Assuming that Osama Bin Laden has been killed in Tora Bora airstrikes, US military leaders are collecting body parts of dead al-Qaeda men for DNA tests. The Federal Bureau of Investigation, which is in charge of the DNA tests, has already collected DNA samples from Bin Ladenâs family to check for a match. "He's everywhere! He's everywhere!"
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Aided by Pakistan's secret services, Osama bin Laden has fled to Kashmir, according to an informer who appeared on Italian television. The informer said bin Laden had left Tora Bora on December 12. 2,000 al-Qaeda also succeeded in fleeing Afghanistan to various places including Kashmir and Chechnya. India says they haven't heard about it. "He's everywhere! He's everywhere!"
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Two days after the new Afghan government took office, some Taliban elements are mingling with Pashtun militia commanders from southern Kandahar province, eastern Jalalabad province and south-eastern regions of Khost, Paktiya, Gardez, making a beeline for Kabul, to arrive at some sort of compromise for rehabilitation. Does that mean they're gonna give the money back?
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Taliban soldiers looted around $5 million and billions of Afghanis from the biggest money exchange market in Afghanistan a day before they abandoned Kabul. All to go to charitable activities, no doubt.
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A French Muslim who allegedly fought alongside al-Qaida fighters in the Tora Bora cave complex in eastern Afghanistan was found dead in a mountainous border area of Pakistan. The snow-covered body of Herve Djamel Loiseau was discovered along with his French passport, Pakistani and Afghani currency, and a copy of the Quran. Loiseau apparently died from cold, fatigue and starvation near the town of Parachinar. God and sinner reconciled.
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The FBI says it believes Maxwell Smart "Richard Reid" was acting alone and not as part of a terrorist cell when he was subdued by other passengers on American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to Miami.
Right. He rooted through Mom's underwear drawer and found her secret stash of C4, then set off from Paris to Miami. He bought his ticket using last week's paycheck. Could be a lone Muslim nut, but where'd the boom-boom come from? Did he mix it up himself in the kitchen? (A little of this, a little of that, maybe a little garlic...)
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Indian troops carried out out engagements in Poonch sector and destroyed Pakistani bunkers abetting, supporting and harbouring terrorists. In the Samba area, the Indian troops launched an offensive leading to destruction of more than two bunkers. The action was in response to an attack by Pakistani Rangers that killed three paramilitaries and injured three others. Pakistani troops retaliated and destroyed four Indian posts, causing heavy damage. Fire broke out at one of the posts, which raged for hours.
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Foreign ministry spokesman Nirapuma Rao said Pakistani embassy staffer Mohammad Sharif Khan was being thrown out of the country for "engaging in activities beyond his legitimate sphere of activity." A Pakistani foreign office statment said, "These absurd Indian allegations represent yet another desperate attempt to implicate Pakistan in the December 13 terrorist attack on Parliament." It decribed the allegations as "baseless and concocted." Pakland claims Sharif Khan was illegally kidnaped and tortured.
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Close on the heels of Pakistani media reports about "activation" of missiles directed at India from its Kharian base, the Indian Army has moved its Prithvi Short Range Ballistic Missile batteries to strategic locations closer to the India-Pakistan border along Punjab.
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Pakistan has cancelled leave for troops and recalled all its military personnel on leave as part of its high alert to the build-up of Indian troops in Rajasthan, Sindh and Central Punjab borders.
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Syrian foreign minister Farouk al-Sharaa said he doubted that Osama bin Laden and his Al-Qaeda network acted alone in the Sept. 11 attacks in the United States, saying "there should be assistance that had been offered to them from persons and institutions" inside the USA. "Is it possible that bin Laden and Taliban were alone behind this complicated act? I say no." Al-Sharaa accused Washington of a "hidden agenda" in its war against terrorism, such as a desire to control vast oil reserves in the Caspian Sea.
Yeah. No doubt it was an inside job. All the evidence is right there, and that sort of stuff happens in the US all the time. Probably the Jews again. Access to Caspian oil would cause them to form an alliance with an international terror organization calling for the nation's destruction and kill as many people at a shot as they could. That's just good, solid Arab logic.
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Israel kept Yasser Arafat away from Bethlehem's Christmas celebration for the first time in seven years. Scouts playing drums and bagpipes marched beneath Palestinian flags and posters of the absent Arafat. Addressing his people in a prerecorded speech broadcast on Palestinian TV, Arafat, a Muslim, said he spoke "with a heart full of sadness... The Israeli tanks, the barriers and the rifles of the oppressors have prevented me from sharing with you our annual celebration on this divine and blessed occasion," he said. "The whole world that has seen what happened ... has to know what kind of terror the worshippers in this Holy Land are facing." Thought he was gonna walk if he had to?
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More than 500 Maoist rebels have been killed since the army was deployed a month ago to fight the five-year-old insurgency, and 29 soldiers have died. Maoists bombed the village home of the Nepalese government minister who led failed peace talks with the rebels, causing damage but no casualties.
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Pakistan froze the bank accounts of Lashkar-e-Taiba and Ummah Tameer-e-Nau. Simultaneously with the Pakistani action, came the news of the resignation of LeT chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed in a ââstrategic decisionââ aimed at âârefuting Indian propaganda that the (LeT) is a Pakistani organisationââ. Saeed appointed in his place Abdul Wahid Kashmiri, a man described as being from ââoccupied Poonchââ. Saeed added that he would continue to remain the head of the Lashkarâs parent organisation, the Markaz Dawa-wal-Irshad.
Of course Lashkar's not a Pakistani organization. It's... It's... Slovenian, that's it. Damn those Slovenes!
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
