The Israeli army believes that al-Qaida carried out three car bombings in Egypt last week that killed at least 34 people, Israel's military chief said Tuesday. Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon told parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that the army's intelligence latest assessment is ``the international jihad'' carried out the attacks in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, participants in the meeting said. The participants said Yaalon was referring to al-Qaida. The attacks occurred at sites popular with Israeli tourists, and at least 13 Israelis were among the dead. Egypt has not said who it believes was behind the attack. Its investigators have been questioning dozens of Bedouin tribesmen detained after the attacks.
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"Whoop! There goes another one now! Make that 100,001!"
Saudi authorities have intercepted at least 100,000 infiltrators from Iraq and Jordan during 2004, Saudi security sources said. The insurgents included a range of North African nationals. The security sources said the effort was meant to prevent insurgents from crossing the borders with Iraq and Yemen. They said Al Qaida has used both countries for the smuggling of weapons and insurgents into the kingdom. "Saudi Arabian border forces have turned back tens of thousands of infiltrators from Iraq this year," Saudi ambassador to Bahrain, Abdullah Bin Ibrahim Al Quwaiz, said.
Have you considered shooting a few of them?
Saudi Arabia has also been used as a way-station for Al Qaida to enter other Gulf Cooperation Council states, the sources said. They said Al Qaida and its aligned groups have entered Saudi Arabia from Iraq on their way to Kuwait. Al Quwaiz said most of the infiltration to and from Saudi Arabia was comprised of Saudi nationals. The ambassador said the infiltrators also included Chadians, Moroccans, Somalis and Yemenis.
No Samoans? No Lapplanders? No Veps? I wonder why?
On Sept. 28, Saudi authorities reported detaining a ship loaded with weapons off the coast of the southern kingdom at Jazan. Officials said the ship included 543 AK-47 Kalashnikov rifles and large quantities of ammunition and was heading from Yemen to Sudan. At the same time, the sources said Saudi forces were on heightened alert along the southern border with Yemen. They said Saudi security forces had been warned of an Al Qaida attempt to smuggle two vehicles loaded with weapons and explosives from Yemen. Yemen was said to be cooperating in the Saudi effort. The Saudi ambassador said Al Qaida has stayed clear of Saudi military and security targets because of improved protection. He said Saudi Arabia has expanded instruction and training in counter-terrorism to military and security forces. "Some universities and security and military colleges are now teaching specialized courses on how to combat terrorism," he said.
The course of instruction doesn't include shooting them, evidently.
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Even taking into account the customary exaggeration, that's a heckuva lot of people. If we add in the fact that the Saudi military and security forces are thoroughly penetrated by al Quaeda, it verges on the miraculous. What happened to all those people, I wonder...
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"Turned back" Huh? Please define.
TW, I'm with you. What happened to these folks? 100,000? Show me the docs. Sounds like the PR machine is on steroids.
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I personaly suspect that the 100,000 is a symbolic number. Remeber that pre-industrial iron age cultures do not place a great deal of value on precision/accuracy. These guys are just blowing smoke, trying to make themselves look good.
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Ok, Fred. I know what Samoans and Lapplanders are but, please, what is a Vep???
Yemen's public prosecutor demanded Sunday that five Yemenis convicted of the 2002 bombing of the French super tanker Limburg be sentenced to death, at the opening of an appeal hearing here. Omar Said Hassan Jarallah, Fawzi Yahya Hababi, Mohammad Said al-Amari, Fawzi al-Wajih and fugitive Yasser Ali Salem al-Madari, who were sentenced to 10 years in jail on August 28, should be sentenced to death for "taking part in an action which led to the death of a crew member," the prosecutor's representative said. He told the court that Madari, who was tried in absentia, had "set up an armed gang with the aim of perpetrating criminal and terrorist acts that are detrimental to the interests of the state."
Guess Madari was "Too Important To The Movement" to be captured with the cannon fodder. Who's guest house is he living in?
The court is also looking into the appeals of 10 other Yemenis sentenced at the same time for the Limburg bombing and other attacks. One was condemned to death for killing a policeman, while the others received sentences ranging from three to 10 years for forging documents and for attacks against foreign targets. Two were also sentenced to 10 years in jail for the Limburg bombing, but the prosecution did not demand capital punishment for them at Sunday's hearing.
Why not? Their victims got it, didn't they?
The convicts, aged between 23 and 27, had been accused of forming an armed group to undermine security in Yemen through attacks including the bombing of the Limburg as it prepared to enter Ash-Shir port off Yemen's southeastern coast in October 2002. One Bulgarian crew member was killed and 12 other crew were wounded when an explosives-laden boat rammed the tanker and blew up. The prosecution also demanded the death sentence for another convict, Fawaz Yahya al-Rabei, who is wanted by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and is believed to be the ringleader of the whole group. "There is evidence of his (Rabei's) participation in the murder of a Yemeni policeman," the prosecutor's representative said. The August 28 sentences were contested by both the defence, which said they were unjust, and the prosecution, which said they were too lenient.
"You got your chocolate in my peanut butter!"
"You got your peanut butter on my chocolate!"
The hearing, which was suspended for about 15 minutes on Sunday when the convicts protested at the prosecution's call for harsher punishment,
"Hey! Youse can't do dat! We protest!"
"Shuddup! Bailiff! Beat him senseless!"
From Jihad Unspun, a declaration by By Sheikh Omar Bakri Muhammad
After the dismantling of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Eastern camp, the USA has led the world unilaterally. After they declared the new world order, they moved forward very quickly in an attempt to control and destroy Islam as the only real enemy for her and then increased her animosity towards the Muslim Ummah, i.e. a 5th of Humanity. In fact the USA was very close to establishing her dominance .... many who were besotted with the Western culture - behind her mask under which she used to hide her hatred towards Islam and Muslims - suddenly we saw the magnificent operation of 9/11 .... The operation of 9/11 upset everything that the USA was enjoying and planning: her plots and conspiracies whose magic had affected many. 9/11 made her reassess many things around the world. The mask fell down and out came the joint crusaders — the Jews, Christians, Mushriks (idolaters), the atheists and secularists, all of whom declared a new war against Islam and Muslims under the leadership of USA, under the pretext of fighting terrorism and Wahabbisim - as a war against the Jihadis in order to seduce the remaining people. .....
This pushed USA to have a new ground of alliance with communist countries like China and to play a new role of threatening and persuasion with the Muslims in the East and in the West. They hoped to gain the hearts of the Muslims so that they would not sympathise with the Mujahideen and so that they would leave the global crusade to terrorise Muslims with new laws and to imprison and mass arrest them. So that they could seize their properties and wealth and pressurise them to distort Islam and its rules and to eliminate any opposition to the USA's policies. ...
After declaring Tawheed in Allah (SWT) and in his beautiful names and attributes exclusively and in response to the command of Allah (SWT) who calls for unity and standing together: in response to the call of salaf al-saalih and those who follow them — we have decided to dissolve the movement called Al-Muhajiroun, with fill Tawakkul in Allah (SWT). In light of the new reality after the blessed 9/11, the evil forces having united against the Ummah and Islam and fighting us all using the same bow — there is nothing left except that the sincere Muslims who fight with their lives, flesh and wealth unite for the sake of Allah (SWT). ....
