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Senior Afghan Officials Release Top Taliban Fighters for Bucks
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Good morning
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Happy Birthday/Daily Gam Shot

Lucy Liu aka Kitty Baxter in "Chicago" aka O-Ren Ishii in "Kill Bill: Vol. 1" (age 42)


Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 12/02/2010 2:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Fun fact: Chinese people consider Lucy Liu to be ugly and wonder why anyone thinks she's suitable as a movie star.
Posted by: gromky || 12/02/2010 4:07 Comments || Top||

#3  Ugly?! More for me, I guess. Bring on the hideous Chinese women!
Posted by: gorb || 12/02/2010 10:29 Comments || Top||

#4  Lucy is truly amazing. But as long as we're going in that direction, what about her little sidekick Go Go from Kill Bill? When is her birthday?
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 12/02/2010 11:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Next October 10th - 37 years old
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 12/02/2010 13:38 Comments || Top||

#6  Ya notice her elbows are out of frame in one picture, and she keeps her arms straight in the other?

They're trying to hide how sharp they are!
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 12/02/2010 14:26 Comments || Top||

#7  Interesting gallery of old Chinese advertising pinups at this site. I wasn't able to directly link to the gallery page, but it's easy to find.
Posted by: ryuge || 12/02/2010 15:57 Comments || Top||


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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Wikileaker PFC Bradley Manning's Charge Sheet
From Michael Yon
Posted by: Sherry || 12/02/2010 13:09 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  From the comment section:
Its been many years since I signed a charge sheet, but this looks like Manning was 'undercharged' - Article 92 and the 'general article,' and not Articles 104 and 106a, which carry the death penalty? So, if convicted, he gets a Dishonorable Discharge and few years in Leavenworth? Not a charge sheet calculated to deter similar misconduct .....

Former JAG
Posted by: ryuge || 12/02/2010 13:41 Comments || Top||

#2  This actually does not bode well for the PFC. They are going to convict him of just enough to hold him, then I bet they are going to turn him over for national security prosecution in a US federal court.

This is because he is going to ADX Florence, on a one-way ticket. No Leavenworth for him. The Army gets first dibs, out of protocol, but his destiny is truly awful.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 12/02/2010 15:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Truly awful? Good.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike || 12/02/2010 16:38 Comments || Top||

#4  since Army get first dibs this Jarhead says hogtie his ass and drag him across Ft.Irwin for a couple days tied to the end of a striker.
Posted by: Broadhead6 || 12/02/2010 17:49 Comments || Top||

#5  Being stuck in a max security prison with no one to listen to his important proclaimations might be worse from his POV, Broadhead.
Posted by: lotp || 12/02/2010 20:48 Comments || Top||

#6  @lopt: that reminds me of a proposed hell that would await 0bama in the afterlife. he would be fitted with the equivalent of a bark collar for dogs. whenever he speaks, he has a nasty and painful electric shock. whenever he talks, his voice causes him terrible pain. staying silent renders onto him the terrible pain of not hearing his own voice...
Posted by: abu do you love || 12/02/2010 21:00 Comments || Top||

#7  I would cheerfully volunteer to be recalled from retirement in order to sit on PFC Manning's court martial.

Of course, my willingness to give him a fair trial before he was sentenced might give some defense lawyers fits...
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 12/02/2010 21:49 Comments || Top||

#8  Come now, Rambler - I'm sure you could give him a fair trial before he's hanged.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 12/02/2010 23:40 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
3,200 Taliban killed in Afghanistan in 90 days
Via Michael Yon, who adds:

Last night I emailed to Colonel Erik Gunhus who is the Public Affairs officer for General Petraeus. I asked:
Erik,
Is there truth to this? A report that we have killed 3,200 Taliban in last 90 days? If so, that would go far in explaining why our casualties are far lower than I expected.
Colonel Gunhus just emailed back that it's true.

London, Dec 1 (IANS) Secret operations of British and US troops have led to the death of nearly 3,200 Taliban militants in just around 90 days in Afghanistan, a media report said Wednesday.

Of the killed or captured Taliban militants, 387 were top level commanders, The Sun reported.

These figures were handed to SAS official Andy McNab at a top-level briefing in Afghanistan capital Kabul.

