Hey, Mahmoud... Your link didn't work. But then, we know Arabs and Moose limbs aren't real good with technology. How're all those weapons you bought from somebody else working?
C'mon Fred, anything more advanced than a scimitar is going to be problematic. Reminds me of the pictures Steven Den Beste showed some time back on his weblog: the first pic showed a Paleo in the middle of the street with AK on his hip, blasting away and looking cool for the Paleo-femmes. Second pic showed him with a hole in his forehead being dragged to the curb by his pals. I think that pretty well sums up the skill levels with Western technology.
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Hey 'tard ! You're losing the battle against the English language !
Better stick with French.
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Hey Frenchie, how are you doing in the "Arabic as a First Language" class?
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Lol love to see some idiot make a tit outa himself like this French (maybe disgruntled english lefty though trying to speak in 'street' style). Whoeever he is he sure made a jerk outhimself. Perhaps he should go to Iraq, join up in Zarqs band of kiddie killers, watch the skys though - those JDAM's don't do your health much good.
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To quote Z-Man:
"Hark! What bullshit through yonder window spews?"
As many as 19 people believed to be North Korean asylum seekers tried to dash into a South Korean consulate building in Beijing on Monday, but only three succeeded, a diplomat and a news report said. Some of the rest were taken away by Chinese guards while others fled the scene, an Asian diplomat in Beijing and South Korea's Yonhap News Agency said. It wasn't clear how many were caught by police. Yonhap said 18 North Koreans were involved, while the diplomat who asked not to be identified put the number at 19. The people scuffled with the guards as they tried to climb a fence outside the consulate, Yonhap said. Once inside the compound, they unfurled a flag of South Korea and demanded that they be allowed to travel there, Yonhap said.
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These guys seem to be slipping out fairly regularly and they seem to be able to survive the border to beijing journey. Semi-organized?
A prominent member of the Basque terrorist group ETA was arrested Monday, Guardia Civil sources said. Harri Totorika, 25, who is thought to be in charge of logistics for the terrorist group, was detained in Bilbao in the early hours of the morning during a raid. Totorika is linked to the former military head of the group, Ibon Fernandez de Iradi, whose alias is Susper, who was arrested in Mont de Marsan in France on 4 December 2003. Guardia Civil sources said Totorika was arrested at his home just after 2am. Anti-terrorist police have seized various boxes and bags which were being examined Monday. The Guardia Civil also raided the house of Totorika's parents in Bilbao and another house in Abadina, a small town nearby. The latest arrest follows the detention earlier this month of two of ETA's leaders Mikel Albisu, alias Antza, and his partner, Soledad Iparragirre, alias Anboto in France along with 18 others. Antza was considered the political leader of the group and Anboto was responsible for extorting cash to fund the group. Their arrest was hailed by Spanish and French authorities as the most significant blow against ETA for 12 years. A huge arms cache was also seized at various arms dumps in the south-west of France in the same operation.
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looks like they're rolling up this cell pretty well...
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Guy is 25. Tells me that they have another generation cooked up. With Zappy in power Spain is weak domestically and internationally. I give ETA about 6 months before they let off a big boom in downtown Madrid near Zappy to remind him who is still alive and kicking.
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Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is actively directing terrorist cells in the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia, a top US terrorism analyst told a local daily. Yossef Bodansky, director of the Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare of the US Congress, told the Glas Srpske daily that terrorists responsible for the bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad last year were trained near the central Bosnian town of Zenica. "There is a terrorist network in Bosnia, composed of several well-trained and connected groups, which are directly or indirectly responsible to ... Osama Bin Laden," he was quoted as saying in the Serbian-language paper.
He said the cells were using Bosnia as a training ground and a gateway to send terrorists to western Europe or to hide them on their way to the east if they were on the run. "The network in Bosnia ... is training and controlling terrorists who later travel to Western European countries," Bodansky said in comments translated from Serbian. "On the other hand, terrorists for whom arrest warrants have been issued in the west are coming back to Bosnia where 'liaison officers' welcome them and provide accommodation and hiding places, and they are later transferred to the east."
