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Is it you, Alice? Is it really, really you? Doing a muff puff piece. Where have your dreams gone? A once beautiful career all washed up.
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I suppose that any smart comment on this topic that includes "muff" and "diving" in the same sentence would get the poster on the "pooplist".
Since I have more common sense than that, albeit that I enjoy a good laugh, I will not make any comment here that includes "muff" and "diving" in the same sentence.
Please read and consider your self advised to post with caution.
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"Muff diving"... is that anything like Trailer Trash Trawling, James? I'd tell you what I really think of you, but this is a family-friendly website.
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I always figured deh Crazed Cueball read the Rants.
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#6: "Muff diving"... is that anything like Trailer Trash Trawling, James? I'd tell you what I really think of you, but this is a family-friendly website.
OP Just when I was beginning to like James here on RB! >:)
KHOST, Afghanistan (AFP) - NATO warplanes killed 15 militants after rebels attacked a government building in Afghanistan Tuesday, officials said, while an Afghan policewoman was killed in the first attack of its kind. Several foreign militants were among the dead after the airstrike by the NAT0-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the eastern province of Paktia, near the troubled border with Pakistan, officials said.
Insurgents opened fire on the headquarters of the province's Sayed Karam district but were driven away after a gunbattle which caused slight damage to the building, provincial government spokesman Rohullah Samoon said. "NATO helicopters then bombed the militants and killed 14 militants on the spot. Our policemen arrested another four wounded, and one of the wounded also died in hospital," Samoon told AFP.
The injured rebels were from Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, he said. "The three arrested terrorists have told police that most of the 15 Taliban killed in the air strike were Pakistani nationals and some of them from Arab countries," he said.
NATO's press office for eastern Afghanistan said an unmanned aerial vehicle "positively identified" more than a dozen militants after they clashed with Afghan police and that close air support killed "several" rebels. The attack came a day after the separate US-led coalition said airstrikes and clashes had killed 55 militants who ambushed a patrol in eastern Afghanistan.
In other violence two gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on a female policewoman, named as 26-year-old Bibi Hoor, while she was on her way home in the Guzara district of Herat province, in western Afghanistan, late Monday, police said. "Bibi Hoor is the first policewoman to be assassinated by the enemies of Afghanistan," police spokesman Abdul Raof Ahmadi told AFP, using a phrase that Afghan officials often employ to refer to the Taliban. A police patrol arrested the men and they were under interrogation, he said.
There was no claim of responsibility for the attack but the Taliban were strongly opposed to women working or receiving education under their six-year rule and banned them from leaving home without a male relative. Herat and other western provinces bordering Iran see sporadic Taliban-linked violence but are generally more peaceful than southern and eastern areas on the mountainous Pakistani frontier.
The Afghan government, meanwhile, Tuesday said a "foreign intelligence agency" was behind a brazen April assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai during a military parade in Kabul. Karzai survived but three Afghans died. Hmmmmmmmmm? Whoever could they mean?
It did not name the country but Afghan officials including Karzai have in the past accused neighbouring Pakistan's Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) of supporting the Taliban. "Evidence shows the hallmark of a particular foreign intelligence agency which we believe was behind this attack," Karzai's spokesman Homayun Hamidzada said, citing an investigation into the incident.
Sean Langan freed after hostage ordeal There has been a media blackout on his abduction, whilst C4 explains to the Talibs that they are on the same side :-(
Due to the delicacy of the negotiations, the media had kept secret the fact that Sean Langan (pictured), the award-winning British documentary maker, had been kidnapped and held hostage for three months by Islamic extremists. And it paid off. On Saturday night, having endured various terrifying experiences, including a number of mock executions, the intrepid reporter was finally released.
Langan, 43, who in now back in Britain, was taken hostage while filming in a tribal area on the Afghanistan/Pakistan border in March. Negotiations with his kidnappers, which began after Channel 4 discovered that he had been taken a few weeks later, were "extremely tense all the way through". According to one source the kidnappers twice reneged on a promise to release him.
"It was only down to some extremely skilled negotiations, conducted at great risk, that clinched the release, a source at Channel 4 told the Times. "This wasn't some bandit group. The kidnappers were well linked politically."
