closing to the sound of gunfire and my heart quickened..
The 'Terp's reactions to the gun runs were priceless.. funny too..
if imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the 'Terp's A-10 Gun-Run "noises" were a downright sincere testament of his affection for the AN/GAU-8a 30mm Avenger and Aircraft.
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My father or my grand father told me he witnessed a man stopping cold the milling wheeel of an olive mill who was going to crush another guy. He also told me once the near victim had been cleared, four or five men together were unable to do the same. And the saviour was also unable to do it. completely unable to do it. Seeing another man in danger had made him for a few seconds severla times stronger than usual.
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It has been spoken and written about that there is something inside us that can come out in times of sheer panic. Orderlies in mental institutions have problems with it too when people go berserk.
NATO and Afghan army forces have launched an operation against the Taliban designed to keep pressure on the insurgents through the winter, the alliance announced Wednesday. Operation Pamir began Tuesday and is expected to continue until the spring, said NATO spokesman James Appathurai. "It will maintain pressure on opposing militant forces," he said.
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(SomaliNet) At least eight people were killed in separate attacks in Somalia Sunday, witnesses said, a day after the president summoned top security officers and ministers to discuss worsening violence.
Unidentified gunmen shot dead three civilians in Mogadishu's notoriously dangerous Bakara market, where the Islamist-led insurgency frequently ambushes Somali police patrols, witnesses said. Four others were killed in internecine violence sparked by clan rivalry in the Lower Shabelle region of southern Somalia. "The dispute is about a piece of land where charcoal is burned," Haji Ali Bidaye, a local elder, told AFP. "The four were shot dead as they were burning charcoal. Tension is rising."
A government soldier was also killed in northern Mogadishu, a witness said. "The officer was on duty when he was killed," said Mohamed Hassan.
President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed held talks with senior government officials in Mogadishu Saturday to shore up a crackdown on insurgents who have waged deadly hit-and-run attacks against government targets since an Islamic movement was defeated at the start of the year. "There are ... moves to crack down on the violent people in Mogadishu and the president discussed these with his security commanders," a senior government official told AFP on condition of anonymity. "But it seems that a difficult task is ahead."
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It seems like any killings in Muslim places are reported as if they are part of jihad against the infidel and his supporters. Never is it over a woman, or gang turf, or robbery, or just some wacko (oh, wait, I guess that one's the same as jihadi). "Eight killed" sounds bad, but it's probably no different than the murder rate in a typical US population of the same size - of course it is only "at least eight", which could mean 50,000, but the rest just didn't make it into the report.
Two Frontier Corps soldiers and 10 militants were killed while four soldiers injured in an attack on a checkpost in the Speenwam area of North Waziristan on Wednesday, military spokesman Maj Gen Waheed Arshad said. Security forces killed 10 militants after repelling the attack, he added.
Several civilians were reported dead when their vehicle hit a suspected landmine in the Orakzai tribal region. Arshad said the vehicle carrying civilians to North Waziristan from Thall, Hangu, blew up when it hit either an improvised explosive device or a landmine planted by militants. Six civilians were killed and a few others injured, he told Daily Times. Security sources in Miranshah, however, said 14 civilians were killed and six injured. Hospital sources in Thall said 11 were killed and eight injured.
This article starring:
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"Heh heh! This is gonna be sooooo neat! [KABOOM!]"
The DPO said police had taken the body into custody and had started investigations.
Fazlullah supporters arrest womens kidnappers: Meanwhile, supporters of local cleric Maulana Fazlullah arrested six people and rescued two women they had kidnapped from Matta tehsil. The women were allegedly taken hostage after their family rejected the kidnappers matrimonial proposals. When Qambar Khans family refused the kidnappers proposal, they killed him, injured seven members of his family and kidnapped the two women.
In Pakistain this is known as "romance."
Fazlullahs supporters arrested Deedan Gul, Hamesh Gul, Syed Gul, Bakhtiar, Shamroz Khan and Mohammad Sher while they were shifting the hostages to another location. They also recovered a Kalashinkov and a double cabin pickup from their possession. They took the kidnappers to the Imam Dheri Markaz.
