Militants torched two mixed-sex schools near the Afghan capital, police said yesterday, and the Taliban said it had kidnapped two teachers and a school superintendent.
Knowledge is un-Islamic.
Police blamed the attacks on the schools near the small town of Logar, 50 kilometres (30 miles) south of Kabul, on the "enemies of Afghanistan" -- a phrase that most often refers to Taliban militants.
At one school, they beat and tied up the superintendent and set fire to the eight-classroom building, Logar deputy provincial police chief Abdul Majeed Latifi told AFP. The roof collapsed and windows, doors and furniture were badly damaged, he said.
At roughly the same time, attackers set fire to a nearby school. The blaze was put out by residents and police and only the principal's office and one classroom were affected, Latifi said. "This was also a mixed boys and girls school, where girls study in the morning and boys in the afternoon," he said.
Afghanistan's education system has been under attack for years with most incidents blamed on the Islamist Taliban, which denied girls education during its 1996-2001 grip on power and is today fighting the new government. Violence left 220 pupils and teachers dead in 2007, the education ministry said last month.
They're easier to kill than soldiers.
The UN's children's organisation Unicef said Monday that there had been 236 attacks on schools in 2007, with 23 recorded so far this year.
In a separate incident, gunmen captured a school superintendent near the south-central town of Ghazni late Sunday and two male teachers, the provincial government said. Chief Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed said loyalists of his militia had captured the three. Police said Tuesday the men were still missing.
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Yah, knowledge is un-islamic. In his Hadith, ibn-Majah has an entire section on "useless knowledge." Meaning: of no use to advancement of the koranic agenda.
Afghan police claim to have killed nine Taliban fighters in a skirmish, a day after the rebels attacked a checkpoint that left six border policemen dead.
[BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG! KAPOW! KAZING!]
"Yer under arrest!"
Officials say about 200 Afghan police officers clashed with a rebel group during a sweep launched following Monday's attack on a checkpoint in the Arghasan district of Kandahar province.
"Cheezit! It's da cops!... Ummm... Lotsa cops!"
Gen. Abdul Raziq, a police commander in the area, says the bodies of four Taliban were recovered after Tuesday's clash, while the insurgents carried away five of their dead. The violence comes amid a spate of attacks on security forces in the volatile south. Militants regularly target the police force, which is seen as weaker than the better trained and equipped national army. Last week, 11 officers were killed when militants attacked their checkpoint north of Kandahar city.
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The General Prosecutor at Sidi Aissa court, has subjected 6 people including 2 terrorists to custody, and has ordered putting 5 under judicial control, while a terrorist chief, or emir has handed himself to the National Gendarmerie services in Msila interior province, said a National Gendarmerie reliable source in Msila. The terrorist emir named Mohamed Bouharak, and nicknamed Abu Obaida, has handed himself to National Gendarmerie services in Msila, the emir has brought a Kalashnikov gun machine. He joined the terrorists groups harbouring in Boukhil Mountains, in 1993, and expanding their terrorist acts through Djelfa, Msila, and Biskra, all interior provinces.
According to the same source, the aforementioned people have been arrested in the framework of the investigation; National Gendarmerie units are conducting against the terrorists groups. 9 People forming terrorists support group, including 2 elements charged of recruiting new people involving them in terrorist acts.
On another hand, the Army units are launching a racking through Boumerdès forests, extending to Tedjelabine, Thenia, and Zemouri, using helicopters and paratroopers. Moreover, last Monday night, Hassi Rmel region in Laghouat province has been a theatre of a searching operation by Army, and National Gendarmerie forces, all shanty neighbourhoods have been searched during the operation. These operations have been conducted on a tip about a presumable attack by terrorists against a gas plant and some foreign nationals.
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Three criminals were killed in a 'shootout' with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) at Aminbazar of Savar early yesterday. Bad career move..
They are Alam, 32, Anis, 32, and Bashar, 34. Alam was the second-in-command of infamous `Gangcheel Bahini' and accused of killing two Rab men in Savar last year. The other two are his cohorts, according to a Rab press release. The RAB never forgets
With yesterday's, the number of those killed in 'shootouts' between Rab and 'criminals' in last one month stands at nine. Between June last year and March this year, 34 people were killed in 'crossfire' while the number was 179 in the proceeding 10 months. No incident of crossfire was reported throughout February.
