Hi there, !
Today Tue 07/09/2002 Mon 07/08/2002 Sun 07/07/2002 Sat 07/06/2002 Fri 07/05/2002 Thu 07/04/2002 Wed 07/03/2002 Archives
Rantburg
531688 articles and 1855967 comments are archived on Rantburg.

Today: 21 articles and 7 comments as of 10:37.
Post a news link    Post your own article   
Area:                    
Haji Qadir assassinated
Today's Headlines
Headline Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
0 [] 
0 [] 
0 [] 
0 [] 
0 [] 
0 [] 
0 [] 
0 [] 
0 [] 
0 [] 
0 [] 
0 [] 
0 [] 
0 [] 
0 [] 
1 00:00 RG Fulton [] 
1 00:00 Tom Roberts [] 
0 [] 
0 [] 
5 00:00 Fred [] 
1 00:00 RG Fulton [] 
Afghanistan
Haji Qadir assassinated
Two gunmen firing assault rifles assassinated Afghan Vice President Abdul Qadir as he was being driven from a government ministry Saturday. His driver was also killed but the gunmen escaped. The attack took place as Qadir was leaving by car from the Ministry of Public Works, which he also headed, according to Interior Minister Taj Mohammed Wardak. The gunmen, who had been hiding in the bushes, escaped in a car which sped up moments after the shooting. All 10 uniformed security guards who were on duty at the ministry were arrested because they failed to react properly, according to Kabul police chief Din Mohammed Jurat.
No word yet on whodunnit. Haji Qadir was the brother of Abdul Haq, whom the Taliban captured and hanged about a week prior to Hamid Karzai's arrival to form a Pashtun resistance.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/06/2002 11:25 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Again: leave these primitive rock - Kabba - worshippers to their playpen. If they kill each other, that is a solution and not a problem.
Posted by: RG Fulton || 07/06/2002 13:01 Comments || Top||


Axis of Evil
Iraq conveys support to India on J&K issue
Iraqi President Saddam Hussein on Saturday conveyed his principled and unwavering support to India on the Kashmir issue and said Iraq greatly values its relationship with New Delhi.
Trying to drive a little wedge into the budding American-Indian alliance?
President Hussein conveyed his views to the visiting Petroleum Minister Ram Naik and said friendship with India had been a source of strength not only to Iraq but to the Arab world. Naik, who is in Baghdad for an Indo-Iraq joint commission, called on President Hussein and apprised him of the current developments pertaining to India and Pakistan. Naik also met Vice-President Taha Yassin Ramadhan besides ministers for oil and industry.
That's interesting. I'd have expected Iraq to have taken the Pak side. On the other hand, the visitors were Indian. Had the visitors been Paks, probably the support would have gone the other way.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/06/2002 05:44 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq still says 'no' to UN weapons inspections
Iraq failed to reach an accord with the United Nations on Friday to resume weapons inspections after intensive talks involving Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri. The two-day meeting was the third high-level session on the arms inspectors this year. "They didn't say yes," Annan told reporters after the talks, which he called constructive, ended on Friday. "I would have preferred more," he said, adding: "I cannot force a decision."
I'd prefer to be thirty again, and to have my hair back, too. This is a dance, a method of racking up diplopoints that can be traded in for International Support® which is expected to avert hostilities. The idea is to natter and negotiate and wring every possible concession from the likes of Kofi up until three minutes before launch time, and then magnanimously accept a better deal than could have been gotten six months prior. The problem with this scenario is that Sammy is notoriously bad at figuring when the three minutes actually begins.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/06/2002 05:56 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Caucasus
Azerbaijani Jamaat Declares Jihad
A group of Mujahideen from Azerbajiani Jamaat in Tabuk, headed by Amir Badalov, Rovshan Kitab-Ogly, has made an announcement on Radio Kavkaz with an appeal to their fellow countrymen regarding the decision of Mujahideen of Azerbaijan to declare Jihad for the liberation of their country’s territories that were occupied by Armenia. "While expatiating upon love towards the nation on TV channels and on the pages of the newspapers on a daily basis, these people at the same time are doing nothing to solve the crucial problems of their fellow countrymen. First of all, it concerns the issue of liberating our lands from Armenian invaders. While implanting the ideology that is alien to our national mentality, they are trying to impose values that totally contradict the lifestyle of Azerbaijani people. As a result, once famous for their courage and their bravery sons and daughters of Azerbaijani nation are now becoming slaves of alcohol and drugs. Azerbaijani girls once known for their chastity are being plunged into the abyss of debauchery. The people entrusted with the nation’s destiny are only concerned with filling their own pockets and their own bellies. By spreading fear, they want to suppress even the smallest wish to resist their destructive policies. The feeling of despair, powerlessness and depression is reigning among the people, and this process of endless concessions is creating a false image of Azerbaijani people in the world community. "
The Azeris are Turkic Muslims and the Armenians are Caucasoid Christians. About ten years ago, as the Soviet Union was breaking up, Armenia and the new state of Azerbaijan fought it out over Nagorno-Karabakh, an Armenian enclave within Azerbaijan. It was a fight that was started by Azeris — they had the unpleasant habit of driving up and down the streets of Armenian towns in BMPs and shooting up everything in sight — and finished by the Armenians. Now, probably the same bunch of people have decided they're Islamists and that the Armenians are debauching their wimmin, so they're going to be mujaheddin and fight a jihad against them. Islam, as we all know, is a religion of peace, and jihad actually means an internal struggle for self-realization — not all that different from est or Esalen or some other happy New Age stuff — so any vicious, unprovoked attacks on infidels should just be ignored. Or your car might explode.

