(SomaliNet) A bomb was thrown at a police station in north of Somalia capital Mogadishu overnight killing one soldier, local official confirmed on Thursday the attack came as north part of the capital still under curfew.
The attack happened in Huriwaa neighborhood in north of Mogadishu where unknown gunman attacked the police station with a hand grenade bomb apparently causing the death of one police officer and wounding others. It was heavy explosion that rocked the area, sending a thick smoke cloud in the sky but we could not come out because of insecurity, local resident told Somalinet. The attacker escaped unharmed.
Soon after the bomb blast the police opened fire on the attacker killing one civilian and wounding five others. The civilian person was killed by stray bullets fired by the police in response to the attack. The security forces searched the area of the blast arresting 20 people linking with the bomb attack.
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(SomaliNet) One soldier on Thursday was confirmed dead and two others were wounded when a big explosion rocked Bulo-Gadud village on the suburb of the Somalia southern port city of Kismayu, 500km of the capital. Witnesses told Somalinet that the explosion was caused by a rocket propelled grenade that accidentally exploded inside the army compound.
Bulo-gadud, some miles away of Kismayu is a base of clan based government soldiers who involved in the recent clashes in the city and it is feared that these soldiers might again launch an attack to recapture the port city.
Sucks to live in a failed state, huh?
Local residents in Bulo-Gadud grew more concern over the insecurity in their village following the clashes of rival clan militias within the government. Killing, raping and robbing are rampant in the Somalis southern region of lower Juba after the withdrawal of the Ethiopian forces from the region. Rival clans are challenging for the control of Kismayu, the provincial capital.
Boy howdy those AU peacekeepers are doing a great job.
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A Spanish court on Thursday upheld an indictment against three U.S. soldiers in the death of a Spanish journalist in Iraq, rejecting an appeal filed by national prosecutors. Spain's National Court had filed the indictment in April, charging the three American soldiers with homicide and a crime against the international community - defined under Spanish law as an indiscriminate or excessive attack against civilians during war time.
The national prosecutors' office challenged the indictment last week, arguing that the firing of a tank shell that killed TV cameraman Jose Couso in April 2003 had not been a crime, but rather an accident of war. Judge Santiago Pedraz - the same judge who issued the April 27 indictment - threw out the appeal on Thursday. In Spain it is investigative magistrates, rather than prosecutors, who file criminal charges. In Thursday's ruling, Pedraz said the three Americans had used indiscriminate and excessive force when they opened fire from their tank at Baghdad's Palestine Hotel, where many journalists including Couso were staying.
Pedraz said there was no evidence of a sniper or a spotter at the hotel, and that even if there had been a spotter, the firing of a 120-millimeter caliber tank shell would have been a devastating and disproportionate response. "The collateral damage that would be produced was predictable, that is the death and injury of those staying at the hotel," Pedraz said. Pedraz has issued several arrests warrants against the three soldiers, but the United States has said it would not hand them over. The soldiers still run the risk of arrest under a Spanish-issued international warrant should they travel to any country that has an extradition accord with Spain.
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FU Spaniard turncoats. These guys should have a medal for eliminating journos from the battlespace. I keep waiting for a video posting of a JDAM direct hit on an Al-Jiz transmission van with the warbler on the mike standing out front taking the shock wave before everything fades to black.
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Pandering to the anti-US crowd. In the end this pointless since those three sodies will enver step foot on Spanish soil.
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This is mind-boggling, a justice court arguing about a "disproportionate" response in wartime. So, to kill a sniper and or a spotter, you must use a rifle, presumably of the same caliber? And perhaps read him his right before? Fire warning shots? Incredible. And completely futile : empty gestures and moral posturing.
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If we had a legislature or administration, there could be some fitting response: harsh meeting with the Spanish ambassador, suspension of joint training and exchanges, cancellation of any port calls, suspension of visa waiver for Spanish nationals - and I'd tell State I want four more high-profile measures as options, so identify them. A civil suit against the agency employing the deceased photographer would be good (basis? since when did the court system in the US operate on the basis of reality or common sense?)
What, you say that this would unfairly punish a country that is not hostile to us, or damage our relations even when the national govt. is trying to quash this outrage? Hmmm. No sale. Anyone with a brain in Spain knows the merits in this case, and raising the price for the arrogant and outrageous behavior of this despicable "judge" will only reinforce the lesson.
