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Evey time they shoot at the coalition, they get beat bad. Would'nt you just start hiding from the coalition forces? I would'nt double dog dare them like they are doing to the coalition.
#4
I've been noticing the same theme repeated: the Taliban start a fight, then after they start losing, they get more and more replacements.
Reinforcing defeat. That is a violation of a cardinal military rule. But why?
It is mistakes, compounded. First of all, when attacking a superior enemy, you *start* by hitting them with everything you got and all at once, hoping to even the odds enough so that you even have a chance.
And then, unless you are obviously winning, you do a measured withdrawl, hoping to break up the enemy formation if they press, with terrain favorable to you. It also gives you a chance to disengage if enemy air cover is imminent.
Then, if your subordinate leaders can team up and take down a part of the enemy forces before retreating, you will still have managed an effective fight, even if it isn't a clean win.
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Think of the mindset - marry a people who have never been completely defeated (or at peace) from Alexander to present day with a religion that says ya gotta kill the infidel and if by chance he gets you, you get all these Valhalla-type goodies. That gives you a perfect Darwinian gene pool. I gotta believe they reproduce before they go jihad or they'd be about out of water in the pool by now - probably a fresh tanker load from Pak Land every day to replenish the supply.
#7
For the most part these are a small fraction of the many excess males from a polygamous society. Brain wash them in the mosques, promise them heaven and oodles of money and send them on their way. It's not like they will return to collect, money or the promises of heaven.
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The number of Taliban killed in a major operation underway in southern Afghanistan passed 100 on Wednesday, US-led coalition said after earlier announcing 61 were dead, AFP reports.
The fighting, involving international ground and air forces, started on Tuesday in the Musa Qala district of the southern province of Helmand, the coalition said in a statement. The initial estimate by the ground force commander assessed that more than 104 insurgents were killed thus far in the engagement, the statement said.
Musa Qala district centre was captured by the extremist Taliban in early February and has been in rebel control since, becoming one of the insurgents major strongholds. There have been a handful of major battles in Afghanistan this year in which international militaries have said the number of rebels killed had passed 100.
The NATO-led force, which operates alongside the coalition, said in a separate statement on Wednesday that more than 65 rebel fighters were killed late on Tuesday in a similar battle in the south-central province of Uruzgan. Apart from the killing of one foreign soldier in Helmand, which was reported earlier, there were no other casualties among Afghan and coalition troops, Reuters reported. On Wednesday, more than 1,000 people staged a demonstration against foreign troops, saying they killed two Islamic clerics overnight in southern Kandahar provinces Zhari district and carried out house searches in the area.
Militants fire rockets: Militants also fired rocket-propelled grenades at a radio station in an insurgency-plagued province south of the Afghan capital, wounding a security guard, AP quoted the police as saying on Wednesday.
The attack late on Monday night in Logar province sparked a one-hour battle between the radio station guards and insurgents, said Qudratullah Arabzai, the provincial police chief of criminal investigations. Some equipment at the Milli Paygham - or National Message - radio station was damaged, station director Muhammad Nassir Mudasir said.
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The British left Musa Qala late last year after negotiating with elders to keep the talibunnies out. This is much like their current retreat from Basra. Their liberal PC leaders are betraying the brave British fighting men. These are the same people who said we were wrong to stand up to the Jihadis in Fallujah.
Ah, the liberal mind is convinced that you can pick up a turd by the clean end!
#6
The greatest strategic question in the WOT is at what point the enemy's rate of attrition becomes unsustainable.
The Confederates lost something like 400,000 before they called it quits. The Soviets lost millions and never caved. This may take a while. I don't see any acceptable alternatives at the moment. Best to get on with it. Might not be that bad. The Anbaris have already had enough. Could be a trend.
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Do I have to keep on cracking open the same old tinny? I hope not.
#8
Don' be silly, dear rhodesiafever. We keep a supply for you (and whoever else might need one) in the O Club. Just pop in and mention my name to the bartender. ;-)
A London court on Monday found a teenage Muslim guilty of illegally having a manual detailing how to make homemade bombs and was warned he could face jail. The manual said by prosecutors to be a step by step guide to the manufacture and production of viable, improvised explosive devices was found at the family home of Abdul Patels wife in a police raid in August 2006.
