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Afghanistan
25 Talibs, 4 security guards dead in convoy ambush
A gun battle left 25 Taliban and four security guards dead after the insurgents ambushed a convoy of a private Afghan security firm in the Bakwa district of the insurgency-wracked western province of Farah overnight, police said on Saturday. An Afghan civilian was also killed and five more wounded on Friday when an artillery round fired during a NATO-led exercise hit their home in Sarkano district in eastern Kunar province, police said.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Nice work from the "private Afghan security firm". Good ration boys -- especially considering youz was ambushed.
Posted by: Captain Lewis || 07/22/2007 8:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Wonder how many of those "Afghan security firm" employees were ex-SF? The Talibunnies seem to be getting the dirty end of the stick more often than not.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 07/22/2007 14:33 Comments || Top||


Afghan Taliban murder 2 German hostages
A spokesman for Afghanistan’s Taliban claimed on Saturday that the militants had killed two Germans and five Afghan hostages and threatened that 23 South Korean captives could meet the same fate. However, Afghanistan’s foreign ministry and German Foreign Minister Franck-Walter Steinmeier said one of the Germans was still thought to be alive.

The other German had died but had not been murdered, Steinmeier said, while the Afghan ministry said he had died of a heart attack. “Nothing indicates that he was assassinated - everything suggests he died due to the conditions of detention imposed by his captors,” Steinmeier told reporters in Berlin. Steinmeier said the government was working closely with Afghan authorities to free the surviving German hostage and that Chancellor Angela Merkel was being kept abreast of developments. He said the German’s death in Taliban hands was no less “tragic” because he had died of natural causes. “The fate of the German and Korean hostages is affecting us profoundly and we are even more outraged that their fate is being determined by the extremists forces in Afghanistan, above all the Taliban,” he said. “Now it’s about saving the life of the second hostage,” he said.

Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi warned that the insurgents would kill the 23 South Korean Christian evangelists they had abducted earlier by Sunday unless an equal number of jailed Taliban fighters were freed before then. Ahmadi, speaking by telephone from Quetta an undisclosed location, said the Taliban had set the deadline for the South Koreans for Sunday, 7pm local time (1430 GMT). “If the government does not free 23 Taliban prisoners, these will be the last moments of the Koreans’ lives,” he said.
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This article starring:
Afghan deputy assembly president Arif Noorzai
foreign ministry spokesman Sultan Ahmad Baheen
German Foreign Minister Franck-Walter Steinmeier
YUSUF AHMEDITaliban
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  What? You mean the German government refused to pay a ransom? WTF? I thought the Europeans had no problem funding terrorism? Should have kidnapped Italians instead.
Posted by: gromky || 07/22/2007 2:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Shouldn't have done that. Now you face the wrath of Euro rhetoric.
Posted by: McZoid || 07/22/2007 7:41 Comments || Top||

#3  And thereby contribute to Global Warming.
Posted by: lotp || 07/22/2007 8:55 Comments || Top||

#4  Talibunnies beware....

From Publishers Weekly
In June 1944, Nazi troops in the French town of Oradour-sur-Glane massacred more than 600 men, women and children and torched the town. Today, the town's ruins remain as a national monument, yet the meaning of what happened there has changed over time, as the French have struggled to come to terms with the legacy of WWII.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2007 9:04 Comments || Top||

#5  If I were to hear that the Germans had decided to develop a special squad of several hundred men to use in hostage rescue situations, it would make me very happy. I'm sure it would upset all of Germany's neighbors, but it's about time the European nations decided that it's better to be a lion than someone else's dinner.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 07/22/2007 14:37 Comments || Top||

#6  This is the Germany that has spent $millions to ransom 'captives' who also, conveniently, happen to be converts .....
Posted by: lotp || 07/22/2007 16:07 Comments || Top||

#7  This is the Germany that goes into undamped oscillation. At the moment it's idiotic pacifism. They will turn on a dime when motivated. I prefer them the way they are.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/22/2007 17:11 Comments || Top||


Europe
Report: Flight to London evacuated in Rome
An Alitalia flight that was preparing to leave Rome's main airport for London was evacuated Saturday, after officials received an anonymous phone call announcing there was a bomb on the plane, news reports said. The 165 passengers were evacuated and baggage was unloaded, as bomb-squad officers using dogs began checking the plane, news agency ANSA reported.

The alert was launched at 1:15 p.m. (1115GMT), just 20 minutes before the plane was due to leave, and the aircraft was still undergoing checks late Saturday afternoon, ANSA said. Officials at Alitalia and at Rome's Fiumicino airport said they were still investigating the incident and could not immediately confirm the report.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Global Jihad


Italian police hold 3 Moroccan terrorism suspects
Police in central Italy arrested three Moroccans on Saturday after finding films and Internet downloads at a mosque they believe was used for recruiting and training militants for “terrorist acts” abroad. “We found and put out of service what was a genuine ‘terrorist school’,” said Carlo De Stefano, head of UCIGOS, a branch of the Italian police that specialises in security investigations.

Police said they believed the men, one an imam, had used a mosque at Ponte Felcino, near Perugia, as a training camp for international terrorism. Materials seized included instructions on how to fly a Boeing 747. “The investigations documented how the suspects ... were undertaking a laborious and in-depth operation of instruction and training in the use of weapons and combat techniques suitable for terrorist acts,” the police said in a statement. Police said the mosque had been used to recruit “terrorists” to operate abroad, possibly in Iraq. They were seeking a fourth Moroccan.

