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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Aloha from Kauai

Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Juliet Prowse aka Lili in "G.I. Blues" aka Claudine in "Can-Can" (Died in 1996 at age 59)


Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 09/25/2010 1:18 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Suicide blast kills child, injures 28 in Afghanistan
[Dawn] A boomer targeting a Nato convoy in northern Afghanistan hit a passing bus full of wedding party guests, killing a child and injuring 28 others, police said.

Deputy Police Chief Abdul Raouf Taj said most of the people injured Friday were women and children on their way to the wedding.

He said there were no deaths in the convoy, which was near the kaboom in Mazari Sharif city. The bus was passing by when the boomer detonated his car and was killed.
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Afghan Forces Capture 10 Taliban in E. Afghanistan
[Tolo News] Afghan Security forces jugged at least 10 Taliban beturbanned goons in the eastern Khost province on Wednesday

Afghan National Army officials say they have jugged ten people who were involved in insurgency attacks in the province's insecure areas.

Afghan and coalition forces have escalated their counter-insurgency operations to wipe out Taliban forces of Evil in the country's volatile regions, in which forces of Evil suffer heavy casualties.

Most of these forces of Evil are killed in the Afghan and coalition forces' air-strikes.

Meanwhile,
...back at the ranch...
the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) has discovered and seized 240 kilograms of explosives in the southern province of Zabul.

According to NDS Press Release, the explosives were placed in eight containers in Qalat, the thriving provincial capital of Zabul.

Afghan and foreign forces have escalated their counter-insurgency operations and claim they have had achievements in the operations.
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Suicide bombers attack Nato base in Gardez city
[Gulf Times] Several boomers attacked a Nato-run base in southeastern Afghanistan yesterday, with at least two gunnies banged in the latest assault in Injun country.

A front man for the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the attack was launched on a forward operating base (FOB) in Gardez city in Paktia province, not far from Afghanistan's mostly non-existant border with Pakistain.

Rising violence and casualties are of deep concern in Washington, where US President Barack B.O. Obama is due to conduct a strategy review of the increasingly unpopular war when the elections are safely in the past.

Afghanistan is under renewed scrutiny after last weekend's parliamentary election was hit by violence and widespread claims of fraud, the second flawed poll in 13 months.

The Taliban and other gunnies such as the Al Qaeda-linked Haqqani network have launched a series of brazen assaults on foreign bases and government buildings in the past year in a bid to topple the government and force out foreign troops.

"We did have an attempted suicide kaboom on FOB Gardez, and there are reports of two enemies killed in action wearing boom jackets," ISAF front man James Judge said.

There was no word on any possible ISAF casualties. US troops make up most of the ISAF force in Paktia and a US-run provincial reconstruction team is based in Gardez.

Rohullah Samon, a front man for the Paktia governor, said several armed gunnies and boomers attacked the base. "A boomer driving a car blew himself up at the military gate in an attempt to let other fighters in," Samon said. He said two gunnies were killed and an Afghan security guard and an Afghan soldier were maimed.

Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban front man, said 10 of the Islamist group's fighters were involved and said some had managed the make it inside the base.

The Taliban often make exaggerated or unconfirmed claims about such attacks.

In late August, foreign and Afghan troops killed 24 gunnies as they fought off pre-dawn attacks in neighbouring Khost province on the Pakistain border.

Violence is at its worst since the Taliban were ousted by US-backed Afghan forces in 2001, with military and civilian casualties at record levels as the Taliban spread the insurgency into once stable areas in the north and west.

In the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, a child was killed and 27 civilians maimed when a suicide car bomber attacked a passing ISAF convoy, a front man for the governor of Balkh province said. There was no indication of casualties among the ISAF convoy.
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Africa North
Egypt frees top Hamas official
[Gulf Times] Egypt freed a top Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, security official yesterday after holding him for 10 days on what Cairo media described as allegations of involvement in smuggling to the Gazoo Strip and the killing of an Egyptian border guard.

Hamas, the Islamist group that runs Gazoo, said Mohamed Dababesh had returned to the Paleostinian territory.
"Get out and stay out!"
"The release came as a result of contacts between the Hamas leadership and Egypt. It was also proof that the reported allegations were false and incorrect," said Hamas front man Sami Abu Zuhri.
That's as may be. But did he get to keep the large amount of money he'd been in the process of smuggling into Gazoo?
An Egyptian security official in Cairo confirmed there were no grounds for continuing to hold the Hamas official. "Dababesh was released after it was made certain he is not involved in any matters harming Egyptian security. No charges were filed against him," said the official, who declined to be named.
That sounds like he somehow left the money behind in his cell or the interview room or something.
Dababesh, a senior member of Hamas's internal security service, was detained on September 13 upon landing in Cairo airport from Saudi Arabia.

