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Fred, am I missing something? It's 10:00 a.m. EST, and no one, especially GulfBravo, has commented on this picture! I look forward to, and enjoy, GulfBravo's contribution(s) to "Good Morning".
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Maybe Golf Bravo's buisy or out of town today, I'm not concerned if he misses a day.
Having said that, Golf Bravo, I greatly enjoy your additions, Thank you.
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Violet, born in 1887, would have been at least 50 when the second pic was taken. The aircraft is a military DC-3 variant, though probably not a C-47, which didn't enter service until February 1942 and was delivered in olive drab from the beginning.
It could be one of the two C-41s, delivered in 1939. These were actually DC-2s but had DC-3 tails.
In any case, Violet was as well-preserved as many of the still-operational DC-3s are today.
You have a good eye for aircraft. That is actually a Douglas B-18 "Bolo", Kissing Cousin to the DC-2 and DC-3. The vertical stabilizer is the same as a DC-3. First prototype in 1935.
Violet was very camera shy and the woman in the picture could only have been her pilot.
[Iran Press TV Latest] Afghan President Hamid Karzai says his administration is looking into reports of 'unknown' army helicopters carrying gunmen to the north of the country, amid increasing militancy in the area.
Karzai said investigations were underway to decide whether the reports are related to the mounting insurgency in the north, the BBC Persian reported. He added that authorities have received similar inquiries in the northwest as well.
Reports say the choppers were 'American.' Press TV has not been able to confirm these reports.
The issue has raised serious questions about the security in Afghanistan as analysts question the unprecedented growth of militants in northern parts of the country, despite of the presence of thousands of foreign forces in the south, who are tasked with keeping the militants at bay.
The Afghan president added that according to the reports, the helicopters have been taking gunmen to Baghlan, Kunduz and Samangan provinces overnight for about five months now.
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Reports say the choppers were 'American.' Press TV has not been able to confirm these reports.
The Iranians fly American or American-design-foreign-built (Augusta) helicopters. The Pakistanis have Bell-412 helicopters. There's also an open market for them. Anyone could buy a few and ship them into a neighboring country under guise of an NGO.
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"Mr. Gilani, these helicopters aren't ours. If they're not your helicopters, then perhaps you won't mind if we shoot them down?"
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Are they black?
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Plenty of home grown Pushtun gunmen in the northwest, without the bother and expense of helicopters to fly them in.
Likely the home-growns also aren't too keen on doing large-scale suicide attacks. And any gathering of imported cannon fodder risks being discovered and hit by Predators. Hence the airlift.
Also, think along the lines of the Taliban or their backers bringing in technical experts, advisors, paymasters and religious/military leadership.
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Also there have been comments that the recent unrest in the North has been caused by ISI agents paying locals to attack the NATO supply columns.
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That seems more in line with what locals are willing to do, tho some intel indicates that smugglers are more likely the culprits/financiers (that trucks and their cargos are getting held up at the borders is an anathema to them).
Another thing out of my comments - transport of munitions.
Six masked men used machetes to carry out amputations on three men accused of robbery by a Somali Islamist court, a witness said Saturday.
Abdulahi Hassan Afrah said the masked men chopped off a hand and a foot from two of the accused, and a foot from the third man after the Islamic court in the southern port city of Kismayo realized he was already disabled. Afrah said a crowd of about 400 people, mainly women and children, watched the sentence carried out Friday on the three screaming young men.
"It was most painful thing I have ever seen," he said.
A spokesmen for the al-Shabab militia, Sheik Hassan Yaqub Ali, said the three had admitted robbing passengers aboard a truck heading to Kismayo.
None of the three was allowed to appeal the sentence or had access to a lawyer.
The Islamic courts were originally set up to try to counter the bloody chaos of Somalia's 18-year-old civil war. Initially their harsh judgments were welcomed by many of the war-weary population, and in 2006 the courts formed the basis for an Islamist administration that controlled much of the capital and southern Somalia.
Last year, the courts in Kismayo ordered a 13-year-old gang-rape victim to be stoned to death. But amputations and public floggings are more common.
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So does witnessing acts like this scare the hundreds of kids into obeying the law or just desensitize them to obscene violence?
#1 So does witnessing acts like this scare the hundreds of kids into obeying the law or just desensitize them to obscene violence?
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Muslim sharia courts have no provision for leniance, given evidence of theft. They do it because their nominal sacred text is perverse. Quranimals do as quranimals are. Peaceful co-existence? Screw that!
[Al Arabiya Latest] A Sudanese court upheld a death sentence on Monday against four men convicted of murdering a U.S. official and his driver in Khartoum last year in a New Year's killing that shocked the city.
The four, described by the prosecution and witnesses as "religious extremists," were condemned to hang for shooting and killing John Granville, 33, who worked for the U.S. Agency for International Development, and his driver, Abdul Rahman Abbas Rahama.
