Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces killed several Taliban insurgents and discovered cave complexes containing three car bombs and other explosive materials in southern Afghanistan, the coalition said Wednesday.
In southwestern Nimroz province, meanwhile, Taliban militants attacked a police checkpoint Tuesday night, and the ensuing two-hour gunbattle left three policemen dead, said provincial Gov. Ghulam Dastagir Azad.
In southern Helmand province, Afghan and coalition forces were patrolling northeast of Gereshk district when Taliban fighters fired on them Sunday with small arms, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars, a coalition statement said. The Afghan and coalition troops returned fire and called in airstrikes, killing "several insurgents," the statement said. It did not give further details.
Last year Afghanistan experienced its deadliest violence since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. More than 6,500 people mostly militants were killed in insurgency-related violence.
In a separate operation late last week in the southern province of Zabul, Afghan and coalition troops searched compounds and caves where they discovered a large weapons cache, another coalition statement said. It said the cache included bomb-making materials and three car bombs. Airstrikes were used to destroy the complex and ammunition storage areas, the statement said. It said seven insurgents were arrested.
Last year Afghanistan experienced its deadliest violence since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. More than 6,500 people mostly militants were killed in insurgency-related violence, according to an Associated Press count.
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I've decided that the reason US forces don't give more specific information than "several insurgents" is because they just don't consider it necessary to count all the parts and divide by the right number. They've reverted to the old "one", "two", "several" counting sequence we used in Vietnam.
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Three self-defence guards have been killed yesterday morning in an ambush the terrorists have set at Zeama MAnsouria, 35 away west Jijel province eastern Algeria.
The attack has occurred at 8 am, when the agents have left the guard centre to be replaced by other colleagues. They serve for Space, a security company in charge of securing the portals of the tunnel supplying the power plant with water. The guards have been killed in a fire clash whit the terrorists who escaped to a remote mountainous region.
In the aftermath of this attack, the joint security services have launched a large scale racking operation searching the terrorists behind this attack two days after the terrorists have targeted the same companys guards.
In another hand, on the ongoing week, the army troops have dismantled a terrorists support group extending its activities along Khenchela, Biskra, Tebessa, and El Oued provinces, all east south provinces. The group which composed of 10 people provided foods and provisions for the terrorists during when moving across the aforementioned provinces. This operation came after a terrorist has been arrested, and another surrendered to the security services. Once investigated both terrorists have unveiled that some people are providing foods and provisions to the terrorists who recruit them to furnish them with information in the provinces they move across.
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Two dangerous terrorists have been arrested yesterday morning by a special police unit at Sidi Aich town, Bejaia province, eastern Algeria, a local source said, adding that the security services forces have conducted the operation with perfect accuracy and efficiency.
At 15 to 8 pm yesterday morning, a police special unit has rushed to a café downtown Sidi Aich, they have headed toward two people taking their breakfast, and they have tied them up while covering their faces with a scarf, then they have taken both of them to a police car. Both terrorists have been searched by the security services, according to the same source. The terrorists are not hailing from Sidi Aich region, as no resident at the town has seen them at the café, they would have came from another province.
In the meantime, a soldier has been injured in a fire fight broken out between the terrorists and the army troops in Beni Ksila Mountains, in which army troops are launching a racking operation, blocking paths the terrorists would take to escape the army grip in Yakouren, Tizi ouzou province, eastern Algiers, and Akfadou in Bejaia, a Kabylian eastern province.
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An alleged criminal was killed yesterday in an 'encounter' between his cohorts and Rab members in Rupali residential area in Narayanganj.
The deceased was identified as Mahe Alam Bipu, 32, son of Shah Alam of Laxmankhola village.
Rab members recovered a revolver and two rounds of bullet from the scene.
Rab said while patrolling by a speedboat in the Shitalakkhya river at about 3:10am, Rab members saw about five to six persons conversing near a police outpost on the southern bank of the river.
When the law enforcers got close to them, they opened fire on the Rab members prompting them to retaliate.
Bipu was killed on the spot while his accomplices managed to escape.
Rab members recovered a revolver with two rounds of bullet, and also seized Tk 5,000 and two mobile phones.
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The deceased was identified as Mahe Alam Bipu, 32, son of Shah Alam of Laxmankhola village.
Dude must not've been very important, he didn't have even one alias.
A hijacker armed with explosives took a group of Australian tourists and a translator hostage in China on Wednesday before police shot and killed him, an Australian embassy official and Chinese media reported.
Ten Australians were taken hostage on a tourist bus in the city of Xian in northwest China but nine were released soon after, Janaline Oh, spokeswoman for the Australian Embassy in Beijing, told reporters. Nine Australian passengers were released and transported to safety and a 48-year-old woman from New South Wales was not released with the rest of the group, she said. Chinese police agreed to let the hijacker, Xia Tao, change buses and head to the airport before shooting him as he approached the toll station. Chinese security authorities intervened and secured the release of the woman and the Australian government is pleased the hostages are now safe, said Oh. Oh said she did not believe the hostages had suffered any injuries. Xinhua said the woman and translator were unharmed.
