Two Dutch soldiers were killed and one was wounded in separate incidents in Afghanistan, the Netherlands' Defense Ministry said early Sunday. The men who were killed, a 20-year old private and a 22-year old corporal, died during a fire-fight with "opposing militant forces," on Saturday at around 9 p.m. local time, the Ministry said. The fight took place around 5 kilometers northwest of Camp Hadrian, near Deh Rawod, said Gen. Dick Berlijn, the commander of Dutch forces in Afghanistan, in a statement. The soldiers' families have been informed, but their names have not yet been released, the ministry said.
The injured man suffered wounds to both legs in a separate fight at around the same time, but is expected to survive, the ministry said. Two Afghan soldiers were killed later the same evening in more fighting, the ministry said.
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Egyptian authorities arrested approximately two months ago a 14-member terror cell comprised of engineers and army officers that was planning to carry out terror attacks against Israel under the auspices of al-Qaeda, Al-Jazeera reported Saturday. The cell-members were planning to assemble an unmanned aircraft to attack targets inside Israel, the report said, quoting Egyptian defense officials.
The cell allegedly manufactured rockets similar in design to those used by Palestinian terror groups. According to the report, the head of the cell - an engineer from the University of Alexandria - visited Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and met with a number of Afghan men, allegedly members of al-Qaeda.
The lawyer representing the alleged members of the cell told AFP that all of the arrests were made during November in the municipal areas of Alexandria and Cairo. Their lawyer denied the intentions attributed to his clients and claimed that the evidence against them was insubstantial.
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See same on YNETNEWS > REPORT: AL QAEDA PLANNED TO ATTACK ISRAEL FROM EGYPT.
Guinea-Bissau extradited five suspected members of al Qaeda to Mauritania on Saturday, a day after they were arrested in connection with the killing of four French tourists in Mauritania on Christmas Eve. Three attackers, whom Mauritanian officials have said were suspected Islamic militants linked to al Qaeda, shot dead the four French tourists and injured a fifth as they ate a picnic on a road in southern Mauritania almost three weeks ago.
Police in Guinea-Bissau arrested the five Mauritanian suspects on Friday and said two of them had admitted belonging to al Qaeda. At least three were wanted in direct connection with the murder of the French tourists, officials said. "Guinea-Bissau will pay for what it has done," one of the five Mauritanians said as he was bundled in handcuffs into a plane in Bissau. "Watch out! If I'd had a gun I would have killed you all," he shouted to members of the security forces around him, speaking in the local Creole language. The five men were taken into police custody on arrival in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott a few hours later.
Bissau police on Friday arrested the first two men, whom they identified as Mohamed Ould Chabarnou and Sidi Ould Sidna, at the request of the French authorities, who helped track them down. The three others were arrested hours later. "The first two suspects have admitted that they are fighters of al Qaeda, that their motivations are political, and that they are hostile to the West," the deputy director of Guinea-Bissau's judicial police, Edmundo Mendes, said.
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al-Qaeda in North Africa
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al-Qaeda in North Africa
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"Guinea-Bissau will pay for what it has done," one of the five Mauritanians said as he was bundled in handcuffs into a plane in Bissau. "Watch out! If I'd had a gun I would have killed you all," he shouted to members of the security forces around him, speaking in the local Creole language
tough talk from a dead man
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they always talk tough until they are crying for momma at the end
German authorities are investigating a threat of an attack on the justice ministry, reportedly by a team linked to Al Qaeda, the ministry said yesterday.
A ministry spokeswoman said its staff had been put on the alert following the warning, which press reports said had been telephoned to the Lebanese embassy in Berlin. Lebanese police had arrested the caller, named as Syrian Mohammed Ndoub, alleged to have links to Al Qeada and the Islamic Jihad movement. Ndoub said that a three-man squad, comprising a German of Turkish origin, a Saudi and an Australian, were in Germany with the intention of attacking the targets in Berlin.
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(KUNA) -- Security forces in a search operation have rounded up more than 100 Taliban militants including a key militants commander, said officials Saturday. The forces conducted a joint house-to-house search operation with local police in Kabal district of Sawat valley on Friday and Saturday, security officials told KUNA. They said more than 100 militants were rounded up including an under-treatment key militant commander, a close aide of Maulana Fazlullah, known as Mullah Radio. Forces have been conducting operation against local fundamentalist cleric Maulana Fazlullah and his supporters in Sawat valley since November. Near 200 militants have been killed and dozens wounded in the operation.