Langan, whose Channel 4 documentary Fighting the Taliban won the Rory Peck award for best feature and was nominated for a Bafta this year, surprised all his friends when he announced he wanted to be a war reporter a decade ago. Before that he had held a number of TV jobs, among them the "nightclub correspondent" for the East Anglia equivalent of Nationwide.
Today the journalist's blog has been updated with details of his kidnap, but prior to this the last posting was from Kabul on February 23, in which he had mused that he might "end up in Guantanamo Bay" for watching pirate Chinese DVDs. "Afghanistan, after all, is the forgotten frontline of the War Against Piracy," he had written. Please dont judge him too harshly for these snarks, they are usually delivered with a dry wit, rather than the kind of polemic usually seen by our Meedja. On the whole he comes across as fairly even minded, neutral even.
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Note how the media can keep their fucking mouths shut when it comes to one of their own in trouble. Nobody else would have been given this highly favorable treatment.
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gromky Note how the media can keep their fucking mouths shut when it comes to one of their own in trouble. Nobody else would have been given this highly favorable treatment.
Channel 4 is a absolute piece of shit... Think 60 minutes with more Hate-America thrown in... Lots More.
It's gotto be Toxic-George-Galloway's dream channel.
(Xinhua) -- A suicide attacker exploded his explosive-laden vehicle Monday afternoon as a foreign troops' convoy was passing by in Shindand district of western Afghan province Herat, killing four civilians and wounding 12 others, a police official said.
The official, a spokesman for police department in western zone of Afghanistan who identified himself by Ahmadi, told Xinhua that the blast occurred at some 5 p.m. local time and was against the local-based foreign troops, but causing no casualties to the passing-by military convoy.
The Taliban took the responsibility.
Press offices of both the U.S.-led Coalition forces and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) while reached by Xinhua provided no related information.
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A Dhaka court yesterday issued arrest warrants against eight absconding Harkatul Jihad (Huji) members including Maulana Tajuddin, brother of detained former BNP lawmaker Abdus Salam Pintu, in the August 21 grenade attack case.
Metropolitan Sessions Court Judge Mohammad Azizuz Haque accepted the charge sheet of the case and took the charges into cognisance for trial after examining all relevant documents.
The court directed the authorities concerned to send copies of the arrest warrants to the addresses of the absconding accused. It also fixed July 24 for returning the arrest warrants to the court.
Assistant superintendent of police of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) Fazlul Kabir, also the investigation officer (IO) of the case, was present at the court.
The court on June 18 found flaws in the investigation of the case and asked the investigation officer (IO) to appear before the court yesterday and give explanation.
The court also asked the IO to explain why he prayed for discharging four accused --Omar Faruk, Ferdous, Shuvo and Babu -- although the charges brought against them were found to be true.
IO Fazlul Kabir told the court that he found involvement of the four with the grenade attacks on an Awami League rally, but he could not verify their real names and addresses.
He said if he finds out their real names and addresses, he will submit a supplementary charge sheet against them. So, he prayed for dropping the charges against the four, the IO added.
Earlier on June 11, Chief Metropolitan Magistrate AKM Enamul Haque accepted the charge sheet of the case against the 22 accused, including detained former deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu, in the second case filed in connection with the August 21 grenade attack on AL rally.
The seven other absconding accused are Pintu's another brother Maulana Liton, Anisul Mursalin and his brother Mahibul Muttakin, Iqbal, Maulana Abu Bakar alias Selim Howlader, Jahangir Alam Badar and Khalilur Rahman.
The IO on June 11 submitted the charge sheets of the cases against the accused to the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court showing 408 people as prosecution witnesses.
The accused who are behind bars now are Mufti Hannan, his brother Mohibullah alias Mafizur Rahman alias Ovi, Sharif Shahidul Islam alias Bipul, Maulana Abu Sayeed alias Dr Abu Zafar, Abul Kalam Azad alias Bulbul, Jahangir Alam, Maulana Abu Taher, Shahadatullah Jewel, Hossain Ahmed Tamim, Abdus Salam Pintu, Mufti Moinuddin Sheikh alias Abu Zandal alias Masum Billah, Arif Hasan Sumon, Rafiqul Islam Sabuj and Mohammad Ujjal alias Ratan.
