Yeah, "witness"... By Noor Mohammad Sherzai Now remember that. It's important.
BATI KOT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - At least one U.S. soldier opened fire to scatter a crowd of civilians and police on Thursday after failed suicide bomb attacks on a U.S. military convoy, the U.S. military and witnesses said. A car bomb targeting a U.S. convoy in the village of Bati Kot, 15 km (9 miles) east of Jalalabad, killed the driver, two passengers and a nearby civilian, but none of the soldiers was hurt, the U.S. military said in a statement. Hey, wanna take a ride? You'll get to meet 72...wait, there's two of you, 36 virgins.
Afghan police securing the site in eastern Afghanistan were then attacked by an insurgent dressed in police uniform. He was killed by the police and coalition troops before he could detonate his suicide vest, the statement said. To add to the confusion, a fire brigade vehicle speeding to the scene rammed into the U.S. and Afghan vehicles."I saw the fire brigade vehicle rushing to the area at top speed. Somehow its brakes failed and hit one police vehicle and coalition vehicles, then the Americans started firing," said Reuters correspondent Noor Mohammad Sherzai. See. I said it was important.
Right place, right time. Ya just can't teach those reporter instincts, can ya, Scoop...
A spokesman for U.S.-led coalition forces said only one soldier had opened fire. "A U.S. servicemen fired two shots and those shots were away from the crowd and not directed toward the crowd," said Major Joe Klopple. The shots were fired to disperse the crowd out of concern for their safety because of what was thought to be another approaching suicide bomber, the U.S. statement said. Sherzai and other reporters at the scene said many shots were fired and Afghan police were among those fleeing the scene."I was running away as fast as I could, but some of the police overtook me," Sherzai said. The police, he said, "were very angry because the Americans were shooting and wanted to shoot back but others stopped them." Yeah, but who ya gonna believe, the US Army or Scoops Sherzai?
"A bullet hit the ground between my legs while I was running," said Takiullah Taki, a cameraman for private Afghan channel Tolo TV. "Some Afghan national police wanted to shoot back, but others said that would make the situation deteriorate further so they did not." So how many civilians were hit in this "massacre"? It sounds worse then Jenin, for crissakes...
Four Afghan investigators were injured in the vehicle accident and taken to hospital, the military said. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the suicide attack. So nobody hit, nobody dead but the boomers? I'll bet that pissed you off, Scoops.
Afghans staged angry protests in Jalalabad in March after U.S. Marines killed at least 10 civilians there following a suicide bomb attack. Which has nothing to do with this story, but Scoops will toss it in. We'll call it "local color"...
Afghanistan's Interior Ministry said on Thursday police had captured Taliban spokesman Qari Mohammad Yousuf. But Yousuf called a Reuters reporter and denied he had been detained."I'm here in this room. I'm free," he said. Probably's got him on speed dial...
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It seems Mr. Sherzai got a second article and a second creative witness quote out of the incident. It seems Mr. Sherzai is using the academic approach in reporting , in order to maximize publications from a single experiment: preliminary report, early results, final results, survey including own results.
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If you Google this guy, you get a page or two of bloggers and about five pages of article references. Oddly, his name does not seem to come up before that.
Seems to have made a big splash.
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KABUL - Taleban insurgents have kidnapped four staff of the International Committee of the Red Thingy Cross (ICRTC) southwest of the Afghan capital Kabul, but will release them soon, a Taleban spokesman said on Thursday. The Taleban admitted it seized the two Afghan and two foreign ICRC staff members, but said it was unaware of their identity at the time.
Our mujahideen detained the Red Cross workers in Wardak province without knowing they were ICRTC staff, said a Taleban spokesman who declined to be named. We have nothing against the Red Thingy Cross and we are going to release them soon as we get the ransom money.
A spokeswoman for the ICRTC in Kabul said four staff had travelled to Wardak, southwest of Kabul, on Wednesday, but had not returned. The information I have is that four of our colleagues, two expatriates and two Afghan nationals, were coming back from Wardak to Kabul yesterday but they couldnt make it, said the spokeswoman, who declined to be named. We have lost contact with our staff since yesterday, there might have been complications on the way, she said.
In Geneva, spokesman Marcal Izard said that the humanitarian agency was very concerned and was trying to find out more. Asked whether the ICRTC suspected the four had been kidnapped, he told Reuters Television: We cannot confirm at the moment what has really happened. We have to find out more details before we can comment further on that.
The Swiss-based neutral organisation deploys 60 expatriates and some 1,300 Afghan nationals in Afghanistan, one of its biggest operations worldwide. Its officials visit several thousand detainees in Afghanistan each year to ensure that they are being treated humanely in accordance with international law.
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Do they visit prisoners that the Talibunnies took?
The Afghan government announced on Thursday it had arrested the Taliban movements main spokesman, Yousuf Ahmadi, but a man believed to be the militants mouthpiece denied he had been captured. The interior ministry said Ahmadi was seized with his brother on Wednesday in the volatile southern province of Helmand where the Taliban are in control of several districts.