Among the Internet files were instructions on handling poisons, explosives and sending encrypted messages via computer. Police said there were also “instructions aimed at aspiring mujahideen to get safely to conflict zones”. Interior Minister Giuliano Amato congratulated the police and said the possible use of a mosque by militants was a serious concern.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Europe

#1  (Interior Minister Giuliano Amato)said the possible use of a mosque by militants was a serious concern.

because it infringed on the established pattern of denial.....
Posted by: Abu do you love || 07/22/2007 13:41 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Six explosions rock summer capital of Indian Kashmir
The summer capital of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir Srinagar was rocked by six powerful grenade explosions late Friday, leaving three people injured. Guerrillas threw a hand grenade inside the parking lot in Dalgate in Srinagar where three people were injured, news agency Indo-Asian News Service reported. There were five more grenade attacks in Batmallo, Nehru Park, and Narbal areas of Srinagar at the same time, the news agency said. However, no one was injured in these explosions. No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Islamic Rage Boy could not be reached for grimace.
Posted by: Seafarious || 07/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under: ISI

#1  powerful explosion and gernade dont really fit in the same context to me....
Posted by: Abu do you love || 07/22/2007 13:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Must be Hek-trained terrorists. Only one of six grenades caused any damage. "Ins'allah" just doesn't apply to maintenance, it seems. It's also alive and well among the muzzie "combattants". Doesn't mean they're not still dangerous. Even the worst shot kills something now and then.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 07/22/2007 14:41 Comments || Top||

#3  #1: powerful explosion and grenade don't really fit in the same context to me....

Yep, I've noticed that tendency to exaggerate also, seems anything bigger than an M-80 is "an extremely powerful explosion."
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/22/2007 16:52 Comments || Top||

#4  It is if the biggest explosion you've seen before is a match being struck.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/22/2007 17:22 Comments || Top||

#5  I thought IRB was on standby at all times. On holiday perhaps or upping his Botox regime. It must be difficult to keep that face permanently contorted like that with a daily dose.
Posted by: Steven || 07/22/2007 23:07 Comments || Top||


9 Hindu pilgrims among 11 hurt in Kashmir blast
Eleven people, including nine Hindu pilgrims, were wounded on Saturday when suspected separatist militants lobbed a grenade at a pilgrims’ community kitchen in Indian-held Kashmir, police said.

No militant group has claimed responsibility for the attack, the second in the past five days during an annual pilgrimage that attracts tens of thousands of Hindus to the Amarnath shrine, where devotees worship a phallus-shaped ice stalagmite seen as a symbol of Lord Shiva, the Hindu deity of destruction. “The blast triggered panic in Pahalgam, many pilgrims were screaming and running,” a police official said. Pahalgam is one of the two base camps located near Srinagar. The two-month long pilgrimage has been targeted several times since a revolt against Indian rule broke out in 1989. Authorities said three people were critically wounded, adding that no group had immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Authorities have deployed thousands of soldiers and policemen along the pilgrims’ route, which crosses icy streams, goes around glacier-fed lakes and through snow-covered mountain passes.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Taiba


Maulana Abdul Aziz demands enforcement of Islamic laws
The former chief cleric of Lal Masjid, Maulana Abdul Aziz, reiterated his call for the enforcement of Islamic laws in Pakistan on Saturday.
It was the first public statement made by Aziz since he was arrested in a woman’s burqa on July 5 while trying to flee the government’s siege against the mosque.
It was the first public statement made by Aziz since he was arrested in a woman’s burqa on July 5 while trying to flee the government’s siege against the mosque.

Aziz has defended his and the mosque’s students’ actions by saying, “we were only demanding enforcement of Islamic law” and saying they did not commit any crimes. “Those sacrifices were for Islam,” he told reporters, referring to the death of his son, brother and other students of the madrassa. Aziz made his comments at a court near Islamabad when police produced him before a judge in connection with the killing of a soldier near his mosque before the operation.

The judge allowed police to hold him for questioning until August 4, according to defence lawyer Hashmat Habib. Aziz had been using Lal Masjid as a base for sending out radicalised madrassa students to enforce their Taliban-like version of Islamic morality, including the abduction of alleged prostitutes, since January.
This article starring:
defence lawyer Hashmat Habib
MAULANA ABDUL AZIZLal Masjid
Lal Masjid
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  "Everyone, except those who are ignorant, knows that the Quran is the general code of the Muslims. A religious, social, civil, commercial, military, judicial, criminal, penal code, it regulates everything from the ceremonies of religion to those of daily life; from the salvation of the soul to the health of the body; from the rights of all to those of each individual; from morality to crime, from punishment here to that in the life to come, and our Prophet has enjoined on us that every Musalman should possess a copy of the Quran and be his own priest. Therefore Islam is not merely confined to the spiritual tenets and doctrines or rituals and ceremonies. It is a complete code regulating the whole Muslim society, every department of life, collectively and individually."

- Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Founder of Pakistan

Posted by: John Frum || 07/22/2007 8:15 Comments || Top||

#2  The Messiah and The Promised Land

Margaret Bourke-White wrote in 1947:

The note of personal triumph was so unmistakable that I wondered how much thought he gave to the human cost: more Muslim lives had been sacrificed to create the new Muslim homeland than America, for example, had lost during the entire second World War. I hoped he had a constructive plan for the seventy million citizens of Pakistan. What kind of constitution did he intend to draw up?

"Of course it will be a democratic constitution; Islam is a democratic religion."

I ventured to suggest that the term "democracy" was often loosely used these days. Could he define what he had in mind?

"Democracy is not just a new thing we are learning," said Jinnah. "It is in our blood. We have always had our system of zakat -- our obligation to the poor."

This confusion of democracy with charity troubled me. I begged him to be more specific.

"Our Islamic ideas have been based on democracy and social justice since the thirteenth century."

This mention of the thirteenth century troubled me still more. Pakistan has other relics of the Middle Ages besides "social justice" -- the remnants of a feudal land system, for one. What would the new constitution do about that? .. "The land belongs to the God," says the Koran. This would need clarification in the constitution. Presumably Jinnah, the lawyer, would be just the person to correlate the "true Islamic principles" one heard so much about in Pakistan with the new nation's laws. But all he would tell me was that the constitution would be democratic because "the soil is perfectly fertile for democracy."

Posted by: John Frum || 07/22/2007 8:19 Comments || Top||

#3  "shaddup and get back in the bag, beeotch!"
Posted by: Frank G || 07/22/2007 10:21 Comments || Top||

#4  Aziz has defended his and the mosque’s students’ actions by saying, “we were only demanding enforcement of Islamic law” and saying they did not commit any crimes.

Which handily ignores how "enforcement of Islamic law" is a crime.

“Those human sacrifices were for Islam,”

A little clarification was in order.
Posted by: Zenster || 07/22/2007 12:50 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: John Frum || 07/22/2007 15:56 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: John Frum || 07/22/2007 15:56 Comments || Top||


TV crew beaten up in Peshawar
Shopkeepers attacked and beat up a reporter and cameraman from a private TV channel in the limits of Khan Raziq police station here on Saturday. Pushto television channel AVT Khyber bureau chief Mahmood Jan Afridi told Daily Times that his channel’s reporter Wahidur Rehman and cameraman Waqar Ahmed were recording a programme on the public reaction to recent terrorist acts when they were attacked. He said the two had already shot footage in various bazaars of the city, but when they reached Kabari Bazaar, where allegedly stolen items are traded, two people came forward and verbally abused both of them. He said the shopkeepers assumed the journalist was reporting on stolen items being traded in the bazaar. He said other shopkeepers joined the first two and beat up the journalist and his cameraman, who were both eventually rescued by police arriving on the scene. Sadaqat from Khan Raziq police station told Daily Times a case has been registered against the attackers, with one accused, Azizullah, already arrested while the other is still missing. Peshawar Press Club President Mohammad Riaz has condemned the attack and announced a protest against it on Monday.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  "Gee Ma, dere's dem dere silverware wot went missin' last month!"
Posted by: Skunky Glins5285 || 07/22/2007 18:44 Comments || Top||


Maulana Aziz and family sent to jail
Anti-terrorism Court Judge Sakhi Mohammad Kahoot on Saturday sent Lal Masjid chief cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz, along with his wife and two daughters, to jail on judicial remand in five cases. The same court accepted the bail application of Tayyeba Dua, daughter of Maulana Abdul Aziz, in the Chinese nationals’ abduction case. The district administration has declared Simli Dam rest house a sub-jail for the accused. Deputy Commissioner Chaudhry Mohammad Ali said Maulana Aziz and his family were being kept there for their safety.

On Saturday, the accused were produced before the court amid tight security. The investigating officer told the court that the accused were not wanted in any investigations. The court then sent the accused to jail on judicial remand. The police produced 56 madrassa students before the court, of whom 22 were freed and 21 sent to jail on judicial remand. Thirteen students were also remanded to police custody for two days.

Maulana Aziz said that he was tortured during investigation. He said he was forced to wear a burqa before appearing on PTV.
The court accepted the bail applications of Umme Hassan, wife of Maulana Abdul Aziz, and his two daughters for hearing, and directed the prosecution to submit the investigation report of the cases filed against the accused on July 25. Talking to reporters outside court, Maulana Aziz said that he was tortured during investigation. He said he was forced to wear a burqa before appearing on PTV.
This article starring:
Anti-terrorism Court Judge Sakhi Mohammad Kahoot
Deputy Commissioner Chaudhry Mohammad Ali
MAULANA ABDUL AZIZLal Masjid
Tayyeba Dua, daughter of Maulana Abdul Aziz
Umme Hassan, wife of Maulana Abdul Aziz
Lal Masjid
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Well, on the bright side the burka hid the panties on his head.
Posted by: Skunky Glins5285 || 07/22/2007 18:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Have you seen this clowns mug? I think the burqa was a defensive mechanism for the innocent cops. Cover that thing up please!
Posted by: Steven || 07/22/2007 23:15 Comments || Top||


Five bomb scares in a day in Karachi
In a single day, there were five different rumors of bombs in various parts of the city. According to the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS), the brigade police phoned the BDS at around 11 am and warned them of a bomb in an under-construction building near the Myro department store in Lines Area. On hearing this news, the people in the area began to panic, and ambulances and bomb squads rushed to the scene. After searching for nearly two hours, the area was declared safe and clear. A police mobile in the area, on seeing a cluster of people, arrived at the spot, where they were then informed of the bomb rumor.

