One of the founders of outlawed New Biplobi Communist Party (NBCP) was killed yesterday in a shootout between police and his cohorts at Dakshin Mulgram village in Kushtia.
I still don't know the difference between a New Biplobi and an Old Biplobi.
The dead was identified as Akdil Hossain, 57, known as Buro among his group members.
Who shall remain nameless.
Akdil became the acting chief of the banned outfit after the death of NBCP leader Monoranjan Goshai alias Mrinal who was allegedly 'killed' in India last year.
Once you've been "killed" you're "dead." Then you start to "rot."
Police said acting on a tip off, ...
... thanks to Mahmoud the Weasel ...
... they cordoned off a sugarcane field at Dakshin Mulgram village in Kumarkhali upazila, ...
... no, we don't know where that is ...
... where the activists of NBCP were holding a secret meeting at about 3:30am.
Now that's the time for a shoot-out!
When the law enforcers asked the outlaws to surrender, ...
..."Hokay you mugs, toss the heat and getyermitts in da air!" ...
... they fired on the cops prompting them to retaliate.
More aimless fire, and you know what happens next ...
Akdil was killed in the half-an-hour long shootout ...
... "rosebud!" [rattle] ...
... while his cohorts managed to escape.
As if they were never there in the first place ...
Police recovered a shutter gun and eight rounds of bullet from the spot.
Police recovered a shutter gun and eight rounds of bullet from the spot.
The one and only shutter gun, don't leave home without it.
But Akdil's relatives said a team of plainclothes policemen arrested Akdil while he was purchasing goods at a shop at Rayerbazar in the capital at about 2:30pm on Wednesday.
Just minding his own bidness ...
Sources said Akdil went on the lam took shelter in his area after the state of emergency was imposed in the country.
Akdil' nephew Matiur Rahman Mati, also a close aide of the leader of the outlawed outfit, on Wednesday told a few journalists that police had arrested his uncle.
"We got yer uncle, Matiur. You're next!"
Police said Akdil, who hailed from Dakshin Mulgram village of Kumarkhali upazila, got involved in criminal activities in 1975 after joining Biplobi Communist Party (BCP).
Funny how 'criminal' and 'Communist' just seem to go together ...
Akdil tried to establish his supremacy in the area by eliminating his rivals including Jasad Gono Bahini (JGB) leaders. He killed about 16 people including leaders of BNP and Awami League.
Acts like a commie, too ...
Police said Akdil had been accused on twelve systems in 18 cases on different charges including murder. Akdil's first victim was JGB leader Sher Ali who was murdered in 1986. He killed JGB leader Billal at Mulgram in 1992 and two other leaders of the party, Mojibar and Ukil in 1997.
Five JGB activists -- Kajol, Jasim, Moslem, Manirul and Zia -- were killed by Akdil's followers in a gunfight at Mukshitpur Char in 1996. BNP leader Sadar Uddin was murdered in 1995 while three of his party men, Faruq, Laltu and Badal were killed in 1997 at his hand.
Besides, he was involved in the killings of JGB leaders Mozammel and Wahab, college teacher Mahbubur Rahman Ripon in 2004 and hotel manager Joygopal in June, 2004.
"Attaboy, Akdil. Thanks for killing all those commies for us. Now we just want to 'talk' with you."
With the help of Mrinal, Akdil formed New Biplobi Communist Party (NBCP) in 1998. Akdil, who was the second-in-command of the outfit, managed to constitute a group of about 500 armed cadres. At least 200 people including leaders and activists of different political parties, and businessmen were killed at the hands of NBCP cadres in ten south-western districts in the last eight years.
About 50 NBCP men were also killed in 'crossfire' between the outlaws and law enforcers in the last three years in the region.
Almost but not quite makes up for the 200 innocents they killed ...
Akdil grabbed 300 acres of land at Mukshitpur, Komorbhog and Raipur Char in 1997 and distributed those among his followers who still collect extortion money from the inhabitants of the chars. He also had been involved in abduction, robbery and other criminal activities in Khoksa, Kumarkhali and sadar upazila of Kushtia, Pangsha and Baliakandi in Rajbari, and Sailkupa in Jhenidah.
Sources said police and Rab members had conducted around 40 drives to arrest Akdil in last few years but failed.
They only had to get lucky once ...
I love a story with a happy ending
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ahhh... finally the long awaited return of the shutter gun
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youze could tell the college teacher was an elitist asshole academic, he had three names
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Police recovered a shutter gun and eight rounds of bullet from the spot.
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I still don't know the difference between a New Biplobi and an Old Biplobi.
New Biplobis have the 1.8 liter engine and the sat radio is standard equipment instead of an option.
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New Biplobis have the 1.8 liter engine and the sat radio is standard equipment instead of an option.
No, no, no! The old Biplobi commies wore green turbans. The New Biplobi added a yellow racing stripe. Mahmoud the Weasel wears one of them checkered towels.
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Good one, OP!
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Iwoder if the Biplobi Commies and the Purba Bangla Commies take turns diming each other out?
The Bishop of Rochester is under police protection after receiving death threats following his claims that parts of Britain are 'no-go areas' for non-Muslims.
Sorta proves his point, doesn't it?
The Right Reverend Michael Nazir-Ali accused Islamic extremists of making it harder for those who are not Muslims to live or work in some areas of the country. He also blamed the "multi-faith mish-mash" promoted by the Government for undermining the influence of Christianity. His comments earlier this month infuriated Islamic groups, who accused him of whipping up hatred against Muslims.
