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Those are stunningly gorgeous pictures. I have camera (and skill, darn it!) envy. So the French are out there supporting the troops in Afghanistan too, are they? And if I recall correctly, their special forces are wandering round the Afghan landscape, doing what exactly? or is it best that I don't ask that question...
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It looks like the French are going to elect M. Sarkozy by a pretty wide margin. Maybe they're ready to start acting like, you know, real allies again?
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"A French E-2C Hawkeye from the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier French navy ship Charles de Gaulle"
They managed to get it out of port? And it floated?
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#6: "Maybe they're ready to start acting like, you know, real allies again?"
I'd be satisfied if they'd just start acting like they have some balls and stood up and jailed or kicked out the "youts" that are intent on destroying their country.
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Barbara, of far greater importance is rolling back its intensely damaging Eurabia Pact that France has implemented over the last few decades. Severing close ties to the Islamic world will help abate a stupendous amount of very damaging triangulation against Western interests. After that, neutralizing the internal Muslim threat is a cakewalk.
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YNET NEWS > AL-QAEDA FORUM SITE > JIHADIS = MUSLIMS NOW INSPIRED TO REINVADE/CONQUER FRANCE AND CONVERT IT INTO A MUSLIM COUNTRY [Islamist Sharia]. FRANCE is "second stop" on the march for conquest of all [continental?]Europe after the liberation of ANDALUSIA, SPAIN = SPAIN/IBERIA.
At least 13 civilians were killed in a bombing raid by US-led forces battling the Taliban, an Afghan official said on Friday, bringing to 70 the number of such deaths reported this week. The rising toll of civilian casualties will put further pressure on President Hamid Karzai, who warned this week of serious consequences for all if the bloodshed did not stop.
The civilians were killed in bombing on Tuesday night in the Maroof district of southern Kandahar province, said Janan Gulzai a provincial assembly member. I saw all the victims are civilians, said Gulzai, who was a member of a government team investigating the incident. We cannot accept the killing of Afghan civilians by anyone.
The civilians were travelling in three cars along the same stretch of road as coalition troops near the town of Spin Boldak when the troops came under Taliban fire, said Ghulam Farooq, a resident of the area. The 13 civilians were killed when coalition warplanes were summoned to bomb the area while the Taliban escaped, he said. A spokesman for the US military said he had no information about the report and would check.
Protesters angry over civilian deaths reported in the western province of Herat and in the east of the country called this week on Karzai to quit, saying he was powerless to stop the killings. Several hundred people staged another anti-US and anti-Karzai protest on Friday over the civilian deaths in the east, residents said. They briefly blocked a road where a convoy of the coalition forces was passing, but police dispersed the crowd and the protest ended peacefully.
Separately, officials said on Friday a mudslide in northern Afghanistan swept a Czech military vehicle off a road, killing one soldier and seriously injuring another. The accident happened on Thursday during a heavy thunderstorm while the troops were on a routine patrol, Defence Ministry spokesman Andrej Cirtek said. The Czech Republic opened a diplomatic representation office in Kabul last month. It has about 150 troops in Afghanistan as part of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, with plans to increase the total to about 225 later this year.
On Tuesday, insurgents opened fire on a vehicle carrying a Czech diplomat travelling in a remote area of eastern Afghanistan, wounding two diplomatic guards.
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What would happen to these civilians if the Coalition forces were to leave? Huh?
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What, CA? That's, um... logic, isn't it?
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Yes, but it's not Islamic logic.
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The outrage in the west is being orchestrated by Iran. Iran is also "deporting" tens of thousands of Afghans illegally in Iran, perhaps as cover to reinforce the troops that just took such a devestating loss.
Three bombs were recovered from a spot only 100 yards from Chuadanga Railway Station yesterday. Police are examining whether the recovered bombs have any similarity with the bombs that exploded recently in Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet, according to the UNB. Security has been beefed up here following the recovery of the bombs. Train passengers as well as the local people got panicked with the recovery of the bombs.
Our staff correspondent from Rajshahi reported that a powerful bomb blast left a girl injured at Chawk Ramakantapur, a remote village of Manda upazila in Naogaon district, yesterday. Another bomb exploded shortly afterwards while police defused the live one of the two bombs recovered from the scene in the afternoon.
