A car loaded with explosives and headed for a police station in northern Algeria exploded Tuesday after officers stopped the attack with bullets. At least three people were killed and 23 wounded, the Interior Ministry said.
Officers opened fire on a vehicle that was speeding toward the local police station in the town of Thenia, 60 kilometers (40 miles) east of Algiers. The vehicle exploded short of the building, leaving a 2-meter-wide (6.5-foot-wide) crater.
The explosion was the latest in a wave of attacks showing that Islamic fighters are regrouping in Algeria, where offensives by security forces and government amnesty offers had thinned the ranks of insurgents in recent years.
Meanwhile, a report Tuesday said police had arrested four people allegedly involved in planning the most serious recent attack: twin suicide bombings Dec. 11 in the Algerian capital that killed at least 37 people, 17 of them U.N. workers.
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Hundreds of students chanting "Death to America" protested Pakistan's support for the US-led war on terror, as the government vowed Tuesday that security forces would show "no leniency" in the escalating conflict with Islamic militants.
In the latest violence, a missile strike near the Afghan border destroyed a suspected militant hide-out and killed 12 people inside, local intelligence and government officials said.
In the southern city of Karachi, two police and three militants died in a fierce gunbattle, said Arif Ahmad Khan, the provincial home secretary. Khan said the dead included an Uzbek and Qasim Turi, a local militant leader wanted for his ties to the banned Sunni Muslim militant groups Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Jundullah, blamed for several attacks in Karachi - including a June 2004 assassination attempt on the regional army commander. Khan would not say who the slain Uzbek was and only said officers were still investigating.
"Just some Uzbek. Why do you ask?"
This article starring:
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QASIM TURI
Jundullah
Jundullah
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
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Call back when the headline is "Missile strike kills 120,000 Instantly Near Islamabad
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a missile strike near the Afghan border destroyed a suspected militant hide-out and killed 12 people inside
Only imperial stormtroopers are so precise.
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A hand grenade was lobbed at the residence of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on DI Khan-Bannu road at around 9pm on Tuesday. Rehman remained unharmed.
Wotta surprise.
Rehmans servant, Muhammad, told Daily Times that the explosion caused no damage as the grenade exploded outside the residences boundary wall. The JUI-F chief was at home at the time of the explosion, having just arrived from Saudi Arabia after performing Umrah. Local police chased the attacker, but he escaped into the darkness after firing shots at the police party.
Who'da ever expected such a thing?
He was last seen going in the direction of Shorkot area. Caretaker Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz had earlier stated that Maulana Fazlur Rehman was under threat of attacks from militants.
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Grenades are pretty cheap, still a pity this one was apparently wasted..
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Military officials said on Tuesday the Kohat Tunnel would be reopened for traffic soon and the army had full control of Darra Adam Khel.
Militants had occupied the Japanese-built Friendship Tunnel near Darra Adam Khel on Friday, blocking traffic between Peshawar and Kohat. Security forces re-captured the tunnel on Sunday, in a battle that according to the military left 24 militants dead and two security personnel injured. Security forces are consolidating their positions on the heights around Darra Adam Khel and efforts are being made to reopen the Kohat Tunnel as soon as possible, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Tuesday.
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After the killing of three levies personnel by local militants in Orakzai Agency on Saturday night, 18 tribes of the agency have decided to form a Lashkar (tribal army) against the Taliban to flush them out of the area, reported BBC Urdu on Tuesday.
A grand jirga of the 18 tribes was held in Ghuljoo, Orakzai Agency headquarters, on Monday morning, which was attended by around ten to fifteen thousand armed men.
I hear the drums a-drummin'!
Talking to BBC, head of Rabiakhel tribe Malik Zaman Shah said all tribes had unanimously decided not to give shelter to any militant in the area and any tribe breaching the pledge would be punished with Rs 10 million in fine and a hundred houses of the tribe would be burnt down.
Yeah, yeah. Whoopdy doo. They make the same resolution every January, and by April it's wall-to-wall Uzbeks.
End to fight: He said the jirga had also settled Islam Zona to temporarily end mutual enmities between the local tribes. The local tribes will, according to the decision, not fight each other until the area is cleared of militants.