They were arrested by police near the provincial capital Lashkar Gah with motorcycles and a gun, as well as a satellite and a mobile telephone, a ministry statement said. One of the men himself confessed that, I am Mawlawi Mohammad Qasim working under the pseudonym Qari Yousuf Ahmadi. I am the Taliban spokesman and military commander, Helmand police chief Mohammad Hossain Andiwal told AFP.
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It doesn't matter nearly as much as two cell phones full of names and numbers that can be traced. How many of the area codes will be Tora Bora, I wonder, or a specific village in the tribal areas?
Taliban fighters attacked a military base in the south of Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing two Danish soldiers, the Danish army said on Thursday. A third Dane was wounded, it said in a statement.
The Danish contingent with the 40,000-strong NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) numbers around 400 soldiers and is primarily deployed in southern Helmand province under British command.
Including the latest deaths, 175 international troops have been killed in Afghanistan this year alone, most of them in combat operations against Taliban militants. One of those, a soldier from the separate US-led coalition, was killed on Tuesday in the south during one of two major battles with the Taliban that also left nearly 170 militants dead.
Officials in eastern Kunar province on the border with Pakistan said that ISAF forces had carried out an operation overnight that killed at least 18 Taliban. There have been some civilian casualties from the operation but I dont have the exact figure, provincial spokesman Zarghon Shah Khaliqyar said. People who said they were wounded in the operation were treated in a hospital in the provincial capital Asadabad, and said around eight civilians were killed.
Six policemen killed in Qalat: Taliban militants attacked a police post near the southern town of Qalat on Wednesday and killed six policemen, provincial police chief Mohammad Yaqob said. Three policemen were wounded.
Taliban insurgents said on Thursday they were holding four staff of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) missing in Afghanistan, but would release them soon. Our mujahideen detained the Red Cross workers in Wardak province without knowing they were ICRC staff, said a Taliban spokesman who declined to be named. We have nothing against the Red Cross and we are going to release them soon.
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Malian Tuareg rebels abandoned a remote border town they were besieging and crossed into Algeria after the army sent in heavy reinforcements to dislodge them, a Malian Defence Ministry source said on Thursday.
Soldiers loyal to Tuareg dissident Ibrahima Bahanga besieged the remote garrison town of Tin-Zaouatene on the Algerian border in mid-September but Mali's army launched a counter-offensive and said on Wednesday they had regained control of the area. "They fled towards Tinza in Algeria. They had no other choice," a Defence Ministry source who declined to be named told Reuters. Tinza is used as an abbreviated form for Mali's Tin-Zaouatene as well as an adjoining settlement on the Algerian side of the border, on a trading route deep in the Sahara. "For a start the army went in where they weren't expecting, and then the fire power deployed was so great they didn't have any choice by to flee or be killed," the source said. "Curly toed slippers, don't fail me now!"
A Malian Defence Ministry statement broadcast on state media late on Wednesday said government forces had regained control of the entire area of Tin-Zaouatene and was starting to remove land mines planted in the area during the conflict. The governor of the northern region of Kidal, Alhamdou Ag Ilyenne, said in a separate statement that the rebels had released a national guardsman, one of several dozen soldiers and civilians who have been taken hostage by Bahanga's men in the past few weeks. The group released seven others last Friday.
Bahanga launched his insurgency in Mali's Saharan north last month, laying land mines and using other tactics favoured by a Tuareg-led rebellion in neighbouring Niger that has killed more than 40 government soldiers since February in the uranium-mining north. The two insurgencies have not declared any links, but security officials say they may be cooperating.
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A college student facing a terrorism-related charge made a video showing how to detonate explosives using a remote control toy, and the demonstration was uploaded to a popular Web site before the native of Kuwait was arrested, according to court documents.
Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Muhamad, who was indicted last month on federal charges, told authorities he made the video "to assist those persons in Arabic countries to defend themselves against the infidels invading their countries," according to an FBI agent's sworn statement filed Tuesday. Muhamad said "he considered American troops, and those military forces fighting with the American military, to be invaders of Arab countries," according to the FBI agent's statement.
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how about sending this piece of shit muslim back too one of those countries too pky his skills so maybe one of our "infidels" will have the chance too kill him
In the back of the patrol car on the way to jail on charges of possession of an explosive device, the two whispered in their native Arabic while a hidden recorder taped their conversation, according to court documents:
Did you tell them there is something in them? Mohamed asked, an apparent reference to the PVC pipes.
Water, Megahed said.
Water! Right? The black water is in the Pepsi.
A few seconds pass in silence. Mohamed speaks again.
Did you tell them about the benzene (gasoline)?
I have nothing to do with it. I do the fireworks and so... so... so... that is it.
But the pipes werent fireworks.
An examination by the FBIs explosives unit found the materials in the PVC pipes fit the legal definition of an explosive.