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The army has withdrawn soldiers from key checkposts in North Waziristan and a tribal jirga is negotiating a peace deal between pro-Taliban militants and the government, official sources and military spokesman said on Saturday. The situation has improved and the withdrawal of troops from certain checkposts is part of the re-alignment, Major General Waheed Arshad told Daily Times as barriers and strict checking at checkposts were abolished, according to eyewitnesses.
Paramilitary takeover: These posts are now manned by paramilitary soldiers. Barriers to movement have also been removed and the strict checking of people at these places has stopped, sources said on condition of anonymity.
Earlier, the Taliban announced a unilateral ceasefire till January 1, which was later extended to January 20. A tribal source reported that a tribal jirga was shuttling between the Taliban and government authorities to broker another peace deal. There are signs that the two sides are working on something similar to a peace deal. But we dont know how close they are to the deal because of secret negotiations, a tribal source close to the jirga told Daily Times on condition of anonymity.
Over 50 killed: Also on Saturday, security officials said that Pakistani troops had killed more than 50 Taliban militants on Wednesday after fighting off an attack on a military fort in South Waziristan. Chief military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad told AFP that militants suffered heavy casualties in the encounter but said he had no official figures.
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their peace deals have worked so well in the past
Suicide attackers have entered Faisalabad and security has been placed on high alert in the city. Intelligence agencies informed Faisalabad DIG Operations Aslam Tareen that suicide attackers had entered the city and could target government installations and security forces. Aslam told Daily Times that after receiving intelligence, he then summoned a special meeting to review security matters after which security was beefed up in the entire city. Commandos in plain clothes have been deployed at the airport, public places, main markets and railway stations. police posts have been set up at exit and entry points into the city. In view of Muharram, security has been beefed up at mosques and imambargahs. The army has also arrived in the city.
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A group of suspected militants arrested last month were brainwashed by radical clerics near the Afghan border and were planning suicide attacks against the military, an intelligence official said on Saturday. The six suspects, including a retired army major, were arrested in December in raids in eastern Punjab. The arrests were made public this week. The suspects are yet to be charged. The official said the men worked under Al Qaida-linked Ahsanul Haq, a retired major said to be behind the November 1 suicide attack on a Pakistan Air Force bus in Sargodha. Police, meanwhile, shot and killed two suspected militants during a late Friday shootout in Multan, said Fayyaz Ahmad, an area police chief. Three other suspects fled, Ahmad added.
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Security forces on Saturday arrested 41 suspects during a search operation in different areas of Swat while military helicopters once again pounded areas in Kabal after a break of nearly one month. Troops imposed curfew in Kooza Bandai and adjacent areas during the night. The operation was launched early morning and troops detained 41 people for their alleged links to militants. In Manja and Totano Bandai areas of Kabal, helicopter gunships resumed targeting Taliban positions after a pause of nearly one month.
The local population has once again started to migrate from their areas following the air assault, during which some civilian areas also came under fire. Locals said several houses had been partially damaged in the fresh shelling, however, there were no reports of casualties among the Taliban or civilians.
Civilian gunned down: The security forces have gunned down a civilian for violating the curfew imposed in Kabal area, locals said. They said the slain was crossing a road when the troops spotted him and opened fire at him.
In the same area, unidentified assailants fired seven rockets at a police station and some security posts triggering an exchange of fire that lasted more than an hour. Officials said that the rocket attack damaged a portion of a compound of the Kabal Police Station and one of its rooms, but no one was killed or injured.
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The Taftan-bound railway track near Wali Khan Road in Mastung, Balochistan was blown up by unidentified men, television channel Geo News reported on Saturday. It said the blast damaged a 1.5-foot portion of the track. Railway officials told the channel that men had been sent to scene to repair the damaged track. They said the track was likely to be opened for railway traffic on Sunday.
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1.5 feet - my god that's nearly 19 inches! It's as if Sherman is reconquering Georgia, destroying track as he goes. How will Baluchistan recover.
