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Never forgive,
Never forget,
Never "understand".
(as in, "We have to understand why they hate us".)
Posted by: Steve ||
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30 years ago the Iranian students were telling me they were going to blow up the World Trade Center because they believed it to be a secret staging ground of the US government, which housed the offices the US government used to control the world economy and suppress the Palestinians. All PhD students. The best of their country. No amount of education could persuade them differently. When I saw the towers fall, I thought to myself, "Those little sh*ts--they did it."
We can't forget, because it's a sickness with these people. They are not open to reason.
#4
Seven years later, and it still feels raw. I could not watch the whole video, but it did make me think of this from another time when America was underestimated:
"I fear that we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled him with a terrible resolve."
-- Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto December 7th, 1941
Go ask the corpse of the dead Admiral how that turned out.
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"as in, 'We have to understand why they hate us'."
FF chance of that for all us non-leftoids.
We'd rather they have to understand why we hate them. For the last few seconds of their worthless lives.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
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NEVER FORGIVE, NEVER FORGET. Hulk smash is right. F'em, their surviving gene line and aspirants. Kill em all. I'm not in the forgiving mood. BTW ? what kinda muslisluts hang out in a unsupervised structure with Arabs and Chechens (not (yet) of their family lines)??? Better Sharia (as I interprete) for thee than for me?
Sounds like whores and infidels got killded.
Posted by: Frank G ||
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I say we kill only as many as we have to in order to steal their fucking oil. Any more than that is a waste of otherwise potentially useful ordnance. Once we get all the oil, the rest will take care of itself for us.
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A South Korean cargo ship with Korean and Myanmarese sailors aboard was seized by pirates off the coast of Somalia Wednesday, diplomatic sources said. Eight Koreans and 13 Myanmarese were on the 15,000-ton ship when it was seized at 0700 GMT, the sources told the Yonhap news agency.
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They had better pray the South Korea doesnt send the ROK Marines to get it back. ROK Marines are some of the toughest SOBs on the planet. Ask anyone that's served with them.
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Okay, as much money as there is in international shipping, I guess the owners aka morons have never heard of decoy ships or the trojan ships. How about sending an innocent looking boat and filling it with troops. As soon as the schmucks come on board, everyone can yell surprise!!!
#6
Are the Somali pirates just grabbing anything heading towards the Suez? Perhaps we need to either (a) blow the crap out of them (b) start convoys for safety.
Naturally I prefer option (a). It also gives a chance for a smaller nation to step up.
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The closest I've ever come to dying in this world was the day I walked up behind a ROK Marine, and said "excuse me". My dad taught me to walk quietly in the woods back home when we'd go hunting together. It's NOT a good thing to do around ROK Marines. At least MSgt Ho had a sense of humor.
This is one of those times when there still needs to be a couple of battleships afloat. Let one of those stand off and start shelling the port where these ships are taken. It's almost as satisfying an experience as an ARCLIGHT strike - except for those on the receiving end.
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I like the idea of a transport ship full of Marines. ROK, UK, USA whatever. That would board random ships and then ride them through the straights hoping the ship is attacked.
Either that or a few forward air spotters aboard ships and a spooky gunship above. If pirate ships started disappearing in a spray of saltwater and blood it wouldn't be long before the problem sort of stopped.
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The West needs to setup a couple of dozen Q-ships and send them into the worst of the areas infested with pirates. After the first dozen or so slaughters of the attacking pirates, piracy will quiet down again. International law is quite clear on the permissible level of force against pirates -- whatever it takes to stop them is the standard that has been in operation since the 1630s.
Kuwait security has arrested a senior intelligence officer for allegedly altering files to enable people from Iraq to enter the Gulf state despite being barred, newspapers reported on Wednesday. Interior Minister Sheikh Jaber Khaled al-Sabah was quoted as saying that the lieutenant colonel had been referred to the public prosecution for legal action after an internal probe found he had "collaborated with a neighboring country."
The minister did not name the country but local media said it was Iraq.
Security service chief Major General Suleiman al-Muhailan told As-Siyassah newspaper that the officer was accused of "facilitating the entry of an Iraqi national" banned from entering Kuwait, by altering confidential security files. Muhailan said the officer is accused of receiving a 6,000 dinar (about $22,400 ) bribe to delete a security ban against the unnamed Iraqi, a charge he has denied.
Several newspapers quoted sources as saying the officer is accused of assisting a number of pro-Iranian Iraqi nationals to enter Kuwait by removing security bans against them.
A retired army officer was also arrested for acting as a "middle-man," they said.
Under then-President Saddam Hussein, Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait in August 1990 and occupied it for seven months before being driven out by a US-led coalition. Ties between the two Arab nations have been improving rapidly since Saddam was toppled after the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq and executed for crimes against humanity in December 2006.
On Monday, Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad al-Sabah accepted an invitation to visit Baghdad in what would be the first such trip in 18 years.
