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Basaev Claims Beslan Attacks


17 September 2004 -- Radical Chechen field commander Shamil Basaev (animal) is reported to have claimed responsibility for the school hostage siege in the southern Russian town of Beslan that left at least 320 people dead, most of them children.

In the claim, posted on a website, Basaev also took responsibility for other recent terrorist attacks in Russia.

The claim said brigades of the group "Riyadus-Salikhin" carried out the Beslan attack and what it called other recent "successful military operations."

These include the near-simultaneous bombings of two planes and a suicide bombing outside the Moscow subway last month -- attacks that killed an additional 100 people."If the Russian leaders really want me to be in charge of such terrorist acts, they are out of luck and they can't make me do that." -- Aslan Maskhadov

Basaev purportedly expressed regret for the bloody outcome in Beslan, but laid the ultimate blame on President Vladimir Putin.

He said his men had been ready to release their hostages if authorities had met their demands -- an immediate end to the war in Chechnya and a withdrawal of Russian troops, or Putin's resignation.

The claim appeared a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin repeated his position against negotiating with Chechen separatists, and dismissed the Beslan attackers as part of a terrorist "internationale."

"Mr. [Osama] Bin Laden has already offered Europe twice a so-called truce in exchange for the withdrawal of troops from Iraq. Nobody even thinks of entering into negotiations with him. Why? Because the whole civilized world believes that the methods bin Laden and his organization use are such that they do not permit people of today's civilized world to discuss any issues with him whatsoever. So there do exist people with whom one cannot engage in negotiations," Putin said.

The statement also appeared a day after former Chechen President and separatist leader Aslan Maskhadov again denied being behind the hostage-taking. In an interview with RFE/RL, Maskhadov said: "If the Russian leaders really want me to be in charge of such terrorist acts, they are out of luck and they can't make me do that. This is not something I am able to do."

Today's claim of responsibility from Basaev could not be verified.

Earlier, a little-known group called the Islambouli Brigades had claimed the plane and Moscow subway attacks. That group also said it had carried out the attacks in the name of Chechen independence.

Basaev is held responsible for the 2002 "Nord-Ost" theater hostage-taking in Moscow. Some 170 people, including the 40 militants, died when Russian forces stormed the theater.

If Basaev's claim this time is authentic, it provides more details of who was behind the Beslan tragedy.

The statement says 33 rebels were in the group. This included Chechens, Ingush, Ossetians, and Russians, as well as two Arabs.

It also says the group has no connection to Al-Qaeda.

Irina Isakova is a Russia expert and former adviser to both the Russian and British parliaments.

She declined to comment directly on Basaev's claim, but said any evidence of foreign involvement in the attacks -- however small -- would boost Russian authorities' argument that the Beslan attackers are part of an international network.

"[The numbers are not essential] but [any Arab connection would be important] at least for those who are trying to curb the violence there. So I think that even if there is a slight connection [with Arabs or Al-Qaeda] that gives a very strong argument to those saying that it is part of the wider international picture," Isakova said.

Another detail in the statement is the relative low cost of the attacks -- it says the Beslan attack cost 8,000 euros ($9,769) and the airplane bombings cost $4,000.

Colonel Nick Pratt heads the Program on Terrorism and Security at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Germany.

He says international funding for terrorist groups in general has dried up in the last few years. "Money is drying up, but it doesn't cost a lot of money to run these operations. The cost of the operation that Basaev boasted about would be very inexpensive, you have to bribe some people to get through checkpoints, you need a couple of vehicles, they already had the weapons and explosives," Pratt said.

Other details of the siege are also emerging.

"The Guardian" today reported that Putin had been prepared to make a deal with the hostage-takers to save the lives of the children held hostage.

The paper quotes Aslanbek Aslakhanov, the president's adviser on Chechnya, as saying he arrived in the region on 3 September ready to negotiate. The deal would reportedly have involved the release of militants held in Ingushetia and an offer to swap up to 700 adults for the children held hostage.

But he said he was too late -- shooting and explosions had already broken out at the school.

Posted by: Mark Espinola || 09/17/2004 8:58:39 PM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Arab member of Basayev's rebel group detained
The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained an Arab mercenary when he attempted to cross the Russian state border in the North Caucasus, spokesman for the regional headquarters of the anti-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus Gen. Ilya Shabalkin told Interfax Friday morning. He said the detainee is a bomber from the group of Chechen field commander Shamil Basayev known as Abu Muskhab. Shabalkin said the detainee calls himself Kamal Burokhlim. "It has been established that he was born in 1958 in Algeria. He had a criminal record and illegally entered Chechnya in 2001," he added. Burokhlim says he was just looking for the men's room denies involvement in terrorist operations but "there is strong evidence of his involvement in a grave crime," the spokesman said. The mercenary has been on the FSB wanted list for several years, he said.
Posted by: TS(vice girl) || 09/17/2004 2:47:22 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Prob'ly works for one of those humanitarian aid groups that've done so much to relieve the suffering of the Chechen people.
Posted by: Fred || 09/17/2004 14:59 Comments || Top||

#2  pliars and blowtorch interrogation in progress
Posted by: Frank G || 09/17/2004 15:04 Comments || Top||

#3  Arab? There are no Arabs in, uh, wherever they picked, uh, up this Zionist plant. Yes! Zionist plant! He's really a CIA operative! You're all vicious and crude Zionists!