I believe that the situation the Muslims face has alerted a lot of Islamic activists and Islamic leaders to think deeply and to work seriously to reach a formula that can unite their stance and war and take them out of the circle of disagreement which is not allowed Islamically. .... However, this requires a brave decision and the moulding together of all the Islamic movements and groups and the propagation of the Jihadi notion of the Ummah, for the sake of uniting the body/lines around the world.
Therefore, I represent myself first, and on behalf of all the members of Al-Muhajiroun I truthfully and sincerely declare for the sake of Allah (SWT)'s pleasure — the dissolving of the entity of Al-Muhajiroun, whether it's administration, culture or departments around the world. We are keen for the safety of the path to the way of the salaf and in support of the Mujahideen and Jihad, and for the sake of keeping the clarity of al wala wal bara free from any defection of partisanship and with a broad width for the true meaning of following the salaf and not to innovate in the time of the khalaf and in order for us to become a real and practical example for others to revive the meaning of names and structures. And Allah (SWT) guides to the straight path.....
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China's sudden transfer of more than 30,000 Chinese troops to border areas with North Korea is apparently intended to block a massive influx of North Korean defectors, a Japanese newspaper reported on Oct. 7. The North Korean army has also dispatched elite forces along the border in response to China's deployment, the Sankei Shimbun reported, citing sources informed on Chinese issues. The Japanese government has confirmed military movements along the Sino-North Korean border by using satellite photographs and is monitoring the situation using its intelligence network.
The deployment of Chinese troops was so sudden that there were not enough barracks available and soldiers are being quartered in farmhouses. The rapid deployment was ordered because of growing signs in North Korea of an impending mass defection, the newspaper reported. The troop movements followed widespread rumors that North Korean soldiers manning the border would flee the North en masse. Chinese troops were sent to the region ahead of the winter season when North Koreans can easily cross the frozen river into China, the newspaper reported. It quoted sources as saying that China is concerned about the possibility that armed North Korean troops might escape due to food shortage and assault homes and citizens in local cities bordering the North.
A diplomatic source in South Korea also said the military movements by China and North Korea seemed aimed at blocking mass defections of North Koreans. The Sanhe-Kaishantun-Nanping region in which the Chinese troops were deployed is near one of main routes through which North Korean escapees can make their way to China, according to the South Korean sources. North Koreans can cross the narrow river with relative ease, especially when it is frozen. The report also raised that possibility the deployment was in response to preparations against a possible civil war in North Korea over who would be the country's next leader. Meanwhile, the South Korea Defense Ministry said China would send about 400,000 troops to fight alongside North Korea should war break out on the Korean peninsula. China rescued North Korea in the 1950-53 Korean War, sending some 1 million troops to fight with North Korea against South Korea and the United States.
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Dibbs on the popcorn concession.
In all seriousness, I hope hundreds of thousands of NorK refugees somehow make it to freedom, in spite of the ChiComs and their looney-tunes "leader."
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The North Korean army has also dispatched elite forces along the border in response to Chinaâs deployment
"Elite" in this context means "not quite as hungry as the regular troops".
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Well, at least the US quit giving the Norks aid of any type (except 60,000 tons of wheat or something recently). The sooner the Norks fall, the quicker the people can be rescued from their horrible fate at the hands of the Nork leaders.
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The report also raised that possibility the deployment was in response to preparations against a possible civil war in North Korea over who would be the countryâs next leader. I didn't realize the leadership position was in play.
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I don't believe these "reasons" for a minute. I think that tensions are sky high between the two over the Nork development of nukes, and refusal to bow before China's demand to cut that crap out. As a model, I would look to the China-Vietnam spat in 1979. Except this time, the stakes are much higher.
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One would hope that this isn't 1979 come again. The Vietnamese kicked Chinese ass. I don't think we need a victorious, starving North Korea straddling the Yalu.
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China v North Korea take China's attention off Taiwan for a while.
This probably is just to deal with the refugee situation, though the bit about the "next leader/civil war" in NK is interesting.
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Remember that the Vietnamese in 1979 had a battle hardened, resolute corps of soldiers. What do the Norks have? A Maginot line facing south and 2 million starved pointed stick carriers. The Chinese have a huge surplus of pointed stick carriers and traditionally is willing to expend them at truly Asiatic rates to make a point. What could it easily deploy against the Norks? 4 million?
China is concerned about the possibility that armed North Korean troops might escape due to food shortage and assault homes and eat citizens in local cities bordering the North
..... preparations against a possible civil war in North Korea over who would be the countryâs next leader dinner.
Frozen Yalu river - oh, good - nutritious ice cube and sawdust sandwiches = mmm, mmm good......
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I don't think we need a victorious, starving North Korea straddling the Yalu.
Straddling a river is a good way to find out that the other guy has a hell of a lot more troops than you.
Seriously, unless they (God forbid) went nuclear, there's no way the NorKs could stand against the Chinese. How much fuel do they have? I'd bet they have a week or two -- a month on the outside -- for their army, but that's assuming they're willing to burn through it all and leave the DMZ immobilized.
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I didn't realize the leadership position was in play.
There have been rumors that a portion of the NK military leadership is unhappy with Kim-Jung-Il. Initial news reports shortly after the train explosion mentioned this.
The civil war is a remote, very remote possibility. 30K PLA troops sounds more like a border guard, and NK elite troops coming north might be to squelch defections.
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RC,the scary thought is if China starts overrunning N.Korea the S.Koreans get involved.
China most likely sent troops to border based on some credible urgent info.(The NBA has sent 2 teams for a couple of exhibition games this week,so I doubt China is doing anything preplanned.)The action does raise questions about the new top Chinese military leadership.Is the new guy panicking,or trying to show he's strong?Or is he letting his generals run things?
As KJI is supposed to be paranoid,if the Chinese put troops on his border,I would think he would want to put reliable troops opposite them.
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This report appears to be straight up - and good news for the good guys. This will be a long cold hungry winter for the axis of evil. I guess hell will freeze over.
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This is all the result of Kim's portrayal as a poofy haired idjit with a lisp and Harry Caray glasses in Team America - World Police. That portrayal isn't true. He's not really a marionette
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I think that tensions are sky high between the two over the Nork development of nukes, and refusal to bow before China's demand to cut that crap out.
I wouldn't bet a plug nickel on China wanting North Korea "to cut that crap out." Kim's nuclear posturing is exactly what the Chinese want, and always have wanted, as a drain on American resources in the region.
...the scary thought is if China starts overrunning N.Korea the S.Koreans get involved.
This is a lot closer to the truth. There is no way in frozen hell that China wants a reunited and more powerful Korea perched on their border. The politburo would sooner annex North Korea than allow the South to claim a single rice paddy from across the DMZ.
China only does what is good for China. Attributing even the least sort of magnanimous intentions to the communists is worse than stupid. North Korea has always been China's Rotweiller. Lately, feeding their rabid pet has become a slight strain so they are merely getting ready to clean its cage and replace the current occupant with another trained lap dog.
China only does what is good for China. Attributing even the least sort of magnanimous intentions to the communists is worse than stupid I'll buy that.
Big thing is that China does not want any Nork refugees coming over the border That seems to be what is driving their self-interest.
