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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Marilyn Maxwell, entertained the troops during World War II and the Korean War on USO tours with Bob Hope aka Helen Bailey in "Salute to the Marines" (Died in 1972 at age 50)

Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 08/03/2010 1:16 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
In Kandahar, U.S. tries the lessons of Baghdad
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 08/03/2010 10:59 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Providing utilities is a good move, provided the Taliban is not permitted to control the generators, systems, and billing mechanisms as they have with the current power grid and network.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/03/2010 15:37 Comments || Top||

#2  In Baghdad, the use of checkpoints, identification cards and walled-off communities helped to reduce violence because there were two feuding factions, riven by sect. Because the city had been carved into a collection of separate Sunni and Shiite neighborhoods, U.S. forces were able to place themselves along the borders. Both sides tolerated the tactics to a degree because they came to believe U.S. troops would protect them from their rivals.

The conflict in Kandahar is far murkier. There are no differences in religion or ethnicity: Nearly everyone here is a Sunni Pashtun. There are divisions among tribes and clans, but they are not a reliable indicator of support for the Taliban.


Desperation. Trying something on the off chance it might work.
Posted by: phil_b || 08/03/2010 23:30 Comments || Top||


Gunmen Kidnap Afghan Ministers Son
[Tolo News] Son of the Afghan Minister of Refugees and Repatriation was abducted on Sunday night by unknown gunmen, Security officials said

The incident happened on Sunday night in the Afghan capital Kabul near the minister's house when his sons were on their way home from office.

The gunmen trying to kidnap the Afghan minister's son, faced severe struggle from his relatives, but they finally succeeded to abduct his son, injuring three of his relatives and his other son, Kabul police said.

"Four armed men disguised in police uniform stopped in front of his car and after struggling, the kidnappers fired at them in which three men, including the minister's son were injured," Chief of Criminal Investigation for Kabul police, Abdul Ghafar Sayed Zada told TOLOnews reporter.

Armed abductions and robberies using police uniforms have increased concerns among Kabul residents.

Residents say the kidnapping was one of the few incidents of its kind that has happened in Kabul in recent years.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


45 Taliban, Qaeda members taken off UN terror list
Ten Taliban members and 35 al Qaeda members and affiliates have been removed from a UN sanctions terror list after an exhaustive review of 488 names, Austria's UN ambassador announced on Monday.

"As a result of the review of 488 names, 45 were de-listed," chairman of the UN Security Council panel Thomas Mayr-Harting told the reporters. The council maintains a blacklist of individuals and entities linked to al Qaeda and the Taliban.

He said that those removed, following requests from governments, include 10 individuals associated with the Taliban as well as 14 individuals and 21 entities linked at some point to al Qaeda.

Amongst the 10 Taliban removed from the list was a former Afghan envoy to the UN, author of My Life with the Taliban, Abdul Salam Zaeef and two officials who are now deceased. A final decision for the 66 amongst them is still pending.

As part of his efforts to promote national reconciliation, Afghan President Hamid Karzai had asked the security council to remove names of some Taliban members who were not linked to al Qaeda, from the terrorism blacklist.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  Sure, Karzai, whatever you want. Now the Taliban & Al Qaeda will think you're cool & not wanna killya.

Btw, don't you love it that in this same de-listing, the UN also removed sanctions from al-Barakaat Wiring Service which did hawala from Minneapolis to Somalia?
Posted by: American Delight || 08/03/2010 6:00 Comments || Top||

#2  those removed, following requests from governments,

Was it America or Somalia that requested the al-Barakaat Wiring Service be removed, d'you suppose?
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/03/2010 7:14 Comments || Top||


Six children killed in Afghan suicide attack
A suicide car bomber killed six children in an attack targeting an Afghan government official on Monday in the volatile south.

A senior adviser to President Hamid Karzai was hit by a separate bomb attack in eastern Nangarhar province, leaving him and his travelling companion badly wounded, and injuring five civilians.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack in the east.

The Interior Ministry originally said five children were killed in the blast, and Dand district governor Ahmadullah Nazick said that a sixth had died by the early afternoon.

The car bomb was followed by a roadside bomb attack 10 metres away, after the police arrived at the scene, and wounded two policemen, said the district criminal investigations chief Hussain.

Karzai, who has said his government will aim to take full responsibility for security in Afghanistan by the end of 2014, condemned the attack, describing it as the "work of imbeciles".

In eastern Nangarhar, adviser on tribal affairs to the president, Waheedullah Sabawoon, was on a personal visit in Jalalabad, capital of the province, when a bomb placed in a rickshaw exploded and hit his vehicle.

Elsewhere, insurgents ambushed a key supply route for coalition forces in the central province of Ghazni, killing two Afghan guards escorting a truck along a highway heading for Kandahar, said Ghazni government spokesman Ismail Jahangir.

In London, the defence ministry identified two NATO soldiers killed in Helmand on Sunday as British nationals.

One of the soldiers was killed by small arms fire in Lashkar Gah district while the second died by a roadside bomb in the Sangin region.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Huge Military Offensive Launched in Ghazni
[Tolo News] Afghan security officials acknowledged on Monday that a military operation is launched name Shamsher "Sword" in different parts of Ghazni, a southern Afghan province

This military push is part of efforts to improve Afghan security and secure the coming parliamentary election, said a top military commander.

Afghan military officials commented that the operation is on the ground with the cooperation of police forces, national security forces and coalition troops.

A top commander in southern Ghazni province, Gen. Rajab Ali Rashed, said the offensive is launched in Andar, Moqur, Qara Bagh and De Yak districts of the province that will last for ten days.