"The sentence is hanging until death," Judge Sidahmed al-Badri told the court.
" Under Islamic sharia and Sudanese law, all religions, nationalities and ethnicities are considered equal "
The Sudanese judge
Granville was the first U.S. official to be killed in Khartoum for more than 30 years. He was returning home from New Year celebrations on Jan. 1, 2008 when he and Rahama were shot in a crime which shocked Sudanese and expatriates in the capital.
The accused, all four of them bearded and wearing white jallabiyas, looked nervous as the judge read out the sentence.
"Under Islamic sharia and Sudanese law, all religions, nationalities and ethnicities are considered equal," the judge said.
Defendant Mohaned Osman shouted: "This sentence is not credible," and said America had murdered Muslims.
The court had sentenced the men to death in June for killing Granville and his driver in January 2008, but the sentence was cancelled in August after Abbas's father then forgave the men. Under Islamic law, the victim's family has the right to forgive the murderer, ask for compensation (fedia) or demand execution.
Granville's mother, Jane Granville, at the time had asked for the men's execution, but her letter was rejected because it was not notarized.
The judge said the sentence was confirmed because Granville's family, from Buffalo, in northern New York State, had requested it.
The defendants had denied murdering Granville, saying videotaped confessions shown to the court were extracted under torture.
Sudan, under U.S. sanctions, has had strained relations with Washington which accuses Khartoum of state-sponsored terrorism and of atrocities in the western Darfur region. Relations have improved somewhat as Washington mediates peace efforts in Africa's largest country. Sudanese authorities cooperated with FBI officials on the Granville investigation.
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Wow. I thought the concept of "religious extremists" in Khartoum was a redundancy, yet here they are, sentenced to hang.
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Ten to one they are pardoned and get twenty years. With amnesty in two years top. Or of they are sentenced is because the dead driver was a Muslim aka Herrensvolk
I think the Sudanese government is beginning to realize they're going to reap the terrorism they've sown if they don't put a lid on it. We need to keep a close eye on what's going on there, especially in relation to the South.
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I notice a few of old 'burgers: SR-71, JFM, Zheng Fei; are back.
Is this a gestured aimed at the Chicoms that if a PRC Official gets killed by pro-Uighur crazy that they will "Go Mongol" on them? After all, if they actually applied the law for the lowly Yankees, think what they would do for a REAL customer like China...
[Al Arabiya Latest] The Yemeni army said on Monday it had "purged" pockets of resistance of Shiite rebels near the northern city of Saada, and killed 59 fighters in various operations.
Fighting between government forces and the Zaidi rebels entered its third month on Sunday and there is no prospect for a ceasefire in sight.
A military spokesman quoted by the website of the defense ministry said that the operation in the city of Anad resulted in the deaths of 37 Zaidi Shiite rebels, who had been using the area as a launch pad for attacks against Saada.
Another five rebels were killed in clashes with the army, while seven others died when attempting an attack on the army in Jebel Samaa, near Saada, the spokesman said.
In Harf Sufyan in the Amran province, the army attacked a vehicle carrying rebels, killing 10 of them, the statement added.
It said on the other hand that seven teachers had been kidnapped by the rebels in Aal al-Waqis of Saqain district and were taken to unknown place.
The army statements could not be independently verified.
Dozens of people have been killed or wounded and tens of thousands have been forced to flee their homes, resulting in a humanitarian crisis with a dire shortage of food and aid material.
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[Asharq al-Aswat] The United Arab Emirates' highest court convicted an American citizen Monday on terrorism-related charges amid claims that torture was used to extract a confession.
The court sentenced Naji Hamdan to 18 months in prison, but he should be freed soon because the sentence counts time served and he was detained last year. There are no appeals to verdicts by the UAE's Federal Supreme Court.
Hamdan, an American of Lebanese origin, faced three terrorism-related charges, including having ties with an Al Qaeda group in Iraq. The court's chief justice, Khalifa al-Muhairi, gave no details on his decision such as whether the 43-year-old Hamdan was convicted of all three charges. Hamdan had denied the accusations. "I'm disappointed because I was not acquitted," Hamdan told The Associated Press as he was led away by security forces after the verdict.
Hamdan's lawyer, Abdul Khader al-Haithami, claims his client suffered torture and threats in detention and was forced to sign a confession "to whatever they wanted to hear."
Rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, also have accused U.S. authorities of pushing the case in the Emirates because they lacked enough evidence for American courts. The ACLU asked a U.S. court to press for a halt to the case, but a U.S. judge ruled in August that there was no authority to interfere in a foreign criminal prosecution.
Hamdan was arrested in the UAE in August 2008 and charged in June 2009 with supporting terrorism, working with terrorist organizations and being a member of a terrorist group. The state prosecutor claimed Hamdan had ties with a group backed by Al Qaeda in Iraq.
