Start of long story. AP has it classified as Entertainment
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - Dutch police have arrested eight suspected Islamic radicals as part of the investigation into the brutal slaying of outspoken filmmaker Theo van Gogh, prosecutors said Wednesday. The suspects were detained in the 24 hours following Van Gogh's killing while he bicycled on an Amsterdam street, prosecution spokeswoman Dop Kruimel told The Associated Press. Six detainees are of Moroccan origin, one is Algerian and the other has dual Spanish-Moroccan nationality, she said. The suspect in the killing — a 26-year-old suspected Muslim extremist with dual Moroccan-Dutch citizenship — was arrested Tuesday after a shootout with police. The unidentified suspect was wounded in the leg.
I'm curious as to why they won't ID the guy.
Kruimel said the suspects, whose identities were not released, were detained and released during an October 2003 investigation into a potential terrorist threat.
Oh. Maybe that's why.
"Don't do it. Don't do it. Have mercy. Have mercy!" the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper quoted Van Gogh as begging his killer. Another Dutch newspaper, the Telegraaf daily, carried a large color photograph of Van Gogh's body with a knife protruding from his chest under the headline "Butchered."
A little light reading with your Wednesdag coffee.
"We're not going to take this," the Dagblad said. The paper said the killer shot Van Gogh eight or nine times, then calmly slipped his weapon in the pocket of a beige raincoat before bending over his victim and slitting his throat.
Eyewitness accounts said he calmly waited for Theo to die of the gunshots, then tried to cut his head off.
Dutch Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner said the suspect "acted out of radical Islamic fundamentalist convictions" and added that he had contacts with a group that was under surveillance by the Dutch secret service.
Yesterday the authorities were telling everyone "not to jump to conclusions." I s'pose the Koran pages pinned to Theo's chest with a knife made the conclusions hard to ignore. Also this poster, found on a Dutch jihadi website. (Hat tip: Dhimmi Watch)
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and added that he had contacts with a group that was under surveillance by the Dutch secret service.
Great work! Perhaps they were the witnesses that calmly watched while the killer calmly waited for Theo to die.
A suspected Muslim extremist with alleged terrorist ties was under arrest Wednesday in the death of a Dutch filmmaker who criticized the treatment of women under Islam. Theo van Gogh, 47, was repeatedly shot and stabbed to death on an Amsterdam street on Tuesday. "Don't do it. Don't do it. Have mercy. Have mercy!" the Algemeen Dagblad newspaper quoted Van Gogh as begging his killer. Another Dutch newspaper, the Telegraaf daily, carried a large color photograph of Van Gogh's body with a knife protruding from his chest under the headline "Butchered."
"We're not going to take this," the Dagblad said. The paper said the killer shot Van Gogh eight or nine times, then calmly bent over his victim and slit his throat with a knife. A police officer was slightly injured in the shooting. Police arrested a 26-year-old man with dual Moroccan-Dutch citizenship. His name was not released. The suspect is allegedly friends with Samir Azzouz, an 18-year-old Muslim of Moroccan origin awaiting trial on charges of planning a terrorist attack on targets including a nuclear reactor and Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, NOS Dutch television reported. Dutch Justice Minister Piet Hein Donner said the suspect "acted out of radical Islamic fundamentalist convictions," and added that he had contacts with a group that was under surveillance by the Dutch secret service. The government held late-night crisis meetings and the Immigration Minister met with Muslim groups to discuss how to avoid violent confrontations with the Muslim community.
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"... the 26-year-old suspect, who has dual Dutch and Moroccan nationality, was known to national security services but was not among a group of 150 Muslims the AIVD security service is monitoring."
So the question now is: what to do with the other 150 considered more deserving of supervision than the psycho who popped, sliced and diced van Gogh? How many other RAGE-infecteds jihadists will now be turning their zombie gaze towards Ayaan Hirsi Ali or others? Seems to me the choice is a - shock, horror! - GoudaGitmo pdq, or more blood on the cobbled streets of Amsterdam in fairly short order.
The Netherlands - supposedly the most tolerant country in civilised Western Europe. A place where prominent individualists are killed on the streets as dogs are in Mogadishu.
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Thanks for the post DG, but what's the real reaction over there? Are the Dutch people geting fed up with these folks or are they going to let them take over?
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A friend of mine in the Netherlands is getting a black market handgun. The violence is so bad and the cops and justice are so useless.
He told me today how the muslims forced the non muslims off of a block with violence and intimidation. The cops and political system did nothing to stop or to even protect the native dutch residents. They supported muslim imigrants.