So they want to kill him.
While away in India, Dr Nazir-Ali's staff took a number of calls at his Rochester home threatening both him and his family, warning that the bishop would not "live long" if he continued to criticise Islam, according to The Times. Kent Police said they are taking the threats "seriously" and have given the bishop an emergency number and other protection.
Speaking to The Times, Dr Nazir-Ali, who is Britain's only Asian bishop, said: "The irony is that I had similar threats when I was a bishop in Pakistan, but I never thought I would have them here. My point in saying what I did was that Britain had lost its Christian vision, which would have provided the resources to offer hospitality to others."
This absence of a Christian vision had led to multiculturalism in Britain claimed the bishop. He added: "Everyone agrees that multiculturalism has had disastrous consequences, and that segregation and extremism have arisen from this."
Following his comment, the bishop says he has received overwhelming support. He said: "I have had 1,000 letters, and 95 per cent have been supportive. There is no point in being in denial. We have to face the consequences."
Speaking earlier this week, Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, said Christian Muslim relations in Britain are currently in a "very good place".
"We're just about to surrender, you just can't get into a better place than that."
Asked if Dr Nazir-Ali's comments on no-go areas were helpful, he said his statement "gives a very unfortunate impression". He added: "I think because it was taken in a very, very negative sense it had a difficult impact in lots of urban settings."
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There are no go areas for whites all over the USA but 90% of academia, the cultural elitists and Media Types refuse to admit it or or address it by shouting the facts away.
IOW we have all the same elements here all over America [to a lesser extent perhaps] that will deny hostile Muslim areas like they already deny the Mesicans La Raza Gang infested neighborhoods, or the Black Crips and Bloods 'hoods.
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#8 Does anyone have links for no-go areas in the USA? One would think there'd be blogs about that.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2008-02-02 14:57
USMC Recruiting Center, Berkeley California. Commie Pinkos in chains.
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Just like I said last week, we are in a war of survival.
As the Muslim extremists would have it, its their way or the highway. OR we have to stand for our way of life.
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Excal - I think I can come up with the plans for a 260lb pull crossbow and darts, if you think you need it. I'm sure there are still some good English Yew available, and God knows, you've got enough pigeons for flensing.
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A police raid in Pakistan's northwest Saturday triggered a shootout that killed three officers and a terrorist militant and led the jihadis insurgents to use women and children as human shields, officials said.
The fighting occurred in Mardan town, about 30 miles northeast of Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province, when officers surrounded a house and asked the occupants to surrender, said Abdul Qayyum, a local police official. He would not say what prompted the raid, but said the terrorists militants were using assault rifles and that the way they resisted showed they were well trained. "They have killed three of our policemen, while we killed at least one militant," he said.
Abdullah Khan, another police official, said the militants were using some residents including women and children - as human shields and fired without regard for civilians. Neither official would identify the suspects.
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in a sane world, one that had not entered Alice's wonderland, the media would actually report incidents like this due to the level of barbarity and danger they represent. They would report this and all of the other daily slaughter of innocent civilians by crazed fanatics. But no. Instead we get flushed Korans at Guantanamo. Must be how it was in 1930's Germany. Normal people reading the news, shaking their heads and wondering where sanity went and why so many of the masses just go along with the flow.
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and by "actually report", I mean giving the incidents the exposure they deserve rather than white-washing them and placing them on page A21 in 8 pt font.
Security forces arrested three close aides of local Taliban commander Maulana Fazlullah during a search operation at Kanju checkpost, sources told Daily Times on Friday. Tazamin alias Abu Mursad, Sher Nawaz alias Abu Sufian and Matiullah alias Abu Zar were shifted to an undisclosed location for interrogation, they added. Late Thursday night, security forces fired artillery shells at suspected militant hideouts in Piyochar, Manja and Tota Bandi when they were informed about militants presence there. Five houses were partially damaged in the shelling, however no casualties were reported.
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Eight close aides of militant commander Fazlullah were released on bail on Friday, Aaj TV reported. It said the men had surrendered to security forces with their weapons in Kabal area of Swat after persuasion by locals. The men are: Anwar Zada, M Siraj, Fazal Hadi, Dilawar Hussain, M Iqbal, Mumtaz, Fazal Akbar and Khaleelur Rehman.
Why bother catching them in the first place?
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Security personnel raided the Quetta residence of Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Khair Baksh Marri early on Friday and whisked away his watchman, a Marri tribe spokesman said.
The Organisation for Marri Unity spokesman said plainclothesmen were also among the team that arrived in 30 vehicles and searched the room of Nawab Marris son Nawabzada Herbyair Marri, who is currently detained in the UK. The security personnel damaged many household articles during the raid. They blindfolded and whisked away the security guard after failing to find anything illegal from the house, the spokesman said. He alleged that the raid was carried out on the instructions of intelligence agencies to defame the Baloch leadership. Biburg Baloch, a spokesman for the banned Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), confirmed the raid, and said that security forces had started a new military operation in the Marri areas wherein dozens of people have been killed, several injured and a large number of the Marri tribesmen have been whisked away.
