Brave Lions of Islam blow mother and children to bits
A mother and her two children boarded a police bus only seconds before a suicide bomber detonated his payload inside, an attack that killed 13 police and civilians Tuesday, the second such bombing in Afghanistan's capital in four days, police and witnesses said.
Four children were among the 13 killed by a man wearing a pakul an Afghan hat commonly worn in the country's north and a shawl around the upper half of his body called a chador, said witness Amin Gul, who owns a metal-working shop next to the blast site. "When the bus came, an old man got on, then a woman with two children, then the guy wearing the chador entered, and then a big boom," said Gul.
Ten people were wounded in the attack. The seats in the front of the bus were covered in blood and small body parts. Ahmad Saqi, a 20-year-old mechanic, said he helped put seven people in vehicles for runs to the hospital, and that several of the wounded had no legs. "One woman was holding a baby in her arms, and they were both killed," Saqi said. "Half of the woman's face was blown off."
The blast killed eight police, the mother, her two children and two other children, said Health Minister Mohammad Amin Fatemi. The children ranged in age from 2 to 8. The two unaccompanied children had been heading to a special school for handicapped students, he said.
"The woman's husband is working at the health ministry. How do we tell the father his wife and two kids are dead?" said Fatemi. "This attack goes against all of Islam. There is no reason to blow up Muslims, especially during the holy month of Ramadan. My message to these people: Please stop killing Muslims." Couldn't you just say "please stop killing" and leave it at that?
Several people waiting at the bus stop suspected the bomber of having explosives because he let one police bus go by without boarding it, said Saqi and another shop owner, Ajmal Khan.
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"said Fatemi. "This attack goes against all of Islam. There is no reason to blow up Muslims, especially during the holy month of Ramadan. My message to these people: Please stop killing Muslims.""
I suspect Fatemi is one of those 'moderate' muslims who wouldn't have any problems with this if only infidels were killed.
KABUL - The Taleban have executed four people in different parts of Afghanistan for spying for foreign forces and the Afghan government, local officials and Taleban sources said Monday.
A teenager was hanged in Sangin district of Helmand province Sunday night apparently for giving information on the Taleban hideouts to government and foreign forces. Sangin district chief, Haji Ezatullah, said the 15-year-old boy was found hanged to an electricity column after he was pulled out from his home overnight by Taleban fighters. Local fighters claiming to be Taleban said they were behind the hanging because the boy was a spy - but there was no claim of responsibility from a Taleban spokesman.
More likely he fought off being buggered.
Also in Ghazni province, a tailor was beheaded on broad daylight out of the town where he was working on Sunday by Taleban rebels, officials said Monday. The tailor, Muhammad Kabir, was taken from his shop and beheaded out of Liwanai town in Qarabagh district. Qarabagh district chief Khwaja Muhammad Seddiqi told DPA the tailors only sin was that he was sewing cloths for local soldiers. Seddiqi and local residents said the armed men were Taleban.
Pro'ly a nice old man, killed for nothing.
In Kapisa province, to the north-east of Kabul, the Taleban executed a man for the same charge. Taleban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said they shot dead Gul Dad for spying for the US-led Coalition troops in the province. However, local officials said the victim was an ordinary man.
The fourth case of execution took place in the south-eastern Paktika province Sunday night. Taleban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told DPA Kakai Khan was found guilty of giving intelligence to American forces against the Taleban. He said the man was killed after he confessed to this crime during investigation.
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Killing people for no reason ... and they wonder why we call them "terrorists".
The US military is planning a "wanted" poster campaign in the hope of reeling in key figures behind deteriorating security in Afghanistan which has claimed dozens more lives, officials said Monday. Three of the dead were children, one a 15-year-old whom an Afghan official said was hanged by Taliban after a five-dollar note was found on him. Five Afghans working with the international community were meanwhile kidnapped.
The posters and billboards, offering between 20,000 and 200,000 dollars for the capture of a dozen "wanted" Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters, will be put up in eastern Afghanistan, US Sergeant Dean Welch told AFP. "It is a campaign to put some people in the public view in the hope that maybe we can break up some mid-level Taliban cells," said Welch from the media office of the US-led coalition at Bagram, north of Kabul.
The east, along with the south, sees the worst of an insurgency led by the extremist Taliban movement which was in government between 1996 and 2001. With insurgency violence at its highest,
Afghanistan and its international allies are debating talks with the rebels to end the killing which has already left 5,000 people dead this year, most of them rebels.
Afghanistan and its international allies are debating talks with the rebels to end the killing which has already left 5,000 people dead this year, most of them rebels.
The United Nations in Kabul said Monday it would support peace talks with insurgent leaders -- some of whom the United States has labelled "terrorists" -- but this did not mean they would be removed from a UN "blacklist." The UN Security Council's "Consolidated List" establishes travel, arms and other sanctions against 142 Taliban-linked individuals, including Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.
