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I searched for Pharpheau the wonder dog on the net. Couldn't find a famous dog like that. Makes you wonder. Could it be conspiracy or witchcraft? So hard to choose.
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KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Unknown assailants kidnapped nine Chinese oil workers in southern Sudan, a Chinese diplomat in Khartoum said Sunday. The men were working Saturday when they were abducted in southern Kordofan province, the epicenter of Sudan's oil industry and next to Darfur where ethnic African rebels are fighting the Arab-dominated government.
A search was under way for the men, the diplomat said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press. Several workers were not taken and managed to inform authorities, he added.
The rebels, along with many international rights activists, accuse China of indirectly funding Khartoum's war effort in Darfur through massive investment in Sudan's oil industry. China buys two-thirds of Sudan's oil exports, and oil sales account for 70 percent of the African country's export revenue.
Darfur rebels attacked the Chinese-run Defra oil field in Kordofan last October, kidnapped two foreign workers and gave Chinese and other oil companies a week to leave the country. Two months later, Darfur rebels attacked an army garrison in another Chinese-run oil field in the same province.
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ION FREEREPUBLIC > CHINA'S ISLAMIC CRACKDOWN HAS BEGUN [Pro-Muslim public behaviors].
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Excellent strategic forward thinking on the part of whoever. Fuck with Chinese commerce, the Shadow of Death makes an appearance. Indiscriminate, be you the perpetrator or the incompetent fuck that can't stop it.
Is there a chi-com who is authorized to speak to the press? heh
One is a bankrupt convicted felon who spewed venomous hatred about the United States, hooked up an alleged terrorist cell with semiautomatic weapons and drove the surveillance car as they cased military bases. The other boasted of killing someone back home in Albania and vowed to kill others or blow himself up in a crowd of people now that he was in the United States. But Mahmoud Omar and Besnik Bakalli aren't members of the so-called "Ft. Dix Six," five of whom go on trial Monday for allegedly conspiring to gun down military personnel at the sprawling South Jersey base in a jihad-inspired attack last year. They're the FBI informants who are instrumental to the government's case against the group. Information surfacing about the two men on the eve of one of the most high-profile U.S.-based terrorism trials since Sept. 11 all but guarantees that they will be put in the hot seat nearly as much as the defendants, along with their FBI handlers.
Omar, 39, is a fast-talking Egyptian who fixed and sold used cars out of his South Jersey apartment building parking lot. He was paid as much as $150,000 -- and possibly more -- by federal authorities for infiltrating a group of young, foreign-born Muslims in this prosperous Philadelphia suburb after authorities became suspicious of them in early 2006. For 16 months, Omar talked tough, boasting of his exploits as an Egyptian military officer, a drug dealer and a petty criminal who sneaked into the United States through Mexico in the 1980s, according to wiretapped conversations as well as the brother of three of the defendants. That brother participated in some of the alleged activities in question but has been cleared of wrongdoing.
Bakalli, who is about 35, talked even tougher than Omar, bragging constantly about how he was not afraid to die. Previously known only as "confidential witness 2," Bakalli's name surfaced for the first time last week in court papers.
"Besnik was the only one talking about wanting to shoot people, to blow them up, and we kept saying, 'Why would you want to do that? It's forbidden in our religion,' " said Burim Duka, 17, an ethnic Albanian Muslim whose three brothers are among those on trial. "And he'd say, 'What are you so scared of?' " Duka says the informants created the conspiracy out of nothing, fingering his brothers and two of his friends as participating in a terrorist plot when such a plot never existed.
The government's case does not rely solely on informants. In hundreds of hours of tapes, the defendants allegedly discuss attacking Ft. Dix, other military bases, the White House and civilian targets such as the Philadelphia airport. Prosecutors say they can show that the men took steps to further the alleged plot, including purchasing semiautomatic weapons, conducting surveillance, obtaining a map of Ft. Dix, and engaging in tactical training by playing paintball in the woods. They allegedly steeled themselves by watching videos of beheadings.
One Justice Department official involved in the case -- who spoke on condition of anonymity, lacking authorization to discuss pending cases -- said prosecutors would be the first to acknowledge that Omar and Bakalli are "not squeaky-clean," but they argue that the informants' background has no bearing on the defendants' complicity in the plot. "You have to remember that this is a tape case, so it doesn't matter if he's a liar or a scumbag," the official said in reference to the informants. "We'll just put in the tapes and play it for them."
One of the original six defendants has pleaded guilty to lesser gun-related charges. Now, Dritan, Shain and Eljvir Duka, all in their 20s, potentially face life in prison, along with Mohamad Shnewer and Serdar Tatar. All five are charged with attempted murder and conspiracy to murder military personnel, and all but Tatar also face weapons charges. They were arrested in May 2007 after two of the Duka brothers allegedly bought automatic weapons in a deal set up by Omar. Much more at link.
(APP): Security forces Sunday destroyed 'Hujra' of a miscreant commander Alamgir which was being used as a den in Barthana area of Tehsil Matta of Swat District. According to Media Information Center Swat, twenty five militants were killed and scores injured. Miscreant's ammunition dump was also targeted and destroyed.