Security forces have been bombing the Kahan area. Ground troops are also operating in the Marri areas. Unarmed Baloch people are being victimised, he told Daily Times via satellite phone from an unknown location. He said the BLA would react to the recent incidents. There is no reality in the governments claim that insurgents camps have been eradicated. For the past four years, the government has been claiming that it had destroyed 63 camps of Baloch freedom fighters and that only 3 to 4 are still operating, he said, adding that the BLAs operation had been expanded across the province. However, there was no official confirmation about the raid on Nawab Marris house or the ground operations in the Marri areas.
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A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a security checkpost in North Waziristan on Friday, killing six people, officials said.
The attack comes three days after a missile attack in Mir Ali town that killed top Al Qaeda commander Abu Laith Al-Libi. It was a suicide attack on a security checkpost in which three tribal policemen and two paramilitary soldiers [died], military spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas told Daily Times. Eight others were injured, he added.
19 dead: Local administration sources said 19 people including nine Frontier Corps soldiers died in the attack. They said a number of tribal policemen (Khasadars) and civilians were also killed. Security forces fired artillery shells at several hilltops after the attack, they added.
The targeted Kajhori checkpost is 30 kilometres east of Miranshah and 15 kilometres from the site of Mondays missile attack in Khushali village near Mir Ali. Neither Islamabad nor Washington owned the missile attack but residents of Mir Ali said unmanned US spy drones were seen before the incident.
The army spokesman said it was too early to suggest that the attack on Kajhori checkpost was a reaction to Mondays missile attack. The explosion was so huge that it was heard a long way from the checkpost, local shopkeepers in Mir Ali said. It shook the earth.
Forty-two soldiers were killed in an attack on an army training centre in Dargai days after a similar missile attack on a madrassa in Bajaur in 2006 in which over 80 students were killed. At least 800 people have been killed in suicide attacks in Pakistan in the last 12 months. Many of the attacks have targeted the security forces.
Roadside bomb: In South Waziristan, two soldiers were wounded in a roadside blast targeting a military convoy, a military spokesman told Reuters. AFP said the blast occurred just outside Wana town. South Waziristan is the stronghold of wanted militant commander Baitullah Mehsud, who has been accused by Pakistani and US officials of masterminding the assassination of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.
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NEW DELHI:A militant organisation backed by Bangladeshi terrorist outfit Harkat Ul-Jehadi Islam (HuJI) is suspected to be behind the two low-intensity blasts that rocked Lado Sarai in Malviya Nagar late on Thursday. A similar explosion was reported near IIT Gate on January 16. The police said that no one was hurt in the blast though sources claimed that two persons suffered minor injuries and were given first aid treatment.
Meanwhile, hours after the blasts security agencies are still groping in the dark about the nature of the explosives and what triggered the blasts. Samples from the sites have been sent to forensic labs. A case under the Explosive Act has been registered at Malviya Nagar police station.
According to the police, the two blasts were reported within a few minutes on Thursday night. The first bomb went off around 10.45 pm near Police Training College (PTC) in Malviya Nagar while the second blast was reported some 50 metres away at Lado Sarai near petrol pump at 10.48 pm. As a result of the blast, three cars, including a Toyota Corolla, Wagon R and another SUV, on the road lost control and later collided with the pavement.Bomb disposal squad and sniffer dogs were pressed into the service immediately after the blast.
The police have taken the custody of the two cars which had been damaged to study the nature of the blast. "The corolla car with two occupants was going towards Mehrauli. When the car reached near Lado Sarai petrol pump, the driver heard a loud explosion and stopped his car," said a senior police officer. "Hey! WTF was that?"
Initially, he though that his tyre had burst but when he stepped out he found around 150 nails in the body of his car near the rear tyre. He later informed the police, added the officer. Fragmentation bomb. He got lucky.
While the cops were trying to solve the mystery of the blasts, another call came from PTC Malviya Nagar where a similar explosion was reported. The car had one occupant. The windscreen of the car at the back side was broken in which the car occupant was injured. Eyewitnesses said that there was another car which was also damaged by the explosion but the car did not stop.
The cops are now trying to trace the vehicle. Samples collected from the spot and nails have been sent for examination. "It is still not known what trigered the explosion. So far, we suspect that the blast was caused due to pressure as it happened in the blast near IIT. All three blasts seem to have some connection," added one of the investigating officers.
The Malviya Nagar police are examining the occupants of the car and Shivnath Kumar, who was injured in the first blast reported a fortnight back, too has been called for examination. The cops are also studying similar explosions reported in 2003. "In the 2003 blasts too, a similar pattern was observed. The case is still being probed," added a senior officer. Few suspects were being interrogated till late in the night.
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A Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militant was killed in an encounter at Tangbal in the Yaripora area of Kulgam district on Friday. The encounter started in the morning when a police search party came under fire from militants hiding in a house in the village, Superintendent of Police Swayam Prakash Pani said. The search operation was continuing as one more militant was believed to be still hiding in the village, he said.
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Meanwhile, the newsmen were shown the lethal ammunitions and arms seized by the security forces from the hideouts, caves and possessions of the militants from various localities of law less town during exchange of bloody skirmishes. The long and short range arms and ammunition seized by the security forces included SPG-9 with range of 1000 meters, SBRL, two Islamic Jehadi CDs, NBC (Nuclear Biological Chemical) face mask, rocket launchers, two-suicide jackets with detonators, bullets of different bore rifles, huge cache of chemicals used in IED devices, 14.5m gun, heavy and light machine-guns and anti-aircraft guns etc.
