Long time, no see, Blinky...
KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban leader Mullah Omar on Tuesday called on foreign forces to withdraw from Afghanistan and taunted NATO about its capture of the southern town of Musa Qala, saying celebrating such a small victory only showed its weakness. Yes, we would've stayed and slaughtered you as always, but...we had our good Eid clothes on and our mothers woulda got mad at us if we got them all dirty. But next time, we'll show yas!
This year has seen a steady escalation of violence in Afghanistan with attacks up around 25 percent since 2006, but neither the hard-line Taliban nor Afghan government and international forces have gained any significant advantage. Well, unless ya count all the dead guys...
... and we did ...
"The aggression by the Americans and their allies against Afghanistan and Iraq brought with it economic and financial losses that affected not just occupied states, but the aggressors are also suffering," Omar said in a message to mark the Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday beginning in Afghanistan on Wednesday."Therefore, international institutions and all countries, especially Muslim states, should find ways for the evacuation of aggressor forces, and along with occupied nations help form a permanent and independent government," the Pakistan-based Afghanistan International Press (AIP) quoted a statement as saying. Yes. Please go away so we don't have to bleed all over you...
Blinky's too important to fight us, he sends the young lads to take us on ...
The one-eyed reclusive leader said no occupying power had ever conquered Afghanistan and the Taliban was getting stronger each day. Ummmmmm...the eye thing? He...doesn't like that.
The Taliban, he said, "have troubled them so much that they are propagating and celebrating a partial occupation of the small district of Musa Qala, the way they did six years ago over occupation of Afghanistan." ...and that's why I live in the Allah Ahkbar Suite of the Peshawar Hilton in Pakistan.
Thousands of Afghan, British and U.S. troops recaptured the town of Musa Qala in the southern province of Helmand last week, the only town of any size held by the Taliban, but much of the countryside in the remote area, as in many parts of the mountainous country, are still loosely under Taliban control. ...where they enjoy winter sports, air strikes, starvation and hypothermia.
"Only the district headquarters and few shops of Musa Qala are under the enemy's occupation," Omar said. "They have not achieved any success in the last six years and such a celebration (over the capture of Musa Qala) is the biggest proof of their weakness," he said. Ha-ha-ha! I laugh at your victory!! And order up more goat pr0n on Direct TV Peshawar to show my contempt! Fight on, men! Your blood and scattered body parts show the futility of their victory! I'll will turn up the heat in my suite in honor of your sacrifices!
Omar promised no let up in Taliban activities during the usual lull in fighting that accompanies the harsh Afghan winter and denied there was any rift in his organisation. Have no worries, my Jihadi brothers. Know that all is well here in Peshawar. Fight on! I will have an extra serving of goat stew in honor of the freezing, starving warriors who have not yet been killed. To the last drop of blood, men! Win one for The Blinker!
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Sounds like a scared piece of sh$$ trying to convince himself, don't he? Hey Omar the One Eyed, how many victories have the Taliban won in the last year? Can you count that high? Hint - your thumb can act as "one", which is more than you need.
I'd like to see a division of Marines suddenly envelop Quetta. The exploding turbans would put on quite a light show.
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I thought the phrase, "punishing the one eyed Mullah" would have been more popular by now.
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Long time, no see, Blinky...
I Lol'd, yes I did. Then I got the shames.
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BBC > DOES THE WEST STILL EXIST? Does West still matter in America's new "Global Vision" - Cold War Aliance was a "Golden Era" for the US + Europe. WAFF.com > FIRSTPOST.UK - TURKEY PLANS MUSLIM EUROPE. Turkic Radical-Xtremist, formerly pro-Anarchy/Violence pol party puts on new "moderate/centrist". "pro-Peace" paint and relabels itself the AKP PARTY [FRepublic - RADICALS/WOLVES IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING ALERT]; + WND > TOP UK NAMES "PROVES ISLAM WILL ENTER EVERY HOUSE IN EUROPE". UK Radical MUslim Leader - "SUN WILL SHINE FOR THE [Islamic]WEST ...SIGN OF JUDGEMENT DAY ...PART OF A BIG REVIVAL OF [Global] ISLAM". WEST [Islamic] WILL BECOME A SPRINGBOARD FOR NEW CAMPAIGNS [Jihads] [Agz Non-Islamic Regions/World?]???