He said the Zenica region had provided a training ground for terrorists who conducted a series of suicide attacks in Baghdad in August last year, including the UN bombing which killed 22 people. "Literally, they were trained in Zenica's milieu, and from there they were sent out through Italy to Iraq to fight American forces," he said. Bodansky, who met Bosnian officials last week, complained that the international community and local authorities were aware of terrorists' activities but had failed to do enough to stop them. "Representatives of the international community in Bosnia and (local) authorities are aware of this but they do not work enough to fight international terrorism," he said.
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Aha! Ming The Merciless! I knowed it all along...
A Swiss-held prisoner who stands accused of links to terrorist activities has appealed against his extradition to Spain. The move comes one day after Switzerland opened its own investigation into Mohamed Achraf, who is suspected of masterminding an alleged plot to blow up the National Court in Madrid. Officials confirmed on Sunday that Achraf was being detained by the Swiss Federal Prosecutor's Office. But they declined to say whether he had been moved from a detention centre for illegal immigrants at Zurich airport. Achraf told the Swiss authorities on Friday that he would fight any attempt to extradite him to Spain. The Spanish government said a formal extradition request had been issued, but a spokesman for the Swiss justice ministry said the suspect had the right to lodge an appeal and that the legal wrangling coud drag on for "several months".
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Members of a cell of Islamic radicals accused of plotting to blow up Spain's national court were planning to build the bombs in a rented flat, legal sources said Friday. The Islamic extremists tried to rent the flat in Almeria, in southern Spain and attack the Audiencia Nacional, the country's highest criminal court which hears terrorist cases.
Meanwhile, a suspected Islamic extremist detained in Switzerland on suspicion of plotting the same bomb attack has opposed his extradition to Spain, Swiss authorities said Friday. The Swiss federal justice department said that the suspect's refusal during a hearing in Zurich followed the arrest warrant filed by Spanish authorities. Madrid must now make a formal extradition request within 40 days. After the Swiss justice department rules on the Spanish move, the suspect will have the opportunity to appeal against the extradition to Switzerland's supreme court. Spanish authorities have named the man as Mohamed Achraf, a 30-year-old Algerian national believed to be a member of the Islamic Armed Group (GIA).
In Madrid, Judge Baltasar Garzón, Spain's top anti-terrorist judge, was expected to hear evidence from ten Islamic suspects at court Friday. But the judge has delayed the hearing until later Friday while he examines police evidence about the alleged bomb plot. Garzon has to read ten volumes of evidence and examine various items seized by police in raids earlier this week.
The judge has ordered that the suspects should be isolated in various prisons. Among those who were due to give evidence are Kamara Birahima, a Mauritian national. A second suspect is Baldomero Lara, a Spaniard of gypsy origin, who is alleged to be the head of the group of Islamic radicals who were planning the attack on the court. Another suspect due to appear before the judge is Algerian Said Afis, who claims to be an iman and was detained before in 2002. He has ordered other Islamic prisoners to pray 24 hours a day. Other suspects include Addila Mimon and Karim Faiz, who have allegedly organised other Islamic radical prisoners. The remaining suspects are Eddebdoui Taoufik, Hoari Jera and three other suspects who were convicted by the Audiencia Nacional in 2001 for membership of the Algerian Isamic Armed Group, (GIA). They were named as Abdelkrim Bensamail , Mohamed Amine Akli and Bachir Belhakem.
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The article fails to mention some facts revealed in some mainstream Spanish media. Like the very close contacts between ETA and Islamists, or the fact that several people involved in the bombing were confidents (is it that the proper word?) of the police and that their controlling officers were close to the socialist party, some of them having been involved in the "dirty war" (assassinations of ETA people) under previopus socialist PM Felipe Gonzalez.
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Note also the boomers are not going after Zappy they are going after the courts. Garzon is using the judicial system to lead a one man Spanish war on teror.
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When will the Spanish people wake up and recognize that the Moslems want to return Al Andalus to Islamofascist occupation?
Six people were injured Sunday when a bomb exploded at the entrance to a McDonald's fast food restaurant in the northeastern Turkish city of Trabzon, the Anatolia news agency reported, but police suggested it was not a terrorist act. "We do not think that this action is linked to a (terrorist) organisation," Ramazan Akyurek, chief of security in the city, the largest in the region, said according to the agency.
