I am hoping this isn't on my end. I see these "runtime errors" at times when I try and view rantburg.com. I am not running "Windows so VB doesn't even run on my end. Is it Firebird? Do other folks get/see these errors too?
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I get them every once and a while when system is very busy.
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Yemen's army, battling a two-month rebellion led by a Muslim preacher in the country's North, lost many more soldiers in an ambush by the cleric's supporters, a military official said last week. "Dozens of soldiers of the Yemeni army were killed on a road in Maran during an ambush by supporters of Sheikh Hussein [Badreddin] Houthi against a brigade heading for one of the villages where the army is searching for the rebel preacher," the official said, requesting anonymity.
"Lieutenant Abdelalim Abdelhamid Hattar, who commanded the brigade, was killed in the ambush", the official said, adding that the lieutenant was a brother of Judge Hammoud Hattar, who headed a delegation trying to mediate between the preacher and the authorities. Houthi and thousands of his supporters have been holed up in the rugged mountains of Maran, in Saada Province, since the rebellion erupted on June 18 and which has so far left more than 400 dead on both sides. Military sources meanwhile said one of Houthi's brothers, who commanded the marksmen among the rebels, was also killed and another, Abdelkarim, arrested by the army during a night raid targeting pockets of resistance in the area. "Abdelmelek Houthi was killed by the Yemeni army during fierce clashes between the armed forces and rebels in an assault on the Shaab Salman region", near the border with Saudi Arabia, the sources said.
The Zaidi preacher's fate remains a mystery. Sources among the military said he may have been killed in the same raid that claimed his brother's life. Others, however, said that "the army could locate Sheikh Hussein Badreddin Houthi in less than 24 hours" and put an end to the protracted rebellion. Mediation attempts, one of them led by a third brother, Yahya Houthi, a member of Parliament, have failed to resolve the crisis or broker the preacher's surrender. President Saleh has described Houthi as a "deviant... who has nothing to do with Islam," the state agency Saba reported. "What this rebel is trying to do is a deviance. Undoubtedly he is a deviant who has nothing to do with religion... he has nothing to do with Islam", Saleh was quoted as saying in a recent meeting with clerics.
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Gunmen opened fire Monday at a U.S. diplomatic car near the U.S. consulate in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia but there were no injuries, a Western diplomat said. The diplomat told Reuters that the occupants of the car escaped unhurt. "The preliminary information received an hour ago indicates that shots were fired at a U.S. consulate car. Everyone in that car is in good health," the diplomat told Reuters.
Their underwear is another matter.
He did not give any details about the car's occupants or their number. Security sources told Reuters that an unidentified gunman opened fire at the car carrying one passenger plus the driver, both of whom escaped unhurt. There were no further details but militants loyal to Saudi-born Osama bin Laden have been waging a 15-month campaign of suicide bombings and attacks against Western citizens and oil sites. Some 90 police officers and civilians, many of them foreigners, have been killed. Since April militants have blown up a Riyadh security headquarters, shot dead five Westerners in the Red Sea port of Yanbu, gone on a killing spree in the Gulf city of Khobar and killed three Americans in Riyadh.
Other than that, it's a paradise.
On June 23 the government declared a one-month amnesty for militants who turned themselves in. Al Qaeda rejected the offer.
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Update: A U.S. marine who helps guard the American consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and his driver came under fire Monday near the consulate, but were not injured, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said. A single shot was fired at their car near the consulate and Saudi officials are investigating, Boucher said.
Guess they weren't trying too hard.
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Ten soldiers and a train driver were wounded in mainly Kurdish southeastern Turkey on Sunday in two road explosions blamed on Kurdish rebels, officials and media reports said. The incidents were the latest in a string of deadly attacks thought to have been carried out by militants from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), now known as KONGRA-GEL, which has ended a five-year unilateral ceasefire with Ankara. The soldiers were injured when the military vehicle they were travelling in hit a mine on a road in the province of Sirnak, the CNN-Turk news channel reported.
Earlier in the day, a blast on a railroad in the nearby province of Bingol caused a freight train to derail and left one of its drivers injured. The explosion occurred when the train ran over either a mine or a bomb planted on the tracks. "The initial information we have is that a bomb planted on the tracks exploded. One of the drivers was injured," a spokesman for Turkey's state-run railway authority, Mehmet Ayci, told AFP. Bingol Governor Vehbi Avuc, however, told Anatolia news agency that a mine caused the explosion. Security forces in the region launched an operation to hunt down the assailants, who were thought to be Kurdish militants, local security sources said.
