President Hamid Karzai said he had sacked two "high-ranking" Afghan officials who were spying for foreign countries and warned he would spare no one found indulging in such activity.
There won't be any word on which foreign countries those might be, of course...
Karzai, who made the disclosure at a lunch meeting with newly sworn-in parliament members, did not name the dismissed officials nor indicate when he took the action. "Anyone found spying for foreign countries will be revealed and tried. In that regard we dismissed two people who were working in very high-ranking government positions," he told the lawmakers.
I have my doubts they'll actually be tried. More likely they'll quietly leave the country...
Karzai said he punished the two officials on the basis of strong evidence. "Even based on minor evidence, anyone found spying for foreign countries will be shown on national television and will be tried," he said.
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Why not kill them ? Or, better yet, take away their retirement benes.
Actually, you didn't even have to 'sack' them, just whack them in the balls with a Louisville Slugger until they can mambo.
The United Arab Emirates, which has been spared al Qaeda attacks that have hit the Gulf Arab region, has amended its law to include harsher punishments for crimes against state security. The amendments, which were posted by state agency WAM late on Saturday and published in local newspapers on Sunday, specify how to deal with offenders who commit crimes that threaten the state's security or stability during war and peace.
Justice Minister Mohammed Nakhira al-Zahiri told English-language Khaleej Times newspaper the amendments were to update existing laws to protect the country against any aggression. "The aim is to provide maximum protection to the state and national interests and to support all efforts that have to be exerted in this direction," Zahiri said.
Arabic daily Al Khaleej listed some of the amendments.
They include longer jail terms for crimes committed in peace and war, such as a 10 year sentence instead of 5 years for offenders cooperating with foreign states against national interest.
They also increase to 100,000 dirhams ($27,230) from 10,000 dirhams fines that the court imposes on some offenders.
Legal provisions applied to crimes against the president will now be applied to crimes against the vice president, supreme council members, crown prince and deputy rulers.
Pro-Western UAE, whose population is about 85 percent expatriate, has arrested militants in the past but has been spared Islamist attacks that have rocked neighbouring countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar. The UAE said in 2002 it was responsible for arresting Abd-al-Rahim al-Nashiri, identified as al Qaeda's chief in the Gulf, and handing him over to Washington. Last year, the country passed its first counter-terrorism law, bringing in strict sentences for offenders including the death penalty.
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Oh, I'm not sure that'd work...
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85% expat population? Jeez-louise. I didn't know that it was that high.
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According the CIA World Factbook, the expat population is closer to 65% "http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ae.html"
But that does include a big chunk of their military, and most of the oil industry.
A listed criminal was killed in "crossfire" during a shootout between his accomplices and the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members in Bakerganj upazila of Barisal early yesterday. The dead was identified as Kamruzzaman Nantu, 35. Earlier, Rab-6 arrested Nantu at the Khulna University on Friday and handed him over to Rab-8 in Barisal on Saturday.
"Hello, -8? This is -6. Got a package for you!"
Following his confessional statement, the Rab-8 members took him to West Nalua village of Kalaskati union at around 5:00am to recover illegal arms and nab his accomplices. According to Rab officials, when they reached the spot Nantu's cohorts opened fire on them in a bid to snatch him away.
"They've got Nantu! Open poorly-aimed, uncoordinated fire!"
Rab retaliated resulting in a gunfight.
"It's the accomplices! Open wild, uncoordinated fire men!"
Nantu was killed on the spot when he got caught in the shootout,
"Aaaaaiiiieee! Rosebud!"
while his accomplices fled.
"Cheezit! Cheezit!"
A sergeant and a constable were also injured in the gunfight.
"Any casualties on our side?"
"Sergeant Mahmoud got a brush burn, chief! I broke a nail!"
One gun, one pipe gun, three rounds of bullets and three sharp weapons were retrieved from the spot.
"Careful with that weapon! It's sharp!"
Police, Rab and local sources said Nantu was a top-terror of the area and was wanted in 13 criminal cases including three for murder. He was in police custody for 18 months and was released on bail last April. Abul Hossain Khan, BNP leader and lawmaker of the area, declared bounty on Nantu a few months ago.