Also on Sunday, a man was beheaded in the eastern border province of Paktika, provincial police chief Farouq Sangari said, also blaming Taliban fighters. Two children were killed and five wounded in the eastern province of Khost after playing a toy car that was really a bomb, provincial spokesman Wazir Padshah Mangal said. He said authorities suspected the bomb may have been planted by insurgents because "the father of the kids is working for the government."
At least eight policemen were meanwhile killed in intense fighting with Taliban insurgents in the southern province of Ghazni that started late Sunday and continued into early Monday, provincial police chief Alishah Ahmadzai said.
In Helmand, US-led coalition troops along with Afghan forces killed more than 20 Taliban rebels in an early morning raid on a suspected rebel hideout. Two more were killed in Zabul province and seven captured, the coalition said. In adjoining Uruzgan province, soldiers were ambushed by more than 30 insurgents Monday and repelled the attack with return fire and air strikes, killing "numerous insurgents," a coalition statement said.
Separately, two Afghans working for a Danish non-governmental organisation was kidnapped Sunday in Logar, adjoining Kabul. A Bangladishi development worker was abducted in the same area September 15. Three Afghan drivers of trucks supplying foreign military bases were kidnapped Monday in Wardak, also near Kabul, according to officials. The Taliban claimed responsibility.
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provincial police chief Farouq Sangari
provincial spokesman Wazir Padshah Mangal
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I wonder if the 'surge' in Iraq has caused a decrease in AQ action there (in part) by causing a shift in their remaining personnel to Afghanistan, causing what seems to be an increase in action there. Pakistan provides a more useful and convenient 'safe haven' now than Syria, I suspect. And they are in a 'must win' situation - probably think the chances of another win in Afghanistan are better now than making Iraq the center of the new caliphate.
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There seems to be some anedotal evidence that AQ is splitting and in tatters in Iraq and there may be a strategy to move on to other "virgin" territory. But the big Q is will it attract Americans and other infidels to ply on? Doubtful. Secure Iraq and protect homeland and let AQ and Taliban kill other muzzies. Seems like a winner to me.
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The suspected mastermind of a recent suicide bombing that claimed 32 lives in Algeria was among 11 people killed in militant-linked violence over the weekend in Algeria, a security source said Sunday. Ten Islamist rebels were killed by security forces on Friday in the restive eastern Kabylie region, south of the seaside capital Algiers, the source said. The dead included a local chieftain, Aissa Boucenna, alias Serraka, the presumed mastermind of the September 8 suicide bombing at a coast guard barracks in the Kabylie town of Dellys. Al-Qaeda's self-styled offshoot in North Africa claimed responsibility for that attack.
In Friday's violence, a soldier was also killed after a crude bomb exploded near the town of Biskra, the source said. Algeria has been rocked by violence in recent weeks. At least 33 people have died in attacks or militant-linked insurgency since September 13 alone.
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(ANSA) - Siena, October 2 - A former commander of the Red Brigades leftist urban guerilla group that murdered Italian statesman Aldo Moro has been arrested for a bank heist committed while he was out of jail for good conduct. The incident caused an outcry in the Italian political world, with opponents of clemency for former terrorists and relatives of terrorism victims voicing outrage and disbelief.
Cristoforo Piancone, 57, serving life for six murders and two attempted murders, on Monday afternoon robbed the headquarters of top Italian bank Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) but was caught after a high-speed chase.
He had been awarded a day-release permit in 2004 to work in a cooperative firm despite being caught shoplifting while on a previous permit. Piancone robbed the MPS bank with an accomplice, the pair forcing staff to hand over 170,000 euros in cash before speeding off on a motorbike.
A bank client called the police who gave chase and caught up with the bike, firing a warning shot. Piancone tried to fire back but didn't realise he hadn't released the safety catch on his revolver, police said.
The former Red Brigades (BR) man was caught in possession of four hand guns and part of the bank haul but his accomplice escaped with the rest. Four frickin' handguns!
Police said Piancone had helped his accomplice get away by refusing to identify himself. They said they were still trying to establish whether the heist was a "mere crime or an act of 'self-financing' for further terrorist activities". Uhhhh ... Monty, I'll take Door Number Two, please.
Piancone has served 25 years for the crimes committed during his time in the BR command which ordered countless murders including that of Christian Democrat leader Moro in 1978 - a period for which he has never expressed remorse, describing it as "a historically terminated affair". He ... lied
He was granted the day-release permits for "excellent conduct" in jail, police said.
There have been several cases in recent years of ex-BR members being allowed out of prison to work. Not all of them had renounced their pasts. Moro kidnapper Valerio Morucci was let out in 1994 and forged a successful career as a writer. A number of other convicted leftist terrorists have returned from exile to claim academic posts. Any offers from Columbia U.?
San Francisco State U has dibs ...
Last year there was a flap over the terrorist past of an aide to an undersecretary in Romano Prodi's centre-left government. The cases have sparked outrage among victims' families, amplified by political opponents of clemency and rehabilitation programmes.
