Afghan forces backed by NATO-led troops fought Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan killing 15, including a regional commander, while three more died while planting a bomb, police said on Friday.
Fighting erupted in the Kajaki district of southern Helmand province late on Thursday when militants armed with machine guns and rockets attacked patrolling troops, regional police commander Nabi Jan Mullahkhail said. Our troops were on a routine patrol when they came under attack from the enemy. We killed 15 Taliban in the gunfight, he said, adding that a Taliban commander named Mullah Azizullah was among the dead.
The district was the scene of intense fighting earlier in the week, with police saying on Wednesday that 17 insurgents had been killed in a three-day operation there, also involving International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops. Separately, three suspected militants were killed when a mine they were laying on a road exploded.
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Firebombs were hurled yesterday at the premises of a Bahraini Baathist group that has been receiving condolences on the death of Saddam Hussein, the group and the interior ministry said.
The attack with two Molotov cocktails targeted freedom of opinion and belief, and was an attempt at intimidation, Rasul al-Jashi, secretary general of the Nationalist Democratic Rally Association (NDRA), said in a statement. Such cowardly acts will not deter the NDRA from making its principled stands on national and pan-Arab causes known, he said.
Bahrains NDRA, an opposition pan-Arab nationalist group that includes pro-Baath activists, on Wednesday opened its headquarters in a district of southwest Manama to receive condolences for the ousted Iraqi president, who was hanged last Saturday after he was convicted of crimes against humanity.
An interior ministry statement confirmed that Molotov cocktails were hurled at the NDRAs premises by hooded assailants, causing minor damage to the building. Efforts are ongoing to find the perpetrators, arrest them and bring them to justice, the statement said.
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Efforts are ongoing to find the perpetrators, arrest them and bring them to justice, but first we're headed to Happy Hour and pints at the Manama Sheraton.>
A British Muslim who led an angry crowd in chants of "Bomb, bomb, Denmark, bomb, bomb USA" during protests against the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad was found guilty Friday of incitement to murder. Umran Javed, 27, was one of the leaders of a February 3 rally held outside the Danish embassy in central London, prosecutor David Perry said. Javed acknowledged the words, but claimed telling the jury he was disappointed with himself but had been caught up in the emotion of the moment.
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A British Muslim who led an angry crowd in chants of "Bomb, bomb, Denmark, bomb, bomb USA" ... found guilty ...
OK, a British Islamic extremist is found guilty, Islamic extremism is a problem, so the British govt. tackles the extremism by ... fighting Islamophobia. "We think it 'mazing!"
LONDON, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- The British government is to launch a 5-million-pound scheme to help local authorities deal with Islamic extremism.
Under the scheme to be announced later in January, local councils will work with the Muslim community to fight Islamophobia, Sky news reported on Saturday.
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Blimey, Crummy Limey wrist slap! They still don't get it. And Blair has blah way out of tune too. That scoundrel Choudary e.g., should have been deported.
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Break his feet. It's hard to run away from a bomb blast or an IED when you can only move at several feet an hour. It will also serve as an example, both for him and his "friends" that Britain takes this crap seriously, and will deal with it appropriately. Oh, and just to rub salt into the wound, institute a lifetime ban on benefits to this piece of muzzinazi fecal matter - AND his family.
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Jeez, Ima go hard lefty on this one. Anyone dead in the rush to the theatre door? This is a case for the street not the court.
A grocer of Palestinian descent pleaded guilty to misleading FBI agents about his brother's intentions to leave the United States for Israel and become a suicide bomber. On the day before his trial, Muhammad Subeh, 43, acknowledged in US District Court he deceived federal agents when he denied seeing a letter from his brother that indicated he was going home to the West Bank to join the Aksa Martyrs Brigades.
Prosecutors said Subeh destroyed the letter, but not before investigators had the opportunity to photocopy it and have it translated. Subeh, a naturalized US citizen, pleaded guilty late Thursday to a felony count of concealing a material fact from the FBI. At sentencing April 4, he could get up to six months in prison or be placed on probation.
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6 months? How's is deportation not on the list of punishment choices? This asshole doesn't deserve 6 months in an American prison, he deserves life. In Palestine.
