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RIP heroes
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They'll be served in Valhalla bu the hundreds of Taliban who went before them. Our prayers and thanks to them and their comrades, and the families that stand behind them.
(SomaliNet) The security forces of the transitional federal government in Somalia with the help of the Ethiopian troops on Saturday began security operations in the capital searching for weapons.
The allied forces set up roadblocks on the main streets of southern Mogadishu. The search operations have taken place in two main roads in Hodan district, south of the Somalia capital Mogadishu. The forces have been seen stopping all cars, seeking for weapons and explosives.
The move came as unidentified gunmen have fired rocket propel grenades at the Ethiopian forces stationing in former Digfer hospital, south of the capital last night. Salad Ali Jelle, the deputy defense minister said today that the security forces will continue searching in all neighborhoods of Mogadishu to find the suspects of the surge attacks. The government will be hunting down all the terror groups hiding in the capital, said Jelle.
During the search operation, the forces found no weapons. They also made house-to-house search in some villages of southern Mogadishu.
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(Xinhua) -- A bomb exploded in a vehicle has killed two people and injured three others at Mateete, a suburb of Kampala, capital of Uganda, Daily Monitor reported on Saturday. Police said that one of the dead is a Uganda People's Defense Force soldier. Ivan Nkwasibwe, division police commander of Central Police Station in Kampala said that it is suspected the dead soldier was moving with a hand grenade in his car. The grenade went off at around 8:15 p.m. (1715 GMT) on Friday. "I was told the grenade went off in the vehicle as it briefly stopped at the traffic lights. It seems he was moving with a grenade," Nkwasibwe said.
He said the police have launched an investigation to establish the circumstances that led to the blast. They cordoned off the area and blocked the road leading to Kabojja after the event.
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Six people, including two children, have been injured in an explosion at a McDonalds restaurant in central St. Petersburg, the Interfax news agency reported Sunday. Four people were shell-shocked, one was hospitalized with burns and one more with cut wounds inflicted by fragments, the ambulance said.
A bomb went off in a McDonalds at the corner of Nevsky Prospekt and Rubinshtein Street at 8.17 pm, Sunday, St. Petersburg police reported. The type of the explosive device is yet to be determined. The blast brought down the ceiling and broke all the windows.
Eight fire units, ten ambulance cars and 100 police officers are working at the site. The area has been cordoned off.
Ali Abu Kamal's relatives say they are tired of lying about why the Palestinian opened fire on the observation deck of Empire State Building, killing a tourist and injuring six other people before committing suicide.
Kamal's widow insisted after the shooting spree that the attack was not politically motivated. She said that her husband had become suicidal after losing $300,000 in a business venture.
But in a stunning admission, Kamal's 48-year-old daughter Linda told the Daily News that her dad wanted to punish the U.S. for supporting Israel - and revealed her mom's 1997 account was a cover story crafted by the Palestinian Authority.
"A Palestinian Authority official advised us to say the attack was not for political reasons because that would harm the peace agreement with Israel," she told The News on Friday. "We didn't know that he was martyred for patriotic motivations, so we repeated what we were told to do."
But three days after the shootings, Kamal's family got a copy of a letter that was found on his body, they said. The letter said he planned the violence as a political statement, his daughter said.
"When we wanted to clarify that to the media, nobody listened to us," she said. "His goal was patriotic. He wanted to take revenge from the Americans, the British, the French and the Israelis."
She said the family became certain that he carried out the attack for political reasons after reading his diary.
"He wrote that after he raised his children and made sure that his family was all right he decided to avenge in the highest building in America to make sure they get his message," said Linda, who works for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.
She said her mom burned the diary, fearing that it would cause the family trouble.
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But three days after the shootings, Kamal's family got a copy of a letter that was found on his body, they said. The letter said he planned the violence as a political statement, his daughter said.
So New York and Federal authorities lied through their teeth in claiming this wasn't terrorism.
CLINTON LIED, TOURISTS DIED!!!
Ahh, that felt better.
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"He wrote that after he raised his children and made sure that his family was all right he decided to avenge in the highest building in America to make sure they get his message,"
In 1997, the Empire State was at most the fourth-tallest building in America.
