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Afghanistan
Afghan hanged for 'spying'
Taliban militants hanged a man from an electricity pole in southern Afghanistan after accusing him of spying for US troops and the Afghan government, a district chief said on Friday. A man who identified himself as a Taliban commander confirmed the execution in Musa Qala district, which Afghan and international soldiers took from the rebels in December after it had been under rebel control for 10 months. Musa Qala district chief Haji Abdul Salaam told AFP the man who was hanged was an ordinary civilian.
Posted by: Fred || 01/19/2008 00:09 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Perhaps the only acceptable use for an electricity pole under the Taliban.
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/19/2008 9:21 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
"Militants" attack Ethiopian base
(SomaliNet) The crazed Islamic terrorists militants launched fired aimless rocket propel grenades and mortar shells on the Ethiopian military base in Maslah compound without hitting anything, north of the supposed Somalia capital overnight hours after 32 people killed and over hundred other wounded in one of the bloodiest violence raged in Mogadishu.
In other words, more of the same.
Locals said the Ethiopian soldiers in Maslah military compound responded with heavy artillery weapons to the attackers. The hospitals in the capital continue to receive many civilian wounds as the number reached over hundred.

The areas hit by the yesterday's shelling now resumed calm with many people began fleeing the capital in fear of further clashes.

"It is becoming common that the Ethiopian give away artillery shelling to all surrounding villages whenever they are attacked by the insurgents," said Fadumo Saed, a mother of five children who is now managing to escape the capital from more possible bombing.
Ought to teach 'em something, but it pro'ly won't.
Posted by: Steve White || 01/19/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Arabia
Belgian Tourists Murdered in Yemen Ambush
Gunmen opened fire on a tourist convoy Friday afternoon in the eastern Hadramawt region, killing two Belgian women and two Yemeni drivers, Yemeni officials said. The attack was the first aimed at foreigners in Yemen since last summer, when a suicide car bomber attacked a group of tourists visiting a temple in central Yemen, killing eight Spaniards and two Yemenis. The Yemeni state news agency identified the Belgian women as Klaudi Klawy and Catharine Glory. One of the drivers was identified as Ahmed al Amiri. Their bodies were being flown back to the capital Friday night.

The attack took place in the Wadi Dawan district, about 180 miles east of Sanaa. Four gunmen waiting in a pickup truck near a speed bump along a rural road ambushed a four-car tourist convoy, said a tourist official who asked not to be identified. Two Belgians and one Yemeni were also wounded. The attackers then bravely fled, said Yemen’s tourist minister, Nabeel al Faqih.

The area where the attacks occurred, near a famous group of ancient multistory mud dwellings in the town of Shibam, is not considered especially dangerous. There have been kidnappings in the area, but they have subsided in recent years after a government crackdown.
Posted by: Fred || 01/19/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Yemen

#1  you deserved this if you went too Yemen as a tourist in the first place, idiots
Posted by: sinse || 01/19/2008 9:01 Comments || Top||

#2  I thought there was something in Islam about honoring and protecting guests. Wasn't that what Mullah Omar said was the reason he couldn't hand over bin Laden, or even kick him out of A'stan back in '01?
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/19/2008 9:24 Comments || Top||

#3  That only covers muslim guests these days. Infidels ain't real people, ya see.
Posted by: Steve || 01/19/2008 10:22 Comments || Top||

#4  When something bad happens, I believe in asking why at least seven times to track teh porcess back to its root cause. In this case the root cause is excess vacation time. No person should have some much vacation in their lifetime that Yemen should even appear on the list of options. Yemen is a dump that UBL left to move to the Sudan and Afghanistan.

On the other hand, if these people visited Yemen but have not yet visited the Meadowlands of New Jersey; Davenport, Iowa; and anywhere in Zimbabwe then it's totally on them because they went out of order.
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/19/2008 12:37 Comments || Top||

#5  There are tours to Yemen? What next, Zimbabwe?
Posted by: doc || 01/19/2008 13:00 Comments || Top||

#6  There are companies in Western Europe and Britain that advertise "adventure tours" - tours to places most others never go to. There's a sort of one-upmanship in visiting those places, in part because of the danger and deprivation one has to accommodate in order to visit these places. I've seen my share of that part of the world, so I'm not interested. There ARE certain places I'd love to see, but I'll wait until they no longer shoot strangers just for the fun of it.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 01/19/2008 14:52 Comments || Top||

#7  OP, there are certain places I'd love to go back to, but by the time the boys are out of college and I can afford to Go, the Muzzies will have taken over...
Posted by: Ptah || 01/19/2008 16:10 Comments || Top||

#8  but I'll wait until they no longer shoot strangers just for the fun of it

Gangs sometimes have prospective members kill someone at random to prove their "worth" and acclimatize them to violence and so they have something to blackmail them with. I sort of wonder if it isn't the same kind of thing. Terrorists also like to prove they are bada$$es so that nobody will screw with them. Look at that kid Yousif that they grabbed at random and set on fire. This to me just seems like a confluence of several terrorist ideas. They get to join the club, get used to killing in preparation for the big day, prove their commitment, command some respect, kill some infidels instead of some locals, get some notoriety, and have some cheap fun all at the same time.
Posted by: gorb || 01/19/2008 16:17 Comments || Top||

#9  Don't worry Ptah, Lake City not getting a moskk.
Posted by: Thomas Woof || 01/19/2008 18:05 Comments || Top||

#10  Best Tourist destination of 2007, If you can't trust the NYT who can you trust? See: http://www.yementourism.com/
Posted by: bruce || 01/19/2008 19:24 Comments || Top||

#11  From the above link, this is priceless:

"TO the untrained thrill-seeker, Yemen would seem to promise the kind of adventures that only James Bond would relish: kidnapping by tribal factions, riots over gasoline prices, cheap and plentiful AK-47s, and taxi drivers who pack daggers and pistols. Plus, there’s the specter of terrorism: the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Aden in 2000 presaged much bigger attacksSkip to next paragraph

But in contrast to the rest of the Arabian Peninsula, which is mostly hot, dry and barren, Yemen is practically a cool green paradise, with crisp mountain air, enormous acacia trees, pristine coral reefs and verdant fields bursting with khat, a psychoactive plant that induces mild euphoria.

