Afghan President Hamid Karzai is calling for the US and NATO to cut back on sir strikes in the battle against Taliban and al-Qaida militants, saying too many civilians have been killed.
Karzai said that six years after the US-led invasion, the Afghan people "cannot comprehend as to why there is still a need for air power."
Take a ride to Helmand, your worshipfullness, and we'll remind you ...
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Guess we need to make at least ONE more airstrike - on Karzai's noggin. This idiot has outlived his usefulness. If Afghanistan doesn't want to be occupied by a foreign power, it needs to get its act together, starting with Karzai. Maybe we need someone from the Northern Alliance in charge...
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This idiot has outlived his usefulness. If Afghanistan doesn't want to be occupied by a foreign power, it needs to get its act together, starting with Karzai.
Yup, OP. Islam and good governance simply cannot connect.
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"The Afghan people "cannot comprehend as to why there is still a need for air power."
Part of your job, Mr. President, is to explain it to them. It shouldn't be that difficult, unless you yourself are unconvinced that the kind of thinking that produces Islamic fascism is something that needs crushing. Or else the "Afghan people" kinda like that thinking and have no intention of changing it. Either way, air strikes ain't gonna let up. We ain't gonna let this monstrosity get past its pupa stage.
And if you're really desperate for an argument to persuade them, you could always mention what happened to the Palestinians' aid when they refused to see reason.
BOGOTA, Colombia: A senior rebel commander, accused of leading attacks on a U.S.-owned oil pipeline and terrorizing residents along Colombia's Caribbean coast, was killed in combat, the defense minister said Thursday. Gustavo Rueda, head of the 37th Front of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, was killed Wednesday night in the isolated Montes de Maria mountain range, defense minister Juan Manuel Santos said.
And no virgins, either!
At least 18 other guerrillas were killed and four more captured during the fighting, which capped more than six months of intelligence work, Santos said. There were no reports of military casualties.
Rueda, better known by his nom de guerre Martin Caballero, was notorious for having ordered the kidnapping of Colombia's current foreign minister, who escaped in December after six years in rebel captivity.
The rebel leader is the third high-priority target taken out by the U.S.-backed military in the past two months. On Sept. 1 troops killed in combat Tomas Medina Caracas, a FARC member who was responsible for collecting a "war tax" on cocaine shipments that passed through eastern Colombia. A week later, the military captured cartel boss Diego Montoya, who was listed on the FBI's 10 most wanted list.
"Say allo to our leetle friend!"
Rueda's 37th front has been one of the most battered since President Alvaro Uribe took office in 2002. After increasing troop levels by 25 percent, government forces cut the guerrilla unit off from the FARC's main base in southern Colombia.
Santos said that at the front's height in 2002, some 500 troops under Rueda's command carried out dozens of bombings of the 780-kilometer (480-mile) Cano Limon pipeline, which is jointly owned by state oil firm Ecopetrol and U.S. company Occidental Petroleum Inc. Rueda is also believed to have masterminded dozens of kidnappings for ransom used by the FARC to finance its half-century-old insurgency.
"This is a clear demonstration that the guerrillas can indeed be defeated militarily," said Foreign Minister Fernando Araujo, who was kidnapped on Rueda's orders in Cartagena in 2000. Araujo said he was held in the guerrilla chief's jungle camp for the final two years of his kidnapping before taking advantage of a surprise raid last Christmas to flee his captors.
In March, authorities announced a US$310,000 (216,000) bounty for information leading to Rueda's capture or elimination.
Rueda joined the FARC 25 years ago after having joined the Communist party as a student in the northern town of Barrancabermeja, Santos said. From his base in the Montes de Maria, he planned attacks against the coastal cities of Barranquilla and Cartagena.
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The police say it is unclear whether there is a connection with the other car fires that have plagued West Amsterdam for the past two weeks after a police officer shot and killed an area resident
Another two cars were set on fire in West Amsterdam on Thursday night. The vehicles were parked in the Antony Moddermanstraat in the district of Geuzenveld-Slotermeer. The police say it is unclear whether there is a connection with the other car fires that have plagued Amsterdam-West for the past two weeks after a police officer shot and killed an area resident.
Cars have been set on fire in the districts of Osdorp, Slotervaart and Geuzenveld-Slotermeer almost daily since 15 October. On Wednesday night another car in the Buitenveldert neighbourhood went up in flames. The police still have not arrested any suspects for the recent fires. A number of young men suspected of planning arson attempts were arrested last weekend.
The car fires in Amsterdam-West started last week after an officer shot a Moroccan Amsterdam resident dead on 14 October. The man had just stabbed the officer and the officer's colleague in the police station on the August Allebéplein. Both police were seriously injured.
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The police still have not arrested any suspects for the recent fires.
Of course the police have not arrested the Islamists who are burning cars. The police are now under the control of the Islamists through fear. The police are no longer proteting possesions of the non-Islamic population in Amsterdam.
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Hafta admit I've lost track of which stage of dhimmitude each of these crappy little EU countries is in -- are they Norway or a full Belgium?
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Ya know, I've got a couple of dozen cousins that would LOVE an all-expense-paid vacation to Amsterdam and a free-fire order for a few weeks. Most of 'em can take the eye out of a flying duck with a .22 at 100 yards. Heck, half of 'em would provide their own weapons, if the Dutch provided the ammo. It would take about three weeks to put a stop to this mess. The Dutch would have a few dozen paraplegics with colostomy bags to take care of, though. One shot through the sacrum with a .303 hollow-point would be all it would take...