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Damn, the details were hard to find. This happened in Rochester, NY. The national MSM is giving wall-to-wall coverage of Democratic bloviation & studiously avoiding the important issues of the day.
(January 5, 2007) Longing for home and pining for his fiancée, 21-year-old Ismail Dorgham abruptly quit his job at a Rochester grocery in May 2003 and flew to the Middle East nation of Jordan.
Before departing, however, he left a letter for his brother, store owner Mohamed Subeh, in which he declared his intent to become a Palestinian suicide bomber in Israel, following the path of a cousin who had killed 10 Israelis a year earlier, authorities believe.
Subeh rushed to Greater Rochester International Airport in a vain attempt to stop Dorgham. First, however, he tore up his brother's letter and flushed it down a toilet.
For that act and for denying to the FBI that he had seen the letter Subeh could receive a sentence ranging from probation to up to six months in a federal prison
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WOW after I read "suicide bomber" I was sure it was one of those renegade mormons or a protestant. Imagine my surprise when it turned out to Palertinian and a Muslim. I will need the rest of the day to digest this.
A gas pipeline was blown up in Dera Bugti district, disrupting supply to a nearby gas plant. An explosive device planted by suspected tribal militants blew up the 8-diameter gas supply line from Well No 21 of the PPL Gas Field in Sui. The pipeline had not been repaired till midnight.
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A Pakistani judge ordered yesterday that a Pakistani-British man suspected of involvement in an Al Qaeda plot to blow up US-bound airliners be remanded in custody for two more weeks. The decision by a civil court judge in Rawalpindi will make little difference to Rashid Rauf, as he is already subject to a detention order from a higher court. Last month the Supreme Court extended his detention under a law which allows authorities to detain a person for up to 90 days without charge.
Arrested in Pakistan last August, Rauf was identified by Pakistani officials as a key figure in a plot to carry out suicide bombings on airliners travelling from London to the United States. But his case has run into a legal quagmire and is being dealt with by higher and lower courts simultaneously. An anti-terrorism court dropped terrorism charges against Rauf on Dec. 13, citing a lack of evidence, and referred lesser charges, including the possession of explosives, to the civil court. But a high court in Lahore, acting on a plea from the government, later suspended the trial in a move aimed at getting the case referred back to the anti-terrorism court. The high court would decide on the jurisdiction of the trial on Jan. 15.
Handcuffed, wrapped in a shawl and wearing a cap, the bearded Rauf appeared on Friday before the civil court in Rawalpindi, a garrison town adjoining the capital, Islamabad. Police did not allow Rauf to speak to journalists, but he chatted with a sobbing aunt and other relatives inside the court after Judge Mohammad Kaleem Khan remanded him in custody until Jan. 19. Hashmat Habib, Raufs lawyer, said the judge had also ordered that Rauf should not be handcuffed when he next appears in court.
Pakistani officials said Rauf had been in contact with an al Qaeda operative in Afghanistan planning the attacks on US-bound airliners. In brief comments to reporters when he appeared in court last month, Rauf said the charges against him were unjust. According to reports, Rauf left Britain and travelled to Pakistan in 2002 after the murder in Britain of an uncle. Britain has sought Raufs extradition in connection with that murder investigation. Pakistan said it was considering the request.
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See it's politicans causing problems everywhere.
Political correctness be damned...next time he appears in court he should be bound shackled and gaged.
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I see pictures like this, and I want to dip these @#$#$%$%$% head-first into a tub of NAIR, and wipe it off with sandpaper.
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SRINAGAR, India - Thirty people were injured on Friday when protesters, angered over the execution of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, clashed with police in Indian Kashmir, police said.
Muslim youts youths poured into the streets of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, at over a dozen places after Friday prayers and clashed with police who tried to stop them from marching. They were chanting Saddam lives in our hearts and down with America.
Anytime you guys want to imitate Sammy's last swing, go right ahead.
Police fired rubber bullets, teargas and used batons to disperse the protesters, who retreated into narrow lanes and hurled stones at police. At least 30 people, including 10 policemen, were wounded in the clashes, a police spokesman said.
