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Nigeria fighting rages as death toll passes 300
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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner-Shaw-Crane-Crane-Topping-Barker-May-Eaton-Dante was married 8 times for a total of 20 years to 7 different men.



Satin Doll

Let me slip into something more comfortable

A Bath Hat

Daily Gam Shot

A different look

Nightie Night

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 07/29/2009 4:15 Comments || Top||

#2  I thought you might like these http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8175152.stm
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/29/2009 19:32 Comments || Top||

#3  "I'm just a girl who can't say no, I guess."
Posted by: mojo || 07/29/2009 21:32 Comments || Top||

#4  She was pretty good at saying "I do."
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2009 21:53 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Michael Yon: Night Into Day
Posted by: ed || 07/29/2009 15:30 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


On Patrol with "America's Battalion"
Dehydration, sleep deprivation, boots soggy with sweat, 100 pounds of gear and 15 miles in 126-degree heat.

U.S. Marines with the 2nd Battalion, 8th Regiment; on foot and under fire in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.

Members of Golf Company pushed deep into the heart of the Helmand River Valley in an attempt to secure this part of the country in advance of the Afghan elections in August.

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 07/29/2009 12:12 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is all very well, but will it achieve anything?
For what it's worth, this is where I'm coming from.
It took 5 years for the conventional forces to learn COIN and start to implement it in Iraq. Can you say....re-inventing the wheel? We were conducting counter insurgency in Afghanistan back in November 2001. Iraq and Afghanistan are two different theaters of combat operations. MRAP's and HUMVEE's do not belong in Afghanistan. Early on, COIN was in the works. Operations were a combined effort of standing up the ANA (Afghan National Army), gaining local support, and taking the fight to the enemy. It's what some may remember as UW - unconventional warfare. Somewhere along the way, our prestigious conventional leaders lost sight of the real objective. The infamous 18th ABN Corps landed in country in 2002. Seeing the need to be "relevant" to the fight, they decided on more troops, more combat equipment, more high profile operations and little training in UW! Ridiculous! I rode horseback through the Hindu Kush mountains for 6 months without body armor. Dressed in customary Afghan clothing (what we referred to as "Man-jammies") and sporting a thick beard, I had a weapon, ammo, bed roll and some stripped down MRE's. We strolled into villages who had no idea we were American's until they saw our weapons. There were less than 3,500 troops in Afghanistan with only 500 out in the safe houses conducting daily operations. Now we see 30,000 plus troops in the country with America as the leader in numbers. Again, ridiculous! Afghanistan is not a board game like Risk. The idea is not to take an hold ground. Remember why we went there in the beginning. To destroy Al-Qiada training camps and take down the Taliban regime. Our given mission was 3 parts...."kill, capture and deny". Kill Al-Qaida operatives, capture if possible, and deny the enemy sanctuary. Hit hard, pull back, re-group and hit hard again until they have no place to go but out. The intent is not to save the world from poverty and bring every thrid world country into the 21st Century, give them satellite TV, cell phones computers and democracy at the expense of the American Taxpayer. The mission was to strike back after 9-11 and ensure that the entire world was aware, "You don't screw with American's,....especially on our own soil!" It is shameful to lose the life of ONE Soldier or Marine to the short-sightedness of a command of Vietnam era Lieutenants that want to play in the SuperBowl of war so they can advance their career! Small teams....supported with combat air assets, unconventional warfare, direct action, and foreign internal defense. You could fight the war with 1000 troops on the ground in Afghanistan with 3,000 troops as support assets. The Conventional Mindset is what will keep us in Ass-crak-istan for the next 5-7 years! What a waste!
Posted by: tipper || 07/29/2009 13:25 Comments || Top||

#2  great post Tipper. Thanks.
Posted by: Broadhead6 || 07/29/2009 16:57 Comments || Top||

#3  Guerrilla groups flourish wherever they have safe harborage. While the use of SMART missiles against Taliban leadership in Pakistan has yielded disruption of terror management, a death blow can't be delivered until base camps are destroyed. Unfortunately, Taliban conduct initial training in UN refugee (read terror base) camps. Weapons training is done with anti-India terror groups, supported by Pakistan. Guerrilla camps are sited where Pakistan borders Helmand, Afghanistan, and groups are sent out from same. A hair trigger approach to waging war against these irregulars is essential. But it is not helped by Karzai's insistence on echoing Taliban propaganda that everyone killed by NATO is an innocent victim of over-kill. Frankly, under-kill would better describe what we are doing.
Posted by: Herb Glolutle1773 || 07/29/2009 17:38 Comments || Top||

#4  For once I disagree with Michael Yon. It is hard as heck to decide when to go conventional, and when to go unconventional. Each type soldier are convinced they can do it "their way", with just more time, or more *something*.

These Marines are doing something right now that unconventional soldiers cannot do. They are penetrating to the heart of the enemy territory in Afghanistan. This is as "in your face" to the drug gangs, Taliban and al-Qaeda as it gets.

It will be occupied, because it is where their money comes from. The people there are *owned* by the bad guyz, and unless somebody frees them from that, there is nothing they can do.

Marching a battalion 15 miles through 126F heat is as dangerous as marching them through radioactive fallout. A lot of them will get very sick, and there could even be deaths from that heat. At that heat, the very air burns your skin, even in the shade.