Unknown persons left a bag containing the bombs near the cowshed of Dulal Hossain at the village and Dulal's 11-year-old daughter Sima first noticed it, police and locals said. As she took out one of the bombs, it dropped on the ground and exploded with a bang, causing serious burn injuries to her hands, face and legs. Another bomb exploded when curious villagers rushed to the scene hearing the first explosion and threw the bag toward a pond. No one was, however, injured in the second explosion. Police later recovered the bag from the pond and found two bombs. One of the bombs was already damaged and bomb experts of police defused the other.
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Banned Islamist outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) cadres are regrouping along with the fellow militants of Insaf and Allar Dal to see through the job of establishing Islamic law in the country.
Meet the new JMB, same as the old JMB, now with new packaging and 20% more Purity
It's longer, lower, leaner, wider, with more road-hugging weight!
According to intelligence sources and information obtained from detainees, the three outfits are now operating under a single banner whose name changes too frequently to keep track of it.
Whoa! There it went again!
Determined to make up for the loss of their spearheads, they have launched a fresh recruitment drive stealthily, said an intelligence official seeking anonymity.
"Join now! The organization with the rapidly changing name wants YOU!"
In a secret ballot immediately after the president had turned down the clemency pleas of militant leader Abdur Rahman and his deputies, the JMB, its offshoot Allar Dal, and Insaf, a group led by an Ahle Hadith faction, elected Moulana Sayeedur Rahman alias Abu Jafar as their ameer (commander). In a series of meetings, they reconstituted a six-member Majlish-e-Shura (highest policy-making body) and appointed nine chiefs for as many operational divisions. Besides, the militant remnants vowed to take up the job where it was left off by the executed JMB top brass. They set police, Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), judges, Ahmadiyya mosques and NGOs as prime targets for attacks.
Intelligence officials have gathered that the militants have plans to blast less powerful bombs and carry out the main attack when the law enforcers will be busy at the first explosion site. Despite knowing this beforehand, the law enforcers could not pre-empt the three near-simultaneous explosions at railway stations in Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet on May 1. The failure to net the ones leading the regenerated militant campaign led to the blasts that harked back to the August 17 countrywide attacks. Besides, those detained for involvement in militancy did not give enough leads, said sources close to those working on the Islamist groups.
The intelligence agencies are now examining if the latest blasts bear any links to the three groups.
Linked like little sausages to the sow, they are.
The post-Abdur Rahman JMB cadres have decided to remain clean-shaven and not to wear pajamas or punjabis. They believe this would make it difficult for the law enforcers to suspect them by the way they look, added the sources. Following intelligence reports, the authorities have directed the district administration to be on the alert for the regrouped militants. Accordingly, police in different districts have undertaken programmes seeking to aware the locals so that the militants cannot operate under cover.
The JMB men had observed a seven-day mourning for its executed leaders. In Bogra, they distributed leaflets asking people to keep a sombre mood during the mourning period.
Jahidul Islam Sumon alias Mizan alias Kamrul alias Nayan of Sheker Vita of Jamalpur has been appointed the military expert of the new JMB for his expertise in explosives, firearms and ammunition, intelligence officials said.
That's a lot of aliases for one man. Must be hard to remember who he is each morning.
It's not clear to me how the authorities know the identities and aliases of all these men,know how many ballots it took to elect the thug-in-chief, and know they've swapped out their turbans and pj's for street clothes, and don't have any of them in custody...
This article starring:
ABDULLAH TASLIM ALIAS NAHID
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
ABDULLAH TASLIM ALIAS NAHID ALIAS BIPLOB
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
ABDUR RAHMAN
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
ABU JAFAR
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
ANWAR ALIAS FARUQ ALIAS TANJIL
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
ANWAR HUSEIN
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
ASADUL ISLAM ALIAS ARIF ALIAS MARUF
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
ASHIQ ALIAS ABUL QUASEM
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
JAHIDUL ISLAM SUMON
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
MAHFUZ ALIAS SOHEL ALIAS ABU SAIID
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
MAHFUZ ALIAS SOHEL ALIAS MAMUN
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
MEHEDI HASAN ALIAS ABIR
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
MULANA SAIIDUR RAHMAN
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
MUSHAD ALIAS ROMAN
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
ROKON ALIAS LEON
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
SAIID ALIAS RUSELL ALIAS ZUBAER
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
SALAHUDIN ALIAS NADIM
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
Allar Dal
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
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Determined to make up for the loss of their spearheads, they have launched a fresh recruitment drive stealthily
Darn it, I thought this was in Iraq until I saw mention of the RAB, then looked to the top to see the Bangladesh heading. Still, any such situation is cause for much rejoicing.
