Militia loyal to the minister of disarmament and rehabilitation of militias Botan Isse Alin with six of battle wagons surrendered to RRA (Rahanwein Resistance Army) in Bur-hakaba district of Bay region in southwest Somalia on Saturday four days after they were defeated in clashes in northeast Mogadishu in which Islamic courts captured key positions from anti terror alliance. Local officials in Bur-hakaba said militia of Botan Isse who is member of anti terror alliance has reached the town and gave up to the officials. They were about dozens militiamen with six vehicles known as ‘Technicals’
Reports say the militia was heading to Baidoa town, temporarily capital of the transitional federal government to join the government. RRA militia is reported have to gone to Burhabka to escort the militia of anti terror alliance. Sources close to government officials say the arrival of militia in Bay region came after Botan Isse Alin made telephone contacts with top government officials and complied with the call of the Prime Minister Gedi to rejoin his cabinet in Baidoa.
Mr. Botan Isse whose the last whereabouts was Jowhar is said himself to be heading to Baidoa and backed out of the alliance. Botan Isse who is member of the alliance for restoration peace and counter terrorism (ARPCT) is reported have acknowledged that he had lose in the latest battles with Islamic courtsÂ’ union in the capital and then decided to leave for Biadoa, where the TFG is based after it shifted from Jowhar, a town controlled by Mohamed Dhere and some 90km of the capital.
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"Militia loyal to the minister of disarmament and rehabilitation of militias Botan Isse Alin"
Militia of Islamic courts is reported to have taken the control of other main positions from anti terror alliance in fierce battle in northeast outskirt of the capital Somalia, killing fourteen militiamen from both sides on Saturday. Reports say. The militia of Islamic courts' union seized three key positions including formerly military camp Hilweine, El-Irfid and Aliyale villages alongside the road to Balad town of middle Shabelle region, sources confirmed. “Fierce gun battle is going on around formerly Hilweine military camp near Balad town of middle Shabelle region, with both rival sides are exchanging artillery gunfire, machine-guns, assault rifles and RPGs” witnesses told Somalinet.
People in the battle area began to flee as the fighting intensified late on Saturday. The latest battle follows clashes erupted in northeast villages of the capital last week in which Islamic militiamen took the control of main positions from militia of warlords. However two hundred militias loyal to minister of disarmament and rehabilitation of militias Botan Isse Alin with 15 battlewagons reached in Baidoa town 250km southwest of the capital later today. Baidoa, is the temporarily capital of the transitional federal government.
The militia themselves said they have decided to join the government since their positions have captured by Islamic courts in the capital. The acting-minister of interior and minister of agriculture Mohamed Nor Shati Gadud and chief commander of Somali forces Ali Madobe have welcomed the militia to Baidoa. It is the first time militia of anti terror alliance defected to Baidoa since its establishment on 18 February 2006.
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The terrorist threat facing Britain has developed into a "covert conspiracy" involving hundreds of men and women living ordinary lives in the nation's suburbs, security sources have revealed. Unbeknown to their families and friends, they form a silent 1,200-strong "army" of terrorists. They are believed to be involved in at least 20 major plots that they hope will bring death and destruction to Britain. The scale of the problem facing the security services is underlined by the fact that MI5, which planned Friday's raid in Forest Gate, east London, has only 2,600 staff - and yet is faced with an increasing workload, including organised crime, in addition to the growing threat from international terrorism.
I'm available to help, at relatively modest rates...
Mohammed Abdul Kahar, 23, and Abul Koyair, 20, the two brothers arrested after the dawn raid may, according to MI5, be typical of other young Asian men who have become disaffected with the Western way of life and have been radicalised by militant Islamists who support a global Jihad. According to neighbours, the brothers underwent a transformation after the September 11 attacks on America in 2001, adopting beards and more traditional Muslim dress. "Lots of young Muslims these days are getting more religious, especially after 9/11," said one neighbour. "It's nothing to be suspicious about."
Sure it is. In fact, if I was the British government, I'd think seriously about dumping the guys with the beards and the curly-foed slippers.
Schoolfriends of Abdul Kahar last night recalled him as a typical teenager. "Everyone changes," said one friend, who asked not to be named. "He's now deeply religious and prays five times a day."
And collects explosives.
The brothers regularly attend two local mosques, al Karam Trust on Katherine Road and another in Plashet Grove.
Comes as a surprise, doesn't it?
"They have become active in the area in trying to get people to go to the mosques," said Mohammed Akram, the vice-chairman of the Muslim Alliance of Newham. Abdul Kahar has recently been on a pilgrimage to Mecca.
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...by militant Islamists who support a global Jihad.
I sometimes think we should give them maybe two weeks of their "global Jihad". Everything we've got vs. everything they've got. No holds barred.
After the two weeks, call time out and see what they think of global Jihad. If there's any of them left.
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"Lots of young Muslims these days are getting more religious, especially after 9/11," said one neighbour. "It's nothing to be suspicious about."
This comment gives lie to the "moderate muslim" meme. It is clear indication that the so-called moderates have no intention whatsoever of outing the radicals in their midst. Unfortunately, it will ultimately be at their peril as if forces the whole muslim community to suffer. If you are not part of the solution then you are part of the problem.
