Original headline in NYT was "For Female Marines, Tea Comes With Bullets", the suckiest headline I've ever read.
3 female Marines and the patrol they were attached to recently came under fire near Marja. In their sights they could see the source of the blast: an Afghan man who had shot aimlessly from behind a mud wall, shielded by a half-dozen children. The women held their fire with the rest of the patrol so as not to hit a child, waited for the all-clear, then headed back to the base. Six months ago an experiment began with sending full-time "female engagement teams" out with all-male infantry patrols in Helmand Province to try to win over the rural Afghan women who are culturally off limits to outside men. the female Marines have daily skirted the Pentagon rules restricting women in combat. They have shot back in firefights and ambushes, been hit by homemade bombs and lived on bases hit by mortar attacks. None of the 40 women have been killed or seriously injured. Some have seen friends die. One lady Marine said she would not volunteer for the female engagement teams again.
"It's not the living conditions, it's not the mission, it's this," she said, gesturing toward a memorial display of boots, rifles and dog tags belonging to the dead Marines [one of whom she had given first aid to just before he died]. She was, she said quietly, "too much of a girl to deal with these guys getting killed."
"... a burst of Kalashnikov rifle fire came from a nearby compound. ... they could see the source of the blast: an Afghan man who had shot [aimlessly] from behind a mud wall, shielded by a half-dozen children. The women held their fire with the rest of the patrol so as not to hit a child... "
With our troops being held to ROEs like these no wonder the enemy doesn't seem take us seriously.
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...serious enough to realize he has to use children as shields otherwise he'd been pieces all over the landscape. Obviously, he wasn't looking for 72 virgins that day because he did use shields. The gamble they all play is that one day the ROEs don't change or discipline starts to break down or the officer corps makes known that they won't convict in such circumstance no matter what the JAG people want.
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OldSpook: That's what I was thinking: "Them gals need sniper rifles."
And while it would be unfortunate for one of the kids to get hurt when capping the bad guy, it shouldn't be punished--instead, they should give a commendation to the sniper who takes out the bad guy without killing any kids.
Because, in effect, they have performed a hostage rescue.
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Then Arm them with Video Camera's. Holding these brave Cowards Lions of Islam up to public ridicule and international exposure might turn some minds.
I doubt the MSM will show any - it'll be declared 'Ismaophobic' or hate-speech.
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u don't need a sniuper just a a good shot! shoot him in the bchest and the human shield afctor goes out the window
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the Geneva Convention was signed for conventional wars. That said the rules don't apply too this situation.
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Actually the GC HAS rules about this sort of situation, the problem is everyone IGNORES those. What they say is that those in violation in the manner that occurs with terrorists, using human shields, etc, isn't protected by the conventions and subject to summary execution.
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Many of the points of the GC were to inhibit such behavior by stripping combatants of its protections if they engage in such behaviors. However, Justice Kennedy et al of the usual suspects in extending 'civilian law' protection to illegal combatants has undermined that entire intent of the work. However, in the classical lefty mantra, the same lawyers play 'one set of rules for us and another set of rules for you' when it comes to actions by our own people.
[Arab News] South African authorities have jugged an ex-leader of a Islamic exemplar group that grabbed credit for a dual car bombing that killed 12 people in Nigeria, a Nigerian secret police spokeswoman said Saturday.
The arrest of Henry Okah, a former leader of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, came as Nigeria's secretive State Security Service acknowledged it received a warning about the impending attack long before the bombs exploded Friday.
Nonetheless, the Islamic exemplar group was still able to detonate the explosives only a 10-minute walk away from a ceremony in Nigeria's capital Abuja attended by the president and other dignitaries in the oil-rich nation.
"Unfortunately, there's no way security can be 100 percent foolproof," State Security Service spokeswoman Marilyn Ogar told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. "We are happy all the same that the event went on smoothly and it wasn't interrupted." Ogar said a "foreign partner" provided her agency with information of an impending attack on the 50th anniversary celebrations. That information apparently involved Okah, a former Islamic exemplar leader who left Nigeria for Johannesburg after being released from prison in July 2009 while facing treason and gun running charges.