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hell ,the names change too mush for me already. how many more abus can they come up with that that mean the same thing. i would hate play a muslim cross word puzzle
Koranimals exposed A man accused of detonating a bomb on a London Underground train told a court yesterday how he fled the capital disguised in a burka. Yassin Omar said he escaped 24 hours after he set off a rucksack device on July 21, 2005, as he was terrified the police would shoot him. terrified? but for the opportunity..
He said he took one of his mother-in-law's black burkas because she "had lots of them". no comment
"She had lotsa sexy underwear, too, to I took some of them. And bras. I really like the lacy ones, with just a little bit of padding."
She used to sell them so there was one which was big enough to fit his 6ft 2in frame, Woolwich Crown Court, South London, heard. this a**hole would be 3' 2" if I had a shot..
He smiled as he was shown CCTV footage of himself in the burka and holding a handbag, walking to get a coach with his wife. VIDEO at link
"That burka don't make me look fat, does it?"
He said, "That's me. If I didn't disguise myself or go into hiding they would have shot me." He said he had told his wife they had to go away because his face would be on TV. Omar claimed he feared the same fate as Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian shot and killed on the Tube by police who wrongly believed he was a suicide bomber. When he heard of the death, he thought co-defendant Hussain Osman had been killed. Brave Islamic Lion [not] willing to butcher the innocents but yet so afraid to die himself..
Omar, from New Southgate, North London, was arrested by armed specialists from West Midlands Police who broke into his safe house on July 27. He was woken by "something like a robot making a lot of noise", he said, and was found standing in the bath, fully clothed and wearing a rucksack. LOL, trembling no doubt.
"I thought if I was wearing a bag they would have to think twice and ask what I had got in there - then I would have had a chance to explain," he said. Omar claimed he was shocked with a Taser stun gun several times, hit with a rifle butt, punched and dragged across the floor. more revolting pics of the perps at the link.. RD
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Omar claimed he feared the same fate as Jean Charles de Menezes, the Brazilian shot and killed on the Tube by police who wrongly believed he was a suicide bomber.
It is only by accident that the putative forces of law and order strike fear into the enemy. Only. By. Accident. And of course the kunting left will not shut up about it.
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These gutless bags of scum operate the same wherever they sneak around. If British don't have the sense to stop the madness of burka bags and veils (masks) they deserve more of what will be inevitable. Why stand for such attrocities from the Pak Muslim dogs ?
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Hang him and the rest of the scum involved from Tower Bridge - the top part, not the lower part. That way, every muslim in Britain can see what awaits them if they don't stop this sh$$. Make sure it's a big rope, well-tied, so it doesn't break his neck, but he slowly chokes to death. Make death painful for him, just as he made death painful for quite a number of totally innocent victims.
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It always tickles me o see the total BS between the noise these mutss make about their faith and being the lions of islam and the absolute cowardice they display in every operational way. Hiding behind women and children, backshooting, snitping , no uniforms, remote detonations, attacks against defenseless civilians, torture and murder of helpless prisoners....nothing even remotely noble or honorable about them except their lying propaganda bulls**t. Gutless except when in a group or armed against helpless people. God I detest these mutts. When people talk about the moderate muslims, remember them support, at least passively, most of these cowardly acts with money and sanction. This is a clash of civilizations and we need to wake up! Since we won't, bad thing will happen before the bloodbath comes, and it will not be pretty to see.
Suspected militants targeted music shops with explosive devices on Friday, damaging around two-dozen outlets in two different places, local police said. The attacks on the music shops came a week after the suicide attack on Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao Khan, which left 28 people dead. No loss of life has been reported in the attacks on the music shops, a senior local administration official told Daily Times.
Twenty shops were destroyed in the two explosions. The explosions took place late Thursday night after the shops had closed, the official said. Police managed to foil a third blast in Koroona Station where the interior minister was attacked. No group has claimed responsibility for the two blasts but letters from suspected Taliban have warned local shopkeepers against continuing their businesses. The shopkeepers have been given till April 27 to wind up their businesses or face the consequences following issuance of the letters on March 23, the official said. Law and order across NWFP has deteriorated in the past year, bringing the ruling Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal government under criticism from the federal government. However, the provincial government alleges that federal security agencies are responsible for the Taliban-style incidents.
