KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Afghan forces backed by U.S. troops killed 25 Taliban militants in clashes in the south of the country, police said on Friday, but a roadside bomb also killed four police officers.
Afghan police backed by U.S. troops killed 20 Taliban insurgents in the Deh Rawud district of the south-central Uruzgan province overnight and another five were killed in the Nayesh area of the same province, the provincial police chief said.
But a roadside bomb killed four policemen in the Zherai district of Kandahar province on Friday, the district chief said. A suicide bomber blew himself up, targeting an Italian military convoy in southwestern Afghanistan, on Friday but caused no casualties, an Afghan general said.
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(KUNA) -- Driver and conductor of an oil tanker, targeted by armed militants in central Afghanistan on Friday, have gone missing and are believed to be killed in the attack. Militants loyal to Hezbi Islami Party of former premier Gulduddin Hekmatyar claimed responsibility for the rocket attack on the fuel tanker. A militant commander Fazal Hadi said the vehicle, supplying fuel to foreign troops, was targeted in Kapisa province on Friday. The purported commander would not comment on the killing of the driver and conductor. However, a local official, requesting anonymity, told KUNA both the driver and conductor were killed in the attack.
Separately, Afghan officials claimed killing more than two dozens Taliban following a clash in southern Afghanistan on Thursday.
In the southern province of Uruzgan, police said 25 Taliban were killed in fighting with Afghan police and ISAF troops. Police chief of the province Juma Gul Himmat said the rebels were killed in Deh Rawod district following a firefight for several hours. The US-led coalition or ISAF troops so far did not issue any statement. Taliban also did not comment on the government claim.
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Okay, the commander is named in the "interview?". Is this by phone or is the journalist in the same room somewhere with this "commander Fazal Hadi".
Would the location be Afghanistan or Pakiwakiland?
Either way... it seems the journalist should be followed and all his calls bugged.... a predator waiting in the background.
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In fact, thinking back... mosques always had lines of shoes in front as the worshipers have to take their shoes off to enter... Should be possible to put a bug in the reporter's shoes when he stops to pray.
A Taliban ambush killed two newly married women and a child in Afghanistan on Friday while 13 policemen were killed in separate attacks, police said. The women were travelling in a convoy to the southern city of Kandahar after their marriage to two brothers in Herat further west, Kandahar province police chief Sayed Aqa Saqib said. Rebels opened fire with guns and rocket-propelled grenades, striking the vehicle carrying the two brides and the child, he told AFP. The womens father-in-law was also in the vehicle and was wounded in the attack, added Saqib, who said he had spoken to the man in the hospital. They were bringing the brides home, the police chief said. There were no military convoy, military post or any military target near the blast site, Saqib said, referring to Taliban claims that they only attack military targets.
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I've heard of jilted lovers getting revenge for being dumped, but man, these Afghanis...
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Security sources reported that the latest attack on Tiska airport in Djanet authors come from al Qaeda training camps Northern Mali. Theyve initially been targeting oil facilities in the region. Preliminary examinations on the assault targeting a military aircraft stationed in Djanet airport unveiled that the authors are affiliated to al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. They however have nothing to do with the former ninth region chief Mokhtar Belmokhtar alias Abu Al Abbès. The investigations further unveil that the authors got infiltrated from Mali where theyve been trained on warfare. The same sources made clear that the authors are neither from Algerian Tuareg nor from the belligerent Tuareg in Niger and Mali.
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This looks like it might be the same incident the KUNA story references without giving the deader's name.
Al Qaeda loses one of its devoted leaders The death of Abdu al Hamid Sâadaoui known by the name of Yahia Abu Al Haytham closes another chapter in the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat GSPC story. The terrorist known to be a leader in the al Qaeda branch in North Africa has been eliminated in a clash with national gendarmerie forces.
The National Gendarmerie eliminated Yahia Abu Al Haytham in a security check point in Cheick Amdour locality in Tizi-Ouzou province. The terrorist was in a Peugeot 406 when stopped by gendarmes. He soon parked and started firing security services. The clash resulted in the killing of Sâadaoui, while his companion, still unidentified, managed to flee. The gendarmerie has recovered two machine guns, ammunition, 19 cellular phones, a computer and documents. The destination of the car is also unidentified.
