The name tag on his broad chest says "Rambo," and though he wears US Army fatigues, he speaks in perfect Dari, ordering the crowd to leave. It reluctantly disperses.
This is a normal day for Rambo, an Afghan who has stood guard here for more than four years, pledging his life to the American soldiers that rid his land of the Taliban. But on Jan. 16, Rambo's gatekeeping made him a bona fide hero.
On that day, Rambo wrenched open the driver's side door of a moving car and wrestled a suicide bomber into submission before he could detonate his explosives. President Bush lauded him in a nationally televised speech several weeks ago, and before that, slightly exaggerated accounts of his feat circled through cyberspace, pleading for America to offer him citizenship or at least a medal.
On this gray day, amid the intermittent raindrops of a coming storm, Rambo seems somewhat weary of the story, asking a lieutenant whether he really needs to tell it again. So far as he is concerned, his only job is to protect those American soldiers at the gate. It is why he has taken only four days off in more than four years, even working Fridays, though that is the Muslim day of rest.
But the lieutenant kindly requests Rambo's patience. To Rambo, that is an order. "If you want me to do it, I will do it," he tells her with martial deference.
In fairness, his story is not just about the day he stopped a suicide bomber, when the steel of his resolve to protect American troops became so apparent to all who did not know him. To those who do, who gave him the "Rambo" nickname, the name tag, and the stick, his devotion was already evident. . .
Go read it all. "Rambo" is one of those Americans who was born in the wrong place.
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Agreed, Mike.
We need about a million more like him.
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Sniff, sniff, why even Nostradamus says, "GET ME RAMBO"! And to think it only took 30+ yarns for Stallone to plan his new film.
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- British-led forces supported by Canadian, American and other coalition troops, yesterday launched an offensive to drive the Taliban out of Helmand province. Canada's Leopard tanks have been deployed for action. Operation Achilles will eventually involve 4,500 NATO and 1,000 Afghan soldiers - one of the largest multinational forces fielded in a single operation in Afghanistan, says NATO's International Security Assistance Force.
Maj.-Gen. Ton van Loon, commander of the alliance's regional command south, said troops will sweep northern Helmand of Taliban extremists, foreign terrorists and warlords involved in the opium poppy trade. "It signifies the beginning of a planned offensive to bring security to northern Helmand and set the conditions for meaningful development that will fundamentally improve the quality of life for Afghans in the area," van Loon said.
A force of more than 200 soldiers from the Royal Canadian Regiment battle group is supporting the offensive by setting up a blocking position in the Maywand district just inside the northwestern border of Kandahar province. Kandahar province, where Canada's 2,500 troops operate, is adjacent to Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. The Gagetown, N.B.-based soldiers are tasked with preventing Taliban militants from retreating through the region, said Brig.-Gen. Tim Grant, the senior Canadian commander. They are also to disrupt bands of local insurgents, including drug lords who control the opium trade.
Grant said he doesn't expect the same type of bloody pitched battles between Canadians and Taliban fighters that occurred last year in the Panjwaii and Zhari districts west of Kandahar city. "I don't expect to see and I hope not to see any fighting by Canadians in the Maywand district," said Grant, who noted the battle group includes a force of 46-tonne Leopard 2 tanks. "If things go well then we won't have to fire a shot in anger. If the Taliban choose to stand and take us on, then they will learn how robust the Canadian force is."
Hours before dawn yesterday, soldiers from H company checked their weapons and gear by the light of a waning moon before climbing into their armoured vehicles to roll toward their objectives. The younger soldiers were pumped, some playfully arguing over what kind of music they would play on the road as crunchy heavy-metal guitar rock crackled over the speakers in their LAV3 light armoured vehicles. "Ready to kick some ass, yes!," whooped one man.
Another soldier, Pte. Kevin Kennedy of St.Lawrence, N.L., could barely contain the rush of adrenaline. "Everyone is really pumped here this morning," Kennedy said. "We came here. We've trained for years and we are finally going to go out and do our job. We are ready to do it."
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Loons are one of North America's most majestic diving birds. Their wing span is about 5 feet and if you have heard their call on a fogged lake, it stays with you for life. The birds are elegant and powerful. It's also the Minnesota state bird. Our lake has several that nest here. If a guest is lucky they can hear them during the dinner hour and often late into the night.
I'm still stuck on the idea of the Taliban thinking they can even stand 10 minutes against tanks.
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depends on the terrain, and the AT weapons theyve got I guess. I dont think theyre as well fortified in Musa Qala as the hezbies were in Leb, but I dont think the initial Musa Qala op is going to be mainly armor. The tanks are if they run into Kandahar province = when theyre out in the open, maybe using vehicles to run, is where the tanks will be ideal.
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Albemarle Elmeresh7932, no, the coin's called a "loonie". There is also $2 coin, called a "toonie" (nothing to do with toons, tho, there's a polar bear on the reverse).
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The Dutch immigrant history professor Hendrick van Loon is one of my favourite writers, another occasional observer. His Lives was the book that formed my thinking in the way that so many here were influenced by Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged.
I have a cousin who lives out in the woods on the Wisconsin side of the St. Croix river near Stillwater. It is such beautiful country out there, I really wish I could move out there. You are really lucky to be able to hear those beautiful birds from your house.
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NIce, but are they rolling in the right place > CBC > RUSSIA TO CHECK CANADA FOR WMDS - Russian surveilliance/recce aircraft will overfly Canada to check for traces of WMDS, via bilateral Canada-Russia Open Skies agreement.
KABUL, Afghanistan Afghan soldiers caught a senior Taliban commander at a checkpoint who was wearing a burqa, while NATO forces on Wednesday fought Taliban militants in the second day of the alliance's largest-ever offensive in Afghanistan. Mullah Mahmood, who is accused of helping the Taliban detonate homicide bombs, was caught Tuesday in Kandahar province while wearing the all-encompassing Islamic veil worn here by women, NATO said.
He was wearing crotchless lace undies, too.
Meanwhile, some 5,500 NATO and Afghan soldiers fought Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, the world's biggest poppy-growing region. NATO hopes the operation can help establish security in a lawless region ruled by a Taliban shadow government and drug traffickers. "We've established a presence and in some areas it's a heavy presence, and we're trying to disrupt the Taliban's senior leadership in the area and try to separate them from trying to rally" the Taliban's locally recruited soldiers, said Col. Tom Collins, the spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force. One British soldier and four Taliban fighters were killed on Tuesday, the operation's opening day.