Eight of the arrestees -- Hannan, Bipul, Ovi, Abu Sayeed, Bulbul, Arif Hossain, Jahangir and Sabuj -- gave statements under section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code admitting to their involvement with the incident.
Police filed two cases with the Motijheel Police Station a day after 23 people were killed in a grenade attack on the Awami League rally on August 21, 2004. One case was filed on charges of murder while the other was filed under the Explosive Substances Act.
Badar Aziz Uddin of Cox's Bazar filed another case with the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate's Court on June 5 last year against former premier Khaleda Zia, her son Tarique Rahman, Jamaat Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami and 25 others on charges of murder. However, IO Fazlul Kabir did not find their involvement with the incident.
The IO of the cases filed by the police submitted the charge sheets, accusing 22 people in each of the two cases.
He prayed for dropping the charges against 30 other accused held in connection with the grenade attack, as their involvement with the incident was not found
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(Xinhua) -- An explosion took place at a military unit in Turkey's southeastern Gaziantep province on Monday, injuring 13 soldiers of the Turkish security forces, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported.
Acting Governor Mehmet Okur of Gaziantep was quoted as saying that four soldiers were seriously wounded during the explosion in Islahiye town of Gaziantep province. The soldiers were taken to hospital for treatment and the investigation on the incident continued, he said.
Meanwhile, Turkish officials said that the explosion took place at a military vehicle on patrol, but the reason for the blast could not be determined yet.
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One of four men accused of plotting from behind bars to attack military sites, synagogues and other targets in California has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison.
Levar Haley Washington was sentenced Monday by US District Court Judge Cormac J. Carney after pleading guilty last year to conspiring to levy war against the United States and using a firearm to further the conspiracy. Authorities say Washington was in a California prison gang cell of radical Muslims that planned attacks in the Los Angeles area and intended to finance them through robberies.
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Levar Haley Washington
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The Koran should be considered contraband in prison. I've said it before. Muslim clerics in prison should be kept in solitary confinement and muslim prayer meetings should be banned. I know it's a long way from happening because our society hasn't progressed far enough in this process to fully understand it. Prison is the ideal place for this cancer to spread because it is filled with little devils just waiting for old Mo to give them some direction.
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It's not bad enough to be in prison but you join a radical muslim cell. That's what I call a two-time loser.
Safdar Nagori (38) the all- India secretary general and Shibly Peedical Abdul (30) south-India-chief of Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) are under the police custody of the Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS) of Mumbai police till June 26.
Nagori and Shibly were brought to city by ATS along with Nagoris brother Kamruddin (35), Hafeez Hussain Tajuddin Mullah alias Zahid (27) other top SIMI members on Sunday June 22.
Nagori was arrested on March 26, 2008 by the Special Task Force of Madhya Pradesh Police in Indore. All the four accused were wanted in the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act case in Maharashtra for printing and distributing Jehadi literature in 2006. The accused were produced at the Esplanade court on Sunday afternoon.
To understand just how big the arrest of Nagori is, one needs to have a look at his past. Nagori, a native of Madhya Pradesh joined the SIMI over 10 years ago but fell out in 2001 when several SIMI leaders urged the organization to renounce terror and return to its more academic and religious roots.
In 2001-2002, he came to Delhi and spent a year, which indicates he had some local support. In 2003, he moved to Mumbai. The fact that he spent the next five years in Murshidabad in West Bengal clearly indicates that he has a big base in West Bengal, where no big Jehadi attack has taken place, except the USIS attack in 2002.
Investigators say that Nagori was training a group of 200 people, who would be dedicated foot soldiers for Mullah Omar, the leader of the Taliban in India and abroad.
By 2005, he was also working for the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). He provided crucial support to LeT, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Taliban for money. In February this year, two terrorists, Naseer and Asadullah, were held in the Devangere district of Karnataka. Both were interrogated and admitted to being supervised by Nagrori.
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Suspected Taliban militants kidnapped about 15 khasadars from the Parang Sam, Begyari and Hawldari checkposts in Khyber Agencys Jamrud tehsil on Sunday, officials said on Monday. They said the Taliban also attacked the Hawldari checkpost near Soor Kamar with rockets, damaging it badly. Separately, gunmen shot dead eight members from a Shia tribe in the Kurram Agency, the latest attack in a wave of sectarian violence in the region, officials and residents told AFP on Monday. Political Agent Azam Khan told the APP news agency however that the eight men were slaughtered by militants.