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19 cell phones....
Interesting.. That's GSM area so 19 ids would only require 19 SIM cards. 19 Phones implies they need 19 phones...
(KUNA) -- The Algerian army has killed a leader in the so-called "the Maghreb branch of the al-Qaeda network". An Algerian security source said Thursday the leader was ambushed in Tizi Ouzou area, some 110 kilometers east of the capital, but declined to say when.
The source added that the security forces had carried out this operation after receiving reports of presence of a terrorist group in that area. Since linking up with al-Qaeda, the Maghreb branch has introduced suicide bomb attacks which have targeted government and army positions in Algeria, killing more than 100 people between April and October this year.
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(KUNA) -- Irish Army bomb disposal experts were Friday dismantling two explosives found in a busy park here Friday, police said.
A man walking his dog through Fairview Park, in north Dublin, spotted the pipe bombs among bushes. Police were alerted and they called in the Army's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team to make the area safe.
An Irish Defence Forces spokesman said "Two viable pipe bombs were discovered. They are currently in the process of being dismantled and made safe." The pipe bombs will be handed over to forensic experts at the Police Technical Bureau once they are made safe.
A section of the park was closed but there were no immediate traffic disruptions, the police added. Investigating officers are appealing for anybody who saw any unusual activity in the Fairview Park area to contact them. No further details were available.
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I believe Clinton is there raising money for Hillary's campaign. Never know - there may actually be an Irishman with ill feelings toward Bill.
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Damn they aborted 2 viable pipe bombs? In Ireland? Things have changed.
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(KUNA) -- The Turkish army Friday launched a large-scale military operation against PKK elements in the southern regions of Turkey, along the borders of Iraq.
Anatolia news agency said that the Turkish army was currently pursuing more than 200 rebels in the Tongele province, south-east of the Turkish territories that is used by the PKK as a springboard for military operations against the Turkish military.
The agency said that Turkish commando forces were involved in this operation which came hours after statements made by the commander of land forces Ilker Basbug in which he said that Turkey was about to carry out cross-border operation against Kurdish rebels, who use northern Iraq as a base for attacks against Turkish troops.
General Basbug had earlier said while commenting on a possible Turkish military intervention that, "the decision is up to those responsible for decision-making." The General seconded that the Turkish armed forces have entered the implementation phase of the cross-border operation which he regarded as one of the measures aimed to combat the PKK rebels.
Basbug also lashed out at the Turkish media for exerting pressure on the military and political governance in the country.
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The Turks are assuming that a Dem White House eventually pull troops out of Iraq. Iran would move into Shiite Iraq, and Turks would seize the Kirkuk and other oil fields. Could happen. In any case, landlocked Kurds shouldn't push their luck because they could be without allies. The sight of the bodies of 15 soldiers murdered by the PKK last month will resonate in Turkish minds for a while. If Kurds are going to be reckless, they can go it alone.
French authorities detained seven suspected Islamic militants who allegedly took part in weapons training in eastern France and had planned to travel to Iraq, police officials said Friday. The seven men, all French citizens born between 1963 and 1985, were detained Tuesday in the eastern city of Besancon and the nearby town of Pontarlier, the officials said. Police raids of the suspects homes turned up munitions, handguns and pump and automatic rifles, officials said on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing. The case was to be transferred to Paris anti-terrorism judges on Friday, the officials said. Since the Iraq war erupted in 2003, France has sporadically detained suspects who sought to fight in the insurgency against the US-backed government there. The last such publicly announced case of this kind was in February, when police detained 11 people suspected of ties to an Al Qaeda recruiting network for the Iraq insurgency.
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Authorities have served notices on residents of three villages in North Waziristan to leave their homes as a military operation is likely to be launched hours after a military convoy was attacked near one of the three villages, officials said on Saturday. The villages are Qutabkhel, Tolkhel and Chasma, the officials said. We have served notices on residents of the three villages to leave homes as an operation can be launched any time, they added. The notice was served four hours after a military convoy was attacked with a remote-controlled bomb near Chashma village causing damage to military vehicles and injuring two civilians. Local residents said people had started leaving their homes for fears of an operation by security forces.
