KABUL - Three key Taleban insurgents, one of them believed to be a bomb maker, were arrested in Sherzad district of eastern Nangahar province, official said on Friday. The commandos detained three Taleban insurgents, among them a key facilitator identified as Haji Shir Khan, who is was involved in improvised explosive device making, the coalition forces said in a statement.
According to the statement, Haji Shir Khan was responsible for numerous attacks on Afghan and coalition forces in eastern Nangahar province. Afghan and coalition forces launched a two-day search operation in Sherzad district of Nangahar province, the statement said, adding, during the search, forces discovered 18 rocket-propelled grenade rounds, one anti-tank mine, 10 hand grenades, one 12-gauge shotgun, eight AK-47 magazines, and more than 80 kilograms of opium.
No shots were fired and no Afghan, coalition troops or civilians were injured or killed during the operation, the statement said. The force eliminated two weapons caches and a large quantity of opium from three targeted compounds, it added.
The US-led coalition announced on Friday that troops killed 10 Taliban fighters in the south, while two policemen died in a roadside bombing in Khost city. Five Taliban fighters were killed in a raid on a suspected insurgent compound in Helmand and five more in a raid on a guerrilla hideout in the province of Ghazni. AFP reported the raid in Ghazni was to capture one of the South Korean kidnappers, but Taliban commander Abdullah Jan fled. The two national policemen were killed when a remote-controlled roadside bomb was detonated in the eastern city of Khost, a provincial official said. Three policemen were wounded.
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Taliban commander Mullah Brother told Reuters he was alive and well, more than two weeks after the Afghan government announced he had been killed. Brother served as a top military commander for the Taliban government until it was driven from power in 2001, and is a member of the movements leadership council led by fugitive leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar. The Afghan Defence Ministry said late last month Brother was killed in ground fighting in Helmand during a US-led raid. However, Brother said the report was part of Americas disinformation campaign. I am alive and well and the Afghan government had issued a false news about my death, he said, speaking by satellite phone to a reporter familiar with his voice. The rebel commander warned of a new offensive involving suicide attacks, roadside bombs and guerrilla raids during Ramazan, which began on Friday.
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Mullah Brother phone conversations from the dead...
Osama videos from the dead....
All these dead folk talking and no mention of their 72 Virginians.
Something smells a putrid death smell here.
Russian security services killed an armed militant after gunmen tried to blow up a law-enforcement vehicle in the troubled North Caucasus, police officials said Friday.
No one was injured in the explosion that hit the car belonging to the regional division of the Federal Security Service, or FSB, Thursday evening in a village outside Nalchik, capital of the Kabardino-Balkaria region near Chechnya. A gunbattle broke out several hours later when a group of around five gunmen started firing on police and security forces who had cordoned off the village, Khasanya, detaining people and questioning suspects, the regional Interior Ministry said.
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Oh, dear! I do hope this doesn't lead to increased Islamophobia!
The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq offered money for the murder of a Swedish cartoonist and his editor who recently produced images deemed insulting to Islam, according to a statement carried by Islamist Web sites Saturday. In a half hour audio file entitled "They plotted yet God too was plotting," Abu Omar al-Baghdadi also named the other insurgent groups in Iraq that al-Qaida was fighting and promised new attacks, particularly against the minority Yazidi sect. "Our god is a plotting god."
"We are calling for the assassination of cartoonist Lars Vilks who dared insult our Prophet, peace be upon him, and we announce a reward during this generous month of Ramadan of $100,000 for the one who kills this criminal," the transcript on the Web site said. The "faithful" worship their idols with blood sacrifices. Blood, blood, and more blood. There isn't enough blood in the entire world to satiate their thirst.
The al-Qaida leader upped the reward for Vilks' death to $150,000 if he was "slaughtered like a lamb" and offered $50,000 for the killing of the editor of Nerikes Allehanda, the Swedish paper that printed Vilks' cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad with a dog's body on Aug. 19.
Vilks said from Sweden he believed the matter of his cartoons had been blown out of proportion. "We have a real problem here," Vilks told The Associated Press by telephone. "We can only hope that Muslims in Europe and in the Western world choose to distance themselves from this and support the idea of freedom of expression."
Right. You can also hope they sprout wings and fly to the moon. Odds are approximately the same.