McNab, however, said some commanders were worried that younger, more radical Taliban fighters will take the place of dead leaders.
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/02/2010 07:29 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Go joes!
Posted by: Jeremiah Flainter9609 || 12/02/2010 8:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Killed the equivalent of an enemy brigade in 90 days.

Among friendly forces, casualties for Sept-Nov 2010 are 180. Averaged out, for that quarter, that is an over 17.7-to-1 kill ratio.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 12/02/2010 8:38 Comments || Top||

#3  Is that 180 friendlies killed, or killed and injured?

I suppose the Taliban are either killed outright or they run away uninjured, so there are not so many injured?
Posted by: gorb || 12/02/2010 10:27 Comments || Top||

#4  McNab, however, said some commanders were worried that younger, more radical Taliban fighters will take the place of dead leaders. ?

So, how did that work in Iraq? The younger, the less experience, the easier to kill. Just work your way through it. I suspect the' worrying' is being done by those who falsely believe they could 'negotiate' with the older but traditional radical element.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/02/2010 10:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Seems that Petreaus is getting the job done.
Posted by: Ominens tse Tung9155 || 12/02/2010 10:59 Comments || Top||

#6  387 top level commanders? That's either a very top heavy organization or a very broad definition of top level.

Is every squad leader in the army a "top level" commander?
Posted by: Alan Cramer || 12/02/2010 14:15 Comments || Top||

#7  When any formation larger than a platoon invites a hail of smart bombs on your position, the officer corps tends to flatten radically.

Also, hill-country insurgencies tend by their nature to be somewhat decentralized. "War bands" sounds like a better description than platoons, now that I think about it... it all adds up to a lot of little franchises about as organized as biker gang chapters. Which means a swarm of commanders with less than twenty followers to get their heads blown off trying to go "over the top" in the presence of angry Westerners with superior weaponry.
Posted by: Mitch H. || 12/02/2010 15:14 Comments || Top||

#8  They are also targeting to maximize high value targets hit, not bodycount.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 12/02/2010 15:23 Comments || Top||

#9  I thought Andy Mcnabb was retired.
Posted by: chris || 12/02/2010 15:59 Comments || Top||

#10  Afghanis are tribal, and so many of the "Taliban" commanders are local small time tribal leaders that managed to talk 10-15 of their tribe's hotheads into following them. So a lot of what is happening now is that we are weeding out the local gang leaders for the Afghanis, and letting the uneducated tribal gunnies mill around.
Posted by: Shieldwolf || 12/02/2010 15:59 Comments || Top||

#11  "New. World. Record!"
-- Bull Durham
Posted by: mojo || 12/02/2010 16:02 Comments || Top||

#12 

some commanders were worried that younger, more radical Taliban fighters will take the place of dead leaders.


That same thought occurred to me. When you take out the competent leadership that has risen through the ranks over the years, they are often replaced by less competent, more emotional hotheads. They tend to do more damage in the short term but tend not to live long in that position. Sort of like a final flaring before the flame goes out.

Posted by: crosspatch || 12/02/2010 16:54 Comments || Top||

#13  worried that younger, more radical Taliban fighters will take the place of dead leaders

Iin the Pacific turned once the Japanese lost their skilled pilots (and we made ours); WWII in the Atlantic turned once the Germans lost their skilled U-Boat people. I suspect the top 20% are more valuable than the other 80% in any activity that requires skill. Remove the trainers and the trainees have to learn by making all their own mistakes - not an easy thing to survive.
Posted by: Glenmore || 12/02/2010 19:29 Comments || Top||


12 kidnapped De-miners Released
[Tolo News] Twelve deminers working for OMAR demining agency who were kidnapped near the Torkham border have been released, local officials say

Commander of the Afghan border forces in the east, Gen. Aminullah Amarkhail, told TOLOnews that 12 out of 16 kidnapped de-miners have been released and the remaining four are still being held by kidnappers.

Mr Amarkhail did not elaborate further on how the de-miners were freed and who the kidnappers were.

He added that the de-miners were kidnapped this morning.

Police has already started a search operation for the other kidnapped de-miners.

Afghan demining agency workers have often faced Islamic myrmidon attacks in the past.