Egypt is one of two Arab states to have a peace accord with Israel and has supported the Jewish state's efforts to isolate Gazoo. The Egyptian-Gazoo border is tightly controlled to prevent smuggling from the Sinai desert.

Cairo has also tried, without success, to heal a violent schism between Hamas and the US-backed government of Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas, which holds sway in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Abu Zuhri said at least 40 members of Hamas and other Paleostinian factions remained in Egyptian custody, and called for them to be freed too.

"We hope that the (Dababesh) release will be the first step toward righting relations between Hamas and the Egyptian leadership and bringing an end to detention of Paleostinians in their jails," he said.

A Paleostinian fisherman was rubbed out by the Israeli navy off the blockaded coast of the Gazoo Strip yesterday, medics in the enclave said.

"Fisherman Mohamed Bakr died by a bullet by the Israeli navy today in the sea north of the Gazoo Strip," said Adham Abu Selmiya, who heads the Paleostinian territory's medical services.

An Israeli military spokeswoman said the fisherman was in restricted waters "heading towards Israel."

"Troops ordered him to turn back. As he refused to obey they fired warning shots and then shots towards his boat," she said.
This article starring:
Mohamed Dababesh
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas


Arabia
Thousands protest in south Yemen
[Iran Press TV] Tens of thousands of Southern Movement supporters have staged demonstrations against the unity of southern and northern Yemen.

Some eight thousands people took to the streets in several cities to protest Yemeni unity.

Police dispersed a group of protesters in Aden, the main city in south Yemen.

The Southern movement says security forces jugged 12 of its members planning protests.

The protest comes ahead of a key meeting of the Friends of Yemen in New York.

Protesters in Loder city warned that any final settlement about the South in New York will be worthless unless it lays down a final settlement for the South.

"Resolving the southern cause is essential to resolving all problems facing Yemen ... Any solution that does not stipulate a final settlement for south Yemen will be without any value," a statement read.

The Friends of Yemen group will meet on Friday to discuss opposition to what they describe as extremism and to raise funds to tackle poverty in the country.

The meeting will also review the progress the organization has made since its January meeting in London.
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Friends of Yemem in New York. The UN?
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 09/25/2010 5:10 Comments || Top||

#2  Close. Separate but related group
Posted by: Pappy || 09/25/2010 17:51 Comments || Top||


Besieged Al-Qaeda Militants Battling Yemeni Govt Troops
[Arab Times (Kuwait)] Al-Qaeda Islamic snuffies holed up in a village in south Yemen on Wednesday fought off repeated attempts by government troops backed by tanks and heavy artillery to retake the besieged town, officials said.

Thousands of people have decamped Hawta and the surrounding area in Shabwa province since security forces laid siege to the village three days ago. The operation signals an escalation in the government's US-backed campaign to uproot the terror network's local offshoot, known as al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

Shabwa officials said at least four al-Qaeda gunnies and a civilian have been killed since the fighting began Saturday, while medical officials said at least nine soldiers have been maimed in the past two days. More than two dozen suspected Islamic snuffies have been detained.

The government operation, which aims to uproot a 120-man snuffy cell, comes after several attacks by al-Qaeda gunnies against Yemeni security forces at checkpoints and security outposts.

"The forces are involved in fierce battles to cleanse the Hawta area from those elements that turned these desert areas into their training and hiding centers, and who have taken residents as human shields," Shabwa security chief Ahmed al-Maqdashi said.

Thousands of supporters of Yemen's Southern Movement demonstrated on Thursday ahead of a key meeting of the "Friends of Yemen" donors group in New York, local officials and witnesses said. Prostestors in several cities, including the restive Loder, carried flags of former South Yemen and anti-North placards, the officials told AFP.

Tribal sources estimated that 8,000 people, most of them carrying firearms, took part in the demonstration in Loder, shouting slogans against Yemeni unity.

Last month, Loder was the scene of fierce clashes between Yemeni forces and alleged al-Qaeda Islamic snuffies as Sanaa charged that members of the Southern Movement fought alongside al-Qaeda.

A Southern Movement source told AFP his supporters "carried arms after the Yemeni army, which has been imposing a blockade on Loder since August, threatened to crush the demonstration."

"We took arms to defend ourselves," he said.

