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Karzai has been put on notice. While he's sitting back slinging the terrorists over his shoulder for burp sessions; they're out there shining the nose cones of their next projectiles! Time for building 'High Noon' gallows, in the middle of town square. Killing the enemy in the cracks and crevasses of the mountains doesn't bring the fear of God to the perpetrators! Dot their skeletons on crosses across the frontier with blood filled bags over the heads...might just get the Taleban's® attention!
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Unfortunately we're not going to get this under control until we start really striking at the source of the problem- which isn't the spear-carriers or even the 'holy' men... It's the financiers. Keep strangling the leaders and idiots by all means, but we've got to get to the moneymen.
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Zoid's right, whatever is subsidized, there will be more of. UN, state department, saudis and soros are all peas in a pod on this.
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We could end this "war" tomorrow by simply nuking Riyadh, Mecca & Medina. Two-thirds of the money would instantly dry up. Hit Tehran and Qom, and the other third dries up. Tell the muzzies that if this sh$$ doesn't stop in 30 days, we will hit Cairo, Khartoum, Damascus, Rawalpindi/Islamabad, et. cetera, at nauseum, until it DOES stop. The world will run out of crazy muzzies before the US runs out of nukes.
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Ohh, watch it, OP, "pappy" will show up to tell you that you have to apply for a job at the pentagon to suggest such things.
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I give OP a pass.
It's military genuises like you that I suggest apply for a general's job.
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Old Patriot, I wonder how many 'freebies' Russia and China would let the US obliterate before they got too antsy thinking they would be at the end of the line in 'Nuke Week'? You must live an an area where none of the 'Red Birds' would be targeted in that retaliation! I wanna be your neighbor!!
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Old Patriot has done his stint for the Pentagon, M. Murcek. His knowledge and experience are well worth respecting. Ditto for Pappy, who generally has very good reasons for being less patient than usual.
U.S. Marines are crossing the sands of southern Afghanistan for the first time in years, providing a boost to a NATO coalition force that is growing but still short on manpower. The troops are working alongside British forces in Helmand province the world's largest opium-poppy region and site of some of the fiercest Taliban resistance over the last two years.
The director of U.S. intelligence has said the Taliban controls 10 per cent of Afghanistan much of that in Helmand.
"Our mission is to come here and essentially set the conditions, make Afghanistan a better place, provide some security, allow for the expansion of governance in those same areas," said Col. Peter Petronzio, the unit's commander.
Taliban fighters have largely shunned head-on battles since losing hundreds of fighters in the Panjwayi region of Kandahar province in fall 2006. More than 8,000 people, mainly militants, were killed in insurgency-related violence last year, the United Nations says. The number of suicide attacks spiked last year at 140 bombings.
The U.S. now has 32,500 troops in the country the most since the 2001 invasion to oust the Taliban for hosting Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Altogether, there are nearly 70,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan, including about 2,300 Canadians mainly in Kandahar.
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Heroin factories dot Taliban controlled areas. If Taliban wasn't using derivative revenues, then they wouldn't exist. So much for them being ethical Muslims. I would napalm the fabrication plants.
As for Karzai, he has twice lectured the US against air bombardment of Helmand. It is time for him to shut up.
(Xinhua) -- Twenty-four Taliban militants, including a group commander, have surrendered to Afghan government in south province of Kandahar, a local official said Sunday. The group of insurgents, fighting the government for the past four years, laid down their arms on Saturday in Shah Wali Kot district of Kandahar, a known birthplace of Taliban, chief of the district Abidullah told Xinhua.
The Karzai administration has been calling on the militants to lay down arms and join the government's efforts in restoration of peace and reconstruction in the war-torn country.
In a recent development, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, in an interview with the New York Times, had urged U.S. forces to stop arresting suspected Taliban and their sympathizers, arguing that the arrests and past mistreatment were discouraging Taliban from laying down their arms.