In recent years, tour operators have started to capitalize on Yemen’s exotic geography as the new frontier in adventure travel. New outfits offer grueling treks to mountaintop villages, four-wheel-drive safaris through untrammeled deserts and sailing voyages aboard ancient dhows to isolated, Galápagos-like islands. And unlike Dubai, the Oz-like emirate on the other side of Saudi Arabia, Yemen is nothing if not authentic.

Yemen is also safer today, thanks to post-9/11 ties between Yemen and the United States that seem to have quieted tribal tensions and undermined terrorist operations in the country. A steady stream of European adventurers have already arrived.

One of the more intrepid tours is offered by Arabia Felix, a tour company based in Dubai. It has started two-week-long safaris that snake from Dubai across Oman, and along old frankincense trading routes into eastern Yemen. Guests alternate between camping alongside desert nomads and staying at luxurious places like the Al Hawta Palace Hotel, a former Yemeni palace in Sayun.

Visitors get to see “an Arabia with no borders,” said Marco Livadiotti, one of the principals of Arabia Felix.

After crossing into Yemen, the journey continues through the fabled Empty Quarter of the Arabian Desert, the world’s largest stretch of sand. Then it proceeds to the fertile green valley of Wadi Hadramaut, home to Yemen’s two most atmospheric towns. The walled city of Shibam has a skyline of tall mud-brick houses, earning it the nickname “the Manhattan of the Desert.” Nearby, the ancient town of Tarim has 365 mosques, one for each day of the year.

The final leg of the journey, from archaeologically rich Marib to the capital, Sana, is a bit dodgier and requires an armed Bedouin escort because of tribal unrest.

For those who want to explore by foot, the Haraz Mountains along Yemen’s western edge are a hiker’s paradise. The region is linked by well-worn trails that cut through fields of prized khat, zigzag across lush green mountaintops and pass through fortresslike villages of mud and stone houses.

Along the way, you can pitch a tent, check into small village guesthouses, or luck out with an invitation to stay at someone’s home. Yemen may seem chaotic, but old-school Arabian hospitality, especially toward foreigners, almost always prevails.

Yemen’s most far-flung adventure is undoubtedly the island of Socotra, a time capsule 210 miles off the coast in the Indian Ocean. Socotra is an alien world, even to most Yemenis. Natives speak an obscure language, Soqotri, that is virtually unintelligible to mainlanders. The fauna and flora of this island evolved separately from mainland Arabia.

Until recently, the island could be reached only by boat and was cut off from the rest of the world during the monsoon season, June to September. Now flights land year round, bringing scuba divers to spectacular reefs that are only beginning to be explored. There are steep limestone cliffs that plunge into dark chasms, a colorful bounty of coral and other rich (and endangered) marine species like sea turtles and groupers.

Inland, you can hike up the Haghier Mountains, camp on a beach or go off-roading along the wadis (dry riverbeds), where you might come across endemic birds and plants like the dragon’s blood tree, which leaks red liquid when cut.

But the most exotic encounter on Socotra may be its people, descendants of both African and South Arabian tribes, who have developed a culture unique from any other place on the planet. Even today, the islanders seem to live as they want, not to please or profit from the few tourists who reach their home."

Posted by: bruce || 01/19/2008 19:29 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Two policemen wounded in shooting in Chechnya
(Itar-Tass) -- Two policemen were wounded in shooting in Chechnya, ITAR-TASS learnt at the law enforcement bodies of Chechnya on Friday. “Unidentified people fired at police officers and servicemen of the military commandant’s office who were conducting a special operation in a forest two kilometres from the village of Serzhen-Yurt of the Shali region on Thursday,” a law enforcer said. “The policemen opened return fire, but the bandits managed to escape.”

During the shooting, two police officers got injuries. “The site of the incident is blocked. The special operation is going on,” the law enforcer said.
Posted by: Fred || 01/19/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Chechen Republic of Ichkeria


All militants killed in shootout with police in Grozny identified
(Itar-Tass) - Law-enforcement bodies have identified all the four militants destroyed in a special operation in Grozny's Staropromyslovsky district. "Active participants in illegal paramilitary formations have been destroyed - the so-called emir of the village of Belgatoi, Shali District, Uvais Techiyev, 24, Khalid Sultanov, 25 and Zama Mantsuyeva, 19. The identity of the fourth militant is being ascertained," the Interior Ministry's press service reporting on Chechnya, told Itar-Tass on Tuesday.

The fourth militant is Ruslan Isayev, a 29-year-old resident of the village of Sernovodskoye, Sunzha District. A special task force police officer was wounded in the shootout.

Interior Minister Ruslan Alkhanov praised the operation. Prior to the shooting, police sealed off the house where the gang had holed up, and evacuated residents of the neighboring houses. This helped avoid casualties among civilians," Chechen police said.
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Dzhabrail EdilkhanovChechnya
Khalid SultanovChechnya
Ruslan IsayevChechnya
Uvais TechiyevChechnya
Zama MantsuyevaChechnya
Posted by: Fred || 01/19/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Chechen Republic of Ichkeria

#1  Law-enforcement bodies have identified all the four militants destroyed in a special operation in Grozny's Staropromyslovsky district.

"Destroyed". Ahh, the Russians still have that special touch with words that signify death by unvoluntary means...
Posted by: Ptah || 01/19/2008 16:11 Comments || Top||


Europe
Blast injures 16 people in Turkish town
(KUNA) -- Sixteen workers were injured when a mysterious deafening blast rocked a building in Milas town, Mugla province, southwest Turkey, Friday. The blast took place in third floor of a building under construction, local NTV channel reported on its website this evening. Some of the victims who were rushed to a nearby hospital suffer serious injuries. The causes of the mysterious blast are yet to be known, the news channel added.
Posted by: Fred || 01/19/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: WoT
CIA: Cyberattacks have led to blackouts in multiple cities
The CIA on Friday admitted that cyberattacks have caused at least one power outage affecting multiple cities outside the United States.