Insurgents have recently increased their activities in different parts of of Afghanistan including the eastern region, where they have widely used improvised bombs to attack Afghan and foreign forces.

Yesterday, a group of unidentified gunnies kidnapped 9 guards of a private road construction company in Suroobi district of Kabul province.

The Afghan Ministry of Interior (MoI) said the 9 guards were kidnapped after faceless myrmidons attacked a convoy carrying 18 guards.

There is no news of their whereabout since they disappeared, but MoI has pledged to track them.
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


3 Militants Killed in Clash with Afghan Police
[Tolo News] At least 3 hard boyz were killed, one other was maimed in a clash with Afghan police in Faryab province on Tuesday evening, officials said.

The provincial officials said the incident happened in Qaisar district of Faryab province at 04:00 pm yesterday when a group of Orcs and similar vermin attacked a police check post.

Afghan police had no casualties in the incident, officials added.

Taliban Orcs and similar vermin have increased their activities recently in some remote villages in the north of the country which was previously considered relatively secure.

Faryab is one of the remote northern provinces where Norwegian provincial reconstruction team is based.

Norwegian military in the province have also encountered some jihad boy attacks in the past.

Nato and Afghan forces have escalated their counter-insurgency operations in the country's volatile regions and Orcs and similar vermin have suffered heavy casulaties recently.
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Senior Afghan Officials Release Top Taliban Fighters for Bucks
[Tolo News] Top Afghan Officials are freeing prominent Taliban operatives from custody for money or political motives, different sources familiar with such sort of cases told Rooters

Among those involved in the release of senior Taliban fighters are President Karzai and his half brother Ahmad Wali Karzai, Rooters reports.

The released Cases that include that of Ghulam Haidar, a top Taliban fighter in the southern Kandahar province, suggest that widespread corruption is hampering the fight against the insurgency.

When Canadian forces handed over Ghulam Haidar to their Afghan counterparts in March, they may not have realised the identity of the man.

After some days, the man was spotted walking free, the sources told Rooters on condition of anonymity.

"When Ghulam Haidar was in (Afghan) custody AWK asked for his release," Rooters quotes a second source as saying.

But Ahmad Wali Karzai denied the allegations.
No, no! Certainly not!

US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks also accused the half brother of President Karzai of lobbying for security and construction contracts.
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  Do we need to keep them alive to be free again?
Posted by: Jeremiah Flainter9609 || 12/02/2010 8:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Are you talking about the Terrorists 'Taliban fighters' or Karzai and his brother?
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/02/2010 9:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Crazy fool - yes.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 12/02/2010 12:36 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Fake documents: a network dismantled in Algeria
[Ennahar] Thirty-five people were jugged in Kabylia region (eastern Algeria) during the dismantling of a network specialized in the falsification of records to obtain French citizenship, said Wednesday Algerian newspapers.

Eight of them were placed last week in jug by the court's prosecutor of Azazga, 35 km east of Tizi-Ouzou, said "Le Quotidien d'Oran". The remaining 27 were left on bail.

The affair erupted in July after the arrest of an employee of the Minucipalilty of Ait Khelil, following an anonymous letter sent from France on the existence of civil status traffic in the village, the newspaper said.

A search conducted at the home of that employee allowed police to seize equipment (computer, scanner, printed civil status blank) for making false documents, said the Arabic daily Echorouk.

The group asked each candidate between 25 and 30 million centimes (between 2,500 and 3,000 euros) to furnish all the documents falsified, as required by the French authorities to obtain citizenship.

According to "Le Quotidien d'Oran", between 2007 and 2010, at least a thousand people from Kabylia have fraudulently acquired French nationality.
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Four Algerian soldiers killed in Chlef clash
[Maghrebia] Four Algerian soldiers were killed Monday (November 29th) in a clash with Orcs and similar vermin in Chlef, Tout sur l'Algerie quotes security services as saying. Two Orcs and similar vermin also died during the conflict near Tenès, while two communal guards and another soldier were maimed. The action occurred during an ANP sweep operation in the region.