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This is likely a diversionary tactic initiated by the Hofstadgroep in preparation for causing a major disturbance elsewhere in the country.
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Do the insurance companies pay out on these cars?
That's a good question, Gladys. I've wondered, too -- also about the carbeques in France. It's a little late in the day for JFM and anonymous5089, though -- perhaps someone else knows?
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Does this all mean: the more muzzies you allow into your country, the likelihood of politically motivated arson will rise? Then maybe we shouldn't let anymore in, and take a second look at those who already opened the 2-way door.
A jeweler, apparently seeking revenge against former business associates, went on trial Monday for falsely reporting that five Arabs were plotting to bomb New York subways on the Fourth of July last year.
That'll show 'em, the bastids.
The hoax by Rimon Alkatri, a native of Syria living in Brooklyn, caused "an intensive and widespread investigation" that stretched to the Mideast and involved the men he had named, Assistant District Attorney Barry Ginsberg said. Alkatri told investigators that the plotters were five Syrians working in the jewelry business, Ginsberg said. The names turned out to be those of five business associates with whom Alkatri had disputes, he said. Ginsberg told the state Supreme Court jury in opening remarks that Alkatri knew his report of an impending explosion in a mass transit facility resulting from a plot by five men was "false and baseless."
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Souk Think.
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Militants seized and beheaded 13 civilians and security officers in northwest Pakistan after government troops launched an assault on a radical cleric's hideout, officials said Saturday.
The beheadings took place late Friday in the scenic Swat valley in North West Frontier Province, where soldiers clashed with fighters loyal to the cleric, who has been driving a fierce campaign to introduce Taliban-inspired laws.
The military earlier this week deployed more than 2,000 troops to the region to bolster efforts to crack down on militant attacks launched against government leaders and security forces. An explosion tore through a security forces vehicle in Swat on Thursday, killing about 30 people, in an apparent reaction to the arrival of the troops.
The militants seized Friday three police and three paramilitary officers shopping at a bazaar in Matta on the outskirts of Swat and later beheaded all of them, provincial home secretary Badshah Gul Wazir told AFP. The bodies and severed heads were then paraded in front of local residents to scare them, he said.
Have the 'security officials' no honor, no pride? Do they not understand what is going to happen to them the moment they're captured? If I were a security officer, and a bunch of Talib thugs were going to pinch me, I'd damned well make sure I took at least one of them with me.
Seven civilians were also seized from a van nearby by militants who then executed them, provincial police chief Sharif Virk said. "They were also slaughtered by terrorists who accused them of collaborating with the government forces," Virk told AFP.
Virk said fighting had subsided on Saturday with only sporadic exchanges of gunfire between security forces and militants in some areas.
Friday's clashes at the hideout of cleric Maulana Fazlullah in the village of Imamdheri also left three rebels and two civilians dead, officials said. A spokesman for Fazlullah regretted the slaughter of the security officers but denied responsibility. Instead the spokesman blamed government forces for provoking the attack.
"We are fighting because the government forces have attacked us," spokesman Muslim Khan told reporters in Imamdheri. "We are only demanding enforcement of Sharia (Islamic laws) in the district and withdrawal of the army and paramilitary from the region," he said, speaking before news of the civilian deaths broke.
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Pak Army: heh what more motivation do they need... Ima guessing that the average Pak Army Unit cares NOT one iota if it has to wipe out entire villages, every man, woman, child and goat in order to kill the Talib irregulars.
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MINGORA/PESHAWAR: Security forces battled with armed supporters of rebel cleric Maulana Fazlullah here on Friday, killing one militant and injuring three others, while bodies of four abducted security personnel were found on a roadside, witnesses and officials said. Two civilians were also killed in the clashes, as hundreds of residents of Imam Dheri started leaving the area fearing a full-scale operation, Online reported.
Any drums? Can't have a lashkar without drums.
Maulana Fazlullahs spokesman Sirajuddin confirmed the attack on the clerics headquarters in Imam Dheri and the death of a militant. He said that an 80-member delegation was heading for Islamabad to hold talks with the federal government on the invitation of Political Affairs Minister Amir Muqam when the security forces besieged Fazlullahs headquarters.
Heavy weapons and helicopters were used when the forces surrounded Fazlullahs headquarters, security sources told Daily Times.
Excellent! Did they level the place?
The local Taliban set up barricades at Sharialm, Chaprial and Shakar Dara in Matta Tehsil on Friday morning and took suspicious people hostage at gunpoint, locals told Daily Times.
The Pak troops should take 'suspicious' local Talibs hostage. Then shoot them.
Three Frontier Corps personnel and a policeman were reportedly among the suspicious people the Taliban took hostage from the Chaprial and Pir Killi areas of Matta Tehsil. The militants later dumped the bodies of the four law enforcement personnel in Shakar Dara.
NWFP Home Secretary Badshah Gul Wazir said they received unconfirmed reports of the abducted soldiers killing. The militants paraded the soldiers bodies in their vehicles while holding the head of a soldier in the air to show their barbarity, he added. A journalist of a local television channel was also taken hostage in Imam Dheri on suspicion of being an undercover agent, but was released after four hours.
Military spokesman Maj Gen Waheed Arshad said army helicopters joined the operation, and troops were sent to the region as reserves to help local authorities maintain law and order, if requested, AP reported.