Alan Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, said that CIA senior analyst Tom Donahue confirmed that online attackers had caused at least one blackout. The disclosure was made at a New Orleans security conference Friday attended by international government officials, engineers, and security managers from North American energy companies and utilities.

Paller said that Donahue presented him with a written statement that read, "We have information, from multiple regions outside the United States, of cyber intrusions into utilities, followed by extortion demands. We suspect, but cannot confirm, that some of these attackers had the benefit of inside knowledge. We have information that cyberattacks have been used to disrupt power equipment in several regions outside the United States. In at least one case, the disruption caused a power outage affecting multiple cities. We do not know who executed these attacks or why, but all involved intrusions through the Internet."

Information about which foreign cities were affected by the outage and other information related to the attack was not mentioned and is unlikely to be forthcoming, said Paller.

A call to the CIA asking for further comment was not immediately returned.

Donahue said that the CIA had thoroughly weighed the pros and cons of making this information public, according to Paller.

The prospect of cyberattacks crippling multicity regions appears to have prompted the government to make this information public. The issue "went from 'we should be concerned about to this' to 'this is something we should fix now,' " said Paller. "That's why, I think, the government decided to disclose this."

The delegates at the meeting were sharing data about cyberattacks on critical utilities and resources, and methods of attack mitigation. One topic of discussion was the new SCADA and Control Systems Survival Kit, a document of best practices for SCADA systems. SCADA stands for Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition and refers to devices that control critical infrastructure like power generators, traffic signals, and dams. The security of SCADA systems has been a concern among federal officials for years.

In San Francisco on Thursday, following a private screening of the new documentary The New Face Of Cybercrime, Howard Schmidt, a former Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) executive and government cybersecurity adviser, mentioned ongoing concerns about the vulnerabilities of SCADA systems and noted that 85% of the U.S. critical infrastructure is controlled by the private sector. "No one should be minimizing this issue," he said.

Citing two Government Accountability Office reports on SCADA security, Paller said that people have been adding wireless and Windows to SCADA systems without really thinking about security. "They're gotten radically unsafe," he said.
Posted by: lotp || 01/19/2008 14:06 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  insider info? Of course!
Posted by: Frank G || 01/19/2008 15:10 Comments || Top||

#2  This story irritates me, why in the WORLD would you have a SCADA system connected to the internet? Where I work, we keep our SCADA type systems air-gapped, they don't even touch our production LAN.It isn't about using Windows systems, it's about a lack of control and good management processes. One other point that none of the IT pundits mention is that, yes our SCADA systems are at risk but no mention is made about the SCADA systems in Russia, China, et. al.
Posted by: djh_usmc || 01/19/2008 15:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Howard Schmidt, a former Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) executive and government cybersecurity adviser, mentioned ongoing concerns about the vulnerabilities of SCADA systems and noted that 85% of the U.S. critical infrastructure is controlled by the private sector. "No one should be minimizing this issue," he said.

Yes - let's centralize the problem under government control. Let's get all the battleships in a line, and park all the planes wingtip to wingtip on the tarmac. The phrase chrome-dome comes to mind.

Then again, what did Twain say about eggs and baskets?
Posted by: Halliburton - Hyperbolic Idiot Detection Service || 01/19/2008 15:42 Comments || Top||

#4  The issue isn't govt control of SCADA systems, but rather than their dispersal in industry means that there is a distressingly wide range of security etc. expertise being applied to them right now. And for older industries that often does include internet access, implemented by techies to make monitoring easier. Not to mention for e.g. load sharing during peak energy draw periods.

Lots and lots of focus has been going into security monitoring and risks for US SCADA. Most visible face of that activity is the I3P Consortium.
Posted by: lotp || 01/19/2008 15:53 Comments || Top||

#5  but rather than that their dispersal ...
Posted by: lotp || 01/19/2008 15:54 Comments || Top||

#6  Adding Windows to Scada systems isn't an issue: I am aware of one vendor who does an excellent job in this respect because they made two key design decisions:

Clients use Windows.

Servers use the Command Line Subsystem.

Think about it. Clients are transients, so if the GUI goes belly up, no great deal. Servers run in probably the most stable, bug free windows subsystem after the scheduling kernel, mainly because the glamor is in the GUI so nobody's bothering to add anything new (ergo buggy) to the CLI. This allows the bugs to be quashed with no new ones introduced by new features.
Posted by: Ptah || 01/19/2008 16:19 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
UK team complains of non-cooperation in Bhutto investigation
RAWALPINDI: The Scotland Yard team, visiting the crime site almost daily for the last 14 days, has lodged a written complaint with the President of Pakistan, grumbling that no local investigating or intelligence agency was helping them in their probe into the assassination of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) chairperson, Ms Benazir Bhutto, reliable sources told ‘The News’.

The UK team had arrived here on January 4 on the request of the government to investigate into the assassination The letter was sent to President Musharraf on January 10, demanding help from the investigating agencies, who collected the evidence from the crime site soon after the incident and prepared their reports regarding the mechanism used in eliminating the top opposition leader, the sources disclosed.

It is being said that the authorities supervising the process of investigation of Ms Benazir Bhutto’s assassination, have barred the Pakistani intelligence and investigating agencies from providing any sort of information to the Scotland Yard team.

“The Punjab Police team led by Additional Inspector General of Police, CID, Abdul Majid is not extending the required cooperation,” the sources quoting the letter said. “The Scotland Yard has not yet been able to collect any worthwhile evidence due to lack of cooperation by the Pakistani investigating and intelligence agencies”, the sources claimed adding that the Presidency, taking notice of the complaint, has asked the relevant agencies to provide the necessary information to the foreign investigators.