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At least they did, til the NYT decided we needed to know
Over the past six years, the Bush administration has spent almost $100 million so far on a highly classified program to help Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistans president, secure his countrys nuclear weapons, according to current and former senior administration officials. does that sound like an "approved" leak?
But with the future of that countrys leadership in doubt, debate is intensifying about whether Washington has done enough to help protect the warheads and laboratories, and whether Pakistans reluctance to reveal critical details about its arsenal has undercut the effectiveness of the continuing security effort. has Bush done enough? = handwringing and blame game...what should he have done? Invade and capture them? would the NYT approve of that?
The aid, buried in secret portions of the federal budget, paid for the training of Pakistani personnel in the United States and the construction of a nuclear security training center in Pakistan, a facility that American officials say is nowhere near completion, even though it was supposed to be in operation this year.
A raft of equipment from helicopters to night-vision goggles to nuclear detection equipment was given to Pakistan to help secure its nuclear material, its warheads, and the laboratories that were the site of the worst known case of nuclear proliferation in the atomic age.
While American officials say that they believe the arsenal is safe at the moment, and that they take at face value Pakistani assurances that security is vastly improved, in many cases the Pakistani government has been reluctant to show American officials how or where the gear is actually used. wonder why?
That is because the Pakistanis do not want to reveal the locations of their weapons or the amount or type of new bomb-grade fuel the country is now producing.
The American program was created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, when the Bush administration debated whether to share with Pakistan one of the crown jewels of American nuclear protection technology, known as permissive action links, or PALS, a system used to keep a weapon from detonating without proper codes and authorizations.
In the end, despite past federal aid to France and Russia on delicate points of nuclear security, the administration decided that it could not share the system with the Pakistanis because of legal restrictions.
In addition, the Pakistanis were suspicious that any American-made technology in their warheads could include a secret kill switch, enabling the Americans to turn off their weapons.
While many nuclear experts in the federal government favored offering the PALS system because they considered Pakistans arsenal among the worlds most vulnerable to terrorist groups, some administration officials feared that sharing the technology would teach Pakistan too much about American weaponry. The same concern kept the Clinton administration from sharing the technology with China in the early 1990s. so we kept at least that secret, thanks Bill and Hill
The New York Times has known details right... of the secret program for more than three years, based on interviews with a range of American officials and nuclear experts, some of whom were concerned that Pakistans arsenal remained vulnerable. The newspaper agreed to delay publication of the article after considering a request from the Bush administration, which argued that premature disclosure could hurt the effort to secure the weapons.
Since then, some elements of the program have been discussed in the Pakistani news media and in a presentation late last year by the leader of Pakistans nuclear safety effort, Lt. Gen. Khalid Kidwai, who acknowledged receiving international help as he sought to assure Washington that all of the holes in Pakistans nuclear security infrastructure had been sealed.
The Times told the administration last week that it was reopening its examination of the program in light of those disclosures and the current instability in Pakistan. Early this week, the White House withdrew its request that publication be withheld, though it was unwilling to discuss details of the program. Even here at RB, we knew of that program...the NYT has as many "details" as we do...
The secret program was designed by the Energy Department and the State Department, and it drew heavily from the effort over the past decade to secure nuclear weapons, stockpiles and materials in Russia and other former Soviet states. Much of the money for Pakistan was spent on physical security, like fencing and surveillance systems, and equipment for tracking nuclear material if it left secure areas.
But while Pakistan is formally considered a major non-NATO ally, the program has been hindered by a deep suspicion among Pakistans military that the secret goal of the United States was to gather intelligence about how to locate and, if necessary, disable Pakistans arsenal, which is the pride of the country.
Everything has taken far longer than it should, a former official involved in the program said in a recent interview, and you are never sure what you really accomplished.
In recent days, American officials have expressed confidence that Pakistans nuclear arsenal is well secured. I dont see any indication right now that security of those weapons is in jeopardy, but clearly we are very watchful, as we should be, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Pentagon news conference on Thursday.