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Originally, it wasn't terrorism according to NY and the Feds but a simple case of misplaced phallus envy--garden variety craziness. Now the truth comes out. If it is printed by the MSM or the Feds, it probably is not true or has spin.
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No. It wasn't terrorism. And it wasn't terrorism when that Bosnian opened up in the Utah shopping mall last week either. Or when that guy shot up the Jewish center in Seattle last year...or when...etc.
The Bhambore Rifles, a wing of the Balochistan Frontier Corps, seized a large quantity of ammunition from Dera Bugtis Dasht Guran area on Saturday, according to an FC press release. The release said that the ammunition had been buried for use in acts of sabotage by miscreants. The seized ammunition included five shells of 82mm mortars along with four fuses, six shells of RPG-7 mortars along with three fuses, 24 fuses of landmines, 2.5 kilogrammes of explosives, 700 rounds of Kalashnikovs and cables used in making bombs.
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Somebody tell me who to root for here. Ever since Perv offed Foster I've been damn conflicted.
Police said on Saturday they had arrested three members of a banned Islamic group, thought to be behind several attacks against Shias in the country. The arrests were made in an operation late on Friday night at Sukkur Railway Station, area police chief Mazhar Nawaz Sheikh told reporters at a press briefing. He said the suspects were operatives of the banned Sunni militant Lashkar-e-Jhangvi group, and were planning attacks on Shias in the first week of next month in Balochistan. They were planning a suicide attack on a gathering of Shias in Balochistan, claimed Sheikh, saying that police seized a suicide jacket, two pistols and eight hand grenades from the suspects.
He said that one of the men was thought to have been involved in a deadly attack on Shias in the area last year. He said the had planned to carry out suicide bombings in Sukkur and Rohri on Muharram 9 and 10, but failed because of tight security arrangements.
Sheikh said the men were also planning to target a Shia procession in Sukkur, and Sommro was supposed to carry out the suicide attack. Abdullah alias Irfan had confessed to killing eight Shias in Quetta and Karachi between 2005 and 2006, he said, adding that Soomro was 35 years old and a resident of Jacobabad.
This article starring:
ABDULLAH ALIAS IRFAN
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
JALIL AHMED BABIKI
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
MUHAMAD ALI SUMRO
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
NASIR AHMED RAISANI
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
Abdullah alias Irfan
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
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BAGHDAD - Iraqi security forces found 50 surface-to-air missiles in a weapons cache near Baghdad on Saturday, an Iraqi military spokesman said. These were Russian-made surface-to-air missiles that were still useable, said Brigadier Qassim Moussawi, spokesman for the Iraqi general in charge of a new security crackdown in Baghdad.
Moussawi did not give the location of the cache, one of the largest to be found since the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. He said no arrests had been made.
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This find is really gonna hurt some guy that wrote a check for 50 missles. Those things are not cheap. It looks like we are draining the swamp of bad things, of bad people, and buring up the money of their supporters.
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Friend of mine/family in Balad environs tells me that helicopter flights have been restricted to emergency plus a few limited flights only since the last shoot down.
The up side for his unit/team is because of the flight restrictions they're caught up on helicopter maintenance.
(KUNA) -- The rate of violent acts in the Iraqi capital retreated by 80 percent three days after the start of implementation of the Law Enforcement Plan, spokesman of the plan General Qassim Ata said Saturday. During the operation the Iraqi security forces killed four terrorists and arrested 144 others all of them were wanted for the Iraqi authorities. No indiscriminate crackdown was made during the operation, Ata underscored in a press briefing.
He showed reporters a photo of "a leading terrorist and his cell" who were arrested in Al-Baladiat district, Baghdad, for involvement in the bombings of Al-Mustansria University. Six of the detainees confessed of their "grave crimes," Ata said, pointing out recordings that implicated the detainees in abductions, rape and murder in Al-Adl district, west Baghdad. All suspects of Al-Bab El-Sharqi bombings are teenagers, he added.
A suspect perpetrator of Assadr City, east Baghdad, was also arrested in the first three days of the security plan that led also to seizure of arms cashes and the release of several abductees in some areas of the Iraqi capital.