Xia took the passengers hostage just before 10:00 am (0200 GMT) and was shot dead at 12:36 pm after negotiations failed, the report said, citing the local public security bureau. It was not clear why he took them hostage.
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It was not clear why he took them hostage.
Uh, yeah. It's pretty clear that he was probably a peasant who got his land stolen for development. The government in Beijing allocated money for compensation but it was all stolen by provincial and local officials. I bet that any media will never report on the whys of this situation.
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Could be. But Xi'an is pretty far from the Uighur area - it's really in central China, not the western part of the country. One of the ancient capitals and a common tourist stop. Mr. Lotp's parents visited there in 1976 shortly after they began allowing tourists into China. We still have photos they took of the terracotta armies buried with emperors there.
Al-Qaida terrorists may be plotting more urgently to attack the United States to maintain their credibility and ability to recruit followers, the U.S. military commander in charge of domestic defense said Thursday.
Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, chief of the U.S. Northern Command, told reporters he has not seen any direct threats tied to the U.S. presidential elections. But he said it would be imprudent to think that such threats are not there.
"We need only to look at Spain and see that they're certainly willing to try to do something that is significant that could affect an election process," Renuart said. "I think it would be imprudent of us to let down our guard believing that if there's no credible threat that you know of today, there won't be something tomorrow."
While he said that U.S. authorities have thwarted attacks on a number of occasions, he said terrorist cells may be working harder than ever to plot high-impact events. He did not point to any specific intelligence that authorities have received but said the "chatter" they are hearing "gives me no reason to believe they're going to slow down" in their efforts to target the U.S.
"If an organization like that is to maintain credibility and continue to grow more of its extremists, it has to show tangible results," Renuart said. "So I think there may be a certain sense of urgency among that organization to have an effect. So it would tell me that they're trying harder."
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I'm not so sure that some of the more fanatical members wouldn't welcome just that, John. Allah can't give them glorious victory over the kufir or more glorious martyrdom if the dhimmis are slowly surrendering instead.
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I agree a wacko freelancer could go off any time. But if GHQaQ has had to wait this long, they're obviously having a hard time doing a 9/11 follow-up. If you were binny, would you order it for a goodbye to W or to welcome/test the new guy (or gal)? I suspect binney now knows enough to recognize he should keep his powder dry to test the new guy.
And then there was Zarqawi, a young hot head who managed to do a lot of damage before he was finally found and killed .....
It's not the new converts I worry about. It's whoever's been training in that remote triangle in south America and who by now might have a Venezuelan passport and a very good Spanish accent. Or it's the German leftist or convert who's lain low a few years and has no record to track.
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"More urgently to attack the United States to maintain their credibility and ability to recruit followers" > AGAIN, IMO OSAMA + RADICAL ISLAM's, ETC, NEEDS TO STOP THE ON-GOING US ENTRENCHMENT IN IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, ETC. Former USMC SGM Estrada's comments should indic to Osama and Islamists AGAIN that A POST-DUBYA DEM = ANTI-DUBYA/DEM GOP POTUS SUCCESSOR MAY NOT BE ANY HELP AT ALL AS TO SAVING THEIR JIHAD + OWG AGENDA. Their Regional-Global Jihad began under many DIVINE PREMISES, among others - it will be detrimental and humiliating for Radical Islam to NOT CONTINUE "GOD'S FIGHT/WAR" TO THE END.
As for ZARK, the various photos publicly ascribed as ZARQHAWI are inconsistent or clearly not the same personage, which is why I'm NOT convinced he's truly dead.
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Well, while the AQ would not benefit from a terrorist attack on the US prior to the election, There is never a shortage of irrational behavior out of that bunch of nut jobs.
Criminey, you could do a post doctoral thesis in abnormal psychology on those xenophobic waftists
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Mexican border gangs are happy to take Middle East money. It isn't hard to find an Arab or Persian in the border cities of California, Texas, etc. That border WILL be mined at some time.
Obama in Corpus Christi (Feb 22) on illegal immigration: "a wall cannot solve that problem." Ergo: let them all in?
Long Der Spiegel article on an African/German man who moved to the US, joined the Army after the March 2004 terrorists changed the Spanish election and deliberately sought combat in Iraq. Worth the read, even if there are occasional digs of that particuarly annoying German condescension here and there.
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From the bottom of page 1: The father ends up saying: "I am in favor of peace." To which Jeff responds: "But someone has to achieve that peace." The father repeats: "I am in favor of peace."
