A suicide car bomber attacked an American military convoy on the road to Kabul's airport on Saturday, killing a U.S. soldier and four Afghans and sending flames shooting into the sky, officials said. The bombing on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan threw several vehicles on their side. Four Afghans were killed and 12 wounded, the Health Ministry said.
The attack was against U.S. troops responsible for training the Afghan military and police. Lt. Col. David Johnson, a U.S. spokesman, said one American soldier died in the blast and one was wounded. "There was an enormous explosion, the windows of my shop shattered," said tailor Mohammad Isaq. "When I came out I saw the foreigners' vehicles on fire. I saw two injured Afghans and I ran to help them."
This year has been the most violent of the six-year effort, the result of the U.S.-led invasion to oust the Taliban for hosting al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. More than 5,100 people have died in insurgency-related violence in 2007, according to an Associated Press count based on Afghan and Western officials.
Usually we add at this point that they were mostly insurgents...
The suicide bombing was the third major attack in Kabul in a week. On Sept. 29, a bomber targeted an Afghan army bus, killing 30 people. A similar attack Tuesday against a police bus killed 13.
Kabul police in the last six months prevented 156 terror attacks, including 18 suicide bombings. He said one man from Morocco, one from Saudi Arabia and several from Pakistan were among the 18 would-be suicide attackers arrested.
President Hamid Karzai condemned the attack and said the violence is forced upon Afghanistan from abroad a reference to Pakistan, where many Taliban fighters come from. "In the religion and culture of the Afghan people, there is no place for such wild and un-Islamic attacks, but these kind of conspiracies are pressed onto our people from the outside," Karzai said in a statement.
Abdul Manan Farahi, Kabul's counterterrorism chief, said Kabul police in the last six months prevented 156 terror attacks, including 18 suicide bombings. He said one man from Morocco, one from Saudi Arabia and several from Pakistan were among the 18 would-be suicide attackers arrested.
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French tyre company Michelin has said it is evacuating families of French nationals working for the firm in Algeria because of security concerns. The move comes after nine people, including two French nationals, were injured in an attack on a convoy of foreign workers in September. Al-Qaeda's North Africa wing said it had carried out the attack. Michelin said its Algeria operations would continue and that none of its employees were leaving.
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Mr. Leuchtag: Come sit down. Have a brandy with us.
Mrs. Leuchtag: To celebrate our leaving for America tomorrow.
#2
American workers may cost more for payroll, but you don't have to worry about shit like this. You don't have to worry about the govt. nationalizing your assets, you don't have to bribe rival warlords and criminal gangs , you don't need a metal detector at the employee turnstile.
And you don't have to pay us to pray 5 times a day instead of work.
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Investing money in the manufacturing sector in Arab countries is a fast way to lose money. A big reason is the popularity of terrorism in those countries.
Foreign investment in the Arab world, outside of oil and gas, is miniscule in comparison to such investments that have been pouring into Asia. Per capita foreign direct investment is the lowest for any region in the world outside of sub-Saharan Africa. Only about 3% of all Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) goes to the Arab world. The Arab world's percentage of overall world trade has declined by almost 35% since 1980 to just 3%. Most of this is oil and gas.
Manufacturing exports, a source of employment generation and income stabilization, are miniscule compared to exports of oil and gas. Total manufacturing exports of the region are far less than they could be. Manufacturing exports from Israel, population 6 million, are about $24 billion per year. Manufacturing exports from Turkey, population about 67 million, are about $25 billion. Total Arab world (population 240 million) manufacturing exports are about $19 billion. ....
Unemployment for the entire group of countries is about 15%. Combined unemployment and underemployment could be as high as 20-25%. In some countries the unemployment rates are truly stunning: Algeria, 30%; Iraq, before the war, was possibly 50%, after the war and until recently it could be in the 80-90% range; the West Bank and Gaza could be as high as 35-50% and in some areas as much as 75%. First time job seekers have the worst of it. About 80% of the unemployed in Egypt are first time job seekers. Real wages have declined in almost all occupations in Egypt since 1980. ...
Egypt, for example, has about 1.2 million new Egyptians each year. It needs to produce about 750,000 jobs per year. It is only producing about 350,000 per year.
There is hope that new industries might also be started, such as in auto parts [like Michelin] and other intermediate goods, to supply factories in the EU, for example. ...
R&D expenditures as a percentage of GDP are the lowest outside of sub-Saharan Africa. International patenting, and scientific and engineering publications are well behind most regions in per capita terms. There are many persons working in R&D, science and engineering, but there is something [Islam] stopping them from reaching their massive potential. ...
Poverty seems to be on the increase in the region. Many studies point to increases in poverty in Morocco, Jordan, Yemen, Egypt and Algeria over the past decade. .... About 14% of Arabs live under $1 a day according to some sources. Some observers suggest it could be as much as 20+%. Possibly about 22-30% of the Arab world lives on less than $2 a day. .... $2 a day works out to $730 per year, which is ... the income of an average unskilled to semi-skilled working person in the urban areas of Egypt and Algeria.