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if the "militants" get it maybe they will set it off on themselves. well that would be my christmas present anyway
Two soldiers and nine separatist militants were killed on Friday in two separate gun battles near the Pakistan border in Indian Kashmir, an army spokesman said. It was the highest number of people killed in firefights in a single day in the Himalayan region in recent months. The contacts between soldiers and militants have increased in recent days resulting in fierce encounters, Army spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel AK Mathur said. The latest gun battles took place in Kupwara district , nearly 90 km northwest of Srinagar.
The clashes between Indian troops and Muslim militants have intensified in recent days in the mountainous region as militants come down to the plains due to the onset of bitter cold weather, officials say.
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Army gunship helicopters continued to pound pro-Taliban militant hideouts in Swat and Shangla districts for the third successive day, killing 40 rebels on Thursday, including a Taliban commander.
The operation raised the casualty toll to around 100 in the three days of clashes, officials said. The military has not yet launched an operation on a larger scale, but still in the last three days of clashes around 100 militants have been killed, regional spokesman for operations Amjad Iqbal told reporters at a briefing in Mingora on Friday.
"Yeah. Once we get goin', they're really gonna get it!"
Another military statement said the latest strikes occurred when security forces targeted rebel positions in retaliation for an attack on Saidu Sharif airport, near Mingora city. Cobra gunships and Bell helicopters engaged miscreants north of Kuza Banda, the statement said. Cobra gunships engaged two suspected bunkers of miscreants north of Saidu Sharif Airport.
Militant sources refuted the government casualty figures. A local resident did, however, confirm that Taliban commander Matiullah was killed in the strikes on Thursday. Maulana Fazlullah, the militant movements fugitive frontman, led the dead commanders funeral prayers, he added.
We launched retaliatory fire. We intercepted militant communications which confirmed they had lost 40 men, military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad said, adding that he had no details of casualties for Fridays fighting.
Certain areas cleared: He confirmed that government forces continued to successfully strike militant positions in Swat and Shangla. We cleared certain areas in Kuza Banda [Swat] and around Alpuri [Shangla district headquarters], he told Daily Times.
At the same time as the operation in Swat, the army expanded operations in Shangla district, which the Taliban largely took control of a few days ago. Despite the heavy shelling on suspected militants hideouts, which include key government installations in Shangla, reports said the Taliban continued to advance their march into other areas of Shangla. We have reports that the militants plan to open another front against the government and they have selected Buner district, which borders Swat, Shangla and Swabi, security officials in Peshawar said. Reports said militants advanced towards Chugharzai and Gul Banda in Buner district. However, security forces are reinforcing their positions in the district.
Another military statement said militants had attacked a security forces convoy with hand grenades on the Mansehra-Battagram road on Friday morning, wounding two soldiers.
Malakand curfew: Meanwhile, the local district administration in Malakand declared a 12-hour curfew from Friday night (2am to 2pm). The administration offered no explanation for the move. However, it is largely understood here that such measures are taken to protect troop and military equipment movement from militant attacks.
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Seeing the Talibunnies in Swat is a real shame. I was in Swat some years ago. How long? Well, the Russkies were still in Afghanistan and the Pathans were still our allies. (I went to Waziristan then, too. Up the Khyber Pass and then turn left for a hundred miles or so. Even then you couldn't do it without a local ethnic Pathan to vouch for you. The main issue was not being thought Russian, so we learned to say "Russie muerke!" - - roughly, "Death to the Russians!" as a way of pre-empting a false judgment by the jihadis with the Kalashnikovs.) But back to Swat. It's a valley that runs roughly N-S up into the Hindu Kush. Spectacularly beautiful - - a kind of Shangri-La. Beautifully maintained agriculture, with everything carefully irrigated from a complex system of hillside channels. I recall a lot of fruit trees, apricots and almonds I think, especially near the southern end of the valley. We travelled with a driver/guide called George - - a little fellow with eyeglasses like the bottom of two Coke bottles. This didn't inspire confidence, and he nearly put us over a ravine once or twice. But the Swat valley was gorgeous and the people were fine and friendly. Stayed at the Swat hotel - - a relic of happier times - - colonial times!! It was November and at night it got bitterly cold. We bought the local Afghan blankets, with the embroidered edges. They look nice but they're as thin as Hillary's veneer of sincerity. At the very north end of the valley the road just stops and a huge mountain looms up to block you. If you got out climbing gear you could maybe traipse over into China. It's a tragedy that the new Saudi-sponsored Wahhabi Talibunnies are messing things up there. It only takes a few brutes with guns to mess up a peaceful society. And I don't think the Pakistan Army has the gumption or the training to tackle them.
