Police carried out a controlled explosion in the southwestern city of Bristol early Friday, following the arrest of a 19-year-old man the day before under Britain's Terrorism Act, officials said.
The suspect remained in custody, and material from the blast was retrieved for analysis, police said. "During yesterday and overnight, Avon and Somerset Constabulary have been co-ordinating a number of covert inquiries," said Assistant Chief Constable Jackie Roberts. "As a result, a 19-year-old man was arrested yesterday afternoon under the Terrorism Act 2000. He has been taken to a police station within the force area and a warrant was executed to search his home in the Westbury-on-Trym area.
"A number of people were evacuated from neighboring homes as a precaution, and just after 2 am this the morning the Explosives Ordnance Disposal Team conducted a controlled explosion at the location." Roberts added that "this is likely to be a prolonged, complex and sensitive inquiry which may take some time."
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From Skynews
Officers from the Explosives Ordnance Disposal team returned to the quiet cul-de-sac in Westbury-on-Trym on Friday night after detectives were granted seven days to hold a 19-year-old terror suspect, who Sky sources say is Andrew Ibrahim.
The teenager, who was understood to have recently converted to Islam, was arrested after covert inquiries prompted by an intelligence
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Which came first, his conversion to Islam or his love of bombs? Did he play with explosives because he became Muslim or did he become Muslim because it legitimized his bombophilia? Are explosives the hook (so to speak) to lure young British men to the mosques?
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Three controlled explosions?
Methinks that whatever he's using either is NOT explosive, or is damn hard to set off.
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Or it's too unstable to carry away, c.f. TATP = "Mother of Satan". Fave of the British radical Muslims on the evidence of the 2005 London bombing and several disrupted plots are any indication.
"Before moving in to the council flat in Comb Paddock, Mr Ibrahim had been living in a hostel for the homeless in central Bristol. A source familiar with the investigation said he had moved into the red-brick terraced property only two months ago. "He originally turned down the property, telling council officials that he didn't want to live in a white middle class area," the source said. "But changed his mind and moved in on February 4."
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"He originally turned down the property, telling council officials that he didn't want to live in a white middle class area," the source said. "But changed his mind and moved in on February 4."
Once his imam handlers signed off on the location.
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Thanks, tipper. The fat teenager with the pathetic beard, whose daddy is a rich doctor, lives in a council flat? Who was stupid enough to sign off for that? I note that the man in the flat below is a Porsche salesman. Does rental property insurance cover controlled explosions when a juvenile terrorist is involved?
Jaish-e-Muhammad and Lashkar-e-Tayyeba outfits suffered a major setback when four of their cadres, including a district commander, died in a fierce gunbattle with security forces in frontier Kupwara district of north Kashmir on Saturday. Police claims that the slain commander was active in the area for past seven years and involved in a series of attacks on the security forces.
SSP Kupwara Vijay Kumar said that the police received information regarding the presence of militants in the jungle area of Jabdi Rang at Warnow Lolab in north Kashmir, which was followed by an operation in collaboration with the local unit of the Rashtriya Rifles. "As the Police zeroed in on to the target area, militants opened indiscriminate fire which was retaliated resulting in death of four militants," he said.
Two of the slain militants have been identified. They include district commander of Jaish-e-Muhammad Amjad Bhai and his associate of Lashkar-e-Tayyeba Abu Saifullah, both residents of Pakistan.
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ISLAMABAD - Two paramilitary soldiers were killed Friday in a roadside bombing in south-western Pakistan, officials said. The blast occurred near the town of Dera Bugti, about 300 kilometres south-east of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province.
"It was a remote-controlled bomb that destroyed the vehicle of the paramilitary Frontier Corps," a local police official said. "One soldier was also injured in the attack," added the official.
No one had accepted responsibility for the attack, but Baloch nationalists seeking autonomy and a greater share of the province's oil and gas wealth have carried out such attacks as part of their three-year guerrilla campaign against security forces.
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Now that's the kind of alliteration I like to hear.
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and no Foster Brooks to blame it on....
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Unidentified men set ablaze a tent belonging to the Khasadar Force in the Sandah area of Mohmand Agency late on Thursday night. Khasadar personnel deputed at the checkpost, some three kilometres from Ghalanai, told Daily Times that they were forcibly thrown out of the tent before it was set alight. Attacks on security checkposts were a routine occurrence in the Mohmand Agency before the Taliban started negotiations with the new government. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
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The Lashkar-e-Islami (LI) on Friday ended clashes with the Kooki Khel tribe after the tribe accepted the militant organisations demands to end illegal businesses. The Peshawar-Torkham Highway was opened for traffic after five days of closure due to fighting between the LI and the Kooki Khel tribesmen of the Jamrud subdivision in the Khyber Agency.