Wonder if there's actually Saudi money behind these guys, or if it's just a bunch of blowhards?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/06/2002 07:15 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Fifth Column
Farrakhan arrives in Iraq to prevent US strike
US black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan met with two ministers from President Saddam Hussein's government in Baghdad on Saturday, and called for a lifting of the sanctions gripping the country. "Mr Farrakhan reaffirmed his solidarity with the Iraqi people and stressed the need to lift the embargo," the official INA news agency said. "The American Muslim people pray for the victory of Iraq, under the leadership of President Saddam Hussein," Farrakhan was quoted as saying during his tours by Health Minister Oumid Medhat Mubarak and Religious Affairs Minister Abdel Moomen Ahmad Saleh.
Perhaps they would be kind enough to present themselves at the Baby Milk Factory come next bombing time, to act as "human shields." I somehow don't expect to see them, though we may see them shooting up a few airline counters while the FBI scratches its collective head and tries to decide if it's terrorism.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/06/2002 05:49 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Home Front
Hadayet was a cliché
"It's a cliché, but it's true. He kept pretty much to himself," said Noah Thurman, who lives across the street from Hesham Mohamed Hadayet's apartment.
That's because he hated his neighbors and everyone like them. He hated their dogs, too...
Hadayet's name has not been on any law enforcement "watch lists" for terrorist activity in the United States or abroad, and investigators have found no evidence to suggest he was part of an organized conspiracy.
No Hamas membership card, no Muslim Brotherhood 10-year's membership plaque on the wall of his den. Just a deep and abiding hatred of Jews, Americans, Candadians, Finns, Hindus, Burmese, Samoans...
"So far we have no indication of any type of prejudice against any particular organization or nationality," Richard Garcia, the FBI official leading the investigation, said. But a former employee of Hadayet's, Abdul Zahev, told reporters today that his boss often expressed hatred for Israel and felt the United States was biased against Arabs. "He kept all his anger inside," said Zahev, who said he worked as a driver for Hadayet for a few weeks. "He couldn't hold it anymore."
I don't feel comforted that the FBI couldn't notice the hatred — or perhaps equate hatred with bigotry — when the WaPo reporter could dig it out just by asking somebody, probably by phone...
On Thursday, some witnesses suggested that Hadayet opened fire after a dispute with an airline employee or someone in the ticket line. But today authorities said it appears he began shooting without provocation. "There was nothing exchanged as far as we know," Garcia said.
If he was armed and dangerous when he showed up, he probably didn't shoot the place up because somebody made fun of his turban. He went there to kill people, and he killed them because he hated them in the abstract. If you're stuck lugging the 750 pound gorilla of political correctitude around on your back, you might have a difficult time recognizing real, genuine, dyed in the wool bigotry when it's staring you in the face with rheumy red eyes; that's probably because it's not subtle enough.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/06/2002 11:25 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fred: I'm not the only one who's wondering. The LAExaminer's "WAS HADAYET A SLEEPER BASED AT LAX?" Also it appears El AL was concerned about Hadyet when he was working for Mercury Air Cargo at LAX a few years ago. While he may not have been a sleeper, it appears he's had connections with a few of the major bad guys. Mary Lu
Posted by: Mary Lu || 07/08/2002 11:37 Comments || Top||

#2  I agree 100%.

