Afghan, U.S. and Canadian troops have surrounded a pocket of some 250 Taliban fighters who have commandeered people's homes in villages just outside Afghanistan's major southern city, officials said Wednesday.
Hundreds of Afghans their cars and tractors piled high with personal possessions were fleeing the battleground about 15 miles north of Kandahar city. The provincial police chief said the combined forces have killed some 50 Taliban in three days of fighting. Three police and one Afghan soldier have also died, Sayed Agha Saqib said. "The people are fleeing because the Taliban are taking over civilian homes," Saqib said. "There have been no airstrikes. We are trying our best to attack those areas where there are no civilians, only Taliban." Saqib said 16 suspected Taliban have been arrested during the operation.
The fighters moved into the Arghandab district of Kandahar province this week, about two weeks after the death of a powerful tribal leader, Mullah Naqib, who had kept the Taliban militants out of his region. "He was a good influence for his tribe. He was supporting the government," Saqib said. "After he died the Taliban were thinking they would go to Arghandab and cause trouble for Kandahar city. But now they're surrounded and they're in big trouble. We are capturing and killing them and I don't think it will cause any problem for Kandahar."
Still, hundreds of Afghan villagers were fleeing the area in the middle of harvest season, leaving pomegranate crops at a prime picking time.
#5
This isn't gonna be your - "surrounded by Saudi Arabian security forces" fiasco. Goodbye Taliban "fighters". Spit.
Posted by: Mark Z ||
10/31/2007 15:06 Comments ||
Top||
#6
The insecurity in the south has also fueled an explosion in Afghanistan's opium crop, source of most of the world's heroin. In Kabul, the U.N. anti-drug chief warned that a "tsunami" of opium will hit Afghanistan's neighbors if border security remains weak and officials fail to intercept the drug, whose profits fund terrorism.
Maybe the Talibunnies are trying to confiscate the opium.
I would like to suggest that US or Canadian troops reinforce the Afghan lines to prevent the Talibunnies from breaking out of the encirclement.
#8
That is a little easier said than done. They plant the opium in rows between the pomegrantes and the wheat. The only spray vehicles they are using are ATV size and the booms are only 10'. There are also environmental rules so no agent orange. The eradication program is run by the state departement not the military or the agricultural guys.
Posted by: Thrairt Oppressor of the Lichtensteiners6029 ||
10/31/2007 17:24 Comments ||
Top||
#9
Talibunny a go go.
Another happy story the traitors in the msm won't report.
Taliban rebels overran a western Afghan district, sparking a fierce battle on Tuesday that left six civilians, four policemen and 30 militants dead, officials said. A soldier with the US-led coalition, an Afghan spy chief and 20 militants were killed in other incidents, reported AFP.
Taliban militants captured the Gulistan district during overnight fighting in western Afghanistan, officials confirmed on Tuesday. Located in western Farah province, the district was stormed by more than 400 militants armed with small and heavy weapons on Monday night, police said. The fighting continued for around an hour after which police retreated from the headquarters of the district, said Farah police chief Brigadier General Abdul Rahman Sarjang. Thirty Taliban, six local people who were helping them and four policemen were killed in the fighting, AFP added. However, Taliban spokesman Qari Yousaf Ahmadi told Daily Times that only two Taliban were killed and three were injured in the battle.
US soldier, militants dead: Separately, a soldier of the US-led coalition troops was killed in a clash with militants in the southern province of Kandahar, on Tuesday morning. Another coalition soldier was injured in the combat. Also in Kandahar, coalition troops and Afghan police arrested six people on suspicion of links with the Taliban, said a separate statement. Meanwhile, provincial police chief Sayed Aqa Sahib said NATO, US-led coalition forces and Afghan troopers had launched a clean-up operation in Kandahar, which resulted in the deaths of 20 militants.
Spy Chief: In another incident of violence, a district intelligence chief, his driver and two bodyguards were killed when their vehicle was blown up with a powerful remote-controlled bomb in the eastern province of Laghman on Tuesday morning. The incident happened in the Qarghayee district while the intelligence chief was on way to his office, crime branch chief at the Laghman police headquarters told Daily Times by phone. Claiming responsibility for the blast, Taliban spokesman Ahmadi said six security personnel were killed in the attack.
This article starring:
Abdul Rahman Sarjang
QARI YUSAF AHMEDI
Taliban
Sayed Aqa Sahib
Posted by: Fred ||
10/31/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11124 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
#1
So now we know where 400 370 'bunnies can be found. Tomorrow's headline will be....?