The Kohat Friendship Tunnel will be opened for light traffic by Friday evening and heavy traffic will restart plying in a month time after repair of the damages caused to the tunnel by the miscreants during recent operation, Air Commodore (R) Nayyar Qayyum, Manager Operation and Maintenance Kohat Tunnel said.
"The engineers have declared the structure safe," he told reporters of print and electronic media at the site of the tunnel. The ISPR had arranged a detail trip for the newsmen to inform them about the latest situation in the restive Darra Adamkhel town here Friday.
One third of its portion from the north side was badly damaged when militants had blown up two explosive laden vehicles inside the tunnel on Friday last, he added. The security forces were moved to the Darra Adamkhel to restore the government's writ after the militants hijacked the ammunition trucks of the security forces, closed the tunnel for traffic after capturing it and taken law into their hands by disturbing routine life of the local population. The security forces recaptured the tunnel on January 27, 2008.
Nayyar said that more than 60 Japanese's lights and cables inside the tunnel were destroyed due to severe explosions. Assessment of damages has been completed last night and would be presented before the concerned quarters shortly. He said that millions of rupees would be required for repair and maintenance of the tunnel. "We are in close contact with the Japan's authorities to get their generous assistance in order to refurbish its original beauty." He said that efforts would be made to repair the damaged bridge near the tunnel and emergency building.
The tunnel was made operational in May 2003 and was constructed with the financial and technical assistance of the Japanese Government with an estimated cost of Rs.5.15 billion. Nayyar said, tough security arrangements had been made around the tunnel to avoid any untoward incident.
Meanwhile, the newsmen were shown the lethal ammunitions and arms seized by the security forces from the hideouts, caves and possessions of the militants from various localities of law less town during exchange of bloody skirmishes. The long and short range arms and ammunition seized by the security forces included SPG-9 with range of 1000 meters, SBRL, two Islamic Jehadi CDs, NBC (Nuclear Biological Chemical) face mask, rocket launchers, two-suicide jackets with detonators, bullets of different bore rifles, huge cache of chemicals used in IED devices, 14.5m gun, heavy and light machine-guns and anti-aircraft guns etc.
Tribal elder Malik Javed Khan and Malik Haji Ammanullah Khan told reporters that tribesmen were fed up with the militants activities in Darra Adamkhel. He said that they don't know about the identity of militants but they had destroyed peace of the Darra Adamkhel. Malik Javed said that militancy had created a very bad impact on their business and routine life in Dara.
Tribal elder Malik Javed Khan and Malik Haji Ammanullah Khan told reporters that tribesmen were fed up with the militants activities in Darra Adamkhel. He said that they don't know about the identity of militants but they had destroyed peace of the Darra Adamkhel. Malik Javed said that militancy had created a very bad impact on their business and routine life in Dara.
Haji Amanullah Khan who belonged to Akhurwal tribe said that peace committees are being established at village and Mohallah level to discourage elements supporting militancy and to flush them out from their areas.
Hailing from Afridi tribe, he said that peace and normalcy are gradually returning to Darra Adamkhel after the arrival of security forces. The tribal elders said that people are fully cooperating with the security forces as they have great desire for peace and tranquility in their area, which was a peace, abode till the recent past. Haji Amanullah Khan who belonged to Akhurwal tribe said that peace committees are being established at village and Mohallah level to discourage elements supporting militancy and to flush them out from their areas. He said that normalcy was gradually returning back to the Dara Adamkhel and migrated people are coming back in large number.
Meanwhile, the authorities have restored light traffic via Kotal in the shape of convoy.
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"We are in close contact with the Japan's authorities to get their generous assistance in order to refurbish its original beauty." He said that efforts would be made to repair the damaged bridge near the tunnel and emergency building.
Five separatist insurgents including a top commander of Pakistan-based Hizbul Mujaheedin (HM) were killed in separate encounters in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir Friday.
In north Kashmir's Drusoo village four insurgents -- Abu Shams, Arshid, Aslam and Hameed all belonging to Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba were killed in an encounter with the Indian paramilitary force today, news agency Indo Asian News Service reported.
In another incident in south Kashmirs in Kulgam district -- Rahool Bhat, a "self-styled battalion commander" of HM was killed by the Indian Army today, the news agency said. Cab fare One AK-47 rifle and two magazines were recovered from the encounter site.
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From a 2003 interview with Gary Saxena, Governor of Jammu and Kashmir State
The Indian Army and paramilitary forces have seized over 25,000 Kalashnikovs, 325 sniper rifles, 1,000 machines guns, 1,800 rocket propelled grenade launchers, 4,000 rocket launchers, 10,000 land mines, 50,000 hand grenades, 30 tonnes of explosives, 7.5 tonnes of RDX, 10,000 revolver pistols and 4,000 wireless sets.
This speaks about the kind of assistance terrorists groups have been getting from Inter Services Intelligence.
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CAMP STRIKER Raids in Shubayshen and Qarghuli led Rakkasan Soldiers to the discovery of massive caches Jan. 30.
Acting on a tip from a local Iraqi citizen, the Iraqi Army partnered with Soldiers from 3rd Platoon, Company D, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and found caches including dozens of rockets and rocket-propelled grenade rounds.