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Thanks Pete for the travel report @ SWAT + North up Wazoo territory.
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thin as Hillary's veneer of sincerity
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Thank you for the comment. You probably have a few more good stories. We look forward to them.
Srinagar, India: At least six militants were killed by security forces on Friday in an encounter in Lolab area of Kupwara district. The militants were gunned down in a fierce gunbattle, which began Thursday evening, the defence spokesman said, adding the operation was still on when last reports came in.
Although the group affiliation and identity of the slain militants could not be ascertained yet, intelligence sources said the ultras were probably from different outfits and had been active in the area for quite sometime.
Update: now nine gunnies titz-up per the Khaleej Times.
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At 1am on Saturday morning, Geo News and ARY One World stopped transmitting on all frequencies. Before the cessation of all transmission, Geo reported that due to immense pressure it had been ordered by the authorities of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to shut down its national and international transmissions, as it airs from the Emirates city of Dubai.
Pakistans government has constantly been pressuring the UAE to shut down Geo News, and on Friday the Emirates government asked the channels administration to shut down. Geo TV President Imran Aslam said the channel was shutting down under government pressure. He said that talks to resume the channels transmissions in Pakistan were presently underway with the countrys government, but the conditions put forward by the government were unacceptable for the channels administration. Pakistan Peoples Party leader Makhdoom Amin Fahim termed the closure of Geo News a big dilemma. He said access to information was the peoples right and no one had the authority to snatch that fundamental right from them.
All cable operators in Pakistan blocked Geo TV and its subsidiary channels on November 3, when President General Pervez Musharraf imposed a state of emergency.
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no crocodile-tears graphic? ht to pat dollard A leader of the Sadrist movement, or Iraqis loyal to Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr, died of wounds sustained during his arrest by police forces in Diwaniya last month, a media source from al-Sadrs office in the province said on Saturday.
On Saturday morning, Sadrist leader Abbas al-Gharabawi died in Diwaniyas General Hospital of wounds sustained during his arrest by emergency police forces in Afak city last month, Abu Zeinab al-Karaawi told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).
Al-Gharabawi was receiving treatment in the hospital and was placed under arrest, al-Karaaqi indicated.
The Shiite Iraqi province of Diwaniya, 180 km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, is currently witnessing a wide-scale arrest campaign against the movements members and leaders.
The Sadrist bloc holds 30 seats in the 275-member Iraqi parliament.
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The bodies of at least 30 people, including women and children, have been found in a mainly Sunni Arab area of Baghdad, police and government officials said on Saturday. An Awakening Council of local leaders, which oversees neighbourhood policing, discovered at least 30 decomposing bodies in the Hay Asia area of Doura in southern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said.
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE KALSU, Iraq A former member of an extremist group led Coalition Forces, Iraqi Army and Concerned Local Citizens to a cache site near southeast of Baghdad in the morning hours, Nov. 13.
The citizen, who reconciled with Iraqi and Coalition troops, knew where the cache was because he helped bury it sometime ago. He said he is now helping Coalition Forces because he is tired of al-Qaeda trying to force him to work with them. He said al-Qaeda imprisoned him and tortured his friends for not joining forces with them. Yet another example of the need of AQI to take a Dale Carnegie course.
The Soldiers from Battery B, 1st Battalion, 9th Field Artillery, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, and IA found refrigerators that contained numerous rockets, mortars and ammunition.
Finding and destroying a weapons cache of this size will help slow enemy attacks in the area, said Capt. David Underwood, Battery B, 1-9th FA commander. He added that the find boosted the troops morale.
Underwood called the nights mission a success. Anytime you can find something like this its big, he said. It was a huge night for us.
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Considering the forms of government the Iraqis have had the past 5,000 years, I'm glad to see as many of them embracing the new and untried for them as there are.