.... urbanization, attempts at industrialization ... were all sources of hope for the people of the Arab world. In most cases these hopes have been dashed and shattered. .... This is a region that has had its share of violence. If only the youth knew how much this violence, and the trillions that went into military expenditures for these wars and conflicts [have] cost the Arabs. Past violence has sapped the Arabs of trillions of dollars of potential income and wealth.
So what might the future hold? That is really up to the Arabs, their governments, and those who care about the region. There will be a large increase in the number of people seeking jobs in a mostly stagnant economic region. .... The Arabs, a great people, deserve better than what they have gotten so far - and far better than the cold and dangerous, and most likely economically more destitute, world that the extremists are offering up. .... prosperous and free people have no use for extremists.
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As Fisk would say to a fellow manufacturer: "Time to retire".
The Arabs, a great people, deserve better than what they have gotten so far
Bullshit! They're getting exactly what their terrorist-loving asses deserve. [spit]
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They're getting the full benefits of over-population;
a large, testosterone-saturated, teen-aged demographic; a fixation on a 7th-century culture not suited for 21st century urban living; and Koran-based education.
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you don't have to bribe rival warlords and criminal gangs
Yes, we're much more civilized. Here you pony up the money to "reelection funds" and "give aways" at the bargaining table you know the company your successors will have in a decade can not sustain. It's all in degree and politeness. :)
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Other than Israel, I wouldn't put 2 cents in the entire Middle East. And I would block ALL foreign aid, because it subsidizes enemy ideologies. We need to starve the savages until they adopt our way of thinking, and start liquidating their parasitic elites.
Birth rates in the Palestinian territories had been dropping, I b'lieve, from nine offspring per mother to four. I haven't noticed any statistics on death rate changes since 1967, especially by age group, but I'd bet the graphs are up across the groups, and especially in the key 15-30 demographic. It's all very well to have extra sons to donate to jihad, as the Palestinians like to boast, but without husbands the daughters produce no grandchildren.
Eight soldiers and four Islamic extremists have been killed in the last few days in eastern Algeria, security officials said Saturday.
Six of the soldiers were killed while conducting an operation to sweep out extremists near Tebessa, they said. A seventh was targeted in an attack outside a mosque near Dellys. The eighth soldier was killed in an operation in mountains above Tidjellabine. Three armed Islamists also died. The fourth Islamist, a regional leader who was trying to seize an army camp in Skikda, was also killed.
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HT:Villagers with Torches Sort of sounds like where Rantburgers move when they're done ranting.
What follows is a partial and edited transcription from the 8 page .pdf of the search warrant for the Toyota with Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed ("MOHAMED") and Youssef Samif Megahed ("MEGAHED") (collectively "The YOOTS"). The typos are all mine. The .pdf is at the title link
A review of the laptop's hard drive also revealed a 12 minute video in Arabic language of a male individual with an Egyptian accent who was wearing rubber gloves on his hands. In the recording, he shows how a remote-control toy vehicle is constructed and operated, and gives instructions as to the range and distance the remote will operate and the radio frequency on which the vehicle operates. The narrator explains how to convert the vehicle into a detonator.
Law enforcement agents later interviewed MOHAMED and he acknowledged that he made the videotape himself and that he was the person who narrated it. He explained he had made the tape to assist those persons in Arabic countries to defend themselves against the infidels invading their countries.
Records on the hard drive of the computer indicate that someone using that computer uploaded this video to a website knows as "You Tube," a website for sharing and viewing videos. Additional records on the hard drive show that on July 31, 2007, someone using MOHAMED'S computer provided the follwoing search words to link viewers to this video: "detonator from a distance" and "remote control ignitor fireworks radio wireless coverting toy explosives rockets controlled car martyrdooms (sic) suiciders."
While being transported from the location of the traffic stop to a detention facility in Berkeley County, a recording device, unknown to The YOOTS captured a conversation between the subjects in Arabic. MEGAHED responded, "Did you tell them about the benzene [gasoline]?" In response, MOHAMED said, "I have nothing to do with it. I do the fireworks and so, so, so that is it." MEGAHED stated to MOHAMED that he had "told him [law enforcement] that we got the gas for the cars..." and MOHAMED responded, "Yes...exactly."
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Although I've never been a fan of writing affidavits in the third person, this one is good (legal sufficiency is the test). This one's going to make it and these two dorks will be with us for a long time.
The stocky, bearded man they call the Subidar is an encyclopedia of the jagged mountains and insular tribes here along Pakistan's northwestern border. As a retired career officer now on contract to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), he would be just the man to enforce his government's declared policy: to stop Taliban and allied guerrillas from crossing into Afghanistan to attack U.S. troops.