On Wednesday, Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces arrested a suspected Al Qaeda bomb expert and five other terrorist suspects in eastern Afghanistan. The U.S.-led coalition had information indicating "a suspected terrorist with strong ties to al-Qaida" and to a group that helped militants along Afghanistan's border region was inside an eastern Afghan compound near Jalalabad, it said. "The suspected terrorist was a (bomb-making) expert and logistics officer for the Tora Bora Front, which facilitates the movement of fighters from Pakistan to Afghanistan," the U.S. said. No shots were fired and no one was hurt during the raid.
Separately, U.S.-led coalition troops detained five men suspected of involvement in anti-government activities and "known terrorist groups," in the eastern city of Khost, the coalition said without elaborating. The troops uncovered a cache of grenades and armor-piercing rounds during their search, the statement said. No injuries occurred during the raid.
In southern Zabul province, Taliban militants attacked a police checkpoint and wounded four policemen Wednesday, said provincial police chief Abdul Ghafar. The militants fled after the attack, which occurred near Qalat, Zabul's capital.
This article starring:
Col. Tom Collins, the spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force
MULLAH MAHMUD
Taliban
provincial police chief Abdul Ghafar
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All they needed then was to secure a goat and take lots of pictures.
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perhaps a "Heroes of Islam" calendar with all the high-level mooks in burqas as centerfolds....it would be both scintillating spank material for the mosque and demoralizing to their Islamic Heroes image. You could even note stats, such as "killed 45 civilians, children and unarmed women" and hobbies: "likes smooth faced, olive-skinned boys, partial to thinner ones"
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lol, Frank! Gotta love the 'merican, capitalistic way. Deflate their egos, and yet, make a killing in profits at the same time (I'ma sure it'd be a "back room" top seller in the ME)! What's not to like?
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Another Lion Pussy of Islam™ bites the dust. :-D
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(SomaliNet) At least four people have been killed and six others were wounded in a gun battle that raged in the Somalia capital Mogadishu between the Ethiopian backed interim government forces and an insurgent group on Tuesday. All the dead and injured people were believed to be civilians hit by the exchanged fires.
In-n-n-n-n-coming!!"
The latest confrontation came when masked insurgents launched an ambush attack on the Ethiopian soldiers who began searching for weapons in houses near the former defense ministry compound in south of Mogadishu. The Ethiopian troops are said to have used heavy weaponry causing civilian casualty.
Rules of engagement not quite as restricted as those for the US Marines, eh?
It was a rare attack in which the insurgents faced the Ethiopians in the capital. The gun battle lasted for several minutes.
The supporters of the ousted Islamists are still active in some villages alongside the inustrial road in Mogadishu where both Ethiopian and Somali soldiers have gone under attacks a handful of times.
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Two Saudi men suspected of involvement in the Feb. 26 cold-blooded murder of four French nationals 90 km north of Madinah have been given an ultimatum by the Interior Ministry: Turn yourselves in by 8 a.m. today, or else. If they fail to do so they will be declared wanted men, said Mansour Al-Turki, Interior Ministry spokesman.
Commenting on the announcement, Deputy Interior Minister Prince Ahmed told Arab News that the publishing of the names gives these men an opportunity to come forward and surrender to Saudi security forces. We will continue to hunt them down until they are surrounded caught.
The Interior Ministry also announced the arrest of an undisclosed number of suspects in connection with the crime. The ministry did not want to divulge details about where or when the suspects were arrested because the investigation is ongoing. We have enough evidence to believe that the suspects might have been involved in the crime, but we will interrogate them before announcing their names to find out who was involved directly and who wasnt, Al-Turki told Arab News. An Interior Ministry statement described the killings as a horrific crime committed by criminals who violated Islamic law and abandoned their Arabian values when they backstabbed innocent people who were under the protection of the government. The ministry also said that residents of the areas where the suspects were apprehended helped authorities in the search. When asked if the crime is being treated as an act of terrorism or whether it is considered a hate crime against foreigners, Al-Turki said: Its too early to draw any conclusions (about the motives for the crime) as many terror suspects are still at large.
"Could have been that they just insulted the mustaches of our poor citizens. Might have been justified. You never know."
Meanwhile, more details have been revealed about the crime. A statement by the ministry said the three families got lost about 90 km north of Madinah, south of the archaeological site of Madain Saleh, which is considered a major tourism asset by the government. They stopped for a break as they were driving down a small road searching for the main highway connecting Tabuk to Madinah. According to testimonies by the five survivors, two men in a green Nissan Safari picked out the men and the 17-year-old boy, Mubarak, from the group and shot them.
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Deputy Interior Minister Prince Ahmed
Mansour Al-Turki, Interior Ministry spokesman
Nasser Latef Al-Balawi
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Soody Arabies,
the natives there just aren't very friendly.
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Gawd amighty! That'n dawg in the picture looks just like my childhood friend and pretector Little Eva. Gawd is have a a fine Broodhound for companionship.
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Seriously tho, that's a fine looking BloodHound, looks like it's already got the scent of something. There is no finer friend for a kid (except maybe a good Goldie) than a BroodHound. When Little Eva barked, folks listened.
A Yemeni state security court of appeals reduced the jail terms yesterday for several of 13 militants convicted of plotting to strike US interests and kidnap American citizens in Yemen. Chief judge of the court, Saeed Al-Qattaa, said the court found the 13 people, aged between 20 and 40, guilty of conspiring to launch bombing attacks against US interests in the capital Sanaa and other main cities.
He said the alleged leader of the group, Ali Sufian Al-Ammari, 28, would serve six years in jail, down from a seven-year term he received by the lower court for his role in setting up the group and training its members. The court upheld the six-year prison term for the groups second-in-command, Muhammad Futaini, 24. The first instance court pronounced the initial verdict on April 19 last year. Another group member, Muhammad Ali Haidar, 22, got his six-year prison term slashed to three years. Three other members of the group, convicted of preparing explosives to hit US targets, were sentenced to three years in jail, each down from five-year prison terms. And two others, Hamid al-Manea, 31, and Sami Muhammad Al-Shaabi, would serve two years in prison down from the original four-year jail terms.