After examining Mohameds laptop computer, which was in the 2000 Toyota Camry that was stopped in Goose Creek, agents found an electronic folder titled Bomb Shock. The folder contained several computer files about explosives, including TNT and C-4, a military-grade plastic explosive.
They also found the 12-minute video on the laptop. Someone had uploaded the video onto YouTube, a video-sharing Web site. It could be found on YouTube by entering a complicated 14-word search term, which included the words martyrdooms and suiciders.
Two days after the traffic stop, FBI agents found a remote-controlled toy boat, still in its box, and a partially dismantled digital watch in Megaheds Tampa, Fla., home, where he lived with his parents. Authorities said in court documents they believe the two items were the beginnings of a homemade bomb.
And it looks like one of them has a shot at making bail...
Prosecutors also argued that if released, Megahed could flee to his native Egypt. They said he had lived in the United States for 10 years and his application to become a naturalized citizen was denied because he had traveled out of the country too many times.
Megahed has two Egyptian passports, one of which is under a different last name. Prosecutors said it would be difficult to bring Megahed back from Egypt if he were to go there because his family has substantial assets.
Megaheds lawyers told the judge he traveled out of the country with his parents when he was younger than 15. They said his two passports were because one, with the additional last name, had expired.
The name was a family name the family was no longer using, according to court documents filed by Adam Allen, Megaheds attorney.
The government was forced to concede that, other than speculation they were unwilling to offer, the government had no evidence that the low grade explosive materials were possessed in connection with some other unlawful purpose, Allen wrote in court documents.
The judge agreed with Megahed. He ordered that Megahed be released on $200,000 bail and that Megahed and his family surrender their passports. Megahed also was to be on house arrest with GPS monitoring. He remains in jail in Tampa while federal prosecutors appeal that ruling.
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The name was a family name the family was no longer using..
WTF...
Mister Johnston we would like to talk... I am no longer a Johnston I am a Miller.... but we still want to talk... My name is not Mr Miller is is Mr Crook..... My name is not Mr Crook it is Mr Jihad....
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Secret password phrase :
"The black water is in the Pepsi"
Cuz this one got the last guy's tongue removed with red hot tongs :
"Osama wears Winnie the Pooh boxer shorts."
Seriously, fireworks?
Does anyone seriously believe that? Well, maybe...
Ummm OK - works fr me... That Blackwater Pepsi has finally convinced me. LOL....
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If the name had been in the Arabic format Mahmud ibn Mohammed Abdul Hussein al Tikriti al Masri (X son of Y family name al tribe al descriptive), and the family decided to simplify to Mahmoud Hussein, I can see that resulting in the issuance of new passport.
A member of Virginia's Commission on Immigration resigned a few hours after Gov. Timothy M. Kaine was told about on-line videos showing the appointee condemning Israel and advocating "the jihad way."
Omeish said in an interview that he resigned because he did not want what he called a misinterpretation of his words to hamper work done by the 20-member commission.
Kaine learned of the videos Thursday from a caller to his live monthly radio program
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and accepted the resignation of Dr. Esam S. Omeish about three hours later. "Dr. Omeish is a respected physician and community leader, yet I have been made aware of certain statements he has made which concern me," Kaine said in a news release announcing the resignation.
Perhaps the good governor could have done his homework before making the appointment. There's a reason why you do background checks.
Nonsense. Doctor Omeish was prez of the Muslim American Society. Automatically makes him one of those Moderate® Muslims, yes? Poor man was prolly even fasting when he drafted his resignation.
Omeish said in an interview that he resigned because he did not want what he called a misinterpretation of his words to hamper work done by the 20-member commission, appointed to study the effects of immigration and federal immigration policies on Virginia.
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he resigned because he did not want what he called a misinterpretation of his words
Oh puhleez! Now where have I heard that about a million times before?
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Eventually, the politicians who continually try to incorporate asswipes like omeish into our government and society will likewise have to be made to, um, like, resign, or somethin'...
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perhaps his work should be boycotted as well. Wouldn't want a Jihadi working on my lil infidel self...
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Two woman and three children of a family were killed by a stray shell amidst clashes between local Taliban militants and security forces in North Waziristan late on Tuesday that also injured four paramilitary soldiers, local officials said on Wednesday. They died when an artillery shell allegedly hit their house in Zakarkhel village near a security checkpost in Mir Ali town, east of Miranshah, locals said.
The officials told Daily Times via telephone that all the deaths were reported from the house of Kashmir Khan and the children were aged between 8 and 15. Reports reaching here said two security checkposts were attacked simultaneously east and south of Miranshah and security forces retaliated with artillery fire. The militants attacked Thall checkpost, 15 kilometres south of Miranshah, with heavy weapons and at the same time they also attacked Kajhori checkpost. Four paramilitary soldiers were injured in the two attacks and were airlifted to a Bannu hospital, the officials said. The militants have adopted a new strategy, to attack checkposts in dark, to prompt indiscriminate fire from the security forces to cause collateral damage among the civilians in a bid to win local populations support, the local residents said. A girls primary school in Kuza Banda, Kabal tehsil, was closed for an indefinite period after militants threatened to bomb it if teachers and girl students did not wear a burqa or a veil. Swat DCO Syed Muhammad Javed told Daily Times that the administration had issued no directive to close the school.