So the "terrorist" manual taught him how to make "explosives" so he could "kill people." Gotcher drift, there... But what the hell kinda name is "Abdul Patel"? Half Moose limb - half Hindoo?
Patel, 18, from London, was also said to have had close links to an alleged Islamist extremist. A jury at Londons Central Criminal Court convicted him of having a document likely to be useful for an act of terrorism. He was cleared of an alternative charge of having a document for an act of terrorism.
Prob'ly because he didn't have a chance to "kill" anybody.
Judge Peter Rook told Patel he was keeping all options open for sentencing, which would take place on October 26. Patel was released in the meantime on conditional bail. Prosecutor Peter Wright had told the jury that Patel was part of a web of radicalised young Muslim men in which his possession of the explosives manual was not innocent. It was entirely deliberate. It was available for use if called upon. It was in the custody of a young man who was ready, willing and able to assist in a cause he believed in.
He added, In the wrong hands, the information contained in this manual can have catastrophic consequences including causing explosions of the most terrifying kind in the UK and abroad. Patel denied being an Islamist extremist and claimed in his defence that the manual was in one of two boxes that had been left in the house by a man known to his father. He said he had asked the man to take the boxes away after discovering their contents. Also in one of the boxes was a CD labelled Love Songs containing an Islamist address apparently aimed at US military personnel.
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He said he had asked the man to take the boxes away after discovering their contents.
Clearly, the kid did everything he could to make certain illegal items were not in his home. Give him a break.
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Chris, that's the kind of thing one turns over to the police, or burns with the rubbish in the back garden. "Please pick it up when convenient," is not a rejection of the contents or the putative owner's politics.
#5
Most likely a Pak muzzie. My inclination would be to deport him. But we're not getting the whole story here. How do they know it was his if it was found at the home of his wife's family? Was he living there too? Sponging off of them most likely? Eighteen years old, married and most likely no job but a taste for bomb making manuals? Deport him and his wife and her family too and his family too.
Followers of a local cleric, Maulana Fazlullah, on Wednesday released two police personnel after the administration released three suspected militants. Sources said the Charbagh police had arrested three militants last week in the Gul Bagh blast case. Two of the three arrested people, Sohail and Almagir, were stated to be close friends of the maulana, who called their detention illegal and staged demonstrations against the police. Fazlullah also called upon his followers to take police and FC personnel hostage for the safe release of their colleagues.
Following the announcement, some militants attacked the Tutanu Banda checkpost, killing constable Bahadar Jan and kidnapping two others Gul Mohammad and Amjad. Police charged the maulana with the kidnapping of these policemen. On Wednesday, the political administration held talks with Fazlullah. A spokesman for the maulana later told Daily Times that the talks were successful, unconditional and meant for maintaining peace in the Swat valley. Fazlullah asked his followers to release the kidnapped police constables as the police had freed their men unconditionally.
This article starring:
MAULANA FAZLULLAH
TNSM
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This is why Pakistan is doomed. The police have no power over characters like Fazlullah. They should have arrested him. Actually, they should have shot him.
Suspected Taliban militants killed an Afghan national and a settled district resident for being US spies in North Waziristan, as a military convoy escaped two improvised-explosive device attacks, officials said on Wednesday.
Wazir Badshah hailed from Hangu district and the Afghan was a resident of Khost province in Afghanistan, who went missing some four months ago. A letter found near the two bodies close to a military check-post east of Miranshah charged the two executed men with spying for the United States, the officials told Daily Times. The militants slit the throat of Badshah, in his 30s, on Monday night and left the body on a road near Mir Ali town, a stronghold of foreign militants in North Waziristan. He (Wazir) was a hypocrite and American spy. Such people deserve such treatment, the letter read.
In the same area, the authorities also found the body of refugee Maulvi Shamsuddin, 45, who was kidnapped by militants three months ago on accusations of spying, the officials added. Meanwhile, a military convoy coming from Bannu and going to Miranshah escaped two IED explosions near Mir Ali town.