Two people were seriously injured in the province of Siirt on Saturday when their truck ran over a mine, just a day after two people were killed and five injured when their van hit a mine in the same area. Since calling-off its ceasefire on June 1, the PKK has been blamed for a series of deadly attacks in the southeast as well as the bombing of two hotels in Istanbul earlier this month, which left two people dead and 11 others, mostly foreign tourists, injured. The rebels have threatened more attacks across the country.
Of course they do.
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The defense for Spc. Ryan Anderson faces a black-and-white challenge: The tank crewman is shown on videotape willingly sharing military information with federal undercover agents he believed to be al-Qaida members.
Say goodbye, asshole.
Anderson, 27, was set to begin his court martial Monday on charges he tried to help the terrorist group. The trial at Fort Lewis, south of Seattle, was expected to last five days. Anderson pleaded innocent Aug. 9 to five counts of trying to provide the al-Qaida terrorist network with information about U.S. troop strength and tactics, as well as methods for killing American soldiers. Anderson, a member of the Washington National Guard's 81st Armor Brigade now in Iraq, faces life in prison without parole. A conviction requires agreement by two-thirds of a panel of commissioned officers. Anderson, a Muslim convert, has requested that his general court martial be heard by commissioned officers rather than a judge or a mixed panel of officers and enlisted soldiers. "He's making a tactical decision. They believe the officers, given this type of charge, will give him the fair shake," said David Sheldon, a Washington, D.C., attorney who specializes in military law.
An enlisted jury would like to toast him over a slow fire.
An officers' jury would have him basted with hot sauce just prior to toasting.
Specifics of the case have been guarded, with Anderson's attorney, Maj. Joseph Morse, and military prosecutor, Maj. Chris Jenks, refusing to comment. It's not known what evidence the defense will offer or who will testify on Anderson's behalf.
I'm sure his mother will say he's a good boy and he'd never do anything like this.
She has to. It's a religious duty. It's in the Koran someplace. You could look it up...
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It would be very hard to gain a conviction for a charge of treason, because of its seriousness and the resulting mountain of evidence needed to prove it.
If additional evidence shows up later to buttress what is already there, Anderson could still face that charge.
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Capt. Jay Stephenson, a spokesman for the military prosecutors, said the charges against Anderson amount to attempted treason. "We're at war now," Stephenson said Monday. "This is a big thing. This is a very serious and grievous offense."
I think there is the explaination, there may be no "attempted treason" charge available. If he had given info to real al-Qaida members, then he could be charged with treason. Since he was giving info to undercover officers, they had to go to a lesser charge.
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His mamma didn't convert, but I am sure his mullah will vouch he was such a good boy. So now the defense team is equating Anderson-Rashid's discharging his Islamic duty against the infidels to insanity? Ha-Ha.
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The Virginia man recently detained after his wife was seen videotaping Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Bridge has ties to a Springfield, Va., Muslim think tank that is an alleged front for the terrorist organization Hamas. The think tank, the United Association for Studies and Research (UASR), is located just fourteen miles from the U.S. Capitol. Counter terrorism analyst Peter M. Leitner has described UASR as one of the "phony organizations that are really terrorist cells [and] part of the international terrorist network." UASR has been the subject of a CNSNews.com investigation since March.
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Suspected Islamic insurgents killed two police informants and wounded a government worker in separate drive-by shootings in Thailand's largely Muslim south, officials said. Muri Samahae, the 54-year-old leader of Holu, a traditional Muslim group that has been working with the government, was fatally shot Sunday night in Sugnaipadi district of Narathiwat province, said police Lt. Col. Trongkiart Thongsong. In neighboring Range district, Prari Jotheh, 49, an informant for local authorities, was also shot dead late Sunday, he said. Further details about the attacks were not immediately available. Meanwhile, Surapot Chimchaiyanan, a 42-year-old Agriculture Department official in Narathiwat's Takbai district, was seriously wounded early Monday by a gunman on the back of a motorcycle. Surapot was rushed to a nearby hospital.