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The Balochistan police launched a crackdown in certain parts of Quetta on Thursday, rounding up more than 100 suspects following the killing of a senior police officer here on Wednesday night.
Police launched the massive crackdown in the Killi Ismail area of Quetta as a reaction to the killing of Superintendent of Police (SP) Shaheryab Hussain and two of his security guards in Samugly on Wednesday night.
No major breakthrough: Although police raided numerous houses in search of the culprits, sources did not mention any major breakthrough in their efforts to arrest the killers.
Police and paramilitary forces have been attacked several times by Baloch militants in Quetta in recent months. Earlier this month, two Frontier Corps (FC) personnel were killed by unidentified attackers in the Brewery area of Quetta. The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), a banned Baloch militant outfit, had claimed responsibility for the killing.
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The initial U.S. Embassy report on a Sept. 16 shooting incident in Baghdad involving Blackwater USA, a private security firm, depicts an afternoon of mayhem that included a car bomb, a shootout in a crowded traffic circle and an armed standoff between Blackwater guards and Iraqi security forces before the U.S. military intervened. Rest at the link...
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"All the vehicles were shooting. They were shooting in every direction," said a senior Iraqi police official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigations. "They used a rocket launcher or grenade launcher to hit the car. They were supported by two helicopters who were shooting from the air."
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BW has mainly taticl rifles. ANd you can bet your ass they were not teraing into an Iraqi unit unless they got fire from it. SOme fo the Shia units are unreliable as hell, thats why the US is disbanding and retraining a lot of them in the south, where the brits were way too lax with the militias.
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All the vehicles were shooting. They were shooting in every direction," said a senior Iraqi police official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the only way he could have known is if he was FUCKING THERE!
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Must be some global cooling going on. (This is a release of no particular significance except that I like the Regiment's name.)
POLAR BEARS DISCOVER 9-11 PROPAGANDA IN IRAQI HOME
QARGHULLI VILLAGE, Iraq Coalition Forces discovered a cache which contained Sept. 11, 2001 propaganda in a house in Qarghulli Village, Iraq, Sept. 26. Soldiers of the 4th Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment Polar Bears, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) discovered the cache while conducting Operation Rock Sweep V and VI.
The purpose of the mission was to target specified al-Qaeda operatives identified to be planning and coordinating attacks against Coalition Forces and concerned local citizens in the area.
While conducting the operation, Soldiers searched the targets houses looking for illegal weapons. In one house they discovered a cache that consisted of three blasting caps, a ski mask, a terrorist manual which included directions on constructing vehicle improvised explosive devices, propaganda featuring the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, two cell phones and a card to activate the cell phones. I wonder if they called anyone in the US? Too bad there's no way to find out.
The propaganda was a small booklet featuring images of the attacks and a script praising the attacks.
Our assessment is that these guys were getting ready to launch attacks during the Ramadan celebration, said Lt. Thomas Ceislak, battle captain for 4-31 Inf. Regt. We got the intelligence for this raid from earlier questioning of detainees and from tips provided by our source network.
I'm a little annoyed. I've asked for this information repeatedly. Still... I have 4,724 in 2007 in Iraq, pretty close for all the work I've done. More than 19,000 militants have been killed in fighting with coalition forces since the insurgency began more than four years ago, according to military statistics released for the first time.
The statistics show that 4,882 militants were killed in clashes with coalition forces this year, a 25% increase over all of last year.
The increase in enemy deaths this year reflects more aggressive tactics adopted by American forces and an additional 30,000 U.S. troops ordered by the White House this year.
I think tu is suggesting he does that as a rewarding career move AFTER inflating the figure, not as a way of demeaning his work, unless I'm missing your own tongue-in-cheekness.
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OK, table comparing our losses vs their losses now up at Terrorist Death Watch. Our losses are high for 2003 since I have no way to match them to the dates and battles where the enemy losses were recorded.
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE MEDIA WILL USE ALL LOSSES FOR THE YEAR, AS USA TODAY DOES, INCLUDING THE NON-HOSTILE DEATHS. Please feel free to contact any media outlets using the higher numbers and point out their error.
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Remember that many of these individuals represent the cream of the crop of terrorism from a dozen different countries, so killing each foreigner results in the improvement of security and stability in at least two countries.
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My bad. In the scramble I failed to note that USA Today DID use the correct number of our KIA. I just assumed that the error common to all previous reporting was in this story. It is not.
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Looked at one data point (Nov 2004, 2nd Fallujah) and lists only 960 killed for the whole of Iraq. Sounds fishy, since an estimated 1200 were killed in the first week if Fallujah 2 alone and estimated over 2000 killed pre and post Fallujah. Even Wikipedia lists 1350+ killed while in the same breath (laughably) claim only 159 killed in the Battle of Najaf (Aug 2004). The Marines claimed 300+ KIA in 2 days in Najaf and the Army did the bulk of the fighting.