"We do not think that this action is linked to a (terrorist) organisation..."
"We think the guy asked for cheese. He didn't get cheese. What else could he do?"
"What is more, so far no person and no organisation has said it was responsible," he said. He said the bomb had been "put together in an amateur way" adding, "there is a strong suspicion pointing towards an individual act."
"I mean, they didn't even give him napkins!"
"We have a description and we are working on it," he said earlier at the scene of the blast. Witnesses questioned by the agency spoke of a young man running away from the restaurant, part of the international McDonald's chain. "There was a huge noise as the windows... were smashed," said Zeki Akosy, who was nearby at the time. "At that moment I saw a man aged about 30 running away... People were shouting 'catch him'."
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Hmmmm it's in Turkey. Did he look French? You know how those French guys hate Mc Donalds.
Iranian border forces have arrested 150 Pakistanis for entering Iran illegally. The majority of the arrested people were from Gujrat, Gujranwala, Jhelum and Lahore, according to sources. Iranian officials handed them over to the levies force for investigation.
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The Taliban did not attack polling sites in Afghanistan's US-backed presidential elections to avoid killing ordinary Muslims, Taliban spokesman Abdul Latif Hakimi said.
"In order to avoid bloodshed of innocent Muslims we did not target the polling stations," he told Tuesday by satellite phone from an undisclosed location. "We had operations, but not in places where the nations were gathering," he said. "There were large swathes where they could not hold elections. In Zabul province excluding the capital, they could not hold elections in any of the districts," Hakimi said.
Electoral officials in southern Kandahar said that in Zabul's Deh Chopan district voter turnout was low because of Taliban threats but polling sites across the province remained open. Eight policemen and three civilians were killed in landmine attacks in Kandahar on election day and the days before and after but there were no major attacks on polling sites. Officials said the Taliban's failure to violently disrupt the election could demoralise the militia and impact its efforts to attract new followers.
Hakimi however denied the Taliban had been weakened. "In all mountainous areas it is still the rule of the Islamic Imarat. The Taliban are organized and are getting more organized every day. There is no split in Taliban as they claim," he said. "We will continue our jihad and elections are not going to stop us."
Meanwhile, rumors are surfacing that US and Afghan officials including Wali Karzai the brother of Hamid Karzai are holding talks in Uruzgan province with Mullah Abdul Razzak, a high-ranking Taliban official, in an effort to bring "moderate" Taliban into the the Karzai government if it forms. According to Radio Tehran, two rounds of talks have been held however there is no independent verification of this claim.
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The Taliban did not attack polling sites in Afghanistan’s US-backed presidential elections to avoid killing ordinary Muslims
Hahahahahahahahaha!
Like those clowns give a rat's ass in hell for the lives of "ordinary" Muslims.
They think all Muslims (except themselves, of course) should be martyrs, even if only accidently.
I call bullshit on this one.
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Me too, I call BS!
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Israel decided Monday to allow Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat to leave his Muqata headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah so he can get a medical checkup. This would be the first time in two years that Arafat will be leaving the compound. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz made the decision in response to a request to allow Arafat to go for medical examinations in the Ramallah hospital. It is unclear when exactly Arafat will be going to the hospital. In the last few weeks, Arafat?s medical condition has worsened and he has been examined by doctors from Egypt and Tunisia. Arafat, 74, is considered relatively healthy, but suffers from several medical problems including the trembling of his lips and face and a skin disease. a face and skin disease! I knew it! This report sounds like he may be worse than portrayed and the Israelis don't wanna be seen as hastening his departure from this veil by refusing his hospital visit. Speculation on my part, obviously
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Abraham Lincoln once said something to the effect that everyone over 40 was reesponsible for what his face looked like......
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An Israeli spokesman said "Oh yeah, we'll let him back in...just as soon as we air the place out. And believe me, that compound needs a lot of airing. And an exterminator."
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50,000 of the best (read Jew) 12 miles away. Irony is tough. Course the pali people have some pretty good docs too... they all practice in the US far as I know.
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alternatively could Sharon be hinting that Arafish is on the way out, to ease tomorrows vote?