"We are on the threshold of Afghan parliamentary election and after receiving an order from corps, we launched a joint operation in the name of Shamsher "Sword" consisting of Afghan National Army, National Police, National Security Forces and coalition troops in four districts of the province," said Gen. Rajab Ali Rashed.

Meanwhile, security forces said that an overall offensive is to follow the operation in Ghazni province and its preliminary stage has started.

The operation is underway at a time that insecurity is at its highest since the fall of the Taliban regime in 2001 and provincial residents have always complained about insecurity. .
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa Horn
Somali pirates seize Panamanian freighter: EU
[Dawn] Somali pirates seized on Monday a Panamanian freighter with 23 crew from Egypt, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in the Gulf of Aden, European anti-piracy forces said. Early in the morning, the MV Suez indicated it was captured "under small arms fire from a pirate attack and minutes later she reported pirates on board," the European Union NAVFOR Somalia mission said in a statement.

A helicopter was dispatched "but pirates had already taken over the command of the vessel," it added of the 17,300-tonne freighter.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Pirates


Africa North
Bombs wound four Algeria security guards
[Maghrebia] A group of Ait Aissi residents on Sunday (August 1st) blocked the road from Beni Douala in Tizi-Ouzou, demanding the release of at least four young men who were arrested on Saturday as part of the investigation into the July 25th attack on the gendarmes' headquarters in the town, El Watan reported. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb claimed responsibility for the attack, which killed a municipal guard and wounded at least eight policemen. The detainees are suspected of providing support to terrorists, but their fellow citizens said they are convinced of the young men's innocence.

In other news, local press reported that two suspected terrorists were arrested over the weekend in the village of Bordj-Ghedi, 30km southeast of Bordj Bou Arreridj.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa

#1  See also NEWS KERALA > AL QAEDA WARNS IT WILL KILL MORE FRENCH [citizens] IN NORTH AFRICA.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 08/03/2010 0:49 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Yemens Houthi rebels set free 100 held soldiers
[Al Arabiya Latest] Yemeni Houthi rebels on Sunday set free 100 soldiers captured in recent fighting, days after announcing the release of 200 other troops, a mediator told AFP.

Sheikh Hassan bin Abdullah al-Ahmar said the latest batch of soldiers released had been held by the Houthi rebels in the region of al-Amishiya in northern Amran province.

"They have arrived in my home town of Amran and are my guests," said Sheikh Hassan, a pro-government prominent tribal chief who helped to mediate the prisoners' release.

He said the rebels promised to free another 128 soldiers "tomorrow or the day after."


On Wednesday, the Shiite rebels let go 200 soldiers they had captured two days earlier and promised to release other prisoners, both civilian and military, in the coming days.

The rebels and the army engaged in deadly fighting in July that lasted nine days, rattling an already fragile truce agreed in February which had ended a six-month round of fighting in a conflict that started in 2004.

Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh on Saturday accused the rebels of rejecting a February truce, through repeated acts of aggression.

"In their latest acts of aggression, the Houthi rebels attacked the MP Saghir bin Abdul Aziz in his home and army units," Saleh said in a speech reported by the state news agency Saba.

"The state has abstained from all military action, while knowing that the rebels are pursuing other plans, as advocates of war who do not want peace."

"We will, however, insist on implementing the six provisions (of the truce) and on returning to peace," he said, adding that he hoped to see Qatar "convince the rebels to apply the points of the ceasefire."

Earlier in July Qatar's ruler Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani visited Yemen, and said Doha was prepared to help safeguard the country's unity and consolidate the truce, an offer welcomed by the rebels.

Meanwhile on Saturday Yemen's security commission, which is responsible for ensuring compliance with the ceasefire agreement, accused the rebels of repeated violations.

These have included "killing and wounding numerous citizens, kidnapping others, cutting off roads, dynamiting houses and looting property," a spokesman for the commission was quoted as saying by Saba.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  sounds like the Houthis might be whooping the Yemeni soldiers asses.
Posted by: chris || 08/03/2010 17:27 Comments || Top||

#2  If the Yemen soldiers are getting beat by these rebels, I see it as a bad thing.

http://www.criticalthreats.org/yemen/profile-al-houthi-movement

Especially since Iran seems to like them.
Posted by: miscellaneous || 08/03/2010 17:37 Comments || Top||


Britain
Dissident IRA car bomb targets Ulster police base
DUBLIN — Irish Republican Army dissidents detonated a bomb in a hijacked taxi Tuesday outside a police base in the Northern Ireland city of Londonderry, damaging buildings but wounding no one despite the attackers' inaccurate warning, police said. It was the fifth car bomb planted this year by IRA splinter groups trying to undermine Northern Ireland's 3-year-old government coalition of British Protestants and Irish Catholics. Dissidents also fired a homemade mortar shell at the same Londonderry police station in May but it failed to detonate.

None of those attacks since February — targeting police stations, a courthouse and the British spy agency MI5 — has injured anyone seriously.

Londonderry's police commander, Chief Superintendent Stephen Martin, said two masked men ordered a cabbie at gunpoint to drive into the city's Bogside district — a traditional IRA power base — shortly before 3 a.m. (0200GMT). There they loaded a bomb into the car's trunk. "They repeatedly pointed a gun at him and warned him, if he did not do as they instructed, he would be shot," Martin said.

He said the cabbie parked his car outside Strand Road police station, the city's police headquarters just north of the Bogside, and the gunmen ran away. The driver then warned police he'd been forced to park a bomb outside.