Protestors in Loder called in a statement "on south Yemenis to unite in the face of the barbaric military campaign by the occupation Yemeni forces against the people of Huta city in Shabwa province," where fierce fighting with suspected al-Qaeda Islamic snuffies has been raging over the past six days. The statement called on the international community and the "Friends of Yemen" group to "intervene to resolve the south Yemen issue."

"Resolving the southern cause is essential to resolving all problems facing Yemen ... Any solution that does not stipulate a final settlement for south Yemen will be without any value."

Police dispersed a small group of demonstrators Thursday morning in Aden, the main city in south Yemen, eyewitnesses said.

Southern Movement front man Ahmad al-Rabeezi told AFP security forces jugged 12 Islamic snuffies as they left a meeting in Aden province, where they were planning for the protests, Rabeezi said.

Police tightened security in Aden where supporters of the Southern Movement prepared to stage a demonstration in the evening, Rabeezi said.
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia

#1  The term "Islamic snuffies" needs to be added to our daily conversations.

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al || 09/25/2010 15:30 Comments || Top||

#2  whenever they protest so much and fight like maniacs, you know there gotta be terrorist big shots in that village.
keep it surrounded and continue the operation.
Posted by: Mike Hunt || 09/25/2010 20:26 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
2 criminals hurt in gun battle with Rab
[Bangla Daily Star] Two criminals were perforated in a shootout with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Mohammadpur of the capital early yesterday.

The injured were identified as Mohammad Arshad alias Ashraf, 21, and Mohammad Babul Akter Shamim, 22.

A patrol team of Rab-2 challenged a group of youth on suspicion at Basila. The group, at one stage, opened fire on Rab personnel forcing them to retaliate, Rab sources said.

After the shootout, Rab jugged two muggers with bullet-maimed legs from the spot and recovered two firearms, two machetes and five mobile sets from them. However their accomplices decamped, said they added.

Quoting locals, Rab said the arestees are well known muggers in the area.

The maimed criminals were admitted to National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR).
*sigh* Hopefully this venture away from creative writing is short-lived. It's not healthy to force fantasists to hew too closely to the raw truth.
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Jihadi books, police uniforms seized from city house
[Bangla Daily Star] Police seized a huge number of jihadi publications, several pairs of police uniform and replica shotguns and handguns from a two-storey building in the capital's Elephant Road yesterday.

New Market police early in the morning raided the place based on a complaint that some youths had been trying to break into the building. When police reached the spot the myrmidons were gone and the residents were not home.

Yesterday's recovery also includes books and booklets of Bangladesh Jamaat-e Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir, national flags, cassettes and CDs.

Syed Nurul Islam, additional deputy commissioner (ADC) of Ramna zone, said, "Earlier in April, police recovered a huge number of jihadi books and documents from the same house."

The building belongs to Prof Aminur Rahman Majumder, a teacher of Soil, Water and Environment Department of Dhaka University and joint convener of BNP-Jamaat backed White Panel of DU teachers. Locals said the building was left abandoned for the next few months till the new tenants moved in.

Police jugged Prof Majumder's nephew Mostafizur Rahman, who is also a DU employee, and his caretaker Siddique Ullah in connection with yesterday's recovery. The arrestees live in the next building, which also belongs to Prof Majumder. The professor lives in a DU teachers' quarter.

Meanwhile,
...back at the ranch...
Prof Majumder told journalists that he did not know that the tenants of the building were Shibir muscle.

ADC Nurul Islam said the recovered items indicate unlawful activities. Police are investigating the matter and actions will be taken against those who are involved in this, he added.

Police said they suspect Shibir activities mainly of DU and Dhaka College units used to be operated from here.

Locals, however, alleged that the building has been a Shibir den for the last several years.
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami


19 pirates arrested
[Gulf Times] Bangla coasties, with the help of fishermen, nabbed 19 pirates after 20 fishermen went missing following attacks by pirates in the Bay of Bengal sea near Sonarchar area under Taltali sub-district of southern Barguna district early yesterday.

Officer-in-charge of Taltali cop shoppe and Coast Guard sources said a gang of buccaneers looted three fishing trawlers in the Bay early yesterday and threw 20 fishermen and crew of the looted trawlers to the Bay waters when they tried to resist.