An Islamic militant suspected of devising a 1998 plot to crash an explosives-laden plane into a major Turkish landmark was extradited from Germany on Tuesday. Muhammed Metin Kaplan will face treason charges in Turkey for allegedly trying to destroy the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the secular Turkish state. Turkish authorities allege Kaplan plotted in October 1998 to smash an explosives-laden executive jet into Ataturk's mausoleum, which covers an entire hilltop in Ankara. The attack, officials say, was to happen when thousands of officers, students and foreign dignitaries were visiting the site for a ceremony marking the 75th anniversary of the founding of the secular republic. German officials say Kaplan chartered a jet for the attack, but the alleged plot was foiled when Turkish police arrested 23 suspected members of Kaplan's group the day before the ceremony. German authorities detained Kaplan, dubbed the ``Caliph of Cologne'' by his supporters, earlier Tuesday at an Internet cafe after a court approved his extradition. Germany has outlawed Kaplan's Caliphate State group, which calls for the overthrow of Turkey's secular government and its replacement with an Islamic state. Kaplan has denied the allegation. He has, however, declared a jihad or ``holy war'' against the secular Turkish republic. Officials say Kaplan has about 800 followers in Germany.
Kaplan has been free since May 2003 after serving a four-year German prison sentence for incitement in the killing of a rival cleric in Berlin in 1997. He has been required to report to Cologne police weekly. Kaplan foiled German police attempts to arrest him in May by disappearing for several days after another court ruled he could be extradited. The arrest warrant was called off when a federal court granted Kaplan an appeal, which is pending. The Cologne, Germany, court ruled Tuesday that Kaplan remains ``an identification figure for Islamic extremism'' and that his interest in staying in the country is ``outweighed by the public interest in an immediate deportation.'' Kaplan had asked the local court to reinstate his status as a political asylum seeker, but in Tuesday's decision it refused. The court also claimed that his appeal in federal court in Leipzig does not justify keeping Kaplan in the country. It rejected Kaplan's argument that he was too sick to travel. His extradition had been delayed by concerns that his followers have been subjected to torture in Turkey and that he could face political persecution.
Kaplan's extradition to Turkey was made possible after Turkey abolished the death penalty in 2002. Turkey has introduced measures to crack down on torture to meet European Union conditions for membership, but rights groups say torture still occurs. Turkey last year assured the German government that Kaplan would get a fair trial. No connection has been established between Kaplan's group and the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks in the United States. But German investigators have said that some members traveled to Afghanistan to meet with supporters of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden in 1996 or 1997.
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I imagine he will get differential treatment once he is in prison. He is a muslim cleric. He also will still be spewing his incitement and recruiting in prison. Yes death is preferable.
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Prison time won't do any good for people like this guy, who is driven by ideology and radical fanaticism. He thinks about killing others (infedels) 24 hours a day. There is no way around it but to kill him. If you don't, he will create a thousand more radicals.
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sounds like a cell with 24/7 lights on, cameras, and no privacy would unwind this POS nicely
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Can't have the cake and eat it..lol
This time the authorities acted fast enough to prevent another court from messing things up again.
He can still appeal.. hehe.
A Dutch local broadcaster said on Tuesday it had received a warning there was a bomb was on board a Chicago-bound plane that departed from Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport soon after 11am. RTL Holland said an email warned that the bomb had been placed on a United Airlines/Scandinavian Airlines plane and a United Airlines spokesman said the terror threat was being taken "absolutely seriously". But the spokesman could not give any information about response efforts. The military police at Schiphol could not comment either, news agency ANP reported.
A United spokeswoman could not immediately confirm whether the airline had decided to carry out an emergency landing, French news agency AFP reported. Flight SK 3909 flew above Ireland at 12.45pm. The email — suspected to have been sent from Germany — said in English: "Bomb to America". It then said in Dutch: "Flight SK3909 from Amsterdam to Chicago has a bomb for Iraq. America will see. Message for you".
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But the spokesman could not give any information about response efforts.
Thank goodness we are finally getting smart. I have to believe that these are "dry runs", testing the system - or that the terrorists are doint it so often that it's not taken seriously.
A Swiss engineer suspected of helping Libya obtain nuclear weapons technology has been arrested in Germany, prosecutors announced on Monday. The engineer is believed to have been part of a clandestine international network, which helped supply equipment for the Libyan government. Authorities allege that 39-year-old Urs Tinner oversaw machine work in Malaysia on gas centrifuge parts that were intercepted by Western intelligence last October on a ship bound for Libya, and trained Libyans in their use. Treason charges are being prepared against the suspect, who was arrested Thursday in Hesse state, German federal prosecutors said.
Police investigating a bomb attack at the Indonesian Embassy have arrested a man at an Internet cafe from where an e-mail was sent claiming responsibility, judicial officials said Monday. The man, who said he is from Cameroon, was detained Sunday and was still being held Monday. Investigators were checking his identity and background. The e-mail, sent to police in Paris and to some French media, claimed responsibility for the blast Friday that slightly injured a handful of people. Officials said the man appeared to be mentally troubled. He claimed that his former partner was among victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in the United States. The e-mail claimed responsibility in the name of the Armed French Islamic Front, a previously unknown group. Investigators said they were treating the e-mail with skepticism.
"I dunno, Jean-Pierre! I'm feelin' pretty skeptical about that email!"
"Me, too, Jean-Louis!"
Among other things, it demanded the release of Islamic militants convicted of bombings in Paris in 1995. The authors also said they would maintain a cease-fire until Jan. 30, after which "we will take new actions bloodier than ever in France." French authorities tightened security around embassies in Paris following the bombing, which loosened stones from a wall of the mission, broke windows in the neighborhood and damaged cars in the vicinity. The bomb was concocted with a canister of gas filled with gunpowder, police said.
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Sabotage caused power loss for 17,000 customers in Wisconsin.
Oak Creek - Stopping short of calling it a terrorist act, officials said Sunday that the weekend collapse of two electric transmission towers was caused by someone purposely removing bolts that held the towers in place... The bolts in question either held legs of the tower into a concrete base or connected parts of the tower to each other.. As the 80-foot towers collapsed, they brought down at least one nearby power line, which was still draped across the tracks Sunday. A southbound Canadian Pacific freight train stopped on the tracks about 75 yards north of the downed lines. It was still on the tracks Sunday... Bauer said the tracks were expected to be cleared and opened to rail traffic sometime Sunday night. FBI Special Agent Jeffrey Troy said his agency has issued a general warning to municipalities to watch for tampering with infrastructure and that FBI offices nationwide had been alerted.
Similar to earlier incidents:
In February, a 62-year-old Spokane, Wash., man was sentenced to 27 months in federal prison for removing bolts in legs of about 20 electrical transmission towers in California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho. The man, Michael Devlyn Poulin, said he tampered with the towers to show how vulnerable America is to terrorist attack. Troy said transmission towers had been targeted by other people in other regions as well... ...Details would be nice, but instead we get the sad story of all the train passengers making their way home...barefoot, through 18'deep snowdrifts, in the dark, with the hand of every man against them...you get the picture. I'm sure it wasn't fun for them being unexpectedly stranded, though.
