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Last month I used the Amazon link to (try to) throw Fred some cash. But the charge on my credit card statement was listed as a "Red Cross Donation." Has anyone else had a similar problem? I'll try to get it fixed.
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Seems to me that napalm is still the best munition for dealing with incidents like this. Hard to hide from that when it covers the hillside. Time to bring it back.
People complaining about the use of Napalm, should be dipped in it and set on fire.
LANDIKOTAL: Afghan authorities on Wednesday deported six Pakistanis. The Afghan police had arrested Asfandyar of Peshawar, Ehsanullah of Charsada, Taj Gul and Hamid Gul of Shabqadar, Wahid Zaman of Mardan and Islam Shah of Peshawar in Kabul on suspicion. They were handed over to Pakistani authorities at Torkhum border on Wednesday. The deportees claimed that they were arrested despite having legal documents.
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BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan Coalition forces were engaged by anti-Afghan forces in Konar province on Tuesday during an operation that had been previously coordinated with Pakistan.
Coalition forces began receiving small-arms and rocket propelled grenade fire from an unknown number of anti-Afghan forces approximately 200 meters inside Konar province. Coalition forces returned fire in self-defense.
Shortly after the attack began, coalition forces informed the Pakistan army that they were being engaged by anti-Afghan forces in a wooded area near the Gorparai checkpoint. At that same time, an unmanned aerial system also identified anti-Afghan forces firing at coalition forces. In self-defense, coalition forces fired artillery rounds at the militants.
An unmanned aerial system identified additional anti-Afghan forces joining the attack against the coalition forces. While maintaining positive identification of the enemy, close-air support was then used by coalition forces to gain fire superiority until the threat was eliminated.
At no time did coalition ground forces cross into Pakistan.
The investigation of this incident is ongoing.
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Pakistan is whining that only Pak military were killed. Were any Taliban found among the dead? Were any of those riddled with Pak bullets?
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They probably were Pak military. Unfortunately, the shitbags were on video and clearly inside Afghanland. There were seven. They are complete martyrs. In fact, there are thousands of pieces martyrized. US did a superb, professional voice over on the video release. Once again, realtime video is the undoing of congenital liars like the Pak animals, Hussein, Hillarity, Pelooser, etc.
Four civilians and 17 Taliban were killed in an attack by US-led forces in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday, while dozens more rebel casualties were reported elsewhere.
Three women and a child were killed Tuesday when the US-led coalition targeted an insurgent hideout in Mata Khan district of Paktika province from the ground and the air, the force said in a statement. "Several militants were killed... Tuesday during a coalition forces operation to disrupt militant operations in Paktika province. The operation also resulted in four civilian deaths," the statement said. Another civilian was injured, it added.
The coalition did not give a specific number of militant casualties but a spokesman for the provincial government, Ghamai Khan Mohammadyar, put the rebel death toll at 17.
The coalition said one of the women was killed after the troops called in war planes to target militants who were firing on the troops from inside and outside the compound. "When coalition forces forcibly gained entry to the barricaded room, three Afghan women and one boy were wounded," it said, adding that the civilians later died from their injuries in a coalition medical facility.
The operation was launched against two "militant leaders," one of whom was involved in improvised bomb attacks on international troops while the other was facilitating "foreign fighter operations," the coalition said. "Several armed militants engaged the force from inside one compound and were killed with small-arms fire," it added.
In a separate incident early Wednesday, up to 60 Taliban militants were killed or injured when Afghan troops backed by NATO air support targeted them in the eastern province of Kunar, a provincial police chief said.
The Kunar police chief, Abdul Jalal Jalalm, could not specifically say how many rebels had died or were injured but, "according to information 17 bodies were taken to Pakistan."
"The Taliban had gathered in Sarkano district. We and the NATO forces targeted them from ground and air. About 60 Taliban were killed and injured," he told AFP.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed told AFP by telephone from an unknown location that nine rebels were slain, mostly in air strikes, but he said the movement also inflicted heavy casualties on the troops. His claims have proved to be exaggerated in the past.
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ISLAMABAD - Pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan's tribal region killed a woman on Wednesday accusing her of spying for US-led international forces in neighbouring Afghanistan, officials said. "The body of the woman was found on the side of a road in Inayat Kali area of Bajaur Agency," said an official in the semi-autonomous tribal district. "She had been missing since Tuesday and was believed to have been abducted."
The official said the woman had apparently been hanged.
The militants left two notes at the site that said the woman had confessed to "spying against the Taliban" and "running a brothel." Local Taliban spokesman Maulvi Omar confirmed the killing of the first female alleged spy in the tribal area but avoided claiming responsibility for the incident.
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"running a brothel."
Ah, the real reason: no free samples.
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Nope. The real reason---she only employed women.
(SomaliNet) Djibouti said on Wednesday that two Djiboutian soldiers were killed and 21 wounded when troops clashed with Eritrean forces along their border overlooking strategic Red Sea shipping lanes. After a nearly two-month standoff, the first fighting since 1996 between Eritrea and Djibouti broke out on Tuesday. Djibouti hosts French and U.S. military bases and is the main route to the sea for Eritrea's arch-foe Ethiopia.
Djibouti said the clash began after Eritrean soldiers deserted and the Eritreans fired on them, prompting return fire. A second outbreak came when Eritrean soldiers later demanded their deserters back. Eritrean officials declined to comment and there was no independent confirmation.
Fighting continued on Wednesday in the Mount Gabla area of northern Djibouti, Djibouti's Defence Ministry said. Also known as Ras Doumeira, it overlooks the strategic Bab al-Mandib straits, which are a major shipping route to and from Europe and the Middle East.
A Reuters witness at a French hospital in Djibouti said helicopters had ferried in dead and wounded soldiers.
In mid-April, Djibouti accused Eritrea of digging trenches and building fortifications on the Djiboutian side of the frontier. Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki told Reuters in a recent interview that was a "fabrication."
"Lies! All lies!"
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As I understand the sequence, Djibouti is nicer than Eritrea and Somalia is nicer than Djibouti but Yemen is nicest of all. It's a useful comparison of hairy, unshaven armpits.
(SomaliNet) Hours after rejecting a U.N.-brokered peace deal for the Horn of Africa nation, Somali insurgents killed five officers and one civilian in an attack on a Mogadishu police base, witnesses said.
Sources say that attack, and two other insurgent killings in Baidoa and Mogadishu, brought to about 40 the number killed in an increase in fighting since the weekend between allied Ethiopian-Somali security forces and Islamist-led insurgents.
Five bodies lay in the street after insurgents opened fire on Tuesday night at a police base -- a typical attack in an Iraq-style campaign of hit-and-run raids, bombs and assassinations, witnesses said. Somali Police confirmed the other fatality in that incident.
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Charges were finally pressed yesterday in the sensational August 21 grenade attack case against 22 persons including top Harkat-ul-Jihad (Huji) leader Mufti Abdul Hannan and BNP leader and former deputy minister Abdus Salam Pintu.
Investigators of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have found now that the only target of the attack was to assassinate Hasina. The arrested Huji leaders confessed to trying to kill her because she is "harmful" for Islam.
The development came after years of drama during the rule of coalition government led by BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami over investigation into the grisly attacks on an Awami League (AL) rally on Bangabandhu Avenue in 2004. The top brass of the then government had even said that the attack was not meant to kill AL chief Sheikh Hasina.
Investigators of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) have, however, found now that the only target of the attack was to assassinate Hasina as the arrested Huji leaders confessed to trying to kill her because she is "harmful" for Islam.