A team of Rab-4 raided a brick kiln at Boliarpur at around 4:00am following up leads that members of the 'Gangcheel Bahini', a local crime gang, were preparing to commit robberies. Mahmoud the Rat works both sides
Lt Commander Ariful Islam who led the Rab team told The Daily Star yesterday that they came under fire as soon as they reached the spot by the Turag river. The elite crime busters returned fire, prompting a gunfight with some 15 members of the gang. "Have at 'em, boys!" KAPOW! BANGBANGITTYBANGBANG!
After 15/20 minutes, the 'criminals' fled the scene in a trawler that had been moored on the river bank. "Evinrude, don't fail us now!"
The Rab team joined by Savar police who rushed to the spot after hearing sound of gunfire searched the area and found Alam, Anis and Bashar lying with gunshot wounds. "Why, lookie here! We got us a trifecta."
The three were taken to the Savar upazila health complex where doctors declared them dead on arrival. "They're dead, Jim"
An assistant sub-inspector was injured in the gunfight and given first aid.
"We got any more one inch bandaids?"
The Rab men recovered two pistols, a shutter gun, three bullets and two cellphone sets from the scene. Shutter guns, never leave the station without one.
Earlier, seven more members of `Gangcheel Bahini' were killed in 'crossfire'. They were suspected of having played a role in the killings of Rab Deputy Assistant Director Humayun Kabir and constable Phul Mian on March 3 last year. Why, it's almost like they are being hunted down and killed
The gang leader, Anwar Hossain Anwar, prime suspect in the March 3 killings, is still at large. Give them time..
Fatalities in 'encounters' involving Rab since its inception total 481.
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Okay, help me out here, since I'm approaching the age where I have to make up a list and check it twice. Have we EVER had a troll attack us by posting to a "crossfire gazette" posting?
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if you'd been here a while, you'd know. I still don't like your piggybacking off the moniker of a long-time poster SPOD. Choose sumthing else, and I'll be happy to wipe the slate clean (as far as I go, I know others feel the same). Til then, you're tainted :-(
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Two London men were arrested as they got off a flight at Heathrow airport on suspicion of planning terrorist acts overseas, British police said Tuesday. The Metropolitan Police said that 20-year-old Mohammed Abushamma and 20-year-old Qasim Abukar were suspected of preparing to commit acts of terrorism. The two north London residents were charged under the Terrorism Act. They are due to appear in a London court on Wednesday.
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Notice they had no trouble boarding a flight to London.
Police seized documents and searched buildings across Germany on Wednesday in a coordinated raid against a group of suspected Islamic extremists, officials in the German state of Bavaria said.
Targets of the investigation led by the Munich prosecutor's office were nine German citizens between the ages of 25 and 47 years old, according to the state Office of Criminal Investigation in Bavaria. The men, most of whom have an immigrant background, are suspected of sedition and running a criminal organization.
No arrests were immediately reported.
Bavarian Interior Minister Joachin Herrmann told German news agency DPA the searches were a sign of the hazards of fundamentalist Islam.
More than 130 officers searched 16 buildings, including private flats, cultural centres and a publishing house in Neu-Ulm, Ulm, Sindelfingen, Bonn, Berlin and Leipzig.
DPA cited unnamed German security officials in a report that the suspects, including two imams, had tried to incite jihad among young Muslims using the internet and seminars on Islam. The suspects are accused of forming an organization dedicated to radicalizing German Muslims in September 2005, DPA reported.
The news agency reported that the offices of publisher As-Sunna were searched in Berlin and association rooms were searched in Leipzig. It linked the investigation to the Multi-Kultur-Haus, a multicultural centre in Neu-Ulm shuttered by German authorities in 2005, and to the Islamic Information Centre of Ulm, which the agency said is also suspected of support for radical Islam.
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whats the difference between radical islam and orthodox islam????
Seems the radicals are the ones that are following Mohammeds teachings to heart!!!
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A union council nazim and his colleague were killed and three people, including the nazims mother, were injured when their car was ambushed in the Kabal tehsil of Swat district on Tuesday. The attack on UC Kabal Nazim Mohammad Hussain came on the heels of the release of TNSM chief Sufi Muhammad. Hussain and his colleague Haji Ishaq died on the spot as unidentified assailants sprayed their car with bullets near the Hazara Bridge in Kabal, while Hussains mother and two others sustained injuries, police said. The injured were rushed to Saidu Sharif Teaching Hospital.