But, alas, we have no congress or administration at the moment, so ....
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In the end this pointless since those three sodies will enver step foot on Spanish soil.
They won't be going to Spain, that's true. However, there is still a danger if they were reassigned or transit any EU country.
The soldiers still run the risk of arrest under a Spanish-issued international warrant should they travel to any country that has an extradition accord with Spain.
I think that's any EU nation, correct?
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"...and raising the price for the arrogant and outrageous behavior of this despicable "judge" will only reinforce the lesson."
Alas, this country doesn't seem to have much stomach for making anybody pay a price for anything anymore-- whether an idiot Spanish judge laying bogus criminal charges on our soldiers, or Mookie and his band of orcs, or the Mad Mullahs, or the lying Leftist propagandists in the media, or Democrats bent on fucking up the war, the Casper Milquetoast in the White House gives them a pass.
This is what Bush 41's "kinder, gentler America" has reaped.
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The US could put an end to this in 30 seconds - just say that due to Spain's "unprecedented" behavior, the US will withdraw from NATO in 30 days, and remove all US Forces from Germany, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, and Portugal, unless unilateral reciprocal treaties replace the NATO treaty. The US has several active military installations in Spain. Withdrawing from them would be difficult, but not impossible. Relocate those bases to the Portuguese Azores Islands and Eastern Europe, where we would be welcome. Pull that $3-$4 Billion the US spends in Spain every year, and spend it somewhere with fewer stupid people.
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Coll a bit please. Judge Pedraz is Spanish equivalent of 9th circuit. He is nuts and every one knows it. And on last resoprt he depends on the executicve to have his rulings enforced...
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Pedraz has shown he has no judgement - the Spaniards should demand his removal. Barring that, hardball politics. We demand removal of Spanish embassies and ambassadors. Recall our own. Time to rethink any military/political exchanges
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Pedraz said the three Americans had used indiscriminate and excessive force
So they come to Spain for ... what? A show trial? The judge has already said they're guilty. So get on with the sentencing, dildo-breath! Quit posturing, unless you want to run for Congress.
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We can play Bullshit too.
Make up some charge against the judge and present the warrant to the Spanish Ambassador on TV.
HOUSTON: A Pakistani student was convicted on Thursday of federal firearms charges after he was arrested for taking part in exercises that prosecutors said were held to train Muslim men to fight US troops overseas.
Syed Maaz Shah, a 20-year-old engineering student at the University of Texas at Dallas, was arrested for firing weapons during two camping trips last year. Shah was indicted on two counts of possession of a firearm by an alien and two counts of alien in possession of a firearm affecting interstate commerce. Shah faces up to 10 years in prison for each of the two counts when he is sentenced on September 14.
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Just like the crew in NJ, who also had weapons and engaged in target practice. How long will it be before 3 or 3 of these doofusses go into a shopping mall and cut down 100 women and children ?
Get out your violins!
BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi special forces killed the leader of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia in the southern Iraqi city of Basra on Friday after he tried to resist arrest, the British military said. Spokesman Major David Gell said Abu Qader and at least one aide were shot shortly after leaving Sadr's offices in the centre of the city, the hub of Iraq's main oilfields. He said the operation was authorised by the Iraqi government.
A senior member of Sadr's political movement said their response to the killing would be limited to "political resistance".
"Please don't kill us too!"
Gell said British forces were braced for any violent backlash. He described Abu Qader as the leader of the Mehdi Army in Basra and said he was suspected of involvement in planting roadside bombs, weapons trafficking, assassinations and planning and participating in attacks against British troops.
He said the operation had been Iraqi-led with British troops acting as advisers. "During the arrest operation the targeted individual was killed ... after he resisted arrest," he said.
Almost like a .. cross-fire.
The senior member in Sadr's movement blamed British troops for Abu Qader's death. He said the militant leader had just left Friday prayers when British forces ambushed and killed him with two other Mehdi Army members. British troops have stepped up operations against Shi'ite militias in the city in recent weeks as they prepare to hand it over to Iraqi security forces.