After noticing strange behavior from a citizen deemed upstanding in the community, 1st Lt. Keenan Ellison, 3rd Platoon leader, Co. D, 3-187th Inf., approached the man to see what was wrong. Within hours, several individuals were detained and a stockpile of explosives and bomb-making materials were taken off the streets.
The most interesting aspect was the location of one of the caches a chicken coop. Somehow that fits with people that blow up pet markets. Check the baby duck ponds and fuzzy bunny houches.
The ground in the chicken coup wasnt right; the soil was loose, almost like sawdust, Ellison said. We gently and carefully dug through it with our hands until we hit the jackpot.
The platoon leader said jackpot was almost an understatement, as they unearthed a 20-pound bag of homemade explosives, switches, conductors, Bulgarian rockets, four RPG launchers, 66 RPG rockets, fuses, 30 RPG propellant rods, a container of RPG parts, eight fragmentary grenades, 27 81mm mortar rounds, 44 60mm mortar rounds, and various other ammunition and explosives paraphernalia.
An extra vehicle was needed to carry all of the munitions.
IA troops and Soldiers from 3rd and 4th Platoons, Co. D, 3-187th Inf., conducted a raid on surrounding houses to find those responsible for the cache. The troops set up inner and outer cordons and Iraqi Soldiers quickly interrogated and gathered intelligence.
The 3rd and 4th Platoons alternated houses until the individual responsible was located. Confronted with intelligence gathered from his neighbors, the individual confessed to storing the weapons and was detained. He was the one with chicken shit tracked all over his house.
Without the IA we would have failed, said 1st Lt. Phil Schupp, 4th Platoon leader. Their language abilities allowed them to interrogate individuals at each house we raided and gather the intelligence for the next house to target. If we only had our one interpreter we would have failed to move quickly enough to catch the insurgent; its that simple.
The units leadership said the raid was an example of how IA and Coalition Force partnership should function.
The trust that weve build with the locals laid the foundation for this, and our partnership with the IA made our victory complete, allowing us to catch the insurgent as well as taking the munitions from their arsenal, said Capt. Frank Castro, commander of Co. D, 3-187th Inf., 3rd BCT 101st Abn. Div. (AASLT).
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Also note that they didn't mention blowing the stuff up. They probably have special instruction if they find certain items. Note they mentioned Bulgarian rockets. Intel is probably very interested in the origins of said rockets.
Coalition forces capture criminal Special Groups facilitator, detain two other suspects
BAGHDAD Coalition forces captured a suspected criminal Special Groups finance facilitator and detained two other suspects early this morning during operations to disrupt criminal networks in the Baghdad area.
The targeted individual was reportedly in charge of payroll for criminal Special Groups in Wasit Province, and oversaw all criminal Special Groups operations in Suwayrah, Numaniyah, Aziziyah and Kut. He allegedly financed criminals and their attacks against Iraqi and Coalition forces. Reports indicate he was an associate of several senior-level criminal element leaders involved in attacks on Coalition forces.
Intelligence led ground forces to the target area where they captured the wanted individual and the two other suspected criminals without incident.
Special Groups that refuse to honor al-Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadrs cease-fire pledge are a threat to public safety that cannot be tolerated, said Cmdr. Scott Rye, MNF-I spokesman. Iraqi and Coalition forces will continue to target these rogue elements, disrupt their networks and bring them to justice.
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"Special Groups" sounds too euphemistic, like they are trying to conceal who the enemy are. And while they imply they are Sadrist splinters, I suspect that they have Iranian backing, supply, support, leadership, training, etc.
Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch has spent years thinking about the war in Iraq, both as a senior strategist in 2005 and now as a division commander. He has seen strategies, missions and buzzwords come and go, but he now believes U.S. commanders finally have a feel for the battlefield.
Two years ago, U.S. forces thought the best way to help Iraq was to hand over the country as soon as possible, he said in an Associated Press interview. From 2005-2006 Lynch was in charge of communications and convincing Sunni leaders to support the new government.
"When we were doing all of our planning back then, we were convinced we could have a gradual withdrawal of coalition forces and the Iraqi security forces would stand up," the general said at the headquarters of the 3rd Infantry Division in Baghdad on Friday.
Then came the February 2006 destruction of the Golden Mosque, a site revered by Shiites, which set off weeks of horrific sectarian violence. Two suicide bombers killed 99 people in Baghdad on Friday, but there was no indication the attacks were connected to the anniversary of the mosque attack, observed on Friday.
"Everything changed," Lynch said. "The mission changed from transition to securing the population."
When Gen. David Petraeus, the top commander in Iraq, decided he needed more troops, Lynch's 3rd Infantry Division was the first to send soldiers in early 2007.
"The surge gave us the combat power to take the fight to the enemy," Lynch said. He cited a Jan. 10 battle in Arab Jabour where U.S. bombers dropped 40,000 pounds of bombs in 10 minutes to clear an insurgent stronghold.
U.S. troops have built 50 new bases south of Baghdad where they live full time instead of commuting from massive bases in western Baghdad as they had in the past, Lynch said.
"Once you're there, the local citizens come forward and ask two questions: `Are you gonna stay?' If the answer is yes, they say: `How can we help?'"
That is how U.S. forces began recruiting local men to help provide security and rebuild towns, Lynch said. Variously known as Awakening Councils, Concerned Local Citizens or the Sons of Iraq, Lynch said he now has 32,000 Iraqi civilians on his payroll manning 1,500 new checkpoints, in addition to the more than 20,000 Iraqi soldiers and police under his control.