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The injured were rushed to Saidu Sharif Teaching Hospital.
Mental image of the joke picture showing a Klansman in full regalia (Yep hood too), being treated for several gunshot wounds at an all Black ER, Caption "He ain't gonna make it."
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(KUNA) -- As many as two insurgents of the outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) were killed Tuesday in an encounter with security forces in India's Northeastern state of Tripura, which borders Bangladesh. The encounter took place in Tripura's Dhalai district, news agency Press Trust of India reported, quoting a state police officer. The encounter lasted for almost 15 minutes, the officer added. A grenade and 27 cartridges were recovered from the slain insurgents.
Tripura shares 856-km-long border with Bangladesh. NLFT and All Tripura Tiger Force are the two main rebel groups of Tripura. Leadership of both ATTF and NLFT are based in Bangladesh and operate from there. India has been seeking their extradition for long. Earlier this month Bangladesh had deported NLFT leader Sujit Debbarma to India, in the first such gesture. Since last month 32 NLFT rebels have surrendered to the Indian security forces in Tripura.
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A relative of a Pakistani Taliban leader just released from custody, has vowed to continue armed struggle for Islamic law in the country's northwest, despite the signing of a peace accord. Maulana Fazlullah, son-in-law of Sufi Muhammad, said on Tuesday that his group will not lay down their arms until the government enforces the Sharia.
Pretty convenient, huh? Sufi promises peace and pink roses, whilst Fazlullah keeps on bumping people off, all in the name of the search for shariah. Sufi gets to roll his eyes and look pious and the corpses continue to pile up.
Learned this from the Paleos, right?
The Pakistani government released Muhammad on Monday after a deal reached with the government of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP). The deal, in which the group renounced violence in return for being allowed to peacefully campaign for Islamic law, appears to be part of the new government's efforts to engage in dialogue with armed groups fighting against the state.
Battle to continue
But Muslim Khan, a spokesman for Fazlullah, said that fighters allied with Fazlullah will not cease battle. "We welcome the release of Sufi Muhammad, but we will only lay down arms when the government would enforce Sharia," Khan said. "We are fighting for the enforcement of Islam. If the government enforces Sharia today, we will stop our struggle. But we want to see practical steps from the government, and not just the promises."
Khan said that the fighters he spoke for have not seen the text of the accord signed by Muhammad. Al Jazeera's Kamal Hyder, reporting from Malakand, in northwest Pakistan, said that there has been a sense of jubilation in the region with regard to the release of Sufi Muhammad. "Sufi Muhammad controls Malakand, which is the gateway to the Swat Valley, and he has tens of thousands of supporters, who lined the streets today, celebrating the end of seven years of detention for Muhammad in a maximum security prison," he said. "Fazlullah has been saying that the imposition of Sharia is the primary objective and a primary demand. Now it must be forgotten that Sufi Muhammad is also the father-in-law of Mullah Fazlullah, and he is a senior, influential figure - so when he speaks, everyone listens."
Last year, supporters of Fazlullah fought with security forces for control of the strategically important Swat Valley. Major-General Athar Abbas, Pakistan's army spokesman, said that no decision had been made to withdraw the army from Swat Valley.
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TNSM
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TNSM
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TNSM
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via Gateway Pundit - AFP and AU.com links at GP. Should be developing...
A MAN suspected to be Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, who tops the Iraqi government's list of most-wanted fugitives, has been captured in Iraq, Al-Arabiya television reported today.
The man suspected to be Duri, who was number two under Saddam Hussein, was captured by Iraqi forces and handed over to the US military, it said, citing Iraqi security sources.
The US military in Baghdad denied it was holding Duri. "We are aware of media reports that Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri has been captured," the military said in an email. "At this point, we can say that he is not in coalition custody and we have no reports that he was captured by Iraqi security forces either."
Al-Arabiya said the man was caught in Hamrin between the provinces of Salaheddin and Kirkuk and was being moved to Baghdad.
Al-Arabiya television channel reported that a man suspected to be Duri, who tops the Iraqi government's list of most-wanted fugitives, has been captured in Iraq. The man suspected to be Duri was captured by Iraqi forces and handed over to the US military, it said citing Iraqi security sources.