A day before the bombings, security agencies in South Africa raided Okah's home and seized a laptop, though they did not arrest him, the Islamic exemplar group previously said.
It was unclear Saturday night if Okah faced any charges in South Africa. South Africa police spokeswoman Tumi Shai said police would have no comment on the matter for now, and referred queries to the Nigerian government. Saul Molobi, a front man for the foreign affairs ministry, also refused comment.
Ogar declined to elaborate on what evidence her agency had, saying officers continued to investigate the bombings.
The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, also known by the acronym MEND, issued a warning to journalists about an hour before the attacks Friday, telling people to stay away from festivities at Eagle Square in Abuja. It blamed Nigeria's government for doing nothing to end the unceasing poverty in the delta as the nation receives billions of dollars from oil revenue.
One car bomb exploded, drawing police, firefighters and the curious to the street near a federal courthouse. Five minutes later, a second car bomb exploded, apparently intended to target those drawn to the scene.
A third, smaller kaboom struck inside Eagle Square during the ceremony, apparently injuring one security officer. However, The infamous However... MEND has denied placing any explosives inside the venue.
In a statement Saturday night to the AP, MEND said it "deeply regrets the avoidable loss of lives." It also said Nigerian authorities "were given five days prior notice" to the attack. The group did not explain how officials received that notice.
"Okah has never been involved in any MEND operations but has always been blamed for every attack which is strange to us," the MEND statement read.
Saturday, Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan visited a hospital where doctors cared for some of those injured in the blasts. Jonathan, who himself is from the oil-rich and restive southern delta, told gathered news hounds that he went to school only a few kilometers (miles) away from where Royal Dutch Shell PLC drilled the nation's first oil well. He criticized the bombers for using the struggles of his homeland to "camouflage criminality." "This is the first time somebody from the Niger Delta has the opportunity to be president of this country. ... You have your own here, you should have hope," Jonathan said.
"Good things don't happen overnight." Jonathan also acknowledged that there were "security lapses" that allowed the bombing, but declined to offer any specific plan to overhaul security agencies in the nation of 150 million people.
MEND has destroyed oil pipelines, kidnapped petroleum company workers and fought government troops since 2006.
Violence in the delta drastically subsided after a government-sponsored amnesty deal last year provided cash for fighters and the promise of job training. However, The infamous However... many ex-fighters now complain that the government has failed to fulfill its promises.
The Islamic exemplar group appeared to splinter over the amnesty program, though it proved its operational abilities in March when it detonated two car bombs near a government building in the Niger Delta where officials were discussing the deal. The blasts maimed two people in an attack heard live on television. The group also used car bombs in several attacks in 2006 that killed at least two people.
Nigeria, which is vying with Angola to be Africa's top supplier of crude oil, is a major supplier to the US
Violence in the delta can increase global oil prices drastically.
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[Bangla Daily Star] The Dhaka divisional chief and two ehsar (fulltime) members of outlawed bully boy outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) were jugged in Savar on the outskirts of the capital yesterday.
The hard boyz were jugged with eight petrol bombs, 1.5 kilogram bomb-making materials, two identity cards and some tools, said Commander M Sohail, legal and media wing chief, Rapid Action Battalion.
The arrestees are Dhaka divisional chief Sharful Islam Likhon alias Rana, ehsar member Sahinul Islam alias Shahinul Alam alias Belal alias Shahin and gayeri ehsar (part-time) member Chainur Rahman.
Acting on an intelligence report, Rab personnel were waiting in Boilapur area and jugged the three around 2:00am, Sohail said. Sharful was made the chief of JMB Dhaka unit after the arrest of their chief Saidur Rahman a few months ago, he added.
Likhon was the Joypurhat district chief of JMB in 2004, he said.
Sharful and his two siblings -- Mohammad Rabiul Islam alias Rabi and Jahangir Alam alias Liton -- were awarded life term imprisonment on charge of series kaboom in Joypurhat on August 17, 2005.
Liton and Rabi are behind bars in Rangpur and Joypurhat, respectively.
