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'Morning, Fred.
Hope your Christmas was glorious. :-D
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[On this spot at 00:50, undonasewence had a vowel movement. Rantburg software has cleaned and disinfected the site of the accident. Have a nice day.]
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I'd like to make a suggestion, Fred. Instead of just saying "had a vowel movement", add "and has been consigned to the blogger's fourth ring of Hell."
Martha indeed does have a maidenly form...
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
12/26/2008 13:06 Comments ||
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hello it is test. WinRAR provides the full RAR and ZIP file support, can decompress CAB, GZIP, ACE and other archive formats.
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I didn't know Ace had an archive format. He's a smarter horse than I thought. Hey! Were's all da money goin? He can buy hiz own grain an' hay!
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[On this spot at 18:25, kalilignals had a vowel movement. Rantburg software has cleaned and disinfected the site of the accident. Have a nice day.]
In yet another case of Indians being targeted in Afghanistan, suspected Taliban militants abducted a 38-year-old cook working for an Italian company. Vasu alias Simon was abducted along with his Afghan interpreter and driver on October 13, official sources said in Delhi. He was working food store 'Fiano', which serves Italian soldiers in Afghanistan. The trio were abducted while delivering food to the International Security Assistance Force camp in Bagram air base.
The Indian embassy in Kabul and consulate in Herat are in constant touch with top Afghan authorities who are trying to secure Simons release. The embassy is also in touch with his company. The sources said Simon is alive but did not give details fearing it could jeopardise his safety.
Unlike Indians who have gone to Afghanistan through the government, Simon did not have any security. "Since he had gone through a private contract with the Italian firm, his security was the responsibility of the company," the sources said.
The abductors are believed to demanded $50,000 for his release. They allowed him to talk to his brother Subbu who is in Kabul.
Simon is the third Indian to be abducted in Afghanistan in the last three years, after BRO driver M R Kutty and K Suryanarayanan who were killed by their abductors. The Taliban have often attacked BRO personnel engaged in construction of a key highway between Delaram and Zaranj.
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12/26/2008 12:17 ||
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KABUL - A British soldier was killed in southern Afghanistan on Christmas Eve, while four road construction workers and two militants were killed elsewhere in the country, officials said Thursday. The British soldier was killed by insurgent fire in Nad Ali district in the southern province of Helmand on Wednesday, the British Defence Ministry said in a statement.
NATO-led forces in Kabul also confirmed the death of the soldier in a statement. "We are saddened by this brave serviceman's death, and our deepest condolences go to his family and loved ones, especially during this holiday season," Captain Mark Windsor, a NATO spokesman said.
The soldier was the seventh British serviceman to die in the province in the past two weeks. More than 130 British soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan since their deployment following the ouster of Taliban regime in late 2001.
Elsewhere, four road construction workers were killed and two others were wounded in a rocket attack in Souki district of eastern Kunar province on Wednesday, Engineer Haseeb Karimzai, director of the Afghan Road Construction Company said. "They were working on the road when a rocket fired from an unknown place hit the road close to the work site, killing and wounding our workers" he said.
Abdul Jalal Jalal, provincial police chief, said the attack was "the work of enemies of Afghanistan," a term often used by Afghan officials to describe the Taliban militants. Coalition spokesmen were not available for comment.
Posted by: Steve White ||
12/26/2008 00:00 ||
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Why are we not using napalm on these miscreants? Anyone firing at an allied military person should immediately be hit with 250Lb. of napalm. You know you hit your target when the ammo cooks off. Fighting a war with both feet in buckets and one arm tied behind you is stupid, not to mention dangerous. Political correctness and the "advice" of people who've never been shot at will kill a lot of allied troops. It shouldn't be allowed to happen.
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Police yesterday arrested eight operatives of outlawed Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) including two madrasa teachers in Gaibandha and seized a big cache of explosives.
Madrasa teachers? I thought those who could, did, and those who couldn't ...
The latest arrest and recovery were made two days after two JMB men with five grenades were held in Comilla. The two have been placed on eight-day remand.
Both Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and police suspect the militants are getting prepared for committing subversive attacks ahead of the national polls.
In Gaibandha, Special Branch in association with police seized 50 casings of grenade, grenade-making materials, huge explosives and jihad books from Chakshibpur and Parkachua villages in the first phase of drives. Col Gulzaruddin Ahmed, additional director general of Rab, told The Daily Star, "The collection of such explosives and ammunition proves their preparation to commit a serious crime."
Brilliant, Director-General, simply brilliant ...
Of the JMB operatives, Rejaul Karim Reji alias Hasan alias Shihab, 25, Manjurul Islam Manju, 20, and Al Amin, 27, were arrested in Gobindaganj upazila during the drive that continued till early hours yesterday. Following their painfully extracted statements, police arrested Mostafizur Rahman, 32, and Nannu Miah, 32, in Gobindaganj and Rowshan Ali, 30, Amzad, 35, and Mohammad Obaidur Rahman of Pashchim Komarnoi village in Sadar upazila.