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No indiscriminate crackdown was made during the operation,
Hummmm, seems like an indiscriminate crackdown is exactly what is called for.
The raids netted a suspected leader of improvised explosive devices and sniper cell networks in the Ramadi area. Seven others suspects were detained, including three believed to have close ties to senior al-Qaeda leaders and a foreign fighter facilitation network. Coalition Forces also detained 11 suspected terrorists including an alleged senior level vehicle-borne improvised explosive device cell leader in the Baghdad area.
(KUNA) -- Iraqi and Coalition Forces detained 21 suspected terrorists during raids targeting foreign fighters and the al-Qaeda in Iraq network Saturday morning.
A statement issued by the Multi-National Force in Iraq (MNF) said that during operations in Ramadi, Coalition Forces targeted terrorists with ties to al-Qaedas senior leaders. The raids netted a suspected leader of improvised explosive devices and sniper cell networks in the Ramadi area. Seven others suspects were detained, including three believed to have close ties to senior al-Qaeda leaders and a foreign fighter facilitation network. Coalition Forces also detained 11 suspected terrorists including an alleged senior level vehicle-borne improvised explosive device cell leader in the Baghdad area. Intelligence reports indicate one of the suspected terrorists is involved in anti-Coalition Force activities, including the procurement of weapons and supporting foreign fighters.
Coalition Forces are working diligently to eliminate foreign terrorists and al-Qaeda supporters who are trying to hijack the development and building of a new stable and peaceful Iraq.
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(KUNA) -- Ten civilians were killed and scores injured in two bomb attacks in a passenger pick-up area in Kirkuk northern Iraq Saturday, police said. Brigadier Sarhad Qader, head of the police departments in Kirkuk, told KUNA two booby-trapped cars were detonated in Kirkuk killing 10 people and injuring 65 others, many of them seriously. The explosions set more than 10 cars afire and damaged shops, said Qader.
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(KUNA) -- Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Fatah movement, on Friday fired four "Yasser" missiles at Sederot and Western Negev areas south of Israel.
The brigades announced in a statement that one of its groups launched four "Yasser" missiles at the two areas, adding that the Israeli enemy acknowledged the falling of such missiles. According to the statement, the launching of the missile came in response to the repeated "Zionist violations" of calm and to the daily pursuit of the brigades' leaders in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as well as to the storming of the holy Al-Aqsa Mosque. The statement quoted the brigades as warning that any harm done to the Secretary General of the Islamic Jihad movement Dr Ramadan Shalah would be confronted by an unprecedented reaction.
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I would imagine that a "Yasser" missile could be fooled by a decoy shaped like a young boy's ass
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Gives me an idea, how about a big billboard facing the Golan Heights with A whole lot of Israili Army Troopies, pants around their knees, mooning the heights, Give the rocketidiots something to shoot at, and express the Israel "Sympathies" at the same time.
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Redneck Jim - problem is, the paleostains would miss six times out of seven. Make sure there's nothing valuable on either side of that billboard - or behind it, either.
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Nothing valuable around or behind kinda goes without saying, and make the billboard of the cheapest paper that won't blow away in a medium breeze.
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looks like none of the 5 missiles landed on the I side. Perhaps they hit the virtual billboard.
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I suspect this thing works so well that we don't want to deploy it until we absolutely have to. Such as against human wave attacks or Arabs sending waves of women and children.
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I'd like one for when the neighbors' cats come to molest my fish.
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What a smarmy, snot-nosed article. Better to deploy the flame-thrower tanks for crowd control, I guess, since they cause real damage. None of this fake-pain non-lethal crowd control for us, no sir. Sheesh, wotta maroon.
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Step 1: Set level of pain to high
Step 2: Point toward Mosque
Step 3: turn on
Step 4: giggle
Step 5: act like you can not not find off switch
Step 6: Rinse and repeat
Posted by: Eric Jablow ||
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Or, from the other point of view, “Your agonizer, Mister Chekov!”
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Better to deploy the flame-thrower tanks for crowd control, I guess, since they cause real damage.