But the Subidar's mission is just the opposite, say U.S., Afghan and Pakistani sources. Working from his home in this village, and reporting to the ISI office in the nearby town of Chitral, he recruits and organizes guerrillas to make those attacks, the sources say. In Afghan districts just over the border, guerrilla attacks have escalated this year, killing at least six U.S. soldiers since June.
President Pervez Musharraf and senior Bush administration officials say Musharraf is America's best friend in the war against al-Qaida and its Islamic extremist allies in this region. But the case of the Subidar (the Urdu-language title means "captain") appears to illustrate assertions by many scholars that Pakistan is deeply divided and playing a double role. Its ruling army denied any knowledge of the Subidar, whose name is being withheld by Newsday because he could not be reached directly to comment on this story.
While Musharraf is allied with Washington, many in his army and security services are wedded to the Taliban, say independent analysts including Boston University's Husain Haqqani. Parts of the ISI, the army and political and religious elites form a support network to help the Taliban and allied guerrillas recruit and train fighters, raise money and infiltrate Afghanistan, the analysts say.
In this shadowy war, the Taliban's main bases and support networks are hidden in rugged mountains of Pakistan's ethnic Pashtun tribal areas, along the border south of here. A U.S. National Intelligence Estimate report said in July that the same tribal districts are "a safe-haven" for al-Qaida. Those districts are closed to foreigners, except on occasional, army-escorted trips.
In the other main Taliban stronghold, around the southwestern city of Quetta, Pakistani authorities have harassed, arrested or attacked journalists who inquire into Taliban activities.
Pakistan's support for jihadist guerrillas is an old cornerstone of its national security policy, Haqqani and other scholars say. Working largely through the ISI, Pakistan's army cultivated the Taliban and backed their fight for power in Afghanistan as a way to keep Pakistani influence there. The ISI sponsored groups such as Jaish-e-Muhammad (Army of Muhammad) and Lashkar-e-Toiba (Army of the Pure) to battle India in the disputed territory of Kashmir, scholars say.
The Subidar was one of hundreds of men who served as "handlers" for the ISI's guerrilla clients. In the 1980s, he helped provide U.S.-supplied weapons and logistical support to Afghan, Pakistani, Arab and other mujahideen fighting the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, according to residents in Chitral. After the Soviets withdrew in 1989, he oversaw camps over the border in Afghanistan that trained Jaish-e-Muhammad guerrillas, they said.
After Sept. 11, 2001, the United States leaned on Musharraf to shut down the ISI's guerrilla clients, which also were allied with al-Qaida. The ISI retired dozens of its guerrilla handlers, most of them junior officers, said Hassan Abbas, a Harvard analyst of the Pakistani military and a former Pakistani police official. The Subidar was among them.
But Musharraf's anti-jihadist purge of the ISI and the army has not been effective, especially among lower-level officers, Abbas and other analysts say. For example, militants linked to al-Qaida used army connections twice to bomb Musharraf's highly secured motorcades in 2003, coming close to killing him.
Interviews with dozens of former and current army and intelligence officials make clear that many officers of Pakistan's covert security agencies remain emotionally committed to jihad and hostile to the U.S. role in the region. This is especially true of officers like the Subidar who worked clandestinely to arm and train Taliban and other jihadist guerrillas, said a Pakistani military analyst who asked not to be named.
Even if such officers were not religious militants at the outset, "they have been working for years with young men who go and die in Kashmir or Afghanistan, and they often come to believe in the cause," he said.
In part, anti-Americanism in Pakistan's army and the ISI simply reflects the public mood in a country that feels Washington has repeatedly abandoned it as an ally. Especially in Pashtun border areas far from Islamabad's chain of command, officers of the ISI and other security forces face cultural and even physical pressures to help - or at least tolerate - the Taliban and their allies, analysts and serving officers say.
Officers in charge of jihadist operations hesitate to fully dismantle them because they still believe Pakistan needs covert guerrilla groups to project power in the region and because they reckon a future leader may revive that policy, said Haqqani.
The Subidar, who is about 58, is helping fight the Americans "because he believes in jihad," or religious war, against non-Muslims holding power in Muslim lands, said a Pakistani source who has talked to the Subidar. "He is not getting rich from this. He has only a little land, and doesn't even have a car."
The source asked not to be named for fear of retribution from security forces.
Musharraf has at times denied and at other times acknowledged that a support network for the Taliban operates in Pakistan. Last October, he conceded on NBC's Meet the Press that retired - but not active - intelligence officials might be involved.
But like the Subidar, many ISI jihadist "handlers" who were retired after 2001 now appear to be back in the network, whether on contract to the ISI or operating independently, said a Pakistani security analyst who asked not to be named discussing what is a sensitive subject here.
"They're given a wink by ISI, and are told ... 'if you get caught, we won't acknowledge you,'" he said.
"About two years ago, [the Subidar] again began working full time for the agency ," said a Pakistani ex-official familiar with security matters.