The Saddar police also received information by an anonymous phone caller at around 11:30 a.m. of a bomb in the Navy flats near Lucky Star. Police, ambulances, and bomb squads rushed to the scene, and searched the building for nearly three hours before declaring it safe. In another rumor, an unknown civilian called the Kharadar police at 6:00 p.m., and told them about a bomb near Subzari Mazaar, in the vicinity of Kutiyana Memon Hospital. Once again, police, ambulances, and bomb squads quickly arrived and searched the area for an hour before it was declared safe.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Four militants killed in North Wazoo
Security forces on Saturday killed four militants who attacked a security check post in North Waziristan’s Ghulam Khan sector, reported Geo news. The militants attacked the check post at 8:30pm. Security forces retaliated and killed four insurgents. The rest fled, taking the bodies of their accomplices with them. Major General Waheed Arshad, director general Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), confirmed the loss sustained by the militants. Attacks on security forces have increased after the Lal Masjid operation in which 103 people, including special forces personnel, were killed.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Jirga men escape rocket attack
Members of an all-tribes jirga trying to save the 2006 peace deal between tribal militants and the government escaped a rocket attack in North Waziristan on Saturday. All jirga members were “safe” after a rocket hit a girls’ hostel the members have been staying at since Friday, a senior government official told Daily Times. “The rocket attack was aimed at jirga members,” the official added. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the pro-Taliban tribal militants are “prime suspects,” the official said.

The jirga had dashed to North Waziristan on Friday after meeting NWFP Governor Ali Jan Orakzai in Peshawar to hold talks with tribal elders and key Taliban commanders to win back their support for the peace deal. The local Taliban pulled out of the peace accord last Sunday citing “violations on the part of the government”. Jirga members made no contact with the Taliban leadership till Friday evening, spokesman for the militants Abdul Hai Ghazi said on Friday. “No jirga member met any Taliban commander till Friday evening. I am not sure that there will be any meeting on Saturday.”

Suspected Taliban militants on Saturday detonated six tribal police check posts – three in North Waziristan and as many in the Frontier region of Bannu, officials said. Reports from Bannu said that the tribal police, also known as Khasadars, abandoned the remaining check posts following threats from the militants. “No tribal police check post is manned any longer in the Frontier region (a buffer zone between North Waziristan and Bannu district in NWFP),” the officials said.

At 5:00pm on Saturday, the militants attempted to cut off Miranshah from the rest of the country by trying to detonate a key bridge, the security sources said. “A big explosion to destroy Chashma Bridge has failed,” sources added. Taliban commander Maulana Abdul Khaliq said his fighters would attack security forces to avenge the operation against Jamia Hafsa in Islamabad on July 12.
This article starring:
ABDUL HAI GHAZITaliban
MAULANA ABDUL KHALIQTaliban
NWFP Governor Ali Jan Orakzai
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  ...All jirga members were “safe” after a rocket hit a girls’ hostel the members have been staying at since Friday ....Girls Hostel?????????
Posted by: dorf || 07/22/2007 20:45 Comments || Top||


Pak police defuse car-bomb at Harry Potter party
Police in Pakistan said yesterday they defused a bomb the previous night outside a packed shopping centre where the latest Harry Potter book was scheduled to be launched. "Police foiled an attempt to blow up a car bomb by remote control outside the Pak Towers and defused 10kg of explosives in a stolen car," said Karachi police investigation chief Manzoor Mughal. "Had it exploded it would have caused a huge loss of lives."

The launch of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was postponed until later in the day. "There were several hundred people inside Pak Towers at the time we received the call from an unknown person that a bomb was about to explode," Mughal said.
Think of it... all the cute li'l kiddies in pieces, all the wailing relatives, all the teevee cameras.
Posted by: Seafarious || 07/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  It wasn't the Koran so the kids needed to die?
Posted by: 3dc || 07/22/2007 10:02 Comments || Top||

#2  Islamic Death Eaters
Posted by: Frank G || 07/22/2007 10:36 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Coalition Forces, Iraqi Emergency Response Unit detain three rogue JAM
An Iraqi Emergency Response Unit with Coalition Forces present as advisers, detained three suspected members of a rogue Jaysh al-Mahdi militia group, during an early morning operation in Sadr City, July 20. Two of the detainees are brothers who have allegedly conducted attacks on Iraqi and Coalition Forces, while the third, a woman, is suspected of holding JAM splinter group meetings at her house.

Members of the Iraqi ERU Coalition Forces raided two residences in the northwestern neighborhood of Baghdad. At one location, Iraqi and Coalition Forces detained the female suspect, while another team detained the two brothers at the second house. The primary targets of this operation are allegedly responsible for conducting kidnappings and extrajudicial killings against Iraqi citizens. They have also allegedly been involved in attacks against Iraqi and Coalition Forces.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2007 11:18 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Mahdi Army


Coalition Forces detain 14
Coalition Forces detained 14 suspected terrorists during operations targeting al-Qaeda in Iraq networks in central and western Iraq Saturday.
  • North of Taji, Coalition Forces captured a suspected terrorist and three of his associates believed to facilitate the movement of al-Qaeda in Iraq senior leaders.

