(KUNA) -- Armed men, believed to be the anti-government Taliban, kidnapped and killed a woman on charges of spying for the Afghan government. The woman, serving as employee of the prison department, was kidnapped in Afghanistan's lawless province of Helmand on Sunday. Her body was found by police in the provincial capital of Lashkargah Monday afternoon. Provincial officials said Taliban were responsible for the killing.
A purported Taliban commander Abdul Hakim said the woman was killed because she was spying for the government. However, no statement was issued by Taliban spokesman Yousaf Ahmadi or other responsible leader in this regard. This is the first incident of its type in year 2007. Women are respected in the Afghan society and even the warring sides are considering an insult for themselves to target a female.
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Hmmm, seems that "insurgents" don't respect women that much. And based how Talibunnies "respected" women during their rule, I'd say not at all.
NATO warplanes called in by the Afghan army bombed and killed 19 militants in southern Afghanistan, taking the toll from a four-day operation to 99, the defence ministry said on Monday. The 19 were killed in the southern province of Helmand on Sunday, it said in a statement.
The fiercest clashes were on Thursday and left 69 militants and seven policemen dead, Afghan officials said.
The Afghan army launched the sweep of the Gereshk area of the province on Thursday, the second day of the Afghan new year.
Operation Nawrozi (New Year) is the first large operation launched by Afghan forces with NATO air support but not ground troops. The fiercest clashes were on Thursday and left 69 militants and seven policemen dead, Afghan officials said. The ministry said nine suspected militants were also arrested in the Gereshk area on Sunday, two of them carrying the bodies of their dead comrades. The forces also seized light weapons, rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and landmines.
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99 talibs with beards on the wall
Shoot one down and kick it around,
98 talibs with beards on the wall
Shoot one down and kick it around,
97 talibs with beards on the wall
Shoot one down and kick it around,
Clan elders handed over eighteen soldiers captured during recent fighting in the Somali capital Mogadishu between fighters from the Hawiye clan and Somali transitional government troops backed by Ethiopian soldiers to their sub-clans, said Abdullahi Sheikh Hassan, a spokesman for Hawiye clan, on Monday. "The Somali government says that no soldiers are missing from their rank. That is why we have handed them over to their respective clans," Hassan confirmed to Xinhua.
The transitional government has not commented on the troop handover. The handover ceremony was held in Mogadishu with local and international media presence.
The clan elders accused the transitional government led by President Abdullahi Yusuf, from the Darood clan, wants to disarm them alone and not other Somali clans.
Fierce fighting has been going on between clan insurgents and Somali government troops backed by Ethiopian soldiers for three days last week and was stopped with a ceasefire signed between Hawiye clan elders and Ethiopian military officers.
The ceasefire has been holding since it was signed on Thursday. "We shall respect the ceasefire as long as they do," said Hassan. "But if they try to disarm us, we shall definitely defend ourselves."
The clan elders accused the transitional government led by President Abdullahi Yusuf, from the Darood clan, wants to disarm them alone and not other Somali clans, a charge the government vehemently denies. The Somali government has pledged to pacify the city in time for the scheduled April 16 national reconciliation congress to be held in Mogadishu.
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From my home town paper, go read the enitre piece.In a phone interview, Price relived the day he survived the tremendous blast.
We were just out on patrol, an IED went off on the front right side under my truck and it threw the truck 15 feet in the air, said Price. I was knocked out. It threw me out about 25-30 feet. I woke up and both my legs hurt pretty bad.
We had a medic on scene and they Medivaced me out via Blackhawk helicopter - I was out of there within 15 minutes, Price continued. Once they got me on morphine, it didn't hurt as much, so that was good.
However, right after the blast, Price admits he thought he might not even make the medical helicopter ride as he laid on the ground.
When I woke up, I really couldn't see ... I couldn't see my legs, I could just see the Humvee, Price said. It was about 20 or 30 feet away from me and half the front end of the vehicle was gone. I wasn't sure if I was going to make it, but I knew I wasn't ready to give up yet.