On Tuesday a leading member of ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right Forza Italia party, Isabella Bertolini, urged Justice Minister Clemente Mastella to take action against the judge who granted Piancone's permit. She accused allegedly left-wing judges of being indulgent with leftist terrorists.
Well yeah ...
Siena police chief Massimo Bontempi said he was happy no one had been hurt. "It would have been hard for me to explain to a policeman's family that a released terrorist had killed him," he said. "We were very lucky".
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The left wants to have this happen here also. Mumia Al-Jamal comes to mind. Also the SDS and Weather Underground come to mind - Kathy Boudin is free and I wonder where she is and how many guns she owns?
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Well, that's why I have nothing but contempt for American leftists. If things were truly as bad as they claim (USA fascist theocracy), then surely there would be an armed resistance movement blowing up churches and so on. Instead, the spineless leftists just shake their tiny fists in rage and vote for another story at digg.com.
Thus the Webley-Fosbery "Automatic Revolver" is meant to be loaded, push-cocked, and then carried at full cock, ready to fire. That's why this peculiar single-action revolver has a safety-catch on the left side of its frame, and needs it.
When mystery writer Agatha Christie wrote "he released the safety-catch of his revolver" and she used that particular phrase quite often she may have been expressing personal experience. The Webley-Fosbery was never a government-issue weapon, and almost all of them were privately purchased. Christie's husband, Archeologist Max Mallowan, may have bought one for self-protection, for when he and his wife were out digging up antiquities in Mesopotamia.
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Thirteen people died in Turkey's volatile southeast when gunmen, apparently Kurdish rebels, sprayed a min-bus with machine gun fire, prompting Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Sunday to vow to punish the attackers. Saturday's audacious attack came a day after Turkey and Iraq signed an agreement to crack down on Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq and the killing of a Kurdish separatist in the Kurdish-dominated east. "Terrorists from the Kurdistan Workers Party [PKK] used machine gun fire on a mini-bus carrying 14 people, killing 13," local governor Selahattin Apari said Sunday on the NTV television channel.
The incident occurred near the town of Beytussebab in Sirnak province not far from the Iraqi border, he said, adding that the dead included a seven-year-old boy. The victims also included a local village chieftain and his four sons who were all members of the Village Guards.
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This kind of cr*p will get the Turks at least unofficial permission to send their military into Iraq in 'active pursuit'.
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Believe me Glenmore, they won't wholesale invade. The US has put it's thumb print on the region, but the Turks may sponsor guerrilla warfare and beef up their troop presence even more so at the border.
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I didn't mean to imply I thought the Turks would wholesale invade - just that they would not stop at the border when pursuing PKK - and that neither we nor Iraq would make a big deal about it, as long as they went right back.
Seven men plotted to bring down the US government by poisoning saltshakers and bombing landmark buildings, a prosecutor told Miami jurors as their terrorism conspiracy trial opened today.
The "Liberty City Seven" aimed to create chaos as part of a holy war to pave the way for al-Qaeda-affiliated guerrillas to take over the United States, Assistant US Lawyer Richard Gregorie said in the prosecution's opening statement.
"We need to make the people go crazy in the streets," Mr Gregorie quoted alleged ringleader Narseal Batiste as saying.
"Allah is going to take over through us."
Defence lawyers said the charges were "nonsense" scripted by the government and orchestrated by paid FBI informants they called Conman No.1 and Conman No.2.
They said the defendants, one of whom was devoted mainly to smoking marijuana, had no weapons or intent to do violence and that it was the informants who suggested poisoning restaurant saltshakers and blowing up buildings.
The "Liberty City Seven," named for the poor part of Miami where they gathered in a rundown warehouse, were arrested in 2006 on charges of plotting to blow up Chicago's 110-story Sears Tower - the tallest US skyscraper - along with several FBI offices and the Miami federal court complex where they are on trial.
The young men face up to 70 years in prison if convicted on all four conspiracy counts in a case government officials have touted as an important victory in the war against terrorism.
But federal agents said when they were arrested that the group's plans were "aspirational rather than operational" and posed no real threat because they had neither al-Qaeda contacts nor means of carrying out attacks.
The government's main evidence is drawn from 15,000 audio and videotaped conversations made by the informants. One infiltrated the group and introduced the other, a purported al-Qaeda operative from Yemen, as a friend of his uncle.
"Unknown to Mr Batiste, it's Uncle Sam," Gregorie said.
Batiste's lawyer, Ana Jhones, portrayed him as a would-be religious leader who aspired to big things but lacked intellect and ability.
He pretended to go along with the informants, she said, because he was trying to con them out of $US50,000 ($56,000) to turn the decrepit warehouse into a community gathering place.
I've seen these guys and they couldn't overthrow a wet towel.
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"aspirational rather than operational"
Methinks this is one delicate little distinction that will become increasingly irrelevant as the GWoT continues. If you want to kill us in large numbers, your ability or inability to do so is no longer quite as germane. Intent to commit terrorist acts represents an open door through which other more capable operatives might actually enter into action in place of the original conspirator. Therefore, merely having laid groundworklike video taping locations or assembling schedulesmay end up being regarded as sufficient cause to imprison for a lengthy duration.