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I keep telling these idiots, napalm puts an end to this kind of crap. If you're constantly in fear of being burned alive, you don't have much incentive to harm others. Putting the fear of military forces into these idiots would go a long way to stopping this sh$$. Nukes are just bigger and hotter napalm.
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Security forces, in search operations on Friday arrested 40 foreign nationals hailing from Afghanistan and Uzbekistan at the Chaman border.
Security personnel raided a house near the border and arrested 20 Uzbek nationals. More reinforcement was called out to conduct a search operation against suspected foreign nationals living in border-adjacent areas. Offcials arrested an additional 20 Uzbek and Afghan people after raids in several houses. Three agents facilitating illegal border crossings were also comprehended. All of those arrested were handed over to Saddar Police.
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The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) police on Thursday night arrested 12 students of the Jamia Faridia and also took into custody Pasban-e-Millat Islamabad (PMI) chief Maulana Attaur Rahman, sources told Daily Times on Friday.
According to the sources, the students were arrested for selling hate material and they were shifted to an unknown place for investigation. The sources said that Rahman and Umme Hassan, wife of Maulana Abdul Aziz, former imam of Lal Masjid, had gone to the office of Chief Commissioner Hamid Ali Khan to discuss the Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa issues, and the police arrested Rahman after the meeting. A senior official of the ICT police, who asked not to be named, said the police arrested only two persons on Thursday night.
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(AKI) - (by Syed Saleem Shahzad) - Pakistani troops on Friday surrounded and attacked the stronghold of a leading pro-Taliban militant, Mullah Fazlullah, in the district of Swat in northern Pakistan. While it was unclear whether Fazlullah was there, before going into hiding, he told Adnkronos International (AKI) that he would fight until the end.
"We shall fight till our last man and last bullet but there is always a chance for reconciliation," Fazlullah told AKI. "We dont want war, he said. "I didnt breach the agreement. It is the government who breached the agreement, he said referring to a deal he made with the Pakistani government earlier this year not to run illegal radio stations and block national highways and in exchange, the government said that it would not deploy troops in the area. Mullah Fazlullah reportedly used radio broadcasts to call for jihad, or holy war, against the Pakistani authorities.
The army had deployed 2,500 more troops in the area on Wednesday to combat rising militancy. On Thursday a bomb attack in the main town of Swat left at least 17 soldiers and three civilians dead. When contacted by AKI, Fazlullah refused to comment on the attacks or assume responsibility for the bombing.
"Wudn't me."
On Friday, a spokesperson told AKI that the Imam Dhari, a village and the centre of Mullah Fazlullahs movement was under siege by Pakistani troops although it was not clear if Fazlullah was inside. "The gunship helicopters are hovering above our heads and the security forces are trying to enter inside Imam Dhari Markaz (centre) but our men have put up intense resistance, Fazlullahs spokesperson Sirajuddin said.
Sources within Fazlullahs circle said that his next hideout could only be Waziristan because his men could not survive for much longer in the face of heavy military deployment. The Swat valley is reported to be an easier terrain to control as compared to the tribal regions of North and South Waziristan. However the route from Mullah Omar Square to Imam Dhari in the valley, passes through a very narrow alley where only a single vehicle can move in one direction.
Fazlullahs stronghold itself is surrounded by civilian homes which are reportedly caught in the cross-fire. The militants have taken control of strategic trade routes such as the old silk route which stretches from China through the Middle East, and have created bunkers in the mountains.
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I sense a pattern: the Masterminds of Islam retire to a safe distance, while the Fodder dies, all the while threatening that the Fodder wil fight to the last man....
seems the Islamic Masterminds are cowards and liars of the first order, and I guess that, as Holy Men of Islam, that's part and parcel of the holy book. Fuckwits
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"We shall fight till our last man and last bullet...
Then we will escape in a burqa. We will follow the usual islamic plan. "I just wonder, does the burqa make my bum look too big?"
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seems the Islamic Masterminds are cowards and liars of the first order, and I guess that, as Holy Men of Islam, that's part and parcel of the holy book.
(KUNA) Paramilitary troopers and supporters of militant commander, Maulana Fazlullah, have agreed to a hudna ceasefire in Pakistan's northern Swat valley after a day-long gun-battle. The two sides are observing the hudna ceasefire so far, security sources told KUNA. They said the gun-battle killed about five militants and wounded several on both sides.
Never mind.
This article starring:
MAULANA FAZLULLAH
TNSM
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Apparently, the Paki forces are being led by Brave Sir Robin.
(KUNA) — Hundreds of Pakistani troops with aerial support launched an operation against a local holy man militant commander and his supporters in the once peaceful Swat valley in northern frontier province, NWFP, a day after huge explosions killed over 30 security personnel and wounded dozens others in the area. Paramilitary troopers, after Friday noon prayers, raided a seminary of local militants' commander Maulana Fazlullah at Imamdehri village, security sources told KUNA.
They said a fierce gunbattle erupted between the supporters of Maulana and troopers when they tried to enter into the seminary. They added that the two sides were still exchanging heavy fire, adding that troops fired mortar shells as well. According to media reports, at least six gunship helicopters were hovering in the area and sounds of explosions could also be heard. Sources said that forces had taken control of the militants' training camp adjacent to the religious seminary. Another source claimed that at least five militants had been killed and several, including security men, were wounded in the ongoing offensive. The source said the two sides were using heavy weapons against each other.
The operation was launched a day after in a suicide explosion that caused ammunition in military truck to explode, killed over 30 security personnel and wounded several others.