The anti european grafitti they sprayed everywhere was outragious.
People are so fed up that websites have been taken off line and things are being hushed up. The average dutch person is very fed up. The Political elites are the same that are in the EU leadership. They will do nothing against the racist muslim attacks on freedom of speech and artistic expression. Time for the Dutch to get their pitchforks and rise up and drive these enemies from their country.
Real Madrid's football stadium was reportedly a target for a planned terror attack in Spain. Eight alleged Islamist militants have been placed under detention in connection with the plot.The group was allegedly targeting key targets in the capital Madrid, including the Santiago Bernabeu stadium. The ground is the home to world famous football club Real Madrid, whose players include England captain David Beckham and fellow international Michael Owen. Judge Baltasar Garzon said the headquarters of the opposition conservative Popular Party was also a target. Thirteen people were arrested across Spain last week in what the government said was an ongoing operation "to dismantle an Islamist cell attempting jihad (holy war)."
Of the 13, nine are Algerian nationals and the remainder are Moroccans. There is no apparent link between the arrests and the ongoing inquiry into the Madrid train bombings, which killed 191 people in March.
The rules of the playground...
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Ah, the greatest professional soccer team of all time - the NY Yankees, Boston Celtics and Green Bay Packers of "the beautiful game". Finest trophy room ever presented to the public viewing. And, across the street, the Congreso, in case you need to take out a few conventioneers or confernce delegates. Yeah, a pretty rich target if you want to get the football vote.
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Blowing up people on the subway to affect an election is forgivable. Messing with The Football is not. If the attack had gone through, I would have expected to see Spanish police arresting all the people they've been watching, plus their friends, relatives, and dog groomers. However, since the conspirators have been taken off the street, nothing will change.
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I thought somebody was going to attack the World Series this year. After all, the Red Sox couldn't be allowed to win, could they?
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If the Spanish didn't get all warlike over getting 200 citizens killed (1000+ wounded) going to work, just how are they going to get pissed about getting bombed at a voluntary leisure activity. What are the going to do, evacuate Spain?
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GENEVA (AP) - The Sudanese army and police have surrounded several refugee camps in the war-torn region of Darfur and denied access to humanitarian groups, the United Nations said Tuesday.
"It started at 3 a.m. without any warning," said Christiane Berthiaume, spokeswoman for the World Food Program. "Agencies have been denied access to these camps since this morning."
At least 160,000 refugees in western Darfur cannot be reached by road "because of insecurity," Berthiaume said.
The U.N. food agency has relocated a total of 88 aid workers from three camps in the Nyala region: Golu, Zaleinge and Nertetie. Most of those evacuated are working for independent aid organizations rather than the United Nations, Berthiaume said.
The agency still has three employees in Zaleinge and Nertetie but may evacuate them depending "on the evolution of the situation," Berthiaume said.
WFP is concerned that government forces may start relocating people in the camps back to their villages, where there is less protection from government-backed militias known as Janjaweed, she said.
Refugees fear the move may be government retaliation for the kidnapping of 18 Sudanese of Arab origin, who were taken hostage while traveling on a bus between Zaleinge and Nyala last week, WFP said.
Sudan's government is accused of backing the Janjaweed to help put down a 19-month rebellion by non-Arab African groups. The United Nations and aid groups have previously called Darfur the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
Aid workers and U.N. officials in Sudan have confirmed violence in the Zaleinge area, where tensions have risen as Arab tribes have demanded international agencies secure the hostages' release.
A deadline for the release of the Arab hostages expired Sunday.
The Sudanese government has since accused the rebel Sudan Liberation Army of the kidnappings, while rebels claimed Janjaweed ordered 30 ethnic Africans from a bus on Sunday and shot them to death.
The United Nations has suspended all field missions by international organizations because of the kidnapping and violence, Ron Redmond, spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, said.
"Along with other international organizations, we have had to cancel missions to the field planned for this week," he said.
Attacks have uprooted 1.5 million of Darfur's people, and at least 70,000 have died, mostly through disease and hunger, according to the U.N. Both sides are accused of routine violations of an April cease-fire.
KARACHI: A worshipper was killed and two including an imam were injured when two men with pistols opened fire in a mosque in Buffer Zone-Sector 15 during Fajr prayers on Wednesday.