In another incident in Sirsenai Tehsil Kabal, an IED exploded when a convoy of security forces was passing through the area. In exchange of fire three miscreants were killed including the operation of IED. One soldier also embraced Sahadat.
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That's torn it -- they went and let the troops blow up an ammunition dump. Now they'll never get them to let the Taliban kill at will.
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Well done, SSgt Forsyth. Up like sugar away like shit!
A very large debt of gratitude for the Flag flown and service of The Thundering Herd. Flag flew - Command Post, Third Battalion, Fourth Marines - Camp Al Qa'im, Al Anbar Iraq 10/03/06. Forever in your debt.
Aswat al-Iraq: A Kurdish official on Sunday said unknown gunmen killed a Kurdish faction guard from Kurdistan's Democratic Party (KDP) in Ninewa. "The killed was shot dead near his house in Hassan Sham village of Bartala district in Ninewa," a KDP official told Aswat al-Iraq. "The Killed is an Ethnic Arab and has a son abducted six month ago".
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Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi police on Sunday said an explosives ordnance team defused a roadside bomb planted near a school for girls in central Baghdad. "An Intelligence tip-off led an ordnance team to defuse a roadside bomb planted al-Huda secondary school for girls in Karrada district, central Baghdad," a police source told Aswat al-Iraq.
The source noted police forces sealed off the streets leading to the bomb area and denied access to all civilians," adding "security authorities had no clue about who planted the bomb".
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Aswat al-Iraq: Head of the Sulaimaniya provincial council said that the council on Sunday decided to dismiss Jotiar Nouri, the province's deputy governor, from his position due to "dereliction of duty," but Nouri said that the decision is illegal. "Sulaimaniya governor, Dana Ahmed, attended today's meeting of the council, and talked about differences with his deputy, Nouri," Kawa Abdullah told Aswat al-Iraq.
Both Ahmed and Nouri are affiliated with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), headed by the President of Iraq, Jalal Talabani. "Nouri will return to his former position as a member of Sulaimaniya provincial council," Abdullah added.
For his part, Nouri, commenting on the decision, said, "It is illegal because it did not rely on any evidence or document."
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Aswat al-Iraq: A military force on Sunday arrested two wanted men during a raid conducted in Mosul city while an improvised explosive device went off in the northeastern part of the city but left no casualties, an Iraqi army source said. "A force from the Iraqi army's 8th Brigade arrested two wanted men in a search raid in Adan neighborhood, eastern Mosul," the source told Aswat al-Iraq, adding the two persons are under investigative custody.Meanwhile, the same source said, an IED went off today near an Iraqi army patrol in the village of Sada Wa Bueweida, northeastern Mosul, but left no casualties.
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Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi police forces on Sunday arrested a commander of al-Qaeda in Iraq involved in killing and abduction operations in Diala. A security source said. "A unit from Diala Emergency Police conducted a military operation in al-Mijadad village, capturing Amir Hatem Jamil commander of al-Qaeda in Iraq," a Diala security source told Aswat al-Iraq.
The source noted the detainee "was involved in killing a tribal chieftain of al-Anbakiya tribe and in abducting the deputy police chief of al-Salam district".
Four al-Qaeda members, including an amir (leader), were arrested on Sunday during a security operation in al-Salam district, north Baaquba.
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they falling like dominoes here the last few day ain't they. is this what you call a quagmire? (sarc)
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Arrested, nabbed .................. should be seeing, SHOT DEAD headlines.
Thousands of Israelis on Sunday protested their government's failure to recover a captured soldier near the site where he was seized on the edge of the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.
Three thousand demonstrators gathered at the site, according to Israeli police, with many of the demonstrators wearing shirts bearing the portrait of the 21-year-old reservist and the caption "Gilad Shalit is still alive."
The crowds held banners reading "Gilad Shalit, we have been waiting for you for two years," and "No more Ron Arad, Free Gilad," referring to an Israeli airman who disappeared in south Lebanon in 1986.
Protestors began gathering at the nearby Kerem Shalom crossing -- one of the main goods terminals supplying the besieged Gaza Strip -- in the early hours, burning tyres and forced the army to delay the crossing's opening.
The crossing was eventually allowed to open, allowing some 80 trucks to bring food and medical aid into the impoverished territory of 1.5 million people, which has been ruled by the Islamist Hamas movement since June 2007.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak told Israeli army radio every effort is being made to bring Shalit home but warned that such demonstrations could "raise the price of his release" by encouraging Hamas to increase its demands.
Hamas wants the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for Shalit, who was seized by Gaza militants in a deadly cross-border raid in June 2006.
Noam Shalit, father of the missing soldier and the public face of the campaign for his release, rejected Barak's comments.
"The government had almost two and a half years to bring Gilad back without demonstrations and without protests, but failed to do so," Shalit told the Ynet news service on his way to the rally.
Israel has sealed Gaza off to all but limited humanitarian aid since June 2007 when Hamas seized power after routing forces loyal to Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.