#1
I really hope it was the Iraqi Special Forces that killed this bastard. It's pretty obvious that these c*nts won't give up until they get start f*cked by other Iraqis whom they know won't be leaving. Benchmark for when this war is won: the main media focus becomes "human rights abuses" of the Iraqi security forces. When this is the story, our troops can start coming home.
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The enemy is never gonna cave if we continue to allow a guy like tater to thumb his nose at us. I'll be a lot happier when I see the tater cell-phone hanging video.
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I suspect that this bird was an Iranian tool, and the rest of the Mahdi army are damn glad he is no longer in the picture. In fact, they probably ratted him out as a tool, on the assurance that the government wouldn't try too damn hard to take him alive.
Like they say in Mafia movies, "It's nothing personal, just business."
FALLUJA, Iraq - At least 27 people were killed and dozens wounded on Thursday when a suicide bomber in a car packed with explosives drove into a crowd of mourners at a funeral in Falluja, west of Baghdad, police said. The bomber targeted mourners in a funeral procession for Allawi Al Isawi, a local contractor in Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, who was killed earlier on Thursday, police officer Jamal Anfous said.
As mourners walked down a main street holding aloft Isawis coffin, the bomber drove into the crowd and blew himself up. A doctor at a local hospital, Ahmed Al Ani, said 27 were killed and more than 30 wounded.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack..
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While the funeral was for a Sunni leader who had fought Al Qaeda's presence, his being a Muslim in general makes it rather difficult for me to do more than fart in their general direction.
IAF plane hits car traveling in Gaza city, killing three and wounding five people. Hamas says fluffy bunnies its members were driving vehicle
An Israeli airstrike hit a car traveling in Gaza City, killing three and wounding at least five, Palestinian security and medical officials said.
The IDF confirmed the attack. Army sources said that the car attacked belonged to a cell which has been involved in Qassam attacks in the past, and was apparently on its way to launch rockets at Israel.
The sources added that the vehicle contained explosives that were detonated following the strike. The IDF stressed that it would continue attacking terror operatives linked to the Qassam fire.
An earlier airstrike had hit a Hamas training center south of Gaza City, destroying the compound and lightly injuring at least three, witnesses said.
The strike in Sajaiya came against the backdrop of intensive negotiations between the factions on a ceasefire with Israel. Ynet has learned that one of the options discussed was a unilateral declaration by one of the factions on a truce. However, in light of the recent attack, this proposal may not come into effect.
The Qassam fire continued Friday, and two rockets were launched at Sderot in the evening. One of the rockets fell near a house, lightly injuring four people. Ten other people suffered from shock.
The other Qassam hit a warehouse in the town's industrial zone.
Ali Waked and Shmulik Hadad contributed to the report
Israel carried out an air strike near the Gaza residence of Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas on Friday, but insisted he was not the target.
"We weren't targeting Izzy. Just someone who looked a whole lot like him."
"Haniyeh's home definitely was not the target," an Israeli army spokeswoman said. "There was an air strike on a structure used by the Hamas terrorist organisation in Shati refugee camp." Residents said a missile hit a caravan used by Hamas men guarding a street leading to Haniyeh's home in Gaza, wounding one person.
The Third International Conference on Mahdism Doctrine (Islamic messianism)
Call for Paper
".. are cordially invited [by the Bright Future Institute (BFI)
P.O.Box 371185-471 No 5 - 23rd Alley Safaieye St.
Qom Iran] to share with us their explicatory suppositions and deductions regarding the mores of Mahdism and its benefits, through their analytical articles."
...The institute shall undertake to pay for expenses (i.e. ticket and accommodation) relating to journey to Iran for those whose articles are accepted. We do not pay visa fees.
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"...see the light/ 10,000 times brighter than the day/ Oh Lord the pride of man/ broken in the dust again..."
For the Dar ul Islam, it is going to be the ghost dance all over again before this is finished. I hope my grand children will be able to handle the guilt.
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Scholarly papers solicited on Islamic Messianism (Madism)
Insurgents shot dead two Muslim teenagers in Yala's Muang district on Friday morning, police said. Doromae Tohtayong, 17, and Nuradin Malaheng, 16, were found dead on a roadside with their red motorcycle next to their bodies. Police said two insurgents began chasing them while they were driving the motorcycle. The insurgents opened fire on them, until they fell off the vehicle. They walked up to the two youths and shot them again as they lay on the road, presumably to make sure they were dead.