Sitting on a hospital bed and guarded by comrades of the soldier he murdered, Abdullah Akoh explained his part in southern Thailand's Islamic separatist insurgency. Following orders from the commander of his cell, like him a teacher at an Islamic school, Akoh and a fellow militant fell in behind a pair of soldiers on a motorcycle in Yaha one morning. When their targets slowed down they overtook them and Akoh, the pillion passenger, shot one of the soldiers dead with a 9mm pistol. The two turned back to kill the second serviceman, but their intended victim seized his comrade's M16 rifle and returned fire, hitting Akoh in the leg and stomach. The motorcycle crashed, the driver fled and Akoh, 31, was captured.
"I feel sorry," he said in a ward at Ingkayut army camp in Pattani. "It was wrong." While in public everyone professes loyalty to Bangkok, Islamic militants trained, according to the authorities, in the Middle East, have fomented an insurrection that has claimed about 300 lives this year. On the worst day, more than 100 people were killed, the vast majority of them militants armed only with knives, with 32 dying in the Krue Se mosque in Pattani after a siege by the military. Akoh said his commander, Ismail Rayalong, known as Yusuf, "persuaded me to do it. He told me about the historical background." He added: "The Thai government invaded this area so I fought back by killing government officials."
Yusuf also persuaded him that reading 70,000 words a day of religious tracts would make him invulnerable to knives or bullets. None the less Akoh, who is married with a seven-month-old son, was ready to accept martyrdom if he was killed fighting for Islam. Unlike the al-Qa'eda-linked Jemaah Islamiyah group, blamed for the Bali bombings, which wants to set up a Islamic caliphate across south-east Asia, Akoh said his group sought autonomy for Pattani under Islamic law. Now he says he believes in peace and that Pattani should remain part of Thailand. "If somebody tries to persuade you to do something like what I did, don't believe them. Think carefully."
I've noticed they often tend to say that after they've been caught and before they've been sprung...
Coalition Special Operations Forces and Afghan military forces raided an anti-coalition compound and killed a senior enemy leader in a mission Friday in Zabul Province, Afghanistan. During the well-planned strike mission, an enemy regional leader, known as Rozi Khan, was killed after he opened fire during the surprise strike. Coalition SOF and Afghan military forces conducted a cordon and search mission after receiving intelligence reports of Taliban activity in the Zabul Province area. Coalition forces engaged about 23 guerillas during an approximately hour-long firefight.
Khan is allegedly responsible for numerous attacks on coalition forces, laying of mines, kidnapping of non-governmental organization and road workers, and recruiting of enemy insurgents. Khan was found with large sums of money, including nearly $10,000 in U.S. dollars and Pakistan rupees, an AK-47 assault rifle, six magazines of ammunition and a pistol. "Khan posed a serious threat to the security of Afghanistan," said a Coalition official involved in the planning of the operation. There were no Coalition casualties resulting in the firefight. About 22 insurgents were captured and two were held for questioning.
They lived in the same apartment in Chechnya, worked in the same market and may have died within moments of each other on separate airliners that crashed in Russia last week. New details emerged Monday about the two Chechen women who are the focus of suspicion that the planes were blown up by terrorists. Russian investigators continued piecing together information about the Tuesday crashes that killed a total of 90 people. Gen. Andrei Fetisov, chief of the scientific department at the Federal Security Service, said investigators are certain there were explosions on both planes and reiterated that traces of the high explosive hexogen were found in the wreckage. How the explosive may have been brought on board the planes that took off from Moscow is still unclear, and investigators were scraping for clues about Amanta Nagayeva and S. Dzhebirkhanova, two Chechen women whose names were listed on tickets for the flights.
The crashes happened just five days before presidential elections in Chechnya, where separatist rebels have been fighting Russian forces for five years. Officials had warned that insurgents and their supporters could commit terrorist acts to try to undermine the vote. Nagayeva, 30, and Dzhebirkhanova, 37, aroused accident investigators' suspicions because they purchased tickets at the last minute and because they were the only victims about whom no relatives inquired after news of the crashes. At the same time, the women's bodies have not yet been identified. Officials were considering two scenarios: Either Nagayeva and Dzhebirkhanova were indeed suicide bombers, or their passports were used by other women, the newspaper Izvestia reported, citing Chechen law enforcement officials.