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KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait security has arrested a senior intelligence officer for allegedly altering files to enable people from Iraq to enter the Gulf state despite being barred, newspapers reported on Wednesday. Interior Minister Sheikh Jaber Khaled al-Sabah was quoted as saying that the lieutenant colonel had been referred to the public prosecution for legal action after an internal probe found he had "collaborated with a neighboring country."
Several newspapers quoted sources as saying the officer is accused of assisting a number of pro-Iranian Iraqi nationals to enter Kuwait by removing security bans against them.
A retired army officer was also arrested for acting as a "middle-man," they said.
The Middle East.. And Corruption? with a Payoff?
you mean a Spy Ring in Kuwait? including Baksheesh!!!.. To A MOLE!?!..
Ima Shocked!!! Intells ya.. Just Shocked!!!....*&^%$#@!!!
/yea just shocked
Posted by: Red Dawg ||
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When the rest of the Gulf states start doing the same thing, you'll know something is about to go down.
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When the rest of the Gulf states start doing the same thing, you'll know something is about to go down.
¿Pappy, An uptick in rolled up cells and spy rings thru-out the Gulf States, Egypt, Turkey, Jordon, Cyprus, Crete, Malta, Eurabia, and secretly in Lebanon? away from Hezbollah's vigilant breed gaze?
Hummm I assume that you are referring to the one BIG ONE! which will save the World from the HUGE ONE ie:
The BIG ONE!: WHEN Iran's widely dispersed Nuclear production facilities are destroyed by Israel and the USA.
The HUGE ONE: In 7 to 10 years a Nuclear Exchange between Iran VS It's Middle East neighbors, Eurabia, Israel, and the USA.
Other States like O'Canada might permit overflights etc. to help the GOOD CAUSE along.
Eventually all Nations could become possible targets of Iranian Nuclear weapons & other WMDs if nothing is done to stop their filthy religion and the Twelfth Imami.
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WASHINGTON, Sept 10 (Reuters) - President George W. Bush secretly approved orders in July that for the first time allow U.S. special forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the approval of the Pakistani government, The New York Times reported on Thursday.
The new orders reflect concern about safe havens for Al Qaeda and the Taliban inside Pakistan, as well as an American view that Pakistan lacks the will and ability to combat militants, the paper said. "The situation in the tribal areas is not tolerable," said a senior U.S. official who spoke to the Times on condition of anonymity. "We have to be more assertive. Orders have been issued."
The newspaper said the orders also illustrated lingering distrust of the Pakistani military and intelligence agencies and a belief some U.S. operations had been compromised once Pakistanis were advised of the details. U.S. officials told the Times they would notify Pakistan when they conduct limited ground attacks like the Special Operations raid last week in a Pakistani village near the Afghanistan border, but they would not ask for its permission.
Pakistan army chief Gen. Ashfaq Kayani said on Wednesday Pakistan would not allow foreign troops to conduct operations on its soil. "The sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country will be defended at all cost and no external force is allowed to conduct operations ... inside Pakistan," a military statement quoted Kayani as saying.
A senior U.S. official told the Times the Pakistani government had assented privately to the general concept of limited ground assaults by U.S. forces against significant militant targets, but that it did not approve each mission.
The top U.S. military officer told Congress on Wednesday the military was not winning the fight against the insurgency in Afghanistan and said it would revise its strategy to combat militant safe havens in Pakistan. "I'm not convinced we are winning it in Afghanistan. I am convinced we can," Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a congressional committee nearly seven years after U.S.-led forces toppled the Taliban. He said he was "looking at a new, more comprehensive strategy for the region" that would cover both sides of the border, including Pakistan's tribal areas.
Violence in Afghanistan has soared over the past two years as al Qaeda and Taliban fighters have regrouped in the remote region between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The United States has stepped up attacks against militant targets inside Pakistan this year with a series of missile strikes from unmanned drones and a raid by helicopter-borne U.S. commandos in recent days. The attacks have been denounced by Pakistani leaders.
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If the Mexican Army can operate across our Southern border with impunity, what's a couple SF troops to the Pakistanis, more or less? Have em' take a cue from our DoS to learn how to tolerate foreign incursions without blowing an aneurysm.
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Looks to me like he had some sort of deal with Perv. Since Perv is out of the way, it's open season on jihadis in Pakiwakiland - and about time, too.
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It was the low cost bid on GPS systems. Nah, we are just taking care of a long festering problem. Pakistan is one of the bee hives from whence terrorism comes. Hope Bush told the Pakis, since you didn't take of the problem, we are.
I cannot imagine Barack Obama as President during the WOT despite whatever he says.
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09/11/2008 11:42 Comments ||
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A senior U.S. official told the Times
One wonders who the open mouth belongs to and why he spoke. Sometimes it's ego, and unauthorized, but sometimes it's purposeful use of the media to send a message. If the former, he might should be hanged for treason.
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Five will get you ten that it was Mullin speaking "not for attribution." He is a bozo, does not inspire confidence, and should be dumped right now.
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Cross border commando operations are obvious. What isn't obvious, and was probably not seen by the NYT, was the additional secret authorization to SOCOM.