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Sounds as thou it would be wise for AlQ to try different tactics to win the hearts and minds of the Iraqi people. Possibly handing out flowers at the airports?
(KUNA) -- American troops have killed 25 insurgents in a mop-up operations trageting hideouts of Al-Qaeda organization in central Iraq, the US Army said in a statement released on Thursday. The forces engaged the gunmen, entrenched in the region of Al-Tarmiah north of Baghdad, in ground clashes, while aircraft covered the regular forces.
The troops killed 25 gunmen, detained 21 others and found arms caches in the operation, during which gunship helicopters were called in to back up the infantrymen and hit targets of the insurgents The American Army declared, on Wednesday, that a leading member of Al-Qaeda, Thaer Al-Malek, was killed in an allied raid on Al-Tarmiah, a hotbed for the outlawed organization, on November 5.
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(KUNA) -- At least 30 people were killed or injured, mostly policemen, in a suicide bombing targeting Kirkuk's Emergency Police Chief, Iraqi Police said Thursday.
Kirkuk Police Chief Brigadier Sarhad Qader told KUNA a suicide car bomber targeted the convoy of Brigadier Khattab Umar upon its passing in Teseen area, in the heart of the city. Five people were killed, the police chief was slightly injured, and 24 others were also wounded in the attack, he said.
Kirkuk police Director Major General Jamal Taher told KUNA "there was a big blast at 7:30, and upon inspection of the site, it turned out to be an attack targeting Brigadier Khattab Umar, who was slightly injured. The attack killed six people and left over 24 civilians and police officers injured." Oil-rich Kirkuk, some 255 kilometers north of Baghdad, is the scene of frequent attacks and suicide bombings targeting US and foreign troops and Iraqi forces alike, and many civilians are often caught between the crossfire.
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(KUNA) -- Six Iraqi soldiers were injured when their patrol hit a roadside bomb near Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk Thursday. The bomb attack targeted a military patrol on Baghdad-Kirkuk highway near the southern outskirts of Kirkuk, a local police source told KUNA here.
Meanwhile, the security forces launched a crackdown against terror suspects in Mosul. The crackdown, part of a larger operation codenamed "Law-Enforcement Plan," led to the arrest of 11 suspects including to persons wanted for the security services, the source pointed out.
The Law-Enforcement Plan envisages the deployment of more than 2,000 security men across Musel to restore order and law there, Commander of Ninawa Police Station Major General Watheq Al-Hamdani told reporters.
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That would jive with reports that the bastards have moved to the north and east.
About 600 US troops launched a pre-dawn assault south of Baghdad on Friday against Al Qaeda fighters linked to the kidnapping of two soldiers six months ago, the US military said.
F-16 warplanes dropped two 500-lb bombs on potential escape routes while helicopters flew the US troops, along with about 150 Iraqi soldiers, into the Sunni Arab villages of Al Owesap and Al Betra west of the Euphrates River.
The group of Al Qaeda that we believe to be operating in that area, we suspect they had involvement in the May 12th attack, said US military spokeswoman Major Alayne Conway. There was no immediate information about whether any militants had been killed or detained in the early stages of the operation, she said.
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Keep it up!
Too bad that the people who control the purse strings are unworthy of such worthies.
Ma'an Hamas said on Friday that Palestinian security services arrested nine Hamas members in the West Bank on Thursday night. In a statement, the Islamist movement said five Hamas loyalists were arrested in Nablus in the northern West Bank, two in Tulkarem and two others in Hebron in the southern West Bank.
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Ma'an An undercover Israeli force seized two Palestinians from Bethlehem in the southern West Bank on Thursday evening, their relatives told Ma'an. According to their families, an Israeli undercover unit took twenty-seven-year-old Adel Nawawra and twenty-nine-year-old Ayish Nawawra to an unknown destination.
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Ma'an Nine people were injured and four others arrested during the weekly demonstration against the separation wall in Bil'in, near Ramallah in the central West Bank on Friday.