The deceased was identified as Mohammed Ismail while the injured were Mufti Farooq and Sajjad. Police suspected that the assailants came to kill Sajjad only, as they escaped immediately after shooting him four times. Sajjad, who is a Pashtun, had joined the mosque a year ago and would call people for prayers and teach the Quran to children in the area.
DIG Fayyaz Leghari said the assailants had used pistols, which gave the impression that it was a targeted killing and the assailants had come to kill only one person. staff report
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The health of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat seriously deteriorated Wednesday night. Maybe he heard the election results ?
He was placed in an intensive-care unit at the French military hospital where he is being treated. The sudden deterioration came a few hours after Leila Shahid, the Palestinians' permanent envoy to Paris, reiterated that doctors carrying out tests on Arafat in the suburb of Clamart, southwest of Paris, had ruled out leukemia or any other form of cancer and said his health was improving. "Oops, our bad..."
"Define 'improving'"...
"We are happy that his health is getting better." she said. "Now we have to continue the examinations to find the reason for his general fatigue and the weakness of his blood. But I think we are going in the right direction."
Arafat hopes United States President George W. Bush will adopt a new "policy of peace" in the Middle East, an aide said on Wednesday. rriigghhttt
Shahid told LCI television in Paris she was worried by the prospect of a second term for Bush because he had conducted what she called a policy of war. "I think that, like all Palestinians, he [Arafat] is waiting to see what President Bush is going to do to revert to a policy of peace rather than a policy of war," Shahid said as television network projections showed Bush edging towards victory. "I am worried because President Bush has for four years been in charge of the American administration that has conducted a policy of war more than a policy of peace and which decided to put the peace process in a freezer for the last four years." She added: "What worries me is that in this second term the desire to see a new American president, a new government continuing the peace process is not being fulfilled." Shahid said there was a big difference between Bush and his Democratic challenger John Kerry on foreign policy but did not say elaborate.
Didn't have to, did she? It's the nuance...
Aides said on Tuesday that Arafat was following the election but had refused to be drawn on whether he preferred Bush or Kerry. The U.S. has tried to freeze the Palestinian leader out of the picture in the Middle East conflict. Israel accuses Arafat of fomenting violence in an uprising that began in 2000, something Arafat denies.
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The health of Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat seriously deteriorated Wednesday night.
Any Israeli nurses in that ward? Or maybe this is Chirac's reelection gift to Bush.
The *secret* Lh is dropping so many hints today! Woohoo! You're a farking moonbat just pretending to be a rational Lieberman Donk, disenfranchised by your own, lol!
Your patience and acting are excellent! Contact Hollyweird - they need good actors, and mebbe even stealth trolls. :-)
2. Directed to the Rantburg medical community: aren't there a lot of nasty things that piggyback onto AIDS, like dementia, certain cancers, and "opportunistic infections?" Could Yasser's problems be due to those sorts of things?
3. .com: be nice to 'Hawk now, he's one of the good guys. We're all mostly on the same side here ('cept for Murat), and it's morning in America, so be of good cheer.
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Mike - Lol! I've "known" Lh for about 2 years, now, on RB. Your heart's in the right place, and I appreciate it, but I'm no newbie - and neither is he, lol! And I am of good cheer! Hell, it's skeery how good I feel, today, heh. But hey, "Prez Hillary" is the funniest fucking thing I've heard / read today, and that is really saying something, lol!
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"Bush... put the peace process in a freezer for the last four years..."
Always our fault, never their own. I hope Yassir dies today so we can have a double celebration.
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Okay, .com, glad I could provide a laugh.
I'm heading for the house, where there will be celebration and chants of "Four more beers!"
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.com - you think the Hildabeast is the 2008 odds-on favorite? I do, and from what I've heard about Edward's concession speech, he'll be in the primaries as well.
Am I starting 2008 too soon? I think Hilda's already assembled her campaign team.
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Oh fuck off and die Arafat. You've always been a lying, murdering, evil, vile, piece of shit.
Apologies to regular RBers for iffy language, I've been out tonight celebrating on 5.7% beer and it's kicking in...
CONGRATULATIONS to all Rantburgers!
Oooh me head...
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Thanks, Tony! BTW, when are you guys moving here? You're not wanted there in the UK anymore - too sensible and logical... Lots of room coming up when the moonbats leave for Kanada, Ireland, etc., lol!
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Shahid told LCI television in Paris she was worried by the prospect of a second term for Bush because he had conducted what she called a policy of war.
I guess this is opposed to the Paleos version of a "policy of peace," eh? What a freakin' hippocrite (and I mean HIPPOcrite)! Just like "we're gonna wipe Israel off the map and drive the Joooooos into the sea," what part of "You're either with us or against us," don't you understand there Arafish?