The LI captured the houses of tribesmen late on Wednesday, and told them to stop extorting money from vehicles on the highway and end illegal businesses, including the sale of liquor and the sheltering of criminals. Frontier Constabulary personnel are still guarding the highway.
Tribal elders said Iqtidar Shah, the elder son of the late Malik Zahir Shah, had surrendered to the LI late on Thursday, during a jirga. They said that Kooki Khel elder Guli Shah had accepted LIs 30-point agenda during a similar jirga held at the Shah Kas area early on Friday.
Haji Misri Khan, a close aide of LI chief Mangal Bagh, said the tribe had accepted all their demands.
He said the Kooki Khel tribe had agreed that they would eradicate distilleries from the area and stop the sale of hashish and the extortion of money from commuters, adding that they would also expel criminals from the area.
Security personnel: Also on Friday, unidentified gunmen released 16 security personnel who were kidnapped during the clashes, Dawn News reported.
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the Kooki Khel tribe
Are the Khels any kookier than the rest of the tribes around there?
Four youngsters were killed in two incidents of violence in separate areas of Kurram Agency on Friday. According to eyewitness accounts, two students were killed when unidentified men indiscriminately opened fire in Alizai. Separately, security forces near Parachinar allegedly killed two youngsters, Dawn News reported. Local tribesmen torched a Levies checkpost to protest the incidents.
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Unidentified gunmen shot dead a female health worker stationed at a clinic in the Baytha area of Safi tehsil late on Thursday night. Eyewitnesses blamed local Taliban for the killing of Nihar Begum, AFP reported. Local official Haseeb Khan confirmed the incident but could not confirm whether the attackers were local Taliban. We have arrested three suspects, he added.
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United States drones have resumed their flights in the North Waziristan and its suburban areas, reported Aaj TV on Friday. According to the channel, US spy planes were seen flying in the Pakistani airfield over the North Waziristan Agency and its adjacent Tribal Areas. The same planes were also reportedly flying towards South Waziristan and the Mehsud tribe areas, the channel reported.
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As much as I hope and pray that Sammy's "wanted 'dead or alive'" poster would be turned in before "W" leaves office, he isn't going to make it easy for the Texan to 'string him up'! Sammy probable commutes between caves through underground passages (ie: not unlike the Viet Cong's network); and is maintaining a strict electronic emissions blackout during and after his frequent shell games. Any slip ups in communications or movement probable won't occur until after the US Presidential election (assuming McCain doesn't take the top ticket), with Hillary or Obama beginning their phased draw downs in the region. That 'poster' though will most assuredly carry over the declaration with whomever sits in the Oval Office; 'Dead men walking' will be a constant warning of "It's my ass, if I get it wrong today!" while living it up on the razor's edge, to Benny and the 'Ayman'!
Iraqi Army provides first aid supplies to Sadr City residents
BAGHDAD Iraqi Army soldiers conducted a combined medical assessment in the southern portion of the Sadr City district of Baghdad April 17.
The operation was supported by the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division, Multi-National-Division Baghdad, and provided citizens with essential medicines and personal hygiene supplies at Joint Security Station Tharwa 1.
For the assessment, Iraqi Security Forces provided military and civilian doctors to ensure visitors received medical supplies and were not in need of immediate or critical medical care. Citizens ranging from the very young to the elderly received medical attention at the station.
Dealing directly with the ISF, the Iraqi people living in Sadr City witnessed the ability of Iraqi Forces to care for them. More than 400 citizens received medical care in less than two hours, making the event a successful one.
It really turned out good. It was successful and turned out better than I thought, said Capt. Ryan Mendenhall, a native of Ephraim, Utah, who serves as the fire support officer.
Mendenhall said he was surprised by how quickly the people reacted and came to the project.
This is just a small step to let the people know that we are not here to destroy a home. There is a lot of work ahead of us, and we will continue doing it; eventually, it will pay off, Mendenhall said.
For others, the amount of people who attended the assessment was unbelievable, due to the gunfire that could be heard in the distance.