Which orders might have been best summarized by the Thuggee Guru in the move Gunga Din:
"Rise and kill. Kill, lest you be killed yourselves. Kill for the love of killing. Kill for the love of Kali. Kill! Kill! Kill!"
While not exactly an operations order, I'm sure that it would be appreciated by SOCOM types, in the current context.
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secretly approved orders in July that for the first time allow
For the first time in July? There have been complaints about ghosts killing jihadis for several years in that part of the world. I find it very hard to believe the president only recently authorized it... unless it was the CIA doing it before, and it's the DoD now.
#13
Screw Pakistan, when is W going to issue a secret order to infiltrate the NY Times and get me the clues to the Sunday crossword puzzle ahead of time.
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Pakistan army chief Gen. Ashfaq Kayani said on Wednesday Pakistan would not allow foreign troops to conduct operations on its soil.
He doesn't consider Binny and Knothead to be foreigners?
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There's been a low-level war going on between President Bush and the bureaucracies in Washington since he took office. Washington needs a thorough house-cleaning, but it would take ARCLIGHT strikes, napalm, and maybe a nuke or two to get some of those entrenched a$$holes out of their offices. Two divisions of Marines wouldn't be enough. Everyone who belongs to AFSCME needs to be fired - ALL employees of the Federal Government serve "at the convenience of the President", and they need to learn that. Unfortunately, the Donks have passed enough laws that it's virtually impossible to clean house without military intervention.
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
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PLZ write the advertisers for the NYSLIMES and the other Traitorous Rags.
FACT #1. for every one letter received from a consumer of a product, it is counted as representing 1000 other couch potatoes or bizzy bees who are either too lazy or too bizzy to write, but do consume the advertisers product/s.
Ima not sure whether Old fashion Letters are better than e-mails.
It doesn't take many Citizens to change economic pressure on Manufactures.
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09/11/2008 16:07 Comments ||
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Good.
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Good.
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President George W. Bush secretly approved ...
Thanks a heap NYT! But don't question the their patriotism.
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E-mails pretty much don't rate, Red Dawg - they pretty much count as one for one Old-fashioned snail mail is the way to go if you want it to count as multiples.
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CNN BLITZER > THE SEARCH FOR OSAMA BIN LADEN > reminded that Osama's fromer driver argued OBL was alive as of 2005 [few years after TORA BORA] and was actively recruiting for AQ in Afghanistan when Dubya invaded Iraq in 2003. CNN BLITZER > ITS NOT JUST THE TALIBAN BUT ALSO AL QAEDA THAT IS REFORMING AND STRENGTHENING/RE-ARMING INSIDE PAKISTAN.
It remains my belief that even iff US SPECOPS, etc. did finally capture or kill OBL, espec by 11/08 Elex or Jan 2009, or even 2010 [post-Dubya], IT MAY NO LONGER BE ENUFF TO STOP THE ISLAMIST THREAT, IRAN, andor PAN-ISLAMIST NUCLEARIZATION. THE US GOVT-DOD MAY HAVE TO DUST OFF ANY PRE-SHELVED PLANS FOR A NEW NATIONAL DRAFT WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR NOT, WANT A DRAFT OR NOT.
Troops backed by tanks and heavy artillery attacked militants in the Bajaur tribal agency on Wednesday, and an FC statement said 30 Taliban were killed in a clash in the Rashakai area. Regular army troops have joined paramilitary forces to continue an advance on militant strongholds in the agency, and a jirga (tribal council) vowed to keep terrorists out of the Salarzai tehsil. "Troops pounded artillery and used fighter jets to target militant hideouts," a security official told AFP on condition of anonymity. "Key Taliban strongholds Loyesam, Charmang and Tangkhatta are under the control of security forces, who are setting up checkposts in the areas," security officials told Daily Times. Militants clad as women tried to attack the marching troops, sources said, but the attack was repulsed. Meanwhile, the Salarzai tribe jirga renewed its pledge "to stand by the government" as it announced new sanctions against people supporting militancy in their areas.
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MINGORA: Eleven militants were killed in security forces' shelling in Kooza Bandai area, local residents and a military spokesman said on Wednesday. Fighter planes were also used to target suspected Taliban positions in the area, locals said, however, military spokesman Col Nadeem denied the statement, saying the planes were on reconnaissance flights over the area. "There has been no aerial bombing today despite planes flying over the area," he told Daily Times and confirmed the 11 Taliban casualties. Swat-based Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan alleged that "jet planes bombed" their positions in Kooza Bandai. Local residents said a large number of militants were 'spotted' early Wednesday morning in the area and were believed killed in the assault. Meanwhile, militants continued to target property of politicians and used bombs to destroy Awami National Party leader Afzal Khan's bus stand and seven shops in Sumbat area of Matta tehsil.
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At least 25 worshippers were killed and 50 others injured in a grenade-and-gun attack in a mosque in the Maskanai area of lower Dir on Wednesday.