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"Hey Wings, Arafat's about to kick the bucket, you hungry?" (Wings) "I just lost my appetite!"
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Oh, did I call it or did I call it!? On Saturday, I opined that the Israelis let him leave because they knew that he was terminal, not coming back, resting, pining for the fijords, joining the choir invisible, et cetera.
Gawd, I can hardly believe myself, rejoicing at the imminent demise of another person. What this war has done to us...
Oh, f**K it, die already.
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" Arafat hopes United States President George W. Bush will adopt a new "policy of peace" in the Middle East"
Bush will adopt a new policy, alright. It's called "finishing what he started". He is going to allow Sharon to kill the rest of the terrs in Paleostein.
Tooooo bad your dribbling pepperoni face won't be there to see the "new policy". Enjoy the HOT bearded virgins and raisins, PIG. I am sure you can easily find fire, where you are going.
BTW, Sgt. Mom. I called it too, a while back, but not on RB. Who in the hell cares anyway? He will be dead soon.
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Sgt, I think you called it right. It's hours or days now ...we hope.
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"I am worried because President Bush has for four years been in charge of the American administration that has conducted a policy of war more than a policy of peace and which decided to put the peace process in a freezer for the last four years."
BA, got the closest. "Policy of war?" WTF should we call the psychotic murdering thugs that Palestine has bred up for the last several decades? Hamas, al Aqsa and Hizbollah have been pouring liquid nitrogen over the glaciated roadmap for more years than anyone can count.
Die slowly, Arafat, but please make sure to die. I'm confident that Israel will not permit even his corpse to re-enter Palestine. I don't care if they fly his coffin back on a plane full of pre-schoolers, they should still blow it out of the sky.
Consider it payback for Beslan.
Arafat sowed so many of the hydra's teeth that continue to sprout all over the Middle East. May he roast in Hell.
Xinhuanet -- In Iraq, violence between insurgents and US troops has been continuing in the rebel stronghold of Fallujah. Heavy clashes were also reported in Ramadi, where two Iraqi civilians were killed. Witnesses in Ramadi said the clashes were triggered by insurgents who fired rockets in the area. The US troops launched artillery in response. The clashes left a woman and an Iraqi freelance television cameraman dead, reported CCTV.com on Tuesday. Meanwhile, American troops are gearing up for a major offensive in Fallujah. The order to launch the assault is believed to have come from Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi. On Sunday, he warned that his patience with negotiations was running thin. US and Iraqi officials hope to curb the insurgency in Sunni strongholds in time for national elections by the end of January.
Also on Monday, Iraqi insurgents released a video of an attack on a US military vehicle near Ramadi. In a statement delivered with the tape, a group calling itself the Islamic movement for Iraqi Mujahadeens claimed responsibility for the assault. There was no word on the fate of the people in the vehicle, and the US military did not immediately confirm the attack.
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Now that the election is over, we should drain the swamp. And you know what: I'll bet the MSM will not be the least bit interested in splashing pictures of burning Humvees on the news any longer. The gloves are off.
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Groluck, Are you on drugs? No, I'm not referring to your name but to your assumption that the MSM will not be the least bit interested in splashing pictures of burning Humvees on the news any longer. Those pictures are going to be all over as exhibit #1 in the drive to impeachment. Demonstrations of how Bushitler failed to bring us together and unite us as a nation. His MSM honeymon will be less than 24 hours.
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Mrs. D is right. It will either be this or about twenty other things that Dems will use to try to impeach Bush. Once they wake up from their confusion and bewilderment, they'll collectively start the "Impeach Bush" chant.
Let the usual raging partisan nutjobs scream for impeachment all they want, won't go anywhere.
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Never said it would get anywhere, only that they would scream about it. The whole time I was growing up it seemed every other billboard said impeach Earl Warren. I think the wackos who owned the billboards put it up when they didn't have a paying customer. It's the same kind of wingnuts in the Democrat party now. But, instead of owning the billboard companies, they own the MSM.
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I'm with Mrs. D. here. The other alternative for the donks is to become introspective, recognize that they're no longer in the driver's seat, and attempt to work as a loyal opposition party. Riiiiight.
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If Rove was the evil genius he's portrayed to be, now would be when he'd spring into action, heh, planting agents throughout the Dhimmigogue Party as it implodes - and then does whatever it is going to do: rebuild or splinter. An amazing opportunity, in fact, for those evil genius types, lol!