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Sharp weapons 'eh? Looks like they missed the stash of automatic Casios
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Indian police on Saturday night arrested a Bangladeshi along with his wife at a hotel in Agartala, the capital of the Indian State of Tripura, for possession of an illegal firearm and trespassing, UNI reports. Officer-in-charge (OC) Harimohan Das arrested Suman Mia and his wife Kakan Begum following a tip off, the agency quoting official sources said. The couple, residents of Simulpara in Siddhiganj thana in Narayanganj of Bangladesh, were produced before the court yesterday and placed on a seven-day remand. The police claimed one foreign-made revolver was recovered from a bag of Suman. They couple entered into India 'illegally' on Friday.
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Four JMB operatives including its Chittagong divisional chief Mohammad (Aman Ullah) remanded again yesterday, this time for 10 days, our staff correspondent from Chittagong adds. On completion of a 10-day remand in Dhaka, Aman along with other JMB men-- Naimuzzaman (Zafar/Sohag), Rafiqul Islam (Javed/Roman) and Manirul Islam-- was produced before the Court of Metropolitan Magistrate in Chittagong with a fresh remand prayer in a case for possessing explosives.
I think I'd really resent being named Manure ul-Islam.
The JMB operatives were then taken to Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), Chittagong headquarters at Patenga for interrogation, sources said.
I hope RAB takes them out looking for arms caches soon...
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At least four people including a couple were wounded when a homemade bomb exploded on Mirpur Road near the venue of Dhaka International Trade Fair last night. One of the wounded, Parvez, 22, told reporters at Dhaka Medical College Hospital that the bomb exploded when he was going to the fair along with his uncle and aunt. Parvez sustained burns in his left leg while Abu Nesar, 20, a tea vendor, in his right leg and forehead. The other injured are Saleha Begum 28, and her husband Abdur Razzak, 38.
Parvez, a madrasa student of Magura, said the bomb went off on the Mirpur Road a few yards off Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre. Panic gripped the trade fair visitors after the explosion at 8:15pm. Officer-in-Charge of Tejgaon Police Station Kamrul Islam told The Daily Star that snatchers might have exploded the 'cocktail.'
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Bangladesh -- not quite the Mideast, not quite Southeast Asia. Kind of the rednecks of the Islamic terrorist world.
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At least four people including a couple were wounded when a homemade bomb exploded on Mirpur Road near the venue of Dhaka International Trade Fair last night.
At least it was only four targ...er, um, attendees that were injured.
A Rab team from Rajshahi has arrested an Islami Chhatra Shibir activist in Pabna with video CDs containing al-Qaeda chief Osama-bin-Laden's speech and armed training. Rafiqul Alam Ripon was held from the Shalgaria area in Pabna, and three jihadi books and three CDs from his house were seized, a Rab press release said yesterday. The art of bomb manufacturing and explosions, and heroism of Kashmir warriors were detailed in the CDs. Son of Lutfar Rahman, Ripon is a student of the Management department at Edward College and a well-known Shibir worker in his locality, locals said.
Meanwhile, the banned Islamist outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) Friday threatened to blow up the Music and Dramatic Department of Rajshahi University, reports our RU correspondent. "We will blow up the department as well as teachers and students who are not maintaining Islamic laws," a hand-written letter, addressed to the department chairman Prof Matin Talukder, warned. Found at his office, the letter asked the chairman to refrain from admission test in future, terming art and culture anti-Islamic.
And I, for one, quite agree...
Panic gripped students of the department soon after the letter was found, prompting the RU authorities to deploy a large contingent of police in front of the department.
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Ummm... That's a pretty light haul, for all the raiding and rounding up they've been doing...
On June 30, 33 suspected militants were arrested at a mosque of village Sialia in sadar upazila allegedly for taking part in arms training. They were later discharged from that case due to 'lack of evidence'. They are accused of participating in the August 17 bombings. Six of them were present in seven blast spots of the district on August 17, police said.
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At least 78 people have become ill in a gas attack on a store in St Petersburg, Russia. Dozens of those suffering breathing difficulties and sickness have been taken to hospital. The Emergency Situations Ministry said the shop was among three stores targeted. The mystery gas was released in one of the three stores, the Federal Security Service said. Employees in two other stores found unexplained canisters and cardboard boxes with wires and timers.
