Taliban insurgents are running away fleeing south towards the Afghan border with Pakistan in the face of a U.S. Marines offensive in volatile Helmand province, the NATO commander in Afghanistan said on Monday.
U.S. Marines have been pushing south from the former Taliban stronghold of Garmsir in Helmand for a month in an operation meant to cut off insurgent infiltration routes from Pakistan. "They have shown under some amount of pressure they flee to their sanctuaries," General Dan McNeill told a news conference. "In the last two days we have had many reports ... that the insurgents after experiencing these several weeks of pressure below Garmsir are trying to flee to the south perhaps to go back to sanctuaries in another country," he said.
While McNeill was careful not to name any country, the only nation with which Helmand shares a border is Pakistan.
So he didn't have to be careful at all ...
Mainly British troops have been battling the Taliban in Helmand since March 2006, capturing a string of towns in the fertile strip along the Helmand River cutting through the desert. But Garmsir, the southermost town of any size in Helmand, and its surrounding villages had previously evaded capture.
Washington dispatched 3,200 U.S. Marines to Afghanistan in March to bolster mainly British, Canadian and Dutch troops in southern Afghanistan after other NATO allies failed to come up with reinforcements.
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HMMMMM, possible, but IMO are now more intent on AVOIDING FIXED COMBAT. They've got the whole of Paki + CENASIA to run around in whilst Radical Islam NUCLEARIZES.
* FREEREPUBLIC/OTHER NET Posters > opine that the Insurgents in Aghani-Paki are learning the message that fighting US-Brit milunits is SUICIDAL???
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But we've got all sorts of thingies flying over the border territories of Pakistan, dropping other thingies that explode. Avoiding suicidal fixed combat just means they die tired.
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It's hard to imagine that the Marines would allow any known Taliban to make it as far as Pakistan without calling in an airstrike to rearrange their plans (and anatomy). Unless they had some ulterior motive, of course. ;-)
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I suspect it is not as easy to find these guerillas who melt into small groups climbing the mountainsides as it is to find them in the flat desert. They are demonstrating that it is better to run away and live to fight another day.
You're never as bad as you look when you're loosing and never as good as when you're winning.
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We need to wait until they're all "safely" in the NWFP then ARCLIGHT the he$$ out of the entire area. We did that a few times in 'Nam, and the results were outstanding. We wiped out half a division of NVA road maintenance people one time in three well-placed strikes. There's no need to worry about "civilian casualties" - there are NO "civilians" in the NWFP - only "unindicted co-conspirators". The Pakistanis will pitch a fit, but a couple of nukes on Rawalpindi/Islamabad will put a stop to that. It's time Pakistan got what it so richly deserves.
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Authorities in Mauritania say they have seized a large quantity of weapons believed to belong to an al-Qaida-linked group. Security chief Mohamed Lemine Ould Ahmed says police seized the weapons in early May using information given by suspected terrorists arrested in sting operations in April.
Ahmed refused to detail quantities, but he said Monday that it was enough to "destroy whole neighborhoods of Mauritania's capital." He said the arms included bombs, detonators, guns, ammunition and suicide vests. Ahmed said these arms were in addition to those found during the arrests. Those arrested are suspected of belonging to an alleged terror cell called al-Qaida in Islamic North Africa.
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After decades of bloodbath in the name of jihad or holy war, terrorists are changing gear and indulging in "qattal", an act by which they kill even their own people, a top Pakistan leader said. "Terrorists are now replacing the term jihad with the Islamic term qattal for their acts," Hasham Baber, additional secretary general of Pakistan's Awami National Party said.
Hardline religious leaders in Pakistan are now using the new term because moderate Muslims have started denouncing the use of jihad by terrorists who indulge in violence in the name of Islam, said Baber.
Explaining the term 'jihad', Baber, who was in India to attend an anti-terrorism conference, said: "It is not about fighting a war or battle or even killing people but a struggle for peace. It means a collective decision to struggle.
"Qattal" , on the other hand, means I am allowed to kill a Hindu, Christian at will or even kill a Shia."
Stressing that Islam does not permit killing of innocents, he said "Terrorism is being given a religious colour by fundamentalists out to achieve their skewed agenda."