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The "Liberty City Seven," named for the poor part of Miami where they gathered in a rundown warehouse
Everyone- it's time to fire up Grand Theft Auto III again.
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Ah, just another batch of good old fashion red- blooded Americans gone bad. You know, with names like Achmed, Mahmoud, Mohammed. Good old fashioned all American names.
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Do these clowns - and others of their ilk - have any cclue how hard it would be to actually overthrow the government in a country of 300,000,000 people, a LOT of whom have guns and the will to use them, in our 2000 x 3000 miles? What are they smoking?
"We need to make the people go crazy in the streets"
Then ya' shoulda started in San Francisco instead of Miami, Mohammad-baby - they're already more than halfway there.
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Agrees to forfeit $11 million; faces sentencing Nov. 27 Texas oilman Oscar Wyatt pleaded guilty Monday to participating in a scheme that paid millions of dollars in kickbacks to the former Iraqi government between 2000 and 2003 to secure contracts linked to the United Nations oil-for-food program.
U.S. Attorney Michael Garcia said Wyatt, 83, made the plea nearly four weeks into his trial, the day before the government planned to rest its case against him. Wyatt pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The former founder and CEO of Coastal Corp. is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Denny Chin on Nov. 27. Though the crime is punishable by up to 20 years in prison, the plea deal calls for Wyatt to spend no more than two years behind bars. Wyatt will forfeit $11 million and begin his prison sentence by Jan. 2.
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This should give the case against Kofi grounds. Kojos beans need boiling too.
Unidentified miscreants blew up two electricity towers of 500 kilovolt (KV) transmission line carrying electricity from HUBCO power plant to Jamshoro on Monday. Official sources said that the miscreants had planted eight bombs out of which six exploded while two were defused by the bomb disposal squad. It was the second attempt to disrupt the transmission line in the last two days.
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Afterall, it is against Islam to have electricity?
Fiddler: please note the formatting changes. Your text is in hilite. Text within the post is never in hilite. AoS.
Coalition Forces detained five suspected insurgents and destroyed a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device with two joint direct attack munitions Sept. 30 during Operation Anchorage. Paratroopers of the 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment along with several Iraqi army soldiers conducted a night air assault raid here in the early morning hours. The detainees are suspected to be involved with attacks conducted on an IA checkpoint, said Capt. Donald Braman, commander, Troop B.
The raid also netted a five-ton white bongo truck in the process of being rigged as a VBIED. An explosives-detecting K-9 reacted to explosive residue on the vehicle. An F-16 was called in and struck the truck with a JDAM. The Iraqi army soldiers who are part of the scout platoon after just three days of training were just as good as our guys,
The IA was the main effort responsible for clearing the targeted buildings believed to have been used by high value al-Qaeda leaders as safehouses. Sounds like the Iraqi Army (IA) is starting to shape up!
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Ok - This was a good news story of IA developing the target and working with the 1/40th Cav to make things happen - now if the Iraqi Air Force could get going again - maybe a JDAM from a MIG?
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My favorite part of the article: "The raid also netted a five-ton white bongo truck in the process of being rigged as a VBIED. An explosives-detecting K-9 reacted to explosive residue on the vehicle."
Good doggy. God does have a sense of humor.
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I finally understand why old Mo didn't like dogs. Dogs don't bite the hand that feeds them and that is so anti-Islamic.
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Nice first post, HM_fiddler. Welcome to the conversation!
This, which I found in the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler blog, is the story of an bonified unsung hero. Yes I know I should not link to Blogs but this is tribute I think everyone should read. Mods can [re]move it at their option. God knows your never hear about it in the MSM....
At the time of his actions, SGT McDade was a machine gunner attached to 1st Plt, Bravo Co. 1st Bn. 8th Marines during Al Fajr, the second battle of Fallujah. It was November 11, 2004, one day after the 231st birthday of the Corps.
And today, the day after the celebrations, the Hajis were planning to spoil the occasion. A sister company had been bogged down in an ambush, and Bravo Co. rushed up to help their comrades. On the way, they themselves came under fire from Hajis wearing Iraqi Security Forces uniforms.
Making things worse, the rest of Bravo Co. was still under heavy fire, fire intensifying furiously whenever somebody tried to move from cover to help their injured brothers. Without regard for his own safety, SGT McDade decided that he was going to go get em, no matter what. His Gunny told him that, were he to be injured out there, theyd be unable to get him out of there immediately.
Thats OK, SGT McDade answered, just dont let me die out there.
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McDade didnt want the medal at first, because he knew that he would receive accolades for the medal, not for what he and his Marines had done. When he later accepted it, he made it clear that: I got it for the Marines who have fallen and for all the Marines who have done great things and never been recognized. This award, Im accepting it for me, but at the same time Im accepting it for all the Marines who go before and after me.