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As long as they're killing somebody they are happy.
#2
Sure, you killed those two. But what about the others. There are more; maybe dozens more. People you would not suspect. Being completely above suspicion is really the best cover, you know.
#3
All Pashtuns not in the Taliban or with Al Qaida are US spies. Quick, kill them now! Also, the Punjabis are spies for Perv and the Pak government. You need to kill them, too. Surprise of all, the mullahs and all the madrassah teachers are spies for Iran, and you need to kill them, too. We know you're up to it, so go ahead.
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Right you are, SteveS. There's only one way to be sure one has gotten them all, and they should get to doing it.
#5
Shoot...I'd be dropping falsified evidence all over the place implicating everyone. Nothing would give those dorks more pleasure than killing somebody.
Two unidentified assailants on Wednesday gunned down Superintendent of Police Shaheryab and his two guards Gul Badshah and Akbar on Samungly Road in Quetta, Geo TV reported. Police officials told the channel that they had arrested three suspects. According to the channel, the SP was on a routine patrol when two men fired at his vehicle and fled, leaving the SP and his guards injured. They died on their way to hospital. The driver of the SP and a passer-by were also injured and shifted to hospital, the channel said.
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Eleven suspected Muslim militants and a policeman were killed in gunbattles in Indian Kashmir, police said Wednesday. Four militants were killed Wednesday as they crossed into southern Poonch and northern Kupwara districts from the Pakistani-zone of the divided state, a police spokesman said. Police said government troops also shot dead two wanted commanders of the pro-Pakistan rebel group Hizbul Mujahedin in southern Doda district early Wednesday. Five more militants and a policeman were killed in three gunbattles in Poonch, Kupwara and Kulgam districts late Tuesday, the spokesman added. It is the bloodiest fighting since the start of Ramadan, the spokesman said. Ramadan began in Muslim-majority Kashmir on September 14. Ramadan in Kashmir has often been marked by increased violence, as militants believe those who die fighting during the holy month gain more heavenly rewards.
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Seven shops were destroyed on Wednesday night when a bomb planted near a barber shop in the Matta area went off. The Matta police station house officer said that some militants, who were presumed to have planted the bomb, also fired at the police station. No casualties were reported.
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#3
Terrorism and tyranny bother the imams of Swat not at all. They have higher priorities fighting the all important War on Haircuts. Or perhaps its a distraction from their abject failure in their ongoing War on Television. I question the timing.
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Unidentified militants on Tuesday night fired two rockets at a National Logistics Corporation (NLC) stone crushing plant in Kingri tehsil, Musakhail district, residents said. The militants also fired light arms at the plant for almost an hour. The rockets fired at the plant landed in an open plot without causing any damage. Meanwhile, the residents of Rarraisham, a neighboring village, suspected the involvement of Marri militants in the incident. Police and personnel of other law enforcement agencies arrived at the site soon after the incident and started searching for the culprits. However, police did not confirm the incident when contacted.
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This doesn't make a lot of sense, "Fired rockets at a stone crushing plant?"
Why, to help crush some stone? anything able to crush stone should be tough enough to crush rockets as well.
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Coalition Forces detained three extremists in an early morning operation at the Baghdad International Airport Sept. 27.
The corrupt workers are suspected of having positioned themselves in several high-level jobs at the airport to establish a base and conduct kidnapping operations against Iraqi Security Forces and innocent civilians who stand up against the groups criminal activities.
The men are further suspected of participating in attacks on Iraqi and Coalition Forces with improvised explosive devices and mortars.
Iranian forces have shelled deeper into northern Iraq than previously, hitting targets in an area northeast of the city of Arbil, said Abdul Wahid Koani, mayor of the Kurdish Iraqi border town of Joman, on Thursday.
Iranian artillery shells landed in the Haj Umran area, hitting targets on two mountains and villages abandoned from earlier attacks, he said, adding that they reached as far as 17 kilometres (10.5 miles) into Iraqi territory. Iraqi Kurdish officials said last month that hundreds of Iraqi Kurds had fled remote mountain villages near the country's eastern frontier after Iranian gunners targeted separatist guerrilla bases.