Baber, whose party is part of the newly-elected PPP-led coalition, said: "The religious education in Pakistan as whole has degenerated into bloodshed."
The senior leader said what is now happening in the name of terrorism is nothing but proxy war. "Today two countries don't fight with each other. Terrorists are trained and are being sent out by establishments to wage proxy war with each other," he claimed.
Baber, whose party has been at the forefront of fighting religious fundamentalists in Pakistan, said Kashmir is still a "burning issue" for many and violence in the subcontinent can be curbed only by a European Union set-up here. "The borders should be opened up. We should all try and bring in a EU kind of set-up in the Indian sub-continent where people from both Pakistan and India can enter each other's territory without any issue," Baber said. "Kashmir issue would then be solved there and then automatically."
Baber said "even if we claim that Kashmir is a part of Pakistan because there is a Muslim majority in the state, we should sit across the table and discuss."
Attacking Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, Baber said no democracy exists in the country and people have no rights. "What is happening to Muslims in Pakistan, we have no democracy or rights. Our Constitution has been trampled. Our leadership should first put their own house in order and then we can say yes, Pakistan is a better place for Muslims than India," he said.
Attacking the West for arming Mujahideens in Afghanistan in late 1970s, Baber said the onus of rectifying the mistake lies with the West. "It was the rich West which armed the Mujahideens to fight the so called holy war and now they should arm the peace loving people with education and strength.
International donors and especially those countries who have been "awakened" by the 9/11 bombing should come forward to help the cause, he said, adding "it needs to be understood that terrorism existed even before the twin towers bombing".
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The senior leader said what is now happening in the name of terrorism is nothing but proxy war. "Today two countries don't fight with each other. Terrorists are trained and are being sent out by establishments to wage proxy war with each other," he claimed.
i think of iran,pakistan and saudi when i read this!
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Today two countries don't fight with each other. Terrorists are trained and are being sent out by establishments to wage proxy war with each other...
Proof we need to stop fighting proxy wars with these 7th century loving goat raping animals.
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I guess they shouldn't of kicked the British out.
If the British had left 20 years before, there would have been no partition
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If the British had left 20 years before, there would have been no partition
Or if they had left five years later, since both the main forces pushing partition, Gandhi and Jinnah, would have been dead. That said, both Indian sides got what they wanted despite the best efforts of every Viceroy until Mountbatten. All that vain, pompous, lying lefty jerk wanted was out and he didn't care what it took--or who it hurt--to get Britain there. Wavell has my sympathy and admiration, Mountbatten nothing but my contemptuous disdain.
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Isn't qattal the mutant leader on the two mooned mars in Total Recall?
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"Lies with the West ... Should arm the peace-loving people with education and strength" > HMMMMM, unless I'm missing something it appears Baber is informally ASKING THE US-WEST TO FORMALLY TAKE OVER + GOVERN THE REGION, or in altern SET-UP A PRO-WESTERN SECULAR, ANTI-ISLAMIST ORGANIZED REGIONAL BLOC = FEDERATION???
MARDAN: The Government Girls School building and a CD centre were damaged when explosive materials detonated in Takht Bhai on Monday. Unknown persons had planted explosive material in front of Girls High School Baizokhar tehsil in Takht Bhai that detonated, causing damage to the main gate and walls of the school building. However, no loss of life was reported. Meanwhile, explosive materials fixed in front of a CD shop in the Dhand Baya Iranabad area damaged it partially.
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Girls in school, CD shops...what's the world coming to? Give me the good old days when a man carried a club and had a brain the size of a walnut (/farside).
MINGORA: A policeman was injured as unidentified armed men attacked an army checkpost here on Monday. Constable Badar Munir sustained injuries and was rushed to Saidu Sharif Teaching Hospital for treatment, officials said. Security forces fanned out in the area in the wake of the attack. However, no one was arrested. An unannounced curfew was placed in the Nigolai area as a search operation was underway since Monday morning. Officials said 20 people were taken into custody during the search operation. Eighteen of them were freed after initial investigations.
