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Thank you Michael Monsoor. I can't help but wonder what the Arab world thinks of the fact that an Arab American has won the nations highest award for bravery and the ultimate sacrifice for his comrades in arms.
God help us if his sacrifice is desecrated by a President intent on defeat.
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The Arab world might condemn him for fighting on our side. The Muslim world might consider him an infidel (the name sounds christian)
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I'd say he was most probably a christian, as indicated by his first name, though I might be wrong, could be an effort by his parents to show assimilation. Anyway, great symbol.
As an aside, in France, there was a brief period (50-early 60's) while arab migrants were few, and there was a push toward assimilation (many were men who married ethnic french wimmen, who raised their children western-style), when giving christian first names to lil' muslims was not unknown (like the french actress Isabelle Adjani, for example).
Since then, the trend has been completely reversed, and almost all arab/black muslim kiddies are given arab first names, regardless of the generations gone since their family came to France, except a few who are given either anglo-saxon sounding first names (you can blame pop culture, Ryan, Steeve,...), or "ambiguous" first names (for girls mostly, like Nadia)... but never, never, ever french first names.
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Main Stream Media must be in a crux over this. I mean he's a hero and you don't report on heroism, but then again he's a person of color, particularly an Arab so the multicultural agenda has to be considered.
If he was a Muslim the choice would be easier. Alas the life of a journalist is not easy.
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nobody here knows if he was an Arab or a Catholic do they? what we do know is he was a Navy Seal and lemme tell you somethun, that was his religion.
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Arab and Catholic aren't contradictory, GCU5108.
Despite the best efforts of Muslims to persecute Arab Christians, there still are some in the Middle East -- and there are some who have been here in the US for more than a generation. Many are from Lebanon originally.
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I don't give a rat's ass what his religion was, he was a Good Soldier.
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Two million Christians have been coerced out of Palestine since WW2. Many settled in the US. I have yet to meet an Arab Christian who wasn't patriotic and hard working. I have yet to meet an Arab Muslim who wasn't loyal to Mideast terror imams and who put useless prayer over earning a living.
Police have arrested a senior Taliban commander who has escaped twice from prisons in Afghanistan. He was arrested during a clash in the country's south that left three insurgents dead.
They said he was a senior commander, not a competent commander.
The militants, led by Taliban commander Mullah Naqibullah and dressed in police uniforms, ambushed a police convoy in Helmand province. The ensuing battle left three militants dead, and wounded two policemen and Naqibullah, who was taken into custody, police said. It was the third time that authorities have arrested Naqibullah.
"Can I have my old cell back?"
Two months ago, Naqibullah managed to escape from the prison run by the Afghan intelligence service in Lashkar Gah.
"No, you can't have your old cell back! Mahmoud, hit him!"
"Owwww!"
Previously he had escaped from a prison in the capital, Kabul.
"I'm free! Hah ha! I'm freeeee! Now, where can I get a police uniform so I can attack a convoy?"
Meanwhile, in neighbouring Kandahar province, an airstrike killed three men irrigating land close to a road in Panjwayi district.
Two British soldiers from the NATO-led force in Afghanistan have been killed in an explosion in the violent south of the country, Britains Ministry of Defence said on Monday. The soldiers were conducting a patrol in the vicinity of Kajaki, Helmand province, on Sunday when the vehicle they were travelling in was caught in an explosion, the British Defence Ministry said in a statement. A statement from the NATO-led force said the soldiers were taken to a British base in Helmand after the attack.
In a separate attack on Monday, a roadside bomb killed three private security guards working for a road construction company in Kandahar province, which is also in the south, said provincial government official Niaz Muhammad Sarhadi.
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Islamist rebels attacked an armored convoy escorting the governor of Hiran region, in central Somalia, sparking a deadly gunfight with government troops.
Residents in Halgan village told Garowe Online that Monday's fighting started as Hiran Governor Yusuf Daboged and his convoy drove towards the village.
Insurgent fighters used machineguns and rocket launchers, and successfully burned one of Gov. Daboged's armed trucks, according to villagers.
The governor of Hiran and the deputy governor of neighboring Middle Shabelle region, Ahmed "Jandhay" Omar, have been in Bulo Burte since Thursday and reportedly said the two regions were cooperating on the military front against the insurgents.
Last week, Islamist rebels briefly seized control of the capital of Middle Shabelle region, Jowhar.