In fact, I got so annoyed at all this, I posted some instructional photos at
http://www.fecesflingingmonkey.com/0702/0702.htm#a070502

Sometimes, you just gotta point out the obvious...
Posted by: Mike Jackmin || 07/06/2002 11:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Talk about pictures being worth a thousand words... Better get some Swedes and Chinese and Samoans in there or you're gonna get sued. And welcome to my links.
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2002 11:53 Comments || Top||

#4  Fred: Check out the LAT article. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-laxmain6jul06.story. Like I've said before a "An isolated terrorist is a dangerous terrorist." He sure wasn't going to LAX for a picnic with all that hardware. If this clown really has/had ties does the word "sleeper" ring a bell?
Posted by: Mary Lu || 07/06/2002 14:53 Comments || Top||

#5  I doubt he was a sleeper. I think he was an arrogant Arab who beat his wife, blindly hated Jews, and thought other infidels were good enough to bring him money but not good enough to talk to.

'Neighbors at the Woodbridge Pines Apartments described Hadayet as a devoutly religious man who had somewhat chilly relations with his non-Muslim neighbors. They said his wife and sons were much friendlier. "I tried to say hi to him when he first moved in and he completely ignored me," said Pamela Paulson, 51, who lives two apartments away. "He was stone cold. If he looked at you, he looked right through you."'
Posted by: Fred || 07/06/2002 15:33 Comments || Top||


Egypt can't understand why we're upset...
Egypt's foreign minister expressed surprise on Saturday afternoon at the furor over the attack, saying the motives were still unclear and similar incidents occurred frequently. Middle East News Agency (MENA) said Foreign Minister Ahmed Maher told reporters in Cairo that such incidents occur repeatedly in the United States and other countries and said he was surprised by the exaggeration of this event in particular. "Until now, nobody knows the motives behind this incident. We have to await the outcome of the current investigations so that we can review them," MENA quoted Maher as saying.
Mr Foreign Minister is being intentionally dense. It could be because it occurred on our Independence Day, after a couple weeks or longer of vague warnings of attacks on that very day, to include a special guest appearance by the probably late Osama bin Laden, mere days after al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades had declared war on us.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/06/2002 06:47 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Religious Schools Upset In Pakistan
Islamic clerics, representing thousands of religious schools in Pakistan, threatened Saturday to launch nationwide demonstrations to protest new laws that would regulate their finances, the enrollment of overseas students and prevent the teaching of Islamic extremism.
If you can't have Saudi financing, enroll gun-totin' foreigners, and preach the glory of jihad to boys from the age of six so they're ready to explode by the time they're 15 or 16, why have madrassahs?
After attending a meeting with top government officials to discuss the new rules, the heads of religious schools gave the government two weeks to withdraw the new regulations or face the protests.
They feel very confident of their power in Pashtunistan...
In a statement issued after the meeting, Ittehad-e-Tanzeemat, an alliance of organizations representing most of some 8,000 religious schools, said it would organize street demonstrations if the new regulations were not abandoned. "We neither give training in militancy to anyone nor collect donations in the name of Jihad (holy war)," the statement said. "Our sole aim is to prepare Islamic scholars." Yet they refused to identify the sources of their funding, a key demand by the government.
This is a key fight for Perv, and it's one he's got to win. The mullahs and maulvis and other Learned Elders of Islam see it the same way, as the spark to set off the civil war that will tear Pashtunistan away from Pakland — if they can't manage to take over the entirety of Pakistan. The Emirate of Pashtunistan will be another Taliban-style regime, trying to export its foulness in all directions.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/06/2002 11:25 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Pakistan Gang-rape Suspect Arrested
A suspect in the gang rape of an 18-year-old girl as part of a tribal punishment was arrested Saturday after surrendering to a local newspaper. Faiz Bakhsh Mastoi was the second man arrested in connection with the June 22 rape in the past two days. Police are searching for two other suspects. Bakhsh Mastoi went to the office of a local newspaper in Multan, a regional center in Punjab province, and identified himself as one of those wanted in the case. "I'm surrendering at the newspaper office because I'm afraid that police may kill me in a fake encounter," Bakhsh Mastoi told reporters. Police have been under pressure to capture the rapists after Pakistan's Supreme Court accused local officers of negligence for failing to arrest them immediately after the crime.
"Arrest them? Whatever for? It was only some girl. What's she worth?"
Police said the woman was raped by four men after a tribal council in Meerwala village ordered that her family be punished after her 11-year-old brother was seen walking unchaperoned with a girl from a different caste tribe.
Horrors!
Police say the tribal verdict was illegal. But Pakistan has a tradition of barbarism tribal justice in which crimes or affronts to dignity are punished outside the framework of Pakistani law.
"I touched their feet. I wept. I cried. I said I taught the holy Quran to children in the village, therefore don't punish me for a crime which was not committed by me. But they tore my clothes and raped me one by one."