The court confirmed the initial three-year prison verdict against Ibrahim Al-Wasabi, 40, and Badr Ahmad Al-Hassani, 24, for planning to travel to Iraq to join insurgents fighting US forces. Three other members of the group were ordered released for time served in detention before and during the trial. Also confirmed by the court of appeals was the acquittal of the 14th defendant, Faisal Abdul Aziz Al-Ariqi, 30, who surrendered to the police with an explosive belt on his waist after he pulled out of an attempted suicide attack on an unidentified US target in Sanaa.
As the judge read out the verdict in the brief session, the defendants and their relatives shouted Allahu Akbar (Holy Shit God is Great). And the defendants started to pray on the floor of their holding cell.
This article starring:
ALI SUFIAN AL AMARI
al-Qaeda in Iraq
BADR AHMED AL HASANI
al-Qaeda in Yemen
Chief judge of the court, Saeed Al-Qattaa
FAISAL ABDUL AZIZ AL ARIQI
al-Qaeda in Yemen
HAMID AL MANEA
al-Qaeda in Yemen
IBRAHIM AL WASABI
al-Qaeda in Yemen
MUHAMAD ALI HAIDAR
al-Qaeda in Iraq
MUHAMAD FUTAINI
al-Qaeda in Iraq
SAMI MUHAMAD AL SHAABI
al-Qaeda in Yemen
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al-Ariki failed as a suicide bomber by being chicken? Sa-weeet!
Police arrested five members of outlawed Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) at two villages of Khetlal upazila early yesterday. The arrestees are Monsur Rahman, Mahfuzur, Nuruzzaman, Ishaque Ali and Afzal Hossain. Monsur, Mahfuz and Nuruzzaman were arrested at Uttar Moheshpur village while Isahaque Ali and Afzal Hossain at Telabadul Mridhapara village. Acting on a tip-off, the law enforcers from Khetlal Police Station raided the two villages and arrested the militants who were wanted in various cases.
This article starring:
AFZAL HUSEIN
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
ISHAQUE ALI
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
MAHFUZUR
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
MONSUR RAHMAN
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
NURUZZAMAN
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
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It's too early in the A.M. to read that alphabet soup of Islamic names, I need some coffee to clear my bleary eyes.
An alleged criminal arrested on Saturday in connection with the killing of two Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel in Savar was killed in Rab action yesterday. Police sources said Mamun alias Killer Mamun actively took part in the killing of deputy assistant director (DAD) Humayun Kabir and constable Phool Mia of Rab-11 at a brick kiln at Salehpur.
Killed two RAB members, you say? Later turned up dead, you say? What a surprise.
Investigators, meanwhile, said they have identified the mastermind and all those who took part in the killing. "Capturing them is now a matter of time," an investigator said, seeking anonymity.
Tick..tick..
The Rab identified Mamun, 30, as a member of the killing squad of local criminal gang Gangchil that operates in Aminbazar area. The law enforcers said Mamun, who has five criminal cases including the death sentance on twelve systems four filed for murders, was arrested in Krishnanagar village in Savar at 5:30am Monday. During interrogation at the Rab-4 office,
"Aaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!"
"Oh, stop your crying. You've still got seven fingers left, be a man about it"
Mamun disclosed detailed information about Gangchil group's secretly cached firearms, names and whereabouts of its members, especially those in the killing squad of the two Rab personnel.
Especially those...
A special team of Rab-4 took Mamun to Baradeshi area beside the Dhaka-Aricha Highway at 3:45am yesterday to recover illegal firearms of Gangchil group, according to a Rab press release. When the Rab men reached an open space behind Chistia Filling Station, members of the gang opened fire on the Rab team, prompting the law enforcers to retaliate.
Shootout at the Chistia Gas Station
Mamun was tossed fell in the line of fire and was found lying on the ground bullet-hit when the firing came to a stop.
Firing likely stopped when his body hit the ground
The Rab press release said doctors at Upazila Health Complex declared him dead when he was taken there.
All together now: "He's dead, Jim"
The Rab claimed they recovered a .22 bore revolver and five bullets from the spot.
Revolver on the ground, bullets in Mamun's head
Talking about the investigation, an investigator said they have all information necessary to track down the killers. "The whole mystery is now resolved and we will make public everything after capturing the killers," he said, declining to disclose the names of the killers and their mastermind for the sake of investigation.
It's a "Fill in the blanks" kind of investigation. The names will be released after the crossfire smoke clears
Unknown killers took Rab intelligence wing personnel DAD Humayun and constable Phool Mia to a hut at Tara Mia's brickfield at Salehpur of Aminbazar in the outskirt of the capital and shot in their heads around 3:30pm Saturday.
Really big mistake
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Dili, 7 March (AKI) - East Timor's former interior minister and strongman Rogerio Lobato has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison for his arming civilian hit squads during violent ethnic clashes last April and May that killed dozens and forced about 155,000 to flee their homes. Lobato was convicted of misappropriating firearms for unlawful use and four counts of manslaughter resulting from arming civilians to kill political rivals. The verdict was reached by a panel of three international jurists after a three-month trial.
The judges said Lobato was responsible for much of last year's rioting and his conviction is reported to have eased political tensions in the tiny southeast Asian country where UN peacekeepers in the capital Dili have been struggling to control warrring political factions.
Rebel leader Alfred Reinado, who is on the run from Australian peacekeeping troops, had threatened violence in the capital if Lobato was acquitted. No backlash reported from supporters of the ruling Fretilin party of which Lobato is deputy leader.
East Timor's former prime minister Mari Alkatiri - who is still Fretilin's secretary general - was among those sitting in the front seat of the court during Lobato's conviction. Alkatiri stepped down as prime minister last June amid allegations he ordered a hit squad to kill political opponents. Lobato was sacked as interior minister last May. Last year's riots have left East Timor chronically unstable and divided.
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with apologies to Styx... domo arigato Mr. Lobato. thank you, I'll be here all week. try the veal.
A Cypriot newspaper reported on Tuesday that two Pakistani men had been arrested on the island, following information from British authorities that they were planning a car bomb attack on the US or British embassy.