Unidentified militants threw hand grenades in the Sunni mosque in Banai village -- less than three kilometres from the Afghan border -- during Taravih prayers and fired at the worshippers. "The attackers first lobbed grenades into the mosque and then opened fire with Kalashnikovs on the worshippers," Bahadur Khan, the village nazim, told Reuters.
The attack was a rare one in Dir district, which has a majority of Sunni Muslims.
Local official Mahmood Khan told AFP three grenades were thrown into the mosque and hit the last two rows of the congregation. The security official said the attack did not appear to be sectarian. "It is a blatant act of terrorism," he said.
No group or individual has claimed responsibility so far, but Khan said last month a meeting of elders in the area had issued a strongly worded statement against the Taliban and had vowed to act against them entering the area.
Law-enforcement agencies cordoned off the area and beefed up security after the attack.
The injured, most of who Express News reported to be children, were taken to the District Headquarters Hospital in Timar Garah and the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital in Samar Bagh. Dir District Co-ordination Officer Ghulam Muhammad told the state-run APP news agency that a state of emergency had been declared at the Timar Garha hospital. Hospital official said many of the injured were in critical condition and feared the death toll could rise.
APP also said Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani condemned the attack. "The prime minister, in his message, expressed profound grief and sorrow over the loss of life and prayed for the departed souls. He also prayed for the recovery of the injured," the agency said.
NWFP MPA: Unidentified militants shot dead member of provincial assembly (MPA) and former NWFP minister Akhtar Nawaz Khan close to his home in Khalabat on Wednesday evening. The slain MPA was the provincial minister for fisheries in the previous government and had joined the Awami National Party (ANP) after winning the February 18 elections as an independent candidate.
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(VOI) - National police forces on Wednesday arrested 15 wanted gunmen during military operations conducted in Diala, a security source said. "National police forces conducted a military operation in Buhriz, 5 km south of Baaquba, capturing 15 gunmen on a wanted list including a commander of the self-proclaimed Army of Mujaheddin." Since July, Iraqi security forces have conducted a large-scale operation codenamed as Bashaer al-Kheer (Promise of Good) to crack down on gunmen and to assert the rule of law in Diala. The self-proclaimed Army of Mujaheddin is an armed groups that has come to the front since 2003. It claimed responsibility for a number of attacks.
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(VOI) -- Two gunmen believed to belong to the self-styled 'Islamic State of Iraq' were arrested in Huweija with a cart bomb and TNT explosives in their possession, a local police chief in Kirkuk said on Wednesday. "On Wednesday, Police forces in Kirkuk detained two gunmen, who belong to the so-called 'Islamic State of Iraq' in al-Sina'I (Industrial) neighborhood, Huweija district (65 km southwest of Kirkuk city)," Brigadier Sarhad Qadir told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). "In their possession, a cart bomb and TNT explosives were found," the brigadier noted. "The two confessed during preliminary interrogation that they were planning to target a demonstration or a march in the district," Qadir noted.
The Islamic State of Iraq is an armed organization that was set up in October 2006. Most prominent of its groups is al-Qaeda in Iraq, led by a man called Abu Omar al-Boghdadi.
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Cart bomb, huh? Anyone ever try a stink bomb. The kind where you drop a bomb down the hole in a public toilet and wait for the target fellow to go in. Once he is in position, kaboom! The body comes out the walls and lays on the street. Nobody can touch him because he truely is 'unclean'.
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Palin's son is going there with his Stryker brigade. Hope he isn't bait for some special trap. God bless this young man and keep him safe (but not safer than anyone else, know what I mean).
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They couldn't even steal a car so they did a cart?
Getting lame...
Egyptian authorities on Wednesday blocked an opposition convoy headed for the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip to protest its continued closure and protest Israel's punishing blockade, a security official said.
Another security official said police had stopped an initial part of the convoy, made of about 50 judges, independent MPs, members of the main opposition Muslim Brotherhood and activists from other parties, in Ismailiya, on the Suez Canal, with a second part of the convoy set to leave Cairo in the afternoon.
Police have set up further checkpoints on the road between
Ismailiya and the town of al-Arish in northern Sinai, about 30 miles (45 kilometers) from Rafah, the security official said. "The authorities have reinforced security measures on ferries crossing the Suez Canal into the Sinai peninsula," he added.
The Rafah crossing in southern Gaza is the territory's only one that is not under the control of Israel, which sealed off the coastal strip after the democratically-elected Hamas seized power there in June 2007 in a move that aid agencies say has created a humanitarian crisis.
"We want the Israeli blockade that is making our Palestinian brothers live in inhuman conditions to be lifted," said Muslim Brother MP and convoy spokesman Hamdi Hassan before leaving Cairo. "We also want to denounce the Egyptian government which is keeping the Rafah crossing closed in agreement with Israel, which makes life even more difficult for the Palestinians," he added, noting that the Egyptian government has destroyed tunnels that were the only means the Gaza Strip had to receive aid.