Ministry spokesman Andrei Alyabyev said: "Suspicions containers with pipes were found in two other shops, they are being defused." Russian media reported the containers had been set up with timing mechanisms to go off as time-bombs. Sixty-six of the people affected are receiving hospital treatment. None of them are said to be in a life-threatening condition. The stores, belonging to the Maksidom chain, specialise in home goods.
I'd like to say that only the Lions of Islam™ are capable of such viciousness, but I guess there are enough other nutters in the world that it's only probably Shamil's krazed killers.
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That it involves Muzzies, in one way or another, I figure is indisputable. Actually, I'm thinking they're jealous that the Russians [insert appropriate military / law enforcement entity here] hold the death of innocents by gas record.
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I believe that "gangster" is just a semi-generic criminal term like "hooligan" for them. They're not going to be more specific until they have evidence pointing in some direction.
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Gas is Methyl Mercaptan (evil smelling stuff added to natural gas so that you can detect a leak).
According to reports, this is a "business dispute"
Only in Russia .......
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Why would *any* villain, Muslim or otherwise, use a "mystery" gas, when AFAIK there are enough non-mystery gasses that can kill effectively?
Perhaps I'm being a conspiracist here, but "mystery gasses" indicate to me that the cause for this event was using people as guinea-pigs, for experimentation.
In which case the Russian government itself is the primary suspect -- it has played with "mystery gasses" in the past as well.
Five Russian soldiers were killed and four others wounded in various combat incidents this weekend in the war-torn southern province of Chechnya, a source in the Kremlin-backed Chechen administration told foreign news agency.
Two soldiers died and two more were wounded in one exchange, while the body of another soldier apparently shot by a sniper was found near the village of Khatumi, the source said.
In a separate incident on a highway outside the provincial capital, Grozny, a jeep carrying Russian soldiers came under fire, leaving one dead and another wounded.
In Khatumi on Saturday, a grenade explosion left one soldier dead and a second wounded, the source said.
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Maoist rebels have shot dead four police officers and wounded another two in an attack on a train in southern India. Local police in Andhra Pradesh state say around 10 rebels surrounded the train and indiscriminately opened fire. India's Maoists have bases in several southern and eastern Indian states. The rebels say they are fighting for greater economic and social rights for tribes and landless farmers in rural areas.
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The rebels say they are fighting for greater economic and social rights for tribes and landless farmers in rural areas.
Uh huh, and mom and apple pie...
They're f#$%^ Maoists ! In 2005 !
And they go around shotting people.
"greater economic and social rights" my @#$%
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Maybe shooting policemen somehow raises the economic and social status of their families?
Some sort of Marxist theory?
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Sheesh, maoist. How far behind the curve can you get, politically? Oh, The Caliphate. Nevermind.
Why do I get the impression this sounds like a fundraising event?
John, can you translate Jesse James into apropos Indian (or whatever you think best) names? I can already hear the tense issues in my head from personal experience, "I am washing the truck for you on Friday." English is really a bitch, heh.
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Indian (fictional) equivalent would be "Gabbar Singh".
He is the Dacoit (bandit) who robs trains, molests virgins, murders innocents etc in a very famous Indian movie called Sholay.
There are a few real life dacoits still around (parts of India are like the Wild West with police on horseback chasing bandits) but the more prominent have been "encountered" by the police.
Most famous in recent times would be Verappan.
He was a threat to Man, Animal and Plant life, killing more than a hundred people, slaughtering dozens of Elephants and cutting down endangered sandalwood trees, in addition to his normal dacoit activities.
His widow is now suing the Indian state for compensation...she alleges discrimination...
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Hindi classic pulls in the crowds
A weekday matinee, but it's a full house nonetheless at Minerva, a leading cinema in India's entertainment capital Bombay (Mumbai).
But the big surprise is what the eager film-goers have gathered to see - a 29-year-old Hindi film called Sholay (Flames).