Insurgents shot dead a state officer in Yala on Thursday morning, police said. Surasak Pataru, 40, deputy tambon Noen Ngam administrative organization chief executive, was killed when he was traveling to a post office in Raman district. He was also a staff at the post office.
Pol. Lt. Jirayu Phurahong, a police officer in Raman district, said he learned of the shooting shortly after 10 a.m. He said he saw Surasak's body on a roadside when he arrived at the scene. According to initial report, insurgents gunned him down when he was driving a motorcycle to work this morning.
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I certainly hope so, but it'd be better to have some Rods from God in reserve, and if that does not do the trick, some bottled alpha. beta, gamma particles too.
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Not surprising at all. Look at the second half of the first sentence:
in spite of covert efforts by U.S. and other allied intelligence agencies to actively sabotage the country's nuclear program.
The message is that once again, the US and its allies are powerless and inept. Why can't we all just be friends?
I will never again hear "CBS News" without thinking "See B.S."
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CBS isn't the villain here. Well, they are, but it's irrelevant. Either there is someone inside State/CIA/whoever who is committing clear treason and should be revealed and hanged publicly, or CBS is being used as a patsy to spread stories the CIA (or whoever) wants spread for some reason. We'll probably never know which, because even if it is treason, those in authority don't have the ability/will to do the right thing about it.
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Given that this is coming out the day after ABC revealed we have a program to destabilize Dinnerjacket's regime, it might also be part of a series of authorized leaks intended to get him looking over both shoulders. You never know what you're looking at in a hall of mirrors.
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The message I take from CBS is this: "It's just not faaaaaiiirrrr that Iran can't have nuclear power and the whole rest of the world can."
(make sure you get just the right nasal whine when you say "fair".)
#7
This is no Manhattan project. It does not have any noble aspirations. These iranian islamists are wanting to have nukes for three reasons: to be used against the big satan (US) and allies), to be used against the little satan (Israel), and to be jingoistic in the mideast (be big cheese in islamoworld). CBS is a bunch of nutjobs if they are thinking of "fair" and Iran in the same sentence.
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Errrrm, methinks calls for public executions for treason are somewhat excessive here...
Breaking the article down
1) Iranians are paranoid as hell about sabotage anyway.
2) This paranoia is helping us to slow them down in any case.
As for me, I have to say that I find this whole strategy highly dodgy. The rumours are that much of their tech is based on flawed blueprints leaked by the CIA, (Democrat haters will be glad to know that you can blame Clinton for this one) where the flaws were found and corrected. My guess is that it was probably disgruntled Russian tech that fixed it, probably in revenge for Ronny's trans-Siberian pipe coup.
Not even going to mention the non-defective stuff that gets made in the West. Admittedly clamped down on since AQ khan, but still happens and you cant blame it all on Eu-ROP...
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This strikes me as a plant. In intelligence work, your biggest successes are created by really thinking things through first. It was described to me like this:
Write up 'plan A'", then when you have finished that, write up every possible reason you can think of why 'plan A' might not work. Then write up 'plan B', 'plan C', and so on, for the same mission, the same way. Let me know when you get to 'plan Z'.
"Why is that?"
So you can start work on 'plan AA'.
Now, the next guy, when he finishes his 'plan A', he should give it to you. Your job is to write up every flaw you can find in that plan.
Then pass 'plan A' to the third guy. His job will be to figure out, as if he was a bad guy, what he could do to screw up or neutralize the plan. Assume both that he stumbles on part of the plan, and that he discovers the entire plan.
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If they're following AQ Kahn's plans, their bombs probably will work about as well as little Kimmie's. I'm not even sure that pakiland's nukes would work if they were fired. Nukes are VERY fickle little beasties. I think it's unfair that we haven't shown them how they REALLY work - by dropping one on Qom.
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Aw, come on - the current administration isn't exactly known for being competent on intelligence issues. I say it's info being leaked by traitors. It's a much simpler explanation than Bush has plans within plans.
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Sources in several countries involved told CBS News that the intelligence operatives involved include former Russian nuclear scientists and Iranians living abroad. Operatives have sold Iran components with flaws that are difficult to detect, making them unstable or unusable.