The two government officials were last reported to have fled southeast, towards the Hiran district of Jalalaksi, with unconfirmed reports saying they are heading to Jowhar.
As reports of Gov. Daboged's ambush surfaced, Bulo Burte residents reported that 200 young fighters armed with light weapons poured into the streets and battled for control of the town with government soldiers stationed there.
The fighters took control of the town and all the government buildings, where they freed prisoners and confiscated property.
Abdirahim Isse Addow, spokesman for the Powerful Islamic Courts fighters, claimed that their side captured six armored trucks and were "chasing" Gov. Daboged and Deputy Gov. Jandhay.
He stated that the Islamist fighters who captured Bulo Burte town withdrew voluntarily later in the day.
Somalia's interim government, which is largely dependent on foreign military and financial backing for its survival, has been bogged down in a bloody insurgency in the national capital Mogadishu since the beginning of 2007.
In recent months, insurgents have expanded their guerrilla attacks into other regions and have captured several towns, frustrating an already beleaguered government.
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Unfortunately, Somalia is one of those places you'd have to utterly and totally defeat before you could even think of beginning to rebuild it. You'd have to completely crush the tribal society to bring it into the 18th century, much less the 21st. The United States needs to keep out of that mess, unless it looks like it's going to turn into another Taliban Afghanistan. THEN, and only then, should we totally stomp any pretentions from these folks that they know anything about waging war before we begin to rebuild. This is another place where there are no "civilians", only unarmed accomplices.
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DEBKA > IRAN GETS/GAINS VALUABLE GEOSTRATEGIC FOOTHOLDS IN AFRICA WITH NEW DEFENSE UNBRELLA [Defense Pacts]FOR SUDAN. Access to Suez Canal, Red Sea, + Chadian Uranium mines-deposits -Sudanese Army to buy Iranian???
See also STRATEGYPAGE > CHINA SNEAKS BOMBERS INTO SUDAN.
The Egyptian military is establishing a commando unit to detect and destroy tunnels used to smuggle weapons and explosives from Sinai into the Gaza Strip, Israeli defense officials said on Sunday.
In April, US-made tunnel detection systems are scheduled to be deployed along the Philadelphi Corridor to be used by the Egyptian forces to destroy the tunnels.
A top defense official told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that the Egyptians were also setting up a small team of elite soldiers who would enter the tunnels, plant explosives inside and destroy them. Until now, after locating tunnels the Egyptians would only destroy their entrance way, allowing Palestinians to reconnect to the tunnel through a new opening.
The Egyptian unit was trained by a team of American engineers who recently visited Israel and then the Philadelphi Corridor. The team met with members from the IDF's Engineering Corps and subsequently passed on critical information needed to detect tunnels to the Egyptian forces. The information-sharing mechanism was agreed upon during Defense Minister Ehud Barak's visit to Sharm e-Sheikh in December for talks with Egyptian Intelligence chief Omar Suleiman and President Hosni Mubarak.
The new tunnel unit joins assessments in the defense establishment of increased Egyptian efforts to prevent arms smuggling into the Gaza Strip, an issue that has been at the center of recent talks between Maj.-Gen. (res.) Amos Gilad, head of the Defense Ministry's Diplomatic-Security Bureau, and Suleiman.
The IDF has been highly critical of Egyptian efforts for the past year, saying Cairo was not doing enough to stop the smuggling across the Philadelphi Corridor, where it had deployed 750 policemen following Israel's unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2005.
According to the senior defense official, Egypt began significantly increasing its efforts to stop the smuggling after Gazans fired Grad-model Katyusha rockets at Ashkelon late last month. The defense officials said Sunday that it was possible that Suleiman, who canceled two trips to Israel earlier this month, would visit in the coming weeks. The Israeli officials said Suleiman was waiting for the outcome of the current talks with Hamas on a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip before visiting Israel.
Also on Sunday, Egyptian officials said a Palestinian man was trapped in one of the smuggling tunnels. His man was unclear. An Egyptian security official said the tunnel collapsed and the man was killed. But a Palestinian official said he had simply been overcome by fumes from the gasoline he was smuggling overnight.
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For some time I've thought that a relatively inexpensive and effective augment here would be a pipeline bringing seawater to this area so tunnels could be flooded after they were discovered.
The western border of Gaza is only about 10 miles long and 6' flexible pipe is about $2/ft so it would take about $100,000 for one pipe; you'd need some earthwork to cover up the pipe and a couple of spare pipelines so bump it up to $1M. A few pumping stations and directional control stations would increase the cost to maybe $2M.