The shade is a lie, because you are getting such incredible amounts of IR that you are illuminated, even if you don't see it.

Water consumption should be in excess of 5 gallons per man per day, with little or no urination. Heat exhaustion and heat stroke can hit with surprising speed if your body salts get imbalanced.

What they are doing is damned important. To important to wait.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 07/29/2009 22:37 Comments || Top||


Blasts Kill 9 in Southern Afghanistan
[Quqnoos] At least 9 Afghans were killed and 6 others wounded in separate bomb blasts in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, according to government. A remote-control roadside bomb struck two vehicles of a private security company in Giriskh, a remote district in the southern Helmand province, killing eight guards and wounding four others, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

The statement further notes that the blast occurred at around 8:00am in Helmand, where 4,000 US Marines have been carrying out a major offensive against Taliban militants over the past few weeks.

In a similar bomb blast elsewhere in a south-eastern Afghan province of Khost, a civilian has been killed and two others were injured in Sabri district, MoI says.

No groups, including the Taliban, have claimed responsibility for the attacks in the troubled southern Afghan region.

Taliban have intensified their attacks ahead of the August 20 presidential and provincial council elections that caused concerns whether transparent polls can be held.
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Communal guards, soldier killed in separate Algeria attacks
[Maghrebia] Two separate terror attacks on Sunday killed two Algerian communal guards and a soldier, Algerian press reported on Tuesday (July 28th). Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb terrorists reportedly ambushed the guards at their post in Zelabna, 50 km from Mascara. The 44 and 47-year old victims were unarmed, El Watan reported. A roadside bomb killed one soldier in Iragane, near Jijel, L'Expression reported.

Algerian security services also killed two terrorists on Monday (July 27th) between Ouadhias and Beni Douala, 35k south of Tizi Ouzou, Tout sur l'Algerie reported.

In other news, Algerian National Police Chief Ali Tounsi on Monday voiced satisfaction with security measures at the Port of Algiers and the International Airport of Houari Boumediene. Following an inspection visit, Colonel Tounsi noted that while security has improved since last year, additional measures are needed "to reach international standards".
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Morocco: Islamist sentenced to life in jail
[ADN Kronos] A Moroccan court on Wednesday sentenced to life imprisonment the leader of an Islamic extremist cell. Abdelkader Belliraj was convicted of forming a criminal gang with the aim of carrying out terrorist attacks and murders. The court also found Belliraj, aged 50, guilty of possession of explosives, harming the security of the state and theft.

A Moroccan-born Belgian national, Belliraj denies all charges against him. His lawyer has said he will appeal the sentence. More than 30 people who were arrested with Belliraj in February last year and tried with him received prison sentences from two to 30 years. They included six Islamist politicians, schoolteachers, a telecoms engineer, a hotel manager and a TV reporter.

During the trial, Belliraj's lawyer argued he had made visits to militant groups for Belgium's intelligence services. Morocco's intelligence service claims Belliraj was the author of six assassinations in Belgium between 1986 and 1989, killings that Belgian police failed to solve.

Belliraj was planning to attack government ministries, senior army officers and Moroccan Jews, according to interior minister Chakib Benmoussa.
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Africa Subsaharan
Nigeria fighting rages as death toll passes 300
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Troops struggled to crush an Islamist sect in northern Nigeria on Wednesday as the death toll from four days of clashes surged past 300 and thousands of people were forced from their homes.

Police sources said fighting was concentrated in Maiduguri city, the base of the self-styled Nigerian Taliban following orders from President Umaru Yar'Adua for the armed forces to crush the movement "once and for all".

But fresh clashes were reported elsewhere, including Yobe state where police said 43 people were killed Wednesday, and fighting raged throughout Maiduguri. "We are carrying out mortar shelling on the positions of these militants," Colonel Ben Ahnatu, the commander of the operation in Maiduguri, told AFP. "It's time for action, not just talking."

Another police source said that fighting was centred around five neighbourhoods and was at its most intense in Bayan Quarters where the sect's leader Mohammed Yusuf was based. Yusuf's home was shelled by forces on Tuesday evening, along with a mosque where many of his followers had gathered, but Yusuf appeared to have escaped."The house and the mosque have been pulverised and reduced to rubble," the police source said.

He said the offensive to rout the militants was likely to take longer than previously thought."To be honest with you I don't think the campaign will be finished within the next day or two," he said."Part of the obstacle the troops are facing is that there are still civilians in some of these neighbourhoods. Therefore troops need to be cautious."

Residents said it appeared that troops were now closing in on the last of the militants while human rights activists counted at least 10 new bodies.

A brief phone conversation with one of the Taliban leaders, Aminu Tashen-Ilimi, was punctuated by the sounds of heavy shelling in the background and chants of Allah Akbar (God is Great). "Don't you know we are being bombarded, how can I speak to you in this situation?" he told AFP.

Maiduguri, capital of Borno state, has seen the worst of the unrest in northern Nigeria since clashes first erupted on Sunday in Bauchi state when militants launched an attack on a police station.