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TNSM
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Fazlullahs supporters arrested Deedan Gul, Hamesh Gul, Syed Gul, Bakhtiar, Shamroz Khan and Mohammad Sher while they were shifting the hostages to another location.
Whew! What a close call. I knew there had to be a "Mohammed" in there somewhere.
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When Qambar Khans family refused the kidnappers proposal, they killed him, injured seven members of his family and kidnapped the two women.
Wow. I always use flowers. Maybe a nice bottle of wine. I guess these clowns have me beat.
Two Indian army officers and nine militants were killed in Indian-held Kashmir in the bloodiest gunbattle in the region in months, Reuters quoted an Indian Army spokesman as saying Wednesday.
The fighting began on Tuesday near the forests of Tangmarg when soldiers cordoned off a village and asked militants believed to be hiding there to surrender. The rebels opened fire, triggering a fierce gunbattle, the army said. The exchange of fire has stopped, soldiers are searching the area, army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Anil K Mathur said.
One officer was killed immediately while four soldiers, including an officer and a civilian, were wounded in the gunfight that followed, Mathur said. Police said they recovered the bodies of nine suspected rebels.
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An Iranian arrested by US forces in IraqsKurdish region had been involved in Teherans intelligence operations in Iraq for more than a decade, an American general said on Wednesday.
Multiple sources had also implicated him in providing weapons to Iraqi criminal elements in the service of Iran, US military spokesman Major General Kevin Bergner told a news conference in Baghdad.
On September 20, US troops raided a hotel in Sulaimaniyah in the autonomous northern autonomous region and seized Mahmudi Farhadi, claiming he was a member of the Quds Force, the covert operations arm of Irans elite Revolutionary Guards.
Iran condemned what it called the unwarranted arrest of a businessman it said was in Iraq at the invitation of the Kurdish regional government, and lodged a strong protest with the authorities in Baghdad.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has slammed the arrest as illegal and demanded Farhadi's release.
And on September 24, Iran shut its frontiers with Iraq in protest, causing mayhem at the border and major economic losses to traders in the Kurdish region.
Bergner insisted on Wednesday that the detainee was a Quds Force operative.
'Farhadi was the officer in charge of the Zafar command, one of three subordinates of the Ramazan core of the Quds Force,' Bergner said.
'As Zafar commander, he was responsible for Quds Force operations in north-central Iraq, including cross border transfers of weapons, people and money.
'We also know that for more than a decade he was involved in Iranian intelligence operations in Iraq,' he added, without elaborating.
BAGHDAD (Rooters) - A member of Iraq's parliament is in U.S. custody and being questioned after an Iraqi special forces raid on a suspected al Qaeda meeting, the U.S. military said on Thursday. A spokesman for the Iraqi parliament said the lawmaker was from the assembly's main Sunni Arab bloc.
So not all the Sunni leaders are going after al-Qaeda.
The man was held after a raid in the Sunni Arab town of Sharqat, 260 km (160 miles) northwest of Baghdad, in volatile Salahuddin province on September 29, the U.S. military said in an email in response to queries from Reuters.
"The man being held is one of the 275 members of the Iraqi Council of Representatives," the military said. "Officially, he is not considered a 'detainee' at this time. He is being held for questioning after being found at a suspected al Qaeda in Iraq meeting during a combined Iraqi Security Forces/Coalition operation," it said.
The military said it would not release the man's name. It is believed to be the first time a member of Iraq's parliament has been detained by Iraqi or U.S. forces.
The Iraqi parliament spokesman said Accordance Front member Naif Mohammed Jasim had been taken into custody while he was attending a funeral in Sharqat on Wednesday. The Accordance front, parliament's main Sunni Arab bloc, pulled out of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's fractured Shi'ite-led coalition government last month, protesting at what it said was his failure to address their demands for a greater say in government.
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Al-Qaeda meeting? I thought this was the Shriner's convention. I must have walked into the wrong banquet hall.
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So the Al Qaeda meeting was at a funeral? Makes sense - lots of opportunities these days. Where better to elect the new emir than at the funeral of the emir who just got snuffed?