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I will bet there are sewers closer than the coast; kind of assists in ensuring they won't be de-watering anytime soon, as an added feature.
And all that sand probably percs really, really, well too.
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It would only take about a half-mil to plant enough seismic/accoustic mines to put an end to ANY tunneling along the Gaza/Egypt border, and it would be a damned sight more effective. Of course, the first thing you have to accept is that you WANT to shut down the tunnels. I'm not sure Egypt is 100% ready to do that.
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Trade, even of the subterannean kind, is always 2 way. The Egyptions are probably more worried about what is coming out of those tunnels on their side, probably drugs.
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Prob'ly counterfeit currency, too, Phil_B. After all, the persecuted Palestinians spent an awful lot of the fake stuff when they escaped through the hole in the wall.
A car exploded Sunday evening while parked outside a block of flats in the Århus suburb of Åbyhøj, reports DR public broadcaster. The force of the explosion shattered six windows and one of the car doors was flung 15 metres from the car itself. Police are at a loss as to the motive of the bombing but have issued a warrant for a 25-35-year-old man seen leaving the scene of the crime. Two other cars were set on fire in the city of Århus, but police believe the episodes are unrelated.
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Police are at a loss as to the motive of the bombing but have issued a warrant for a 25-35-year-old man of no particular ethnicity or faith community seen leaving the scene of the crime wearing curly-toed slippers.
An Oslo court started hearing arguments on Monday in the first trial ever held in Norway that involves terrorism charges. A 30-year-old man is charged, among other things, with firing shots at a synagogue in Oslo. Arfan Qadeer Bhatti, age 30, and another 28-year-old accomplice are also charged with planning terrorist attacks against the Israeli and American embassies in Oslo. Bhatti is further charged with firing shots at the suburban Bærum home of one of the leaders of a failed pyramid scheme, and threatening his family because the man owned Bhatti money.
Bhatti has been held in police custody since being arrested after the synagogue shooting in September 2006. Police maintain they have a strong case against him and another 29-year-old accomplice, including tapes of phone conversations in which Bhatti allegedly planned the attacks on the embassies and synagogue. Bhatti, however, vehemently denies having anything to do with either the synagogue or Bærum shootings. He appeared in court on Monday smiling, and his defense attorney claimed he was ready for a fight.
Bhatti admitted on the opening day of his trial that he "might" have sent some mobile phone text messages that "could" have been interpreted as "frightening." But he claimed no knowledge of or involvement in the shootings, and suggested the Bærum shooting stemmed from a conflict involving stolen property. "I don't want to speculate on who may be behind the shooting," he told judge Kim Heger.
Bhatti also claimed he was "glad" he'd been shadowed and had his phone tapped by Norway's special police force PST.
"It will prove my innocence," he said.
"You believe that?" asked the prosecutor.
"Yes, I believe that," Bhatti replied.
The Oslo City Court (Tingrett) has allotted 40 days for the trial, during which around 50 witnesses will be heard.
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If only someone had addressed the poverty and deprivation that so obviously are the root cause of his disaffection with the West.
The Pentagon announced Monday war crimes charges carrying the death penalty against a Tanzanian inmate held in Guantanamo Bay arising from Al-Qaeda attacks on US embassies in East Africa a decade ago.
The Defense Department said Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani would face a special military tribunal on nine counts including murder related to the August 1998 bombing of the embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, which killed 11 people and injured hundreds. Military prosecutors said that after the twin bombings in Tanzania and Kenya, which altogether killed more than 200, Ghailani worked as a bodyguard for Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and forged documents and trained recruits. "Six of the nine charges carry the maximum penalty of death," Brigadier General Thomas Hartman, legal adviser to the Office of Military Commissions at Guantanamo Bay, told reporters.
Hartman said the military commission trials gave full protection to defendants, including the right to view evidence, to call witnesses and to pursue appeals against any conviction all the way up to the US Supreme Court. The legal rights "are specifically designed to ensure that every accused receives a fair trial consistent with American standards of justice," he said, adding that a unanimous jury of 12 is needed to deliver the death penalty.
But the Pentagon's announcement sparked an predictable outcry from rights campaigners, who insisted the legal front of the US "war on terror" enacted at the naval base on Cuba was a travesty of justice. "These commissions aren't fit to try anybody, still less to condemn anybody to death," Amnesty International USA lawyer Jumana Musa told AFP, noting that Ghailani still faced a federal court indictment issued in 1998.