Martin said police almost simultaneously received a coded telephone warning from IRA dissidents warning that the bomb would detonate 45 minutes later. However, he said, it exploded less than 23 minutes later while officers were still evacuating nearby night spots and rousing people from their beds in nearby apartments.

The blast destroyed the vehicle but caused little damage to the police base, which has bullet-proof windows and a car-bomb barrier around its perimeter. Heavier damage was caused to fast-food outlets across the street. They had windows and fixtures destroyed.

Tuesday's device was much smaller than a typical IRA car bomb. Police said the attackers lifted it by hand into the trunk of the hijacked vehicle. Full-fledged IRA car bombs contain several hundred pounds of explosives packed into the entire rear of the vehicle.

Brian Rea, chairman of a Catholic-Protestant civilian board that oversees the police, denounced the IRA dissidents as "people who have no regard for human life and are only interested in causing maximum disruption and devastation to our community."

Londonderry Mayor Colm Eastwood said the dissidents' inaccurate warning could have ended in multiple deaths if the bomb had been bigger. "Police didn't even have time to evacuate a nursing home or apartments right beside the police station," he said.

Sinn Fein, the IRA-linked party that today is the major Irish-nationalist member of Northern Ireland's power-sharing government, said the dissidents stood no chance of achieving the traditional IRA goal of forcing Northern Ireland out of the United Kingdom.
Posted by: || 08/03/2010 10:11 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Great White North
Veiled women boarding plane triggers Canadian probe
Canada's Minister of Transportation John Baird ordered a probe after a video posted on YouTube showed two fully veiled women boarding a passenger airplane without showing their faces. Canadian authorities want to ensure that the airline personnel are verifying the identity of all passengers before they board. The video purportedly shows a group of passengers boarding an Air Canada flight from Montreal's Pierre-Elliott Trudeau airport to London's Heathrow airport on July 11. The short clip, shot by a British traveller, shows a man boarding a flight with four women, two with face veils and the other two without. The man handed their passports, and the veiled women were allowed to board, apparently without showing their faces. The footage is shot at a distance and it is impossible to see what happens next. "If the reports are true, the situation is deeply disturbing and poses a serious threat to the security of the air travelling public," Baird said in a statement on Sunday.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Where's the picture of the guy in the burka that usually goes with articles like this?
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/03/2010 9:02 Comments || Top||

#2  If true, this is very worrying.
Posted by: Dave UK || 08/03/2010 15:21 Comments || Top||

#3  May be testing security of airport personnel.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/03/2010 15:25 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Virginia Attorney General Rules Police Can Check Immigration Status
In a decision that could lay the groundwork for an Arizona-style immigration policy, Virginia's attorney general said state law enforcement officers are allowed to check the immigration status of anyone "stopped or arrested."

Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli issued the legal opinion Friday extending that authority to Virginia police in response to an inquiry over whether his state could mirror the policies passed into law in Arizona.

"It is my opinion that Virginia law enforcement officers, including conservation officers may, like Arizona police officers, inquire into the immigration status of persons stopped or arrested," he wrote.

The decision comes after a federal judge blocked Arizona from implementing its provision that would require law enforcement to check the immigration status of anyone they stop and suspect of being an illegal immigrant.

Cuccinelli's ruling could justify that kind of policy in Virginia. However, Cuccinelli reiterated in the opinion a prior finding that while state officers have the authority to arrest suspects on criminal immigration violations, they are advised against arresting over civil immigration violations. Overstaying a visa would fall under the latter category.
The attorney general for Virginia is an interesting man. See here.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Virginia is also suing the Federal government over imposing the purchase of health care insurance on its citizens.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/03/2010 15:28 Comments || Top||


Jury Reaches Guilty Verdict in JFK Bomb Plot Case
Two men charged with plotting to blow up New York's John F. Kennedy Airport were found guilty Monday.

A federal jury in Brooklyn found Russell Defreitas and Abdul Kadir both guilty of conspiracy charges in connection with the plot to destroy the airport.

The jury found Mr. Defreitas, a naturalized U.S. citizen and former cargo handler at the airport, guilty of all six charges against him. Mr. Kadir, a Guyanese citizen who once served as a Parliament member there, was found guilty on five of the six charges. He was acquitted of a charge of surveillance of a mass-transportation facility.

The men face the possibility of life in prison. Their sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 15.

The men were arrested in 2007 before they could move beyond the planning stage of the alleged plot, prosecutors said.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Two found guilty of JFK bomb plot
Russell Defreitas, 67, a US citizen born in Guyana, and Abdul Kadir, 58, of Guyana conspired to blow up buildings, fuel tanks and pipelines at the airport in the New York City borough of Queens. The men, who were arrested in June 2007, face up to life in prison.

Defreitas, who had worked at the airport, provided knowledge of its facilities and layout, US prosecutors said, while Kadir, an engineer, helped with technical aspects such as how to blow up the buried fuel pipelines.

Officials have said the plot was nowhere near being operational when the men were arrested.

Two other men were arrested in the plot. Kareem Ibrahim of Trinidad and Tobago was deemed too ill to be tried but may face trial later. Guyanese Abdel Nur, 60, pleaded guilty in June to a separate charge of material support to terrorism and faces up to 15 years in prison.
Interesting: four jamokes, none named 'Fred' or 'Steve' or 'Joe' ...
This article starring:
Abdul Kadir
Guyanese Abdel Nur
Kareem Ibrahim
Russell Defreitas
Posted by: lotp || 08/03/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
12 Taliban killed in Orakzai clash
Security forces killed 12 Taliban while two security personnel were injured in an attack by militants on Monday in Upper Orakzai. Security sources said militants attacked a checkpost in Dabori Afghan Top area and injured two security men. Troops retaliated and killed 12 Taliban.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Massive protests in Kashmir, seven more killed
Indian troops fired live ammunition and tear gas into crowds of anti-India protesters on Monday, killing seven, police said as tens of thousands of people demonstrated across Indian-held Kashmir.