Her brother brought shame on somebody or other, y'see. So it was necessary to gang rape his sister, and that way the tribe, the area, and the entire country could be presented to the world as just oozing honor and dignity.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/06/2002 11:54 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


News from the Other Side: 4 deaders near Kohat
A bloody clash between the Mujahideen and Pakistani Police took place on Wednesday morning near Kohat Bannu road at Jarma Bridge. Four Mujahideen gained Martyrdom during this battle and we ask Allah to raise them with the best of Martyrs on the Day of Judgement. According to our sources, Mujahideen were being assisted by three men who claimed to be supporters of the Jihad, but later were exposed as Pakistani Agents.
That's a fine idea. And a few incidents like this one will help drive the wedge between ISI and the Bad Guys (or maybe they should be called the Worse Guys in this case)...
The Mujahideen were seeking assistance in travelling to different countries and thought that these men were sincere Muslims, however the Mujahideen were deceived. The Mujahideen were travelling on a coach organised by the now exposed Pakistani Agents when as the coach was approaching Jarma Bridge it was attacked from Police bunkers. The Mujahideen fought back bravely managing to kill two policemen and one Government spy.
More dead Paks at the hands of al-Qaeda? A made-up propaganda story, or a symptom of a genuine crackdown?
Locals in the area refused to be brainwashed by American propaganda and buried the Mujahideen as Heroes of Islam. In keeping with the honour of Islam, religious clerics refused to offer the funeral prayer of Abdul Rauf Niazi who was a spy for the Pakistani Government. We ask Allah that those who betray our Mujahideen brothers suffer both humiliation in this life and an eternal torment in the next.
If they keep on being nasty enough, they might get that civil war Fazl was hoping for. My guess would be that the U.S. knows very well what the situation is in NWFP and would be happy to help the Paks dismantle the pseudo-Taliban shadow government that's in place there.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/06/2002 07:33 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Villager stoned to death on Imam's call
A man of Chak Jhumra was stoned to death on Friday by villagers on the call of a local Pesh Imam who had issued a decree (Fatwa) against the man accusing him of blasphemy. Zahid Shah, 40, had been booked under the Blasphemy Act by Chak Jhumra police in Sept 1994 on the complaint of Maulvi Faqir Mohammad, Imam of the village mosque, for desecrating the Holy Quran and using objectionable words against the holy Prophet. The accused was arrested and jailed. But in 1997, he was granted bail by a local court.
After three years in jug?
After his release he left the village and settled with his brother, Mohammad Naeem, in Faisalabad while the case registered in 1994 against him was still pending with the court. A few days ago, Zahid Shah returned to his village. He allegedly had an altercation with some of the locals on Thursday. When the matter was brought to the notice of Faqir Mohammad, he convened a "Panchayat" the same day. After prayers, Maulvi Faqir Mohammad made announcement through the mosque loudspeaker and urged people to come out of their houses and kill Zahid. Scores of the villagers gathered outside Zahid's house, dragged him out in the presence of his brother and wife Perveen, and beat him with iron rods and sticks. When he fell unconscious, the mob dragged him to the main intersection of the village. In the meantime, people belonging to nearby villages had also reached there.
"Hey, y'all! They're stonin' somebody over in Chak Jhumra! Grab a rock!"
When he regained senses, Mauvli Faqir Mohammad asked the enraged mob to stone him. Zahid Shah sustained serious injuries during the stoning and died on the spot. Chak Jhumra police, who reached the spot four hours after the incident, neither arrested any of the persons who had stoned Zahid nor sent the body to hospital for autopsy. A Chak Jhumra Police Station official said it was an "accidental incident" and did not fall in the purview of cognizable offence. He said when Zahid's family members refused to lodge any complaint, the question of registering the case did not arise.
This is the kind of civilization culture system way of life they want to impose on the rest of the world?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/06/2002 08:12 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