Emirates security and judicial officials have given no other specific details about the allegations, other than noting the charges were related to Hamdan's activities outside the UAE.
Hamdan moved to the U.S. as a college student. He later became a citizen and ran a successful auto parts business in the Los Angeles area and was active in the Islamic community. He said the FBI began questioning him about whether he had terrorist ties in 1999, and he eventually decided to move his family back to the Middle East in 2006. He is expected to be deported by UAE authorities after he is released from prison.
Hamdan was never charged with any crime in the United States. After his detention in the UAE, he wrote a note to a U.S. diplomat, which was later obtained by the AP, saying he was subjected to beatings, threats to his family and verbal abuse.
The U.S. Embassy in the UAE had previously declined to comment on the case except to say that Hamdan has been given consular support. U.S. officials in the UAE could not be immediately reached for comment following the verdict.
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NAJI HAMDAN
al-Qaeda in Iraq
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He moved his family to the middle east, HA! Probably bitched about the mean Americans, now he got up close with the mild version of sharia law. Hope he moves to Saudi or back to his peace loving open minded homeland of Lebanon.
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[Bangla Daily Star] Police yesterday arrested Harkat-ul-Jihad al Islami (Huji) operative Abu Obaida alias Harun at the district's Sonagazi upazila.
Obaida, 28, stands accused of plotting to kill Sheikh Hasina in Sylhet around eight years back. Nizamuddin, officer-in-charge of Sonagazi Police Station, said they made the arrest at a house in Bhuiyan Bazar of Char Chandia around 3:00pm. He said they contacted the Sylhet police to enquire about Obaida after reading a newspaper report Sunday. As soon as they got confirmation he is indeed wanted in at least two cases, they launched a hunt for him.
Along with some other militants including now detained top Huji leader Moulana Abu Sayeed, Obaida had been involved in plans to attack the Awami League president at an election rally in Sylhet on September 26, 2001. But the night before, a bomb went off at the house they were staying to prepare for the attack. Obaida was injured and two other militants killed in the accidental blast. Y'mean God struck one dead and maimed one?
He was arrested at the scene and treated under police custody. Two cases--one under Explosive Substances Act and the other on murder charges--were filed in connection with the incidents. An ex-student of Patia Al Jama'atul Madrasa in Chittagong, Obaida is a charge-sheeted accused in both the cases. He came out on bail nine months after his arrest, and did not appear before the court concerned. Comes as a surprise, dunnit?
He went to Kuwait and returned home after a year's stay there. Got a job, perhaps? Usually they go to Soddy Arabia or Yemen to bone up on their Islam.
The court issued a fresh warrant for his arrest on June 10 this year.
Talking to newsmen at the police station, Obaida denied any links to the Sylhet blast. "No, no! Certainly not!"
He said he went there with his friends to visit Hazrat Shahjalal's shrine. "Yeah. I wuz just visitin' and somebody sez 'Here, hold this!' an' sticks a bomb in my hand. Lemme tell ya, I passed that sucker right off and then it explodes! Never seen anything like it! That's how I got this scar down the middle of my face."
Locals said he has lately been identifying himself as a Jubo League activist.
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HUJI
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[Bangla Daily Star] Rab recovered 10 Arges grenades during a drive in a bordering village of Sherpur Sunday night and arrested three people including two tribal youths in this connection.
The grenades were similar to those used at the Awami League rally at Bangabandhu Avenue in 2004, and might have been intended for use in subversive activities.
The arrestees are Mohammad Rafiqul Islam, 36, of Panbar village, tribal Pang Vang Sangma, 37, and Nipin Sangma, 25, of Chhota Gajni village under Jhenaigati in Sherpur.
Commander Abul Kalam Azad, director of the Legal and Media Wing of Rapid Action Battalion, said yesterday at a press briefing in the Rab Headquarters that Rab-1 personnel recovered 10 Arges-84 grenades during a raid on Rafiqul Islam's house around 11:50pm and arrested Rafiqul.
On information from Rafiqul, they arrested the two others, he added.
A Rab member told The Daily Star that an informer was earlier set to glean information. He made a deal with Rafiqul of purchasing Arges grenades at Tk 50,000 each. Following the deal, Rafiqul informed the informer that he had 10 grenades with him.
It took around a month to trap the grenade traffickers, the Rab personnel said.
In preliminary interrogation, Rafiqul told the Rab that the tribal youths supplied the grenades to him, Azad said.
The tribal youths might have collected the grenades from separatists in neighbouring countries, he added.
Azad said, "Rab personnel are investigating to find out whether the criminals have militancy links".
He however declined to elaborate for the shake of investigation.
Locals knew the arrestees as day labourers, Azad said.
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[Bangla Daily Star] A regional leader of outlawed Gono Mukti Fouz
Those guys again ...