SM Moniruzzaman, superintendent of Gaibandha police, said among the eight JMB men, Obaidur is a teacher of Chapadaha Dimukhi Dakhil Madrasa and Amzad Hossain of Afroza Khanam Dakhil Madrasa. Besides, Amzad is also the imam of Argishahpur Jam-e Mosque, he said. Rejaul Karim Reji is the JMB's regional commander. He is a student of Gobindaganj Shamim and Shakil Technical College and also the member of JMB's policymaking body Ehsar.
"All the eight militants are senior JMB leaders," the Gaibandha SP said. "Following their confessions, we believe there are many JMB men active in the country."
No kidding ...
He said all the JMB men were arrested in their own houses and the explosives were seized from Manju Al Amin.
Gaibandha police chief SM Moniruzzaman said the explosives might have been collected for any big attack ahead of the national election.
Lt Col Ahsan, commander of Gaibandha army camp, and Rab-5 Commander Major Shah Ali said the arrestees have given important information.
"Hey Major, I think we just solved the Limbergh baby kidnapping."
They said they are continuing their operations in line with the information extracted from the arrestees.
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Rab-5 Commander Major Shah Ali said the arrestees have given important information.
And to regular readers of the RAB Chronicles, we all know what means......
(Xinhua) -- A bomb exploded at a real estate agency and another device was defused at a European sports rehabilitation center in southwestern France on Thursday, local sources said.
The explosion occurred before dawn in a real estate agency's office in Anglet of France's Basque region, the local police said. No one was injured. A phrase "Basque is not for sale" was spray painted across the building.
In Carbreton, 20 kilometers from Anglet, another explosive device made of a water bottle of flammable liquid with a detonator was discovered around midday Thursday.
No one had claimed responsibility. An investigation was launched, but it remained unclear whether the incidents involved "terrorism" or not, according to the sources.
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Disturbing photographs made available to this newspapers by police sources indicate that several of the guests at the Taj Mahal Hotel during the siege November 26 were sexually humiliated by the terrorists and then shot dead.
Police sources confirm that even as the terrorists were engaged in a fierce combat with NSG commandos, they were humiliating their hostages before ending their terrifying ordeal. Foreign guests were their particular target. Eight of the 31 killed at the Taj were foreign nationals.
Photographs taken by a police forensic team after the hotel was sanitised yield a gruesome picture of some of the guests in the nude. These bodies were found away from the hotel's swimming pool which makes it clear that they were not those guests who were taken hostage from the poolside.
"Even the Rabbi and his wife at Nariman House were sexually assaulted and their genitalia mutilated," said a senior officer of the investigating team, not wishing to be quoted. "We have CCTV footage which reveals how these terrorists forced some of the guests who were holed up in restuarants to strip, but there is not evidence of rape," he added.
These pictures, most of which we have refrained from printing, are in the records of the police and are now part of the investigation.
Posted by: Steve White ||
12/26/2008 12:13 ||
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Not a surprise. Sex has been a tool of domination ever since we gave up budding... and a favoured tool of the jihadis since they took up the business.
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I don't have words bad enough to say to people who take the most wonderful and beautiful experience two people can share and turn it into an extreme perversion. May they burn in hell for eternity.
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
12/26/2008 16:41 Comments ||
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No surprises here.
There was little publicity that the terrorists in the Beslan massacre raped almost every female prisoner during the seige.
I personally believe we should never capture or arrest terrorists. They should be shot on sight as you would shoot a rabid dog.
Posted by: James Carville ||
12/26/2008 16:48 Comments ||
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James,
Initially I felt as you do. Then I realized that they must be thoroughly interrogated first. There will be plenty of time later to exact complete revenge.
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A little over seven years ago I watched as the world trade center towers came down. At the time I remember thinking "I want the MF'ers who did this, their supporters and allies DEAD!" Seven years and innumerable outrages later - if anything I feel even more strongly about it.
And like Beslan the MSM will give the terrorists all the cover possible. This will never be mentioned in the Media. They call the terrorists 'kidnappers' or 'hostage takers' - never terrorists and never, ever, ever, mention that they are all devout muslims.
Mention the rapes and bayonetted babies of Beslan to anyone here in the USA and you get a dumb confused look or flat out denial.
I would imagine the denial would be much like the denial of the german citizens who lived close to the concentration camps.
Pakistan began moving thousands of troops away from the Afghan border toward India on Friday amid tensions following the Mumbai attacks, intelligence officials said. The move represents a sharp escalation in the stand off between the nuclear-armed neighbors and stands to weaken Pakistan's U.S.-backed campaign against al-Qaida and Taliban close to Afghanistan.
Two intelligence officials said the army's 14th Division was being redeployed to Kasur and Sialkot, close to the Indian border. They said some 20,000 troops were on the move. Earlier Friday, a security official said that all troop leave had been canceled.
An Associated Press reporter in Dera Ismail Khan, a district that borders the Afghan-frontier province of South Waziristan, said he saw around 40 trucks loaded with soldiers heading away from the Afghan border.
