U.S. special forces shot and killed a gunman who fired on them near the central Afghan town of Deh Rawod, a U.S. military spokesman said Friday. The forces were helping an Afghan policeman who had been fired on Thursday in the province of Uruzgan when two attackers in civilian clothing opened fire on the U.S. forces with AK-47 assault rifles, Col. Roger King said. The soldiers returned fire, killing one man. The other escaped. King said the dead man's identity was not yet known. "Yar! We're Islamist tough guys! Take that, infidels!... Ow!... Hey! Stop that! You're hurting me!..."
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Source: Al-Hayat
The Afghan Islamic politician Golboddin Hekmatyar has said the West has launched a war of civilizations against the Islamic world. Yes. We flew aircraft into buildings that were chock full of innocent Muslims, going about their business. American clerics, each and every Sunday, whip the faithful into paroxysms of rage against all Muslims, everywhere...
Interviewed at an unspecified date and location by the London-based newspaper Al-Hayat, Hekmatyar called for the formation of a united world Islamic front to confront the crusader war which US President George Bush has declared against the Islamic people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, Palestine and other places. If you mobilize an entire civilization against another one in a war to the death, the one on the receiving end doesn't even have the choice of surrendering. If they kill you instead, you don't have a beef, do you?
In his first press interview since his disappearance in Iran about one year ago, Hekmatyar told Al-Hayat through a middleman that the American forces will face the same fate as the one faced by the Soviet forces in Afghanistan. He said that Washington would drown in the Afghan swamp if it postponed its attack on Iraq for months. That's a relief. I don't think we're going to delay much past the end of January...
The leader of the Afghan Hezb-e Eslami urged the Taleban Movement not to preoccupy itself with marginal issues, like blowing up entertainment places, and pay attention to the bigger battle, which is resisting the American forces. He denied, at the same time, any organizational relationship between his party and the Taleban and Al-Qa'idah. "There'll be lots of time to blow up theaters and cut people's heads off after the Americans are gone... Al-Qaeda and the Taliban? Oh, we're just good friends..."
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I don't see unity as the solution in Afghanistan. If sections of the country can't live together, then they should live apart. I know where Hek fits in: permanent exile.
The security commander of Kandahar, the key province in southern Afghanistan, refused Tuesday to leave his position, Kabul local news reported. Liberty Radio said that security commander of Kandahar province Kamaludin Ghullali, one of officials who were dismissed according to Afghan President Hamid Karzai's decision on Sunday, released an announcement letter in Chaman district of Kandahar province in which he refused to leave his position. Ghullali said he would discuss the issue with his soldiers, other local commanders and tribal leaders in Kandahar province. In addition, he said he was a great help to expelling the Taliban and al-Qaeda network in US-led campaign against terrorists in the province. President Karzai decided to dismiss nearly 20 local officials throughout the country who were not competent to their task on Sunday. Ghullali is the first to reject his order openly. Now that Bacha Khan Zadran's out of the way, I wouldn't imagine Karzai would have dismissed the very strongest first — Ghullali might find himself presenting an example for others, to his discomfort...
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A member of Bahrains royal family is among suspected members or sympathizers of the Al-Qaeda network detained at a US base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, his father said yesterday in an Arabic newspaper. Sheikh Salman ibn Ibrahim Al-Khalifa is accused of sympathizing with Al-Qaeda, Sheikh Ibrahim ibn Muhammad Al-Khalifa told the London-based daily Asharq Al-Awsat. They don't round them up and send them to Guantanamo just for providing tea and sympathy...
He said Sheikh Salman had been detained in Pakistan and handed over to the Americans for the sum of $20,000, without explaining to whom the money was handed over. His son moved to Saudi Arabia in 2000 for religious studies and then contacted the family three months later from Pakistan to say he was doing charity work, Sheikh Ibrahim said. We have contacted the foreign and interior ministries in Bahrain and they have taken action in this case to secure Sheikh Salmans release, he said, adding that a total of six Bahrainis were currently being held in Guantanamo. "Hi! I'm from the United Islamist Charities! This week we're donating over 25 tons of 7.62mm ammunition to the needy in Balochistan..."
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The evidence of use of the Islamic charity sacrament (zakat) to advance terror causes, is massive. Unfortunately, Muslims can't take the word of a "kafir."
The Iraq resolution regarding the return of weapons inspectors passed unanimously today. According to plan, weapons inspectors should be in the country within ten days. They are then to report back to the United Nations with their findings after sixty days. That'll be mid-January...