The daily Phileleftheros newspaper said one of the men was arrested in Nicosia with a forged passport. He appeared before a district court on Sunday and was remanded in custody for eight days. The second man was arrested on Monday in Paphos, on the western coast, it said. The newspaper said the vehicle that was purportedly to be used in the attack had been registered under the name of a foreign woman who told police she had never seen it before. Investigators later tracked down the vehicle to an unnamed foreign man.
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No idea what this man was trying to achieve here, let speculation ensue.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An Iraqi national wearing wires and concealing a magnet inside his rectum triggered a security scare at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday but officials said he posed no apparent threat. The man, identified by law enforcement officials as Fadhel al-Maliki, 35, set off an alarm during passenger screening at the airport early on Tuesday morning.
A police bomb squad was called to examine what was deemed a suspicious item found during a body cavity search of the man. Local media reports said a magnet was found in his rectum. "He was secreting these items in a body cavity and that was a great concern because there were also some electric wires associated with that body cavity," Larry Fetters, security director for the Transportation Security Administration at the airport, told reporters.
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Probe. Surely madmen don't habitually secrete magnets up their bums. I hope he was arrested, and will be prosecuted, for whatever's the legal equivalent of shouting fire in a crowded theater.
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"An Iraqi national wearing wires and concealing a magnet gerbil inside his rectum. There that's fixed.
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They just caught one a couple of months ago with a mobile up his ass. I guess these folk need something to make them feel normal until they can get to the mosque.
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It reminds me of this. There's a link to the original Lancet article on that blog, but they wanted you to register, and I ain't gonna:
I wish to bring to your attention difficulties one of my patients recently encountered when entering the USA. He is a 48-year-old man with a fistula-in-ano managed with a long-term seton to control perianal sepsis...
The patient was refused entry into the country unless the seton was removed. Given the somewhat stark choice, he chose removal of the seton, which was done by a doctor at the airport who claimed never to have come across one before.
Of course, it is from the Lancet, so add salt to taste.
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It reminds me of this. There's a link to the original Lancet article on that blog, but they wanted you to register, and I ain't gonna:
I wish to bring to your attention difficulties one of my patients recently encountered when entering the USA. He is a 48-year-old man with a fistula-in-ano managed with a long-term seton to control perianal sepsis...
The patient was refused entry into the country unless the seton was removed. Given the somewhat stark choice, he chose removal of the seton, which was done by a doctor at the airport who claimed never to have come across one before.
Of course, it is from the Lancet, so add salt to taste.
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Authorities called in the bomb squad early Tuesday and diverted a flight to Las Vegas after Los Angeles International Airport security screeners found hidden wires and other objects in a body cavity of a Philadelphia-bound passenger.
Fadhel Al-Maliki, a 35-year-old Iraqi national living in Atlantic City, N.J., had been flagged by security officials at LAX and was undergoing a secondary "selectee screening" when he set off a metal detector.
Al-Maliki, a former security guard, told screeners that he knew what had triggered the alarm and proceeded to remove items from his rectum, including a rock, chewing gum and thin wire filament.
Larry Fetters, federal security director at LAX, said at news conference that Transportation Security Administration officers had become alarmed because Al-Maliki was acting strange but initially refused to identify the items he had hidden.
Concern that the objects might be components for an explosive device led airport authorities to call in the Los Angeles Police Department and FBI bomb technicians as well as a hazardous material team.
A preliminary investigation appeared to rule out a theory that Al-Maliki may have been looking for weaknesses in security or was rehearsing for a terrorist act, federal and local law enforcement authorities said.
During questioning, Al-Maliki said the objects in his rectum were used to alleviate stress, federal law enforcement sources said.
The rock, authorities said he told them, was from another planet.
As Al-Maliki was being detained, his two bags were loaded on to US Airways Flight 1422, which took off for Philadelphia with 143 passengers and six crew members on board, said Liz Landau, a spokeswoman for the airline.
Federal officials said the bags had been checked for explosives, chemicals and other hazardous materials using the most modern and extensive screening devices available. Even so, they diverted the aircraft to McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas "out of an abundance of caution."
There, passengers were taken off the plane, which was parked away from the terminal.
Passengers had to leave their carry-on bags aboard, and the plane and their luggage were searched, Landau said.
Federal officials also said a search of Al-Maliki's luggage turned up nothing "hazardous or illegal."
"Based on our investigation, there was no threat to Los Angeles International Airport or the airports in Las Vegas or Philadelphia," said Ethel McGuire, the FBI assistant special agent in charge of the Joint Terrorism Task Force.
Airport police briefly blocked access to roads leading to LAX and diverted vehicle traffic. But no other flights were disrupted at the airport, and Terminal 1, the building used by Southwest Airlines and US Airways, remained open.
After several hours of questioning, the FBI determined that Al-Maliki had not committed a crime, but he was turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
At Tuesday afternoon's news conference, authorities said that Al-Maliki had been in the United States legally since 1994 but that federal officials were reviewing his immigration status because he may have outdated information on his green card.
Law enforcement sources said Al-Maliki previously served time in jail for criminal trespassing in Atlantic City.
In addition, he was arrested on suspicion of possession of a destructive device, but the sources said charges were dropped; details of the incident were unavailable.
A law enforcement source close to the investigation said Al-Maliki spent only a day in Los Angeles, arriving Monday afternoon after taking a flight from Philadelphia.
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According to the news media the authorities are already denyng that this was terror-related.
How many clues do these idiots need? Lemme' see...
1) Iraqi national (ie Middle-Eastern male)
2) 35 (ie between the ages of 17 and 42)
3) Wearing wires
4) Possessing a magnetic device discovered by body cavity search
5) Wires were associated with magnetic device discovered in body cavity
Which one of these five basic clues is not "terror-related" and how does this whole episode get immediately tagged by the authorities as being "not terror-related". How stupid do they think we are?
Where's the friggin' bomb squad to blow this sob up like they do "suspicious packages"?
I'm afraid that if I'd seen this and been armed I'd have blown the guy away on the spot before he could go for the triggering mechanism.
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"so, who tried to sneak these through?"
"some asshole"
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That's just freakin great. After 9/11 you couldn't take a pocket knife on a plane. After the attempted shoe bombing they inspected your shoes. And now ...