"After 29 years if tickets are being sold on the black market at Minerva in an age when one has the option of watching many new releases and 50 other films on TV you can imagine the film's lasting appeal,"
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Damn ask and ye shall receive PD! Good stuff John.
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Meet the Indian policemen who fancy themselves as modern day Wyatt Earps and Doc Hollidays
I have done 83 encounters. I have arrested more than 300 criminals. I have solved many big cases.
I eliminated many top criminals of Mumbai -- Vinod Matkar, Rafik Dabawala, Taufiq Kaliya. In an encounter at Dadar's busy flower market during peak hours I was injured and hospitalised for 17 days. I gunned down three terrorists. They had thrown a bomb at me but luckily I only suffered minor injuries.
Senior Police Inspector Pradeep Sharma: Has over a hundred encounters to his name. Is posted at the Kandivali unit of the Crime Branch.
Police Sub-Inspector Daya Nayak (left): Has 80 hits to his credit. Gunned down gangsters from Chhota Shakeel and Chhota Rajan gangs. Currently posted at Charkop station. Accused of having underworld links.
Senior Police Inspector Vijay Salaskar: Has gunned down 80 gangsters. Is with the anti-robbery squad of the Crime Branch.
Senior Police Inspector Praful Bhosale: Hero of 50 encounters. Under suspension after his arrest in the Khwaja Younus case.
Senior Police Inspector Ravindra Angre: Has 80 encounters to his name. Was active in the Thane-Kalyan region. Gunned down gangster Suresh Manchekar. Transferred out of Thane, he is now posted at a training school.
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Wow, Excellent stuff, john!
Apologies - me and, oh, about half of Las Vegas proved we could successfully read each other's thoughts - and all went to the grocery store this morning. Lol, if this talent was only a tad more predictable, lol.
Encounter specialist - LOLOLOL!
Awesome term! James Butler Hickok is the prototype (See V.) - when he shot Davis Tutt over a woman and a pocket watch, lol, in the only documented no-shit street walkdown I'm aware of, about a hundred legends were born, lol. Now John Wesley Harding was a whole 'nuther story, heh. One thing is true, however, they saved a LOT of lives, those legends, as they skeered many wannabees out of the game.
A former German hostage who spent 24 days in the hands of unknown captors in Iraq said her kidnappers were not criminals and had demanded humanitarian aid for Sunni Arab regions.
Speaking to Doha-based satellite channel Al-Jazeera, Susanne Osthoff said her captors told her not to be afraid as her kidnapping was "politically motivated."
"Do not be afraid. We do not harm women or children and you are a Muslim," she quoted them as saying.
"I was so happy to know that I had not fallen into the hands of criminals," she said.
Osthoff, a Muslim convert and fluent Arabic speaker, said her captors demanded German humanitarian aid for Iraq's Sunni Arabs and stated clearly that they did not want a ransom.
"They said we don't want money... Maybe we want from Germany ... hospitals and schools in the Sunni triangle (area northwest of Baghdad), and they would like to get money in the form of humanitarian aid," she said.
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The word she is searching for is "Co-religionists".
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Beware of Arabs bearing gifts:
Shimani, the driver, was shown blindfolded as a hostage on a video delivered to ARD's Baghdad office after the November 25 abduction. Germany sought his release together with that of Osthoff, but diplomats say he has yet to show up at the German embassy in Baghdad.
Solidarity campaigns and televised appeals from Germany during the abduction constantly placed the prominent Osthoff and the driver on an equal footing, demanding that the lives of both be spared, although the driver was not known to anyone in Germany.
ARD, a nationwide chain of public broadcasters, quoted sources saying that a Duleimi sheikh had lent the driver to Osthoff for her overland trip to northern Iraq. German investigators now suspected the sheikh of the abduction.
The discovery of a mass grave containing the remains of 150 people in the southern city of Karbala was made public Monday. Sources from the sewerage administration authority in Karbala, 100 kilometres south of the capital, said the skeletons of 150 people were discovered in the eastern district of al-Abbasiya during maintenance work. The men, women and children whose remains were discovered are thought to have been executed in 1991 following a Shiite uprising.
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And the MSM and the ACLU? Fighting to have more photos of Iraqis wearing panties on thier heads published.
I am really beginning to hate them!