Al-Arabiya said the man was caught in Hamrin between the provinces of Salaheddin and Kirkuk and was being moved to Baghdad. DNA tests are being conducted to confirm his identity, the Dubai-based Saudi-owned channel added. HotAir reports that Syria may have given Izzat up
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Debka is saying that Syria threw him across the border into US or Iraqi hands, because the CIA is just about to do a Washington, D.C. expose that the bombing attack in Syria last September was against a North Korean plutonium reactor.
It's the Syrian way of saying, "Oh SHIAT! Don't attack!"
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I thought there were some rumors of Al Duri dying of cancer a couple of years ago.
There were rumors he went underground with about $350 million to finance an insurgency.
Of course, if they capture this thug, it would be a big big BIG intelligence coup. So I agree that if they do have him in the jug, they won't announce it for a long time. Didn't they wait to announce one of their recent AQ bags for about three months?
This guy has more liv
WASHINGTON The Associated Press has learned that Gen. David Petraeus has been tapped to become the next commander of U.S. Central Command.
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Good choice. Who is gonna replace him as a field commander in Iraq I wonder? Gen. Petraeus should be able to pick his successor after the gains in Iraq.
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I know that he does not want it, but General Petraeus should be POTUS. We are aching for real leadership, and the political parties bring us figureheads while their people systematically pick the country clean. If Petraeus does become POTUS, he better bring his staff and let them become his Cabinet. We are going to need a massive enema of the federal government.
Thus ends my dream. Hey, I can dream still. It's all I got left, heh.
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Thats his right hand. Now if he can only get Col McMaster past the asshole clintonists who are blackballing him for his star (because he revealed them to be dead wrong, and worse, wrote a paper about it), they will have the staff in place to keep the proper direction and momentum going.
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And yes, I am biased. McMaster was a fine young officer when I first met him (a 1LT in the 2ACR), and went to war with his guys off to our right flank.
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After the disaster in Korea, Ridgway took over, turned the situation around on the ground. When MacArthur was relieved, Ridgway took his place as Theater Commander. Do tell. Patterns.
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Is this just a way to promote him out of the way and replace him with someone more tractable to the Democrats?
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I know that he does not want it, but General Petraeus should be POTUS. We are aching for real leadership, and the political parties bring us figureheads while their people systematically pick the country clean. If Petraeus does become POTUS, he better bring his staff and let them become his Cabinet. We are going to need a massive enema of the federal government.
Thus ends my dream. Hey, I can dream still. It's all I got left, heh.
well said Alaska Paul my sentiments exactly. I hardly reconize the USA anymore. A majority of Citizens means nothing anymore.
It's a logical progression in duty assignment. His time on tour starts when he takes the command. In effect he's now doing a double tour, but with more hands on the controls. Had he been reassigned to the Pentagon or Europe or any other command, he would have been put 'out of the way'. As a successful commander it will put who's ever in the White House in a checked position. To relieve him earlier will indeed look like, and probably will be, a stab in the back. No hiding it in the eyes of most honest Americans. So our guys have at least another year to get the place in order before any premature pullout can even begin. At the rate we're going and the Iraqis ramping up, the situation will certainly be better when the time comes.
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FREEREPUBLIC/NEWSMAX > DENNIS ROSS - has reportedly claimed that IRAN will very likely become a de facto NUCLEAR POWER STATE, IF NOT A NUCLEAR WEAPONS STATE, IN ONE YEAR [2009-2010 r.o.]. Also from SAME > US CIA is prepping to tell the US CONGRESS THAT THE SYRIAN NUCLEAR SITE ATTACKED BY ISRAEL WAS A PLUTONIUM?-PRODUC NOKOR REACTOR SITE.
* TOPIX > ROBERT GATES - IRAN IS GOING/WORKING "HELL BENT" TO DEV NUKES.
OSAMA + RADICAL ISLAM + IRAN are pointing the ISLAMIST SWORD solely at RUSSIA-CHIN + CENTARL ASIA right now - once efectively or successfully NUCLEARIZED, OR IN ALTERN HAVE ACQUIRED A SUFFIC POTENT NUKE-WMD ARSENAL TO DETER THE MAJOR WORLD POWERS, THE ISLAMIST-JIHADIST SWORD WILL POINT BACK AGAIN AT THE USA + EVENTUALLY REST OF THE WORLD.