OTOH, also from WND > NORTH KOREA > MARTYRDOM AWAITS NORTH KOREANS [Christians] ON CHRISTMAS.
A bomb blast destroyed the tax office in the Corsican town of Bonfacio on Monday, just days after the conviction for murder of a pro-independence activist from the French Mediterranean island.
According to Corsican security officials, the blast occurred at around 4:00am (0300 GMT) and appeared to have been caused by one or more gas cylinders wrapped around an explosive device. The resulting fire destroyed the tax office building in the southern Corsican town.
The attack followed the sentencing last Thursday of Yvan Colonna, 47, for killing Claude Erignac, the state-appointed "prefect" or governor of Corsica in February 1998. The murder of the prefect was by far the most serious act of violence in some 30 years of generally low-level separatist violence on the island.
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30 years of generally low-level separatist violence on the island.
While the corsican nationalists were generally NOT a murderous lot (except among themselves, all the historical leaders have been successively snuffed by their pals), "low level" doesn't really describe the corsican situation : in the 90's, there were about 600 bombings a year (not all politically motivated, remember, Corsica is the land of the vendetta by excellence, and historical research has shown for example that violent mortality among young men in the 19th century nearly equaled the same age bracket's WWI loss ratio IIRC), including a bona fide VBIED aimed at a rival leader in the late 90's that could have killed scores, but didn't only by chance; nowadays, I think it's down to "only" 100-150 bombings a year. Corsicans are notorious for long having been very active in three areas, organized crime, public administration/politics, and colonies (notably marines and foreign legion).
Of course, the run of the mill shootings up of a police station was so common it was not even worth mentioning - corsicans are the only french department (250 000 inhabitants, with lots of strangers) where firearms are very common, up to assault rifles and Rpg for the nationalists, and many law-abiding citizens pack heat, in full tolerated illegality (Corsica is handled with much "precautions" by the republic, and many things tacitly allowed there are not exactly reciprocated for the lowly continental).
I recall reading in a forum an american talking about french RKBA, and saying, when told french laws are restricitive in that area, that "no, no, that was no true, he once went to visit french friends, and they had lots of rifles and handguns and even a full-auto weapon"; of course, the fun part was he was talking about corsican friends.
This probably explains why the 2005 ramadan riots DIDN'T spread to Corsica :-).
Anyway, each time the topic of Corsica comes up, I can link to those pics of nationalists (scroll down for effect). Yeah!
(KUNA) Suspected Taliban militants Tuesday kidnapped four government officials from the Northern Pakistani Frontier Province (NWFP), said police. Four high-ranking government officials in an official vehicle were traveling to Peshawar, capital of NWFP, from the Dera Ismail Khan district when unknown armed gunmen kidnapped them at gunpoint, police sources told KUNA.
The sources said a search operation has been launched to arrest suspected militants and secure the early release of the kidnapped officials. Kidnapping of security personnel and government employees has become routine in NWFP and bordering tribal areas. Hundreds of security personnel were released a few weeks back after militants captured them along with huge cache of arms and ammunition.
Since Lal Mosque operation in Islamabad, militants have intensified attacks on security forces and routinely target military convoys and checkposts. Officially the death toll in Lal Mosque operation was put near 103 but the opposition claimed more than 1000 students, mostly from northern Pakistan, were killed.
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The Hangu Peace Jirga, constituted by the NWFP Governor, arrived in Sadda, a town of Kurram Agency, on Tuesday after holding talks with Shia elders in agency headquarters Parachinar.
According to an official statement, the jirga participants unanimously decided to constitute peace committees at the street level. It said the committees would work in collaboration with the local administration to ensure peace in Parachinar.
The statement included that after the jirga, delegations of Shia elders left for the surrounding villages to persuade people, especially Sunni elders, in those areas for maintaining peace and restraining them from any sort of hostility.
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PARACHINAR: A man was killed and five others injured during violence in Parachinar after a hand grenade attack on Tuesday, Online reported.
The hand grenade hurled from a house at a mob in Maan Singh Street injured a person. The infuriated mob besieged the house and set it on fire. Later, angry people burnt tyres in various parts of the city. Security forces opened fire at protesters killing one and injuring five others. A curfew was imposed in the area after the clashes.