The Rab media wing chief said Sharful seldom went to his village home at Talshan in Joypurhat. They had information that Sharful and two others were coming back to Dhaka yesterday, he added.
He said Sharful planned to carry out subversive activities in some posh areas in the capital and was collecting bomb-making materials from across the country.
The Rab intelligence wing has information that Sharful after taking charge of Dhaka division engaged some ehsar members to help him in reorganising the banned organisation.
Motor mechanic Sharful used to prepare circuits used in bombs, collect bomb-making materials, Sohail said, adding, Sharful also used to take help from Rabi and Liton.
Sharful during primary interrogation admitted that he led the August 17 serial blast in Joypurhat.
Sharful told interrogators he first came to Dhaka in 2003 and began to work at a motor workshop in Kafrul. Later he learned how to prepare bombs, he added.
Sohail said they have found an identity card of Uttara Motors issued for Sharful but could not say immediately whether it is fake or real.
Ehsar Shahin was jugged in Panchagarh in 2004 for his involvement with JMB. He was accused of possessing explosives in Dinajpur in December 2008 and remained absconding since then after securing bail from the court.
Chainur was jugged in April 2007 in connection with an explosives case in Kurigram and remained absconding after coming out of jail on bail.
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El Diario de Coahuila reports through a national wire story a revised count of 14 wounded in the attack and an exact count of children wounded to eight.
A hand grenade attack in Guadalupe, Nuevo Leon wounded 14 individuals including eight children late Saturday night, according to Mexican news reports.
The attack took place at the city offices complex called Palacio Municipal de Guadalupe on Calle Hidalgo at about 2215 hrs when an armed suspect dismounted from a pickup truck and threw an explosive device said to be a hand grenade into a group of civilians out walking.
Reports say the grenade exploded almost instantly, almost catching the attacker in the blast before the he returned to his vehicle.
The vehicle was one of two vehicles parked facing the complex, which were then driven from the scene west on Calle Hidalgo and then south on Calle Arteaga.
Eight children under the age of eight were injured in the blast, as well as several couples.
This attack is the fourth attack by hand grenade since Friday evening, when three separate attacks were made against Monterrey city and state judicial facilities, as well as one attack near the US consulate, and against the unidentified warden of the Topo Chico Centro de Readaptcion Social (CERESO), which is a prison.
One guard was wounded in the three attacks.
Guadalupe is a part of the Monterrey metropolitan area.
Milenio now reports that 7 more individuals are reported missing in a separate case, the people this time from the Mexican state of Colima, bringing the total to 27.
Milenio also reported in late night editions that most of the original 20 abducted were mechanics and other who worked in the scrap iron business, confirming officials' statements the abductions are not drug related.
That's playing hardball!
[Iran Press TV] 20 people have been kidnapped in Acapulco.
Gunnieskidnapped a group of 20 tourists in Mexico's Pacific coast resort city of Acapulco, state investigative police say.
The group was visiting from the western city of Morelia when they were kidnapped on Thursday, Fernando Monreal, the director of the state investigative police in Guerrero state, announced on Saturday.
Witnesses say gunnies kidnapped the group, who ranged in age from 17 to 47, and took them away in three cars, the News Agency that Dare Not be Named reported.
Acapulco is a major hub for drug-trafficking. Violence has surged in the region this year since President Felipe Calderon stepped up the country's war against drug trafficking.
However, The infamous However... the police say they have found no clues implicating drug-traffickers to the abduction so far.
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Mexican security authorities say a bad drug deal resulted in a massive shootout in a remote municipality (county) in Durango that killed 14 drug gang members, according to Mexican press reports.
The areas where the shootout took place was La Mesa de Coconos and Mesa de Tabletas where police found most of the the bodies and six shot up pickup trucks. A number of tactical helmets and spent shell casings for AR-15 and AK-47 assault rifles were also found.
A local resident came upon the start of the shootout Thursday night, but took shelter until he was certain the shooting was over. The battle lasted two hours and included the use of hand grenades. Reports say every element involved in the gun battle died, and all the victims were residents of Otaez municipality.