But fresh fighting was also reported Wednesday in Yobe state where troops are hunting down scores of militants believed to have fled into forests on the outskirts of Potiskum town. A police source said at least 43 had been killed in Wednesday's gun battles there, adding 10 armoured tanks were guarding a nearby central prison which authorities suspect is the militants' target. "The 43 corpses are on their way to the police headquarters in Damaturu (state capital) in two police vans," said the source who demanded anonymity.

Although four states have been caught up in the violence, most of the casualties appear to have been in Maiduguri where a police source said at least 206 people died on Monday alone. A tally of the police figures from violence shows that at least 304 people are known to have died.

The unrest is the deadliest in Nigeria since November last year when human rights groups say up to 700 were killed in the central city of Jos in direct clashes between Muslims and Christians.

Polices sources said at least 3,000 residents were displaced although many later returned to their homes. Some sought temporary shelter at the police headquarters where around 20 bodies of slain fighters could be seen on the ground, some of them beginning to swell and decompose and attracting swarms of flies.

Food is also running out as shops and businesses have been shut since Monday. "The food situation is terrible. All markets and shops are closed. We are eating garri (cassava flour porridge) and sugar," said a resident, Mohammed Awwan Mujahid.

The Nigerian extremists emerged in 2002 in Maiduguri before setting up a camp on the border with Niger, from where they launched a series of attacks against the police. The leadership has previously said it intends to lead an armed insurrection and rid society of "immorality" and "infidelity".

Muslim clerics in Nigeria have slammed the violence as "criminal. It's unfortunate and an embarrassment to the Muslims," Abdulkarim Mohazu, secretary general of Nigeria's Jama'atul Nasril Islam, an umbrella body of Muslims in the country, told AFP.

Northern Nigeria is mainly Muslim, although large Christian minorities have settled in the main towns, raising tensions between the two groups.
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/29/2009 13:24 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Another police source said that fighting was centred around five neighbourhoods and was at its most intense in Bayan Quarters where the sect's leader Mohammed Yusuf was based. Yusuf's home was shelled by forces on Tuesday evening, along with a mosque where many of his followers had gathered, but Yusuf appeared to have escaped."The house and the mosque have been pulverised and reduced to rubble," the police source said.

the "Arty" guys get it. The "surrounding" guys don't apparently. Saudis?
Posted by: Frank G || 07/29/2009 13:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Teamwork. Confine and destroy.
Posted by: tipover || 07/29/2009 14:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Even more significant than all the attacks is the fact that someone finally gets it - the only way to deal with militant muslims is with overwhelming force. If that lesson becomes common among African nations, muslims are going to have an even harder life in the future.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 07/29/2009 20:44 Comments || Top||


Nigeria: Security boosted in four northern states
[ADN Kronos] Four Nigerian states imposed a security clampdown on Tuesday following two days of Islamist-linked violence in the north of the country that left over one hundred people dead. Soldiers were reported to have set up road blocks and imposed dusk-to-dawn curfews in affected areas in Yobe, Kano, Borno and Plateau states.

Islamist militants staged attacks on police and government offices and there have been reports of youths armed with machetes and guns killing police officers and civilians at random.

Hardline Muslim group Boko Haram attacked a police station in the town of Bauchi, northern Nigeria, early on Sunday. Police repelled the attackers, who were wielding automatic weapons and grenades, but over 40 people were believed to have died and dozens more to have been injured.

The violence then spread to three other towns. Further attacks then took place in Yobe and Borno states overnight.

Boko Haram militants are said to oppose anything western including western-style education. They accuse the Bauchi state government of preventing them from publicly practising their religion or seeking converts. The group recruits young men and wants to impose Islamic Sharia law, across the whole of Nigeria

Roadblocks have been erected and curfews were in the towns worst hit by the clashes.

Eyewitnesses told the BBC that police stations had been attacked and civilians pulled from their cars and shot dead.

More than 100 bodies, most of them militants, were reported to have been laid out near the police headquarters in the town worst affected by the violence - Maiduguri in Borno state.

Nigerian police said they have arrested almost 200 fighters.
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Global Jihad


Arabia
Yemen: Soldiers killed during ambush
[ADN Kronos] At least four Yemeni soldiers were killed and another was injured on Tuesday after they were ambushed by gunmen in the country's southern province of Abyan, scene of numerous anti-government protests in recent months.

At least 10 militants ambushed a security patrol at 2 a.m. local time at the Umm Ein district.

No group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack, however a hunt has been launched for the attackers, Yemen's official news agency Saba said.