Agencies add: The first explosion occurred in Tangi after midnight and damaged nine shops. A few hours later, a second explosion occurred in Charsadda, wrecking one shop and causing less damage to several others, according to Associated Press. The Charsadda explosion also damaged a house that was near the CD shops. Wajid Afridi, who runs a mobile phone shop in Charsadda, said that after the bombings, many shop owners had put up posters proclaiming that they would no longer sell musical ring tones for fear of attacks from the militant extremists.
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Why do they hate music? Oh, I forgot, they are muzzies trying to muzzle everyone. What was I thinking?
Seven soldiers were injured when an unidentified man hurled a hand grenade at their convoy in Mir Ali Bazaar in North Waziristan on Friday, security officials said. Someone lobbed a hand grenade when the convoy of several vehicles going to Razmak from Bannu reached Mir Ali Bazaar at 11am, the officials, asking not to be named, told Daily Times, adding that the wounded soldiers had been admitted to a hospital in Bannu where the condition of two soldiers was serious. Witnesses told Daily Times that the soldiers did not retaliate and that no one had seen the person who had thrown the grenade. In a separate incident, masked gunmen shot and killed the driver of the Miranshah tehsildar in an apparent target killing, officials said. The officials, asking not to be named, told Daily Times that driver Asal Mir was washing the tehsildars car when masked car riders opened fire on Mir, killing him instantly. It seems to be a target killing because Mir did not have enmity with anyone, said the officials.
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The situation in Najaf returned to normal this morning after militiamen retreated without resistance reportedly obeying an order from Sadr. This wasn't the type of the usually exciting stories from Iraq but I'm pleased with the way it ended.
If it's true that Sadr gave that order, I think it's not because he's trying to be nice but perhaps because he's beginning to realize that his militia can't afford open confrontations with government and coalition forces. Having the ability to deter thugs from making trouble is better than having to fight in order to end the trouble. "Cling to Liberty and right; battle for them; bleed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God." Dr. Phineas D. Gurley paraphrasing Abraham Lincoln.
Omar and Mohammed,
I believe this to be a major turning point in Iraq. One of several that must be achieved. Congratulations to the Iraqi Police and Armed Forces, supported by the coalition of many nations on the ground, for this victory over Sadr. Leader of one of several diabolical agencies known in the past for seeking to disregard your elected government. But now are choosing cooperation.
The prospect of peace is brightly opening upon your torn and bleeding country, and through the support of free nations, support as strong and enduring as the sun, the attainment of a triumph, the fruits of which shall be wide spreading throughout the middle east, the fruit of free young men and women around the world who came to Iraq, who, with millions of Iraqis, did not lose faith, but through long suffering, energetic industry, faith in a true and just God, are bringing the dawn of a new and beautiful day of freedom to the people of your nation.
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i think in gangsta he would be preferred as bitch
not with them teefs
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With their minds full of hate and their heads full of sand
Tater's Tots know their duty by the holy Koran.
They're not afraid (don't back down, don't back down)
Not his boys (don't back down, don't back down)
They don burkas, they don't back down
Don't back down
You gotta be a little nuts
Don't back down
But show 'em now all your guts
Don't back down
Don't back down from the US Army.
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By all accounts young master Sadr actually is stupid, FeralCat. The only measurement by which he matches up to his father is that they both have (ok, Sadr, Sr. had, before he died) one X and one Y chromosome. ;-)
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I would be advertising extensively to the people of Iraq that Sadr (the soon to be toothless bi+ch) has backed down. The more he is seen to be the coward he is, the better.
Best part is the end -
Lynch pointed out that many of the divisions soldiers are serving in their second or third tours in Iraq and, he said, they know why theyre there.
You know, I don't get complaints, the general said. Even (from) the soldiers here on their third deployment, I don't get complaints, because they know it's duty first. What I get is, Man, I miss my family, just like I miss my family. That's why we've got to work very hard to take care of the families and ensure that they communicate with their soldier -- husbands or wives -- who are deployed. My kid called his Mother once a week, from Anbar, on a sat phone provided by the Marines. Usually about 2 am. Only time Mother never bi+ched about being awakened!
As important as the work is and as willing as the divisions soldiers are to do the work, Lynch said, they know its going to be tough. The work here is important work, but it's going to take some time, and it's going to take some patience, he said. We're going to have good days, and we're going to have some not-so-good days, but it's just so important, the accomplishment of this mission, because I don't want my kids or my grandkids to be afraid to go to school, go to work, or worship at their place of worship. And that's why we're fighting this fight here. But Harry and Nancy have to get relected, to hold their positions of power. That's more important to them.