  • During coordinated raids north of Fallujah, Coalition Forces detained five individuals allegedly tied to a senior al-Qaeda in Iraq figure in the Ramadi area who has orchestrated suicide and conventional attacks.

  • Coalition Forces detained five suspected terrorists northeast of Balad during a raid targeting operatives in a Samarra-area network facilitating the movement of foreigners who participate in terrorist attacks.
“We will not stop targeting the terrorists who seek to disrupt the future the Iraqi people have chosen for their country,” said Maj. Marc Young, an MNF-I spokesperson.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2007 11:16 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency


IA, CF Soldiers discover "several tons" of explosives outside Mosul
Iraqi Army soldiers from the 2nd Iraqi Army Division and Soldiers from Company A, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division discovered several tons of explosives and propellant during a morning raid in an isolated area located on the western outskirts of Mosul July 19. The cache was found in three large containers and an abandoned bus hulk in a quarry that also contained improvised explosive device-making material. Iraqi and Coalition explosive ordnance disposal experts were called to the site but determined that it would be best reduced by using a Coalition air strike.
"Hokay, Jones! Lend me your stogey for a second, and we'll just..."
"Ummm... Sir? How fast can we run up the side of this quarry?"
"Good point. I'll call for an air strike."
“Finding and eliminating all of this raw explosive and propellant will definitely take a bite out of the [anti-Iraqi forces] ability to produce [improvised explosive devices],” said Maj. Joseph Kopser, executive officer, 2-7 Cavalry. “It’s a big find that will ultimately benefit the local Iraqi civilians who travel the roadways everyday.” Coalition aircraft destroyed all three containers, the bus, and their contents with no injury or damage to civilian structures.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2007 11:14 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq

#1  When we find these stashes, it would be nice to surveil them til the "workers" showed up and then let the airstrike be an unannounced "benefit" of their jobs...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/22/2007 12:54 Comments || Top||

#2  If only.... I believe the IA is so compromised that the "Lions of Islam" (TM) knew the jig was up before the raid was green lighted. Too bad.....
Posted by: OyVey1 || 07/22/2007 18:52 Comments || Top||


Gunmen killed after attack on Coalition Forces
Coalition Forces came under small arms fire by hostile forces operating from a structure near Hussayniyah just before midnight Friday.

Coalition Forces returned fire and attack helicopters, armed with missiles, engaged the hostile forces. Three of the gunmen then fled to another nearby structure. Coalition attack aircraft targeted structure with precision munitions and observed at least seven secondary explosions, possibly caused by explosives and munitions stored inside. Iraqi Police inspected both sites and reported six individuals killed and five wounded. The wounded were transported by Iraqi Police to a medical facility for treatment.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2007 11:10 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency


US forces storm HQ of the Learned Elders of Islam™
Well, maybe. This story is from the AMS' own webpage, so perhaps a grain or a truckload of salt is required.
The American occupation forces stormed the headquarters of the Learned Elders of Islam™ Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq arresting a number staff and smashing the materials inside. These bruatal forces also destroyed large materials of Umm al Qura mosque and destructed doors rooms of the AMSI headquarters and theft the materials. The American occupation forces also stole the computers belonging to AMSI and destroyed electronic devices dumping to the gardens of the mosque.

The American occupation forces insisted on the continued attack on AMSI and its members trying to silence the voice of them in any way. However they will not achieve their evil idea and the Associaton of Muslim Scholars in Iraq will work till the Iraq will liberate from the occupation forces and their collaborators.
Posted by: Seafarious || 07/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1  Okay, we'll call that 'confirmed'.
Posted by: Seafarious || 07/22/2007 0:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Problem?
Posted by: Captain America || 07/22/2007 3:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Computers are against allah. Make jihad Americanos.
Posted by: McZoid || 07/22/2007 7:28 Comments || Top||

#4  AP outsourcing their work these days?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 07/22/2007 8:35 Comments || Top||

#5  US forces storm HQ of the Learned Elders of Islam™

Sounds like an appeal to the High Exalted Grand Master is in order.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2007 8:42 Comments || Top||

#6  Is this the same as the "influential" Assn of Muslim Scholars, just the ordinary Assn of Muslim Scholars, or the blowhards-that-nobody-listens-to Assn of Muslim Scholars?
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/22/2007 9:39 Comments || Top||

#7  I think I understand the situation, what's the problem? More bloviation than our dhimmi congress critters...
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/22/2007 10:16 Comments || Top||

#8  This article's grammar is so marginally coherent that you can almost hear the spittle trickling down the writer's beard.
Posted by: Zenster || 07/22/2007 12:12 Comments || Top||

#9  If they're so learned, couldn't they figure out this would happen? Sort of like, shouldn't the psychic friends network have forseen that they would go bankrupt?
Posted by: M. Murcek || 07/22/2007 12:52 Comments || Top||

#10  Oh, I thought we had finally stormed Mecca.