The attack took place less than a week after 16 people were killed in the region during clashes between Yemeni police authorities and protesters demanding the release of detainees who had been arrested during earlier protests.
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Bangladesh
Two Purbo Banglars killed in shootout
[Bangla Daily Star] Two top underground operatives of Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-Red Flag) were killed in a 'gunfight' with law enforcers in Atrai upazila of Naogaon early yesterday.
Which can be found on the map, really.
The dead were identified as Abdus Salam alias Topu, 40, Naogaon regional chief of the outlawed party, and Jahangir alias Jalal, 38, its military affairs commander for greater Rajshahi region.
No doubt Topu means Big Cheese in Bengali, and Jala means Killer.
A Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel and a policeman were taken to hospital after they sustained injuries during the gunfight at Sadupur village at about 1:30am, said a Rab press release.
Splinter? Bruised elbow? Broken fingernail?? Oh dear, I do hope they recover quickly.
Burned their lips on a hot tea cup.
After the gunfight, the law enforcers recovered an Indian-made automatic pistol, a shooter gun, two bullets, seven cartridges, PBCP leaflets, a mobile phone set and two torches from the scene.
Yes, but the leaflets had Pizza Hut and Chinese carry-out phone numbers scribbled on them, and a couple games of tic-tac-toe. So that doesn't really count as evidence.
A joint team of Rab and police rushed to the area following a tip-off that the PBCP operatives were holding a secret meeting at Mohadighi Sadupur in Atrai upazila to commit crimes on the occasion of the death anniversary of their spiritual leader Dr Mizanur Rahman Tutul, Rab source said.
Mahmoud The Rat strikes again
Sensing presence of the law enforcers, the outlaws opened fire on them ensuing a 10-minute gunfight between the criminals and law enforcers.
Only ten minutes? Pikers!
At one stage, the criminals fled the scene
as they'd never been.
The law enforcers and local people later found Topu and Jalal lying on the ground with bullet injuries.
Just lying there quietly, quietly dieing. Better than being found, when the RAB are on the case.
The injured outlaws were then taken to Atrai Health Complex where doctors declared them dead.
See? No sooner does the RAB pick them up than Dr. Quincy tells Jim they're dead. What kind of a fate is that for a Bangladeshi criminal?
Both Topu and Jalal were accused in more than five cases on twelve systems including police murder and government arms looting cases of Chowbaria in Naogaon and Taherpur of Bagmara, Rajshahi.
Busy lads, and well-travelled, too, were our lads before they encountered the RAB.
The law enforcement agencies were haunting them since the late 90s as many of the arrested PBCP cadres in their confessional statements had mentioned their names to be involved in several murders.
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A "Shooter" Gun?
sounds like a Tennessee version of "Shotgun" .

Mah Shootgun.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/29/2009 0:25 Comments || Top||

#2  a shooter gun

mmm... methinks it may have been the infamous 'shutter gun.'
Posted by: Free Radical || 07/29/2009 5:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Not a crossfire but a gunfight?

Not a shutter gun but a shooter gun?

Sounds like they've changed their MO just a bit but they're still getting the criminals off the street.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 07/29/2009 11:41 Comments || Top||

#4  I think a "shooter gun" is some kind of homemade rifle. Can someone else remember the discussion on Rantburg earlier in the year on this?
Posted by: Old Patriot || 07/29/2009 13:39 Comments || Top||

#5  I commentd way back when, that they were probably talking about a "Pipe Gun" usualy a shotgun made of schedule 80 (Real thick walled) Pipe, single shot.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/29/2009 14:27 Comments || Top||

#6  shutter gun = pipe gun. Often firing a .410 shell.
Posted by: ed || 07/29/2009 15:56 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
China busts NKor smugglers
AP reports that Chinese customs officials have seized a stash of vanadium hidden in fruit boxes from a truck headed for North Korea. Vanadium alloys are used in missile casings. The bust was made in Dandong city in northeastern Liaoning province. The metal was worth about $29,000.
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  WMF > TRUE PURPOSE OF SINO-RUSSIAN "PEACE MISSION 2009" JOINT MILEX IS REPRESSION AGZ TERRORISM-LED UNREST IN CENTRAL ASIA; +
PRESSURES ON CHINA'S BORDERS AT THE "MOST DECISIVE POINT IN THE WAR/ SHOCK AND AWE IN CHINA: VIOLENCE OF "XINJIANG INDEPENDENCE".

Despite any diplo-rhetroic to the conrary, IMO RUSS-CHINA recognize that their Nations are on the RADICAL ISLAMIST TARGET LIST, and that its only a matter = question of time.

CHINA per se > calls for CHINA to take action, or in the latern to NOT be afarid to take action, IN DIRECT ANDOR INDIRECT SUPPORT OF REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ANTI-TERRORISM, vee the PLA. ARTIC > ironically, borders historically preceived by CHIN = BEIJING as its "most secure" or heavily fortified ARE IN THE FOREFRONT OF BORDER TROUBLES, i.e. NORTH KOREA, NOTSOMUCH INDIA OR AFPAK.

ALso, CHIN > may be forced to follow the example of the US + COLD WAR POWERS BY IGNORING THE UNO + UNSC + ACTING UNILATERALLY IN DEFENSE OF ITS OWN INTERESTS AND NATIONAL UNITY-INTEGRITY.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/29/2009 22:56 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Al Qaeda helper gets life for role in Bush plot
US national Ahmed Omar Abu Ali was sentenced to life in prison for joining an Al Qaeda plot to assassinate then president, George W Bush, court officials said.