“They can do nothing without getting direct assistance from the Pakistani investigators and intelligence agencies,” the sources claimed adding that the local investigators have of late provided some basic information to the foreign investigators on instructions from the Presidency. Meanwhile, security of the foreign team has been beefed up in the wake of rising incidents of suicide bombing.
Posted by: john frum || 01/19/2008 15:12 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  And water is wet. Let us know if you actually get cooperation. That would be newsworthy.
Posted by: gorb || 01/19/2008 16:05 Comments || Top||

#2  As Gorb said, they expected something different?
The whole idea of inviting Scotland Yard to participate in the investigation was to give the perception of legitimacy without the reality of it. In other words youse guys are being used, but you knew that up front didn't you?
Posted by: GK || 01/19/2008 16:43 Comments || Top||


Bhutto kill squad teenager arrested
PAKISTANI police have arrested a teenager who was allegedly part of a five-man squad assigned to kill opposition leader Benazir Bhutto last month, security officials said. The suspect, 15-year-old Aitezaz Shah, was arrested in the north-western city of Dera Ismail Khan while planning a suicide bombing during the Muslim festival of Ashura. Shah told interrogators he had been part of a back-up team of three bombers who were tasked with killing the former premier if the original December 27 attack by two men had failed. Interior ministry spokesman Iqbal Cheema could not confirm the arrest.

Ms Bhutto was assassinated in a gun and suicide bomb attack at an election rally in Rawalpindi. The government and CIA have blamed al-Qaeda and tribal warlord Baitullah Mehsud for her killing.

Shah went for training last year at a camp run by one of Mehsud's commanders in the tribal border region of Waziristan, security officials quoted him as telling investigators.
Shah, originally from the southern city of Karachi, went for training last year at a camp run by one of Mehsud's commanders in the tribal border region of Waziristan, security officials quoted him as telling investigators. He allegedly said the attackers in the team that killed Ms Bhutto were called Bilal and Ikramullah - the same names mentioned in an alleged telephone conversation between Mehsud and another militant the day after Ms Bhutto's death. The tape was released the day after her killing by Pakistan's interior ministry.

Shah's whereabouts at the time of the attack were not immediately clear. One security official said he was in Rawalpindi, the city where Ms Bhutto was killed, while another said he was in the tribal area of Waziristan. One of the officials said Shah was arrested during a security check when he arrived in Dera Ismail Khan by taxi from the North Waziristan tribal area, which borders Afghanistan. He allegedly told officials that he came to collect a suicide jacket for an attack at the US consulate in Karachi, but the plan had been changed because of tight security for Ashura, which takes place tomorrow. Instead, he was ordered to launch an attack during an Ashura procession by the minority Shi'ite sect tomorrow, the officials said.
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AITEZAZ SHAHTaliban
BAITULLAH MEHSUDTaliban
IKRAMULLAHTaliban
Iqbal Cheema
Posted by: tipper || 01/19/2008 07:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Paki government want a reason to go after Mehsud.Still believe Perv knows who the real killers are suggest look closer at ISI/retired?parts of the military!!!!
Posted by: Galactic Coordinator Gloluth1321 || 01/19/2008 10:55 Comments || Top||


Bomb explodes outside CD shop
A bomb exploded outside a CD shop in Akhundabad No 5 in the early hours of Friday morning, but no casualties were reported and the blast caused minimal damage, police said. An official told Daily Times that the explosives were placed outside Gulab CD and Music Centre located within the Pandu Police Station jurisdiction. The blast occurred around 4.30am and damaged the shop’s shutter, he added.
Posted by: Fred || 01/19/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  I don't like most of today's music either.
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/19/2008 9:26 Comments || Top||


11 suicide bombers enter Rawalpindi
Eleven suicide bombers had entered Rawalpindi to target politicians and sensitive installations, Online news agency reported on Friday. “Former federal ministers, including Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed and Ejazul Haq, and senior policemen are on the suicide bombers’ hit list,” Online’s sources said.

Dawn News television channel said Nawaz Sharif, Javed Ashraf Qazi and Ejazul Haq were likely to be hit. The channel said police had confirmed their security had been enhanced. It said intelligence agencies had confirmed the presence of suicide bombers in various cities. Online said the suicide bombers might target police installations, and Imambargahs or Majalis. Geo News television channel reported that the Interior Ministry had warned security agencies of possible terrorist attacks on police installations. Another channel reported that the terrorists had filmed several buildings for the attackers to examine possible entry or exit points.
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Javed Ashraf Qazi
Nawaz Sharif
Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed
Posted by: Fred || 01/19/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Seven suspected militants taken into custody
Security forces arrested seven suspected militants on Friday during two search operations in Tank and its suburbs, sources said. Security forces raided Gulshan Colony in Tank early Friday morning and arrested five tribesmen — Balad Khan, Masood Bashar khan, Mir Bahadur and Rifatullah, the sources added. District Police Officer Mumtaz Zarrin said security forces opened fire at a fleeing suspect during the operation, which unfortunately resulted in a minor girl being injured.

Security forces also conducted an operation in Gratoda, raiding the houses of two tribesmen, Adam Khan and Hameedullah. They arrested two suspected militants, Sadat and Inayatullah, who were hiding there.

Meanwhile, according to a private TV channel, similar search operations are being conducted across Swat. Security arrangements in Tank have been further tightened as Muharram reaches its most sensitive period, sources added.
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ADAM KHANTaliban
BALAD KHANTaliban
HAMIDULLAHTaliban
INAIATULLAHTaliban
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MIR BAHADURTaliban
RIFATULLAHTaliban
SADATTaliban
Posted by: Fred || 01/19/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Wonder who they are searching for...are there any high level US visitors scheduled to visit soon.
Posted by: Chenter Unimp7361 || 01/19/2008 6:34 Comments || Top||


2 militants escape from jail, DSP killed
Two militants involved in various sectarian violence cases have escaped from a high-security prison, police told Daily Times on Friday. Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Rehmatullah Niazi said the police came to know about their escape on Friday morning when prisoners were being counted. The two, Usman Saifullah and Shafiqur Rehman, escaped from a prison in the cantonment area. The police have formed various teams to arrest them besides arresting 13 people - nine jail staff and three anti-terrorism force personnel - in connection with the escape.

