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Is Robert Wagner the luckiest man on Earth, EVER? Married to Natalie Wood (she eventually dies in a tragic accident), then he has to settle for a later marriage to Jill St John.
yeah, I'm bitter
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Rightfully so, Frank.
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Does anybody remember when Leonid Brezhnev visited Nixon at the Western White House in San Clemente, CA? Jill St. John was there and someone took a picture of her right after she walked past Brezhnev. It was pretty funny because his eyes were clearly focused directly on her ass and his big, bushy eyebrows were raised way up. Old lecher.
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Yes in deedy do that is one gorgeous woman.
The sight of Jill running around in that bikini at the end of Diamonds are Forever is an image for the ages.....one of my favorite bits of film.
My dad said the three secrets to happiness in life were:
1. Never ride a pinto horse
2. Never play pool with a left handed pool player
3. Never marry a redheaded woman.
PLEASE get Red Ken the hell out of there. What a nightmare he is -- apologist and supporter of all that drives towards Londonistan
The Conservatives were increasingly confident this afternoon that massive Tory gains in local elections across England and Wales would be capped this evening by victory for Boris Johnson, their colourful candidate for London Mayor. With the outcome of the London vote due by 10pm, David Cameron's party was already celebrating a 44-per cent share of the vote nationwide. Labour, on 24 per cent, were pushed into third place behind the Liberal Democrats on 25 per cent, losing more than 300 council seats across England and Wales.
It was Labour's worst performance since the 1960s and a humiliation for Gordon Brown on his first proper electoral test as Prime Minister.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Eight Afghan civilians, three of them children, were killed in two landmine explosions near the border with Pakistan, a senior provincial police official said on Thursday.
In Wednesday's incident, a vehicle carrying the civilians ran over a mine on a dirt road near Spin Boldak, a town in Kandahar province, Kandahar police chief Sayed Aqa Saqib told Reuters. "In the first explosion, three civilians lost their lives. The second one went off after the remaining people in the car got out to recover the bodies. In total, eight people were killed and several were wounded," he said.
Saqib said the mines were planted by Taleban insurgents who largely rely on suicide attacks and roadside bomb blasts in their campaign against the government and foreign troops backing it.
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"We are warning the enemies of God that we will stay on the same path like the departed ... the path of true jihad."
MOGADISHU (Rooters) - Somalia's Islamist rebels vowed to fight on under new leadership on Friday after U.S. warplanes killed an insurgent said to be al Qaeda's commander in the Horn of Africa country. Aden Hashi Ayro, who led al Shabaab militants blamed for attacks on government troops and their Ethiopian allies, was killed on Thursday in the latest of a string of U.S. air strikes on insurgents in the last year. Security and intelligence sources say Ayro, in hiding since a U.S. air strike in January 2007, trained in Afghanistan in the late 1990s. He was one of six members or associates of al Qaeda thought by the United States to be in Somalia.
The Western-backed Somali government is trying to stem a rebellion that has been gaining ground but the rebels said the death of Ayro would not deter them. "Even if Ayro has been martyred, his beliefs live on. The men who he trained and consulted are still around," Shabaab spokesman Mukhtar Ali Robow told local broadcaster Shabelle. "We are warning the enemies of God that we will stay on the same path like the departed ... the path of true jihad."
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It's going to take getting REALLY nasty to the islamists to get them to understand just how mean, evil, wicked, bad, nasty, cruel and heartless we, the American people, can be toward our enemies, once we get angry enough. That includes our enemies in the United States, such as the New York Slimes and the Washington stumpPost. It needed to happen ten years ago, and it's long overdue. Let us hope John McCain becomes president, and actually wages WAR against these nutjobs.
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Six people were killed and at least 35 wounded on Friday when a bomb hidden in a motorcycle exploded outside a mosque in Yemen's volatile northern city of Saada. The blast happened as worshippers, including army officers, were leaving the Salman Mosque after Friday prayers, officials and security sources said. "We estimate so far six dead and around 35 wounded," Motahhar Rashad told Al Jazeera television. "It is a large mosque."
Rescue workers were still helping people at the scene, and medical sources told Reuters around 100 people had been taken to two hospitals in the area. It was not known who planted the bomb near the door of the mosque, but the northwestern province has been rocked by sporadic violence since a conflict broke out in 2004 between government forces and rebels loyal to Abdul-Malik al-Houthi.
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Sounds like the safe and sane thing to do would be to stay away from mosques. I mean, if you're hanging around with mad men things like this are bound to happen.