Sixteen members of Islamic Jihad and Hamas cells operating in Bethlehem, including some who served in the Palestinian Police, planned to perpetrate two double suicide bomb attacks in Jerusalem's Mea She'arim and French Hill neighborhoods. Details released by the Shin Bet on Tuesday revealed that all the suspects had been arrested in combined IDF and Shin Bet operations in recent weeks following the July arrest of Mohammed Darawi, a former member of the Palestinian security service who was recruited by the Fatah Tanzim in Bethlehem. The group had planned to smuggle an ambulance rigged with a large quantity of explosives into Jerusalem and detonate it in a populated area of the capital.
The cell members received orders from Siad A-Fatah Ibrahim Abu Jidian, a member of the Islamic Jihad in Gaza, and joined forces with Hamas activists in Bethlehem who had recruited four suicide bombers. The plan was to launch two double suicide bomb attacks in Jerusalem with the Hamas supplying the suicide bombers and the Islamic Jihad the explosives. Other plans included rigging two cars with explosives and blowing them up near Rachel's Tomb and then detonating additional bombs as emergency crews reached the site. Security officials said the arrests of the cell members is further proof of the ongoing cooperation between employees of Palestinian security forces and terror organizations. It also points to the growing cooperation between terror groups headquartered in Gaza and in the West Bank.
The multiple arrests also led to the confiscation of large number of Kalashnikov rifles, bombs, ammunition clips and chemicals used to manufacture explosives. The four would-be suicide bombers recruited to launch the attacks in Jerusalem were identified as Mohammed Fuad Adwin,17, Mussa A-Karim Mussa Ajwaz,17, Mohammed Sami Hamid Aza,16 and Mataz A-Khader Abu Nadan,17, all residents of Bethlehem.
Hungary will withdraw its 300 non-combat troops from Iraq by March 31, the country's new prime minister said Wednesday, because staying longer would be an "impossibility." "We are obliged to stay there until the (Iraqi) elections. To stay longer is an impossibility," Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany said at a ceremony to mark the end of mandatory military service in Hungary. The former communist country, which joined the European Union in May, sent the troops as part of the U.S.-led coalition, but the government has been under mounting pressure from citizens and opposition parties who oppose the soldiers' presence.
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Not unexpected and others will follow. Many of our Coalition partners were clear that they were there until elections and until Iraqis took over their own country. God bless them all and thank you!
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At the time the Iraqi's hold their elections, and select their new government, the Hungarians (and the others) can proudly return home and claim 'Mission Accomplished'. That was the primary mission. Thanks Hungary!
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I agree this isnt a Spain, but im far from as calm as y'all are. I was hoping new Iraqi troops could ADD to coalition manpower - if theyre to replace withdrawing coalition troops that means the buildup is slower. And some folks are gonna wonder why Hungarians, etc get to go home while we keep the same troop level or increase it.
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I'm with LH on this one. They acted honorably and that can't be taken away from them. But let's not forget, the message being sent is that these guys did not sign up for outright war. The situation isn't stable enough in Iraq. And that means more work for the US, UK, and for the timebeing, the other coalition members.
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Note the following: 'Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany said he would ask parliament to extend the troops' current mandate, which expires Dec. 31, until March 31. Hungary's largest opposition party, which wants the soldiers home by year's end, signaled it likely would block the move.'
Hungary has the same problem the U.S. has/had ...that of liberal radicals playing games with international security.
We thank Hungarians for their service in the counter-terrorist war in Iraq, and extend our best wishes to Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany to hold firm and look to the Bush victory as hope in defeating leftists.
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I echo Ptah - and my email of thanks has been sent.
The militant group led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility in a Web posting Tuesday for the beheading of a Japanese backpacker and claimed Japan had offered millions of dollars in ransom to free him. The Japanese government, which had rejected the kidnappers demands that it withdraw troops from Iraq, denied offering any payment. In the statement on an Islamist Web site, the al-Qaida-affiliated group posted a gruesome video of the slaying of Shosei Koda, whose decapitated body was found wrapped in an American flag in northwestern Baghdad on Saturday.
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Hasn't that idiot yet figured out that a few beheadings isn't having an impact? Talk about failed policy...
A militant Muslim group claimed Wednesday to have beheaded an Iraqi Army officer that they captured in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The group, Ansar al-Sunnah, posted a statement and showed a video on their Web site where they decapitated a man they identified as Maj. Hussein Shanoun. It was impossible to verify the claim's authenticity. The statement called him an "apostate" and said he participated — by American orders — in attacks against insurgents in Mosul, located about 225 miles northwest of Baghdad. They claimed that he "confessed."