As Price was coming to, he only could tell of his injuries, I knew it might be pretty serious ... but all I could do is guess - and all I could guess was that I wasn't doing too good!
Price had two things on him. A small Catholic Bible that his stepfather, Donald Kane had given him for Christmas, and a coin for luck his wife Rachel gave him.
He clutched the coin and medics were at his side. The first thing he did was to ask how everyone else in the vehicle was, and he said he could see they were fine.
I was still pretty aware of my surroundings, they didn't give me the morphine until I flew out of Kirkuk airbase, said Price. So even though I was in a tremendous amount of pain, I knew what was happening.
Price broke three bones in the top of his foot, broke his heel, had a hurt knee and wrist, bruised ribs, swollen neck from the helmet and a large scrape on his neck from the strap.
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There is an absolutely huge amount of effort going into finding and preventing these IED and Vehicle Borne IED (VBIED) incidents. The death toll of the murderous scum that are emplanting them rises weekly. Just thought you would want to know.
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Exactly what we want to know, Besoeker. Thank you. I hope you and your youngsters are taking great pleasure in the new ROEs, and that y'all have a piece of the rising death toll of the murderous scum... or something equally satisfying.
KHAR, Pakistan: Masked gunmen hurled grenades and opened fire on a government pickup truck in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least four people, including a senior intelligence agent and two of his aides, officials said.
Oh, be still my heart!
The attack occurred on a road in Bajur, a Pakistani tribal region bordering Afghanistan, said Mowaz Khan, a security official in Khar, the main town of Bajur where Islamic militants have been blamed for attacks on security forces in the past. In the attack on a road near Khar, two men wearing masks and riding a motorcycle threw two grenades at the official vehicle and then opened fire, killing the intelligence official and three people at the scene, Khan said. BBC sez: Unidentified gunmen have shot dead four officials from Pakistan's secretive ISI intelligence agency in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan, officials say. Two others were wounded in the attack in the Rashkai area of Bajaur agency, local authorities said. The dead included an Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) assistant director, Mohammad Sadiq, alias Major Hamza.
Khan and an intelligence official in Peshawar, the capital of North West Frontier Province, said four people were killed in the assault. The intelligence official declined to be named because he was unauthorized to speak to the media. But another security official, who also requested anonymity for the same reason, said that three people were killed in the grenade and gunfire attack, including the senior intelligence officer and two low ranking agents.
"Dey got da boss!"
The differing accounts on the death toll could not be immediately reconciled.
Trying to decide who gets his office
The driver of the pickup was wounded, Khan said. Two passers-by in another car were also injured in the shooting, the Peshawar-based intelligence officer said. The attackers fled.
"Who was that masked man?"
"I don't know, but I forgot to thank him."
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Friendly fire in the Northwest Frontier...
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(KUNA) -- Four persons including an official of a political party were wounded in a loud motorcycle bomb explosion in a northern Pakistani city on Monday, said police and witnesses. A time-bomb attached to a stolen motorcycle exploded with a huge bang near Green Hotel in the Sadar area of Peshawar city, 250 kilometers north of Islamabad, police sources told KUNA.
A witness, Shehreyar Yousuf, said explosion tore motorcycle into several parts and shattered window panes of the hotel and an adjacent bank buildings and several nearby shops. He said the vehicle of Secretary of Awami National Party (ANP), Aqil Shah, was also caught in the explosion. Including Aqil Shah, a bank bodyguard, hotel owner and a passer-by were seriously injured, he added. It was not immediately known whether the target was ANP secretary Aqil Shah. Police terming it a terrorist act said investigations have been launched.
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I think i will rule out Pakistan for my summer vacation!!!!
TANK: A police officer and a militant leader were killed and 12 injured in three incidents on Monday. Local administration chief Syed Mohsin Shah said that a shootout erupted when police stopped a group of Taliban from entering the Oxford Public School, AFP reported. They wanted to go inside in a bid to convince the students to join them for jihad. Police knew their designs and stopped them, Shah said.