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Hey Chuck we are finally getting somewhere.
You're numbers have us at 5,890 plus the 7,600 min we killed during the invasions and the estimated 2,000 from 2004-2006 and there is a minimum of 15,490. With this release if it's close pushes the enemy KIA close to 40,000 not bad at 10:1 vs Ameriiki Tribe. Will you adjust the site or use the same methodology.
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TOPIX NEWS > USA WILL ATTACK IRAN SOON + IRAN ATTACK IMMINENT; + JPOST > JIBRIL: ISRAEL WILL ATTACK SYRIA VERY SOON.Specific Israeli attack option debatable, but Jibril claims any attack on SYria by Israel will be resisted [by force of arms] by Iran, Hizbullah and Paleos. WAFF.com > HOW WW3 MAY BE FOUGHT. US-Iran conflict expands beyond region.
U.S.-led forces have killed one of the most important leaders of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and recent similar operations have left the organization fractured, a top American commander said Friday.
"Abu Usama al-Tunisi was one of the most senior leaders ... the emir of foreign terrorists in Iraq and part of the inner leadership circle," said Brig. Gen. Joseph Anderson. Al-Tunisi was a leader in helping bring foreign terrorists into the country and his death "is a key loss" to al-Qaida leadership there, Anderson told a Pentagon news conference via videoconference from Baghdad.
Anderson said recent coalition operations also have helped cut in half the previous flow of foreign fighters into Iraq, which had been at about 60 to 80 a month. He credited the work of the Iraqi Department of Border Enforcement and U.S. teams.
Commanders have said previously that the increase in troops ordered by President Bush in January and the increased operations that followed have pushed militants into the remote parts of the north and south of the country. Additional operations have been going after those pockets of fighters. "We're having great success in isolating these pockets," Anderson said. "They are very broken up, very unable to mass, and conducting very isolated operations," he said.
Additional: ``He operated in Yusufiyah, southwest of Baghdad, since the second battle of Fallujah in November '04 and became the overall emir of Yusufiyah in the summer of '06,'' Anderson said in a videoconference from Baghdad. ``His group was responsible for kidnapping our American soldiers in June 2006,'' Anderson said. Anderson laid out a series of operations over the last two weeks that led up to the air strike that killed al-Tunisi in the town of Musayib.
He said an associate of al-Tunisi's was captured in one mission on Sept. 12 in Baghdad and another with links to him was captured Sept. 14 in Mahmudiyah when coalition forces targeted the network that facilitates the flow of foreign fighters in the southern belts around Baghdad.
More associates were captured over the next few days. On Sept. 25, commanders received information that a meeting was taking place near Musayib with al-Tunisi and other al-Qaida in Iraq members. A U.S. Air Force F-16 aircraft attacked the target. Al-Tunisi's presence was confirmed by a detainee who had just fled the area before the attack and was captured minutes later, Anderson said.
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ABU OSAMA AL TUNISI
al-Qaeda in Iraq
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al-Qaeda in Iraq
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There's lots of positive news floating around on various fronts (this, Tora Bora, Israel's bombing of Syria, etc...)
Is this what momentum feels like?
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(Budda bomp bomp bomp)
Another one bites the dust!
(Bomp bomp bomp)
Another one bites the dust!
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Al-Tunisi was killed in an air strike on Tuesday that followed a series of raids in which several of his associates had been captured, Brig Gen Anderson added.
"Ok, Ok, I'll tell you where Abu is hiding. Just get THAT away from me!"
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I am glad he's met his virgins, and not a moment too soon, but how do we know that he was specifically number 3?
Is this like a college football poll, that some bearded schmockmeister is #3 this week, then #2 afeter planting a few successful roadside bombs, then #5 after some insult of Osama's Aide.
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This appears to have been the end of a two-week roll-up. I presume the three day delay in announcing it was so they were sure they had finished rolling. Still, it will be interesting to see if there are more announcements in the pipeline.
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CentCom Release had a bit more info. Apparantly a couple other 'leaders' also received terminal 500 pound laser-guided headaches with him.
U.S. AIR FORCE F-16 AIR STRIKE KILLS 3 TERRORIST LEADERS
COMBINED AIR OPERATIONS CENTER, Southwest Asia - A U.S. Air Force F-16CJ Fighting Falcon dropped precision munitions near Al Nussayyib, Iraq Sept. 25, killing Abu Nasr al-Tunisi and two other Al Q'aeda in Iraq operatives.
They were killed when the aircraft, assigned to U.S. Central Command Air Forces, dropped two precision-guided 500lb bombs on the target-one laser-guided GBU-12 and one GBU-38 Joint Direct Attack Munition, destroying the terrorist safe house where the three were meeting.