Although Hasina escaped with injuries, the attack left 24 AL leaders, including Ivy Rahman, and workers killed and 300 others injured, many of them maimed forever. An investigation was conducted under the direct supervision of Lutfozzaman Babar, state minister for home at that time, and 20 persons including a student, Shaibal Saha Partha, and AL leader and ward commissioner Mokhlesur Rahman were arrested. Interestingly, none of these arrestees who had to undergo a lot of harassment and tortures were found guilty in the latest investigation.
The present administration found that those confessional statements were obtained using force. The CID investigators and the supervising officer involved were found to have paid Joj Miah's family a few thousand taka monthly.
The drama got a twist with the government's claim about the "confessions" of Joj Miah, Abul Hashem alias Rana and Shafiqul Islam that a criminal gang carried out the attack. The present administration later found that as per the then government's desire those confessional statements were obtained using force. The CID investigators and the supervising officer involved were found to have paid Joj Miah's family a few thousand taka monthly.
The one-member judicial probe committee of Justice Joynul Abedin even pointed out a foreign "enemy" country's involvement in the incident. The charge sheet submitted yesterday has nothing in this regard.
Disclosing the content of the charge sheet at a press briefing yesterday, CID Chief Additional Inspector General Jabed Patwari said Huji top leaders planned and carried out the attacks to kill Hasina as a few arrested attackers said in their confessional statements that Hasina would harm Islam if she was alive and came to power again.
BNP leader Pintu is not involved with Huji but he has been charged since the attackers had held two meetings at his residence to take decision about the attack. "Pintu admitted that he heard about the meetings and saw the persons who went to his house for the meetings," the CID chief told the press at his office. Apart from Pintu all other attackers on the charge sheet are Huji leaders and activists.
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate AKM Enamul Haque accepted the charge sheet submitted at noon and issued arrest warrants against the fugitives. The court also ordered the authorities to discharge the arrested 20 persons made accused in the case earlier as investigators said they did not find their involvement and prayed to the court for clearing them of the charges.
CID Chief Jabed Patwari said although Joj Miah, Hashem and Shafiqul gave confessional statements, those had no basis and no corporative evidence was found to support their statements. Asked if any legal action would be taken against those who obtained the statements, he said the court would decide the matter.
Investigation officers CID ASPs Munshi Atiqur Rahman and Abdur Rashid and supervising officer CID Special Superintendent Ruhul Amin have retired from the service, so the police cannot take any departmental action against them, he said.
This article starring:
Harkat-ul-Jihad
Jamaat-e-Islami
Abdus Salam Pintu
Harkat-ul-Jihad
Chief Metropolitan Magistrate AKM Enamul Haque
CID Chief Additional Inspector General Jabed Patwari
CID Chief Jabed Patwari
Ivy Rahman
Lutfozzaman Babar
Mufti Abdul Hannan
Harkat-ul-Jihad
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A criminal was killed yesterday in an encounter between his cohorts and police at Shankhola in Shibpur. The dead was identified as Emran, 28.
Police cordoned off Shankhola area at about 3:30pm and asked Emran to surrender. But, Emran and his associates suddenly opened fire on the law enforcers prompting them to retaliate.
Emran was killed in the encounter while his accomplices managed to escape. Police recovered a loaded pistol from the scene.
Emran was wanted in 20 criminal cases on different charges including murder, police said.
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THE official at the centre of a police investigation into the loss of secret government documents about al-Qaeda has been suspended from his job, the Cabinet Office said last night. It is understood the two documents both marked "Secret" relate to al-Qaeda in Pakistan and the security situation in Iraq and were lost on Tuesday. The documents were handed to the BBC, which reported details of the security breach.
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One of Britain's top intelligence officials left a file with secret documents about Iraq and al Qaeda on a train, in an embarrassing government security breach that was exposed on Wednesday.
Brilliant. Simply brilliant.
A passenger found the orange folder on a train and handed it in to the BBC, which said it contained top secret documents on Iraq and al Qaeda.
If I found a classified document on a train, I'd hand it to a cop, not to the BBC. But I guess that's just me.
The Cabinet Office, the central government department that supports the work of Prime Minister Gordon Brown, acknowledged the incident and said it had called the cops in a police investigation. "The documents were secret. They were in the possession of a senior intelligence official who works in the Cabinet Office. They were lost on a train," a Cabinet Office spokesman said. "They were retrieved by a member of the public who handed them to the BBC," he said. "When the official realized what had happened, he reported it immediately to the Cabinet Office. We called the police in and they launched an investigation." A police spokeswoman confirmed that the counter-terrorism command of London's police force was carrying out the probe.
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Clowns, Jokers. Is there anyone competent up there?
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We Brit Media types are chockablock full of Communists, Socialists and Islamists.
Guardian, BBC, and just about all our British MSM outlets are far to the LEFT of any American Media purveyors of "NEWS"
For instance we Brits are repulsed by your 2nd amendment, in fact we consistantly kill any pro gun coverage for our Citizens soon to be slaves.
Ownership of handguns or the Citizen right to carry handguns for protection is an anathema to our souless Media-Drone way of "life".
Conservative ideas on governing makes our old Soviet handlers turn RED [er]. [LOL!]
We Hate libertarians as well and small government... forgetaboutit!!
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RING
Hello, BBC Newsdesk
If you want a scoop, go to the train station and look in car 14 cabin 3-A, you might find something interesting there.
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The Supreme Court says foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.
The justices, in a 5-4 ruling Thursday, handed the Bush administration its third setback at the high court since 2004 over its treatment of prisoners who are being held indefinitely and without charges at the U.S. naval base in Cuba.
It was not immediately clear whether this ruling, unlike the first two, would lead to prompt hearings for the detainees, some of whom have been held more than 6 years. Roughly 270 men remain at the island prison, classified as enemy combatants and held on suspicion of terrorism or links to al-Qaida and the Taliban.
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.
The justices handed the Bush administration its third setback at the high court since 2004 over its treatment of prisoners who are being held indefinitely and without charges at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. The vote was 5-4, with the court's liberal justices in the majority.
Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the court, said, "The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times."
But it covers America and Americans, sir, not enemy combatants.
It was not immediately clear whether this ruling, unlike the first two, would lead to prompt hearings for the detainees, some who have been held more than 6 years. Roughly 270 men remain at the island prison, classified as enemy combatants and held on suspicion of terrorism or links to al-Qaida and the Taliban.
The court said not only that the detainees have rights under the Constitution, but that the system the administration has put in place to classify them as enemy combatants and review those decisions is inadequate.
The administration had argued first that the detainees have no rights. But it also contended that the classification and review process was a sufficient substitute for the civilian court hearings that the detainees seek.
In dissent, Chief Justice John Roberts criticized his colleagues for striking down what he called "the most generous set of procedural protections ever afforded aliens detained by this country as enemy combatants."
Correct, and it's going to discourage future administrations from taking and keeping dangerous enemy combatants. We'll keep them in places like Balad and Bagram, and we won't tell a soul -- will that make the Court happy?
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These decisions are going to rank with Dred Scott and Plessy as the worst decisions the Supremes ever rendered. Constitutional rights for foreign terrorists? For unlawful combatants? FDR is turning over in his grave.
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In my dreams....
From: The President of the United States
To: All US military forces foreign and domestic
Re: Treatment of Unlawful combatants.
In full accordance with the Geneva Conventions you are hereby ordered to execute, by humane means, all unlawful combatants in the field - either foreign or domestic.
This includes all enemies who are not in uniform or have a clearly visible badge who declaring them to be legal combatants, or any forces firing from a church, mosque, hospital, or school.
Please explain to them that we are sorry for the inconvience but our Supreme Court leaves us no other choice. I'm sure they'll understand.
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Big Mistake! I don't recall that Japanese or Nazi combatants had U.S. Constitutional protections. Were they not tried under military tribunal? War crimes aren't generally the province of our civil and criminal courts. These guys and CAIR will have our court system tied up for years. If we captured Bin Laden (given that he was alive), would he be tried under our court system?