Meanwhile, AP quoted the police as saying that the militants had asked the schools administrators to assemble students so they could address them, but ran outside when officers arrived at the scene. One of the militants, Ahsan Burki, threw a grenade that killed SHO Hassan Khan. The police retaliated, killing Burki and injuring one of his companions. The third suspect was arrested. The school had asked for protection after militants visited schools in the area to recruit students, residents said. Shortly after the gunbattle, unidentified men hurled a grenade at a paddy wagon police vehicle, injuring nine people.
Separately, four people including an ANP office bearer were injured when a bomb fixed on a motorcycle exploded in Peshawars cantonment area.
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KHAR: The Salarzai and Utmankhel tribes on Monday entered into an agreement with the government that the two tribes would not shelter foreign militants in their areas, an official said. The official said that the deal was signed between elders of the two tribes and government officials in a jirga in Khar. He added that the government had earlier made a similar accord with the Mamoond tribe. Tribal elder Malik Shah Jehan said that the government had assured the tribesmen that it would support tribal traditions.
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Another wasted piece of paper, you could have at least gotten some use if you used it for wiping your butt.
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Tribal militants praised by the government for a bloody assault on foreign fighters in Pakistan said on Monday they would continue to go to Afghanistan to fight foreign forces. The government hailed the last weeks bloodletting in South Waziristan as a sign that local tribes would evict foreign militants without the involvement of Pakistani forces. A spokesman for the Pakistani military described them as patriots.
However, the tribal militia told reporters that they had not turned against the foreigners for the governments sake. We will continue our jihad (in Afghanistan) if that is against America, the Russians, British or India as long as we have souls in our bodies, Haji Sharif, an aide to to Maulvi Nazir, told reporters in Wana.
Nazirs representatives escorted reporters to the area, where sympathies for the Taliban run high and which is generally off-limits to outside journalists. Sharif said Our activities across the border have been affected by our crisis with the Uzbeks. We have enemies in our home, he said.
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Wana, is tucked in right on the A-stan border at the botton of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas [red area] meets Balochistan to the South of it.
One civilian was killed and seven were injured after a suicide bomber detonated his vehicle in northwest Ramadi at 1:20 p.m. today. [March 28 2007]
The injured were evacuated to a local aid station, Ramadi General Hospital and a Coalition medical facility for treatment.
Coalition Forces arrived after the explosion to assist in the medical evacuation and set up a cordon around the blast site. Local citizens provided information about a second truck bomb that may be in the area. Acting on the tip, a search was conducted and an abandoned truck was found wired with explosives and chlorine tanks.
KALSU, Iraq Coalition and Iraqi forces received gunfire and rocket-propelled grenade fire from insurgents inside a mosque near Iskandariyah, Iraq March 26.
Company D, 3rd Battalion, 309th Parachute Infantry Regiment and Iraqi security force personnel positively identified that the attack was coming from the Al Wasafa mosque and minaret and requested an AH-64 Apache attack helicopter from the 4th Squadron, 227th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion to engage the insurgents in the mosque.
No significant damage was done to the mosque, but bullet holes can be seen in the mosque walls. A War Crime, committed by the Great Satan against the Religion of Peace!
Iraqi forces entered the mosque to pursue the insurgents and the U.S. forces secured the area outside.
A military transition team from Forward Operating Base Iskan assisted in the pursuit of insurgents following the attack.
The Iraqi Security Forces and paratroopers respect the sanctity of mosques by taking precautions to minimize damage to property and disruption of legitimate activities when operating around such sites. Firing RPGs at Americans IS a 'legitimate activity' - it says so in the Koran someplace; I'm sure that's what the imam said.
Injured insurgents were given immediate medical care by Iraqi security forces and taken to area hospitals. Where they will receive excellent medical care until succumbing to their injuries?
One insurgent was killed and two were wounded.
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Really. What needs to happen here is every time that there is fire from a mosque, we film it, then hit it with a 2000lb JDAM. You wanna keep your mosque? Keep people from firing from it.
Thatisall.
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Just go ahead and bomb all mosques to prevent future attacks and to destroy enemy amo dumps. Seems like the prudent thing to do. If you bomb both Sunni and Shi'ite mosques it might also help to eliminate that bone of contention between them. They might even forget about jihad if they don't have the clerics preaching it to them.