Nevermind.
Posted by: DarthVader || 07/22/2007 17:03 Comments || Top||


Sistani's official for financial affairs assassinated in Najaf
Sheikh Abdullah Falak, the official responsible for the financial affairs of Iraq's supreme Shiite cleric Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani, was found dead in his house a few hours after his assassination, Iraqi police said on Saturday. A police source told KUNA unknown armed men stormed Falak's house located in Al-Baraq around 50 meters from Al-Sistani's house and stabbed him to death before fleeing the scene.
Posted by: Seafarious || 07/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Mahdi Army

#1  An errant cruise missile that accidentally lands in Qom would be a suitable response.
Posted by: Skunky Glins5285 || 07/22/2007 19:01 Comments || Top||


Six militants killed in air strike in Baghdad
The American military said Saturday that six militants were killed in an air strike in a Shiite stronghold in northeastern Baghdad, but Iraqi officials and relatives of the victims claimed that 18 civilians died in the attack.

The air strike began after American forces came under small-arms fire from a structure near the Husseiniyah area on Baghdad's outskirts just before midnight, the military said, adding that three of the gunmen fled into another building.

Attack aircraft dropped a bomb that destroyed that house, setting off at least seven secondary explosions believed caused by explosives and munitions stored inside the building, according to the military statement.

Iraqi police inspected the site and reported six militants killed and five wounded, it said. The military account contradicted reports from Iraqi police and hospital officials, who said 18 civilians had been killed and 21 wounded in a 2 a.m. attack in Husseiniyah, an area in which Shiite militias operate openly near the road leading to volatile Diyala province.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1  How do we know it was our bomb and not one of the SEVEN (terrorist) secondary explosions?!
Posted by: Captain Lewis || 07/22/2007 8:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Secondary explosions? That certainly sounds like baby ducks and bunnies to me. Well, highly exothermic ducks and bunnies.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/22/2007 16:43 Comments || Top||

#3  highly exothermic ducks and bunnies.

*happy sigh* You're simply wonderful, SteveS.
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/22/2007 18:04 Comments || Top||

#4  endothermic's even better - they bake themselves
Posted by: Frank G || 07/22/2007 18:48 Comments || Top||

#5  endothermic's even better - they bake themselves

Trust an engineer to focus on a better solution.
Posted by: Zenster || 07/22/2007 22:18 Comments || Top||


Troops raid Baghdad Sunni mosque complex, 18 arrested
US and Iraqi troops raided a prominent Baghdad Sunni mosque complex and detained 18 suspected militants on Saturday, while a bomb aboard a minibus in the capital killed five people.

In a pre-dawn sweep, troops raided the Umm al-Qura mosque complex in Baghdad’s western Ghazaliyah neighbourhood to capture an Al Qaeda in Iraq operative “believed to be operating a terrorist media cell,” the military said. “The ground forces surrounded several outer buildings in the compound and secured them, capturing the targeted individual and 17 other suspected terrorists,” it said. US forces did not enter the compound. The mosque houses the headquarters of the Sunni Muslim Scholars Association, a religious body known for its hardline anti-American stance and alleged links to Sunni insurgent groups.

The Sunni endowment, the body that manages Sunni religious sites, said one of those detained was the son of the endowment’s head, Sheikh Ahmed Abdul-Ghafour al-Samaraie. “He was heading to perform the morning prayers at the mosque when he was arrested. The Sunni endowment demands that the American forces release him immediately.”

The Muslim Scholars Association also criticised the raid. “The brutal forces broke into the headquarters before dawn and destroyed the computers, furniture and the lockers and stole its contents,” the association said. “They also arrested and drove away all those who were inside.”

The US military also announced on Saturday the arrest of a former mayor and current city council member of Al-Sadiyah in the restive Diyala province northeast of Baghdad. It did not reveal his identity but said the detainee arrested on Thursday was linked to Al Qaeda in Iraq and was involved in a car bomb attack recently that killed 19 people. The military also announced the arrest of two suspected militants who were brothers and a woman militant in Baghdad’s Shiite slum of Sadr City on Thursday. The three, suspected of carrying out “extra-judicial killings”, are members of a breakway faction of the Mahdi Army militia loyal to radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, it said. Insurgents, meanwhile, bombed a minibus in Baghdad. The bomb exploded in the capital’s eastern Baladiyat neighbourhood located close to Sadr City, killing five people and wounding 11, a medic and a security official said.

Alleged Sunni extremists regularly target Sadr City, the impoverished slum loyal to Sadr, and areas around it in the ongoing brutal sectarian conflict that has engulfed Baghdad. The US military said six insurgents were also killed and five wounded when a warplane dropped a bomb on a building near the town of Hussainiyah, just north of Baghdad. It said its troops came under small-arms fire from gunmen “operating from a structure near Hussainiyah” late on Friday, and it had to call in air support, which bombed the structure.

Meanwhile, three people were killed and 25 wounded, according to the Interior and Defence Ministry, by stray bullets as Iraqis marked the victory of their football team over Vietnam with a barrage of celebratory gunfire. Iraq made their way to the Asian Cup semi-final with a 2-0 victory over Vietnam in Bangkok, in a match televised live for millions of Iraqi fans. As the war-torn country’s team emerged victorious, a massive eruption of gunfire reverberated across Baghdad and several other towns as hundreds of rounds were fired skywards into the evening sky. Such victories are traditionally followed by gunfire as security forces, militia fighters, insurgent guerrillas and the country’s heavily armed citizens put aside their differences and fire into the air. Four people were killed in other attacks in Iraq.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1  The best line from the MNF-I press release isa this:
Some guards told Iraqi and Coalition Forces they thought the ground forces had arrived because of all the al-Qaeda members in the compound.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins || 07/22/2007 6:52 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Soldiers Shoot Terrorists in Northern Gaza
(IsraelNN.com) IDF soldiers fired on two Arab men in northern Gaza early on Sunday morning. The men had approached the security fence in a suspicious manner and did not obey soldiers’ demands that they stop.

