The U.S. embassy in the Saudi capital reiterated warnings to its citizens in the kingdom to take extra cautions following the recent attacks, a U.S. diplomat said. The embassy statement read; "We urge all U.S. citizens in Saudi Arabia to be extremely cautious and to follow security instructions from the embassy." Earlier this month, the U.S. State Department demanded U.S. nationals to avoid unnecessary travel to Saudi Arabia after an attack on its consulate in the Red Sea city of Jeddah that left five non-American employees dead.
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Saudi security forces killed 10 Al Qaeda suspects during raids and shootouts in the past two days, including a gunman who is on the kingdom's most wanted list, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday. A ministry statement read out on state television said three militants were killed on Tuesday while police shot dead seven on Wednesday after two suicide car bombs exploded in Riyadh, Reuters reported. A Pakistani taxi driver and a Saudi security man were killed in car bombings in the Saudi capital late on Wednesday, the Al-Eqtissadiyah newspaper reported. The television named nine of the militants, who included Sultan Bejaad al-Oteibi — on a list of 26 most wanted militants issued by the kingdom last year. Security forces have now killed or arrested 18 of those on the list. State television showed graphic pictures of bloodied corpses, many missing limbs and with disfigured faces.
"I told you, they ain't dead!"
"They're dead! They're startin' to stink!"
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Two wanted al-Qaida militants were among 10 extremists killed in clashes with police during a double suicide car bombing in the Saudi capital, officials said Thursday, portraying the attack as a plot that was wrecked by the earlier capture of a militant. The car bombs exploded Wednesday night in the Saudi capital, targeting the Interior Ministry and a recruiting center for the kingdom's anti-terrorism forces. But the vehicles were unable to get close to their targets and the blasts killed only the three suicide bombers, said a ministry spokesman, Brig. Gen. Mansour al-Turki. Seventeen security officers and several bystanders were wounded. Saudi TV had reported the blast outside the ministry killed a passing limousine driver, but al-Turki said he was only wounded.
"He's dead!"
"He ain't dead! He's only wounded!"
"Oh, yeah? Where's the left side of him?"
Al-Turki said the plotters had to carry out the bombings earlier than they had intended because a militant was captured after a shootout in Riyadh a day earlier. "It is for sure that the terrorist operation was executed hastily," he said. "It seemed to be programmed to be executed at a different time and in a different fashion." Ten militants were killed in two gunbattles Wednesday — three of them just before the bombs went off, then seven who were tracked to a Riyadh hideout soon after the blasts, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
"Blackie! Yez gots to hide us!"
"You fools! Why did you come here? Were you followed?"
"Of course we wasn't [BANG! BANG! BANGETY BANG!]... followed."
The man arrested Tuesday provided information that led police to the safehouse, al-Turki said. Among those killed were a top al-Qaida operative in Saudi Arabia, Sultan al-Otaibi, and Bandar bin Abdel Rahman al-Dikheel — both of them Saudis on a list issued last December of 26 most wanted militants, the ministry said. Al-Otaibi was known for sheltering militants and providing them with cars and explosives, and he prepared car bombs used in a Nov. 8 attack in Riyadh that killed 17 people and wounded 122, it said. Al-Dikheel was skilled in making car bombs and was the brother of Faisal al-Dikheel, who was believed to have been al-Qaida's deputy leader in Saudi Arabia before he was killed in June, the ministry said.
They'll probably run out of Dikheels about the same time they run out of al-Ghamdis...
More than half the figures on the most wanted list have been killed or captured. The Interior Ministry blamed Wednesday's attacks on a "deviant group" — a term the government has used in the past to describe al-Qaida. The militants' attacks have often struck Arabs and Muslims, and Saudi officials pressed that point about Wednesday's attack, scoffing at extremists' claims that "infidels" are their targets. "This is a heinous and disturbing crime," Prince Ahmed bin Abdel Aziz, the deputy interior minister, told Saudi TV. "They are not attacking 'infidels.' This is fighting Muslims and citizens."
