhaps it was part of a new French government policy. Either way, it looks like the Lebanese army has finally grown a set. About time.
The Lebanese army raided several houses in the district of Abi Samra in Tripoli and found explosives, ammunition and "RPG" missiles and a large quantity of weapons. The raid took place this afternoon in the capital of northern Lebanon.
Last week the army arrested three suspected al Qaeda members in possession of weapons and explosives, in Bar Elias security sources said. The raids were prompted by tips from Fatah al Islam militants that were arrested by the army The army has been fighting militants of Fatah al Islam since May 20, in the nearby Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr el Bared
Update: 1:00 AM Sunday June 24,2007
The raid resulted in another battle for the Lebanese army with another batch of Fatah al Islam terrorists . The terrorists fired missiles at the army which resulted in setting one of the armored vehicles on fire and the injury of 6 army personnel. The army has managed to get the situation under control by encircling the terrorists . It is now chasing those responsible for firing at the army.
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The Lebs sound like a good partner in this struggle against the multi-headed monster, mother Islam. I wonder what percent of the Leb army is Muslim ? And how difficult is it to keep this group together ?
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Trivia Q: in what 1964 movie did Ronald Reagan give Angie Dickinson the back of his fist?
Clue: the director went on to make several successful movies with Charles Bronson until Bronson refused to work with him again, after calling him, "the worst liar in the world."
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My recollection is that it was called The Killers or The Murderers. Reagan didn't like it because it was the only movie in which he portrayed a heavy, let alone hitting a woman. Bronson was also actually drunk out of his mind in the filming of the last scene. It can be debated whether or not it improved his performance. Great cast in the movie of actors who would go on to make a fortune in TV.
1964. I'm sure something good happened that year, but I can't remember what it was.
Bronson was replaced by Lee Marvin and it was he who was drunk as a skunk. Others were John Cassavetes, Clu Gallagher, Claude Aikens, Norman Fell and Nancy Wilson. Ronnie got lowest billing amongst the stars with Marvin at the top.
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yep. Siegel made some pretty damn good movies, including a bunch with Clint Eastwood, and The Shootist (a fine film) - John Wayne's last, IIRC. Even Telefon was good, Bronson drunk or not
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Foreign forces in Afghanistan said on Saturday they had killed around 80 insurgents in the past 24 hours, most of them in a strike on rebels preparing an attack near the Pakistan border.
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Ten civilians were killed on Saturday inside North Waziristan in a mortar attack from Afghanistan by foreign forces, a military spokesman and tribal sources said. Ten innocent people were reported killed when some mortars hit civilians in Mangroti village in the Shawal region, military spokesman Maj-Gen Waheed Arshad told Daily Times by phone from Rawalpindi. Thirteen others were injured in the fire, he added.
As reported in daily Jang, the Imam Kaaba, Sheikh ul Quran Dr Abdur Rehman Alsadees bin Abdul Aziz, said that the organisers of Lal Masjid are using women and children as shields. He stressed that ulema shall not use the mosque for fitna (mischief). Jihad can only be declared by acquiring enough power from the government. He said no person can declare jihad on his own. He also said that killing people in the name of difference of sects (maslak) is against Islam. Islam accepts the power of logic and the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) had dialogues with people of different faiths and left them on their own. 
U.S. soldiers tightened their cordon around al Qaeda fighters holed up in the Iraqi city of Baquba on Saturday, advancing carefully through streets lined with roadside bombs and booby-trapped houses. "We are enveloping the enemy into a kill sack," said Command Sergeant Major Jeff Huggins from the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade. Around 10,000 American and Iraqi soldiers are into the fifth day of major push against al Qaeda militants in Diyala province just north of Baghdad.
Israeli Forces yesterday arrested a prominent Hamas leader in the West Bank as sacked Prime Minister 
NAHR Al BARED, Lebanon - Islamist militants shot dead a Lebanese soldier and one of their booby traps killed three other soldiers at a Palestinian refugee camp on Saturday, drawing fierce artillery shelling from the army.
The Lebanese army raided several houses in the district of Abi Samra in Tripoli and found explosives, ammunition and "RPG" missiles and a large quantity of weapons. The raid took place this afternoon in the capital of northern Lebanon.