Important safety tip here: If you need a ride in a war zone, probably the ammunition truck isn't the best ride to have. You might think seriously about walking. If there are 40 of you, you might want to wait for a bus.
The attack has been seen in reaction to recent troops reinforcement in the valley in the aftermath of rising militancy and attacks on security forces. Military Spokesman Waheed Arshad said troops had been dispatched at the request of provincial government to improve the situation of law and order.
A few hours ahead of the operation, Caretaker Chief Minister NWFP Shamsul Mulk told Pakistan Television that the government had no intention to launch a specific operation in Swat if the efforts to establish its writ are not resisted.
Militancy and extremism is on the rise in once peaceful touristic Swat valley since Tahreek Nifaz-e-Shariat Mohammadi (TNSM), Fazlullah's Al-Qaeda linked banned group, established its strongholds in the area. Despite the government ban on his group and its illegal radio station, Fazlullah, also known as "Mullah Radio," has been broadcasting fiery anti-government and anti-west speeches on his illegal FM radio station.
A few hours ahead of the operation, Caretaker Chief Minister NWFP Shamsul Mulk told Pakistan Television that the government had no intention to launch a specific operation in Swat if the efforts to establish its writ are not resisted. He said the writ of government was weak in the area and the government was trying to strengthen it by deploying more troops. If these efforts are not resisted the law enforcers will not go in pursuit of anyone to his doorstep, the chief minister said.
One militant killed, bodies of 4 abducted soldiers found
Militants fire at copter carrying FC IG
Musharraf directs officials to avoid civilian losses
By Saleem Athar and Manzoor Ali Shah MINGORA/PESHAWAR: Security forces battled with armed supporters of rebel cleric Maulana Fazlullah here on Friday, killing one militant and injuring three others, while bodies of four abducted security personnel were found on a roadside, witnesses and officials said. Two civilians were also killed in the clashes, as hundreds of residents of Imam Dheri started leaving the area fearing a full-scale operation, Online reported.
Maulana Fazlullahs spokesman Sirajuddin confirmed the attack on the clerics headquarters in Imam Dheri and the death of a militant. He said that an 80-member delegation was heading for Islamabad to hold talks with the federal government on the invitation of Political Affairs Minister Amir Muqam when the security forces besieged Fazlullahs headquarters. Heavy weapons and helicopters were used when the forces surrounded Fazlullahs headquarters, security sources told Daily Times.
The local Taliban set up barricades at Sharialm, Chaprial and Shakar Dara in Matta Tehsil on Friday morning and took suspicious people hostage at gunpoint, locals told Daily Times. Three Frontier Corps personnel and a policeman were reportedly among the suspicious people the Taliban took hostage from the Chaprial and Pir Killi areas of Matta Tehsil. The militants later dumped the bodies of the four law enforcement personnel in Shakar Dara.
"What'ya bring 'em in for, Mahmoud?"
"Looked suspicious to me, Yer Holiness."
"Okay. Kill 'em."
NWFP Home Secretary Badshah Gul Wazir said they received unconfirmed reports of the abducted soldiers killing. The militants paraded the soldiers bodies in their vehicles while holding the head of a soldier in the air to show their barbarity, he added.
That's unconfirmed barbarity, mind you.
A journalist of a local television channel was also taken hostage in Imam Dheri on suspicion of being an undercover agent, but was released after four hours.
Military spokesman Maj Gen Waheed Arshad said army helicopters joined the operation, and troops were sent to the region as reserves to help local authorities maintain law and order, if requested, AP reported.
Helicopter attacked: Separately, militants fired at a helicopter carrying FC Inspector General Maj Gen Alam Khattak who had come to inspect his troops deployed at Fizza Ghat. They missed the target and the helicopter made safe landing, said a local police official.
Musharraf briefed: The top military authorities and the NWFP governor have briefed President Pervez Musharraf on the operation in Swat, Online reported. Musharraf has asked them to avoid loss of life and property of civilians. NWFP Home Minister Shahzada Gustasap
Yes, you read that name right. It's Pasatsug, spelled backwards.
said the government was still trying to pacify the situation through peaceful means, while a meeting of the NWFP cabinet hinted at the promulgation of the Provincial Shariah Act 2003 to the Provincially Administrated Tribal Areas (PATA). The meeting also decided to implement the Nizam-e-Aadal Ordinance in the Malakand and Swat areas after removing the legal hitches with the consultation of the Peshawar High Court chief justice.
It also considered allowing an FM Radio channel in the area for peaceful teachings. The cabinet also discussed a proposal for setting up Shariah courts and appointment of qazis.
This article starring:
Alam Khattak
Amir Muqam
Badshah Gul Wazir
MAULANA FAZLULLAH
TNSM
Shahzada Gustasap
Shamsul Mulk
SIRAJUDIN
SIRAJUDIN
TNSM
Waheed Arshad
Tahreek Nifaz-e-Shariat Mohammadi
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Rahman, a LeT operative, had been residing in Churu district of Rajasthan for the last six years and was working at a local Madrasa as Hindi teacher
Police from Western Indian state of Rajasthan has arrested a suspected guerrilla, Khushubur Rahman, of Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), in Godda district of Eastern Indian state of Jharkhand late Thursday in connection with the Ajmer shrine blast. Rahman, a LeT operative, had been residing in Churu district of Rajasthan for the last six years and was working at a local Madrasa as Hindi teacher. A Rajasthan police team had arrived in Jharkhand yesterday to nab Rahman, India's leading English daily The Hindustan Times reported Friday. The blasts in Mecca Masjid Hyderbad also had linkages in Jharkhand, the daily said.