#10
Hey, these people invented back-stabbing and double-dealing. Why the surprise? We knew they were in the Parliament, we just didn't know who, specifically.
Iraq's "government" is so thoroughly compromised as to make our 14% approved leaders look like paragons of true statesmanship. From al-Maliki, all the way down, we need to disband Iraq's government and either hold new electionswith stringent vetting of every candidateor replace their entire shitpot-of-a-parliament with an iron-fisted military dictatorship. No matter what, such an opportunity must be used to rectify one of our most dire mistakes by excising all shari'a law from Iraq's constitution.
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Bobby was just teasing, Zenster. You generally are quite thorough in your serious posts. He could easily have said the same to me, but I only just got to this thread. (It's been a very interrupted kind of day, for some reason. I've had a cup of tea waiting so long it's tepid.)
#22
There are definatley more moles. Someone is giving away the locations of some of those convoys. Every Sunni probably has former Bathe breathing down there necks while Al-Duri is safely providing logisitics in Syria. I'm glad the Iraqi special forces are completing more missions so we can leave this shit hole and go after some terrorist leadership.
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Zenster WE insist, please elaborate some more, 20 inches to three feet per column per comment will just barely allow an intelect such as yours to expound on the topic... and if needed use another 2 or 3 shots at the topic please.
And ask as many short questions of commenters so that they may feel the butter, OK!
No one here has your keen insight afterall so please, please indulge yourself.
A roadside bomb killed a Shi'ite mayor and four of his guards in the town of Iskandariya south of Baghdad on Thursday, police said, the latest in a series of attacks targeting Shi'ite officials in southern Iraq.
Abbas al-Khafaji, a member of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC), was killed along with his guards when the bomb struck his convoy, police said. It was not immediately clear who was responsible for Khafaji's killing, although roadside bombs are commonly used by Sunni Islamist al Qaeda.
IRAQI and US forces have detained a man they believe received $US100 million ($113 million) from al-Qaeda sympathisers to hand out for "terrorist" operations in Iraq.
"The $100 million was what our intelligence reports indicate he has received spanning several months this year," said US military spokesman Sam Hymas. "That is all the unclassified information I can give you."
A statement from the military said the man, who was detained in the central Baghdad neighbourhood of Al-Kindi, was suspected of handing over $50,000 a month to al-Qaeda using his leather merchant business as a front. "He is believed to have received $100 million this summer from terrorist supporters who cross the border illegally or fly into Iraq from Italy, Syria and Egypt," the military said.
He is suspected of travelling abroad himself to seek money for al-Qaeda and of employing up to 50 extremists to help deliver bomb-making materials to insurgents attacking the US-led coalition.
The US military also accused the unnamed man of involvement in two attacks on a revered Shiite mosque at the heart of Iraq's bitter sectarian conflict. He was linked to purchasing explosives and weapons for the February 2006 attack on the Al-Askari mosque in Samarra, widely seen as the trigger of Iraq's sectarian strife. Another attack on June 13 of this year destroyed the mosque's two minarets.
The suspect, who according to US military intelligence has stores in Jordan, Syria and the Iraqi city of Fallujah, is also wanted for allegedly shooting dead three US soldiers and wounding another in April this year, the military said.
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GK - I hope they get the individual donor info either from records of this guy or waterboarding it out of him.... (maybe a video of that waterboarding could be sent to the donors... to prepare them...)
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3dc: "maybe a video of that waterboarding could be sent to the donors... to prepare them"
That's what I love about Rantburg readers...their compassion! :)
The video could come with a message like this:
"Dear Moron, as this message will now confirm, we now know that you have been financing murder and mayhem for reasons which frankly aren't worth a bucket of warm spit.
While we don't about your reasons, we DO care about information you may have that will lead us to additional morons of your ilk. To that end we will be visiting you soon, and have sent you a video that explains the procedure you can expect. We're doing this in order to enhance your water-boarding experience, and to ensure you dress appropriately!
We recommend shower-shoes [flip-flops], a bathing suit [something discreet] and a shower cap [in lieu of a turban].
Thanks...be seeing you...SOON!"