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$.05 says its some trustafarian, overaged radical, or wanabee revolutionary who was just smart enough to do the deed without getting himself killed. He (and it is probably a male) is prolly wetting himself with excitement/fear right now. We'll see more incidents like this untill this ninny gets caught.
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Sounds like those Earth Liberation Front assholes at work again.
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N Guard - Or, let's hope maybe he'll touch the wrong thing next time and end up charred dust in the wind... {sizzle}
Save trial espenses of the bozo if all that's left is a belt buckle, some gold teeth, and a little pocket change melted into the concrete slab holding the tower.
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A major Philadelphia highway was shut down a day ago due to a metal box with "ELF" written on it, attached to an electrical tower. Stranded motorists for hours while the bomb squad blew it up.
Go ye there and check out the documents. In original Arabic with English translations.
When CNSNews.com published an article Monday, Oct. 4, entitled, "Exclusive: Saddam Possessed WMD, Had Extensive Terror Ties," we decided against publishing all 42 pages of the Iraqi intelligence documents in our possession and on which the article was based. We published only the first page, fearing that if more were made widely available on the Internet, they might end up being altered or otherwise manipulated. We offered credentialed news organizations and counter-terrorism experts the opportunity to view and receive copies of the documents so that they might check for themselves on the authenticity of the documents and judge their importance in the debate over whether Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and/or had ties to international terrorist organizations.
Several news organizations did just that. But in light of other assertions on Wednesday, widely reported by the mainstream media, that Saddam did not pose any significant threat prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, we felt it was time to publish as many of the Iraqi intelligence documents as possible. What follows are copies of 24 of the 42 pages that are in our possession. Pages 21 through 26 were not published because they contain a list of terrorists trained at a camp belonging to the Iraqi Intelligence Directorate. CNSNews.com hopes to glean more information about the individuals on this list and provide updates in the future on their activities and whereabouts. Pages 29 through 40 were excluded because they replicate, though in a different person's handwriting, earlier documents. Upon clicking on the individual pages of Arabic documents, readers will have an opportunity to click on the unedited English translation of those documents. We hope this serves to further illuminate a very important element of the ongoing debate. snip. Go to website to see links to individual pages.
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NEW YORK (AFP) - Human Rights Watch listed the names of 11 senior Al-Qaeda suspects it said were held by the CIA in secret locations overseas, where some had reportedly been tortured.
"Hambali who? KSM who? Nope. Nope. Never heard of those guys."
They never say who it is that is "reporting" this torture.
Tusk, tusk. Torturing al-Qaeda suspects. Terrible. Yep. Boy howdy, that's too bad.
The suspects were detained with no notification to their families, no Red Thingy Cross access and, in some cases, no acknowledgement that they are even being held, the New York-based watchdog said in a 46-page report. Can I get a big whaaaaa! Terrorists got caught and are held where people like you clowns can't get at them. To bad for you. Who are you to have say over their treatment anyway? You gave no assistance in their capture. You instead prefer to protest their arrest and detention even thought they have admitted they are complicit in the acts they are held for. Somtimes even before they were captured.
"'Disappearances' were a trademark abuse of Latin American military dictatorships in their 'dirty war' on alleged subversion," said Human Rights Watch special counsel Reed Brody. Oh forgot commie and leftists terrorists are your pals too, that makes you even more ignorant and clueless.
Obligatory reference to the "desaparecidos" so that you'll buy everything they're saying, ya know ya know.
"Now they have become a United States tactic in its conflict with Al-Qaeda," Brody said. A good tactic for the US as well you asshats
Detainees profiled in the report included Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, the alleged principal architect of the September 11, 2001 attacks and Abu Zubayda, reputedly a close aide of Osama bin Laden. Oh we should let you all carry messages back to Ben Laden frin him? I don't think so.
I wanted to insert the homing probe into his brain and let him go, but Emily wouldn't let me -- said I was being a wuss, as usual.
Steve, that's 'cuz the other cabdrivers will point and laugh.
Mohammed, among others, has reportedly been tortured in custody, according to the report. Again with the "reportedly" phrase. Who is reporting it besides these clowns? Other clowns? No source is named.
While barely recognizing the United States' right to gather anti-terror intelligence, Human Rights Watch argued that the secret incommunicado detention of suspects violated the "most basic principles" of a free society. They just don't get it and never will. This is not public information. They have no authority to requese anything. Thay are a distraction in the WoT
Guess they never heard the phrase about "the Constitution is not a suicide pact."
"Those guilty of serious crimes must be brought to justice before fair trials," said Brody. "If the United States embraces the torture and 'disappearance' of its opponents, it abandons its ideals and international obligations and becomes a lesser nation." These people were not picked up on the street by the LAPD or by your Local FBI agents here in the USA. Their is no inherent right to a trial for these terrorists. They may never get a trial. They don't deserve trials.
Calling on the United States to bring all detainees, wherever they are being held, under the protection of the law, the report demanded that the International Committee of the Red Thingy Cross be given unrestricted access to all those held pursuant to anti-terrorist operations. I am calling on sane people to examine your real motives and who you wre really trying to protect. Seems to me you sure care a lot about terrorists and there access to communicate with the outside world. Perhaps the spotlight should be on you, your membership and sources of funding.
Here's a quarter, HRW. Call somebody who cares.
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I can't proof read very well. Oh well, stuff happens.
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This has nothing to do with the WoT and everything to do with the election. Don't expect to hear about this after November 2.
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I would like to take credit for their disappearance. Please tell their families that they can be found chained to trees in my backyard wrapped in bacon, its bear season you know.
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Yeah -thats right - tell Al Qaeda who we have detained so they know where their network has been compromised and all the cells know who has been compromised.
This bunch of idiots will have blood on its hands.
Just liek the ACLU that sued and prevented the police from doing watches and searches on the Washington (state) ferries because it was "dsicriminatory" against Arab looking people.
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The suspects were detained with no notification to their families, no Red Thingy Cross access and, in some cases, no acknowledgement that they are even being held, the New York-based watchdog said in a 46-page report.
Huh. People who aren't protected by the Geneva Conventions aren't getting any of its benefits.
Whoda thunk it?
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I wanted to insert the homing probe into his brain and let him go, but Emily wouldn't let me -- said I was being a wuss, as usual.
Considering the "homing probe" is best known as a fence post, it would have stood out a bit.
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I would love to see an honest poll on this. Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Abu Zubayda can be hung from lamp posts in NYC without trial as far as I'm concerned.
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It's ashame that these fools have kept themselves so busy protecting the rights of mass-murdering terrorists. Otherwise they might been able to muster more than a few weak, "someone must do somethings" re: Sudan, North Korea, etc., etc. etc., where totalitarians and despots cause human suffering on a mass scale.
I can understand it though. To complain about Sudan or North Korea, you actually might need to do something, like put down your latte and go over there to interview people and record the atrocities...icK! How dirty! How depressing!
Much easier to feel important talking about the "bigger picture" of smaller issues at the those wine and cheese fundraisers. Don't want to spoil the event by talking about rape of children or mass starvation. Ruins the appetite.
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Let's see...11 Al-Q who can't be found, a couple hundred people from the WTC who can't be found. Somehow, I'm just not sensing a real problem on the part of HRW.