Rockets fired at a U.S. base southeast of Baghdad were manufactured in Iran, showing again that countrys continued logistical support for insurgents inside Iraq, U.S. military officials said on Saturday.
Nobody was injured in the October 23rd attack on Combat Outpost Cashe, but one U.S. vehicle was damaged, officials said.
According to the military, the 107mm rocket was made in Iran sometime in March. Troops investigating the launch site seized six rocket rails used to aim and launch the rockets, an unfired rocket and a timing device.
The seized rocket is the 40th Iranian manufactured rocket that soldiers have captured in the last four months, the military said.
A battle between al Qaeda in Iraq and a major Sunni Arab insurgent group killed at least 16 militants on Friday near the ancient city of Samarra, a senior security officer told Reuters on Saturday.
The fighting involved the Islamic Army, a nationalist group that has been hostile to al Qaeda since June and has fought the Sunni Islamist group in areas of Baghdad and some Sunni towns.
A security source in Salahuddin province, speaking on condition of anonymity, said two non-Iraqi Arabs and an Iranian were among those killed in the battle.
"The clashes ended yesterday with militants from the Islamic Army taking control of the area," he said. The area had been controlled by al Qaeda for months.
"No Iraqi or U.S. forces intervened in the battle," he said.
Al Qaeda in Iraq has faced growing pressure from the Sunni Arab community, especially tribal leaders and home-grown insurgent groups who reject its hardline interpretation of Islam and its indiscriminate violence.
Signs of the group's weakening support were highlighted by an audiotape featuring Osama bin Laden, al Qaeda's overall leader, which aired on Monday.
Bin Laden conceded wrongs had been committed because of fanaticism in his group but urged Iraqi insurgent groups to unite with al Qaeda's Iraq wing.
Members of several insurgent groups have officially enrolled in "concerned citizen groups" fighting alongside U.S. and Iraqi troops to remove Sunni areas from al Qaeda control, especially in Diyala.
US forces have captured a senior Shia militia leader and killed two others in a raid in the central Iraqi province of Diyala, the US military has said. The military said the men were members of the Mehdi Army militia loyal to the Shia cleric, Moqtada Sadr, who had defied his order to suspend activities.
Nod nod, wink wink, nudge nudge ...
The captured man is suspected of having ties to an Iranian intelligence cell. heh...rolling them up
On Friday, gunmen in military uniforms kidnapped the police chief of a nearby town and his bodyguards, police said. Col Amer Nussayif Jasim, the chief of police in Miqdadiya, and seven of his colleagues were seized after their convoy was ambushed at a checkpoint near Baquba. Diyala police have formed a taskforce to find the missing officers and have detained 13 Iraqi Traitors soldiers who were manning the checkpoint.
Saturday's US operation in the village of al-Fawwaliya targeted the hideout of a "senior militia extremist" involved in weapons procurement, kidnappings and roadside bomb attacks against coalition forces, the US military said. "As the assault force approached the building... two armed men with weapons and hand grenades manoeuvred on the assault force, one of whom was wearing a suicide vest," the statement said. The men were killed because they "failed to comply with the instructions and warning shots", it added. "listen up!" *blam* "or don't"
Yup, time for the classic "come out wityermittsindair" joke ...
The splinter group leader later identified himself and surrendered gratefully peacefully to the US soldiers. Fourteen other "admitted criminals" were also detained, the military said.
"Please don't kill us!"
"We continue to support the government of Iraq in welcoming the commitment by Moqtada Sadr to stop attacks and we will continue to show restraint in dealing with those who honour his pledge," US military spokesman Major Winfield Danielson said. translated: we know he's lying and will cap his minions where we can
"However, as this operation illustrates, not all are honouring his pledge and some continue to conduct violent crimes against Iraqi citizens and security forces."
On Monday, Mr Sadr warned members of the Mehdi Army to obey the six-month suspension of its activities or risk being branded traitors. traitors to ? Iraq? Iran? Mookie?
Mookie. Definitely Mookie.
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US seizes 'senior Iraq militant' after Top Shia & Sunni Tribal Leaders in Diyala Reject Terrorism. Coincidence?
Will deeds follow words? They are Arabs, so one has serious doubts. If so, can the model be applied to the Baghdad government?
BAQOUBA, Iraq The Tamimi and Jibouri tribes, the two largest tribes in Iraqs Diyala province, met Oct. 24 to discuss the importance of reconciliation and signed a fellowship agreement stressing cooperation and friendship between the two tribes.
The top three Shia sheiks of the Tamimi tribe and the top two Sunni sheiks of the Jibouri tribe attended the meeting, which was hosted by Diyalas governor, Ra'ad Hameed al-Mula Jowad al-Tamimi. Six additional prominent sheiks from throughout the province were in attendance as well to discuss how reconciliation has improved their tribal areas.
Raad, opening the meeting, thanked the tribes for attending and encouraged the leaders to discuss solutions rather than lay blame and focus on past grievances.
Today we have to figure out how to control the terrorists, Raad said. How can we unite? How can we bring peace together?
The reconciliation that will have the most impact not only in Diyala, but around the world is the unity between the Tamimi and Jibouri tribes, said Col. David W. Sutherland, commander of Coalition Forces in Diyala, as he explained the influence the two tribes have on countries outside of Iraq. This is your opportunity to impact and affect the world.