Now a drill instructor, McDade shares the story with his recruits, but while other DIs tell McDades story early on, he himself waits until the Crucible.
I dont want them to listen to me because I have a medal, he said. I want them to listen to me because Im a Marine.
I bet he's a hell of a DI. He's a hell of a man. WTG Sgt McDade!
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In the great karma of the universe, there in their little skulls lurks the ever ravenous creature of envy that eats away at the souls of the likes of the entire Humanities Department of Duke or the Administration office of Columbia, that real Homeric heroes walk among us. Men, common men, who's own existence intones honor and integrity that those lesser souls can only dream of. That must bite the self indulgent thrulls of nihilism that inhabit those small universes of academica. :)
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That's ordinary heroism, I reallu look up to that, ordinary heroes. I have a couple bookmarks about that (both found in RB comments), Medal of Honor Citations & Home Of Heroes Home Page.
Note that I don't think it's an american phenomenon, and that kind of quiet, unassuming heroism is reserved for the US Army, but on the other hand, I'm pretty sure it's a pretty stark contrast with the type of groundless bravado and death-worshipping of the Lions Of Islam. Compare and contrast with the ideal of the suicide bomber and his otherworldly bordello.
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Of course it isn't only an American phenomenon. Ordinary heroes, men and women of such character that they quietly handle whatever must be done -- for love of their fellows and regardless of circumstance -- are to be found in every nation and time. That's the challenge such men as Sgt McDade pose to the rest of us: we too must choose to rise to whatever need life presents us, to serve and protect our fellows and our own small piece of civilization.
Compare and contrast with the ideal of the suicide bomber and his otherworldly bordello.
I intend to quote that one at dinner parties, anonymous5089. Never have I heard such a evocatively succinct description.
Multi-National Division-Baghdad air assets engaged more than 20 Al Qaeda insurgents approximately 28 kilometers northwest of Baghdad Sept. 29 after the insurgents fired a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) and small arms at the aircraft. The resulting firefight ended with more than 20 of the Al Qaeda cell members being killed and four of their vehicles being destroyed.
Patrolling the skies, aircraft from the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division had reported to the scene to observe possible extremist activities in the area based off of a report from local Iraqi Security Volunteers that an Al Qaeda cell was working in the area.
Upon arriving to the scene, the aircraft observed about 25 Al Qaeda personnel carrying AK-47 assault rifles, with one of the men brandishing an RPG, and walking through an area of local shops and into a palm grove. Shortly after spotting the men, the aircraft were fired upon by the insurgent fighters.
The incident took place within the 1st Ironhorse Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Divisions area of operations where Ironhorse troops from the 2nd Stallion Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment have been working alongside the Iraqi Security Volunteers and Iraqi Security Forces to root out Al Qaeda operatives and extremists.
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Are tese the same dumb al-Qaeda terrorist that got into a gun-fight with the 1st Air Cav yesterdey?
Coalition forces killed seven terrorists and detained 11 suspects Sunday and Monday during operations to disrupt al-Qaeda in Iraq leadership in central and northern Iraq.
West of Tarmiyah Monday, Coalition forces conducted an operation targeting an associate of al-Qaeda in Iraq. Surveillance elements observed individuals maneuvering in tactical positions in and around the target area. Perceiving a hostile threat, the ground force called in close air support to engage, killing four terrorists to include the targeted individual. As the ground force continued to secure the area, another individual emerged brandishing a weapon. Responding in self-defense, they engaged, killing the armed man. A small cache of weapons was discovered on site and one suspected terrorist was detained.
During an operation in Mosul, Coalition forces targeted the alleged advisor for al-Qaeda in Iraq senior leadership in the city. When the ground force approached the target building, two armed men emerged. Responding in self-defense, Coalition forces engaged the terrorists, killing one of the armed men. One suspect was also detained during the operation and is believed to be the targeted individuals brother.
South of Baghdad, Coalition forces captured an associate of al-Qaeda in Iraq believed to be responsible for the facilitation and planning of car-bombing operations in North Rusafa. In addition to the targeted individual, one suspected terrorist was detained.
In another operation Monday, Coalition forces targeted an associate of al-Qaeda in Iraq reported to be a leader in an improvised explosive device network in Tarmiyah and responsible for car-bombing attacks against Coalition forces in the area. Five suspected terrorists were detained on site without incident.
Acting on time-sensitive intelligence, Coalition forces conducted a precision operation near the Hamrin Mountains Friday, killing one wanted terrorist and detaining two suspects. The targeted individual is believed to be an al-Qaeda in Iraq senior leader involved in foreign terrorist facilitation and kidnapping networks in the area. During the operation, an armed man emerged from the target area and Coalition forces engaged the hostile threat, killing him. The ground force observed another individual emerge from the target area and hide in a nearby canal. Coalition forces repeatedly directed him to come out, but he refused to comply. Perceiving a hostile threat, the ground force engaged, wounding him. In addition to the wounded man, Coalition forces detained one suspected terrorist.