Also, the Hangu Peace Jirga has convinced one faction in Parachinar to restore peace in the area, APP reported.
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KHAR: Pro-Taliban militants in Bajaur Agency announced on Tuesday that they would remain impartial during the upcoming elections. We will neither participate in elections nor will force someone to take part in the process, Maulana Faqir Mohammad, a Taliban commander and spokesman for Mulana Mohammad Umar, told journalists after a grand jirga here. He said the local Taliban had launched a movement and had militant leader Baitullah Mehsud had been appointed its supreme commander. He denied the reports that Osama was in Bajaur Agency and termed the statement an attempt to launch a military operation in the agency. He also said they had decided to release the kidnapped levies soldiers within a few days as a goodwill gesture. Meanwhile, a grand jirga of tribal elders, consisting of Senator Maulana Abdur Rashid, held talks with local Taliban in Bajaur Agency. The jirga participants rejected President Pervez Musharrafs claim about Osamas presence in the agency.
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PESHAWAR: Unknown miscreants detonated two bombs that damaged the shrine of Abdul Shakoor Malang Baba situated in the limits of Chamkani Police in the early hours of Tuesday, police said. Chamkani Police Station Duty Officer Asmat Khan told Daily Times that two bombs went off around 2:15 am and damaged the minarets, walls and doors of Babas shrine located alongside the GT Road.
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Two children were killed when security forces and suspected pro-Taliban militants traded fire in North Waziristan, officials said on Tuesday.
The battle in Banda village took place on Monday after militants fired 11 rockets at a military checkpost and troops retaliated with artillery, a security official said. Some shells hit a few houses and two children, aged five and 11, were killed. Six people, two children and four women, were wounded, the official added. Separately, three soldiers were injured when militants fired rockets on checkposts, the military said in a statement. It said the three were injured when militants fired mortar rounds and rockets on two separate checkposts.
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A former senior US official said that Pakistan was the real front line in the war against Al Qaeda, but it is the most frightening concern that Al Qaeda was in pursuit of a nuclear weapon.
Bruce Riedel of the Brookings Institution said that Pakistan was the worlds only Muslim state with nuclear weapons, and that in the last decade a former CIA chief George Tenet had said that Al Qaeda was making efforts to get its hands on a Pakistani nuclear device. Today, it has a secure operating base in the country, its leadership is issuing constant guidance to its global supporters, it is threatening NATOs position in Afghanistan through its Taliban allies and it is now a growing force in Pakistan itself. The current political crisis in Pakistan is endangering the secular democratic forces in the country, polarising the debate about the countrys future and strengthening Al Qaedas Islamist partners.
Al Qaeda leaders: Writing in the Combating Terrorism Centre Sentinel a new publication of the US Military Academy, West Point Riedel is of the view that Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al Zawahiri could well be in any of Pakistans areas that are now increasingly getting out of the control of the central government and essentially lawless. From Balochistan to Kashmir, much of western Pakistan is sympathetic to Al Qaedas message and remains an open field where they can operate. Even in the urban areas, Al Qaeda operatives have been able to attack key targets, including military posts, with increasingly deadly results, he said. Most concerning is that the resurgence of the Al Qaeda-Taliban alliance in Pakistan has created a safe operating base for the global jihadist movement to train and recruit operatives from Western Europe and other major European cities. It seeks to destroy the secular political leadership and civil society that offers an alternative to its extremist Salafist Islamic preaching. Al Qaedas goal in Pakistan is to polarise the country into warring factions, break the back of civil and secular society and ultimately see its allies in the Pakistani Islamist movement seize power.
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Compare wid TOPIX > ATOMIC BAZAAR - THE RISE OF THE NUCLEAR [armed] POOR [nations].
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WORLDNEWS > THE CIA AS A WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION AGZ AMERICA. Of three major threats to the USA, US Agencies - State and CIA - comprise two of them; + POLICE STATE AMERICA.
Four military personnel mysteriously vanished near Matni on Tuesday night while they were traveling from Kohat to Peshawar, a private TV channel reported. Geo News quoted its sources as saying that the missing troops were going to Peshawar in a military jeep but near Matni their contact with the office ended. According to the channel, the soldiers maintained contact with their office until their vehicle reached the Kohat tunnel, at which point all contact halted. Police officials said they had no information about the missing soldiers.