Screw that. Flail tanks for crowd control!
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ed: A non-lethal way to 'train' those neighbor's free range cats is a live animal trap, a can of any cheap cat food, a charged garden hose and about 3 days detention. (rinse and repeat as desired) Garfield seems none too anxious to come visiting again, and MRS. Ret. doesn't find Tabby Tootsie Rolls in her flowers.
(KUNA) -- At least one person was killed and six others were injured Saturday when suspected rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) attacked a bus of Sri Lankan military by triggering a claymore mine, in the northern Jaffna peninsula. Five soldiers who were travelling in the bus were among the injured today, news agency Press Trust of India reported. In another incident in Sri Lanka's eastern Batticaloa district, an officer of the Special Task Force was injured when the LTTE rebels fired at a military camp today, the news agency said.
Meanwhile, LTTE today accused government troops of killing 39 civilians and blamed it for the disappearance of another 39 during the last two weeks. The LTTE, said in a statement in capital Colombo, that the killings had taken place in Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka, the news agency reported. The LTTE has been fighting for a separate homeland for ethnic Tamils of Sri Lanka since 1980. Over 60,000 people have died in the conflict so far.
This article starring:
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
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A roadside bomb killed a civilian and wounded five soldiers in northern Sri Lanka on Saturday, while the army found assault rifles in an eastern village captured from Tamil Tiger rebels last month, the military said.
The rebels were suspected in the bomb targeting a bus transporting soldiers in the northern, Tamil-majority city of Jaffna, the governments national security media center said. The blast also wounded a civilian bystander, the centers Web site said. Meanwhile, military spokesman Brig. Prasad Samarasinghe said troops found 28 T-56 assault rifles on Saturday in eastern Batticaloa districts Vaharai village. The arms find comes a day after the army recovered 50 assault rifles buried in another former rebel-held village in neighboring Trincomalee district.
Two mortar launchers were also found in the area. Samarasinghe said Tamil Tiger rebels may have hidden the weapons as they fled from the areas. They had no way to take them (the weapons). They had to carry a lot of casualties, he said.
Last month, the army wrested control from the rebels of a main road connecting two of the main northeastern towns of Batticaloa and Trincomalee, for the first time in 11 years. Samarasinghe said that there could be more hidden weapons, and that troops were trying to ensure that the rebels do not return for them. Vaharai _ on an impoverished rebel-held strip of coastline in Batticaloa district _ had been the scene of heavy fighting for months, with over 500 combatants killed since October, according to the military. The government says the rebels used Vaharai as a transit point to smuggle drugs and arms into the country, and as a base for naval attacks.
The armys capture of Vaharai sent thousands of terrified villagers fleeing toward the neighboring government-held village of Mankerni, from where they were transported to several refugee camps far from the battle zone.
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Here is the claim as relayed via the semi-official Iranian news agency Fars:
TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Following a Saturday report about the use of US manufactured weapons in the recent terrorist operations in Iran's southeastern province of Sistan and Balouchestan, a security official provided FNA with a photograph of the said weaponry. These arsenals have been confiscated during a raid on the hideout of a terrorist group known as Jondollah in the provincial capital city of Zahedan on Thursday.
Rest of article AND PHOTO at link. (So sorry--don't know how to post photo.)
If true, I'd be nothing but proud of the effort. But I dunno about that photo. Anybody?
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It is, but like almost all other ammo, practically everyone and his kid sister makes it. My own stock of 7.62x39mm includes not only Wolf brand (Russian, made at the Tula factory), but also Winchester and American Eagle.
In any case, whatever this Iranian "evidence" is, it means little or nothing because it's garden-variety stuff that could have come from anywhere.
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I sincerely hope we are arming the Iranian rebels.
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And like most terrorist ME "news" reports, they are targeted for ME consumption by mindless terrorist-supporting drones. They really don't give a $hit if it's obvious to anyone with a brain or not, because those with brains are already filtered out by not consuming that crap. They are just looking to feed those who want to believe it. Anyone who believes the "evidence" they display is beyond redemption.