In response to the potential passing of the resolution regarding weapons inspectors in Iraq, Iraqi clerics chastised the US and Britain during Friday prayers, calling on the people of Iraq to rise up against the infidels and crusaders in a holy war. They keep calling for holy war... If they're really unlucky, they'll cause a "crusade" one of these days...
The sanctions-hit country gathered for the first Friday prayers of Ramadan, shadowed in the fear of another deadly attack. Mosques across the nation delivered the same message: fight the crusaders. According to Reuters, in the Mother of All Battles mosque in Baghdad, thousands of people gathered as the Iman declared, "Bush, who are you, you little dwarf, to threaten Mohammed and the sons of Mohammed... Today... the Jihad is a must of every Muslim. By God, we will defy you with our words and then our arms... By God, we will defeat you and wipe you out." I suspect they're going to defy us with their words and then surrender in large numbers when it comes down to using their arms. They're better at making faces and hollering than they are at warfare.
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A Kurdish leader said in an interview yesterday that Iran intends to drive alleged al-Qaeda members out of northern Iraq. The US remains skeptical about the allegations, and Iraq seems to be completely out of the picture. Sammy's government doesn't count anymore. Except for the lilies, they're dead...
In an interview in Damascus, in which parts of it were published by the New York Times, Jalal Talabani, the leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, claimed that there are about 150 fighters from Afghanistan operating in northern Iraq, close to the Iranian border. Joining them he said, are hundreds of Kurdish fighters. "They are Americas enemies and the Kurdish peoples enemies and the enemies of the people of the Middle East," Talabani was quoted while on a visit to Syria. He is reportedly touring various Middle East countries to assure them that his group is not interested in establishing an independent Kurdish state in northern Iraq. Thanks to the United States military and the no-fly-zone the central government in Baghdad lost control over much of its north, leaving the state open for civil wars, foreign invasions and chaos. Except that they haven't happened, and the Kurds have managed to prosper rather more than the Iraqis. Ain't that interesting?
Talabani seemed unsure about the real identities of the Afghani fighters. "I cannot say if they are Taliban or al-Qaeda, but they are people from Afghanistan, and they are well trained there," he claimed. My guess would be a few Arabs — usually it's Saudis or Yemenis — leading a larger number of Pashtuns...
The United States is reportedly skeptical about such reports, although it constantly tries to manufacture ties between Iraqs government and al-Qaeda, enough to justify an expected war on the sanctions-hit Arab country. But for the US, accepting such premises means direct military involvement in northern Iraq, close to the Iranian border and the pouring of more money in the endless war on terror, a war that has proven costly, financially as well as politically. Guess that's the difference between "costly" and "essential," isn't it? If it's essential, you do it anyway, even if it is costly...
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The federal command in Chechnya has refuted media reports alleging that Russian troops have demolished an entire residential area in Grozny and say only a few 5-storey buildings have been blown up. Outraged Chechens left homeless as a result of the operation claim they did not even have time to collect their belongings, though the military say they could have been held liable for aiding terrorists. Five Chechens suspected of terrorist ties have already been killed. That's Russian for "you bastards got off easy"...
The first reports about the demolition of the residential blocks in Grozny on Tuesday caused predictable outrage among apologists for terrorism human rights activists. The State Duma deputy for Chechnya Aslanbek Asklakhanov said he had prepared a letter to the top military command in Chechnya demanding an explanation. The explanation is that terrorists were hiding among the civilians in the buildings and shooting down helis full of troops. Since the civilians didn't turn the terrorists over to the authorities, the authorities tore the buildings down. That's pretty simple, isn't it?
It appears that by blowing up the dilapidated buildings near their Khankala base the military are attempting to avenge the loss of three helicopters gunned down by missiles fired by the rebels from the apartment blocks on the outskirts of Grozny. I gotta get a new sympathy meter. This one's definitely busted...
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Sympathy meters are a problem for me too. Every time I get a new one, it breaks. Can't seem to figure out why...
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My sympathy meter also has a calendar and clock on it.
Everytime I feel myself starting to go all gooey-eyed for these goobers, I get it out and look at it.
It reads 8:42 AM, 9/11/01. I've never been able to find time since then to purchase a new one. When my wife starts to nag, telling me I need a new one, I give her a dirty look, and tell her to bring me another beer.
Masked men in military fatigues blew up the family home of one of 50 Chechen rebels killed after they seized a Moscow theater and held hundreds of people hostage last month. The group of heavily-armed men arrived late on Thursday at the home of one of several young female guerrillas who took part in the theater siege. They evacuated two women and two children from the house before the blast. "Hi! We're from the government. We're here to blow your house!"
There was no acknowledgement from Russian army that it was involved in the demolition in the village of Achkoi-Martan, southwest of Grozny. They probably weren't...