The Subidar is seen at least weekly at the regional ISI office in Chitral town, and has been seen meeting the office's director, an army major, said the ex-official. That source, and an officer of the Afghan National Security Directorate, interviewed separately over the past four months, said the Subidar is on contract to the ISI.
In all, six sources - Pakistanis in Chitral, a U.S. military officer in Afghanistan and Afghans, including intelligence officials - described the Subidar, his work and his status as an active ISI agent.
"We know that he is sending men and material for ISI and is responsible for their cross-border work," said Matiullah Khan Safi, a former police chief of Afghanistan's Kunar province, which abuts Chitral.
Asked about the Subidar's role, Pakistan's chief military spokesman, Maj. Gen. Waheed Arshad, said the army doesn't know of "any such fellow" and "can't find any information on him."
But in the Chitral and Bumburet valleys of northwestern Pakistan, the Subidar was easily located. Residents and local officials discreetly directed a visiting journalist to the last farming village in the Bumburet valley - the serene hamlet of Shekhanandeh, which nestles at the head of a lush, green valley where children play in a mountain stream or tend cows. Just beyond the village, a looming wall of mountains carries the Afghan border on ridgelines 15,000 feet high.
Thick forest and deep ravines on the mountain flanks make this good guerrilla country.
In recent fighting across the border, "we have seen the American jets flying above the mountains and firing rockets," said a village resident. "We hear the explosions."
Neighbors of the Subidar declined to discuss him. "He is not here," said one man, standing within sight of the Subidar's single-story home of timbers and mud brick. He jerked his head toward the border, a five-mile hike up the mountains. "Subidar went up," the man said. "We don't know where."
From here, the Subidar rides his motorcycle to visit safe houses that the ISI maintains in nearby valleys of Pakistan for guerrillas planning to cross and attack U.S. and Afghan forces in Nuristan or Kunar provinces, said the Pakistani ex-official. The Subidar "is working hard to infiltrate people" across the border, said an official who sees intelligence reports at the U.S. military base in Asadabad, Kunar's capital.
The Subidar ushers guerrillas toward the border at night, said residents on the Pakistani side, but the valleys are so narrow - sometimes little more than 100 yards wide - that villagers can't miss the passage of outsiders.
This far north, many anti-U.S. guerrillas are affiliated with Afghan militant leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar rather than with the Taliban, who are mainly ethnic Pashtuns from more southerly areas. Many guerrillas brought in by the Subidar fight under Mullah Rahmatdin, a Hekmatyar ally based in Afghanistan's Pitigal Valley, just over the ridgeline from here.
Rahmatdin's forces and others have stepped up attacks on U.S. bases in Nuristan and Kunar provinces, killing at least six U.S. Army soldiers since June at Naray, Kamu, Kamdesh and Gowardesh. On Aug. 31, U.S. forces attacked compounds in the Pitigal Valley, but failed to catch Rahmatdin, Afghan journalists said.
The Subidar is believed to help Rahmatdin recruit fighters from villages on both sides of the border, and to help the ISI send them for training elsewhere in Pakistan, said an official at the U.S. base in Asadabad. The ISI offers the insurgents tactical advice and information on the deployment of U.S. forces, Afghan officials said.
The Bush administration has avoided publicly criticizing Musharraf about the Pakistani support network for the Taliban, but increased pressure on him over the summer. And Congress passed a bill that would constrict U.S. aid to Pakistan unless Bush certifies that it is making progress in rooting out Islamic extremist groups.
Analysts debate whether actions of men like the Subidar reflect Musharraf's inability to control his intelligence service, or whether it is his policy to double-cross Washington. Musharraf's expressed policy is sincere, but he may lack full control over the ISI and army forces on the border, said retired Gen. Talat Masood, a prominent military analyst in Islamabad.
In Musharraf's administration, "there has been a readiness to ignore the damage caused" by lower-ranking officers who may help the guerrillas, he said. But in recent months, as the Bush administration has privately talked tougher to Musharraf, "Pakistan has understood the dangerous implications for its relations with the United States and the international community," Masood said.
Frederic Grare disagrees. A French former diplomat in Islamabad who analyzes the region for the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Grare said ISI support for the Taliban "absolutely cannot be anything other" than Pakistani policy.
"We simply have too many reports" like the story of the Subidar, he said.
FACT: Taliban and allied guerrillas have killed at least six U.S. troops in Afghanistan since June.
Taliban-aided guerrillas are crossing into Afghanistan from Pakistan, some say with the support of Pakistan's intelligence agency.
U.S. bases attacked since July, 2007
1 Kamdesk
2 Kamu
3 Gowardash
4 Naray
Reported guerrilla infiltration routes (actual routes not in text database) areas detailed on map in an around the U.S. bases that have been attacked
Chitral
Shekhanandeh
Asadabad
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Our Ally? Perv strikes again!!!!