Nagayeva and Dzhebirkhanova, who lived in an apartment in Grozny, Chechnya's war-shattered capital, were seen on Aug. 22 leaving by bus from the town of Khasavyurt in the neighboring province of Dagestan, the newspaper said. They were believed to be en route to Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, where they often bought clothes and other commodities to sell at the Grozny market. The women's destination on the bus was not known. They were accompanied by two apartment mates and co-workers Rosa Nagayeva, Amanta's sister, and Mariyam Taburova, the newspaper said. Nagayeva was single, and Dzhebirkhanova had been divorced. Nagayeva's brother disappeared three years ago in Chechnya; the family believes he was abducted by Russian forces. A brother of Dzhebirkhanova, who had been an Islamic court judge under Chechen separatist president Aslan Maskhadov, was killed in 1998. An unidentified Chechen Interior Ministry official was quoted as telling Izvestia that both women were "clean" of demonstrable rebel ties. Relatives of both said they were unaware the women were engaged in any activity connected to rebels or terrorists, Izvestia reported. Nagayeva's mother said her daughter had never flown on an airplane. According to the investigators, if the two women were indeed terrorists and had traveled from Grozny to Moscow, Taburova and Nagayeva's sister also could be suspects and be in the capital, Izvestia said.
To me, the solution's simple: make all Chechens take the bus. But I'm prob'ly racist, at least at heart...
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Hell... that's not a nano-violin.... it's a nano-noseflute
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What is it about Chechens that makes them such hard cases today?
Besides the fact they've been infected with the suicidal strain of devilish militant Islam carried in with jihadees from Arabia?
Another factor's Putin's chosing the worst elements of two possible pacification strategies - the soft touch and the psycho touch. Pretending to offer the Chechens a degree of autonomy whilst Russian troops engage in the sort of indiscriminate slaughter they did so well at in Afghanistan. You end up with a lot pissed off bereaved relatives it's hard not to empathise with them to some degree. Including women so choked with hatred, you shouln't allow them on planes any more...
I expect Stalin chose the latter strategy and stuck to it.
Russia's transport minister said the black boxes from two airliners that crashed just minutes apart last week showed no sign of a hijacking attempt. But a Russian security official said the crashes were undoubtedly caused by explosions. One of the recovered black boxes recounts the last few minutes of one of the planes. The crew is heard being unable to contact air traffic controllers after the blast. They also tried to fly for some time after the explosion.
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It's not like they have much choice - fly it if you can, land it if you can.
It's apparent that killing people, doesn't make any difference who, is the hallmark of the Freaks of Islam. Blowing up these two planes makes it official for me - now I don't care if Tsar Putty nukes Chechnya. They have the burden of responsibility for who and what they support, whether actively or passively.
Perhaps an ultimatum delivered by all of the world leaders, Presidents, Premiers, PM's, etc., with as close to the same precise meaning as translation allows, at the same time - to all of Islam - that all are now deemed responsible for the acts of the few. "If you deem killing people who have nothing whatsoever to do with whatever your list of grievances contains is appropriate, then we will adopt this as the ROE against you. The killing will commence on this date at this time and continue unabated until you are obliterated. Thank you for your kind attention. As you were."
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It's apparent that killing people, doesn't make any difference who, is the hallmark of the Freaks of Islam.
I'm slowly becoming convinced that some of the worst excesses of post-Reconquista Spain were "learned" from the Muslims. The sentiment "kill them all; God will know His own" is commonly attributed to a Christian, but the sentiment seems to be quite common in the Muslim world.
After all, we hear the equivalent in the constant excuses for kamikaze attacks and for the Muslims killed by terrorists -- Allah, they say, will take anyone who destroys themselves or any Muslims killed by the terrorists into Paradise. "Who cares who we kill," say the Islamists, "Allah will know his own."
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Mr. Crawford, I must ask you to cease and desist from attacks on my client. He is having bedwettian feelings and thinks you are prosecute.
A man left for dead after being hanged by armed captors in insurgency-hit Indian Kashmir survived for a day strung up to a tree, a report said. Rafiq Dar was abducted in the village of Singhpora in northern Baramulla district as he headed to his paddy farm Saturday morning, the Greater Kashmir newspaper said on Monday. "The gunmen beat up Rafiq and then hanged him from a tree," it said. A group of people spotted him hanging Sunday and informed police. "It was only after the police rushed to the spot that Rafiq was found still alive and breathing," the newspaper said. The victim was rushed to a hospital where his condition was said to be critical. Kashmir is in the grip of an insurgency against Indian rule that has left more than 40,000 people dead since 1989 by official count. Separatists put the toll at between 80,000 and 100,000. While Dar's assailants were not identified, Muslim rebels have in the past hanged accused police informers.