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Yeah, there's that quote, right at the end of the story. Pretty clear inference there.
As long as they don't surround them, they weren't working for Nayef, the moon is in the right phase, they hold their mouths just so, and say the magic words I'm sure this will turn out just spiffy.
Authorities evacuated and searched two buses near the US Navy base in Norfolk, Virginia, on Thursday after reports one of them was carrying explosives, but no bomb was found, MSNBC television said. Two city buses that operate a route carrying staff onto the base were diverted to a parking lot near the base and evacuated after several warning calls to police and other authorities, the report said. An MSNBC correspondent said, "The Norfolk, Virginia police department reported receiving a call. The caller indicated it was some sort of bioterror device that would kill everybody on the base." Fox television showed live video pictures of two robots being maneuvered close to the buses to determine whether there was a bomb on board either. The MSNBC correspondent later said the situation appeared to have been resolved and no explosives had been found.
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I guess they dickheads graduated from Prince Albert in a can.
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There are an awful lot of Marines with many guns protecting the Atlantic Fleet HQ, don't these people ever figure out that taking on the USMC is like signing their obit.
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Doesn't the phone company keep a record of all the connections it makes? Silly fool is probably being visited by agents from the FBI and Homeland Security even as I type.
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Our thanks to your wife's cousin, Spot. Enough on the police force are former military that the silly fool/dickhead will no doubt become very aware of the error of his ways, regardless of how the jury calls it.
THE Indonesian military continues to launch raids against separatist rebels in tsunami-devastated Aceh province, despite having earlier called a ceasefire to assist aid efforts.
"Our security operations continue," Lieutenant Colonel Nachrowi of the military headquarters general information department said.
"The only difference is that it may be less in scale and intensity.
"The principle is that all our forces in Aceh are basically continuing their duty under the security operation.
But they also have to accord a large portion of their time for the humanitarian relief efforts.
"We continue to launch raids into suspected GAM (Free Aceh Movement) areas and our vigilance remains high."
Lt-Col Nachrowi's comments come despite Indonesian military chief General Endriartono Sutarto previously calling for an unprecedented temporary ceasefire with the rebels to help rebuild the remote province.
"All my soldiers will be used to help overcome this natural disaster and I hope that GAM will also do the same, not using the opportunity for something else because this is really something to do with humanitarian problems," Gen Sutarto said on Monday.
Much of the western coast of Aceh, including the capital, Banda Aceh, was demolished in the massive tsunamis triggered by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake in the ocean 150km from the province.
The Indonesian death toll from the tsunamis has reached nearly 80,000 people, with most of the fatalities in Aceh, and the figure is expected to climb further as rescue workers reach remote towns and villages.
The inability to quickly rebuild infrastructure in Aceh is being partly attributed to the decades-old insurgency that has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people.
The Free Aceh Movement has been fighting for independence since 1976, and the Indonesian Government stepped up its military suppression efforts with a massive operation that began in May 2003.
Amid the apparent calls for ceasefire, Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono urged GAM rebels yesterday to lay down their weapons and join efforts to rebuild Aceh.
"I call on those who are still raising arms, to come out... let us use this historic momentum to join and be united again," Mr Yudhoyono said.
"I call on them all, let us together build an Aceh in line with the special autonomy and according to what we can do together."
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Point of information: Who is left to shoot in Northern Sumatra and the Aceh Islands? Every report I've seen says that there is NO SIGN OF LIFE. There is one story out suggesting the Indonesian death toll might be 400,000 people. Indonesian has been forced into using Malaysian bases for SAR.
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It appears that GAM [read seditionist/terrorist quasi-islamofascist] rebel bases were mostly unaffected by the tsunami/earthquake. GAM would be mostly Textual Muslimin. That means that the normal people (Abangan, Priyayi, and Syncretic Muslimin) in Aceh/North Sumatra were the ones who got hammered.