But the incident recalled tactics employed by Israel, which has demolished homes of families of militants who have carried out suicide bombings against the Jewish state. "Whoever did this â Russian troops or rebels â this is first and foremost a crime against the unfortunate people who live there," said Aslanbek Aslakhanov, the deputy who represents Chechnya in the Russian parliament. Whoever did it is sending a message that Chechens might want to think twice next time somebody suggests taking a few hundred infidels hostage...
In a cautious statement, Kremlin human rights commissioner Oleg Mironov said: "The blasting of a house... leaves a problematic impression and clearly has a political message. Such a terrible response to a terrorist act tells us that people have lost patience and want a peaceful life." Well, that's what they'll have when all the terrorists are dead â and not before.
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Two members of illegal military formations, one of whom is internationally wanted, have been detained in the Dagestani village of Khadzhalmakhi. Yesterday, the republic's interior ministry received information from local citizens about the criminals' location, the regional operative headquarters for controlling the counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus reported. See how easy that was? Now nobody will tear their houses down, will they? But we're talking about Dagestan, which isn't Chechnya, where the problem originates...
One of the detainees was internationally wanted for committing a number of serious offences on the territory of Chechnya and the republic of Dagestan. The other detainee is an active member of bandit formations. The police confiscated guns, grenades, ammunition, a Kenwood radio station, and a list containing the call letters of a number of Dagestan's police stations from the criminals. Sounds like they were conducting a little "razvedka" preparatory to doing something nasty...
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The Pentagon is sending an estimated 1,000 more Americans to help track down al-Qaida around the Horn of Africa, where the yearlong war on terrorism has produced few visible results so far. And the troops could launch missions to catch terrorists in vast lawless areas of the region even if they don't have permission from the local governments, Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke suggested Friday. "There may be circumstances where we go into an ungoverned area in pursuit of al-Qaida, and I'll just leave it at that," she said in response a question at a Pentagon press conference. That sounds fair. The Bad Guys don't consult with the governments before they go in, do they?
The amphibious command ship USS Mount Whitney — to be used as a floating headquarters off the coast of Djibouti — will leave its Norfolk, Va., homeport Tuesday, officials said. Two days later it will depart with Marines from Camp Lejeune, N.C., who'll coordinate military operations in the African region, base spokesman Maj. Steve Cox said Friday. "This is ... focused on looking for al-Qaida, looking for terrorist cells and dealing with them expeditiously, and directly," Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Jones said Thursday. I imagine these guys are either going to be very busy or very bored — no in between. I also imagine they'll be spending as much time on operations in Arabia as they do in Africa...
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I have to say that I'm uncomfortable with Marines doing paramilitary work like this. We need the Marines in Iraq. Strikes me that we're using a hammer to swat at a mosquito. If we're going to have a semi-permanent need for ultra-light forces that can move quick and punch out lawless bad guys in the boonies, let's create a force to do that, train and equip them for it, and get going.
Mind you, I have nothing against the Marines -- I'd be happy to buy any of them a beer. I just want us to have the right tool for the job.
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On a fence-mending mission, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder telephoned President Bush on Friday in hopes of renewing "good working relations" with the White House after angering Bush during Germany's recent elections. "Schroeder? Schroeder? Mmmm... Can't say as I place him. Laura, do we know anybody named Schroeder?"
"I don't know if politics came up," White House spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters. "Mr. President, some guy named Schroeder, says he's calling to say hello..."
"Tell him I'm in the shower and that I'll get back to him."
Relations between the two countries have been tense since Schroeder's governing coalition won national elections in September by opposing U.S. policy on disarming Iraq. At the same time, a top German official compared Bush's tactics to those of Adolf Hitler. "I'm sorry, Mr... uh... Schroeder. Presdident Bush isn't in. If you'll leave a number where he can reach you, I'm sure he'll call you back..."
The 10-minute call was the first conversation the two have had since the voting in Germany. Schroeder placed the call shortly after the Security Council unanimously approved a U.S.-backed resolution to get tough on Saddam. "So... uh... How you been, George?"
"Chancelor Schroeder expressed his hope for good working relations with President Bush and the two leaders also discussed the war on terrorism and Turkey," McCormack said. "I mean, that war on terrorism thing, we really should work more closely together on that, shouldn't we?... George?... George? You still there?"
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He called to lecture Dubya. "Now, George, you must really learn to pay attention to us when we tell you how important it is to consult with us so that we can deny you permission for whatever you want to do."