He rejected criticism that these groups reinforce sectarian division or tribal loyalties. He said the groups are based on where they live not on their religion or clan and payments are made directly to individuals, not tribal leaders.
The military has also adopted a large, aggressive information campaign.
"You can secure the population, but if they do not perceive they are secure, you have not accomplished your mission. That's where information operations become so important," Lynch said.
The division produces a glossy, hard-backed coffee table book full of color photos showing smiling children, helpful U.S. soldiers and professional Iraqi forces. Lynch said he is also setting up radio stations and newspapers to complement a national campaign that includes television commercials showing brave Iraqi civilians overwhelming brutal insurgents through sheer numbers.
Lynch said while there are still Iraqi political problems at the national level, at the grass roots there is a growing movement to end the fighting and get on with life. His division has recorded a 74 percent drop in monthly attacks, an 81 percent drop in civilian casualties and an 85 percent drop in coalition casualties since May 2007. Yeah, but it seems Sadr is back from vacation. Time to go stomp him flat now since he just can't play nice.
He said that the recent progress could still be lost, but that U.S. commanders finally had a good feel for the battlefield and how to defeat the insurgency.
"We've always said that the only way we are going to win this counterinsurgency fight in Iraq is through the people of Iraq," he said. "If they perceive security, they are going to continue to move in the right direction."
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The biggest success and failure of Iraq should be long remembered.
That is, the biggest success was with our military showing the Iraqi military the right way of doing things. The willingness to say "You are doing it wrong. Now do it right." The same with rewriting their economy under J. Paul Bremer.
This contrasts with our biggest failure: allowing the political side of Iraq to do things *their* way. Their way was wrong and remains wrong, and if they fail, it will be precisely because we didn't make them do it the right way.
To start with, we should have changed their legal system, from the French-based Civil Code, which has failed even in France; to the Common Law based system used in the US, and what used to be the law in England.
Second was that *we* should have written their constitution, and made them live under it as long as we stayed in country. As we did with the Japanese, who after a few years, adapted very well to MacArthur's hand crafted gift, and left it almost untouched to the modern day.
We could have done this by sitting down with the major players and reaching a fair middle ground that all would tolerate, if not like because it didn't give them an unfair advantage. All their major issues would have been settled right from the start, instead of argued ad infinitum.
Had we done so, oil money would now be flowing over the countryside, instead of snarled up in red tape and squabbles in Baghdad. Their court system would have promptly tried and executed villains, and Sunni, Shiite and Kurd would be blending together instead of segregating.
Granted, there would still have been a lot of problems. But they would be quickly solved, not just endlessly argued.
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Biggest fuckup is organizing elections based on party slate, not individual districts. So instead of having several hundred little Saddams, each with a power base but no chance of taking over, we have a few party caliphs who control who gets legislative and cabinet seats and control large amounts of money. Each of whom thinks they have a good chance of engineering a coup. I give it 5 years after US troops leave before a dictatorship is takes over.
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Ed, ever hear abown sows ears & silk purses? No amount of social engineering can work in MME.
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The lists can be undercut, if any party has the cahones. Designate ridings of any workable size and shape, find/select good local candidates, and commit to voters that your list will seat those who obtain the best results. E.g.: if your total vote qualifies your list for 50 seats, you seat the 50 candidates on your list with the highest % of local support.
This gives local voters incentives to vote both based on a guarantee of known local representation and the desire to move their guy as far up your list as possible, plus make the seating call reach as deep as possible.
Any party could do this; I've suggested it to the Fadhils' IPDP.
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Brilliant, Brian H. I'm sure we'll see changes as the Iraqis mature politically.
Um, no. Violence did not flare when the Brits fired BACK. Duh.
in the southern Iraqi city of Basra yesterday, as UK forces fired six high-explosive shells at militia fighters who hit the British airport base with 20 Katyusha rockets, wounding three soldiers. An Iraqi military intelligence officer said ten Iraqis were killed or wounded, but he could not provide a breakdown.
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About bloody time they got permission from London to do so. It would be so nice for them if this were the start of new rules of engagement, but I'm not sanguine that Prime Minister Brown has the moral courage.
Israeli forces arrested the local head of a Palestinian militant group in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Monday night, Israel Defense Forces said. "Muhammad Isa Halil Abeda commanded several Islamic Jihad terror cells and was involved in the planning and funding of terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers," an IDF statement said. Abeda surrendered several hours after Israeli forces surrounded his home.
During the same incident, Israeli forces killed Qussai Mohammed al-Afandi, a 17-year-old member of the militant group, Palestinian medical and security forces said Monday. Four others in the house were wounded. The IDF said a riot erupted afterward as Palestinians began throwing Molotov cocktails and stones at Israeli forces, who responded with riot dispersal methods that included shooting live ammunition toward the Palestinians' lower limbs.
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A rubber tapper in Raman district in Yala province was shot and killed by terrorists suspected militants this morning. The victim, identified as 42-year-old Abdul Rosi, was killed while on his motorcycle heading for his rubber plantation. He suffered 4 bullet wounds and died at the scene.
Elsewhere in the restive southern province, an abandoned bag was left outside a local home causing panic amongst nearby residents. When bomb experts were called to the scene to investigate, they discovered the bag turned out to be a bomb hoax.