* WAFF.com Poster OP-ED Thread > SHOULD IRAN + TAIJIKISTAN [former Soviet SSR] BECOME ONE COUNTRY?
*2008 thru 2012/13, wid 2008-2010 being the most critical time sub-period for IRAN + ISLAMISTS AS PER SAVING THE REGIO-GLOBAL ISLAMIST JIHAD ESPEC "IN PLACE" IN MIDEAST VIA ISLAMIST-SPECIFIC "ENGAGE-AND-HOLD" ANTI-US STRATEGEMS.
The USA is presently winning both the GWOT and in the ME, BUT CAN STILL BE DEFEATED = PUSHED/HELD BACK.
*2008-2012/13 > can "MAKE-OR-BREAK" both the budding US-CENTRIC OWG-NWO, or in the altern AFFIRM THE UNSTOPPABLE RISE OF THE NUCLEARIZED OWG ISLAMIST-JIHADIST SUPERSTATE.
Little Joe Mendiola in old St. FRANCIS CHURCH, YONA, late 1960's GUAM > telling an audience how JOHN PAUL JONES was famous in Amer History for saying "I HAVE NOT YET BEGUN TO FIGHT"!
* SONGS OF THE THIRD WORLD WAR > "WHITE RABBIT" -THE THEME FROM "PLATOON"[Oliver Stone]; +
"RIDERS ON THE STORM" - THE THEME FROM "THE DOORS" {Oliver STone].
#13
Joe makes some vallid points. The only thing I would disagree with is if Iran goes up against China and Russia there will be nothing left to go up against the West, i.e., the US.
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Give China Afghanistan and they will border Iran as they pour in their colonists....
It could be positive.
Also, you would then see Pakiwakiland have to cede a corridor from Afghanistan to the new port the ChiComs are building in Pakiwakiland.
It would be the beginning of the end for Islam.
The NWFP would quickly change when it border China. The tribes would be outnumbered like the Uigars. (Just saying.... Never analyzed if it would be good for us. It would definitely be bad for Islam.)
A FEMALE suicide bomber killed six people and wounded a dozen others when she blew herself up north of Baghdad, Iraqi police said They said the attack took place today outside a police station in multi-ethnic Diyala province, where there has been several suicide bombings in recent weeks. A police source said most of the dead were policemen.
There have been several attacks by female suicide bombers in Iraq in the past few months, especially in Diyala which is one the northern provinces where al Qaeda has sought sanctuary after being driven out of Anbar province in the west and Baghdad.
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If the guys you had to choose from were all Al Qaeda types you'd be suicidal too.
(KUNA) -- A booby-trapped car explosion killed two people and injured 10 others in Mansour area, and an assassination of a local official in Harithiya suburb summed up violence which Baghdad witnessed on Tuesday.
Major-General Qassem Attah, spokesman for the law enforcement operation, told KUNA that the booby-trapped car explosion also caused damage to nearby private properties, adding that it occurred at an army check point in Masnour area. Meanwhile, a security source said, Hareth Hassan Kazami, an official in Harithiya area, west of Baghdad, was assassinated by masked gunmen. Also another group of masked gunmen attacked several security targets in Baghdad, but Sahwa (Awakening) council members and Iraqi soldiers engaged with the gunmen, arresting four and handed them to a US patrol near the place of the incident.
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(KUNA) -- Six Iraqi people were killed and 12 others injured in a suicide attack by a woman in Diyali Province, northeast of Baghdad, a security source told KUNA on Tuesday. A woman blew herself up near a police station at Jalola in northern Diyali, killing four Iraqis and wounding another 12 people, the Iraqi security source said. The injured Iraqis were taken to hospital for medical treatment, the source added, but failed to reveal if some of them were in critical condition. Diyali occasionally sees suicide attacks by women enlisted by the terrorist Al-Qaeda organization, according to US forces in Iraq.
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US and UK special forces are carrying out operations in Basra in southern Iraq against Shia militiamen, a Western military source has told the BBC. The aim is to detain senior figures in the Mehdi Army and other Shia militias, and members of a local tribe.
Iraqi forces now have a presence throughout the city, local reports say. Fighting is continuing in Shia areas of Baghdad. The US military said it had killed five suspected militiamen overnight in the district of Sadr City. Three were shot dead in a gun battle; two others were killed in an air attack.