The other Communist group, Fred said.
was killed in a 'shootout' between his cohorts and police at Kaya village of Kumarkhali upazila in Kushtia early yesterday.
Old Patriot wouldn't find that upazila regardless of the fine detail of his map ...
He was identified as Azbahar Hossain, 40, of Charbaniapara in Kushtia sadar upazila.
He was accused in the murder case of Awami League leader Jamil Hasan Bachchu. His younger brother Zia Bahar Hossain is also an accused in this case.
Ah, runs in the family ...
Bachchu, AL joint secretary of Kumarkhali upazila, was killed on July 25.
So they whacked an Awami League local big. That explains how they popped up on the police radar.
Acting on a tip-off,
Mahmoud the Weasel must be rolling in dough ...
He's started saving toward the college educations of his future grandchildren.
Word is that he has his eye on a little rag-recycling place in Rampal...
a joint team of Detective Branch, Kushtia and Kumarkhali police raided Kaya College as some GMF cadres were holding a secret meeting there around 3:30am.
Just as they were trained to do by the RAB.
As the operatives were asked to surrender,
"Hokay, Azbahar, drop da rods and come out wit yer mitts in da air!"
they opened fire on the police.
"You'll never take us alive, coppers!" [bang] [bang]
The police fired back triggering a gunfight, which lasted for about half an hour.
All that shooting and you guessed it ...
After the incident the police found Azbahar's body lying on the spot
"Which spot?"
THAT spot!"
while his accomplices fled the scene.
As if they'd never been there in the first place ...
Those Bangladeshi clown cars are simply amazing getaway vehicles.
One LG and four bullets were recovered from the spot.
Local coppe shoppe can't afford a proper shutter gun to plant on the body.
Azbahar was accused in twelve systems several cases including three for murders filed with Kumarkhali and Kushtia sadar police stations.
Undoubtedly his mother never loved him.
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North Korea has test-fired five short-range missiles off the east coast of the peninsula, South Korea's Yonhap news agency has reported. The North had declared a "no-sail zone" off its east and west coasts for 10-20 October, Yonhap said.
The launches come days after Pyongyang said it was willing to return to multi-party talks on its nuclear programme.
The US secretary of state said the goal of the US and its allies would remain a nuclear-free Korean peninsula.
Pressure has grown on North Korea to return to the multi-party talks since it conducted an underground nuclear test in May. The UN passed tougher sanctions against North Korea in response to the test.
Pyongyang's recent willingness to return to talks it pulled out of in April may be due to it feeling the pinch of the international sanctions, some analysts say.
Citing an unidentified South Korean government official, Yonhap reported the missiles were surface-to-surface KN-02 rockets with a range of up to 75 miles (120km). Two were launched in the morning, and another three in the afternoon, the agency said.
The missile launches are the first since July.
Speaking in Northern Ireland, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she had no further information about the launches. But she said the goals of the US and its allies "remain the same. We intend to work toward a nuclear-free Korean peninsula."
"We have made a lot of progress with the other members of the six-party talks who joined us in the very strong sanctions against North Korea and who have been working with us to restart a process there," she said.
Mrs Clinton said the consultation between the US and its allies was "unaffected" by North Korea's behaviour.
"We pursue this goal like we pursue all of our national security goals: through obstacles, overcoming challenges; a persistent patience that doesn't have any guarantee of outcome," she added, according to AFP news agency.
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Meanwhile, INDIA > wants to test-fire its new BRAHMOS as a SUB-LAUNCHED = UNDERWATER LRBM.
* MVARIETY > RMI CHIEF STEPS UP FIGHT OVER US BASE [RMI = Republic of the Marshall Islands, local traditional Chief].
SAME > PALAU > seems the number of UIGHUR GITMO DETAINEES may be raised to ELEVEN.
Regardless of the merits ala UIGHURS per se, 'tis a GATEWAY FOR SETTING UP OR ESTABLISHING FUTURE ISLAMIST RADICALISM ON OTHERWISE SLEEPY/QUIET PACIFIC ISLANDS [Mil-Terr violence].
Wehell, iff I haven't thanked PALAU YET, + AMERICA = AMERIKA, THERES A REASON.
[Iran Press TV Latest] A Chinese court has handed death sentences for six people, convicted of murder and other crimes during ethnic rioting in July.
It was the first trial held for the July 5th riots, which left nearly 200 people dead and more than 1,600 injured in Urumqi, the capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.
However, it is not clear if any of the death sentences will be commuted.
The court also sentenced a seventh person to imprisonment for life.
Members of the Uighur minority went on a rampage during attacks directed at members of China's dominant Han ethnic group. The Ulghurs, a majority in their own region, complained of being discriminated against by the Hans.
Nearly, 14,000 security forces were deployed in the city on Sunday to begin 24-hour patrols ahead of the trial, said China National Radio.