(Thought I'd be proactive and help out the trolls, since we know this post is coming.)
Posted by: nada || 09/17/2004 15:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Yeah I know there will be a troll saying that he was actually a Zionist and an Arab Jew or something. Just boil him in oil, till he is ripe & tender and sings like a canary
Posted by: Fawad || 09/17/2004 19:42 Comments || Top||


Basayev claims responsibility for Beslan
Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, in a statement issued on Friday, claimed responsibility for the Beslan school siege in which more than 320 hostages were killed, half of them children, the Reuters news agency reports.
Posted by: The Caucasus Nerd || 09/17/2004 2:01:18 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

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Posted by: Anonymous6516 TROLL || 09/17/2004 7:59 Comments || Top||

#3  how is it im knew that was coming sooner or later from boris? boris are you know itn was zionist who are start the civil war?
Posted by: muck4doo || 09/17/2004 8:14 Comments || Top||

#4  I love it. No matter what the Islamo-fascists do, it's always someone else's fault. I love it.
Posted by: nada || 09/17/2004 8:17 Comments || Top||

#5  hep! jews are come to steal my woman and kicker my balls and now ima never be able afford em dildo im been want for years!
Posted by: boris pribitch || 09/17/2004 8:25 Comments || Top||

#6  You are a genuine character Mucky :)
Posted by: JerseyMike || 09/17/2004 8:44 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: Anonymous6518 TROLL || 09/17/2004 8:59 Comments || Top||

#9  thank you. thatn make me feeel all warm cozy inside. kinda like you how you wife is feel after im show her oinment for em vaginal dryness. she is said she would show you it for you dryness but itn made by jews and she is know you arent like that. so itn more dry runs for you pal.
Posted by: cruel and vishous zionist || 09/17/2004 9:12 Comments || Top||

#10  all of you on this BBS are "characters" -- the crudest and most vicious Zionists I've ever encountered.

Whew! Stop it, you're killin' me! I think I've had my laugh for the day. Now I think I can get back to work.
Posted by: nada || 09/17/2004 9:14 Comments || Top||

#11  And, yet, UFOOL, you seem to have an amazing attraction to this site. I see even more potential "issues" here concerning this love-hate thing. I wonder if headquarters has a more indepth psychological profile on you? I'll have to ask.
Posted by: The Mossad || 09/17/2004 9:31 Comments || Top||

#12  Go Mucki! Nice shooting!
Posted by: Shipman || 09/17/2004 9:44 Comments || Top||

#13  I appreciate you showing her that Mucky, she was good for me too :-)
Posted by: Frank G || 09/17/2004 10:05 Comments || Top||

#14  Heads up, gang.
No link yet, but Fox news is reporting that a major Russian anti-terrorist operation outside the country is imminent.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 09/17/2004 10:13 Comments || Top||

#15  No link yet, but Fox news is reporting that a major Russian anti-terrorist operation outside the country is imminent.

Where are they hitting?

Iran? Syria? Saudi Arabia? France? Turkey?
Posted by: Robert Crawford || 09/17/2004 10:19 Comments || Top||

#16  Shamil "the shambler" Basayev - All I can say is God help the Chechen people because they are going to need it - this peg-leg guy has almost done more, personally, to bring them suffering than even Stalin! The Chechen "rebel" government in exile has also showed it's true colors in it's bizarre response to the Breslan slaughter. It's like a "good cop/bad cop" routine between the rebel govt. and Shamil. Deranged and deformed moral midgets all!
Posted by: Anonymous6520 || 09/17/2004 10:24 Comments || Top||

#17  If thats true Robert, methinks Grozny will be nothing more than a memory by this time next week.
Posted by: JerseyMike || 09/17/2004 10:26 Comments || Top||

#18  im find this link. is thisn maybe have to do with it?
Posted by: crude and vishous zionist || 09/17/2004 10:33 Comments || Top||

#19  Boris--

You're a subhuman troll, the most reality-denying one we've ever had on Rantburg. You don't have to post here if you don't like it, but even deletions of your posts don't seem to stop you. Love your bitching, though. It's extra-pathetic.
Posted by: Boring Serb Tick || 09/17/2004 10:40 Comments || Top||

#20  My first trollbait post! And it didn't even have shit to do with Jews, Israel, Zionism, Sharon, or whatever. (Takes a bow)
Posted by: The Caucasus Nerd || 09/17/2004 14:10 Comments || Top||

#21  Okay, you get four points for that -- one for each deleted troll comment. Mucki gets the "Mr. Congeniality" award. Boris gets what he deserves, as usual. [His compulsion to get deleted must be some domination fantasy. I've never seen Fred, but I don't want to picture him as a dominatrix.]
Posted by: Tom || 09/17/2004 19:32 Comments || Top||

#22  Seriously, Basayev has a death wish. If he survives, the Russians will be pulling him out of a spider hole in a few months.
Posted by: Tom || 09/17/2004 19:34 Comments || Top||

#23  Zionists planned Beslan and naive Moslem claims responsibility, what else is new?

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Posted by: Anonymous6516 || 09/17/2004 7:59 Comments || Top||

#24  Zionists planned Beslan and naive Moslem claims responsibility, what else is new?