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My thanks to the moderator who added the additional, the pictures, and punched up the headline. I take sole credit for the #3, however, based on the bit in the first article that says
was one of the most senior leaders ... the emir of foreign terrorists in Iraq and part of the inner leadership circle
Because if that isn't a number three, then I don't know my organizational charts. Remember, only one #1 at a time, several #2s, each of which has one or more #3s. Like species evolution, it's a bush, not a tree. ;-)
The first U.S. military unit scheduled to withdraw from Iraq under the Bush administration's plan to reduce troop levels has left the war zone, a military spokeswoman said Friday. "The entire MEU is back aboard the Bonhomme Richard Strike Group on our way home," said Capt. Pamela Marshall.
A brigade combat team, which normally includes about 4,000 troops, is expected to leave Iraq in mid-December followed by four other brigade combat teams and two Marine battalions.
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The video reveals what potential recruits need to know: anger is the prevailing emotion in battle. It negates fear. As for all the ammo, I no longer deny that each enemy kill in Iraq is requiring a lot of bullets.
British troops in Basra are being urged to return to the front line and help their Iraqi counterparts in the battle against insurgents after two bombs in as many days left eight people dead and many more wounded.
Britains forces, however, insisted that the explosions were isolated incidents and the overall situation in Basra had become much calmer since they withdrew from their last stronghold inside the oil-rich city at the start of the month. The latest bombing took place on Wednesday evening near the main gate of a Sunni mosque in the town of Abu al-Khaseeb, about 12 miles (20km) south of Basra, killing three Shia guards and two Sunni worshippers, police said. Five other prayer-goers were injured.
The attack came one day after a suicide car bomb exploded outside the police headquarters in Basra, leaving three police trainees dead and 17 wounded. Most policemen in the city are Shia Arabs. Colonel Abdul Kareem el-Zaydee, the main police spokesman in Basra, said he feared an upsurge of al-Qaeda attacks. Perhaps al-Qaeda members have now come to Basra, Colonel Zaydee told The Times.
Colonel Zaydee did not blame the spike in violence on the departure of British forces from the city. Instead, he said that the problem was infighting by politicians in Basra and Baghdad along with the influence of neighbouring countries. At the same time, the Iraqi police officer said: The British military should support the Iraqi security forces and not just stay at their airport base.
His appeal, which was echoed by other officials in the southern capital, poses a quandry for the 5,500-strong British military contingent, now based at Basra airport, a few miles outside the city. Britain hopes that the situation in Basra will stay calm and allow the force to be reduced and eventually withdrawn once Iraqi security forces are strong enough to take over control of the province. But until then Britain remains responsible for security in the province and if necessary would have to go back into the city to reinforce Iraqi security forces or take on militias or insurgents.
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GAZA, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Fifty thousand Palestinian gunmen and hundreds of suicide bombers are ready to repel or at least impede any large-scale Israeli invasion of the Gaza Strip, an official from the ruling Hamas said on Friday. Does that include the women and children you all are going to hide behind?
Israel has threatened to mount a massive ground sweep of Gaza as a last resort against cross-border rocket fire by Palestinian militants, which has not been significantly reduced by more limited air strikes and commando incursions. I think they'll have to use the 'last resort'- all the others are booked solid.
But Israeli officials say such a mission in the congested territory would mean major casualties on both sides, a price the Jewish state may not be willing to pay given the relatively low death toll exacted by the crude short-range Palestinian rockets. Which officials?
Nizar Rayyan, a senior Hamas leader, promised Israel "a painful response" should it send in troops and tanks en masse. Ow! (Although hopefully the IDF learned a few lessons during their last jaunt in Lebanon.)
A Hamas-affiliated Web site quoted Rayyan as saying that "50,000 fighters, armed and brave in the battlefield" await an invasion and that 400 would-be suicide bombers wear their explosives belts around the clock, ready to attack tank columns. Sounds like a sure recipe for 'work accidents.'
"Hamas leaders were surprised when 200 women volunteered to carry explosives to confront Israeli tanks too," Rayyan said. Why? You've managed to brainwash everyone else...
Israeli intelligence assessments are that Hamas, which seized control of Gaza in a brief civil war with secular Fatah rivals in June, has marshalled at least 20,000 fighters proficient with a variety of small arms. Define 'proficient.'
Partly funded by Iran, Hamas has modeled itself on Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah, which fought Israel last year. Israel suffered surprise setbacks in that war, prompting the top brass to order an overhaul of their forces ahead of any new conflict. Snip. RTWT
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not to repeat too many times, but TURN OFF THE FUCKING WATER AND POWER. Let them seethe in the dry dark
*ahem*
/contrite apologies
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Define 'proficient.'
As in: Able to engage in gunsex at will.
Why Israel is even considering throwing troops at a situation that has so many other solutions is beyond me. Shells, missiles, breakers, gate valves, the options are so numerous and far more effective.
#10
Were Israel to turn off water and power, it would face truly horrendous pushback from other countries. The US would be among them, I suspect.
On the other hand, there's a LOT of violence happening over there. It's truly amazing that the infrastructure hasn't met any ... accidents ... that would interrupt those deliveries. I wouldn't be surprised at all if that were to happen sooner or later.
