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80 killed as Maoists derail train in India
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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2010 00:14 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Annette Bening aka Carolyn Burnham "American Beauty" ( age 52)


Leslie Townes Hope aka Bob Hope "(USO) shows from 1941to 1991" (Died in 2003 at age 100)

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 05/29/2010 2:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Hmmmm. Aunt Bea's starting to look less attractive these days. That's good.
Posted by: gorb || 05/29/2010 3:39 Comments || Top||

#3  Annette strikes a lovely Cord.
Posted by: Besoeker || 05/29/2010 4:26 Comments || Top||

#4  liked her in Open Range
Posted by: Frank G || 05/29/2010 9:16 Comments || Top||

#5  Ditto. Open Range was a good one.
Posted by: Steve White || 05/29/2010 10:37 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
The Shrine Down The hall
Posted by: Goober Crealet3411 || 05/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Lugubrious mawk from the Noo Jork Times.
Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2010 8:48 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
UN: 60 killed in Mogadishu clashes
The UN says over 60 civilians have been killed and 14,300 others have been displaced in recent clashes between government troops and opposition forces in Mogadishu.

"According to information we are seeing in field reports, at least 60 people have been killed and more than 50 wounded and injured in street clashes", AFP quoted Andrej Mahecic, a spokesman of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, as saying.

Tens of thousands who have fled their homes are still trapped in the embattled Somali capital and are either living with relatives in overcrowded conditions or sleeping under makeshift tents in the streets, said Mahecic.

He said women and children are forced to beg in the streets or markets to make a living.

Somalia has not had a functioning government since warlords toppled President Siad Barre in 1991. Thousands of people have died and thousands more have been displaced in the nearly two decades of chaos.
Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Shabaab


Arabia
‘Weak and misled' militant‘ not Al-Qaeda material'
Naif Al-Qahtani's brother talks about changes in wanted man's life
Posted by: ryuge || 05/29/2010 07:12 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I’m on jihad and I’ll return soon.’”

They see it as noble thing taught from a young age to fight for their religion.

As a Catholic i was never taught to fight for my religion/hate others religions/way of life.

Is Islam a religion or a political movement?
Posted by: Paul D || 05/29/2010 10:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Young men in the Latter Day Saints (Mormons) are required to go on 'Mission' when in the late teens/early 20's.

That's the same, right?
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 05/29/2010 11:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Mormons are always bugging me with their pamphlets.

They've never tried to blow me up once though.
Posted by: bigjim-CA || 05/29/2010 17:30 Comments || Top||


Yemen al Qaeda video announces new leader
A fugitive Saudi Arabian man, who was once detained at the US military prison at Guantanamo, was named as a senior member of al Qaeda's Yemen wing, according to a tape by the group shown on al Arabiya television on Friday.

The tape also confirmed the deaths of three leaders killed in December and January during Yemeni air raids, the pan Arab broadcaster said.

Among those killed were Abdullah al Muhdar, the leader of al Qaeda in Yemen's Shabwa province, Mohammed Amir al Awlaki, and Mohammed Saleh al Kazimi.

Othman Ahmed al-Ghamdi, the 31-year-old man named as a leading al Qaeda operative on Friday, had been added to a list of 85 most wanted people by Saudi Arabia 15 months ago, al Arabiya said. He spent four years in Guantanamo prison after he was captured in Afghanistan. He was released in 2006.

Yemen, neighbour to top oil exporter Saudi Arabia, has been a key Western security concern since the Yemen-based al Qaeda arm claimed responsibility for a failed December attempt to bomb a US bound passenger plane. Last month, the group tried to assassinate the British ambassador to Yemen when a suicide bomber threw himself into the path of the convoy taking Tim Torlot to work in capital Sanaa.

The envoy was unharmed and only the suicide bomber died, but the bold hit signalled that a recent crackdown by Sanaa on the global militant group has done little to curb its ambitions to carry out attacks on international targets.
Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia

#1  We had an al-Ghamdi in US custody and sprung him?