Two Kurdish militants were killed during clashes with the Turkish army in southeast of Turkey Saturday, two days after two Turkish soldiers were seriously wounded in a land-mine explosion. An official statement said Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) militants clashed with the Turkish forces in Bingol province. It added the Turkish army sent reinforcements to the area.
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Eight people were seriously injured on Saturday when a bomb that was placed infront of a shopping center in Mersin exploded. Ihlas news agency quoted a Turkish police source as saying that the blast occured in one of the crowded streets in the city of Mersin. The source said that the injured were rushed to nearby hospitals and are in stable condition. "We condemn this repulsive act ... those who committed it will be arrested and brought to justice as quickly as possible," Provincial Governor Huseyin Aksoy told the Anatolia news agency.
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Brampton, Ont. — Members of an alleged homegrown terror cell appeared in a Brampton courtroom Saturday to face chargers they plotted to attack Canadian targets in Southern Ontario. In a series of raids Friday, police arrested 12 adults and five young offenders.
In the process, they seized enough ammonium nitrate fertilizer to build an explosive device three times more devastating than the one used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. "This group presented a real and serious threat. They had the capacity and intent to carry out a terrorist attack," said RCMP Asst. Commissioner Mike McDonell. "Our investigation and arrests prevented the assembly of explosive devices and attacks being carried out. At all times, the focus of our investigation was the safety and protection of the public," he added.
Fifteen of the 17 accused were ushered into the Brampton, Ont. courtroom shackled in leg irons and surrounded by an awesome show of police force. Security was tight with police snipers watching from positions on the roof, while tactical officers carrying M16 assault rifles and MP5 submachine guns patrolled the ground. Bomb-sniffing dogs were on hand. Spectators were scrutinized at a series of three command checkpoints. Anyone allowed inside the court was required to remove their shoes and demonstrate that any equipment they carried was what it appeared to be.
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Ottawa — Statement by Prime Minister Stephen Harper regarding terrorism-related arrests of 12 men and five youths, all from Ontario:
"This morning, Canadians awoke to the news that our law enforcement and national security agencies have arrested 17 individuals for terrorism related offences.
"These individuals were allegedly intent on committing acts of terrorism against their own country and their own people.
"As we have said on many occasions, Canada is not immune to the threat of terrorism. Through the work and co-operation of the RCMP, CSIS, local law enforcement and Toronto's Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET), acts of violence by extremist groups may have been prevented.
"Today, Canada's security and intelligence measures worked. Canada's new government will pursue its efforts to ensure the national security of all Canadians."
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Harper in the nick of time. Can he hang on through another election?
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Currently holding at 38% approval - down a bit in the last month. This should help, except in Ontario, where the Public Employees Union has voted to boycott Israel and support Hamas.
We've a long, long way to go to educate the left in this province. Raging idiots.
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Affraid not, gromgoru. 1,300,000,000 x 10% = 130,000,000.
Why 10%? Some Soddy princeling in an interview a while ago opined that the radical muslims are a "tiny minority, about 10%". So, there you have it. I would suspect the number is somewhat higher as it was in his interest to minimalize the problem, but he probably knew that putting the number lower may seem like he is spewing a PR BS. Or, maybe it's "radical" from Soddy princeling's POV.
TORONTO - A Canadian counter-terrorism investigation that led to the arrests of 17 people accused of plotting bombings in Ontario is linked to probes in a half-dozen countries, the National Post has learned. Well before police tactical teams began their sweeps around Toronto on Friday, at least 18 related arrests had already taken place in Canada, the United States, Britain, Bosnia, Denmark, Sweden, and Bangladesh. The six-month RCMP investigation, called Project OSage, is one of several overlapping probes that include an FBI case called Operation Northern Exposure and a British probe known as Operation Mazhar.
Perhaps the arrest in Britian just the other day?
At a news conference Saturday, the RCMP announced terrorism-related charges had been laid against a dozen Toronto-area men and five teens under the age of 18. The group “took steps to acquire components necessary to create explosive devices” including three tonnes of ammonium nitrate fertilizer, commonly used in terrorist bombs, police said.
That's an awful lot of fertilizer. I've got a brother-in-law who used to work in the Murrah Building. He retired, his last day was 16 days before the bombing. His office isn't there anymore.
By comparison, the truck bomb used to blow up the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168 people, contained a single tonne of ammonium nitrate. “It was their intent to use it for a terrorist attack,” RCMP assistant commissioner Mike McDonell said. “This group posed a real threat. It had the capacity and intent to carry out these attacks.” Police declined to identify the intended targets because the investigation is ongoing but said they were all in southern Ontario and did not include the Toronto transit system, as some media outlets had reported.
How 'bout the Toronto CN Tower? Awfully prominent, huge target.
As senior RCMP and Canadian Security Intelligence Service officials spoke to reporters, some of the evidence seized during police raids was displayed on a table guarded by police officers. The materials included a bag of ammonium nitrate, a handgun and ammunition clip, computer hard drive, and what appeared to be a cellphone activated electronic detonator hidden inside a small black fishing tackle box. Police also displayed bags of camouflage clothing and boots apparently seized from a camp north of Toronto that some of the members of the group had allegedly used for combat training.
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I purchase a tonne and a half of fertilizer every spring for purely agricultural purposes. Local Co-op keeps a list.
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“They are very conscious of the fact that this is a small group of criminals and they don’t reflect the vast Muslim community in Toronto.”
Reflect? No.
Illuminate? Yes.