This only upsets Jeff. Normally he tends to be quiet and calm. But now he raises his voice, his body tenses up and his words become deliberately hurtful: "And what are you doing so that we can have peace? How much longer do you think you'd be sitting around drinking coffee in fancy Berlin cafés if people like me didn't exist? If there was nobody to make sure you could live in peace? If there was nobody to fight terrorism?"
American vs. German, right there. I have to run, so I'll read the rest of the article later. I hope he did get sworn in as a citizen already, although I'm not sure what the wait is for volunteer soldiers.
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Thats the problem with the current "peace" movement - they are lazy bastards who arrogantly whine and condescendingly refuse to reason out the ultimate guarantor of their freedom to do so, all from the comfort of liberty, which their betters (the soldiers) are laboring to maintain.
Seems that in North Carolina they're making fake draft cards so they can publicly burn them.
OFFS, won't anyone tell them the only people calling for a draft are Democrats?!
(NB -- that story also contains yet another false atrocity allegation.)
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A SMALL explosion
If it's aimed at you, it ain't small.
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Lubbock's token moonbat radio host, Chad Hasty of KFYO, dismissed this as a prank, "probably just some kids having fun," "nobody hurt, not a big deal." This is the same genius who ran a promo tape last year ridiculing the surge in Iraq as merely providing the terrorists with more targets, "Brilliant! Brilliant!" quoth the genius.
Chad is on the air till 9 CST at www.kfyo.com if you want to listen in to his wit n' wisdom and possibly call him to let him know that a bombing directed against a military facility is terrorism and treason, not a prank.
You can e-mail him at Chad@kfyo.com
actually, that was my 2nd and 3rd thoughts as well.
out here they chained the Marine Corps recruiting station doors shut, and (with the City Council blessing and support) are harrassing our Marines daily!!
I'm sure the morons here are gonna look at Times Square and think: "Hey...what a great idea!"
Just about time to blow the dust off the "Alien and Sedition Act" and start rev'ing up some Justice!
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Your headline is precious. If this turns out to be someone other than an "asian" or anti-military leftard we'll get the details -- otherwise it'll remain the bomb's fault.
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my very first thought was: "Code Pink" actually, that was my 2nd and 3rd thoughts as well.
Plenty of other local moonbats there as well. Columbia University isn't all the far away, for example.
I'm sure the morons here are gonna look at Times Square and think: "Hey...what a great idea!"
Therein lies the danger. Fortunately NYPD has a large and fairly effective antiterrorism unit.
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Silly mojo... just like with guns, it is the bomb that is evil and at blame... never the potential vote bloc that is using it (unless they are the military, then it is bush and the military that is at fault as the munitions are made in a variety of congressional districts and represent jobs)
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via Gateway Pundit, Yahoo reports that a named witness saw "3 or 4 people running away" as the bomb went off.
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You can make a relatively loud "Boom" with a bit of dry ice, a coke bottle and a spoonfull of water, put water and dry ice in bottle, screw tight the cap, about 3 minutes later KAPOW (Relatively harmless, about as loud as a pistol shot)
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That wouldn't shatter glass or twist the metal frame of a door.
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I'll bet he supports the troops though. Probably really fuckin dumb too...
WASHINGTON - Police are investigating letters that arrived Thursday at Capitol Hill offices containing a photo of the Times Square military recruiting office before it was bombed and including the claim "We Did It."
The message on the card: "Happy New Year, We Did It."
The envelope also contained a packet of approximately 10 sheets of paper that seemed to be a political manifesto railing against the Iraq war and a booklet. The aide didn't know what the booklet was.
"A few offices on the House side have received a letter today addressed to 'Members of Congress' with a picture of a man standing in front of the Times Square recruiting station that was bombed in New York today with the statement 'We did it.' He is standing in front of it with his arms spread out and he's attached his political manifesto." Authorities advised the recipients to leave the letters alone and call police, the e-mail says.
The man was thin, white with graying hair, wearing a striped flannel shirt and jeans, according to the Democratic aide.
Those who met Hassan Abu-Jihaad describe him as mild-mannered, polite and unobtrusive; a California native who converted to Islam while living in Phoenix in 1997.
But, on Wednesday, Abu-Jihaad became something more sinister: the face of treason and homegrown Islamic terrorism - and a reminder that the Internet can inflame radical violence halfway around the world.
He chose a surname that means "father of holy war." Eight months later, he enlisted in the Navy.
A federal jury in Connecticut took less than 24 hours to convict the former U.S. Navy sailor on charges he slipped classified details of American fleet movements to a Web site accused of assisting the terrorist group al-Qaida. advertisement
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Converts tend to be more extremist than native muslimss. Also due to Saudi money financing proselitism most of those converts don't do it to Ahamadism or similar soft versions of Islam but to wahabism and similar.
A "convert" note in a soldier's file should light alarms in military security.