The pirates, after looting, tried to flee from the scene but FB Rahim, one of their two trawlers, was stranded as its engine went out of order. Later, the Coast Guard who were informed by some fishermen nabbed the 19 pirates.
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Pirates


Caribbean-Latin America
Mono Jojoy Tracked By GPS in His Boots. Hilarity Ensued
ht to Hotair
Posted by: Frank G || 09/25/2010 10:49 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Either the dyslexic or comedic part of my brain reads his name as "Mojo Jojo".
Posted by: Anonymoose || 09/25/2010 11:00 Comments || Top||

#2  My unfunny brain reads the name as piche joto
Posted by: badanov || 09/25/2010 11:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Could it be because the two words only differ by a single letter?
Posted by: gromky || 09/25/2010 11:19 Comments || Top||

#4  We're not the only ones who have to take off our shoes before we go thru the scanners before we enter the camps.

But scanners in the jungle, gonna be tough.
Posted by: anonymous2u || 09/25/2010 12:20 Comments || Top||

#5  I read somewhere that the Colombians also had a traitor in the camp.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/25/2010 14:16 Comments || Top||

#6  Well, I suppose that is a method that can never be used again thanks to someone telling how they did it. Things like that are best kept secret.

Posted by: crosspatch || 09/25/2010 14:23 Comments || Top||

#7  What piece of clothing is tagged? Beep beep B EEP. BZZZZZT! They will be so intimidating going around naked...
Posted by: M. Murcek || 09/25/2010 14:32 Comments || Top||

#8  I also wish the secret had not been disclosed. However, with microminiaturization, any person of potential interest must beware of ANYTHING that could contain a tracking device. The obvious thing of course is a battery case such as Li-ion, sealed in plastic, which of necessity must have its own power and its own internal circuitry. It would be very difficult to determine whether or not this has been screwed with, such as by substituting a 'special' integrated circuit for the usual kind.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/25/2010 16:40 Comments || Top||

#9  I have often wondered why soldiers uniforms and equipment aren't outfitted with RFD tags or something similar so if a soldier is kidnapped or a Hummer stolen we know where the bad guys who did it are.
Posted by: Mike Hunt || 09/25/2010 16:41 Comments || Top||

#10  Then of course there are things like AK-47s with so many potential spaces that could be hollowed out and bugged prior to distribution through the usual channels. I'm sure cunning plans like that have already been in use by intelligence agencies for quite some time. We won't be hearing about those.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/25/2010 16:43 Comments || Top||

#11  #9 -- your suggestion has most likely been in use for some time now. No need for the rest of us to know about it.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/25/2010 16:45 Comments || Top||

#12  @#11 I wondered why, not a suggestion.
reading comprehension much?
Posted by: Mike Hunt || 09/25/2010 20:14 Comments || Top||

#13 
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/25/2010 23:53 Comments || Top||


Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Suicide bomber stikes in Dagestan during special ops
At least three police officers were wounded by a suicide bomber Friday evening in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan.

“An unknown person blew himself up in the area cordoned by law enforcement officers. Between three and four people were injured,” a police source said.

Russias National Antiterrorism Committee said that two terrorists militants and two officers had been killed during the special operation.

“Law enforcement forces were carrying out an evacuation of nearby homes before the active phase of the operation when the criminals began firing wildly and throwing grenades,” their statement said. A number of officers had been injured, according to the statement.
Posted by: ryuge || 09/25/2010 02:49 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front: WoT
FBI raid six sites in Minneapolis, two in Chicago
Highlights from various links: the FBI appears to be looking for connections between local anti-war activists and terrorist groups in Colombia and the Middle East. Homes searched include those of Mick Kelly, Jess Sundin, Meredith Aby, Anh Pham, Sarah Martin and Tracy Molm in Minneapolis, and two unknowns in Chicago. Terror groups of interest include FARC, PFLP, Hezbollah. Also of interest are any payments made to one Hatam Abudayyeh, executive director of the Chicago-based Arab American Action Network.


Update: Homes searched in Chicago: of Stephanie Weiner and Joseph Iosbaker, and of Hatem Abudayyeh. Thomas Burke was subpeonaed to face a grand jury, as were the others, according to various reports.
(CNN) -- Political and anti-war activists in the Midwest said they were the target Friday of searches the FBI called part of an investigation into the "material support of terrorism."Warrants led to the search of five residences and one office in Minneapolis, Minnesota, said FBI spokesman Steve Warfield, who said there were no arrests. Two other searches were conducted in Chicago, Illinois.

Activist Tom Burke in Chicago said he and others in Minnesota, Illinois and Michigan were served subpoenas to testify before a grand jury. He also said computer hard drives were taken from locations in both cities, as well as a cell phone in Minneapolis.