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The blast happened as worshippers, including army officers, were leaving the Salman Mosque after Friday prayers...
Pyrotechnics. They probably thought it was part of the show.
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"There's no infidal around... but I have to boom sumthin" syndrome. The jihadis seem to be hell bound to eat their own. And it all started with a small mistranslation, I guess, as in "the religion of pieces". Pieces Deficiency Syndrome.
Three small bombs exploded early on Thursday in Spains Basque city of San Sebastian and a nearby town after a warning call claiming to be from Basque separatist rebels ETA, said Spanish local officials. The caller warned of the two bombs in San Sebastian but not of another device which exploded shortly afterwards in the town of Arrigorriaga, Guipuzcoa province. There were no injuries.
Two bombs went off outside a Basque Justice and Employment Department building in San Sebastian and another blast took place near a Labour Ministry building in Arrigorriaga, coinciding with Workers Day, which is a national holiday in Spain.
The damage looks quite spectacular, there were some vehicles inside the building complex and the door has been blown off, Arrigorriagas Mayor, Alberto Ruiz, told state radio. But I dont think the damage is worth a lot, he added. The events also came one day after Judge Baltasar Garzon denied Basque MayoressInocencia Galparsoro bail and sent her to prison, pending trial, for supporting the aims of ETA.
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Spc. Ross McGinnis, who was killed Dec. 4, 2006, in Iraq when he smothered a grenade with his body, will receive the Medal of Honor, sources told Army Times.
McGinnis, 19, is the second soldier to receive the nations highest valor award for actions while serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Sgt. 1st Class Paul Ray Smith, who was killed April 4, 2003, fighting off insurgents in a fierce firefight south of Baghdad, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor two years after he died.
McGinnis, of 1st Platoon, C Company, 1st Battalion, 26th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, is credited with saving the lives of four fellow soldiers.
On Dec. 4, 2006, McGinnis was manning the turret in the last Humvee of a six-vehicle patrol in Adhamiyah in northeast Baghdad when an insurgent threw a grenade from the roof of a nearby building. Grenade! yelled McGinnis, who was manning the vehicle's M2 .50-caliber machine gun. McGinnis, facing backwards because he was in the rear vehicle, tried to deflect the grenade but it fell into the Humvee and lodged between the radios.
As he stood up to get ready to jump out of the vehicle, as he had been trained to do, McGinnis realized the other four soldiers in the Humvee did not know where the grenade had landed and did not have enough time to escape. McGinnis, a native of Knox, Pa., threw his back against the radio mount, where the grenade was lodged, and smothered the explosive with his body.
The grenade exploded, hitting McGinnis on his sides and lower back, under his vest. He was killed instantly. The other four men survived.
McGinnis, who was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery, will be honored during a ceremony at the White House. The ceremony is expected to take place sometime in June.
Its longstanding Army policy not to comment on the status of Medal of Honor nominations. The sources who confirmed the information to Army Times asked to remain anonymous. When contacted by Army Times, McGinniss parents declined to comment.
In addition to McGinnis and Smith, two other service members have received the Medal of Honor for actions in Iraq: Marine Cpl. Jason Dunham and Master-at-Arms 2nd Class (SEAL) Michael Monsoor. Only one Medal of Honor has been awarded for actions in Afghanistan, to Lt. Michael Murphy, a Navy SEAL. Each of those awards was presented posthumously.
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While deserving, these four Medal of Honor recipients will never walk among us. They will never meet and inspire the next generation to follow in their footsteps.
There are so few living Medal of Honor recipients that for each one, there are over 3 million Americans.
Most Americans will never in their lives meet a Medal of Honor recipient. They will never hear their story of valor. Most will not even know the significance of the Medal of Honor.
This is like depriving children in school the privilege of ever having saluted the flag or saying the pledge of allegiance. It takes from them the personification of honor, the meaning of patriotism. A reason to love their nation. An understanding of why service and sacrifice in the defense of the nation is so precious and essential.
In no way does presenting a citation of honor to a living recipient diminish the contributions of those who gave their lives. In fact, it keeps alive their memory as well.
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But some will get the Silver Star, same as John Kerry.
I guess that makes me bitter.
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Bobby, the honourable junior senator from Massachusetts threw his medals away, whether in reality or only in show. So he hasn't counted as a Silver Star recipient ever since, even if he does fondle it in private. No matter what he may claim now.