While the two tribes do not have serious issues dividing them, Sheik Aeman Kerhy al-Jibouri, a key tribal leader for the Jibouri tribe, acknowledged the fact that both tribes do have faults.
There are corrupted people in both tribes, Aeman said. And even if they arent corrupted, they may be harboring terrorists. We (the tribes) have to stop the support for the corrupt.
We need to watch ourselves, look inside and control our men, he said.
We reject terrorism, said Sheik Mazen Rashed Hamed Mula Jawad al-Tamimi, a paramount sheik in the Tamimi tribe who has been the primary leader for the reconciliation movement in Diyala. It is a disease for the world.
The fellowship agreement, signed by all leaders present, stated that they will cooperate in identifying tribal members who are corrupt or harboring terrorists, stop mortar attacks and in-fighting between Sunni and Shia villages and work honestly together on solutions toward a better future.
We declare that all killings, clashes and kidnappings will stop, said Sheik Balassem Hamed Yehia al-Hasan al-Tamimi, Tamimis paramount sheik. We want to live in peace and enable our families into the future.
The leaders will also continue to meet to further the reconciliation movement across Diyala.
We have many killed, but no matter what we do, we cannot bring them back, said Sheik Khaled Rashed al-Hamdani, one of the observers. All we can do is worry about and take care of the living. We do this as a weapon to stand against al-Qaeda.
We cannot clap with one hand, Aeman continued. These two great tribes will act as one one person, one tribe.
And when Jibouri and Tamimi clap, the world will hear. All terrorists and all militias will be like insects caught between our hands, he said. They will be crushed crushed between the two hands of Jibouri and Tamimi.
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From all this similar type of reports it now appears that to the Arabs we are the "strongest, fastest horse". Now, we need to get the Paki's, Persian's, Afghani's and Paleo's to agree to that also. I have a feeling though that the Persian's are going to insist on a "pale horse". Too bad, a waste of good horse.
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People also have to understand that the monthly death toll before we invaded Iraq was not zero. Saddam's tribe and tribes that held favor with Saddam regularly engaged in violence against anyone they saw as a threat. It is quite possible that the death toll now is already below the monthly death toll of pre-war Iraq. There is no way to know.
Kidnappings and killings of "uppity" Shiites was pretty common back in the day. Look, for example, at what happened to Mookie's daddy.
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In other words, the current rate of "sectarian violence" might be considered "normal" for Iraq and something that the culture could tolerate indefinitely.
BAQUBA, Iraq - A suicide bomber blew himself up on Friday near the office of a former Sunni insurgent group turned US military ally, killing a woman, a top army officer said.
Brigadier General Raghbi al-Omairi of the Iraqi army said the bomber detonated his explosive vest outside the office of the Brigades of the 1920 Revolution, a former Sunni insurgent group, northeast of Baghdad. Two civilians were also wounded in the attack in the town of Muqdadiyah, near Baquba, the capital of the restive Diyala province.
The office belonged to the groups Sahwa (Awakening) Organisation, a movement structured on the lines of the Anbar Awakening Council formed by tribal sheikhs in the western Iraqi province of Anbar to fight the Al Qaeda in Iraq group. Members of the Brigades fought the US military after the fall of the former regime but in the past few months have aligned with it to counter the Al Qaeda assaults in the Sunni regions of the country. These former insurgents are now conducting joint operations with the US troops but are also being targeted by Al Qaeda.
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What a brave soul.With those statictic,I'm sure this dope will not be on Ahllas kaboomer wall of fame.
A bomber wearing an explosive belt blew himself up in Dyala killing one woman while a car explosion in Mosul, northern Iraq, left no casualties, Iraqi police said on Friday.
A police source told the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that the bomber targeted a local official opposing Al-Qaeda in Al-Mekdadia, Dyala, northeast of the country. A woman passer-by was killed and four others were injured. Meanwhile, the Mosul police said a booby-trapped car left near a car park east of the city exploded today. According to the police forces, the explosion conducted by a remote control left no casualties.
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(KUNA) -- The US army in Iraq announced on Friday it has killed and arrested 38 militants in scattered places in central and south Iraq. The army said in a statement that US forces killed today seven terrorists and arrested 31 others in various operations in central and south of the country. It added that the operations were centered in areas west of Mosul, north of Falluja, west of Sammarra, Biji and south west of Kirkuk targeting al-Qaeda-inspired militants.
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(KUNA) -- A total of eight Iraqis, including a nurse and a policeman, were killed and 13 others were injured on Friday by separate attacks in northern Iraq's Kirkuk.
Speaking to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), a police source said six persons were killed and five others were injured by a blast in Kirkuk's Al-Adheem district. He added that hospital nurse, Faheemah Mohammad, was killed en route to a medical center after being shot at.
A blast resulted in the death of a police officer, as well as injuring another policeman and a civilian, he noted. Another blast, he said, injured four cops, adding that two others were injured by a later explosion. In a similar statement, an official from Mosul's police said a patrol had found five bodies that were tortured then shot dead.
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A powerful explosion went off in a house in southern Gaza on Saturday, killing two women and a four-year-old girl, Palestinian medics and witnesses said. The cause of the blast in the town of Khan Younis was not immediately clear.
Clear to us. Red wire-green wire.
The blast tore down the facade of the house and badly damaged its interior. A neighboring house was also partially damaged from the force of the blast. The IDF said it was not carrying out any operations in the area at the time.