#2
Better way of putting this is "Taliban attacks in battalion strength, seizes district". By real-war standards, less than ten percent casualties(as reported by the enemy, us) in the shock element in contact is a modest Taliban victory.
I'm starting to think that Yon is right, they *need* the Marines in Afghanistan. Shame we can't talk the Germans and French and Dutch into moving their combat-aversive elements into Anbar to hold al Queda out. Of course, even if we did, things'd go to hell in a few months anyways... bah.
Posted by: Mitch H. ||
10/31/2007 9:08 Comments ||
Top||
#3
How many of those NATO troops are getting really, really tired of having to sit safely in their cantonments playing soldier while the those lucky duck Amis and Diggers and Canadians get to do the real thing every day?
#4
This is why the US needs another four to six combat brigades of US Marines, fully-trained and raring to fight. We should have started the build-up on Sep 12, 2001. We also need another eight-twelve combat brigades of US Army troops, and a dozen squadrons of US conventional heavy bombers, similar to the old B-52D. We also need a naval vessel that could launch up to 400 GMLRS 30-50 miles deep into another nation's territory, and hit the "of" in "United States of America" engraved on a dime. Instead, we're still playing "manpower" games and leaving half our enemy to do as he pleases.
If Baghdad had been levelled to the ground, the ground dug up and pulverized, and the city made totally uninhabibable in the initial approach to Iraq in 2003, I think we'd see a much different war at the moment. I DON'T think we'd be seeing so much interference from Iran (especially if the aircraft that destroyed Baghdad were parked at Tikrit), and "Al-Qaeda in Iraq" would have to recruit from the moon. The United States has fought wars with half-steps since Korea, and all it's gotten us is more wars and tons of disrespect.
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
10/31/2007 13:13 Comments ||
Top||
#5
If Baghdad had been levelled to the ground, the ground dug up and pulverized, and the city made totally uninhabibable in the initial approach to Iraq in 2003, I think we'd see a much different war at the moment.
Harsh as it sounds, it's going to take something like this to get the message across to Islam. I really think that leveling Mullah Omar's hometown of Kandahar prior to invading Afghanistan would have served some serious notice of our displeasure. Moreover, Muslims just might have made the connection between al Qaeda's monkeyshines and tons of people gettin' kilt fer it. Worst of all is how we passed on nailing a huge Taliban convention with Omar in attendance just before the invasion.
Islam will keep this shit up until, suddenly, entire Muslim cities get flattened like a Dixie cup under a hobnailed jackboot.
An escaped Al-Qaeda fighter who took part in the bombing of the US Navy destroyer Cole in 2000 is back in jail in Aden, a Yemeni police official said Tuesday. The whereabouts of Jamal al-Badawi prompted Washington to withdraw an aid package for Yemen earlier this week following reports that he had been allowed to return to his home after turning himself in. "Jamal al-Badawi is being held by state security in Aden. He is currently in a cell of a prison belonging to the state security service in Aden," the official told AFP.
"A comfy cell, but a cell nonetheless."
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, refused to provide other details of Badawi's detention.
"Yer honor! Yer honor! Does the cell have air conditioning?"
"I can say no more!"
Badawi was sentenced to death for the bombing of the Cole off Aden but escaped from prison in the Yemeni capital in 2006, along with 22 other Al-Quaeda militants.
Do you kinda get the idea they don't want to shoot him or stretch his neck?
Earlier this month, Badawi turned himself in and, according to witnesses, was allowed to return to his home in Aden in return for a pledge not to engage in any violent or Al-Qaeda-related activity.
"Honey, I'm home!"
"You're not gonna engage in any more violent or al-Qaeda related activity, are you, Dear?"
"Cert'ny not! I gave my word!"
"I'll get dinner!"
"Let's call out for Chinese!"
"Whoa, big boy! Is that a revolver in yer pocket, or are you happy to see me?"
"It's a revolver. Order me General Tso's chicken."
The United States had linked an aid package for Yemen to Badawi's imprisonment.
"Y'see this? This is money!"
"Umm... We don't see nuttin'!"
"Bingo!"
The October 31 signing of a 20.6 million dollar US aid agreement with Yemen has been "postponed until further notice," and no decision will be taken "until we can ascertain whether or not (Badawi) has been released," said a spokesman for the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) development programme.
This is known in diplomatic circles as a "snarl."