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WMF > AL QAEDA-IN-CHINA GROUP: NO PEACE IN CHINA, ASIA WITHOUT MUSLIM RIGHTS.
* ION SAME > FORMER TAIWAN OFFICIAL: OKINAWA IS NOT JAPAN NOR SHOULD BE CALLED OKINAWA [histor OKIN links to KOREA = KORYE, + CHINA].
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A lot of countries in this world are going to have to give up the idea that such-and-such a place "belonged" to them a thousand years ago, so they should now, too. What counts is possession. Trying to take such territory "back" is an act of war, regardless of how it's done (understand, "Palestinians", Mexicans, Chinese, Koreans, RUSSIANS?). People who engage in aggressive war for the purpose of "regaining" lost territory should be dealt with as harshly as possible by the resisting forces. Israel has been extremely lacking in that regard, trying to "appease" the West. Screw it - stomp "Palestine" into the Israeli soil.
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WMF > AL QAEDA'S LEADER "ABU" WARNS CHINA FACES DISINTEGRATION LIKE THE SOVIET UNION. DECLINE OF ATHEISM [in favor ISLAM].
"ABU" aka MoHAMMED HASSAN > believed favored to succeed AYMAN ZAWAHIRI as AQ#2 in case of OSAMA BIN LADEN'S DEATH OR CAPTURE.
** SAME > PROFESSOR CU XUE-WU [German Univ. Pert]: AL QAEDA LEADER "ABU" CALL FOR CHINESE JIHAD IS MISPLACED AS THE MAJORITY OF XINJIANG/CHINA'S UIGHURS ARE MATERIELLY. MORALLY UNABLE TO SUPPORT JIHAD AGZ BEIJING???
*** CHINESE MIL FORUM > PERSECUTION OF MUSLIMS IN BURMA [History].
Albanian authorities arrested a local imam, Artan Kristo, on charges of inciting terrorist acts on Monday afternoon, in the port city of Durres. In a press statement, the General Prosecutor's Office, said that the investigation into Kristo's activities started in July and is ongoing, underlining that enough information had been gathered to warrant his arrest.
Kristo, also know as Muhamed Abdullah, is accused of "publicly inciting and propagating terrorist acts". He is also charged with calling for jihad in the AlbSelafi.net online forum.
While historically Albanians have practiced a traditional, tolerant form of Sunni and Bektashi Islam, now a third, more radical school is gradually being introduced. According to observers, the Selefi sect of Islam, which currently enjoys the adherence of a small minority in Albania, associated with imams who mostly studied in the Middle East after the collapse of communism, has been persistently seeking to gain control of Albania's Muslim Community, AMC, the country's leading Islamic organisation.
Kristo had formerly worked in 2002 as a representative of the El-Haramain Foundation, an Islamic charity with alleged ties to Al-Qaida. The El-Haramain offices in Albania were closed in 2004 and the charity banned, after its inclusion on the US State Department's terrorist watch list.
Since the mid-1990s thousands of young Sunni Muslim Albanians have travelled to Arab and Asian countries on educational scholarships, with many returning to Albania having embraced different religious schools to the Hanefi, which is traditionally predominant in the Balkans. A secret service official in Tirana told Balkan Insight that the activities of "Islamic radicals were being closely monitored as a serious threat to national security." Albania's Secret Service, SHISH, has been closely cooperating with the CIA since the 2001 attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Centre.
Kristo was previously named as a suspect in the murder of the deputy-chair of the AMC, Salih Tivari, on January 13, 2003, and has been detained and questioned by police. Tivari, a 58-year-old lawyer, was shot twice in his office in Tirana. He was one of the most prominent Islamic leaders in Albania. No charges have been filed against Kristo in relation to the murder, and the identities of the assailants remains unknown.
On Monday afternoon, the online forum on which Kristo allegedly posted his calls for jihad, buzzed with activity after news of his arrest spread. "It's easily understood that this must be the work of the spies of the government that work against Islam," a member, 'Abu Fatima', commented. "Our brother imam Muhamed Abdullah has nothing to do with terrorism," wrote a second poster, 'Ebu Ensiah'. "[We] have never heard him backing terrorism or call for the overthrow of the state," the poster added.
"The slander against this respected imam is scandalous," wrote another, adding that "the forum was open and anyone could judge for himself if they were inciting terrorism".
Kristo also ran a separate web page for an Islamic ministry called Udhezimi dhe Drita (Direction and Light) and ran a You Tube channel where he posted his sermons.
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Ya know, I read, and hear, about so-called "peaceful branches of Islam" and yet everyday there's another news item that makes me think there is nothing peaceful in Islam.
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But they didn't submit all the way. They need to give up their Christianity and become Muslims. They need to convert. Peace doesn't mean freedom of religion.