Kennedy (left, in pic) and Kerry (right) have been quiet, of late.
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Clashes erupted between rival Shi'ite militia groups in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood on Friday, when one militia launched an attack on the other's headquarters, police said. The violence between the Mahdi Army loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and the Badr Brigades of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq began earlier Friday when Iraqi police loyal to the Badr Brigades prevented a Sadr aide from entering the southern Shiite holy city of Najaf.
This article starring:
Badr Brigades
MUQTADA AL SADR
Mahdi Army
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Mahdi Army
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A parked car struck a Shi'ite mosque in the southern city of Hillah on Friday, killing at least five people and wounding nearly three dozen, police said. The blast occurred just after 9 p.m. near a market outside the mosque, provincial police said, giving the casualty toll.
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Good, kill your own, leave us alone.
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Belgian police held a Palestinian minister on board his plane on Friday after Dutch authorities withdrew his visa to attend a conference in the Netherlands, Dutch authorities and conference organizers said.
Youth and Sports Minister Bassem Naim, a Hamas member, arrived in Brussels on a flight from Egypt after being granted a visa by Dutch authorities in Tel Aviv. But he was prevented from disembarking by 10 Belgian police, said Majed al-Zeer, director of the London-based Palestinian Return Center and one of the organizers of Saturday's conference on Palestinian refugees. "What happened on the flight was the humiliation of the Palestinian people," Zeer told The Associated Press. "He was not even allowed to go to the toilet."
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BASEM NAIM
Hamas
MAJED AL ZIR
Palestinian Return Center
Palestinian Return Center
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A whiff of sanity from the Dutch.
"What happened on the flight was the humiliation of the Palestinian people,"
Brace yourselves for Dire Revenge.
"He was not even allowed to go to the toilet."
It was for his own safety. The toilet might understandably have mistaken Naim for a turd and swallowed him on the spot.
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Queer how the Tel Aviv embassy/consulate granted the gentleman a visa, but the home office revoked it. I hope it's because they were playing bait'n'switch, I fear it's because the diplomatic people on the ground have gone native in the wrong direction -- because everybody who's anybody is anti-Zionist, my dear.
The IDF confirmed on Friday evening that three fugitive Islamic Jihad members had been killed in a firefight with an elite Border Police unit near Jenin earlier Friday evening. None of the border policemen were wounded, although one of their vehicles was damaged by gunshots. The police also found and confiscated two M-16 rifles, Army Radio reported.
The exchange of fire began after the police entered the village of Silat al-Hartiya on a routine arrest operation and encountered resistance. Palestinian operatives present in the area at the time said they witnessed the exchange of fire between soldiers who had surrounded a house and three Islamic Jihad members located inside. Palestinian security sources said they knew of an exchange of fire in the village but had not been informed of any casualties.
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Debka, so salt and 48-hour rule in place. It sounds plausible tho.
DEBKAfile Exclusive: al-Qaeda-Palestine demands for BBCs Alan Johnston $5 m cash, 10 Muslim terror conspirators jailed in Britain, an al Qaeda woman bomber.
For $5 million bucks, they can buy their own damn ponies.
The bomber on the list of demands for the release of the BBC reporter kidnapped 53 days ago is Sajida Mubarak al-Rishawi, the female would-be suicide bomber held in Jordan after her explosive vest failed to detonate in al Qaedas attacks on Amman hotels Nov. 9, 2005. Sixty people were killed, 115 injured in that coordinated round of bombings. Most of the Muslim terrorists demanded of Britain are of Pakistani origin.
It is the first time that a Palestinian group has held out for the release of terrorists jailed in countries other than Israel. DEBKAfiles military sources report that conditions in Gaza have become so hazardous that Egyptian intelligence minister Gen. Omar Suleiman has quietly asked the Israeli prime minister and defense minister for permission to deploy two Egyptian military companies in Gaza City to protect the Egyptian embassy and military mission. This is an extreme measure. Granting the request would bring Egyptian troops back to the Gaza Strip for the first time since 1967. For the moment, Israels leaders have been too busy fending off war criticism to deal with it.
The generals of the Egyptian military mission handle the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas and Fatah factions, including the elements holding the Israeli soldier Gilead Shalit who was kidnapped eleven months ago. The Egyptian officers spend their nights in Israeli hotels in Ashkelon or Tel Aviv as it is too risky to sleep in Gaza. Suleiman wants to make sure they are not ambushed and kidnapped on the road.