(KONS) Four militants died fighting Indian soldiers in an overnight gunbattle in Bandipur and Kupwara while two civilians were killed in a mystery grenade attack in Shopian district, police said today.
Police said a fierce gunbattle broke out between militants and joint party of police and army in Bandipur late Tuesday.
A police spokesman said that gunbattle erupted soon after army soldiers assisted by Special Operations Group of J&K police launched a joint operation in village Aragam last evening. Two militants were trapped in the cordon, police sources said adding that besieging troops ordered them to surrender. Trapped militants however opened fire on the soldiers from the house they were sheltering resulting in a fierce encounter.
The operation was halted late in the night but the battle resumed at the break of dawn today, " police said.
The intermittent firing was on throughout the night. Both the militants were killed after troops blasted the house with mortars this afternoon. Police said the slain militants belonged to Lashkar-e-Taiba. One of them has been identified as Abu Abdullah alias Mohammad Salim of Pakistan's Chubra district.
Two AK rifles, eight magazines and Rs 2,700 were recovered from the possession of the slain militants, the spokesman said adding police has registered a case.
An army spokesman said that the slain militants were planning to kill a local MLA, Usman Majeed and their timely army action foiled the militant plan. Usman, a former militant turned counter insurgent, is a member of state legislative assembly and has survived number of assassination attempts in the past.
Meanwhile, army assisted by SOG also shot dead two unidentified militants during a gunbattle in Pethwoodar village in Kupwara district today. A police spokesman said search operation was on till the reports last came in.
Meanwhile, a defence spokesman said troops of 9 Rashtriya Rifles (RR) unearthed a hideout at Chgak Watu, Kulgam, in south Kashmir and recovered one AK rifle, one magazine, eight rounds of ammunition and two wireless sets. However, no one was arrested, he added.
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Investigators interrogated 10 people on Wednesday in connection with the suicide attack on the Navy War College here, which resulted in the deaths of six people.
Deputy Inspector General of Police (Investigation) Tassaduq Hussain, who is heading the city police investigation team, told Daily Times that the police were following some leads and would soon resolve the case. He said the heads of the two suspected bombers were recovered from the blast site and investigators would carry out DNA tests to try and establish their identity.
Undamaged: He said the skull of one of the suicide attackers was recovered undamaged. The body parts, especially the fingerprints, had been sent to NADRA for identification, he added.
Police said two bombers rode on a motorcycle to the gate of the parking lot at the Pakistan Navy War College in Lahore. The passenger dismounted and destroyed the gate, allowing his accomplice to ride inside and blow himself up.
Parts of a locally manufactured motorcycle, believed to have been used by the attackers, its chassis and engine numbers have been recovered and police would try to find who owned it, Hussain said. He said the bike had not been reported stolen. However, he said the bike was sold to different people against open letters and was registered to one Abdul Rehman of Shahdara.
Hussain said police had arrested Rehmans two brothers Abdul Salam and Attique who said they had sold it to a motorcycle mechanic, Ijaz, some years ago. Police arrested him too, but he said the bike had been sold to one Muhammad Ali of Sanda, who was also arrested by police. He said sketches of the bombersrs faces would be shown to the arrested men in case they were aware of their (bombers) identity.
DIG Tassaduq Hussain also said that the first suicide bomber was wearing a jacket carrying three kilogrammes of explosive material, while the second suicide bomber was carrying 10-15 kilogrammes.
Investigation teams: Hussain said a special Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) team from Islamabad, headed by Major Shafaqat, had reached Lahore on Wednesday. He said the FIA has better investigation equipment than the police. CIA DSP Amjad Qureshi is also in the investigation team, he added.
However, sources told Daily Times that Military Intelligence has taken over the investigation and are not allowing the police to interfere in the matter.
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Police say they have recovered huge quantity of explosives from a pick-truck in Yaka Ghund area and arrested two persons on charges of smuggling the contraband.
Two people, Mukhtiar Ahmad and Irshad Hussain of Jhang district, were allegedly smuggling the explosives when they were stopped by Shabqadar Police in Sro Kalay area at Yaka Ghund police post. Upon search the vehicle, police recovered 36,000 detonators, 1,000 safety fuses and 140 cartons of explosives. Police said all these materials were used in bomb making.
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Those amounts sound to me like a wholesale rather than retail operation. Of course, I don't really know.
An anti-terrorism court on Wednesday sentenced an accused, Anwarul Haq, to death on four counts of murder, life imprisonment on four counts of terrorism and a total of 40 years in imprisonment in the US consulate suicide bombing case.
Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC-III) for Karachi division headed by Judge Ahmed Nawaz Sheikh acquitted co-accused Usman Ghani. The prosecution produced 40 witnesses against accused Anwarul Haq. Haq was held guilty of provoking suicide bomber Raja Tahir to carry out the act. Niamat Ali Randhawa appeared as the special public prosecutor while the accused were represented by Muhammad Ilyas Khan and Muhammad Farooq. On March 2, 2006, US diplomat David Foy, his driver, a security guard and a Rangers sepoy were killed when a suicide bomber rammed his car into Foys van exiting the US consulate in Karachi.
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Anwarul Haq
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Raja Tahir
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Usman Ghani
al-Qaeda
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I'd like to think that some Delta Force type just snuck up behind him, tapped him on the shoulder, and whispered, "Boo..."
Mike
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Who the hell goes into a coma from food poisoning? Unless it's the sort of food poisoning you get after meeting with dodgy Russian intelligence types with rumored unofficial connections with the presidency.
Which would, I suppose, explain the Russian physicians.
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More seriously, I'd be willing to bet that Tater is diabetic. He has the look.
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Doesn't an advanced case of botulism sometimes lead to / mimic a coma?
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Confirm #10. It was early this week. The Rantburg article was linked to the Memri Blog and the Memri blog referenced as source: Al-Siyassa, Kuwait, March 3, 2008. I haven't seen anything else since to confirm this.
Note: Bad link. The rantburg link comes back to the article.
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FEDEX - I wanted it to arrive before all the bacteria flavor died
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Polonium won't register on a Geiger counter.
Sure it will. Geiger counters were invented to detect alphas. Get a drop of urine on a slide, dry it, and test with a Geiger counter. (You can't just hold a Geiger counter up to him, I agree.)
(Xinhua) -- Turkey launched air strikes Tuesday night on rebel targets in northern Iraq, an Iraqi security source said on Wednesday. Turkish warplane targeted the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in the Sidekan area of Arbil province, but no casualties had been reported, the source said on conditional of anonymity.
The latest strikes came about a week after Turkey wrapped up across-border ground military operation going after the PKK members. Earlier in the day, Turkish private NTV said helicopters bombed the Sidekan region, some 40 km inside the border.
Meanwhile back at the ranch, PKK spokesman Ahmed Danis confirmed that Wednesday's attacks began at 3 a.m. local time (0100 GMT) and continued during the day, with the focus on the Bazger valley area of Arbil province. "The area is uninhabited and there were no reports of casualties or damage," said Danis.
Turkey's military has not yet confirmed the reports.
The Turkish military ended last Friday an eight-day ground incursion into northern Iraq. Turkish army chief Yasar Buyukaniton Monday rejected suggestions that the incursion was cut short by U.S. pressure, saying that the military would launch further strikes on Kurdish rebels if needed. On Feb. 21, some 10,000 Turkish troops crossed the Iraqi border and rolled 10 km inside to crack down on PKK rebels, who have long taken refuge in the region and used it as a launch pad for attacks across the border.
The PKK, listed by the United States and Turkey as a terrorist group, took up arms against Turkey in 1984 with the aim of creating an ethnic homeland in southeastern Turkey. More than 30,000 people have been killed in the over-two-decade conflict.
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El-ARISH, Egypt - Egypt is building a 10-foot-high concrete wall along its border with Gaza to prevent any new breaches after Palestinian militants blasted through the barrier in January to escape a blockade of their territory, an official said.
The new wall replaces a mixed barbed-wire, iron and concrete barrier which was breached in several places when militants blew it open with explosives, added the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not allowed to talk to the media.
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flooded across the open border unchecked for 12 days before Egypt managed to reseal it. They snapped up food, fuel and other goods made scarce in Gaza by an Israeli closure, imposed after Hamas violently seized control of the strip in June.
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I thought they said bulldozers blew though that barrier. Can't a bulldozer blast through a concrete wall? Unless it's also 10 ft thick, which would give you enough time to get an attack helicopter in position.
At least seven people have been killed by gunmen who are reported to have infiltrated and attacked a Jewish seminary in West Jerusalem.
Israeli emergency services say at least six people were injured in the attack at the Mercaz Harav seminary in the Kiryat Moshe quarter of Jerusalem. Reports said one attacker was killed and police were hunting another.
It is the worst attack of its kind for a number of years. There were no attacks within Jerusalem during 2007.
The gunmen are said to have entered the building at the rabbinical seminary, where about 80 people were gathered.
Yaron Tzuker, a medic, said he arrived as the gunfire was still going on. "They were still shooting when we got here," he told Channel 10 television. "We took cover and the ambulance was hit. It's horrible inside - dead bodies and wounded - it's horrific."
The school is a well-known centre for Jewish studies and most students are aged between 18 and 30. It is said to identify with the leadership of the Jewish settlement movement - who believe the West Bank should be in Jewish and not Palestinian hands.
There were reports of celebratory gunfire in Gaza after news broke about the attack. Hamas officials in Gaza welcomed the attack but stopped short of admitting responsibility.