Hamas police said they suspected explosives being handled by militants went off prematurely. Two children and a woman were wounded in the blast. How many times have I told you not to tidy my workshop!?
Ma'an The Israeli forces on Wednesday seized five Islamic Jihad activists in Bethlehem, in the southern West Bank. Palestinian security sources reported that several Israeli military vehicles stormed Al-Saf Street, central Bethlehem, and seized three youths affiliated to Islamic Jihad. The soldiers then raided Aida refugee camp and seized another two Islamic Jihad operatives.
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Islamic Jihad
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What a piss poor headline, even I can do better.
Israeli forces assault Lil Lo Town of Bethlehem, kidnap non-Jews
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Ma'an The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) claimed responsibility Friday for launching two homemade projectiles at the Israeli town of Sderot, near the Gaza Strip. The group said that these attacks are a response to 'Israeli crimes' in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
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Hamas took responsibility on Friday for a shooting attack near a West Bank settlement in which an IDF soldier was seriously wounded. Wednesday's attack began at the Ariel junction, where terrorists sprayed a hitchhiking post with bullets from 100 to 150 meters away before speeding down a busy road while firing at passing cars.
A previously unknown offshoot of Fatah had taken responsibility for the shooting, which also lightly wounded a civilian. But Hamas said Friday in a statement on its Web site that it was responsible. The claim, which appeared to be more reliable than that of the Fatah group, was delayed in order to give the attackers time to evade Israeli security, the group said. Hamas operatives "continue their heroic and high-quality operations to teach the enemy a lesson," the statement said.
The shooting, if it was by Hamas, would be significant since the group has not taken responsibility for many attacks in the West Bank in recent months. Security officials have said recently that they suspect Hamas and other terror groups will try to carry out attacks in an attempt to derail the peace conference to be held in the United States by the end of the year.
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Thank God their "high quality" is so piss poor.
Five Kassam rockets fired from the Gaza Strip on Friday evening landed in open fields south of Ashkelon and near Sderot. No one was wounded in the attack. A fire sparked by one of the rockets in a Sderot textile factory was extinguished. The Islamic Jihad group claimed responsibility for the attacks.
These attacks came a day after Defense Minister Ehud Barak planned to cut electricity for an initial 15 minutes after each rocket attack, gradually increasing the length of outages if the attacks continue, although no such cut was reported after Friday's barrage.
Earlier on Friday, a missile fired by an IAF aircraft killed a Hamas operative and seriously wounded another during an IDF operation in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian officials said. Hamas said the gunmen were attacked from the air near Gaza City. The army said the gunmen were approaching IDF troops operating near the Gaza-Israel border when the aircraft opened fire.
Also Friday morning, a Kassam rocket fired from Gaza landed in the western Negev. No one was wounded and no damage was reported. The IDF has been recently carrying out regular operations against Gaza terrorists in an effort to stop Palestinian rocket attacks on southern Israel.
Also Friday morning, the IDF reported that six Palestinians had been arrested in the Nablus area on suspicion of involvement in a shooting rampage in Samaria in which a soldier and a civilian were wounded.
The Palestinian Maan news agency said that among the detainees were three brothers, all Fatah operatives. Wednesday's attack began at the Ariel junction, where terrorists sprayed a hitchhiking post with bullets from 100 to 150 meters away before speeding down a busy road while firing at passing cars.
Overnight Thursday, the IDF killed three Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip. In the northern part of the Strip, a force from the Golani Infantry Brigade spotted a group of gunmen. Two members of the group were killed in the exchange of fire. Two IDF soldiers were lightly hurt in the violence, and were taken to Soroka Hospital in Beersheba for treatment. In the southern part of the Gaza Strip, a unit of reserve troops shot and killed an Islamic Jihad gunman. There were no casualties among the reservists.
Meanwhile, two Kassam rockets were fired overnight Thursday; both landed in open fields, inflicting no injuries or damage.
Overall, IDF troops arrested 14 Palestinian terror suspects in the West Bank. Nine of the suspects were nabbed in Nablus, the military said in a statement. The others were caught in Ramallah and in Jenin All the detainees were transferred for interrogation.
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Ummm... Kassams.... supposed to be 15 minutes a pop of no Willie Wired Hand.
Ima wonder if instead of turning off the current the Jooooooooooooooos might vary it. That would be might fun times.
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I've had several irons literally burst into flame when they got too much power. (American 120V plugged through a simple transformer to German 240 (?) voltage.) It could indeed prove amusing, as Thomas suggests.
Three Palestinian resistance fighters were killed and six others were wounded on Friday in the Israeli incursion into the eastern outskirts of Gaza City. Eyewitnesses from the area said that the martyrs were killed today when Israeli troops executed an incursion into the Shuja'iya district. Palestinian medical sources said that Mahmoud Hassouna, 25, who belonged to Ezzidine Al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas was killed when Israeli troops opened fire at him in that area. The sources added that four other fighters from the same Brigades were rushed to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza for treatment as they sustained injuries.
They added that two more resistance fighters were killed in another Israeli raid carried out by a surveillance plane east of Gaza.
Palestine's Al-Quds Brigades, military wing of Islamic Jihad Movement (IJM), said Friday it had launched eight missiles against northern Israel's Sderot and Al-Majdal towns earlier this evening. In a press release, the brigades said five of the "Quds" missiles targeted Sderot, to the east of Gaza, through two separate attacks. It added that the three other missiles targeted Al-Majdal, to the north of Gaza.