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Actually it should be "Subedar"
The Indian Army has a unique set of ranks, which stand between a non-commissioned officers and commissioned officers. During the British Raj, they were known as Viceroy's Commissioned Officers (VCOs), but since independence they have been called Junior Commissioned Officers (JCOs).
A Subedar ranks above a Naib Subedar (called a Jemadar in the British Indian Army) and below a Subedar Major. Subedars generally command platoons. In cavalry or armoured units the equivalent is a Risaldar.
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Pakistan just has too many strikes against it to continue to exist. The sooner the rest of the world figures this out, the better. Some napalm in those "infiltration routes" would put an end to that, especially followed by mining the valley with air-dropped mines. ARCLIGHT is expensive, but one or two strikes in this area would convince a few people it's wiser to leave the US alone.
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Support network in Pakistan accused of helping Taliban, others sneak across border to attack U.S
The stocky, bearded manthey call the Subidar is an encyclopedia of the jagged mountains and insular tribes here along Pakistan's northwestern border.
The Talib's secrete weapon. Their large unkempt beards!
Sure fire emergency kit, Big Bushie Beards got Nooks and Krannies aplenty... think secrete messages folks.
Emergency Rations: Those bits of uneaten food that have worked their way down deep into the Beard Nap, can be retrieved for Good Eats during Jihad when re-supply becomes difficult. .
Last but not Least, Osama bin Laden is said to have trained his Beard to hide an entire Koran within it.
/truthy!
~:)
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Ima loose my appetite. BAD DAWG!
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"A retired career officer" > HHHHHHHMMMMMM, so a once loyal deicated "Govt/INTEL Man" now turned revolutionary = traitor??? OR, in the alternate, ONCE IN INTEL/BLACK OPS, ALWAYS IN INTEL/BLACK OPS, as the sayings go???
Indian troops killed at least 10 separatist militants who were trying to enter Indian-held Kashmir from Pakistan, the army said on Saturday. Three Indian soldiers were reported killed in battles that occurred as the countrys army chief visited the region.
In the latest fighting there were three separate clashes as groups of militants tried to sneak into the Indian side through the Himalayan Mountain passes under the cover of darkness, said an army spokesman, Lt Col AK Mathur, reported AP. Nine militants and two senior army officers died in an intense firefight three days earlier. The clashes were the areas heaviest in months, and Indian security officials believe militants have stepped up their attempts to increase their presence in Indian Kashmir before winter snows close the passes.
In the first of the recent incidents, three militants and a soldier were killed in a clash late Friday in the Tangdhar region, Mathur said. Tangdhar is about 120 kilometres north of Srinagar.
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Taliban militants claimed to have kidnapped 28 paramilitary soldiers, as one army jawan died and many others were injured when a military convoy was ambushed in North Waziristan on Saturday, officials said.
Local Taliban spokesman Ahmedullah Ahmed said that 28 paramilitary soldiers were kidnapped in the last 36 hours from the Speenwam area near Mir Ali town. We have kidnapped 28 Frontier Corps (FC) soldiers from different checkposts in Speenwam near Mir Ali during the last 36 hours, he told Daily Times by phone from an undisclosed location. He did not say whether the kidnapped soldiers had put up any resistance before being kidnapped, as previous reports have alleged that soldiers have surrendered without resistance.
No kidnappings: Military spokesman Maj-Gen Waheed Arshad termed the Taliban spokesmans claim as wrong and said no FC jawan had been captured. He, however, confirmed the militants ambush on the army convoy.
One dead, 18 injured: Meanwhile, the ambush on the military convoy was staged 10 kilometres west of Miranshah with the attack bearing the hallmark of Al Qaeda killing one soldier and injuring 18 others, a tribal elder said. They first detonated IEDs, then fired on soldiers and badly damaged five vehicles, including trucks and pick-ups, the tribal elder in Babari Adda, where the ambush took place, told Daily Times. He said the security forces returned fire and killed one civilian who was looking out of his window to see what was happening. According to security officials, the military convoy was returning to Miranshah from the Data Khel region.
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Two Lashkar-e-Taiba over-ground workers were arrested and three hideouts busted in Jammu, Poonch and Doda districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, official sources said.
The police arrested one OGW of Lashkar-e-Taiba Shahzad Hussain in Udhayanpur area of Doda district and recovered a grenade from him, they said. One more OGW of LeT, Mushtaq, was arrested on the information of Doda police from Nagrota area of Jammu district today, they said. On specific information , a joint team of Rashitrya Rifles and the police busted a militant hideout in Degrund Nullah of Gandoh Tehsil in Doda District , they said.
This article starring:
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Lashkar-e-Taiba
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Two Algerians living in Pakistan were arrested in 2005 accused of an assasination atempt against Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf. According to Pak institute report, security forces arrested the Algerians Abu Al-Ghayas and Abu Sofiane who were coming from Rawalpindi where Musharraf escaped an assassination attempt in 2005. Pakistani intelligence said the Algerians who were illegally staying in Pakistan had links to an armed group that attempt to assassinate the Pakistani president in 2005.