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Posted by: Anonymous6516 || 09/17/2004 7:59 Comments || Top||

#25  JM, all of you on this BBS are "characters" -- the crudest and most vicious Zionists I've ever encountered. Now there's a compliment.

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Posted by: Anonymous6518 || 09/17/2004 8:59 Comments || Top||

#26  JM, all of you on this BBS are "characters" -- the crudest and most vicious Zionists I've ever encountered. Now there's a compliment.

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Posted by: Anonymous6518 || 09/17/2004 8:59 Comments || Top||


Basayev emerges to claim responsibility for Beslan, plane booms
Chechen warlord Shamil Basayev, in a statement issued on Friday, claimed responsibility for the Beslan school siege in which more than 320 hostages were killed, half of them children, according to a Chechen rebel Web site. In the statement, Basayev, Russia's most wanted man, said brigades of the group Riyadus-Salikhin which he heads carried out the Beslan attack as well as bomb attacks that downed two passenger planes and attacks in Moscow, the Web site www.kavkazcenter.com said. "The operation ... in the town of Beslan (was carried out by) the second battalion of martyrs under the command of Colonel Orstkhoyev," said the statement, signed by Basayev under his war name of Abdallah Shamil.

In the statement, Basayev blamed President Vladimir Putin for the tragedy which he said had been brought about by Russian special forces storming the school after two days on September 3 in an operation that had been planned from the beginning. He said the group, who held more than 1,100 people hostage inside the school, had been demanding the withdrawal of Russian forces from Chechnya and, in the absence of this, the resignation of Putin. Basayev said the group had told intermediaries who came to the school that the hostages would be given food and water and the youngest children released if the Russian side began to meet their demands. Putin has ordered a security clampdown throughout the Caucasus region in the aftermath of the Beslan tragedy, but has steadfastly refused to negotiate over Chechen independence with rebel leaders who he says are part of a "terrorist internationale."
Posted by: Dan Darling || 09/17/2004 2:08:58 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fred/mods, please nix my identical post that I submitted about ten minutes ago (it's still crawling through the "guest user" pipes). Thanks.
Posted by: The Caucasus Nerd || 09/17/2004 2:16 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm leaving it in because of the comments...
Posted by: Fred || 09/17/2004 12:03 Comments || Top||


Dagestan offers $50,000 for info on Chechen Killer Korps
Dagestan has offered a reward of $50,000 for information about a gang involved in murdering local policemen. "The matter involves a unit of guerillas who fought with federal forces in Chechnya. This unit entered Dagestan at the instruction of warlords Shamil Basayev and Rappani Khalilov. These rebels murder law enforcement officers," a spokesman for the Dagestani Interior Ministry told Interfax by phone on Thursday.
It's the season premiere of Dagestan's Most Wanted...
Posted by: Dan Darling || 09/17/2004 12:38:13 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's a busy day in Dagestan.
Posted by: The Caucasus Nerd || 09/17/2004 2:03 Comments || Top||


3 hard boyz jugged in Ingushetia
Three men who attacked a police post in Ingushetia have been detained, while one was killed, a source in the Ingush police told Interfax. "A car tried to pass by a police post on the outskirts of the village of Nesterovskaya towards Chechnya last Wednesday. The passengers opened fire at police officers. One of the attackers who had a Makarov pistol was killed, and the other three were detained," the source said.
Posted by: Dan Darling || 09/17/2004 12:34:05 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


3 dead in Chechen "work accident"
Three militants died in Chechnya's Shali district when a landmine they were planting exploded, a source in the temporary press center of the Russian Interior Ministry in the North Caucasus told Interfax on Thursday. The source said that the militants were local residents. They had reportedly planted homemade bombs before. "All three militants have been identified. Details of their earlier crimes are being researched," the source said.
"Do you recognize this ear?" "Yup, that's Al."
Posted by: Dan Darling || 09/17/2004 12:33:30 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Only 3? Schade.

Still, it's a start....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 09/17/2004 0:34 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Two charged with supporting terrs...
A Palestinian with links to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and an Egyptian were charged with providing financial support for terror groups and recruiting would-be terrorists, including alleged Al-Qaida plotter Jose Padilla. A 10-count federal grand jury indictment returned in Miami charges Adhan Amin Hassoun and Mohamed Hesham Youssef with providing material support and conspiracy to provide material support to terrorist organizations. Both men are already jailed -- Hassoun in Florida and Youssef in Egypt. According to the indictment, Hassoun wrote checks totaling $53,000 between 1994 and May 2002 to charities and individuals with ties to terrorism. From a base in Broward County, Fla., Hassoun also allegedly recruited people in the United States for Islamic jihad, or holy war, in Afghanistan, Somalia, Chechnya and Kosovo.
Posted by: Anonymous6134 || 09/17/2004 10:29:49 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Coast Guard to Target Ships from Countries with Uncertain Security
The U.S. Coast Guard has announced it will intensify scrutiny of ships registered in countries with substandard maritime security as well as vessels coming from ports in countries in which implementation of the new international security regime is uncertain. In a September 10 news release, the agency in the Department of Homeland Security said it will be increasingly boarding vessels flying the flags of countries that have not implemented basic antiterrorist security measures. Those countries include Antigua and Barbuda, Bolivia, Cayman Islands, Cook Islands, Cyprus, Honduras, Hong Kong, Malta, the Netherlands, Panama, Russia, Singapore and Thailand, according to the agency's targeting guidelines published on its website (http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g%2Dm/pscweb/FlagSecurity.htm).