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I've often thought the U.S. Post Office should have a commemorative series of stamps honoring the people who have earned the MOH. Each would have their picture on a such a stamp. I don't know about the practicality of doing this since there a considerable number of MOH winners. It would serve to educate people about our heroes and to remind us that some have performed selfless acts to save others or give all for their comrades.
Unidentified armed men gunned down a police constable on Jinnah Road here on Thursday, police said. The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) has accepted responsibility for the killing. The gunmen fired on a policy contingent deployed in the area. Constable Juma Khan succumbed to his injures before getting treatment at Quettas Civil Hospital. The police cordoned off the area and started a search operation.
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KARACHI: The Crime Investigation Department (CID), with coordination from Rangers intelligence, arrested Thursday an alleged suicide bomber and recovered a suicide jacket with explosives and Jihadi literature from him, Daily Times learnt. According to sources, the suicide bomber was an Egyptian named Abu Umer Sadi and was taken into custody from Sea View, Clifton. It is believed that his mission was to blow himself up at Sea View on Labor Day, as thousands of citizens celebrate this holiday by going to the beach. Sources said that the alleged bomber was immediately handed over to intelligence agencies and that he has been shifted to an unknown location. According to sources, Sindh Inspector General of Police (IGP) Shoaib Suddle had earlier called a meeting in this regard and directed police officials across the city to find the man. Daily Times tried to contact the IGP for comment but he was unavailable.
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MINGORA: Thirty-five police officers have been killed and 95 injured by the Taliban since the beginning of the violence in the Swat district, according to police. Police said more than 30 officers have been killed and over 95 injured in the ongoing violence. Senior police officials told Daily Times that plots would be distributed among families of those killed, in addition to payments of Rs 500,000 each. The officials also said one child of each slain police officer would be appointed as ASI in the police department.
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LANDIKOTAL: A powerful bomb strapped to an oil tanker loaded with 44,000 litres of fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan blew up on Thursday in the Neki Khel parking area on the Pak-Afghan Highway. The vehicles drivers managed to salvage the engine, but could not save the tanker. Flames ravaged the area and a nearby shop set ablaze by the blast was completely razed. It took the local administration two hours to put out the fire with the help of locals. No casualties were reported.
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BARA: A suicide bomber blew himself up in a Khyber Agency madrassa on Thursday injuring at least 18 people in a bid apparently aimed at killing the head of a religio-militant organisation, eyewitnesses and security officials said. I was the target, Haji Namdar, chief of the Amar Bil Maroof Wa Nahi Anil Munkar (Promotion of Virtue and Suppression of Vice) organisation, told Daily Times. I am safe.
The suicide bomber, aged between 15 and 18, blew himself up as he approached Namdar at the madrassa in Takya, eyewitnesses said. One eyewitness, Amin Khan, said the attacker struck after Namdar had finished a sermon and appealed for donations for jihad, AP reported. As people were handing out their contributions, a boy stood up with a pistol in his hand, pretending to offer the weapon as a donation, another witness, Mohammad Yaqub, told AFP.
Only one of three explosives-filled sections of the attackers suicide belt had detonated, Amin Khan told AP. There would have been much devastation if all the detonators worked, said security officials. They also said the dead bombers face was recognisable and he looks to be a foreigner.
The injured were rushed to hospitals in Peshawar. Namdar said he was not opposed to suicide bombings targeting Islams enemy, but was opposed to attacks on fellow Muslims.
"'Specially on me! Dayum!"
He said the attack could be a reaction to his organisations action against people who attempted to kidnap Mahsud Scouts troops in Kambarkhel this week. We expelled those people ... and the same people could be involved in the attack, said Namdar. He said his organisation was investigating the attack and will move against the perpetrators.
Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani strongly condemned the attack on Thursday, APP reported. He expressed his sympathies with those injured in the attack, and directed authorities concerned to ensure that they receive the best medical treatment.
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Al's Koran 3:105
Be not like those who are divided amongst themselves and fall into disputations after receiving clear signs; for them is a dreadful penalty.
A clear sign! A clear sign!
The Jihad is like a snake eating its own tail.
In the absence of opportunities for external material victories people will leave this cult in droves, as it devours itself.
As Joe regularly points out, this ideology needs more than "Lebensraum" to survive.
So how many does this make? A Kuwaiti man released from the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay in 2005 has carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq, his cousin told Al Arabiya television on Thursday. A friend of Abdullah Saleh al-Ajmi in Iraq informed his family that Abdullah carried out the attack in Mosul, his cousin Salem told the Dubai-based television channel. "We were shocked by the painful news we received this afternoon ... through a call from one of the friend's of martyr Abdullah in Iraq," said Salem al-Ajmi in a telephone interview aired by Arabiya. Shocked! Shocked, I tells ya!!