Pakistani President's plane was fired on as it took off in July 2007 from a military airfield in Rawalpindi. At that time, security officials said Pakistani intelligence foiled a new plan of Al-Qaeda to assassinate the Pakistani president.
According to Pakistani authorities, Mushtaq Ahmed, a former officer in Pakistani air force was a suspect in the failed assassination attempt on 14 December 2003. He had been sentenced to death by a military court days before he escaped from military detention in Rawalpindi. Pakistani minister of information Sheikh Rashid Ahmed said security forces had arrested a non determined number of suspects involved in the assassination attempt since the arrest of Abu Faraj al-Libbi a Libyan believed to be al-Qaeda's third-highest-ranking official.
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Two Algerians living in Pakistan were arrested in 2005 accused of an assasination atempt against Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.
The major charge being that of violating Pakistan's import/export laws.
All 25 people killed in a US air attack on an Iraqi village were members of an extremist group, the US military said on Saturday, amid claims that women and children were among the dead, AFP reported. In this instance, we have confirmed that the 25 criminals who were killed were responsible for the attack on our forces and in fact were members of an extremist group operating in the Baqubah region, a statement said.
On Friday, the US military said it had launched two air raids on Jayzani Al-Imam village, 30 miles (50 kilometres) north of Baghdad after a ground operation to capture an insurgent commander believed to be smuggling weapons from Iran ran into trouble against insurgents firing rocket-propelled grenades. Villager Ahmed Abu Noor, who accompanied 15 of the 66 or so people wounded in the airstrikes to a Baghdad hospital, told AFP that civilian guards armed by the Iraqi police had during the night mistaken US troops for Al Qaeda fighters, who had previously targetted the village. Guards around the village engaged in a firefight with the troops, said Noor. Soon afterwards the village was bombed by US aircraft. The air strike hit the guard points around the village as well as the village itself, destroying houses. Twenty-six people were killed, including two women, three students and six guards, he said.
Abu Ahmed al-Khalisi, a villager who was in the Shiite holy city of Najaf on Saturday to bury the 26 killed, corroborated Noors version of events. The villagers were at their homes on a calm Ramazan night, Khalisi said. They were taken by surprise to see armed men besieging their village. The village in the past has been targetted by Saddamist and Takfiri (Sunni insurgent) groups. The village youth had formed an Awakening group to defend their village. They were not aware that it was the Americans who were besieging the village so they started shooting, he added.
A police officer in Baquba, under whose jurisdiction Jayzani Al-Imam village falls, confirmed the versions of the two villagers. We dont have any reports from the forces on the ground regarding Iraqi volunteers. Coalition forces engaged a hostile threat in self-defence, US military spokesman Major Winfield Danielson said. There were two airstrikes, one helicopter, one fixed-wing. There was continued fighting between the two airstrikes. It would be readily apparent to any friendly forces in the area that the ground force was coalition once the first aircraft showed up in support. I can say that we had personnel on the ground who engaged a hostile force, and they didnt assess that there were any women or children present in the area, he added.
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All 25 people killed in a US air attack on an Iraqi village were members of an extremist group
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"All 25 people killed in a US air attack on an Iraqi village were members of an extremist group."
Wait, wait ... you mean we're not treated to Iraqi "sources" claiming a half-dozen or more women and children, not to mention fluffy bears, among the dead?
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It's rather telling that the West's enemies must fabricate negative publicity against us while they simultaneously provide an endless supply of daming stories about themselve that are strangled in the cradle by our own media.
First extended-range Palestinian missiles to hit Negev town of Netivot early Sunday identified as Russian-made Grad 20-km range surface missile
No one was hurt by the four-missile salvo, one of which exploded 90 meters from the towns western houses. Also attacked Sunday were Sderot and a number of kibbutzim bordering on Gaza by four Qassam missiles and 12 mortar shells, which damaged a house in Kerem Shalom.
DEBKAfiles military sources say that whereas until now, the Palestinian organizations their Israeli neighbors from Gaza with Qassam missiles whose maximum range is 10 km, Sunday, Oct. 7 they extended their radius by firing 20-km Grad missiles able to reach towns farther afield and more substantial than Sderot: Netivot (pop. 23,000), first but also Ofakim the center of Ashkelon and the southern fringes of the big port town of Ashdod.
Last week, Hamas tested Israels military reflexes by experimenting with extended-range missiles against Kibbutz Yad Mordecai, coupled with the influx of 85 freshly-trained Hamas commandos from Iran and Syria, whose entry to the Gaza Strip was approved by Egypt. After Israel failed to respond, Hamas saw its way clear to further escalating its missile offensive against southwestern Israel. Olmert to busy preparing for Condi's conference
Palestinians on Saturday fired several mortars towards Israel. All mortars landed inside the Palestinian territory, no injuries have been reported.