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The rock, authorities said he told them, was from another planet.
This is takin' the whole moon-god worshippin' comments here at the 'burg a lil' too far for my likin'! And, FOTSGreg (#23), you forgot to add:
6) Kinda liked the Affirmative Action of the TSA. Had a Transgendered lesbian do a full rectal scan.
7) Arrived the day before (in LA) from Philly, only to turn around and fly back the next day? Yeah, nuttin' strange there (unless he's a "Businessman" for the Hollyweirdo set in L.A. and practicing his wares).
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Oh wow! A Bum Bomb!
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Sadly it pretty obvious that KBK and Alaska Paul are pretty much going to hell.
Hassan Abujihaad, 31, was arrested today in Phoenix on federal charges of terrorism and espionage. The former U.S. Navy sailor went by the name Paul Hall. The federal complaint alleges that he gave classified information about Navy battle group movements to a London-based group that supported Islamic terrorists including Al-Qaeda. The Navy battle group was engaged in anti-terror operations.
Federal prosecutors say Abujihaad was stationed on the U.S.S. Benfold in the Middle East which was one of the ships thats movement was revealed.
Emails by Abujihaad allegedly praised Osama bin Laden and the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole and said such tactics were working and taking their toll.
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A muzzie traitor?!!!
Say it ain't so!
BTW, would the US Navy let a Nazi on our warships during WWII? Why muzzies now? Are they that friggin PC? If so, this is gonna get much worse before it gets better.
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Sailor Abu Jihad was sending emails and such, which means that someone received them. More fun for the computer jockeys at both ends, hopefully to be followed by arrests and repatriations. One doesn't want to know how long he was observed before the arrest, one really doesn't.
South Waziristan, 7 March (AKI/DAWN) - Fierce clashes erupted between local tribesmen and foreign militants in the Azam Warsak area of Pakistan's South Waziristan Agency on Tuesday, leaving 17 people dead, sources said. Officials in Peshawar told Pakistani daily Dawn that 12 Uzbeks, three tribesmen, including a brother of a tribal elder and two Afghan nationals, were among the dead. The violence broke out after an attack on a pro-government elder.
Reports say sporadic firing was continuing in the remote area, about 25 kilometres west of Wana, the administrative headquarters of South Waziristan. Militants in the rugged remote area have killed dozens of people, including government officials and tribal elders they accused of supporting the government of President Musharraf and people accused of spying for US forces in neighbouring Afghanistan.
The sources quoting local people said that the clashes started when some people opened fire on a pro-government elder Malik Saadullah Darikhel, killing his two cousins and a passerby. Malik Saadullah, who heads a local peace committee, had recently survived two attempts on his life, which he believed had been carried out by foreign militants living in the area adjacent to the Afghan border. He is considered a staunch opponent of foreign elements in the tribal area and he has been organising fellow tribesmen against them.
The attack on the tribal elder infuriated his relatives and a gunbattle ensued. Reports said that rival groups had entrenched themselves and taken positions on hilltops. About 300 armed volunteers had blocked Azam Warsak-Wana Road. On the other hand, local Taliban also announced that they would avenge the killing of their companions and would capture the Darikhel tribesmen.
Local Taliban commander Maulvi Nazir and former MNA Maulvi Noor Muhammad have initiated efforts to stop clashes between the two sides. Officials in the tribal agency could not be contacted for confirmation of the news because telephones in many parts of the agency, including Wana, have not been working for about a month.
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They make the Kelly Gang look like a Sunday School picnic.
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Hatfields, or Coys?
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Hatfields, they're the photogenic clan
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CAMP LIBERTY, Iraq A combined force of Iraqi police, national police and Multi-National Division Baghdad troops completed a second day of security operations in the eastern Baghdad Sadr City district March 5.
Members of the 82nd Airborne Divisions 2nd Brigade Combat Team and the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division conducted security operations with their Iraqi counterparts and reported no hostile contact for a second day in an area known to be a stronghold of Muqtada Al Sadr, the extremist leader of rogue elements known for extrajudicial killings and attacks against coalition forces. Whoa! What happened to "Firebrand Cleric"?
Some residents seemed genuinely pleased to see the troops arrive, as small children were seen smiling and waving to coalition forces.
"It's a promising first start, said Maj. Gen. Joseph F. Fil Jr., commanding general of MND-B. We sense there is an opportunity opening here that we want to immediately take advantage of while working with the Iraqi security forces and the people of Sadr City. The citizens of Sadr City appear to welcome the respite from recent violence over the last few months. The killings have fallen off from more than 200 in December and January to less than 20 during the past 30 days as the new security plan for the Iraqi capital is carried out by newly arrived troops.
Although much too early to tell, Fil noted, we sense that the people of the city are ready for a change." At the conclusion of the security operations a Joint Security Station will be established in the District Police Station for Sadr City. This security station will allow a 24-hour presence in the Sadr City district and facilitate coordination between all security forces.
Fil said the key to future success is the newly-established Baghdad Operational Command, and the close coordination and cooperation that have been established. The Baghdad Operational Command became fully operational on the first of this month and they are off to a great start, the general said. Lt. Gen. Abud is directing and controlling Iraqi security forces throughout Baghdad. We are coordinating between our commands in a way that is having an immediate effect on the streets. Feedback from the Iraqis has been positive and we feel at this time we are on the right track."
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Whoa! What happened to "Firebrand Cleric"?
It's a Centcom report, they ration their adjectives. It's a dreadful choice they're forced to, y'know: adjectives or bullets. ;-)
BAGHDAD At least 118 Shia pilgrims were slaughtered in attacks across Iraq yesterday, sparking fears of reprisals that could frustrate efforts by Iraqi and US forces to quell sectarian violence. Elsewhere in Iraq, nine American soldiers were killed and four more wounded in two bomb attacks on their convoys, the US military said.
The deadliest single attack on the pilgrims was in Hilla, south of the capital, where two suicide bombers triggered explosives amid a packed crowd of worshippers walking to the holy city of Karbala, police Lieutenant Karim Al Hamzawi said.