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SADDA: Unidentified armed men on Monday kidnapped Sadda Political Moharrar Abdul Malik Alisherzai and his bodyguard, officials said. Political Administration Sadda, Kurram Agency, officials said that Alisherzai was on his way to the political administration office from his house around 9:30 am. On his way, some armed persons stopped his vehicle, kidnapped him along with Levies gunman Misri Khan, and took them to an unknown place.
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Is there a Pak-English dictionary for words and phrases like that?
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There's a laht of them Eric.
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A missile was fired at a house next to a mosque in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, almost completely destroying the building but killing no one, residents of the area said. A security official said there had been a blast in the village of Sapalga in the North Waziristan region, a militant hotbed on the Afghan border, but he did not know the cause.
Residents of the village, south of the town of Miranshah, said they found fragments of metal from a missile believed to have been fired by a U.S. drone aircraft in the middle of the night. "It happened at 12.30 a.m. It was a U.S. pilotless plane that fired a missile while flying very low," Naimatullah Khan, a tribal elder told Reuters.
Khan said the house had been empty and no one had been killed or wounded.
Villagers said drones had been flying over the area for the past two days.
This year, U.S.-controlled Predator aircraft have struck at least four sites used by al Qaeda operatives in northwest Pakistan, killing dozens of suspected militants. The most recent missile strike was in the Bajaur region, to the northeast of Waziristan, on May 14. Neither U.S. nor Pakistani authorities usually confirm U.S. missile attacks on Pakistani territory, which would be an infringement of Pakistani sovereignty.
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Hmm. Pruning the meeting places so as to bunch everyone up in one they THINK we don't know about, but we do?
Norway and Sweden temporarily closed their embassies in Islamabad on Monday after the suicide attack outside the Danish embassy killed at least eight people. Weve closed our embassy, Norwegian Foreign Ministry spokesman Tor-Henrik Andersen told AFP. The Swedish embassy also shut down, Swedish Foreign Ministry spokesman Kent Oberg was quoted as saying by the AP news agency. Meanwhile, officials from the nearby Netherlands Embassy said their staff were unhurt, while the United States Embassy urged its citizens to use extra caution when travelling through Islamabad. It also told them avoid the blast site.
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Prudent move - those Scandanavians all look alike to the basic Islamabadean fanatic.
(AKI - By Syed Saleem Shahzad -) Pakistani authorities believe a pro al-Qaeda group may be responsible for the Danish Embassy blast that killed at least six people and injured more than 30 in Islamabad on Monday.
Initial reports from Pakistani intelligence agencies suggest Laskar-i-Jhangvi, a banned organisation that supports al-Qaeda, may be linked to the bombing, even thought it's not directly affiliated with the militant group.
There is no evidence of any direct involvement of al-Qaeda or the tribal warlord Baitullah Mehsud in the car bomb blast, a senior security official told Adnkronos International (AKI) on condition of anonymity.
A huge car bomb exploded outside the Danish Embassy in the Pakistani capital destroying parts of the building and several cars.
The blast echoed through Islamabad and left a crater more than a metre deep and three metres wide in the road in front of the main gate to the embassy. "All recent incidents done by al-Qaeda were perfect including (former prime minister) Bhutto's assassination and the killing of a general in Rawalpindi. Monday's incident was naive," the senior security official told AKI.
According to eyewitnesses a car with a diplomatic number plate entered the high security zone where many diplomatic buildings are situated including the Dutch Embassy and the office of the United Nations' Development Programme.
The driver is believed to have parked the car on the road near the embassy and fled from the area where the bomb exploded.
Police are now trying to trace the chassis number of the vehicle to track the origins of the car which was registered to a local resident.
Security sources say that the car could have been stolen and then used for this latest terrorist act.
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Missan, Jun 3, (VOI) The Sadr public hospital in al-Amara received three bodies of civilians killed by a thunderbolt southwest of the city on Tuesday, a hospital medic said.
"The Sadr hospital morgue received on Tuesday three bodies of people struck by a thunderbolt in al-Haddam area, the district of al-Salam, (45 km) southwest of al-Amara," the source, who did not want his name mentioned, told Aswat al-Iraq Voices of Iraq (VOI).