A coalition of groups represented on the Fight Back website released a statement condemning the raids as "harassment."

"We see them as a way to impair our freedom of speech," said Burke, a member of the Colombia Action Network. "We've done nothing wrong."

The coalition came together after a large anti-war protest at the Republication National Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul in 2008, Burke said.

Among the groups the activists are involved with are the Palestine Solidarity Group, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, the Twin Cities Anti-War Committee, and Students for a Democratic Society, which was active during the Vietnam War.

One of the apartments searched in Minneapolis belongs to Mick Kelly, an anti-war and government protestor. Kelly said the search warrant indicated agents were looking for evidence of his travels to Latin America and Palestine.

Jessica Sundin of the Twin Cities Anti-War Committee told CNN agents took a hard drive, paper files, photos, a cell phone and her passport during a search of her Minneapolis residence Friday.
More from the local Chicago CBS affiliate here:
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports the targets in the Minnesota raids included Jess Sundin, an organizer of a mass march on the opening day of the Republican National Convention in St. Paul two years ago. They also included Mick Kelly, who has announced plans for a march on the Democratic National Convention if Minneapolis is selected to host it in 2012.

Warfield said he couldn't comment on whose homes were searched or give details on why because it's an ongoing investigation. "There's no imminent threat to the community," he said.

An FBI SWAT team entered first "and looked for pointy things. And then they left and the FBI agents came in and looked through everything in the house," Sundin said. The agents took "computers, several boxes of papers, everything related to data like discs," she added.
The Washington Examiner has more details from Ay Pee.
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/25/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Professor Ayers to the white courtesy phone please, Professor Bill Ayers.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/25/2010 7:36 Comments || Top||

#2  "Sorry, ex-professor Ayers doesn't work here anymore. Try the Sunnydale Peoples' Retirement Home and Free Impotency Clinic."
Posted by: Anonymoose || 09/25/2010 11:10 Comments || Top||

#3  IIRC, it was George Orwell who said "If you are anti-war, you are objectively pro-fascist" during WWII.

The same thing applies today - if you are anti-war, you are objectively pro-terrorist.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 09/25/2010 13:09 Comments || Top||

#4  The Twin Cities (Minneapolis) has been a hotbed of communist and anarchists for some time now. The UofM is one of the most left wing universities in the nation.
I believe that SDS -(Students for a Democratic Society)got their start in Minneapolis.
Anyway, I'm not surprised there were raids there.
I guess the long winters and large Scandinavian population make a good breeding ground for socialist ideas & radicals.
Posted by: Mike Hunt || 09/25/2010 20:20 Comments || Top||

#5  long winters and large Scandinavian population make a good breeding ground for socialist ideas
Times have changed - long winters and Scandi babes used to make good breeding grounds, period -- or at least fun attempts.
Posted by: Glenmore || 09/25/2010 20:41 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Protests condemn verdict against Aafia Siddiqui
[Dawn] Pak muscle poured into the streets on Friday shouting "Death to America™" and burning effigies of President Barack B.O. Obama after a US court jailed a woman scientist for 86 years.
"Into the paddy wagon wit' yez, Missus!"
"I can do 86 years standin' on me head, copper!"

I guess they don't love our president anymore in Pakistan. Possibly the rest of the Ummah as well.
In a case that has been condemned across the nuclear-armed Mohammedan nation of 167 million mostly lunatics, the government said it would petition Washington to secure the repatriation of the mother of three on humanitarian grounds.
"Pakistain just ain't the same without her!"
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  Ah, well. It keeps their minds off the floods.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/25/2010 12:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Maybe so, but I fear all that seething is an exothermic process and so contributes to global warming.
Posted by: SteveS || 09/25/2010 15:32 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Five people killed in Baghdad violence
[Dawn] Five people were murdered in Storied Baghdad on Thursday, including four young boys in a bomb attack, an interior ministry official said.

A bomb struck the car of Anwar Taher Ridha, a janitor in the office of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, in the central neighbourhood of Zayouna at around 6:00 pm (1500 GMT).

The official said it was unclear if it was caused by a magnetic "sticky bomb" attached to his car, or a roadside kaboom.

Two of Ridha's sons and two of his brother's sons were killed in the blast, which maimed Ridha, his wife and two others. The boys were all under the age of 10.

Separately, gunnies rubbed out an Iraqi army colonel and maimed his wife in a northern Baghdad suburb, the official said. And three rockets struck the southern district of Jadriya without causing any casualties, according to police.