The U.S.-led Coalition forces Sunday said that during a search operation for a Taliban militant on Saturday in Tag Ab district of Kapisa province, north of the capital Kabul, they entered into a clash with an unknown number of militants and killed several "anti-Afghan" militants. There were several civilian casualties during the battle, during which Afghan National Security Forces also provided reinforcements, the military said in a statement, without elaborating.
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wonder if the group commander got a "pour boire"?
Interpol has issued an arrest warrant for an Irish national who has been described by the US government as a central fundraiser for al-Qaeda in Europe. The cross-border police network has confirmed to The Sunday Business Post that it has issued its highest-level red notice in relation to Muslim businessman and charity organiser Ibrahim Buisir, on foot of a Libyan arrest warrant.
It is the first time Interpol has issued a global arrest warrant against an Irish national, in relation to alleged Islamic terror-related activities. In a public statement issued by the US Treasury Department in 2004, Buisir was identified as having directed a European al-Qaeda cell that provided support to operations in Europe, by arranging travel and accommodations.
The 47-year-old was born in Benghazi, Libya, and lives in south Dublin with his wife and children. He was an executive member of the Islamic Foundation of Ireland and director of the Irish branch of the Islamic Relief Agency, an international charity that works alongside Unicef and many other organisations. Buisir denied any connection to terrorist fundraising at the time of the US Treasury statement.
Officials at the Libyan embassy in London declined to comment when contacted by this newspaper last week. Calls to Buisirs Dublin home were not answered.
This article starring:
Ibrahim Buisir
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Difficult headline, Fred. I read that as a rubber chicken dinner in Ireland to raise funds for Al Qaeda. Not my ideal situation, but I couldn't figure out what Interpol has against Irish chickens, although a prejudice against red-headed Irishmen is a bit more believable -- weren't all the IRA red-haired? ;-)
Two gas pipelines were blown up in Balochistan, suspending supplies to several districts in Punjab, officials said on Sunday. A main gas pipeline transporting natural gas from the Sui plant in Dera Bugti district and a pylon supplying power to the Attock Cement Factory were damaged, said Sui gas spokesman Muhammad Inayatullah. The Baloch Republican Army claimed responsibility for both explosions. Inayatullah said that alternative arrangements were being made to supply affected consumers. The Oil and Gas Development Corporation and Pakistan Petroleum Limited said they have sent engineers to repair the pipelines.
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Which macro is this one, Fred? Seems we read it every two or three days. Is if F7, F8?
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Doubleheader, pipeline and a pylon.
Foster Brooks is probably smiling down. Or up, depending on where he is...
The death toll in Mohmand Agency clash between locals and Taliban militants has reached 13, while three people sustained injuries as fighting continued between the two rival groups throughout Saturday night and on Sunday.
The deceased include three Taliban, three children and a woman. The Taliban also killed the man named as Ghaffar who they had abducted on April 23.
Meanwhile, Taliban have surrounded the Michni area and gathering their fighters from nearby areas there. Taliban spokesman Maulvi Umar said that their members were going to a wedding ceremony when dacoits attacked them, killing one Talib and injuring two others.
He said that they undertook operation in the area after the incident, demolishing three houses and arresting several people.
The clashes started when a Taliban group passing through the Dadukhel area of Safi tehsil was attacked by locals, after Taliban kidnapped Ghaffar.
A jirga is currently negotiating for a peace deal after two other jirgas failed to broker a ceasefire in the area on Saturday night between the Dadukhel tribe and Taliban. The Taliban have also handed the locals a list of wanted people, who are accused of being criminals.
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Local Taliban on Sunday publicly executed alleged kidnapper and car thief Roshan Khan in the Michni area of Mohmand Agencys Yakaghund tehsil.
According to Dawn News, they destroyed eight houses of alleged criminals in Raheem Kor following an overnight gun battle that left more than six people dead. The channel quoted Taliban spokesman Dr Asad as saying that the Taliban had warned Khan and other criminals to give up their criminal activities, adding that they had taken action when the criminals did not heed their warnings. The spokesman said that Roshan Khan had been arrested with 18 accomplices but some criminals had escaped.