"These incidents occur in remote farmlands due to the lack of shields against thunderbolts in those areas," the source said.
Amara, the capital city of Missan province, lies 390 km south of Baghdad.
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Wow, they have some powerful thunder out there. I have heard of people struck by lightning but this is the first time I have ever heard of anyone killed by thunder.
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crosspatch, thunderbolt = electric discharge, sometimes up to several million eV--can zap ya for good (If you happened to be in a middle of summer in western Kansas, you may see some of the most spectacular thunderbolt light show on earth and you'd unerstand how that could happen--for instance a column 5 miles in diameter and 2 miles tall with its wall entirely composed of lighning bolts, discharging for some 15 minutes). The accompanying sound = thunder, usually harmless, but if your heart is weak, very loud thunder may startle you cause a hard attack--e.g. kill ya.
What is unusual is that 3 people got zapped at the same time. Allan works in mysterious ways?
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I seem to recall that electricity is attracted to metal.
Were any of these poor innocent souls by chance crrying something metal, like an AK-47 by chance?
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Supposed to stick your butt up in the air, but in this case it probably exposed their heads.
The U.S. military captured two al-Qaida in Iraq bombing suspects and a Shiite militia leader in separate raids Tuesday north and south of Baghdad, the military said.
One of the men, arrested along with four aides, is believed to oversee security for al-Qaida's Iraq branch in Mosul one of the terror network's last urban strongholds where U.S. and Iraqi forces have waged fierce battles against militants in recent months. The man is also suspected of masterminding bombings targeting Iraqi police in the area, according to a U.S. military statement.
The other al-Qaida in Iraq suspect was captured along with an assistant in Tikrit, a Sunni Muslim city north of the capital. He allegedly facilitated suicide bombings and "foreign terrorist movement" for al-Qaida, the statement said.
The military said it also captured a suspected Shiite militia leader Tuesday south of Baghdad. The U.S. refers to such fighters as members of Iranian-backed "special groups" who are defying a cease-fire order by anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Many of them are believed to have fled recent fighting in Baghdad's Shiite militia stronghold of Sadr City.
The man and five associates surrendered without incident at his home in Kut, southeast of the Iraqi capital, a separate U.S. military statement said. He is accused of involvement in the murder of Iraqis and American soldiers, it said.
Witnesses in Mosul, meanwhile, said Kurdish troops reinforced positions Tuesday at Iraqi government buildings in the northern al-Arabi district, deploying fighters to rooftops despite an order from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to vacate the area.
"We've seen an intensified presence of peshmerga (Kurdish militia), and their numbers have increased along with armored vehicles," one resident said on condition of anonymity out of fear of reprisals. He added that government troops had also increased their patrols.
The recent fighting in Mosul has been mainly to quash al-Qaida in Iraq militants, but the city also suffers from tension between Kurdish and Sunni Arab factions.
The discord stems largely from lopsided political representation in local government, which is dominated by Kurdish parties and their allies even though Arabs hold a slight majority in Mosul's province, Ninevah. Sunni Arabs boycotted the last provincial elections in 2005.
On Tuesday, Mosul's deputy governor, a Kurd who belongs to one of the two main Kurdish political parties in the area, denied any standoff the government forces. "We are national political parties participating in the government and not fighting its forces," said deputy governor Khisro Koran. "We support the government and its security measures so that we are not excluded."
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The Kurd/Arab split is the one Al Queda should have tried to exploit. They would have had everyone in the region siding with them and forced the US to defend the Kurds to prevent genocide and thus alienating ourselves from the Arabs.
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I'm not talking about a staight up fight, but the killing civilians the way they tried with the Shia. False flag attacks that could be blamed on Kurdish independence folk would have been really troublesome.
(VOI) One civilian was killed and three others wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off in central Baghdad, on Monday, a security official said. "An IED planted by unidentified gunmen on a road near Madinat al-Tibb hospital in Bab al-Muazzam area, central Baghdad, leaving one civilian killed and three others wounded," Maj. General Qassem Atta, the official spokesman for the Baghdad operations command and Fardh al-Qanoon (law imposing) security plan, told Aswat al-Iraq Voices of Iraq (VOI). Earlier in Baghdad on Monday, the Iraqi interior ministry said policemen arrested five gunmen who attacked a police vehicle patrol in al-Jamea quarter, western Baghdad.