He did not say when the suicide bombing happened. Probably when he went...BOOM!
Abdullah had been missing for two weeks and his family learned he left Kuwait illegally for Syria, he said. Abdullah had sent messages to his wife from Iraq. Abdullah, 30, had a son after he was released from the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the United States holds suspected terrorists, Salem said. So, Reuters, does this means he's still a "suspected" terrorist?
There were no indications Abdullah had any plans to join insurgents in Iraq although he became less sociable in the period before he disappeared, he said. Are you okay, Abdullah?
I...I...feel like I'm about to explode!
Many of the men held at Guantanamo were captured in Afghanistan in the U.S.-led war to oust the Taliban after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Many have been held for years and nearly all are being held without charge. Washington has designated Guantanamo prisoners "enemy combatants". For good reason, evidently...
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There were no indications Abdullah had any plans to join insurgents in Iraq although he became less sociable in the period before he disappeared, he said.
There, in one short sentence, you can trace the entire course of ignorant lethality of Reuters.
Shall we start with "no indications"? Was he a 50 year old named Wilfred from Australia?
"Any plans" - how did he get to Gitmo in the first place?
Sometimes it's too painful to go on plumbing the bottomless depths of journalistic idiocy. The spelling seems accurate, though.
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How do they know he's a martyr if all he kills are other muslims?
Al
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Al, He was trying to kill infidels, so his intentions were good, and so Allah should be merciful if he screwed up and only killed Muslims. Besides, those Muslims were probably Shiites, so they deserved to die anyway.
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I try to tell everyone that we are not the infidels they are. They are the non-believers the lovers of hate.
Sadr City barrier a magnet for Mahdi Army attacks
By Bill RoggioMay 2, 2008 1:36 AM
The large majority of the direct attacks by the Mahdi Army against US and Iraqi forces in Sadr City are occurring on Qods Street, where a barrier is being erected to separate the Iraqi Army and US controlled sections in the south from the northern portion of the district, the US military told The Long War Journal. The Mahdi Army is attempting to stop the building of the barrier.
US Army engineers are in the process of emplacing tall concrete barriers along the length of Al Qods Street, a major route that runs approximately east to west in the southern portion of Sadr City. Al Qods Street divides the Ishbilyah and Habbibiyah neighborhoods, which are controlled by the US and Iraqi military, from the northern neighborhoods. US and Iraqi forces hope to restrict the movement of weapons and supplies into the southern neighborhoods, prevent the Mahdi Army from using these areas as launch sites for mortar and rocket attacks against the International Zone, establish the writ of the government, and provide humanitarian assistance to Iraqis living in these areas in order to wrest control from the Mahdi Army.
The Mahdi Army is desperately trying to stop the barrier from being built, and is focusing its attacks on US engineers and patrols as they work to complete it. The Mahdi Army has launched complex attacks and ambushes using small-arms, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades, and roadside bombs.
[The barrier is] a magnet, said Lieutenant Colonel Steven Stover, the chief Public Affairs Officer for Multinational Division Baghdad in response to email questions on the recent fighting in Sadr City. In that area, for the past three days we've seen some pretty heavy, prolonged engagements. Elsewhere, it's mostly IEDs [improvised explosive devices, or roadside bombs], IDF [indirect fire, or rockets and mortars] and harassment fire.
These attacks have not stopped the barrier from being built, said Stover, who visited the construction sites on Qods Street on May 1. As the engineers were emplacing the barriers an M1A1 Abrams fired a main gun round at militants across the street, Stover said. We fired 5 Hellfire missiles and dropped two JDAMs from fixed wing aircraft. It got a bit hot today, but our Soldiers continued emplacing the barriers. Two Mahdi Army fighters were confirmed killed during four engagements along Al Qods Street on May 1. An unknown number of Mahdi Army fighters were killed. Three US soldiers were wounded in the fighting.
One of the largest battles in Sadr City occurred along Al Qods street on April 28. The Mahdi Army took advantage of the lack of US air cover due to a sand storm to launch an ambush against US forces as they were patrolling along the road while other soldiers were constructing the barrier. Mahdi Army forces launched the complex attack from the region north of Al Qods Street. The US soldiers counterattacked and killed 28 Mahdi Army fighters while taking six wounded.
