An Afghan group sent a statement to IslamOnline (IOL) on Tuesday, August 27, claiming responsibility for a string of attacks targeting U.S. troops in Afghanistan and promising to continue its attacks in revenge for the innocent civilians killed during the U.S. war in Afghanistan. The group, calling itself the Secret Army of the Afghan Fighters (Mujahideen), said their attacks against the Americans in Afghanistan will continue until the last U.S. soldier leaves the country and a âfree Islamic Afghanistanâ is established. This would probably be the Hekmatyar bunch...
The statement — which provides the details of 30 attacks against U.S. troops in Kabul, Bagram military base, and six towns in eastern and southern Afghanistan during the period from March 4, to August 23 — is apparently the first one issued by this new group whose name has never been mentioned previously. That's 'cause they just made it up...
âThese attacks were not launched by the Taliban or Al-Qaeda, instead they are the work of those heroes and fighters who decided to establish a Jihadi group under the name of the Secret Army of the Afghan Fighters following the unjust U.S. attacks against Afghanistan,â the statement said. According to the statement, these attacks resulted in the deaths of 59 American soldiers, in addition to three Canadian soldiers and 15 Afghani soldiers described in the statement as âspiesâ or âagents.â The Pentagon, has continuously denied any news about the killing of its soldiers in Afghanistan. Which is why we've been ignoring the reports appearing on the jihadi websites...
The statement, written in Pushtu on a computer, starts with a long introduction explaining that a U.S.-Russian plan to end Taliban rule and bring to power the former king Mohamed Zahir Shah with a new government was ready even before the September 11 attacks. âBut the September attacks changed the plan and made the U.S. the exclusive leader of the terror war. And the U.S. attacked Afghanistan with international blessings,â it said. And, we might add, with good reason. But if you're determined to sieze all power for yourself, it doesn't matter whether the reason was good or bad. What matters is that the people in power aren't you, and the only way that can be cured is to kill lots of people, which makes the country unstable, in the hope that eventually the Americans will get disgusted and go home. Then you can rocket the hell out of Kabul, kill as many people as you can lay hands on, and introduce a new era of peace and prosperity in Afghanistan that will last until someone else with a big ego and no compunctions starts rocketing you. I sure do wish somebody would kill Engineeer Hekmatyar.
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âfree Islamic Afghanistanâ? Last time I checked the words "free" and "Islamic" were oxymorons.
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Hekmatyar = Iran
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Former US attorney general and admirer of dictators everywhere Mr. Ramsy Clark has visited some hospitals in Basra province because they make such good photo ops. The US guest and the accompanying media delegations who were there important part saw firsthand the deformities in newborns and malignant diseases which were caused as a result of US use of depleted uranium weapons. They could see the shortage of medicine and medical equipment in Iraqi hospitals in Basra. Oh, dear! My tears are so... so... jerked!
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President Saddam Hussein on Wednesday met Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Military Industrialization Abdul Tawwab Al-Mulla Howeish, Air Defence Commander Lieut. Gen. Mzahim Sa'b Al-Hasan and a group of researchers in the Military Industrialization Commission. Known as "the Nerve Gas Boyz"...
At the outset of the audience, the Military Industrialization Minister affirmed Iraqisâ determination to thwart all enemies' plots and defend their country's independence, dignity and sovereignty. The attendants renewed pledge of allegiance to be loyal soldiers to build and defend Iraq. They expressed their loyalty to the leadership of President Saddam Hussein till achieving triumph. Uh... Could that be taken two ways? Once triumph is achieved, does loyalty to Sammy go out the window? (Extra credit: Define "triumph".)
President Hussein hailed the fightersâ morale. He praised their devotion to achieve their objectives, and their high trust in their abilities to enforce their country's steadfastness and offer peace, security and stability for their people. Has he been using the Dear Leader's speechwriter? That's a pretty powerful verbal soporific.
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Iranian police have arrested 15 people in a raid on a brothel in the western city of Qazvin, Abrar newspaper reported Thursday. Eleven men and four women were arrested and quantities of heroin and alcoholic beverages were seized, the head of justice department of Qazvin province, Jamal Karimi was quoted as saying. "Hookers and cocktails and drugs, oh my"
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A Georgian official said yesterday that troops taking part in an operation to round up Chechen fighters in the Pankisi Gorge, on Georgia's border with Russia, were under orders not to arrest any of the guerrillas. "The fighters are Russia's problem," said a high-ranking official in Georgia's National Security Ministry who is taking part in the operation. The official, who did not want to be identified, said Georgian commanders knew the location of a band of Chechen fighters but had no plans to engage them. He said the Chechen group was in the village of Tsinaubani, at the southern end of the gorge. Local residents said the band was led by seasoned Chechen field commanders known as the Akhmadov brothers. "We have deliberately avoided and are now avoiding armed conflict with them. We do not intend to start a war with them and put at risk our troops and thousands of innocent people. We are already doing enough," the official said. "I mean, like, this has nothing to do with national sovreignity. Those bastards have live ammunition!"