Soldiers reported that the two men were hit. Arab sources later reported that the two men were both Hamas terrorists, and were killed by IDF fire.
Posted by: gromgoru || 07/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  I've always been fond of stories with happy endings.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/22/2007 7:07 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
One dead, six injured in continuing Thai violence
Terrorists Suspected Muslim rebels exploded a bomb in front of a rice shop and set fire to a school in restive southern Thailand, injuring six people, police said Sunday.
Two classrooms were destroyed in the public school in Pattani province's Panarae district by the fire early Sunday, police Sub. Lt. Wichathorn Phimklom said.

On Saturday evening, a bomb exploded in front of a rice shop in Narathiwat province's border tourist district of Sungai Kolok, police said. A 10-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl were among the six injured, they said.

Also Sunday, unidentified assailants in a pickup truck shot Muslim rubber tapper Boraheng Waekuechi in the head in Yala's Yaha district, police said, adding that he was in critical condition. There were no immediate suspects in the attack.
Posted by: ryuge || 07/22/2007 09:23 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency

#1  Should read " . . . in continuing Thai violence".
Sorry.
Posted by: ryuge || 07/22/2007 9:28 Comments || Top||


Philippines: MILF receives final ultimatum
Philippine security officials issued a final ultimatum on Saturday for Muslim rebel leaders to turn in their men responsible for killing 14 marines, 10 of them beheaded, by Sunday or face "punitive action" from government forces poised to strike.

The military is ready to launch operations against the rebels on southern Basilan island, after obtaining authorization from the policy-making National Security Council, acting Defense Secretary Norberto Gonzales and armed forces chief of staff Gen. Hermogenes Esperon both said.

Moro Islamic Liberation Front rebels have acknowledged attacking a convoy of marines who were returning from a search for a kidnapped Italian priest on southern Basilan island on July 10, killing 14, but denied guerrillas decapitated 10 of them.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Moro Islamic Liberation Front

#1  Note to the "Moro Islamic Liberation Front".. please change your acronym
Posted by: John Frum || 07/22/2007 12:54 Comments || Top||

#2  Yeah, as I understand it, "American pie" truly has ruined the best islamic insurgencies names!!!
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 07/22/2007 14:45 Comments || Top||


Sri Lanka
Eleven killed in fighting across Sri Lanka
Eleven people were killed and three wounded in battles between security forces and Tamil Tiger rebels across Sri Lanka’s north and eastern regions, the defence ministry said on Saturday.

Suspected rebels clashed with police commandos in the eastern town of Ampara Saturday, with troops killing six rebels, the ministry said, adding there were no casualties among security forces.

Two foot patrol soldiers were wounded when rebels set off a Claymore mine in the northern district of Vavuniya on Saturday, the ministry said.
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Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Army shelling last pockets of militants in north Lebanon camp
The Lebanese army has resumed its shelling of the last pockets of Islamists holed up at a Palestinian refugee camp as the death toll among the troops rose to 113, an army official said Saturday. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said one soldier was killed Friday in the standoff at the Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon and another in battles during the week.

More than 200 people have died since the conflict with the Al-Qaeda-inspired Fatah al-Islam militants erupted on May 20, in the worst internal clashes in Lebanon since the 1975-1990 civil war. "The army is still conducting demining operations inside the camp and removing booby-traps," the army official said. "The soldiers are advancing but at a very slow pace."

The shelling Saturday was intermittent and the Islamists were responding with small arms fire, witnesses said. Fatah al-Islam fighters are said to control a tiny area inside the camp and have refused repeated calls to surrender along with their wives and children. Loudspeakers on Friday blared messages urging the families of the Islamists to leave the camp, large parts of which have been reduced to rubble.

The Lebanese army has accused the Islamists of using their wives and children as human shields, but refugees who fled the camp said the spouses were refusing to leave their husbands behind and feared interrogation by Lebanese security services. "During our last contacts with people inside the camp a few days ago, it appeared that the women wished to stay which would make an evacuation of only the children extremely difficult," a representative from a relief organization who did not wish to be named told reporters.

Lebanese television also reported that the women, all veiled from head to toe, were refusing to be searched, prompting fears that some of the Islamists could use disguises to leave the camp undetected. The television said the army was considering bringing in female police officers to search any women leaving the camp.
Posted by: Fred || 07/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Fatah al-Islam

#1  looks like the human sheilds are willing participants and the lbes should stop worrying about thier welfare...

try napalm.
Posted by: Abu do you love || 07/22/2007 13:58 Comments || Top||

#2  If they're shelling, it's NOT a "Standoff".
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/22/2007 16:46 Comments || Top||


I'm-a-nutjob's Council of War
21 July 2007 OSINT and HUMINT source reports have combined within the past 48 hours to constitute one of the most striking dioramas ever seen in any region of the world just prior to the initiation of full-scale armed conflict. These reports are far more than the proverbial handwriting on the wall or mere belligerent rhetoric; they are virtual and tangible realities seen in most instances by disbelieving human eyes, so real they stun the senses with an aura of surrealism.