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cajunbelle: It just takes a couple of minutes to set up a free account at a site like photobucket.com. Then you upload the pictures off your HD there, and they automatically give you a choice of links back to that photo.
You copy the html "href" tag and put it in the submit comments box here at Rantburg, or most anywhere, and the picture is automatically displayed when you submit your comment. (Check it with 'preview' first, natch.)
Photobucket can handle most bandwidth demands, unlike trying to link to another web pages photos, which will often give you a "no hotlinking" warning.
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As a gener rule, US-mfged/labeled weapons will NOT be used except by US-CONTROLLED, US-COMMANDED PROXIES. As said before, iff US SPECOPS, etal. were involved, Moud + Mullahs would already be overthrown, suing for peace, or at the very least running for their lives. ARMY RANGERS, DELTA FORCE, + GREEN BERETS AREN'T GONNA CARE WHOM + HOW MANY MOUD + MULLAHS HAVE TO DEFEND HIMSELF OR THEMSELVES.
Two people were killed on Saturday when their helicopter crashed into a lake in southern Iran while they were trying to recover the wreckage of another helicopter that crashed there two days before. Both aircraft crashed into Maharlou Lake, south of Shiraz, with Saturdays crash happening minutes after take-off, state news agencies said. This helicopter had two people on board. Both have been killed, Hamid Taghizadeh, a spokesman for emergency services in Fars province, told IRNA.
It crashed while trying to pull out the wreckage of the first crashed helicopter in the lake, Taghizadeh said. Irans Oil Ministry owned both helicopters, IRNA said. Three people were killed in Thursdays crash. Iran operates an ageing fleet of aircraft mostly dating from before the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
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Words fail me. I cannot describe how funny this article is. I'm starting to think we could help thin out the Iranian herd by giving them every F-14 part the DoD has left.
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They don't need spare parts, they need more Islam. And good and hard.
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The secret is to make turbine blades from the finest Euphrates clay.
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Send in more helos! One after another! Let's get into the Infidel Guinnes Book of World Records. Let's put MaryLou Lake on the map!
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"ageing fleet of aircraft mostly dating from before the 1979" When I went on AD (in 1973) my first post school maintenace effort was on a SH-3D (Sikorsky S-61 to you civilians) built in 1966. When I retired in 1997, that same aircraft was still in servise at NASWI as a SAR bird. So it ain't the years, its the maintenance dummy!
(maybe lake marylou has a huge magnetic effect on helicopters)
anybody important inside??
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If you stop insulting everything you see and address things intelligently, you won't get popped. We have plenty of experience with this, and usually those who start out like you end up getting the boot. Not always, however.
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Oh, now you're admitting the truth that this despicable terroristic regime is building a nuke. I have to applaud you for telling us the truth, that is more than can be said for that miserable mullahcracy that oppresses the Iranian people.
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Good job about removing the trolls, they were interrupting my morning coffee and reveree about the song "Annie Laurie." They were breaking the mood, heh.
Aye, and Grace Kelly had grace and class, not like ANS, et al.
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How come none of today's leading females 'get it?'
You don't need to be a bed-jumping, coke snorting, gash-flashing whore, unless you have no real talent? Maybe that's it; the current crop has NO REAL TALENT!!!!
(And the same can be said for almost all the male actors as well, IMHO)
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Police said on Saturday they had arrested three members of a banned Islamic group, thought to be behind several attacks against Shias in the country. The arrests were made in an operation late on Friday night at Sukkur Railway Station, area police chief Mazhar Nawaz Sheikh told reporters at a press briefing. He said the suspects were operatives of the banned Sunni militant 
BAGHDAD - Iraqi security forces found 50 surface-to-air missiles in a weapons cache near Baghdad on Saturday, an Iraqi military spokesman said. These were Russian-made surface-to-air missiles that were still useable, said Brigadier Qassim Moussawi, spokesman for the Iraqi general in charge of a new security crackdown in Baghdad.
(KUNA) -- Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military wing of Fatah movement, on Friday fired four "Yasser" missiles at Sederot and Western Negev areas south of Israel.
(KUNA) -- At least one person was killed and six others were injured Saturday when suspected rebels of the 