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Did they find any shutter guns at the scene? How many rounds of bullet?
NEW DELHI: Exposing Pakistans claims of dismantling terrorist infrastructure in PoK as hollow, an ammunition depot of Lashkar-e-Taibas terrorist camp caught fire, leading to several blasts in Muzaffarabad on Sunday evening. "Panic gripped the residents as the blasts, which began around 6pm IST, continued for about two hours," the president of Jammu & Kashmir National Students Federation, Mehmood Beigh, told TOI from Muzaffarabad over phone.
He said the terrorist camp is located inside the limits of Muzaffarabad Municipal Corporation at Chila Bandi near Shaive canal. "ISI and police have blocked all roads leading to the camp. Journalists and common people arent being allowed into the area," he said.
Another top-ranking Muzaffarabad-based JKNSF leader, Raja Saba, said Pakistani authorities are unlikely to ever accept that the blasts actually took place, as it would expose the Pakistan governments lies about the nonexistence of terrorist camps in Muzaffarabad. "They will give it a different colour, claiming that gas cylinders exploded. After the civilian government took over, ISIs activities have picked up here. ISI is trying to lure locals into joining the terror camps," Raja said.
Indeed, there has been much activity: ISI is reported to have recently organized three conferences to get terrorist camps up and running. In fact, the Hizbul Mujahideen chief last week addressed an ISI-backed conference in Muzaffarabad and vowed to continue jihad. "They are trying to recruit terrorists for jihad in Kashmir. ISI is supplying in money and providing arms to terrorists to revamp the terror infrastructure in Kashmir. Todays blast took place in one of those camps which have received fresh arms and ammunition," Raja added.
Muzaffarabad-based journalist Tariq Naqqash said, "Apparently, LeT cadres have stopped even the police and the local administration officials from entering the area." They are being stopped about half a km from the blast site, he added. "I am waiting for an official statement but the authorities are tightlipped."
Arif Shahid of All-Party National Alliance, a leading organisation against Pakistan rule in PoK said terror camps continue to train hardcore terrorists for jihad in Kashmir. "Weve been crying ourselves hoarse and asking Islamabad to throw these jihadis out of our land. We dont want them here. But our repeated pleas have been falling on deaf ears," he said. "Extremist elements in Pakistan continue to lure the youths towards jihad. Not just this, ISI continues to get foreign nationals Afghans, Saudis and Arabs for Kashmir jihad." He said the training camps were running under the garb of hospitals.
Kashmiri nationalists, resenting Islamabads occupation of PoK, have been running campaigns against the terror camps. In 2007, JKNSF organised a march against terrorist camps in PoK after LeT terrorists abducted a Muzaffarabad University student.
There are believed to be at least 36 jihadi training camps in PoK, housing about 3,660 cadres. Majority of these camps are located in Muzaffarabad and Kotli. LeT maintains, among others, the Danna and Abdul-Bin-Masud camps in Muzaffarabad and Badli camp in Kotli with 500, 300 and 300 jihadis respectively. Similarly, Hizbul has, among others, the Jangal Mangal camp in Muzaffarabad and another one at Mangla with at least 300 cadres each. Security forces in Jammu and Kashmir, while saying that there has been a decrease in violence, have repeatedly maintained that terrorist infrastructure in PoK remains alive and kicking.
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Pakistan ISI are the route of all evil in the region/world!!!!!
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Oooh I dunno about that Paul , the ISI is nothing compared to an undercooked curry.
Two Sikhs, who were abducted from a district in Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province, have been rescued by the local Taliban and religious scholars, who decided to publicly hang their nine kidnappers tomorrow to "discourage crimes" in the region.
Attar Singh and Sehra Singh were kidnapped by a group of criminals from Dowaba in Hangu district. They were freed on Saturday after the intervention of local Taliban, religious scholars and tribal elders, 'The News' daily reported.
Members of a tribal jirga or council of elders took the two Sikhs back to their homes.