Yemen is the ancestral homeland of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
It's the ancestral homeland of the Queen of Sheba and, if memory serves, Philip the Arab, but none of that has anything to do with this story.
Washington on Monday admitted to being in the dark about Badawi's fate. "I can't say that we have a firm understanding of exactly what the situation is with respect to this individual," US State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters.
"They weren't telling us anything until the money went away. That tells us lots."
After the Cole bombing that killed 17 US sailors Badawi was featured on a US list of most-wanted terrorists with a five-million-dollar bounty on his head. He was sentenced to death in Yemen in September 2004 for his part in the bombing, which was claimed by Al-Qaeda, but an appeals court later commuted the sentence to 15 years in jail.
Or until he "escaped," whichever came first.
This article starring:
Jamal al-Badawi
al-Qaeda in Yemen
Posted by: Fred ||
10/31/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11127 views]
Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Yemen
#1
No more moolah until al-Badawi takes the dirt nap.
Hello? Hello?
Mahmoud? Is that you?...
You sound so different!...
They did what?...
They cut your head off?...
Where are you calling from?...
Whoa! Really warm there, huh?
Owners of shops dealing in cellülar phones in Bajuar Agency on Tuesday declared a ban on the un-Islamic practice of døwnløading and storing rîngtønes, and announced a Rs 10,000 fine for violators.
Cellülar phone shop owners in Bajaur took this decision at a meeting held in Khar, the agency headquarters. This follows in the wake of militants bombing a cellülar phone market a few days ago in Inayat Kalay, around seven kilometres from Khar. The market housed 30 shops dealing in cellülar phones. Two months ago, unknown militants issued threatening letters to shop owners in the market in Inayat Kalay, warning them to shut down their un-Islamic businesses or face bomb atttacks.
Posted by: Steve White ||
10/31/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11125 views]
Top|| File under: TNSM
#1
I don't know... I think naming yourself after your prophet would be a crime against the prophet and Allen so ... following this logic ... shouldn't they kill anybody named Mohammad or a variant thereof?
#2
I guess this is what happens when a stone age culture is given cell phones. Perhaps the ring tones sounded a bit too much like music? Perhaps they might be construed as fun? Perhaps the cell phones with a different ring tone couldn't set off a bomb properly? Maybe the terrorists couldn't figure out how to do it themselves no matter how hard they pounded their own phone with a rock so they won't let anyone else do it either?
Of course, it's the usual "one-size-fits-all" punishment if the perverts don't step into line.
The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday sent notices to the NWFP home secretary and the Dera Ismail Khan (DI Khan) prison superintendent in a habeas corpus writ petition challenging the detention of former chief of Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM), Maulana Sufi Muhammad.
A division bench comprising PHC Chief Justice Tariq Pervez Khan and Justice Muhammad Qaim Jan Khan asked both respondents to furnish their comments in the case at the next hearing.
The petition was filed by the son of TNSM chief, Fazlullah, through Abdul Latif Afridi. The petitioner, Fazlullah, is not the one who is heading the insurgency in Swat. Maulana Fazlullah, whose followers killed dozens in clashes with troops during the weekend in Swat, is the son-in-law of Sufi Muhammad.
The petitioner said his father was arrested in the Kurram Agency in February 2001, along with 28 of his comrades. They were all tried by the Kurram Agency assistant political agent and were convicted and sentenced to various terms of imprisonment against which an appeal was moved before the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) commissioner. The appeal was, however, rejected in 2007.
He added that in light of a PHC verdict on May 12, 2004, the FCR Tribunal modified the sentences of all 28 petitioners, which subsequently led to the release of all except Maulana Sufi Muhammad.
He said the detained person had never been produced before any court since his arrest, adding, Obviously, his detention is illegal as no judicial sanction exists to support and justify the detention.
He said the petitioner had learnt that the modified sentences as per the orders of the FCR Tribunal had not been communicated to the prisoners, nor had any arrest warrant from any court ever been served on the inmates. He added that Sufi had not been produced before any court.
Advocate Afridi added that Sufi, almost 75 years old, was suffering from hypertension and diabetes and was entitled to remission under the presidential ordinance for elderly prisoners. The outlawed TNSM chief is presently imprisoned in the DI Khan Prison.
Posted by: Fred ||
10/31/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11133 views]
Top|| File under: TNSM
Special Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Judge Habibur Rehman on Tuesday rejected the bail applications of the accused in the Aabpara Market and F-8 Markaz bomb blast cases. The accused include Faisal Mushtaq, Qasim Mushtaq, Fasihullah and Imdad Hussain.