In October 2001, just after the devastating attacks on New York and Washington, four Al-Qaeda extremists were sentenced to life without parole by the Manhattan court for their part in the African embassy bombings. "There's absolutely no reason why Ghailani's trial shouldn't proceed there instead of in a military commission," Jennifer Daskal of Human Rights Watch said. "It's a particular concern that he could be sentenced to death under a system that allows, in certain circumstances, the use of evidence obtained through highly abusive interrogations, and lacks established rules and procedures," she said.
Ghailani was arrested in Pakistan in July 2004 after a shootout with police, and transferred to US custody about five months later. He had been on the FBI's most-wanted list and had a five million dollar bounty on his head. When he was arrested, Ghailani was drawing up plans for a missile strike on an airliner at Nairobi airport in Kenya as well for attacks on London's Heathrow Airport and US financial institutions, Pakistani officials said.
Ghailani's capture was hailed as the biggest coup in the hunt for Al-Qaeda since Pakistan arrested Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in March 2003. Mohammed, the self-confessed mastermind of the September 11 attacks of 2001, was slapped with capital charges in February along with five other Guantanamo detainees. The CIA has acknowledged that waterboarding, a form of simulated drowning widely denounced as torture, was used nearly five years ago in interrogations of Mohammed. Military prosecutors accused Ghailani of playing an instrumental role in the Dar es Salaam bombing, including buying explosives and detonators, and moving the bomb components to various safe houses around Tanzania's biggest city. They alleged that he scouted the US embassy with the suicide bomb driver, met with conspirators in Nairobi shortly before the bombing, and joined them on a flight to Pakistan a day prior to the attack.
A total of 15 Guantanamo detainees have now been charged under the Military Commissions Act, which was hurriedly passed by Congress in 2006 to answer Supreme Court objections to the previous system of military justice created to try "war on terror" suspects. Only one case has been concluded through the controversial Guantanamo trial system. "Aussie Taliban" David Hicks reached a plea deal with prosecutors and completed his sentence on home soil when he returned to Australia in May.
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The Tanzania & Kenya Bombings were brutal to the max. for once.........
Da Judge,
"Give Foopie a Steel Brush
Colonoscopy Till Dead"
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There's a genetic disorder with (if I recall correctly) some intelligence impacts that causes wideset eyes like that, Redneck Jim. There was an article in a recent issue of Discover magazine about several such genetic disorders that caused specific changes in facial structure.
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That must be it, Mental Illness showing, thanks TW I just couldn't put my finger on it exactly.
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genetic strain from evolution with a Walleye ancestor. Plus: you can watch two TV's at the same time. Minus: you can't make eye contact with any one person
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Three policemen and a civilian were injured in a roadside bomb blast in Swat on Monday. The policemen were returning to the Kanjoo police post after defusing a bomb in Ningolai when the van they were riding on hit a roadside bomb in Dherai, police and residents said. The policemen Bakht Bedar, Ashraf, and Mukhtiar along with a civilian, Raheem, were injured. Police said they had arrested a militant commander after the blast.
Meanwhile, an official source said two would-be suicide bombers Azeem Khan, 31, and Akbar Ali, who is about 16-years-old had entered Mingora.
Separately, militants detonated a remote-controlled bomb near a Saidu Sharif police post late on Sunday, damaging the building partially. Militants also blew up a mobile phone shop in Lakki Marwat with explosives, Online reported.
Police in Malakand said unidentified people had slaughtered Zuhra Bibi, her daughter Irfania (14), and sons Hassan Shah and Muqadar Shah in Batkhela tehsil.
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ZAHAMM, IRAQ -- Villagers digging in an abandoned pomegranate orchard in the Diyala River Valley have unearthed the remains of at least 52 people murdered by Al-Qaeda in Iraq during its two-year reign of terror in the area.
The first victim, whose head had been placed at his feet, was found on March 26 by a local village head and a U.S. Army officer who had been given the orchard's location by a man who said he had been kidnapped by Al-Qaeda last August and taken to a "jail" there, but managed to escape before execution.
"Smell that?" Captain Vince Morris, of Iron Company, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, asked when he approached the orchard on that exploratory visit. No one answered. No one needed to. The gagging stench of rotting flesh was unmistakable. And it was much too strong for the contents of just one grave.