Oh, and if they're in NYC, take them kicking and screaming if necessary to Ground Zero, then make them stand up publicly with a bullhorn and make their statements.
If they live, let 'em go home.
Mike
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and this is a bad thing?
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hmmmm - wanna bet HRW receives money from THK's Tides Foundation? Calling Karl Rove! Ad buy!
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Disapperance'is a good tactic.Think about it.
Abu:Have you seen Mohomar?
Mohamad:Not for 2 or 3 days.
Abu:(with a tremolus voice)Wonder what happen to him?
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They will beat their gums incessantly over the lowest of scum, but if something like a Washington State Ferry is sunk and people drown due to terrorists, these vermin will slink back into the shadows like cockroaches.
Here is some intel on Human Rights Watch, including their 990.
Their game:
Initiatives: Academic Freedom, AIDS, Business and Human Rights, Emergencies, Film Festival, International Justice, Lesbian and Gay Rights, Prison Conditions, Refugees.
Leadership: Kenneth Roth, Executive Director
Bruce Rabb, Secretary
Jonathon Fanton, Chairman
Annual * Revenue: $20,366,031
Here is the link to the IRS form 990, in .pdf format. There are contributers with big 7 figures, but no names, dammit. So, Frank, we cannot answer your question about who gives the money. OldSpook, any ideas?
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good post. I'm guessing what they are really all about is that $20,366.03 and that they are now for sale to the highest bidder.
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HRW ethos:
Better to kill thousands of innocents than to detain one terrorist incommunicado.
Amnesty International is very concerned about an overly large order of panties, purchased from Victoria Secret, and paid for with a government credit card with a billing address of Langely, Virginia...
"If we can find where those panties were shipped to, we can find the al-Qaedas who disappeared!"
Human Rights Watch listed the names of 11 senior Al-Qaeda suspects it said were held by the CIA in secret locations overseas, where some had reportedly been tortured.
1. If it's so secret, how do they know?
2. Assuming everything they say is true (and that would take a big ASS), what's the problem exactly?
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Hi. It's agent Smith, here on a Herculess plane
flying at the hight of 30000 ft over North Atlantic.
Sorry about the noise---its the open door. Anyway, I can categorically state that we do not have any Al Qaida suspects in custody.
An Islamic judicial system has been introduced in Indonesia's restive province of Aceh as part of increased autonomy granted to the staunchly Muslim province by Jakarta. "The head of the Supreme Court is currently in Aceh to inaugurate the operation of the Sharia Court there," said Andi Syamsu Alam, deputy chairman of the Supreme Court for religious court affairs. Alam said Supreme Court chairman Bagir Manan inaugurated the system in the provincial capital Banda Aceh on Monday. Under the new system, 19 district/municipal religious courts and one appeal court based in the Acehnese capital will hear cases in addition to the existing network of secular courts. "Cases involving non-Muslims are still handled by the (secular) judicial court," Alam told AFP. The Sharia Court, he said, would not use the penal and civil code but will be based on qanuns, decrees governing formal and material laws on particular issues that are formulated by local government. Alam said that the Supreme Court remained the highest court of appeal in the Sharia court system. The government of Indonesia in 2001 accorded broad special autonomy for Aceh as part of efforts to curb dissent and separatism there. Aceh is currently under civilian emergency status and the military has launched an all-out offensive to crush separatist rebels there since May last year. Under the autonomy scheme, Aceh gets a larger share from its natural resources, can gradually implement sharia, and can have its own education and judicial system.
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PARIS — A top Iranian dissident living in Paris says up to 800 clerics and theology students from Iran are in the process of infiltrating cities in neighboring Iraq in time for the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, which begins Friday. Ayatollah Jalal Ganje'i, a prominent critic of the Iranian regime, said in an interview with The Washington Times that the influx is part of continuing efforts by Tehran's power brokers to exploit the crisis in Iraq in order to set up a sister fundamentalist Islamic republic.
The religious leaders, dispatched by the Islamic Propaganda Organization, plan to use the holy month to propagate militant Islamic views, he said, with the goal of strengthening Iraqi political groups whose philosophy and aims coincide with those of Iran's theocratic regime. The cleric said the religious leaders will take their message into Kut, Nasariyah, Amarra, Najaf, Basra and Baghdad, joining a massive network of other Iranian agents already in Iraq, many in armed underground cells.
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Didn't al Sadr just get sent home with his tail between his legs? Truly, insanity is repeating the same action in the belief of a different outcome. November 2nd is not far away, and if Bush loses he is even more free to do as he deems necessary, as he won't have to deal with the fallout past Jan.20th. As the ancient Greek wrote, "Those whom the gods would destroy, they first drive mad."
Beirut, Updated 11 Oct 04, 10:34 Warning Hizballah, cool it with the rockets into Northern Israel or we will 'Gaza' you next!
Israeli fighter-bombers staged massive mock assaults on south Lebanon Monday as the army moved troops and tanks onto the Fatima border checkpoint in a surprise move that panicked many residents of the volatile region, Beirut media accounts reported. Jets repeatedly sent thunderous booms sweeping through Marjayoun, Hasbaya and the Shabaa farms zone as they mounted low altitude supersonic runs at mid-morning, while ground troops were conducting the Fatima buildup, the reports said. No reason was given to the sudden flare of tension, which followed reports in the Beirut press that a rocket was fired from south Lebanon in the direction of Jewish settlements. It landed harmlessly somewhere in northern Israel, the reports said. An Nahar said Lebanese security forces which rushed to the suspected rocket-firing scene between the tiny border hamlets of Jibbine and Yarin discovered two other rockets at the western sector of the U.N.-carved Blue Line.
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From Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty
Police in Al-Najaf have reportedly arrested an Al-Qaeda operative in the Shi'ite holy city of Al-Najaf, Radio Free Iraq (RFI) reported on 12 October. Al-Najaf police Major General Ghanim al-Jaza'iri told RFI that the man was found in possession of a map detailing the border area between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, as well as modern German-manufactured communications equipment. The individual, who is not Iraqi, was also carrying forged Iraqi identification documents. He allegedly identified himself to police as an Arab national and has reportedly confessed to having direct connections to Al-Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri, RFI reported. Al-Sharqiyah television quoted Jaza'iri as saying: "I cannot disclose the identity and nationality of this person because that could lead to a diplomatic crisis with his country."
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"I cannot disclose the identity and nationality of this person because that could lead to a diplomatic crisis with his country."
Like Saudi Arabia as first choice ?
From Jihad Unspun, an article by Ahmed Mukhtar
.... US forces conducted numerous air strikes against what they described as targets associated with Al-Zarqawi's network in and around the city. Among them was Zouba, a housing compound in an agricultural area about 15 miles south of Falluja where the US military said as many as 90 foreign fighters were holding meetings. The military said the strike, which occurred on Thursday evening, killed about 60 foreign fighters. Witnesses and hospital officials disputed the account, saying that about 30 men were killed, many of them Iraqi. They said 15 children and 11 women also died in the attack. Neither versions of the strike could be independently verified.