The BBC's Crispin Thorold says this will be a particularly shocking incident for the Israeli public and Jewish people around the world - which comes at an extremely tense time. Israel, he says, is likely to take retaliatory action.
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from an Israeli blog: The part-time yeshiva student who killed the terrorist, 40-year-old Yitzchak Dadon, said that he shot the attacker in the head with his personal weapon. David Shapira, a yeshiva student and officer in the paratroopers, heard the shots from his nearby home, ran to the yeshiva and finished him off.
Asked by a Channel 2 TV reporter what weapon the Palestinian Authority terrorist had, Dadon said, A Kalachnikov, and turning to the camera, he angrily added, The Kalachnikov that you gave him, President Peres
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In Gaza, the Islamic militant Hamas praised the attack but stopped short of claiming responsibility. Thousands poured into the streets to celebrate, firing rifles in the air."We bless the (Jerusalem) operation. It will not be the last," Hamas said in a text message sent to reporters.
In Lebanon, Hezbollah's Al-Manar television said a previously unknown group called the Martyrs of Imad Mughniyeh and Gaza claimed responsibility for the attack.
Tell the IDF to leave the "precision weapons" home when the payback comes...
There were reports of celebratory gunfire in Gaza after news broke about the attack.
"Celebratory" gunfire after the murder of innocents.
Words fail.
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Goddamn State department. Get rid of the fucking insane libs and be done with it.
Olmert insanely quits right after he starts an action against Hamass, al-Qaeda and Hezbollah which only emboldens the remaining bad actors around Israel.
JERUSALEM (AFP) - At least eight people were killed and 35 wounded on Thursday night in an attack on a religious school in predominantly Jewish west Jerusalem, the Magen David Adom rescue service said.
"We have counted eight dead and 35 wounded," an official of the service, equivalent to the Red Cross, told army radio.
Initial media reports said one or two "terrorists" entered the school and opened fire indiscriminately, killing and wounding students.
Public television said two Palestinians were killed when they attacked the school, Merkaz Harav Yeshiva, in the Kyriat Moshe neighbourhood, and that many people had been wounded.
The report added that an explosives belt had been recovered from the body of one of the Palestinians.
Earlier, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP that "shooting broke out in the Kyriat Moshe district" of Jerusalem.
"We still do not know whether terrorists are involved," he added.
Israels air force killed two Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, one of them a rocket squad member who had launched a salvo across the border, militant and medical sources said. The air strikes followed a five-day Israeli assault on the ruling Hamas Islamists in the northern Gaza Strip which killed more than 100 Palestinians, many of them civilians, as well as two soldiers. The offensive prompted Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to suspend peace talks with Israel. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was due to visit later on Tuesday to try to reconcile Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Hamas, which has largely held its fire since the Israeli pullback on Monday, said one of its gunmen died in a missile strike in Gaza City, near the border with the Jewish state. An earlier air force attack killed a member of an Islamic Jihad rocket squad in the northern Gaza Strip, and wounded one of his comrades, the Palestinian militant group said. Islamic Jihad said its men launched seven rockets at the Israeli border town of Sderot.
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A 30-year-old Israeli was moderately to seriously wounded and a Palestinian killed Wednesday evening in a shooting attack in the West Bank village of Idna, near Hebron.
Earlier reports had indicated that the shooting was not terror-related, and that the man had been caught in the cross-fire when members of two local clans clashed. However, it later appeared that the man, who had entered the Area B village to conduct business with a local man, had in fact been targeted.
Israel Radio reported that the Israeli was sitting in his car with Muhammad Nufal, 40, when terrorists opened fire at them from a passing car. Nufal was killed, but the Israeli, who sustained a wound to his stomach, drove himself to the nearby Tarkumiya checkpoint.
Volunteers from Hazolah Judea Samaria evacuated him to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem.
Some two hours after the incident, the Fatah-affiliated Aksa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the shooting. The Palestinian news agency Ma'an said the Aksa Brigades issued a statement in which it said that the "business deal" had been a trap. The report was unconfirmed by security officials.
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Ashkelon resident Moshe Nissimpor decided that the best way to halt rocket fire from Gaza - in light of what he terms the government's failure to do so - is some vigilante justice.
Nissimpor developed a homemade 200-millimeter ballistic missile which he planned to launch from Ashkelon into the Gaza Strip. "From this day onwards, we will push back to the stone age every place which dares shoot missiles into Israel's sovereign territory," he said Wednesday. "It is time the world understood Israelis' lives are not expendable."
"I'm afraid this is the only language the Palestinians understand, and this is the language in which we'll speak to them. I have many Gazan Palestinian friends who live as Hamas hostages. Once we bring an end to the rocket fire, Gaza's residents will also live in peace," he said.
Nissimpor arrived at the Ashkelon Municipality building with the missile painted black and lettered "to Hamas, from the residents of Ashkelon" in red, and was planning to launch it.