The sentence against Ali, read out by Judge Gerald Bruce in an Alexandria, Virginia courtroom, replaced a previous 30-year-sentence handed down in 2006, but later overturned by an appeals court as too 'lenient'. One of Ali's attorneys, Ashraf Nubani, told AFP that his client "will be pursuing an appeal in the hope that justice will prevail".
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  Time spent in Supermax, I hope, so he can't lie other "Converts" into joining.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/29/2009 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Buh-bye, Smirky.
Posted by: Seafarious || 07/29/2009 1:58 Comments || Top||

#3  This guy was the valedictorian of his class at the Islamic Academy in NoVa. The one (I'm fairly sure) the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors just voted to expand.
Posted by: Seafarious || 07/29/2009 2:00 Comments || Top||

#4  To reinforce the sentence, I recommend he not be given food or water for at least the first five years.
Posted by: Besoeker || 07/29/2009 7:11 Comments || Top||

#5  So I'm guessing Ahmed gets the death penalty on appeal.
Posted by: ed || 07/29/2009 8:05 Comments || Top||

#6  One and the same, Seafarious. However, I think the final vote has yet to happen. There was a "final hearing" in mid July -- and all signs point to this expansion getting approved. Not sure if the supervisors are fearful, or if a yes vote makes them feel good/superior, or if there's some financial motive. If you live in Faifax County (or not) write the Board of Supervisors!
Posted by: Captain Lewis || 07/29/2009 9:51 Comments || Top||

#7  . =jail> 0
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 07/29/2009 14:45 Comments || Top||

#8  I wonder what it means to be the valedictorian of your class at the Islamic Academy of NoVA? Is IED fabrication and placement in the curriculum? Assassination? Jihad? Terrorism 101 and 102? Does this academy meet the requirements of Virginia?
Posted by: JohnQC || 07/29/2009 16:59 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Nine houses demolished in Mohmand Agency
GHALLANAI: In a joint action, the political administration and security forces demolished nine houses and arrested as many tribal elders for their failure to hand over wanted persons to the authorities in Gandhab, Halimzai subdivision in the troubled Mohmand Agency on Tuesday.

Official sources said the security forces cordoned off Sultankhel, Charagan, Shanikhel and Nasapa areas and took positions on the nearby hilltops early morning before taking the action. They dynamited and torched the houses of nine close relatives of the wanted persons.

The administration later arrested the nine tribal elders who had furnished surety bonds on behalf of the suspected persons and sent them to jail in Ghallanai.Meanwhile, the bodies of two security forces personnel, Yaseen and Faqir Hussain, who had been killed by militants some two months ago, were exhumed and sent to their villages.

Exchange blown up in Shangla: A watchman sustained injuries when unidentified militants blew up a digital telephone exchange in the wee hours of Tuesday in Aloch area of Shangla district.Sources said five-room facility was destroyed disrupting communication link all over Puran tehsil.

Man injured in mine blast: One person sustained serious injuries when hit by a landmine in Warsak area of Lower Kurram on Tuesday. Sources said the injured person was shifted to Peshawar in a precarious condition. In the meantime, the bomb disposal squad defused three mines in the Kochi area planted by unknown persons in the agriculture field, sources added
Posted by: john frum || 07/29/2009 07:22 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Two killed in Miranshah suicide attack
Two security personnel were killed and three injured in a suicide attack on a checkpost near Miranshah on Tuesday, said official sources. A bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into the Dirdony post on Ghulam Khan Road -- some six kilometres from Miranshah -- killing two Khasadars. Those injured are said to be in critical condition. A local Taliban spokesman claimed responsibility for the attack. "We carried out the suicide attack and will continue to target security forces until drone attacks and the military operation against Taliban are stopped," the spokesman told the AFP news agency. Following the attack, Miranshah Bazaar was closed and helicopter gunships could be seen hovering over the area. Troops fired at a vehicle with tinted glasses in Miranshah Bazaar, killing four.
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan

#1  Plain PROOF, THE DRONES ARE WORKING.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 07/29/2009 0:28 Comments || Top||


12 suspected terrorists arrested in Peshawar
Law-enforcement agencies on Tuesday arrested 12 suspected terrorists, including four would-be suicide bombers, and seized suicide jackets and a large cache of explosives from them, official sources told Daily Times.

They said the law-enforcement personnel raided a coal warehouse on Kohat Road and arrested 12 suspected terrorists. They said one of the alleged suicide bombers hailed from North Waziristan.

Police officials, however, did not confirm the raid. A top police officer, on condition of anonymity, said army personnel could have carried out the raid.

Locals said security forces raided the warehouse and arrested around a dozen people, including several teenagers.
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Pakistan: Policeman's decapitated corpse found in northwest
[ADN Kronos] The decapitated body of a Pakistani policeman was found outside the troubled Swat Valley's main town on Tuesday, police said. The gruesome find signalled that Taliban militants have not given up their fight to impose strict Islamic law in the northwestern Swat district and surrounding areas. The policeman was kidnapped a week ago, apparently by militants. His decapitated corpse, with the head lying nearby, was found about 4 kilometres east of Mingora, Swat's capital.
"Regular or decap?"
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP

#1  "Regular or decap?"

Fred, go to your room. ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 07/29/2009 22:38 Comments || Top||


Forces kill 2, nab 25 extremists: ISPR
[Geo News] The security forces continued search and clearance operations in Swat, Malakand and Lakki during last 24 hours.

According to a press release issued by Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR), the security forces conducted search operation in Swat areas of Karorai Kandao, Gidar Sar Banda and Tarogai near Shangla and apprehended local terrorist commander Liaqat.

Security forces conducted search operation at Malukabad area of Swat and killed two terrorists and apprehended one.

Security forces conducted search operation at a house in Dangram and defused 4 IEDs (3 pressure cookers and one steel water container).

During routine search, Security Forces apprehended 7 terrorists alongwith arms and ammunition in area around Manda Khel of Darra Adam Khel.