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good too see that the Israeli citizens are realizing their governments failing ways of ddealing with the paleos
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Dad's got it about right. Let those POS eat rockets, bomb belts and AK rounds till they're hungry and sick enough to trade straight up for a few tons of aid.
An Israeli citizen was lightly wounded on Sunday when a fire bomb was thrown at his car near the West Bank settlement of Barkan.
After the attack, the man continued on to an Israel Defense Forces checkpoint. He received medical treatment there, after which he was taken to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva.
The man's family, who were with him in the car, were unhurt in the attack.
The incident came after IDF troops killed three Palestinian fire bombers last week.
Earlier Sunday, six fire bombs were hurled at Israeli drivers in two separate incidents near the West Bank town of Nablus. There were no casualties in these attacks.
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Troops and Tamil Tiger rebels were locked in intense fighting in northern Sri Lanka on Sunday after government forces smashed through the "last major defences" of the guerrillas capturing 14 Tamil Tiger rebel bunkers, the military said.
The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) launched "poisonous gas attacks" to blunt the military offensive aimed at capturing the rebels' political capital of Kilinochchi, the defence ministry said in a statement.
Soldiers stepped up their offensive on Saturday and captured a two-kilometer stretch of the defence line set up by the Tigers near Kilinochchi, the ministry said. It said the fighting was at Akkarayankulam, about 13 kilometers southwest of Kilinochchi.
"Army's 57 division troops yesterday pierced the LTTE-built earth bund in Akkarayankulam, the terrorists' last major defence south of Kilinochchi," the defence ministry said in a statement. Military sources said that the Tigers had used a type of tear gas commonly used during riot control. "However, troops withstood the chemical attack and beat off the terrorists," the ministry said.
It gave no details of casualties for both sides, but added: "Several soldiers made their ultimate sacrifice for the nation while many others suffered injuries during this battle."
In separate statement, the ministry said soldiers along two other fronts in the north of the island had also stepped up attacks against Tamil Tiger positions over the weekend. Soldiers had encircled a sea base of the Tamil Tigers along the northwest coast while troops on the other side of the island in northeastern Mullaitivu had also stepped up attacks, the ministry said.
"Troops also suffered casualties during those confrontations and were being evacuated for treatment," the statement said. Government soldiers fell victim to booby-trapped devices, anti-personnel mines and mortar fire, the ministry said. "Battlefield sources confirmed that the terrorists suffered significant attrition in terms of men and material," the ministry said. Military officials said both sides continued to trade gunfire and long-range attacks throughout the weekend, but monsoon rains had left heavy weapons ineffective. Neither side could also use trenches for cover as most were flooded with rain water.
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How soon until the Tamils abroad stop running credit card scams and such, now that Tigers will no longer need funding?
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WORLD AFFAIRS BOARD > TAMIL NADU MPS: STOP TAMIL/LANKAN WAR OR WE'LL ALL QUIT. Gives CENTRE GOVT. TWO WEEKS ULTIMATUM TO END WAR or will resign en masse???
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KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) - Unknown assailants kidnapped nine Chinese oil workers in southern Sudan, a Chinese diplomat in Khartoum said Sunday. The men were working Saturday when they were abducted in southern Kordofan province, the epicenter of Sudan's oil industry and next to Darfur where ethnic African rebels are fighting the Arab-dominated government.
(APP): Security forces Sunday destroyed 'Hujra' of a miscreant commander Alamgir which was being used as a den in Barthana area of Tehsil Matta of Swat District. According to Media Information Center Swat, twenty five militants were killed and scores injured. Miscreant's ammunition dump was also targeted and destroyed. 
Aswat al-Iraq: Head of the Sulaimaniya provincial council said that the council on Sunday decided to dismiss Jotiar Nouri, the province's deputy governor, from his position due to "dereliction of duty," but Nouri said that the decision is illegal. "Sulaimaniya governor, Dana Ahmed, attended today's meeting of the council, and talked about differences with his deputy, Nouri," Kawa Abdullah told Aswat al-Iraq.
Aswat al-Iraq: A military force on Sunday arrested two wanted men during a raid conducted in Mosul city while an improvised explosive device went off in the northeastern part of the city but left no casualties, an Iraqi army source said. "A force from the Iraqi army's 8th Brigade arrested two wanted men in a search raid in Adan neighborhood, eastern Mosul," the source told Aswat al-Iraq, adding the two persons are under investigative custody.Meanwhile, the same source said, an IED went off today near an Iraqi army patrol in the village of Sada Wa Bueweida, northeastern Mosul, but left no casualties.
Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi police forces on Sunday arrested a commander of al-Qaeda in Iraq involved in killing and abduction operations in Diala. A security source said. "A unit from Diala Emergency Police conducted a military operation in al-Mijadad village, capturing Amir Hatem Jamil commander of al-Qaeda in Iraq," a Diala security source told Aswat al-Iraq.
An Israeli citizen was lightly wounded on Sunday when a fire bomb was thrown at his car near the West Bank settlement of Barkan. 