The International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code requires ships and ports to implement basic security procedures such as identification checks and restricted access to secure areas. The Coast Guard also said it will be increasingly boarding vessels coming from ports in the 17 countries that have failed to report compliance with the ISPS to the International Maritime Organization or to it. These countries include Albania, Benin, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kiribati, Lebanon, Liberia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nauru, Nigeria, Serbia and Montenegro, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands and Suriname, according to a September 9 agency advisory. In another news release issued September 10, the agency recommended that U.S.-bound ships take security precautions before calling on ports in these countries to avoid extra Coast Guard scrutiny.
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/17/2004 2:41:41 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bummer. I guess I misread target to imply lock weaponry onto ship and remove the problem.

I maintain that we should bring back the concept of prize courts and let our Coast Guard captains in on the lottery (can anyone imagine what a supertanker loaded with oil would fetch at Christies?
Posted by: Brutus || 09/17/2004 23:57 Comments || Top||


More on the Florida recruiter duo
Two men were indicted in Florida Thursday for allegedly providing financial support and recruitment for al-Qaida and other terror groups, including helping "dirty bomb" suspect Jose Padilla attend terrorist training camps in Afghanstan, according to court records and law enforcement officials. Adham Amin Hassoun and Mohamed Hesham Youssef were each charged with two counts of providing material support to terrorists as part of a grand jury indictment handed up in U.S. District Court in Miami. Hassoun, a Palestinian who has been in U.S. custody since June 2002, also faces eight previously filed charges, including unlawful possession of a firearm and perjury. Youssef is serving a sentence in Egypt on other terrorism charges.

Attorney General John Ashcroft said in a news conference in Washington that while "enjoying all the freedoms that our society has to offer," Hassoun was "secretly plotting to support murder and terror by violent jihadists overseas." The indictment alleges that Hassoun and Youssef helped recruit volunteers and provide money to terrorist groups fighting in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Kosovo and Somalia.

Among the allegations highlighted by Ashcroft was a telephone conversation between Hassoun and Youssef in September 2000 in which they discussed aiding a U.S. citizen attempting to reach a terrorist training camp. Several U.S. law enforcement officials, who declined to be identified because of grand jury secrecy rules, said that citizen was Padilla, who is currently being held by the U.S. military as an enemy combatant.
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Posted by: Dan Darling || 09/17/2004 1:11:59 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


2 al-Qaeda recruiters busted in Florida
Two men were charged Thursday with providing financial support to terrorists and recruiting members for terror groups around the globe. A 10-count grand jury indictment handed up in Miami charges Adgan Amin Hassoun and Mohamed Hesham Youssef with providing material support to terrorists and conspiracy to provide support. Hassoun has been in custody on other charges in Florida since June 2003 and Youssef is jailed in Egypt. The indictment contends that Hassoun helped recruit individuals from the United States for groups engaging in Islamic "jihad," or holy war, in several countries.
I think they meant that these men were funneling money to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organization; that's Sami al-Arian's popsicle stand.
Although he is not named in the indictment, two federal law enforcement officials speaking on condition of anonymity identified one such individual as Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen and alleged al Qaeda member accused of plotting attacks in the United States. Padilla is being held in the United States as an enemy combatant.
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Posted by: Dan Darling || 09/17/2004 12:25:31 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

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#5  I think one behind the ear while in a holding cell would make this indictment stick rather well.
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Posted by: Anonymous6512 TROLL || 09/17/2004 2:08 Comments || Top||

#8  Asshole 6512: you're pathetic.

And boring.

Get a new schtick. Or go play in traffic.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 09/17/2004 2:58 Comments || Top||

#9  I vote for the traffic. Just let me get my car keys quick.
Posted by: Charles || 09/17/2004 9:09 Comments || Top||

#10  Let's have the real names of those Zionists, please!

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Posted by: Anonymous6508 || 09/17/2004 0:38 Comments || Top||

#11  Let's have the real names of those Zionists, please!

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Posted by: Anonymous6508 || 09/17/2004 0:38 Comments || Top||

#12  Keep deleting until this Zionist BBS gets deleted from the web.

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Posted by: Anonymous6510 || 09/17/2004 0:48 Comments || Top||

#13  Keep deleting until this Zionist BBS gets deleted from the web.

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Posted by: Anonymous6510 || 09/17/2004 0:48 Comments || Top||

#14  Well, that's two more Zionists rounded up.

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Posted by: Anonymous6512 || 09/17/2004 2:08 Comments || Top||

#15  Well, that's two more Zionists rounded up.

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Posted by: Anonymous6512 || 09/17/2004 2:08 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraqi (imported) 'militants' held after raid
US and Iraqi forces have arrested 63 suspected militants during a major security operation in central Baghdad. Amid gun battles, they sealed off the Haifa Street area in response to mortar attacks on nearby Iraqi ministries and the US and British embassies. Iraqi police say those held include Syrians, Lebanese and Egyptians. During the operation, a car packed with explosives rammed a police convoy in the Rashid Street district, killing three policemen and injuring 37 people.