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the Selefi sect of Islam, which currently enjoys the adherence of a small minority in Albania, associated with imams who mostly studied in the Middle East after the collapse of communism, has been persistently seeking to gain control of Albania's Muslim Community
Well, they were peaceful, until the Saudis started spreading their poison. Come to our colleges for free, we'll teach you!
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WAFF > HELLENIC NEWS - THE TURKISH EMPIRE EXPANDS. Among other contents, ACCESSION by Turkey to EU may finally occur in 10-15 more years, but will no longer be denied or prcluded from occurrence.
* OTOH WMF > US PRESIDENT TRUMAN APPROVED THE DEV, USE OF ATOMIC BOMB IN ORDER TO PREVENT A SOVIET INVASION OF TURKEY.
In Stalin's defense, once NAZI GERMANY initiated OPER BARBAROSSA + invaded the USSR, TURKEY allegedly made plans to exploit the new German-SOviet Mil Struggle, and invade and conquer the whole of the SOVIET CAUCASUS. Towards war's end, as Nazi Germany faced defeat at hands of the Allies, the USSR desired to invade and conquer the whole of ANCIENT/HISTORICAL ARMENIA + OTHER REGIONS [1/3 of Eastern Turkey = comprised of former Armenian territory].
The 1945 Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima-Nagasaki saved both Enemies and Neutrals alike from conquest or takeover by Stalin's armies, + later to become new allies of the US-WEST in the COLD WAR aftermath.
Two 28-year-old men were sentenced to prison by a Frankfurt court on Tuesday for supporting the Islamic Jihad Union (IJU) terrorist group.
Omid S, an Afghan-born German citizen, was handed a prison sentence of two years and nine months. The other accused, Turkish national Huseyin O, was sentenced to a year and two months in jail. Both men gave detailed confessions, but denied having been members of the IJU.
The men were not accused of conducting a terrorist attack, but police said they had helped other IJU members, who are currently on trial in Dusseldorf for plotting to blow up US bases in Germany. The court judged that the men had assisted the IJU with access to bank accounts, cash and equipment.
The two men's full surnames were withheld under privacy guidelines for German media.
US authorities have arrested Luis Armando Pena Soltren, a man wanted in connection with the hijacking of a Pan American flight to Puerto Rico in 1968.
Justice Department spokesman Richard Kolko said that Soltren was arrested on Sunday at John F. Kennedy (JFK) International Airport in New York, where he and his accomplices, armed with guns and knives, boarded a Pan American flight 41 years ago and hijacked it.
Pan American flight 281 had departed JFK and was bound for San Juan, Puerto Rico, when it was diverted in November 1968, the Associated Press reported.
Since the hijacking Soltren has been in Cuba. He will appear in the Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, Kolko said.
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Good catch but this raise more questions than answers. How did he get to the US? What name and what kind of documents did he have? What was he doing, what was his intent? And the big one was ho is paying his way and why? The FBI must be having a field day with this clown...
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He probably needed medical care so came back to the US to surrender so he could get it.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Militants on Monday launched their fourth assault in a week on strategic targets across Pakistan, this time with a suicide car bombing against a military vehicle in a crowded market in the northwest, killing 41 people and wounding dozens more. The bombing took place in the Shangla District, an area within the Swat Valley but under separate administration. The Pakistani military had declared the valley cleared of militants after an offensive this summer and announced that the Taliban were a shattered force.
Since the Swat campaign and the death of the Pakistani Taliban leader, Baitullah Mehsud, in an American drone strike in August, the militants have been relatively quiet. But the attack on Monday showed they could still shake the country with serious terrorist attacks in a short period over a wide geographic spread.
It was the latest in a series clearly intended to prove the Taliban's resilience, to exact revenge for government and American strikes, and to discourage the Pakistani military from expanding its campaign into South Waziristan, the heartland of the Taliban in Pakistan.
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"Mahmoud, you're working late tonight."
"But sir [lowers voice] you know what's supposed to happen at precisely 1812 tonight."
"I do, Mahmoud. That's why you're working late and I'm not."
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"Restive Region of Pakistan"
That doesn't narrow it down much....
"Pic of nanoviolin?"
They're looking for it, grom. I think they need a stronger magnifying glass. ;-p
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[Geo News] The military operation to uproot terrorism is continued in country's upper parts as at least 18 militants were killed in tehsil Mamound of Bajaur Agency on Monday meanwhile, total 26 militants surrendered to security forces; Geo news reported ISPR sources as claiming.
According to sources, 18 militants were killed as military jet planed bombed suspected militants' hideouts in Mamound teshil while militants' total 12 main sanctuaries and three training camps were pounded during operation.
All the entry and exists, leading to tehisl, have been shut down while curfew has been clamped in the region, sources said, adding that security forces have taken control up to Jang Zai area of Mamound, meanwhile, local civilians welcomed security men by hoisting white flags.
Later in Khar area, political administration claimed to have pounded two suspected hotels being operated under militants' control and torched various suspected shops, sources told media.