It has been the objective of the left-wing bar to fight aspects of this war in our courtrooms, where it knew it would have a decent chance at victory.
So complete is the Court's disregard for the Constitution and even its own precedent now that anything is possible. And what was once considered inconceivable is now compelled by the Constitution, or so five justices have ruled.
I fear for my country. I really do. And AP, among others, reports this story as a defeat for "the Bush administration." Really? I see it as a defeat for the nation.
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I gotta say it's a hell of a deal. Go a jihading, get the opportunity to shoot a few clips at infidels, maybe rape and behead a few locals first, surrender, spend a few years regaining health and gain 15 kilos at Hotel Gitmo, throw some shit and piss at the American guards, go home, get paid a pension and get the pick of the best looking chicks. Where do I sign up?
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Miranda 'rights' next for the battlefield, a lawyer in every squad...it's in the Constitution somewhere. Will using the insanity defense get a seething fatwah, or is Sharia law in the Constitution too?
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I read where a 17-year-old in Texas phoned his rival high school on a school bus and threatened to open fire on students has been sentenced to eight years in state prison. I don't disagree with the sentence of this 17-year old but many of these guys in Gitmo have done far worse.
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There's a hoary old legal chestnut about how "The Constitution is not a suicide pact". Five of our justices have forgotten that.
I'll have to read the majority opinion. Perhaps they're on to something I've missed. But right now, it seems that they're extending the protection of the Constitution to a group of people who --
-- are not US citizens or residents
-- do not live in the US
-- are open enemies of the US
-- were captured in battle
-- reject our Constitution
-- reject everything we stand for
-- want us dead.
The Constitution is not a suicide pact. We're going to have to remind our fellow citizens of that, because the USSC has forgotten.
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When smart people make bad decisions usually they suffer the consequences... in this case all Americans do.
The law suits for compensation for illegal arrest should start rolling in by Noon tomorrow; submitted by hungover liberal lawyers from the ACLU - Arab Civil Liberty Union
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For an alternative view, Orin Kerr at the Volokh Conspiracytestified to the US Senate last year. He notes that the right of habeas corpus (which is what the jokers at Gitmo claim they have) must be extended to all territories controlled by the US, and cites how this has evolved. He also predicted today's verdict based on his reads of the various justices.
I'm not a lawyer, but Mr. Kerr does write clearly, so if you want the other side, this is where to start. Key points --
-- Gitmo is under our complete control
-- habeas corpus must be offered to all people in our territories
-- can only be suspended by Congress, and such suspension must be specific
-- the Detainee Treatment Act (what Congress passed to get around all this) doesn't specifically deny habeas corpus and doesn't offer a proper substitute, so it's unconstitutional
Practically speaking, the issue is remanded back to the District Court in DC, so there will be additional months, if not years, of legal wrangling. By January 2009 we'll have elected a president that wants to close Gitmo, so the whole issue could be moot.
But the USSC makes clear that if we fully control a territory, habeas corpus is and must be allowed. The solution for a future president is obvious: house your prisoners elsewhere.
Or don't take any. There's an unintended consequence that should chill all of us.
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The obvious solution has already been detailed above, per the Geneva Convention: immediate execution. Gunshot to the back of the head should be sufficient.
the ACLU, the UN, the World Court, the Southern poverty Law Center, and the Supremes will Outlaw WAR and Outlaw the Defense Department and Abolish the Services.
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I wish I could find the thread from about 2 or 3 months ago when it was anounced that the Supremes were going to rule on this.
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Interesting discussion on NPR on this subject a few hours ago: suppose a Guantanamo Bay case goes to a U.S. federal court, and the court rules that based on the evidence the individual really is as bad as the Army contends... or for that matter, what if the court rules he is innocent enough? Habeus corpus has been satisfied, a judgement rendered. If bad, how long would he then be imprisoned, and where? If innocent enough would the person be returned to where he was picked up? To his home country? What if the home country doesn't want him back, or wherever he was found doesn't want him there? After all, there already are a number of men in Guantanamo that the Army would like to release, but whose home countries refuse to take them back, as does the rest of the world. Apparently the Supreme Court ruling does not address these interesting little issues.
Oh, and given that the entire American court system, state and federal, is already badly overloaded, how long would it be before these several hundred cases could be shoehorned into the schedule?
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as I hear it, it's a bad precedent, but don't slash your wrists. Habeus Corpus challenges the gov'ts right to hold you. These mooks will not be released will-nilly (except for a few wacky Donk-appointed judge's rulings).
Better to not take live prisoners. I guarantee the field execution (lawful by the GC) will focus the remaining field detainees to cooperating, mooting the need to imprison and feed these parasites. Bleed them of info and shoot em on site
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The simplest work-around, other than shooting them (which we don't want to do, as much as we want to do it) is to hold them in cooperation with another country.
That means if we grab them in Afghanistan, we hold them in Bagram. Karzai is reasonable enough so we can do that. If we grab them in [cough] Pakiwakiland [cough] they go to Bagram. If we grab them in Iraq they go to a prison there.
And the USSC won't touch that one, because one of the premises of the ruling today is that we control Gitmo completely. We sure don't control Bagram or Balad in that way, so as long as our allies will cooperate, we have a solution.
Easiest thing to do right now is empty Gitmo. We're never going to get to try the monsters, so ship 'em to Balad and Bagram and Diego Garcia and Ice Station Zebra. Out of 'site', out of mind, and good luck to the legal-eagles if they can figure out where we stashed the mooks.
P.S. to the CIA: change the f'ing tail numbers before you move these guys, 'k?
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What if the home country doesn't want him back, or wherever he was found doesn't want him there?
Don't worry - I'm sure the Supreme Court Justices who voted for this will take them in - no problem.
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INRE: "P.S. to the CIA: change the f'ing tail numbers before you move these guys, 'k?"
It's funny how the New York Times, et al., could get all worked up about Valerie Plame when they tend to burn entire operations on their own front page.
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In actuality, this means exactly as Steve WHite said: turn them over to locals for incarceration and interrogation. And their imprisonment camps and interrogation methods will be quite different from ours - some may not survive incarceration with appendages intact.
I sill beleive that handing them over on the spot to locals and letting the LOCALS execute them (just a few) as justified by the Geneva Convention, and publicising the hell out of it might be the very best thing we can do to get Congress to write a proper law that these black robed potentates ruling from the Bench will not be able to eliminate.
One thing the courts allegedly used in order to determine whether this was US territory and thus applicable for Habeus Corpus, was that the MILITARY does NOT pay OCONUS for sailors and troops stationed there - they get pay and allowances the same as state-side, so it is treated as a CONUS assignment.
Some pentagon cheap bastard that changed the designation from CONUS, in order to cut costs, unknowingly gave the liberals on the court the leverage they needed to screw the military.
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The simplest work-around, other than shooting them (which we don't want to do, as much as we want to do it) is to hold them in cooperation with another country.
Interestingly, in that NPR discussion another case the Supreme Court just decided was also raised. Apparently, a couple of American civilians were picked up in Iraq by U.S. troops for breaking local laws, then turned over to the Iraqi justice system. The Amis wanted to be tried by American courts under American law and subject to American rights. The SC justices decided (and not a 5-4 decision, either) that those abroad breaking local laws were beyond the reach of American courts, and left them to survive Iraqi justice as best they can, the poor dears.
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I really don't see the difference between these Prisoners of War and the German, Italian, and Japanese Prisoners of War during WWII, with the exception that they do not fit the deffinition of uniformed combatants. The WWII prisoners were not granted Habeous Corpus. What has changed?