SBY is urging GAM to use the crisis as an opportunity to rebuild (along federal lines with strong local autonomy), but I doubt GAM will do anything other than cry foul and try to use the crisis as an opportunity to gain more power. Hence, the resumption in military action by the Indonesian military unless GAM wises up quickly.
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I am sure those Indonesians will weep crocodile tears to get more money from us, and whatever they dont steal into Swiss accounts will go to kill whoever is left alive in that province. That is Muslim compassion!
Israeli drones violated Lebanese airspace for the second day Thursday, fueling tensions on the Lebanese-Israeli border, army sources reported. A military statement said that three Israeli warplanes coming from the west flew over the Lebanese capital, Beirut, north and south Lebanon and the eastern Bekaa valley before returning back to Israel. The violation came a day after eight Israeli drones caused panic by staging mock raid over villages in south Lebanon as well as inland regions where anti-aircraft guns are manned by the Hezbollah resistance movement and the Lebanese army. Israel pulled out from southern Lebanon in 2000, but it frequently violates Lebanese air space. Beirut often complained to the United Nations about Israel's frequent violations of its air space. Last month, the UN demanded Israel to stop violating Lebanese airspace after a series of reported airspace violations.
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Happy New Year, Bashar! said the skywriting Israeli planes...
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The Lebanese should calm down. This looks to become a daily event and the sun will rise in the east.
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...coming from the west flew over the Lebanese capital, Beirut, north and south Lebanon and the eastern Bekaa valley before returning back to Israel.
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when you whore your sovereign territory to Syria, Hezbollah, Paleos - don't cry rape when Israel does a flyby. Probably getting coords on the hezbollah rocket launcher dig-ins
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Happy New Year, Bashar! said the skywriting Israeli planes
That's not a bad idea, cheap, humilitating and bloodless. I like it.
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I believe that as they fly over, the airplanes crack the sound barrier. Quite disturbing, even when one expects it, so I understand, not to mention a distressingly clear message.
U.S. troops rounded up 49 suspected guerrillas near Saddam Hussein's hometown on Friday, a day after Iraq's most violent rebel groups warned voters against taking part in crucial elections for a constitutional assembly on Jan. 30. Soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division detained the suspects during a midnight raid in Duluiyah, 45 miles north of Baghdad, codenamed Operation Powder River, the U.S. military said. The statement did not provide any further details on the operation, which appears to be the latest in a series of anti-insurgency campaigns in the so-called Sunni Triangle in central Iraq. Duluiyah is near Saddam's hometown of Tikrit.
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rounded up 49 suspected guerrillas
Too bad it doesn't say "killed."
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At this point just detaining them for a month is probably worthwhile. Give 'em absentee ballots, of course.
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Dammit, how many seats do they have on the Ghost Plane? Do we need to charter another one?
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Justrand, if you have the appropriate frilly, lacy underthings they like so much, I really, really don't want to know. Unless you are female, of course. ;-)
#8
Trailing Wife...nah, I was just gonna send 'em some of my old boxer-shorts. I usually use them as rags to wash the car with, etc. But I worry about these poor prisoners not having "proper" headwear (wouldn't want them getting sick). :)
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ya think? BTW - Captain Ed speculates that the announcement of Abu MArwan's capture was delayed while we milked him for intel = 49 down? Makes a good argument..heh heh
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Where can we donate underwear to put over their heads?I'll donate some skidded skivvies then I'd shit down their neck.
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Religion 'khana' allowed in passport
According to Nawa-e-Waqt, Maulana Jullundhari of Khairul Madaris in Multan announced that the interior secretary had submitted to the threat by the religious leaders of an all-out protest against the government by allowing the entry of religion in the machine-readable passport to be issued in the future. The government had taken the stance that the religious 'khana' (category) did not occur in the passports of other Muslim states like Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Malaysia, but the clergy wanted non-Muslims clearly pointed out. In Insaf, leader of Ahrar said that the government should not refer to the Qadianis as Ahmedis as that was a misleading name. Later interior minister Sherpao said there would be no religion khana but religion minister Ijazul Haq said that there should be.