Several thousand Muslims in the northern town of Sopore also took to the streets after Friday prayers and chanted anti-US and pro-Islamic slogans, the spokesman said.
Most shops and businesses were also shut in Srinagar, as traders held a strike to protest last weeks execution. The strike closed down Srinagars main business centre, Lal Chowk, and its adjoining areas. Shops were also closed in many other parts of Srinagar.
The Indian government, which had warm ties with Saddams regime, has said it was disappointed by the execution.
I'm disappointed with their disappointment.
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"Saddam lives in our hearts"?
Kashmiri muslims didn't live in his. Saddam Hussein supported India's position on Kashmir at OIC meetings and at the UN.
When Indira Gandhi was voted out of office, Saddam, not fully understanding democratic regime change, offered her a home in exile in Bagdad, calling her his "big sister".
But he was muslim, they are muslim and anti-US so imconvenient facts should not get in the way of brotherly islamic support.
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The body of an Associated Press employee was found shot in the back of the head Friday, six days after he was last seen by his family leaving for work. Ahmed Hadi Naji, 28, was the fourth AP staffer to die violently in the Iraq war and the second AP employee killed in less than a month. He had been a messenger and occasional cameraman for the AP for 2 1/2 years. "All of us at AP share the pain and grief being felt by Ahmed's family and friends," said AP President and CEO Tom Curley. "The situation for our journalists in Iraq is unprecedented in AP's 161-year history of covering wars and conflicts. The courage of our Iraqi colleagues and their dedication to the story stand as an example to the world of journalism's enduring value." I'll bet Jamil Hussein did it.
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unfortunately, Ahmed was the independent corroborator for all of Jamil's info. Now we'll never know...
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Red-on-red is always a bitch...but it does beg the question of just why we can't defeat these assholes if they're schtoopid enough to keep wasting their PR staff.
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Since the danger is unprecedented and they obviously can't protect their staff from Iraqi police officials named Jebril Hussein, I think the AP should admit defeat, cut their losses and pull out their troops. They are obviously in a QUAGMIRE!
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Since the danger is unprecedented and they obviously can't protect their staff from Iraqi police officials named Jebril Hussein, I think the AP should admit defeat, cut their losses and pull out their troops. They are obviously in a QUAGMIRE!
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I swear, if this phone does one more double post, It's getting BFH'ed.
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damn your using a cell phone Mike? am i ever olde fashion. :-(
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Robjack, we should be so lucky. A nice mercenary army would be refreshing right about now.
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#9 Is there any speculation that this might be our forces or perhaps a contractor outfit sending a message to AP?
You might be amazed to learn what it takes to arm a contractor in Iraq right now. I suspect the USEMBASSY and MNC-I would feel more at ease providing the Iraq National Police a Chem/Bio capability than arming US contractors.
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a head injury to an AP correspondent might not be debilitating. I suspect he'll be able to continue reporting during his "stability" in one fashion or another
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To quote the immortal Super Chicken "You knew the job was damgerous when you took it Fred."
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Be sure there'll be outrage[tm] at AP along with long columns about the life of their Horst Wessel stringer. Eclipsing the amount of coverage of thousands of lives of Iraqi police and soldiers dying for months to establish a democratic Iraq. Or other pro-democracy Iraqi reporters murdered by the 'insurgents' for the past couple years. Media Martyr[tm] and his story at 10.
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I suspect this dude was capped by either the Iraqi secret police or even by our own SOCOM. First of all, it was a straight, execution style hit. Professional and no gratuitous violence. That is a typical way to dispatch a lower level but annoying fifth columnist of the propaganda type.
It is the typical Phoenix Program stuff, and it works damn well in suppressing traitors, infiltrators and saboteurs.
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My best guess is that he had an uncontrollable psychic experience, somehow created a tulpa doppelganger, who then proceeded to shot him/himself in the head as a manifestation of an hidden self-hatred. I believe that if you think about it, it's the only logical explanation.
Rare, but it happens.
Two Iraqis, who were abducted Friday with an American contractor, had been found dead near a stadium in the center of the southern Iraqi city, police said. "The two victims were the translator and a driver," said a Basra police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.