More than 60 protesters and almost 70 government officials were injured as violent clashes erupted between government forces and protesters in dozens of places across the region, as the protesters defied a round-the-clock curfew.

At least two people were killed and another three wounded when government forces fired to disperse protesters blocking a highway in Sangam, a village south of Srinagar, said a police officer on condition of anonymity.

Indian forces also fired on thousands of people holding street protests in the southern town of Kakpora, killing one and wounding five, the officer said.

As the news of the killing reached nearby villages, thousands more took to streets and burned a police station and scores of vehicles parked there, the officer said. In the northern village of Kralpora, protesters set a security bunker on fire and ransacked a counterinsurgency police force camp, the officer said. Troops opened fire, killing one protester and injuring seven others, three critically, he said.

In another police firing incident, one person was killed and another wounded in the southern village of Chawalgam, the officer said.

Protesters also burned a government building and a local intelligence office in Budgam, a town to the west of Srinagar, the region's main city. Four protesters were wounded there, the officer said.

The other injuries occurred in clashes elsewhere in the region, the officer said.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan


Rehman Malik blames SSP
Interior Minister Rehman Malik accused banned group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) for the assassination of MQM MPA Raza Haider, who was gunned down in Karachi along with a police constable on Monday.

Talking to reporters at the Parliament House, Malik said there were reports of death threats to Haider's life, which had been conveyed to certain senior officials. He said the perpetrators of this act wanted to destabilise Karachi, which amounted to instability in the rest of the country.

He appealed to the MQM not to be scared of the elements that did not want peace in Karachi, assuring them that "we will definitely apprehend the killers". He asked MQM chief Altaf Hussain to appeal to his party workers to stay calm. The minister said the elements behind this incident wanted to create rifts between the ANP and MQM.

Separately, speaking in the Senate, Malik claimed that creating unrest in Karachi -- the country's commercial hub -- was part of a "larger scheme" to destabilise Pakistan.
Oh sure, like that could happen ...
Like you could tell...
"I'm going to tell you that a bigger formula has been framed against Pakistan. It is part of a larger scheme to destabilise Pakistan," he remarked. Malik said a joint investigation team of law enforcement agencies and intelligence agencies would be looking into all aspects of the MPA's murder.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan


Bloodshed in Karachi after MQM MPA shot dead
A Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader and a member of the Sindh Assembly, Raza Haider, and his security guard were gunned down by unidentified motorcyclists inside a mosque in the Nazimabad area on Monday.

Life in the provincial capital was crippled following the incident, as at least 35 people were killed and more than 125 injured in incidents of violence that broke out in various areas in response to the killing.

Around three-dozen vehicles and several shops were set ablaze, while massive traffic jams were witnessed at almost all major thoroughfares of the city.

Two unidentified men shot dead 50-year-old Haider and his security guard Khalid Khan inside the Jamia Masjid Aqsa in Nazimabad Block No 2, when the lawmaker was getting ready to say his prayers at the mosque.

Bodies of the two victims were taken to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital. MLO Dr Sheraz told Daily Times that the MPA sustained six bullet wounds -- three from a sub-machine gun and three from a 9mm pistol -- while his guard had sustained only one bullet injury.

The condition of a teenage boy Arsalan, who was also wounded in the attack, was stable, he added.

Liaquatabad Town SP Waqar Mallan told Daily Times that police found empty shells of a 9mm pistol and an SMG from the crime scene. The SP added that the culprits arrived at the mosque on two motorcycles and a white-coloured car.

"Two of the four men on the motorcycles entered the mosque and after shouting 'Allah-o-Akbar' opened fire on the MQM leader and his guard," the officer said.

"The sketches that we are preparing with the help of eyewitnesses would be provided to the media after they are finalised, but our first priority is to control the law and order situation," he added.

Meanwhile, violence and anarchy spread throughout the city following the MPA's murder. Besides several vehicles and shops, a petrol pump, roadside stalls and pushcarts in various parts of the city were set ablaze by protesters.

Routine life was suspended and commercial activities came to a halt due to the violence, as several people stuck in traffic jams had parked their vehicles on the roads and walked to their destinations.

The MQM Rabita Committee announced three days of mourning. The committee said special prayers would also be organised for Haider.

Separately, MQM chief Altaf Hussain called for a high-level probe into Haider's murder.

Condemning the killing, Altaf termed it a big tragedy, according to a statement by the MQM. President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, and the four chief ministers strongly condemned the killing of the MQM leader.

The PM appealed to MQM party workers to avoid taking any extreme measures to express outrage against those who had committed this heinous crime.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Popcorn.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 08/03/2010 4:05 Comments || Top||

#2  It isn't clear. It sounds like the assassins actually rode into the mosque on the motorcycle. Might have made for a quick get away but it'd be kinda hard to sneak up on somebody with all the noise a motorcycle makes. Maybe it's a normal thing for people to ride into mosques on motorcycles in that part of the world. Would Allan be OK with that?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 08/03/2010 12:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Would you like extra butter with that, grom? ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 08/03/2010 13:09 Comments || Top||

#4  I think the Jamia Masjid Aqsa is an Ahmadyidda mosque.
Posted by: lord garth || 08/03/2010 14:56 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Militants blow up policeman's house, three dead
[Dawn] Suspected al-Qaida militants on Monday blew up the house of a policeman in a former stronghold of the Sunni insurgency west of Baghdad, killing him, his wife and 4-year-old daughter, hospital and police officials said.