Sources told the daily that the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan and local council of clerics had taken nine kidnappers into their custody. One kidnapper was also killed by the Taliban.
A jirga of religious scholars and local Taliban held at Khadezai area of nearby Aurakzai Agency decided to publicly hang the kidnappers tomorrow to "discourage crimes in the area".
Maulvi Omar, the spokesman for the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, said the Sikhs were taken by their kidnappers from Dowaba in Hangu to Baghu in Aurakzai Agency. The Taliban then conducted an operation yesterday to release them, he said.
Omar said one of the kidnappers was killed during the operation while their leader, Ghani, was apprehended. The kidnappers will be punished in accordance with Islamic injunctions and operations by the Taliban against anti-social elements will continue in the Aurakzai Agency, he said.
North West Frontier Province has a small population of Sikhs and members of the minority community run several businesses in the provincial capital Peshawar.
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ION COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG [paraph] > PAKISTAN MILITANT/TERROR GROUP LASKAR EL-ISLAM VOWS TO PUT THE WHOLE WORLD UNDER ISLAM. See Articles also for Hezbollah/Hizzb and planned new attacks agz Israel.
The Jammu & Kashmir police have stumbled upon yet another terrorist-official nexus that could prove a major headache for the security forces in the run-up to this years assembly elections.
Sending security agencies into a tizzy, the police have recovered voter ID cards the most authentic identity proofs after the passports from slain terrorists killed in various encounters in north Kashmirs Kupwara district recently. "The fraud was first discovered in February, when we recovered a voter ID card from Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist, Abu Tufail, who was killed in an encounter at Handwara in Kupwara district. Tufail, a Pakistani national, had procured an ID on a fictitious name," Handwara SP Haseeb Mughal said.
He said, after that, the police recovered several voter IDs from slain Pakistani terrorists killed in encounters in Kupwara distict. "So far, we have arrested a revenue department clerk, Farooq Ahmad, for issuing a voter ID card to a Pakistani terrorist killed in February," he said, adding, "The investigations are on and more arrests are likely." He said the terrorists carried authentic voter IDs attested by revenue officials. "In many cases, the terrorists had used forged stamp of the deputy commissioner for attestation," he said.
Kupwara deputy commissioner Kachoo Isfandyar Khan, said further issuance of voter ID cards has been stopped. "The issuance would resume after we work out a foolproof mechanism for issuing the cards," he said.
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the good news is that they will be honored in Indiana (after the SCOTUS' decision today)
In the summer of 2003, IED attacks in Iraq increased dramatically with the emerging insurgency. A group of intelligence, law enforcement, and explosive experts responded, forming the Combined Explosives Exploitation Cell CEXC.
After removal of the Hussein regime an IED insurgency began led by alZarqawi and the remnants of the Al Ghafiqi Project, IED assassins from Iraqs former intelligence body the Mukbarat. This marked a dramatic increase in IED incidents in the summer of 2003. As one of JSOCs EOD assets, DiGuardo was sent into the fray to respond. He arrived in Baghdad with the intention of developing counter-IED CONOPS and TTPs. Shortly after arriving, DiGuardo found a group already working to address the IED problem. It was a conglomeration of British and American, civilian and military, EOD technicians and intelligence analysts. Though from different backgrounds, each member possessed the imagination and foresight to realize that a counter-IED effort would take the fight to the terrorists. Beyond realizing the need, these men each had the initiative to address it. They formed a cell, not unlike that of their nemeses. This is a very informative article, posted in Small Wars Journal as a PDF. Link to the PDF is HERE . We have the ability to tackle any problem and make things happen and solve it. Our biggest problem is our politicians and the MSM. That is the BIG ONE we have to tackle that enables us to take care of the external stuff. Be that as it may. Read the article.
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BAGHDAD: Iraqi police say gunmen have assassinated a local commander of anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in the southern city of Basra.
A police official says Ali Ghalib, a commander of al-Sadr's Mahdi Army in the Hakimiya neighborhood in central Basra, was gunned down by gunmen on a motorcycle as he was driving on Monday. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media. The assassination comes amid intensified clashes between al-Sadr's followers and the U.S.-backed Iraqi government.