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(VOI)- Police forces on Monday arrested six wanted persons in Diwaniya, Iraqi Interior Ministry said. A police force detained 6 outlaws under arrest warrants in al-Shamiyah district, the ministry said in a statement received by Aswat al-Iraq- Voices of Iraq- (VOI). The term outlaws is used by Iraqi authorities to refer to the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadrs Mahdi militiamen.
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(VOI) - Joint Iraqi forces arrested a gunman, wounded one other, and arrested 13 wanted men, including an al-Qaeda leader in separate areas in Baghdad, the spokesman for Baghdads operations command said on Monday. A joint force of police and army personnel arrested five wanted men during a crackdown operation in Sadr City in eastern Baghdad, General Qassem Atta told Aswat al-Iraq Voices of Iraq (VOI). Iraqi army forces seized a large amount of weapons and ammunitions in Sadr City during a search operation, he added.
A force from the 24th brigade arrested a three-person gang who killed a child after kidnapping him in al-Zaitoun region in Abu Gharieb neighborhood in western Baghdad, Atta highlighted. Another force from the same brigade killed a gunman and wounded another while attempting to plant a bomb on the main road in al-Nasr Wal Salam in Abu Gharieb, he also said.
Iraqi army forces captured this afternoon eight wanted men, including an al-Qaeda leader in al-Sheiha region in Khan Dari neighborhood in western Baghdad, the spokesman explained. Iraqi security forces, backed by Multi-National Force (MNF) troops, had launched Operation Fardh al-Qanoon (Law Imposing) in February 2007 with the aim of enhancing the state power and impose law and order all over the capital Baghdad.
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(VOI) - Deputy dean of the Agriculture Faculty was killed by a bomb inside his vehicle while leaving the faculty in northern Mosul, a police source said on Monday. A bomb left inside the private car of Dr. Fares Younes Abdul Rahman, deputy dean of the Agriculture Faculty, went off while he was leaving the faculty in northern Mosul, killing him instantly, the source, who requested anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq Voices of Iraq (VOI).
The bomb exploded after the professors car passed the facultys gate, located at the former presidential palaces, killing him and seriously injuring one of the universitys bodyguards, who was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment, he added. The bomb was planted underneath the drivers seat, he noted.
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Two people, including a cop, were killed and 17 others were wounded while security forces arrested 73 people in acts of violence in Iraq from 9:00pm on Sunday until 2:00pm on Monday, security sources said.
In Baghdad, Maj. General Qassem Atta, the official spokesman for the Baghdad operations command and Fardh al-Qanoon (Law Imposing) security plan, said one civilian was killed and three others wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off in central Baghdad, on Monday.
He also said that an Iraqi army force freed a hostage and arrested his kidnappers in southeastern Baghdad on Monday. "An Iraqi army's 4th Brigade (Quick Intervention) force arrested a ring specialized in kidnapping and blackmailing in the area of Djisr Diala, southeastern Baghdad, on Monday noon," Maj. General Qassem Atta told Aswat al-Iraq Voices of Iraq (VOI). "The force has also released a hostage named Thamir Hussein Fadhel," Atta added, not giving further details about the number or identities of the ring members.
The Iraqi Interior Ministry said in statement Iraqi police forces on Monday arrested five gunmen who attacked a police vehicle patrol in al-Jamea quarter, western Baghdad.
In Diala, a security source said at least three Sahwa (Awakening) fighters were wounded on Monday as a bomb exploded in their main headquarters in Baaquba, central Iraq.
A Diala police force captured a member of al-Qaeda network and freed two hostages in separate security operations in Baaquba city on Monday, the Diala police chief said. "Policemen on Monday arrested a member of al-Qaeda Organization in Iraq during a search raid in Baaquba. The Qaeda operative is wanted by security authorities on charges of emplacing improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in different areas of the province," Maj. General Ghanim al-Qurayshi told VOI. "In another security operation in the Old Town of Baaquba, the police freed a man taken hostage," Qurayshi said, declining to give further details about the hostage liberation.