"And then it's back to the usual festivities, punctuated by occasional halts to trade 9-year-old wives!"
Thousands of Pakistani forces are battling suspected militants in the tribal region bordering Afghanistan, where scores of militants and troops have died in clashes in recent weeks. Militants have stepped up attacks against government troops there.
This article starring:
Malik Zaman Shah
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I'm sure there were more tribes that were sick of the bullsh*t and intend to fight, but were scared to sign on publically. Some of the smaller clans are possibly more dangerous anyway.
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The Talibs will take a page from Iraq and attack the bigwigs at the top. Muslim leaders are always looking out for #1, so if they feel threatened personally, then they'll fold quickly enough.
Interesting that "any tribe breaching the pledge would be punished with Rs 10 million in fine and a hundred houses of the tribe would be burnt down.": kinda suspected that was what was required to get their attention.
After the killing of three levies personnel by local militants in Orakzai Agency on Saturday night, 18 tribes of the agency have decided to form a Lashkar (tribal army) against the Taliban to flush them out of the area, reported BBC Urdu on Tuesday.
IIRC, levies are "tax collectors" (i.e. collects the bigwig's 'cut'). Took hitting the bigwigs in the pocketbook for them to get serious.
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There's are article above the US finishing a new base in Afghanistan's Kunar province, just three kilometers from Bajaur Agency in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
Two rockets were fired on Peshawar on Tuesday, possibly from Khyber Agency, police said. No casualties were reported. One of the rockets landed in the Akhundabad area in the Pishtakhara Police Station precincts at around 7.55pm, said Pishtakhara Police SHO Fazl Maula. Operations SSP Mohammad Tahir told Daily Times one of the two rockets landed in the fields at Pishtakhara village and the other landed in the Sarband police precincts. He said it was not clear yet where the rockets had been fired from. These may have been fired from Khyber Agency, he added. The incidents of rockets being fired at the city have risen during the last several weeks. Recently, militants fired several rockets on Hayatabad, an affluent locality of the city, and 11 rockets on an army garrison on Warsak Road, a few kilometres from Mohmand Agency. On December 9, 2007, militants fired three rockets on a Pakistan Air Force base in the city. No casualties were reported in the incident.
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Police Tuesday claimed identifying a suspected suicide bomber who killed former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in an election campaign in December in adjacent Rawalpindi city. The suicide bomber, who blew himself up after another militant fired shots at Bhutto, has been identified as "Bilal" who comes from the Waziristan tribal region, along the Afghan border, news channels quoted police sources as saying.
This is approximately the same as identifying the killer as "Herb, from Nebraska.".
The ID has been made, said sources, after a lead provided by earlier arrested teenager suspect Aitzaz Shah, 15, [who] was arrested in the northwestern city of Dera Ismail Khan last week. The interior ministry confirmed that he has confessed as a member of the back-up group of suicide bombers who killed Bhutto.
"Dat's right! I dunnit and I'm glad!"
Another suspect, Sher Zaman, was also arrested on Aitzaz's tip-off. Police sources said that a team has already been dispatched to Nebraska the Waziristan region to interrogate Herb's Bilal's family, who has been shifted to Rawalpindi.
So why would the coppers head off for Wazoo if the family's already been shifted to Pindi? Prob'ly has something to do with something the Profit (May His Drip Clear Up) did. Or maybe the light's better in Wazoo.
Militants Tuesday attacked two paramilitary camps in North Waziristan tribal agency, bordering Afghanistan, wounding seven soldiers and setting ablaze a grid station, said officials. The gunmen assaulted Frontier Corps (FC) camp in Razmak area of the agency with rockets, security officials told KUNA.
They said the attack left five soldiers wounded, one of the them critically. An adjacent grid station was caught on fire, adding that the fire spread to other buildings as well causing huge property damage.
Forces launched retaliatory operation but militants managed to escape. Also, two soldiers were wounded when militants fired rockets at another FC camp in Miranshah, the main headquarters of the agency.
Five suspected Islamic militants of a banned extremist group were killed, four wounded and two arrested in over a five-hour long shootout with police and Rangers in Pakistan's southern Karachi port city.
The exchange of fierce fire started when a police team raided a house in Landhi district of the city on a tip-off that militants of an outlawed terrorist group were hiding there. Militants traded fire with police with small arms.