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Might have been one of the other oil-stealing gangs get a little of their own back. For the past 18 months, the Tater Tots have controlled a big chunk of the illegal oil trade and now that they have been pushed out of Basra, some of the local wise guys may have decided to eliminate the competition.
While Allan slept, U.S. and Iraqi troops killed 38 militants in fierce clashes with militants in Baghdad, including 22 who attacked a military checkpoint in a Shiite militia stronghold, the U.S. military said Monday.
Suspected Shiite extremists, apparently taking advantage of a sandstorm that blanketed the capital, attacked several checkpoints and hammered the U.S.-protected Green Zone in the fiercest salvo in weeks on Sunday. The sandstorm had grounded the American aircraft that normally prowl for launching teams.
The insurgents lobbed more rockets or mortar shells toward the Green Zone, housing the United States embassy and much of the Iraqi government on the west side of the Tigris River, on Monday morning. Alarms could be heard and the public address system in the area warned residents to take cover and stay away from windows.
The clashes on Sunday concentrated in Sadr City, the stronghold of the Mahdi Army, where American soldiers used Abrams main battle tanks to repel the attackers. A little detail the bad guys forgot to account for.
The American and Iraqi soldiers came under attack "by a large group of criminals," the U.S. military said in a statement. Eight civilians were killed and 58 others were also injured in clashes in Sadr City since Sunday, local health officials said Monday.
On Sunday, the U.S. military had claimed success with operations that have effectively sealed off the southern section of Baghdad's Sadr City, a militia stronghold that is believed to be one of the prime launching sites for the Green Zone attacks.
The Green Zone has been regularly shelled since fighting broke out over a U.S.-backed government crackdown against militias that began in late March. American commanders have blamed what they call Iranian-backed Shiite factions they say have broken with a cease-fire imposed by al-Sadr in late August.
On Sunday, Al-Sadr's spokesman in the holy city of Najaf called the Shiite-led government's terms for ceasing the crackdown against the militias "illogical."
Salah al-Obeidi accused Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, himself a Shiite, of wanting to resolve the problem by force instead of dialogue. Chief among al-Maliki's demands announced Friday were that the militias surrender heavy weapons and hand over all wanted people.
Brig. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, the Iraqi military spokesman for Baghdad operations, on Sunday said the government would maintain the crackdown.
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May I add that Maliki has obviously cut Iranian influence in favor of US military presence and stability. A smart move if Republicans retain the White House.
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wxj; it is a smart idea if the Repubs DON'T hold the WH as the Iraqi's need to get as much done as they can before a Democrat declares surrender and leaves them hanging (literally).
Remember who was in charge of the Congress when South Vietnam was left hanging. The promised support to South Vietnam vanished. This new batch have been longing for a new "Vietnam" to justify their lives.
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wxj; it is a smart idea if the Repubs DON'T hold the WH as the Iraqi's need to get as much done as they can before a Democrat declares surrender and leaves them hanging (literally).
Remember who was in charge of the Congress when South Vietnam was left hanging. The promised support to South Vietnam vanished. This new batch have been longing for a new "Vietnam" to justify their lives.
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including 22 who attacked a military checkpoint in a Shiite militia stronghold
Sounds like they're trying to break out of an encirclement. How long before they start getting hungry and running low on ammo?
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Remember who was in charge of the Congress when South Vietnam was left hanging. The promised support to South Vietnam vanished. This new batch have been longing for a new "Vietnam" to justify their lives.
Even if we leave, there's not going to be another Vietnam. Iraqi security forces aren't great, but they're good enough. North Vietnam needed billions of dollars of shiny new tanks, artillery and fighter aircraft from the Chinese and the Soviets to finish off a South Vietnam to which we had cut off access to military supplies. The Iraqi opposition has neither the hardware nor the physical sanctuary to pull off an invasion. If we leave, and the situation gets out of hand, expect the Iraqi government to resort to massacres, given that they are literally fighting for their lives.