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And, lo, shall the righteous Palestinians praise all offensive efforts of their jihadi genocidal brethern even as it does indeed blow them unto tiny widdle bits.
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Awwwwww.
Ain't that just too bad. (Particularly the no injuries part.)
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
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I understand that a mortar is not exactly a precision weapon, especially when used by untrained troops. However, how the h*ll do you miss an entire country????
It's OK, really. There's a fatwah saying that anybody killed is automatically a martyr. Anybody injured is a martyr when they die (but only if they go through the rest of their lives praising Hamas).
Security forces have foiled a suspected terrorist plot to wreak havoc in Hat Yai, the commercial capital of Songkhla province, recovering 17 bombs in the city yesterday before they could be detonated. A bomb disposal unit discovered the 17 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) hidden in two locations in the city.
A security source said five bombs were discovered near a fence of the Prince of Songkhla University on Poonakan road. Explosives experts said the detonation cords were missing and would have probably been attached only shortly before an attack. Another 12 bombs were discovered outside a restaurant belonging to the navy in downtown Hat Yai.
All the bombs were home-made and authorities believe they were destined to be planted at various places in the commercial hub of Hat Yai. The source said the low-pressure bombs were apparently intended to cause havoc rather than deaths. They were similar to a device that exploded near the army headquarters in Bangkok last week, which injured two bomb disposal officers.
On Sept 22, security forces came across five bombs at a public park in Hat Yai. That discovery, coupled with intelligence warnings of possible attacks in the once-bustling tourist city of Hat Yai, has spurred the authorities into beefing up security patrols in the area.
Further south in Narathiwat, around 10 suspected insurgents, including at least two women, were rounded up in Yi-ngo district. The security sweep was prompted by a tip-off about possible insurgent hideouts in Ban Ton Tan, Ban Lubopara and Ban Yue Loh in the district.
One of those captured in the raid, Waesama-ae Mahadung, 35, is wanted on an arrest warrant. He was found with Molotov cocktails, a BB gun and equipment for producing kratom cocktail drinks, an illegal stimulant. The raid team also captured Nureeda Laening, 20, seizing 29 AKA rifle bullets, some photos of Ms Nureeda in soldier uniforms and gun cleaning oil. Police did not say what she had been charged with.
Bomb making materials, wires, communication radios, remote controls, mobile phones, electronic circuits and fake automobile registration plates were also taken from one of the raided houses. The owner of the house had fled, police said.
Eight other suspects were arrested on drug possession charges. One of them was named as Noyaneesa Bumaekalee, wanted on an arrest warrant. She was charged with possession of five methamphetamine tablets with intent to consume. Mr Waesama-ae and Ms Nureeda were sent to Ingkhayuthboriharn military camp in neighbouring Pattani for questioning while the other eight suspects were placed in police custody.
Three Muslims have been shot dead by suspected rebels in separate attacks in Thailands insurgency-torn south, police said Saturday. A 77-year-old woman was killed Saturday by militants in her house in Yala, one of three restive provinces bordering Malaysia, and a 40-year-old Muslim man was shot dead in front of a mosque in a drive-by shooting in nearby Pattani. In neighbouring Narathiwat province, a 35-year-old man was gunned down late Friday by insurgents in a drive-by shooting while he was riding a motorcycle. More than 2,600 people have been killed since a separatist insurgency broke out in January 2004 in the Muslim-majority south. Violence has been escalating in the region despite a raft of peace measures introduced by the army-backed government, which came to power following last years bloodless coup ousting premier Thaksin Shinawatra. The Muslim-majority region was annexed by mainly Buddhist Thailand a century ago and separatist tensions have simmered since.
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A seriously wounded 12-year old girl died, taking the toll to two in two blasts that occurred near a supermarket and a hotel in the southern Philippines on Friday, the police chief said.
Philippine National Police Director General Avelino Razon Jr yesterday in Mindanao blamed the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) for the attacks.
Heidi Lozada, 12, died before midnight of Friday, five hours after an explosion occurred near Sugni Supermarket on Quezon Ave in Kidapawan City, which instantly killed Honney May Lozada, 8, and wounded 30 others, most of them college students, said
Police forces across the country were placed on alert to prevent a repeat of the blasts in the south, said Razon. Razon identified arrested suspect George German, 27, as a member of the JI, a Southeast Asian conduit of the Al Qaida terror network, which has forged an alliance with the Abu Sayyaf Group, terror group based in the south. "Bomb experts were sure the bomb explosions bore the JI signature," said Razon.
Denying any responsibility for the blast near the Sugni Supermarket, German told reporters, "I was drinking with friends when the explosion happened. I was shocked, so I tried to run away so as not to be harmed." Eyewitnesses saw German leaving an explosive device between two parked vehicles, claimed Police Chief Leo Ajero of Kidapawan City.
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Five ethnic Tamil separatist rebels including a regional leader were killed in clashes with government troops across Sri Lankas volatile north, the military said Saturday.