Basra police chief, Gen. Muhammad Humadi, confirmed that a US citizen had been kidnapped and said he was an American of Iraqi origin. The contractor's name and the company for which he worked were not known.
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It's probably a good thing I'm not in charge of Israel's defenses. I'd have a battery of rockets set up and pre-aimed at targets within Gaza, preferably the homes of Hamas and Islamic Jihad members. As soon as Sderot's warning system was activated, the whole battery would be on its way.
One of two Kassam rockets launched by terrorists in the northern Gaza Strip slammed into a Sderot residential building Friday morning, causing extensive damage to two homes. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
Two women suffering from extreme shock were evacuated to area hospitals by Magen David Adom medics. Sderot's warning system was activated 10-15 seconds before the loud explosion rocked the residential area, said Noam Bedein of the Sderot Information Center, who lives a block away from where the missile fell. Bedein said the rocket struck the side of a residential building, causing severe damage to two adjacent homes. A balcony was destroyed, and a large section of the roof had collapsed. Shrapnel and broken glass shredded the walls in the living rooms of the two homes, and a kitchen was demolished. The two families, having heard the alert, were on their staircases leading to their respective safe rooms when the missile tore through the homes, Bedein said.
Bedein said Friday's rocket was large by the home-made missiles' standard, in overall size being only slightly smaller than a standard Katyusha missile. A second rocket landed near a kibbutz in the Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council. No wounded were reported in that attack.
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Someone needs to kneecap Olmert - behind his left ear. Then Israel needs to line up about 400 155mm cannon on the Gaza border, and DARE the paleostains to launch one more missile. If they're stupid (a given), then Israel should commence to blast every square inch of Gaza into rubble, bounce the rubble until it's dust, plow the dust, and plant deadly nightshade. Maybe, just MAYBE, the rockets will stop.
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At least seven Islamist Abu Sayyaf rebels were killed late Saturday in a clash with government troops in the southern Philippines, a navy commander said.
Seven! Excellent!
Commodore Geronimo Defensor said the clash erupted when pursuing marines caught up with the guerrillas near the seashore of Balimbing island in Tawi-Tawi province, 1,050 kilometres south of Manila.
Defensor said among those killed was Abu Sayyaf commander Jundam Jamalul, alias Black Killer, who has a 40,000-dollar bounty on his head offered by the United States government for his involvement in the kidnapping of western tourists in Malaysia's Sipadan island in 2000. "There was initial tracking of the bandits on Friday night in nearby Capual island," he said. "Our troops finally caught up with them in Balimbing."
Defensor said the government troops did not suffer any casualties during the clash. The troops also recovered rounds of bullet firearms and the twin-engine motor boat used by the rebels.
Two persons including a village official were wounded in the blast here Friday morning, which the police have blamed on members of Al-Qaeda affiliated Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG). The local police office corrected conflicting initial reports citing only one was hurt in the explosion that occurred around 11:10 a.m. in front of the H and F Refreshment Parlor situated along Makakua St., a commercial area in this city. The victims were identified as Max Malang Uttoh, a village official from Sultan sa Barongis, Shariff Kabunsuan province and Fatima Diocolano, an employee of a city-based insurance company.
Two other homemade explosives attached to the exploding bomb were disarmed by responding Army bomb disposal experts who responded to the scene. All three bombs were later found to have been fashioned from 60-mm mortar explosives, a signature bomb manufacturing of both JI and Abu Sayyaf terror groups.
In a related development, Supt. Peraco Macacua, city police director, claimed to have intercepted an intelligence report last week citing JI militants, along with Abu Sayyaf allies, would stage a series of attacks in retaliation to the filing of murder charges against JI fugitives Omar Patek and Dulmatin in connection with the October 2006 bombings in Central Mindanao that killed at least 10 persons. "This is a handiwork of the JI and Abu Sayyaf militants," the police official stressed. An update said security alert status has been raised in the entire South Central Mindanao region following the bomb attack here.
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Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels set off a powerful bomb aboard a packed bus outside the Sri Lankan capital yesterday, killing at least five people and wounding 50 others, the defence ministry said.