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Earlier this year, I read a German article (Spiegel?) about mass graves that stated the Iraqis have found 550,000 graves so far (many bodies not yet recovered). The toll the Iraqis are giving is 800,000+ plus killed, not including the Iran-Iraq war dead, during Saddam's years in power.
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Guerrillas killed at least 10 Iraqi policemen and soldiers in separate attacks north of Baghdad on Monday in the latest flare-up of violence after a largely peaceful election nearly two weeks ago.
In the capital, at least four people were killed and 17 wounded by five explosions in quick succession. Car bombs were responsible for at least four of the blasts.
In the second major assault on Iraqi security forces in three days, guerrillas stormed a police checkpoint near an Interior Ministry commando base north of Baghdad, killing five policemen and wounding four.
Attackers jumped out of a minibus in the early morning and began firing mortar rounds and rocket propelled grenades at the checkpoint in Buhriz, a small town about 60 km from the Iraqi capital, police said.
As they got closer, they also began hurling hand grenades.
At least six guerrillas were killed in the ensuing clashes that lasted several hours, police said. In a sign of elaborate planning, a main road leading to the checkpoint was laid with roadside bombs, delaying backup police forces sent in to help from the nearby town of Baquba, police said.
"They attacked us from all sides," said one police officer at the scene. He said he saw at least 10 guerrillas killed.
Further north, in the small village of Dhabab, gunmen shot dead five Iraqi army soldiers in separate, but apparently coordinated attacks as they left for work or went about their morning routine, the army said.
The attacks come on the heels of a similar dawn assault on an Iraqi army post on Friday, when a large group of insurgents fired rocket propelled grenades and used heavy machineguns to kill 10 soldiers and wound 20 others.
Insurgents frequently target Iraqi soldiers and police, who are on the frontlines of maintaining law and order in the country, but lack the heavy-duty armour and equipment used by their U.S. counterparts.
The area northeast of Baghdad, particularly Baquba, is known for its frequent outbursts of violence, including execution-style assassinations of those with ties to U.S. forces.
On Christmas day, at least five Iraqis and two U.S. soldiers were killed in car bomb explosions and mortar attacks.
Al Qaeda's wing in Iraq also claimed in an Internet posting on Sunday it had abducted and killed three Arab women and an Arab man working for U.S. authorities and the Iraqi government.
It was not immediately clear if the killings were those of three women working in the fortified Green Zone government and diplomatic compound in Baghdad, who were abducted days earlier.
The latest bloodshed in Iraq came after partial election results from the parliamentary ballot threatened to deepen already fragile sectarian divisions within the country.
The results show the incumbent Shi'ite Islamic bloc in a strong lead in crucial areas like Baghdad, despite a large turnout by Sunni Arabs who had boycotted a previous vote.
Thousands of Sunni Arabs have taken to the streets in recent days, crying foul over the results and demanding fresh elections or a recount. Behind the tough talk, however, Sunni Arab politicians are said to be jockeying for powerful positions within the coalition expected to form the next government.
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Al Qaeda's wing in Iraq says it has abducted and killed three Arab women and an Arab man working for US authorities and the Iraqi Government. A statement posted on the Internet carried pictures of four identity cards and says it has carried out "God's judgment".
That's Qaeda talk for cutting their heads off...
It is not immediately clear whether the four were Iraqis. One of the cards, apparently issued by a US security contracting firm, says one of the women worked as a translator. The statement could not be immediately authenticated. However, it has been posted on a site used by insurgent groups and signed with a name previously used as that of Al Qaeda's spokesman in Iraq.
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Nothing posted on Aljazeera yet, I wonder if it has anything to do with them being...oohhh...ARAB!
At any rate, $1.59 would be the going rate at the Islamic Exchange.
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And so the Mighty Al Qaeda has gone from mass casualty 'spectacular' attacks to low rent kidnapping and killing of aid workers and women.