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lotp - nobody in the history of the world was required to provide the tools of their own destruction to an enemy nation. Let Egypt take over those provisions. F*ck world opinion. Why wait til the Paleos can accurately take out the Ashkelon power station, thereby doing the same thing? I'd venture that the Hamas takeover debacle, the continued Qassams, the Israelis big stones after the Syrian raid (you know Iran, et al are scared), the time is now. F*ck the UN
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btw - I'm not adverse to this: "Our supply stations of water and power were hit by Qassam rockets launched from Gaza, and in light of the inherent danger from repeat attacks, repairs have been delayed until never security is restored"
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50,000. Ok.
But about a third of them will be turning the rifles on their own. Thats been the problem.
Israel should seal up the walls tight, cut power and water and tell them FOAD. If the UN is so concerned THEY can go in there.
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TW, thanks for that reminder. The Palestinians never fail to amaze me with their instinct for self-destruction.
Frank, I left off the tag that said I agree Israel should not have to supply their mortal enemies. Guess I thought that was understood.
However, I do think that there would be great pressure on Israel if they openly cut off water and power. One reading of 'international law' is that they are responsible for not doing so because they occupied those territories and only unilaterally withdrew, without a peace treaty being signed.
Not saying I think that such an international consensus is right or good, just that it probably exists and would cost Israel the markets she needs for her export goods and possibly Congressional support for military aid.
I'm not sure I'd wait for the Palestinians to randomly damage the infrastructure if I were Israel, tho.
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I implied randomly...it can be expedited, or not even factual at all :-)
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09/28/2007 21:44 Comments ||
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Frank is right on, kinda. Israel should Qassam it themselves. On the Paleo side.
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09/28/2007 21:49 Comments ||
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And, lest we fergit, IRAN > 50,000 "MARTYRS" were being trained to conduct suicide operations/attacks agz the West. 50,000 + 50,000 = 100,000 ergo POTUS Dubya by himself is the problem.
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After an average day of rocket fire cut off services for 4 hours. Adjust interruption of services the following day based on the rocket fire level of the day before. Follow this recipe to its logical conclusion.
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09/28/2007 22:21 Comments ||
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IMNSHO, avg day of rockets should = 48 hrs disruption, minimum. Sh*t, they have 4 hrs on their own end due to stupidity, daily
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IDF troops attacked a terror cell in the northern Gaza Strip late Thursday night, Army Radio reported. The group was found after firing at Israel. The army confirmed the cell was hit.
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For the second time in less than a week, IAF fighter jets were scrambled to the northern border on Thursday after radar systems picked up Syrian helicopters making their way towards Israel. The jets took off from a base in the North and were ordered to head to the border and if needed intercept the helicopters. Minutes later, the IAF determined that the Syrian aircraft were not on their way to an attack and the Israeli planes were ordered to return to base.
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ODDBALL from KELLY's HEROES> See what your negative waves did, Moriarty, DEM D *** NGED DUCKS ARE BACK.
#3
All of this 'cat n mouse' probing by the Syrians are their way of showing frustration, bluster and 'nose thumbing'! Baby Assad knows Israeli birds are 'ready five' and knee jerking on anything stroking a toilet flush from their side of the border. If it's the Syrians intent to 'wear down' the Israeli response; just a day in the park for the IAF! Those guys eat their bologna sandwiches and orange juice while 'inverted'!
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09/28/2007 7:41 Comments ||
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just shoot them down and get it started already. it's about time they get shown that their syrian army and air forces aren't shit just like in the past.
#9
Use one of the anti-mortar lasers.... that way its deniable.... What? One of your crumby planes crashed and you think we had something to do with it? Come on! We have better things to do with our time like go after Hamas in Gaza. We were not anyway near that plane.
Sri Lankan soldiers killed 11 Tamil Tiger rebels in overnight battles in the north of the island and a roadside bomb killed two civilians, the military said on Thursday.
The violence in the restive northern districts of Jaffna and Vavuniya, the focus of renewed civil war between the state and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), was the latest in a series of near daily clashes in recent months. The army killed four LTTE terrorists who tried to infiltrate through the forward defence line in Jaffna and another seven in Vavuniya, said a spokesman at the Media Centre for National Security. He said one soldier was killed and another wounded. The military also said a suspected Tamil Tiger mine explosion in Jaffna peninsula killed two civilians and injured 17, including two police officers. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who say they are fighting for an independent state for minority ethnic Tamils in the north and east, were not immediately available for comment on the latest clash. The rebels said a civilian was killed in a roadside blast in the northwestern district of Mannar which they blamed on the military. The military has launched an offensive to drive out the rebels from Mannar, after evicting them from jungle terrain they controlled in the east earlier this year.