Currently it looks like a 65 to 48 win for disengagement. the Jewish left, half of Likud, Shinui, and one moderate arab party will vote yes, half of Likud, most of the Religious and far right parties, and the more leftist Arab parties (!) will vote no, and several of the Ultraorthodox will abstain. But Sharon would like to keep as many Likud MKs as possible on board, to ease the situation for the govt after the vote.
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Arafart does not have to worry about coming back, there won't anything to come back to.
If Arafart is allowed to leave for a little while, then the IDF can raid and "spring clean" the compound of the 20-30 terrs holed up in there. They (terrs) are not going to let Arafart leave the compound. That's why Arafart is all of a sudden, no longer ill.
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the restriction on returning was basically from teh Paleo West Bank, not Ramallah IIRC. The IDF would be well advised to follow PR's advice and exterminate the vermin while the head rat fish is out
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If Arafat dies of the flu will the Dems blame Bush for not providing the vaccination?
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Remember, though, Frank, that the Red Folder must be recovered first, at all costs.
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I apologize in advance for being pedantic, but my inner English teacher cannot be stopped!
Anyway, the word "veil," as used in "departure from this veil" should be "vale," an archaic version of "valley" and works best in the full phrase "vale of tears" -- a reference to life on earth as a series of sorrows to be left behind when we go on to a better world in Heaven. (Or a worse world in Hell, in Arafat's case).
Here is what Arafat's government-controlled newspaper, Al-Hayat-Al-Jadida, said on September 11TH, a few hours before the suicide bombings, of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon: "The suicide bombers of today are the noble successors of the Lebanese suicide bombers, who taught the U.S. Marines a tough lesson in [Lebanon] . . . These suicide bombers are the salt of the earth, the engines of history . . . They are the most honorable people among us."
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MILITANTS loyal to al-Qaeda-linked rebel Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claim to have carried out the suspected suicide bombing of an Australian convoy in Baghdad. The overnight claim, made in a statement on an Islamist website, could not be independently verified today. "One of our lions from the martyrs brigades this morning (yesterday AEST) attacked an Australian convoy that wanted to enter the Green Zone in the Karrada district," it said. The car bomb exploded alongside the routine patrol near Australia's embassy in Baghdad, injuring three Australian soldiers, killing three Iraqis and wounding 16 other people. Zarqwi's "Al-Qaeda Group of Jihad in the Land of Two Rivers" recently changed its name from Al-Tawhid wal Jihad (Unity and Holy War), after pledging allegiance to al-Qaeda.
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"Al-Qaeda Group of Jihad in the Land of Two Rivers, Because If We Had Three Rivers We'd Be In Pittsburgh™"
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or, the AQGOJITLOTRBIWHTRWBIP for short.
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A safe haven in southern Fallujah, used by a member of the Abu Musab al Zarqawi inner circle, was raided at 1:30 a.m. Oct. 23 as Multi-National Force-Iraq continued to put pressure on Zarqawi's network, whittling away at his support base. The individual targeted and captured today was recently assessed to be a relatively minor member of the Zarqawi network, according to intelligence sources. However, due to a surge in the number of Zarqawi associates who have been captured or killed by MNF-I strikes and other operations, the member had moved up to take a critical position as a Zarqawi senior leader. There were also five other terrorists detained during this raid.
Looks like there's another vacancy.
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The individual targeted and captured today was recently assessed to be a relatively minor member of the Zarqawi network, according to intelligence sources.
Allrighty then, it's fairly obvious that if this individual goes "missing", no one will notice.....or care...
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and i'm sat here just got home from my dead end job,no prospects for promotion,no pay rises nothing,perhaps they'll be an opening here for me. I could go from Greenhorn to a top Jihadi in a matter of days, not sure i'd like the 72 raisens for retirment though.
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Don't worry Shep I was 30 before I made my first thousand. ;>
The Saudi ambassador to Pakistan said Monday his embassy had been sent a package packed with grenades threatening the Saudis with an attack if they did not leave Pakistan. Ambassador Ali ben Awad Assyri said the package, which appeared to be a gift from the leader of Pakistan's ruling political party, was sent to his deputy, Abdullah al Omari. Inside, he said, were several grenades and a threatening letter.