"Rolling up lots of operatives in all sorts of lines of terror - IED, insurgent smuggling, kidnapping, sniping, propaganda. Notably absent are money men. Where are the money men?"
I hope I don't get arrested for leaking - I honestly had no idea.
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He'll need a nose plug, too. The latest scare is a bacteria from warm water that when snorted sufficiently far up the nose (waaaay up)latches onto the olfactory nerve and eats it's way into your brain until you ... expire. No treatment. IIRC, six folks in the US got it last yar.
I wonder if it's ready for export?
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I like Bobby's thinking. A test tube up the nostrils, shake liberally, wait 2 weeks...
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I hope they get the individual donor info either from records of this guy or waterboarding it out of him
Boy I sure hope they don't dunk his head underwater and go to lunch because they forgot he was there.
"Hey, he shoulda said something!"
In any case, I thought it was common knowledge that AQ and AQI didn't have anything to do with each other. Except for sharing names, goals, resources, and organizers, of course.
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I don't know about the $100 million figure but huge amounts of terror cash are flowing from elements of the House of Saud and from the United Arab Emirates. We have the means to stop all terror financing, but our leaders won't do it. In fact, relations are solidifying with the terrorist bankroll states.
There are hints that members of the Republican Party reject status quo counter-terror. I would hope that the President would defer to this group, as we approach the last year of his presidency. The greatest military power in history cannot be seen mired in perpetual wheel-spinning. American pragmatism dictates: if it doesn't work, then fix it.
Coalition Forces detained two terrorist leaders responsible for emplacing improvised explosive devices and explosively formed penetrators on roads in Diyala province during a raid in Boob al Sham, Iraq, Sept. 29. Soldiers from Alpha Battery, 2nd Battalion, 12th Field Artillery Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, detained the key supplier of weapons and explosives to a terrorist cell operating in and around Boob Al Sham.
The suspect is believed to be the trigger man of an EFP discovered by Coalition Forces, Sept. 20, just north of Jadidah, Iraq. He is also the close associate of cell members that killed one U.S. Soldier and wounded another in a July 19 EFP attack.
The other suspect is a high-ranking terrorist involved in directing IED/EFP attacks and small-arms strikes against Sunni civilians, Iraqi Security Forces and Coalition Forces in Diyala province.
These captures will interrupt the enemys ability to disrupt our operations on one of the main routes in our area of operations, said Lt. Col. John Drago, 2-12 FA commander. We believe these people were also involved in EFP activity in other areas across the brigade battle space, and weve hurt their ability to emplace IEDs and EFPs and to obtain weapons. This demonstrates our ability to curtail insurgent activity in order to provide a more secure and stable environment for the Iraqi people.
Four other suspects were detained in the raid and all are currently being questioned.
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Coalition Forces detain terrorist leaders responsible for IED/EFP attacks in Diyala
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Boob Al Sham is a strategic town, reknown for their production of breast implants
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SEA: I realized at dinner tonight that I know more about what's going on in Diyala Province and Mohmand Agency than I do about my own neighborhood.
Come to think of it Sea we are a special breed of nut. Folks, old friends ask me what I've been doing too, and it's hard to put a concrete answer to it.
~:)
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Wow, Red Dawg. That video was really cool. Those boys even looked like they were really playing. I doubt if they were because they used to lip synch on all those old TV shows but it was pretty cool anyway. And the dancing girls...I never used to appreciate that when I was a kid.
Iraqi and Coalition Forces captured six enemy targets during the early morning hours of Sept. 25 in ThaAlba, Iraq, during Operation Viking Squeeze II.
U.S. Army Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 12th Field Artillery Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division from Fort Lewis, Wash., and Soldiers from the 5th Iraqi Army Brigade detained 10 individuals six of which are suspected of facilitating and executing attacks against innocent civilians, ISF and CF.
Two of the detainees are members of a kill squad, one of whom is suspected of participating in a minimum of three murders in Shaab Village. Another detainee is a kidnapping specialist suspected of participating in the abduction of the Iraqi deputy of electricity. The fourth detainee is an anti-Coalition extremist company commander, suspected of being responsible for the emplacement of improvised explosive devices on routes traveled by coalition forces. The other two detainees are suspected of using their homes as safe houses for extremist meetings.