Initially, the accused were booked on August 22 by Bhara Kahu police station under Section 34 of the Explosive Act of Pakistan for keeping explosive material. Later, Margalla and Aabpara police stations also registered the Aabpara Market and F-8 Markaz blasts cases against them. The accused had filed bail applications with the ATC a month ago. The court had fixed October 25 as the bail applications hearing date and ordered the Bhara Kahu police to present their complete record on the date of hearing. On October 25, the accused were presented before the court but the Bhara Kahu police did not present the record to the court and the hearing was adjourned for October 30.
During the October 25 hearing, Margalla and Aabpara police had sought physical remand of the accused. DSP Malik Mumtaz Hussain had arrested brothers Faisal Mushtaq and Qasim Mushtaq on August 22 from Behra Bridge, Bhara Kahu. Police presented them before the ATC on August 23 and they were sent to Adiala Jail on 14-day judicial remand. They were then shifted to Faisalabad Jail without the permission of the court.
The ATC took serious note of the situation and ordered the police to present the accused before it. However, the Bhara Kahu police did not present complete records and medical reports of the accused before the court despite repeated orders. The court has now fixed November 6 as the new date of hearing for the explosives case.
Posted by: Fred ||
10/31/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11130 views]
Top|| File under: al-Qaeda
Dara Adam Khel, once famous for illegal arms manufacturing, is fast becoming a haven for Taliban activities that threaten to extend the Talibanisation to Peshawar and Kohat garrison city. Dara is boiling and the government is ignoring the gravity of the situation, officials said, as the area falls prey to militants who are initiating campaigns against local criminals. They said the inevitable eruption would have a direct affect on Peshawar and Kohat, two sensitive cities from a strategic point of view, whose importance is known to the Taliban. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the Taliban control Dara Bazaar and its surrounding areas, said one tribal elder who requested not to be named.
Peoples confidence: He said the local Taliban were attempting to win the peoples confidence by showing their ability to provide better law and order than the government. He said the Taliban were banning music, shaving of beards and discouraging girls education. Recently, construction work on a government-funded college for girls, on which Rs 80 million had been spent, was stopped after militants warned the contractor that his life was at risk if he continued work.
The elder said the Taliban also interfered in affairs of local tribes settling their disputes and taking decisions on pending issues. There was a dispute over the construction of a seven-kilometre-long road in Bostikhel tribe area because the tribe was resisting the governmentts programme, but the Taliban stepped in and asked the government to proceed because the people need better communication, he added.
Govt cooperating: Sources in the local administration said the government seized the Talibans support and ordered work to be restarted. They expressed their allegiance to Taliban commanders in Waziristan and are in direct contact with them through direct or indirect channels, security officials confided to Daily Times. According to several analysts, Dara appears to be a strategic point for local Taliban because the area can be used to arm the militants and can serve as a launch pad for an assault on Peshawar.
The military has already intercepted two weapons consignments booked for Waziristan militants. It is not an exaggeration to say that the Tailban are slowly reaching for Peshawar and the day is near when the metropolis will have serious security problems, a senior police official told Daily Times.
20 kilometres: Meanwhile, 20 kilometres south of Peshawar cantonment, the Taliban have taken control of Mattni and told police that they should not bother about security in the area as the Taliban will make sure the peoples life and property is safe.
Posted by: Fred ||
10/31/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11127 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
Four security officials were killed on Tuesday by a remote-controlled bomb near Noruk on the Bannu-Miranshah road, Aaj news reported. According to the channel, four security officials died instantly and several others were injured. After the incident, the Miranshah-Bannu road was closed off to the public, and two helicopters were reportedly circling the area, the channel reported.
Rockets fired at convoy: In a separate incident, five rockets were fired at a security forces convoy traveling from Bannu to Miranshah in the Khajorie area. Inter Services Public Relations Director General Major Gen Wahid Arshad told the channel the attack had not resulted in any casualties, but one soldier was injured.
Girls school bombed: Meanwhile, a bomb ripped through a girls school at the outskirts of district Kahi in Hangu. Threatening pamphlets demanding that all girls schools in the area be shut down were found at the bombed school premises, Online reported. Geo News quoted police sources as saying that the locally made bomb was planted at the Rashidabad Girls Primary School. The bomb shattered the windows and damaged the walls of the building, he said.