Earlier, American troops foiled another attack when they shot at a car containing at least one suicide bomber, who drove at their checkpoint near the River Tigris. There was also violence in the restive city of Falluja, west of Baghdad, where at least three people were killed in a new US air strike on Friday. The US military described it as "another successful precision strike" on "foreign terrorists" led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The US had previously said it killed up to 60 militants in air attacks aimed at Mr Zarqawi and his followers in and around Falluja. The health ministry said 44 people had been killed. The US military announced on Friday that another of its soldiers had been killed during "security and stability operations" in the Falluja area.

Witnesses near Rashid Street said an attacker drove up to a convoy of six police vehicles before blowing up his car at about 1230 local time (0830 GMT). A large crater was gouged in the road and US troops and Iraqi police tried to clear the area, as ambulances rushed to treat the wounded. "The suicide bomber (Iranian?) was driving a Chevrolet Malibu. He smashed his car against the police vehicle," interior ministry spokesman Adnan Abdul Rahman was quoted as saying by the AFP news agency. Correspondents say the Rashid Street area of Baghdad is usually teeming with shoppers, but is traditionally less crowded on a Friday, the first day of the weekend in Iraq. The earlier car-bomb blast came as suspected suicide attackers drove towards a security checkpoint near the Tigris river that flows through the heart of Baghdad. Reports say the car blew up when it was fired on. In the southern city of Basra, one British soldier was injured during clashes with fighters loyal to militant Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr.
(Terrorism located near the Iranian border most likely was exported from Iran to create further chaos for the oil based Iraqi economy, which of course makes terrorist promoting Iran lots of oil $$$$$$$, since Iraqi oil exports are viewed as ’unstable’ and Iran’s crude continues flowing to overseas customers..
British troops later raided Mr Sadr’s office in the city. "During their search of the building, a large quantity of weapons and explosives were found," said a British military spokesman.
Posted by: Mark Espinola || 09/17/2004 8:09:28 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Southeast Asia
Suspected Muslim insurgents kill judge in Pattani
Gunmen riding a motorcycle fatally shot a judge Friday when his car stopped at a traffic light, the most senior government figure to be killed in a Muslim separatist movement in southern Thailand, officials said. Rapin Ruangkaew, a Buddhist, was shot five times in the head and the body as he was driving to work in Pattani town, the capital of Pattani province, its police chief, Maj. Gen. Paitoon Pattanasophon. said. The three gunmen escaped on one motorcycle, he said. "We suspect that Muslim insurgents have a hand in this.'' Rapin could have been targeted because he had recently ruled on several cases against insurgents arrested for bombings and other attacks. On Thursday, gunmen on a motorcycle shot and seriously injured a senior police officer in the neighboring Narathiwat province.
Posted by: TS(vice girl) || 09/17/2004 2:12:01 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Suspected Muslim insurgents TERRORISTS kill judge in Pattani
Posted by: BigEd || 09/17/2004 14:43 Comments || Top||

#2  I am sick and tired of the word insurgents. A terrorist is a terrorist is a terrorist.

Insurgent is what happens when you eat spicy food, and your stomach rumbles, or when you hear the word insurgent.

TERRORIST, TERRORIST, TERRORIST, ....
Posted by: BigEd || 09/17/2004 14:46 Comments || Top||


MILF to discuss Filippino government
The biggest Muslim rebel group in the Philippines said on Thursday it will start talks next month with the government to set out how it will help the military root out Jemaah Islamiah (JI) militants and gangs in its territory. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) and the Philippine government are due to resume a separate set of negotiations in early October to try to end a 35-year conflict on the southern island of Mindanao that has killed at least 120,000 people.

Malaysia, which is brokering the peace talks, has sent eight soldiers and one police officer to pave the way for a 60 monitors from Muslim nations who will oversee a year-long truce in resource-rich but restive Mindanao. As part of the peace process, the MILF has agreed to help the military by tracking and arresting members of kidnap gangs and JI, a regional militant group linked to the al Qaeda network. Mohaqher Iqbal, the chief MILF negotiator, told Reuters the cooperation talks would focus on guidelines for a joint group that was set up in May 2002 but has yet to take action against criminals or an estimated 40 JI members in Mindanao. "Technically, our hands are tied without these guidelines," said Eid Kabalu, a spokesman for the MILF. "We can't move against kidnappers and terrorists because we might be accused of making illegal arrests."

The rebels said the talks might begin on Oct. 10, the same day the full team of 60 monitors is tentatively due to arrive to observe a fragile ceasefire in five areas of Mindanao. Apart from Malaysia, only Brunei has committed troops to the lightly armed team. Bahrain, Indonesia, Libya and Saudi Arabia are expected to join. Iqbal said members of the government and rebel ceasefire panels were due to visit a guerrilla base in the mountains of Lanao del Sur province to investigate the reported presence of JI militants in the area. Philippine security officials say JI operatives used Mindanao as a training base and sanctuary, taking advantage of personal ties with some MILF field commanders.
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6 Indonesians detained on terrorist links
Indonesian police have detained six people linked to terrorism since last week's bombing outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta that killed nine and wounded 182, they said today. National Police spokesman Paiman said six people had been picked up in East Java. They included a married couple and a man in the provincial capital of Surabaya whose detention was announced overnight. Acting on suspicions that Azahari Husin, a key bombmaker wanted in the embassy attack, might be in hiding along with militants who would be sworn in as suicide bombers, police said they had raided the couple's house on Wednesday night.