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That's an awful lot of fertilizer.
Yes and no. In agricultural use you would, for example, use perhaps 125 pounds per acre on a wheat field. At that rate, three tons wouldn't be enough to fertilize 50 acres though it's certainly a lot in the hands of would-be terrorists.
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True but it would be frighteningly easy for them to buy a few acres and amass great quantities of the stuff in a manner that would keep them under the radar. Good thing for us they're so dumb.
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This doesn't surprise me. Your average moderate Muslim isn't going to be out on the streets protesting terrorists, thereby painting a target on himself. Every time you hear of Muslim terrorists getting busted, the odds are that it was a Muslim informant of the same ethnic background as the perps who infiltrated into their circle and obtained incriminating recordings of their activities.
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Your average moderate Muslim isn't going to be out on the streets protesting terrorists, thereby painting a target on himself.
They should be, regardless of the danger it puts them in. Silence is consent, particularly when their selected leaders are hip-deep in the jihadi ethos.
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RC: They should be, regardless of the danger it puts them in. Silence is consent, particularly when their selected leaders are hip-deep in the jihadi ethos.
Were you out on the street protesting the Oklahoma City bombings? Was there any personal danger to you? You didn't march, did you? What if all your friends and relatives threatened to disown you if you marched? What if people you knew threatened to kill you? The fact is that as many Muslims hated the US before 9/11 as after 9/11. Ditto for Iraq. Most of these Muslims are toothless. It was bin Laden and his terrorist pals who attacked us. Not those other Muslims. And a significant number of Muslims have chosen to help us, at considerable risk to their personal safety, since it's obviously not Irish or German Americans who set up many of these stings. It would not do to lump them in with the rest.
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Were you out on the street protesting the Oklahoma City bombings?
Why should I have? Nothing I've ever said or done could be construed as support for it. Unlike the Muslims who pump cash into "charities" that fund bombers, who appoint jihadi scholars to the boards of their mosques, who stand silent as their mosques distribute pamphlets calling the kaffir apes and pigs.
I don't doubt that a small number of Muslims are helping against the jihadis. It's the vastly larger number who quietly support jihad that bother me.
What if all your friends and relatives threatened to disown you if you marched?
And judging by this statement, you're perfectly aware that those against jihad are vastly outnumbered by those who support it, actively or tacitly.
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RC: Why should I have? Nothing I've ever said or done could be construed as support for it.
And the moderate Muslims have done nothing to support it either. The radicals that the press trots out as "moderate" Muslims, don't represent actual moderates any more than the media's choice of the Westboro Baptist Church represents mainstream Christians. Iraqis are encountering terrorist attacks despite the presence of 130,000 US troops whereas we are not because there are tens of thousands of Muslims in Iraq who want to kill Americans, whereas there are almost none among the millions of Muslims in this country. If someone wants to kill a bunch of people at random, there is nothing in the world that can stop him - just look at Charles Whitman and Columbine. The fact is that Muslim Americans aren't a bunch of stone killers. Right after 9/11, this wasn't 100% clear. After almost five years, it is crystal clear.
Prime minister and the stinking ladies
Famous historian Dr Safdar Mehmood wrote in Jang that Pakistan’s lady prime minister, after coming to power, ordered that she would go to offer umra with a planeload of her lady party loyalists. A big party landed in Saudi Arabia but when the ladies along with the prime minister were separated and made to pray in close proximity to each other in front of the mausoleum of the Prophet (pbuh) in Madina the prime minister called the protocol officer and told him to get her out of the place because ‘she could not stand the stink of the ladies.’
Palmist says Iran invasion is on
According to Khabrain Lahore’s famous palmist Majeed Salimi predicted that America will invade Iran in 2006 and that President Musharraf would remain safe. He said that the government will make a deal with the PPP and that there was ‘foreign hand’ involved in the Nishtar Park blast in Karachi. And that Nawaz Sharif will not return to Pakistan.
Dead men who stink
Humour columnist Ataul Haq Qasimi in Jang referred to a man who was recently reported as having announced his own death in Qasur. Daud son of Jani got onto a mosque loudspeaker and informed the people that he had died at the age of 45 and would be buried by one Mistri Feroz after namaz janaza. When people gathered outside the mosque the man fled after scaling the back wall of the mosque. Qasimi wondered that while a living man was announcing his death, those literary persons who had actually died in the brain were scared of announcing their deaths. They were actually cadavers of Urdu literature who had started stinking.
Murtaza feared Benazir will kill her!
Quoted by Sunday Express veteran politician Mumtaz Bhutto stated that Benazir Bhutto accused him of inviting Murtaza Bhutto back to Pakistan. He told her that he was in fact opposed to Murtaza coming back when she was in power but could not get him to agree not to return. She accused him of getting Murtaza back in Pakistan to make the brother fight his sister. Mumtaz said he had asked Murtaza to meet his sister but he said that she was too dangerous (khatarnak aurat) who would kill him if he went near her.
Proud son who stabbed German editor
Daily Pakistan reported in the following way the incident of a Pakistani boy stabbing the editor of Die Welt publication in Germany for printing objectionable material against the Holy Prophet (pbuh): the proud self-respecting son of Wazirabad paid the price of his enslavement to the Holy Prophet (pbuh) when he stabbed the German editor of Die Welt and was caught and sent to jail. He had gone to Germany for higher education and now Europeans were investigating his family background in Wazirabad.