However unreliable Russians may be, you can always rely upon being able to buy them. We really need to give Iran a "delivery" of highly unstable isotopes. Preferrably well-confined and at critical mass.
According to diplomats, getting the Iranians to believe that components may have been tampered with can be as effective in delaying the program as the real thing. But the diplomats also warn that with enough money and time, Iran's nuclear ambitions cannot be derailed by sabotage alone.
Yet, can these "diplomats" possibly bring themselves to recommend military action against Iran?
But, nooooooooooooooooooo! [/Belushi]
Given that this is coming out the day after ABC revealed we have a program to destabilize Dinnerjacket's regime, it might also be part of a series of authorized leaks intended to get him looking over both shoulders. You never know what you're looking at in a hall of mirrors.
Everything considered, this is probably a good thing. The more paranoid Iran becomes, the more their forward progress is interfered with. Spending time cross-checking plans and testing equipment is a real time dump. Now, magnify this by a huge factor because most Iranians don't know their ass from a hot rock isotope. Even if they have Russians helping them validate the plans and gear, how do they know whether those individuals are reliable? A "hall of mirrors", indeed.
All of this reminds me very little of the Soviet's space shuttle, "Buran". According to legend, in the 1980s the Russians came to town with the intent of getting all documentation on Americas space shuttle. NASA being a civilian agency, many of the plans are available through the GAO. Of course, critical plans for the propulsion, avonics and guidance are all classified, but that didnt stop the Russians. The story has it that the Soviets were fed intentionally altered plans bearing slight changes in wing dihedrals and other such vital but extremely difficult to verify properties.
Please note how Buran was an almost carbon copy scaled-down replica of our space shuttle. Also note how all its only mission was a single release during atmospheric flight for a dry landing. Given Russias history of disinformation, it was supremely ironic to see them spend billions of sorely needed rubles on a program that had no hope of succeeding.
Lets all hope that a similar situation confronts Iran today. There have already been rumors of crippling contamination in their gasification of uranium hexafluoride. This in turn fouls the centrifuges. The centrifuges themselves are balky and failure prone as well. They must be spun up in vacuo to supersonic velocities, much like an ultrafuge. Bad bearings, poor rotor balancing and other simple component issues can all cause catastrophic point failures. Having ill-educated Iranian technicians attempting to run such delicate equipment is like hiring a gorilla to be a watchmaker.
Compound all of this preparatory groundwork by a factor of 1,000 when it comes to assembling a nuclear device. Implosion lensing is a fine art, the shaping and physical density of each lens subassembly have to meet very precise tolerances and must match its siblings to near perfection. Then there are issues surrounding the exact timing of kryton switching and fast discharge capacitors required to detonate the lenses. Being a few milliseconds off in synchronization can fatally distort the implosion envelope and prevent arrival at critical mass. This may well have been responsible for North Koreas dud test. Even with perfect lensing, slight imbalances of isotope families in the devices core can prohibitively attenuate the resulting neutron flux and prevent proper nuclear fission.
Finally there is the issue of one point safe. Given the Muslim propensity for red wire blue wire difficulties, the notion of them being able to obtain rigidly controlled and reliable fusing for a nuclear device is almost hilarious. One point safe means that anything other than an intentional and authorized triggering of the bombs implosion has one in a million chances of succeeding. In many respects nuclear devices in the hands of head-banging Muslims presents more of a danger to them than to us.
Unfortunately, the near-psychotic nature of Islams followers still makes them a danger at all times. None of the above difficulties can be relied upon to permanently obstruct Irans progress. It remains a towering feat of willful ignorance in how the global community is capable of persuading itself that means other than military intervention can have a deterring effect on Iran. Only catastrophic disassembly of their nuclear apparatus will do.
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I think that these leaks are a way to express how we have tried everything, and they still proceed to attempt to build nuclear weapons, therefore..... and then the attacks on Iran commence.
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hey must be spun up in vacuo to supersonic velocities, much like an ultrafuge. Bad bearings, poor rotor balancing and other simple component issues can all cause catastrophic point failures.
So an earthquake would work wonders....
Paging.. Haliburton Earthquake Division...
Only if the gas centrifuges are operating at the time. Fortunately, we have stealth technology on our side. We must merely be sure to launch our attack during operating hours. Good thing it's likely that the centrifuges are operated around the clock. It only remains to ensure that the mullahs are decapped after the strike on Natanz et al.
Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Saniora vowed in an address to the nation on Thursday his government would kill uproot Islamic militants battling the army in a Palestinian refugee camp. "We will work to root out and strike at terrorism, but we will embrace and protect our brothers in the camps," Saniora said in a televised speech while lying through his teeth, insisting Lebanon has no quarrel with the 400,000 Palestinian refugees who live in the country.
His address came a day after the Lebanese defense minister issued an ultimatum to the Fatah Islam militants barricaded in the Nahr el-Bared refugee camp - many of whom are believed to be Arabs from other countries - to surrender or face a military assault.
Saniora said the Fatah Islam militant group holed up in the camp was "a terrorist organization that claims to be Islamic and to defend Palestine" and was "attempting to ride on the suffering and the struggle of the Palestinian people."
Saniora also said that Lebanon would never become the "playground" for international conflicts, a declaration that appeared aimed at Syria. I wonder what Sarko told him?
Saniora spoke after a senior Lebanese military official disclosed Thursday that troops on Tuesday had sunk two small boats carrying Islamic militants who were trying to flee a besieged Palestinian refugee camp via the Mediterranean sea. The official said all militants on the boats were killed, but did not specify how many died in the incident. Heh. Boatloads of dead jihadis. Sa-weeeet
He spoke under customary conditions of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media. I can say no more!
"They were trying to flee from the coast next to the Nahr el-Bared camp," the official said. "They took advantage of a lull in the fighting Tuesday and tried to escape," he said. "There were no survivors." Sighs contentedly.
The official said soldiers with heavy machine guns blasted the two rubber dinghies on which the militants were attempting to escape.
Never try to escape from a gunfight in a rubber boat.
Earlier Thursday, sporadic gunfire erupted inside Nahr el-Bared where Islamic militants are holed up after refusing an ultimatum by Lebanon's defense minister to surrender or face a military onslaught. Heavy usually means a .50, one of Brown's sweetest inventions ever.
Fighters from the al-Qaida-inspiredFatah Islam militant group barricaded in the Palestinian refugee camp vowed not to give up and to fight any Lebanese assault. It was not clear what sparked the shooting, as a truce appeared to be still holding since Tuesday afternoon. Half a dozen soldiers followed by an armored car and a light vehicle headed toward a forward army position at the camp's northern entrance.
Lebanon's government appeared to be preparing in case the showdown sparks violence elsewhere in the country. In a sign of the danger, a bomb exploded Wednesday night in the Aley mountain resort overlooking Beirut, a 90-minute drive south of Nahr el-Bared. The blast, which injured 16 people, was the third in the Beirut area since Sunday. So, the Jihadis have now hit the Druze as well as the Christians and Sunnis earlier, who just happen to all oppose Syria and Iran. Hmmmm
Police said all but two of the wounded had been released from hospital. Fatah Islam has denied unconvincingly responsibility for the bombings, but many Lebanese fear more blasts if the siege continues. Lebanon now has balls? WTF is going on here?
Splodydopes is what the Lions of Islam do best -- put them in a stand-up fight and they have problems.
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Lebanon has no quarrel with the 400,000 Palestinian refugees who live in the country.
No quarrel, but a death match nonetheless.
"There were no survivors."
Cardiac related cockle-like objects undergoing positive thermal transition.
The official said soldiers with heavy machine guns blasted the two rubber dinghies on which the militants were attempting to escape.
Old terrorists never die, they just get blasted the fuck out of a rubber dinghy.
Heavy usually means a .50, one of Brown's sweetest inventions ever.
Had the chance to fire a .50 BAR (Browning Automatic Rifle) on a Unimog black powder safari to Bodie, Nevada and beyond. It is exceptionally difficult to convey the immense satisfaction of being able to perform major landscaping functions with the twitch of a trigger.
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*giggle* But will it plant the impatiens that have been gathering -- well, dust isn't really quite the right word -- waiting impatiently for me to plant them in the designated pots in my garden?
#4
But will it plant the impatiens that have been gathering -- well, dust isn't really quite the right word -- waiting impatiently for me to plant them in the designated pots in my garden?
Nope, but it'll sure loosen the soil for ya!