However, Paiman said none of those detained had been directly tied to the September 9 car bombing of the Australian embassy. "I checked with the East Java police officials and there are six (detained). They are related to a terror case," Paiman said. "But they are not linked to the bombing at the embassy," he added, without elaborating.

Some media, quoting sources in the police, said one man had been arrested in Jakarta in relation to the embassy blast but Paiman dismissed those reports. "As for the bombing, so far we have not made any arrest." Suyitno Landung, head of the police criminal investigation department, also dismissed the news reports, telling Reuters: "No one is being arrested."
Posted by: Dan Darling || 09/17/2004 12:21:37 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa: Horn
Somalia in crisis as militias clash
At least 15 people have been killed and dozens wounded in clashes in volatile southern Somalia, deepening a political crisis in a country trying to form a new government.
Just when things were going so well, too...
Rival militias have for weeks been preparing to fight for Somalia's main southern trading centre, Kismayo port.
"Ismail! They're muttering! They're casting sidelong glances!"
The latest fighting broke out this week at Bulo Haji, about 100 kms south of the port and in the nearby Hosingo districts of lower Jubba region of south Somalia. The clashes flared after militia from the Juba Valley Alliance (JVA), which controls Kismayo and surrounding areas, attacked the bases of a rival militia leader - Captain General Morgan, his spokesman told local media.
"Yar! The scum attacked us, they did!"
Hundreds of militiamen and several vehicles mounted with twelve-pounders machineguns deployed by warlord Muhammad Said Hersi, known as General Morgan, have based themselves at Bulo Haji. The unnamed spokesman said General Morgan's militia lost more than six fighters while nine others were wounded, and that his group had killed a large number of the JVA militia, and arrested 14 of them, including the leader of the attack.
"Yar! We keelhauled a large number of 'em and tossed 14 of 'em in the brig!"
The spokesman added that his forces sank torched two armed battle wagons and seized another one at Bulo Haji town.
"She's struck, by Gar! Tell off a prize crew, Mr. Muslim!"
"Aye aye, Cap'n! I mean, Gen'ral!"
Media reports said General Morgan had been wounded during a battle at Abdalla Birole village, some 45km outside of Kismayo town, but there was no confirmation of the claim.
"Arrr! I war wearin' me red shirt, in case I got wounded! An' me brown pants, in case things went south!"
Nine people, about half of them JVA fighters and the rest civilians, were killed in this clash, the independent Kismayo FM radio reported.
Posted by: Fred || 09/17/2004 7:53:55 PM || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Let the Africans resolve this problem; US...stay out! It was hard buying the first "Black Hawk Down" and watching it.
Posted by: smn || 09/17/2004 21:15 Comments || Top||

#2  LOL! Been awhile since we've had good pirate speak.
Posted by: Shipman || 09/18/2004 10:59 Comments || Top||


Iraq-Jordan
U.S. Launches Third Strike Against Fallujah
The U.S. this evening zapped launched a third ``precision'' strike on suspected terrorists in Fallujah in a 24-hour period, and at least 53 people died in violence across Iraq today, the U.S. military and the Iraqi Health Ministry said. Forty-four people were killed today in an earlier U.S. strike near Fallujah, west of the capital, and at least 27 were hurt, Health Ministry spokesman Saad al-Amily said in a telephone interview from Baghdad. He said 17 children and 2 women were among the wounded, adding that it isn't known who was included in the dead.
"Puppies, kittens, baby ducks, fluffy bunnies... It was awful!"
This evening's strike killed three people and injured three others in Fallujah, Agence France-Presse reported. The U.S. said it had ``no indication any innocent civilians were in the immediate vicinity of the meeting location,'' which was held near a mosque and school.
... but was in neither.
Before this evening's strike at about 9:30 p.m., the U.S. received ``multiple sources of intelligence (that) indicated the presence of approximately 10 Zarqawi terrorists at a meeting point in central Fallujah,'' the U.S. military said in an e- mailed statement, referring to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who the U.S. says has ties to the al-Qaeda terrorist network. The earlier air strike was carried out in south-central Fallujah at about 2:45 a.m. local time, the military said in an e- mailed statement. ``Multi-National Forces-Iraq conducted a precision strike and destroyed a terrorist compound known to be used by the Abu Musab al-Zarqawi terrorists,'' the military said. That strike followed one late yesterday on a ``terrorist meeting site'' used by al-Zarqawi in the town of Qaryat ar Rufush, according to a separate military statement. About 60 insurgents died in yesterday's strike, the military said.
Posted by: Fred || 09/17/2004 6:36:25 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It's not our fault these Jihadi insist on bringing along the wife and kids. Its' justs TFB if they get wacked. I really do feel sorry for them but their Hubby is to blame not The Iraqi government or the "Multi-National Forces."