Iran confirmed for the first time on Sunday that it had been shelling camps of Kurdish militants inside northern Iraq, saying the local authorities had not listened to its warnings.
The militant Kurdish separatist group PJAK -- linked to Turkey's outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) -- has been behind a string of deadly attacks on security forces in northwestern Iran in recent months.
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Imagine the hilarity if out of the blue, the Iranians received counter battery fire wiping out about half a dozen artillery positions. With no explanation.
#5
There's a ton of arty just sitting in the green zone doing nothing because U.S. forces won't use counter battery in the area.
There's no reason for some of that arty not to have already made it's way to Kurdistan other than the U.S. not wanting to support Kurdish terrorists. Makes sense to me. I congratulate us on having some ethics.
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I say we put some artillery units nearby and then counter-battery them.
Bomb attacks killed 59 people and wounded more than 120 across Iraq on Wednesday when suspected Al Qaeda militants stepped up a campaign of violence coinciding with the holy month of Ramazan.
In a mainly Shia district of southwest Baghdad, twin car bombs killed 32 people in one of the biggest attacks to hit the Iraqi capital in weeks. The bombs detonated shortly before dusk when most people were preparing for the evening meal to break their daylong fast.
In northern Iraq a suicide bomber killed 10 people on Wednesday and wounded nine when he struck at the home of a tribal leader opposed to Al Qaeda near the town of Sinjar.
Police said three car bombs in Mosul and three others in northern Iraq killed 13 people and wounded more than 50.
In the south, a roadside bomb outside a Sunni mosque in the town of Abi Khasib, eight km south of Basra, killed four people, police and a Sunni political party said.
Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Iraq had made some progress on security but added, We have a long way to achieve our goals for a secure, stable and prosperous Iraq. The United States has blamed Tehran for stoking much for the violence that has bedevilled Iraq following the toppling of Saddam Hussein by a US-led invasion forces in 2003.
US wrath on non-supportive nations: US President George W Bush threatened nations with retaliation if they did not vote for a UN resolution backing the Iraq war, according to a transcript published Wednesday of a conversation he had with former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar. In the transcript of a meeting on February 22, 2003 a month before the US-led invasion of Iraq published in El Pais newspaper, Bush tells Aznar that nations such as Mexico, Angola, Chile and Cameroon must know that the security of the United States is at stake.
More funds for Iraq, Afghanistan war: US Defence Secretary Robert Gates is seeking nearly 190 billion dollars to fund the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in 2008, the largest war funding request ever in the six-year-old war on terror, the Pentagon said Wednesday. Gates was scheduled to testify later before a Senate committee on the request, which was 42.3 billion dollars greater than the administrations estimate when it presented its 2008 budget request in February.
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Bush tells Aznar that nations such as Mexico, Angola, Chile and Cameroon must know that the security of the United States is at stake.
I must be slower than usual today. All I see is a statement of fact, not a threat.
Extremist militants responsible for IED strike killed
CAMP STRIKER, Iraq Task Force Marne AH-64 Apache helicopters responded to an improvised explosive device strike Sept. 24, killing the four extremist militants responsible. An IED struck the 82nd Support Brigade, attached to 3rd Combat Aviation Brigade, while the unit was traveling south on Route Tampa, a main thoroughfare to and from Baghdad from the south. Aerial surveillance observed the four militants in a nearby canal moments before the IED detonated. The Apaches engaged and killed the militants. Coalition ground forces confirmed the militants deaths. They found AK-47 assault rifles and ammunition at their location. The 82nd Support Brigade is from Fort Bragg, N.C.
- 12 gunmen attacked al-Shuhadaa Police Station, south Fallujah. 6 of the gunmen were killed, 5 captured and one escaped. 3 policemen were seriously injured.
Fallujah Police raided a house in Nezzal neighborhood, south Fallujah this afternoon. The house was occupied by a family displaced from another city. As soon as the police force broke into the house, the father detonated a hand grenade in his hand and the son detonated an explosive vest, their family was in the house. Both men died. The Police did not release any more details about casualties.