The shootout left two policemen killed and seven others wounded, said Akhtar Zamin, the caretaker interior minister of Sindh Province, while talking to media. He said five militants were killed and four were wounded. Two wounded militants were arrested while trying to escape, he said, adding that four women and three children were also arrested from the house.
Police sources said the militants are believed to be the members of Jundullah (Army of God), a Sunni Muslim organization that has close links with Al-Qaeda and involved in two assassination attempts on President Musharraf in 2003.
Just over one year after the surge officially began Coalition and Iraqi forces continue to pursue al Qaeda in Iraq. After al Qaeda has been driven from its havens in Baghdad and the surrounding belts regions, and most recently in Diyala, the city of Mosul has emerged as the latest battleground.
Al Qaeda is still is able to operate in Mosul, and maintains its only established supply line to Syria in the Mosul region, according to a December 2007 assessment of the terror group's capabilities by Multinational Forces Iraq. "In ... Mosul and the rest of Ninewa province we still have a very tough fight to go," said Major General Mark Hertling, the commander of Multinational Division North said in a press briefing on Jan. 22, just one day prior to a major attack in the city.
After a rash of suicide bombings and the destruction of an al Qaeda weapons factory that led to the death of more than forty civilians, the Iraqi government announced on Jan. 25 an offensive would be launched to drive al Qaeda from its northern haven.
"We have formed an operations centre in Ninewa (province) for a final war against Al-Qaeda and the remnants of the former (Saddam Hussein) regime," Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki said on January 25. "Today our forces are moving towards Mosul. What we have planned in Ninewa will be final. It will be a decisive battle."
The Iraqi forces committed to the Mosul operation have begun to arrive. "The first batches of Iraqi forces the government has promised to send to Ninewa have arrived and I am receiving them now as I speak," Major General Riad Jalal Tawfiq told Voices of Iraq.
Tawfiq stated "infantry and armor corps [are being deployed to Mosul] and they are enough to vanquish al Qaeda" in the region." Elements of the 9th Iraqi Army Division, which has an armored component, are being deployed to Mosul, Tawfiq said. Helicopters and armor are being sent north, a Defense Ministry spokesman said. Infantry elements are also being redeployed from Baghdad and Anbar provinces. The Iraqi Interior Ministry also called for a new 3,000-man police brigade to be formed in the province.
While Tawfiq declined to provide the number of forces, past deployments of Iraqi forces indicate what may be committed to the Mosul offensive. Based on past operations where a rapid reaction force was needed, the Iraqi military is likely to deploy an armored brigade from the 9th Iraqi Army Division, augmented infantry of about brigade strength, an Iraqi National Police brigade, and an element Iraqi Special Operations Force. An additional battalion or two of US forces may be deployed to operate in conjunction with Iraqi forces.
The Iraqi military has demonstrated the capability to deploy such a reaction force over the past six months. The deployment in Mosul is preceded by deployments in Basrah, Diwaniyah, and Diyala, where the security situations dictated a need for additional forces.
The Mosul deployment highlights the growing capacity of the Iraqi command to plan, deploy and support its forces on short notice. This is a capacity that was nearly non-existent just one year ago when the surge began, and represents the future of operations in Iraq as US forces begin to draw down.
The top U.S. commanders in northern Iraq, meanwhile, said Tuesday the battle to push al-Qaida out of its last urban stronghold would be a protracted "campaign for Mosul." The military leaders also discounted statements by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that Iraqi forces headed into Nineveh province would be conducting a "decisive" confrontation in a major attack to begin as soon as all units are in place.
"It is not going to be this climactic battle that I think is somewhat being portrayed in the press. It's going to be probably a slow process that fits into the clear hold and build strategy that we've used recently," said Maj. Gen. Mark P. Hertling, commander of Multi-National Division North.
In a telephone interview from Tikrit, Hertling said he was moving a considerable force of "enablers" into the province and Mosul, its capital. He would not disclose numbers, but said the move on Mosul had long been planned.
"I think the folks in the political arena who are saying what they're saying are doing it for a reason," he said in reference to comments by al-Maliki who has said he was massing forces toward Mosul for a showdown with al-Qaida.