The next day, The Associated Press ran an article on the engagement titled Militiamen ambush drives back US patrol in Sadr City. But Stover said the ambush failed to force the US soldiers to withdraw. The barrier emplacement never stopped, Stover told The Long War Journal.
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AP: we don't need no stinking reliable sources. We do our own lying.
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[The barrier is] a magnet,
So why do I have this mental image of Wiley E. approaching with the obligatory big red ACME stick of dy-no-mite, fuse burning lustily......(you know the ending)?????
A large amount of weapons and ammunition was found inside a Shiite mosque in southern Baghdad, the official spokesman for Baghdads operations said on Thursday.
Security forces found today a large amount of weapons and ammunition inside Shahid al-Gomaa mosque in Abu Dashier region in southern Baghdad, General Qassem Atta told Aswat al-Iraq Voices of Iraq (VOI). It includes 45 mortar shells, 42 missiles, and different kinds of ammunitions, he explained.
He gave no further details.
Didn't need to.
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OMa!!! Weapons of death in a House of allan?? What nex...muslims killing muslims?
Basra, May 1, (VOI)-Police forces seized amounts of weapons and defused twelve roadside bombs during raid-and-search operation conducted in Basra on Thursday, a security source said.
A patrol of Emergency police seized 14 anti-tank mines, five 120mm-calibre mortar rounds, six RPG rockets along 107 mm rockets during a raid-and-search operation conducted in Shatt al-Aran district, east Basra, a Basra police source, who requested anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq-Voices of Iraq(VOI).
The source noted forces from Abu al-Khaseeb police station, south Basra, defused 12 roadside bombs, seized 60mm-calibre mortar canon, three RPG rockets, 400 lighter used in improvised explosive devices (IED).
He added a landmine planted in al-Tuwaisa neighbourhood, central Basra, was lifted.
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Good sign: they wouldn't find IEDs unless locals reported them. The leftist media denied mass opposition to the 2 year Shiite Islamofascist regime in Basra. And now they are silent.
A bomb blast near a United States patrol in Baghdad killed nine Iraqis and wounded 23 people on Thursday. Iraqi police said the blast took place in the eastern Camp Sara district, where both Sunni and Shia Arabs live. A US military spokesman was unable to confirm the report.
US forces said they killed 16 more fighters in gunfights, air strikes and tank battles beginning on Wednesday afternoon and running through the night. Iraqi Health Ministry figures show April as the deadliest month for Iraqi civilians since last August, with 968 killed nationwide. It was also the deadliest month for US troops since September, with 49 reported killed.
A health official in Baghdad said the bodies of 11 dead and 72 wounded, including women and children, had been brought to Sadr Citys two hospitals in the past 24 hours. In a separate incident, the military said US forces had opened fire on militiamen that they caught loading rockets onto a launch sled late on Wednesday, killing six, including one who fled and then came back to try and salvage the rockets. Most of the fighting has taken place in the Sadr City slum, where armed groups loyal to Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr have been battling US and Iraqi troops since late March.
Intense fighting has taken place in the past three days, with militiamen launching large-scale ambushes on US and Iraqi positions after taking advantage of dust storms that grounded US Apache attack helicopters. Since the crackdown on the Shia fighters began in March, militants have fired salvoes of rockets across the capital, including into the heavily fortified Green Zone diplomatic and government compound.
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Two suicide bombers struck a wedding convoy east of Baghdad on Thursday as it was driving through a crowded market, killing at least 35 people and wounding 65, officials said.
The bombings occurred in Balad Ruz, a predominantly Shia town. The first attacker was a woman, according to Maj Gen Abdul-Karim al Rubaie, head of the Diyala Provincial Operations Centre. A man then blew himself up as police and ambulances arrived at the scene, he added. Al Rubaie said at least 35 people were killed and 65 wounded. The United States military said a soldier died of wounds sustained in the blast.
In a separate incident, a parked car exploded in Baghdad as a US patrol passed by in a crowded area, killing one US soldier and at least nine Iraqis. The attack wounded 26 Iraqis and two US soldiers.
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Turkey's air force has launched fresh bombing raids against bases of separatist Kurds in northern Iraq, the state news agency Anatolian said. Several Turkish air force jets began the raids late on Thursday night, reports said.
The strikes targeted Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrillas based in the northern Iraqi region of Qandil.
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Nafez Mansur, the mook they whacked the other day.