A member of a Czech humanitarian mission was detained in Chechnya last week for a suspected role in a terrorist attack against federal forces, a source in the republic's law enforcement agencies told Interfax on Monday. "It has been proved that Alkhan-Kala village resident Yunus Makayev, born in 1978, was a member of a rebel group that blew up a Ural truck carrying special operations police from the Tyumen region interior affairs department in the village of Chernorechye of Grozny's Zavodskoy district on September 12, 2003," the source said. The materials of Makayev's case have been sent to the Chechen prosecutor's office, and the suspect is currently being checked for his possible role in other grave crimes, he said.
The United Nation has included three non-governmental organizations operating in Bangladesh in the latest terror list of 111 organizations for suspected links with the Al Qaeda network or Taliban. A Bangladeshi has also been included in the list, updated on July 30 this year, which links 317 individuals of 50 Muslim and non-Muslim countries with either Al Qaeda or Taliban. The three organizations named in the list are Al-Haramain, the Benevolence International Foundation and the Global Relief Foundation.
Who wrote this story? D.J. Wu?
The list was recently sent to the foreign ministry through the office of Bangladesh's permanent representative in the UN. The UN asked the government of Bangladesh to check and report by August 31 whether the listed organizations or individuals possessed any bank account and made any banking transactions in Bangladesh, sources in the foreign ministry said. The list of 317 individuals has already been sent to the Bangladesh Bank, the central bank of the country, and the ministry now awaits a report from bank. Meanwhile, the Bangladesh Bank has cautioned all banks and financial institutions of the country about six accounts for suspected links with Al Qaeda and Taliban, and asked them to freeze the accounts. The suspect accounts are of Mohammad bin Mohammad Abdelhedi, Kamal Darraji, Mohammad El Mahfoudi, Imed bin Bechir Jamali, Habib bin Ahmad Louviri and Chabanne bin Mohamed Trabelsi. Mahfoudi is a Moroccan while the others are Tunisians, said the sources.
... which, in a world that made sense, would bring up the question of what they have to do with Bangladesh.
No wonder Muslims in general are so poor, all their donations go to terrorism or building mosques and spreading propaganda. Maybe if they spent those donations on poor Muslims needs, instead of jihad, they wouldn't be in such bad shape. I can't believe other Muslims do not demand that these funds go to feed and clothe poor Muslims. But of course, I suppose if Muslims weren't suffering, that old line about being oppressed wouldn't quite work any longer. I suppose they also figure the infidel money that now feeds and clothes the poor Muslims will never run dry.
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When will they add the Red Cross?
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The family of Faysal Demir, a Turkish truck driver who lived in the Reyhanli district of Hatay (a Southern Turkish city), is preparing to file a lawsuit in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) against the U.S. because Demir was killed during a firefight in Iraq earlier this summer while transporting cargo for the U.S.
Faysal Demir lost his life during an attack in the surroundings of Ramadi on June 18th. The victim's father said that nobody has undertaken serious efforts to locate the perpetrators. He indicated that the family has had to settle for the information given by the Musluoglu Transportation owner Ali Ausluoglu, Iraqi translator Amir Adnan Aziz, and another truck driver, Abdurrezak Cemiloglu. Demir's father continued: "There were four people in the vehicle, but my son is the only person who received a mortal injury and lost his life. Two others received only leg injuries, and a third survived unscathed. This makes me think a lot. I still cannot understand why they carried out such an attack."
The elder Demir points out that he becomes even more upset when he hears claims that Americans killed his son. "I wish my son had been killed while serving for Turkish soldiers or by the Iraqis. Perhaps, we would be less upset then. But the claim that Americans killed him while he carried cargo for them makes me really upset." The brother of Faysal Demir, Mahmut Demir, said he was collecting some information in Iraq to open a case seeking compensation from the U.S.
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The elder Demir points out that he becomes even more upset when he hears claims that Americans killed his son. "I wish my son had been killed while serving for Turkish soldiers or by the Iraqis. Perhaps, we would be less upset then. But the claim that Americans killed him while he carried cargo for them makes me really upset."
So this guy is going to sue on the basis of "claims"? And furthermore, WHO are the ones making these claims?
Advice: Get some "proof", or your day in court is going to be an extremely short one.
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Contact me after November 2nd, I may have the time to do your case justice. Nothing upfront, 60% or whatever Cingold will take, whichever is better for me.
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It's a well known Islamic fact that the Americans are the ones shooting at delivery trucks. And some people claim Turkey is the sane Muslim country.