Ashkelon residents gathered round to cheer him on and protest the government's conduct, but at the eleventh hour, police stopped him from firing the missile and seized it. "I wish there were more 'crazies' like me in Israel," Nissimpor said as the crowd was dispersed by the police.
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Next time just build it and fire it, keep your mouth shut.
#2
Gadzooks! Even the Israeli police are on the side of Hamas. The least they could have done is let him off with a warning, and let him keep the missile.
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You fire that thing again, and you're in some serious trouble, mister! :-)
Somebody get Moshe some gift cards for Estes Rockets.
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Won't carry much payload, but pack it with bacon bits - an environmentally friendly dirty bomb.
#5
That would have made a great YouTube video if he actually launched it off into the strip. I wonder how those palestinian cockroaches would like a homemade Heebie rocket barrage?
#7
It's not that the Israeli police are "on the side of Hamas", it's that Israel is a sovereign nation committed to maintaining its sovereignty. They cannot allow independent use of force against a foreign nation from their soil.
Now, I'm all for firing back, but vigilantism is NOT the way.
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Rob when your goverment is doing shit to protect your family...
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Now, I'm all for firing back, but vigilantism is NOT the way.
Once an Intifada style campaign commences within our borders, and our gubbmint persists in telling us "Nothing to see here folks, no evidence of terrorism, move along!" We'll see how long you continue to reject vigilantism.
#11
Sounds like a publicity stunt if he went down to city hall and waited for a crowd to gather before he launched it. Notice, however, that the cops merely confiscated the missile and did not arrest the guy.
Next time he should just build it quietly in his garage and launch it quietly from his back yard. Then share the blue print and assembly instructions with a few of his friends and neighbors. They've gotta be better quality than the Qassams. If the cops ever come around to ask about it just tell them it's a "hobby".
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If I recall correctly, Israel has more physicists per capita than anywhere else in the world. One wonders about Mr. Nissimpor's background, if what he's built is not a Kassem but a ballistic missile. It may be that the police turned his effort over to an Army supplier for mass production. ;-)
#13
Gasoline, soap flakes, pure sodium, and a LARGE catapult. Set the catapult up in Sderot and start lobbing 55gal drums of mixture back every time a Qassam is launched against the village. The people of Gaza will either get the message or lose everything they have.
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No doubt if he had fired it the UN and MSM would be out in full force demonizing him for doing it -- all the while ignoring the rockets Hamas has been firing for years.
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Israel is also a civilized country and will not allow unguided rockets fired at random into civilian areas. If that rocket was launched and did injure an innocent person, Mr Nissimpor would be facing jail time.
The Palestinian authority on the other hand...
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Publish his plans on the internet, Gaza ceases to exist (Except as rubble), problem solved.
Government won't do it, the citizens will.
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I remember some years ago (Quite a few actualy) a national geographic special about an african tribe who made and set off homemade rockets as celebration, (Forget just what) these were simply five foot long bamboo tubes with black powder packed inside by pounding it down with a wooden "Fencepost" then lighting it, worked just fine, sort of a super "Bottle Rocket".
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i'm with pebbles maybe rantburg should take a fund up too fund this just in larger numbers.
THE Philippines has arrested two Arab militants believed to be planning to bomb embassies of Australia, the US, Britain and Israel in Manila, government officials said today. The two men were picked up in raids last month on the southern island of Mindanao after weeks of surveillance, Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita, the seniormost member of the Cabinet, said.
"I don't have the names and the complete details of their arrests, but they were involved in teaching local terrorists on how to make bombs," Mr Ermita said after a speech at a counter terrorism forum in Manila.
Police and army intelligence authorities said one of the arrested militants was holding a Jordanian traveling document but they were checking their real identities. "We found documents showing plots to bomb several embassies in Manila, such as the United States, Australia, United Kingdom and Israel," said a police intelligence official. "We're still validating the information taken from these two men. They were brought to Manila for further debriefing but we've informed some of the embassies concerned."
A diplomat from one of the four embassies said they were aware of the plot and have been keenly monitoring the situation.
Last week, Avelino Razon, the head of the national police, announced the arrest of another Middle Eastern man for an alleged plot to assassinate President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Mr Razon said the suspect was also being linked to the plot to attack the US and Australian embassies in Manila after some sheets of paper in Arabic seized from his possession indicated his role in the plots.
(KUNA) -- Five rebels were killed on Wednesday when Sri Lankan Army helicopters attacked a base of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the northern region of the country. The attack on the LTTE base in Kurakkandal area of Mannar killed five rebels, said Sri Lanka's Media Centre for National Security (MCNS) in Colombo.