Falluja residents refer to the militants as mujahidin, and they never associate them with either Al-Qaeda or Al- Zarqawi. Mohamed Gharib, 25 years and resident of Falluja believes that "the Americans made up the bogeyman to kill the religious people of Falluja." His view was shared by Muath Khalid, a 27-year-old history student. "Falluja people were defending their dignity and Islam", he said. "They don't need the assistance of Al-Zarqawi that is if he existed at all."
Five months after US Marines called off their attack on Falluja, citizens of the town live under the often capricious rule of different groups of mujahidin -- ranging from Islamists and ultra-Islamists to Baathists and outlaws. The Mujahidin Shura Council, an 18-member group of clerics, tribal leaders or sheikhs and former Baath Party members now effectively run the city. Divided ideologically, the various religious groups argue over issues ranging from the proper way to finance their respective movements to the treatment of foreign and Iraqi captives. Nonetheless, residents say the groups are united on the battlefield and would fight side by side if US or Iraqi government troops were to launch a new push into Falluja -- a move that some believe likely because of the recent round of air and artillery strikes and especially after the large assault against Samaraa, 60kms north of Baghdad, another Sunni rebel town.
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Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon told members of the Knesset's Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee Tuesday afternoon that the IDF has managed to foil an al-Qaeda attempt to enter the territories. According to Ya'alon, "We view world terrorism as a threat to Israelis, wherever they are, including in Israel. Al-Qadea tried to create a stronghold in the territories but we prevented it from doing so. Dealing with al-Qaeda requires international cooperation".
Deputy chief of military intelligence's research department told the MKs that the Sinai terror attacks had been perpetrated by local cells of the worldwide Jihad. "It takes two years to plan such an attack", he said. According to the officer, such terror cells operate in Europe, Africa and other places in an attempt to attack Arab and Muslim governments they perceive as infidels due to their dealings with Israel and the US. Regarding Operation Days of Penitence in the northern Gaza Strip, Ya'alon said that contrary to media reports, the army has not requested to end the operation. The only request we made, he said, was to change the deployment of the forces in the area.
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A large explosion has gone off near the convoy of a Palestinian security chief, Moussa Arafat, reports from Gaza City on Tuesday evening say. The blast happened as the security convoy was leaving a Palestinian security building. There was no immediate word on whether Moussa Arafat, a relative of the Palestinian leader, was injured. His appointment as overall commander of Gaza security several weeks ago was greeted by protests.
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wow....too bad *snicker*
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Guaranteed that someone, somewhere close by is saying, "Ah #%$&#@!!, missed again!"
Iraqi police arrested a suspected member of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terror group in Najaf, the Shi'a shrine city's police chief said. "We arrested a member of Al-Qaeda, who had false papers identifying him as 'Abu Hussein' and seized weapons, including a Global Positioning System," said General Ghaleb al-Jazairi. Jazairi said the man was a foreigner but refused to give his nationality. He also claimed Iraqi border guards clashed with al-Qaeda members on Iraq's frontier with Saudi Arabia. The gunmen had damaged a border guard vehicle before escaping, Jazairi said.
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Hey, who decides who gets the rack and who gets the pliers ?
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"He also claimed Iraqi border guards clashed with al-Qaeda members on Iraqâs frontier with Saudi Arabia."
This is interesting since Saudi Arabia just published a report claiming that they have had approximately over 100,000 infiltrators.
Hat tip: Murdoc Online ...The Stryker flipped over one and a half times and skidded about 30 feet. This bomb was so powerful that it knocked out lights in the rooms of soldiers at a base 2400 meters away. There were four soldiers in the Stryker, and none were hurt (aside from a ringing in the ears...). When the Stryker was flipped back upright, it was still able to move under its own power.
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It seems to me the Stryker vehicle, after all the controversy, has turned out to be very worthwhile. We should have more of them, and faster.
The Stryker appears to be filling the gap between Humvees and Bradleys--providing the survivability and armament of a track with the stealth and reduced maintenance of a Humvee. I hope so anyway--many hybrid vehicles seem to claim they provide the best of both parent classes, when they actually provide the worst.
That's the way I feel about those hybrid SUV/pickups--don't have the cargo capacity of a pickup and don't have the passenger capacity or comforts of an SUV.
I guess altogether that's actually 4¢!
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Dumb question Dar, but how do you make the cents symbol? I've been writing $.02 and your way seems better.
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There's also the AMPERSAND+keyword+SEMICOLON combination. Type "¢" in your comment to get "¢". The same thing with "trade" instead of "cent" gets you "â¢".
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That first "¢" should have read "¢".
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Argh--it looks right in preview but doesn't come across on the page the same way. It should appear as "&" + "cent" + ";" concatenated into one word.
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I hope the soliders got a chance to change shorts before they continued their patrol.
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Fantastic picture at the link. Is the grate around the vehicle standard equipment or an in theater customization? Hard to believe not flat tires!
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You haven't heard about the Birdcage? It was added for Iraq to catch RPG's before they strike the vehicle. Apparently it has been very effective.
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How many of these are we producing now? Do we have enough to provide some to the Iraqi forces before the election?
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Hey idiot, its based off the LAV III which is General Dynamics Land Systems (they MANUFACTURE the vehicles in Canada), get your talking points at least in order ya dang troll.
EFL
The Mesopotamian's site has good news on the Sadr militia disarmament (of course don't expect to see this on CNN or Al J)
...The first day seems promising and weapons are being surrendered seriously... There is little doubt that the majority of people everywhere, including trouble spots are longing for peace. I have not been in Sadr City lately, but it is said, that the entrance of I.P. and ING was met with "ululation" (remember the word?) from women and general satisfaction...
AN al-Qaeda-linked group posted a video on the internet today showing the beheading of a Shiite Iraqi man it accused of spying for US forces in Iraq. A statement posted on the group's website named the man as Ala al-Maliki and described him as "a rejectionist (a term used to refer to Shiite Muslims) who belonged to the Sadr movement" of radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. The video showed Mr Maliki being beheaded after he was shown confessing to spying for American forces in Iraq.
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Iraq on Monday released 130 Iranians arrested for crossing the border illegally, but another 270 remain behind bars, Iran's top diplomat in Baghdad told state television. Washington and some officials in Iraq's interim government have accused Iran of meddling in Iraq's affairs and allowing weapons and fighters to cross their long border. Iran denies this accusation. Iranian Charge d'Affaires Hassan Qomi described the detainees as pilgrims who had tried to visit holy Shi'ite Muslim sites in Iraq without the proper documentation. He said the 130 Iranians freed on Monday had all been held in the town of Kut. Another 71 were expected to be released in coming days. Before Monday's releases more than 400 Iranians were being held in various jails in Iraq, he added. "In the next month we hope to solve the issue of Iranian pilgrims travelling to Iraq," Qomi said.
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Yeah, next month Bush wins and they stop the "pilgrim" flow or he does.
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Egyptian investigators have only just begun peeling off the layers of an extremely complex and sensitive search for the hands behind the bomb blasts that hit three holiday resorts in Sinai last Thursday, October 7. The peninsula is popular with Israelis, a quarter of a million of whom frequent its beaches, hotels, campsites and mountain trails every year. Of the total of 31 or 32 victims, 12 were Israelis, the largest national group. Not all the bodies found have been identified. One of the targeted sites, Nuweiba on the Red Sea, was discovered Monday, October 11, not to have been struck by suicide bombers but by two booby-trapped cars detonated by remote control. This was confirmed by the two suspicious figures seen making off in the dark by a local guard and a baker who are now helping the Egyptian police put together identikits.