Bad law against wedding meals
Columnist Nazeer Naji wrote in Jang that he was personally against spending heavily on weddings but the law against wedding meals was a bad law since it actually widened the gulf between the haves and the have-nots, forcing them to do illegal things and practice hypocrisy to avoid being nabbed by the police. On the other hand the police were tough on the poor but blind to the grand weddings of the rich. Also the law was against the economy.
Zardari killed Murtaza!
Daily Express magazine quoted Mumtaz Bhutto as saying that only Asif Zardari could have ordered the killing of Murtaza Bhutto. He was not killed in an encounter with the police; he was arrested and then taken to a predetermined place and shot dead. Benazir could kill her sister because she was a cruel woman who could drag her mother out of the house of her son and keep her like a prisoner in her old age. No one knew if Nusrat Bhutto was alive or not in the custody of her daughter.
Sherry can be ‘Sherni’
Sarerahe stated in Nawa-e-Waqt that everyone was changing their media managers. Ms Bhutto changed her appointee Taj Haider for Sherry Rehman who was Sherry but could become Sherni for the media. Nawaz Sharif had got rid of loud-mouthed Siddiqul Farooq for a more polished Ahsan Iqbal. Sheikh Rashid had lost his information portfolio because he had displeased both prime minister Shaukat Aziz and PML chief Chaudhry Shujaat – and perhaps also Punjab governor General Khalid Maqbul.
Our villain, their hero
Writing in Jang Javed Chaudhry stated that in 1971 a Pakistani pilot, Rashid Minhas, was about to take off in his fighter plane when his Bengali instructor Motiur Rehman jumped in and gave chloroform to him to make him unconscious. After that Motiur Rehman flew close to the ground to avoid the radar and tried to take the plane to India, but Rashid woke up and pulled the plane down and crashed it, thus ‘killing’ the instructor and ‘martyring’ himself. When Bangladesh prime minister Khalida Zia visited Pakistan this year she demanded the remains of Motiur Rehman as he was one of the seven recipients of Bangladesh’s highest bravery award. Rashid Minhas was posthumously given Pakistan’s highest bravery award.
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those literary persons who had actually died in the brain were scared of announcing their deaths. They were actually cadavers of Urdu literature who had started stinking.
Famous historian Dr Safdar Mehmood wrote in Jang that Pakistan’s lady prime minister, after coming to power, ordered that she would go to offer umra with a planeload of her lady party loyalists. A big party landed in Saudi Arabia but when the ladies along with the prime minister were separated and made to pray in close proximity to each other in front of the mausoleum of the Prophet (pbuh) in Madina the prime minister called the protocol officer and told him to get her out of the place because ‘she could not stand the stink of the ladies.’
Benazir Bhutto? What? she perfers the Stank of Fat Arab males?
* Dead men who stink
They were actually cadavers of Urdu literature who had started stinking.
Stinky Nuggets, it's not just for Ramadan this year.
* Proud son who stabbed German editor
He had gone to Germany for higher education and now Europeans were investigating his family background in Wazirabad.
Bad seed, Bad religion and way Bad Bad neighborhood!
Indian security forces on Saturday killed an area commander of the Hizbul Mujahideen (HM) group in Doda district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. The United News of India, quoting Indian Army spokesman, said the militant was killed in clashes with security men. One AK 47 rifle, two magazines and 60 rounds of bullets were recovered from him, the agency reported.
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:-) a nice sunday apertif!
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Unidentified militants attacked Saturday two ambulances, killing and injuring several people including an infant in the Diyala Province. A Interior Ministry statement said the militants set off a bomb as an ambulance passed by heading from Al-Miqdadiyah town to Baquba's center. A pregnant woman who was taken to delivery, two other women, and two men were in the vehicle that was heading to hospital, the statement added. The pregnant woman was seriously injured forcing the medics to perform the delivery at the scene of the incident, but the militants attacked another ambulance that came to rescue the newborn and his parents, leading to his death and the injury of others.
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boy howdy, if this isn't a fitting battle victory for the Lions of Islam™; Warriors of the Desert™, then I don't know what is....maybe a chemical weapons attack at a Special Olympics?
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Perhaps I'm just ignorant, but has anyone dug up the "reasoning" behind this attack? Perhaps it's a cultural thing because the reporter didn't bother to go into any detail on it. Perhaps the reporter doesn't know either?
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2b: Sort of. It's half rhetorical, but I'm curious to know if even other muslims understand what's going on. Maybe someone has seen something that makes this "make sense", for lack of a better phrase. :-(
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Make sense?
Are you sure you have the right war?
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Doesn't everyone know that shia women have tails? So its not like they are aware. Most be in the Koran somewhere.
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I'm sure this will get as much media coverage as the alleged Marine shootings, right? Heh.
Every minute spent hand wringing on the missteps of the Coalition forces and every minute of disinterest in what is the enemy's MO just confirms that they are willing participants in the war on the other side.
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Where is Joe Burns of the NYT now? Is he more concerned about racing to scream about his self-titled "Mei Lei of Iraq" to win a Pulitzer, or reporting the truth?
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GRB,
The Jihadi book on how to take over the world is called the "Management of Barbarism". The whole point is to destroy existing society and replace it with one run by Sharia. Once society has been reduced to complete chaos, everyone will be happy for any kind of order what-so-ever. Kind of like the Taliban in the 90s.