Dr Mohammed Timini from Hilla Hospitals emergency room said 90 pilgrims were killed and at least 160 wounded, as queues of ambulances and private cars brought in scores of bloodied bodies. Among the wounded, there are 50 in a critical condition. Eighty percent of the casualties are young men, but there are women and children among the dead, he told AFP at the hospital.
Tens of thousands of Shias are making their way to Karbala, a shrine city around 100 kilometres (70 miles) south of Baghdad, for the Arbaeen ceremony on Friday, despite threats from Sunni insurgents. Most of them are going on foot, leaving them vulnerable to attack. Arbaeen (40 in Arabic) marks 40 days after Ashura, the holiest day on the Shia calendar, commemorating the martydom in 680AD of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammed.
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Dammit! There you go insulting Orcs again. What have Orcs ever done to you?
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This Shia-Sunni mutual blood-letting is destroying my life.
I've this, periodically, resurfacing urge to compose a song based on Frankie And Johnny but I haven't been able to progress beyond Shia and Sunni were haters
O Lordy, they really could hate
They swore to be killing each other
As long as there stars above
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Is it just me, or would it just be easier to cease all the holy "holidays" and marches? I mean Jeebus, us Christians only get 2 (Easter and Christmas), but the muzzies celebrate every single historical whiner's "martyrdom" and then celebrate again 40 days later????
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CrazyFool---that was one of my favorite lines in LOTR, LOL!
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Me thinks one of Orc's was wearing his Ring of Conflict and Aggravate Monster that day.
http://www.steelypips.org/nethack/343/rint-343.html
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Let's see - prayers three times a day, holiest of days every other week, weeklong pilgrimages every other month - why is Muslim productivity so low and poverty rate so high?
Iraqi and US forces have captured 29 members of Al-Qaeda, including a death squad leader, in a series of operations across Iraq, an official has said. Twenty-two Al-Qaeda members, including two brothers of Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, were captured on Monday at Baiji, 220 kilometres north of Baghdad, said interior ministry operations director Brigadier General Abdel Karim Khalaf. "The operation was carried out by police based on intelligence gathered by the ministry of the interior," Khalaf told the agency.
The Islamic State of Iraq is an alliance of Sunni groups under the umbrella of Al-Qaeda in Iraq, which said it had kidnapped and executed 14 Iraqi policemen last Friday at Baquba, 60 kilometres north of Baghdad, to avenge the alleged rape of a Sunni woman by Shiite police. "We have also arrested the most dangerous man in northern Iraq, Fuad Ahmed al-Mufraji, who is responsible for a number of assassinations," said Khalaf, adding he was captured near Tikrit, 180 kilometres north of the capital, also on Monday. Khalaf said earlier that Iraqi and US forces had captured a regional leader of the Islamic State of Iraq, along with five other Al-Qaeda members at Dhuluiyah, 70 kilometres north of Baghdad. Muharib Abdullah and the other five militants were picked up in a raid on Sunday, he said.
The US military, meanwhile, said its troops had rescued two people kidnapped and tortured apparently by Al-Qaeda operatives in a town near Fallujah, 50 kilometres west of Baghdad.
This article starring:
ABU OMAR AL BAGHDADI
al-Qaeda in Iraq
ABU OMAR AL BAGHDADI
Islamic State of Iraq
Brigadier General Abdel Karim Khalaf
FUAD AHMED AL MUFRAJI
Islamic State of Iraq
MUHARIB ABDULLAH
Islamic State of Iraq
Islamic State of Iraq
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This is the same 29 and escaped hostages posted the other day. [I presume]
#1) Extract Intel, #2) public hanging #3)then take 'em to the Mosul jail and let 'em escape.
Seventeen Fatah terror suspects surrender to Israeli force in Ramallah Wednesday
The IDF was led to their hideout at Palestinian General Intelligence headquarters in the West Bank hub town by a Shin Bet tip. The 17 suspects, found in possession of a stock of explosive vests and pipe bombs, gave themselves up to the Israel force after an hour-long siege.
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No virgins for you!!!
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The MILF rebels and the military, which have been observing a 2003 truce despite occasional clashes, have accused each other of initiating the fighting on Monday and Tuesday in Midsayap, 890 kilometers (550 miles) south of Manila. Rebel and government representatives met Tuesday afternoon with Malaysian-led truce monitors after the clashes subsided.
Pajarito said the body of another guerrilla was discovered Wednesday, raising the number of dead rebels to 18. Midsayap Mayor Romeo Arana said soldiers have left three villages at the center of the conflict, and that he was overseeing the return of about 4,500 residents who had fled the fighting.
Von al Haq, the MILF co-chairman of a joint cease-fire committee, said by telephone that the MILF, the military and truce monitors were preparing to travel to the area to verify the withdrawal. "Let us see how sincere the army is," he said.
He said the fighting occurred in villages on the fringe of the Liguasan marsh, where MILF members moved last month under an agreement to redeploy away from a highway, after clashing with the military in January. "We're almost pushed to the wall," al Haq said, adding that the fighting broke out after soldiers who had provided security for a U.S. military team on a medical mission over the weekend encroached into the MILF position, with only 300 meters (1,000 feet) separating the two forces. "The military has been slowly trying to ease us out," said MILF spokesman Eid "Lipless Eddie" Kabalu.
Al Haq, in statement posted on the MILF Web site, said soldiers took "a seemingly premeditated move" to drive Muslims away from the town and deprive them of their claim to their ancestral territory a key issue in stalled peace talks. "We have no interest in operating there," said Lt. Col. Julieto Ando, spokesman of the 6th Infantry Division, accusing the MILF of attacking soldiers who were merely manning their detachments, and spreading rumors that the military was about to strike.
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EID KABALU
Moro Islamic Liberation Front
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Now that the Phil Army is involved it is turning into a goat F#$K! Time for 6ID to pull out and send the Marines under MG Sabban back into the fight. I can only imagine the Army is now involved because Sabban was stealing the political limelight.
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One Buddhist man was beheaded and another shot to death in attacks by ghoulish death cult devotees suspected Muslim insurgents in Thailand's restive south Wednesday, police said.