Posted by: Fred ||
10/31/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11126 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
A "self-styled commander" of Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), was killed in an encounter in Bandipore district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir Tuesday. The Indian security forces launched a search operation at Chakrishipura in Bandipore district this morning, news agency Press Trust of India reported. The self-styled JeM district commander Amanullah Bukhari a resident of Gujranwala in Pakistan, was killed in the encounter, the news agency said. One AK rifle, two magazines and 29 rounds were recovered from the slain guerrilla.
One rifle with 29 rounds of bullet and no personal charisma as measured in armed henchpersons makes the title of "commander" somewhat suspect...
Authorities have found the head of the suspected suicide bomber who blew himself up near outside the official residence of a senior army official in the adjacent city of Rawalpindi, said an official.
Noticed those kids' soccer ball had a beard, did they?
A suicide bomber, in his late 20s, blew himself up near a police checkpoint outside the house of Chairman Joint Chief of Staff Committee (CJCSC), police sources told KUNA. The sources said that the explosion killed eight persons including three policemen and wounded about 20 others, adding that the explosion also caused partial damage to the outer wall of CJCSC residence.
Interior Ministry Spokesman Javed Cheema confirmed the number of casualties and said that authorities found the head of suspected suicide bomber. Sources said the head was found inside the CJCSC residence. Cheema, talking to newsmen, said that the bomber was of age between 19 and 30, but he was not identified yet.
Senior Police officer of Rawalpindi city, Saud Aziz, said that the bomber, who was on foot, wanted to get past police security cordon but a policeman successfully stopped him at a checkpoint. "He then detonated explosives strapped to his body," he added. Police sources said that the explosive was of 14 to 15 Kg weight.
Security in all major cities of Pakistan including Lahore, Islamabad, Karachi and Peshawar was put on red alert and heavy police deployment was made around cantonment areas. The explosion took place amid deteriorating security situation in northern Sawat district where army claimed killing dozens of militants in a gunbattle with local militants and supporters of Maulana Fazlullah, head of a banned Al-Qaeda linked group.
Intelligence reports two days back said that three suspected suicide bombers, trained at a border tribal region, infiltrated into twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad.
The best thing about my job on the Baghdad Provincial Reconstruction Team... to see Iraqis adapt to their situation the Americans' example of dedication to national unity against the forces of terrorism and tyranny.
The reconciliation of Sunnis and Shi'ites across Iraq in a national movement to reject al-Qaeda is an example of this and was made possible by the troop surge...
"(The Taji Awakening) involves all the sheiks (in Taji), both Sunni and Shi'a. Over the period of four weeks now, it has gathered momentum," Burke said. "The movement here has become dynamic."
He said that the largest gathering of Sunni and Shi'a sheiks in Iraq occurred on Aug. 20 in the Taji area and that the terrorist forces in the area are now "on the run" because of the sectarian reconciliation....
-----------------------
note 1: I think that Taji is actually in Salahadin province but is near Baghdad province
note 2: October military fatalities in Iraq will almost certainly come in with the lowest number since March 2006. This will be the 5th month of declining fatalities.
note 3: Because this is in the Manchester NH newspaper, there is a good chance the Donks will be forced to respond to this as they are campaigning
#1
I had one of trailing daughter #2's male friends (she collects intelligent boys, for some reason) giggling over that soldier who told his wife all he wanted for Christmas was an insurgent to shoot at, and that the Marines were transferring to Afghanistan because Iraq is too placid. It's beginning to begin to look like it might be an amusing election season after all.
My prayers and wishes for a full recovery go out to this soldier and his family.
Of all the injuries in the war in Iraq, the one Sgt. Dan Powers sustained was among the most unusual.
Powers, a member of the Army's 118th MP Company Airborne, was in eastern Baghdad investigating an explosion when suddenly an Iraqi walked up to him and stabbed him in the right side of his head. He didn't know what hit him.
It felt like someone kind of clothesline tackled me and a thump on the side of the head, like a bang," he said.
An Iraqi teenager had inched up behind Powers on a Baghdad street and plunged a 9-inch knife deep into his skull, penetrating his brain.
"He had no idea what had really happened," said Spc. Ryan Webb, a company medic. "I did have to fight a few people off that came by and were like, 'Whoa, you've got a knife sticking out of your head.'"
Amazingly, Powers remained conscious and alert as he was rushed to a combat hospital, when he finally noticed the knife and realized the gravity of his injury.
"They kept telling me to go sit down, they didn't tell me how bad I was hurt yet," Powers said.