A suicide bomber detonated at a police checkpoint in west Fallujah this afternoon. No casualties were reported.
Soldiers from the paratroopers' reconnaissance battalion arrested in Nablus overnight Tuesday the last Palestinian involved in the lynching of two reservists in Ramallah seven years ago. Haiman Zaban, a 36-year-old Tanzim terrorist, was a participant in the murder of Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Vadim Novesche and Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Yosef Avrahami on October 12, 2000. He was transferred to security interrogations following his arrest. Zaban was also one of several terrorists planning to carry out an attack against Israel over the holiday period.
Meanwhile, IDF troops arrested six other Palestinian terror suspects throughout the West Bank overnight. Six fugitives were caught in the Ramallah area and were transferred to security interrogations.
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I was thinking about this the other day and now we have the only good news that has come out of this hideous situation - that the last of the mob that killed the two reservists was caught.
#5
I think it would be appropriate to call his mother's cell phone and say, "We are torturing your boy, and you'll never see him alive again. Shalom! (click)"
#10
Great. Escaped terrorists should be wanted until dead.
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"[L]ynching" doesn't even come close to describing what happened. One might as well call a machine gun a "blunt instrument". Saddam's winch and industrial shredder treatment is more fitting for these perps.
The Palestinian Authority has transferred two metal pipes marked "Gaza Department of Streets and Sanitation" to Israel that were thought to be planned for use in the production of rockets in Bethlehem on Wednesday. The rockets, Palestinian security officials speculated, were to be fired at Jerusalem. Palestinian security forces had discovered the pipes, along with TNT and a briefcase holding documents in an area between Bethlehem's El-Aida refugee camp and Beit Jala, opposite Jerusalem's Gilo neighborhood.
Palestinian news agency Ma'an said that the "rockets" were 1.5 meters long. IDF Central Command sources said that it was possible that Kassam rockets were being manufactured in the West Bank and particularly in Bethlehem, the base of a Tanzim terror cell that had fired mortar shells at the neighborhood of Gilo in recent years.
Palestinian intelligence head Tawfiq Tarawi said the so-called rockets were still in the early stage of production and had not yet been fitted with explosives.
Tarawi would not say whether any arrests had been made. He also declined to say who built them, but said the weapons resembled the rockets developed by Hamas and other terrorist groups in the Gaza Strip.
"This is not the first time. Two months ago, we found similar rockets and we destroyed them," he said. "This is unacceptable. We will not allow anyone to use such missiles because he will be destroying the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian towns," he added, referring to the likely Israeli military response a rocket attack would bring.
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Odd. As if they got a glimpse of the cause and effect thingy. Or it may be just a token of PA plausible deniability if kassams start to fly.
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We will not allow anyone to use such missiles because he will be destroying the Palestinian Authority and the Palestinian towns," he added, referring to the likely Israeli military response a rocket attack would bring.
Mercy me! It is almost like they are catching on. You know, that business about a state is responsible for what takes place inside its borders.
#5
expect those that actually did the 'turning over' to be toast, real soon. this is a decoy ops and will just recharge all the dhimmis, liberals, bleeding hearts and other redundant life forms.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Israeli forces killed at least eight Palestinians in an air strike and a ground operation Wednesday, the bloodiest day in the Gaza Strip since Israel declared it a "hostile territory," and four of the dead were identified as members of a militant group involved in kidnapping a BBC journalist and capturing an Israeli soldier. I think we knew about that.
Dogmush toetags?
Twenty-five Palestinians were wounded, Palestinian hospital officials said. They're a trustworthy source.
Israel said it was responding to ongoing rocket and mortar fire from Gaza at Israeli border towns, including 20 mortar rounds and 10 rockets on Wednesday. In the air strike, Israeli aircraft fired missiles at a jeep the army said carried rockets ready to fire. In the ground incursion, tanks took control of the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, from where militants had launched rockets. All that in one day? So much for any peace agreement.
Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak warned Wednesday that "we are moving closer to a broad and complex operation in Gaza" to stop rocket fire, though security officials said a large-scale offensive is likely still weeks away. Last week, Israel declared Hamas-ruled Gaza a "hostile territory," as a precursor to a possible cutoff of electricity and other utilities. Snipped. RTWT
A Hezbollah fighter escaped an attempt on his life after he jumped from his car before a hand grenade exploded under the vehicle in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, police said. They said Ahmed Mhanna tried to start his car when he heard an object falling from the vehicle which was parked near his home in Jbal al-Botm, east of the southern port city of Tyre. Mhanna leapt from the vehicle just in time to escape the explosion of the hand grenade which had been placed on the left front tire. The car was damaged but he was unhurt. Police said they had started an investigation.
Check and see if the grenade dropped out of the bully boy's pocket as he was getting in the car.
The grenade attack came a day after the Lebanese parliament postponed a vote on a new president to replace pro-Syrian incumbent Emile Lahoud to allow more time for a consensus to be reached between the rival sides. Analysts were surprised about the incident. Usually all those that were assassinated were anti- Syrians.
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Maybe he kept a spare grenade inside the fender, in case he locked his regular one in the car?
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The number of Taliban killed in a major operation underway in southern Afghanistan passed 100 on Wednesday, US-led coalition said after earlier announcing 61 were dead, AFP reports.
Suspected Taliban militants killed an Afghan national and a settled district resident for being US spies in North Waziristan, as a military convoy escaped two improvised-explosive device attacks, officials said on Wednesday. 
Eleven suspected Muslim militants and a policeman were killed in gunbattles in Indian Kashmir, police said Wednesday. Four militants were killed Wednesday as they crossed into southern Poonch and northern Kupwara districts from the Pakistani-zone of the divided state, a police spokesman said. Police said government troops also shot dead two wanted commanders of the pro-Pakistan rebel group Hizbul Mujahedin in southern Doda district early Wednesday. Five more militants and a policeman were killed in three gunbattles in Poonch, Kupwara and Kulgam districts late Tuesday, the spokesman added. It is the bloodiest fighting since the start of Ramadan, the spokesman said. Ramadan began in Muslim-majority Kashmir on September 14. Ramadan in Kashmir has often been marked by increased violence, as militants believe those who die fighting during the holy month gain more heavenly rewards.
Seven shops were destroyed on Wednesday night when a bomb planted near a barber shop in the Matta area went off. The Matta police station house officer said that some militants, who were presumed to have planted the bomb, also fired at the police station. No casualties were reported.
Unidentified militants on Tuesday night fired two rockets at a National Logistics Corporation (NLC) stone crushing plant in Kingri tehsil, Musakhail district, residents said. The militants also fired light arms at the plant for almost an hour. The rockets fired at the plant landed in an open plot without causing any damage. Meanwhile, the residents of Rarraisham, a neighboring village, suspected the involvement of Marri militants in the incident. Police and personnel of other law enforcement agencies arrived at the site soon after the incident and started searching for the culprits. However, police did not confirm the incident when contacted.
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- 12 gunmen attacked al-Shuhadaa Police Station, south Fallujah. 6 of the gunmen were killed, 5 captured and one escaped. 3 policemen were seriously injured.
Soldiers from the paratroopers' reconnaissance battalion arrested in Nablus overnight Tuesday the last Palestinian involved in the lynching of two reservists in Ramallah seven years ago. Haiman Zaban, a 36-year-old Tanzim terrorist, was a participant in the murder of Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Vadim Novesche and Sgt.-Maj. (res.) Yosef Avrahami on October 12, 2000. He was transferred to security interrogations following his arrest. Zaban was also one of several terrorists planning to carry out an attack against Israel over the holiday period. 
A Hezbollah fighter escaped an attempt on his life after he jumped from his car before a hand grenade exploded under the vehicle in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, police said. They said Ahmed Mhanna tried to start his car when he heard an object falling from the vehicle which was parked near his home in Jbal al-Botm, east of the southern port city of Tyre. Mhanna leapt from the vehicle just in time to escape the explosion of the hand grenade which had been placed on the left front tire. The car was damaged but he was unhurt. Police said they had started an investigation.