They say that like it's a good thing. Do they honestly think that the mosque's imam was held at knife point while those insurgents abused its sacred soil? So long as we leave these known enemy outposts standing, they will serve as fortifications for our foes.
(KUNA) -- One hour after the U.S. embassy in Baghdad's heavily fortified international Green Zone in central Baghdad was shaken by loud explosions of mortar shells, a suicide attacker detonated his car near Maarouf Al-Resafi square here. The bombing killed two Iraqi civilians and wounded seven others Monday afternoon. It also caused heavy material damage to nearby shops and cars, said Iraqi police sources. Soon after the attack on U.S. embassy, black smoke was seen rising from the location of the embassy on the western bank of Tigris River, according to KUNA reporter. The attack led to no casualties, spokesman of the embassy Lu Vantou said. However, he declined to elaborate on the attack citing "security considerations." Press reports said the attack left some dozen casualties.
Rebutting the reports, information coordinator of the Multi-National Forces Janah Hammod told KUNA the attack injured only one U.S. national and two embassy workers of other nationalities.
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(KUNA) -- Spokesman of Baghdad Law Enforcement Plan General Qassem Atta confirmed Monday the arrest of an al-Qaeda leader and two of his aides in western Baghdad. "A force from the Third Brigade raided Abu Ghraib area and arrested Ahmad Farhan and two of his close associates Tuesday," Baghdad security plan spokesman Qassem Atta told a press conference in the city, Atta told reporters here. "Farhan, a leader of the terrorist organization in Iraq, admitted his direct responsibility for killing up to 300 persons and abducting some 200 others and confessed also of having close ties with a wanted man named Abu Omar al-Baghdadi," the senior officer pointed out.
During the operation in Abu-Gharib area, the Iraqi security authorities managed also to free 17 hostages and arrested four abductors in Al-Salamiyat district, west Baghdad. Atta played video footage showing the arrest of Farhan and the seizure of large arms cashes belonging a ring of 71 militants. The militants used military uniforms to launch attacks and ethnic cleansing operations, he added. He reviewed the achievement of the plan from March 21 to 26, pointing out that 30 terrorists and 227 suspects arrested, 25 hostages freed and large amounts of weapons were seized.
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ERROR DETECTED, says "Captured" Not Killed, Fix this please.
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Five Palestinians were wounded on Monday night during factional fighting in the Rafah area of the Gaza Strip. Israel Radio reported that the Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades commander in the northern Gaza Strip temporarily left his home in Beit Lahiya, traveling in an armored convoy to Gaza City, since his house was located in the heart of the clashes.
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From the PCHR, official scorer of Pali gunplay...
PCHRs preliminary investigation indicates that at approximately 19:00 on Monday, 26 March 2007, armed clashed broke out between members of Fatah and Hamas in Ibn Siena Street in Tal El-Sultan Quarter in Rafah. The clashes were triggered by a clan dispute, which escalated into an exchange of fire. Masked gunmen were seen on top of roofs and others in alleys. Machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades were used in the clashes, which continued till midnight. Six people were injured, including two bystanders.
PCHRs preliminary investigation indicates that at approximately 10:50 on Monday, 26 March 2007, Hasan Mohammad Yousef Abu Marouf (38, from Khan Yunis) was brought to Naser Hospital in Khan Yunis suffering from a bullet wound to the chest. He died shortly afterwards from his wounds. Abu Marouf was a member of the Interior Ministry Executive Force. Sources in the Executive Force indicated that Abu Marouf and a colleague were in an administrative room inside the Executive Force compound to the west of Khan Yunis when he was injured; and that an investigation has been opened into the incident.
Just a guess, but I'm going with..."mishandled weapon".
In another development, Basel Fathi Dawoud (24, from Beit Lahia) died on Sunday, 25 March 2007, of wound sustained a month ago when he and a friend mishandled a weapon a month ago. He was transferred from Shifa Hospital to an Israeli hospital due to the severity of his injury.