In Ninewa, a police source said two civilians were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off near an Iraqi police patrol in western Mosul on Monday.
In Kirkuk, a police source said a policeman was killed on Monday in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, while trying to free a captive.
Gunmen shot dead a policeman, this morning, after he tried to intercept their car after kidnapping a child in Wahid Azar quarter, southern Kirkuk, the source added.
An Iraqi army official source said on Monday a key leader of al-Qaeda network, considered one of the top 10 wanted by security agencies, was captured near the district of Touz Khormato, 80 km south of Kirkuk.
Gunmen shot dead a policeman, this morning, after he tried to intercept their car after kidnapping a child in Wahid Azar quarter, southern Kirkuk, the source noted.
In Basra, the province's security operations chief said the spiritual theorist of the Jund al-Samaa (Soldiers of Heaven) was captured in central Basra on Monday.
In Anbar, the official spokesman for the MNF, Maher al-Iraqi, said that Heit police force, backed by U.S. troops, arrested 49 suspected gunmen during a raid in the city of Heit.
In Diwaniya, the Interior Ministry said police forces on Monday arrested six wanted persons in Diwaniya.
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We used to get periodic reports on convictions and sentences but now all we see are the arrests. Is anyone convicted and sentenced? Seems to me some public hangings of kidnapper/murderers and market bombers would make a worthwhile statement.
(VOI) - Casualties from the suicide bombing attack that targeted Ninewa police department compound in Mosul, northern Iraq, on Monday evening rose to 9 dead and 46 wounded according to a police source. "The death toll from the suicide attack rose to nine, including five policemen and two children," the source told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). The source added that the number of wounded rose to 46, including eight policemen.
Meanwhile, a medical source from al-Jumhori Public hospital told VOI, "The hospital received two bodies and admitted 14 wounded persons, including a policeman." A source from Mosul General Hospital said that the hospital received seven bodies and admitted 32 wounded persons, including 7 policemen. Earlier, a police source said that a suicide bomber blew up a car crammed with explosives in al-Dawasa region in central Mosul, targeting the Ninewa police department, killing three policemen and four civilians, including two children.
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(VOI) - A total of 18 wanted men were arrested and amounts of ammunitions were seized by police forces during crackdown operations in separate areas in Basra, a police source said on Monday. Policemen waged security operations in Basra, where they arrested 18 wanted men, the source told Aswat al-Iraq Voices of Iraq (VOI) on condition of anonymity. They seized different amounts of ammunitions in north and central Basra, he added. Basra, Iraq's second largest city and oil hub, 590 km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, had witnessed immense security unrest a few hours after Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced the launching of Operation Saulat al-Forsan (Knights' Assault) to impose order in the province.
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(VOI) - U.S. forces killed two gunmen and arrested 30 others during operations against al-Qaeda in central and northern Iraq, the U.S. army said on Monday. Coalition forces killed two gunmen, detained 31 suspects and destroyed bomb-making materials during operations targeting al-Qaeda in Iraq in central and northern Iraq Sunday and Monday, the U.S. army said in a statement received by Aswat al-Iraq Voices of Iraq (VOI).
Coalition forces spanned several target sites on Monday northwest of Tikrit, about 160 kilometers north of Baghdad, to target associates of an al-Qaeda in Iraq leader in Salah al-Din province. Information from an operation on May 15 led the force to the area, where they immediately encountered machine gun and small arms fire from multiple enemy positions. Responding to the hostile threat, Coalition forces returned fire and called for supporting aircraft to suppress the enemy fire. Two gunmen were confirmed dead as a result of the engagement, it added.
Also during the operations, Coalition forces found a car laden with bomb-making materials and suicide vest components, and a tunnel system leading to a bed-down location used as a suspected weapons cache holding area. The force destroyed the weapons, explosives and bed-down location, and detained eight suspected terrorists, some of whom identified others as al-Qaeda in Iraq members, the statement continued.
Five operations Sunday and Monday in Mosul targeted AQI senior leaders and their associates. A precision operation netted a leader of terrorist finances in the city, and Coalition forces detained 16 additional suspected terrorists, 11 of whom are believed to be associated with other AQI senior leaders.