That the al Qaeda-Hamas kidnappers are not afraid to come out in the open and identify themselves as the abductors of Johnston and Shalit further bespeaks the breakdown of authority in the Gaza Strip. DEBKAfiles military sources note that no one seems capable of arresting the plunge, neither the Palestinian government, the Israelis, the Egyptians, the Americans, the British or the Europeans, even though the last four maintain a presence in the chaotic Palestinian territory
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We will take him back for $5, nothing more. Hell, we will even go up to to 5 Eureos, if you have no faith in the dollar. Take it or leave it.
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PIMF. Eureos, Hah! I meana Euros.
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I was wondering if that was the European version of the Oreo, AP.
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"I've got a deal for ya, paleoswine. You return Johnson and the Israeli soldier you hold captive, give us $20million and all the Christians in paleo-occupied territory, and we WON'T blow away every living being in paleo territory, including camels and goats. You've got one hour. The clock is ticking..."
(Now, if someone - anyone - just had the balls to carry through...)
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YNET NEWS > HAMAS-PRC promise to work agz US Paleo-Israel "benchmark" peace proposal; +
PALEOS SWEAR LOYALTY TO OSAMA BIN LADEN AND AL-QAEDA + HEZBOLLAH READY FOR WAR AGZ ISRAEL AGAIN. Re-manned, re-located, and re-armed.
Five people, including two Muslim children, have been killed by suspected Islamic rebels in separate attacks in Thailand's violence-torn south, police said Saturday.
A group of militants ambushed a motorcycle late Friday and shot dead a 45-year-old Muslim man and his two children -- an 11-year-old girl and a seven-year-old boy, in Yala, one of three Muslim-majority provinces.
Also in Yala, a 37-year-old Muslim man was hacked to death by militants in public view at a market late Friday, police said. They also found the body of a man in a river in the province. While the case was still under investigation, police suspected he was a victim of Thailand's three-year insurgency in the south bordering Malaysia.
Police said several hundred Muslim women and children also blocked a highway in Yala Saturday as they continued their sit-in for the third consecutive day to demand authorities release suspected militants. Some 20 kilometres (12 miles) away from the sit-in, hundreds of Buddhists also took to the streets, demanding the Muslims end the road blockade.
Separately, two schools in Yala were burnt down on Friday, the latest to be targeted in a wave of attacks on schools and teachers seen as symbols of the government in faraway Bangkok.
In a related development Thai Army Commander Gen. Sonthi Boonyaratglin said Saturday that the foreign ministry will coordinate with British authorities to verify a report about a terrorist threat in Bangkok. 'We will have to take precautionary measures whether there is any grounds to the report or not, he told reporters.
Assistant Army Commander Gen. Saprang Kanlayanamitr said Thursday that British officials had uncovered plans to stage terrorist attacks in Bangkok. He provided no specific information about the alleged plans.
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At least 13 civilians were killed in a bombing raid by US-led forces battling the Taliban, an Afghan official said on Friday, bringing to 70 the number of such deaths reported this week. The rising toll of civilian casualties will put further pressure on President Hamid Karzai, who warned this week of serious consequences for all if the bloodshed did not stop. 
Three bombs were recovered from a spot only 100 yards from Chuadanga Railway Station yesterday. Police are examining whether the recovered bombs have any similarity with the bombs that exploded recently in Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet, according to the UNB. Security has been beefed up here following the recovery of the bombs. Train passengers as well as the local people got panicked with the recovery of the bombs.
The intelligence agencies are now examining if the latest blasts bear any links to the three groups.
A man accused of detonating a bomb on a London Underground train told a court yesterday how he fled the capital disguised in a burka. 
Clashes erupted between rival Shi'ite militia groups in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood on Friday, when one militia launched an attack on the other's headquarters, police said. The violence between the 
Belgian police held a Palestinian minister on board his plane on Friday after Dutch authorities withdrew his visa to attend a conference in the Netherlands, Dutch authorities and conference organizers said. 
The IDF confirmed on Friday evening that three fugitive Islamic Jihad members had been killed in a firefight with an elite Border Police unit near Jenin earlier Friday evening. None of the border policemen were wounded, although one of their vehicles was damaged by gunshots. The police also found and confiscated two M-16 rifles, Army Radio reported. 