JERUSALEM (CNN) -- One person was killed and three were wounded Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike targeting a metal shop in Rafah, according to Palestinian security and medical sources. Israel Defense Forces confirmed the airstrike. Stocks in Gaza Metal Shop Inc. opened lower on the news... The person killed was the deputy commander of the Islamic Jihad military wing, according to the Palestinian sources, who said he also served as a school headmaster at a United Nations Relief and Works Agency school. So which job was his part time one? "Headmaster! Little Mahmud was throwing spitballs in class!"
[BANG!] UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunnes said he could not immediately confirm that the person was employed by the United Nations, and added that staff members who bring politics into U.N. institutions are fired immediately for violating staff rules. Well, Chris, look at it this way. Think of all the paperwork the Jooos saved you...
The IDF has in the past targeted metal shops it said were being used to produce rockets. No, no, no! We make.........gimmee a minute.
Two Muslims and a Buddhist have been killed in southern Thailand in two separate incidents bearing the hallmarks of reprisal attacks in the jihad violence-plagued, predominantly Muslim region.
Four suspected Muslim terrorists militants armed with automatic rifles attacked the district office of a Buddhist volunteer militia in Pattani province late on Thursday, killing one Buddhist and wounding another, police said. Less than an hour later, a hand grenade was thrown into a small mosque in a nearby district where about a dozen Muslims were praying. Two people were killed and eight wounded, police said.
Army spokesman Acra Tiproche said it was too early to talk about reprisals between religious groups in the region, where more than 3,000 people have died in a four-year Malay Muslim separatist campaign. "I can't say at this point whether they are connected or not," Acra said from Bangkok.
A roadside bomb suspected to have been planted by Tamil Tigers killed two police commandos on Thursday while Sri Lankan troops captured a rebel base in the north west killing 40 rebels, the military said.
The capture of the rebel camp in Mannar comes a week after one of the bloodiest battles in the countrys long civil war. Advancing troops...brought the entire area under control on Wednesday, a spokesman at the Media centre for National security said. The military said a suspected rebel roadside bomb in central Anuradhapura killed two police commandos, while police retaliation killed two rebels.
The military said fighting in the far north a day earlier, killed 25 Tamil Tiger rebels and injured 37 while four solders died and 14 were injured. After driving the Tamil Tiger rebels from the east, the armed forces are now focused on Tiger-held areas in north, intensifying fighting in a 25-year-old civil war that has killed an estimated 70,000 people since 1983.
Fighting between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has intensified since the government formally pulled out of a 6-year-old ceasefire pact in January, though a renewed civil war has been raging since 2006. The Tigers, fighting for an independent state in the north and east, were not immediately available for comment on the latest fighting, but said intense military artillery fire killed a civilian in Welioya area on Wednesday.
Analysts say both the government and rebels often inflate enemy death tolls and play down their own losses.
The reports are rarely possible to verify independently. President Mahinda Rajapaksas government has pledged to destroy the Tigers militarily. The rebels have hit back with bombings in Colombo and elsewhere in the relatively peaceful south of the island when they have come under military pressure in the past.
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The slow war of attrition continues. The military keeps grinding away at the Tigers.
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Spc. Ross McGinnis, who was killed Dec. 4, 2006, in Iraq when he smothered a grenade with his body, will receive the Medal of Honor, sources told Army Times.
Unidentified armed men gunned down a police constable on Jinnah Road here on Thursday, police said. The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) has accepted responsibility for the killing. The gunmen fired on a policy contingent deployed in the area. Constable Juma Khan succumbed to his injures before getting treatment at Quettas Civil Hospital. The police cordoned off the area and started a search operation.
A Kuwaiti man released from the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay in 2005 has carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq, his cousin told Al Arabiya television on Thursday. A friend of 
The large majority of the direct attacks by the Mahdi Army against US and Iraqi forces in Sadr City are occurring on Qods Street, where a barrier is being erected to separate the Iraqi Army and US controlled sections in the south from the northern portion of the district, the US military told The Long War Journal. The Mahdi Army is attempting to stop the building of the barrier. 
A large amount of weapons and ammunition was found inside a Shiite mosque in southern Baghdad, the official spokesman for Baghdads operations said on Thursday.
Basra, May 1, (VOI)-Police forces seized amounts of weapons and defused twelve roadside bombs during raid-and-search operation conducted in Basra on Thursday, a security source said.
Turkey's air force has launched fresh bombing raids against bases of separatist Kurds in northern Iraq, the state news agency Anatolian said. Several Turkish air force jets began the raids late on Thursday night, reports said.