The escapees were involved in 26 cases some of them of sectarian nature. They had been under trial for the past 18 months after being accused of killing 11 policemen when they attacked a police convoy in the Sarib area in 2003. They were also accused of masterminding an attack on a Muharram procession in Quetta in which 52 people were killed in 2003. They also allegedly killed around 50 Shias in 2005. The escape of the two late on Thursday came as security forces were on high alert in the run-up to the climax of a traditional Shia mourning period this weekend which is often marred by militant attacks.

Separately, some unidentified people killed the Khuzdar Central Jail deputy superintendent. Sources said Sher Zaman was returning home along with his driver after Friday prayers at around 3pm when the assailants ambushed his vehicle in Latifabad.
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Shafiqur RehmanLashkar-e-Jhangvi
Usman SaifullahLashkar-e-Jhangvi
Posted by: Fred || 01/19/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Dar pleads not guilty to 2005 blasts in Delhi
Suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) operative Tariq Ahmed Dar, the alleged mastermind of the 2005 Delhi blasts, Friday told a city court that he was not guilty of the serial bombings that killed 60 people and was ready to stand trial.

Additional Sessions Judge Babulal ordered a speedy trial after Dar pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.
On Monday, charges were framed against Dar and four others in the case. Dar had been booked under Section 121 of the Indian Penal Code (waging or attempting to wage war against the government of India), 121 A (conspiracy to commit offences for waging war), 122 (collecting arms for waging war), 120 B (criminal conspiracy), 302 (murder), 307 (attempt to murder), Section 4 of the Explosives Act and Sections 17 and 18 of the Unlawful Activities Act.

The court will hear the charges against the other four on Jan 21, when the court will give them an opportunity to either plead guilty or face trial. Delhi Police last month filed a supplementary charge sheet in the court claiming they had more evidence against all the accused. The charge sheet was filed against Dar, mentioning his call details that allegedly established that he was in touch with LeT operatives Abu Al Kama and others to hatch the conspiracy.

Records of the calls made before and after the blasts point to the complicity of the accused, the police alleged in the charge sheet, which also names Mohammed Hussain and Mohammed Rafiq Shah as the accused. Details of illegal monetary transactions involving Dar and others were also mentioned in the charge sheet.
This article starring:
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Tariq Ahmed DarLashkar-e-Taiba
Posted by: Fred || 01/19/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Taiba

#1  I wuzza wundering where Steckelberg was
Posted by: Frank G || 01/19/2008 11:28 Comments || Top||

#2  9.7
Inside Rantburg Score
Posted by: Thomas Woof || 01/19/2008 18:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Also: For a time I was certain that Dar and Little Dhimmi were one and the same.
Posted by: Thomas Woof || 01/19/2008 18:09 Comments || Top||


Scores dead in Pakistan gunbattles
Pakistani military forces clashed Friday with Islamic militants in mountainous northwest Pakistan, in battles that left at least 90 militants dead and four military personnel wounded, a military spokesman told CNN.

The militants gathered around the Ladha Fort in South Waziristan -- a tribal territory in Pakistan -- early Friday morning, and fired rockets into the fort, according to military spokesman Lt. Col. Baseer Haider Malik. Malik said the military used artillery and small arms fire to disperse them, killing 20 to 30 militants.

In a separate incident elsewhere in South Waziristan, militants attacked a convoy of security forces with rockets and small arms fire, Malik said. The Pakistani forces retaliated with rockets and small arms fire, killing 50 to 60 militants, Malik said. Four security personnel were wounded in the hour-long fight, Malik said, and two army vehicles were damaged.

South Waziristan is said to be a stronghold of Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud -- the man the Pakistani government has named a prime suspect in the December 27 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Earlier this week, militants abandoned another fort in South Waziristan they overran during a pitched battle Wednesday, Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas, a military spokesman, said. The militants left later that day without another firefight with Pakistani forces, Abbas told CNN. The battle for the control of the border fort killed at least seven of 40 Pakistani troops stationed there. Fifteen others fled and 18 border guards were initially reported missing. Abbas said five of the missing guards were apparently located in a nearby village, but his men had not yet confirmed the report.

The militants breached the walls of the colonial-era outpost along the Afghan border with explosives and seized the fort after a firefight that lasted about 12 hours, Malik said. An estimated 250 to 300 or more fighters armed with rifles and rocket-propelled grenades took part in the Wednesday assault against a garrison of 40 members of Pakistan's paramilitary Frontier Corps, Malik said.
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Baitullah MehsudTaliban
Posted by: Fred || 01/19/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  in battles that left at least 90 militants dead and four military personnel wounded

Probably massacred a village.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/19/2008 5:43 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Mosque raid ends two days of slaughter
IRAQI security forces overran a mosque in southern Iraq where fighters of a shadowy Shiite messianic sect were holed, ending two days of clashes in two cities that killed more than 70 people. The fighting came as millions of Shiites across Iraq marked Saturday's climax of 10-day Ashura rituals, which commemorate the killing of Imam Hussein by armies of the Sunni caliph Yazid in 680AD. The mosque was the last stronghold of the cultists.

Wearing yellow headbands sporting the Star of David, they attacked police simultaneously early Friday afternoon in the southern port city of Basra and in Nasiriyah.
Wearing yellow headbands sporting the Star of David, they attacked police simultaneously early Friday afternoon in the southern port city of Basra and in Nasiriyah, about 350km south of Baghdad. Fighting raged through the afternoon in both cities. It died down in Basra during the night but continuing sporadically in Nasiriyah.

A police official in Nasiriyah said Iraq's security forces raided hideouts of the doomsday cultists at daybreak on Saturday, flushing them out of the mosque and houses they had occupied in the suburb of Al-Salhiyah. "Some of the insurgents were killed and arrested while others fled during the raid," the police official said.