Coalition forces continued to strike AQI networks in and around Baghdad, capturing two men wanted for their involvement in bombing networks in the city. One of the men, believed to be an expert in car-bombing tactics, was detained Monday with another suspect in Taji, about 20 kilometers north of Baghdad, it said.
The other was detained Monday in Salman Pak, about 25 kilometers south of the capital, and is allegedly tied to senior terrorist leaders. Coalition forces captured three additional suspected terrorists during two operations in Baghdad Sunday and Monday, the statement highlighted.
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Hamas said on Monday it had punished 38 of its policemen for failing to prevent the killing of seven Palestinians during a rally staged by the rival Fatah faction last November in the Gaza Strip.
More than 100 people also were injured when fighting broke out between Hamas gunmen and rivals from Fatah during a ceremony to mark the third anniversary of the death of late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat.
An investigation into the incident launched by the Islamist group concluded that the Hamas men had "failed to implement and had violated orders", Taher al-Nono, spokesman for the Islamist group, said at a news conference in Gaza on Monday.
Nono said the men had been handed punishments ranging from jail sentences to dismissal and demotion but he did not elaborate on their failings or give any identities.
He said the investigation found that Fatah gunmen had fired at the Hamas policemen from the rooftop of a pro-Fatah university building and also accused Fatah officials of refusing to cooperate with the investigation. "Some of the wounded and witnesses said gunfire was directed at policemen from the roof of al-Zhar university," Nono said.
A Fatah official in the occupied West Bank rejected the findings and accused Hamas of committing a "massacre". Fatah organisers estimated that some 500,000 people -- about a third of the population of the coastal territory -- attended. "Hamas had planned to attack the rally when they saw that nearly all Gaza was going to take part," said Ziad Abu Ein.
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Suspected separatists killed five people in Thailand's Muslim-majority south, police said Tuesday, as the death toll in the region soared to 3,300 in more than four years of violence.
A spree of shootings hit the far south on Monday evening, with two Muslim men in their 50s and a teenager killed in separate attacks across Narathiwat province, local police said. In nearby Pattani province the same night, a 45-year-old Buddhist man was shot dead, while in Yala province terrorists militants attacked a house, killing a 15-year-old Muslim boy and injuring his four-year-old sister.
Officials at Southern Police Headquarters on Tuesday reported that 475 people have been killed so far this year in violence related to the separatist insurgency.
Two policemen were injured as terrorists insurgents triggered a roadside bomb on Tuesday in Thailand's southernmost province of Pattani. According to the report of The Nation news network, the police unit were on their way to camp after they escorted teachers to a school in Pattani's Mayo district when the bomb was triggered by mobile phone signal on Tuesday morning. Two policemen of the unit was severely injured and were rushed to a nearby hospital by a helicopter.
A terrorist Islamic group that fought the Lebanese army last year claimed responsibility Monday for a recent explosion that killed one soldier north of the country, the state-run news agency said.
Al-Qaida-inspired Fatah Islam group said it was behind Saturday's explosion in the northern town of Abdeh that killed one soldier. Fatah Islam said some of its members planted a bomb in the "Lebanese army intelligence den" and detonated it by remote control.
State-run National News Agency said it received the Fatah Islam statement by fax. The agency did not say whether it verified the authenticity of the statement. On Saturday, military officials did not identify the cause of the blast that killed the soldier. A military statement identified the victim as Osama Ahmed Hassan, 24.
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SADDA: Unidentified armed men on Monday kidnapped Sadda Political Moharrar Abdul Malik Alisherzai and his bodyguard, officials said. Political Administration Sadda, Kurram Agency, officials said that Alisherzai was on his way to the political administration office from his house around 9:30 am. On his way, some armed persons stopped his vehicle, kidnapped him along with Levies gunman Misri Khan, and took them to an unknown place.
A missile was fired at a house next to a mosque in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, almost completely destroying the building but killing no one, residents of the area said. A security official said there had been a blast in the village of Sapalga in the North Waziristan region, a militant hotbed on the Afghan border, but he did not know the cause.