It exceeded my expectations; I didnt expect anybody to show up because what was going on, said Sgt. 1st Class Lawrue Bush, a native of Cleveland, who serves as the fire support NCO. For the ISF and Soldiers, this is not the end for this mission.
The Soldiers are expecting the next assessment to be a bigger, and they are preparing to get more supplies, said Bush.
The combined efforts are geared toward helping to improve the location where the assessment was conducted.
Hopefully the next one is a little bit better, Bush said.
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Four hundred citizens in two hours? That sounds quite impressive, and certainly not something the Iraqi Army could have done a year ago. Congratulations, gentlemen! We're proud of what you're becoming!
IRAQI forces backed by British troops and artillery seized the main stronghold of the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in the southern port city of Basra yesterday. "Call on your headman to surrender,
it's worse if you fights or you runs,"
The operation, which also involved RAF and American aircraft, forced the clerics Mahdi army militants to cede control of a district where they had fought off an Iraqi onslaught last month. "You can go where you please,
you can skin up the trees,"
A senior Mahdi source in Basra said British soldiers - believed to be SAS troops directing attacks - had accompanied the Iraqis as they moved into the district of Hayaniya. British officials said only that liaison teams were advising Iraqi commanders on the ground, after US criticism during Gordon Browns visit to Washington of earlier failures to clear militants from the city. Very fit "liaison teams" with cold eyes and hard faces
Yesterdays assault was launched five days after a kidnapped British journalist, Richard Butler, was rescued in Basra, apparently from the home of a Mahdi army officer. Butler, who was working for the American network CBS, had been held for more than two months but said he had not been mistreated.
The oil city awoke yesterday to heavy artillery and air strikes directed at Mahdi rocket launch-ers. The Iraqis then moved in with relative ease. Witnesses said huge quantities of weapons, including hundreds of rockets and mortars, had been found abandoned. Some had been left in the street by fleeing militiamen. "Cause you can't get away from the guns!"
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Me, I'm surprised (surptized US military, never mind the politicians & their academic advisors, never bothered to study Israel's experience with SLA & paleo "police").
Iraqi troops cordoned off the Basra office of Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadrs followers on Friday and prevented them from holding prayers.
The government and Sadr followers confirmed the operation, which comes nearly a month after Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki launched a crackdown on Sadrs Mehdi Army militia in Basra, sparking violent clashes across the south and in Baghdad. We have orders from the prime minister to take back all the government buildings that are occupied by parties and political movements in Basra within 48 hours, Interior Ministry spokesman Major-General Abdul-Karim Khalaf, told Reuters.
There were no reports of fighting between Sadr followers and Iraqi troops. Troops from the Iraqi Army prevented us from holding Friday prayers and now they are cordoning off the office. They want to evacuate and storm the office, Harith al-Idhari, the head of the office, told Reuters. Sheikh Asad al-Nasiri, an aide to Sadr in the Shia holy city of Najaf, condemned the inhumane actions of the Iraqi government and vowed that Friday prayers would go ahead as planned.
Although there have been sporadic clashes in Basra since Sadr called his militia off the streets of the city late last month, the focus of fighting has been in Sadr City, the tightly-packed east Baghdad slum of two million people.
A group of Al Qaeda bombers has slipped into Baghdad to carry out a wave of car bombs and suicide attacks, the US military said on Friday. The unusual warning came after a spate of deadly bombings this week struck areas in northern Iraq, where Al Qaeda Sunni Arab militants are known to be active. Information collected by coalition forces states that numerous Al Qaeda terrorists have entered the Baghdad area with the purpose of carrying out vehicle-borne improvised-explosive devices or suicide vest attacks in the Karkh district of central Baghdad, the military said in a statement.
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All parties or just Tater's?
Is Maliki knocking out all political opposition or are they just targeting Tater?
I say make an example out of Tater and his Persian handlers, but I wonder how much Sunni collateral damage will be taken out as well. Not that they couldn't handle a little culling too.
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IIUC the IA is trying to evict Mehdi guys who are squatting in government offices, but somehow this involves preventing the mooks from holding prayers - have they sanctified the office building into a mosque or something?
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I recall an oft made observation from my salad days, "the clan that prays together, slays together".
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It is my understanding from articles yesterday (Talisman?)that this operation is targeting all
militias and gangs in Basra. Something about the central government wanting its buildings and control back.
Two IDF soldiers were moderately wounded and 11 others were lightly wounded Saturday morning at the Kerem Shalom crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, when Hamas gunmen initiated a coordinated attack on the Israeli side of the crossing, which included heavy gunfire, mortar shell barrages and two car bombs.