Separate attacks in Baghdad, including one targeting police, killed five people and wounded 15.

Al-Qaida militants have been targeting policemen and members of anti-al-Qaida Sunni militias, shaking an increasingly fragile security situation in Iraq as politicians wrangle for months over forming a government. July was the deadliest month for Iraqis in two years, though violence remains down from 2008.

The policeman's house was blown up before dawn in the Karmah district outside the city of Fallujah while the family was sleeping, police and hospital officials said.

Seven other family members, including four of the policeman's sons, were wounded in the blast, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the press.

The police officials said they suspected al-Qaida militants were behind the attack.

Also on Monday, police officials said a roadside bomb apparently targeting a police patrol missed and killed three civilians traveling in a car and wounded eight bystanders in the western part of Baghdad.

Shortly after midnight, police and hospital officials said gunmen in a car opened fire at a cafe in Baghdad's Shiite district of Sadr City, killing two people and wounding seven.

Residents said the attack may have been the work of vigilantes angered by suspected drug use at the cafe.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic State of Iraq


Police impose vehicle ban in al-Zanjieli region in Mosul
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq: Policemen have imposed a vehicle ban in al-Zanjieli region in western Mosul since Saturday after an attack on one of its patrols, a member of al-Hadbaa list said on Monday.

“Al-Zanjieli region has been placed under a vehicle ban since Saturday after the bombing attack on a police vehicle patrol,” the member, who asked to remain unnamed, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

A police source had said on Saturday (July 31) that an improvised explosive device went off targeting a police vehicle patrol in al-Zanjieli region, wouding seven persons, including five cops.
Posted by: Steve White || 08/03/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
42 injured in Gaza explosion
[Arab News] Forty-two Paleostinians were wounded early Monday in a kaboom that hit Deir Al-Balah city in the central of the Gazoo Strip, witnesses and medical sources said.

They said that the heavy blast occurred in a house where an activist of the armed wing of Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, lives. In the meantime, Hamas security services which control the Gazoo Strip told reporters that the house has been hit by an Israeli warplanes but Israel formally denied the reports.

Al-Qassam brigades leader Alaa Al-Danaf homes was the target in Deir Al-Balah city, which was destroyed with five other nearby houses by a missile fired from an Israeli F16 fighter jet, Adham Abu Salimyya told the local news agency Maan.

Israeli warplanes has launched two pre-down air strikes on tunnels in the southern Gazoo Strip on Sunday in response to a homemade rocket fired from the territory that struck southern town of Sderot.

A Hamas senior commander and homemade rocket-maker was killed during the air strikes. This incident was the first of its kind in Gazoo since Israel wound up a three-week military offensive on the Gazoo Strip in January 2009.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  In the meantime, Hamas security services which control the Gazoo Strip told reporters that the house has been hit by an Israeli warplanes but Israel formally denied the reports.

Wow, this suggests that Israelis have managed to fit mufflers on their glass F-16s! Is there anything these guys can't figure out how to do?
Posted by: gorb || 08/03/2010 0:52 Comments || Top||

#2  Aieeyiyiyiyi love a parade!
Posted by: 2sealys || 08/03/2010 8:08 Comments || Top||

#3  Maybe solar flare did it - induced electric current in Hamas detonator circuit. Because the Israelis have figured out how to control the solar flares.
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/03/2010 9:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Methane Bubble courtesy of the Halliburton Subterranian Gases Directorate
Posted by: notascrename || 08/03/2010 10:36 Comments || Top||

#5  Uh-oh. Better call Mutual of Gaza...

Posted by: tu3031 || 08/03/2010 13:17 Comments || Top||

#6  No, go with State Farm! Stuff magically appears when you do!
Posted by: Charles || 08/03/2010 14:31 Comments || Top||

#7  "Condos for sale. Opens up to a large open-air courtyard. Fresh sea breezes await you. Pool available during rainy season"
Posted by: Frank G || 08/03/2010 18:17 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Two Lebanese soldiers killed in clash with IDF on northern border
Israel's northern border erupted on Tuesday as the Israel Defense Forces exchanged fire with the Lebanese army, killing two Lebanese soldiers, in what appeared to be the most serious military confrontation since Israel's month-long war with Hezbollah in 2006.
What odds these were actually Hizb'allah foot soldiers in Lebanese army uniforms?
The Lebanese army confirmed that two of its troops had been killed when Israeli forces fired on a vehicle in which they were traveling, setting it on fire and wounding another.

In Lebanon, security sources said that Israeli shells fired at the southern Lebanese border village of Aadassi hit a house, wounding two - a soldier and a civilian.

Lebanese troops responded with artillery fire, Lebanese press reports said, while eyewitnesses said fire had broken out in two buildings in the village.

"It started when the Israelis wanted to cut a tree down inside Lebanon," one security source in Lebanon said. "The Lebanese army fired warning shots at them and they responded by shelling."

Since the end of the Second Lebanon War, the IDF has conducted patrols up to the international border, which in some places is on the Lebanese side of the border fence. It is possible that Tuesday's incident was caused by one of the sides misidentifying the correct location of the border. In Lebanon, there was a report that Lebanese soldiers demanded that Israeli troops leave the area before the exchange of fire took place.

Responding to the incident, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman authorized Israel's UN ambassador Gabriella Shalev to lodge an official complaint against Lebanon with the UN Security Council.

In a statement, the Israeli government blamed Lebanon for provoking the clash, saying it took a particularly grave view of the action as IDF soldiers had been working in complete coordination with UN peacekeepers.