The security forces had found the mosque to be booby-trapped and disposal experts later triggered a blast which destroyed the building.
The security forces had found the mosque to be booby-trapped and disposal experts later triggered a blast which destroyed the building, he said. Amid the rubble was found yellow headbands and anti-government literature.

Two policemen were killed by teenage snipers during Saturday's clashes in Nasiriyah. The snipers, two 14-year-old boys, were quickly arrested.

Police officials said at least 35 cultists were killed in Basra and 18 in Nasiriyah. A total of 14 police, two Iraqi soldiers and two civilians were also killed. At least 25 cultists were arrested in Naisiriyah and 75 in Basra.

Followers of the cult, led by Ahmed al-Hassani al-Yamani, seek to hasten the return of Imam Mahdi, an eighth-century imam who vanished as a boy and whom Shiites believe will return to bring justice to the world.
Yamani has his own website on which he claims to be an ambassador for the Mahdi, whom he says is imminently to re-appear.
Yamani has his own website on which he claims to be an ambassador for the Mahdi, whom he says is imminently to re-appear.

The fighting comes as around two million Shiites have descended on the holy city of Karbala in central Iraq for Saturday's climax of the Ashura rituals, which commemorate the killing of Imam Hussein by armies of the Sunni caliph Yazid in 680AD.

During Ashura last January, another militant sect dubbing itself the Jund al-Samaa, or "Soldiers of Heaven", clashed with US and Iraqi forces outside Karbala and another holy Shiite city, Najaf. Last year's fighting left 263 sect followers dead, including their leader Dhia Abdul Zahra Kadhim al-Krimawi, also known as Abu Kamar, who believed he was descended from the Prophet Mohammed.

Proceedings in Karbala were continuing peacefully, governor of the province Aqil al-Khazali told a press conference on Saturday. "Two million people have come to Karbala for Ashura," he said. "There have been no security violations so far and the ceremonies have gone ahead without incident."
This article starring:
ABU KAMARJund al-Samaa
Ahmed al-Hassani al-Yamani
DHIA ABDUL ZAHRA KADHIM AL KRIMAWIJund al-Samaa
Jund al-Samaa
Posted by: tipper || 01/19/2008 04:55 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency

#1  The mosque was the last stronghold of the cultists. Wearing yellow headbands sporting the Star of David

Please allow me to be the first to say, WTF?
Posted by: Excalibur || 01/19/2008 8:40 Comments || Top||

#2  We've had similar crazed loons in the US, Excalibur. Look at the Nation of Yahweh. They were also violent.
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 01/19/2008 9:43 Comments || Top||

#3  At the risk of appearing to simple. My guess is that they were trying in some stupid form to get other mussies thinking the Jews were attacking.
Posted by: Icerigger || 01/19/2008 12:56 Comments || Top||

#4  "The security forces had found the mosque to be booby-trapped..."

Gosh...I hope they removed their boots before entering such a holy place so as not to offend anyone.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 01/19/2008 13:30 Comments || Top||

#5  Symbols are recycled by kooks. Do you really want a detailed explanation of symbol carved into the forehead of Charlie Manson's pate?
Posted by: Super Hose || 01/19/2008 13:32 Comments || Top||

#6  Shiite messianic sect? doomsday cultists?

LOL!

Doesn't the basic garden variety Mainstream Shiite "savior" [the 12 Imami] pop up like a Jack in the Box from a Well while simultaneously subjecting the entire World to a Holocaust Extinction Process seem like a doomsday messianic religion on its own?
Posted by: RD || 01/19/2008 13:42 Comments || Top||

#7  Outstanding. No one's better suited to handling this than the Iraqi army, and it certainly looks like they
did the appropriate thing. :-)
Posted by: KBK || 01/19/2008 17:02 Comments || Top||

#8  These Iraqis are really picking up what it means to be an American.
Posted by: David Koresh || 01/19/2008 18:25 Comments || Top||

#9  I'll say.
Posted by: Jim Jones || 01/19/2008 18:26 Comments || Top||

#10  Good job to the Iraqi forces. They kicked ass and took names.
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/19/2008 22:52 Comments || Top||


Despite Deadly Clashes in Iraq, Shiite Pilgrims Spared
Government troops in southern Iraq fought with a millennial religious militia group on Friday in clashes that left more than 40 people dead, but the troops successfully protected millions of pilgrims on the first day of Ashura, the largest religious holiday for Iraq’s Shiite majority and one frequently marred by violence.

The holiday, when pilgrims trek to the sacred city of Karbala, coincided with new criticism of the Iraqi government and parliament from both a leading Shiite party that until now has backed the government and from a former political ally, anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. He signaled that he might allow his militia to become active at the end of February after a year-long freeze.

If Mr. Sadr lifted the freeze, it could have troubling consequences for the American military, which has been able to use the calm to focus on those Shiite insurgents, most of whom it believes are linked to Iran, who have ignored the freeze. The Americans have also used the calm to stabilize Sunni and mixed neighborhoods in the Baghdad area. Since the freeze the number of bodies found daily in Baghdad neighborhoods as a result of sectarian killings has dropped to barely three after months of dozens being found.