International
Trabelsi Was Soccer Hopeful
Sometime after moving from Tunisia to Europe to play professional soccer, Nizar Trabelsi got hooked on cocaine, messed up in petty crime and eventually made his way to al-Qaida training camps in Afghanistan.
There he could mingle with others with common backgrounds and interests...
By the time Belgian police arrested him, two days after Sept. 11, in connection with a plot to bomb the U.S. Embassy in Paris, Trabelsi had already placed himself on a "list of martyrs," according to evidence gleaned from intelligence and interrogations. Belgian authorities have sought to keep a lid on the Trabelsi case for nine months and decline to comment on their investigation. But Dutch, French and Belgian evidence on him was given to Canadian prosecutors handling an extradition case in June of another suspect in the Paris embassy plot. French investigators believe Trabelsi was to be the suicide bomber in the embassy attack, planned for the spring of 2002. Trabelsi's wife, Amal Halim, told French authorities her husband left Afghanistan for Europe intending to "commit a suicide action." Belgian sources say Trabelsi had other targets in mind, including an air base in Belgium where U.S. nuclear bombs are believed to be stored. Trabelsi told investigators he worked alone. but evidence has tied him to al-Qaida and other key suspects jailed in France and the Netherlands.
He's a liar, and not even a particularly good one, as well as an intended killer. Wotta surprise...
Spanish police say Trabelsi was in their country last August and may have met there with Mohamed Atta, the suspected ringleader in the Sept. 11 attacks. They also have tied Trabelsi to an Algerian Islamic insurgent group allegedly financed by bin Laden.
Is there anyone Atta didn't meet with?
British newspapers have reported that Trabelsi knew Richard C. Reid, charged with trying to blow up a Paris-Miami flight with explosives in his sneakers.
And he was a very gregarious fellow, too...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/06/2002 11:25 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Eight Detained In French Riots
Roving bands of Islamic thugs young people set fire to cars and trash cans Saturday in the second straight night of rioting in Lille over a court's refusal to imprison a police officer who killed an Algerian man who was helping to steal a car. One thug rioter threw a gasoline bomb at a government building, causing a small fire. Eight people were arrested in the latest violence. Most of the rioters were of North African descent.
One thing you can count on with Muslims: if they can't have their way, you're gonna get riots...
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/06/2002 11:30 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Gladhandled Americans: Just wait until a Moslem "family law campaign" comes to America. You will get the education in Islamic intolerance, that President Stupid won't teach.
Posted by: RG Fulton || 07/06/2002 13:05 Comments || Top||