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A Pakistani court on Thursday again adjourned an appeal hearing for four Islamic militants convicted of the abduction and murder of U.S. reporter Daniel Pearl because a key defence lawyer failed to show up. British-born Islamic militant Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh was sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court in July 2002 for masterminding the crime, while his three co-accused -- Sheikh Adil, Fahad Naseem and Salman Saqib -- were jailed for life. The convicts appealed to a two-member bench of the Sindh provincial High Court on July 19, 2002, challenging the verdict. The government also appealed to the same court, asking for enhancement of the punishment. However not a single formal hearing of the case has been held so far -- mostly because of the absence of lawyers representing the convicts.
On Thursday, the court received a telegram from one of the defence lawyers, Rai Basheer, saying he could not attend due to illness. "Defence lawyers are trying to drag the case," deputy prosecutor Habib Ahmed told Reuters. No date was fixed for a new hearing. Sheikh is being held at a high security jail in Rawalpindi, while the three other convicts are in a prison in the southern city of Hyderabad. Pearl, 38, was researching a story on Islamic fundamentalism when he was kidnapped in Karachi in January 2002 and later beheaded.
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The bad guys are already in prison, so does it really matter? Other than annoying th High Court judges and the government, I mean.
The city police claims to have busted a racket in fake currency notes allegedly masterminded by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence to "destroy" India's economy. Authorities in India frequently blame ISI for anything that goes wrong in the country. Apparently, acting on a tip-off by Mumbai police, Kolkata Police detectives yesterday arrested three persons and seized Rs300,000 in Rs500 denomination counterfeit notes. The three accused — two Indians and a Bangladeshi — were produced before a magistrate who remanded them in police custody until November 11 to complete investigations into what is being described as an ISI operation.
"Mahmoud, you idiot! You can't pass seven-rupee notes!"
"Sure I can, boss! Already did it this morning! Got a three and a four in change!"
Kolkata detective department chief Peeyush Pandey said that the arrested persons are being closely interrogated to unearth their ISI links but had hardly revealed anything so far. "Although we recovered Rs300,000, we have reasons to believe that the trio have already pumped fake notes totalling Rs500,000 into the money market to subvert Indian economy", said Pandey. Recently, Kolkata High Court acquitted four persons accused by the Indian police of passing defence secrets to ISI. Their arrest in 1999 was cited as proof of the ISI activities in India. But the court's clean chit thoroughly exposed the Indian establishment's ISI phobia.
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I recall from my coin collecting childhood that Indian currency comes in weird denominations (for a Westerner).
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After spending plenty of time in India , from the far north to the far south , i can safely say the whole place stinks of corruption .. 'baksheesh' - the taking of bribes to get a job done faster and better , is common practice ,throughout all class's and job descriptions . It is esp a popular form of boosting income within the police and local state governments
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Getting arrested and paying it as baksheesh for release is a simple way to pass the counterfeit money into the economy. On the other hand, the Indian economy is growing so nicely that this money may well have been needed locally. Win/win?
KARACHI - A gunman opened fire with an automatic weapon inside a Sunni Muslim mosque in the port city of Karachi on Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding two, police said. The attack occurred at the Mohammedi Mosque in a low income neighbourhood of North Karachi, police officer Imran Ahmar told Reuters. "It is too early to say whether it's an act of terrorism or the result of personal enmity. We are investigating," he said. Â
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A holy man feeling a little too much of "the spirit"?
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Speaking of popcorn, I expect that the Paleos will be popping off like popcorn any minute now.
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KARACHI - A gunman opened fire with an automatic weapon inside a Sunni Muslim mosque in the port city of Karachi on Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding two, police said.
Where's the outrage? The Moose Limbs get all worked up over bullet marks on the outside of a mosque (American bullets, to be sure) and it seems they can't even work up a healthy seethe session for some idiot that opens fire INSIDE a mosque???
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KARACHI - A gunman opened fire with an automatic weapon inside a Sunni Muslim mosque in the port city of Karachi on Wednesday, killing at least one person and wounding two, police said. The attack occurred at the Mohammedi Mosque in a low income neighbourhood of North Karachi, police officer Imran Ahmar told Reuters. "It is too early to say whether it's an act of terrorism or the result of personal enmity. We are investigating," he said. Â