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QUETTA: A passer-by was hurt and windowpanes of nearby buildings shattered when an explosive device, planted by unidentified people, went off at TNT Chowk near Governors House, police said on Monday. Police cordoned off the area following the explosion.
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Afghan authorities paraded two alleged Pakistani militants before the media in chains and handcuffs on Monday in a fresh attempt to highlight cross-border infiltration by insurgents.
The governor of southern Kandahar province said the two men were would-be Taliban suicide bombers, but one of the Pakistanis told reporters he had only entered Afghanistan to fight US-led and NATO-led forces. The public display comes just over a week after Afghan President Hamid Karzai sparked a major diplomatic row by threatening to launch attacks on militants based on Pakistani soil. Jihad, not suicide bombing: I came to Afghanistan for jihad but am not a suicide bomber, the alleged militant, identifying himself as Ali Ahmad in his 20s from Quetta, told reporters at a press conference in Kandahar.
He said he was a student at a religious school in Pakistan and was encouraged to fight in Afghanistan by a fellow student who managed to escape arrest.
The second Pakistani national, his hands and feet tied with chains and introduced as Abdul Zahir, did not speak at the news conference, which was hosted by provincial Governor Assadullah Khalid. The two were arrested on Saturday in the Afghan border town of Spin Boldak along with their Afghan guide as they were on their way to the troubled Zehri district of Kandahar, Khalid said. The two Pakistani suicide bombers along with their Afghan guide were arrested two days ago. One of them, Ali Ahmad, has confessed, Khalid said, despite Ahmads denial.
Helmand arrest: Separately, four men, including three Pakistanis, were arrested in a station wagon filled with explosives in the neighbouring province of Helmand, provincial intelligence chief Muhammad Naeem said.
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brainwashed at the madrasses funded by saudi is a common theme here!!!!
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Am I the only one who thinks that given that the Durand treaty is now expired it is real time that Afgahanistan recovers the territories conceded to the British and who are now part of Pakistan?
Just like that 40km band of Saudi Arabia who was occuppied by the Seud in the 20s and whose inhabitants were ver second classs citizens?
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I think you mean "high time" or "about time" instead of "real time", JFM. I also think we don't currently have the national will and/or wherewithal to deal with Pakistan as it needs to be dealt without glassing over the entire country. Now, if the Afghans themselves wanted to take on the project it might be fun to watch.
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He said he was a student at a religious school in Pakistan and was encouraged to fight in Afghanistan by a fellow student who managed to escape arrest.
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At this point the Afghans can't yet control all of the territory Pakistan does not claim. When they do and are capable of managing a border war, then it will be time for them to discuss renegotiating the Durand treaty. If given a choice at that point, I wonder which way the border tribes would choose?
Militants loyal to Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud captured Jandola, a town at the entrance to the South Waziristan tribal region, on Monday after a battle with pro-government tribesmen, police said.
At least six people, four tribesmen and two militants, were killed in the fighting for control of the town, the gateway to Waziristan, they said. The Taliban have taken over Jandola, and taken seven tribesmen hostage, the areas police chief, Barkat Ullah, told Reuters.
Tribesmen: A Taliban spokesman said nine people, including seven tribesmen, had been killed and the Taliban had abducted 10 pro-government fighters.
Dawn News reported that the Taliban kidnapped nine members from the Nemat Khel tribe, and that the death toll in clashes between tribesmen and Taliban had risen to nine. The channel quoted its sources as saying that the clashes started when the Baitullah Mehsud-led Taliban attacked the house of Turkistan group Deputy Commander Mir Baz Khan in the Saragarh area, Jandola.
Baz Khan is also the chief of a peace committee in the region, the channel said, adding that that a member of the Mir Baz group was killed and three injured in the attack. The Turkistan group claimed that two attackers from the Mehsud group were killed when they returned fire.
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Can anybody tell when this was posted to LiveLeak, and/or when it was filmed? I don't know how to tell which ones are recent and which date back to, say, 2003 - 2004.