Norway and Sweden temporarily closed their embassies in Islamabad on Monday after the suicide attack outside the Danish embassy killed at least eight people. Weve closed our embassy, Norwegian Foreign Ministry spokesman Tor-Henrik Andersen told AFP. The Swedish embassy also shut down, Swedish Foreign Ministry spokesman Kent Oberg was quoted as saying by the AP news agency. Meanwhile, officials from the nearby Netherlands Embassy said their staff were unhurt, while the United States Embassy urged its citizens to use extra caution when travelling through Islamabad. It also told them avoid the blast site.
Missan, Jun 3, (VOI) The Sadr public hospital in al-Amara received three bodies of civilians killed by a thunderbolt southwest of the city on Tuesday, a hospital medic said.
Witnesses in Mosul, meanwhile, said Kurdish troops reinforced positions Tuesday at Iraqi government buildings in the northern al-Arabi district, deploying fighters to rooftops despite an order from Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to vacate the area.
(VOI) One civilian was killed and three others wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off in central Baghdad, on Monday, a security official said. "An IED planted by unidentified gunmen on a road near Madinat al-Tibb hospital in Bab al-Muazzam area, central Baghdad, leaving one civilian killed and three others wounded," Maj. General Qassem Atta, the official spokesman for the Baghdad operations command and Fardh al-Qanoon (law imposing) security plan, told Aswat al-Iraq Voices of Iraq (VOI). Earlier in Baghdad on Monday, the Iraqi interior ministry said policemen arrested five gunmen who attacked a police vehicle patrol in al-Jamea quarter, western Baghdad.
(VOI)- Police forces on Monday arrested six wanted persons in Diwaniya, Iraqi Interior Ministry said. A police force detained 6 outlaws under arrest warrants in al-Shamiyah district, the ministry said in a statement received by Aswat al-Iraq- Voices of Iraq- (VOI). The term outlaws is used by Iraqi authorities to refer to the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadrs Mahdi militiamen.
(VOI) - Joint Iraqi forces arrested a gunman, wounded one other, and arrested 13 wanted men, including an al-Qaeda leader in separate areas in Baghdad, the spokesman for Baghdads operations command said on Monday. A joint force of police and army personnel arrested five wanted men during a crackdown operation in Sadr City in eastern Baghdad, General Qassem Atta told Aswat al-Iraq Voices of Iraq (VOI). Iraqi army forces seized a large amount of weapons and ammunitions in Sadr City during a search operation, he added.
(VOI) - Deputy dean of the Agriculture Faculty was killed by a bomb inside his vehicle while leaving the faculty in northern Mosul, a police source said on Monday. A bomb left inside the private car of Dr. Fares Younes Abdul Rahman, deputy dean of the Agriculture Faculty, went off while he was leaving the faculty in northern Mosul, killing him instantly, the source, who requested anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq Voices of Iraq (VOI).
(VOI) - A total of 18 wanted men were arrested and amounts of ammunitions were seized by police forces during crackdown operations in separate areas in Basra, a police source said on Monday. Policemen waged security operations in Basra, where they arrested 18 wanted men, the source told Aswat al-Iraq Voices of Iraq (VOI) on condition of anonymity. They seized different amounts of ammunitions in north and central Basra, he added. Basra, Iraq's second largest city and oil hub, 590 km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, had witnessed immense security unrest a few hours after Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced the launching of Operation Saulat al-Forsan (Knights' Assault) to impose order in the province.
(VOI) - U.S. forces killed two gunmen and arrested 30 others during operations against al-Qaeda in central and northern Iraq, the U.S. army said on Monday. Coalition forces killed two gunmen, detained 31 suspects and destroyed bomb-making materials during operations targeting al-Qaeda in Iraq in central and northern Iraq Sunday and Monday, the U.S. army said in a statement received by Aswat al-Iraq Voices of Iraq (VOI).
Hamas said on Monday it had punished 38 of its policemen for failing to prevent the killing of seven Palestinians during a rally staged by the rival Fatah faction last November in the Gaza Strip.
A terrorist Islamic group that fought the Lebanese army last year claimed responsibility Monday for a recent explosion that killed one soldier north of the country, the state-run news agency said. 