Also, bomb disposal squad diffused two remote control bombs, sources added.
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[Geo News] At least 24 suspected persons have been arrested from parts of twin cities while 4 others were held from Lahore in connection with militants' strike on army GHQ late on Monday night, Geo news quoted sources as reporting.
According to sources, four among arrested persons were members of a family and some others were believed to be Afghan citizens while those arrested from Lahore were reportedly hailing from Mianwhali city in Punjab.
This appears to support the Pakistani claim that their jihadi violence is being exported from Afghanistan, and therefore is the fault of the Americans. Of course, the Pakistanis fail to remember they still have Afghan refugees from the Soviet and Taliban conquests who still refuse to go back home and are clearly quite willing to murder their hosts in creative ways.
Four of them were identified as Kamran Baloch, Ata Baloch, Imran Baloch and Saeed Baloch, sources said.
Arrested suspects had been residing in a house in Dhodak Awan area, which had been let out to Kamran Baloch, sources added.
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Sounds like they're more a bunch of Balouchis, rather than Afghanis or Pashtuns. Pakistan needs to clean its house, but if they did that, there wouldn't be a half-million citizens left.
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[Dawn] Pakistani aircraft attacked Taliban militants in their South Waziristan stronghold near the Afghan border as the government said a ground offensive against the al Qaeda-linked fighters was imminent.
The aircraft struck the militants late on Sunday, hours after commandos stormed an office building and rescued 39 people taken hostage after an attack on the army headquarters.
'The jets hit and destroyed two of their hideouts in Makeen and Ladha and we have a total of about 16 militants killed,' a Pakistani intelligence official in the region said.
Pakistani Taliban militants linked to al Qaeda have launched numerous attacks on government and foreign targets over the past couple of years killing hundreds of people.
The military has been conducting air and artillery strikes in south Waziristan for months, while moving troops, blockading the region and trying to split off militant factions.
But a ground offensive, in what could be the army's toughest test since militants turned on the state, has yet to begin.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik told Reuters in an interview in Singapore the offensive was 'imminent'.
'There is no mercy for them because our determination and resolve is to flush them out,' Malik said. 'They have no room in Pakistan, I promise you.'
Malik said members of the Pakistani Taliban and al Qaeda were suspected to have been behind Saturday's attack on army headquarters in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad, which ended a week when suicide bombers struck in the capital Islamabad and Peshawar, killing more than 50 people.
Malik said the offensive against the militants in South Waziristan was no longer a matter of choice. 'It is not an issue of commitment, it is becoming a compulsion because there was an appeal from the local tribes that we should do the operation,' he said.
About 28,000 troops have been put in place to take on an estimated 10,000 hard-core Taliban, army officials said earlier.
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See also PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > JUNAGARH, BIHAR, AND HYDERABAD ARE UNDER INDIAN OCCUPATION.
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Does the Pakistani force of 28,000 include a lot of semi-amateur Home Guard types or are they now bringing in the 'starters' from the Indian border areas? Might make a big difference in whether they have a realistic chance against 10,000 Taliban or are just playing (deadly) games.
[Dawn] The Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility for a brazen weekend attack on the army's headquarters compound in the city of Rawalpindi.
Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq called The Associated Press on Monday and said the attack that killed 20 people was only the first in a planned series of strikes intended to avenge the killing of their leader Baitullah Mehsud in a CIA drone attack in August.
He said the raid on army headquarters was carried out by a Punjabi faction of the militant group and it had given orders to other militant branches across the country to launch similar operations.
He also warned the army that if it launched a planned offensive into Waziristan it would be its undoing.
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PAKISTANI DEFENCE ORUMS > US: PAKISTAN SPY AGENCY [ISI]HAS LOST CONTROL OVER TERROR GROUPS [former allies agz INDIA].
* SAME > INDIA SUPPORTS BALOCH SEPARATISTS; + [Afghan President HAMID KARZAL]TALIBAN USES HELICOPTERS TO GET TO BORDER OF UZBEKISTAN AND TAJIKISTAN { + also TURKMENISTAN]. Militants from CENTRAL ASIAN STATES had arrived in AFGHANIS to destabilize the NORTHERN + WESTERN PARTS OF THE COUNTRY.
Other ARtics > Milits-Terrs arrived from KAZAKHISTAN, SOMALIA, + NORTH AFRICA.
* SAME > ALL ROADS IN DEADLY PAKISTANI ARMY HQ ATTACK LEAD BACK TO PUNJAB [South Waziristan = Punjab = NEW HUB OF MILITANCY]; + ISRAEL LOSING CONFIDENCE IN US ABILITY TO CONTROL PAKISTAN NUKES. DEBKA > Milits are pushing towards control of PAKISTAN'S NUCLEAR STOCKPILE???