There is a strip mall like building at their 3 o'clock with smoke coming from it. It looks like a building that was in a sniper incident video I posted last month. In that video a paratrooper fired a AT4 into the second floor window to silence a sniper. If that is the same building then this area was a nest of snipers.
You can see the strip mall like building on screen left before you start the video.
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Thank you, GolfBravoUSMC. That does help. Would you be a darling and add such background information to the videos you post in future? Up 'til now I've pretty much been just enjoying the pretty pictures and the clever headlines.
US Special Operations Forces scored a major victory in Mosul today. US forces killed al Qaeda's emir, or leader, of the northern city during a raid on a safe house.
'Courtesy of the Red, White, and Blue, bub.'
The emir, who has not been named, was killed after a Special Operations Forces team form Task Force 88, the hunter-killer teams assigned to take down terrorists in Iraq, stormed a building in Mosul. The commandos opened fire after one of the terrorists attempted to detonate his suicide vest was shot and another reached for a pistol.
FAIL
A woman with the group attempted to detonate the vest on the dead al Qaeda operative.
EPIC FAIL
The takedown of al Qaeda's emir in Mosul is the latest blow to the terror network in the North. On June 20, Coalition forces detained al Qaeda's security emir in Mosul. His predecessor was captured just two months prior, and his predecessor was captured in February.
On June 17, Iraqi security forces captured a senior cell leader for the Islamic State of Iraq, an al Qaeda's front group created to put an Iraqi face on the network. On June 11, Coalition forces captured the leader of al Qaeda's illegal court system in the city.
Scores of cell leaders, facilitators, weapons smugglers, and fighters have been captured or killed by US and Iraqi forces during operations in June. In mid-May, Iraqi forces captured the leader of al Qaeda's network in Ninewa province. In February and March, US and Iraqi forces killed three senior Saudi-born al Qaeda leaders in the city. Multinational Forces Iraq has zeroed in on al Qaeda in Iraq's network after operatives attempted to reorganize in the northern city. Al Qaeda suffered major defeats in Anbar province and Baghdad and the surrounding regions last year.
Fourteen of the 30 senior most al Qaeda operatives identified as killed or captured by Multinational Forces Iraq between February and May hailed from Mosul.
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We're picking up (in on sense or another) the emirs on a two-month cycle? At that rate they probably have only learnt where the executive bathroom key is hidden, and what that cute secretary's name is!
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq's Anbar province -- once dominated by Sunni insurgents but now a bastion of tribal opposition against the militants -- will soon be run by the Iraqi military.
The U.S. military said it would transfer security responsibility for Anbar this week to the Iraqi military, a bellwether event that illustrates what Iraq and the United States describe as a profound stride in their efforts to foster stability.
Anbar is the 10th of the 18 provinces where Iraqi forces have taken charge of security control since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 and the first largely Sunni Arab province to do so. The other provinces to take charge are in the Shiite south and the Kurdish north.
'We have seen a dramatic increase in security there,' said Rear Adm. Patrick Driscoll, Multi-National Forces spokesman, speaking to reporters in Baghdad on Sunday. 'I think that the trend now in Anbar is to move from the violent kinetic to the rebuilding process,' he said.
Anbar province -- west of Baghdad -- is a vast territory where Iraq shares borders with Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. Much of the region is desert, and most of the people there live in in the towns and cities -- such as Falluja and Ramadi -- along the Euphrates River.
Sunni Arabs, such as those in Anbar, became politically marginalized when the Shiites and Kurds took over the new Iraqi government from the toppled Hussein regime, which had been dominated by and was most amenable to Sunnis. Many Sunni Arabs in Anbar became active in the insurgency, and foreign fighters made their way into Anbar via Syria. As a result, the Euphrates River valley region was a hotbed of insurgent activity in the early years of the Iraq war.
U.S. Marines launched several offensives against the militants, including a large-scale push in late 2004 in Falluja. Al Qaeda in Iraq and other militants eventually developed a strong foothold in many towns.
Major changes occurred in Anbar over the last two years, however, with the emergence of the awakening, the grass-roots tribal movement that opposes al Qaeda in Iraq. That movement aided efforts by the U.S. military and Iraqi security forces to fight al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), and violence there has dropped dramatically in the last two years.