While Israel allows extremely limited amounts of aid through its crossings with the Gaza Strip, Egypt has been clamping down on the tunnels that take many staples from its territory into Gaza.
Earlier this month in honor of Ramadan, Egypt opened Rafah briefly to allow thousands in and out of the besieged Hamas-run territory, including Palestinians requiring treatment in Egyptian hospitals, and Palestinians holding Egyptian passports. Egypt has refused to open the Rafah crossing permanently.
In related news, Egyptian police trying shot dead a Sudanese man who tried to slip across the frontier overnight, medical and security sources said on Wednesday, bringing to 23 the number of African migrants killed at the border this year.
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An Israeli military helicopter with a two-man crew crashed near the northern town of Afula and burst into flames on Wednesday, army radio said.
Emergency teams were scrambled to the scene to try to save the pilot and navigator, the radio said. Reports said the crew was feared dead but there was no official word.
The Cobra helicopter was on a training exercise with a second aircraft of the same type at the time of the accident and was carrying a significant quantity of explosives. Army radio said it was thought the crash might have been sparked by a mid-air collision between the two aircraft.
A witness told public radio that he had seen the helicopter lose a rotor before hitting the ground.
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A defence volunteer was shot dead while he was driving students to school in the violence-plagued province of Narathiwat on Wednesday. Jeasae Dasae, 44, was shot by a gunman on a motorcycle when he stopped his vehicle, waiting for more students, to drive them to school. The attack took place about 200 meters away from Kalisa School in Rangae district. About 10 students in the pick-up truck screamed when they saw the shooting taking place. The gunman escaped and the victim was pronounced dead at hospital.
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Classer. Would you care to elaborate on the wonderful Islamic Religion of Terror "virtue" that justifies this murder by your fellow Mohammedans? The moderators here would seem to whole heartedly agree since they posted your wonderful, glowing, propaganda below regarding The Religion of Terror.
Sri Lankan jets blasted the Tamil Tigers' intelligence headquarters on Wednesday, striking back the day after a rebel air and ground assault on a major military base killed at least 25 people, the military said.
It also said that soldiers killed 19 guerrillas from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in other skirmishes in the north of the Indian Ocean island nation on Tuesday, bringing the rebel death toll for the day to 30. Two soldiers were killed and eight were wounded in Tuesday's clashes, which took place away from the artillery, air and ground battle that erupted after the Tigers hit the military's Vavuniya base south of the army's frontline.
Responding on Wednesday to the strike, the air force said jets hit the LTTE's intelligence command centre near Kilinochchi. "A high-profile LTTE gathering was taking place at the time of the attack," the military said in a statement.
Claim disputed: The LTTE rejected the military's statement, and accused the air force of hitting civilian homes during Wednesday's raid.
"Sri Lanka's air force bombed civilian settlements near Kilinochchi town centre, destroying 12 homes. No one was hurt because people sought safety in the bunkers," the LTTE said on its official www.ltteps.org website. The site showed photographs of what the guerrillas said were the houses hit by the bombing. The air force dismissed the accusation.
On Monday, the government ordered aid workers out of the battle zone, saying it could not guarantee their security and signalling it planned to give no quarter in its offensive. Rights watchdog Amnesty International warned that the decision could endanger tens of thousands of refugees from the fighting and leave local aid workers vulnerable to abuses by the rebels.
"If the government is telling aid workers to pull back, then it must show it has the capacity to feed and protect its own citizens left behind," Amnesty's Asia-Pacific director, Sam Zarifi, said in a statement. Amnesty also said it has received credible reports that the rebels had prevented civilians from moving to safer government-held areas. The Tigers' ramshackle air wing and a squad of "Black Tiger" suicide commandos carried out Tuesday's coordinated assault on the Vavuniya base, which the military said killed a total of 25 people including 11 rebels.
The rebels said they destroyed a radar installation and wounded two Indian radar operators. The military denied this. The LTTE also denied that the air force had for the first time shot down one of its light aircraft, part of a tiny and elusive fleet that has staged seven attacks since March 2007. No independent confirmation of the downing had emerged by Wednesday.
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Haven't been keeping up much with the Tigers. All the news about them seems to be down. Surprised that they have any intelligence left.
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Saleh Aridi, a member of Lebanon's opposition Democratic party, was killed Wednesday in a car bomb explosion in the vicinity of Aley town, southeast of Beirut, officials said. "Aridi was killed in the explosion in Baysur, near Aley," a security official told AFP on condition of anonymity. "The initial probe indicates that the bomb was placed inside his Mercedes." A Lebanese army spokesman said three other people were injured.
The incident comes as Lebanon's political parties prepare for a national dialogue next week aimed at reconciling their differences, which in May brought the country close to civil war.
Aridi, in his 50s, was a top advisor to Druze leader Talal Arslan, a rival to Walid Jumblatt, a leading member of the Western-backed parliamentary majority.
The last car bombing in Lebanon dates back to January, when a senior intelligence officer investigating killings largely blamed on Syria was slain with three other people in the Lebanese capital.