:: facepalm :: :: headdesk ::



Posted by: Seafarious || 05/29/2010 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  How many ex gitmo prisoners are becoming leaders of the jihadis which begs the question why release them and which country are they released to?

Our allies? the Saudis and Paks come to mind!
Posted by: Paul D || 05/29/2010 5:40 Comments || Top||

#3  I myself am about tired of HRW and other countries dictating whow e have in Gitmo.They have a better prison than the prisons in the US but yet that doesn't seem too be good enough for them and for the all knowing who will say that prisoners here have it made then you have never been and need too shut up. Not too mention all the countries that bitch about gitmo have no problem stoning ppl cutting off limbs or they just up and disappear one night.
Posted by: chris || 05/29/2010 8:46 Comments || Top||


Yemen separatists kill 3 soldiers, wound 11
SANAA - Separatists ambushed two convoys of Yemen's armed forces, killing three soldiers and wounding 11 others, the Defence Ministry website said on Friday.

Separately, the Yemeni government reached an agreement with the kinsmen of a mediator killed in a pre-dawn air strike earlier this week, after a series of clashes with Yemeni armed forces, a government official told Reuters.

Two soldiers were killed when their vehicle flipped over as separatists ambushed their convoy traveling through the southern province of Raha, the Defence Ministry website said. Eleven others were wounded.

Another vehicle was ambushed by separatists in the southern area of Jebeil Shams, killing one soldier, the website said.
Posted by: Steve White || 05/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Caribbean-Latin America
More Mexican Mayhem
Fourteen die in Juarez

Fourteen people lost their lives in ongoing drug and gang related violence that included five killed at a food kiosk near the US border.
  • An unidentified man and woman were found tortured and shot to death Friday morning within a few city blocks of one another in Juarez, according to Mexican news reports.

    The couple were found on Baja California Street in the 11 de Febrero district of Juarez. The male was gagged with tape and both people had been tortured before they were shot.

  • Five people were shot to death in three different crimes in Juarez, according to the Mexican daily, La Polaka. The first murders took place at a filling station on the Juärez-Porvenir highway near San Isidro where two unidentified men were shot to death.

    The third killing took place near the intersection of Francisco J. Mujica and Articulo 123 streets in Juarez where witnesses saw an unidentified man abandon his vehicle after hitting an embankment trying to flee an attack only to be gunned down only a few meters from his vehicle.

    The fourth and fifth murders took place in the Arroya Colorado district of Juarez near the intersection of Plomo and Donato Guerra streets where two unidentified youths were shot to death.

  • An unidentified man was found tortured and shot to death near a Walmart in northern Juarez, say Mexican news reports. The man was found with his head wrapped in duck tape with evidence of torture and a single gunshot wound to the head. A message was placed on the body, but authorities refused to divulge its contents.

    The corpse was found at 2300 hrs. at the Los Nogales Walmart in back of the store.

  • Five unidentified people were shot to death Friday afternoon at a food kiosk near the US border crossing on Saragossa Bridge, according to Mexican news accounts. Four clients and an employee were shot to death when an group of armed suspects aboard a white SUV with Texas plates opened fire with AK-47s. Police found more than 100 spent cartridge casings at the scene.

    Reports say three of the clients were the actual target of the assassination.

  • An unidentified man was shot to death and another wounded in s shooting in Juarez, according to Mexican news accounts. The shooting took place on Avenida Valentín Fuentes when a shooter fired on the two as they rode in their light truck.
Posted by: badanov || 05/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: WoT
Houston: Pakistani convicted of conspiring to aid Taliban
A Pakistani college student living in Texas was convicted Thursday of conspiring to help the Taliban and fight US troops.

A federal jury convicted Adnan Babar Mirza, 33, of two conspiracy counts and seven firearms violations after a three-day trial held in Houston. He faces up to five years in prison on each conspiracy count and 10 years on the weapons counts when he is sentenced on Sept 10.

Mirza, who remains in federal custody, was one of four men arrested in 2006 for alleged participation in paramilitary training exercises at campsites around the Houston area so they could engage in a "holy war".