Zarkie, if you can read this, I know women tougher than you guys.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - The U.S. military will not hand over jails or individual detainees to Iraqi authorities until they demonstrate higher standards of care, an American official said Sunday, two weeks after the discovery of 120 abused Iraqi prisoners. Lt. Col. Barry Johnson said detention facilities in Iraq will be transferred over time to Iraqi officials but they must first show that the rights of detainees are safeguarded and that international law on the treatment of prisoners is being followed. "A specific timeline for doing this is difficult to project at this stage with so many variables," said Johnson, a military spokesman. "The Iraqis are committed to doing this right and will not rush to failure. The transition will be based on meeting standards, not on a timeline."
He was commenting on a New York Times story Sunday that was the first to report prison facilities wouldn't be handed over until Iraqi officials improved standards.
Prisons have been one of the sore points between the Shiite Muslim majority and Sunni Arabs, a long-dominant minority that saw its power evaporate with Saddam Hussein's ouster. U.S. officials are pushing to heal the rift as a way to weaken support for the Sunni-led insurgency. U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said earlier this month that at least 120 abused prisoners had been found inside two jails controlled by Shiite-run Iraqi Interior Ministry.
Sunni Arabs long have complained about abuse and torture by Interior Ministry security forces. Interior Minister Bayan Jabr contends torture allegations have been exaggerated by people who sympathize with insurgents.
Johnson said that in preparation for the eventual handover of prisons, the U.S. Department of Justice is training Iraqi prison guards. About 300 have completed the course, he said.
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"...until they demonstrate higher standards of care,..."
You got that right!! There'd be the biggest "Gold Rush" stampeding blitzkreig on the facilities, the insurgents could ever mount!! My advice, dig moats around them, set'm on fire, and pray the calvary comes back in a nick of time to bail out their asses again as usual.
PALESTINIAN Authority President Mahmud Abbas was urgently admitted to hospital in Ramallah, medical sources said.
The sources did not provide any additional information about his health condition or the reason for his hospital admission.
Sharon is due for a heart op as well
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The hospital is a good place for him to be as the shit hits the fan. Esp an intensive care unit.
That lets him come out when its all over with clean hands and still claim to be a player.
The Fatah's al-Aksa Martyrs' Brigades claimed on Monday afternoon that it is in the possession of a rocket that has a range of 25 kilometers. "but no directional control - it could land in Egypt for all we know"
If true, the range of the new rocket, named Grad, would include the southern towns of Ashkelon, Ofakim and Netivot. A group spokesman warned that the rockets would be used if Israel creates a buffer zone in northern Gaza. playing chicken with someone armed way better than you on a national holiday? "Suicidal" doesn't begin to explain Paleo psychoses
Also on Monday, a spokesman for the Palestinian Resistance Committees said the group had managed to extend the range of its rockets to 15 kilometers. The claims of improved rocket technology came as Palestinians fired three Kassam rockets at southern Israel. No injuries or damage were reported. lol
One rocket landed near a kindergarten in a kibbutz near Gaza during a Hanukka party that was attended by 50 children. A second Kassam was fired at Sderot and landed in an open field.
The landing spot of the third was still undetected, although the Red Dawn warning system in Sderot identified a firing towards Ashkelon.
"Can you hear hit me now?"
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Smart move by the paleos - we all know the Israelis' helicopter gunships don't have anywhere near a 25 km range, so they won't be able to retaliate.
Right?
Right?
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how did I NOT highlight the last line? Dammit
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These guys have no care for the people who live with them.
They never thought about the fact that if they are capable of building missliles, they could probably improve the infrastructure of Gaza so everyone there can live better, the fucks.
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no Paleo glory and valor in civil engineering or improving communications or creating jobs...better to kill Jooooooos
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Ummm, nice sentiment, Penguin, but what makes you think the paleos built the rockets?
They're not capable of building anything but bomb belts. And considering the number for "work accidents" they have, they're not even very good at that.
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Is this a required course for the Paleo civil service exam?
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THe point is they came within earshot of a group of 5 year olds. It is again time to not only go after the Paleos but not who ever gave them the capability to fire blindly. This is just one step away from someone giving them something with a crude guidance system.
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new rocket, named Grad
Grad ?
As in BM-21 Grad MRLS ?
Egypt had better explain how Russian MRLS rockets are getting over their borders...