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Deac what changed is five very very activist judges on the bench who believe the courts knwo whats best rahter than the considered joint effort of the representatives of the people (the COngress who passed the law), and the elected executive and all his staff who anaysed the law (The President).
Its judges like Stevens and Ginsberg who beleive that Judges can and should make law from the bench, without regard to the will of the people.
By them striking the law down, and returning it to disctrict court, these unelected judges have arrogated to themselves the right to conduct foreign policy and military affairs.
That's who.
These clowns in DC (Congress, Presidnet and worse, the Judges) are asking for an armed insurrection for We The People to regain what is ours.
The U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan released footage Thursday of a skirmish with militants that Pakistan claims resulted in an airstrike on one of its border posts that killed 11 of its troops.
Pakistan has lodged a strong diplomatic protest, saying the bombing of the Gorparai post in the Mohmand frontier region on Tuesday was a "completely unprovoked and cowardly act." They climbed down from that I understand. Now we know why.
But Pakistani and U.S. officials have given widely differing accounts of an event that threatens to further sour relations between key allies in Washington's war on terror. I'm sure Pakistan will be issuinging a profound apology and an expression of their appreciation for eliminating this walking fertilizer any minute now.
To support its version, the coalition on Thursday took the unusual step of releasing excerpts of a video shot by a surveillance drone circling above the mountainous battle zone. And to support its version, Pakistan will deny that the video is related to this event.
The grainy, monochrome images show about a half-dozen men firing small arms and rocket-propelled grenades from a ridge at coalition troops off-camera in the valley below.
According to the voiceover in the video, the ridge is in Afghanistan's Kunar province, about 200 yards from the Pakistan border and close to the Gorparai checkpoint. Neither the checkpoint nor any other structures are visible in the video excerpts.
I was right. The eight Talibs who were killed were among the 11 dead Pak troops.
They were someone's Praetorian guard ...
The voiceover says the coalition forces were on a reconnaissance mission and returned fire as they tried to break contact and move to a point where a helicopter could pluck them to safety.
The video shows the "anti-Afghan militants" moving to a position identified as inside Pakistan and the impact of a bomb which the voiceover says killed two of them. The survivors then $hit their turbans and fled into a ravine, where three more bombs were dropped, nearly three hours after the clash began. The voiceover said all the militants were killed.
One of the bombs fell off screen, and U.S. officials said about a dozen bombs were dropped in all.
On Wednesday, U.S. diplomats offered apologies for the reported casualties. But the Pentagon insisted that the drone footage of the bombings showed they hit their intended targets.
Defense Department press secretary Geoff Morrell said it was too early to know whether the strike killed the 11 Pakistani troops. "Every indication we have is that this was a legitimate strike against forces that had attacked members of the coalition," he said.
Pakistan army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas gave a different account. Abbas said the fighting broke out after Afghan government soldiers who had occupied a mountaintop position in a disputed border zone Monday acceded to a Pakistan request to withdraw. "They were on their way back and they were attacked by insurgents in their own territory," Abbas said. I wonder how the terrorists knew that they were there.
He said the Afghans then called in coalition airstrikes, which hit the Pakistani Frontier Corps post across the border.
The anti-terror alliance with Washington is already unpopular among Pakistanis, whose newly elected civilian government is negotiating with some militants in hopes of curbing a surge in violence. Western officials fear peace deals could give more space for Taliban and al-Qaida militants to operate. That can quickly turn into a two-way sword.
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wow, if the Paks weren't so virtuous and Islamic, I'd say they were involved with the "militants". But I'm cynical that way....
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We smoked some Taliban and terorists, the Paks protested that we violated their territory that they cannot or will not control.
I would say that it was a good day.
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Face it: the US is fighting Pakistan in Afghanistan. ALL the non-Pashto areas are at peace. The only obstacle is those drug dealing pigs in the south. Solution: napalm and no confidence in Karzai's Pashto drug-gang.
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So from the video I counted 11 dead (2+6+3). Just by coincidence Pakis claim 11 dead border guards. I'm just surprised only 8 were double dipping Taliban salaries too.
Interesting that the Warrior (Predator C) is already deployed. I thought they were to armed with 4 Hellfires and could have taken out the lot when the Pakis were bunched up and firing at US Forces.
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The video is fascinating, not for the pictures, but the commentary . . . it is clear there are no military outposts or structures in the impact area
As is usual, the opposing claims are misleading, overwrought, almost wholly inaccurate and evasive. It's curious that DOD and State seem to be coordinating the walk back here, one fact at a time. 1) Yeah - we killed 'em and have pictures 2) here are the pictures 3) where are your outposts? It's what's coming that is intriguing - 4) where are your troops? 5)where is your border? 6) who is your leader? 7) where is your leader? 8) why are you an arab colony? 9) why do you deny you're an arab colony?
And so on . . .
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Goodbye talibunnies!
While it is clear, there are no military structures or outposts in the area, it is clear there are parts of talibunnies spread through the area.
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If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck... If they act like an enemy, then they should be prepared to die like an enemy. These anti-Afghan forces Taliban fired on our forces inside Afghanistan. Pakistan should make sure these guys don't wander off the reservation if they don't want them iced.
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Someone mentioned "double dipping." True, post opium season, Pashtos can make $300 per month in heroin money, by fighting for Taliban. Ergo: don't let there be an opium season.
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I am FUCKING SICK of bending over backward to assuage the feeling of our enemies. Listening to the audio of that video it sounds like a friggin State Department douchebag is making sure his dinner with the enemy won't be disturbed.
F these chimps. It should say. Enemies destroyed. Any other damage is due to the positioning or desire of the enemy.
An anti-terrorism court in Malakand division on Wednesday issued orders to release ten Taliban prisoners who will be released from Taimargara jail on Thursday (today). Judge Khalilullah ordered the release of the Swat militants following a peace accord signed by the NWFP government with Tehreek-e-Taliban Swat. Swat Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan told Daily Times that all requirements have been fulfilled for release of ten Taliban prisoners, and that the prisoners would be released on Wednesday or Thursday.
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At first I thought this was a story about our U.S. Supreme Court releasing enemy combatants from Gitmo. Sorry, it was some other sorry court in some third world country.
Hi boss, this is Haji, Muji and I are going to be late for work tomorrow.
We took your advice and went to Al-Hose-ni's Car Wash and Camel Grooming Center to get Uncle Naji's Mercedes detailed. It is a real good place with absolutely no brushes. They washed the car from bumper to bumper. They used only natural Camel Dung sponges and they used recycled water that would have normally gone to the broken Treatment Plant. It's a real "Green" operation, or should I say 'Brown".
After we finished we still had some time to kill so we went to the Farouk Up Towne Outlet Mall. We found a great parking place way in the back next to the Damascus Dumpster, a real low nick factor parking slot. There was a funny pointed sign with Infidel graffiti on it. Do you know what "Route Tampa Detour" means?
In the Mall we checked out the Factory Outlet for Suicide Vests. You know, unless you look real close you don't notice the missing ball bearings or broken wires. Muji wanted to cruise the windows at Fatima Secret, he gets turned on looking at the mannequins dressed in push up Burqas.
We stopped by Kabob Bell for for a quick bite and then returned to the car. Well, I can tell you we were really pissed. That detail job we got at Al-Hose-ni's did not last.
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G'More - I don't doubt that there's a reason, but wonder, particularly when its an MB or similar, whether there's not a better idea - say a retrieval, salvage and resale operation for some locals and an NGO or two, to reclaim and export targeted vehicles.
Would be a curious way to employ locals as repo crews, with the assorted local intelligence that would generate all by itself.
Also, some of these videos are very old - perhaps the results of initial combat circumstances, and present practices are more, um, administratively regularized.