A Jew hospital? No faith in the Inshallah health care system? Jeez, what would Mo say?
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At the rate they're going, it won't matter whether they outbreed the Israelis or not. Gaza is going to be uninhabitable due to the high level of lead in the soil and the buildings (where it isn't saturated with infectious bacteria and parasites from the sewage overflows -- seriously ick!).
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where it isn't saturated with infectious bacteria and parasites from the sewage overflows
Gaza: At least 10 dead in flooding from sewage breach
Palestinian medical officials said 10 people were killed when the wall of a large cesspool collapsed on Tuesday, flooding the northern Gaza village of Umm Naser with mud and sewage.
The officials said at least 30 people were missing. The rest of the village's 3,000 residents fled or were evacuated by rescue crews.
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Gaza: At least 10 dead in flooding from sewage breach
It says a lot about poor Palestinian marksmanship when a sewage breach incurs a higher death toll than an entire night's firefight with RPGs and full-auto weapons.
the wall of a large cesspool collapsed
And what is it with the Palestinians and their above-surface cesspools? Do they do double duty as sheep-dip runs?
Insurgents set fire to a mobile telephone transmission tower and a kindergarten in the restive South early Tuesday. The simultaneous attacks took place shortly after midnight in Songkhla's Na Mom and Sadao districts. There was no report of injuries.
Police said the fire damaged the relay tower of Advanced Info Service, while the kindergarten blaze partly destroyed the school before villagers could put it out. Police believe the insurgents have moved to Sadao and Na Mom districts in Songkhla because security in other districts including Chana, Saba Yoi and Thepa have been tightened so they cannot stage violent activities there.
The Indonesian police claimed Monday it has arrested several members of Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), a shadowy terror group with alleged links to al Qaeda, in recent raids in Central and East Java. It remains unclear how many suspects were in custody, but National Police Chief Sutanto said last week seven people were held by the anti-terror unit. Earlier in the day, another suspect was captured at his residence in the East Java capital of Surabaya. "These people are JI members," national police spokesman Sisno Adiwinoto told reporters here. "They have links with JI, but their role was still unclear. All we know is that they posses explosives."
He said some of the detained suspects were involved ithe September 2004 car bombing at the Australian Embassy here and the market bombing in Maluku. A suspected militant was killed and another wounded during an ambush in the southern Java town of Yogyakarta last week, and in a subsequent raid in Central Java, police confiscated a cache of explosive materials, rifles and thousands of ammunitions. JI is widely blamed for major bombings in Southeast Asian countries, including Indonesia, the Philippines and southern Thailand.
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Dammit, first glance and I read they'd arrested Jimmuh (Cahter)
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Anti-terror police arrested a suspected Islamic militant and seized explosives from his home in central Indonesia on Monday, a top security official said. The capture of Ahmad Khoirul Uman accused of having ties to the al-Qaeda-linked regional terror network, Jemaah Islamiyah brought the number of terror suspects detained on Java island in the last week to eight.
Several of those arrested are suspected of having played a role in the 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people. Others have been linked to the 2004 Australian Embassy bombing in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, that left 10 dead. Lt. Col. Hari Dahana, police chief in Indonesia's second largest city, Surabaya, said one of the men detained last week tipped authorities off to the whereabouts of 24-year-old Uman. "Police confiscated 12.5 kilograms (27 pounds) of explosives (including) TNT from his home," he told reporters. "They also seized several bombs that were ... ready to use and explode."
Jemaah Islamiyah, believed to be headed now by Afghan-trained militant Abu Dujana, has carried out four major attacks in Indonesia targeting Western interests since Sept. 11, 2001.
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What would President Reagan do in this case? In the Nicaragua harbor mining and the Grenada and Panama liberations (and a few semi-secret Delta Force operations), he relied on fait accompli. That is he went on television after the operations were started and THEN gave the pretext. I would like to think that President Bush learned from that. However, a winter intervention in Iran would have been a better option. Iranians would be less likely to turn against the government in warm weather. And I believe that it would be in US interests to seek Iran military professional assistance in tossing the Ayatollahs. We will see. But telegraphing our options would be foolish. If Iran was pacified, then the US could target Hizbollah and other arms of Shiite power.