"Israel sees this incident as a violation of UN Security Council resolution 1701, one of a long line of violations, first of which is the massive arming of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon," the statement read. "Israel views the government of Lebanon as responsible for this grave event and warns of possible consequences if these violations continue."

Also on Tuesday there were reports that a Katyusha rocket fired from Lebanon struck the northern Galilee - but police dispatched to the area could find no trace of an impact.

Residents living close to border reported hearing several loud explosions.

Aharon Valensi, head of the Upper Galilee Regional Council, told television news that residents of the area had been told to take cover in bomb shelters.

"We're ready," he said. "The IDF prepared us for situations like this and we just hope that it is only a localized incident."

Israeli military engineering units maintain a security fence along the border with southern Lebanon. The region has traditionally been a stronghold for Hezbollah but regular Lebanese troops returned to the area in 2006 following Israel's summer war with the Shi'a militant group.

A 12,000-strong United Nations peacekeeping force, UNIFIL, is also deployed in the area.

Following news of the incident, UNIFIL issued a statement calling on both armies to show "maximum restraint" and prevent an escalation of hostilities.

Tuesday's clash follows rocket attacks on Monday on the southern city of Eilat and neighboring Aqaba in Jordan, in which a Jordanian citizen was killed and five others were injured.
Posted by: Fred || 08/03/2010 08:50 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "The Lebanese army fired warning shots at them and they responded by shelling."

Yar! Good display of disproportionate force! It's the only thing those clowns understand.
Posted by: gorb || 08/03/2010 10:13 Comments || Top||

#2  VoA sez: Lebs say Israeli shelling killed three Lebanese troops and a journalist with the Al-Akhbar newspaper.
Posted by: Pappy || 08/03/2010 10:58 Comments || Top||

#3  "Lebs say Israeli shelling killed three Lebanese troops and a journalist with the Al-Akhbar newspaper."

So Pappy, what you are saying is four combatants were killed by the IDF.
Posted by: GORT || 08/03/2010 12:26 Comments || Top||

#4  A 12,000-strong United Nations peacekeeping force, UNIFIL, is also deployed in the area.

If by force, you mean vacationing at the beach and watching all the bikini clad-girls.
Posted by: Charles || 08/03/2010 14:48 Comments || Top||

#5  The BBC's Wyre Davies: "United Nations peacekeepers in southern Lebanon say they are trying to restore calm"

lol.... just go home , your work is done here ....
Posted by: Black Charlie || 08/03/2010 14:49 Comments || Top||

#6  Actually, one or two Israeli soldiers were hurt or killed, I heard, and then Israel fired back.

Maybe the Israeli response wasn't so disproportionate after all.
Posted by: gorb || 08/03/2010 20:54 Comments || Top||

#7  So what did the UNIFIL see, Sergeant Schultz?
Posted by: Mr. Bill || 08/03/2010 21:42 Comments || Top||

#8  Casualties repor now up to FIVE - started out being repor as 2 Lebanese Soldats + 1 Journalist, now is 4 Leb Soldats + 1 Israeli Officer.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 08/03/2010 23:05 Comments || Top||


Bombers, missiles could end Iran nukes
Posted by: Ebberong Spoluse5087 || 08/03/2010 00:08 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "It will be primarily an air attack with covert work to start a 'velvet' revolution so [the] Iranian people can take back their country," said retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney, a former fighter pilot.

Hey! They stole my idea! :-)
Posted by: gorb || 08/03/2010 0:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Versus

NEWS KERALA > MILITARY OFFICIAL: IRAN WARNS IT WILL RETALIATE AGZ ANY US ATTACKS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 08/03/2010 0:51 Comments || Top||

#3  Can't wait to see the MOP-hole.
Posted by: Q || 08/03/2010 1:04 Comments || Top||

#4  He left out the F-22s, armed with SDBs, preceding the B-2s and B-1Bs to take out the air defenses hidden in tunnels.
Posted by: Mike Ramsey || 08/03/2010 5:12 Comments || Top||

#5  The bluster offensive begins. Culminates in November retraction.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 08/03/2010 7:01 Comments || Top||

#6  #5 The bluster offensive begins. Culminates in November retraction.

+1
Posted by: Keenster || 08/03/2010 7:40 Comments || Top||

#7  The bluster offensive begins. Culminates in November retraction.

If it works, fine. Bluster on.

Non-trivial problem: no one takes Barry seriously. Neither does anyone consider him to be dangerous in any but a goody two-shoes lefty junior professorish way.
Posted by: lex || 08/03/2010 9:34 Comments || Top||

#8  I still think the best approach to this would be with the blackest of black ops. In this case, for the Israelis to park a semi truck in some ordinary place upwind of a major support city for the Iranian regime, like Qom.

Vents open in the top of the semi, and large quantities of invisible radioactive isotopes start billowing out. Once done, the truck driver returns and drives away.