Al
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The whole point is to destroy existing society and replace it with one run by Sharia.
just like communism. No need to get pessimistic. They can't win. We've already routed AQ, no matter what the MSM tells you. Western civilization has aready corrupted them with ideas of democracy, freedom of speech and women's rights, mirth and frivolity, and we'll have fuel cells before you know it.
Perhaps. But you think they'd be more than willing to just blow everything up. For the most part, what I've seen in the news aligns with their view of sharia law, such as blowing up schools because girls are supposed to grow up barefoot and pregnant. But this is beyond the pale, beyond explanation by any kind of sharia law that I've ever heard of (which isn't much!). They can't be making any friends even among fellow muslims. So why do it? Perhaps they paid a bunch of thugs and they got carried away? Doesn't seem like that because it was too coordinated.
2b: I've always thought Bush's ulterior motive was just to install an example of democracy in the middle of the middle east and let everybody kind of watch over the fence and get the idea "for themselves" :-) The rest is window dressing. It's also a good example of how far we are willing to go to help the poor ba$tards if they really need it. That can't go unnoticed forever. These people are very social and word will get around eventually, no matter what the mullahs tell them to think. Hard to ignore the elephant sitting quietly in the corner of the living room! Most of AQ's guys are young, and the fighters are getting younger buy the week it seems. They even have to resort to blackmail and bribery to get some dumb young people to pull off these attacks.
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Radical Islam is doing everything and anything violentand horrific as they can to induce America to attack and invade Syria-Iran and elsewhere. Attacking Sunnis, Shias, Iraqis and Non-Iraqis, Muslims and Non-Muslims, etal. even going after Russki diplomats. Attacking Police and Soldiers = wiping out the local Daycare, Women, Schools and Hospitals, etc. MADMOUD > ANY ATTACK BY ISRAEL ANDOR AMERICA-ALLIES AGAINST IRAN [and by extens Other(s)]JUSTIFIES IRANIAN-SPONSORED OR ALIGNED TERROR STRIKES AGAINST ANY ANDOR ALL. IMHO these Radics are busting their blood veins waiting or trying to force Dubya, America, and Israel to militarily respond to them.
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"They can't be making any friends even among fellow muslims. So why do it?"
It's called TERROR! It exists as its own reason. Doesn't make sense to you or I, but no one has ever claimed that Arab/Jihadi thought was based in logic or sense.
Gunmen killed a member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), which is led by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, in Kirkuk, northern Iraq, on Saturday. A PUK source told KUNA that the assailants were riding a vehicle when they opened fire at Delshad Othman Abdullah, member of the PUK's Kirkuk committee. Police have launched an investigation on the assassination.
Meanwhile, Iraqi police said they found a body in northern Kirkuk while gunmen kidnapped an Iraqi civilian south of the city. A police source told KUNA that a dead man in his mid thirties was found lying on the street on Kirkuk-Dibs road. The man's body had received several shot wounds to his head and shoulder. Separately Iraqi farmer Amid Mohammed Jumaa was kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Bashir village southern Kirkuk, the source added.
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A booby-trapped car blew up in a crowded bazar in the southern city of Basra on Saturday killing at least 15 civilians and wounding 30 others, witnesses said. They said the explosives laden vehicle went off in the crowded Al-Hamzah popular market in the old sector of the city. This is the second incident of this kind in the city since more than a year ago.
Basra car bomb death toll rises to 21, 80 injured The death toll from the booby-trapped car explosion in Basra has risen to 21 deaths and 80 injured, a source from the Iraqi interior ministry said Saturday. The Iraq's southern city has recently been witnessing deteriorating security situation which forced Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki to declare an emergency in the city for a month.
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Two Iraqis were killed and two dead bodies were discovered in Mosul city Northern Iraq, said a security source on Saturday. The source told KUNA that unidentified gunmen shot dead two Iraq citizens and injured three others in Karama neighborhood in Mosul. The source added that two dead bodies were discovered west of Mosul today.
Meanwhile, a policeman was injured on the line of duty when insurgents shot him in the university area of the city.
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Gee, I never heard of getting shot in the University area?
Is it somewhere near the nuts?
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A source from the Iraqi ministery of defense said Saturday that Russian diplomats who were taken hostages earlier today have been released and their kidnappers were arrested south of the capital, Baghdad. The source, who asked not to be identified, said in press remarks Iraqi military forces were able to track the vehicles of kidnappers from the Al-Mansour district to their hideouts southwest of the capital. The source added information on the kidnappers' vehicles were provided by residents in the same area of where the abduction took place.
The source also added Iraqi security force raided the hideout and rescued hostages and arrest the kidnappers. The source did not mention anything about the condition of the hostages nor details of the operation. Earlier, unidentified gunmen kidnapped four Russians said to be workers at the Russian embassy and killed another in an armed attack carried out in broad daylight in the capital.
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Seems like this was cleaned up mighty quick. What gives?
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Look North for a major source of funding and training for Iraqi terrorism. Putin's crowd has been looking payback since Afghanistan. This crowd of kidnappers didn't get the memo. That's why they went down so fast.
Iraqi police on Saturday found eight severed heads north of Baghdad with a note indicating at least one of the men were killed in retaliation for the slaying of four Shiite doctors, authorities said. Five of the slain men were security guards at a hospital complex in the capital who had been arrested by Iraqi police on Thursday, Lt. Col. Adil Al-Zihari of the Diyala police said.