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Seems like Hamas is seriously itching for an asskicking. I suspect the paleos have mined every other square foot of nearby territory with their fresh explosives via Egypt. Hope Olmert has enough sense to use only air assets and artillery. I suspect the days of infantry operating in Gaza with impunity are over... hope the Israeli leadership doesn't waste too many of their own people's lives.
A top Tanzim terrorist was killed early Friday morning in an IDF operation in Nablus's Balata refugee camp, the army said. The soldiers called on the two gunmen to surrender and at least one of them opened fire toward the troops.
Yup, the usual "you'll never take me alive, coppers" line is appropriate here.
The soldiers returned fire, killing one of the men. He was identified as Hani Al-Kabi. The Islamic Jihad operative, Samir Abu Leil, then gave himself up to the forces.
"Please don't kill me like you did Hani!"
There were no casualties among the IDF soldiers.
The two Palestinians who planned to poison food at the restaurant where they worked. Two M-16 rifles, numerous ammunition clips and combat equipment were found in the house.
The army said that Kabi was supposed to deliver chemicals to two illegal Palestinian workers in order to poison the food they served at a restaurant in Ramat Gan. The two workers were arrested on March 19 - just days before they were scheduled to receive the poison.
The IDF added that Kabi was in direct contact with Hizbullah and received instructions from the terror group regarding the types of terror attack to perpetrate as well as other means of support. He was also allegedly involved in a planned suicide bomb attack in August 2007 and organized another would-be bomb attack in which a 10-kilogram explosive device made from an empty fire-extinguisher, explosives and nails were hidden in the carcass of a sheep.
Between August and October 2007, Kabi planned and took part in two shooting attacks in Balata, wounding two IDF soldiers, said the army, adding that in December 2007, he was involved in an attempted attack against a bus carrying IDF soldiers in Kalkilya and planned another suicide bombing.
Sources in the IDF Central Command said that Kabi was arrested by the PA in December 2007 before the bombing could be carried out but escaped from Jneid Prison in Nablus in February 2009 with some 10 other inmates. The sources said that his arrest Friday by Duvdevan had contributed to preventing the perpetration of terror attacks throughout the Pessah holiday.
Later Friday, at Kabi's funeral procession, an angry Palestinian mob hurled stones at Jneid Prison.
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so when all Palestinian food preparers are fired from their jobs in preemptive safety, they can thank Hezbollah and Kabi.
stoopid little hateful rodents
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Hani gets white raisins, the three other baboons get a long vication on my tax shekels. And the scumvermin who employed them in his restaurant gets what?
A member of a pro-government militia and a suspected terrorist rebel were killed Saturday in Thailand's far south, police said, where a bloody separatist jihad insurgency is raging. A 45-year-old Muslim man who worked for a village defence force was shot dead in Narathiwat province on Saturday morning, police there said. In nearby Yala province, meanwhile, an unidentified man suspected of being a terrorist militant was killed in a pre-dawn clash with government soldiers.
Colombo, April 19 (IANS) The Sri Lanka Air Force claimed that its attack jets had bombed and destroyed three arms boats of the Sea Tiger wing of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in Mullaitivu Saturday evening. These arms boats were located beached near the Mullaitivu lagoon in the north and all three boats were completely destroyed during the air raid around 5.40 p.m. (Sri Lankan time), air force spokesman Wing Commander Andy Wijesuriya told IANS over the phone. He said that the air raids were conducted based on intelligence reports provided by the Sri Lankan Navy.
The Sea Tiger wing is the sea going arm of the rebel group. There was no immediate reaction from the LTTE.
Meanwhile, the defence ministry reported that at least 21 LTTE cadres and one government soldier were killed during clashes with the rebels in the northern Jaffna and Wanni regions Friday. Independent verifications on the casualties are not possible as journalists are barred from visiting the battlefront.
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Now that's a young lady that looks like she'd be a lot of fun to be around!
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Our Russian spambot is persistent
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Those sandles are a variation on Roman sandles, Scooter McGruder. Very fashionable once again these last three summers, although this summer they're being done in metallics, which strikes me as a bit too much of a good thing.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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A top Tanzim terrorist was killed early Friday morning in an IDF operation in Nablus's Balata refugee camp, the army said. The soldiers called on the two gunmen to surrender and at least one of them opened fire toward the troops. 