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How about giving the cars to needy families who have helped the Coalition.
At Farouks Auto Body and VBIED shop
1. Haji's car twice
2. Farouks Frequent Fender Bender loaner
3. A borrowed taxi
4. Haji's boss' lumber truck/station wagon
Missing vehicles belonging to Haji's Boss
1. worker's shuttle service pickup
2. flatbed sent to pick up Soddy Migrant workers
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My understanding is that these are the vehicles of bad men. Perhaps suicide bombers or their families. Instead of bulldozing their house with the attendant negative domestic publicity we flatten the car. If we just liberated the car, the message would be lost. But when the flattened vehicle is out in front of the house for a few months till Nuji's metal recycling can pick it up it's a reminder to everyone what happens to bad people.
'Neighborhood Guards' Modeled on Program In Sunni Areas of Iraq
Young men armed and paid by the U.S. military took to the streets of the Iraqi capital's Sadr City area for the first time Wednesday to guard their neighborhoods, part of a new strategy designed to recruit former Shiite militiamen to American-created security groups, U.S. officials said.
The program is modeled after a more than year-old initiative, now known as the Awakening movement, to pay men formerly aligned with the Sunni insurgency to turn against it. But the new groups, called "Neighborhood Guards" by the Americans and "Sons of Iraq" by Iraqis, are the first to focus solely on a heavily Shiite area and among the few to acknowledge arming civilians.
Toting AK-47 assault rifles for a $300-a-month salary, the young men are viewed by U.S. officials as the best way to address a dearth of security forces in Sadr City, the site of bitter clashes this spring between U.S. forces and militiamen loyal to anti-American cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. The officials hope the initiative will lead some militia supporters away from violence by paying them to protect the area.
But even officers helping to create the program acknowledge there is risk in supplying weapons to men who may have recently encouraged violence against U.S. troops. "Are these guys all going to be lily-white angels? No," said Maj. Byron Sarchet, information operations officer for the brigade responsible for Sadr City. "We need to tread lightly."
As the orange fog of a dust storm enveloped the capital Wednesday afternoon, 11 young men in the new program stood at the entrance to a street in Jamila, a neighborhood of southwestern Sadr City where they all live. Standing watch from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., they glanced at every car and pedestrian entering the road to make sure they were locals and not strangers who might be up to no good.
Qais Ali, 32, a former taxi driver, wore the unusual standard-issue uniform: tan shirt, tan slacks and a tan baseball cap that said "SMIRNOFF" in blue-and-white lettering.
"We are here to protect our neighborhood and make sure the militias don't take control," Ali said as he waved on a rusty blue car. "These are our homes and it is our responsibility to protect them."
The young men acknowledged, however, that they were all at their posts to collect a wage in a district where unemployment is rampant. The $300 salaries are distributed by their leader, Bassim Abdullah Qassim, who said he was contracted by the U.S. military to hire and oversee 105 men over three months.
Lt. Col. Brian Eifler, commander of the U.S. battalion in Sadr City, said there was skepticism initially that Sadr City residents would volunteer to work with Americans. But he said the turnout has been overwhelming.
More than 270 people showed up one day last week looking for jobs in Jamila, he said, suggesting that fear of Sadr's militia, the Mahdi Army, is subsiding in at least some parts of Sadr City. All of the applicants are vetted by the U.S. military and must be vouched for by a tribal leader, Eifler said.
But Eifler said he does not inquire whether they belonged to the Mahdi Army. When asked if he hoped former militia members would apply, Eifler said: "Absolutely."
"They maybe were out riding the fence and now they have a chance for good solid employment," said Eifler, 39, of Detroit. "I think that's an opportunity."
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There is something about this that I don't understand. Why are we giving these people AK-47's? If any of these folks decide to return to the Dark Side, we have conveniently equipped them with weapons and ammo that they van then use against us. Why not give them weapons and ammo that do not operate with the old stuff that is still laying around. Control their supply of weapons and if some of that stuff gets used against us, then it it should be easier to trace. It just seems common sense, that if you have just beaten someone to a pulp, it doesn't seem smart to hand the guy a gun and turn around and walk away.
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I read the article and nowhere does it state that the AKs are formally issued by the American troops. Every adult in Iraq basically has the right to and possesses an AK-47 for self-defense; what is most likely the case, is that the Neighborhood Guards bring their AKs with them, have them registered by the US forces, and then get some ammo and pay after 2 weeks on the job.
Remember, this is MSM reporting - the same people who CANNOT tell the difference between a tank and an ambulance APC. Or tell the difference between a self-loading rifle and a true assault rifle.
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Okay, correction : the article states that the US provided 48 AKs from captured caches, only because the 65 NGs have 5 total AKs among them. But the article still makes clear that the Iraqis were expected to have provided all their own AKs. Still, this is standard counter-insurgency warfare tactics that the US has been using since before there was a US. There is a certain element of risk to it but more in line with creating some local gangsters than with building up an insurgency. Remember, the US does a full biometric on these guys including fingerprints and DNA so that they can be tracked if they go off on their own.
(VOI)- A joint force of U.S. and Iraqi personnel killed two al-Qaeda gunmen and arrested 16 more during a security operation waged south of Baaquba, a security source said on Wednesday. "Joint U.S.-Iraqi forces launched a military operation late Tuesday targeting al-Qaeda group in Bahraz district, south of Baaquba, where they killed two gunmen and arrested 16 others," the source, who asked not to be named, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq (VOI). "Four of the detainees are senior leaders wanted for killing and displacing a large number of civilians in the district," he added. He did not give more details.
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(VOI)- U.S. forces on Wednesday arrested a bomb expert in al-Nuaamaniya, southeast of Baghdad, the U.S. army said.
"Coalition forces captured a suspected Iranian-trained Special Groups explosives expert Wednesday in Nuaamaniya, about 180 km southeast of Baghdad near Kut," the U.S. army said in a statement received by Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq (VOI). "Acting on intelligence information, Coalition forces targeted a suspected Iranian-trained improvised explosive device expert. Using information provided by Special Groups criminals already detained, the targeted criminal is believed to have traveled to Iran several times for explosives training," the statement added.
"Intelligence sources also said the suspect has numerous Iranian contacts with whom he would meet when smuggling weapons and bomb-making materials into Iraq," it added. "Coalition forces entered the suspected criminals residence and subdued him without firing any shots after the man made a move toward a weapon," the army said in a statement.
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"Is he yours"
"No."
"Then I guess you won't mind if we shoot him."
(VOI)- Eighteen wanted men were arrested at a checkpoint in eastern Karbala on Wednesday, the chief of local police said. "Police forces detained 18 wanted men, including three militia leaders," General Raed Shaker Jawdat told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq (VOI). "The operation took place at a checkpoint in eastern Karbala, while trying to enter the city," he explained.
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(VOI)- A total of 24 suspected gunmen were arrested on Wednesday during a security raid in south of Kirkuk, said a police source.
"Policemen waged a wide-scale searching operation in al-Nasr neighborhood, south of Kirkuk, where they arrested 24 suspected gunmen, including eight wanted men," the source told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq (VOI) on condition of anonymity. Brig. Sarhad Qader, Kirkuk's districts police chief, had said earlier that a total of 18 suspected gunmen, including 11 wanted men, were arrested during a security raid in eight villages in southwest Kirkuk.
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(VOI)- Iraqi security forces on Wednesday arrested six wanted men and found weapons and ammunitions in southern and western Baghdad, the official spokesman for the Baghdad's operations command said. "A force from the 25th brigade of the Iraqi army managed to arrest four wanted men and defused two bombs in al-Mahmoudiya region in southern Baghdad," General Qassem Atta told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq (VOI). "The 24th brigade arrested also two gunmen in Abu Gharieb region in western Baghdad," the general added.