Notes found with the heads near a highway in the Hadid village near the volatile city of Baqouba, 60 kilometres northeast of Baghdad, said one of those killed was Abdul Aziz al-Sheik Hamad and accused him of killing four Shiite doctors and a former governor during the administrator of former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi. The heads were transferred in fruit boxes to the morgue in Baqouba, a mixed Sunni Arab-Shiite town that has recently seen an increase in sectarian violence.
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IDF artillery forces bombarded the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday morning after two Kassam rockets launched from the strip landed in Sderot earlier in the morning. One of the Kassams landed directly on a car and another landed on a pedestrian walkway. No one was wounded, but several vehicles were damaged in the Kassam attack.
On Wednesday, four Kassam rockets landed in the Western Negev with two striking homes in Sderot, one landing in an open field and the fourth landing inside the nearby kibbutz of Or Haner. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attacks.
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A senior member of Hamas' military wing was shot in the chest in a drive-by shooting early Saturday, Palestinian security officials and Hamas officials said. The shooting came amid growing tensions between the radical Islamic Hamas government and Palestinian security forces dominated by the rival Fatah party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
The man, Abdel Hadi Siyam, 35, was taken from the hospital to a Hamas clinic for security reasons, a Hamas spokesman, Abu Obeidah, said. Siyam, who is wanted by Israel, was fired at in the same neighborhood two months ago by Palestinian security forces, but escaped injury, Hamas said. Palestinian security sources said Siyam is a cousin of Palestinian Interior Minister Said Siyam of Hamas, but Hamas officials would not confirm any relationship.
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It has become much clearer since the ascendency of Hamas in the elections what is actually meant by a "two state solution".
The Fatah movement of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas deployed a new militia in the streets of the West Bank town of Jenin on Saturday in a show of force against the Hamas government. The new unit, which Fatah officials said numbers 2,500 members, is the movement's answer to a new militia of 3,000 Hamas activists that the government deployed last month over Abbas' objection. The presence of a new Fatah militia, on top of the official security branches that the movement dominates, ratchets up tensions between Fatah and Hamas that have already erupted in deadly violence and raised the specter of all-out civil war. Hamas spokesmen weren't immediately available for comment.
More than 2,000 members of the new unit gathered in Jenin on Saturday morning wearing black T-shirts emblazoned with "Special Protection Unit" on the back, and a photo of the late Yasser Arafat on the front. Some 60 to 70 were armed with assault rifles, and several dozens carried pistols.
A Fatah leader in Jenin, Ata Abu Rmeileh, said the aim of the force was to back the official Palestinian security branches. "You are here to protect your people and the Palestinian Authority institutions," Abu Rmeileh exhorted the force over a loudspeaker at the local high school where it gathered. "We are loyal to our people, not like those who have sold themselves to Arab and non-Arab capitals," he said, in a thinly veiled reference to Hamas, which is supported by Syria and Iran.
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Fatah reservists.
The order of battle in pali land is more complex than the white/red Russia armies.
Vicious ethnic gang violence and arson attacks continued for a fourth consecutive day in Dili yesterday, forcing Australian and Malaysian troops to conduct sweeping raids and seize weapons.
Witnesses said more than a dozen homes were torched in the city's worst hotspot, the western suburb of Comoro, in a continuation of violence that erupted on Saturday afternoon.
Automatic gunfire, tear gas, rock throwing and the torching of houses saw Australian and Malaysian troops race into the village of Tuti, largely inhabited by Lorosae, or easterners, after a clash with villagers from the nearby hamlet of Beto Timur who are mostly Loromonu, or westerners.
Troops from the 2200-strong international force deployed to quell unrest in the capital conducted door-to-door searches.
With Australian Black Hawk helicopters circling overhead and Australian army M-113 armoured personnel carriers clattering by on the main road, Malaysian troops patrolled the narrow streets of the suburb. Many houses appeared to have been abandoned weeks earlier and many had been looted.
And while the troop presence allowed firefighters to work on extinguishing flames, gang members easily vanished in back alleys and continued looting and arson attacks minutes after the soldiers had moved on.
The latest violence came as the Fretilin central committee held an emergency meeting to consider the crisis, amid demands for the resignation of Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri. The party holds government and Dr Alkatiri is its secretary general.
Held under tight security provided by Australian troops, the meeting continued late into the afternoon at the committee's headquarters. Dr Alkatiri said he was aware of plans for a demonstration outside his office today, "which I don't object to, so long as it is peaceful".
The last mass protest against Dr Alkatiri, a month ago, left at least six people dead, and further clashes since last week have claimed about 30 lives, including those of 12 unarmed Timorese police shot dead by military personnel.
There were reports yesterday that the UN had ordered its staff not to co-operate with an Australian Federal Police investigation into that incident.
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer, who visited Dili at the weekend, refused to be drawn on whether Dr Alkatiri should remain as head of government, as a power struggle continued between the Prime Minister and President Xanana Gusmao, but said East Timor's crippled administration needed to resolve its internal problems.
Mr Downer's trip included an emotional meeting with Xanana Gusmao, in which the East Timorese President was visibly upset at the suffering of his people.
Opposition foreign affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd confirmed yesterday he would visit East Timor today at the invitation of the Government.
Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta, who has assumed responsibility for the country's strife-torn military after the resignations of defence minister Roque Rodrigues and interior minister Rogerio Lobato, flew by helicopter yesterday to visit several key players in the unrest, including absconded military police major Alfredo Reinado.
Dili's descent into anarchy has largely been the result of conflicts between gangs of youths, often fuelled by alcohol.
At least three men were detained yesterday, including the village head of Tuti, but four more armed men escaped a follow-up raid by running from the immediate area and hailing a taxi at gunpoint.
Villagers who remained in Tuti after the military sweeps said the four, who between them were carrying at least two firearms, shouted at the taxi driver that they would shoot him if he did not give them a ride.
The villagers also accused the Australian and Malaysian troops of being heavy-handed and failing to stem the violence, and of making their entry to the village from only one point, allowing the suspects to escape.
"The ones who have guns, they return as soon as the foreign troops are gone," said one villager, Joao Naro. "We cannot sleep at night for worrying. The Australians should establish a permanent guard here."
The foreign peacekeeping troops have not yet fired a shot but they are also hampered by having to respond to ad-hoc situations with no clear target.
A bomb exploded in a video shop belonging to a Palestinian in Ain Al-Helwa Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon, Lebanese security sources said. The shop was destroyed, and so had some of the neighbouring shops, the sources added. Ain Al-Helwa camp is the largest among 12 Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, with 65,000 living in it. The camp has been witnessing clashes between security forces pro and against the Palestinian Authority.
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They were watching pr0n and their heads exploded?
I can't visualize a "refugee camp" with a video store. I would instead visualise a ethnic Paleo neighborhood in a city or town. Not Tents in the desert. So why can't "Journalists" use the correct term unless they have an agenda?
I ordered my shirt. I'll wear it on the 4th of July.
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Syrian state-run media on Saturday implicitly blamed a militant attack in Damascus on the United States, Israel and their regional supporters. Security forces fought Islamic militants near the Defense Ministry Friday in a gunbattle that left four militants and a police officer dead, the government said. Six insurgents were captured, including two who were wounded. Two policemen also were injured.
"What happened in the heart of Damascus is a practical translation of the American-Israeli threats. Targeting Syria is still an official policy of the U.S. administration, the Tel Aviv leaders and some weak-willed people who have sold themselves for evil in exchange of a handful of dollars," the state-run daily Tishrin said in an editorial.
Because everyone knows the Zionists are in cahoots with Islamicists to overthrow the rightful, peace-loving government of Assad.
Syria's official news agency, SANA, said all 10 militants in Friday's attack were "takfiris," or Sunni Muslim extremists who declare non-radical Muslims to be infidels.
Sure sounds like Americans, don't it?
Security forces have had occasional shootouts with Islamic militants in the Syrian capital. Militants in some previous clashes belonged to Jund al-Sham, or Soldiers of Syria, which was formed in Afghanistan by Syrian, Palestinian and Jordanian militants with links to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the head of al-Qaida in Iraq.
Obviously a Zionist front. And Zarqawi is a CIA plant. Pass it on.
SANA said police seized 10 U.S.-made assault rifles and several country-made homemade bombs. Tishrin said the rifles were an implicit U.S. and Israeli threat to the country, "as if it was meant to send an urgent message to the leadership and the people of Syria to realize the dangers of ... confronting projects that are hostile to Syria and the Arab nation."
The rifles might be a threat to Baby Assad, true ...
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Syria's official news agency, SANA, said all 10 militants in Friday's attack were "takfiris," or Sunni Muslim extremists who declare non-radical Muslims to be infidels
You mean sorta like Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka? Gee, we all got fleas. Welcome to the club.
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Assad is blowing smoke, and he knows it. He knows that if we attacked, his a$$ would be in small pieces, along with half his city. George Bush doesn't take half-steps. The Israelis would have bombed Damascus to the point it looked like Balbek. What a loser.
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Madonna's lyric "In your hand" = PRAVDA, etal. "Foreign Hand"??? And there's the Sword-bearing Archangel of the now-public Third Secret of Fatima, ready to destroy half or most of the earth like a person slicing an apple in two. You are there, with famous apples from the 1960's. THe traumas and cataclysms wrought by the ANgel is still far better than iff God put the minutae earth and universe in his one hand - once the Big Guy closes his hand, ITS OVER FOR EVERYBODY REGARDLESS OF BELIEF. D *** YOU, GABRIEL, I KEEP TELLING YOU TO SHINE THAT SWORD WITH SILVO, NOT BRASSO. SAY IT WID ME, GABRIEL, LIKE CHARLES KAUTHAMMER ON FOX, "S-I-L-V-O" NOT BRASSO!?
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FW, I make it "Rantburg Scimitar and Times Picayune" Great title, and it might already be America's best read newspaper.
Though "The Daily Fred" would work, too.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Militia loyal to the minister of disarmament and rehabilitation of militias 
Militia of Islamic courts is reported to have taken the control of other main positions from anti terror alliance in fierce battle in northeast outskirt of the capital Somalia, killing fourteen militiamen from both sides on Saturday. Reports say. The militia of Islamic courts' union seized three key positions including formerly military camp Hilweine, El-Irfid and Aliyale villages alongside the road to Balad town of middle Shabelle region, sources confirmed. “Fierce gun battle is going on around formerly Hilweine military camp near Balad town of middle Shabelle region, with both rival sides are exchanging artillery gunfire, machine-guns, assault rifles and RPGs” witnesses told Somalinet. 