During routine search operation at Hassan Khel near Lakki, Security forces apprehended 16 suspects and recovered 34 bombs of 82 mm mortar, 10 rockets of RPG-7, 3 rounds of artillery , 2 rounds of tank, 5 bombs of 81 mm mortar, 1760 rounds of rifles, 3620 rounds of machine gun, 3 rifles, a machine gun (Virkras) and also defused 5 IEDs.

The security forces also continued the relief activities, as 224,720 cash cards have been distributed amongst the IDPs of Malakand.
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


NWA suicide attack kills two security men
[Geo News] At least two security personnel were martyred and three others injured in a suicide attack at a security check post in North Waziristan Agency, Geo News reported Tuesday.

According to reports, a suicide bomber ran explosive-laden vehicle into a security check post-1 of Qaim Dirdooni at Ghulam Khan Road in NWA, killing two personnel of Khasadar forces and injuring three others.

The blast was heard far and wide.

The security personnel returned the fire, in which three miscreants riding the vehicle were killed and the vehicle was completely destroyed.

The political administration imposed curfew in Miranshah after the suicide attack.

The relief activities have been started with security cordon put around the blast site.
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan


'Pakistan in covert talks with Baitullah'
The military has delayed a full-scale ground operation in South Waziristan Agency against Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud as the two sides have covertly reached an understanding, the Telegraph claimed on Tuesday.
I've been guessing that for the past month...
A report in the UK daily said details are still not known, but the military had deliberately delayed launching the attacks against Baitullah after "having corralled his stronghold in South Waziristan". Around six brigades of troops have blocked the four main arteries into Baitullah's territory, which thousands have fled for fear of missile strikes by US drones.
The Paks hate those drone attacks. They never know whether we've going zap friendly Talibs, or even their own liaison officers...
Citing a senior official, the paper reported that authorities want Baitullah to announce that he would not attack the government in the future. The official said it would not be a "total surrender", but a guarantee on Baitullah's part that he would not indulge in anti-state activities in the future.
They've done this several times already, two of them, I think, with Baitullah. The agreements have consistently failed.
The effort was underway because the military is engaged on several fronts and does not want a full-blown operation in Waziristan.
They don't want to switch their attention from the Indian border...
The claims have not been verified independently, the Telegraph reported, but said the delay was sure to anger the United States. The military has denied such reports and said it wanted to surround the Taliban and then use air power and artillery to "soften them up". The army has struck several peace deals with Baitullah in the past, but all have collapsed.
I said that.
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BAITULLAH MEHSUDTehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP

#1  As long as he joins the ISI sponsored Jihadis in Afghanistan he is fine but leave us Pakistanis alone routine!
Posted by: Paul2 || 07/29/2009 7:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Pro'lly just an issue with the number of exemptions he claimed on his W-4.
Posted by: SteveS || 07/29/2009 14:02 Comments || Top||


Iraq
8 wanted men arrested, 2 caches seized in Diala
Aswat al-Iraq: Policemen in Diala captured eight wanted men and seized two arms caches in security operations conducted in different areas of the province on Monday, according to the Diala police chief. "The eight wanted men were arrested by virtue of Article 4 of the law on terrorism. The police forces also seized two caches in the area of al-Wajihiya, al-Muqdadiya district, (45 km) east of Baaquba, and Abu Jamal, south of Buhrez district, (5 km) south of Baaquba," Maj. General Abdulhussein al-Shimari told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. Shimari did not elaborate on the kinds or amounts of the weapons and munitions seized in the two caches.

Abu Jamal, one of the hot spots in Diala, was the area that saw the emergence of several leaders of Al-Qaeda in Iraq network and the so-called Islamic State of Iraq group. One of those militant leaders was Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, who had been a member of the municipal council of Buhrez district. He was arrested in the Iraqi capital Baghdad in April.
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Abdulhussein al-Shimari
ABU OMAR AL BAGHDADIIslamic State of Iraq
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq


Child freed from captors in Amara
Aswat al-Iraq: Security forces on Tuesday freed a child from her captors in downtown Amara city, according to a local police official. "Special forces from Missan's emergency police have freed the kidnapped girl in central Amara in light of intelligence tips," Staff. Col. Sadiq Abduladheem al-Holw told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "The kidnappers have managed to escape, but police forces are currently on the hunt for them," the official added.
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency


Iraqi forces storm MKOs Camp Ashraf
[Iran Press TV Latest] Iraqi security forces have stormed the base of the anti-Iranian terrorist group the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization. An Iraqi military official has said that Iraqi forces have taken complete control of the camp.

MKO spokesman Shahriar Kia said that four people were killed and 300 wounded when Iraqi soldiers and police stormed Camp Ashraf on Tuesday, AFP reported.

The base is located in Diyala province, north of Baghdad, and is home to around 3,500 MKO members and their families.

"After the failure of negotiations with the Mujahedeen (Khalq) to enter peacefully, the Iraqi army entered Camp Ashraf with force and it now controls all of the interior and all entrances to the camp," an Iraqi military source said.

An Iraqi police official has announced that about 50 camp residents have been detained.

After the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, US troops disarmed the MKO members based at the camp and surrounded it until Iraqi forces took over responsibility earlier this year.