Lt. Col. Michael Simmering, of the 3rd Armored Cavalry at Forward Operating Base Marez near Mosul, discounted reports that large numbers of al-Qaida foot soldiers had migrated to Mosul after heavy pressure from U.S. forces in central Iraq.
What's more, he said, the conflict in Mosul and the surrounding Nineveh province pits U.S. and Iraqi forces against a far more fractured insurgency than they have faced recently as they swept north from successes Baghdad and Anbar province in the west.
"The thing about the insurgency in Mosul is that there are many different facets. We have the Islamic Army, the Islamic State of Iraq, al-Qaida in Iraq and the 1920 Revolution Brigade, all vying for different things at this point," Simmering said.
"This is going to be a long, protracted push by coalition forces and more importantly by Iraqi security forces to re-establish security," Simmering said. "If you're looking for one big culminating event, you'll never quite see it. I call this the 'campaign for Mosul.'"
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And hopefully his Quicken account too.
BALAD, Iraq Iraqi Security Forces, advised by U.S. Special Forces detained an extremist leader and a terrorist financier in separate operations Jan. 27. In Safwan, Iraqi and U.S. Forces detained the leader of an extremist group believed to be responsible for mortar and explosive projectile attacks against Iraqi and Coalition Forces.
According to intelligence reports, the group is also responsible for weapons smuggling and attacks against Iraqi citizens.
In Mosul, Iraqi and U.S. Forces detained a terrorist financier believed to be involved in several attacks against Iraqi and Coalition Forces. Additionally, three persons of interest, believed to be associates of the terrorist financier, were detained. No Iraqi or U.S. Forces were injured during these operations.
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Good. I expect that shortly a sudden drop off of orc activity will follow.
I wonder where the money came from, tho?
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"So, where will that terrorist money go now that the bank appears closed in Mosul? Somewhere else in Iraq? Investment prospects for terrorist bankers seem dim in Iraq right now. Sunni investors have Pakistan, north Africa, and might be able to spread a little venture capital around in Europe. Just where would you get the most bang for your buck? It's enough to make a fella's head hurt. And the Shiites have it even tougher. Where, oh where, can we get the most blood? Pray to Allah that the Democrats win in November and the good times will return!".
(KUNA) -- Iraqi police said on Tuesday that at least 15 Iraqi civilians were injured after a suicide bombing that targeted a patrol of the multi-national force in the city of Mosul in northern Iraq. A source in the Iraqi police in the city of Mosul told KUNA that a car bomb driven by a suicide bomber exploded in a patrol of the multi-national force in Al-Baath suburb east of the city that resulted in the injury of 15 Iraqi civilians. It gave no details whether there were injuries among the patrol personnel.
Mosul Governor Duraid Kashmoula for his part said that 36 people were killed in the Al-Zanjili accident and 240 others were wounded last Wednesday.
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A female suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt hidden under her all-encompassing black robe at a checkpoint Tuesday in Baghdad, killing at least two women and wounding five, police said.
The attack occurred just after noon as women were being searched in a room before being allowed to enter a commercial street in the predominantly Sunni Amariyah neighborhood in southwest Baghdad, according to police officials.
Such checkpoints have been erected across Baghdad as US and Iraqi authorities have walled off entire neighborhoods as part of a security crackdown that has helped to bring the levels of violence in the capital down more than 50 percent. Women are usually searched separately by female guards because of Islamic sensitivities. The women attacked Tuesday were waiting at one of two entrances to the Amal al-Shaabi market district.
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The head of the panel investigating Israel's 2006 Lebanon conflict said Wednesday that the war ended without victory and the army did not provide an effective response to Hezbollah rocket fire.
Eliyahu Winograd, issuing the panel's final report, told a packed auditorium in Jerusalem investigators found "failures and shortcomings" in the country's political and military leadership during the conflict.
He also said a last-minute ground offensive in Lebanon failed because it did not improve Israel's position ahead of a cease-fire and added the army was not prepared for that battle.
More than 30 Israeli soldiers were killed in that offensive launched shortly before a U.N.-brokered truce went into effect. Olmert had come under severe criticism for ordering the battle, despite his contention that the offensive improved Israel's position before the cease-fire.