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I'd be looking for ApacheDancers selling Ak-47s at outcry.
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check the tunnel for space-time continuum portals...
or tunnel jinns
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Security forces seized a huge quantity of explosives and some suicide jackets from a vehicle in the Khwazakhela area of Swat on Tuesday, sources said.
The explosives, planned for use in a suicide bombing, were recovered from a Land Cruiser jeep during a joint raid by police and army troops at Bandai in the afternoon. The raid was conducted on the basis of intelligence reports about the presence of arms and ammunition in a vehicle, Swat Media Centre spokesman Hasan Jan told Daily Times. The troops also raided the house of local Taliban commander Idrees and recovered 25,000 in Afghan currency.
Suspects: The spokesman said security forces did not target Taliban positions on Monday night. However, residents said the Manja and Namal areas were targeted and some 60 suspects were arrested. Meanwhile, the houses of two Fazlullah commanders were razed by troops. Security forces also raided a hospital run by militants in Ningolai and arrested its owner.
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This reads almost like a Multi-National Forces: Iraq communique.
Two police guards from whom Rashid Rauf broke away were remanded in police custody on Tuesday. A senior police officer told Daily Times that the guards appeared before Rawalpindi Special Judge Shaukat Ali Sajid, who remanded them for six-days and charged them under sections 223, 244, 128, 161, 162, 109, and 5/2.247. Interior Minister Hamid Nawaz said Raufs unfortunate escape was a serious security lapse and that they were working on one or two very good leads, AP reported.
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could make the case that they were not 'technically' guarding anyone.
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Not too bright were they? this was coming for a few days now and even Stevie Wonder could see it coming. they should have slipped away right after Rauf made his exit.
I checked to make sure this was a different event than I reported yesterday - it does seem to be. How many Special Groups 'leaders' are there anyway, and how fast can we roll them up?
BAGHDAD, Iraq Coalition forces captured a suspected Special Groups leader during operations Wednesday in the northern Baghdad area. (Yesterday's catch was southeast of Baghdad.)
The targeted individual was the Special Groups criminal element leader for Diyala Province and oversaw logistics and operations in the area. He was reportedly responsible for storing weapons and procuring lethal aid, including explosively formed penetrators, to support Special Group criminal attacks on Iraqi and Coalition forces.
The targeted individual used funding and training to support the criminal activities he commanded. The suspected criminal is also reportedly an associate of several other senior-level Special Groups members from Diyala to Baghdad, who were involved in attacks on Coalition forces.
We will continue to pursue those criminal elements that are not honoring al-Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadrs cease-fire pledge, said Navy Capt. Vic Beck, MNF-I spokesman.
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Turkey's military said Tuesday it had inflicted heavy losses on a separatist Kurdish rebel group in airstrikes over the weekend and in a "small-scale" incursion by ground forces.
In a statement posted on its Web site, the military confirmed that ground troops had crossed into northern Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish rebels. It said troops crossed "a few kilometers" into northern Iraq after spotting a group of rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, trying to infiltrate into Turkey overnight. "A heavy blow was inflicted on the group with the land forces stationed in the area," the military said.
The military said it was not able to give the number of rebels who may have been killed during Sunday's airstrikes on PKK targets in northern Iraq, but maintained that "many facilities harboring the PKK were hit."
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I gotta hand it to the Turks. They don't let small time terrorists mock them from across the border. They go in hot pursuit and burn the bastards. We should be doing the same for Blinky.
(KUNA) -- Four Iraqi citizens were killed when a booby-trapped car went off near the premises of the Iraqi Ministry of Industry here Tuesday. The attack took place in Al-Bab Al-Sharqi district, downtown Baghdad, an Iraqi police officer told KUNA here on the condition of anonymity. The attack also left ten other persons injured and eight cars damaged, the officer said. In another car bomb attack, an Iraqi policeman was killed and seven others were injured. The attack targeted the building of the Speedy Intervention Forces in Ba'qubah city, Dyala governorate, northeast Baghdad, according to police sources.
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(KUNA) -- The Iraqi authorities have taken a host of tight security measures to avoid any potential attacks against innocent people during the four-day Eid Al-Adha that starts Wednesday.