Miraculous Survival
Just a few hours later, doctors in Iraq prepared to take the daring but necessary action of pulling the knife out of Powers' skull -- a move they knew might kill him, and almost did.
Powers lost 2 liters of blood -- about 40 percent of the total in his body.
Back home now at Ft. Bragg, Powers and his wife Trudy are counting their blessings.
"All along I knew he would live because I know him and I know how strong a guy he is," Trudy said.
Amazingly, Powers' memory, speech and coordination are all intact.
"I have a little bit of a loss of sensation on my face due to all of it and I can't raise my right eyebrow. So I am kind of like Mr. Spock," Powers joked.
And Powers is forever grateful for the care he received from the military.
"Those are the heroes to me. They're my heroes," he said. "I am just glad to have made it when so many didn't."
#1
If another soldier witnessed that, he should have calmly shot off the teenager's jaw, then have the medics save his life. Then, for the rest of his life, he would be a walking advertisement.
BALAD, Iraq Iraqi Special Operations Forces conducted a raid Oct. 29 in Khadra detaining a suspected al Qaeda in Iraq terrorist network leader and three others.
The AQI leader is believed to lead four insurgent groups who are suspected of conducting attacks on Iraqi Security Forces and terrorizing local civilians. Coalition Forces believe he and his network are involved in attacks on Iraqi infrastructure and medical facilities, including the burning of Iraqs main drug storehouse which provided medicine to sick citizens. More evidence of AQI's lack of understanding of how to win friends and influence people.
Iraqi Special Operations Forces were advised by U.S. Special Forces in the operation to capture the suspected terrorist.
During the operation, Iraqi and U.S. Forces came under insurgent fire and responded with proportional return fire.
No civilian casualties or damage to property occurred as a result of Iraqi or U.S. action.
One U.S. Soldier was injured with non-life threatening injuries during the operation. The Soldier was treated by U.S. medical personnel and returned to duty.
#3
I am sure they will be treated according to the customs of all who are guests of the Iraqi justice system. Beyond the right to a free trip around the Sun every year, I am not sure what civil rights an Iraqi prisoner has according to their law.
An al-Qaida-linked insurgent group in Iraq claimed in an Internet posting Tuesday it was behind a suicide bike bombing on police recruits northeast of Baghdad, the US-based SITE Intelligence Group said. The US group, which monitors militant messaging traffic, said that a statement by the Islamic State of Iraq described the Monday bombing as having been carried out by a mujahedeen wearing a suicide belt and riding a bomb-laden motorcycle.
The militants' statement said the attack resulted in the death of as many as 40 members of the Iraqi National Guard, SITE reported. Iraqi police and hospital officials had said the bomber killed at least 29 people when he rode a bicycle into a crowd of police recruits in Baqouba, the capital of Diyala province 56 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad.
Posted by: Fred ||
10/31/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11126 views]
Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq
Three Palestinians arrested earlier this month in a secret border tunnel linking Gaza and Egypt are members of an al-Qaida-inspired group that had planned to carry out suicide attacks in Israel, an Egyptian police official said Tuesday. The official said the men were members of the Palestinian terrorist group Army of Islam which had claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of Cpl. Gilad Schalit and BBC British journalist Alan Johnston.
The police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity as he was not authorized to reveal the information, identified the men as Ibrahim Ahmed, 42, Hassaan Youssef, 21, and Khaled Essam, 22. A fourth man was believed to have escaped back to Gaza. One of the three arrested, Youssef, was wearing a suicide belt at the time of the police raid on the tunnel.
Posted by: Fred ||
10/31/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11126 views]
Top|| File under: Hamas
#1
For about 6 months now, both Egypt and the PA have been periodically cooperating with Israel in combatting Hamas and its partners.
The cooperation isn't constant and has some gaping omissions but, still, this is definitely something different.
An Islamic Jihad operative was arrested in Bethlehem by Border Police, IDF, and Shin Bet forces, authorities announced Tuesday evening. Attaf Kamal is a senior Islamic Jihad member and has been wanted by the IDF since 2001. Kamal was being questioned by security forces.
Posted by: Fred ||
10/31/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11125 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic Jihad
Three Palestinians civilians were killed in an IDF attack in the northern Gaza Strip Tuesday evening, Army Radio quoted Palestinian sources as saying. The army confirmed that troops had fired a rocket at a group of terrorists that were responsible for an earlier mortar attack on the western Negev. However, due to technical failure the rocket veered from its course and missed the terrorists, the IDF said.