Our steady operations against al-Qaeda in Iraq are affecting their ability to operate, said Maj. Winfield Danielson, MNF-I spokesman. While they struggle to maintain their network, we will continue our efforts to dismantle it.
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Rolling up lots of operatives in all sorts of lines of terror - IED, insurgent smuggling, kidnapping, sniping, propaganda. Notably absent are money men. Where are the money men? My bet - they're the imams at certain mosques.
Soldiers from the 2nd Iraqi Army Division, with U.S. Special Forces as advisers, detained 23 suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorists during an intelligence-driven raid in Sharqat Sept. 29.
Acting on intelligence, Iraqi Soldiers raided targeted locations in Sharqat to disrupt a meeting between al-Qaeda in Iraq leadership. The meeting was held to elect a new emir since their previous one, Sabah Abdul-Rahman Abosh, was killed by Iraqi and Coalition Forces in a firefight Sept. 28. The detainees are suspected of conducting terrorist attacks in the area.
While leaving the targeted location the forces were attacked simultaneously with three improvised explosive devices. The forces then began to receive small-arms fire from multiple insurgents who were attempting to flee the area. The Soldiers returned fire, and detained two armed insurgents.
Six AK-47 assault rifles and associated ammunition, four pistols, one shotgun, office equipment, VHS tapes and various identification cards were confiscated during the operation.
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"meeting was held to elect a new emir"
So did we bag yet another emir? Or did we not let the meeting get that far?
Coalition airpower integrated with Coalition ground forces in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan in the following operations Sept. 30, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here.
An Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle struck buildings in an enemy compound in Garmsir with Guided Bomb Unit-31s and GBU-38s.
The Joint Terminal Attack Controller reported the buildings were destroyed
Another F-15E engaged enemies in Garmsir, with a GBU-12 to cease hostile activity.
The JTAC confirmed the weapon hit the target and enemy activity was halted.
An Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II used a general-purpose 500-pound bomb and cannon rounds against enemies in Garmsir. The JTAC confirmed the munitions hit the targets and the desired result was achieved.
An Air Force MQ-1B Predator fired a hellfire missile at enemy personnel hiding in a tree line in Lashkar Gah. The strike was reported as successful.
In Qal A Nah, A-10s struck and enemy building and enemy personnel with general-purpose 500-pound bombs and cannon fire. The JTAC confirmed the munitions hit the targets and the desired affect was achieved
In Asadabad, F-15Es strafed enemy positions with cannon rounds to halt enemy fire. The JTAC the rounds hit the target and the enemy fire ceased.
In Farah, an A-10 conducted a show of force to reassure Coalition forces and to make air presence known.
In total, 41 close air support missions were flown in support of the International Security Assistance Force and Afghan security forces, reconstruction activities and route patrols.
Eleven Air Force and Royal Air Force Surveillance and Reconnaissance aircraft flew missions in support of operations in Afghanistan. Additionally, two Royal Air Force aircraft performed tactical reconnaissance.
In Iraq, an Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon conducted a show of force in Al Muqdadiyah to deter enemy fire.
An F-16 used a GBU-38 to destroy an enemy building in Baqubah. The JTAC reported the strike was successful.
In Baghdad, Air Force F-16s targeted a Vehicle-Borne Improvised Explosive Device in a building with GBU-38s and a GBU-12. The JTAC reported the target destroyed.
A Navy F/A-18 Hornet conducted a show of force with flares over Al Muqdadiyah to suppress enemy mortar fire. The JTAC reported the show of force was successful.
Near Najaf, another F-18 used a show of force to prevent the loading and unloading of material from a suspicious vehicle. The desired result was achieved.
In total, Coalition aircraft flew 70 close air support missions for Operation Iraqi Freedom. These missions supported Coalition ground forces, protected key infrastructure, provided over watch for reconstruction activities and helped to deter and disrupt terrorist activities.
Nineteen Air Force, Navy and Royal Australian Air Force ISR aircraft flew missions in support of operations in Iraq. Additionally, seven Air Force, Navy and Royal Air Force aircraft performed tactical reconnaissance.
U.S. Air Force C-130s and C-17s provided intra-theater heavy airlift support, helping to sustain operations throughout Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa.
Approximately 190 airlift sorties were flown; 640 tons of cargo were delivered, and 3,400 passengers were transported. This included approximately 28,200 pounds of supplies air-dropped in Afghanistan in order to re-supply ground forces.
Coalition C-130 crews from Australia, Iraq, and Korea flew in support of operations in Afghanistan or Iraq.
On Sept. 29, U.S. Air Force and Royal Air Force aerial refueling crews flew 50 sorties and off-loaded approximately 3 million pounds of fuel to 250 receiving aircraft.
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"conducted a show of force with flares"
I think I prefer THIS kind of show of force:
"used a general-purpose 500-pound bomb and cannon rounds against enemies"
#3
Air Power is a bitch, especially when you have none!
"They took the blue from the sky and a pretty girls eye......"