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anyone else notice all these terorist groups can't kill anyone besides civilians. is it just me or does it seem like they are scared too go up against real military. Th ehistory channel had a show on about sierra leone civil war the other day and those kids with guns had more guts than all those groups put together and they didn't even know what the word aim meant
Assassinated cleric alleged Syrian Mahmoud Said Agassi, who had raised doubts about it is recruiting foreign fighters to travel to Iraq for combat troops led by the United States, said Haider Ahmed assistance that Agassi was killed by bullets after leaving a mosque City Aleppo after Friday prayers.
Killed by bullets. Sniffle.
Agassi was known as "Abu Al Qaqaa" had denied earlier of the Arab. Net "any link with Al-Qaida, launched a sharp attack on the organization, saying it fresh from the American project in the region.
He said: "Abu Al Qaqaa," It has no relationship to "Jund Sham," and that his organization "strangers Sham" where active media published impassioned sermon on tape.
He said, "Abu Al Qaqaa," then that "followers" thousands of Syria and other Arab countries, despite the known word "followers," noting that organizations use closed, saying "I am against these organizations, which already hostile Being conscious represent Islam and denounce violence."
It is noteworthy that the "Aba Al Qaqaa" was born in the Syrian city of Aleppo in 1973, and studying in secondary legitimacy Aleppo then Damascus Sharia College and obtained master and Ph.D. from the University Pakistani Islamic; Based in Karachi (He graduated from the branch of Syria).
The one who carried out the assassination was a prisoner of the American forces in Iraq and had been released some time ago. . . . Another aide . . . said the gunman had told him that he had killed the cleric "because he was an agent of the Americans".
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#6
verrry nice. Now all releasees will be suspect...and you know what happens then :-)
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I certainly hope that we reprogrammed that assassin, and that hundreds more rewritten ex-terrorists start a bloodbath of instigators like this bird. If so, we should have had such a program long ago.
"The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, but I have promises to keep. And miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep. Remember. Miles to go before I sleep..."
Iranian former deputy defense minister Ali Rheze Asgari supplied intelligence sources in the West with information regarding the sites that Israeli jets allegedly attacked on September 6, the Kuweiti Al Jareeda reported Friday.
Asgari defected from Iran several months ago and moved to an undisclosed location in the West.
In related news, the Saudi paper Al Watan reported Friday that American jets were hovering in Iraqi airspace close to the Syrian border during the raid. Reportedly, the USAF jets were meant to give aerial backup to Israel in case IAF warplanes would come to any harm. Or maybe the Americans brought the cake to the party.
#6
Think of 'hovering' in this case, not of a helicopter or stationary in the sky type of hovering. Instead, think of your early courting years and that pain in the ass little brother / sister/ parental unit of your intended target (victim?/conquest?) would not friggin leave, but insisted on being RIGHT FRICKIN THERE!
THAT kind of hovering.....
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KABUL - Taleban insurgents have kidnapped four staff of the International Committee of the Red 
The Afghan government announced on Thursday it had arrested the Taliban movements main spokesman, Yousuf Ahmadi, but a man believed to be the militants mouthpiece denied he had been captured. The interior ministry said Ahmadi was seized with his brother on Wednesday in the volatile southern province of Helmand where the Taliban are in control of several districts. 
Malian Tuareg rebels abandoned a remote border town they were besieging and crossed into Algeria after the army sent in heavy reinforcements to dislodge them, a Malian Defence Ministry source said on Thursday.
A college student facing a terrorism-related charge made a video showing how to detonate explosives using a remote control toy, and the demonstration was uploaded to a popular Web site before the native of Kuwait was arrested, according to court documents. 
Two woman and three children of a family were killed by a stray shell amidst clashes between local Taliban militants and security forces in North Waziristan late on Tuesday that also injured four paramilitary soldiers, local officials said on Wednesday. They died when an artillery shell allegedly hit their house in Zakarkhel village near a security checkpost in Mir Ali town, east of Miranshah, locals said. 
The Balochistan police launched a crackdown in certain parts of Quetta on Thursday, rounding up more than 100 suspects following the killing of a senior police officer here on Wednesday night. 
More than 19,000 militants have been killed in fighting with coalition forces since the insurgency began more than four years ago, according to military statistics released for the first time.
U.S.-led forces have killed one of the most important leaders of 
Additional: ``He operated in Yusufiyah, southwest of Baghdad, since the second battle of Fallujah in November '04 and became the overall emir of Yusufiyah in the summer of '06,'' Anderson said in a videoconference from Baghdad. ``His group was responsible for kidnapping our American soldiers in June 2006,'' Anderson said. Anderson laid out a series of operations over the last two weeks that led up to the air strike that killed al-Tunisi in the town of Musayib. 
The first U.S. military unit scheduled to withdraw from Iraq under the Bush administration's plan to reduce troop levels has left the war zone, a military spokeswoman said Friday. "The entire MEU is back aboard the Bonhomme Richard Strike Group on our way home," said Capt. Pamela Marshall.
British troops in Basra are being urged to return to the front line and help their Iraqi counterparts in the battle against insurgents after two bombs in as many days left eight people dead and many more wounded. 