Also Monday, the army mounted a vast search operation near Aït Dahmane, Liberte reported. The deployment of reinforcements followed the murder of four soldiers last Friday in Ammal.
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa


Arabia
Yemen: Detained Al-Qaeda militant released in exchange for kidnapped doctor
[ADN Kronos] (AKI) - Yemen freed a man jugged a year ago on suspician of being an Al-Qaeda krazed killer in exchange for the liberation of a Saudi doctor kidnapped two days ago, according to Yemeni news service News Yemen.

Yemen agreed to free Abdullah al-Daba following negotiations with gunnies who on Sunday kidnapped Thafir al-Shahran while he was crossing the border with Soddy Arabia to go to work in the city of Sada where he was director of a hospital.

Kidnapping foreigners is a common practice by Yemeni tribes which seek to put pressure on the government to meet their demands.

It was not immediately clear if the kidnappers' demand for the release from prison of eight other men accused of belonging to a terrorist organisation was met.

The doctor was handed over to a Yemeni security official and is due to return soon to Soddy Arabia. He spent the past two days as a prisoner of the Boujibara tribe, considered an ally of Al-Qaeda krazed killers.
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Arabia


Caribbean-Latin America
More Mexican Mayhem
16 Die in Northern Mexico

A total of 16 individuals were murderd in ongoing drug and gang related violence in northern Mexican states, including a Juarez, Chihuahua police commander assassinated Tuesday.
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  • An unidentified man was shot to death Tuesday morning in Juarez, according to Mexican news accounts. The victim was at his residence on calle Sanchez in the La Chaveña colony whe armed suspects shot him.

  • Two unidentified men were shot to death in Juarez Tuesday morning, according to Mexican press accounts. The victims were having a conversation near the corner of calles Soneto 152 and Ferriz in the Olivia Espinoza colony when armed suspects shot them and then fled the scene.

  • An unidentified woman said to be an American citizen was shot to death in Juarez Tuesday, say Mexican news accounts. The victim was reportedly doing some paperwork from the American consulate when she was shot. The shooting too place near the intersection of calles Pitaya and Jilotepec in the Infonavit Ampliación Aeropuerto colony. reports also indicate an abduction may have also taken place.

  • An unidentified owner of a tire shop and two other unidentified men were shot to death Tuesday in Juarez, say Mexican news accounts. The attack took place at the Chiquita tire shop on calle Asbesto in the Morelos colony.

  • Two unidentified individuals were killed and two others were wounded in two separate crimes in Juarez, according to the Mexican daily La Polaka. A victim wasking along a road near the intersection of calles Zafra and Miguel de la Madrid was shot by armed suspects. In the second crime, armed suspects shot at three men near the corner of calles Libia and Indonesia in the Campestre Virreyes colony, killing one and wounding two others.

  • A Juarez police commander was shot to death Wednesday in Juarez, according to Mexican press accounts. Comandante Alvaro Gilberto Torres Ramirez, Coordinador Operativo de Estacion Benito Juárez was shot while driving his Lincoln Continental sedan near the intersection of calles Jilotepec and Michoacan. Reports say AK-47 assault rifles were used in the assault. Torres Ramirez had seven years with the Juarez police corporation.

  • A former Sonora state police agent was shot to death Monday, according to Mexican news reports. Fernando Estrada Valverde, 28, was shot aboard his Ford Explorer SUV at about 0130 hrs ion the Jorge Valdez Muñoz de Hermosillo colony shortly after he left a quinceañera party. Reports say armed suspects aboard a Nissan Sentra open fired on Estrada Valverde hitting him five times. The victim was fired from the Sonora Policía Estatal Investigadora (PEI) three years ago more than thafter testing positive for drug use.

  • Two unidentified individuals were shot to death in Tijuana, according to Mexican news accounts. One of the victims was found shot several times in the head in a van in the El Dorado colony, the La Presa delegation, while the other was found nearby.

  • Two unidentified individuals were shot to death in Nogales, Sonora Monday afternoon, according to Mexican news reports. The incident took place at a restaurant near the intersection of Calle del Embovedado and Avenidas Alvaro Obregon where armed suspects entered the eating establishment and escaped after killing the victims and kidnapping two others.