Ulf Johansson, editor in chief of Nerikes Allehanda, said he took the bounty "more seriously" than other threats he had received. "This is more explicit. It's not every day somebody puts a price on your head." You may not be interested in Jihad, Sven, but Jihad is interested in you.
Johansson said he had contacted the police and that they had already started work on the threat. Swedish cops have a lot of stuff on their desks right now.
I doubt they're off to Tikrit to arrest Abu Omar, though.
Aside from a few scattered protests and condemnations by Muslim countries, the reaction to the cartoon has been muted, in contrast to last year's fiery protests that erupted in several Muslim countries after a Danish newspaper published 12 cartoons of Muhammad that were reprinted in a range of Western media.
In an attempt to defuse the tensions caused by the cartoon in both Sweden and abroad, Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt last week invited 22 Sweden-based ambassadors from Muslim countries to bitch talk about the sketch. Reinfeldt expressed regret at the hurt it may have caused, but said that according to Swedish law it is not up to politicians to punish the free press.
According to shariah, it is up to Muslims at large to punish infidels for anything they damned well feel like punishing them for.
Al-Baghdadi added in his message that if the "crusader state of Sweden" didn't apologize, his organization would also attack major companies. "We know how to force you to retreat and apologize and if you don't, wait for us to strike the economy of your giant companies including Ericsson, Scania, Volvo, Ikea, and Electrolux," he said. In utterly-secularized Sweden, the above-named firms will have to do as Sweden's religious hierarchy.
"Crusader state of Sweden"? My mind just boggled. I think I'll go lie down.
No photo has ever appeared of al-Baghdadi, whom the U.S. describes as a fictitious character used to give an Iraqi face to an organization dominated by foreigners. The U.S. has said that under interrogation, a top al-Qaida member revealed that al-Baghdadi's speeches are read by an actor. Al-Qaida in Iraq in the past has carried out operations in Jordan and may have links to militant groups in Lebanon, but is not known to have any kind of presence in Europe.
An integral part of al-Qaeda in Iraq is Zarqawi's al-Tawhid organization, which does have a presence in Europe.
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At some point the West needs to put Islam on notice that making such threats will cause them some serious grief. Should these cartoonists suffer any harm, an entire Muslim city needs to disappear. This constant menacing of free people is intolerable and there is no reason why we must put up with it. Allowing Islam to degrade the quality of our lives is a significant victory for them. That needs to change. We must become a far greater menace to them.
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How about if we match their bounties x10 for some of their loudmouths? We normally only go after the actual murderous types, seldom after the agitators and inciters in other countries.
How long do you think some Imam in Pakistan would last with a $1.5M bounty on his head? Heck, we could have half the radical Imams in Pakistan whacked for $1,500 each.
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Perhaps the bounty is so high they don't believe it's real?
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The high value military targets are surrounded with bodyguards and stay far away from crowds. What I'm talking about are the much lower level creeps who never do anything themselves, but encourage others to do it.
Think agitators, instigators and inciters.
Imams are a cowardly bunch. All you would really have to do is print out a bunch of flyers naming a bunch of them, with a price by each name in US dollars, and they would be beating down the door of the US embassy to proclaim how harmless they were and to submit utterly to their local government.
Then you let them prove it by elaborate advocating peace and democracy on Pakistani TV.
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I think we'd do better offering a flock of goats or a herd of camels.
Seafarious, all of the good-looking camels have been shipped off to Soddiland, where the price for the hawt camels is way over $100K, depending on the size, softness and configuration of their humps. (Did I just type that?)
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Though I do not speak Swedish, I've done a quick scan of the home pages of several Swedish online newspapers. This story is frontpage material with multiple links for each post, and most include the 'if slaughtered like a lamb' quote.
And the direct threat against Sweden's industrial giants has not been ignored; that makes the matter personal for everyone in the kingdom.
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Let's imagine for a moment the rage of people like Amanda Marcotte if Christian clergy were to advocate, and post rewards for, the slaughter of progressives. Let's imagine how much 'Christophobia' Amanda would show. We can all imagine that, right?
Now let's imagine Amanda doing the same thing when Muslim clergy advocate and post rewards for the slaughter of non-Muslims.
Nah, I can't imagine it either.
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"We can only hope that Muslims in Europe and in the Western world choose to distance themselves from this and support the idea of freedom of expression."