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Grad MLRS rockets are 9 foot in length with a range of 20 km
"The 122-mm fin-stabilized rockets can deliver Frag-HE, chemical, or incendiary warheads to a range of over 20 kilometers, or the newer HE and cargo rockets out to 30 kilometers. On explosion, the warhead produces a great fragmentation effect and shock wave."
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the reply artillery from the IAF will make all before seem like, well, Qassama
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..they could probably improve the infrastructure of Gaza so everyone there can live better,..
Yep, it's always Israel that's expected to make a/the goodwill gesture, ain't it? Even though these goodwill gestures rarely, if ever, have resulted in any "goodwill" reciprocal actions by the Paleos. Israel is expected to release prisoners, improve infrastructure, allow passage, stop conducting military action, and for what? Have the Paleos stopped planning/conducting attacks against Jewish civilians? Hmmm?
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The Paleos are stuck on stupid. The IDF announces that they will enforce a no-man's-land to eliminate Qassams, and the Pals announce a rocket with a 25 km range. I expect a new 25km mo-man's-land. Dumb.
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Is there some question as to the intelligence of Paleos ? We're talking Muslims here. This is not rocket science. Muslims are fools who believe Allan is running the show and then don't realize that they are losing badly probably because Allan hates their guts. They also believe Allan is going to give them 6 dozen virgins or raisins after they're dead. This kind of stupidity has deep, thick roots. Actually, it was a joke but they can only remember the punch line. Allan was not going to give them 6 dozen virgins or raisins, but the juice from 6 dozen virgins or raisins.
Punch line, No, not again, we hate the joos.
An Australian woman has been detained by Israeli authorities for the past five days after refusing to leave the country. Shiri Lock had been planning to attend a peace conference in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, but was denied entry into Israel. Ms Lock's lawyer, Gaby Lasky, says her client is appealing the decision in Tel Aviv's District Court. "We have an interim order denying the state the possibility of sending her back until she has her day in court," she said.
Ms Lasky says authorities feared Ms Lock was planning to demonstrate against Israel's separation barrier. "I can confirm that there are black lists in Israel and people who have come as peace and human rights activists, the state doesn't really want to have them in Israel," she said.
Ms Lock has been detained along with an Italian man and a South African man. Ms Lasky says it is not clear when the court will give its ruling. "Well Shiri and her friends are actually peace activists and they have come to a non-violent conference in Bethlehem, and she was denied entry under the reason that she presents a security threat," she said. "We believe that peace activists do not represent any security threat or other threat to the state and that's why we decided to appeal."
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I know it's just an exercise, but the pali-man player is wearing way too much lipstick.
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I know it's just an exercise, but the pali-man player is wearing way too much lipstick.
pali-playbook:
# 1.014 lipstick on man sting..draw arabs into cross fire.
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..but was denied entry into Israel. Ms Lock's lawyer, Gaby Lasky, says her client is appealing the decision in Tel Aviv's District Court.
Why appeal? It's pretty obvious: they don't want you there.
An unprecedented state of emergency was announced recently by Jordan in response to fears of terror attacks during Christmas holiday season throughout the country. The measures, which included heavy security precautions in the Jordanian capital of Amman, were announced on Saturday, and will remain in place until January 6.
The number of security agents throughout the capital have multiplied as a result, and increased security will be implemented at most of the city's hotels, restaurants, and areas frequented by tourists during the holiday season.
In addition, security agents will not be allowed to take holiday leaves until measures are lifted, and helicopters have been put on high alert to be available in the case of a bombing, according to Al Sharq Al Awsat.
Jordanian authorities revealed that the measures were implemented in response to threats by Al Qaeda leader Abu Musab Al Zarqawi in Iraq, who threatened to carry out attacks if Jordan did not cut ties with its neighbor, Israel, and did not cease its assistance to the United States and its campaign in Iraq.
Jordan's former Intelligence Chief Samih Asfura was dismissed some months back following the firing of Katyusha rockets at the southern Israeli town of Eilat and at American targets.
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Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono will step up personal security measures because of intelligence reports of threats to his safety, his spokesman said on Monday.
With his country already having faced a number of deadly extremist attacks, Yudhoyono will restrict direct contacts with members of the public and limit opportunities for ordinary Indonesians to shake him by the hand.