Maariv correspondent Amit Cohen reports in today's edition that many Gazans exploited the lack of familiarity of Egyptians with Israeli currency and paid for goods with play money.
"During the disengagement 100 and 200 [fake] Shekel notes were distributed in the Gaza Strip and sold to children," explain Marwan, a Gaza resident. "I saw with my own eyes how people exploited the heavy pressure and paid Egyptian traders with this money. On the third day the Egyptians already learned to check the currency." Marwan told Cohen that other Gazans paid with counterfeit dollars.
Issa, another Gazan told Cohen that the Egyptians sold food that was beyond
its expiration date.
I wouldn't put it past the Gazooks but this isn't confirmed.
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True or not, I'm ROTFLMAO! If it didn't actually happen, you just know that it's because they weren't thinking fast enough!
#2
seems like a fair trade: bad food for bad money.
of course if the wicked Joos hadn't turned off all the fuel and oil none of this would have happened.......
Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz on Monday filed an indictment against Sheikh Raed Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement's northern branch, charging him with incitement to violence and racism in a speech he made last year protesting the archeological dig carried out at the Old City's Mughrabi Gate. During his sermon in Jerusalem's Wadi Joz neighborhood on February 16 of last year, Salah urged supporters to start a third intifada in order to "save al-Aksa Mosque, free Jerusalem and end the occupation."
Salah's speech also attacked Jews, saying, "They want to build their temple at a time when our blood is on their clothes, on their doorsteps, in their food and in their drinks. Our blood has passed from one 'general terrorist' to another 'general terrorist.'" He also said, "We are not those who ate bread dipped in children's blood."
The head of Salah's team of lawyers, Khaled Zbarke, expressed outrage over the indictment and claimed that it had no basis in Israeli law. "This is a political indictment," he said. "All of the judicial means employed so far against Sheikh Raed Salah take advantage of the law for the political gain of keeping Salah away from Jerusalem and the walls of al-Aksa Mosque."
Salah's words do not constitute incitement to violence, Zbarke said, and proceeded to blame the "Israeli establishment" of perpetrating "criminal acts against al-Aksa Mosque."
"This indictment will not deter us, and we will continue to safeguard the path of Allah's messenger [Muhammad]... even if it is anathema to the occupying Israeli establishment," a spokesman for the Islamic Movement said. The Islamic Movement would withstand the indictment and "emerge victorious together with al-Aksa Mosque," he said.
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"They want to build their temple at a time when our blood is on their clothes, on their doorsteps, in their food and in their drinks.
Terrorists Separatist militants have killed three civilians and a local government official, amid growing violence in Thailand's restive south.
A local government official was killed in a drive-by shooting early Wednesday in the mainly Muslim province of Yala, along the southern border with Malaysia, police told AFP.
In nearby Pattani province, a security guard at a car showroom was shot and killed as he returned home from work following an overnight shift.
A 43-year-old man was discovered dead at his home in Yala, while another middle-aged man was gunned down in a drive-by attack in Narathiwat province.
Sri Lankas government said Tuesday its soldiers had advanced into territory held by the Tamil Tigers in the north of the island, with the death toll from two days of fighting at 69.
The rebels meanwhile accused the army of setting off a roadside bomb in the north that killed eight civilians and wounded 35. In the latest fighting, the defence ministry said its troops smashed 16 guerrilla bunkers in the district of Mannar on Tuesday and killed at least 22 rebels. Security forces also killed 45 rebels along the northern frontlines on Monday, the ministry said, putting its own losses at two soldiers dead and 10 wounded.
There was no immediate comment from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), but a pro-rebel website said the guerrillas were using booby-trapped devices and snipers against attacking troops. Sri Lanka Army triggered a Claymore mine targeting a school bus, the website said, adding that children were among the dead.
It said the attack took place on Tuesday afternoon in the Mannar area, and blamed a Sri Lankan army deep penetration unit - a small group of commandos that operates behind guerrilla lines. Since the beginning of January, the Sri Lankan defence ministry says its forces have killed 815 rebels for the loss of just 30 soldiers. Both sides are known to give wildly varying casualty figures which cannot be independently verified. The government bars reporters from visiting frontline areas and rebel-held territory.