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Channeling Ernie from Sesame Street:
"Rubber dinghy, youre the one,
We are fleeing and on the run,
Rubber Dinghy, were betting our lives on you
Bo-do-do de-do
Rubber Dinghy, youve got one flaw
You cant escape gravitys law
You take a round and down we go
Glub-glub-glub-de-o"
You may have noticed that we're a little slow these past couple of days. We've been under heavy attack from the usual sources. The mods have been handing Fred all manner of tools at his request, and we may need to take a Turkish truncheon to the firewall.
Be patient; we'll get things set. Sorry for the inconvenience.
The Mods
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Could we form a Rapid Action Battallion? I would love to see DoS attackers in "crossfires."
#2
can a spam replicator be installed so the 'attackor' becomes the 'attackee' and shuts his system down? the Senate uses a filibuster, it could be called the Fredibuster.
#3
Rantburg going to War? Mmmm, I like it. And I wouldn't worry about inconveniencing us, the fact you run this site at all is a great convenience. I think every single person who posts here can agree with that.
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Sorry for the inconvenience.
Do not dare to apologize. Your service to the online community is inestimable. All of us should be grateful, no matter the delays. As to the hackers, that is another matter entirely. Personally, I would recommend the Louisville Slugger barbed wire wound clue bat dipped in heavily salted 90-weight and rolled in shards of freshly broken glass.
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Jackal, a counter DOS wouldn't do any good if the enemy is using zombies, which I think is standard procedure. You'd just be hassling a lot of people's home systems and some businesses with sloppy IT departments.
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James, I wasn't talking counter-DoS. I was talking honest-to-Allah "crossfires." Of course I'm not serious. Am I?
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Don't apologize. It is what happens when the truth is told about Islam and the left. Keep up the good work and give me the coordinates of the IP. We might be able to have a missile "wander" off target....
#11
Fred, the gubmint taught me a lot of nasty things. If you ever need anything, just ask! Hey, I even know how to build a nuke! Gettin' it to work is another thing... As for target selection, you fly the recce and I'll supply the readout.
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James, I think you are referring to my post. And i really don't care if it hassles regular peoples' systems or 'sloppy I.T. departments;' it is slobs like that that allow all manner of viruses and spam to hit real honest folks.
nuke em all, i say.
IDAHO CITY -- Fourteen illegal immigrants were arrested and face deportation after being picked up at an Idaho City hotel. It happened late Tuesday night and now they're in the Ada County Jail. The men were working for a contracted employee of the U.S. Forest Service. They had been working for about 10 days, with one week left.
According to the Forest Service, the contracted employer is Cutting Edge Forestry Inc. out of Talent, Oregon. The contractor is required to turn over paperwork regarding their employees and then the Forest Service sends that paperwork to the immigration office. Its there that officials realized the men were in the country illegally.
Fourteen of Cutting Edge's 16 employees on the job site were arrested at the Idaho City hotel for not having proper documentation. The men were planting 500 acres of the forest, a portion of the 11,000 acres that burned in the Hot Creek Fire back in July 2003.
As spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement says they are focusing efforts on contracted employees since they tend to travel from job site to job site. The Ada County Jail recently contracted with the immigration office to detain illegal immigrants while they wait for deportation.
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Not the first time. Earlier this year, ICE busted a group of illegals working for at least one contractor - building military housing.
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This is nothing new. They've been found working in secure areas of several military bases, fergawdsakes. They have become like fungi, they're everywhere now. Years ago, as they over ran Cali + Tejas + Arizona, the rest of the states sat by smugly and didn't give a shit. Now that everyone is inundated, people are starting to get excited. Clue: Horse has left the barn.
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I bet you nobody up in Oregon that's not a Mexican would DARE to plant a forest. It's beneath them.
/sarcasm.
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My troop (both girl and boy) would do these replanting jobs and love getting out into the wilderness. It also taught them some good lessons unlike the youth of today that are spending their time in front of a computer watching the illegals do their work for them.
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IDAHO CITY -- Fourteen illegal immigrants were arrested and face deportation after being picked up at an Idaho City hotel. It happened late Tuesday night and now they're in the Ada County Jail. The men were working for a contracted employee of the U.S. Forest Service. They had been working for about 10 days, with one week left.