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - The U.S. Navy on Tuesday began its largest demonstration of force in the Persian Gulf since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, led by a pair of aircraft carriers and backed by warplanes flying simulated attack maneuvers off the coast of Iran.
The maneuvers bring together two strike groups of U.S. warships and more than 100 U.S. warplanes to conduct simulated air warfare in the crowded Gulf shipping lanes.
The U.S. exercises come just four days after Iran's capture of 15 British sailors and marines who Iran said had strayed into Iranian waters near the Gulf. Britain and the U.S. Navy have insisted the British sailors were operating in Iraqi waters.
U.S. Navy Cmdr. Kevin Aandahl said the U.S. maneuvers were not organized in response to the capture of the British sailors nor were they meant to threaten the Islamic Republic, whose navy operates in the same waters. He declined to specify when the Navy planned the exercises.
Aandahl said the U.S. warships would stay out of Iranian territorial waters, which extend 12 miles off the Iranian coast.
A French naval strike group, led by the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, was operating simultaneously just outside the Gulf. But the French ships were supporting the NATO forces in Afghanistan and not taking part in the U.S. maneuvers, officials said.
Overall, the exercises involve more than 10,000 U.S. personnel on warships and aircraft making simulated attacks on enemy shipping with aircraft and ships, hunting enemy submarines and finding mines. "What it should be seen as by Iran or anyone else is that it's for regional stability and security," Aandahl said. "These ships are just another demonstration of that. If there's a destabilizing effect, it's Iran's behavior."
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At sea and in the air, and very soon, right on top of your scraggly neck, mahmoud...
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"just four days?" how about, the British sailors are now in their fourth day of illegal captivity......
On the lighter side: gotta love the smell of JP in the morning. and no, I do not ned no stinking patches, burned kerosene spins my prop....
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Gee, I wonder if we'll let the Insanians come out with their fishing boats and kidnap our sailors. Maybe we should see in we can get the Cornwall to cover our backs during these maneuvers
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"Does this bug you, Iran? I'm not touching you. Does this bug you? I'm not touching you."
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I wonder if they ran any "exciter" missions? That's when the fighters make a full speed run at the border and then turn before they cross over. I would bet that not a single Iranian ship or plane left their base during this "exercise". They talk a good big game but when confronted with strength they ALWAYS run.
Actually, it's likely they did, and in the same way the Iraqis got that treatment: over, and over and over again...and eventually the Iranians stopped responding because the Americans will always turn around. Then our guys threw in the jamming, and after a while even that stopped getting the Iraqis excited.
Until one morning the jamming didn't end...
Mike
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or they're watching the carriers so closely they don't notice those shadows coming in from the east...
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I figure if this was serious the carriers would be withdrawn to a better tactical position, this is a PR exercise.
Pakistani officials have recovered three Iranian policemen who were kidnapped by rebels and handed them back to authorities in Iran, while a fourth is believed to have been killed, officials said Monday. The four policemen were abducted on February 27 after a deadly clash in Irans sensitive southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan and taken towards the Pakistani border, prompting complaints from Tehran.
A videotape attributed to the Jund Allah (Soldiers of God), a Muslim militant group, and aired on Al-Arabiya television on March 8 purportedly showed the men on their knees, while two masked gunmen stood behind them. Pakistani security agencies recovered the three Iranian officials in Buleda town on Friday and handed them to Iranian authorities, a Pakistani security official said. The security forces raided a hideout after a tip-off and we found the three policemen there with their hands and feet tied, the official added on condition of anonymity. They said their colleague had been killed several days earlier, but they didnt know where the body was.
Officials had no details about the fate of the policemens abductors. Al-Arabiya said the kidnappers claimed in the tape that the hostages were an officer and three soldiers with Irans Revolutionary Guards. A separate audiotape said the group were not linked to Al-Qaeda, the Taliban or the US intelligence. The abductions came weeks after 13 Iranian Revolutionary Guards were killed by a car bomb in Zahedan.