Posted by: Fred ||
10/31/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11126 views]
Top|| File under: Hamas
An IAF missile hit a police station in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis late Tuesday, Palestinians said, and according to rescue workers, at least four Hamas men were killed. The IDF confirmed it carried out an air strike, saying the target was a Hamas position in southern Gaza.
Earlier Tuesday, the IDF fired a missile that hit a house in northern Gaza, wounding at least three people. The IDF said it was aiming at a rocket squad, but the missile misfired and hit the house. The strike came after 10 mortars were fired at an Israeli town near Gaza. One of the mortars hit very close to a house, causing it to catch fire, and a number of shock victims were treated by emergency medical teams.
Posted by: Fred ||
10/31/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11131 views]
Top|| File under: Hamas
Eight people were wounded in a string of bombings in this violence-plagued province of Narathiwat overnight Tuesday.
Early Wednesday, a bomb exploded at an aerobic dancing ground near a village in Sungai Kolok municipality wounding three people, who were exercising there. The bomb was detonated by a digital clock mechanism. Another five-kilogramme bomb exploded near a roadside restaurant in Sungai Kolok municipality but no one was wounded in the incident.
Meanwhile, bomb disposal squad defused two bombs, planted near a food shop in the Sungai Kolok municipality. Time bombs, they were set to blow up at 6.30 and 6.40 am respectively. Police used a robot equipped with high pressure watergun to destroy the bombs.
On Tuesday night, ten karaoke entertainment venues were bombed in Narathiwat's provincial seat. Five persons were wounded and rushed to hospital, while police detained three suspected bombers for questioning. One person was pronounced dead at hospital, while four others are in stable condition.
A defense volunteer was gunned down in Pattani, and eight persons were wounded in separate shooting attacks in Yala.
Local defense volunteer Muhamamalanung Yala, 37, was shot in the head along a road in Sai Buri district by a lone gunman on a motorcycle. The victim died instantly at the scene.
A village head was shot in the leg in a drive-by shooting in Yala's Muang district. Village chief Adisorn Salae was riding a motorcycle, passing a mosque when he was attacked by a gunman on a motorcycle. He was rushed to nearby hospital.
In Yala's Bannang Sata district, at least three gunmen ambushed a pick-up truck carrying seven persons, all of whom were wounded. The seven victims were rushed to hospital. A police response force is hunting the gunmen. Police believe that the ambush was in retaliation for the alleged extrajudicial killing of two insurgents in the area on Tuesday. The authorities also seized a number of items including weapons and explosives.
Meanwhile, an unknown number of attackers opened fire at a paramilitary ranger base in Yala's Yaha district. The rangers exchanged gunfire with the gunmen before they retreated. No one was wounded in the incident.
In other development, visiting police at the operations centre of the Royal Thai Police Army in Yala, Army chief Gen. Anupong Paochinda said he had no special insight into the series of bombings in Narathiwat municipality and at karaoke entertainment venues in which one person was killed and seven were wounded.
Gen. Anupong said the insurgents may have attacked in retaliation for government operations or the insurgents may want to flex their muscles and show off their power. However, the Army chief said officials will tighten security to do their utmost to prevent the recurrence of such attacks. Speaking about overall situation, he said coordination between the combined forces and the Southern Border Provinces Administrative Centre (SBPAC) will help resolve the problem in the long term.
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Government troops fought with separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in three areas of northern Sri Lanka in clashes that killed 13 of the guerrillas, the military said Tuesday while fighter jets pounded a northern rebel base. Soldiers repelled a group of rebels who tried to breach a defence line Monday night in Muhamalai on northern Jaffna peninsula, killing eight guerrillas, an official at the Defence Ministry information center said.
Troops killed two more rebels near the defence line of Nagarkovil, also on the peninsula, early Tuesday, the official said on condition of anonymity citing government policy. Soldiers also spotted a group of rebels further south in Vavuniya district, and fired artillery, killing three more rebels, the official said.
Also on Tuesday, air force fighter jets bombed a rebel naval base in northern Mullaitivu district, the official said. Details of the damage were not available immediately, but the official said the pilots confirmed the target was hit.
Posted by: Steve White ||
10/31/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11128 views]
Top|| File under:
Syria-based Palestinian officials announced on Tuesday that a Hamas-led meeting due here in early November would be postponed to coincide with the US-sponsored Mideast peace conference later this year. The Damascus meeting of Palestinian groups opposed to peace talks with Israel had been envisaged to rival the conference called for by US President George W. Bush in Annapolis, Maryland.