[Dawn] Police launched a crackdown in Dera Ismail Khan, sealing the offices of the banned Harkatul Mujahideen and arresting five people, DawnNews quoted official sources as saying.
Police also shut down a car rental agency and seized over 400 vehicles. All boats travelling along the Indus have also been halted, according to official sources.
The owner of the Siraj ul Uloom, Qari Siraj Khaleed has also been arrested in the operation.-- DawnNews
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[Dawn] The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday, quashed two cases against Jamaat-ud-Dawa leader Hafiz Saeed but said he would remain under house-arrest.
The court ruling is likely to anger India which says the Saeed, was the mastermind behind last November's assault on Mumbai in which 166 people were killed.
Pakistani police last month lodged two complaints against Saeed for delivering a speech on jihad and appealing for funds for his charity JuD.
Saeed had lodged an appeal against the cases and a two-member bench of the court decided in his favour.
'The petition has been accepted and the cases are quashed,' the court in Lahore said in an order.
Saeed's lawyer argued that his JuD charity was not banned and therefore Saeed should be allowed to make speeches and collect funds.
India wants Pakistan to prosecute Saeed, founder of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) group, before it resumes a peace process put on hold after the Mumbai attack.
Pakistan says Saeed is being investigated and he would be arrested if solid evidence against him is found.
Pakistan detained Saeed in December, after a UN Security Council resolution put him and his charity on a list of people and organisations supporting al Qaeda.
But a court released him in June on grounds of insufficient evidence, prompting the government to appeal to the Supreme Court for his re-arrest.
That case is pending while Saeed remains under virtual house arrest after Pakistani authorities curbed his movements last month, citing security reasons.
A spokesman for Saeed said policemen were still deployed outside his home in Lahore.
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Nothing will happen to to the military/ISI poster boy!
[Al Arabiya Latest] Britain ordered financial firms on Monday to halt all business relations with two Iranian companies because of concerns that they were involved in helping to develop nuclear weapons.
I am shocked. They must be really annoyed.
The order applies to Iran's Bank Mellat and Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines.
A statement issued by the Treasury said it welcomed recent talks between six world powers and Iran on the nuclear issue but that action was needed now on the two businesses. "... Iran continues to pursue its proliferation sensitive nuclear and ballistic missile activities in defiance of five U.N. Security Council Resolutions," the Treasury said. "On the particular entities in question, vessels of the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) have transported goods for both Iran's ballistic missile and nuclear programs."
"Similarly, Bank Mellat has provided banking services to a U.N. listed organization connected to Iran's proliferation sensitive activities, and been involved in transactions related to financing Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile program," it added.
In a statement to the House of Commons, Treasury minister Sarah McCarthy-Fry said the measure was taken because Bank Mellat had provided services to an organisation "connected to Iran's proliferation-sensitive activities." The shipping firm had "transported goods for both Iran's ballistic missile and nuclear programmes," she added.
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When faced with big decisions why not just go with the decision that is the most fun? Like toy with them for awhile..its not like its important or anything.
Having been advised that My Burg was mysteriously busted -- after I thought it was working -- I rewrote part of it today.
My Burg is designed as a research tool. You can pick articles and group them under memes to recall them later. I first wrote it several years ago, had it in beta, awaiting comments, and nobody ever commented. Since then it's been but lightly used.
I had a couple more ideas for it today while working on it and I want to add them in, most notably a comments field for each entry so that you can enter your own notes on whatever idea you may be following, plus a way to drop the text of the articles you've tagged along with your notes to a file you can save and edit in Word or what have you. I've got the comments field added to the table, but I haven't yet added it into the page. It'll show up in a day or two.
The link to add items won't show if you don't have a cookie set, and if you do manage to get the page open it shouldn't save the entry for you. Likewise if you don't have a meme selected it won't save.
You can recall what you've saved by clicking on the My Burg link on the main page. That'll present you with the links you've saved. I'll put a delete function on there as well, so you can dump them when you're tired of them.
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I find your 'search' function quite helpful along those lines - had not realized there was something else available. Now I need a way to search for or tag interesting or useful comments on various articles (yes, they do exist!) (The power of the search over the tag is that you don't have to realize right away that the topic is something you are going to care about later, after reading some other article or comment.)
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
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Asharq al-Aswat] The United Arab Emirates' highest court convicted an American citizen Monday on terrorism-related charges amid claims that torture was used to extract a confession.
[Bangla Daily Star] Police yesterday arrested Harkat-ul-Jihad al Islami (Huji) operative 
[Bangla Daily Star] A regional leader of outlawed Gono Mukti Fouz 
Albanian authorities arrested a local imam, 
[Dawn] The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday, quashed two cases against Jamaat-ud-Dawa leader Hafiz Saeed but said he would remain under house-arrest.
Having been advised that My Burg was mysteriously busted -- after I thought it was working -- I rewrote part of it today. 