At least 51 additional clumps of remains were uncovered in two, two-hour digs by volunteers from surrounding villages later in the week. The oldest remains were in separate, shallow graves. The freshest remains -- the skeletons still had muscle and flesh holding the bones together -- were in several mass graves, the bodies heaped upon each other.
Most were unearthed with their wrists tied behind their backs and with a bullet hole in the skull. Some were covered with a piece of cloth when dumped into the hole; others were not. And then there was the body that was wrapped in plastic.
"The ones in plastic are really bad," a U.S. soldier says. "They're just bags of mush."
Zahamm is a village located about 5 kilometers north of the town of Himbus in Diyala Governorate's "bread basket." When Al-Qaeda declared Diyala Governorate the seat of its so-called Islamic State of Iraq caliphate, the Himbus area became the terrorist group's main training, weapons-storage, and transit area.
No Music, No Smoking
"When they first came into the area they said they were mujahedin fighting the occupation forces. But later they started forcing people from their homes and taking money. People who worked for the Iraq Army or the Iraqi police were punished," says Sheikh Abbas Husayn Khalaf, the leader of Taiyah village.
"They imposed their rules: no music, no smoking, the women had to wear the veil, and there were no wedding celebrations. No one was allowed out after 5 p.m. Some people were shot in front of the people in the street, others were kidnapped, killed, and put in the mass graves."
Sheikh Abbas, sentenced to death by Al-Qaeda for "stirring up people" against them, fled north and hid with relatives, returning to Taiyah only infrequently and surreptitiously. Fourteen people from his village were snatched by Al-Qaeda, he said, including a cousin -- the brother of the man who led soldiers to the killing field.
Last week's excavation sessions only lasted about two hours each. "They're beat. Just look at their faces," Captain Morris, who had helped organize the search and was present to document the finds, says of the volunteers. "I don't think they'll do this much longer today."
His hunch, voiced early in the digging, proved true. The eyes of the volunteers were a mixture of fatigue and trauma -- the horror of Al-Qaeda's rule had revisited them in a particularly brutal fashion. And discarded clothing found nearby -- including children's clothing -- held the promise of things to come.
Only one portion of the orchard -- Al-Qaeda acquired it by killing its Shi'ite owner -- had been excavated, and there were two more orchards nearby that needed to be searched as well.
"If you find them [Al-Qaeda], kill them. Kill all of them," says Karinhi Marzi al-Shumari, an elderly woman from the village of Al-Haruniyah who was watching the disinterment. The elderly woman said her son, Muhammad Jaber, 42, was taken away by Al-Qaeda last July when he repeatedly refused to join the group.
As she slapped herself, wailed aloud, and raised her hands skyward, other women scoured the field and picked up scattered bits of paper, trying to find information as to what happened to their loved ones.
Those unearthed so far have had proper burials. Villagers cut bed sheets to make shrouds and took the remains by truck to a cemetery.
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And Barak HUSSIEN Obama thinks we should cave into these animals?
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Going to start counting into Imaginary Numbers soon Frank? Probably what your be counting to befor HRW or AmNasty International say a peep over this.
Strange how the MSM and Human Rights [Abuse] Industry will completely ignore this story and focus instead on some minor infraction by some moronic solders for years....
A senior fighter of an armed group surrendered on Monday to security force in Kirkuk, a police source said. "One of the most wanted persons surrendered to security forces in Haweija, south-west Kirkuk," a Kirkuk police source, who requested anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq-Voices of Iraq (VOI). Kirkuk, the capital city of Kirkuk province, lies 250 km north Baghdad.
The source identified him as Salah Hassan, a senior member in Ansar al-Sunna, one of the armed groups working under the mantra of the self-named Iraq's Islamic state.
Coalition forces destroy 24 weapons caches near Baqouba Forces also uncover 12 booby-trapped homes, bunkers, hideouts
BAGHDAD Coalition forces killed three terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda in Iraq and uncovered two dozen weapons caches during a five-day operation targeting bomb-making cells in the Diyala River Valley. Coalition forces discovered 12 house-borne improvised explosive devices (HBIED) and anti-aircraft weapons while patrolling an area near Khan Bani Saad Mar. 23 to 28 that had been used as a safe area by terrorists.