Four other suspects were detained in the raid.
The operation was conducted in an area known to have IED emplacers, weapons traffickers and individuals involved in some sectarian murders, said Lt. Col. John Drago, 2-12 FA commander. We demonstrated to the enemy the element of suprise, which puts them off balance; they dont know where we are going to go next. For the majority of ThaAlba citizens who are law-abiding citizens and want some security, this will be a positive step forward. We know the majority of the people in Al Tha alba, and eradicating the bad ones will help bring peace to the area.
Also captured in the raid were four AK-47s, two pistols, one PKC rifle and a shotgun, along with 13 full AK-47 magazines, more than 300 PKC rounds, four body armor vests, $15,400 in cash and numerous propaganda tapes.
We know there has been some movement of weapons from Sadr City into our area of operations, and this operation has interdicted their logistics train the ability to move weapons and personnel through our area, Drago said. This will adversely impact their ability to conduct IED-type activity and sectarian killings, and positively impact Iraqis.
We are going out there engaging the local leaders, and demonstrating to them why we did the operation, who we detained, and the information we have on their involvement in illegal activity, Drago said. Although we go out and capture and kill extremists, the whole reason we are doing it is to provide security and to gain the trust and respect of the populace.
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Iraqi and Coalition Forces captured six enemy targets during the early morning hours of Sept. 25 in Tha Alba, Iraq, during Operation
'Viking Squeeze II.'
As a proud descendent of Vikings, I heartily approve.
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In some circles "squeeze" is a eupehmism for excrement. So this operation could be called 'Viking Sh*t II'.
And Free, good thing your ancestors left - the descendants of the Vikings who stayed home don't seem to be worth much.
Iraqi Security Forces, with U.S. Special Forces as advisers, detained four suspected extremists in two separate operations Sept. 30 in Southern Iraq.
Iraqi Security forces detained a suspected Special Groups member in An Nasariyah who is suspected of conducting improvised explosive devices and indirect fire attacks against Iraqi and Coalition Forces. He and his group are also suspected of conducting an assassination attempt against Nasariyah Tactical Support Unit commander which resulted in several deaths of innocent civilians.
The extremist is also suspected of smuggling weapons into the country. Intelligence reports tie him to an Iranian explosively formed penetrator ring. His group is linked to an Aug. 8 attack against Iraqi Police with IEDs, an Aug. 14 indirect fire attack on Tallil Air Base and an April 23 attack on an Australian convoy operating in the area.
In a separate operation, Iraqi Special Operations Forces detained a suspected extremist in Hay Aamel who is responsible for multiple improvised explosive device attacks on Iraqi and Coalition Forces.
The most recent occurred Aug. 12, when the group attacked a convoy headed for the International Zone by placing an IED under a Hay Al Alem bridge. He and his group are also responsible for kidnapping and extrajudicial killings of Sunni citizens in the Hay Aamel area.
The assault force found several tools or devices that were used to conduct kidnapping and torture. The devices consisted of electric saws, drills and ropes. Three other suspicious men were detained for further questioning.
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People should see, as do I, that Iraq is standing up to this challenge. These will be decent Soldiers worth respect and admiration. They could clean up the middle east in the long term. will see.
Coalition forces killed six terrorists and detained two suspects during operations Monday and Tuesday targeting associates of al-Qaeda in Iraq in the central part of the country.
West of Balad Tuesday, Coalition forces conducted an operation targeting associates of an al-Qaeda in Iraq member believed to be the key communications link between senior leaders of al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda in Iraq. When the ground force approached the target, they were engaged by an armed man who emerged from a vehicle. Responding in self-defense, Coalition forces returned fire, killing two terrorists, and igniting the vehicle. Multiple secondary explosions erupted from the vehicle after it was engaged, indicating explosives stored inside. The nature of the explosions and detainee reporting indicated weapons and explosives were present in the vehicle. The ground force also detained one suspect on site.