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Coalition C-130 crews from Australia, Iraq, and Korea flew in support of operations in Afghanistan or Iraq.
Did anyone notice this? Seems like the Iraqis have an Air Force, it's just not combat capable yet. It takes about a year and a half to train a fighter pilot, if you do it right. At least they're taking a hand in their own logistics now.
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Gotta love the 'to the point reporting':
"..a GBU-12 to cease hostile activty. >>>JTAC confirmed the weapon hit...and enemy activity was halted."
Yeah, a GBU-12 tends to do that to ya.
and then there is this classic: "...Thunderbolt II used a general-purpose 500-pound bomb...(and) ... JTAC confirmed the munitions hit the targets and the desired result was achieved."
As emotional as the evening skycopter traffic cam reporter.
A military court on Monday sentenced to 18 months in jail a Jordanian man dubbed the "poet of Al-Qaeda" for libel against King Abdullah II on the Internet, a judicial source said.
"Here you sit,
Broken-hearted.
You been sentenced.
Your term has started."
"The accused, Mahmoud Zuhairi, who is known as the 'poet of Al-Qaeda,' slandered the king in a poem posted on the Internet, in which he also showered Al-Qaeda with praise," the source from the state security court told AFP.
"Roses is red,
Violets is blue,
Sombody's in jug.
I think that it's you!"
Zuhairi's lawyer Abdel-Jabbar Abu Gulleh denied the charges and told AFP he would appeal the sentence within 30 days, in line with the law. Gulleh acknowledged that Zuhairi had published a 12-page poem on an Islamic Web site "praising jihad, the mujahideen and attacking US President George W. Bush ... But he never defamed the king," the lawyer said.
"Some like 'em big,
Some likes 'em small,
What he's gettin' jugged for
Never happened a-tall."
According to the charges, Zuhairi frequently visited web sites that support Al-Qaeda. "He used to publish poems praising Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and associates, until he became known as the poet of Al-Qaeda."
This article starring:
Mahmoud Zuhairi
al-Qaeda
Zuhairi's lawyer Abdel-Jabbar Abu Gulleh
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"Poet of al-Qaida"
In Jordanian big house:
Alas! Eighteen months!
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Oooooh, a poet!
Whisper sweet nothings in my ear with that purty mouth, and later...romance!
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Appropriately, Omar Khayyam had it right:
"A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread--and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness--
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!"
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Police conducting a raid in a forest zone captured a mobile phone with multiple video clips depicting the beheading of a Thai Army ranger and a villager during a recent raid in Yala.
According to Army spokesman Col. Akara Thiproj, during a recent raid in Bannang Sata district, police seized a mobile phone in an apparently abandoned kit bag in the forest. The mobile phone held several video clips documenting the killing and beheading of a Thai Army ranger and a villager. Another clip depicted an insurgent, his head covered with a cloth mask carrying a head of a decapitated victim. A few more unpleasant details here.
Some clips show boys and girls estimated to be as young as five or six years old carrying 11 mm military weapons. According to the Army spokesman, the police have learned that the insurgents let children aged between 13-14 years old to transport explosive materials because the police don't often conduct body searches on youngsters. An investigation is under way.
In other incidents, an Islamic ustaz or religious teacher and a local resident were shot dead in separate shootings.
A 35-year-old Muslim religious teacher was gunned down in a hail of bullets and died instantly while he was riding his motorcycle home Monday night in Khok Pho district of Pattani province. Following the first killing, an unidentified group of gunmen fired at local residents dining at a karaoke restaurant, killing a 32-year-old patron on the spot.
Meanwhile four police officers assigned to a teacher protection unit suffered minor injuries in a bomb attack in Narathiwat Tuesday. A remote-controlled bomb exploded 100 metres from a school in Sungai Padi district while the border patrol police officers were travelling to pick up and escort schoolteachers. The police received minor wounds, and their pick-up truck was damaged. They were rushed to nearby hospital and were released from hospital after treatment. Police responding to the incident have gathered evidence to track the bombers.
#1
Right when you're left wondering what it will take to shake the Thais out of their complacency, along come the Muslims with one of their usual thoughtful solutions. This ought to put some lead in the Rangers' pencils.
#2
Zenster: I hope you are right. But all I see is atrocity after atrocity and the entire civilized world - Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu and the test - sleeping as our neighbors are slaughtered.
#3
But all I see is atrocity after atrocity and the entire civilized world - Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu and the rest - sleeping as our neighbors are slaughtered.
It's all I see, too, brother. I dread to think what's required to shake this world out of its complacency. No doubt it will involve some sort of spectacularly horrific carnage. I remain supremely confident of one thing only: That Islamcheerfully and capablywill rise to the challenge.
Six Indonesian Muslim militants, alleged members of the Jemaah Islamiyah regional terrorist network, went on trial Monday and face the death penalty if convicted. Government prosecutors charged the six, who are believed to be followers of captured JI military commander Abu Dujana, with conspiracy to commit terrorism, storing explosive materials, and illegally possessing firearms and ammunition.