Indian officials could not be immediately reached for comment. India is blaming Pakistan-based militants for last month's attacks on Mumbai. Islamabad has said it will cooperate in any probe, but says it has seen no evidence backing up India's claims.
Both countries have said they hope to avoid military conflict, but Pakistan has promised to respond aggressively if India uses force, an option the Indian government has not ruled out. Pakistan has deployed more than 100,000 soldiers in Waziristan and other northwestern regions to fight Islamic militants blamed for surging violence against Western troops in Afghanistan.
A senior security official refused to comment directly on Friday's troop movements, but said, "Necessary defensive measures have been taken, they are in place and Pakistan's armed forces are prepared to tackle any eventuality."
Pakistan and India have fought three wars since their independence from Britain in 1947. ... and Pakistain has lost each of them.
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Gee, I guess there's no troopies available to protect Pakistan's vaunted sovereignty up Afstan way then, huh?
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I guess it's time for Pakistan's decadal a$$-kicking again. My, how time flies...
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
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If the Pakistani army can't defeat a rag tag bunch of hillbillies in Toyotas carrying WWI armaments, what makes them think they can defeat a modern force?
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KeeerBuki Theatre
Perhaps the Indians zot a camp or 3 with the PureFolks fightin hard (hard fightin in they blood) to defend self-same. LOC unchanged. Situation normal. Bus runs again in 3 years. Muslims to bomb, Hindus kill a few back.
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WORLD MIL FORUM/TOPIX > ECONOMIC CRISIS MAY PREVENT BANKRUPT USA FROM MILITARILY INTERVENING IN REGIONAL CONFLICTS. USA will instead have to rely heavily on the mil forces of local ALLIES, + hi-tech US STRATEGIC MIL SYSTEMS ONLY FOR ANY MIL RESPONSE [B-52's, ICBMS, NATO].
FEW TO NO ARMY-MARINE GROUND TROOPS, with any of these postured mostly for DEFENSIVE = ACTIVE-DEFENSE SCOPES, NOT OFFENSIVE???
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PAKISTANI MIL FORUM [old] > lest we fergit, RUSSIAN ARMY WILL BE A MUSLIM-MAJORITY ARMY BY 2020 [Year 2015-2020]; + ETHNOGRAPHERS: RUSSIA WILL HAVE A MUSLIM MAJORITY WITHIN OUR LIFETIME.
* 2020-2050.
Muslims may comprise 40% of the RUSS ARMY + 1/5th OF RUSS TOTAL POPULATION.
* POSTERS [12/2008] > iff true, will be GREAT NEWS + GREAT/DECISIVE BOOST TO REGIONAL AND GLOBAL MUSLIM MILITARY POWER, ESPEC AS PER NUCLEAR-ADVANCED WEAPONS. Will allow ISLAM to ONCE AGAIN BECOME A WORLD/GLOBALLY DOMINANT MIL FORCES AS LIKE ISLAM'S GLORIOUS PAST.
This shows - AGAIN - why the ISLAMISTS, etc. are rampaging throughout ASIA + AFRICA, espec as per RUSSIA, CHINA, + INDIA = DESTABILIZ AND BREAKUP OF ASIA's MAJOR NUCLEAR STATES [whole or in part].
A senior military official says Pakistan has canceled leave for members of the armed forces because of tension with India following the deadly Mumbai attacks. Once the Brigade Commander's fallout shelter is completed, you may return home to work on yours.
India has said the gunmen who carried out last month's attacks were Pakistani and had connections to the Pakistan-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba. Pakistan has demanded India share evidence of its allegations..... which will allow them to round up the usual suspects.
Both countries have said they want to avoid conflict over the attacks, which killed more than 160 people. But India has not ruled out the use of force, and Pakistan has said it will respond to any attack and has placed its military on alert. Current map of the troubled region.
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So... what's the engagement radius of those modified-for-ABM AEGIS cruisers I've been hearing so much about? How fast could we deploy the ground-based stuff they've been testing in Alaska?
I have no fears for the Indian Army's ability to deal with the mustachio'd joke which is the Pakistani Armed Forces. But nobody can outrun a healthy salvo of nukes, no matter how ineptly operated or deployed.
Posted by: Mitch H. ||
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The Paki would be forced by straited circumstances to deliver the vast majority of their n00ks via F-16z or FreightLiner. So an ABM system isn't necessary at the moment. Still it would be a nice gesture.....
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Given how easily the ISI/L-e-T terrorists infiltrated Mumbai, I'm pretty sure the Paks could slip a nuke or two into India. Therein is the problem.
Posted by: Steve White ||
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Are Pak nukes that portable? I got the impression that they barely fit on a big honking ballistic missile. So we're talking shipping containers here, right?
Once they start handing out shipping-container nukes to random six-degrees-of-Hamid-Gul yahoos, we're all fucked, though.