The US-sponsored Mideast conference, due in November or December, is expected to relaunch Palestinian-Israeli negotiations. Talal Naji, a ranking official with the Syria-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, said that a preparatory committee had rescheduled the Damascus gathering, initially planned for November 7-9, to have it "coincide with the Bush conference."
Posted by: Fred ||
10/31/2007 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11130 views]
Top|| File under: Hamas
#1
Where are they meeting? I'd kinda like to send 'em a nice floral centerpiece...
I missed this thread yesterday and wanted to add my 2¢. HELL NO, NO MORE $$$, That's our money Prez Bush, and giving it to our Enemies that HATE us is pure stupidity. btw, the paleos never will respect us.
I also blame Condie and the State Dept; their fingerprints are all over this.
Posted by: Red Dawg ||
10/31/2007 5:02 Comments ||
Top||
#2
soothe
Posted by: Red Dawg ||
10/31/2007 5:04 Comments ||
Top||
#3
Jayne Mansfield and a soccerball with a beard. Savage irony, twisted houmors, coincidence - or all the above?
Posted by: Thomas Woof ||
10/31/2007 7:49 Comments ||
Top||
#4
Let's go with savage irony, Thomas. It seems to be that kind of day -- and clearly Allah has been in some sort of mood lately.
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.
Taliban rebels overran a western Afghan district, sparking a fierce battle on Tuesday that left six civilians, four policemen and 30 militants dead, officials said. A soldier with the US-led coalition, an Afghan spy chief and 20 militants were killed in other incidents, reported AFP.
An escaped Al-Qaeda fighter who took part in the bombing of the US Navy destroyer Cole in 2000 is back in jail in Aden, a Yemeni police official said Tuesday. The whereabouts of 
The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday sent notices to the NWFP home secretary and the Dera Ismail Khan (DI Khan) prison superintendent in a habeas corpus writ petition challenging the detention of former chief of Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM), Maulana Sufi Muhammad.
Special Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Judge Habibur Rehman on Tuesday rejected the bail applications of the accused in the Aabpara Market and F-8 Markaz bomb blast cases. The accused include Faisal Mushtaq, Qasim Mushtaq, Fasihullah and Imdad Hussain.
Dara Adam Khel, once famous for illegal arms manufacturing, is fast becoming a haven for Taliban activities that threaten to extend the Talibanisation to Peshawar and Kohat garrison city. Dara is boiling and the government is ignoring the gravity of the situation, officials said, as the area falls prey to militants who are initiating campaigns against local criminals. They said the inevitable eruption would have a direct affect on Peshawar and Kohat, two sensitive cities from a strategic point of view, whose importance is known to the Taliban. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the Taliban control Dara Bazaar and its surrounding areas, said one tribal elder who requested not to be named.
Four security officials were killed on Tuesday by a remote-controlled bomb near Noruk on the Bannu-Miranshah road, Aaj news reported. According to the channel, four security officials died instantly and several others were injured. After the incident, the Miranshah-Bannu road was closed off to the public, and two helicopters were reportedly circling the area, the channel reported. 
An al-Qaida-linked insurgent group in Iraq claimed in an Internet posting Tuesday it was behind a suicide bike bombing on police recruits northeast of Baghdad, the US-based SITE Intelligence Group said. The US group, which monitors militant messaging traffic, said that a statement by the Islamic State of Iraq described the Monday bombing as having been carried out by a mujahedeen wearing a suicide belt and riding a bomb-laden motorcycle. 
Three Palestinians arrested earlier this month in a secret border tunnel linking Gaza and Egypt are members of an al-Qaida-inspired group that had planned to carry out suicide attacks in Israel, an Egyptian police official said Tuesday. The official said the men were members of the Palestinian terrorist group Army of Islam which had claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of Cpl. Gilad Schalit and BBC British journalist Alan Johnston. 
An IAF missile hit a police station in the southern Gaza city of Khan Yunis late Tuesday, Palestinians said, and according to rescue workers, at least four Hamas men were killed. The IDF confirmed it carried out an air strike, saying the target was a Hamas position in southern Gaza. 
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Government troops fought with separatist Tamil Tiger rebels in three areas of northern Sri Lanka in clashes that killed 13 of the guerrillas, the military said Tuesday while fighter jets pounded a northern rebel base. Soldiers repelled a group of rebels who tried to breach a defence line Monday night in Muhamalai on northern Jaffna peninsula, killing eight guerrillas, an official at the Defence Ministry information center said.