During the operation, one terrorist was observed hiding in an area of reeds. The assault force repeatedly instructed the individual to come out but he refused to comply with the ground forces instructions. Perceiving hostile intent, the ground force engaged the terrorist and killed him. Another suspect, hiding in a similar area, was detained when he followed instructions to surrender.
Surveillance teams observed two armed men digging in the road. Intelligence indicated the men were digging up a weapons cache and they were removing weaponry from the cache when, perceiving hostile intent, Coalition forces engaged and killed the terrorists. Two other suspected terrorists were wounded in the gun battle and were detained, treated on site and then taken to military medical facilities for further treatment.
Residents of the area told the ground force that al-Qaeda in Iraq had forced Shia families out of their homes and advised other locals to stay out of the houses. Other residents reported family members had been murdered within the previous 24 hours. Residents also guided Coalition forces to the body of an alleged terrorist and said many more bodies were buried in the area.
The HBIEDs had each marked on the outside with a bloody handprint or other markings. Coalition forces moved residents to a safe area and called in supporting fixed-wing aircraft to destroy the booby-trapped houses.
Hidden near one fighting position, Coalition forces found anti-aircraft weapons, ammunition and vehicles with mounts for the weapons. In another area, terrorists had hidden vehicles prepared as car bombs and placed two IEDs along the road.
Coalition forces also discovered weapons caches, bunkers and hidden fighting positions, some of which were reinforced with concrete. The caches contained rockets, mortar rounds and launching devices, bomb-making materials, weapons and ammunition. The ground force also found several Iraqi police and military uniforms, body armor, license plates and other documents. A Coalition explosives team safely destroyed the caches on site.
This is a tough fight. Although al-Qaeda in Iraq has been hurt, they remain lethal, said MNF-I spokesman Maj. Brad Leighton. Despite recent gains against them, much remains to be done.
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A Palestinian man was shot dead after attempting to stab two Israeli hitchhikers near Shiloh, Judea and Samaria police said on Monday. Both civilians escaped unharmed. Police spokesman Dani Poleg confirmed that the attacker was killed by an Israeli civilian who fired on him using his handgun.
The incident took place at a hitchhiking post on Highway 60, between Shiloh and the Eli Junction, on Monday evening. "We have a military report saying the assailant is now dead. Two civilians were at the scene during the attack, and one fired on the Palestinian attacker," Poleg said.
He explained that police were taking eyewitness testimonials on the scene and that the investigation was not yet complete.
An initial police investigation found that the assailant had approached the two hitchhikers with his hands in his pockets and began asking them questions in English. Seconds later, he pulled out a knife and attempted to stab one of them. One of the Israelis drew his handgun and fired on the attacker, killing him. "Rosebud."
A second knife was later found during a search of the assailant's body. A police sapper checked the body to ensure that he had no explosive devices. Police said the would-be stabber was around 20 years old and came from the Hebron area. He was apparently a student at Bir Zeit University.
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And here's how the Pali's see it. Basically, Abdul was either as pure as the driven snow or a Fatah hero. They haven't decided yet.
Bethlehem Ma'an A Palestinian university student was killed by an Israeli settler at a hitchiking post on Route 60 near the Shilo Israeli settlement between Nablus and Ramallah in the northern West Bank on Monday, Israeli and Palestinian security sources said.
Palestinian security sources said 22-year-old Abdul-Latif Hurub from the southern West Bank town of Khras west of Hebron was shot and killed by an Israeli settler.
Local sources told Ma'an's reporter in Hebron that Israeli forces ransacked the victim's family house after his death.
Hurub was studying Business Administration at Birzeit University near Ramallah. On Tuesday, students from Birzeit University told Ma'an that Israeli forces broke into the student dormitory where Hurub had been living. They evacuated all the students and inspected the building.
For its part, Fatah's Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed that one of their activists was killed as he attempted to grab a rifle from an Israeli soldier near the Shilo settlement.
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Two things I like here, the concept of a "Hitchhiking Post"(Damn good idea), and the fact civilians are armed, and not afraid to shoot when needed.
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SteveS:
Surely you've noticed the daily lessons being taught to the kindergarten kids in Gaza and the West Bank? The lessons taught by Ms. Jenks would be alien and unknown to the paleo muzz.
An Israeli court-martial charged a military tracker from the Jewish state's Arab minority on Monday with spying for Lebanon's Hezbollah.