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The suit makes a lot of sense, regardless of who was at fault. It's not like suing the guerrillas will get the family any compensation. Looks like the Turks have learned about ambulance-chasing from reading headlines about America's tort cases.
Israeli soldiers Sunday killed an armed Palestinian who was crawling towards the border between the Gaza Strip and Israel proper. A military spokeswoman said the soldiers spotted three Palestinians nearing the security barrier Israel has built around the Gaza Strip, near the Karni Crossing. One of the Palestinians was crawling, the spokeswoman said. Soldiers shot and killed the man who crawled and, in a subsequent search, established he had carried an explosive belt, a Kalachnikov gun, four magazines and two hand grenades. The two others fled, the army reported.
Five rockets slammed into a residential area of a northwestern Pakistan city before dawn on Monday, damaging some homes and injuring at least five people, police said. Nobody claimed responsibility for the attack in Bannu, about 220 kilometers (135 miles) southwest of Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province. Local police official Mohammed Sultan said they were still investigating. Bannu, a deeply conservative city, is located at the edge of a tribal region where Pakistani forces have been searching for al-Qaida and Taliban fugitives. It has been hit by small bomb explosions and rockets attacks in recent months.
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Iraq is attracting Islamic militants from across the world determined to join the "holy war" against the US-led occupation, the son of Osama bin Laden's mentor Abdullah Azzam said in an interview. "Hundreds of Muslims from all over Arab and non-Arab countries go to Iraq to help the resistance end the occupation, spurred by the conviction that jihad is a duty against the occupier," said Hudayfa Azzam, 34. Azzam also claimed that the former regime of Saddam Hussein "strictly and directly controlled" members of bin Laden's Al-Qaeda terror network in Iraq before the US invasion, as charged by members of US President George W. Bush's administration but refuted by other experts.
In 1984 Bin Laden decided to leave his native Saudi Arabia and follow Abdullah Azzam, better known as "the prince of the mujahideen" (Muslim combatants), to Afghanistan. Before being killed with two of his sons in a bomb attack against their car in Afghanistan in November 1989, Abdullah Azzam wrote a five-volume encyclopedia on jihad which has become the reference book for his Muslim followers. He also founded the Muslim Brotherhood in the Palestinian territories. His ideology is that "when a Muslim country is occupied, sharia (Islamic law) says that Muslims across the world must strive to liberate that land," his son added. "That is why my father was the first Arab to go to Peshawar to help liberate Afghanistan from Soviet occupation," he said.
Bin Laden took up the offer and agreed "to work in and finance" an office set up by Abdullah Azzam which provided services and guidance to the new mujahideen recruits, Hudayfa Azzam said. In 1987 he broke away and set up Al-Qaeda. "The idea of jihad is the same whether the occupier is Soviet, as was the case in Afghanistan, or American, as it is now in Iraq," Hudayfa Azzam added. He said that leading Islamic militants "realized that it is more beneficial not to have too many groups, parties and masterminds because it creates problems."
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this would seem important - how hard will it be for the antiwar people to impeach Azzams credibility i wonder?
As if there was much doubt ...
A statement purported to be from al-Qaeda claimed responsibility today for a truck bomb which killed seven people, including two US citizens, in Kabul, and which was earlier claimed by the Taliban militia. "The mujahedeen (Islamic fighters) were able to plant a bomb in a car which was detonated by remote control outside the US centre, killing at least six Americans and three Afghan collaborators," said the statement signed by "al-Qaeda organisation, Afghanistan", and posted on an Islamist website. "This operation was carried out with the help of our mujahideen brothers from the Taliban and it will not be the last. It will be followed by more powerful operations, God willing," it said. The statement, whose authenticity could not be independently confirmed, came after the Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast in a satellite phone call to AFP from an undisclosed location, saying the bomber had escaped unharmed. US military spokesman Scott Nelson told AFP in Kabul that NATO-led peacekeepers had detained one Afghan national in connection with the bombing.
A truck loaded with construction wood and packed with explosives detonated just before 6 pm today (0030 AEST Monday) outside the Kabul office of US security contractor DynCorp, which provides bodyguards for President Hamid Karzai and trains Afghanistan's fledgling police force. "Two Americans, three Nepalese and two Afghan nationals, including a child, have been confirmed dead," a statement from Karzai's office said. The blast occurred just three days after the Taliban, in a statement posted on their website, threatened to kill US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and vowed "a flood of jihad (holy war) ... against the Americans and their allies in Pakistan and Afghanistan."