  • One man was shot to death and three others were wounded in an apparently drive-by shooting in Torreon, Coahuila Tuesday, say Mexican news accounts. Jorge Salomón Aguilar, 26, died of his wounds while Victor Manuel Rodriguez Moreno, 14, Gonzalo Arturo, 16 years and Erasmo Alejandro Torres were wounded. The shooting took place near the intersection of Avenida Libertad and Calle Benito Juárez in the Aquiles Serdan colony where armed suspects riding in an SUV fired on the four.
Posted by: badanov || 12/02/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Seven people suspected of links with al-Qaeda arrested in Spain
[Ennahar] Six Paks and one Nigerian were jugged Tuesday in Barcelona by the Spanish police, who suspected them of providing false passports to Islamic organizations linked to Al Qaeda, including the group accused of bombings in Bombay in 2008.

The seven men are suspected of having "stolen identity papers and have sent them to Thailand where they were falsified and presented" to Islamist bad boy groups, said Wednesday the Interior Ministry in a statement.

Three other suspects, two Paks and a Thai were jugged in Thailand in an operation carried out as part of international police cooperation, the statement added.

"In total, seven people were jugged in Barcelona (six Paks and a Nigerian), all belonging to a cell that provided documents to organizations linked to al-Qaeda," the ministry said.

The false documents included for the Pak Islamist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, accused by the United States and India of having carried out the bombings in Mumbai, the commercial capital of India, in November 2008 (166 dead).
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda


Home Front: WoT
Road to terrorism arrests began at Deptford Mall
Moussa Ali Hamdan drove a flashy SUV into the Deptford Mall parking lot for the lunchtime meeting.

Authorities say that he was there to buy stolen goods, and that he told the seller he wanted bulk quantities of prepaid cell phones, laptops, Sony PlayStations -- even cars. Anything that was available.

Hamdan didn't know it, but he was negotiating with an FBI informant on that winter day in 2007. Authorities could have jugged him then, but they suspected Hamdan was a central figure in a terrorist cell in the United States.

The investigation eventually would include dozens of national-security advisers from many federal agencies and stretch from Hamdan's West Collingswood apartment and Cinnaminson workplace to the crowded streets of Beirut, Leb. President B.O. and then-Gov. Jon S. Corzine were briefed on the case.

Late last year, the investigation led to the indictment of 26 alleged Hezbullies operatives and sympathizers. Sixteen people were jugged, including a Hezbullies weapons-procurement officer. Hamdan beat feet to his native Leb. Two defendants are scheduled to appear in court tomorrow.

"These cases show the breadth of criminal activity engaged by those who oppose us," U.S. Attorney Michael L. Levy said in a statement.

A review of Hamdan's activity in New Jersey, nearly a hundred pages of indictments, and conversations with intelligence-community sources with knowledge of the investigation offer a detailed look into what authorities say were the alleged terrorist organization's U.S. fund-raising and weapons-buying operations.

"The indictments are very significant," said Matthew Levitt, a terrorism expert at the Washington Institute. "Hezbullies has long had financial-support networks inside the U.S., but seeing it laid out in the details of this indictment is nonetheless startling."

The investigation began with a 911 call. In April 2006, Philadelphia police received a call from the 1300 block of Magee Avenue in the Northeast. A group of men who appeared to be Middle Eastern were loading carpet into white work vans with Michigan tags. It was late, and the men were acting suspiciously, the caller said.

Members of the Philadelphia Joint Terrorism Task Force, led by New Jersey State Police Detective Frederick Fife, conducted surveillance and database checks on the men and determined that they had ties to Hezbullies.
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  Yokay, I'll say it, DEPTFORD-OR-STEPFORD [Wives]???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 12/02/2010 0:29 Comments || Top||

#2  Unable to resell the electronics here because of tracking numbers, the indictment said, Hamdan and his codefendants exported them to Lebanon and Margarita Island, Venezuela...
According to the indictment, Hodroj wanted 1,200 Colt M-4 fully automatic machine guns, the model used by U.S. special forces. Hezbollah would pay $1,800 per gun. The guns were to be shipped to the port of Latakia in Syria...Harb allegedly told the informant how operatives in Iran worked 18 hours a day producing high-quality counterfeit U.S. currency for Hezbollah. The informant was provided with a sample $100 bill.

Hamdan, Harb, and the informant traveled to South Florida to meet with the informant's boss -- an undercover FBI agent, authorities said. The men dined in posh waterfront restaurants and hashed out a deal for $1 million in counterfeit cash and fake British and Canadian passports.