Gerhard doesn't get it yet, and isn't going to. Somedays I agree with Orrin Judd -- we shoulda let the Sovs roll over the place in '47, and let the Euros figure out how to free themselves.
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The Bali bombers "hate Americans" and their real targets were U.S. citizens in the nightclub attacks that killed nearly 200 people on the resort island, a top investigator said Friday, citing the confession of a key suspect. Guess it's too bad all those westerners look alike, huh? But what the hell? An infidel's an infidel — one's as good as another, as long as they're dead, right?
The reported confession of an Indonesian man identified as Amrozi has prompted more arrests and linked the blasts to a fugitive, Riduan Isamudin, also known as Hambali, who has been tied to the Sept. 11 hijackers. And Hambali's tied to Bashir, who says he knows nothing about it, he's just a simple holy man...
The confession was the first major breakthrough in the case, and officials said Friday that Amrozi had admitted to taking part in a string of terror attacks in Indonesia. Referring to the Oct. 12 bombings in Bali, Maj. Gen. I Made Mangku Pastika said the goal was "to kill as many Americans" as possible. "They hate Americans. They tried to find where the Americans are gathering. That is in Bali. But they were not that happy because Australians were killed in big numbers," Pastika said. The vast majority of the dead were Australians. Well, shucks. We wouldn't want them to be unhappy, bless their bloodthirsty little Islamist hearts...
Police swept through Amrozi's home village in East Java province on Friday, arresting the principal of an Islamic school and the owner of a shop where bomb chemicals were allegedly bought. Blame for the attack is increasingly turning to Jemaah Islamiyah — the al-Qaida linked terror group said to be seeking a pan-Islamic state in Southeast Asia. You know, that group that Vice President Hamzah Haz says isn't active in Indonesia? No threat at all, really...
Pastika didn't say who Amrozi was working for, but said his younger brother, identified only as Mukhlas, was a member of Jemaah Islamiyah. The investigator said Amrozi, who was arrested Tuesday in his home village of Tenggulun, led authorities to a residence in Denpasar, Bali's capital, where a forensic unit found residue of the explosives used in the bombings. He started yakking pretty quick. Those large men with the moustachios and the truncheons can be pretty good, when they want to be...
Police said Amrozi owned the L300 Mitsubishi minivan laden with at least 110 pounds of explosives that blew up outside a packed nightclub on Bali. Pastika said Amrozi confessed after being confronted with evidence that included receipts from a chemical company for materials used in making the Bali bomb. That and the title to the remains of his car. He really must be very easily led devout. It doesn't sound like the Islamist head cheeses picked him for his brains...
Amrozi told police he bought a ton of ammonium chlorate, sulfur and aluminum, purchasing between 220 and 440 pounds at a time over six months to avoid raising suspicion. Only 220 pounds of explosives were used in the Bali bombings, Pastika said, and it is unclear where the rest is. Amrozi said plans for the bombing began in earnest in early September and that two or three men began building the bomb on Oct. 5, a few days after he purchased the van used to carry the explosives. Amrozi left Bali two days before the attack. "Huh huh! No one will ever know!"
Pastika said detectives believe six to 10 people were involved in the two nightclub bombings that turned one of Asia's most frequented tourist destinations into an inferno. "We have their names already," Pastika said. "We know their identities. What the police are doing now is searching throughout the country." Take your time, guys...
Police said Friday they raided three locations in Tenggulun, searching the home of Amrozi's father's first wife and two homes owned by a friend of Amrozi's. "We raided the three places because we thought he kept explosives and guns in those places," said a police detective, who refused to be named. "But when we went there, someone had taken all his belongings." Sounds like Mahmoud the Weasel's helping out on this case, doesn't it?
Police also said they detained the principal of Tenggulun's Al Islam school, where Amrozi was a frequent visitor. In addition, they detained the owner of a shop in Surabaya, East Java's capital, where Amrozi allegedly bought chemicals used in the Bali blasts, according to the state-run Antara news agency. "I would have never have believed that this school is a center of terrorist activity," Sadi Suheda, a teacher at the Al Islam school. "I'm shocked. Our lives have been completely disrupted." "Yasss... I'm shocked! Shocked!"
Police spokesman Brig. Gen. Edward Aritonang said Amrozi acknowledged he knows two Muslim clerics said to be leaders of Jemaah Islamiyah — the fugitive Isamudin and Abu Bakar Bashir, who is detained in a Jakarta hospital. Other intelligence officials in Bali, speaking on condition of anonymity, also said Amrozi admitted he met personally with the two clerics. Well, then, he's obviously a CIA agent, isn't he? Guess you can discount all of his testimony...