Insulter not buried in graveyard
According to Insaf, one Chaudhry Bashir Ahmed had insulted the Holy Prophet PBUH and was convicted by the court. But during his stay in Bahawalpur jail he allegedly died of heart attack. Immediately the clergy in Bahawalnagar announced that no one would be allowed to read his janaza (funeral prayer) and that no one would be allowed to bury him in a graveyard. Therefore, his family received his dead body and buried it on their own property. But the atmosphere in Bahawalpur was tense during the janaza.
Hitler gifted car to Allama Mashriqi
According to daily Pakistan, the founder of Khaksar Tehreek in India, Allama Inayatullah Mashriqi wrote his masterpiece Tazkira and sent to his hero Hitler, who read it and rewarded him with a gift of a car in 1929. The car was a Renault. Allama Mashriqi rode the car but in 1931 he gave it up. But the police during their raids on his residence often took it and used it mercilessly till its condition became bad. The Renault Company had frequently requested to buy back the car for a thousand dollars but the car was safe at Mashriqi House on Zaildar Road in Lahore.
"4 sale: historic car. Needs parts."
Fire spares Quran
According to Insaf, in India's Hyderabad when a fire spread in a storeroom, it destroyed everything. The Quran kept in the store also caught fire and was consumed by it but the portions where the Arabic text was written was spared by fire, which was considered a miracle.
Generals and accountability
Writing in daily Pakistan, Tanvir Qaiser Shahid stated that National Assembly's standing committee on production once called chairman of Pakistan Steel Mill General (Retd) Abdul Qayyum (formerly head of Wah ordnance factory) for some explanations but he refused to come to Islamabad for the session. Similarly a Senate standing committee called the Major General in charge of PASSCO for certain explanations and he too refused to attend. When the committee chairman was too insistent the said Major General phoned him and threatened him. When the chairman still insisted he sent agriculture minister Bosan and secretary Ismail Qureshi but did not appear himself.
Don't joke with clerics!
Sarerahe stated in Nawa-e-Waqt that state minister for religious affairs should be careful in making fun of the ulema in Pakistan. The minister had said that clerics and heejras (gays) could be responsible for the spread of AIDS in Pakistan. The column warned him against bringing disrepute to the religious leaders in charge of seminaries of Pakistan. He could however play around with the heejras. According to daily Pakistan, the minister said that 500 cases of sexual abuse against the clerics were under investigation.
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U.S.-led forces in Baghdad have captured a man they describe as a senior member of the militant network led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Fadil Hussain Ahmed al-Kurdi, 26, is said to be responsible for facilitating communications between Zarqawi and al-Qaeda, as well as co-ordinating the movement of insurgents in and out of Iraq. Al-Kurdi was captured along with two other militants in a raid in Baghdad.
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Sounds like we are getting some high quality intel if we were able to locate these guys.
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We should not have released the news this shithead was captured. Al - Qaeda dogs seem to be able to hide pretty damn good. Im sure Zarqawi has plans for when those closest to him are detained.
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Two possibilities:
1) He was captured some time ago, and his usefullness in providing actionable intel is over.
2) He was captured in such a state that it would be unreasonable to expect to obtain actionable intel (dead or brain-dead - or is that redundant?) and so by announcing his 'capture' one hopes to cause his superiors to self-destroy some channels we don't and won't know about.
South Waziristan chief administrator Asmatullah Gandapur on Friday was injured in a roadside bomb explosion a day after a pushtoon leader was killed in Wana, a senior government official told Daily Times. Gandapur and his driver were injured when the vehicle they were riding in passed over explosives planted on the road outside Tank, the official said. He said it was not clear what caused the explosion.
My guess it was Mahmoud pushing the plunger. What's yours?