Mirza's attorney, David Adler, told jurors that Mirza went on camping trips but denied they involved paramilitary training exercises.

Prosecutor Jim McAlister told jurors that the activities of Mirza and the other three men came to authorities' attention after another of their friends, James Coates, decided, "things were getting out of hand" and became an FBI informant. Mirza claimed Coates was the one who was militant and promoted violence.

An undercover officer taped conversations with Mirza and the other men in which they allegedly talked about ambushing US soldiers and triggering a bomb with a cell phone, according to court documents.

FBI Special Agent John McKinley, the prosecution's first witness, told jurors that Mirza can be heard on the taped conversations talking about sending money to support Taliban families. Prosecutors have said Mirza collected about $900 for Taliban fighters and their families.

But Adler said it's not against the law to send money to the families of Taliban fighters and Mirza collected money for hospitals and other groups but not specifically for the Taliban. He also said Mirza can be heard in these taped conversations expressing anger about injustices Muslims around the world have experienced, but his client was just expressing emotion and didn't intend to act on it.

Prosecutors also said Mirza, who was attending Houston Community College, was in the country illegally because he violated his student visa by working.

Adler denied his client violated his student visa by working.

The three other men who were arrested have pleaded guilty or been convicted. Kobie Diallo Williams, a US citizen, was sentenced in August to four and a half years in prison for conspiring to join the Taliban and fight against US forces. Syed Maaz Shah, a former Pakistani engineering student at the University of Texas at Dallas, was sentenced in 2007 to six and a half years in prison on federal firearms charges. Shiraz Syed Qazi, also a Pakistani student and Mirza's cousin, received a 10-month prison sentence in 2007 on a firearms charge.
Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


India-Pakistan
On first-ever train ride, twins die in each other's arms
KOLKATA: Little Shirin and Sharmin hardly knew who Maoists were or why they would target their train. On their first ever vacation, all that the mirror-image twins could think about was what they would do in Mumbai, pose for pictures in identical frocks, take the ferry to Elephanta... They went to sleep hugging each other. They died that way.

On Friday morning, even hardened CRPF men broke down as the bodies of the seven-year-olds from Kolkata were pulled out of the mangled S4 coach of the GyaneshwariExpress. Their parents — schoolteachers Sayed Javed Alam, 35, and Sabiya, 30 — had saved for years the hard way to give the twins a week of happiness. They, too, died.

Javed and Sabiya's bodies were recovered first, around 12.30pm. CRPF jawans, moving inch by inch into coach S4, then spotted a tiny hand, a cheek and a wisp of dark brown hair. The pace of work picked up instantly. The gas cutter sliced through twisted iron bars. A metal panel was pulled away. The first rescuer stepped in, and stood rooted in shock for a second.

The girls lay on a crumpled berth, holding each other tight, one's head buried in the other's chest. Shirin and Sharmin wore identical frocks, in green and yellow. They seemed asleep, but for the blood that had caked on their faces. The jawans had to pry the girls' arms loose to remove their bodies.

The twins' maternal grandmother Mehasar Jahan, 60, and aunt Johar Jahan, 45, are critically injured. It was the family's first holiday together.

Javed and Sabiya were teachers at an English medium school where Johar Jahan was the principal. "Bhabi ja rahi hoon," Sabiya had told her neighbour on 6 Abdul Ali Row on Thursday night while leaving for Howrah station. "Sabiya was excited that her twin daughters would see Mumbai. But they perished just hours into their journey. How could fate be so cruel to the family? I feel terrible. Her girls were little angels," she said.

Shirin and Sharmin were Class II students at Jewish Girls' School on Ripon Street.
Posted by: john frum || 05/29/2010 11:49 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  RIP, little angels.