Mr. Sadr’s spokesman, Saleh al-Obaidi, said that in several provinces Mr. Sadr’s militia had been unfairly targeted and that many had been detained but not charged by members of the Iraqi security forces. However, he said no final decision had yet been made to lift the freeze. “Many officers in the Iraqi police and Army and have made bad use of the freeze to pressure our people and hundreds of families have been pushed out of their homes,” said Mr. Obeidi. “We’ve been thinking of renewing the freeze. We understand the situation, we are in a period of trying to rebuild Iraq and bring more security, but unfortunately our people are suffering.”
Posted by: Fred || 01/19/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Mahdi Army

#1  THIS ARTICLE STARRING:

frequently marred by violence

new criticism of the Iraqi government and parliament

former political ally, anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr

troubling consequences for the American military

Mr. Sadr�s militia had been unfairly targeted

officers in the Iraqi police and Army and have made bad use of the freeze to pressure our people

unfortunately our people are suffering

/with a hat tip to SteveS
Posted by: Seafarious || 01/19/2008 2:31 Comments || Top||

#2  And reading between the lines,

"Sadr is responsible for the apparent success of the surge."
Posted by: Bobby || 01/19/2008 10:05 Comments || Top||

#3  I thought Hillary, Nancy, and Harry were?
Posted by: Frank G || 01/19/2008 11:30 Comments || Top||


US blitz on Al-Qaeda targets outside Baghdad
The US military said on Friday it had renewed its air blitz on Al-Qaeda targets south of Baghdad, dropping bombs on sites it said were training camps for the jihadist network. The air strikes were part of Operation Phantom Phoenix, a major assault launched on January 8 by US and Iraqi forces on Al-Qaeda, considered by US commanders to be the greatest threat to stability in Iraq.

A military statement said that on Wednesday 10,000 pounds (4,500 kilos) of munitions were dropped on bunkers in Arab Jabour, a Sunni rural area on the southern outskirts of the capital, reportedly used by Al-Qaeda to train recruits. "Air Force B-1 Bombers dropped 19 GBU-31s (guided bomb units) on the site," it said in Friday's statement.

Last week American warplanes dropped 47,500 pounds of explosives in a 10-minute blitz on Arab Jabour in one of the heaviest aerial bombardments since the US-led invasion in 2003.

US commanders said 47 targets were hit in that raid, while an anti-Qaeda "Awakening" leader in Arab Jabour said that at least 21 Al-Qaeda fighters were killed. The US military did not mention casualties in its latest statement.

When Phantom Phoenix was launched, Lieutenant General Ray Odierno, the US second-in-command in Iraq, said the operation aimed to "pursue and neutralise remaining Al-Qaeda in Iraq and other extremist elements."
Posted by: Fred || 01/19/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq

#1  so last week they were 1000lb bombs
this week 500lb
next week 250lb?
Posted by: 3dc || 01/19/2008 2:42 Comments || Top||

#2  So, they're cleaning out all the Old munitions, on pound will kill you.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 01/19/2008 14:45 Comments || Top||


Iraq's national security adviser says angry mob trapped him in mosque
Iraq's national security adviser was holed up inside a Shiite mosque in northwest Baghdad for several hours Friday as an angry crowd gathered outside to demand the release of security detainees, government and police officials said.

Mouwaffak al-Rubaie, a Shiite, was safely extracted by a security force that escorted him to the Prime Minister's office in the fortified Green Zone, home to the US Embassy and government offices, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.

They said the crowd, estimated at several dozens, gathered outside the Jawadeen mosque in the Shiite Shula neighborhood to demand the release of relatives from detention. They pelted al-Rubaie's entourage with rocks and shoes, but there were no reports of injuries and al-Rubaie later spoke by telephone to Iraq's state television.
Posted by: Fred || 01/19/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Heavy clashes kill two policemen, rebel group leader
(KUNA) -- The leader of a group known as Jund Al-Sama'a "soldiers of the Sky" was killed along with the arrest of 21 men in heavy clashes between armed men and Iraqi security forces which broke out earlier today in the city of Basra, Iraqi police Director Major General Jalil Khalaf said on Friday. Khalaf said in a press release the armed group attacked Iraqi police and army in the city which resulted in the killing of Abu Mustapha Al-Ansari, the leader of the group and two of guards along with the arrest of 21 men which belonged to the group. The two sides used various weapons during the heavy clashes which also resulted in the killing of two policemen, injuring four others, and the destruction of two police vehicles. For his part, Basra governor Mohammed Al-Wali said the security situation in the city is now under full control.
Posted by: Fred || 01/19/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They must be running out of names.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 01/19/2008 5:58 Comments || Top||


Iraqi forces battle cult gunmen, 14 killed
BASRA, Iraq - Iraqi soldiers and police fought running battles with gunmen from a Shia cult in two southern cities on Friday in which at least 14 people were killed and scores wounded, officials said.

Police said the head of the so-called ‘Soldiers of Heaven’ cult in Basra had been killed in the fighting, which is reminiscent of clashes between the obscure group and Iraqi and US forces a year ago. Those battles near the holy Shia city of Najaf left hundreds dead, mainly members of the cult. The latest clashes are the biggest test yet for Iraq’s army and police in the country’s south since Britain finished handing back responsibility for security in the region last month.

Major-General Abdul Jalil Khalaf, the Basra provincial police chief, told Reuters that ‘tens’ of people had been killed or detained in Basra, Iraq’s second largest city, where gunmen staged a series of hit-and-run raids using heavy machineguns. Khalaf did not give a breakdown of the death toll, but he said it included the head of the ‘Soldiers of Heaven’ in the city. Police said the confirmed death toll was four.
Head, as in severed?
At least 10 people including a police major-general and two colonels were killed in Nassiriya, hospital and police officials said. Hospital officials said 53 people had been wounded. Witnesses said gunmen from the ‘Soldiers of Heaven’ attacked four police stations in the city.

‘Fierce clashes are taking place between the security forces and gunmen in central Basra,’ Khalaf told Reuters. ‘They have been attacking security forces and disappearing,’ he said, adding that Iraqi military helicopters had been called in to hunt for the gunmen.

Police in Basra and Nassiriya said fighters from the ‘Soldiers of Heaven’ cult, once led by a man who claimed to be the mahdi, an Islamic messiah-like figure, had opened fire on security forces in both cities.
Posted by: Steve White || 01/19/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Iraqi military helicopters had been called in

Do tell...
Posted by: Thomas Woof || 01/19/2008 18:02 Comments || Top||

#2  well it was an easy test but the Iraqi forces passed it
Posted by: mhw || 01/19/2008 22:46 Comments || Top||


Destroyed 60 PKK targets in raid: Turkish army
ANKARA - Turkish warplanes destroyed some 60 Kurdish guerrilla targets in northern Iraq during an operation this week, Turkey’s General Staff said on Friday. Tuesday’s strikes on Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) positions in the mountainous region near Turkey’s border followed a series of cross-border attacks by aircraft in December aimed at crushing the Turkish rebel group.