Local residents, foreign peace and some residents from neighbouring villages gathered for the demonstration. A high-ranking French delegation including politicians and mayors from French cities also attended the demonstration, including the head of the European left wing party Francis Meriros and head of the French-Palestinian twinning programme, Ferno Tweil. Palestinian Legislative Council members Jihad Tumalie and Muheeb Awwad accompanied the French delegation.
The visitors listened to a detailed illustration about Bil'in's three-year resistance to the separation wall. PLC member Muheeb Awwad delivered a speech about the impact of the wall on the West Bank and how it impedes the establishment of a Palestinian independent state.
As the rally came close to the separation wall, Israeli forces fired on the demonstrators with rubber-coated bullets and tear gas. Nine people were injured, including a Japanese journalist, and Palestinian photojournalist Muheeb Barghouthi who works for the Al-Hayat Al-Jadida newspaper and dozens of others suffered the effects of tear gas inhalation. Four of the demonstrators were arrested, including one Israeli and one American peace activist. The Israeli soldiers allegedly beat the arrestees.
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Four of the demonstrators were arrested, including one Israeli and one American peace activist. The Israeli soldiers allegedly beat the arrestees
gosh, I hope so. Teach the Olympia police force how to do it, too
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Japan's journos are right in the action these days. One journo was killed covering the Myanmar monks, and here's one getting gassed in Ramallah.
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I see the French Left is right in the middle of things. Sarkosy should cancel their passports while they're in Palestine, and refuse to let them back into France.
Israel should make a deal with Turkey where Westerners arrested "protesting" along with the paleostains are sent to Turkish jails for six months or so. I don't think there would be many repeat offenders.
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Sri Lankan troops killed 18 Tamil Tiger rebels in clashes in the north of the island, the military said on Saturday.
The clashes, in the northern district of Vavuniya and Jaffna peninsula, were the latest engagements in intensified fighting between government forces and Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fighters.
LTTE radio intercepts confirm that five terrorists were killed and two were injured in the attack, a spokesman at the Media Centre for National Security said.
The spokesman said 13 rebels were killed in two other confrontations. The Tigers, who say they are fighting for an independent state for minority ethnic Tamils in the north and east, were not immediately available for comment.
The military has launched an offensive to drive out the rebels from Mannar after evicting them earlier this year from jungle terrain they controlled in the east.
Around 5,000 people have been killed in fighting between the military and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) fighters since early 2006. Nearly 70,000 people have been killed and hundreds of thousands displaced since the war erupted in 1983.
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The incident, which occurred in the Burj Brajneh Palestinian Refugee camp left two Palestinians injured, Aref told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA). He added that the PFLPGC attackers stormed a Fatah office on the northern end of the camp. Two Fatah members were injured. He added that Fatah men responded to the attack and opened fire in self-defense.
He accused PFLPGC leader, Syria-based Ahmad Jibril of seeking to "involve the Palestinians in Lebanon's internal political disputes." But Aref said the Palestinians were reluctant to enter into such a quagmire.
Meanwhile, the secretary-general of the Fatah Movement in Lebanon Sultan Abul-Aynayn on Friday reported the same shooting as a "unique incident" in the same camp, located on the fringes of the capital's southern suburb. Abul-Aynayn told KUNA that, following a dispute among Fatah followers and PFLPGC ones, a man sustained light injuries in his hand after the two sides used machine guns against each other. "Popular committees within the camp made speedy contacts to cordon off the incident while one of the those who opened fire was handed over to the camp's security committee," Abul Aynayn said. He reported that everything was brought back under control. The camp, 20,000 strong, is home to several Palestinian organizations including the PFLPGC.
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Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (General Command)
KHALED AREF
PLO
SULTAN ABUL AINAIN
Fatah
PLO
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (General Command)
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Or we just can remember that we're dealing here with people who believe that Soodyland is a valuable ally in WOT, Islam is ROP, and Paleos are a Nation seeking self-determination, etc... etc.
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I read Rantburg because it's the only place on the Internet where I can get real news and both sides of the story. Oh, and for the snark. Definitely for the snark! The ladies are just icing on the cake.
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11/17/2007 13:11 Comments ||
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Yes she was JQC, along wit Walter Piegon, Peter Finch and Susan Flushette.