Of the total of 31 or 32 victims, 12 were Israelis...I'd *snicker* that less than half were joooos...but I feel bad for all of the victims, so I won't.
"Let that be a warning to you! You bomb a McDonald's, we take out the International House of Cous Cous!"
A U.S. warplane early Tuesday destroyed a popular restaurant which the U.S. command said was a meeting place for members of Iraq's most feared terrorist organization. The 12:01 a.m. blast demolished the Haj Hussein restaurant as well as nearby shops, residents said. There was no report of casualties and the restaurant was closed at the time, but two night guards were missing, residents said. Ambulances and fire trucks rushed to the scene. The U.S. military command in Baghdad made no mention of the restaurant but said the target was "a center" for the Tawhid and Jihad terror network, led by Jordanian-born extremist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. "Following the engagement, secondary explosions were reported, indicating the strong likelihood of weapons caches and explosive devices," the statement said. "Terrorists frequently planned operations from this location. Plans included targeting Iraqi governmental leadership, Iraqi security forces, coalition forces and innocent Iraqi citizens."
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Zarqawi is avoiding schools for his meetings, due to the 'kiddies' ratting his men out, during the 'candy give aways' by the Coalition! That leaves only mosques, private homes and restaurants for the skullduggery!
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Do terrorists have a favourite type of restaurant? Sorta like the Mafia prefer to eat Italian? This information would prevent us from unnecessarily shooting up too many kosher delis.
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Do terrorists have a favourite type of restaurant?
Mabe it was Alice's Restaurant! After all, you can get anything you want...
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Do terrorists have a favourite type of restaurant?
Mabe it was Alice's Restaurant! After all, you can get anything you want...
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Sorry about the double comment there.
Sorry about the double comment there.
Hey, there's an echo in here!
Hey, there's an echo in here!
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Why would a restaurant require night-guards? I thought the strict religious regime now observed in Fallujah should dissuade the populace from petty thieving? Mmmm... more secondary explosions, could've been a wedding nearby?
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Why would a restaurant require night-guards? I thought the strict religious regime now observed in Fallujah should dissuade the populace from petty thieving? Mmmm... more secondary explosions, could've been a wedding nearby?
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Now, now Howard .. . that was just the supply of extra hot sauce they stored for special occasions . . . like passing American convoys . . .
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WTF - we bomb a terrorist meeying place when it is empty and closed????
Where's the fun in that?
I can think of a much more productive approach toward bombing terrorist hang-outs - like when they're chock-a-block full of jihadis and their spawn.
In the immortal words of Bernard Goetz: "Hey, you don't look so bad - here, have another .........(blam)"
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"...secondary explosions were reported..."
It's the Haj Hussein version of a "baker's dozen".
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WTF - we bomb a terrorist meeying place when it is empty and closed???? Where's the fun in that? I can think of a much more productive approach toward bombing terrorist hang-outs - like when they're chock-a-block full of jihadis and their spawn
Unlikely the mooks meet during noontime lunch or happy hour. Two night guards were probably lookouts for the late-night-turban dinner party. Hope they died slowly
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I do not think that they died slowly, Frank. These guys were parted out by the JDAM or the secondaries into hors d'ovres for tomorrow's lunch.
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Mahmoud's Deli, where the lunchtime special... is DEATH!
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As he was "traveling" to meet his virgins, one terrorist, who was a customer at the restaurant complained:
"Blasted infidel dogs! I wanted to order the goat kabobs, not become goat kabobs! ... Oh, I here? Which one of you girls can do me a batch of goat kabobs with tzatziki sauce?"
Albania sent a fourth contingent of army peacekeepers to Iraq on Monday to replace troops who had served since April with the coalition force, the Defense Ministry said. A unit of 71 Albanian special army troops flew to Iraq to serve in a six-month mission under U.S.-led command. The Albanian forces are serving in a non-combat role, mainly patrolling the airport in the Iraqi city of Mosul. "After serving for six months in Iraq, you will feel that you have loaded on your shoulders part of the pain the Iraqi people are coping with to finally get rid of a dictatorial past," Defense Minister Pandeli Majko said at a sendoff ceremony at Mother Teresa international Airport. Albania, a predominantly Muslim country, was one of the most vocal backers of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Although it was unable to provide significant military support, it opened its airspace and offered U.S.-led forces the use of its bases. Albanian authorities are discussing boosting the troop numbers to 120.
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Tiny, dinky, dirt poor Albania is assisting in once aspect as a partner involved in the global war against jihad-errorism underway in Iraq, but France still refuses. Hats off to Albania!
"After serving for six months in Iraq, you will feel that you have loaded on your shoulders part of the pain the Iraqi people are coping with to finally get rid of a dictatorial past," ," Defense Minister Pandeli Majko said
The Mr. Majko grasps the situation in full. John Kerry would be advised to read this man's comments. Then again...
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Albania is still recovering from her own recent history, yet can be so generous to another wounded people. I hope they are being well rewarded. But they are too unimportant, and non-French, for France to learn from their example.
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Albania? Isn't that the little country north of Greece that looks out over the Adriatic Sea at the boot of Italy? (I just checked the atlas). And here they are, putting major powers to shame.
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This is pretty remarkable. Has anyone read P.J. O'Rourke's bit on Albania (it was in either Eat the Rich or Give War a Chance, I think)? That place was totally f*cked up for a long time. Seem to be getting their act together.
Gunmen riding in a taxi killed two supporters of an ethnic-based political party in Karachi on Monday, police said. The shooting occurred in Korangi, said Fayyaz Leghari, deputy city police chief. He said the victims, Mohammed Fahim, 35, a member of the council that administers Korangi, and his friend Saqib Hussain, 25, were both activists of the Muttahida Qami Movement. The victims were standing in a shop owned by Fahim when two or three gunmen drove up in a taxi and fired pistols at them without getting out of the car. Another friend of Fahim's was also injured the shooting. Leghari said police were investigating whether the shooting was politically motivated. MQM is part of the alliance that rules Sindh province. Supporters of MQM and its breakaway faction, Mohajir Qami Movement, are often accused of deadly attacks against each other in the city.
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Assailants fired rockets at a residential compound owned by a state-run oil company in southwestern Pakistan on Monday, and paramilitary troops retaliated, leaving at least five people injured, an official said.
"Huh huh! This is soooo kewl! Go ahead an' launch the rockets, Mahmoud!"
[Whoosh! Kaboom!]
[Bang! Bang! Bangety bang!]
"Ow! Hey! That hurt!... Ow!"
At least eight rockets were fired in the attack near an oil field operated by the Oil and Gas Development Corporation in Uch, a tribal region about 250 miles southeast of Quetta, said Mohammed Abbas, a local government administrator. Paramilitary soldiers guarding the residential area that houses workers from the oil field returned fire with mortars and assault rifles, Abbas said. He said that three rockets landed near an officers' mess in the compound and that the other rockets crashed into a nearby field.
Must be Hek's boyz.
Both oil company employees and attackers were among the injured, but the breakdown was not immediately clear.