Military sources said Sergeant Louai Balut was indicted for passing Hezbollah guerrillas information by telephone about Israeli troop deployments along the Lebanese border. He also took part in cross-border drug deals, according to prosecutors. Israel fought a 34-day war with Hezbollah in 2006 and, though a UN peacekeeper force in south Lebanon has since been expanded, tensions remain high.
Balut denied the charges. "I committed no treason. I am loyal to the state of Israel," he told Army Radio at Haifa Military Court.
Arabs make up about 20 percent of Israel's population and, while they seldom take up arms, at times voice sympathy with Hezbollah and Palestinian militant groups based in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
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If found guilty, somehow I do not think the IDF will let him off with just a 'time-out' and community service.....
Three police officers were injured when terrorists insurgents detonated a roadside bomb in Pattani province on Tuesday morning, police said. According to police, the bomb was buried under a food stall in Yaring district. It went off when the three officers were patrolling there.
Sri Lankas Tamil Tigers Monday said they had released 22 child soldiers and disputed figures from the United Nations Childrens Fund that the rebels still had hundreds of under-age fighters.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said they were also trying to locate families of 20 children still within their ranks. The guerrillas accused UNICEF, which lists several hundred children in LTTE ranks, of not updating its database. The rebels said another 41 child soldiers remained within their ranks but could not be released because most of them did not have parents or guardians.
Over the last two decades, the Tigers have promised to free children from their rank and file, but they have been accused of failing to take concrete action.
There was no immediate comment from UNICEF to the Tigers statement, but the agencys website said there were 1,428 outstanding cases of child recruitment by the rebels at the end of February 2008. Of these, 181 are under the age of 18, and 1,247 were recruited while under 18 but have now passed that age, UNICEF said.
UNICEF said there were another 235 outstanding cases of child soldier recruitment by a breakaway rebel faction, the Karuna group, which operates in the islands east and is believed to help government troops fight the Tigers. UNICEF estimates that its database only reflects a third of the actual number of children recruited, the UN agency said adding that it continuously checks its figures to ensure accuracy.
Clashes: Meanwhile, a series of clashes over the weekend between Sri Lankan troops and Tamil Tiger rebels left at least 39 separatists and three soldiers dead, the defence ministry said Monday. Government troops shot dead the rebels in the north during two days of fighting that ended Sunday, the ministry said, adding 15 soldiers were injured. There was no immediate comment from the Tigers.
At least 2,456 rebels have been killed by security forces since January, while 150 government soldiers have died in action in the same period, according to defence ministry figures. The Colombo government has vowed to defeat the Tamil Tigers and has scrapped a ceasefire with the rebels this year.
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Police have arrested a senior Taliban commander who has escaped twice from prisons in Afghanistan. He was arrested during a clash in the country's south that left three insurgents dead.
Islamist rebels attacked an armored convoy escorting the governor of Hiran region, in central Somalia, sparking a deadly gunfight with government troops.
The Egyptian military is establishing a commando unit to detect and destroy tunnels used to smuggle weapons and explosives from Sinai into the Gaza Strip, Israeli defense officials said on Sunday. 
A car exploded Sunday evening while parked outside a block of flats in the Århus suburb of Åbyhøj, reports DR public broadcaster. The force of the explosion shattered six windows and one of the car doors was flung 15 metres from the car itself. Police are at a loss as to the motive of the bombing but have issued a warrant for a 25-35-year-old man seen leaving the scene of the crime. Two other cars were set on fire in the city of Århus, but police believe the episodes are unrelated.
An Oslo court started hearing arguments on Monday in the first trial ever held in Norway that involves terrorism charges. A 30-year-old man is charged, among other things, with firing shots at a synagogue in Oslo. 
The Pentagon announced Monday war crimes charges carrying the death penalty against a Tanzanian inmate held in Guantanamo Bay arising from Al-Qaeda attacks on US embassies in East Africa a decade ago.
The first victim, whose head had been placed at his feet, was found on March 26 by a local village head and a U.S. Army officer who had been given the orchard's location by a man who said he had been kidnapped by Al-Qaeda last August and taken to a "jail" there, but managed to escape before execution. 
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A Palestinian man was shot dead after attempting to stab two Israeli hitchhikers near Shiloh, Judea and Samaria police said on Monday. Both civilians escaped unharmed. Police spokesman Dani Poleg confirmed that the attacker was killed by an Israeli civilian who fired on him using his handgun. 
An Israeli court-martial charged a military tracker from the Jewish state's Arab minority on Monday with spying for Lebanon's Hezbollah.