Muslims in Europe ought to disappear if they don't.
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"We can only hope that Muslims in Europe and in the Western world choose, etc, ............"
Like, we still giving them foks a choice?
6-7 years into a war, maybe more if you count OSL's declaration of war in about '98, these fokks still in the land of the free?
Beggars belief. Ship them out, it the only answer, even if it only stop one Cell of 5.
Make them fly mossie Air, enough taqqiya, fuck them off out of here, or intern.
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"We can only hope that Muslims in Europe and in the Western world choose to distance themselves from this and support the idea of freedom of expression."
Hope for that, and I'll hope for a super model girlfriend.
Odds are, I'll get my wish first.
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Al-Qaida in Iraq in the past has carried out operations in Jordan and may have links to militant groups in Lebanon, but is not known to have any kind of presence in Europe.
I seem to recall much of Europe fussing at us because their jihadis were bringing back the training they'd got in Iraq, making them a serious threat to peace loving Europeans. Did I miss another memo?
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"I seem to recall much of Europe fussing at us because their jihadis were bringing back the training they'd got in Iraq, making them a serious threat to peace loving Europeans. Did I miss another memo? they don't know how to actually do anything else."
There - fixed that for ya', tw.
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How about a counter-offer? Something like: "$150,000 for AQI leaders if slaughtered in a wood chipper".
To claim prize please bring videotape of slaughter, audio included, and bucket of DNA evidence. Double the reward if he screams for over five minutes after his feet disappear.
Turkish authorities seized on Friday a bus carrying 500 kilograms of highly explosive material. According to Turkey's Anadolu Agency, authorities said the bus was seized at the road leading into Ankara, noting that the material was imported from Switzerland by a Turkish petrochemical firm. The material was brought into Turkey in a manner that contradicts legal measures and has raised much suspicion, said the authorities that launched an investigation into this matter, especially that the load was supposed to be delivered in Izmir, not Ankara. The material was more powerful than the one found in a truck that was seized two days ago.
The Army on Saturday said it is not in favour of a ceasefire with militants in Jammu and Kashmir [Images] during the month of Ramzan as they can pose a bigger security threat while merging with the civilian population.
"I don't think we should go for a ceasefire at present. Any ceasefire before winter will offer militants an opportunity to regroup and pose a bigger security threat," Northern Command General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Lieutenant General H S Panag said in Udhampur on Saturday.
Panag said there was no guarantee "that militants would not regroup or launch attacks while the hidden enemy is merged with the population." But he added that the declaration of a ceasefire was a political decision.
The Congress' coalition partner Peoples Democratic Party, opposition National Conference and the separatists have demanded a Ramzan ceasefire to ease the tense situation in the valley.
Without naming anyone, Panag said, "Our politicians are sometimes anti-national and anti-democracy. They talk to the government as a tool of the militants."
Speaking about troop withdrawal in the valley, Panag said, "Demilitarisation should not take place till the number of militants operating in the state decreases, the terror infrastructure shuts down in Pakistan and the Indo-Pak peace process reaches the agreement stage."
He said that Pakistan cannot be classified as an enemy nation since the border ceasefire had been holding for four years and there was no visible hostility there.
"Support to militants is a problem. We are dealing with it diplomatically and will continue to do so. But the issue cannot allow us to go to war with Pakistan," Panag said.
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Security forces arrested a retired soldier and his two brothers on Friday for suspected links to the suicide attack on the Special Service Group commandos mess in Tarbela Ghazi, their father told Daily Times.
Ghulam Ghafoor, father of the suspects, said an army and police team raided their house and arrested Ameer Muhammad and his two brothers, Salim and Arif, at 1am on Friday, in Topi, Swabi. The local administration and police neither confirmed nor denied the arrests. A police source said Salim and Arif were being detained in Topi police station while Ameer had been taken to Tarbela Ghazi. Ghafoor said his son Ameer retired from the army 16 months ago, and was employed as a security guard at a WAPDA warehouse in the locality where the suicide attack occurred.
Meanwhile, intelligence sources told Daily Times a single group was behind the suicide attack in Tarbela Ghazi and those perpetrated in Dera Ismail Khan and Rawalpindi over the last eight days. The modus operandi of the attackers and the forensic evidence collected from the blast scenes were very similar, sources said: all three bombers used six to eight kilogrammes of explosives and MUV-5 devices were recovered from all blast sites.