Just after sunrise, attackers entered a rubber plantation in Yala province's Muang district and shot a Buddhist worker before severing his head and dropping it about 200 meters (600 feet) from the body, said police Maj. Sucharit Wongsaket. When police arrived at the site, a homemade bomb triggered by a mobile phone exploded and caused minor injuries to two officers. "We believe that Muslim insurgents beheaded the victim and planted the bombs to target police, because they knew police would come to inspect," Sucharit said.
Also in Yala province, a 25-year-old Buddhist man driving his motorcycle to work was shot and killed by a gunman riding on the back of another motorbike. The man's wife, who was driving with him, was seriously injured, police said.
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This has become an everyday occurrance. Everyday.
When are the Buddhists going to hit back? Hard. Then even harder.
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Mark Z - I doubt the Buddhists will hit back. Sooner or later, though, the Chinese that live in the area will get tired of the problem, and there won't be any more muslim "insurgents". That's what happened in Malaysia - the muslims started cutting into the profit of the local Chinese, and suddenly there wasn't any more muslim problem.
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Sri Lankan policemen and soldiers, as well as underworld figures, have been arrested in connection with a rash of killings and abductions in the latest chapter of the two-decade civil war, police said yesterday. The admission comes as the government faces mounting pressure from human rights groups and foreign governments to halt rights abuses blamed on elements of the military as well as Tamil Tiger rebels and renegades, and after the discovery of five corpses in the islands north.
The magnitude of the problem is yet to be assessed. But the fact remains there are a few groups like this operating, Asoka Wijetilleke, deputy inspector general of the polices foreign intelligence department, told a news conference. Some of them, which include ex-soldiers, serving soldiers, police officers and underworld gangs and other organized elements have been arrested, he added. That does not mean we have fully and completely investigated the whole thing. Government officials were not immediately available for comment.
Sri Lankas Human Rights Commission says nearly 100 abductions and disappearances have been reported to them so far this year in the capital Colombo, the eastern district of Batticaloa and the besieged northern Jaffna Peninsula. That in turn comes on top of 1,000 cases reported during 2006 since the resumption of a civil war that has killed around 68,000 people since 1983.
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The Iranian former deputy defense minister who disappeared in neighboring Turkey last month is being questioned in a northern European country under strict supervision, the pan-Arab newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat reported Wednesday.
Northern European, huh? Poland, Norway, Germany and England would be on my short list.
I don't buy it, not with the big current flap about CIA renditions from Europe. Not a chance in the world that we'd park this guy in Europe where some EU legislator would find out. That is, if we're involved. You know. If.
This just in at Fox: A Senior U.S. official told FOX News that Asghari is not in CIA hands but said that it's a "mystery" why he disappeared "and the U.S. intelligence community is seeking more clarity." "Nothing to see here, move along"
That settles it: he's at Ice Station Zebra ...
According to the newspaper, published in London, Ali Reza Asghari is undergoing thorough investigation by intelligence forces before being transferred to the United States.
Maybe it wasn't us after all: Asghari is one of five Iranians reportedly wanted by Interpol for their alleged role in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish Cultural Center in Argentina, so perhaps he was snatched in Turkey and has cut a deal in exchange for leniency. Now wouldn't that be "ironic"? Interpol picks the guy up on a unrelated charge and he cuts a deal.
Asghari, who is a retired general in the elite Revolutionary Guards, disappeared in Istanbul about a month ago. A hotel room was booked under Asghari's name, but several reports indicate that he never arrived at the hotel. On Tuesday, al-Sharq al-Awsat reported that Asghari left for the U.S. to seek asylum shortly after arriving in Turkey.
Earlier Tuesday, Iran's top police chief, General Esmaeil Ahmadi Moghaddam, said Iran was investigating Asghari's fate with the cooperation of the Turkish police. "It is likely that Asghari has been abducted by the Western intelligence services," IRNA quoted the Iranian police general as saying. The general did not elaborate. IRNA further quoted Moghaddam as saying Asghari had stayed in Turket for three days before being abducted. "The police investigation shows that he did not leave Turkey," Moghaddam said.
(cough) Incirlik (cough)
Al-Sharq al-Awsat's sources, however, claimed the official was not abducted but left for the United States "along with the secrets he carried."
He's in a safe house in the Shenandoah Valley.
Asghari had arrived in Turkey on a private visit from Damascus, Syria, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported Tuesday.
A senior Iranian former spy/defense chief visiting their client state of Syria by himself, I can see. Going to NATO member Turkey by himself screams defection.
It's good trade-craft on his part, isn't it? And makes you wonder how good the counter-intel and internal security is on the Iranian side.
Turkey's Foreign Ministry said Monday that the Iranian Embassy there had reported Asghari's disappearance and had asked Turkey's Interior Ministry to investigate.
According to a British Daily Telegraph report, Iranian intelligence official Asghari is also likely to have intimate knowledge of Iran's defense establishment and nuclear development program. Although Asghari's disappearance in Turkey sparked allegations of a Mossad and CIA-linked kidnapping, Haaretz has learned that he may have defected.
Asghari served in the senior defense post under former defense minister General Ali Samahani. Israeli media have said that for many years, Asghari was the most senior Iranian intelligence official in Lebanon, with responsibility for Iran's ties with Hezbollah. Israel Channel 10 television said late Sunday that Asghari was kidnapped on February 7, after arriving in Istanbul from Damascus, Syria.
ADDITIONAL: Arabic-language newspaper quotes top Iranian military official as saying that Ali Reza Asgari is being questioned by Western military experts over Revolutionary Guards role in bombing of US Marine Corps headquarters in Beirut; general will be transferred to America at a later date, he adds.
According to the report, Asgari headed the Iranian Revolutionary Guards in Lebanon and in this capacity was privy to a great deal of confidential information. The Iranian source, who was also a senior member of the Revolutionary Guards in the 1980s, said Asgari is being questioned by military experts for several hours a day regarding the Guards role in the bombing of the 1983 bombings of the US Marine and French Corps headquarters in Beirut. After serving in Lebanon for two years Asgari was stationed in Sudan, Syria, Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Iranian officer said. "The general is also being interrogated on the assassination of Iranian opposition leaders abroad, the military source told the newspaper, adding that Asgari will be transferred to the US at a later date.
Asgari went missing in Turkey on February 7, shortly after he and his family checked into in hotel in Istanbul.
That's a new item, which I think is incorrect. Other reports suggest his family had already skipped before he arrived in Turkey alone.