Sri Lanka pulled out of a Norwegian-brokered truce with the rebels this month, underscoring its belief that it has the upper hand in the drawn-out conflict. Tens of thousands of people have died since the LTTE launched its campaign to carve out an independent homeland for minority Tamils in the majority Sinhalese nation in 1972.
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Iran expects to have its own nuclear-generated electricity by this time next year and will not bow to Western pressure to halt uranium enrichment, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday.
Ahmadinejad told a crowd in the southern city of Bushehr that Iran was approaching the peak of its nuclear programprograme.
Iran's planned first nuclear power plant is sited close to Bushehr. The plant would begin test operations by late October, a senior official said on Wednesday, two days after Russia completed fuel deliveries to the site.
The West suspects Iran's nuclear activities are ultimately aimed at building weapons. Iran, the world's fourth-largest crude oil producer, says it only wants to generate electricity so that it can export more of its oil and gas.
World powers last week agreed the outline of a third U.N. sanctions resolution against Iran, calling for mandatory travel bans and asset freezes for specific Iranian officials and vigilance on banks in the country.
Ahmadinejad said Iran would not halt its disputed uranium enrichment work, technology which can have both civilian and military purposes.
"If you (the West) imagine that the Iranian nation will back down you are making a mistake," he said in a televised speech.
"On the nuclear path we are moving towards the peak," he said without elaborating. " ... next year at this time ... nuclear electricity should flow in Iran's electricity network."
An official from Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation gave a more detailed timetable for the Bushehr plant.
"Test operations will start by October 22 and a little while after that Bushehr will become operational," Ahmad Fayyazbakhsh told reporters in Tehran.
Iran on Monday received the eighth and final consignment of nuclear fuel from Russia for the plant near Bushehr, less than two months after the first shipment.
Fayyazbakhsh, who heads the production and development unit of Iran's Atomic Energy Organisation, said he expected Russia to deliver remaining equipment for Bushehr in coming months.
"Out of 50,000 tonnes of equipment, some 1,900 tonnes including precision instruments and a ventilation system for Bushehr have yet to be delivered to Iran," he said.
The head of the Russian company building Bushehr, state-run Atomstroiexport, has been quoted as saying the facility would not be operational until at least the end of 2008.
Moscow and Washington say the Russian fuel deliveries should convince Tehran to shut down its uranium enrichment program, but Iran has refused to stop.
Iran says it needs to produce nuclear fuel domestically as it wants to build other power plants as part of a planned network with a capacity of 20,000 megawatts by 2020 to satisfy soaring electricity demand.
Enriched uranium can be used for making nuclear fuel and also, if refined much further, provide material for bombs.
Ahmadinejad called on Western powers to take part in building Iranian nuclear power plants.
"If you don't, this nation will build nuclear plants with the hands of its own scientists," he said. "The Iranian nation, without depending on you and without begging you, has today ... set up the complete cycle of fuel production."
#1
Out of 50,000 tonnes of equipment, some 1,900 tonnes including precision instruments and a ventilation system for Bushehr have yet to be delivered to Iran,"
Yep, when you stiff someone, they don't send you anymore without CASH FIRST.
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"This nation will build nuclear plants with the hands of its own scientists ... ...". > See IRAN-DAILY + TOPIX + BIG NEWS NETWORK for articles related to current nuke capabilities or achievements.
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2008, the YEAR OF DECISION etal., IS HERE. This is the Year more than any other which will decide the path of future OWG-NOW, i.e. ANTI-US/WEST versus PRO-, "STATUS QUO" TRADITIONALISM, NATION ONLY-CENTRICISM/CENTRISM versus GLOBALISM, FEDERALISM versus CENTRALISM, CONSTITUTIONALISM versus GOVTISM = "the PARTY", Liberatarianism + Civil Liberties + Diversity + Pluralism versus the State + Public Authority + HyperRegulation, etc.....................................@etc.
WOT > GOD/FAITH versus SECULARISM, WORLD PEACE versus INDIVIDUAL-PRIVATE LIBERTIES?
"ISLAMIST BOMB" > once achieved, the honeymoon = collusion between ANTI-US SECUL SOCIALIST + GOD/FAITH BASED ISLAMIST-RADIC SOCIALIST WILL BE OVER. *E.g. TOPIX > CENTRAL ASIAN MUSLIMS MIGRATE TO RUSSIA.