The blast ripped through the passenger bus carrying up to 80 people near the town of Nittambuwa as it travelled on the Colombo-Kandy highway during the evening rush hour. The bus was full of passengers at the time of the blast, military spokesman Brig-adier Prasad Samarsinghe said. It was a time bomb weighing about 2kg and fixed onto a seat. This is the work of the LTTE, he added, referring to the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. Keheliya Rambukwella, the governments defence affairs spokesman and the Minister of Policy Planning, added: The historical evidence points the finger towards the Tigers for the blast. These are signs of desperation in view of the defeats they have faced recently in the battlefield.
The bus immediately burst into flames following the explosion, witnesses said, forcing the temporary closure of the A1 highway, the main road linking Colombo and the central provincial town of Kandy. We have sent three ambulances to the explosion site, a spokesman at a local hospital said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility or denial from the Tigers, who are fighting for a separate homeland for minority Tamils in the northern and eastern regions of the Sinhalese-majority country.
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Betty Davis Eyes(tm)--accept no substitutes.
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Tech tip:
When you want to use the Trademark™ tag, directly adjacent to the word that is trademarked™ use the ampersand & then the pound sign # then the number 153. It will render correctly in all browsers even KDE's Konquerer™ and Microsoft Internet Explorer™
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MS's character map hold down alt and type 0153
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I'ma just testin'™
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What the hell's an ampersand?
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Thanks Bad. I can never remeber how. Must be because I am Pointy Haired Boss™ materiel.
Yayy, it worked.
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A long time ago, the ampersand was considered the 27th letter of the alphabet. When learning the alphabet, to mark that certain words were a single letter, children would chant "A per se A" and "I per se I" and "and per se and." Slur the last one and you eventually get "ampersand."
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Afghan forces backed by NATO-led troops fought Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan killing 15, including a regional commander, while three more died while planting a bomb, police said on Friday.
Firebombs were hurled yesterday at the premises of a Bahraini Baathist group that has been receiving condolences on the death of Saddam Hussein, the group and the interior ministry said. 
A British Muslim who led an angry crowd in chants of "Bomb, bomb, Denmark, bomb, bomb USA" during protests against the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad was found guilty Friday of incitement to murder. Umran Javed, 27, was one of the leaders of a February 3 rally held outside the Danish embassy in central London, prosecutor David Perry said. Javed acknowledged the words, but claimed telling the jury he was disappointed with himself but had been caught up in the emotion of the moment.
A Pakistani judge ordered yesterday that a Pakistani-British man suspected of involvement in an Al Qaeda plot to blow up US-bound airliners be remanded in custody for two more weeks. The decision by a civil court judge in Rawalpindi will make little difference to 
SRINAGAR, India - Thirty people were injured on Friday when protesters, angered over the execution of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, clashed with police in Indian Kashmir, police said.
The body of an Associated Press employee was found shot in the back of the head Friday, six days after he was last seen by his family leaving for work. Ahmed Hadi Naji, 28, was the fourth AP staffer to die violently in the Iraq war and the second AP employee killed in less than a month. He had been a messenger and occasional cameraman for the AP for 2 1/2 years. "All of us at AP share the pain and grief being felt by Ahmed's family and friends," said AP President and CEO Tom Curley. "The situation for our journalists in Iraq is unprecedented in AP's 161-year history of covering wars and conflicts. The courage of our Iraqi colleagues and their dedication to the story stand as an example to the world of journalism's enduring value."
At least seven Islamist Abu Sayyaf rebels were killed late Saturday in a clash with government troops in the southern Philippines, a navy commander said.
Two persons including a village official were wounded in the blast here Friday morning, which the police have blamed on members of Al-Qaeda affiliated Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) and Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG). The local police office corrected conflicting initial reports citing only one was hurt in the explosion that occurred around 11:10 a.m. in front of the H and F Refreshment Parlor situated along Makakua St., a commercial area in this city. The victims were identified as Max Malang Uttoh, a village official from Sultan sa Barongis, Shariff Kabunsuan province and Fatima Diocolano, an employee of a city-based insurance company.
Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels set off a powerful bomb aboard a packed bus outside the Sri Lankan capital yesterday, killing at least five people and wounding 50 others, the defence ministry said. 