The officials said Amrozi has confessed to taking part in a bomb blast at the Jakarta Stock Exchange that killed 15 people in 2000. He also acknowledged involvement in the bombing of the Philippines ambassador's residence in Jakarta in 2000 and the bombing of the Philippines consulate in North Sulawesi province on Oct. 12, the officials said. "I mean, before I discovered explosives, my life had no meaning..."
Aritonang said Amrozi told investigators he visited several locations in Bali and several countries, including Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, before the bombings. When you're an Islamist, you get to travel free. There's always some nice Arabian to pick up the airfare, pay for a rental car and a hotel, even to provide some walking-around money...
On Friday, Zachary Abuza, a security analyst who has written extensively on al-Qaida, said Hambali convened a meeting earlier this year in Thailand after several Jemaah Islamiyah members were arrested in Singapore and Malaysia for planning attacks on Western interests there. "One Jemaah Islamiyah member I interviewed said that Hambali was very angry about the arrest of Jemaah Islamiyah members in Singapore and Malaysia," Abuza said. "Instead of going after symbolic hard targets like U.S. embassies, he authorized members to go after soft targets such as tourist spots." The patrons of tourist traps are so much less likely to be armed, aren't they?
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Almost two hundred people were killed in Bali, mostly Balinese and Australians. Number of Americans killed? Two.
If that sounds familiar, remember the embassy bombings in Africa?
Kenya: 12 American diplomats and ca. 200 Kenyan citizens killed. Injured included 10 Americans and something like _4,000_ Kenyans.
Tanzania: 11 Tanzanians killed. Injured were 85 locals and 2 Americans.
These terrorists aren't real shy about taking out everybody in a multi-block area just to get to a few children of the Great Satan.
A lot of people better pray we don't start thinking that way.
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Actually, the number of US victims has risen to 6 by some counts and 9 by others. The latest confirmed list of the dead is far from complete, but shows 6 names tied to the USA.
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All five of Mr Amrozi's brothers taught, or worshipped, at the Al Islam school in Tenggulun, 70km west of Surabaya. According to the village chief, Maskun, all five men fled 10 days ago. Hmmm... Certainly a coincidence, isn't it?
One brother, Gufron, was a close friend of Mr Bashir, Mr Maskun said, and had lived with him in Malaysia on and off for 11 years until 1998. "They only came back here full time after Suharto left," he said. Mr Amrozi and his brothers were the only local people to work or attend the school, Mr Maskun said, where military training for young boys in gun handling and hand-to-hand combat was allegedly carried out. Suggesting that the locals aren't nut cases. But wait! It gets better...
All five are being hunted by police, as is one of Mr Amrozi's three wives, whom General Pastika revealed came from the same Indonesian village as Fathur Roman Al-Ghozi. Personally, I'm not a big believer in coincidences. They might want to have a look at the friends and acquaintances of the Little Woman, too...
Police believe the fugitive terrorist leader Hambali, also known as Riduan Isamuddin and linked to JI, recruited Mr Al-Ghozi to carry out a planned bombing campaign in Singapore last Christmas. Mr Al-Ghozi was sentenced to 17 years in prison in Manila earlier this year for possession of illegal explosives. The Indons just hated that. They said he was framed...
National police chief Da'i Bachtiar said Mr Amrozi, who was walked through the bomb scene in Kuta yesterday, had admitted knowing Hambali and to dealing with a Malaysian-based associate of Hambali, Imam Samudra. Mr Amrozi has also provided the names of his co-conspirators, and police are hunting them throughout east Java. It'll be interesting to learn a little about Imam Samudra, too. It'll be interesting to hear the tales the Islamists' apologists come up with...
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According to the US State Department, a recent movement took place in Latin America which consisted of several armed resistance groups, including the Lebanese based group, Hizbollah. Although the State Department has claimed that they do not believe Hizbollah has any ties to the al-Qaeda network, they are still monitoring the situation, and believe the US could become subject to attacks by the group if the US wages a war against Iraq. The US also mentioned that it has been a long time since Hizbollah, to their knowledge, has attempted to hurt American interests. I think Hezbollah sees itself as a terror power in its own right, without having to rely on al-Qaeda...
It is believed that the group has attacked Israeli targets in Latin America, often in response to violence carried out by the Israeli army against Palestinians and Lebanese. I'm not real clear on this: in exactly which part of Latin America are Israel and Lebanon located?
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North America, South America, Gringo America, Latin America: we are all Dar-Harb, and targets.
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I think the reference is to Hizbollah's destruction of the Israeli embassy in (I think) Argentinia a few years ago, supposedly masterminded by the guy we tried to blow up in Lebanon years back.
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