Security forces often blame Al Qaeda-linked militants for such attacks. "Gandapur is in stable condition, while his driver has critical injuries," said the official who asked not to be named. The administrator was returning to Tank with FATA senators after visiting the site of the Gomal Zam dam project. Chinese engineers stopped work on the project after two of their colleagues were kidnapped and one died as a result of a rescue operation.
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An Israeli aircraft fired a missile near Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip early Friday, killing two Palestinian terrorists, hospital officials said. An Israeli military spokeswoman said the Israeli air force identified two armed Palestinians and opened fire on them, hitting both. For the past week the Israeli military has been operating in Khan Younis in an effort to stop Palestinian terrorists militants from firing mortars and rockets into nearby Jewish settlements.
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The Mirpur District Criminal Court has given an Indian national ten death sentences for planting a bomb that killed 10 people and injured 30 others in the Islamgarh town near Mirpur on December 17, 1999. The court consisting of Sessions Judge Abdul Rasheed Sulehriya and District Qazi Maqboolur Rehman also gave Shabir a 14 years rigorous imprisonment for possessing explosives. The court also fined him Rs 50,000 each for carrying explosives and the bomb blast. Shabir, who hailed from a village in held Kashmir, is suspected to be an agent of the Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). Police had arrested Shabir from a village in Kotli district close to the Pakistani side of the Line of Control when he was trying to cross it.
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Does this sentence also include all the reincarnations of Shabir Slackjaw? Be sure to collect the Rs 50,000 first!
Authorities in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday released on bail a senior Muslim militant from jail after 13 years, while seven people were killed in a separatist violence, police said. Mushtaqul Islam was released from an interrogation centre of the Indian security forces in Srinagar on Thursday afternoon, a police spokesman said. Islam was arrested on September 17, 1991 during a search operation in Srinagar. "At that time he was heading (hardline militant group) Hizbullah," the spokesman said, adding he had been set free by a court on bail. Islam was one of a number of militant commanders arrested in the early days of the insurgency and held for years despite several release orders by the court. Moderate separatists who held two rounds of talks with New Delhi early this year have been demanding the release of political prisoners from jails. Earlier this week, the Kashmir government also set free a senior separatist Shakeel Ahmed Bakshi. Meanwhile, suspected militants shot dead a surrendered militant and his relative in the central Kashmir district of Budgam overnight, police said.
Indian troops shot dead four militants in three separate encounters in southern part of Kashmir, while a fifth militant was shot dead during an inter-group clash, a police spokesman said.
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Love the Fearless Fosdick graphic. Al Capp rules!
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Amjad Hussain, 21, a handicapped student of the Punjab University College of Pharmacy (Old Campus) who was allegedly kidnapped and left to die in a bathroom on the campus by militant outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba, is in fear of his life after authorities refuse to take action against his abductors despite repeated pleas. Hussain, who was allegedly marked 'wajabul qatal' (duty to kill according to belief) because of his Shia belief, was kidnapped on November 29. He was discovered by teachers - bound and gagged with a poisoned rag - after he smashed open the bathroom door where he had been locked up.
The fraternity brothers at I Phelta Thi never did anything like this to me.
Not-so- Surprisingly though, despite having identified his assailants, Hussain has been unable to coerce either the university authorities or the police into taking action against the militants. Rumours abound that PU officials are weighing down on Hussain into reconciling with the abductors instead of getting them arrested. Reportedly, strings are being pulled to resolve the issue 'amicably'. Despite having registered a first information report, and that too after hesitant local police officers were made to do so by an additional sessions judge, no investigations have taken place. Sources said that the police had been stopped from inspecting the crime scene.
"Let's just be friends about this, eh?"
The FIR, which was lodged in Old Anarkali Police Station by the victim's father, identifies two students, Zafarullah Majid (25) and Hafiz Abdullah (30), as the main culprits. Reportedly, the accused students had been pressing Hussain into abandoning his faith and joining their cause. After failing to convince him through propaganda, he had been marked wajibul qatal. Zafarullah had threatened Hussain before, but the university authorities had suspended him and had hushed up the matter. The student, in his application to the press, said that he was dissatisfied with the steps taken by the university administration to investigate the case and protect him. On the contrary, rather than being scared, the abductors are distributing letters warning everyone who stood beside Hussain about "dangerous consequences".