Violence appears to have risen again across Iraq in recent months, with July and August recording two of the highest monthly corpse counts since 2008, according to government figures.
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq


Police foil mosque attack in Mosul
[Iran Press TV] Iraqi security forces have shot and killed a man wearing an explosive belt before he could harm worshippers performing Friday prayers at a mosque in the center of djinn-infested Mosul.

"The guards at the al-Nabi Shiet Mosque opened fire at an assailant clad in a police uniform on Friday as he tried to attack civilians at the site," a security officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

The explosive belt, strapped to the man's body, detonated at the mosque's gate, damaging a wall. The blast killed a guard and injured a civilian and a guard.

The police cordoned off the area after the incident and launched an investigation.

Mosul, located in the province of Nineveh, 350 kilometers (220 miles) north of Storied Baghdad, remains a hotbed of bombings, with al-Qaeda in Iraq and other terrorist elements operating in the area.
Posted by: Fred || 09/25/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq


Southeast Asia
Two Buddhists gunned down in southern Thailand
Terrorists on a motorcycle gunned down two Buddhists in southern Thailand on Thursday, according to police. The two were murdered as they delivered noodles to a roadside stand.

In the same province, Pattani, a roadside bomb injured five soldiers on patrol,said Col. Ponsak Prasertmet.

Posted by: ryuge || 09/25/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Thai Insurgency


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Tehran confirms its industrial computers under Stuxnet virus attack
*happy sigh* Stuxnet not only takes control of industrial control systems, but sends data abroad, and apparently has been doing so since August.
Posted by: Bernie || 09/25/2010 14:21 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  All your industry are belong to us!
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/25/2010 16:36 Comments || Top||

#2  Ammadinjehead, you beady eyed little muthafukka
U been had!

BTW... I promise to avoid Siemens products whenever possible for the rest of my life. Same for Hyundai and GE. These companies enabled Iran to become nuclear.
Posted by: Mike Hunt || 09/25/2010 16:38 Comments || Top||

#3  I would be at all surprised to learn years from now that all such industrial computers have special modifications and software back doors, factory installed, to allow intelligence agencies access to them by radio or internet means. Stuxnet may just be a sacrificial lamb to direct the attention of counterintelligence agencies in the wrong direction.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/25/2010 16:48 Comments || Top||

#4  I would be at all surprised to learn years from now that all such industrial computers have special modifications and software back doors, factory installed, to allow intelligence agencies access to them by radio or internet means.

Gee, ya think that might include all the computers we buy from China?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/25/2010 17:02 Comments || Top||

#5  This was the first time an Iranian official has explained how the United States and Israel intelligence agencies have been able to keep pace step by step of progress made in Iran's nuclear program.

I'd like to believe that's why we haven't bombed them. I really would. But it's Debka, right? If true though, it's even better than a bomb. It only destroys the target with no collateral damage and what can the Mad Mullahs do about it? Absolutely nothing except to sit and appreciate the humiliation and helplessness. Exquisite.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 09/25/2010 17:12 Comments || Top||

#6  #4 - I mentioned that possibility in a comment under today's 'Cyberwarfare' post.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 09/25/2010 17:15 Comments || Top||

#7  Oh, Boo hoo.
Posted by: anymouse || 09/25/2010 17:45 Comments || Top||

#8  The Russians and Chinese will want this advantage as soon as possible. I hope for a time the good guys have it. The democrats will just give it to them to keep things fair. #3 good post- this idea is like the many heads of the hydra each head with a single malicious intent with a little shock and awe(distracted and blind).
Posted by: Dale || 09/25/2010 20:51 Comments || Top||

#9  The democrats will just give it to them to keep things fair.

That's not correct.

Maybe in return for campaign contributions, but not for fairness.
Posted by: Pappy || 09/25/2010 21:57 Comments || Top||

#10  Will Hillary has to have something to offer them in 2012...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 09/25/2010 22:09 Comments || Top||


US walks out of Ahmadinejad UN speech
[Dawn] Iran's crackpot psychoceramic President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad shot off his mouth yet again Thursday saying a majority of people in the United States and around the world believe the American government staged the Sept. 11 terror attacks in an attempt to assure Israel's survival.

The dumbass comments prompted the US delegation to walk out of Ahmadinejad's UN speech, where he also blamed the US as the power behind UN Security Council sanctions against Iran for its refusal to halt uranium enrichment, a technology that can be used as fuel for electricity generation or to build nuclear weapons.

Delegations from all 27 European Union nations discovered they had better things to do along with representatives from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Costa Rica, an EU diplomat said.
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