Posted by: Mitch H. ||
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Are the nuclear bombs produced by the Land of the Pure actually functioning? Or have they rusted through due to poor maintenance based on djinn-physics protocols? If so, slipping the things in anywhere becomes a different problem than that intended by the slippers.
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The creation of Pakistan as an independent nation is obviously, in retrospect, a major mistake. It's time to correct it. Let India do whatever it wishes up to the Indus River (Since the name "India" was derived by Alexander from the name of the river, it would only be just to use it as India's Western boundary). The US should land a couple of batallions of Marines and another couple of SeeBees at Karachi, and start working north. THe SeeBees would be tasked with developing a major road/rail network between Karachi and Kabul. The Marines would be there to see that nobody interferes. In the meantime, the US should ARCLIGHT the HE$$ out of the NWFP, and level Peshawar, giving the Pashtuns the lesson that you don't mess with the US if you want to live - something not brought home to them yet. All land not allocated to India would be given to Afghanistan, after we have a long, heart-to-heart with Karzai about inbred stupidity.
India has a very good, very accurate, and very functional air defense system. They may not have a working ICBM/IRBM/MRBM system yet, but they're working on it, and I think Israel has already shipped them a couple of "ARROW" systems. The average nuke is only functional for about five years, then needs some major overhaul. Whether Pakistan adheres to a regular maintenance cycle is something I wouldn't want to learn from experience.
The AEGIS/PAC-3 has a range of about 800 miles, IIRC, but I think that's based on ships at sea.
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Drink up! :-D
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crap. I wazza reading this at work and had to take the afternoon off due to drinking
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Security forces killed four Taliban in Mamoond tehsil of Bajaur Agency on Friday. According to a private TV channel, the security forces continued operation against the Taliban in different areas of the tehsil. The security forces also destroyed a number of Taliban hideouts. Locals have started moving to safer places following the raids, the channel added. Meanwhile, the channel reported a blast in Miranshah area of North Waziristan on Thursday. No casualty was reported, the channel said. Separately, five people, including two women, were killed as a mortar shell hit a house during the operation, another private channel reported.
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The ulema (religious scholars) will set aside their internal difference and stand by Pakistan's armed forces if India imposes war on us, Mufti Muneebur Rehman said on Thursday. The Ruet-e-Hilal Committee chairman said India would get nothing out of an imposed war except blood and destruction. He urged the United Nations and the world community to advise India to be reasonable. Addressing a press conference after a meeting of ulema from different sects with Interior Adviser Rehman Malik, Mufti Muneeb said Pakistan had been the worst target of terrorism in the current decade and appealed to the ulema to promote sectarian harmony in their sermons in the coming days.
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Since these jokers provided the verbal support that convinced the crazies to attack Mumbai in the first place it would totally discredit them if they didnt' stand by Pakistan when India finally counter-attacks.
Three people were kidnapped from Khyber Agency on Thursday, local sources said. Unidentified armed men kidnapped a driver and cleaner of a trailer that was on its way back from Afghanistan when they were abducted from the Saur Kamar area of Jamrud tehsil. In a separate incident, armed men kidnapped a local trader from his home in Landikotal and shifted him to an undisclosed location.
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Taliban abducted Awami National Party (ANP) Hangu Secretary General Malik Riaz Bangash along with his driver on Thursday. Bangash was on his way to Doaba, when he was abducted near Marofi village. Two police guards, Fazal Hakeem and Gul Badshah, were injured in the crossfire between the Taliban and the security guards. Fearing Taliban attacks, the ANP district president and parliamentarian Pir Haider Ali Shah have not visited the constituency in the past seven months.
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Sixty-eight of the 70 Taliban wanted by the Mohmand Agency political administration surrendered to the authorities on Thursday. Two Taliban commanders from Pandiali area were among the men who surrendered to the political administration. The Taliban belonged to Haleem Zai, Tarak Zai, Essa Khel and Burhan Khel tribes. The NWFP Frontier Corps (FC) said the political administration had demanded the 70 Taliban surrender by December 25. The FC said 310 Taliban had surrendered to the administration over the past two weeks. The FC officials said the Taliban also handed over a large number of weapons.
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Deal where Taliban are released after promising to be good in 10..9..8..
The future of around 40,000 girls in Swat is at stake following a Taliban ban on education for female students.
Shah Duran, the deputy of Swat-based Taliban cleric Fazlullah, has warned the administrations of government and private educational institutions to not enrol girls in schools.
The Taliban on Wednesday issued a deadline for January 15 for the ban to be implemented, following which they said they would bomb the buildings of schools allowing girls to study. The Taliban have blown up more than 100 girls' schools in Swat in the past 14 months.
Locals say they are helpless and have no other option but to accede to the Taliban's pressure as the government has failed to provide them with securuty.
"This is terrible," the principal of a private school in Mingora told Daily Times, requesting that the name of his school should not be mentioned as that would risk his life and property. He said the Taliban decision had proved that the government had lost its writ in the valley. "This is the question of the future of our children. The Taliban decision will throw more than 40,000 girls out of schools," he said.