While Sunni tribes in Iraq were natural allies for the insurgency when it started in 2003, many locals eventually became disenchanted with what it regarded as al Qaeda in Iraq's brutality, corruption and hard-line enforcement of sharia law.
The tribal movement in Anbar has developed into a political force and has helped spawn another development: U.S.-backed Iraqi militias -- such as Sons of Iraq and Awakening Councils -- formed in the Sunni regions of Iraq over the last couple of years.
The Pentagon's June report to Congress on developments in Iraq said that in Anbar, the 'average number of security incidents remained at five incidents per day over a 90-day period, accounting for less than 4 percent of the attacks in all of Iraq.'
'This represents a 10-fold reduction compared to the summer of 2006 and is half of the rate of the last few months of 2007.'
AQI 'continues efforts to regain footholds' in the valley, the report said. But the Sons of Iraq and U.S. and Iraqi troops 'continue to hinder AQI's ability to obtain resources or operate effectively in population centers, forcing AQI to operate and conduct attacks from remote locations in the province.'
At present, the other provinces that have transitioned to Iraqi security control are Duhuk, Irbil and Sulaimaniya in the Kurdish region, and Karbala, Najaf, Muthanna, Thiqar, Basra, and Maysan in the Shiite south. The other province to change over to Iraqi security control this year is Qadisiya in the south.
BAGHDAD Two Coalition forces soldiers and two civilians serving with Coalition forces were killed after an explosion inside the District Advisory Council building in a southern neighborhood of Sadr City district at approximately 9:30 a.m. today. One Coalition forces soldier and three DAC members were also wounded in the attack.
This was the fourth meeting of this district council, lead by hard working Iraqis determined to make a difference and set Sadr City off on the right path. Special Groups are afraid of progress and afraid of empowering the people, said Lt. Col. John Digiambatista, operations officer, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division. They killed four people today in one cowardly act to halt progress, but it will only harden the determination of this council, the citizens of Sadr City, the Iraqi Army, and Coalition Forces."
A suspect is in custody. The individual was caught by Coalition forces fleeing the scene and tested positive for explosive residue.
The names of the soldiers killed in action are being withheld pending notification of next-of-kin.
Coalition forces and our Iraqi Security Force partners are committed to lasting security and stability throughout Baghdad, said Col. Allen Batschelet, chief of staff for MND-B and the 4th Infantry Division. Today, two soldiers and those serving alongside them paid the ultimate sacrifice on behalf of the Iraqi and American people in pursuit of this goal. Our hearts and prayers are with them and their families.
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They gave their lives to change the world; knowingly and of their own free will they walked into a situation where the cost could be the ultimate payable. May that memory strengthen those who remain behind to carry on.
(VOI) The Federal Appeals Court's general committee ratified 15 death verdicts that were issued by different courts throughout Iraq, the Supreme Judicial Council's official spokesperson said on Monday. "The Court of Appeals ratified the death verdict issued by Thi-Qar criminal court against two convicted people, for kidnapping and killing a citizen," Judge Abdul-Sattar al-Berqdar told al-Iraq Voices of Iraq (VOI). "The court approved the death verdict issued by Mosul criminal court, according to the terror law, against five convicted people, for kidnapping a citizen for ransom," he added.
"It ratified a verdict issued by Baghdad central criminal court, to execute two convicted people, for abduction," he noted. "It also approved two execution verdicts issued by Basra criminal court, and others by the criminal courts in Karbala, Diala, and Wassit to execute four convicted people for killing and robbery crimes," he explained.
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Now, capital punishment, which never bothered "the world" while saddam was doing it, will become a source of heartburn. And, of course, it's only because of G.W. Bush that they're doing it, you know..
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Hang 'em in a public square, so all can see that justice has been done. Hanging is a humiliating way to die, and will be a good deterrent against further crimes against the people of Iraq.
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Do we still stretch necks in the U.S. or is that considered inhumane punishment?
(VOI) - Ten wanted men were arrested on Monday during a crackdown operation in a number of residential areas in Hilla, said a police source. Martyr Qeis al-Maamouri forces from the Interior Ministry waged a security raid following a tip-off in al-Wardiya, Albu Alyan, Nader al-Thaletha, Bani Sala, and al-Debla regions in al-Kefl district, south of Hilla, the source, who asked to remain unnamed, told Aswat al-Iraq Voices of Iraq (VOI). Ten wanted men were arrested and Kalashnikovs, guns and ammunitions were seized during the operation, he added. He provided no additional details.