A local policemen said the authorities had made contact with the Chechens and given them an ultimatum to leave or face being removed by force. The acknowledgment came on the same day that Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed doubts that the Georgian troops would be able to track down the Chechen fighters without help from Russian forces. Apparently they're able to track them down. They just can't actually do anything about them. Can we have our money back now, please?
Thanks to Steve for the headzup!
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Can't anybody get a counter-terror coalition going? We are wasting a lot of time, and the enemy is taking advantage.
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Coalitions are like staff meetings. The more people attending, the less gets done.
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After Iosarian Djuglashvilli, do you think Moscow actually wants Georgians to speak Russian again? I suspect they just want Georgia to be the quaint rustic armpit it was before 1800.
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The Georgian Government says it has arrested a man it suspects of being a "prominent" figure with links to the al-Qaeda Islamic militant network. He was picked up by security forces searching the remote Pankisi Gorge near the border with Russia's war-torn Chechnya region. State Security Minister Valeri Khaburdzania said the man, an "ethnic Arab", was carrying a French passport believed to be fake. He was wearing military uniform under his clothes and carrying "Islamic literature" and a map of the gorge. "In our opinion or, rather, according to our information, he is linked to certain terrorist organisations," the minister told Georgian television. "We can certainly say that he is connected to organisations of the type which finally lead to al-Qaeda." Yep. Sure sounds like a Bad Guy. I thought they moved?
"As regards French citizenship, we believe that it is a forged passport." That's how they could tell he was an Arab: his passport was forged...
Mr Khaburdzania said that no force had been used during the arrest and the man was now being interviewed. He did not rule out extradition proceedings: "We may have to extradite him because we believe that he is one of the prominent individuals linked to these terrorist organisations and he may have committed more serious crimes on the territory of other countries." Well, pick some place and extradite him, then. I'd suggest China. They're direct and to the point when they handle these matters...
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Around 1000 relatives of September 11 victims who have filed a massive $116 trillion lawsuit against alleged supporters of the September 11 terrorists are set to request a freeze the defendantsâ U.S. assets, one of their lawyers said Wednesday, August 28. âWe will do everything, including asking Congress, to block the Saudi suspectsâ assets, which, in the event of a judgment in our favor, will be used to compensate the families of the victims,â Jean-Charles Brisard, one of the plaintiffâs lawyers, told Agence France-Presse (AFP). I hate this. To the rest of the world it looks like the Attack of the Greedheads.
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At least it keeps them busy so they are not suing the US government for not protecting us...so I won't be paying the bills if they do get something.
U.S. authorities Wednesday, August 28, charged five Arab men in Detroit and a Muslim activist in the western city of Seattle, Washington, with conspiring to support Al-Qaeda. A grand jury in Detroit accused Karim Koubriti, Ahmed Hannan, Youssef Hmimssa, Farouk Ali-Haimoud and a fifth man known only as Abdella of conspiring to support Al-Qaeda and documents fraud in a four-count indictment. The men are suspected of being members of a covert âsleeperâ cell of âIslamist militantsâ who planned and scouted targets for possible terror attacks. All but Abdella are in custody. Good idea. Keep them there.
The indictment claims Koubriti, 24, Hannan, 34, Ali-Haimoud,, 22, and Abdella, whose age is unknown, operated as a âcovert underground support unit for terrorist attacks within and outside the United States, as well as a sleeper operational combat cell.âThe groupâs goal was allegedly to inflict economic damage on the United States by recruiting, indoctrinating and training other âbrothersâ in their cause, setting up safe houses and mail drops; collecting intelligence information about potential targets for terror attacks and obtaining weapons and false documents to aid terror attacks in Jordan, Turkey and the United States. In other words, they were acting as spies and foreign agents. In times gone by, they'd stand them up in front of a wall and shoot them. Too bad we're too "civilized" for that now...
The indictment gives no details of why Hmimssa, 37, is named along with the others. Ali-Hamoudâs lawyer, Kevin Ernst, told the Detroit Free Press newspaper said he thinks Hmimssa is cooperating with government prosecutors. âAs far as I can tell, itâs based on this uncorroborated debriefing of this snitch, Hmimssa,â Ernst said. âWhatâs kind of scary about this is that basically every Arab person in the country is one snitch away from being on the business end of a terrorism indictment.â Since he's a "snitch," anything he says shouldn't be believed? What makes him a snitch? The fact that he's cooperating with the Feds?
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Suppression of religion is scary, Fred, but religion can be used as politics - or war or terror - by other means. Lenin, the secular, once said: "The purpose of Parliamentarism is: the destruction of Parliamentarism." Clearly, the purpose of Jamaat-i-Islami and Wahhab Ahl Sunnat and their kind is: the destruction of
freedom of religion.