In the meantime, security bodies said that up to 712 insurgents were killed, 5,246 of the wanted were arrested and 6,296 suspects were captured in ten months at the time when 1,859 civilians and 528 police and army personnel were killed. By the same token 4,470 civilians and 3,276 military personnel were wounded over the same period.
Spokesman for the Baghdad Security Plan, Enforcing the Law, Brigadier Kassem Attallah said that they had taken due measures for a new security plan during Eid -Al-Adha for providing due protection for the public utilities, religious sites, mosques and parks. He pointed to the achievements realized through the application of the Enforcing the Law Plan which remarkably reduced the total volume of victims.
Addressing a press conference in Baghdad, Attallah said that during the Eid vehicles would not be allowed to park in public streets or nears parks. Violators will be prosecuted. Motorcycles and cars will also be banned at crowded areas. Cars will have to be inspected before allowing them into their parks.
According to Attallah up to 224 car bombings took place in Baghdad, in addition to 1,239 IED explosions and 122 assassinations took place in the Iraqi capital over the past ten months.
Attallah said that 42 from the wanted and suspects of the guards of MP of the Iraqi Accord Front, Adnan Al-Delimi, were referred to court adding that they had received up to 275 complaints from Al-Adl quarter, against the MPs guards.
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(KUNA) -- Iraqi police said that 11 people were killed Tuesday when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt inside a cafe in the province of Diyala, northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. A source in the Iraqi police said in a statement to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) said that a suicide bomber wearing a belt of explosives blew himself up inside a popular cafe in the Al-Abbara area north of the city of Baquba. The source added that the explosion resulted in the death of 11 people and injury of 28 others. On a related development, Diyala police said today that its elements arrested 10 al-Qaeda-inspired terrorists in the area of Al-Nada north of Diyala.
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How long does Al Qaeda have to maintain this casualty ratio (11 dead & 28 wounded vs. 1 dead) before one side gives up? Are there enough psychotics in Iraq for AQ to 'win'? Do the Iraqi people have the strength of will to not submit (Islam means 'submission.')
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Glenmore, every explosion creates at least a half-dozen blood feuds. This is what has happened in Anbar province, and to a lesser extent elsewhere. The Iraqis demand revenge against those that kill their family members, and the "Awakening" movement gives them a chance to actually get that revenge. Most of the large families in Iraq have lost one or more members, and need to respond. Turning against al-qaida and the baathists is one way to get that revenge, either directly or indirectly. The tipping point was reached six to eight months ago, and the only thing left now is the clean-up. Unfortunately, that could take up to ten years. In the meantime, there are fewer and fewer Arabs willing to accept the al-qaida cant. The only places to recruit from seem to be Yemen, Sudan, and Somalia (the Pakistanis are needed at home, or in Afghanistan).
Are there enough psychotics in Iraq for AQ to 'win'?
ALL Muslims are psychotic - it goes with their religion. The question should be, are there enough psychotics willing to help al-qaida win. I wasn't sure before, but I'm beginning to believe that a tipping point has been reached here, as well. al-qaida is already dipping deeply into the barrel to find the necessary suicide bombers to just keep the action going. Eventually, probably within a year at most, that barrel will be virtually empty.
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So, OP, when Iraqis have 'blood feuds' it's like in the old days, until one clan or the other is gone? And the Iraqis won't decide "it hurts, please stop, I'll do whatever you want" like so many in Europe and the 'blue' US are inclined to do?
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(Ba-da-bomp-bomp-bomp)
Another one bites the dust!
(Bomp-bomp-bomp)
Another one bites the dust!
And another one down and another one down
Another one bites the dust
Hey! I'm gonna get you too
Another one bites the dust!
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Was it the infrared, or did I see like four secondaries after the hit?
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Man, a lot of secondaries! Jihadist parts everywhere!!! It will take months to scrub their filthy hide out of every nook and cranny for 3 city blocks!
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I thought that with the fuel shortage this wouldn't be happening anymore.
Good point. So can the IDF then assume anything moving is either some Gaza thuglife bigshot or the local chapter of the Unknown Gunmen Brigade out for a cruise of the neighborhood and just blast away?
Two Hamas operatives were killed Tuesday when an IAF aircraft fired a missile at a Hamas post in southern Gaza, officials from the group said. The IDF confirmed the strike and said it was carried out in response to the barrage of mortar shells fired by the group earlier Tuesday towards Kerem Shalom.