This article starring:
Saleh Aridi
Talal Arslan
Walid Jumblatt
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In a few hours I'll be leaving for a trip to San Francisco. On the occasion of the seventh anniversary of that awful day, I will be boarding a plane that is fully loaded with Jet-A in preparation for a transcontinental flight. I will have had to take my shoes off for inspection, I will have had to stow all fluids and gels in my checked baggage, I will have had to deal with long lines, TSA functionaries and a malignant abundance of silly 'security' measures.
I will remember *why* I will have been inconvenienced.
I will give silent thanks to the greatness of America, our President, the men and women bravely standing between us and the bloody borders...to include the fine publisher, staff, and readers of this very website.
Thank you Fred - Rantburg allows me to make a difference.
Never forget, never forgive, never *understand*.
Emily
PS Almost forgot. I shall be reading Orianna Fallaci's The Rage and the Pride while in the air.
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Thank you Fred - Rantburg allows me to make a difference.
Never forget, never forgive, never *understand*.
Emily
PS Almost forgot. I shall be reading Orianna Fallaci's The Rage and the Pride while in the air.
Beautifully said Emily... by a true American Beauty...
Damn Em although we've never met I'm proud as hell of you and feel humbled and lucky as hell to know you are my fellow Citizen.
Rick S.
ps. please permit me to associate myself with your sentiments...
"I will give silent thanks to the greatness of America, our President, the men and women bravely standing between us and the bloody borders...to include the fine publisher, staff, and readers of this very website."
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Its been a seven years since I started trying to understand what drives people to commit atrocities like Sept 11.
Rantburg has been the best tool for me and with the power of the internet I have gained knowledge from those who frequent this site.
It has been invaluable in my quest to educate people I come into contact with the truth about a real evil that is in the world.
Seven years now, but it seems like yesterday until I think about it has changed my life. That evening I wrote:
"This is a war like no other. It will be a war of extermination, and it will continue until the last terrorist rat is driven from his hole and killed."
I have never deviated from that position.
I had never heard of Rantburg or Little Green Footballs but I found them a few weeks later. I thought "these people get it."
Posted by: Frank G ||
09/11/2008 4:54 Comments ||
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Fred, this place is a beacon of light for us out here, thanks for keeping it running.
Kurt, Jaimie and the rest of my brothers that have paid the toll for me I thank you. I will never forget and I will never quit.
NSDQ!
Posted by: 49 Pan ||
09/11/2008 5:57 Comments ||
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The seldom heard second and third verses of the Battle Hymn of the Republic:
I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps
His day is marching on.
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
Glory! Glory! Hallelujah!
His truth is marching on.
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnish`d rows of steel, "As ye deal with my contemners, So with you my grace shall deal;" Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel Since God is marching on.
I am in fact agnostic, but this glorious song perfectly summarizes the righteousness and justice of our cause, and the steadfastness that will bring final victory.
I am heartsick at the killing and the grief, but let it continue until the last terrorist is in fact dragged from his hole and killed; and until the last traitor is sentenced, and the last enabler reduced to poverty and disgrace.
#9
Thank you Fred and friends for doing a great job on tracking the WOT news. I learn a lot from you daily. Just one little bitty suggestion on the daily beauties. More breasts, less high heels.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon ||
09/11/2008 6:22 Comments ||
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And the rarely-sung fourth verse of America the Beautiful:
O beautiful, for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years,
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America! God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood, from sea to shining sea!
I usually make its fourth line a lie.
Posted by: Eric Jablow ||
09/11/2008 7:13 Comments ||
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The battlespace in this war spans more than just the physical and military.
There is the intellectual and the spiritual as well.
Both Fred and charles have done admirably in fighting the battle in the intellectual front. Keep it up, and God bless you!
I've been hard at work coming up with the counterpunch on the spiritual front. Had a breakthrough 04/08 that gave a few of the regulars here heartburn. Not at all sorry about that, since the next seven years will prove different.
#12
9-11 troofers are already busy desecrating this day with their foul droppings.
Troofers sorely test my commitment to the First Amendment. They should pray to Cthulhu or Satan or whomever they worship that I don't wake up some morning and find myself appointed dictator.
Clear blue sky today; not a cloud in it. Damn.
Today's read: Defending the West by Ibn Warraq.
Posted by: Minister of funny walks ||
09/11/2008 7:47 Comments ||
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President Bush said this is going to be a long war, and so it is. My gratitude to those here and elsewhere who strap on body armor to face the foe, those who slip like ghosts toward targets of evil men or machines in need of damaging, those who track down the whispers of jihadi plotting on the internet, those who analyze and strategize and otherwise do all the things I can't even imagine. I will do my bit at home and here at Rantburg to make sure that what you defend remains worth defending. For faith given, faith returned.
#17
Thanks Fred for what you have done here. You have provided an invaluable service to many. It was shortly after 911 that I discovered Rantburg. Rantburg has served as a vehicle to express my good feelings at our successes in this WOT and my anger at the truly evil and despicable people that caused 911 that precipitated the WOT. This is a time to re-dedicate ourselves to winning the war against these evil and despicable people. My sorrow heartfelt sorrow to all the victims of 911 and brave men and women who gave their lives in the WOT. There is no forgetting and no forgiving. This war will go on as long as is necessary.