The sources also said Military Intelligence was investigating the Tarbela blast without coordinating with federal and provincial agencies.
Agencies add: Investigators suspect the Tarbela Ghazi suicide bomber had insider help, a military official said, adding that he would not have been able to enter the dining hall without help. Army spokesman Maj Gen Waheed Arshad confirmed the blast was a suicide attack.
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The idea that an SSG officer would co-operate in the killing of his fellow officers is very disturbing.
This would need that the Paki army is close to falling apart.
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Indian troops killed four Islamic militants in revolt-hit Kashmir, police said on Friday, in a violent start to Ramazan. The militants were killed in southern Kishtiwar district around dawn on Friday, a police spokesman in the Kashmir summer capital of Srinagar said. The four were members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, he said, referring to a hardline Muslim militant group blamed by authorities for deadly attacks in Kashmir.
Police said Indian troops and militants were engaged in fighting at two other places in Kashmir. Police also recovered four hand grenades from beneath a pile of bricks in Srinagar close to a shrine expected to be visited by thousands of Muslims later in the day.
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Elsewhere in India... a 'Ghatak' special action force of the Indian Army executes a CASO (Combat and Search Operation) near the border with Burma
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And near India's border with China...
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Over the Bay of Bengal, US and Indian aircraft simulate an attack on a carrier battle group
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US and Indian naval officers on the USS Kitty Hawk in the Bay of Bengal, during the Malabar exercise invloving craft from the United States, Australia, Japan and Singapore and hosts India
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In the Bay of Bengal...
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Ship JS Yuudachi leads a formation of ships during Exercise Malabar
USS Chicago (SSN 721) leads the way as (left to right) USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63), INS Varaat, and USS Nimitz (CVN 68), followed by various escort ships, steam in formation in the Bay of Bengal during exercise Malabar 07-2
An Indian Navy Sea Harrier launches from the flight deck of the Indian aircraft carrier INS Viraat (R 22)
The Indian aircraft carrier INS Viraat (R 22) steers into formation during exercise Malabar
Sailors from both the USS Cowpens (CG 63) and the INS Ranvijay (D 55) Visit, Board, Search, & Seizure (VBSS) teams work together as they participate in a simulated boarding aboard the Cowpens
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India, Bay of Bengal, not too far from Iran. Not to far from Pakistan.
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Outstanding pics, and thanks John!
Interesting just how big the Nimitz is compared to Varaat, and Varaat is not a small ship.
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Also interesting seeing the classic SSN out-in-front-because-we-can't-manuever picture with Indian Navy.
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Why are some of the guns such a pretty blue, john?
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Interesting just how big the Nimitz is compared to Varaat, and Varaat is not a small ship.
What's really scary is that there are cargo ships larger than the Nimitz - mostly built by the Japanese and the Koreans. I doubt it would take much for the Japanese to build equally large aircraft carriers and crew them. I hope in the end we either sell them the FULL plans for the "Kitty Hawk" class, or sell them the Sh$$$y Kitty for them to use as a model/training ship.
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The blue signifies that the weapon or round is inert - used for training only.
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City Police foiled a terror bid on the first of Ramazan by defusing a bomb in the Kohati Gate area in the Shah Qabool Police Station precincts at around 7:45 pm on Friday.
Operations Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Mohammad Tahir Khan told Daily Times that the bomb weighing about three kg had been placed in the Kohati Chowk area near a reading room and was defused by the bomb disposal squad (BDS) officials. He said it was a sophisticated device and could be detonated by a remote control or a mobile device. He said that nails were also attached to the bomb, which, he added, was being checked by BDS officials.
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Six soldiers are missing after clashes with the Taliban in North Waziristan, military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad told AFP on Friday. He said, We have lost contact with a paramilitary post and six soldiers are either missing or dead. Also, a jirga was formed to broker a ceasefire between the security forces and the militants, NNI reported.
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Eleven abducted Frontier Constabulary soldiers returned to their bases on Friday after they were freed unconditionally in North Mehsudistan, local police said. Pro-Taliban militants kidnapped the soldiers at a security checkpost on the Bannu-Miranshah Road on September 12.
Online adds: Bannu Nursing College Vice Principal Dr Abdur Rahim Khattak was also released.