He said the school owners in Swat district were planning to convene a meeting and form a committee with the help of elders to have dialogue with the Taliban.
The announcement has stamped the statement of Awami National Party (ANP) Senator Haji Muhammad Adeel who had told a seminar in Peshawar a fortnight ago that the government had lost control over Swat.
A social worker said people had already started migrating from Swat following threats by the Taliban. "Things are changing dramatically. We cannot say anything because the people and the whole government is helpless before the armed people," he said.
The man said his three daughters were studying at an English medium school. He had no other option but to shift his family to some other area to educate his children, he added.
Schools are the most vulnerable target since the beginning of trouble in Swat. According to figures provided by a Swat-based non-government organisation, Pakistan Coalitions for Education (PCE), Taliban have destroyed over 100 of the 490 primary schools for girls in Swat so far. The destruction of schools and recent threats to teachers and students have forced over 50,000 girls out of schools, the PCE figures said.
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Islamabad police have claimed foiling terrorist attacks planned for Christmas, Benazir Bhutto's death anniversary and the New Year's Eve by seizing 650 kilogrammes of explosives and 520 detonators in Koral police station precincts on Thursday.
Superintendent of Police (SP) Saqib Sultan said Koral police were tipped-off by reliable sources that three suspicious men, had brought a large quantity of explosives to shops on the Bhimbar-Tirar Road. The sources said the men claimed the explosives were to be used for stone blasting in mining, he added.
On receiving the information, Rural Circle Deputy Superintendent of Police Muhammad Mumtaz formed a team headed by Koral Station House Officer Arshad Ali, which raided the shops and asked the men for the licence to use the explosives. Sultan said the men failed to produce the licence after which the police team took 12 men, including Fareed Khan, Musa Khan and Bacha Khan, into custody.
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Pakistan troops were deployed on Thursday to protect vital points along the Line of Control in Kashmir and the international border with India, defence sources told Daily Times. Reports in Indian media said Pakistan moved its 10th Brigade to Lahore and ordered the 3rd Armoured Brigade to march towards Jhelum, following a heavy concentration of Indian troops on the borders. Pakistan's 10th and 11th divisions have been put on high alert, Indian media said, and troops had been stationed in Rajouri and Poonch sectors of Kashmir. Sources in the Defence Department declined to give details of any fresh movement but did not deny reports that Pakistan was moving certain brigades towards Lahore. Indian TV channels also reported that Pakistan Air Force continued its state of high alert and started aerial surveillance of the Chashma power plant and other sensitive sites on Thursday amid fears of a 'surgical strike' by India.
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fine with me: nobody will be there to stop the Merkins from crossing the border and whacking the talibs....
#2
Yeah... now's not a great time to be poking the fear-crazed armed lunatic with a sharp stick, even if he *is* concentrating on the neighbor holding a shotgun on him. Once the nukes start flying, there's no way of telling where they'll land. Unless somebody's smuggled advanced ABM tech into Kabul when I wasn't watching...
Posted by: Mitch H. ||
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two words: prevailing winds
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WAFF.com > INDIA THREATENS PAKISTAN WITH DEADLINE FOR WAR, India has until 12/26 to prove it has begun crackdown on PK-based Terror Groups including those PERCEIVED AS TERROR FRONTS POSING AS PRO-HINDU + CHRISTIAN CHARITY GROUPS???
A LOCAL al-Qaeda chief known as "Imad the killer" escaped in a pre-dawn breakout from an Iraqi police station on Friday, triggering a wild shootout that left 13 militants and Iraqi policemen dead. Imad Ahmed Farhan, who police say has admitted to murdering at least 100 people, is on the run with two other "emirs" or local leaders of al-Qaeda who broke out of their cells in a police station in the western city of Ramadi.
"During an exchange of fire between prisoners trying to escape and police officers in the station, six policemen and seven prisoners were killed," provincial police chief Tareq al-Dulaimi said.
The three prisoners managed to flee but one was recaptured, Dulaimi said, adding that another four policemen were wounded in the shootout that occurred at 2am (1000 AEDT Thursday) at Forsan police station in the centre of Ramadi.
Ramadi police have imposed a curfew in the city following the incident, an interior ministry source said.
The source said a prisoner wanting to go to the toilet was escorted from his cell by a policeman at 2am, kicking off what appeared to be a well-planned operation. "The policeman was overpowered by the inmate who seized his weapon and shot him," the source said.
Was he overpowered or was he 'overpowered'?
"He then opened up the other cells and and he and his fellow prisoners grabbed weapons from the police station's armoury, opening fire on the policemen."
The prisoners battled police for two hours before officers managed to regain control of the station, a local police official said. The recaptured prisoner suffered minor injuries.
Though he's about to fall down the stairs. Elebenteen flights of stairs.
Farhan is locally know as "Imad Omaya" which in Arabic means "Imad the Killer".