The investigation ended in November in a sweep of arrests from Philadelphia to Michigan. The biggest catch was Dani Tarraf, the Hezbollah weapons-procurement officer arrested in Philadelphia, who allegedly gave an undercover agent a $20,000 down payment for Stinger antiaircraft missiles and assault weapons.

Hamdan moved to Brooklyn, N.Y., then left for Lebanon shortly before the arrests.

Fife, the New Jersey State Police detective in charge of the investigation, and other JTTF agents are still working the case.

"He never thought his career as a New Jersey state trooper would take him to a half-dozen countries in pursuit of an investigation," said Sgt. Stephen Jones, a State Police spokesman. "We're proud of the work he has done."


Very interesting details and the operation is apparently ongoing. Not bad work for a state patrolman!
Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 || 12/02/2010 1:29 Comments || Top||

#3  When are we going to get off our a$$es and nuke Beirut, Damascus, and Tehran? Why are we fighting a war with both feet in concrete boots, wearing boxing gloves? This is NOT a game.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 12/02/2010 12:59 Comments || Top||

#4 
Harb allegedly told the informant how operatives in Iran worked 18 hours a day producing high-quality counterfeit U.S. currency for Hezbollah. The informant was provided with a sample $100 bill.


Isn't counterfeiting by a nation-state or its agents an act of war?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 12/02/2010 14:46 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Two soldiers killed in Balochistan bicycle blast, shootout
[Dawn] Pakistain's paramilitary said a bomb planted on a bicycle and a shootout killed two soldiers and maimed seven others in separate incidents in the country's southwest on Wednesday.

The Frontier Corps said the exchange of fire took place in the Kuchh district in insurgency-rife Balochistan province along the Iranian border, where forces of Evil had taken refuge in a house.

"One soldier embraced martyrdom while troops killed all five Islamic fascisti and recovered arms and ammunition," FC front man Murtaza Baig told AFP.

A bomb planted on a cycle went kaboom! alongside a paramilitary patrol in Kalat district, some 160 kilometres south of Quetta, killing one soldier and wounding seven, the front man said.

Violence has surged this year in Balochistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran.

The province suffers from a separatist insurgency and Talibs.
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Southeast Asia
Msia detains terror suspect
[Straits Times] MALAYSIA has nabbed an Indonesian cut-thoat suspect thought to have been a courier for Noordin Mohammad Top, the late bombmaker of terror group Jemaah Islamiyah, a report said on Wednesday.

The Star daily reported that Fadli Sadama, 27, was jugged on Oct 13, quoting an unnamed regional counter-terrorism source. He is accused of involvement in a bank robbery and attempting to smuggle weapons.

Fadli was reportedly involved in an August heist of US$40,000 (S$52,699) from a bank in the Indonesian city of Medan, according to the paper.

It said Fadli was jugged while travelling to Malaysia's southern state of Johor on a bus in possession of two revolvers.

The report said Fadli was planning to use the weapons to attack an Indonesian prison holding Toni Togar, believed to be the criminal mastermind of the Medan bank robbery.

Malaysian police could not be reached for comment.
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jemaah Islamiyah


4 dead in bus hijack
[Straits Times] COMMUNIST rebels hijacked a bus in the Philippines on Wednesday, triggering a high-speed chase and a gunbattle in which four people were killed, police said.

The attack came on the same day that rebel and government negotiators met in Hong Kong in a bid to jumpstart peace talks that have been stalled since 2004.

The New People's Army (NPA) rebels boarded the bus near San Francisco town, 200km south of Manila, and directed the driver to an area under their control, provincial police chief Superintendent Erickson Velasquez said.

Police and military personnel who were alerted to the hijack gave chase and the speeding bus was eventually stopped at an army checkpoint in a remote coastal area, Velasquez said in a statement.

The rebels fought back, triggering a gunbattle that left four people dead and two others maimed, according to Supt Velasquez.

No details were immediately available as to the identity of those killed and maimed.
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies


Police defuse bombs
[Straits Times] INDONESIAN bomb disposal experts defused two bombs on Wednesday just before they were about to explode in police posts on Java island, officials said.