The terrorist threat facing Britain has developed into a "covert conspiracy" involving hundreds of men and women living ordinary lives in the nation's suburbs, security sources have revealed. Unbeknown to their families and friends, they form a silent 1,200-strong "army" of terrorists. They are believed to be involved in at least 20 major plots that they hope will bring death and destruction to Britain. The scale of the problem facing the security services is underlined by the fact that MI5, which planned Friday's raid in Forest Gate, east London, has only 2,600 staff - and yet is faced with an increasing workload, including organised crime, in addition to the growing threat from international terrorism.
Two Kurdish militants were killed during clashes with the Turkish army in southeast of Turkey Saturday, two days after two Turkish soldiers were seriously wounded in a land-mine explosion. An official statement said Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) militants clashed with the Turkish forces in Bingol province. It added the Turkish army sent reinforcements to the area.
Eight people were seriously injured on Saturday when a bomb that was placed infront of a shopping center in Mersin exploded. Ihlas news agency quoted a Turkish police source as saying that the blast occured in one of the crowded streets in the city of Mersin. The source said that the injured were rushed to nearby hospitals and are in stable condition. "We condemn this repulsive act ... those who committed it will be arrested and brought to justice as quickly as possible," Provincial Governor Huseyin Aksoy told the Anatolia news agency.
Brampton, Ont. — Members of an alleged homegrown terror cell appeared in a Brampton courtroom Saturday to face chargers they plotted to attack Canadian targets in Southern Ontario. In a series of raids Friday, police arrested 12 adults and five young offenders. 
Ottawa — Statement by Prime Minister Stephen Harper regarding terrorism-related arrests of 12 men and five youths, all from Ontario:
TORONTO - A Canadian counter-terrorism investigation that led to the arrests of 17 people accused of plotting bombings in Ontario is linked to probes in a half-dozen countries, the National Post has learned. Well before police tactical teams began their sweeps around Toronto on Friday, at least 18 related arrests had already taken place in Canada, the United States, Britain, Bosnia, Denmark, Sweden, and Bangladesh. The six-month RCMP investigation, called Project OSage, is one of several overlapping probes that include an FBI case called Operation Northern Exposure and a British probe known as Operation Mazhar. 
Prime minister and the stinking ladies
Unidentified militants attacked Saturday two ambulances, killing and injuring several people including an infant in the Diyala Province. A Interior Ministry statement said the militants set off a bomb as an ambulance passed by heading from Al-Miqdadiyah town to Baquba's center. A pregnant woman who was taken to delivery, two other women, and two men were in the vehicle that was heading to hospital, the statement added. The pregnant woman was seriously injured forcing the medics to perform the delivery at the scene of the incident, but the militants attacked another ambulance that came to rescue the newborn and his parents, leading to his death and the injury of others.
Two Iraqis were killed and two dead bodies were discovered in Mosul city Northern Iraq, said a security source on Saturday. The source told KUNA that unidentified gunmen shot dead two Iraq citizens and injured three others in Karama neighborhood in Mosul. The source added that two dead bodies were discovered west of Mosul today.
A source from the Iraqi ministery of defense said Saturday that Russian diplomats who were taken hostages earlier today have been released and their kidnappers were arrested south of the capital, Baghdad. The source, who asked not to be identified, said in press remarks Iraqi military forces were able to track the vehicles of kidnappers from the Al-Mansour district to their hideouts southwest of the capital. The source added information on the kidnappers' vehicles were provided by residents in the same area of where the abduction took place.
Iraqi police on Saturday found eight severed heads north of Baghdad with a note indicating at least one of the men were killed in retaliation for the slaying of four Shiite doctors, authorities said. Five of the slain men were security guards at a hospital complex in the capital who had been arrested by Iraqi police on Thursday, Lt. Col. Adil Al-Zihari of the Diyala police said.
IDF artillery forces bombarded the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday morning after two Kassam rockets launched from the strip landed in Sderot earlier in the morning. One of the Kassams landed directly on a car and another landed on a pedestrian walkway. No one was wounded, but several vehicles were damaged in the Kassam attack. 
A senior member of Hamas' military wing was shot in the chest in a drive-by shooting early Saturday, Palestinian security officials and Hamas officials said. The shooting came amid growing tensions between the radical Islamic Hamas government and Palestinian security forces dominated by the rival Fatah party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. 
The Fatah movement of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas deployed a new militia in the streets of the West Bank town of Jenin on Saturday in a show of force against the Hamas government. The new unit, which Fatah officials said numbers 2,500 members, is the movement's answer to a new militia of 3,000 Hamas activists that the government deployed last month over Abbas' objection. The presence of a new Fatah militia, on top of the official security branches that the movement dominates, ratchets up tensions between Fatah and Hamas that have already erupted in deadly violence and raised the specter of all-out civil war. Hamas spokesmen weren't immediately available for comment. 
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Syrian state-run media on Saturday implicitly blamed a militant attack in Damascus on the United States, Israel and their regional supporters. Security forces fought Islamic militants near the Defense Ministry Friday in a gunbattle that left four militants and a police officer dead, the government said. Six insurgents were captured, including two who were wounded. Two policemen also were injured.