Put down your weapons and you will live. Keep attacking and you will die. That isn't hard to understand. But the logic of satanic death cults is hard to understand even for it's members. That should be the first warning to them.
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 09/17/2004 19:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Hhmmm...Let's do some math, 30,000 JDAMs in arsenal, 40 deaths avg per precision strike...answer: 1,200,000 ticks toward democracy!
Posted by: smn || 09/17/2004 21:03 Comments || Top||

#3  It sounds like we're (finally) getting some good intel on these rats, and they're getting ratted out one hidey-hole at a time. I like the trend.
Posted by: Xbalanke || 09/17/2004 21:04 Comments || Top||

#4  JDAM? Enough is enough. Cordon off the city and allow people out after taking a dna sample
and searching them for weapons or anything else suspicious. We'll then bring in the South Korean investigators and show them yet another "natural" cloud for their record books.
Posted by: Brutus || 09/18/2004 0:01 Comments || Top||


Abducted Italian women may be in Fallujah
Two young Italian women kidnapped in Iraq last week have been taken by their captors to the flashpoint city of Fallujah, according to an Italian newspaper that quoted non-Italian intelligence services. The Corriere della Sera said aid workers Simona Pari and Simona Torretta, who were taken at gunpoint from their Baghdad offices along with two Iraqi colleagues on September 7, "may have been taken to the Sunni Muslim stronghold of Fallujah, which is inaccessible to coalition forces." "The report, passed on by the intelligence service of a foreign country, is apparently backed up by information picked up in recent days by Italian diplomats," it added Friday. Corriere della Sera also said an Iraqi Kurdish leader, Jalal Talabani, had reported that the two Italian women might be in Fallujah. The report emerged as US forces again mounted deadly air raids against the city.
Using hostages as human shields. Words fail me.
Posted by: Seafarious || 09/17/2004 2:16:30 PM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This indicates how desparate it is getting for terrorist/insurgents.Bush needs to let Marines and Iraqi forces continue with the operation and get grunts on the streets.The election will take care of itself.
Posted by: crazyhorse || 09/17/2004 15:09 Comments || Top||

#2  We hope and pray that the hostages will be safe and recovered. Fallujah needs to be sealed off. Women and children can exit. However, we cannot let the terrorists use hostages as a bargaining chip. We will not win this WoT if we let hotbeds like Fallujah stand. It's a power thing. And the terrorists respect power.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 09/17/2004 16:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Using foreigners as human shields is traditional with a certain segment of Iraqi society, after all. Of course, it didn't work then... (Insanity being defined as repeating an action, and expecting a different result.)
Posted by: trailing wife || 09/17/2004 17:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Using cities as bargaining chips used to be one of our tactics. Perhaps we need to bring it back.

"I'll trade you six months of Techran's continued existance for all of our Hostages? No? I'll throw in Ryadh, too."
Posted by: Brutus || 09/17/2004 23:59 Comments || Top||


1/7 Marines ready to roll thanks to 3/7
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/17/2004 02:33 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Soldiers Provide Added Security for Pilgrims
EFL- evidently there was a Shia pilgrimage this year. Must have been only internal pilgrims and the Shia must have been tuckered out from the Tater-fest as there was no violence - at least at Camp Justice.
The beating of drums and the lyrics of Muslim prayers could be heard well within the confines of 1st Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment's patrol base, Camp Justice. The footsteps of tens of thousands of Shiite Muslim pilgrims could be heard as they marched to the Kadhamiyah Holy Shrine just outside the secluded military post on Sept. 11... The Multinational troops came prepared to the largest Shia pilgrimage to Kadhamiyah of the year, but were pleasantly surprised that there was no violence during the march. "The Iraqi people got what they wanted from us; we helped keep the peace." Ryu said. "We minimized our presence in the event to put the Iraqi face on this, and for the most part, I think we succeeded."
Posted by: Super Hose || 09/17/2004 2:38:47 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Quagmire! Opps.

It was a quagmire before it wasn't a quagmire!
Posted by: JohnKerry || 09/17/2004 12:43 Comments || Top||

#2  "the Kadhamiyah Holy Shrine"

I'm checking my scorecard and the article doesn't say...Where does Kadhamiyah rank in terms of holiness to Islam? 56th? 57th?
Posted by: JDB || 09/17/2004 15:55 Comments || Top||

#3  I sure would like to know how many "pilgrims" stayed behind to do Khamenei's work....
Posted by: Bomb-a-rama || 09/17/2004 16:25 Comments || Top||


Africa: North
The US battles al-Qaeda in North Africa
It's a sweltering morning in Chad's scrub-brush desert. A herd of goats grazes on tufts of green. Round huts bake in the strengthening sun. Suddenly the goats scatter as gunfire fills the air. Chadian soldiers behind a row of machine guns unload on their target: a giant berm standing in for Al Qaeda. Villagers turn as a batallion of Chadian Army troops swoops in from the right. The thap-thap of their AK-47s joins the chorus as shots pound the dirt mound. And 23 US Marines look on.

For six weeks they've been teaching 168 Chadian soldiers counterterrorism basics - surprise attacks, border patrolling, intelligence gathering, and more. This is the final exam. "Lookin' good," says Maj. Paul Baker, the mission commander.