Each device was placed in a box containing plastic bottles filled with gasoline, police front man Iskandar Hasan told news hounds.

'When we found them around 8.00am (9am Singapore time) this morning the timers were already on, but our anti-terror squad managed to defuse them,' he said.

The bombs were placed in police posts in Klaten district of Central Java province, he added.

Police have not identified any suspects but suspicions immediately fell on religious gunnies who are battling to turn the mainly Mohammedan democracy into an Islamic caliphate.

Groups linked to or inspired by Al-Qaeda have regularly targeted foreigners in Indonesia but police say they are now on the jihad boys' hit-list along with government leaders and other security forces.
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jemaah Islamiyah


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Army Intelligence Finds Car Used in Assassination of Sgt. Youssef
[An Nahar] The military intelligence found one of the cars used in the liquidation of Sgt. Youssef Youssef last Wednesday, the Army Command announced in a statement Wednesday. The statement added: "Military Police and an explosives expert arrived on the scene and inspected the aforementioned car in preparation to turn it over to the authorities concerned."
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Appeal sought in US Sharia case
[Al Jazeera] The Oklahoma State Election Board has voted to ask the attorney general to appeal a court's decision to grant a preliminary injunction on a ban preventing the use of Sharia and other international laws in the state.

The vote comes after the state legislator who wrote the proposal on Tuesday lashed out at the judge who blocked it, calling her a "liberal, activist judge".

Rex Duncan, a former Republican state representative, criticised US district judge Vicki Miles-LaGrange's ruling this week to grant a preliminary injunction, preventing the state from certifying the results of the November 2 election.

More than 70 per cent of voters approved State Question 755 (the "Save Our State Amendment"), which would place the Islamic (Sharia) law ban into the state constitution. The question proposed to preemptively ban "considering or using" international law and Sharia.

Duncan said "one would surmise that her [judge's] sympathies were with the plaintiff".

"But hers won't be the final order on the matter," he added.

The legislator has charged that Mohammedan rights groups such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations
... the Moslem Brüderbund's American arm ...
(CAIR) want to hijack the US legal system.

The plaintiff, Muneer Awad, is a Mohammedan living in Oklahoma who claims the proposed ban is unconstitutional. Along with the CAIR in Oklahoma, Awad sued to block the law from taking effect. He argues the ban on Islamic law likely would affect every aspect of his life as well as the execution of his will after his death.
Posted by: Fred || 12/02/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Global Jihad

#1  A native of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Miles-LaGrange, received a certificate from the University of Ghana in Accra, Ghana, West Africa in 1973, and graduated cum laude from Vassar College in 1974. She then received her J.D. from Howard University in Washington, DC in 1977. There, she was an editor of The Howard Law Journal.

Why does this sound vaguely familiar?
Posted by: Anonymoose || 12/02/2010 8:41 Comments || Top||

#2  It is of my humble opinion this amendment is not anti-muslim, anti-amish, anti-anything. It is the confirmation that state and federal application of death taxes, or any tax and/or law, takes priority over religious or cultural considerations. What a person does afterwards is then left up to the person or organization. It includes estate planning, the ability to add interest to back taxes, to prevention of UN waterway control and taxes, the whole shabang.

What you do not realize dipwad is by winning this case, you will create the need for people to register their religion in order to receive proper recognition. That means you must declare which religious center you belong to, and must sign in every visit in order to prove you are not evading the state's/federal mandate by law to intrude on your estate planning. You want exemption to plan your estate according to your belief without government interference then work to abolish estate taxes.

There have been outside the legal system arbitration since forever, but once a law has been broken it is government's mandate to investigate and process equally unto all. You want a religious verdict stating a woman should not drive there is no law against that, muslim or amish, so long as the woman agrees. Now, if that woman lodges a complaint with the authorities stating she is being forced to stay in the house or whatnot then it is the authoriy's responsibility to investigate kidnapping, unlawful detainment, whatever local regs are. To not do so errodes that authority, errodes the people's trust in those lawfully ordaned to perform the job of law and order, which creates discontent, which creates jealousy and/or resentment, which makes people pissed at individuals like you, ya shitwad.

My take on it at least, any legal or OK people if I'm wrong on details please correct me.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/02/2010 12:37 Comments || Top||



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