Today, the streets of Ramadi, a city of 540,000 people, were deserted and shops were shut as a heavy police presence fanned out in an urgent hunt for the al-Qaeda escapees, an AFP reporter said.
Aswat al-Iraq: Security forces on Thursday arrested in a village west of Mosul two members of al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) who confessed to having committed crimes against civilians and security personnel, a source from Ninewa police said. "A Ninewa security force arrested two AQI members in al-Fadiliya village, western Talafar district, (60 km) west of Mosul," the source told Aswat al-Iraq. "The two men confessed to having murdered civilians and security personnel. Two Kalashnikov assault rifles were seized in the operation that was conducted without any resistance," the source added.
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A car bomb near a popular restaurant in northwestern Baghdad killed four people and wounded 25 on Thursday, police said. A few hours later, a suicide car bomber targeting a United States military patrol killed three people and wounded 14 in Muqdadiya, 80 km northeast of Baghdad, the police said. The US military said it was checking if there were any US casualties.
The explosion near the restaurant in Baghdad's Shia district of Shula occurred while policemen and labourers were eating breakfast. Casualties included police officers and civilians, police said. The Shia-led Iraqi government declared Thursday, Christmas Day, a national holiday to show what it said was its solidarity with minority non-Muslim religious groups in Iraq.
Meanwhile, a bomb blew up and set fire to a crude oil pipeline carrying oil from a town in northern Iraq to the city of Kirkuk, Iraqi and US military officials said. The explosion at around midnight set fire to one pipeline and damaged a second, said the joint US-Iraqi military co-ordination centre in Kirkuk. Exports were not affected. The fire occurred in the town of By Hassan, near the disputed city of Kirkuk, 250 km north of Baghdad, police said.
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BAGHDAD - A car bomb near a popular restaurant killed four people and wounded 25 in northwestern Baghdad on Christmas Day on Thursday, police said.
The explosion in the Shi'ite district of Shula occurred while policemen and labourers were eating breakfast. The casualties included both policemen and civilians, police said.
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Lebanese army sappers together with the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon on Thursday defused eight Katyusha rockets set to be launched at Israel.
A Lebanese army communiqué said army troops found the Katyushas of various calibers in an area north of Naqoura. The missiles were positioned and set to be fired at Israel, it added. It said Lebanese troops launched a wide-scale search in and around Naqoura to make sure the area was free from further rockets.
The communiqué said the army together with UNIFIL planned to launch a similar military operation in search for the perpetrators.
UNIFIL spokesperson Yasmina Bouziane said late Thursday that the peacekeeping force worked together with the Lebanese army to defuse the Katyushas. She said UNIFIL commander Gen. Claudio Graziano was also in contact with both the Lebanese army and Israel regarding this issue.
A reliable source earlier told Naharnet that the 107-mm projectiles were fitted with timing devices and defused "a short while before the time set for their launching."
The Voice of Lebanon radio station said the rockets were set to be fired between 10:00 and 10:30 pm on Thursday.
The reliable source said the Katyushas were "discovered" in the area between the border towns of Naqoura and Teir Harfa. The region, which is within the area of operations of UNIFIL, abuts Israel and overlooks most of the Central and Western Galilee.
It could not be immediately determined whether the projectiles were traditional World War II Katyushas that have a range of 10-12 kilometers or a double-load Iranian-modified version better known by the code of RAAD that has a double range. Hizbullah used Iranian-modified RAAD Katyushas, each with a pay load of 100 kilograms of explosives, in its 2006 war with Israel, hitting as deep as the coastal town of Haifa. I look forward to the day, Iran is outed as THE only problem in the ME. And the world recognizes this fact. Yeah, call me crazy.
GAZA (Reuters) -- A rocket apparently fired by Palestinians on Friday struck a house in the Gaza Strip, killing two Palestinian sisters aged five and 13, Palestinian medics said. Hamas police said they were investigating the cause of the blast in Beit Lahiya village in northern Gaza, which medics said seemed to be due to a rocket aimed at Israel that had misfired.
Gaza militants frequently fire rockets at Israel from the same area.
The incident came amid rising tensions with Israel, with officials threatening stepped-up military action against Gaza militants to stop rocket shootings from the coastal territory.
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Saw a clip of some recent Ham firing this morning on Fox. Kicking the base of the tube to adjust fire is a bit primitive. (Achmed, was add 300m one boot stomp or two?) This might well have been operator error. In any event, Play it again Sam.
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AlanC, there's always the possibility that the busload of Lutherans in town for a Bethlehem sightseeing tour were responsible.....somehow.....(don't ask me for specifics, ok? I'm still working on it...)
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ION ISRAEL > WAFF - WILL ISRAEL SURVIVE BY 2050 [long]? Israel's greatest single problem, moreso than any Arab Terror or Nuclear Threat, is ala POPULATION DEMOGRAPHICS [e.g. RUSSIA BY 2050] which in turn will likely have ripple effect = consequences for ISRAEL's ECONOMY + SOCIO-CULTURAL DYNAMIC, ETC.