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Suspected Al Qaeda activists distributed pamphlets in the district saying that those who kill the police officials involved in the 'death' of Qari Noor Mohammad in police custody on August 18 would be rewarded handsomely. The pamphlets announced a reward of Rs 1 million for the killing of inspector Naveed Younis and Rs 0.3 million for Rana Mohabat Khan and Malik Zulfiqar. The Daily Times quoted sources as saying that unidentified people who had covered their faces with red scarves left these leaflets outside the Jamia Mosque in Kutchery Bazaar during prayers on Friday. According to local traders, at least two masked men left the pamphlets on the mosque's terrace and soon fled the scene.
"Who was that masked man?"
"I don't know, but he left this pamphlet."
Police said that the pamphlets were written in Urdu and prepared and printed on computer in Arabic script. They added that the pamphlets bore an opinion by Abdul Rehman Handavi, a Saudi jurist, alleging that the police officers involved in the killing of Qari Noor Mohammad were "infidels and urged people to kill them."
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Three people were arrested in an operation in Swat in which one is suspected for links with Al-Qaeda. Security agencies, Punjab elite force and Swat police in a joint operation launched late Saturday night raided a house in the Tehsil of Matta in Swat and arrested three people there. According to sources one arrested person might have links with al-Qaeda. A suspected militant accused of involvement in two failed assassination attempts on Pakistan's President was arrested near a remote northwestern village Sunday, an official said. The suspect, identified as Omar Rahman, was captured by Pakistan's authorities along with two family members during a raid near Sawat, 180 miles north of Peshawar, said the official to a foreign news agency. Authorities seized assault rifles and bomb-making material from the suspect's home, the official said.
Posted by: Dan Darling ||
08/30/2004 2:53:34 AM ||
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a Swat operation? C'mon Dan, you're funning with us...
Posted by: Frank G ||
08/30/2004 18:54 Comments ||
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Posted by: Mrs. Davis ||
08/30/2004 19:04 Comments ||
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EFL
Ever since the start of the insurgency in Kashmir, the Pakistani intelligence agencies have constantly raised, mutated, emasculated and even extirpated the so-called jihadi groups active in Kashmir. The dependence of the Jihadis active in Kashmir on Pakistan for training, logistics, arms and ammunition and most of all sanctuaries, has been exploited to the hilt by the Pakistani establishment. Not only do the Pakistani agencies decide which organization will play what role in fuelling the insurgency in Kashmir, they also raise new outfits at regular intervals to ensure that none of the organizations ever get so big or powerful that they can ever pose a threat to the state. The moment a group gets too powerful or autonomous or becomes a political liability or if it strays from the line given to it by the Pakistan establishment, it is either replaced by another group or is rendered completely ineffective by withdrawing patronage. In the initial years the Pakistanis supported JKLF despite the fact that they were not comfortable with the JKLF's pro-independence ideology. But as soon as the Pakistanis managed to build up the pro-Pakistan Hizbul Mujahedin, support was withdrawn from the JKLF. The fact that the Hizbul Mujahedin was initially composed of Kashmiri's made the Pakistani establishment look for a more Pakistani alternative. This was achieved by diverting the jihadis who had fought in Afghanistan to Kashmir. There were essentially two Deobandi jihadi organisations which were ushered into waging war in Kashmir — Harkatul Jihad Islami and Harkatul Mujahedin. Because of the problems in coordinating their operations, in 1993 a merger was effected between these two Deobandi jihadis groups to form the Harkatul Ansar. But it abducted and murdered some western tourists, causing unwanted attention...
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It's the combination of Paks and Saoodis that is most dangerous. They created most of the current mess and could both end up reaping the whirlwind (with the rest of us receiving the fallout, literally as well as figuratively).
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all the evidence I see shows continued steady pressure by Pakland on the jihadis, including finally on the native groups as well the foreigners. Now as Paul and Dan have made clear its VERY complicated, and there are always groups have relatively clean hands, even if largely fronts for others, and that still have relations with parts of the Paki govt. But meanwhile the Pakis are killing or catching jihadis, and busting up apparently major AQ plots. Theyre doing a helluva lot more on this than KSA, not to mention Iran. I dont entirely trust Indian sources on this, and would remind all that AQ Khans heroic status in Pakland is in part a response to Indias nukes.
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