Early Monday, Coalition forces discovered three men attempting to re-seed improvised explosive devices in an area where the ground force had previously destroyed several two IEDs. Perceiving hostile intent, Coalition forces engaged, killing one terrorist. The ground forces searched a nearby building in the same location and discovered two IED pressure plates which were safely destroyed on-site. That afternoon, surveillance elements witnessed three men emplacing several IEDs along a canal road. Again, perceiving hostile intent, Coalition forces called an air strike on the time-sensitive target, killing the three terrorists.
During a two-day operation the Coalition forces also discovered three significant weapons caches. Intelligence led the ground force to a local school reported to be used as an al-Qaeda in Iraq safe house and mortar team staging area. Numerous weapons and ammunition were found on site to include mortar rounds, rocket propelled grenades, pressure plates, blasting caps, and rockets reported to be used as surface-to-air weapons in field expedient rocket launchers. Near the school, Coalition forces also discovered two other large caches with similar material to include hand grenades, IED making material and a training manual. The ground force detained one suspect during the operation. All weapons were safely destroyed by the ground force.
Successful operations like these will assist the Iraqi people in their reconciliation efforts, said Maj. Winfield Danielson, MNF-I spokesman. We will continue dismantling al-Qaeda so Iraqis can regain control of their villages.
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Coalition forces captured two wanted terrorists and detained an additional ten suspects during operations Wednesday in central and northern Iraq.
In Baghdad, Coalition forces captured an associate of al-Qaeda in Iraq believed to be a foreign terrorist facilitator with ties to terrorist safe houses in the region. Intelligence reports indicate that the individual is deeply connected to the foreign terrorist network and involved in the coordination of their suicide operations.
Coalition forces detained seven suspected terrorists during two coordinated operations along the Tigris River Valley. West of Samarra, ground forces targeted alleged associates of an al-Qaeda in Iraq group responsible for attacks in and around Huwaish. Intelligence reports indicate that one of the individuals has ties to an al-Qaeda in Iraq senior leader and his security network, and has held meetings with numerous terrorists in the target area. The ground force captured one wanted individual and detained two additional suspects on site.
In another operation west of Tarmiyah, Coalition forces targeted an alleged associate of Abu Usama al-Tunisi, the former emir of the southern belt who was killed during an operation Sept. 25 (SEE MULTI-NATIONAL FORCE IRAQ RELEASE A070928c, Coalition Forces kill likely successor to Abu Ayyub al-Masri, Sept. 28, 2007). The targeted individual is believed to be involved in foreign terrorist facilitation in Tarmiyah and Taji. The ground force detained four suspect terrorists on site without incident.
Farther north, Coalition forces conducted an operation targeting an alleged al-Qaeda in Iraq senior leader in Kirkuk. Intelligence reports also indicate that the targeted individual has numerous connections to al-Qaeda in Iraq members operating in Mosul. The ground force detained two suspected terrorists on site in Kirkuk. Another two suspects were detained in Mosul during an operation targeting an associate of al-Qaeda in Iraq senior leaders in the city.
Were not waiting for al-Qaeda to strike, were going after them where they hide, said Maj. Winfield Danielson, MNF-I spokesman. These operations are examples of the continued success were having against al-Qaeda in Iraq and the foreign terrorists they facilitate.
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Elements of the 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment and Iraqi National Police conducted a raid east of Baghdad resulting in the detention of a high-value individual and three other suspected extremists Sept. 30.
Soldiers from Troop A and the Time-Sensitive Target platoon of the 3-1 Cav. Regt. conducted the raid with their police partners to kill or capture the HVI and to deny extremists sanctuary in the regiments area of operation.
The HVI is suspected of maintaining a leadership position in a local extremist network. Information obtained by the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team officials links the HVI to indirect fire attacks against Coalition Forces and weapons smuggling.
Detaining this individual should assist us in reducing indirect fire attacks and takes us one step closer to making the Al-Kut Highway a safe route, said Maj. Desmond Bailey, a native of Alabama, the 3-1 Cav. Regt. operations officer.
Bailey further explained that continued efforts to engage local leaders has resulted in greater information on suspected extremists and insurgents in the squadrons area of operation.