Sure it wasn't just a wedding present?
In an interview on the Arab-language Al-Arabiya TV network, Assyri said he believed the al Qaeda terrorist network was behind the threat. Assyri said that six months ago the head of a Saudi school in Pakistan was also sent a threatening package. He said that one contained bullets. Assyri said the Saudis have no intention of withdrawing their diplomatic mission from Pakistan and are working with Pakistani security officials.
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which anniversary is the "grenade" one? Is that the 23rd year?
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A US diplomat was killed yesterday morning when a rebel-fired rocket or mortar shell crashed into the trailer where he was sleeping at an American base near the Baghdad International Airport, the US Embassy announced. Edward Seitz, 41, an agent with the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security, was believed to be the first US diplomat killed in Iraq since the war began in March 2003. Al-Jazeera television reported yesterday that the militant Islamic Army of Iraq claimed responsibility for the attack. One American soldier also was wounded in the predawn attack that killed Seitz, the State Department official. The attack occurred at Camp Victory, the headquarters of the US-led coalition's ground forces command.
Seitz was believed to be the first full-time State Department officer killed in Iraq. Last October, a female US Foreign Service officer was severely wounded in the arm in a rocket barrage on the Rasheed Hotel. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, one of the architects of the Iraq war, was in the hotel at the time but escaped injury. In Beijing, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell described Seitz as ''a brave American, dedicated to his country and to a brighter future for the people of Iraq." US Ambassador John Negroponte said Seitz was a ''committed professional" who served with distinction. ''He came to Iraq, as did his fellow Americans here, to help the Iraqis defeat terrorism and the insurgency, establish democracy, and rebuild their economy," Negroponte said.
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I am really looking forward to the eventuality of Al Jizz HQ being blown to shit and every motherfucking asshole on their "staff" being hunted down and beheaded - on film, complete with commercials. Personally, I favor a Black & Decker cordless electric knife - on sale at your favorite department or appliance store. I believe it's guaranteed to complete at least a dozen on a single charge.
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Is that the brand that Cook's Illustrated magazine rated the highest for Thxgiving turkey slicing? I recall that last year their tests showed that while those fancy knife sets look impressive, nothing beats a nice, old fashioned electric knife for neatly and quickly slicing up roasted turkey.
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Lol, tw! I dunno, I'm not that kulchered and don't have a subskripshun, heh. My B&D tools, waay back in a past life when I was a suburban homeowner and John Q Citizen - before I ran away to join the ME Contracting Circus, were pretty good so I googled and, well...
A car bomb targeting a U.S. military convoy exploded near the Australian Embassy Monday, killing at least two people, police and the Iraqi Interior Ministry said. Police at the scene said the morning explosion killed two Iraqi bystanders and injured several others. The incident took place several hundred metres away from the Australian Embassy. Interior Ministry spokesman Col. Adnan Abdul-Rahman said the bomb was targeting the convoy as it was driving through the neighbourhood of Karrada and Jadiriyah.
So, except for the title of the story, the bomb had nothing to do with the embassy.
The U.S. military had no immediate comment and it was unknown whether there were any American casualties. Soldiers sealed off the area. A huge cloud of smoke was seen rising over the western bank of the Tigris river. U.S. helicopters were seen flying over the area.
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"A huge cloud of smoke was seen rising over the western bank of the Tigris river. U.S. helicopters were seen flying over the area."
Quite a show, it seems. And a grand time was had by all - especially the Al Jizz guys doing the high-fives and dreaming of how they'd spent their bonus money for the route and time info.
A PALESTINIAN angered by Israeli-Palestinian violence plotted and then died in the nearly simultaneous car bombings of a hotel and tourist camp in the Sinai that killed at least 34 people, the Egyptian government said. In a statement, the Interior Ministry added five Egyptians had been arrested and two remained at large in the plot. The Interior Ministry identified the mastermind as Ayad Said Salah, a Palestinian who had lived in the Sinai and who died in the Oct. 7 explosion at the hotel along with a fellow plotter, Egyptian Suleiman Ahmed Saleh Flayfil. The statement said the two, identified through DNA testing, had been trying to leave the scene but their timed explosives went off prematurely.