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(VOI) - Around eleven persons were killed and 35 others wounded, while security forces arrested 109 suspected gunmen in the violent acts that took place from Tuesday evening to Wednesday afternoon. In Baghdad, a police source said the casualty toll from the roadside bombing that hit a bus in Kadhmiya, north Baghdad, rose to 15. The source added a second roadside bomb detonated near a petrol station in al-Bunook district, east Baghdad,leaving two civilians wounded.
Earlier, a roadside bomb placed on the road to the Mission complex in Karrada district, central Baghdad, went off killing a civilian and wounding seven others according to security forces.
Meanwhile, the U.S. army said Coalition forces arrested an explosive expert trained in Iran and suspected special groups member in Nuamaniya, 180 km south of Baghdad. Special groups is a term used by the U.S. army to describe groups that broke away from the Mahdi Army militia currently abiding by a ceasefire announced by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr last August.
A spokesman for Baghdad's security plan noted the Iraqi army 25th brigade captured four wanted persons, defused two roadside bombs, and seized eight missile launch pads in Mahmoudiya district. Brig. Gen. Qassem Atta added the "army 24th brigade arrested two gunmen in Abu Ghraib district, a west Baghdad suburb.
In Diala, a security source said "joint U.S.-Iraqi forces conducted a military operation in Buhriz area targeting al-Qaeda network strongholds. The operation left two al-Qaeda network fighters killed and resulted in the arrest of 16 others.
In Ninewa, a police source said "two unknown gunmen killed a civilian who was working as an operator for a private electricity generator in al-Farouq district, central Mosul."
Elsewhere in Mosul, Brig, Khalid Abdel Sattar, spokesman for Ninewa security operations, said joint army and police forces "detained two gunmen believed to be al-Qaeda commanders in Mosul Jadida, west Mosul and Dawasa district, central Mosul.
In Basra, a police source said "Interior Ministry forces working in Basra conducted raid-and-search operations, capturing 23 suspects wanted on criminal and terrorist charges."
In Anbar, a leader in Falluja scholars and Intellectual organizations identified as Ahmed Diraa was "arrested by al-Muthana brigade in Abu Ghraib district.
In Kirkuk, the police chief said the Iraqi army and his police forces conducted large-scale operations in eight villages of al-Haweija district, south-west Kirkuk, apprehending 18 persons, including 11 wanted individuls, and seizing seven AK-47 rifles. A Kirkuk, a police source said a roadside bomb went off while an emergency police vehicle was passing in al-Tayaran square, leaving four patrol members and a civilian, who was in the blast radius, wounded.
Elsewhere in Kirkuk, a police source said "police forces conducted a large-scale raid operation in al-Nasr area and informal dwellings, south Kirkuk, arresting 24 suspects including eight wanted men.
In Karbala, the police chief said forces captured 18 persons wanted by the judicial authorities. He added three of the arrested person were militia commanders.
In Wassit, a police source said a roadside bomb placed on the Baghdad-Kut road near the Iraqi army 32nd brigade went off against a police patrol. The source noted the blast left one policeman killed, four others wounded, and caused damage to one of the patrol vehicles.
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Iraq
Security forces arrest 109 suspected gunmen over past 20 hours
Oh this is such horrible news...
/Oh how we all miss the days when we controlled the facts, the truth, and we were able to twist all the news especially from overseas..
Oh those golden years back in RVN.
We where Kings. We just decided that Vietnam wasn't worth fighting for. And Yes By God we NEWS GIANTS just made up our minds and decided we were going to stop it!
Oh the power we had!
We hammered away... day in and day out.. and finally were able to change the American people's opinion at home and change the opinion of peoples from all around the World.
YES with constant effort we brain-washed them them to Hate and Fear the American fighting man.
By God we proud few News Brokers in NYC [the alphabet soup news companies] and our Flagship Rapporteurs were able to turn the heroic image of the American Fighting Man into a Crazed Baby Killing Dope Fiend in a few short years!
Yes and their officers and General officers too, we back stabbed them all with leaks and nasty slanted news HA!!
It was so wonderful for us then..
in fact we actually got folks to spit on our heroic Armed Forces Personal as they changed aircraft in Oakland and San Francisco to Travis AFB a few miles North.....
Well our absolute power is all most gone now...
but hey..
Maybe we can still can get the stupid people and illegal immigrants to vote for Obama and get him elected!!!
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We were Kings. PIMF!
We just decided that Vietnam wasn't worth fighting for. And Yes By God we NEWS GIANTS just made up our minds and decided we were going to stop it!
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Lots of arrests, very few are being killed resisting. Are these mostly innocents being swept up - and hence not resisting? Or do the guilty now know not to resist because they'll be released in a day or two? Or are these midnight stun and grab arrests where they are too shocked to resist before their weapons are taken and the handcuffs applied?
(VOI) - Security forces on Wednesday arrested five suspects, including a mosque imam, during a raid operation conducted in a Diala district, a local official said. "Security forces conducted a raid-and-search operation in Rabea village of Saadiya, 100 km north-east of Baaquba, capturing five suspects, including the a mosque imam who was on a wanted list," Ahmed al-Zargushi, the district's police chief, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI).
The local official added "security forces seized and defused a car bomb parking near a house in the district, leaving no damage."
Khanqeen town, Saadiya district (155 km north-east of Baaquba), is a disputed area between the central Iraqi government and Kurdistan's regional government set to be settled by article 140 of the Iraqi Constitution.
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(VOI) - Security forces on Wednesday arrested eight suspects believed to be involved in detonating a car bomb and killing tribal chieftains in Mosul, a Ninewa operations spokesman said. "A support battalion of Ninewa operations command captured eight suspects in al-Mansour and al-Mamoon districts, south-west Mosul," Brig. Khalid Abdel Sattar, spokesman for Ninewa operations, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI) "The security official noted "the detainees were believed to be involved in killing a soldier, robbing his car and blowing it up in Nabi Sheet district, central Mosul," adding "they were implicated in killing a number of tribal chieftains who were working for the city service."
Earlier, a Mosul police source said a car bomb went off in Nabi Sheet district last Thursday. Talafar chief Najim Abdullah told VOI two of the city tribal chieftains who struck deals to foster reconciliatory meetings were assassinated last Monday.
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Iraqi police have captured three Iranian-backed Special Groups operatives behind the kidnapping and murder of five US soldiers at the Karbala Provincial Joint Coordination Center in January 2007. Meanwhile, US troops captured another Special Groups leader in the Al Kut region,
The Iraqi police captured the three "key criminals" behind the 2007 Karbala attack in Musayyib, just south of Baghdad, on June 5. The three Special Groups operatives are "suspected of trafficking and emplacing explosively formed projectiles." Explosively formed projectiles are the signature weapon of Shia terrorists with links to Iran.
The US military immediately suspected Iran's Qods Force, the elite external operations branch, of being behind the 2007 attack in Karbala. The raid was well planned and executed, as the attackers looked American, spoke English, used American equipment. One US soldier was killed and three wounded during the initial attack, and four soldiers were subsequently taken hostage. They were executed shortly afterward after Iraqi police and Coalition forces tracked their movement eastward towards Iran and went into pursuit. US satellite imagery specialists found a mockup of the Karbala Provincial Joint Coordination Center at an Iranian base in southern Iran.
The US military gained insight on the Karbala attack and Iran's involvement in operations in Baghdad and the South after stepping up pressure on the Iranian networks in late 2006 and throughout 2007. The US military killed or captured multiple high-level Iranian-trained agents and a Qods Force leader of one of the three sub-commands commands inside Iraq.