Spreading some dis-information now is a required part of the story; the more the Iranians can be dazzled and lead astray, the better. It'll take them time to work out all the details and figure out just how their boy skipped.
They'll be looking sideways at everyone now, wondering who else is contemplating betraying the Fatherland. A few hints dropped, a few whispers and you could get a full-blown paranoid purge started. heh
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...I think it's reasonable to assume the French could care less - but if we've got somebody who helped plan the Beirut attack, there's a LOT of Marines who will want to make sure he stays alive and talking.
Mike
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Geez, just imagine the basketful of goodies this guy might have taken with him.
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Iran must be shitting eggrolls right about now...depending on what he knows, says, this could completely blow their facade...confirming they're working on nukes - with reps from the EU, Russia listening in - could give us all fresh resolve to PUSH the issue...confirming they were behind the attack in Iraq would be the smoking gun we said was cassus belli to knock their dicks in the dirt.
I'd imagine diplomatic channels will heat up significantly as they look for a way out. I'd also imagine Mugniyah is cooking something up as we speak.
My guess would be he's in a very secluded place in North America. Perhaps the visitors wing of Guantanimo so that if he's seen the Iranians will assume capture and torture and not defection.
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if we've got somebody who helped plan the Beirut attack, there's a LOT of Marines who will want to make sure he stays alive and talking.
And it will provide a legal basis for all sorts of actions against both Syria and Iran .....
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Well, of your guesses of Poland, Norway, Germany and England for Northern European location, I sure hope it's Poland. Alternatively, I hear Diego Garcia's not bad this time of year. Depending on his answers, he could even get a ride in a B-2 before getting dropped off back home in on Teheran.
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I hope all American commanders have their troops on maximum alert. I wouldn't put anything past the Iranians, including a chemical attack on US forces in Afghanistan or Iran. I would also be on the watch for suicide ships in the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Arabia. They need a major distraction, and fast!
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OP,
A major, plausibly deniable, distraction, or else it's just an invitation to cruise missiles and JDAMs.
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I would watch out for harrassment followed by passenger jets in the hopes of creating another Vincenesse incident.
Yes I believe the Iranian Mullahs did that one on purpose and I believe they would do it again to get their people (and much of the world) aligned behind them and against the USA.
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interpol, nah, I dont buy that. The guy checks into one hotel than heads for another. And what was he doing in Turkey? Making contact with an Al Quds cell? Then why would he have his family with him?
Nah, this has defection written all over it, from the get go. The only questions I see are 1. Has he been a defector in place for awhile, who just now came in from the cold, or is this a new defection 2. Did he go to the CIA, or perhaps someone else - MI6, or even the Mossad? 3. Where is he now, and whats been his itenerary since Istanbul? 4. What does he actually know about al the things hes said to kow something about?
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This guy is gone. Forever probably, at least until something changes in Iran or something is done about Iran.
And just becuase the CIA doesn't have him, that doesn't mean the U.S. doesn't have him. SEAL team 6 didn't just vanish into thin air. The Navy replaced it with something every bit as capable.
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Gottem nice new fella at the 7/11 this PM, drives a Rolls, kinda weird.
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Crusader, it was actually a young Hillary Swank, if I remember correctly.
And, I was thinking Ms. Hayes was doin' Jacko's "Thriller" impersonation myself.
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Miss Hayes: brilliantly intelligent, stunningly beautiful, a gifted actress and a trained ballerina? Oh well, at least she wasn't professional caliber -- her calves aren't developed enough. ;-)
#13
What will become of the RDS&TP, now that the Justice Dept. wants ISPs and websites to keep records on who downloads/uploads which pics? Calling .com, calling .com!
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500 mH (microHelens)
500 ships launched, I shook her hand once 30 years ago, she and her husband James(?) McArthur made a big bequest to the FSU School of Theatre (THeeeee 8ter for you Hogtown folks)
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- British-led forces supported by Canadian, American and other coalition troops, yesterday launched an offensive to drive the Taliban out of Helmand province. Canada's Leopard tanks have been deployed for action. Operation Achilles will eventually involve 4,500 NATO and 1,000 Afghan soldiers - one of the largest multinational forces fielded in a single operation in Afghanistan, says NATO's International Security Assistance Force. 
KABUL, Afghanistan Afghan soldiers caught a senior Taliban commander at a checkpoint who was wearing a burqa, while NATO forces on Wednesday fought Taliban militants in the second day of the alliance's largest-ever offensive in Afghanistan. 
Separately, U.S.-led coalition troops detained five men suspected of involvement in anti-government activities and "known terrorist groups," in the eastern city of Khost, the coalition said without elaborating. The troops uncovered a cache of grenades and armor-piercing rounds during their search, the statement said. No injuries occurred during the raid.
(SomaliNet) At least four people have been killed and six others were wounded in a gun battle that raged in the Somalia capital Mogadishu between the Ethiopian backed interim government forces and an insurgent group on Tuesday. All the dead and injured people were believed to be civilians hit by the exchanged fires. 
Two Saudi men suspected of involvement in the Feb. 26 cold-blooded murder of four French nationals 90 km north of Madinah have been given an ultimatum by the Interior Ministry: Turn yourselves in by 8 a.m. today, or else. If they fail to do so they will be declared wanted men, said 
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An alleged criminal arrested on Saturday in connection with the killing of two Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel in Savar was killed in Rab action yesterday. Police sources said Mamun alias Killer Mamun actively took part in the killing of deputy assistant director (DAD) Humayun Kabir and constable Phool Mia of Rab-11 at a brick kiln at Salehpur. 
South Waziristan, 7 March (AKI/DAWN) - Fierce clashes erupted between local tribesmen and foreign militants in the Azam Warsak area of Pakistan's South Waziristan Agency on Tuesday, leaving 17 people dead, sources said. Officials in Peshawar told Pakistani daily Dawn that 12 Uzbeks, three tribesmen, including a brother of a tribal elder and two Afghan nationals, were among the dead. The violence broke out after an attack on a pro-government elder. 
Iraqi and US forces have captured 29 members of Al-Qaeda, including a death squad leader, in a series of operations across Iraq, an official has said. Twenty-two Al-Qaeda members, including two brothers of 