May there be a special place in Hell reserved for those who did this to you, and for all who kill innocents in the service of demons they call gods.
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie || 05/29/2010 11:55 Comments || Top||

#2  Death toll mounts to 110 in West Bengal train attack
Posted by: john frum || 05/29/2010 11:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Blondie, in this case, the murderers were Maoists, not Muslims. So they probably don't have a God.
On the other hand, I do agree with you that a special place in hell should be reserved for the people who did this.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 05/29/2010 12:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Kimmie, Maoist in India, Missiles at Taiwan, arms for terror in Iran and Pakiwakiland... intersection point in China?
Posted by: 3dc || 05/29/2010 13:12 Comments || Top||

#5  a special place in hell should be reserved for the people who did this.

I disagree slightly, I think this earth should be Hell for them, I doubt there is any god (Or this shit wouldn't be happening in the first place) So it's up to us Humans to make these evil persons experience hell here, Start with flogging or Bull whipping, castrate them with dull toole and no anesthetic, Slowly cut their fingers and toes off, a half inch at a time, break their elbows and knees and be sure to make their cohorts know about it.
Theen and only then will this shit stop.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 05/29/2010 13:26 Comments || Top||

#6  I thought I had been hardened too a lot of stuff through the usage of the internet over the years but this was a real tear jerker
Posted by: chris || 05/29/2010 13:38 Comments || Top||

#7  Blondie, in this case, the murderers were Maoists, not Muslims. So they probably don't have a God.

As my Dad likes to say, "Just because you don't believe in Hell doesn't mean Hell doesn't believe in you."

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 05/29/2010 15:19 Comments || Top||

#8  Maoists my ass.
Posted by: Goober Goobelopolous || 05/29/2010 20:19 Comments || Top||

#9  #8 Maoists my ass.

/General Chiang Kai-shek
Posted by: Frank G || 05/29/2010 21:04 Comments || Top||


US drone attack kills 11 in Pakistan
A fresh US drone strike has left at least 11 people dead and several others wounded in the troubled northwestern Pakistan, intelligence officials say.

A US drone fired missiles into a suspected militant hideout in North Waziristan on Friday, DPA reported.

"The drone attack completely destroyed" its target, an intelligence official said on condition of anonymity.

Washington claims its airstrikes target militants, but most of the attacks have killed civilians -- since August 2008, such strikes have killed nearly a thousand people in rural areas.

The issue of civilian casualties has strained relations between Islamabad and Washington with the Pakistani government repeatedly objecting to the attacks.
Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan

#1  its airstrikes target militants, but most of the attacks have killed civilians

Target militants, kill civilians..... the militants ARE 'civilians'!!!
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/29/2010 0:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Easy to fix. Hit the center of the Taliban - ISI headquarters - added benefit - they all wear uniforms, so none of this "civilian" stuff.
Posted by: Genghis Swartz 1658 || 05/29/2010 14:06 Comments || Top||

#3  Idea! Why don't the drone operators target civilians? That way they can be assured of hitting militants every time!

[sarc]
Posted by: Mike Hunt || 05/29/2010 15:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Better the target drone strikes than indiscriminate ARCLIGHT strikes followed up with napalm. That's the next most effective means of destroying these Orcs. Which would you prefer?
Posted by: Old Patriot || 05/29/2010 22:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Better the target drone strikes than indiscriminate ARCLIGHT strikes followed up with napalm. That's the next most effective means of destroying these Orcs. Which would you prefer?

Lay a few of both on them and ask them which they prefer.
Posted by: gorb || 05/29/2010 22:36 Comments || Top||


80 killed as Maoists derail train in India
as Maoist rebels allegedly derailed a Mumbai-bound train. Casualties multiplied as the derailed train also hit a goods train coming from the opposite direction.

Police said they found scattered posters of the Maoist-backed People's Committee against Police Atrocities claiming responsibility of derailment of the Super Deluxe Express. The incident occurred in West Midnapore district, about 150 kilometres from the provincial capital of Kolkata.

PCPA spokesman Asit Mahato, however, denied involvement in the incident. "We are in the dark and it's the job of police to find out who had done it," he told reporters over telephone. The posters had demanded immediate withdrawal of the security forces from the region.

According to reports, some passengers were believed to be still trapped inside the mangled coaches. "The toll could go up," West Bengal Home Secretary Samar Ghosh said. Five of the 13 derailed coaches fell on an adjacent track and were hit by a goods train coming from the opposite direction.

Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee, who visited the spot, said a "bomb blast" triggered by Maoists on the rail track caused the derailment and that TNT explosives and gelatine sticks had been found from the site. However, officials said they were also looking at evidence that metal plates used to secure adjoining sections of the track had been removed. Home Minister P Chidambaram said the derailment appeared to be sabotage, but it was not yet clear whether explosives were used.

Indian President Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressed grief over lives lost in the incident. The PM announced Rs 200,000 for families of the victims and Rs 50,000 for the injured.

One survivor, Vinayak Sadna, said he had been sleeping when his carriage lurched violently to one side and then flipped over, flinging passengers around the compartment.

"I ended up stuck between two seats with an iron bar crushing my hand," Sadna said. "I was trapped for three hours before I was pulled out. My wife is still missing."

Services of Indian Air Force helicopters were sought at the accident spot to airlift some of the injured to hospitals. The railway minister said a patrol engine had passed through the area half an hour earlier, but the timing of the blast proved disastrous with a portion of the line blown away.

West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya said the attack warranted a review of the government's counterinsurgency strategy.

Home Secretary GK Pillai said the next course of action against the rebels would be decided after an upcoming meeting. He, however, refused to comment on whether the government has proposed using the army or the air force against the rebels.
Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under: Commies


One killed, two injured in Mastung, Mand
QUETTA: A man was gunned down and two others injured in two separate incidents of firing in Mastung and Mand Town on Friday. According to sources, Bashir Ahmed was gunned down by armed motorcyclists in an apparent target killing at the Mastung Road. Police are investigating the matter. In a separate incident at Mand near the Iranian border, two persons were injured when unidentified men opened fire at them and fled. The victims were identified as Bakhtiar and Khalil Ahmed, both hailing from Rahim Yar Khan. According to the Levies Force, it was an incident of target killing. The injured were shifted to a nearby hospital but due to their serious injuries, they were shifted to Karachi for better medical treatment. Separately, unidentified men hurled a hand grenade in front of the Saryab Police Station and fled, according to police. No casualties were reported in the incident. Police are investigating the blast, which caused panic among the residents of the area. Also on Friday, unidentified men hurled a hand grenade at the residence of Chaudhry Ajmal at Railways Housing Society, Quetta. The grenade landed on the roof of the house but did not explode. Bomb Disposal Squad reached the spot and defused the grenade.
Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Ahmedis targeted in Lahore carnage
Terrorists wearing suicide vests stormed two places of worship of the Ahmedi community on Friday, initiating an over three-hour-long standoff that resulted in the killing of 80 worshippers.
Continues yesterday's story...
At least 92 people were injured in the attacks and were moved to various hospitals across the city. The dead included children and elderly people. The grenade-and-gun attack began when the assailants stormed the worship places in Lahore's Model Town and Garhi Shahu areas, a few minutes before special Friday worship began at the two facilities.

Both the attacks were assisted by suicide bombers and began with a difference of a few minutes. Squads of terrorists stormed into the facilities' halls firing guns, throwing grenades and taking hostages in one of the deadliest targeting of Ahmedis in Pakistan.

"At least 70 people have been killed in both the attacks," Lahore District Coordination Officer Sajjad Bhutta told reporters.

Doctor Rizwan Naseer, head of the Rescue 1122 service in Lahore, said 108 people were injured as police continued to search for any remaining attackers. District civil defence official Mazhar Ahmed earlier put the death toll at 64.

"We have taken as many as 42 dead bodies from Garhi Shahu so far and more are coming," he said. Another 22 died in Model Town, he added.

Arrests: After battling the terrorists for hours at the two under-siege worship places, city police claimed to have arrested two of the attackers from Model Town and one suspect from the Garhi Shahu facility for Ahmedis' worship.

Police said the suspected terrorist apprehended in the Garhi Shahu attack was arrested when he tried to escape the facility under the garb of a worshipper.