Greek Cops Find Terror Group Weapons
Greek police, assisted by American and British agents, raided an apartment Saturday and found dozens of anti-tank rockets they believe were stolen from the army in the late 1980s by the elusive November 17 terrorist group. Police now believe they have seized most, if not all, of the terror group's known arsenal. It was the second such police raid against the group since Wednesday, when weapons and documents were seized from what police said was the group's main hide-out in downtown Athens. However, November 17's shadowy leaders, sought for nearly three decades, continue to elude arrest. Police estimate the group has less than a few dozen members.
That makes them harder to find, of course. But 30 years seems kind of a long time not to come up with any leads...
The first suspected group member ever arrested, a religious icon painter injured June 29 in a failed bombing attempt, remained hospitalized and was being interrogated by authorities. Savas Xiros, 40, was injured severely when the bomb he allegedly was carrying exploded in the busy tourist port of Piraeus.
That's a pretty good start. Probably, though the Greek cops obviously aren't certain of that, the other members of the group are men and possibly women who know him and hang around with him. Y'know? Like sitting around on Saturday night polishing their projectiles and such?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/06/2002 12:04 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Sudan opposition head rejects power sharing
The head of Sudan's largest northern opposition party declared Saturday that he would not enter any separate power sharing arrangement with the government. "We will participate only in a national government or a freely and fairly elected one," Umma party chairman Sadeq al-Mahdi told reporters, where he announced the creation of an eight-member committee to negotiate with the government. Mahdi's statement comes as an implicit rejection of recent negotiations by his cousin, Mubarak al-Fadil al-Mahdi, reportedly aimed at the Umma Party's entry into the government. "Negotiation with the regime will be conducted on two principles, (that there be) either the formation of a national government in which all political parties will take part or democratic, free and fair elections open to all parties," Mahdi said. The Umma Party was among the northern opposition groups which allied with the SPLA in the mid-1990s to form the National Democratic Alliance, but it subsequently quit the coalition.
Sounds like they may have written off the SPLA in light of their recent defeats.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/06/2002 05:09 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Khartoum and rebels renew ceasefire accord for central Sudan
The Khartoum government and rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) have decided to renew a regional ceasefire due to end in mid-July, the mission charged with monitoring the agreement said Friday. "The government of the Sudan and the SPLA have agreed on an extension of the ceasefire agreement in (central Sudan's) Nuba mountains for a second six-month period," the multinational Joint Monitoring Mission (JMM) said in a statement received in Cairo. According to the statement, hostilities in the area have ceased since the signing of the agreement, with the exception of a few minor violations.
I wouldn't put too much stock in the ceasefire's utility. I think both sides regard ceasefires as temporary, tactical measures.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/06/2002 05:11 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Middle East
Yasser's West Bank Security Choice Rejected
A large group of Palestinian security officers on Saturday rejected Yasser Arafat's choice for a new West Bank security chief in the latest challenge to the authority of the Palestinian leader. This past week, Arafat dismissed three senior security leaders, including Jibril Rajoub, head of Preventive Security in the West Bank. Arafat appointed the governor of Jenin, Zuheir al-Manasra, to replace Rajoub. But almost 200 security officers gathered Saturday to object to the appointment of al-Manasra and demand that Rajoub be given another high-ranking political or security post.
Further evidence that Whatsisname isn't controlling anything, he's only along for the ride...
"We have a clear and frank message for President Arafat ... on the necessity to get a suitable position for (Rajoub) inside the Palestinian Authority at the political and security level,'' said Maj. Gen. Majed Faraj, the force commander for Hebron. The officers said Manasra was not suitable because he was not from the ranks of Preventive Security, the most powerful security branch. They met near Ramallah and planned to march to Arafat's battered compound, which is surrounded by Israeli forces, who control seven of the eight main Palestinian cities and towns in the West Bank. The Israeli troops turned back the security officers as they approached Arafat's compound.
Not being real good with cause and effect ("They're related? In what way?"), the PA coppers can't quite figure why all those IDF guys are hanging around, preventing them from making faces at Yasser. Does their presence have anything to do with any shortcomings — they'd have to be minor, of course — with Preventive Security? What, precisely, does Preventive Security actually prevent?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/06/2002 11:25 am || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So Fred, who are these Preventative Security folks? Is this just another example of what happens when one Mafia gang becomes unable to boss around another subgang, and those fellows just go off and set up shop on their own? If the Preventors (sort of reminds me of Billy the Kid's Regulators) were anything big, the IDF might let them throw rotten garbage at Yassir, but perhaps they are just a bunch of street thugs of no account.
Posted by: Tom Roberts || 07/06/2002 12:53 Comments || Top||