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PARIS -- A press freedom organization called here Friday on the US to free Al-Jazeera cameraman who has been held at the US military base in Guantanamo since 2002. Reporters Without Borders said in a statement that with the advent of the holy month of Ramadan, it is reiterating its appeal to the US authorities to free Al-Jazeera cameraman Sami Al-Haj.
It added that "Ramadan is traditionally the month of self-denial and forgiveness and for the individual to confront his own humanity." "Together with the International Committee for the Release of Sami Al-Haj, we call on the United States to free him immediately. We also urge the US congress to press for his release," the organization stressed.
"Good dhimmis would have done this already! Bad dhimmi! Bad!"
Al-Haj has tried to stage several hunger strikes since January and his physical and psychological condition has deteriorated a great deal, according to Reporters Without Borders.
Arrested at the Afghan border by the Pakistani security forces in December 2001, Al-Haj, who is a Sudanese national, was handed over to the US army a month later and flown to Guantanamo in June 2002. Nine out of the 380 persons currently held in Guantanamo are Sudanese.
Reporters Without Borders established a system of sponsorship 16 years ago in which international media are encouraged to adopt imprisoned journalists. More than 200 news organizations, journalists' associations, press clubs and other entities throughout the world are currently supporting journalists by regularly calling on the authorities to release them and by publicizing their cases.
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(I-Newswire) - Calls are spreading for the release of Sami Al-Haj, a cameraman for Al Jazeera who has been held at Guantanamo Bay for more than five years. Al-Haj has been on a hunger strike for 250 days and is being force-fed. He is currently reported to be in critical condition, both physically and mentally.
According to a September 10 statement by his lawyer Clive Stafford Smith, Al-Haj is losing his memory and his grip on reality, has intestinal disorders and is in immediate need of external medical intervention. On September 11, a medical report written by American and British psychiatrists warned that recent statements by Al-Haj indicate a mental state of major depression with psychotic features and are consistent with sufferers of trauma seeking passive suicide. The reports suggest that Al-Haj may soon become the fifth detainee at Guantanamo to take his own life.
I find that to be an acceptable compromise solution...
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Don't we have the coordinates of " Reporters Without Borders" in Paris? Why don't we send them a Ramadamadingdong care package, via Tomahawk missile...
When someone uses their position or employment as a ruse while supporting one side against another, they are known as SPIES, and usually shot. As for this moron "going" insane, he's a muslim after all - they're insane by the time they hit 12.
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The massive outpouring of sympathy in this thread is truly inspirational.
BAGHDAD - An al-Qaida front group warned it will hunt down and kill Sunni Arab tribal leaders who cooperate with the U.S. and its Iraqi partners, saying the assassination of the leader of the revolt against the terror movement was just a beginning.
In a separate statement, the Islamic State of Iraq announced a new offensive in Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting that began this week. The statement said the offensive was in honor of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the founder of al-Qaida in Iraq who was killed by a U.S. airstrike in June 2006.
The statements were posted Friday and Saturday on Islamist Web sites and among other things claimed responsibility for the assassination of Abdul-Sattar Abu Risha, who spearheaded the uprising against al-Qaida in Anbar province west of the capital.
In claiming responsibility for Abu Risha's death Thursday, the Islamic State said it had formed "special security committees" to track down and "assassinate the tribal figures, the traitors, who stained the reputations of the real tribes by submitting to the soldiers of the Crusade" and the Shiite-led government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. "We will publish lists of names of the tribal figures to scandalize them in front of our blessed tribes," the statement added.
In a second statement posted Saturday, the purported head of the Islamic State, Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, said he was "honored to announce" the new offensive in memory of al-Zarqawi. What an 'honor'.
"Today we witness the fallacy of the Western civilization and the renaissance of the Islamic giant," al-Baghdadi said in a half-hour audio file.
U.S. officials hope Abu Risha's death will not reverse the tide against al-Qaida, which began last year when he organized Sunni clans to fight the terror movement, producing a dramatic turnaround in Ramadi and other parts of Anbar province. If this turns the tribes back to AQ then they were never turned our way to before. And they will get what they deserve - destruction by the Shia.
The revolt has spread to Sunni insurgent groups in Baghdad, Diyala province and elsewhere. Some insurgents who were ambushing U.S. troops a few months ago are now working alongside the Americans to rid their communities of al-Qaida.