The MKO was founded in Iran in the 1960s, but its top leadership and members fled the country in the 1980s after carrying out a series of assassinations and bombings inside the country. The group is especially notorious in Iran because they allied with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war.

The United States, Canada, Iraq, and Iran have all designated the MKO as a terrorist organization. The European Union had also designated the MKO as a terrorist organization but inexplicably removed it from the EU terror list in January 2009.

It is still not clear if the US gave Baghdad the green light to storm Camp Ashraf or if Iraqi officials took the action on their own initiative. However, US military officials in Iraq say they were not informed about the plan until after it was carried out.

Many political analysts had said the United States had intended to use the Camp Ashraf MKO members as pawns to pressure Iran, so this development will change the political calculus of the region.
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Uh, I doubt the US had intended to the MKO against Iran - even under the previous administration - absurd under the current empty suit "leadership".

Don't know the situation there lately - the Bulgarians had been given Ashraf duty a while back. Sounds like the handover to ISF went about as one might expect ....
Posted by: Verlaine || 07/29/2009 2:30 Comments || Top||


Iraqi forces enforced security in Camp Ashraf- Dabbagh
Aswat al-Iraq: A government spokesperson on Tuesday dismissed news that Iraqi forces had broken into Camp Ashraf earlier today, saying they entered the camp to enforce security within handover measures. "The entrance of the Iraqi forces into Camp Ashraf is not a break-in, but rather a well-coordinated operation to stabilize the security situation inside the camp, which is an Iraqi land that cannot be outside Iraqi sovereignty," Spokesperson Ali al-Dabbagh said in an exclusive statement to Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

Earlier today, a spokesperson for the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) said that Iraqi police forces broke into Camp Ashraf in Diala province, the headquarters of the organization, and used tear bombs against its residents. The spokesperson called on the Iraqi government to intervene to stop "these acts which violate international laws."

Meanwhile, the break-in claims were dismissed by the Diala police chief, who said that security forces had headed to the camp to provide protection for the organization in accordance with orders from the prime minister.

On Monday (July 27), Dabbagh said that the Iraqi government will take over security responsibilities at Camp Ashraf in coordination with the U.S. forces within security handover measures. Dabbagh indicated that the Iraqi government is committed to pursuing a humanitarian aspect in dealing with the camp's residents.

The PMOI, also known by the abbreviations MKO and MEK, is a militant socialist organization that advocates the overthrow of Iran's current government. Founded in 1965, the PMOI was originally devoted to armed struggle against the Shah of Iran, capitalism and Western imperialism. The group officially renounced violence in 2001 and today it is the main organization in the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an "umbrella coalition" parliament-in-exile that claims to be dedicated to a democratic, secular and coalition government in Iran.

The PMOI has had thousands of its members for many years in bases in Iraq, but they were disarmed in the wake of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion and are said to have adhered to a ceasefire. Its armed wing is, or was, called the National Liberation Army of Iran (NLA).
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Cycle of Violence™ kills 8, wounds 13 in Baghdad
Aswat al-Iraq: Eight persons on Tuesday were killed and 13 others were injured when a motorbike bomb exploded in the capital Baghdad, according to a police source. "This evening, a motorbike rigged with explosives went off near al-Baydaa movie theater in Baghdad al-Jadida area, southeastern Baghdad, killing eight persons and wounding 13 others," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency


19 wanted men, suspects arrested in Falluja
Aswat al-Iraq: Iraqi police forces arrested Tuesday morning 19 wanted men and suspects in security operations at a number of Garmat --al-Falluja district, east of Falluja city, a police source said. "The arrests were conduced judicial warrants," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "The operation relied on intelligence tip-offs and local residents' collaboration," he said.
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Ex-Arafat aide guilty in Karine A case
An IDF military court in the West Bank has convicted Yasser Arafat's former financial aide Fuad Shubaki of illegal arms dealing, as well as organizing and financing the Karine A weapons boat, which the IDF caught carrying advanced weaponry in the Red Sea as it was making its way to the Gaza Strip in 2002.

Shubaki, who was arrested three years ago, was also convicted of bankrolling terror attacks and providing funds for the Aksa Martyrs' Brigades terror group during the second intifada. According to the court, Shubaki coordinated the purchase and subsequent shipment of the arms from Iran, and also channeled money from his office to Fatah terror cells, in both cases acting on direct orders from then-Palestinian Authority chairman Arafat.

When he was arrested, Shubaki told his Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) interrogators that Arafat had diverted millions of dollars in international aid and taxes transferred to the PA by Israel to purchase large quantities of weapons and fund Palestinian terrorism.

Shubaki was apprehended during an IDF raid on the Jericho prison where he was being held together with Ahmed Sa'adat - leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - and the other assassins of former Israeli tourism minister Rehavam Ze'evi.

He revealed that several senior Palestinian officials were involved in the allocation of the money for military purposes. Among them was Jibril Rajoub - head of the PA Preventative Security Force in the West Bank - who together with the other officials received payments for his part in the weapons purchases.

In 2001, Shubaki said, Iran offered to assist the Palestinians in training soldiers, providing weapons and funding the construction of weapon factories. One of the largest arms deals struck between Iran and the Palestinians was the attempt to smuggle over 50 tons of armaments aboard the Karine A.