#18
I still won't forget the first two thoughts that flashed through my mind when I saw the second plane hit the tower and realized this was a terrorist strike.
"This means a long and bloody war."
"Thank God Gore is not in the white house."
#19
Thank God we have our brave soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines.
Thank God we had a war president for these hard years.
Thank God for Fred and all the loyal Rantburgers for helping to keep this (admittedly rather mad) reader sane.
God bless America and her gallant allies.
Posted by: Jonathan ||
09/11/2008 10:54 Comments ||
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Fred---Thank you so much for this site. It has been so helpful in a number of ways to educate us on what we face, as well as to get to know others with similar concerns. Some of these people I have met, like Frank G and Anymouse. Some I regularly correspond or talk with, like Deacon, Dave D, Seafarious, 49 Pan, and others.
There are many lessons I have learned from 9-11. I have been following the cancer of terrorism from the ME ever since the US Embassy hijacking in Teheran, where my friend went in behind the mountains behind the capital in support of the aborted rescue attempt. I don't think that people in general could fathom the evil and hatred of others that exist toward this country. Some people get it. But today, a lot don't, sadly.
I was at a Christmas get together one evening in New Zealand in 1994, and one of the ladies there stated that in some ways, the US got what it deserved at 9-11. I was angered and hurt at that statement. Then she went on about the US dropping the atomic bombs on Japan. Nothing I said would she listen to. Her mind was closed.
I realized that we have many allies, but with allies or not, it would be up to us to protect this country and root out this evil, from without and within.
Again, thanks Fred, for all you have done in creating this forum, and for providing a place for others, which we now call fellow Rantburgers.
And pray for the souls of those people who did not make it out that day, 7 years ago, and those that did not make it back from the battlefields.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
09/11/2008 11:13 Comments ||
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Adding my name in thanks for Rantburg University, for all the understanding and knowledge it has provided to me throughout the years. And the love, care and understanding given to all of those who serve on the battle fronts.
#25
Rantburg is freedom. Freedom to rant, to read, to agree or disagree. Heck, they even let me post here even when I disagree and even when I'm wrong. Our enemies fear that because a free exchange of ideas exposes their ideology for the fraud that it is. They would destroy it if they could and I thank the people who keep me safe from them. Sometimes our enemies post here which leads me to wonder if some of them might secretly read it and if some of the truth gets through to them. Last time Fred asked for tips I was a little low on dough. Today I think I'll make up for it. It's the least I can do.
Posted by: no mo uro ||
09/11/2008 12:52 Comments ||
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Fred, and everyone here, thanks so much for what you've provided me these past seven years. You've informed me, you've cheered me and you've humbled me. I want to give special thanks to those who've gone into harm's way. I am awed by your courage and resolve. We remain free because of men and women like you.
This will be a long fight. We will have to be patient and steadfast. A complete understanding of our enemy will only bolster this resolve.
Fred, thank you again for creating this wonderful forum.
#28
Found this site about a year ago; Fred, thanks.
I will never forget what came over the radio that morning, regarding the first tower strike. I had just finished reading a book titled ' The Sky is Falling," and my first instinct was that it had happened again (In 1945 the Empire State Building was hit by a USAAF plane in heavy fog). We had the TV on @ work to see the second hit. All day was a daze. I still have the newspapers from that day, and the burning Towers are part of my screensavers.
Today, we had our planning meeting for our Veteran's Muster that we have every year on November 11th at our club. One of our committee members is an 88 year old WW2 army vet of the PTO. He is our last WW2 member, we lost 3 last year including and ex-British Army Major who rescued a small Italian town that was the birthplace of the other army vet I mentioned before. Smaller world back then. I bring this up to remind everyone that in 2 months time we will know who our new leader will be and we will later pause to reflect on our veteran's and the price they have paid to make us so free that those who aren't look to us for inspiration. Rantburg in many ways memorializes that inspiration by pointing out every day that freedom is not free the home of the brave is exactly that. Thank you Fred - hitting the tip jar as a result.
Posted by: Jack is Back! ||
09/11/2008 13:38 Comments ||
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9/11 changed things for most Americans, waking them up to the fact that there were people waging war against us, and getting the average American involved. It wasn't the start of this war, however. The war started long before that. Even Munich 72 wasn't the beginning, but one of the first International signs of the war. I happened to be in Germany that day. I KNOW the US military began keeping close track of as many terrorist groups as possible, beginning back then. There were other attrocities committed against us - the Achillea Lauro, the Lockerbie bombing, the disco in Berlin, attacks on our embassies (especially the capture of our embassy in Tehran), the Kenya bombing, the Cole... the list is long, and the price high. After 9/11, we finally decided to fight back. It's making a difference - no attack on American soil in seven years. It's been expensive, both in dollars and lives, but we've bought ourselves some breathing room, and pushed our enemies to flee their prior sanctuaries. The job's not done - there is more ahead of us. It may take three decades to reduce the threat to the world to something that police forces can contend with. Places like Rantburg allow old warriors like me to have a say in that battle, and perhaps actually contribute to the defeat of our enemies, both at home and abroad. Thank you, Fred, for that opportunity, and for all you do to keep Rantburg the premier site putting the truth out there for all of us to read and understand.