"They got me, Mahmoud!"
"Me, too, Ahmed!"
"The exchange of fire is going on and we fear more injuries," Abbas said. No one claimed responsibility but attacks against security forces at oil and gas extracting facilities are common in the area. Authorities blame local tribesmen for launching the rockets to press the government to increase royalties for gas extracted in their territories.
So it's just the Bugtis again. Nothing to see here. Move along...
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Rockets: the lazy man's way of turning over the soil to prepare it for planting. So much easier than following the south end of a mule, y'know.
A powerful rebel leader told tens of thousands of supporters who gathered Monday for his first public appearance in more than 20 years that they must grasp political power for themselves if their government is failing them. The rally in this southern Indian village in Andhra Pradesh state came four days before the first direct talks between Akkiraju Haragopal'sPeople's War Group and the state government. The rebels have agreed to seek an end to a two-decade rebellion that has killed more than 6,000 people. "The state government should stop borrowing money from the World Bank and start distributing agriculture land among small peasants," Haragopal said. Haragopal, who looked frail and sick and coughed repeatedly during his half-hour speech, said People's War — which advocates armed struggle — was taking people's demands straight to the government and that he hoped the government would respond. "If the government fails to do so [hrarf! hack!], people should prepare themselves [wheeze!] to take political power [hack! hack! caff!] into their hands," he said. "We have come forward [wheeze!] to discuss people's issues [hrarf!] with the government. We are ready [hack!] to hold talks but if necessary we can also [wheeze!] fight."
"Well, maybe I can't, but youse guys can! [hack!]"
Haragopal and other commanders from People's War and another communist guerrilla outfit, Janashakti, were unarmed and wearing civilian clothing. They are scheduled to hold their first direct talks with the state government on Friday. The peace talks were made possible after the newly elected state government lifted an 8-year-old ban on People's War and declared a cease-fire in June. The rebels claim to draw inspiration from Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong.
That's because his programs worked so well...
They began fighting government forces in 1981, demanding a communist government and land redistribution. They are active in six Indian states, but Andhra Pradesh is their stronghold.
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People's War â which advocates armed struggle
lol - duh!
Al-Qaida-linked militants strapped explosives to the bodies of two kidnapped Chinese engineers and threatened to kill them unless they are given safe passage to their leader, officials said Monday.
"Sahib Big walks, or the Chinamen get it!"
The militants captured the Chinese, who were working on a dam project, in the lawless South Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border on Saturday. The militants believed to number four or five were holding the engineers in mountains a few miles from the remote village of Chagmalai, about 220 miles southwest of the capital, Islamabad. Security forces have surrounded the area. Negotiations between the kidnappers and a delegation including tribal elders and a local lawmaker failed to secure the captives' release Sunday, and elders were meeting in the nearby town of Tank on Monday to consider their next move. Interior Minister Aftab Khan Sherpao said earlier the kidnappers were demanding safe passage with the hostages to meet with their leader Abdullah Mehsud who is reportedly hiding in nearby hills. "We are dealing with terrorists who have mines and other detonating material tied to their bodies and as well as to those of the Chinese victims," said Sherpao. Noting Pakistan's strong ties with China, he said: "We don't want any harm caused to the Chinese engineers." Sherpao said Mehsud is a former U.S. prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and is disabled in one leg, an injury suffered during fighting in Afghanistan.
Tell the Chinese to send their thanks to Human Rights Watch...
Next time we keep both legs.
Beijing has appealed to Pakistan, a longtime ally, to work for the release of the two engineers, who are among between 70 and 80 Chinese working for a Chinese state construction company on the Gomal Zam dam in South Waziristan.
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More empirical evidence that the Gitmo Grads are not reformable and next time we take no prisoners, or extract the intel and dispose of these murderers in a manner similar to dealing with toxic waste.
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Piss off the Americans - check.
Piss off the Russians - check.
Piss off the Chinese - check.
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Technically, Mehsud DID reform - he had the good sense not to attack us this time.
Mike
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I guess that big steps start with small steps, Mike. Heh heh.
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"Ah, so. You wish to play with big boys? Very fine idea! We will send, immediately, a full million game-players from People's Liberation Army to play piddly games with your brains!"
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Yemen's public prosecutor demanded Sunday that five Yemenis convicted of the 2002 bombing of the French super tanker 
China's sudden transfer of more than 30,000 Chinese troops to border areas with North Korea is apparently intended to block a massive influx of North Korean defectors, a Japanese newspaper reported on Oct. 7. The North Korean army has also dispatched elite forces along the border in response to China's deployment, the Sankei Shimbun reported, citing sources informed on Chinese issues. The Japanese government has confirmed military movements along the Sino-North Korean border by using satellite photographs and is monitoring the situation using its intelligence network. 
A Swiss engineer suspected of helping Libya obtain nuclear weapons technology has been arrested in Germany, prosecutors announced on Monday. The engineer is believed to have been part of a clandestine international network, which helped supply equipment for the Libyan government. Authorities allege that 39-year-old Urs Tinner oversaw machine work in Malaysia on gas centrifuge parts that were intercepted by Western intelligence last October on a ship bound for Libya, and trained Libyans in their use. Treason charges are being prepared against the suspect, who was arrested Thursday in Hesse state, German federal prosecutors said.
Police investigating a bomb attack at the Indonesian Embassy have arrested a man at an Internet cafe from where an e-mail was sent claiming responsibility, judicial officials said Monday. The man, who said he is from Cameroon, was detained Sunday and was still being held Monday. Investigators were checking his identity and background. The e-mail, sent to police in Paris and to some French media, claimed responsibility for the blast Friday that slightly injured a handful of people. Officials said the man appeared to be mentally troubled. He claimed that his former partner was among victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks in the United States. The e-mail claimed responsibility in the name of the 
NEW YORK (AFP) - Human Rights Watch listed the names of 11 senior Al-Qaeda suspects it said were held by the CIA in secret locations overseas, where some had reportedly been tortured. 
Iraqi police arrested a suspected member of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda terror group in Najaf, the Shi'a shrine city's police chief said. "We arrested a member of Al-Qaeda, who had false papers identifying him as 'Abu Hussein' and seized weapons, including a Global Positioning System," said General Ghaleb al-Jazairi. Jazairi said the man was a foreigner but refused to give his nationality. He also claimed Iraqi border guards clashed with al-Qaeda members on Iraq's frontier with Saudi Arabia. The gunmen had damaged a border guard vehicle before escaping, Jazairi said.
Gunmen riding in a taxi killed two supporters of an ethnic-based political party in Karachi on Monday, police said. The shooting occurred in Korangi, said Fayyaz Leghari, deputy city police chief. He said the victims, Mohammed Fahim, 35, a member of the council that administers Korangi, and his friend Saqib Hussain, 25, were both activists of the Muttahida Qami Movement. The victims were standing in a shop owned by Fahim when two or three gunmen drove up in a taxi and fired pistols at them without getting out of the car. Another friend of Fahim's was also injured the shooting. Leghari said police were investigating whether the shooting was politically motivated. MQM is part of the alliance that rules Sindh province. Supporters of MQM and its breakaway faction, Mohajir Qami Movement, are often accused of deadly attacks against each other in the city.