The six defendants are Ahmad Syahrul, alias Faisal; Mahfudz Gomari; Sekas, alias Karim; Amir Ahmadi, alias Ubu Jundy; Suparjo, alias Sarwo Edi; and Maulana Yusuf Wibisono, alias Kholis. They are being tried in four different trials at the Central Jakarta District Court. They are being prosecuted under anti-terrorism laws enacted just weeks after the October 2002 bombings of two nightspots on the Indonesian resort island of Bali that killed more than 200 people. JI was blamed for those attacks and several other bombings across Indonesia in recent years.
The six were arrested separately in March by a counterterrorism police unit, Detachment 88, in Surabaya, East Java, in the Central Java district of Sukoharjo and following a shootout in Yogyakarta, Central Java, that left one of their group dead. In the raids, police seized caches of weapons, thousands of rounds of ammunition, explosives and chemicals that could be used to make a bomb bigger that those used on Bali. Their arrests directly led to the capture of Dujana, who was nabbed in early June in Banyumas, Central Java, after a police raid on his hideout.
Indonesian authorities have said Dujana had replaced Malaysian explosives expert Noordin M Top, another senior JI figure, as the nation's most-wanted fugitive. Top narrowly escaped a police raid in March and remains on the run.
Dujana is believed to have played a major role in both Bali attacks and the embassy blast and controlled JI's ammunition and explosives. He is also accused of providing them to militants involved in sectarian violence in Poso in Indonesia's Central Sulawesi province.
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The Voice of Lebanon ( VOL) has reported late last night that the army has arrested 11 activists of the Free Patriotic Movement ( FPM) for possession of illegal weapons . The arrest was made in the village of Jaj , in Jbail district , north of Beirut, Lebanon where the activists were undergoing training on the use of these unlicensed weapons
VOL is owned and operated by the Lebanese ministry of information and is the official voice of the government . The Free Patriotic Movement ( FPM) is headed by General Michel Aoun , an ally of Hezbollah .
Many reports circulated last week about reorganization of militia by General Aoun and several other pro-Syrian groups . According to these reports Hezbollah has undertaken to train these militias in the Bekaa region, its stronghold in east Lebanon . FPM has denied the report on the arrests
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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KABUL - The Taleban have executed four people in different parts of Afghanistan for spying for foreign forces and the Afghan government, local officials and Taleban sources said Monday.
The US military is planning a "wanted" poster campaign in the hope of reeling in key figures behind deteriorating security in Afghanistan which has claimed dozens more lives, officials said Monday. Three of the dead were children, one a 15-year-old whom an Afghan official said was hanged by Taliban after a five-dollar note was found on him. Five Afghans working with the international community were meanwhile kidnapped.
The suspected mastermind of a recent suicide bombing that claimed 32 lives in Algeria was among 11 people killed in militant-linked violence over the weekend in Algeria, a security source said Sunday. Ten Islamist rebels were killed by security forces on Friday in the restive eastern Kabylie region, south of the seaside capital Algiers, the source said. The dead included a local chieftain, 
(ANSA) - Siena, October 2 - A former commander of the Red Brigades leftist urban guerilla group that murdered Italian statesman Aldo Moro has been arrested for a bank heist committed while he was out of jail for good conduct. The incident caused an outcry in the Italian political world, with opponents of clemency for former terrorists and relatives of terrorism victims voicing outrage and disbelief.
Thirteen people died in Turkey's volatile southeast when gunmen, apparently Kurdish rebels, sprayed a min-bus with machine gun fire, prompting Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan Sunday to vow to punish the attackers. Saturday's audacious attack came a day after Turkey and Iraq signed an agreement to crack down on Kurdish rebels based in northern Iraq and the killing of a Kurdish separatist in the Kurdish-dominated east. "Terrorists from the Kurdistan Workers Party [PKK] used machine gun fire on a mini-bus carrying 14 people, killing 13," local governor Selahattin Apari said Sunday on the NTV television channel.
Texas oilman Oscar Wyatt pleaded guilty Monday to participating in a scheme that paid millions of dollars in kickbacks to the former Iraqi government between 2000 and 2003 to secure contracts linked to the United Nations oil-for-food program.
Multi-National Division-Baghdad air assets engaged more than 20 Al Qaeda insurgents approximately 28 kilometers northwest of Baghdad Sept. 29 after the insurgents fired a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) and small arms at the aircraft. The resulting firefight ended with more than 20 of the Al Qaeda cell members being killed and four of their vehicles being destroyed. 
Soldiers from the 2nd Iraqi Army Division, with U.S. Special Forces as advisers, detained 23 suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorists during an intelligence-driven raid in Sharqat Sept. 29.
Coalition airpower integrated with Coalition ground forces in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan in the following operations Sept. 30, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here. 
A military court on Monday sentenced to 18 months in jail a Jordanian man dubbed the "poet of Al-Qaeda" for libel against King Abdullah II on the Internet, a judicial source said. 