The terrorists resorted to the same method of attack they applied in the attack at the Rescue 15 office on May 27, 2009.

TV channels ran footage of the cross-firing between the terrorists hiding inside the Garhi Shahu facility and police all day, with announcements being repeated from loudspeakers in nearby mosques asking people to stay away from the worship facility and take refuge at safe places.

In Garhi Shahu, witnesses said two bikers reached the main gate of the worship place, both armed and carrying bags in their hand.

They opened indiscriminate fire at the security personnel, killing 14 people instantly. The attackers then hurled hand grenades in and around the facility, raising clouds of blinding smoke in the area.

Meanwhile, five others joined the attackers and rushed inside the facility.

One of the attackers took position atop the facility's minaret, launching sporadic firing from his refuge. The rest held worshippers hostage, killing them at will with gunfire and grenades.

Police contingents at the Ahmedi worship facility in Model Town said there were three attackers.

"They came into the mosque from the back and started firing. They were armed with hand grenades and suicide vests and other weapons," senior police official Rana Ayaz told reporters.

According to the details, the three terrorists who attacked the Model Town facility first killed people deputed at the main gate for security and then entered the facility, hurdling hand grenades all around.

Security personnel deployed inside the facility retaliated with firing, but the attackers hurled more grenades and entered the main praying hall, taking the people present hostage.

They retorted to indiscriminate firing at the people busy in prayers, killing several on the spot. Police arrived shortly after and launched a rescue operation.

One of the attackers blew himself up as police made headway into the facility, while the rescue party arrested the other two after they were injured in the gunbattle.

Law minister: Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said the terrorist arrested in Model Town had been identified as Muhammad, while the other was unconscious. He added that that one hailed from Rahim Yar Khan, while the other was a teenaged Pashtun.
Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan

#1  Religion Of Peace™ - just ask John Brennan
Posted by: Frank G || 05/29/2010 9:47 Comments || Top||


80 Taliban killed in Orakzai blitz
Security forces backed by fighter jets and helicopters gunships killed at least 80 Taliban and injured another 60 during operation in Orakzai Agency on Friday.

Sources said the forces took control of Arha Guld, Knadao, Threy Sotay, Supaka Kandoi and Khatango Ghar areas of Upper Orakzai and consolidated their potions in the reclaimed areas.

Meanwhile, a security personnel, Sajjad Ali, was killed in a roadside bomb blast in Mushti Maila area of Orakzai, the sources added.

Officials said the agency's all entry and exit points had been closed to prevent the Taliban from fleeing the region.

The military launched the ongoing offensive in the Orakzai tribal region in mid-March to flush out militants who last year fled an army offensive in nearby South Waziristan. Persistent artillery and aircraft attacks have killed hundreds of insurgents over the past two months.

Thousands of people have fled the offensive in the area and many have moved in with relatives in nearby districts.
Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP

#1  And where are the Vietnam-era leftists & establishment types who condemn the war-by-body-count approach? In Pres. Obama & Gen. Petraeus's war for hearts and minds, shouldn't they be telling the Pakistanis that this is a war about "isolating" the "extremists" instead of killing the enemy?

Don't misunderstand me. We should identify the enemy and kill as many of them as possible. But that's not the prevailing strategy in Washington DC.
Posted by: American Delight || 05/29/2010 12:34 Comments || Top||


Maoist group claims responsibility for train kaboom
JHARGRAM (WEST BENGAL) — The People's Committee Against Police Atrocities (PCAPA), considered a frontal organisation of the Maoists, claimed responsibility for the derailment of the Howrah-Kurla Gyaneshwari Express in which at least 65 passengers were killed and over 200 injured on Friday, 
police said.

West Bengal Director General of Police Bhupinder Singh told mediapersons here that two posters of PCAPA were found from the accident site near West Midnapore district's Jhargram town, about 155 km from Kolkata.

One of the posters of the Lalgarh-based tribal body said the “programme (of attacking the train) was taken in protest against the atrocities perpetrated by the joint forces (comprising central paramilitary troopers and state armed police) and the Communist Party of India-Marxist
(CPI-M) goons'.