On July 5, 2007, the Iranian news agency IRNA reported that Syrian authorities had instructed all Syrian citizens residing in Lebanon to return to their country by July 15, 2007. The next day, the Israeli Arab daily Al-Sinara similarly reported, on the authority of a Lebanese source close to Damascus, that Syria was planning to remove its citizens from Lebanon. Also on July 5, the Lebanese daily Al-Liwa reported rumors that Syrian workers were leaving Lebanon at the request of the Syrian authorities. In addition, the Syrian government daily Al-Thawra reported that Syrian universities would accept Syrian students who were leaving Lebanon due to the instability there.

A HUMINT source in the U.S. reported the following - The USG has urgently mobilized transportation brokers to acquire as many empty transport trucks and railroad cars or flatbed conex shipping containers as they can muster from all points in North America. They are to stage the empty containers at two or more large US ammunition production facilities in the mid and upper Midwest ASAP. (Read: U.S. is urgently preparing a massive re-supply of ammo, explosives and weapons for Israel.)
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Posted by: Chavise Spomock2808 || 07/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  We live in interesting times!
Posted by: 3dc || 07/22/2007 11:46 Comments || Top||

#2  The details of this Iranian-led council of war are found in this report from DEBKAfile.

Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/22/2007 12:03 Comments || Top||

#3  They left out Imad Mugniyeh and Mike Wallace.
Posted by: doc || 07/22/2007 12:20 Comments || Top||

#4  I don't think it will happen. Take out Iran and Hizbollah bites it. Syria is nothing without the Ayatollahs.

Something else is likely in play.
Posted by: McZoid || 07/22/2007 13:22 Comments || Top||

#5  Deals within wheels, oil and crop circles come together in a great big messy group... wait, is it that kinda blong?
Posted by: Mike Wallace (ret) || 07/22/2007 15:26 Comments || Top||

#6  We live in interesting times!

Perhaps so but we still owe it to ourselves to make Islam's life persistently and extremely "interesting".
Posted by: Zenster || 07/22/2007 15:51 Comments || Top||

#7  "Council of War" soon to be followed by direct-to-video release of "Dude, Where's My Gasoline?". Gonna be hard for ol' Almondinejihad to maintain innocent deniability when the whole middle east is going at it hammer and tongs.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/22/2007 16:14 Comments || Top||

#8  Fine. Break out the tac nukes, the big boys, and enough aircraft to deliver them, both from the US and from Israel. Anywhere in the MME is a valid target, except Iraq, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Afghanistan, and within those nations should our troops be told to leave. Put 40 B-1s and 15 B-2s on standby, with ordinance uploaded. Put ALL the sea-borne nukes on full alert. Arm as many Buffs as possible with as many conventional weapons as they can carry, and hold them at the ready. THEN when the nutjobs in Syria and Iran begin something, dump everything but the kitchen sink on them, including a few hundred tac-air assets armed with cluster bombs and napalm. There are no innocents in the MME. When we finish, we should be able to control everything from Libya to Pakistan with half a battalion of boy scouts.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 07/22/2007 18:07 Comments || Top||

#9  There are no innocents in the MME.

Word, OP. Islam implies guilt by association.
Posted by: Zenster || 07/22/2007 19:59 Comments || Top||


Good morning. A little late, but still good.
Army shelling last pockets of militants in north Lebanon campIA, CF Soldiers discover U.S. citizen gets 10 years for training with Al-Qaida25 Talibs, 4 security guards dead in convoy ambushHamas replaces defunct court systemJirga men escape rocket attackMaulana Aziz and family sent to jail
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#1  Such a tragic character
Posted by: badanov || 07/22/2007 12:40 Comments || Top||

#2  I've known quite a few very beautiful women, and many of them have had a tragic life. I've only known one Hollywood person, and HIS life was much the same. Too much attention seems to cause most people emotional problems, and the jealousy of their "peers" doesn't help. Still, an attractive woman ALWAYS lifts my spirits. Thanks, Fred!
Posted by: Old Patriot || 07/22/2007 14:31 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm not sure it's not the other way around; people with emotional problems are attracted to acting and tinseltown or broadway as a way to explore/escape their own problems. When they get there, success only exace4rbates the pre-existing condition. (Same for lots of psych majors).

On the other hand, this also assumes there are people without emotional problems...
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 07/22/2007 15:30 Comments || Top||

#4  One thing I've always wondered: are so many actors messed up because, while they are greatly adored, they're not adored for who they are? I mean, to take one example, people don't like Meryl Streep because of who Meryl Streep is; they like Meryl Streep because she can pretend to be someone else (Sophie, or the French lieutenant's woman) and do it convincingly. In her more reflective moments, someone like her has to realize this on some level: they don't really like me.
Posted by: Mike || 07/22/2007 21:50 Comments || Top||

#5  On the other hand, this also assumes there are people without emotional problems...

There are—but mysteriously—they don't get any coverage from the MSM.
Posted by: Zenster || 07/22/2007 22:47 Comments || Top||



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