A few days later, tens of thousands of people get very sick, long after the truck has been disposed of in a very deep ocean trench. Then the rumor is planted that the government had a nuclear accident, but has not informed the public, because it would expose their nuclear weapons program.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 08/03/2010 14:04 Comments || Top||

#9  Turning Qom into a radioactive glass bowl would go a long way towards putting an end to Iran's overarching plan to re-establish the Persian Empire, also. Just saying...
Posted by: Old Patriot || 08/03/2010 14:28 Comments || Top||

#10  Id be happy with an overt strike on Iranian facilities and power bases asap.. The Iran saga is just too tedious to do anything else with . Once they have been bitch slapped down , the middle east will be a lot quieter .. As soon as the powers that be realise that , the sooner there will be an end
Posted by: Black Charlie || 08/03/2010 14:46 Comments || Top||

#11  I agree with Black Charlie. But then, I'm a neocon warmonger...
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/03/2010 15:08 Comments || Top||

#12  It's August. Listen for the Guns.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 08/03/2010 15:41 Comments || Top||

#13  Moose that's absolutely brilliant. Its a shame nobody would ever greenlight such a thing in DC
Posted by: No I am The Other Beldar || 08/03/2010 19:10 Comments || Top||

#14  I agree with old patriot. The second wave should involve Windex. However, I don't expect anything from Oblahblah beyond strong words. And that might be pushing the envelope for him.
Posted by: DMFD || 08/03/2010 20:06 Comments || Top||

#15  Vents open in the top of the semi, and large quantities of invisible radioactive isotopes start billowing out. Once done, the truck driver returns and drives away.

They could blame it on all those pork-contaminated radioactive cigarettes they claim to have imported from America.
Posted by: gorb || 08/03/2010 20:56 Comments || Top||

#16  Somebody would figure out where the isotopes came from. Some finger prints are harder to hide than others.
Posted by: Mr. Bill || 08/03/2010 21:45 Comments || Top||

#17  Mr. Bill, how hard would it be for Mossad the Israelis to get some Russian isotopes? ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 08/03/2010 21:56 Comments || Top||


Terror Networks
Justice memo: FBI can apprehend Assange overseas, regardless of foreign criminal laws
Assange seems to believe, incorrectly, that he is immune to arrest so long as he stays outside the United States. He leads a nomadic existence, operating in countries such as Sweden, Belgium and Iceland, where he believes he enjoys the protection of "beneficial laws." (He recently worked with the Icelandic parliament to pass legislation effectively making the country a haven for WikiLeaks). The United States should make clear that it will not tolerate any country -- and particularly NATO allies such as Belgium and Iceland -- providing safe haven for criminals who put the lives of NATO forces at risk.

With appropriate diplomatic pressure, these governments may cooperate in bringing Assange to justice. But if they refuse, the United States can arrest Assange on their territory without their knowledge or approval. In 1989, the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel issued a memorandum entitled "Authority of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to Override International Law in Extraterritorial Law Enforcement Activities."

This memorandum declares that "the FBI may use its statutory authority to investigate and arrest individuals for violating United States law, even if the FBI's actions contravene customary international law" and that an "arrest that is inconsistent with international or foreign law does not violate the Fourth Amendment." In other words, we do not need permission to apprehend Assange or his co-conspirators anywhere in the world.

Arresting Assange would be a major blow to his organization. But taking him off the streets is not enough; we must also recover the documents he unlawfully possesses and disable the system he has built to illegally disseminate classified information.

This should be done, ideally, through international law enforcement cooperation. But if such cooperation is not forthcoming, the United States can and should act alone. Assange recently boasted that he has created "an uncensorable system for untraceable mass document leaking." I am sure this elicited guffaws at the National Security Agency. The United States has the capability and the authority to monitor his communications and disrupt his operations.

Last year, the Obama administration stood up a new U.S. Cyber Command (USCYBERCOM) to "conduct full-spectrum military cyberspace operations" in defense of U.S. national security. With the stroke of his pen, the president can authorize USCYBERCOM to protect American and allied forces by eliminating WikiLeaks' ability to disseminate classified information that puts their lives at risk.
Posted by: lex || 08/03/2010 08:20 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Or he could have Polonium poisoning. Or cirrhosis. Or.....
Posted by: Glenmore || 08/03/2010 9:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Technically, in past wasn't these overseas captured made by the United States Marshals Service?

"In fiscal year 2008, the U.S. Marshals arrested more than 36,600 federal fugitive felons, clearing 39,700 federal felony warrants – more than all other law enforcement agencies combined. Working with authorities at the federal, state, and local levels, U.S. Marshals-led fugitive task forces arrested more than 73,000 state and local fugitives, clearing 90,600 state and local felony warrants."
Posted by: Anonymoose || 08/03/2010 9:22 Comments || Top||

#3  ...Oh please, PLEASE...

Nothing would go futher towards stopping this sort of nonsense than the sight of this a@shat in a US courtroom.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 08/03/2010 9:29 Comments || Top||

#4  All very well. Has anybody told Holder and zero?
Posted by: Thor Chanter3839 || 08/03/2010 9:55 Comments || Top||

#5  His least worry is the FBI. Its the ISI that won't even bother to move the body.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/03/2010 10:15 Comments || Top||

#6  Nothing would go futher towards stopping this sort of nonsense than the sight of this a@shat in a US courtroom.

Except maybe a suicide by Pvt Manning (now reputedly being watched due to risk of same), followed by some heavy pressure on Iceland, Sweden etc by State and Treasury....
Posted by: lex || 08/03/2010 10:25 Comments || Top||

#7  The only way Bambi and Holder would approve such an operation is to look strong or to cover their collective butts.

Otherwise they won't do shit.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/03/2010 11:19 Comments || Top||

#8  In the news:
114 members of the House of Representatives voted NO on war funding on July 29.

At least you have 100+ congressmen happy with the guy. They won't expect (or probably thwart) Mr. President's "stroke of a pen" to authorize USCYBERCOM to do anything.
Posted by: Willy || 08/03/2010 11:38 Comments || Top||

#9  Assange is just a mouthpiece for an advisory board which runs Wikileaks, comprising Assange, Phillip Adams, Wang Dan, C. J. Hinke, Ben Laurie, Tashi Namgyal Khamsitsang, Xiao Qiang, Chico Whitaker and Wang Youcai.
Any of these can be picked up anytime, but they are not, so why not?
Posted by: tipper || 08/03/2010 13:33 Comments || Top||

#10  Too many Wangs in the list.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/03/2010 15:22 Comments || Top||

#11  A US Federal jail cell just might be the safest place on earth for these traitors. And even then... Every single person they pass on the street, for the remainder of their lives, may be someone seeking blood revenge. Not only on them, but on their loved ones as well.