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Stwangez, and JAPAN reports no RUSSIANS have yet been found after their recent quakeys.
An alleged al-Qaida terrorist accused in the deadly 2002 bombing of a hotel in Kenya has been transferred to U.S. custody and sent to the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Pentagon officials said Monday. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman identified the suspect as Abdul Malik. He is the first terror suspect to be transferred to Guantanamo Bay since September 2004. Whitman said Malik would undergo a military hearing to determine whether he is to be classified as an "enemy combatant."
Whitman declined to provide details such as Malik's nationality or how he came into U.S. custody. He called Malik a "dangerous terrorist suspect." Whitman said Malik admitted to involvement in the November 2002 attack on the Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel in Kikambala, Kenya, in which 13 people died, and to involvement in the unsuccessful attempted shootdown of an Israeli Boeing 757 civilian jetliner carrying 271 passengers, also in Kenya in 2002. "Due to the significant threat this terror suspect represents, he's been transferred to Guantanamo," the spokesman said. He said the International Committee of the Red Cross was notified Monday that it will be allowed access to Malik.
A senior defense official, who discussed the matter on condition of anonymity because of its sensitivities, said Kenya gave Malik to U.S. authorities in the past few weeks. He arrived at Guantanamo Bay last weekend. That official said Malik was not held as a "high value detainee" in the CIA's secret overseas prison system. Fourteen such detainees were transferred from the CIA prison system to Guantanamo Bay last fall.
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Did he fly Last Class, dangling beneath the wing of a C-130? He should have...
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Did he fly Last Class, dangling beneath the wing of a C-130? He should have...
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Sorry about the double post - I kept getting an SQL error.
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sure OP, likely fib, we kno that ur mad at Rantburg, we understand!
Australian detainee David Hicks has pleaded guilty to a charge of providing material support to terrorism. Hicks is the first detainee to face prosecution under revised military tribunals set up after the Supreme Court found the Pentagon's previous system for trying Guantanamo prisoners unconstitutional.
At the pretrial hearing, Hicks asked for more lawyers to help defend him against charges he supported al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, but the presiding military officer instead ordered two civilian attorneys to leave the defense table, leaving the defendant with one attorney.
The heavyset 31-year-old Hicks, wearing a khaki prison jumpsuit, had told the court he was satisfied with his defense team but wanted more lawyers and paralegals "to get equality with the prosecution."
The judge, Marine Col. Ralph Kohlmann, instead said two civilian lawyers, including a Defense Department attorney, were not authorized to represent Hicks. He ordered them to leave the defense table when Hicks said he wouldn't settle for them being designated consultants.
One of the lawyers, Joshua Dratel, said he refused to sign an agreement to abide by tribunal rules because he was concerned the provisions did not allow him to meet with his client in private. "I'm shocked because I just lost another lawyer," Hicks said after Dratel's departure, drawing a scolding from the judge for interrupting as he explained the reasoning for removing the lawyers.
Hicks' Pentagon-appointed attorney, Marine Maj. Michael Mori, challenged Kohlmann's partiality, arguing that his participation in the previous round of military trials that the Supreme Court last year found to be illegal created the appearance of bias.
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Col. Ralph Kohlmann
DAVID HICKS
al-Qaeda
Joshua Dratel
Maj. Michael Mori
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An "expert" on the radio this morning said he assumed the guilty plea would've included waivers of appeal and improper treatment.
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03/27/2007 5:41 Comments ||
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note that he was short and fat, not "gaunt" as Mori and his other lying spokesholes have been saying
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03/27/2007 5:54 Comments ||
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What? and lose all that free propaganda?
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I thought pops and Major Mikey said Davey Boy's been borderline drooly boy for the last three years?
Ya mean...they was lyin! Say it ain't so, guys!
#5
the ink this asshole gets?.. his family must own ink oil wells.
Either that or he's been adopted la cause célèbrent by the barking moonbats..
Naw.. he didn't murder enough Americans for leftist luv and mascot status.
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