An Iraqi Security Force uniform, an AK-47 assault rifle and a large amount of small-arms ammunition were seized during the raid.
The 3-1 Cav. Regt. is part of the 3rd HBCT, 3rd Infantry Division, Fort Benning, Ga., and has been deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom since March 2007.
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Multi-National Division-Baghdad attack helicopter crews engaged a vehicle carrying roadside bombers west of Baghdad Oct. 1.
A Coalition Force ground unit identified five individuals in the vehicle as roadside bombers. The Apache helicopter crews from the 4th Guns Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, received confirmation from the ground unit on the target vehicle and engaged it, destroying the vehicle and killing five insurgents.
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Would add a comment but can't think straight. Can't get "Ride of the Valkyries" by Wagner out of my head.
#5
Woe to them who call evil "good", and good "evil",
who put darkness for ligh, and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and clever in their own sight....
Threfore, as tongues of fire lick up straw, and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust,
for they have rejected the law of the LORD Almighty, and spurned the one of the Holy One of Israel.
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When good men die their goodness does not perish, but lives though they are gone. As for the bad, all that was their's dies and is buried with them.
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The trailing daughters get extra credit from their Latin teachers when they bring in an example of Latin used in modern life, so I forwarded this thread to them both. Sadly, the German and English teachers aren't of the same mind, else Thomas Woof and Delphi would have raised their GPAs significantly.
Gunmen kidnapped 13 Iraqi men on Wednesday after stopping four cars at a fake checkpoint in the town of Khalis, 80 kilometres north of Baghdad, a security source said. The source said the cars were travelling from the city of Baquba towards Kirkuk further north in Iraq. He said women travelling in the cars were left behind. There was no immediate information on which group was behind the kidnapping, nor the identity of those taken.
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A Palestinian terrorist was killed by IDF troops near the Rafah crossing Tuesday overnight. Palestinians claimed that a special IDF force, including some tanks, was operating in the area, uprooting trees and conducting house to house searches. Palestinians also claimed also that an IDF aircraft fired a missile at a group of gunmen and killed one of them, a Hamas affiliate. During morning operations in the Gaza Strip, terrorists opened small arms fire on IDF soldiers on at least two occasions. No soldiers were wounded in any of the incidents.
Meanwhile, a Hamas activist was killed and two others injured when a tunnel they were digging under the Erez Crossing collapsed on them. Palestinian sources reported that Hamas's military wing issued a statement lauding the man for dying while fulfilling a jihad mission.
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The IDF arrested five suspected Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank, Israel Radio reported. The group, aid the report, was transferred to security interrogations.
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A defence volunteer was gunned down and two soldiers and a man were wounded in separate shooting and bombing attacks in Narathiwat, while police nabbed three key members of an terrorist insurgent group in Songkhla.
Sudeng Wanga, 44, was killed by an unidentified gunman in Narathiwat's Ruso district on Thursday morning after working in a rubber plantation and was travelling home. The assailant made off with the weapon belonging to the victim.
In another terrorist insurgent attack, two soldiers sustained minor injuries in a bombing on Thursday morning. The bomb exploded at a resting area in Ban Kohsaton school when soldiers were on duty, guarding the school in Tak Bai district. The bomb was detonated by a mobile phone. In a separate attack, Abadee Hayeesa, son of a village head was ambushed on his way to prayers at a mosque in Chanae district early this morning. Wounded, he was rushed to hospital.
Meanwhile, police raided seven locations in Songkhla's Thepa district and detained three key members of an terrorist insurgent group active in Songkhla's four districts. One of those detained, Manit Samodaman, is named in arrest warrants. He was involved in many attacks and plotted more attacks before he was arrested. Another detainee is Manit's father, Uma Makeeyo, a former leader of PULO (Patani United Liberation Organization). He was allegedly in charge of in the Songkhla districts. The last person in the police custody is Waeroman Samo, owner of the house where the two key members lived.
Police seized two guns, a cache of ammunition, cell phones, kit bags, cloth masks, medical equipment, and documents written in Arabic. The police said the arrest resulted from a tip from local villagers.