"There is no doubt in my mind that we will succeed. There is no doubt in my mind that when history is written, the final page will say, 'Victory was achieved by the United States of America for the good of the world'."
If he would have left out "in my mind", it would be one of the best quotes of his presidency.
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A significant number of Americans still believe that Iraq is a lost cause. In many cases this is due to their ideology, but some are simply not well informed. Even the political developments there have started to show major progress, but the results will have to become irrefutable before the public perception will align with the current reality.
General Petraeus is a terrific leader. He would have made a fine candidate for political office once his career is done if not for his surplus of integrity and deficit of grandiosity.
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General Patraeus may yet get involved in the political arena after he retires, although probably as an appointee in the executive branch rather than as a politician. What interesting things would he do as Secretary of Defence under a Republican president, for example? Or Homeland Security? Or State?
(KUNA) -- Four people were injured when a booby-trapped car exploded in Diyala governorate in Iraq on Saturday, a security source said. The source, of the Diyala Operations Command, told KUNA the booby-trapped exploded when an Iraqi army patrol was passing in northern Baquba, the largest city in Diyala. The explosion caused injuries to an Iraqi soldier and three civilians who were passing near the site of the blast, said the source. Meanwhile, the Law Enforcement command said Iraqi forces have captured five terrorists and two suspected terrorists over the past 24 hours.
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(KUNA) -- Several policemen of the dismissed Palestinian government were wounded in a bomb blast in the center of Gaza Strip on Saturday. Medical sources said the explosion targeted a patrol of the police east of Al-Nusairat refugee camp. Security sources said the bomb was set off with a remote-control device.
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(KUNA) -- Policemen found on Saturday deady body of member of the froce in the southern sector of Gaza city, police said. The body of Shaaban Daghmash bore bullet marks, police said, adding that THE slain man was brother of Zakariah Daghmash, in charge of Salah-Eddine Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees. Daghmash had been shot three times in head.
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"Daghmash had been shot three times in head."
So there wasn't any actual damage.
What did he die of?
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Militants from a hitherto unknown group linked to Al Qaeda ransacked a private school in the northern Gaza Strip at dawn yesterday, its director said. A statement signed by the "Army of Believers, Al Qaeda in Palestine Organisation" was left behind at the American International School after the attack during which five buses and a car were set ablaze, Rabhi Salem said. "Armed men entered the school in Beit Lahiya during the night and ransacked rooms as well as adminstration offices, and stole several computers."
The raid on the school was the second in a week. On Wednesday armed men fired anti-tank rockets at it, causing serious damage to the building. "Polytheists and enemies of Islam are pursuing each day their work to destroy our youths, who are falling by the dozens into the swamps of vice and moral decadence," the statement found at the school said. "That is why we must re-establish the truth and warn everyone who might try to corrupt our youths or try to open such places of corruption," the statement added in apparent reference to the American International School. Hamas's interior ministry said in a statement: "An investigation was immediately launched into the attack and we will pursue and bring the attackers to justice regardless of their motives."
The school, which was also the target of a bomb attack in April 2007, is the only private school in the Gaza Strip, with an enrolment of 150 students. It was set up in 2000 by the privately owned Educational Services Overseas Limited, a company owned by Arab-American Walid Abushaqra which runs 10 schools in the region providing a British-American education.
The attacks comes as two members of the Hamas were helizapped killed in an Israeli air raid on the southern Gaza Strip yesterday, medics said. They were killed by the explosion of a missile, apparently fired from a drone, in which four others people were wounded.
Elesewhere, the bullet-riddled bodies of two Palestinians, one a Hamas policeman, were found on yesterday in separate areas of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, a medical source said. Hamas policeman Shaaban Dogmush was found with a bullet to the head in the Juhr Al Deek region of the southern Gaza Strip, while the other victim Sami Suleiman was found in the north, the source said.
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"attack during which five buses and a car were set ablaze"
Phrance exporting to Gaza again....?
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Terrorists Insurgents shot dead a government official in Narathiwat province on Saturday morning. Abdullah Taloh, Samakhee tambon administration organisation chief, was gunned down on a motorcycle in Rueso district when he was returning from sending his daughter off to a Children's Day event in the district.