Abu Risha's brother Ahmed was elected head of the Anbar Awakening movement soon after the bombing at the family's heavily guarded compound on the outskirts of Ramadi. The national Interior Ministry announced that a police brigade would be named after the slain tribal leader and a statue would be erected in Ramadi in his honor.
"We condemn the killing of Abu Risha, but this will not deter us from helping the people of Anbar we will support them more than before," al-Rubaie declared. "It is a national disaster and a great loss for the Iraqi people Abu Risha was the only person to confront al-Qaida in Anbar."
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what goes unmentioned in a lot of these reports is that Abu Risha was only 36, young and well liked. He was strong enough to encourage the fighting generation to cooperate - the same age group Binny and Doc have targetted. This is important to get the 18-35 age group of Muzzies on our side. Really reduces the recruitment center of gravity.
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The yahoo story downplays it, but this seems only to have strengthened the resolve of the Sunnis. This quote from the Wash Post version stood out (h/t to The Corner):
"Now, I swear to God, if we will hear anyone is with al-Qaeda, even if he is still inside his mother's womb, we will kill him."
- Ali Hatem Ali Suleiman, a leader of the Dulaim confederation, the largest tribal organization in Iraq's Anbar Province.
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We can see how Baghdadi intends to honor the "traditional time of forgiveness and confronting one's humanity."
Sometimes the threats and takiyya come so close together it makes your head spin.
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According to an NPR report yesterday, one of Mr. Abu Risha's brothers has already stepped up to take his place at the head of the Anbar Awakening. While of course not the same, the courage and commitment are clearly shared -- he willingly puts himself and his family at proved risk of death or worse for what must be a worthwhile cause. Perhaps Iraq is starting to find her Patrick Henrys.
US and Iraqi forces killed three suspected insurgents during a helicopter assault mission west of Baghdad, the US military said Friday.
Iraqi soldiers led the raid Thursday on a mosque in Karmah, a town in Iraq's western Anbar province some 80 kilometers (50 miles) west of the capital, the US said in a statement. The target was a high-ranking al-Qaida in Iraq leader, believed to be responsible for overseeing murders, sniper attacks and the planting of roadside bombs, it said. During the operation, people fleeing the mosque fired at American troops - wounding three of them, the military said. US and Iraqi forces retaliated with ground fire and close air support, killing three insurgents, it said. All three wounded Americans underwent surgery at a US military hospital for non-life threatening injuries, the statement said.
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Unidentified gunmen attacked on Friday the house of an army Commander in the city of Hilla, according to Captain Muthanna Abu Al-Hareth Al-Ma'amouri of Babel Police. Al-Ma'amouri told KUNA over the phone that one guard of the fourth regiment was killed and another was wounded when the gunmen opened fire at the house. He added that the gunmen used machineguns in their attack against the house of Colonel Hussein Ali Hassoun, Commander of the fourth regiment.
He pointed out that the guards of the house responded by firing back at the gunmen. The gunmen then fled the scene, he noted.
Israeli aircraft struck on Friday a car carrying Palestinian gunmen north of Gaza, injuring no one. A witness who would only give his name as Mohammed said he saw a car stop suddenly and the passengers bail jump out just before the vehicle exploded. The blast was apparently caused by a missile, Mohammed said. Hamas security officials told Hamas TV that Israel had launched an air strike. Medics said they evacuated no injuries.
A spokesman for Islamic Jihad, Abu Hamza, said the car was hit by a missile and was carrying a field commander of the group. The two passengers escaped unharmed, Abu Hamza said. The IDF confirmed it launched an airs trike, saying it targeted rocket launchers.
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A spokesman for Islamic Jihad, Abu Hamza
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This has happened several times. Are the Israelis calling them on there cells just before firing?
Israeli troops stationed around Al-Aqsa mosque scuffled with scores of Palestinians attempting to cross military checkpoints and barricades and perform the first Friday prayers of Ramadan at the holy site.
Witnesses said more than 3,000 Israeli troops were deployed at gates and entrances of the holy site, trying to prevent young Palestinians from crossing into the courtyard of the mosque. The extraordinary precautions resulted in fist fighting between the troops and waves of incoming worshippers. Palestinians aged no less than 50 were allowed to get through the checkpoints and the young were kept away. Many came aboard buses of the Islamic movement in Hebron.