Multinational Forces Iraq killed Azhar al Dulaimi, the leader of the Karbala attack, during a raid north of Baghdad in May 2007. Dulaimi is described as the mastermind and tactical commander of the Karbala attack, as well as other high profile terror attacks in Iraq. Dulaimi was a senior leader in the Qazali network, which General David Petraeus noted was behind the planning, organization and execution of the Karbala attack.
The Qazali Network was led by Qais Qazali, the former spokesman for Muqtada al Sadr, the leader of the Mahdi Army. US forces captured Qazali and his brother Layith in early 2007. Muqtada al Sadr has called for the release of Qazali in the past.
Coalition forces also captured Ali Mussa Daqduq, a senior Hezbollah operative, and Mahmud Farhadi, the Qods Force officer in charge of the Zafr Command, one of the three units subordinate to the Ramazan Corps, Iran's military command directing operations inside Iraq.
But wait, there's more!
Senior Special Groups leader captured near Al Kut
Coalition special forces teams also captured a Special Groups leader in the town of Numaniyah near Al Kut in Wasit province. The operative is described as an "Iranian-trained improvised explosive device expert" who "traveled to Iran several times for explosives training. Intelligence sources also said the suspect has numerous Iranian contacts with whom he would meet when smuggling weapons and bomb-making materials into Iraq." US and Iraqi forces detained four other senior Special Groups leaders in Wasit province since June 3.
Iraqi security forces have stepped up operations against the Mahdi Army Special Groups and the Iranian supply lines in Basrah, Dhi Qhar, Wasit, Kabala, and Najaf provinces over the past several weeks. Scores of Special Groups leaders have been captured or killed during operations to disrupt the terror networks.
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US satellite imagery specialists found a mockup of the Karbala Provincial Joint Coordination Center at an Iranian base in southern Iran.
A lot of evidence in this article points to Iranian leadership active involvement in the death of our "sons" and soldiers in Iraq.
Iran will have to be liberated before Iraq can be stable.
"If we are captured by the enemy, we ask that the state of Israel does not release many hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for our freedom," Israel Defense Forces reserves soldiers wrote in a letter addressed to the IDF chief of staff, channel 2 reported Tuesday.
The reservists, members of a decorated infantry battalion, are slated to be the first soldiers to enter enemy territory should Israel decide to carry out a large-scale military operation in the Gaza Strip. According to Channel 2, the letter will be handed to IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi only when such an operation begins.
The soldiers and officers emphasize in the letter that they are "ready to sit in an enemy prison for as long as it takes," and demand that Israel refrain from paying a high price for their freedom. The soldiers also ask that no negotiations be held over their dead bodies or parts of their dead bodies.
Earlier this month, the Lebanon-based guerilla group Hezbollah handed over to Israel the remains of several IDF soldiers, in what some viewed as efforts to advance a prisoner exchange.
Channel 2 also reported Tuesday that former United States president Jimmy Carter was launching efforts to get a letter to captive IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, from his parents. A letter apparently written by Shalit, who was captured by Palestinian militants in 2006, was transferred through the Carter Center to his family on Monday. The Shalit family declined to make public the contents of the letter they received, but said that Gilad begged for his life in it and asked that Israel cooperate and take action to secure his release.
A barrage of dozens of mortar shells and Kassam rockets launched into Israel on Thursday may have been cover for an attempted large-scale attack on IDF troops and Israeli civilians near the Gaza border, sources in the IDF told Channel 10.
As salvos of rockets exploded across the western Negev, IDF soldiers identified a bulldozer approaching the security fence in northern Gaza. Soldiers fired at the vehicle and its occupants escaped.
An unnamed IDF official told Channel 10 that the vehicle was believed to have been intended for use in an infiltration attack, which would have caused multiple casualties.
A woman was moderately wounded as at least 30 mortar shells and 18 Kassam rockets pounded southern Israel, most of them hitting the Ashkelon Beach region.
A state of emergency was declared in the Ashkelon Beach region and residents were instructed to enter fortified rooms.
A Palestinian was lightly wounded when one of the mortar shells fired at Israel landed near the Erez border crossing.
In addition, several people were treated for shock when a Grad-type Katyusha rocket was fired at Ashkelon.
Hamas claimed responsibility for the barrage, saying that it was a response to an alleged IAF air strike on a house in the Gaza Strip which killed seven people, including one senior Hamas commander, and injured 30 more.
Hours earlier, a powerful blast had ripped through the two-story house, which, according to Hamas officials, belonged to Ahmed Hamudi, a top commander in the organization. It was not clear whether Hamudi was inside the house at the time of the blast.
Palestinian witnesses initially said that an IAF aircraft fired a missile at the house, but later Thursday, Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida said that the group had opened an investigation into the explosion.
It was the first indication that the blast was caused by an accident, a claim earlier made by Israel
"We deny any connection to this incident," IDF spokeswoman Maj. Avital Leibovich had said, adding that the army had not been operating in the area at the time.
On Thursday night, a Palestinian was killed and three were wounded in an IAF strike east of Khan Yunis, according to Palestinian reports.
Earlier, three Palestinian gunmen were killed by IDF soldiers operating in Gaza. The army said that two gunmen were identified alongside the security fence near Beit Lahiya and were fired upon by Givati Brigade troops, who confirmed a hit.
A third operative was killed in an IAF air strike in the nearby Jabalya refugee camp.
Palestinian sources claimed that Fatah operatives had attempted to infiltrate an IDF outpost in the northern Gaza Strip and were killed in the ensuing gun battle.
On Wednesday, four Palestinians - three of them terrorists - were killed when continued mortar attacks on the western Negev drew deadly responses from the army.
They sez Joooos, Joooos point and laugh...
BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip - A blast flattened the house of a militant commander in the Gaza Strip Thursday, killing four people, wounding 40 and burying an unknown number of others, Palestinian officials said. Sounds like someone's private stash went up in smoke...
Israel, which routinely accepts responsibility for attacks on military targets, denied involvement. But Hamas said the blast was caused by an Israeli airstrike and responded with a heavy barrage of rockets and mortar shells into southern Israel, wounding an Israeli woman. Damn! We look like fools again! To the mortars!
Israel's denial raised the possibility that the blast was caused by explosives meant for use against Israel that went off prematurely. Yes. The "possibility"...
Ambulances rushed to the scene and residents of nearby homes brought shovels and bulldozers to help dig people from the rubble. Three people covered in blood were carried out on stretchers and hurried into ambulances that sped them away to the local hospital. It was not clear whether the Hamas commander, Ahmed Hamouda, was inside the two-story house at the time of the explosion. But let's keep thinking the good thoughts...
Cars parked nearby were destroyed and covered with dust, and windows of neighboring houses and shops were shattered by the impact of the blast. Electricians were on the scene trying to disable live wires in the house, which had been reduced to a pile of debris. Hamas security officials pushed back a screaming mob of hundreds to keep them from disrupting the rescue efforts. Move it along...Nuthin to see here but a smoking hole and a bunch of dead people. We see it every day. Move it along...
"It was a huge explosion," said Majid Abu Samra, a local resident. "The house was destroyed, and there are people still buried under the rubble. I evacuated two women who were covered in dust and blood." Dr. Moaiya Hassanain of the Gaza Health Ministry said an infant girl, a teenage boy and a man were killed. The man's identity was not immediately known because the body was burned so extensively. Dad, can we watch you wire up the new missiles?
Well....okay.
Maj. Avital Leibovich, an Israeli army spokeswoman, said the military was not operating in the area at the time. "We deny any connection to this incident," she said. ...as much as we would like to.
Hamas insisted that Israel was to blame even after it denied involvement."This heinous massacre reflects the ugly face of the Zionist Nazi occupation," said Abdel Latif Qanou, a Hamas spokesman. Harrrrumph Harrrrumph Harrrrumph...