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Yes, JohnQC, Tippi Hedren was in The Birds and she was looking really hot too. It was kind of a stupid movie but the scenery was very nice and Tippi was the most outstanding feature.
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11/17/2007 13:29 Comments ||
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Stupid movie was made stupid. The book was a clarion call for the west to unite against Commie Rattery.
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Hedren was told mechanical birds would be used for the terrifying and brutal attic scene. Instead, live birds were hurled at her by prop men for a week. When one nearly gouged her eye she became hysterical, collapsed and spent a week haunted by "nightmares filled with flapping birds". After visiting the set Cary Grant praised her as "one very brave lady".
Doesn't it seem a bit mindless for a major Hollywood production to be hurling birds at a beautiful movie star's face?
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Afghan forces backed by U.S. troops killed 25 Taliban militants in clashes in the south of the country, police said on Friday, but a roadside bomb also killed four police officers.
The death of 
(KUNA) -- Irish Army bomb disposal experts were Friday dismantling two explosives found in a busy park here Friday, police said.
(KUNA) -- The Turkish army Friday launched a large-scale military operation against PKK elements in the southern regions of Turkey, along the borders of Iraq.
French authorities detained seven suspected Islamic militants who allegedly took part in weapons training in eastern France and had planned to travel to Iraq, police officials said Friday. The seven men, all French citizens born between 1963 and 1985, were detained Tuesday in the eastern city of Besancon and the nearby town of Pontarlier, the officials said. Police raids of the suspects homes turned up munitions, handguns and pump and automatic rifles, officials said on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing. The case was to be transferred to Paris anti-terrorism judges on Friday, the officials said. Since the Iraq war erupted in 2003, France has sporadically detained suspects who sought to fight in the insurgency against the US-backed government there. The last such publicly announced case of this kind was in February, when police detained 11 people suspected of ties to an Al Qaeda recruiting network for the Iraq insurgency.
Authorities have served notices on residents of three villages in North Waziristan to leave their homes as a military operation is likely to be launched hours after a military convoy was attacked near one of the three villages, officials said on Saturday. The villages are Qutabkhel, Tolkhel and Chasma, the officials said. We have served notices on residents of the three villages to leave homes as an operation can be launched any time, they added. The notice was served four hours after a military convoy was attacked with a remote-controlled bomb near Chashma village causing damage to military vehicles and injuring two civilians. Local residents said people had started leaving their homes for fears of an operation by security forces.
Army gunship helicopters continued to pound pro-Taliban militant hideouts in Swat and Shangla districts for the third successive day, killing 40 rebels on Thursday, including a Taliban commander. 
At 1am on Saturday morning, Geo News and ARY One World stopped transmitting on all frequencies. Before the cessation of all transmission, Geo reported that due to immense pressure it had been ordered by the authorities of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to shut down its national and international transmissions, as it airs from the Emirates city of Dubai.
A leader of the Sadrist movement, or Iraqis loyal to Shiite leader Moqtada al-Sadr, died of wounds sustained during his arrest by police forces in Diwaniya last month, a media source from al-Sadrs office in the province said on Saturday.
(KUNA) -- American troops have killed 25 insurgents in a mop-up operations trageting hideouts of Al-Qaeda organization in central Iraq, the US Army said in a statement released on Thursday. The forces engaged the gunmen, entrenched in the region of Al-Tarmiah north of Baghdad, in ground clashes, while aircraft covered the regular forces.
About 600 US troops launched a pre-dawn assault south of Baghdad on Friday against Al Qaeda fighters linked to the kidnapping of two soldiers six months ago, the US military said. 
Ma'an Hamas said on Friday that Palestinian security services arrested nine Hamas members in the West Bank on Thursday night. In a statement, the Islamist movement said five Hamas loyalists were arrested in Nablus in the northern West Bank, two in Tulkarem and two others in Hebron in the southern West Bank.
Ma'an Nine people were injured and four others arrested during the weekly demonstration against the separation wall in Bil'in, near Ramallah in the central West Bank on Friday. 
Sri Lankan troops killed 18 Tamil Tiger rebels in clashes in the north of the island, the military said on Saturday. 
PLO Command Member Brigadier 