* High Muslim Birth rate versus Israelis
* IMMIGRATION - Over 600,000 Israelis living abroad.
* JEWS comprise 60% of Israel's current popul, but by 2050 Muslims-Arabs 40% from 23 - 24% current.
* "ALIYAH" is about done in Israel.
Population demographics: I believe the non-European Jews have birthrates similar to the Arabs in the surrounding countries. The European Jews, on the other hand, tend to have only one or two children, like the European culture they came from.
Emigration: has been a concern since the founding of the country.
Aliyah, ie mass emigration to Israel: is indeed over. As far as I'm aware there aren't any large populations of beleaguered Jews left. There has been a steady trickle of individual aliyot from Western countries resulting from Zionist idealism; no doubt in future the Zionist trickle will come from the rest of the world as well.
Muslim population numbers in the US vs. Jewish numbers: The point is silly and, in my opinion, meaningless. Not to mention that, like Palestinian population numbers, the number of Muslims in the US as reported by organizations such as CAIR tend to be exaggerated by an order of magnitude, eg 6 million vs 600,000, making projections a bit non-reality based. However, so long as the Muslims were as well-integrated, conscientious citizens as the Jews, it would not be a problem. We shall wait and see -- 2020 isn't that far in the future. As a point of information, most of the Muslims in this country are Asians and African-American "Black Muslims", not Arabs... and many Arab-Americans are Christian, not Muslim.
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Pali rocket men need to be taught the Islamic way of launching. Allan looks on the Jihadi's rocket offering as sincere only when it is launched straight-up.
The military wing affiliated to Hamas, Al-Qassam Brigades released a statement on Thursday morning briefing the group's military activities over the first twenty four hours of an operation they called "Oil Stain" which started Wednesday morning.
According to the statement, a total of 87 shells have been fired at Israeli targets bordering the Gaza Strip including 54 mortar shells, 31 homemade projectiles which Hamas calls "Qassam", and two Soviet-made Grad missiles.
Al-Qassa Brigades threatened to enlarge the "Oil Stain" to get more thousands of Israelis "under fire". The group asserted that its fighters are "far greater than surrendering to Israeli threats and that they became much more prepared to counter Israeli aggression and to defend themselves than in the past."
In a different regard, Hamas announced death of six of its activists on Tuesday and Wednesday in Israeli airstrikes.
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Has anyone found out why there is no anti-mortar or missile systems in place there? Do we have a bad case of "Not Invented Here" syndrome in Israel?
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tip, I'm sure they have the stuff, but I suspect they don't return fire because the missiles are launched from places like school playgrounds and they are unwilling to generate that kind of collateral damage and the bad world publicity it would generate (for Israel, not for the paleos launching rockets at school recess.)
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Yes, the IDF attempts to avoid hitting School playgrounds and nesting sites residential areas but that does not stop the endless photography of "dead non-combatants" from hitting the news in the wake of each IDF attack.
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And they restrain themselves why? So as not to waste the great love and respect from the rest of the world? Please. Just announce that ALL attacks will be responded to. Collateral damage from (war crime) attacks from civilian areas are the responsibility of the attacker.
Our new president zero is gonna hang Israel out to dry anyway.
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Hell, Fish I think Zero is gonna hang everybody out to dry after taking them to the cleaners that is. Unless you can do Him some short term good, this its 'under da bus wit'cha.'
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First I read about a Hamas rocket killing two little Palestinian girls then I read Hamas has fired 87 mortar shells and/or rockets with no mention of any Israeli casualties whatsoever. Boy, that's some kinda shootin', huh?
So why does IDF need to return fire? Paleos are not only impotent, they are their own worst enemy.
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A roadside bomb went off in the southern province of Yala on Friday morning, critically wounding two soldiers. The blast took place in front of a PTT petrol station in Krong Pinang district at around 8.30am. Two motorcycles were found next to the wounded soldiers, who were rushed to Yala Centre Hospital.
The military said it was highly probable that Abu Sayyaf leader Radulan Sahiron and a Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) militant were killed in recent encounters in Sulu.
Western Mindanao Command chief Lt. Gen. Nelson Allaga said there were indications that Sahiron was killed after he fell off his horse, which was shot by automatic gunfire from government troops during an encounter in Talipao last Dec. 7. "There is a very high probability that Radulan Sahiron was killed and one JI, but we can not confirm and validate it as of the moment," Allaga said.
Allaga added they were not able to retrieve the supposed body of Sahiron to confirm his death. "The reason we came up with that conclusion is because in the (Abu Sayyaf) camp that was attacked by the troops, we saw the horse of Radulan lying on the ground, and he usually rides on (that) horse," Allaga said. The attack in Talipao also killed nine soldiers, he added.
On the identity of the slain JI militant, Allaga said they are still verifying the reports.
The reports also indicated three JI militants were among the Abu Sayyaf when troops launched the attack. Allaga identified the high value targets as Umar Patek, Marwan and Zulkipli. He stressed intelligence reports kept pouring in pointing that Sahiron was killed during the encounter.