In a statement, the IDF reiterated that every attack on Israeli communities would be met with a response, in accordance with a policy approved a few days ago by the cabinet.
In a statement, the IDF reiterated that every attack on Israeli communities would be met with a response, in accordance with a policy approved a few days ago by the cabinet.
The latest air strike came after ten Islamic Jihad operatives were killed overnight Monday and early Tuesday as the IDF stepped up its operations against terrorists in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
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I'd be much happier with walking artillery barrages targeting 100% of Gaza. There are no "civilians" in the target area, just sympathizers.
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"...every attack on Israeli communities would be met with a response, in accordance with a policy approved a few days ago by the cabinet. "
About Phuquing time!
Any bets how long this 'policy' lasts, before it is stopped?
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Compare wid JPOST > FATAH OFFICIALS ACCUSE HAMAS OF COLLUDING WITH ISRAEL. The Muslim Terrorist version of Fascist versus Communist, Nationalist Socialist versus Globalist Socilaist, etc. over ideo "purity"??? Also from JPOST > CATHOLIC LEADER REJECTS "JEWISH STATE", Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem favors diversified, multi-ethnic/faith, libertarian US of ISRAEL?
* HAARETZ > ADALLAH CENTER SEEKS REGIME "FOR ALL OF ANCIENT/HISTORIC PALESTINE" Israeli Arab rights groups desires authoritative, credible SUPRA-NATIONAL/ETHNIC GOVT REGIME FOR ISRAELIS, PALEOS, and other. REGIONAl = TRANSREGIONAL ZIONISM [ISRAELISM] FOR ISRAELI MUSLIMS???
(KUNA) -- A policemen from the Hamas faction was killed here Tuesday in the fourth Israeli military raid since yesterday. A Palestinian source said that Hani Barhum was killed while four others were injured when the Israeli Army troops targeted a site for the coast guards.
Over the night and the past hours, Israeli elite troops killed up to 10 activists of Islamic Jihad in action in the town of Qabatiah near Jenin. Sources at the Palestinian Presidency condemned the crimes committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Nabil Abul-Rdeineh, spokesman for the Palestinian Presidency, said the Israeli actions were against results reached in the Paris International Donors Conference, calling on the international community to stand against the Hebrew state violations.
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WORLDNEWS > ISRAEL AND ISLAMIC JIHAD RENEW WAR.
Terrorists Insurgents shot dead a Muslim man and wounded two paramilitaries in two separate attacks in the deep South on Wednesday. Police said a deputy village headman, 42, was killed in Pattani province in the morning. Two paramilitaries were also wounded in a roadside bomb in Yala province.
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Anyone have an idea what is going on here? Yesterday there was an attack by members of a militant group called RKK -- Runda Kumpalan Kecil, which means Small Patrol Group in Malay which sounds like a vigilante group vs. moslim (see Bang Rajan) or could be extremists cowing the moderates? All I know is that there was a Thai exchange student in our little nook 06-07 school year and other than seeing family not too excited about returning.
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The RKK is an offshoot of the BRN (Barisan Revolusi Nasional), definitely an Islamist, seperatist terror organization.
Presumably if there was evidence that today's attacks had been vigilantes, it would have been mentioned in the article. Generally, most casualties in southern Thailand seem to be victims of the Islamists. The fact that they killed a village headman sounds like they thought he may be cooperating with the government. I also presume that the paramilitaries were trying to provide security from the terrorists. This is all just speculation on my part though. Reporting on the Thai insurgency is spotty at best.
Suspected rebels detonated a bomb near a mail train in eastern Sri Lanka on Tuesday evening, the military said. There were no immediate reports of casualties, military spokesman Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara said. The attack took place about 8:30 p.m. near Kantale railway station, outside the eastern city of Trincomalee, when a claymore mine detonated near the train's engine, he said.
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Tamil Tiger rebels overran a military outpost in northern Sri Lanka on Tuesday, killing at least five government soldiers, the rebels said. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) mounted the offensive at Weerapuram in the district of Vavuniya just outside their de facto mini-state, the LTTEs Rasiah Ilanthiriyan said in a statement. At least five Sri Lanka armed forces men were killed and others fled..., the statement said, adding that the guerrillas did not suffer any casualties. There was no immediate reaction from the military, which has claimed killing at least 327 rebels since December 1. The government says only a handful of its troops have died this month.