Clashes occurred Friday across the de facto border that separates government-controlled areas and the Tamil Tigers northern mini-state, the Defense Ministrys information center said. Two rebels were killed in fighting in Periyathampanai, Vilathikulam and Navatkulam villages in northern Vavuniya district, an official said on condition of anonymity, citing policy.
Four government soldiers were wounded, the official said.
Three guerrillas were killed in a clash near northeastern Welioya village, he said, adding a regional rebel leader named Kalaivanan, who like many rebels uses only one name, also died.
Bodies swapped: The military said rebels handed over the bodies of an army officer and a soldier who went missing during recent fighting in northern Sri Lanka. Red Cross officials transported the bodies from rebel territory to the de facto border in Omanthai area and handed them to the military, the information center said. Rebel spokesman Rasiah Ilanthirayan was unavailable for comment.
In July, the government declared it had ousted the Tigers from eastern Sri Lanka, though it said some pockets of rebel resistance remained in the jungles. The rebels still control a wide swathe of territory in northern Sri Lanka.
The Tigers have been fighting since 1983 to establish an independent state for ethnic minority Tamils in the island nations north and east, following decades of discrimination under governments dominated by the Sinhalese majority. More than 70,000 people have been killed in the two-decade conflict.
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It seems to me that a little common sense would have been in order, you caught the guy .. twice .. kill him! ... If the reporters can find him I would sure think someone in Special Ops for us or the Israelis could find him ...? Letting this kind of trash survive in jail and etc. is a BIG mistake!
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These were no psychopathic loners from the ghetto, but articulate, middle-class men in their twenties and early thirties who had come from good homes and gone to university.
Uh, the Times says this like it's a surprise. Mohammed Atta, anyone? It's shocking that our modern, sophisticated journalists are so woefully out of date on matters which ceased to be surprising six years ago.
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These were no psychopathic loners from the ghetto, but articulate, middle-class men in their twenties and early thirties who had come from good homes and gone to university.
Sounds to me like Jihad has nothing to do with poverty, it's about being Islamic enough.
Lebanese authorities announced that Algerian fighters who were killed in Naher Al-Bared events in northern Lebanon were buried within a group of 98 bodies of Fatah Al-Islam fighters in Tripoli, Lebanon. The Algerians were buried by Lebanese Internal Security Forces under tight security measures in presence of Tripoli police chief Bassem al-Ayoubi, said local media sources. The fighters were collectively buried and each body was put in a black bag with a file containing DNA test results.
The Lebanese security authorities did not determine the number of the buried Algerians nor did they reveal the other fighters' identities. The authorities did not even say whether they notify Algerian authorities especially Algerian embassy in Beirut about Algerian fighters killed in Naher Al-Bared events where 220 Fatah Al-Islam fighters, 186 Lebanese soldiers and 47 civilians were killed in fighting around Naher Al Bared, the Palestinian refugee camp near Tripoli. Lebanese justice said it was prosecuting four Algerians out of 59 fighters who were fighting alongside with Fatah Al-Islam around Naher Al-Bared last month.
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Good! That's exactly what should happen to these pieces of fecal matter - buried in an unmarked grave, no ceremony, no officiating, no honoring of the dead. They should just disappear into the mists, never to be heard from again until they're all reunited in Hell. Lebanon has it exactly right.
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Sewn into a pig skin? Mouth cramed full of pork?
Wearing female underwear?
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A suicide car bomber attacked an American military convoy on the road to Kabul's airport on Saturday, killing a U.S. soldier and four Afghans and sending flames shooting into the sky, officials said. The bombing on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan threw several vehicles on their side. Four Afghans were killed and 12 wounded, the Health Ministry said. 
Eight soldiers and four Islamic extremists have been killed in the last few days in eastern Algeria, security officials said Saturday.
Taliban militants claimed to have kidnapped 28 paramilitary soldiers, as one army jawan died and many others were injured when a military convoy was ambushed in North Waziristan on Saturday, officials said.
Two Lashkar-e-Taiba over-ground workers were arrested and three hideouts busted in Jammu, Poonch and Doda districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, official sources said. 
All 25 people killed in a US air attack on an Iraqi village were members of an extremist group, the US military said on Saturday, amid claims that women and children were among the dead, AFP reported. In this instance, we have confirmed that the 25 criminals who were killed were responsible for the attack on our forces and in fact were members of an extremist group operating in the Baqubah region, a statement said.
Lebanese authorities announced that Algerian fighters who were killed in Naher Al-Bared events in northern Lebanon were buried within a group of 98 bodies of Fatah Al-Islam fighters in Tripoli, Lebanon. The Algerians were buried by Lebanese Internal Security Forces under tight security measures in presence of Tripoli police chief Bassem al-Ayoubi, said local media sources. The fighters were collectively buried and each body was put in a black bag with a file containing DNA test results. 