Ghazi's an 'advisor' now...
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat announced the appointment of his newly-dismissed police chief General Ghazi Jabali to the post of police adviser. The appointment comes two days after Arafat sacked Jabali from his long-standing position, while Jabali officially submitted his resignation to the Palestinian leader Thursday. It was not clear what his new job entailed.
"There's the cash drawer, over there. Now shut up and don't bother me..."
In a second order issued by Arafat, Jabali's assistant Salim al-Burdanyi was appointed to run the Palestinian police force in the interim.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/06/2002 06:01 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Manasrah vows team work
Yasser Arafat's new West Bank security chief Zuheir Manasrah, who enjoys a reputation as a no-nonsense manager, said Friday he would promote teamwork as part of the overhaul of Palestinian security organizations.
Is that why they don't want to work for him?
Manasrah, replacing strongman Jibril Rajoub, said that Israeli attacks against the Palestinian Authority infrastructure and its reoccupation of the West Bank would make his "task more difficult."
If "Preventive Security" had actually prevented anything, there wouldn't be any Israeli attack against the PA infrastructure, would there?
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/06/2002 06:19 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


IDF blows somebody's car...
An Israeli tank opened fire Friday on a Palestinian car in the West Bank town of Tulkarem. The tank fired its machine gun at the car in the eastern part of the town, in Palestinian territory near the border with Israel. Israeli forces prevented a Palestinian ambulance from transporting him to a hospital and instead sent an Israeli ambulance which drove away with him, apparently toward Israel. Afterwards, they said Israeli forces blew up his car.
I've often, when confronted with some goober's really, really loud stereo, wished I could do that.

Since they used the machinegun on the car, rather than the main gun, and didn't let a PA ambo haul him away, it's likely he was somebody they wanted to talk to.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/06/2002 06:24 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Southeast Asia
MILF fragmenting...
The government opted not to intervene in the row between the leadership of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and its splinter group headed by guerrilla leader Ustadz Shariff Jullabi. Acting Press Secretary Silvestre Afable said MILF vice chairman Al-Haj Murad should be capable of “handling the issue on his own... It’s more of an issue over some contravening statements over the media. There’s no armed conflict.” Jullabi last week established the Maguindanao Islamic Liberation Front after he was angered by a June 24 MILF central committee order to desist from holding media interviews. He accused the group’s Maguindanao leaders of monopolizing power.

In an earlier interview, MILF spokesman Eid Kabalu accused Jullabi of “sabotage” and hinted at treachery, underscoring the Western Mindanao leader’s background as a military captain. Kabalu also accused Jullabi of misrepresentation, saying he last held an important position “in the early 1990s.” The rift seems to take tribal lines.
Good deal. We need more of this.
Posted by: Fred Pruitt || 07/06/2002 08:24 pm || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:



Who's in the News
21[untagged]

Bookmark
E-Mail Me

The Classics
The O Club
Rantburg Store
The Bloids
The Never-ending Story
Thugburg
Gulf War I
The Way We Were
Bio

Merry-Go-Blog











On Sale now!


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.
Click here for more information

Meet the Mods
In no particular order...
Steve White
Seafarious
tu3031
badanov
sherry
ryuge
GolfBravoUSMC
Bright Pebbles
trailing wife
Gloria
Fred
Besoeker
Glenmore
Frank G
3dc
Skidmark

Two weeks of WOT
Sat 2002-07-06
  Haji Qadir assassinated
Fri 2002-07-05
  Taiwan intercepts North Korean drugs ship
Thu 2002-07-04
  Closed. Happy 4th of July
Wed 2002-07-03
  A dozen more Sipah thugs nabbed in Rawalpindi
Tue 2002-07-02
  Paks nab Akram Lahori
Mon 2002-07-01
  Yasser offers to meet Bush
Sun 2002-06-30
  27 gunnies nabbed in two PA ambos
Sat 2002-06-29
  North, South Korea ships exchange fire
Fri 2002-06-28
  10 Dead at Afghan Ammunition Depot
Thu 2002-06-27
  Total of 15 Saudi-controlled terrorists nabbed in Morocco so far...
Wed 2002-06-26
  10 Paks killed in shootout with Chechens in S. Waziristan
Tue 2002-06-25
  Qusay escapes assassination
Mon 2002-06-24
  Commander Robot sez he wants to surrender
Sun 2002-06-23
  Israeli army calls up reservists
Sat 2002-06-22
  N. Carolina Hezbollah brothers convicted

Better than the average link...



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.
3.231.222.84
Help keep the Burg running! Paypal:
(0)    (0)    (0)    (0)    (0)