Villagers reported several men managed to escape and take hostages with them.
Reports also say that Otaez is a known drug growing area, and that the gun battle may have been the result of drug transfers from the area.
It wasn't until Friday when the witness was able to contact the Durango state Agencia Estatal de Investigacion (AEI) that authorities became aware of the carnage.
This latest gunfight is the largest intergang confrontation in northern Mexico since the shootouts near El Saric and Tubutama in Sonora last August which killed in total more than 40 drug gang members, mostly members of the Sinaloa Cartel's Command X armed wing.
Otaez municipality is a remote location in the Sierra Madre Occidental about 75 kilometers west southwest of Santiago Papasquiaro, 150 kilometers west northwest of Durango, Durango.
Eighteen individuals were murdered in ongoing drug and gang related violence including four individuals shot to death early Friday morning in Parral, Chihuahua. For a map, click here.
Five individuals,including a woman were murdered in Juarez in four separate crimes Friday, according to Mexican daily La Polaka. The first killing took place near the intersection of calle Vicente Guerrero and Valle de Juárez in the Frontera district where the owner of the El Mandil Sonorense hamburger stand was shot to death. In the second crime three unidentified individuals were shot to death at a residence on calle Atras Quedo la Huella in the Castillo Peraza district. In the third crime an unidentified individual was killed near the intersection of calles Lopez Mateos and Vicente Guerrero in the Farmhorro district. In the fourth crime, an unidentified woman was shot to death as she was forcibly removed from her car near the intersection of calles 8 de Octubre and Santa Clara in the Che Guevara district.
An unidentified man was fond shot to death in the village of San Ysidro Saturday morning. The victim was found on the Juarez-Porvenir road naked to the waist, hands and feet bound, tortured with a gunshot wound to the head.
An unidentified man was found shot to death in Juarez Saturday morning, according to Mexican news reports. The victim was found wrapped in a blanket on a concrete bench at a park near the intersection of calles Hacienda del Ramanso and Hacienda in the Hacienda las Torres district
An unidentified man was shot to death Saturday afternoon in Juarez Saturday afternoon, say Mexican news accounts. The victim had just dismounted his Nissan Altima near the intersection of calles Berkelio and Donato Guerra in the Arroyo Colorado district when he was shot. Investigators found 9mm spent casings at the scene.
An unidentified man was found shot to death near Tubutama, Sonora, according to Mexican news accounts. The victim was found wrapped in a grey blanket with a single gunshot wound to the forehead. Tubutama and the surrounding area was the scene of two intergang shootouts this past summer that killed more than 40 individuals. The Tubumtama area is a known drug gang stronghold.
Three unidentified individuals were shot to death in two separate crimes in Parral, Chihuahua Thursday, according to Mexican news reports. The first crime took place on calle Libertad near the Premier Cinema at about 2000 hrs where a man was found in a pool of blood shot to death. Later, a couple riding in the Jeep Cherokee were shot to death near the Versailles Hotel.
A US citizen was shot to death and another unidentified youth was wounded in Parral, Chihuahua Friday night, say Mexican news accounts. Sergio Saenz of New Mexico was shot aboard his Chrysler 300 at about 2200 hrs, while his passenger was hit in the leg.
[Al Arabiya] Dutch anti-Islam MP Geert Wilders, set to become a shadow partner of the next coalition government, goes on trial in Amsterdam on Monday for inciting hatred against Mohammedans.
The controversial politician with his signature shock of blonde-dyed hair risks up to a year in jail or a 7,600 fine, according to prosecutors, for calling Islam "fascist" and likening the Koran to Hitler's Mein Kampf.
"This is about freedom of speech," Wilders' lawyer Bram Moszkowicz told AFP. "My client believes that in the Netherlands, one must be able to say whatever one wants, barring incitement to violence."
Wilders, 47, will stand trial on five charges of giving religious offence to Mohammedans and inciting hatred and discrimination against Mohammedans and people of non-western immigrant origin, particularly Moroccans.
The target of death threats, Wilders enjoys 24-hour state-sponsored protection while pursuing his mission to "stop the Islamisation of the Netherlands". He campaigns for a stop to Mohammedan immigration, banning the construction of new mosques, and a tax on headscarves.