Songkhla authorities successfully captured key leaders of a terrorist separatist ring following a raid in Sabayoi district.
Officials surrounded three suspected homes following intelligence information suggesting that terrorists militant members had been hiding in these areas. The raids resulted in the arrest of three men Marosae Kayeeyu, 38, Makoseng Kayeeyu, 31, and Jaeruding Mahama, 32, all hailing from Songkhla province. One suspect escaped arrest.
Following police questionings with the suspects, authorities were able to determine that one of the suspects, Marosae Kayeeyu is a high-ranking terrorist separatist leader who gives out orders to subordinates to carry out violent attacks throughout Songkhla and Yala provinces. He once worked as a driver for a school bus in Muang district in Yala province. He was also linked to many attacks in Kabang district in Yala and Sabayoi district in Songkhla.
Now let me see if I got this straight:
1) The Tamil Tigers bombed this bus full of old Buddhist pilgrims.
2) The same Tamil Tigers that want the UN to recognize them as a nation.
3) Because they're poor, oppressed, and misunderstood.
Think of Lanka next time the conversation turns to illegal immigration. The Tamils have moved right in and made themselves at home.
A bomb tore through a bus packed with mostly elderly Buddhist pilgrims in central Sri Lanka Saturday, killing 18 people and wounding 51 others, the military said. The military blamed separatist Tamil Tiger rebels for the blast in the bus at 7 a.m. in Dambulla, a town about 90 miles northeast of the capital, Colombo.
A spokesman for the rebels could not immediately be reached for comment. The group, listed as a terror organization by the U.S. and European Union, routinely denies responsibility for such attacks.
Bus driver Rohana Wijesiri said he was taking about 100 passengers, mainly elderly women, to the holy city of Anuradhapura.
Sri Lanka is the home of Hinayana Buddhism.
Bus driver Rohana Wijesiri said he was taking about 100 passengers, mainly elderly women, to the holy city of Anuradhapura.
"When we were passing Dambulla there was a huge blast and the door near my seat got blown away," Wijesiri said.
The top and sides of the bus were ripped apart in the force of the blast. A severed hand could be seen among the bloodstained bags, glass and other debris strewn several yards from the vehicle. "I do not remember what happened next, but I was running on the road. I saw my conductor fallen on the ground. He too got up and started running with me" Wijesiri said.
"As it (the bus) came near me, I heard thunder. I got thrown away," said Kankeaarachige Michael, a 52-year-old businessman, who was standing by the road when the blast occurred. "When I saw blood gushing out of my body, I realized it's a bomb," Michael told The Associated Press at Dambulla Base Hospital, where he was being treated. Michael lost an eye in the blast.
Military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara, initially said 20 people had died in the blast, but he changed the official toll to 18 after gathering more information.
"They (the rebels) are targeting innocent civilians as they face defeats in the battle front."
"They (the rebels) are targeting innocent civilians as they face defeats in the battle front," said Chandrapala Liyanage, President Mahinda Rajapaksa's spokesman.
Before dawn Friday, the army attacked rebel bunkers in the northern Jaffna peninsula, triggering a battle that killed 10 guerrillas and two soldiers, Nanayakkara said. Six more soldiers were wounded, he said.
Civilians have borne the brunt of the violence over the past month with three attacks on passenger buses killing dozens, including many schoolchildren. On Jan. 16 a roadside bomb attack by suspected rebels on a bus near the southeastern town of Buttala killed 27 people. Last Tuesday 18 people were killed in a similar bus attack in the rebel-held north. Dozens of other civilians were found hacked and shot to death in the southeast, and a mass grave was discovered with 16 bodies killed execution style in a north-central village.
The government and rebels blame each other for attacks against civilians.
A bomb tore through a bus packed with civilians in central Sri Lanka Saturday, killing 20 people and wounding 50 others, the military said.
The blast inside the bus occurred at 7 a.m. in Dambulla, a town about 90 miles northeast of the capital, Colombo, said military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara, blaming separatist Tamil Tiger rebels. The bus traveling to the north-central town of Anuradhapura was stopped in Dambulla when the blast occurred, Nanayakkara said.
Spokesmen for the rebels could not immediately be reached for comment. But the group, listed as a terror organization by the U.S. and European Union, routinely denies responsibility for such attacks. "They (the rebels) are targeting innocent civilians as they are facing defeats in the battle front," said Chandrapala Liyanage, a spokesman for President Mahinda Rajapaksa.
Security forces and Tamil Tiger rebels have traded heavy artillery fire in northern Sri Lanka, killing 18 rebels, officials said Friday, a day after Japan warned it may stop aid unless fighting subsided.
Backed by war planes and heavy guns, the military smashed several rebel bunkers and killed at least 18 guerrillas in clashes across the north on Thursday, the defence ministry said. However, the Tigers said they beat back an army offensive into rebel-held areas. The Sri Lankan army is feared to have suffered heavy losses in the battles, a pro-rebel website said. As fighting continued, Japan on Thursday cautioned the Colombo government. We could be forced to review our aid policy if military action keeps escalating, Yasushi Akashi, Japans special peace envoy to the island, told reporters in Tokyo. At least 852 rebels and 32 soldiers have died since the beginning of January, according to defence ministry figures. At least 103 civilians have also been killed in the same period, according to both sides.