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The Israelis should "leak" the "news" that they've been experimenting with a new microwave resonance device that detonates C-4, RDX, Semtex, and the major explosives in mortar rounds, artillery shells, and Katyusha rockets. Let it leak that they tested it against Gaza, and it "seems to work, even through concrete walls". The scurrying in Gaza would be comical to watch.
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BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip - An explosion flattened a house in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, killing seven people. After blaming Israel and unleashing a barrage of rockets and mortars, Hamas suggested the blast was accidental, not an Israeli attack. Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida said there would be an investigation of the blast and the results would be made public. The statement was taken as a Hamas acknowledgment that the blast was probably accidental, not an Israeli attack. Dozens of militants have been killed while handing explosives in recent years.
Yeah...ummmmmm...well...sorry about that Zionist Nazi occupation...stuff. It appears we jumped the gun.
Hamas said seven people were killed, including a 4-month-old girl and a senior aide to the Hamas interior minister. Several bodies were removed from the rubble. Among the dead were five militants, Hamas said. The owner of the house, Hamas area commander Ahmed Hamouda, was not there at the time of the explosion.
Geez, who's he gonna swear Dire Revenge against? Himself?
Hamas security officials said on Thursday that a powerful blast tore through a two-story house in northern Gaza, killing two people and injuring 20.
According to the officials, the house belonged to a top Hamas commander. It was not clear whether Ahmed Hamudi was inside the house at the time of the blast.
Witnesses said an IAF aircraft fired a missile at the house in the town of Beit Lahiya. The IDF said it was looking into the report.
The Israel Defense Forces killed four Palestinians - one militant and tthree civilians - in three separate incidents in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, and an Israeli man was lightly wounded by a mortar shell fired from the coastal territory.
The violence came as members of the diplomatic-security cabinet met to discuss a truce with Hamas in Gaza. It was decided in the meeting not to launch a much-touted invasion of the Gaza Strip in order to give Egyptian-brokered truce efforts more time to succeed.
On Wednesday afternoon, an IDF spokeswoman reported that an air strike was carried out in the northern Gaza Strip, killing a civilian. Earlier, a nine-year-old girl was killed by an IDF tank shell.
In a cross-border operation, IDF troops shot and killed a Hamas gunman and a civilian, medical workers and Hamas officials said. The army said a ground force had opened fire at militants who had been attempting to fire rockets into Israel from a built-up area in the Strip.
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The United States has sent troops from Guam to the southern Philippines to help the nation fight the terrorist group Abu Sayyaf. Our reporter in the Northern Marianas, Gemma Casas, reports Major General Donald Goldhorn saying members of the Guam National Guard have been training soldiers in the Philippines' southern province of Jolo to fight the Abu Sayyaf group.
The US considers Abu Sayyaf a terrorist group because of its involvement in bombings, kidnapping, rapes and extortion activities in the Philippines and other South East Asian nations. The major says the Guam guards will stay in Jolo for six months in an overall deployment of two years. He says the US considers Jolo an important mission to keep security in the Asia-Pacific region.
The Abu Sayyaf gained notoriety in 2000 when its members, armed with M-16s and rocket launchers, abducted 21 European tourists in Malaysia's Sipadan Island. They tortured the victims and beheaded an American tourist. The hostages were only freed after millions of dollars in ransom were paid. A Filipina broadcast journalist and her crew are believed to have been abducted by the Abu Sayyaf group on Monday.
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HMMMMM, although in other circumstances I would love the idea of Guam being in the news limelight, I'll be honest here and say I find this UNSETTLING.
Tamil Tiger rebels overran a navy outpost in Sri Lanka Wednesday, killing at least 10 sailors and losing four of their own fighters, the guerrillas said.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) said they seized heavy weapons and radar equipment after hitting the Irukkulampiddi naval detachment in northwestern Mannar district in a pre-dawn commando-style raid. Sri Lankans navy, however, said security forces had beaten back the offensive by killing at least four rebels, including a senior leader, and destroying a guerrilla boat.
They are making big claims, but the attack was beaten back, navy spokesman Commander DKP Dassanayake said. We lost three sailors killed and four more wounded. Four Tigers were killed. One of their boats was destroyed by us. The clandestine Voice of Tigers radio said the rebels occupied the navy facility for more than two hours and killed at least 10 sailors before escaping with heavy weapons including mortars, an anti-tank weapon and explosives.
Four Tiger commandos were killed in action, said the Tiger radio broadcast. The defence ministry said following the fighting, the military deployed Mi-24 helicopter gunships to attack fleeing rebel boats. The air assault had been launched targeting the terror boats fleeing (north) towards Veddithalthivu area, the ministry said. It said the guerrillas had carried out the attack with the intention of discouraging civilians in rebel-held areas from escaping to government-held territory.
The attack was on the small Mannar islet on the islands northwest coast which juts towards neighbouring India.
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High-risk raid in order to sieze weapons. Interdiction must be taking its bite.
Security officials say a shootout between Lebanese troops and gunmen on the edge of a Palestinian refugee camp has left a gunman dead and two soldiers wounded.
The officials say the shooting occurred when gunmen riding in a car opened fire as they tried to run away from an army checkpoint at an entrance to the Ein el-Hilweh camp in southern Lebanon. Ein el-Hilweh mi corazon
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ISLAMABAD - Pro-Taliban militants in Pakistan's tribal region killed a woman on Wednesday accusing her of spying for US-led international forces in neighbouring Afghanistan, officials said. "The body of the woman was found on the side of a road in Inayat Kali area of Bajaur Agency," said an official in the semi-autonomous tribal district. "She had been missing since Tuesday and was believed to have been abducted."
(SomaliNet) Djibouti said on Wednesday that two Djiboutian soldiers were killed and 21 wounded when troops clashed with Eritrean forces along their border overlooking strategic Red Sea shipping lanes. After a nearly two-month standoff, the first fighting since 1996 between Eritrea and Djibouti broke out on Tuesday. Djibouti hosts French and U.S. military bases and is the main route to the sea for Eritrea's arch-foe Ethiopia. 
(SomaliNet) Hours after rejecting a U.N.-brokered peace deal for the Horn of Africa nation, Somali insurgents killed five officers and one civilian in an attack on a Mogadishu police base, witnesses said. 
Charges were finally pressed yesterday in the sensational August 21 grenade attack case against 22 persons including top 
A criminal was killed yesterday in an encounter between his cohorts and police at Shankhola in Shibpur. The dead was identified as Emran, 28.
THE official at the centre of a police investigation into the loss of secret government documents about al-Qaeda has been suspended from his job, the Cabinet Office said last night. It is understood the two documents both marked "Secret" relate to al-Qaeda in Pakistan and the security situation in Iraq and were lost on Tuesday. The documents were handed to the BBC, which reported details of the security breach.
One of Britain's top intelligence officials left a file with secret documents about Iraq and al Qaeda on a train, in an embarrassing government security breach that was exposed on Wednesday.
The Supreme Court says foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.
Young men armed and paid by the U.S. military took to the streets of the Iraqi capital's Sadr City area for the first time Wednesday to guard their neighborhoods, part of a new strategy designed to recruit former Shiite militiamen to American-created security groups, U.S. officials said. 
Iraqi police have captured three Iranian-backed Special Groups operatives behind the kidnapping and murder of five US soldiers at the Karbala Provincial Joint Coordination Center in January 2007. Meanwhile, US troops captured another Special Groups leader in the Al Kut region,
A barrage of dozens of mortar shells and Kassam rockets launched into Israel on Thursday may have been cover for an attempted large-scale attack on IDF troops and Israeli civilians near the Gaza border, sources in the IDF told Channel 10. 