That means Hamas, I think.
Israeli sources said up to 90,000 worshippers made it to the mosque and performed the religious services, but Islamic Palestinian authorities put the number at 40,000. Israel had declared that it would facilitate entry of the worshippers on the occasion.
Thailand's junta leader said Friday that it may take another generation to stamp out a bloody separatist insurgency raging in the Muslim-majority south. "It may be another generation," he said.
Police on Friday said that suspected terrorists separatists had killed seven people in the south as the region began observing the holy month of Ramadan.
A 29-year-old Muslim woman was shot dead in an ambush early Friday morning in Narathiwat. Three Muslim men were later killed by suspected insurgents in Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala provinces, police said.
As Ramadan began on Thursday, a 28-year-old Buddhist man and two Muslim men in their 60s were shot dead in Narathiwat, local police told AFP.
Sonthi, who will retire as army chief at the end of this month, said that peace-building efforts were progressing, but added that local government and soldiers must try to build better relations with the community. "Intelligence is still our weak point," he told reporters in Pattani.
Sonthi, who is a Muslim, seized power in a military coup last year. The government he installed has made a series of peace gestures to the militants fighting along the southern border with Malaysia. But the violence has only escalated since the coup, and the government has deployed thousands more troops and paramilitary forces to the region.
A female school teacher was shot and severely wounded Friday afternoon in this troubled southern province by two gunmen riding a motorcycle, police said. The 53-year-old teacher was shot three times in her stomach while riding a motorcycle to her home in Yala's municipality district after finishing teaching, police said. Police investigator's said they believed the gunmen were members of a terrorist militant group operating in the restive South. The victim was sent to a local hospital for treatment.
A bomb in Thailand's jihadi insurgency-plagued south killed a soldier and injured five others when it destroyed a pickup truck they were in Saturday, police said. Suspected terrorists insurgents planted the bomb on a bridge in Pattani province's Mayo district, 750 kilometers (470 miles) south of Bangkok, said police Lt. Col. Chaiyapruek Phatiwarakorn.
Chaiyapruek said the six soldiers had been lured to the area to investigate a suspected bomb that turned out to be a hoax but as they later passed the bridge a bomb exploded and instantly killed the driver, Sgt. Maj. Sermsak Kanchanaphet. Five soldiers sitting in the back were wounded, Chaiyapruek said.
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Thailand's junta leader said Friday that it may take another generation to stamp out a bloody separatist insurgency raging in the Muslim-majority south. "It may be another generation," he said.
There's a logic here. Eliminate all muzzie males between 15 and 35, you skip the most dangerous generation employed to do the dirty work. The next generation, those under 15 probably will get the hint and alter their behavior accordingly.
Sri Lankan soldiers killed 10 Tamil Tiger rebels in a clash in the north of the island on Friday, the military said, citing intercepts of rebel radio communications.
The clash follows an offensive launched by the military in early September to eject the Tamil rebels from the northwest Mannar area after having pushed them out of jungles in the east of the teardropshaped Indian Ocean nation. The soldiers attacked a group of terrorists who tried to infiltrate through the forward defence line, said a spokesman at the Media Centre for National Security, part of the defence ministry. Ground troops said intercepted radio communications confirm 10 terrorists killed. The military said two soldiers were wounded in the battle. The rebels were not immediately available for comment. Fridays clashes came a day after the military said it had attacked around 20 Tamil Tiger boats, and that the air force had bombed two rebel bases in the far north.
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Sri Lanka has the right idea about how to deal with "insurgents" and"seperatists" - crush them beneath the feet of your military. Anything else is a sign of weakness, and makes you more vulnerable to additional attacks.
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Israeli aircraft struck on Friday a car carrying Palestinian gunmen north of Gaza, injuring no one. A witness who would only give his name as Mohammed said he saw a car stop suddenly and the passengers 
Israeli troops stationed around Al-Aqsa mosque scuffled with scores of Palestinians attempting to cross military checkpoints and barricades and perform the first Friday prayers of Ramadan at the holy site.
Sri Lankan soldiers killed 10 Tamil Tiger rebels in a clash in the north of the island on Friday, the military said, citing intercepts of rebel radio communications. 