Suspected Shiite extremists hammered the U.S.-protected Green Zone Sunday in the fiercest salvo in weeks, apparently taking advantage of a sandstorm that blanketed the capital and grounded the American aircraft that normally prowl for launching teams. Thunderous explosions resounded throughout the evening as rockets or mortar shells slammed into the heavily fortified area in central Baghdad.
Anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, meanwhile, rejected terms set by the Iraqi government for lifting a crackdown against his Mahdi Army militia. Sirens wailed in the Green Zone, which houses the U.S. Embassy and much of the Iraqi government on the west side of the Tigris River. The public address system warned people to duck and cover and stay away from windows.
The U.S. Embassy confirmed the area was hit by indirect fire, the military's term for rocket or mortar attacks, but said it had no immediate word on casualties.
The Green Zone has been regularly shelled since fighting broke out over a U.S.-backed government crackdown against militias that began in late March. At least four Americans, including two soldiers, have been killed in the attacks.
But the U.S. military has claimed success with operations that have effectively sealed off the southern section of Baghdad's Sadr City, a militia stronghold that is believed to be one of the prime launching sites for the Green Zone attacks.
American commanders have blamed what they call Iranian-backed Shiite factions they say have broken with a cease-fire imposed by al-Sadr in late August.
Al-Sadr's spokesman in the holy city of Najaf called the Shiite-led government's terms for stopping the crackdown against the militias illogical.
Salah al-Obeidi accused Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, himself a Shiite, of wanting to resolve the problem by force instead of dialogue. Chief among al-Maliki's demands announced Friday were that the militias surrender heavy weapons and hand over all wanted people.
Sporadic clashes also continued Sunday in Sadr City, a sprawling district in northeastern Baghdad with 2.5 million people.
The U.S. military said five suspected militants were killed in three separate airstrikes late Saturday and early Sunday in the area.
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Hamas gunmen prevented Palestinian fuel trucks from filling up at the Nahal Oz border crossing. The trucks turned back without the fuel, that was supposed to go to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and to Gaza hospitals, the Jerusalem Post reported Sunday, quoting sources in the Palestinian Petroleum Authority.
Israel agreed over the weekend to provide the Palestinian Petroleum Authority with 250,000 additional liters of fuel to enable it to distribute food aid in the Gaza Strip.
The Post reported that Hamas members had confiscated fuel-laden trucks as they headed to Gaza City at least four times in the last several weeks. Palestinian Authority officials accuse Hamas of trying to create a fuel crisis in order to cause the international community to pressure Israel to open border crossings.
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Apparently even the EU is pissed that Hamas keeps attacking the fuel supply into Gaza.
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Sounds like a win-win all the way around to me. Piss off the EU and the UNRWA and let Hamas do all the work by fucking over their own people.
Screw em. If they don't have a problem with it, why the hell should I?
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Hamas steals the fuel and sells it on the black market. It also keeps Relief Org fuel off the market, making demand for Hamas' stolen fuel go higher. Result: pure profit.
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Suspected terrorists separatists shot dead two Muslim men in the Thai south on Sunday, police said, as the army warned of possible strikes by militants on the anniversary of a deadly mosque raid. A 36-year-old Muslim man suspected of involvement in the jihad insurgency and a 38-year-old local government worker were shot dead in separate incidents in Narathiwat province, police said.
Thai security officials also warned that rebels may be planning attacks to mark the fourth anniversary of the Krue Se Mosque massacre, when 32 people, some suspected rebels, were killed by Thai security forces in Pattani province. "We have reports that militants may use holidays or anniversaries to stage attacks, which includes the anniversary of Krue Sae Mosque during the 28th to the 30th April," army spokesman Colonel Acar Tiproch told AFP. Security would be beefed up throughout the troubled region bordering Malaysia to try and prevent any more bloodshed, he said.