Five LTTE cadres and two security personnel were killed in Mannar yesterday, MSNC said, adding that another three rebels were killed in Andankulam and Wettambukulam areas in the same region. In Jaffna's Nagarkovil area yesterday, a LTTE rebel was killed, said Sri Lankan Defence Ministry in a statement today. One more rebel was killed in Nagarkovil. In Karamakkulam area of Vavuniya, a rebel was killed yesterday, the statement said. In a separate incident in Palamodai in Mannar three rebels were killed yesterday, the Ministry said. Three more rebels were killed in Vilattikulam in Vavuniya.
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For nearly two weeks, Shiraz University in central Iran has been paralyzed by a student demonstration that refuses to die and appears to be encouraging an atmosphere of protest on campuses around the country.
The protests began on February 24, when more than 500 students in Shiraz University marched from their dormitories into the main campus and demonstrated against the schools chancellor Mohammed Hadi Sedeghi, demanding that he resign. The angry protests have taken place daily ever since.
In another country, angry student protesters might be considered a campus matter and wouldnt necessarily have national significance, but the Shiraz students rising up and rebelling against Sadeghi, a former Revolutionary Guard Corps commander who was personally appointed by Mahmoud Ahmedinejad in an effort to crack down on campuses and rid them of non-Islamic influences, has wider implications. Sadeghi is clearly a political figure and an Ahmedinejad ally he was in charge of the upcoming parliamentary election committee in the province of Fars. . . .
Naturally, little has been heard of the student uprising on official Iranian media. But Radio Farda, a Persian-language, 24/7 radio service financed by the U.S., interviewed some of the demonstrators inside the campus. Its reports have been translated by Radio Free Europe:
Student Mohammad Mehdi Ahmadi complained to Radio Farda on February 26 of pressures the university chief, whom he identified as Dr. Sadeqi, was imposing on the campus. He said these included the disqualification of 108 students who had sought to run for seats in a student council, the expulsion of various students from dormitories, the closure or evacuation of dormitories for married students, and pressures on student journals and activists. These all became a trigger for the protests, he said.
As the protest has continued, the numbers of students has grown into the thousands, organizers say, despite attempts to break it up by the authorities, with actions such as shutting down the main water lines into the student dormitories.
More details and video at the link.
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maybe too big to ignore but no so big that the NYT won't be able to marginize it
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It's not a spambot attack, it's a denial-of-service attack, specifically a synflood. Someone doesn't like what Rantburg says, so they're trying to kill it.
#5
It's not a spambot attack, it's a denial-of-service attack, specifically a synflood. Someone doesn't like what Rantburg says, so they're trying to kill it.
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Given the determination and continuous nature of the attack, you certainly have offended someone..... and they clearly needed to be offended since they object to our collective right to see news and voice our opinions. So either they are KosKids or outraged mooselimbs, but either way, remember, you gain honor by the nature of your enemies!
#9
Fred can comment more, but at least for a while the attacks were coming via the Persian Gulf. We have a regular Saudi commenter who's not happy with us but given the international flavor of hackers and botnets for rent, it's hard to say who in particular has his panties in a wad.
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces killed several Taliban insurgents and discovered cave complexes containing three car bombs and other explosive materials in southern Afghanistan, the coalition said Wednesday.
An alleged criminal was killed yesterday in an 'encounter' between his cohorts and Rab members in Rupali residential area in Narayanganj. 
(KONS) Four militants died fighting Indian soldiers in an overnight gunbattle in Bandipur and Kupwara while two civilians were killed in a mystery grenade attack in Shopian district, police said today.
An anti-terrorism court on Wednesday sentenced an accused, 
(Xinhua) -- Turkey launched air strikes Tuesday night on rebel targets in northern Iraq, an Iraqi security source said on Wednesday. Turkish warplane targeted the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in the Sidekan area of Arbil province, but no casualties had been reported, the source said on conditional of anonymity. 
Israels air force killed two Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, one of them a rocket squad member who had launched a salvo across the border, militant and medical sources said. The air strikes followed a five-day Israeli assault on the ruling Hamas Islamists in the northern Gaza Strip which killed more than 100 Palestinians, many of them civilians, as well as two soldiers. The offensive prompted Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to suspend peace talks with Israel. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was due to visit later on Tuesday to try to reconcile Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Hamas, which has largely held its fire since the Israeli pullback on Monday, said one of its gunmen died in a missile strike in Gaza City, near the border with the Jewish state. An earlier air force attack killed a member of an Islamic Jihad rocket squad in the northern Gaza Strip, and wounded one of his comrades, the Palestinian militant group said. Islamic Jihad said its men launched seven rockets at the Israeli border town of Sderot.
(KUNA) -- Five rebels were killed on Wednesday when Sri Lankan Army helicopters attacked a base of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the northern region of the country. The attack on the LTTE base in Kurakkandal area of Mannar killed five rebels, said Sri Lanka's Media Centre for National Security (MCNS) in Colombo.