On the long list of utterances made between October 2006 and March 2008 in Dutch newspapers and on Internet forums, prosecutors say that Wilders described Islam as "the sick ideology of Allah and Mohammed" and its holy book as "the Islamic Mein Kampf".
Given the admiration many Islamic holy men have for that book I'm surprised they're complaining. Perhaps the Lefties told them to.
Among the exhibits is Wilders' 17-minute film, "Fitna", alleged to depict Islam as a force bent on destroying the West and whose screening in the Netherlands in 2008 prompted protests in much of the Mohammedan world.
Ever defiant, Wilders "is of the opinion that he did not say anything punishable," Moszkowicz said.
Wilders, who was temporarily banned from Britain last year on race hate grounds, is expected to elaborate on this theme when he addresses judge Jan Moors from the dock of the Amsterdam district court on Monday morning.
The court will hear evidence on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, followed by the prosecution's penalty request the following week. Wilders will plead on October 19, and judgment is expected on November 4, according to a program provided by the court.
No witnesses will testify. The evidence of three experts for the prosecution was submitted in writing, while Wilders' three witnesses, said to be "experts on Islam", were heard by an examining judge behind closed doors.
In June 2008, the prosecuting service dismissed dozens of complaints against Wilders from around the country, citing his right to freedom of speech.
But appeals judges ordered in January 2009 that he be put on trial as his utterances were "sowing hatred" and exceeded the boundaries of political debate.
Compelled to put Wilders in the dock, the prosecution could still ask the court to acquit him, prosecution front man Franklin Wattimena told AFP.
Home Affairs front man Frank Wassenaar added that Wilders, if convicted, would only be disqualified from holding a parliamentary seat if the judge declared him ineligible -- which would be unprecedented.
Wilders' Party for Freedom (PVV) came third in June 9 elections with 24 seats out of 150 in the Dutch lower house of parliament. Under a coalition deal being finalized, his PVV will provide a minority cabinet of the Christian Democrats and liberals the majority they need to pass decisions through parliament in return for a voice in policy formation.
At the announcement Thursday of a draft coalition agreement, Wilders said the Netherlands will introduce a burqa ban and halve immigration.
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If I were him, my slogan would be: I HATE To Say I Told You so!
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Of course it is Wilders who is the subject of death threats with not one Muslim claiming that they have been threatened with even a hard push, and yet Wilders is the one on trial.
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As stubbornly ignorant as leftists tend to be, there is a chance that they will actually sentence Wilders to a nominal time in jail, and thus the circle will be complete in an ironic and bizarre mirror image.
"Hitler began the dictation of Mein Kampf while imprisoned after his failed Putsch in Munich in November 1923."
So Hitler violently tried to overthrow the government, and wrote his book of hate while imprisoned, his popularity growing by leaps and bounds, which allows his party to become a major force in the elected government.
Wilders is peacefully elected, his party becoming a major force in the elected government, and now could become wildly popular while imprisoned for opposing a book of hate.
Somewhere the gods of irony are having one heck of a laugh.
[Pak Daily Times] An Al Qaeda plot to launch Mumbai-style attacks on European cities was planned by the group's number three leader with Osama bin Laden's support, the German weekly Der Spiegel reported on Saturday. The BBC and Sky News reported on Wednesday that Western intelligence agencies had uncovered a plot targeting Britain, France and Germany involving commando-style teams of bad turbans, seizing hostages and murdering them in a manner similar to the Mumbai attaks two years ago that killed 166 people. Der Spiegel reported in its issue to hit newsstands on Monday, that al Qaeda number three Sheikh Yunis al-Mauretani
Is he the new Number Three, or the one that just met a Predator missile?
had plotted the attacks, and had shared his plans with an Islamist with German nationality Ahmad Siddiqui currently held at the US-run Bagram Air Base in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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[Dawn] At least 18 suspected gunnies were killed and another six were injured when helicopter gunships shelled their hideouts in central Kurram Agency, home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism late on Friday night.