"The president has received credible intelligence information from the National Intelligence Body that there has been an attempt by a certain group which would endanger the safety of Mr President and his family," Andi Mallarangeng said.
"In light of this, the presidential guards have implemented certain measures whereby physical contacts between the president and the people would be restricted," he said.
"For example, normally people would come up to him and shake hands with him, now we will have to limit that... The president will still shake hands with people, but not as much."
He declined to give details about the group, but said the threat would not affect the president's visit to the tsunami-ravaged province of Aceh for the first anniversary of the disaster.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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President Hamid Karzai said he had sacked two "high-ranking" Afghan officials who were spying for foreign countries and warned he would spare no one found indulging in such activity. 
A listed criminal was killed in "crossfire" during a shootout between his accomplices and the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members in Bakerganj upazila of Barisal early yesterday. The dead was identified as Kamruzzaman Nantu, 35. Earlier, Rab-6 arrested Nantu at the Khulna University on Friday and handed him over to Rab-8 in Barisal on Saturday.
Indian police on Saturday night arrested a Bangladeshi along with his wife at a hotel in Agartala, the capital of the Indian State of Tripura, for possession of an illegal firearm and trespassing, UNI reports. Officer-in-charge (OC) Harimohan Das arrested Suman Mia and his wife Kakan Begum following a tip off, the agency quoting official sources said. The couple, residents of Simulpara in Siddhiganj thana in Narayanganj of Bangladesh, were produced before the court yesterday and placed on a seven-day remand. The police claimed one foreign-made revolver was recovered from a bag of Suman. They couple entered into India 'illegally' on Friday.
Four JMB operatives including its Chittagong divisional chief Mohammad (Aman Ullah) remanded again yesterday, this time for 10 days, our staff correspondent from Chittagong adds. On completion of a 10-day remand in Dhaka, Aman along with other JMB men-- Naimuzzaman (Zafar/Sohag), Rafiqul Islam (Javed/Roman) and Manirul Islam-- was produced before the Court of Metropolitan Magistrate in Chittagong with a fresh remand prayer in a case for possessing explosives.
At least four people including a couple were wounded when a homemade bomb exploded on Mirpur Road near the venue of Dhaka International Trade Fair last night. One of the wounded, Parvez, 22, told reporters at Dhaka Medical College Hospital that the bomb exploded when he was going to the fair along with his uncle and aunt. Parvez sustained burns in his left leg while Abu Nesar, 20, a tea vendor, in his right leg and forehead. The other injured are Saleha Begum 28, and her husband Abdur Razzak, 38.
Meanwhile, the banned Islamist outfit 
Police submitted a charge sheet on Friday accusing 12 people including the JMB chief, his brother and 
At least 78 people have become ill in a gas attack on a store in St Petersburg, Russia. Dozens of those suffering breathing difficulties and sickness have been taken to hospital. The Emergency Situations Ministry said the shop was among three stores targeted. The mystery gas was released in one of the three stores, the Federal Security Service said. Employees in two other stores found unexplained canisters and cardboard boxes with wires and timers.
Maoist rebels have shot dead four police officers and wounded another two in an attack on a train in southern India. Local police in Andhra Pradesh state say around 10 rebels surrounded the train and indiscriminately opened fire. India's Maoists have bases in several southern and eastern Indian states. The rebels say they are fighting for greater economic and social rights for tribes and landless farmers in rural areas.
Al Qaeda's wing in Iraq says it has abducted and killed three Arab women and an Arab man working for US authorities and the Iraqi Government. A statement posted on the Internet carried pictures of four identity cards and says it has carried out "God's judgment". 
The Fatah's al-Aksa Martyrs' Brigades claimed on Monday afternoon that it is in the possession of a rocket that has a range of 25 kilometers. 
An Australian woman has been detained by Israeli authorities for the past five days after refusing to leave the country. Shiri Lock had been planning to attend a peace conference in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, but was denied entry into Israel. Ms Lock's lawyer, Gaby Lasky, says her client is appealing the decision in Tel Aviv's District Court. "We have an interim order denying the state the possibility of sending her back until she has her day in court," she said. 