RUSSIA knows this already as per RIAN > RUSSIAN ARMY PREPARES FOR NUCLEAR ONSLAUGHT, espec vv Radical Islamist-Muslim Terror groups.
Military police have begun investigations into Sunday's incidents that left seven people killed in violent riots in Beirut's southern suburbs. A security source said the probe "will continue very seriously and quickly to uncover the circumstances" of the deaths.
He said outcome of the investigation will be formally announced "so that measures against the military institution as well as against those proven to be involved in beyond-the-limit acts can be taken."
A judicial source, meanwhile, said the army has detained 50 and arrested 23 suspects pending investigation. The source said there was no confirmation that snipers were involved in Sunday's incidents despite the fact that some people were arrested from rooftops. He said investigators were trying to determine whether a "third party" was involved in the shootings and raised fear that the use of gunfire was intended to stir up trouble on the ground.
Prime Minister Fouad Siniora labeled the eight victims who fell in Sunday's unrest "martyrs of the entire nation." Information Minister Ghazi Aridi urged the various political factions to "be aware of the delicate period the country was going through." He said after a late Monday ministerial meeting that the government backs both security forces and the army command, adding that the cabinet was awaiting outcome of the investigations. Aridi said no mercy will be shown to those found responsible for the shootings Sunday.
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I won't. Why should I? I don't feel bad about stepping on cochroaches.
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The other side says, "You better watch it, fella."
Im watching, I'm watching.
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Poor cockroaches - - compared to islamists. Oh, the shame...
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This is a great loss for Hollywood! New Batman movie
is coming out with his great performance yet! Drug are bad! Rest in Peace Heath!! Angel2008
it's too sad :(
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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A car loaded with explosives and headed for a police station in northern Algeria exploded Tuesday after officers stopped the attack with bullets. At least three people were killed and 23 wounded, the Interior Ministry said. 
Hundreds of students chanting "Death to America" protested Pakistan's support for the US-led war on terror, as the government vowed Tuesday that security forces would show "no leniency" in the escalating conflict with Islamic militants. 
A hand grenade was lobbed at the residence of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman on DI Khan-Bannu road at around 9pm on Tuesday. Rehman remained unharmed. 
After the killing of three levies personnel by local militants in Orakzai Agency on Saturday night, 18 tribes of the agency have decided to form a Lashkar (tribal army) against the Taliban to flush them out of the area, reported BBC Urdu on Tuesday.
Police Tuesday claimed identifying a suspected suicide bomber who killed former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in an election campaign in December in adjacent Rawalpindi city. The suicide bomber, who blew himself up after another militant fired shots at Bhutto, has been identified as "Bilal" who comes from the Waziristan tribal region, along the Afghan border, news channels quoted police sources as saying.
Five suspected Islamic militants of a banned extremist group were killed, four wounded and two arrested in over a five-hour long shootout with police and Rangers in Pakistan's southern Karachi port city.
The shootout left two policemen killed and seven others wounded, said Akhtar Zamin, the caretaker interior minister of Sindh Province, while talking to media. He said five militants were killed and four were wounded. Two wounded militants were arrested while trying to escape, he said, adding that four women and three children were also arrested from the house.
A female suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt hidden under her all-encompassing black robe at a checkpoint Tuesday in Baghdad, killing at least two women and wounding five, police said. 
Maariv correspondent Amit Cohen reports in today's edition that many Gazans exploited the lack of familiarity of Egyptians with Israeli currency and paid for goods with play money.
Attorney-General Menahem Mazuz on Monday filed an indictment against Sheikh Raed Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement's northern branch, charging him with incitement to violence and racism in a speech he made last year protesting the archeological dig carried out at the Old City's Mughrabi Gate. During his sermon in Jerusalem's Wadi Joz neighborhood on February 16 of last year, Salah urged supporters to start a third intifada in order to "save al-Aksa Mosque, free Jerusalem and end the occupation." 
Sri Lankas government said Tuesday its soldiers had advanced into territory held by the Tamil Tigers in the north of the island, with the death toll from two days of fighting at 69.