Officials said on Saturday that the helicopter gunships targeted locations in Chinarak, Ormegai and Dombakai areas and destroyed three hideouts.
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[Pak Daily Times] The Pakistain Tehreek-e-Taliban on Saturday grabbed credit of Islamia College University Vice Chancellor Dr Ajmal Khan's kidnapping, who is also the cousin of Awami Nation Party Chief Asfandyar Wali Khan. TTP's sub-group named Abdullah Aizam Brigade's front man Umar Farooq claimed the responsibility of kidnapping the VC and his driver. Few days ago, the group had also grabbed credit of the attack on NATO oil tankers in Khyber Agency. The kidnapping incident occurred on September 7, in the Professors' Colony area in the University of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar campus at around 9am, when gunnies travelling in two vehicles kidnapped Ajmal Khan and shifted him to Qazi's guesthouse an undisclosed location.
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Uh, uh, so-o-o-o "ICU" > is NOT "INTENSIVE CARE UNIT"!?
Gut nuthin.
* NEWS KERALA > [Possibly the INDIAN MUJAHIDEEN Group] ASSAM TERROR GROUP WARNS OF "BIOLOGICAL WAR" IFF DEMANDS AREN'T MET.
ARTIC = All Jihadis must be released from prison, + ALL GOVT. PLANS FOR DEVELOPMENT IN ASSAM MUST CEASE-N-DESIST.
Skyscapers + Starships are not good for the Camels.
[Pak Daily Times] Officials of the Pakistain Army and NATO forces launched a joint investigation into the border incursions that killed three Pak soldiers on Thursday, as blockade of NATO supplies from Pakistain into Afghanistan continued on Saturday for a third day.
According to a report, the investigations, to be led by officials of the Pakistain Army, would also include US army officials. The investigating team would visit Afghanistan to carry out an inquiry and hold talks regarding the attacks, the report added.
Stern action would be taken against those involved in the cross border attack. The three Pak troops were killed in an early morning raid on Thursday when NATO choppers fired at a Pak military post 200 metres inside the border in the Kurram Agency, home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism.
Pakistain halted the convoys on Thursday as a reaction to the deaths of the three soldiers.
"The situation is the same. The border is blocked for NATO supplies," an official at Torkham, the main border crossing in Pakistain's Khyber district, said.
A security bigshot in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar also confirmed that the convoys had been suspended for third day but said negotiations to solve the problem had been underway.
"Long queues of trucks and oil tankers are waiting along Torkham and in the adjacent areas for the reopening," the official at Torkham said.
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Target Gul and Khan
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Pakistan making it clear that increased pressure will result in a cutoff of supplies in Afghanistan.
Dr Muhammad Farooq Khan, a renowned religious scholar and vice chancellor of the newly established Swat Islamic University, was rubbed out on Saturday, police said.
Mardan District Police Officer (DPO) Waqif Khan told Daily Times that two unidentified gunnies entered his private clinic at Defence, Mardan, and opened indiscriminate fire at him. As a result, Dr Farooq keeled over dead while his assistant Saleem Khan sustained injuries.
The DPO termed the incident an act of terrorism. A search operation was launched after the incident, but no arrest had been made so far.
President Asif Ali (Ten Percent) Zardari and Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, in their separate condolence messages, strongly condemned the murder of Dr Farooq and reiterated the government's resolve to fight terrorism.
They expressed their heartfelt condolences with the bereaved family and prayed to Allah Almighty to rest the departed soul in peace.
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He got farooqed up...
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[Pak Daily Times] Two US dronezaps killed 18 suspected turbans in the Tribal Areas on Saturday, intelligence officials said, after recent NATO incursions raised tensions with the ally critical to Washington's war effort in Afghanistan.
The dronezaps within hours of each other killed 18 faceless myrmidons in Datta Khel town in North Wazoo tribal region along the Afghan border, intelligence officials said.
"In the first attack two missiles were fired at a house while in the second attack four missiles targeted a house and a vehicle. The corpse count in the two attacks reached 18," an intelligence official said. At least six foreigners were killed in the first strike.