There have so far been no reports of casualties or damage caused by the latest raid on targets in the regions of Zap-Sivi, Avasin-Basyan and Hakurk.

‘During the operation ... some 60 targets, confirmed as being used solely by the terror organisation, came under fire from our warplanes,’ the General Staff said in a statement. It said targets hit included command posts, shelters and training and logistics sites used by the guerrillas.

The General Staff said it was trying to assess the number of PKK casualties and would continue its operations.

Ankara says 3,000 PKK rebels are based in the northern Iraq mountains, from where they launch raids on Turkey. Some 100,000 Turkish troops are massed along the border with Iraq but Ankara is not expected to launch a major cross-border land incursion.

In a separate statement on Friday, the General Staff said 21 PKK rebels had surrendered to Turkish forces in the past month.
Posted by: Steve White || 01/19/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel closes Gaza crossings, blocks aid shipments
Israel tightened its closure of the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Friday in response to cross-border rocket fire, preventing even UN humanitarian supplies from getting in, officials said.

The Israeli Defence Ministry ordered all of the border crossings with Gaza closed and said only “humanitarian cases” which receive Defence Minister Ehud Barak’s personal approval will be allowed through. “If milk is low in Gaza, the minister will be asked to approve a milk shipment, and it will enter,” a Defence Ministry spokesman said. Gaza is home to 1.5 million people, most of whom depend on foreign aid. Barak had vowed to broaden Israeli military operations against Gaza militants who have fired more than 110 rockets into the Jewish state in the last three days. One of the makeshift rockets landed 40 meters from an Israeli nursery school on Friday, and government spokesman David Baker said Israel “will not be deterred from taking any necessary steps” to halt the fire from Gaza.
Posted by: Fred || 01/19/2008 00:11 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  I'll warm up the popcorn machine....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 01/19/2008 0:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Luckily the Egyptians will be happy to help their Arab/Muslim brothers, so the Palestinians won't have to depend on the Jooos for aid.
/sarcasm
Posted by: Rambler || 01/19/2008 0:43 Comments || Top||

#3  Gaza has a coastline, if they can bring in weapons that way why not aid?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/19/2008 2:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Terrorists, holy men hit hardest.
Posted by: Seafarious || 01/19/2008 2:25 Comments || Top||

#5  You also notice, the brave arabs aren't trying to duplicate the Berlin airlift here. They don't give one good damn about the paleos, other than to use them as an excuse to bitch. Surprise!
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/19/2008 10:36 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Hezbollah taunts Israel with 'body parts'
HASSAN Nasrallah, the Hezbollah chief and one of Israel's most wanted men, appeared in public for a Shi'ite religious event in the Lebanese capital for the first time in more than a year.

In a fiery speech, Mr Nasrallah said that his Lebanese Shi'ite militant group had the heads and body parts of soldiers that the Israeli army had abandoned.

"We have the heads, the hands, the feet and even a nearly intact cadaver from the head down to the pelvis," he said.

Mr Nasrallah has been Israel's top public enemy since his Iranian- and Syrian-backed Shi'ite militant group fought a deadly month-long war against the Jewish state in the summer of 2006.

Amid heavy security, he took part in an event for the Shi'ite religious commemoration of Ashura in the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold, heading a procession of tens of thousands of Shi'ite faithful.

"God protect Nasrallah," chanted the crowd, carrying portraits of the Hezbollah chief.

Mr Nasrallah's last public appearance was at a massive rally in the Shi'ite suburbs in September 2006, in the wake of the war against Israel during which he went into hiding.

Israel's war with Hezbollah, which followed Hezbollah's capture of two Israeli soldiers, resulted in the deaths of more than 1200 civilians in Lebanon, a third of them children, as well as 160 Israelis, mostly soldiers.

The Jewish state failed in both its stated aims for launching the war: to stop rocket fire on northern Israel and to recover the two soldiers.
Posted by: tipper || 01/19/2008 16:35 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A stupid move by hezzzbullah.
Posted by: www || 01/19/2008 16:52 Comments || Top||

#2  very classy.
Posted by: Seafarious || 01/19/2008 17:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Classy, indeed. For a place that prides itself on being the Cradle of Civilization, the Middle East sure has gone to hell in a few short millennia.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/19/2008 17:32 Comments || Top||

#4  Cradle is correct.
Posted by: Thomas Woof || 01/19/2008 18:26 Comments || Top||

#5  The Israelis are pretty good at hunting down and terminating the real nasty ones. In this case, they should do "Colonel Mustard", in the basement, with a machete.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 01/19/2008 18:50 Comments || Top||

#6  "SHOOT THAT PIECE OF SH*T!"

Scarface
Posted by: borgboy2001 || 01/19/2008 22:29 Comments || Top||


Good morning
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#1  Oh my.
Posted by: AlanC || 01/19/2008 10:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Yes! My oh my oh my...I love subtlety.
Posted by: JohnQC || 01/19/2008 12:18 Comments || Top||

#3  Topless crabing... what next?
Posted by: Thomas Woof || 01/19/2008 13:32 Comments || Top||

#4  ummmm... that be woman...ummm me like!
Posted by: RD || 01/19/2008 13:44 Comments || Top||

#5  Wearing her CFM top.
Posted by: gorb || 01/19/2008 16:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Uh oh, I think I spained something
Posted by: Glolurong Jones1696 || 01/19/2008 17:30 Comments || Top||

#7  http://www.google.com
http://www.yahoo.com
http://www.msn.com
Posted by: Evenengissoto || 01/19/2008 21:00 Comments || Top||

#8  You sure that's not Tippi Hedren?
Posted by: Varmint Slaing5309 || 01/19/2008 23:01 Comments || Top||



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