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
09/11/2008 14:11 Comments ||
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Daily reader, occasional poster, thought the below from the Middle East Conflicts Memorial taken by a friend of mine would be appropriate today.
Thanks to you, and all the mods, and particularly to Fred, for this beacon of light called Rantburg. It is a true blessing, and I can't hope to express my gratitude enough - though I will continue to try.
Always be grateful. Never forget. Never forgive.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
09/11/2008 16:19 Comments ||
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For Alaska Paul about your New Zealander.
You could hav reminded her that 300,00 chinese and about as many other inhabitants of Asia were dying every month either due to direct murder by
the Japanese Army or due to starving after the Japanese stole their food. And in case she tried to continue arguing then you could have gone for the jugular and caller her/yelled her a racist who doesn't give a damn about Chinese lives (and Japanese ones only to bash America)
#36
Yes, JFM, I could have reminded her of that, and a number of items like that in the ammo locker. But I could see that her mind was closed. My wife said, look, if you get attacked by a bunch of criminals, thieves, murderers, or rabid dogs, who are you going to call? Will you call the psychologist, a minister, or will you call the police? The problem was that these people will not accept that these terrorists are terrorists and nutbags that need to be put down. They look to liberals like misunderstood victims of injustice, poverty, etc etc. The gulf is too wide, JFM. They cannot and will not use reason to understand.
I will tell you one thing. On 9-11, I had Canadian friends and business associates call me and express their anger, hurt, and outrage over this event. That was reassuring.
Posted by: Alaska Paul ||
09/11/2008 19:29 Comments ||
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Thanks to Fred, and all other who come to pay tribute. And the video, Spook.
[wipes tear, hits tipjar]
Posted by: Bobby ||
09/11/2008 20:04 Comments ||
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#38
Thank you for the video, Old Spook.
I'm glad I didn't try to watch it at work. It really doesn't look professional to cry.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
09/11/2008 20:12 Comments ||
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#39
Thank you Fred, Barbara, Trailing Wife, Old Patriot, Old Spook, Atomic Conspiracy, ptah, lotp, badanov, Broadhead 6 (Semper Fi sir!) and everyone else here at Rantburg. Thanks to my brother and sister Marines, soldiers, salors, airmen, Coast Guard, and first responders. That day and the sacrifice will never be forgotten.
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A South Korean cargo ship with Korean and Myanmarese sailors aboard was seized by pirates off the coast of Somalia Wednesday, diplomatic sources said. Eight Koreans and 13 Myanmarese were on the 15,000-ton ship when it was seized at 0700 GMT, the sources told the Yonhap news agency.
Troops backed by tanks and heavy artillery attacked militants in the Bajaur tribal agency on Wednesday, and an FC statement said 30 Taliban were killed in a clash in the Rashakai area. Regular army troops have joined paramilitary forces to continue an advance on militant strongholds in the agency, and a jirga (tribal council) vowed to keep terrorists out of the Salarzai tehsil. "Troops pounded artillery and used fighter jets to target militant hideouts," a security official told AFP on condition of anonymity. "Key Taliban strongholds Loyesam, Charmang and Tangkhatta are under the control of security forces, who are setting up checkposts in the areas," security officials told Daily Times. Militants clad as women tried to attack the marching troops, sources said, but the attack was repulsed. Meanwhile, the Salarzai tribe jirga renewed its pledge "to stand by the government" as it announced new sanctions against people supporting militancy in their areas.
MINGORA: Eleven militants were killed in security forces' shelling in Kooza Bandai area, local residents and a military spokesman said on Wednesday. Fighter planes were also used to target suspected Taliban positions in the area, locals said, however, military spokesman Col Nadeem denied the statement, saying the planes were on reconnaissance flights over the area. "There has been no aerial bombing today despite planes flying over the area," he told Daily Times and confirmed the 11 Taliban casualties. Swat-based Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan alleged that "jet planes bombed" their positions in Kooza Bandai. Local residents said a large number of militants were 'spotted' early Wednesday morning in the area and were believed killed in the assault. Meanwhile, militants continued to target property of politicians and used bombs to destroy Awami National Party leader Afzal Khan's bus stand and seven shops in Sumbat area of Matta tehsil.
At least 25 worshippers were killed and 50 others injured in a grenade-and-gun attack in a mosque in the Maskanai area of lower Dir on Wednesday.
Sri Lankan jets blasted the Tamil Tigers' intelligence headquarters on Wednesday, striking back the day after a rebel air and ground assault on a major military base killed at least 25 people, the military said. 