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(VOI) - Five policemen were arrested on Monday for violating their duty in Karbala, the chief of local police said. "Security authorities arrested five policemen in addition to dismissing them from the service after they violated their duty and helped a dangerous wanted man to escape from the province," General Raed Shaker Jawdat told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). "He is one of the most dangerous (terrorists) and he is an armed group leader," he noted.
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Corruption is inherent to Arab cultures. It cut through all levels of society. The 5 cops are in the Zone.
(VOI) - A joint force of Iraqi and U.S. personnel arrested on Monday night a senior leader of al-Qaeda group and one of his aides in east of Balad, Salah al-Din, a security source said. Police and army forces, backed by U.S. troops, on Monday afternoon arrested Abdul Wahab al-Sahou, a senior leader from al-Qaeda, and one of his aides in al-Ajieliya village in east of Yathereb district, Major Hussein Ali Saleh told Aswat al-Iraq Voices of Iraq (VOI). The operation was carried out based on intelligence tips, he explained.
Meanwhile, a source from Dalouiya police, who requested anonymity, confirmed the arrest of the man, who has been accused of killing policemen, army soldiers and civilians in the past four years.
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(VOI) - The casualties from the bombing attack that targeted an Iraqi army vehicle patrol earlier on Monday rose to seven wounded, according to a police source.
The casualties from the bomb explosion that targeted an Iraqi army vehicle patrol in al-Rashidiya region in northern Mosul, rose to seven wounded, including four civilians, the source told Aswat al-Iraq Voices of Iraq (VOI) on condition of anonymity. The four civilians were rushed to al-Jumhuri hospital for treatment, he added. An official Iraqi army source had said earlier three Iraqi army servicemen, including an officer in the rank of major, were wounded while trying to dismantle an improvised explosive device (IED) in northern Mosul on Monday.
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(VOI) - Joint U.S.-Iraqi forces on Monday arrested 27 suspected gunmen north of Hilla city, a police source said. 'A joint force of U.S. and Iraqi personnel raided gunmen's hideouts in al-Mashroua region, mainly in al-Wehda, Arrar and al-Resala neighborhoods, north of Hilla, where 27 suspected gunmen were arrested,' the source, who asked for anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). 'The forces seized light and medium weapons found in their possession,' he also said. He did not give more details.
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(VOI) Joint forces from the Iraqi army and police on Monday arrested four wanted individuals, including a man believed to be behind the bombing that occurred near a Baghdad university in March 2007, authorities said. 'A force from the Iraqi army's 17th Division captured Omar Abd Khaled Hamadi al-Kartani in al-Mahmoudiya district, southern Baghdad,' a spokesman for Baghdad's operations command, Major General Qasem Ata, told Aswat al-Iraq-Voices of Iraq- (VOI). 'Al-Kartani is currently under investigation after he confessed to having a hand in the car bomb explosion that occurred near al-Mustansriya University, eastern Baghdad, last year,' the spokesman explained. In March 2007, an explosives-rigged car detonated near Baghdad's university of al-Mustansriya, killing and wounding more than 100 people.
Must be unpleasant to be a boom mastermind whose heyday is a year or two behind him, knowing that the Iraqi government isn't forgetting, much less forgiving.
'A force from the 8th Division, National Police, arrested three wanted persons in al-Sahafiyeen neighborhood, al-Baladiyat area, during a raid in eastern Baghdad,' Ata added. A total of 10 improvised explosive devices (IEDs), 81 machine guns, several RPK rifles and ammunition were seized during the operation, Ata explained.
This article starring:
al-Mustansriya University
Major General Qasem Ata
Omar Abd Khaled Hamadi al-Kartani
al-Qaeda in Iraq
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(VOI) - Two Sahwa (Awakening) fighters were killed in a bomb blast in south of Baaquba, a security source said on Monday. Two Sahwa fighters were killed when a roadside bomb, planted on the main road near al-Naqieb village, south of Bahraz district, south of Baaquba, went off while their patrol was passing, the source, who preferred to remain anonymous, told Aswat al-Iraq Voices of Iraq (VOI). He did not add further details.