At least one woman was killed and 12 others were wounded when a bomb exploded in front of a food stall early today in Thailand's restive Muslim-majority south, police said. A 75-year-old Buddhist woman was killed by the bomb, which weighed seven kilograms and was detonated by a mobile phone.
"Terrorists Militants wanted to show off their power after thousands of villagers rallied (in Narathiwat) yesterday to denounce violence," said police chief Manoch Ananritthikul.
A deputy village chief was killed and beheaded in Pattani Saturday while a bomb blast at busy roadside restaurants in Narathiwat killed one person and injured many others. Pattani police identified the headless body found on a road in Nong Chik district at about 6am as Muslim Phiromua Limuatae, 50, from a village in Yala's Yaha district. The body was left in front of a royal agricultural project and the head was found later in a nearby forest.
(AKI/Asian Age) - The separatist rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have accused the Sri Lankan military of abusing the conventions relating to the treatment of the war-dead by parading the naked bodies of the 21 of their fighters killed during the rebels' pre-dawn attack on the Anuradhapura airbase on Monday. There were three women rebel fighters among the suicide attack forces of the LTTE, known as the Black Tigers.
The rebel groups sent emails petitioning the United Nations over the matter. Independent media reports, backed by gruesome photographs taken on site, said the Sri Lankan troops on Tuesday paraded the naked bodies of the Tamil Tiger commandos killed in their attack on the key northern airbase. The reports said that the army had stripped the bodies of the Black Tigers before putting them on display for the mainly Sinhalese residents near the Anuradhapura airbase. A large crowd of locals, mostly Sinhalese residents, gathered to look at the naked corpses and mutilated body parts loaded in trailers pulled by two farm tractors to the hospital mortuary. Some people even took pictures and a few others filmed the gory scene, reports said.
Faced with widespread criticism, the military has now denied humiliating the dead and argued it became necessary to strip the Black Tigers for any "hidden suicide devices" under their jungle fatigues. While it claimed that the bodies were wrapped in black polythene bags, photographs of the trailer packed with naked bodies and a huge gathering of residents watching in the rain, proved otherwise. The military also said the bodies had been since buried.
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They probably objected less to their being naked, then to being posed with each other in compromising positions.
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Garbo? One of the Marx Bros.?
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Ja ja Greta, those things you asked, I did all of them. I took out the rubbish, fed the honds, washing the Mercedes, posted the bills.... all of them.
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MINGORA/PESHAWAR: Security forces battled with armed supporters of rebel cleric Maulana Fazlullah here on Friday, killing one militant and injuring three others, while bodies of four abducted security personnel were found on a roadside, witnesses and officials said. Two civilians were also killed in the clashes, as hundreds of residents of Imam Dheri started leaving the area fearing a full-scale operation, Online reported.
(AKI) - (by Syed Saleem Shahzad) - Pakistani troops on Friday surrounded and attacked the stronghold of a leading pro-Taliban militant, Mullah Fazlullah, in the district of Swat in northern Pakistan. While it was unclear whether Fazlullah was there, before going into hiding, he told Adnkronos International (AKI) that he would fight until the end. 
(KUNA) Paramilitary troopers and supporters of militant commander, 
(KUNA) — Hundreds of Pakistani troops with aerial support launched an operation against a local 
Rockets fired at a U.S. base southeast of Baghdad were manufactured in Iran, showing again that countrys continued logistical support for insurgents inside Iraq, U.S. military officials said on Saturday.
US forces have captured a senior Shia militia leader and killed two others in a raid in the central Iraqi province of Diyala, the US military has said. The military said the men were members of the Mehdi Army militia loyal to the Shia cleric, Moqtada Sadr, who had defied his order to suspend activities. 
BAQUBA, Iraq - A suicide bomber blew himself up on Friday near the office of a former Sunni insurgent group turned US military ally, killing a woman, a top army officer said.
A bomber wearing an explosive belt blew himself up in Dyala killing one woman while a car explosion in Mosul, northern Iraq, left no casualties, Iraqi police said on Friday.
(KUNA) -- The US army in Iraq announced on Friday it has killed and arrested 38 militants in scattered places in central and south Iraq. The army said in a statement that US forces killed today seven terrorists and arrested 31 others in various operations in central and south of the country. It added that the operations were centered in areas west of Mosul, north of Falluja, west of Sammarra, Biji and south west of Kirkuk targeting al-Qaeda-inspired militants.
A powerful explosion went off in a house in southern Gaza on Saturday, killing two women and a four-year-old girl, Palestinian medics and witnesses said. The cause of the blast in the town of Khan Younis was not immediately clear. 
Three Palestinian resistance fighters were killed and six others were wounded on Friday in the Israeli incursion into the eastern outskirts of Gaza City. Eyewitnesses from the area said that the martyrs were killed today when Israeli troops executed an incursion into the Shuja'iya district. Palestinian medical sources said that Mahmoud Hassouna, 25, who belonged to Ezzidine Al-Qassam Brigades of Hamas was killed when Israeli troops opened fire at him in that area. The sources added that four other fighters from the same Brigades were rushed to Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza for treatment as they sustained injuries.
(AKI/Asian Age) - The separatist rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have accused the Sri Lankan military of abusing the conventions relating to the treatment of the war-dead by parading the naked bodies of the 21 of their fighters killed during the rebels' pre-dawn attack on the Anuradhapura airbase on Monday. There were three women rebel fighters among the suicide attack forces of the LTTE, known as the Black Tigers. 