The killing came after an ambush of a man early today. The victim, identified as Jaeyor Dum, was attacked while he was riding a motorcycle from a rubber plantation in Yala's Raman district.
Six suspected terrorists insurgents broke free from a detention cell of Tanyong police station in Muang district early Sunday morning. About 3,000 police, soldiers and Interior Ministry officials set up road checkpoints and searched many areas but failed to locate them. Narathiwat police chief Pol Maj Gen Pongsak Nakwichit said three of the suspects had escaped on small fishing boat toward Malaysia.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) Military Intelligence head Shanmuganathan Ravishankar No, not Ravi Shankar! alias "Col." Arulventhan a.k.a. Charles and three of his deputies were killed on January 5 when the vehicle they were travelling in was hit by a claymore mine.
The explosion occurred at a spot between Iluppaikkadavai and Pallamadu along the Mannar-Pooneryn Road in the Mannar District.
The LTTE accused the Armys deep penetration unit as being responsible. The Tigers were referring to assassination squads run by the armed forces, known officially as Long Range Reconnaissance Patrols (LRRP). The LRRP, referred to as deep penetration units by the LTTE, move into Tiger-controlled territory and ambush top Tiger leaders. Very long, read the whole thing. Special forces infiltrate enemy territory on assassination missions. Great stuff.
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FRONTIER INDIA.net > the US FBI has belabeled the LTTE as the MOST DANGEROUS AND EXTREMIST TERROR -RADICAL ORGANIZATION IN THE WORLD, moreso than AL QAEDA or the TALIBAN, and wid various "firsts" for terror groups including the successful killings of two well-known international political figures, + use of females as suicide bombers.
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I've got some cousins that look like that - which is why I moved 1500 miles to look for a wife. All the good-looking women back home were either taken or related.
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*sigh*
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I like bacon, I like grits
I like girls with great big eyes.
Honey let me be your Salty Dog.
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She looks like somebody's kid sister, just back from CCD class.
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Guinea-Bissau extradited five suspected members of al Qaeda to Mauritania on Saturday, a day after they were arrested in connection with the killing of four French tourists in Mauritania on Christmas Eve. Three attackers, whom Mauritanian officials have said were suspected Islamic militants linked to al Qaeda, shot dead the four French tourists and injured a fifth as they ate a picnic on a road in southern Mauritania almost three weeks ago.
German authorities are investigating a threat of an attack on the justice ministry, reportedly by a team linked to Al Qaeda, the ministry said yesterday.
The army has withdrawn soldiers from key checkposts in North Waziristan and a tribal jirga is negotiating a peace deal between pro-Taliban militants and the government, official sources and military spokesman said on Saturday. The situation has improved and the withdrawal of troops from certain checkposts is part of the re-alignment, 
Suicide attackers have entered Faisalabad and security has been placed on high alert in the city. Intelligence agencies informed Faisalabad DIG Operations Aslam Tareen that suicide attackers had entered the city and could target government installations and security forces. Aslam told Daily Times that after receiving intelligence, he then summoned a special meeting to review security matters after which security was beefed up in the entire city. Commandos in plain clothes have been deployed at the airport, public places, main markets and railway stations. police posts have been set up at exit and entry points into the city. In view of Muharram, security has been beefed up at mosques and imambargahs. The army has also arrived in the city.
Security forces on Saturday arrested 41 suspects during a search operation in different areas of Swat while military helicopters once again pounded areas in Kabal after a break of nearly one month. Troops imposed curfew in Kooza Bandai and adjacent areas during the night. The operation was launched early morning and troops detained 41 people for their alleged links to militants. In Manja and Totano Bandai areas of Kabal, helicopter gunships resumed targeting Taliban positions after a pause of nearly one month. 
The Taftan-bound railway track near Wali Khan Road in Mastung, Balochistan was blown up by unidentified men, television channel Geo News reported on Saturday. It said the blast damaged a 1.5-foot portion of the track. Railway officials told the channel that men had been sent to scene to repair the damaged track. They said the track was likely to be opened for railway traffic on Sunday.
Militants from a hitherto unknown group linked to Al Qaeda ransacked a private school in the northern Gaza Strip at dawn yesterday, its director said. A statement signed by the "Army of Believers, 