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Screw the Japs. Keep pounding the Tigers, they don't have any heavy arty and can't fight back effectively. Victory is the best way to peace.
National News Agency has reported that today unknown attackers opened fire at a car at the entrance of the city of Baalbeck in east Lebanon, killing the driver instantaneously. The victim was identified as Ali Taan Zouaiter , 41 NNA has reported that Zouaiter was driving a black Cherokee near Baalbeck's Al Ahli hospital at 12:45 pm when unknown assailants fired at the car. It said Zouaiter was killed on impact. His children were with him in the car but were not Lebanese Security forces rushed to the scene of the shooting to investigate the incident
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Worshippers of Baal, no doubt, they're a dirty bunch.
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Indeed, Ima read in one JM (jimmy mitscher, not JOE!) really thick book that them Baals guy are purdy bad. Damn what wuz that book? The Tell? HawJooya? 20thCentenial, Space1978?
The land of Canaan was devoted to the worship of Baal...
"One may question that those ancient enemies of Israel were as evil as the Bible
claims that they were, but even a superficial glance at Canaanite
religion alone ably demonstrates their iniquity. Base sex worship was
prevalent, and religious prostitution even commanded; human sacrifice
was common; and it was a frequent practice--in an effort to placate their
gods--to kill young children and bury them in the foundations of a house
or public building at the time of construction: Joshua 6:26 "In his days
did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in
Abiram his firstborn..."
Howard E. Vos,
"An Introduction To Bible Archaeology" Revised ed.
(Chicago: Moody Press, 1953) pp. 17-19.
The modern followers of Baal continue to carry on human sacrifice
and the murder of their children.
3 young men were injured after clashes erupted this morning at around 4:00 AM over the erection of Hariri posters in the Corniche el Mazraa area of Beirut, according to Lebanon's National News Agency. The names of the injured are Mohamed Mahmoud Massara , who was wounded in the leg and head and Emad Mohammed Qasim who sustained bruises in the back and Khoder Khaled who had a nervous breakdown.
The three were injured from stone-throwing protesters according to The National News Agency . An Internal Security Forces vehicle was also damaged by the stone-throwing protestors The clashes occurred at the Abu Shaker crossroads in the Corniche el Mazraa area . Voice of Lebanon Radio station said the clashes started over the erection of posters. The media reports did not provide further details.
Similar clashes were reported last month between Al-Mustaqbal Movement supporters and Hezbollah members in the densely-populated Basta district over the erection of a poster of former Prime minister Rafik Hariri. Hezbollah members opposed the erection of the posters . Al Mustakbal Movement is headed by MP Saad Hariri, son of the slain prime minister.
Elsewhere more violence took place in Sour ( Tyre ) as Hezbollah -led opposition youths set rubber tires ablaze and tried to cut of the roads to protest against the power blackouts . The army intervened and dispersed the protesters . It appears all these incidents are targeting the Lebanese army and security forces.
Yesterday army positions were subjected a grenade and concussion bomb attacks in East Beirut's Galerie Semaan area and Saint Therese-Hadath neighborhood. Monday assailants tossed four concussion bombs on army posts in Ein el-Rummaneh, Tayyouneh, Shatilla and the Mazda area Monday night , according to Media reports Four hand grenades were also thrown at dawn Tuesday on a military position in the Saint Therese-Hadath neighborhood, one of which failed to explode. Another concussion bomb was hurled on a military post in Beirut's Talet al-Khayat district before daybreak Wednesday. A military Land Rover was damaged in the attack, but no soldiers were wounded, according to the reports.
According to reports coming from Damascus , Syria is now opposed to the election of Army General Michel Suleiman as president and this is why it (Syria) gave orders to its allies the Hezbollah-led opposition to target the army and the police force to undermine Suleiman . The assassination of Army General General Francoise Hajj last month and Top intelligence officer Captain Wisam Eid last week and the bloody riots last Sunday are part of the Syrian strategy of undermining Suleiman, the reports claim. The Syrian sources claim that President Bashar al Assad now prefers former Foreign Minister Fares Boueiz as Lebanons next president and this is why the regime is trying to tarnish the image of Suleiman. On the other hand the parliament majority is determined to have Suleimna as the next president.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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One of the founders of outlawed New Biplobi Communist Party (NBCP) was killed yesterday in a shootout between police and his cohorts at Dakshin Mulgram village in Kushtia.
A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into a security checkpost in North Waziristan on Friday, killing six people, officials said. 
A Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militant was killed in an encounter at Tangbal in the Yaripora area of Kulgam district on Friday. The encounter started in the morning when a police search party came under fire from militants hiding in a house in the village, Superintendent of Police Swayam Prakash Pani said. The search operation was continuing as one more militant was believed to be still hiding in the village, he said.
Five separatist insurgents including a top commander of Pakistan-based Hizbul Mujaheedin (HM) were killed in separate encounters in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir Friday.
The ground in the chicken coup wasnt right; the soil was loose, almost like sawdust, Ellison said. We gently and carefully dug through it with our hands until we hit the jackpot.
Israeli forces arrested the local head of a Palestinian militant group in the West Bank town of Bethlehem on Monday night, Israel Defense Forces said. "Muhammad Isa Halil Abeda commanded several Islamic Jihad terror cells and was involved in the planning and funding of terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and IDF soldiers," an IDF statement said. Abeda surrendered several hours after Israeli forces surrounded his home.