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Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip fired a mortar shell into Israel Tuesday night, several media outlets reported - the first apparent breach of the cease-fire since it went into effect five days ago. There were no reports of casualties or damage.
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BBC Middle East Headline reads "Israelis Kill Two In West Bank"
11 lines up from the bottom of the article this attack is mentioned as a "Meanwhile..."
"Meanwhile, the Israeli army said a mortar had been fired from Gaza into Israel late on Monday, about three hours before the Nablus operation."
Straight in the article tells us that the attack was on a university building, and that one of the men was just a student. (he had guns and explosives though, IF you believe those Israelis...) It could jeopardise the Gaza ceasefire, you know...
Two bombs planted at a football field and a busy market injured seven soldiers and six civilians in Thailand's insurgency-hit far south on Tuesday, police said. Explosives hidden in a motorcycle exploded outside a fresh food market in Yala's provincial capital early Tuesday, injuring 10 people including four soldiers, local police said. One soldier is in a critical condition. Later the same morning in nearby Pattani province, a blast hit a village football field, injuring three soldiers who were on duty there.
Security officials say that heavy overnight fighting between pro- and anti-government supporters in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli led to the deaths of four more people.
The officials say the deaths bring to eight the number of people killed since violence erupted Sunday. Forty-two persons have been wounded so far.
The officials say the overnight clash started when government supporters from the Bab el-Tabaneh district and the opposition in neighboring Jabal Mohsen neighborhood exchanged machine gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades.
Fighting eased Monday morning, although residents say sporadic explosions could still be heard. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to media.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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(Xinhua) -- A suicide attacker exploded his explosive-laden vehicle Monday afternoon as a foreign troops' convoy was passing by in Shindand district of western Afghan province Herat, killing four civilians and wounding 12 others, a police official said. 
US Special Operations Forces scored a major victory in Mosul today. US forces killed al Qaeda's emir, or leader, of the northern city during a raid on a safe house. 
Scores of cell leaders, facilitators, weapons smugglers, and fighters have been captured or killed by US and Iraqi forces during operations in June. In mid-May, Iraqi forces captured the leader of al Qaeda's network in Ninewa province. In February and March, US and Iraqi forces killed three senior Saudi-born al Qaeda leaders in the city. Multinational Forces Iraq has zeroed in on al Qaeda in Iraq's network after operatives attempted to reorganize in the northern city. Al Qaeda suffered major defeats in Anbar province and Baghdad and the surrounding regions last year. 
Fourteen of the 30 senior most al Qaeda operatives identified as killed or captured by Multinational Forces Iraq between February and May hailed from Mosul.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Iraq's Anbar province -- once dominated by Sunni insurgents but now a bastion of tribal opposition against the militants -- will soon be run by the Iraqi military.
BAGHDAD Two Coalition forces soldiers and two civilians serving with Coalition forces were killed after an explosion inside the District Advisory Council building in a southern neighborhood of Sadr City district at approximately 9:30 a.m. today. One Coalition forces soldier and three DAC members were also wounded in the attack.
(VOI) - Joint U.S.-Iraqi forces on Monday arrested 27 suspected gunmen north of Hilla city, a police source said. 'A joint force of U.S. and Iraqi personnel raided gunmen's hideouts in al-Mashroua region, mainly in al-Wehda, Arrar and al-Resala neighborhoods, north of Hilla, where 27 suspected gunmen were arrested,' the source, who asked for anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). 'The forces seized light and medium weapons found in their possession,' he also said. He did not give more details.
(VOI) Joint forces from the Iraqi army and police on Monday arrested four wanted individuals, including a man believed to be behind the bombing that occurred near a Baghdad university in March 2007, authorities said. 'A force from the Iraqi army's 17th Division captured 
(VOI) - Two Sahwa (Awakening) fighters were killed in a bomb blast in south of Baaquba, a security source said on Monday. Two Sahwa fighters were killed when a roadside bomb, planted on the main road near al-Naqieb village, south of Bahraz district, south of Baaquba, went off while their patrol was passing, the source, who preferred to remain anonymous, told Aswat al-Iraq Voices of Iraq (VOI). He did not add further details.