"Stand next to this guy and you're going to explode right with him!"
Some college teachers, who asked not to be named, said that a student organisation might be involved in the fiasco. They said that the college council had heard the victim's statement and had recommended action against the assailants. However, they said, the teachers who had demanded punishments for the kidnappers had been receiving anonymous threats 'advising' them to back off. They claimed that the student organisation was being backed by sympathisers in the faculty and administration. Dr Jamshaid, the college principal, told Daily Times that three or four meetings had been called by the college council regarding the kidnapping. He said that despite efforts, the names of the two students mentioned in the FIR had not been presented before the council. He said that he had been told that Hussain had either withdrawn the application or was about to.
The principal said that the issue was being treated very carefully and confirmed the anonymous threats to students and teachers. However, he alleged that certain elements were exploiting the case to damage his position.
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Typical islamic bull crap.
They will try and negotiate until they get another wack at him. My suggestion is that he hire 5 contract killers and have their heads placed on poles at the entrance to the school. Anyone asks him about them he just whistles and pets his pet cricket.
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Typical Sunni / Wahhabi attitude towards Shias. No wonder the Iraqi Sunnis are a little worried about the worm turning in the elections. There are many, many years of this sort of thing to pay for.
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Saudi security forces killed 10 Al Qaeda suspects during raids and shootouts in the past two days, including a gunman who is on the kingdom's most wanted list, the Interior Ministry said on Thursday. A ministry statement read out on state television said three militants were killed on Tuesday while police shot dead seven on Wednesday after two suicide car bombs exploded in Riyadh, Reuters reported. A Pakistani taxi driver and a Saudi security man were killed in car bombings in the Saudi capital late on Wednesday, the Al-Eqtissadiyah newspaper reported. The television named nine of the militants, who included 
Two wanted al-Qaida militants were among 10 extremists killed in clashes with police during a double suicide car bombing in the Saudi capital, officials said Thursday, portraying the attack as a plot that was wrecked by the earlier capture of a militant. The car bombs exploded Wednesday night in the Saudi capital, targeting the Interior Ministry and a recruiting center for the kingdom's anti-terrorism forces. But the vehicles were unable to get close to their targets and the blasts killed only the three suicide bombers, said a ministry spokesman, Brig. Gen. 
U.S. troops rounded up 49 suspected guerrillas near Saddam Hussein's hometown on Friday, a day after Iraq's most violent rebel groups warned voters against taking part in crucial elections for a constitutional assembly on Jan. 30. Soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division detained the suspects during a midnight raid in Duluiyah, 45 miles north of Baghdad, codenamed Operation Powder River, the U.S. military said. The statement did not provide any further details on the operation, which appears to be the latest in a series of anti-insurgency campaigns in the so-called Sunni Triangle in central Iraq. Duluiyah is near Saddam's hometown of Tikrit.
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The Mirpur District Criminal Court has given an Indian national ten death sentences for planting a bomb that killed 10 people and injured 30 others in the Islamgarh town near Mirpur on December 17, 1999. The court consisting of Sessions Judge Abdul Rasheed Sulehriya and District Qazi Maqboolur Rehman also gave Shabir a 14 years rigorous imprisonment for possessing explosives. The court also fined him Rs 50,000 each for carrying explosives and the bomb blast. Shabir, who hailed from a village in held Kashmir, is suspected to be an agent of the Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). Police had arrested Shabir from a village in Kotli district close to the Pakistani side of the Line of Control when he was trying to cross it.
Amjad Hussain, 21, a handicapped student of the Punjab University College of Pharmacy (Old Campus) who was allegedly kidnapped and left to die in a bathroom on the campus by militant outfit 