“This is the handiwork of the Maoists. We have found two posters. PCAPA has taken responsibility,' Singh said after visiting the accident spot between Sardiha and Khemasuly railway stations.

“PCAPA is a sort of frontal organisation of the Maoists. The Maoists are active in this belt. They had earlier stopped the Rajdhani (in October last year),' the top police official said.

Asked whether the police had any intelligence inputs of possible Maoists strike, Singh said there was no such specific information. “But they can do such things all the time,' he said.

He said the pandrol clips (used to fix the rail to the sleeper) were found open for over 50 metres. Earlier, Bhupinder Singh told IANS that the fishplates were found removed and about one-and-a-half feet of the railway track cut at the site of the tragedy.

The PCAPA had been in the forefront of the Lalgarh movement that began in November 2008 over alleged police atrocities after a landmine blast on the convoy of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.

The police and the state administration alleged from the outset that the Maoists were spearheading the movement in the camouflage of
the PCAPA.

But the left-wing guerrillas first came overground in Lalgarh, about 200 km from Kolkata in West Midnapore district, days before the joint security forces began an operation to flush out the rebels last June.

Top PCAPA leader Chhattradhar Mahato is now behind bars, while its president Lalmohan Tudu died in police firing. In their absence, the PCAPA is now spearheaded by its spokesman Asit Mahato and treasurer Santosh
 Patra.
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3 wanted men arrested in Kut raids
WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: Policemen on Friday captured three wanted men in different areas of the city of al-Kut, a local police source in Wassit said.

“Policemen in Wassit launched search raids all over Kut city, arresting three wanted men, one of them on charges of involvement in armed activities while the two others on criminal charges,' the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“The arrests were conducted in implementation of warrants by the Iraqi judiciary,' he added.

Kut, the capital city of Wassit province, lies 180 km southeast of Baghdad.
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Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israeli jets attack Gaza
[Iran Press TV Latest] Israeli warplanes have carried out airstrikes on two sites in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli jets fired five missiles in the early hours of Saturday morning, and local sources say the missiles landed near the tunnel area along the Egyptian border, which is located near the Rafah airport, the Press TV correspondent in Gaza reported.

There are no reports yet on any damage or casualties.

Israeli jets also conducted another airstrike east of Gaza City, the sources added.

On Wednesday, Israeli jets fired two rockets at an unused airport near Rafah, injuring about 15 Palestinians. Some of the injured are in critical condition.

The blockaded territory of Gaza relies on tunnels dug under its border with Egypt as a lifeline for basic necessities like food and fuel.

Over 130 Palestinians have died in cave-ins and Israeli attacks on the tunnels.
Posted by: Fred || 05/29/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  Those tunnels are like the Underground Railroad. where the Better Angels among the Pals perform only humanitarian acts of derring do.

Also, I've got this bridge in Brooklyn I'm trying to sell. Cheap.
Posted by: ScottR || 05/29/2010 1:15 Comments || Top||

#2  No mention of just what CAUSED the Israelis to do this.
Naturally.
Always consider the source.
Posted by: Mike Hunt || 05/29/2010 15:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Here it is...

IAF bombs targets in Gaza in response to terror attempt

Published: 05.29.10, 08:07 / Israel News

Air Force jets bombed weapons-production sites in the northern Gaza Strip overnight, as well as a smuggling tunnel in the south.


The IDF Spokesperson's Office explained that the strike was a response to an attempted terror attack by Palestinians Thursday near Nahal Oz, as well as the rocket fire towards Sderot on Friday. (Ynet)
Posted by: Mike Hunt || 05/29/2010 15:10 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Local official gunned down in southern Thailand
An official of Tambon Bor Hin Administration Organisation was killed in a shooting in Pattani's Panare district on Saturday morning, police said.

Yusoh Masoo was attacked by four men on two motorcycles who sprayed bullets from M16 assault rifles at him while he was sitting in a tea shop at Bor Hin Village of the Panare district. He was shot several times in the body and died at the scene.
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