Sri Lanka's army sank a Tamil Tiger rebel boat Wednesday in a three-hour artillery and mortar attack on a group of the insurgents' vessels off the east coast, the military said. It was not immediately clear whether there were any casualties.
The fighting began about midnight when 15 to 20 rebel boats tried to land near Pulmoddai village, said a military spokesman, Brig. Udaya Nanayakkara. Soldiers on the shore destroyed one boat with artillery and mortar barrages, and eventually forced the other boats to turn back, Nanayakkara said. The rebels maintain a significant navy that they use for attacks and for smuggling weapons into areas they control.
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Two people were wounded in clashes between militants from the mainstream Palestinian Fatah Movement and rivals from Hamas in the Mieh Mieh refugee camp in southern Lebanon on Thursday, a Palestinian source said. The fighting broke out in the Miyeh Miyeh camp near the main southern coastal city of Sidon at about 1 am and raged for about 90 minutes before calm was restored.
The two injured men, who suffered bullet wounds, were identified as a Fatah militant and a Lebanese who lives next to the camp.
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#6 EU - I don't miss trying to make sure the seams were straight!
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this may devolve into a gender war, but I have to side with EU; but I consider those seams as start / finish lines (heh, heh, heh)(FWIW, I love cheap and sleazy, 2 of my favorite food groups)
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NATO and Afghan army forces have launched an operation against the Taliban designed to keep pressure on the insurgents through the winter, the alliance announced Wednesday. Operation Pamir began Tuesday and is expected to continue until the spring, said NATO spokesman James Appathurai. "It will maintain pressure on opposing militant forces," he said.
Two Frontier Corps soldiers and 10 militants were killed while four soldiers injured in an attack on a checkpost in the Speenwam area of North Waziristan on Wednesday, military spokesman 
A man was killed late on Tuesday while attempting to plant a bomb near Nishat Chowk in Mingora police station precincts, 
Two Indian army officers and nine militants were killed in Indian-held Kashmir in the bloodiest gunbattle in the region in months, Reuters quoted an Indian Army spokesman as saying Wednesday. 
BAGHDAD (Rooters) - A member of Iraq's parliament is in U.S. custody and being questioned after an Iraqi special forces raid on a suspected al Qaeda meeting, the U.S. military said on Thursday. A spokesman for the Iraqi parliament said the lawmaker was from the assembly's main Sunni Arab bloc.
IRAQI and US forces have detained a man they believe received $US100 million ($113 million) from al-Qaeda sympathisers to hand out for "terrorist" operations in Iraq.
Iraqi and Coalition Forces captured six enemy targets during the early morning hours of Sept. 25 in ThaAlba, Iraq, during Operation Viking Squeeze II.
Elements of the 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment and Iraqi National Police conducted a raid east of Baghdad resulting in the detention of a high-value individual and three other suspected extremists Sept. 30.
Multi-National Division-Baghdad attack helicopter crews engaged a vehicle carrying roadside bombers west of Baghdad Oct. 1.
Gunmen kidnapped 13 Iraqi men on Wednesday after stopping four cars at a fake checkpoint in the town of Khalis, 80 kilometres north of Baghdad, a security source said. The source said the cars were travelling from the city of Baquba towards Kirkuk further north in Iraq. He said women travelling in the cars were left behind. There was no immediate information on which group was behind the kidnapping, nor the identity of those taken.
A Palestinian terrorist was killed by IDF troops near the Rafah crossing Tuesday overnight. Palestinians claimed that a special IDF force, including some tanks, was operating in the area, uprooting trees and conducting house to house searches. Palestinians also claimed also that an IDF aircraft fired a missile at a group of gunmen and killed one of them, a Hamas affiliate. During morning operations in the Gaza Strip, terrorists opened small arms fire on IDF soldiers on at least two occasions. No soldiers were wounded in any of the incidents. 
Sri Lanka's army sank a Tamil Tiger rebel boat Wednesday in a three-hour artillery and mortar attack on a group of the insurgents' vessels off the east coast, the military said. It was not immediately clear whether there were any casualties. 