Sahiron is among the high-ranking leaders of Abu Sayyaf wanted by the US government for the kidnapping of 21 tourists in the island resort of Sipadan, among other high profile kidnapping of foreigners.
Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief, Gen. Alexander Yano earlier revealed intelligence efforts to validate reports of the killing of a JI operative in the encounter. Yano said there are reliable reports that "a high value" al-Qaeda-linked JI operative was among the five terrorists killed by government troops during the assault on the suspected hideout of Sahiron. Yano, however, did not elaborate on the identity of the so-called high value target killed by troops during the encounter since they have not retrieved any dead body at the site.
Anti-terror Task Force Comet chief Maj. Gen. Juancho Sabban also did not substantiate reports that a JI militant was among those killed during the assault. Sabban said troops in the area failed to retrieve the bodies of the slain JI terrorist or any of the Abu Sayyaf bandits since they had been dragged away by their fleeing comrades.
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Ten people were killed when Muslim separatist guerrillas launched attacks and occupied a village in the southern Philippines, military and police officials said on Thursday.
Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels attacked Midtungo village in the southern island of Mindanao with rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles on Tuesday, military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Julieto Ando said. The militants killed nine residents and wounded another, he said, updating an earlier toll of six after three more deaths were discovered.
In a separate attack, a passenger of a motorboat passing near the town of Kalamansig was killed after suspected MILF fighters shot at the vessel on Wednesday, provincial police chief Ben-Hur Mongao said. As many as 400 families fled Midtungo after the attack there, town social welfare officer Edmund Corder said.
Mongao said the MILF fighters had occupied Midtungo until Christmas day on Thursday but that they had withdrawn by noon after the army, police and pro-government militiamen cordoned off the area. "The Philippine National Police is still at the site and we cannot say that it is totally clear," as policemen searched the village for stragglers and booby-traps, said Mongao. Evacuated residents had taken refuge in the town hall and were still being cared for by local officials, Mongao said, although he could not say how many had fled. MILF fighters also attacked other communities in the south, firing assault rifles and mortars on Tuesday and Wednesday, the military said. A home-made bomb, believed to have been planted by the MILF, was found on a highway in the town of Datu Saudi Ampatuan in Mindanao on Thursday but it was defused by the military, local commander Colonel Marlou Salazar said."It's believed to be intended for a military convoy," Salazar added.
Attacks: MILF spokesman Eid Kabalu denied there had been an attack and accused the military of trying to provoke the separatist group. He said the soldiers had been building up forces in the area for no reason, leading to an exchange of gunfire. But he denied any attacks on civilians.
The government suspended peace talks with the MILF after the group launched attacks across Mindanao in August to protest a court order stopping a deal that would have given the rebels control over a Muslim autonomous region. More than 600,000 people were displaced in fighting that followed, while dozens of civilians, guerrillas and soldiers have been killed.
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COLOMBO - Sri Lanka's military beat back a Tamil Tiger counter-offensive in the island's north, killing at least 18 guerrillas, the defence ministry said on Thursday.
The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) mounted the offensive outside their besieged political capital of Kilinochchi on Wednesday, the ministry said. "Well prepared troops engaged the advancing terrorists with armour, tanks, artillery and infantry causing heavy damage," the ministry said in a statement. It said 18 rebels were killed and another 34 wounded, but did not give details of casualties on the government side.
The pro-rebel Tamilnet.com website said there was heavy fighting in the area, but give no further details.
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In yet another case of Indians being targeted in Afghanistan, suspected Taliban militants abducted a 38-year-old cook working for an Italian company. Vasu alias Simon was abducted along with his Afghan interpreter and driver on October 13, official sources said in Delhi. He was working food store 'Fiano', which serves Italian soldiers in Afghanistan. The trio were abducted while delivering food to the International Security Assistance Force camp in Bagram air base.
Police yesterday arrested eight operatives of outlawed Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) including two madrasa teachers in Gaibandha and seized a big cache of explosives.
Pakistan began moving thousands of troops away from the Afghan border toward India on Friday amid tensions following the Mumbai attacks, intelligence officials said. The move represents a sharp escalation in the stand off between the nuclear-armed neighbors and stands to weaken Pakistan's U.S.-backed campaign against al-Qaida and Taliban close to Afghanistan.
A LOCAL al-Qaeda chief known as "Imad the killer" escaped in a pre-dawn breakout from an Iraqi police station on Friday, triggering a wild shootout that left 13 militants and Iraqi policemen dead. 
BAGHDAD - A car bomb near a popular restaurant killed four people and wounded 25 in northwestern Baghdad on Christmas Day on Thursday, police said.
The military wing affiliated to Hamas, Al-Qassam Brigades released a statement on Thursday morning briefing the group's military activities over the first twenty four hours of an operation they called "Oil Stain" which started Wednesday morning.
The military said it was highly probable that Abu Sayyaf leader Radulan Sahiron and a Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) militant were killed in recent encounters in Sulu.