It's a cold cruel world and many of the people they have betrayed will not be nice people. Go take a read about the torutre rooms around the world, losers. You just got the attention of the type of people who play that game. And I'm not talking panties on the head. There is no way to know the darkness of heart, the country, the reach or the ability of those betrayed.

The chattering classes cheering them on will be little comfort to them now.
Posted by: Martini || 08/03/2010 15:34 Comments || Top||

#12  Wikileaks has done some good work exposing Chinese oppression and the shenanigans of the Russian mafia. If you're going to piss in those guys' messkits, though, you need to remember who your friends are. Assange and his gang have forgotten that, and they may well pay the price for it.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 08/03/2010 16:05 Comments || Top||

#13  Has anybody told Holder and zero? Those two clowns have other priorities, such as taking doctors to court for refusing to work for nothing & taking Arizona to court to protect itself from illegal immigration.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 08/03/2010 19:16 Comments || Top||

#14  Send him to GITMO
Posted by: No I am The Other Beldar || 08/03/2010 19:18 Comments || Top||

#15  These 'wang leakers' should be easy to draw in. Just set them up with a few credible leaks with a few embedded web tracking tags and then pounce.
Posted by: airandee || 08/03/2010 20:33 Comments || Top||

#16  Re #12: If anything "unfortunate" happens to Assange, like getting shot in broad daylight, or having an extremely fatal fall down some stairs, everybody will blame the eeeeeeevil US. It won't matter who did it - even if the assassin leaves a note in Russian, Chinese, Pashtun or whatever. It will still be our fault.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 08/03/2010 21:36 Comments || Top||

#17  I could live with that, Rambler.

We're always to blame anyway.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 08/03/2010 21:50 Comments || Top||


Global jihadis targeting Jordan and Egypt, not just Israel
A Jordanian citizen was killed and three others were wounded by Grad rockets fired on Monday from Egyptian territory at the Gulf of Eilat and Aqaba. One rocket struck open space north of Eilat, three struck Aqaba's hotel area, one rocket apparently landed in the sea and one landed in Sinai. On an Army Radio show on Monday morning, the presenter, a well-known comic, ridiculed the rocket launchers for having bad aim and mistakenly hitting Aqaba. But the perpetrators, apparently members of the group known as Global Jihad, intended to hit Aqaba no less than Eilat. They consider the Hashemite kingdom to be as legitimate a target as Israel, if not more so.

Aqaba has become an attractive destination for European, American and even Israeli tourists in recent years, and is an important source of income for Jordan. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in new hotels in the area, which is what makes it attractive to terrorists.

Concern over possible missile strikes or major terror attacks has spurred the Jordanians to closer security collaboration with Israel, despite this past year's rift between the Israeli government and the Jordanian monarchy. Throughout this period, the parties have continued coordinating on security matters; the information on more than one occasion thwarted an attack on Israeli or Jordanian soil. It seems that quite a few people in Israel are unaware that they owe their lives to Jordanian security forces.

The authorities haven't determined from where the Grads were launched. Israeli sources think they were fired from Sinai, a charge the Egyptians have roundly denied. The Egyptians say this couldn't happen when Egyptian security forces are so effectively deployed in Sinai. But Sinai was and still is a hotbed for Global Jihad. Weapons are being smuggled from Sinai into Gaza, including Grad missiles. Some of these missiles presumably remain in Sinai, waiting to be launched.

A Grad missile was fired at Ashkelon Friday, causing no injuries. Radical Islamist groups in Gaza could be behind both attacks. There are at least five groups identified with Al-Qaida or Global Jihad: Jaish al-Umma (army of the nation ), which first appeared in the Gaza Strip in June 2007, although it was officially established only two years ago; Jaish al-Islam (the army of Islam ) - a group associated with the Dughmush clan;
The Dughmushes have their own army? They've certainly moved up in the world -- back in the day nobody claimed more than a brigade.
and Jund Ansar Allah (army of the supporters of Allah ), which clashed with Hamas a year ago in Rafah, ending in Hamas killing 24 of its activists after the group declared an Islamic emirate in Gaza. This group was assisted by non-Palestinian Global Jihad activists; Jaish al-Momaminin (the army of the believers ); Al-Qaida Palestine, which took responsibility for the attack on the American school in Gaza; and Kataib al-Suyuf al-Haq al-Islamiyah (the brigades of the swords of Islamic justice ).
And thus anybody with any pretensions gets to be an emir, and Number Threes are thick upon the ground.
Global Jihad activists have come to the Gaza Strip, trained there, armed themselves and returned to Sinai to commit acts of terror against tourist targets in Sinai and elsewhere in Egypt. That may be the case this time as well.
Posted by: ryuge || 08/03/2010 02:26 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Global Jihad

#1  Concern over possible missile strikes or major terror attacks has spurred the Jordanians to closer security collaboration with Israel,

Not news. The IDF has for decades been the Hashemite kingdom's first line of defense.
Posted by: lex || 08/03/2010 10:28 Comments || Top||

#2  "Jordan + Egypt" > OOOOOOOOOOO, you just knew they would, didn't ya?
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 08/03/2010 20:15 Comments || Top||



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