Intelligence gathering
For the past month, Iraqi security forces backed up by coalition troops have been fighting militiamen. The special forces are also believed to be gathering intelligence to support ground operations, the Western military source told the BBC.
Basra was the scene of intense fighting some three weeks ago, after Iraqi forces made an attempt to disarm militias operating in the city. At that time, the BBC understands that 550 US troops embedded with the Iraqi army also joined in the battle. That operation ground to a halt when the army faced considerable resistance from the militias, including the Mehdi Army.
The fighting spread to various parts of Iraq, hundreds of people were killed and thousands of civilians were trapped in their homes for days. The militias were never disarmed, only promising to take their weapons off the streets. The operation was criticised by US commanders as poorly planned and as failing to achieve its stated aims.
There are understood to be about 150 British troops from the Royal Regiment of Scotland embedded with Iraqi units in Basra. Some are mentoring Iraqi soldiers while others are protecting local personnel engaged in combat operations.
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Potato-head declared jihad and few bothered. I guess we can call him a has-been.
Southern terrorists separatists shot and killed a village headman in Pattani provinces Kapho district while he was riding home on his motorcycle on Wednesday morning. Police have identified the dead victim as Roh-saman Nipor. He died at the scene after suffering several bullet wounds around the Kok Wua-Khao Din route. Authorities are now tracking down possible escape routes used by the perpetrators in hopes of making arrests.
(KUNA) -- At least 25 rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have been killed in fresh clashes in battled fatigued Northern Sri Lanka. As many as four LTTE rebels were killed in Palampiddi and Thachchnamarathamadu ...
where?
... in Vavuniya yesterday, Sri Lanka's Media Centre for National Security (MCNS) said Tuesday at Colombo. Another four rebels were killed at Minukkandi Manthottam and Wedamurippu in Mannar yesterday, MCNS said.
At least nine LTTE cadres were killed in clashes at Janakapura in North-east Welioya yesterday, MCNS added. Four LTTE rebels were killed in Palampiddi in Vavuniya yesterday, Sri Lankan Defence Ministry said today in a statement. As many as three rebels were killed in Navathkulam area in Vavuniya yesterday, the Ministry said. A lone LTTE cadre was killed in Thiriyaya in Eatern Trincomalee yesterday, the MCNS said.
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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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Militants torched two mixed-sex schools near the Afghan capital, police said yesterday, and the Taliban said it had kidnapped two teachers and a school superintendent.
Afghan police claim to have killed nine Taliban fighters in a skirmish, a day after the rebels attacked a checkpoint that left six border policemen dead.
Three criminals were killed in a 'shootout' with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) at Aminbazar of Savar early yesterday. 
(KUNA) -- As many as two insurgents of the outlawed National Liberation Front of Tripura (NLFT) were killed Tuesday in an encounter with security forces in India's Northeastern state of Tripura, which borders Bangladesh. The encounter took place in Tripura's Dhalai district, news agency Press Trust of India reported, quoting a state police officer. The encounter lasted for almost 15 minutes, the officer added. A grenade and 27 cartridges were recovered from the slain insurgents. 
A relative of a Pakistani Taliban leader just released from custody, has vowed to continue armed struggle for Islamic law in the country's northwest, despite the signing of a peace accord. 
(KUNA) -- A booby-trapped car explosion killed two people and injured 10 others in Mansour area, and an assassination of a local official in Harithiya suburb summed up violence which Baghdad witnessed on Tuesday.
(KUNA) -- Six Iraqi people were killed and 12 others injured in a suicide attack by a woman in Diyali Province, northeast of Baghdad, a security source told KUNA on Tuesday. A woman blew herself up near a police station at Jalola in northern Diyali, killing four Iraqis and wounding another 12 people, the Iraqi security source said. The injured Iraqis were taken to hospital for medical treatment, the source added, but failed to reveal if some of them were in critical condition. Diyali occasionally sees suicide attacks by women enlisted by the terrorist Al-Qaeda organization, according to US forces in Iraq.
US and UK special forces are carrying out operations in Basra in southern Iraq against Shia militiamen, a Western military source has told the BBC. The aim is to detain senior figures in the Mehdi Army and other Shia militias, and members of a local tribe. 
(KUNA) -- At least 25 rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have been killed in fresh clashes in battled fatigued Northern Sri Lanka. As many as four LTTE rebels were killed in Palampiddi and Thachchnamarathamadu ...