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A Beirut court sentenced a Lebanese man to life in prison and another to 12 years on Tuesday for their roles in a failed attempt to detonate bombs on German trains in 2006, judicial sources said. One of the two, Youssef al-Haj Deeb, was sentenced in absentia to life in prison - a reduction from an earlier death penalty. He is being held in Germany, where he faces a separate trial that began on Tuesday. Jihad Hamad was handed a 12-year sentence in Beirut. Both were convicted of attempted mass murder. Three other men on trial in Beirut were declared innocent.
The German federal prosecutors office says Hamad, 22, and Haj Deeb, 23, took suitcases containing propane gas tanks and crude detonators onto two trains in July 2006 heading from Cologne - one to Koblenz and the other to Dortmund. The bombs failed to go off due to technical errors, but they would have caused a significant number of deaths had they exploded, German prosecutors have said. Hamad, who turned himself in to Lebanese authorities in August 2006, had confessed to his role in the plot but claims it was meant to create fear rather than kill, his lawyer has said.
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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
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A bomb blast destroyed the tax office in the Corsican town of Bonfacio on Monday, just days after the conviction for murder of a pro-independence activist from the French Mediterranean island.
(KUNA) Suspected Taliban militants Tuesday kidnapped four government officials from the Northern Pakistani Frontier Province (NWFP), said police. Four high-ranking government officials in an official vehicle were traveling to Peshawar, capital of NWFP, from the Dera Ismail Khan district when unknown armed gunmen kidnapped them at gunpoint, police sources told KUNA.
The Hangu Peace Jirga, constituted by the NWFP Governor, arrived in Sadda, a town of Kurram Agency, on Tuesday after holding talks with Shia elders in agency headquarters Parachinar.
PARACHINAR: A man was killed and five others injured during violence in Parachinar after a hand grenade attack on Tuesday, Online reported.
KHAR: Pro-Taliban militants in Bajaur Agency announced on Tuesday that they would remain impartial during the upcoming elections. We will neither participate in elections nor will force someone to take part in the process, Maulana Faqir Mohammad, a Taliban commander and spokesman for Mulana Mohammad Umar, told journalists after a grand jirga here. He said the local Taliban had launched a movement and had militant leader Baitullah Mehsud had been appointed its supreme commander. He denied the reports that Osama was in Bajaur Agency and termed the statement an attempt to launch a military operation in the agency. He also said they had decided to release the kidnapped levies soldiers within a few days as a goodwill gesture. Meanwhile, a grand jirga of tribal elders, consisting of Senator Maulana Abdur Rashid, held talks with local Taliban in Bajaur Agency. The jirga participants rejected President Pervez Musharrafs claim about Osamas presence in the agency.
Two children were killed when security forces and suspected pro-Taliban militants traded fire in North Waziristan, officials said on Tuesday.
(KUNA) -- Iraqi police said that 11 people were killed Tuesday when a suicide bomber detonated his explosive belt inside a cafe in the province of Diyala, northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. A source in the Iraqi police said in a statement to Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) said that a suicide bomber wearing a belt of explosives blew himself up inside a popular cafe in the Al-Abbara area north of the city of Baquba. The source added that the explosion resulted in the death of 11 people and injury of 28 others. On a related development, Diyala police said today that its elements arrested 10 al-Qaeda-inspired terrorists in the area of Al-Nada north of Diyala.
(KUNA) -- A policemen from the Hamas faction was killed here Tuesday in the fourth Israeli military raid since yesterday. A Palestinian source said that Hani Barhum was killed while four others were injured when the Israeli Army troops targeted a site for the coast guards.
A Beirut court sentenced a Lebanese man to life in prison and another to 12 years on Tuesday for their roles in a failed attempt to detonate bombs on German trains in 2006, judicial sources said. One of the two, Youssef al-Haj Deeb, was sentenced in absentia to life in prison - a reduction from an earlier death penalty. He is being held in Germany, where he faces a separate trial that began on Tuesday. Jihad Hamad was handed a 12-year sentence in Beirut. Both were convicted of attempted mass murder. Three other men on trial in Beirut were declared innocent. 