The training here in remote Chad is just one sign of how the US military is engaging Africa in the global terror war as never before. There are, for instance, joint US naval exercises with Nigeria this month. There are reported antiterror patrols along the Kenya-Somalia border. And there's the new expansion of the Chad program from a four-nation, $7 million project to a nine-country plan with an expected budget of up to $125 million. It aims to prevent terrorists from roaming in and around the Sahara desert.
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Posted by: Dan Darling || 09/17/2004 1:00:05 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ..
Posted by: Anonymous6524 || 09/17/2004 13:25 Comments || Top||

#2  That's hard to argue with....
Posted by: tu3031 || 09/17/2004 13:27 Comments || Top||

#3  I disagree
Posted by: Frank G || 09/17/2004 13:45 Comments || Top||

#4  :-)
Posted by: Frank G || 09/17/2004 13:46 Comments || Top||

#5  I am glad to see that the US sees the threat and puts resources on the ground to help the area residents protect themselves. The more that they can do themselves, the more they will grow socially and politically, and the stronger they will be in resisting this terrorist cancer.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 09/17/2004 13:50 Comments || Top||

#6  "We’re "looking at Africa as a place of growth for the Marine Corps and the Department of Defense . . ."

That's a good thing, considering the Islamics want to make Africa an "Islamic Continent."

"But in the Chadian sunshine, soldier Abakar Ibrahim clearly shows how US training has instilled pride and antiterror resolve. We’re sharpshooters now," he says, keeping his finger off the trigger of his AK-47, just as the marines taught him to do. "Terrorists are the enemy for all the world. We can help America fight them."

US troops instilling pride and antiterror resolve . . . what's the world coming to.
Posted by: ex-lib || 09/17/2004 18:21 Comments || Top||

#7  With greater American activity, there’s a danger [Muslim groups will] "become more extreme," warns Anneli Botha, a senior terrorism researcher at the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria, South Africa.

It's so much better when they do quiet things, like forging S. African passports...
Posted by: Pappy || 09/17/2004 18:47 Comments || Top||


Africa: Horn
Sudan sez southern rebels stirring up trouble in Darfur
The Sudanese government on Thursday accused the head of a rebel group in southern Sudan, John Garang, of being involved in the conflict in the western region of Darfur. "He is not distant from what's happening in Darfur: directly or indirectly, he is there," said Deputy Foreign Minister Fidail el Tijani on Radio France International, referring to Garang.

Long-running talks to end a 21-year war in southern Sudan, sparked when Garang's Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) rose up against the government in Khartoum, are at an advanced stage but have been bogged down over security issues. The talks adjourned in July and are due to resume next month to try to iron out differences between Khartoum and the southern rebels over the military aspect of a power-sharing pact. El Tijani, who was in Paris for talks on the conflict in Darfur, in which some 50,000 people have died in 19-months of war, said Khartoum was putting off signing a definitive peace pact with the southern rebels because "we feel there should not be peace if, at the same time, they are backing a rebellion somewhere else."
Posted by: Dan Darling || 09/17/2004 12:49:02 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq-Jordan
60 hard boyz toes up in Fallujah
U.S. warplanes bombed rebel targets near the restive Iraqi city of Falluja on Thursday, killing about 60 foreign fighters, the U.S. military said on Friday. Doctors at a Falluja hospital said 16 civilians were killed in an air strike, including women and children. Reuters television images showed bloodied bodies on hospital beds. A statement from the U.S. military said the assault was part of a "precision strike" on an compound used by militants loyal to Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a man Washington says is allied to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. It said approximately 90 foreign fighters were at the compound near the town of Qaryat ar Rufush at the time of the attack, which took place at 9:45 p.m. on Thursday. Three buildings were destroyed and the foreign fighters who escaped the strike fled into Qaryat ar Rufush, it said.
Posted by: Dan Darling || 09/17/2004 12:20:26 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Non precision strikes would be good too. Crack FAC logic applies:

On one occasion he pleaded with a crew to drop on a village. "Just go ahead and drop a bomb," he said.

"We can't do that, dude," a pilot nicknamed Bait replied, meaning they couldn't just wipe out an entire village.

"There haven't been any good guys in that village for years," the Crack FAC argued.
Posted by: Classical_Liberal || 09/17/2004 3:02 Comments || Top||

#2  It was just the regular Thursday meeting of the Raccoon Lodge. Yeah, that's what it was.

The continuing precision strikes argue that we have some decent intel, whether our own "sneaky snakes" or Iraqis.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins || 09/17/2004 9:38 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan/South Asia
Al-Qaeda linked Afghan arrested in Pakistan
Pakistan security agencies have arrested an Afghan refugee for his alleged links with al-Qaeda.
Well, maybe. I have my doubts...see my remarks below.
According to the Online News, Faizullah, the refugee was sitting in his "Deonband Cassette House" in scrap market near Qissa Khwani Bazar, when the security sleuths encircled the market and arrested him before shifting him to undisclosed location for further investigation. Faizullah reportedly had a business of selling audiocassettes [of] religious lectures, recitations, and religious poems to the faithful.
No ordnance; he was successfully surrounded and captured. Not you usual al-Qaeda M.O. I wonder if he was actually shut down by Fazl and Qazi for downloading and selling 'copyrighted' sermons and not paying the proper fees to the local clerics...
Posted by: Dan Darling || 09/17/2004 12:17:55 AM || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You are right about no ordinance, but you gotta know that these people are actually cowards. If there is a lot of them and a few of you they will fight. If not then 50/50. Specially since he was afghan, they look fierce but are real pussies as long as you scare them enough.
There might have been a deception going on too by letting him believe that he has paid off the police and some one else comes and grabs him.
Posted by: Fawad || 09/17/2004 13:26 Comments || Top||



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