Datta Khel is believed to be a hide-out for Taliban and al Qaeda gunnies accused of targeting NATO and US forces in Afghanistan. Those killed on Saturday were believed to be Islamic snuffies working for warlord Hafiz Gul Bahadur, intelligence officials said.
The US has escalated the death droid aircraft missile strikes aimed at al Qaeda-linked Islamic myrmidons, with 21 attacks in September alone, the highest number in a single month on record.
Western officials say some of the recent CIA-controlled, unmanned drone-fired strikes--were aimed at disrupting a terror plot against European cities.
US officials say drones are valuable weapons, which have killed high-profile Taliban and al Qaeda figures.
Pakistain worries the strikes undermine efforts to deal with militancy because civilian casualties inflame public anger and bolster support for the fighters.
Elimination of high-profile targets could not be possible without Pak intelligence, however, analysts say.
Angered by repeated incursions by NATO helicopters over the past week, Pakistain blocked a supply route for coalition troops in Afghanistan after one such strike killed three Pak soldiers on Thursday.
Taliban threatened to attack more tankers carrying fuel to Afghanistan over that route after three dozen of the vehicles were set on fire in Pakistain on Friday.
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October is picking up right where September left off.
KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: A missile was fired on al-Hurriya airbase, the main headquarters of the U.S. forces in the city of Kirkuk, on Saturday, according to a local police source.
A missile was fired from the area of 1 Azar, near the souks (markets) of Ras Domez, southern Kirku, in the direction of al-Hurriya airbase of the U.S. force sin Kirkuk, but it could not be know where it landed, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
Policemen arrived at the scene and removed the launching pad, which turned out to be a home-made, the source added.
Al-Hurriya is one of the largest U.S. airbases in the city of Kirkuk, 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad. The city is also home to the Kirkuk reconstruction team.
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Looks like our drone attacks have been really effective. !!
And they know they must stop it or it will stop them.
I hope that our leader-in-Chief grows a pair and keeps the attack on.
We need to quit f*cking around a win, dammit. Then return. 2 or 3 months of WWII R.O.E. and Afghanistan would be a far different place.
Go to war to win.
Didn't Vietnam teach us anything?
If the Pakis don't like it, then they are the enemy too, and it would be better to know that sooner rather than later.
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If the Pakis don't like it, then they are the enemy too, and it would be better to know that sooner rather than later. We already know that. But the Pakis are many things besides enemies.
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I loved Fred's inline opinion on another post on the 'Burg today, concerning a part of Pakistan: "home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism."
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Go to war to win.
Didn't Vietnam teach us anything?
Yes, you can win a war and leave the locals to keep it safe, but only face a Donk controlled Congress to cut funding and aid so that the enemy can snatch victory from defeat.
(AFP) Iran's intelligence minister said on Saturday authorities had arrested several "nuclear spies" who were working to derail Tehran's nuclear programme through cyberspace.
Without saying how many people were arrested or when, Heydar Moslehi was quoted on state television's website as saying Iran had "prevented the enemies' destructive activity."
"I assure all citizens that the intelligence apparatus currently has complete supervision on cyberspace and will not allow any leak or destruction of our country's nuclear activities."
The website said Moslehi emphasised that his ministry was aware of the different activities of "enemies' spy services."
"We have always faced the destructive action of these (spy) services and a number of nuclear spies have been arrested," he said.
Stuxnet, which was publicly identified in June, is a self-replicating malware found lurking on Siemens systems, mostly in India, Indonesia and Pakistan, but the heaviest infiltration appears to be in Iran, researchers say.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Pak Daily Times] An Al Qaeda plot to launch Mumbai-style attacks on European cities was planned by the group's number three leader with Osama bin Laden's support, the German weekly Der Spiegel reported on Saturday. The BBC and Sky News reported on Wednesday that Western intelligence agencies had uncovered a plot targeting Britain, France and Germany involving commando-style teams of
Dr Muhammad Farooq Khan, a renowned religious scholar and vice chancellor of the newly established Swat Islamic University, was 
[Pak Daily Times] Two US 