Thai authorities have seized more than a thousand fake Asian and Western passports and arrested a man in one of the biggest anti-counterfeiting operations in recent years, said police on Sunday. Mohammed Karim, a 56-year-old from Bangladesh, was nabbed in a Bangkok townhouse late on Saturday where they found a sophisticated passport making operation and more than 1,000 finished and unfinished documents, said Police Major-General Chaktip Chaichinda. He admitted that he made fake passports, Chaktip told reporters, adding that his partner, a Myanmar national, escaped arrest. The passports were for several countries including the United States, New Zealand, France, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia and Malta. Police seized two computers, a scanner, three printers and rubber stamps for several countries. This guy is rich. He has a BMW. He said he made about 300,000-400,000 baht per month (around $10,000), said Chaktip.
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Pakistan and Bangladesh were once the same country, before India helped Bangladesh achieve independence. I think India is beginning to believe they made a mistake. This POS may not be directly from Pakistan, but he has the same (muslim) mentality. Thailand should hang him in the center of the downtown market, and let him rot in the sun.
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Tamil Tiger light aircraft bombed a Sri Lankan military position in the north of the island on Sunday in the rebels' first air raid in nearly six months, the military said. It also said that in ground fighting, 48 people died, most of them rebels. "At about 1:35 a.m. (1905 GMT Saturday) they came and dropped three bombs on the Welioya Forward Defence line. Nobody was hurt and no damage to any property," a military spokesman said of the rebel air raid on the northern district of Polonnaruwa. The rebels' last air strike was in October on an air force base in Anuradhapura.
The military said fresh confrontations with the rebels had killed 28 Tamil Tiger rebels, and seven soldiers had died and one was missing in fighting in Welioya on Saturday. It also said fighting in northern districts of Jaffna, Vavuniya and Mannar on Saturday killed 13 Tamil Tiger rebels.
Pro-Tamil Tiger rebel web site www.tamilnet.com said heavy fighting erupted in the Welioya area, pitting the Tigers against a "large-scale offensive" by the army.
A suspected rebel bomb blast on a bus near the capital Colombo in the evening rush hour killed 26 people on Friday.
Dozens of rebel fighters and government troops were killed this week in fighting on the Jaffna Peninsula in the far north. After driving the rebels from the east, the armed forces are focusing on Tiger-held areas in north, intensifying fighting in the war that has killed an estimated 70,000 people since 1983. While the military has the upper hand in the latest phase of the war, analysts see no clear final winner.
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April 28 (Bloomberg) -- Ten North Koreans may have been killed in an Israeli air strike on Syria in September, NHK reported on its Web site, citing unidentified South Korean intelligence officials. It's a start
The 10 people, whose remains were cremated and returned to North Korea in October, had been helping with the construction of a nuclear reactor in Syria, Japan's public broadcaster said. Some North Koreans probably survived the air attack, NHK said. But perhaps not the "welcome" home. Dead men tell no tales.
The U.S. government last week accused North Korea of helping Syria build a secret nuclear reactor capable of producing plutonium.
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A French delegate to a conference of socialists in Lebanon has said he was detained by gunmen linked to the Islamist movement Hezbollah. Karim Pakzad said he was held for four hours after being stopped while taking photographs from an open-top car in an area known as a Hezbollah stronghold.
France described the incident as "totally unacceptable". Hezbollah said the two were released after it had made sure Mr Pakzad and his companion were not Israelis. Mr Pakzad, who was representing the French Socialist Party at the two-day Socialist International conference in Beirut, said he had been taking pictures of a mosque with a friend when he was approached by armed men. He said he was blindfolded and taken to an unidentified location where he was held in isolation and his cell phone, wallet and medicine were taken away. Hezbollah said Mr Pakzad's photographic activities had "aroused suspicion" and that the two men were treated with "respect".
"Once we were sure that the Frenchman and his companion were not Israelis we had no problems" with them, the group said in a statement.
The French foreign ministry protested against the incident. "We count on the diligence of Lebanese authorities, responsible for the investigation and judicial follow-up of this incident," a ministry statement said, adding that Pakzad had filed a formal complaint.
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