Those of us who had been elevated to the top of the WTC, prior to last September have our own point of view. I try to balance anger with reason.
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Often money-making, grubbing outfits pose as religons (ie, Moonies) and because we in the U.S. are so tolerant of various "religious" views they in fact do odd things, which you by now know about.
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A good "american" joke on this subject:
A cowboy, a (US) Indian, and an Arab Muslim are sitting at an airport.
The Indian remarks about how his people used to be numerous but now are few in conversation.
The Muslim remarks about how his people used to be few but now are numerous.
The cowboy sez: "That just because we've not started playing 'Cowboys and Muslims' yet."
MMA leaders showing solidarity and their underarms before commencing train march from Rawalpindi to Lahore.
Dispelling the impression that countryâs religious leadership was prone to sectarianism, the leaders of Muthidda Majlis-e-Amal, the leading alliance of the religious parties in Pakistan, launched their election campaign with a successful show of strength from Rawalpindi to Lahore by conducting a train march in defiance of all the restrictions and use of force against them by the military regime. Ummm... A "train march"? That means they got on a train and went for a ride? What's so hot about that?
The first phase of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal's train march that began from Rawalpindi at midday on Wednesday on the onset of their election campaign successfully concluded at the Lahore Railway Station in the evening. The MMA leaders stormed the Rawalpindi railway station breaking all the barricades setup by the police to prevent their march. Yeah. The first phase of my successful car march yesterday began from my place of gainful employment on the onset of my evening free time and concluded at Stately Rantburg Manor on the banks of Lovely Stoney Creek. I stormed the barricades my employer erected to prevent my departure, locking them behind me, since I was the last one out of the building.
Though the administration forced the train to leave ten minutes before time, Qazi Hussain Ahmed, Maulana Shah Ahmed Noorani, Maulana Fazalur Rehman, Maulana Sami ul Haq and Allama Sajid Naqvi and Liaquat Baloch managed to board the train along with hundreds of their supporters chanting anti-government slogans. Qazi, Sami, Fazl and even Noorani, all in one place, all on one train. How tragic it would have been if something had... happened. Ah, well. Maybe next time.
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Four members of a Palestinian family were killed Thursday, August 29, and five other people wounded by Israeli tank shells during the second military incursion into the area in two days, Palestinian hospital sources said. Wonder what really happened?
A close advisor to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, Nabil Abu Rudeina called the deadly attack a âmassacreâ. This âgrave crimeâ was aimed at sabotaging efforts to obtain a progressive Israeli military withdrawal from Palestinian areas which have been reoccupied by the army since the start of the current wave of violence in September 2000, the advisor said. No doubt...
The four victims were named as 40-year-old Ruwiedah El-Ajeen, her son Mohammed and brothers Ashraf and Milad El-Ajeen, two other family members. They died when a tank shell exploded in a house in southern Gaza City, near the Jewish settlement of Netzarim. Five other Palestinians were wounded, one seriously, by the shells which hit the house and others nearby, Palestinian security sources said. A senior official of the Islamic resistance group Hamas vowed retaliation for the overnight Israeli shelling. Yes. Bloody revenge should make it all better...
And Ha'aretz reports:
According to an army spokesperson, a preliminary investigation on the incident has found that an IDF force near the northern Gaza Strip settlement of Netzarim detected a number of individuals crawling near a zone in which Palestinians are prohibited. The troops opened fire at the suspected individuals and hit them. The army pointed out that several attempts have been made to carry out attacks targeting civilians and IDF troops in the vicinity of Netzarim. The IDF statement said that it regrets hurting innocent civilians and will continue to investigate the circumstances of the incident.
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Israel would probably let them claim 'victory' also, as in fact anything would have to be better than the current situation.
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BjÞrn StÊrk is following the fortunes of Mullah Krekar, the Norwegian Kurd who's head of Ansar al-Islam.
A certain Mullah Krekar, who in the 90's led a state funded Islamic congregation in Oslo with 350 members, is now reportedly in Kurdish Iraq, fighting for the good cause with his followers in Ansar al-Islam and his friends in al-Qaeda.
Ansar is not just the product of infighting among local Kurdish Islamist groups. The ideological and material influence of al-Qaida has been there since its inception. Its leader is the elusive figure of Mullah Krekar, a charismatic 46-year-old Kurd whose links with Afghanistan, like many of his followers, date back to the jihad against the Soviet invasion. In Pakistan in the 1980s, Krekar studied Islamic jurisprudence under the Palestinian ideologue Abdullah Azzam, the founder of al-Qaida and mentor of Osama bin Laden.
And then Norwegian teevee managed to get an interview with him. (He doesn't... ummm... y'know... uh... look Norwegian, does he?)
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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
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