In addition to the light weaponry used by the Palestinians at the time, the Karine A also carried Sagger guided anti-tank missiles used by Hizbullah against Israeli armor in Lebanon, LAW anti-tank missiles, long-range mortars, and mines. Also on board the vessel were short and long-range Katyushas, including 122 mm rockets with a range of some 20 kilometers. The ship was intercepted by naval commandos without firing a shot, some 500 nautical miles from Israel in an operation codenamed Noah's Ark.
Posted by: tu3031 || 07/29/2009 13:31 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Southeast Asia
Two more gunned down in southern Thailand
Suspected Islamic terrorists separatist militants shot and killed a Buddhist and a Muslim in Thailand's troubled southern region, police said on Wednesday.

They said the Muslim man was shot dead at his house late on Tuesday in Yala province, one of three provinces bordering Malaysia that have been hit by more than five years of unrest. The same evening in neighbouring Pattani province, a Buddhist construction worker was killed in a drive-by shooting as he drove his motorcycle back from work.
AoS note: your addition is in strike-through text, not that of the original article. I fixed this as shown above. Thx.
I do apologize -- I've been doing it wrong, too. Learning is good!
Posted by: ryuge || 07/29/2009 05:53 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Police rescue Thai man after gunfight
[Jakarta Post] Police are reported to have rescued a Thai citizen being held hostage by pirates in Kuala Pare waters off Sungai Raya district in East Aceh regency, Aceh.

North Sumatra Police maritime division head Adj. Comr.. Comr. Alfian said Tuesday that Amnuay Odomsu, 24, was rescued after police and pirates engaged in a gunfight Monday. "Odomsu suffered minor injuries from police ricochet," he said.

He added police were still searching for another Thai man, identified as Akiaw, being held hostage by the same group of pirates.

Alfian said the group of 10 pirates, who operate in Malacca Strait, had demanded a Rp 200 million ransom from the two men's employers.

Besides the Thai citizens, police have also rescued five fishermen from Langkat, North Sumatra, who were also being held hostage, Alfian said.
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Pirates


Wife identifies Top as suspect
[Straits Times] A WOMAN arrested by Indonesian police in connection with July 17 hotel bombings in Jakarta has identified her husband as terror suspect Noordin Mohammed Top, her lawyer said on Tuesday.

Arina Rahmah, 25, is being held as a witness along with her mother, Dwi Astuti, and two children aged one and two years, following the attacks which killed seven people and two bombers, lawyer Asludin Hatjani told AFP. 'The police showed her photos of Noordin Top and she told them they resembled her husband, Abdul Halim,' he said. 'She said the last time she saw him was in March this year.'
"That wuz when he run off widdat floozie!"
Police are hoping the housewife from rural Java will provide crucial information about the habits and movements of her husband, one of Asia's most wanted fugitives who is blamed for a string of bombings in Indonesia.

Police believe his network may be behind the twin suicide blasts on the JW Marriott and the Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta earlier this month, although no group has claimed responsibility.

Malaysian-born Noordin allegedly masterminded a suicide truck bombing at the Marriott in 2003, as well as the 2004 suicide bombing of the Australian embassy in Jakarta and 2005 suicide attacks on restaurants in Bali. Those attacks killed 42 people, mainly Indonesians, injured hundreds and triggered the biggest manhunt in Indonesian history.

He is believed to lead a splinter group of the Jemaah Islamiyah Islamist network responsible for the 2002 Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people, mainly Western tourists.
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ABDUL HALIMJemaah Islamiyah
ARINA RAHMAHJemaah Islamiyah
NURDIN MOHAMED TOPJemaah Islamiyah
Posted by: Fred || 07/29/2009 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Jemaah Islamiyah

#1  See also TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > VARIOUS > "AL QAEDA INDONESIA" GROUP [new] CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR JAKARTA BOMBINGS.

* Also, SAME > AUSTRALIA: CONVERT TO ISLAM ADMITS TO ROLE IN PLOT TO KILL THOUSANDS.

Milyuhsn and Zilyuhns and Nilyuhns of "down under" Ozzies desired to be wiped out???

Posted by: JosephMendiola || 07/29/2009 22:39 Comments || Top||


4 killed in new Thai violence
[Straits Times] SUSPECTED separatist insurgents in Thailand's troubled south shot dead four civilians while a remote-controlled bomb wounded five other people, police said on Tuesday.

Militants gunned down a Buddhist man and his wife in an ambush early on Tuesday while they were travelling by motorbike to tap rubber in restive Pattani province, police said.

As police investigated the shooting, militants detonated a bomb hidden beneath the bodies of the couple, wounding three policemen and two villagers, they added.

Also in Pattani a gunman posing as a wedding guest shot dead a Muslim man at a marriage ceremony on Monday evening, police said.

Earlier on Monday, a painter was shot dead in a drive-by shooting as he rode a motorbike to a local teashop, also in Pattani.

The southern provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani, Yala and parts of Songkhla made up an autonomous Malay Muslim sultanate until it was annexed by Thailand in 1902, sparking decades of tension.

More than 3,700 people have died since an insurgency erupted five years ago.

Islamic rebels have targeted both Buddhists and Muslims, with victims ranging from security forces to civilians such as teachers and workers on rubber plantations.
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