Which would explain why a "mastermind" blew himself up.
Two other suspects were said to be at large: Mohamed Ahmed Saleh Flayfil, brother of Suleiman Flayfil, and Hammad Gaman Gomah. Mohamed Flayfil was accused of carrying out the attack on one of the campgrounds and Gomah was accused of carrying out the third bombing. The ministry said police had arrested five suspects who had lower level roles, including obtaining explosives and the cars used in the attacks. The statement did not say when the five were arrested or provide other details of their capture.
The Interior Ministry said mastermind Salah acted "in reaction to the deteriorating situation in the occupied territories to carry out an act targeting Israelis." The ministry accused Salah of turning "to religious fanaticism" after a criminal past that included a rape conviction. Monday's Interior Ministry statement made no mention of a broader conspiracy in the Oct. 7 bombing. Fingers had been pointed at al-Qaeda, the anti-Western, anti-Israeli terror network known for the kind of secretive, sophisticated planning believed necessary to pull off an attack like the Sinai bombings. A senior Egyptian security officer told The Associated Press Salah had links with a Palestinian Islamic group in Gaza, but would not say which group. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity. The statement said the Egyptian suspects were residents of the Sinai, territory Israel had captured from Egypt in the 1967 Mideast war and returned in 1982 under terms of the first Israeli-Arab peace treaty. The statement said Salah, the Palestinian, lived in the Sinai town of al-Arish.
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Note how Islam, the Religion Of Peace, took a criminal and a rapist, and turned him into a Righteous Martyr of the Faith, now enjoying Paradise instead of the fires of Hell!!!
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A senior Egyptian security officer told The Associated Press Salah had links with a Palestinian Islamic group in Gaza, but would not say which group.
Cautious fellow. Wouldn't want to start something now, would we?
Security officials in Iraq say they suspect that militants who killed about 50 army recruits on Saturday may have been given inside information. The officials say the militants must have been informed that the soldiers, who had just completed basic training, were being taken home in minibuses. Their bodies were found close to their training camp, in the north-east of the country, near the Iranian border. Local police say the convoy appeared to have been ambushed. "There was probably collusion among the soldiers or other groups," Diyala province deputy Governor Aqil Hamid al-Adili told al-Arabiya television. "Otherwise, the gunmen would not have gotten the information about the soldiers' departure from their training camp and that they were unarmed," he added.
"This was an execution. We found the dead lying face down by the roadside with a single bullet wound to the head," Iraqi national guard commander Ali al-Kaaki said, according to the AFP news agency. The BBC Baghdad correspondent says the increasing level of attacks shows both the ruthlessness and growing capability of militant groups in Iraq. The rebels who ambushed the army recruits close to Baquba were reportedly dressed in police uniforms. A website often used by militants published a statement attributed to the group led by Jordanian militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in which it claimed to have carried out the army recruits massacre. Al-Zarqawi's recently renamed group, the Al-Qaeda Organisation for Holy War in Iraq, said they had killed "apostates".
"The mujahideen killed them all, stole two vehicles and the salaries they had just received from their masters," a statement said. Its authenticity could not be verified. "It appears that they were ambushed by a large, well-organised force with good intelligence," a senior Iraqi security source told Reuters news agency. The BBC's Claire Marshall in Baghdad says the army recruits were believed to have just finished a training course at a camp near the Iranian border. They were ambushed on a remote road in Diyala province at sunset on Saturday, while travelling in three minibuses, in civilian clothes. Reports suggest that the recruits were mainly from Shia cities in the south of Iraq, including Basra, Amara, Kut and Nasiriya, and were returning there after training in the desert camp.
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Looks like several RBers, JFM comes to mind, called this one right very early.
The intention must be to foment civil war, given that they were all Shi'a boys.
Every day of delay before a major offensive to blast out the various rat nests is costing Allawi. I don't know if they're waiting on the US elesctions, troop realignments, or what - all that's certain is that delay has costs and repercussions. Should've happened in the first 2-3 weeks of the war, of course. Fuck Turkey.
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Your Right .com, I believe "W" will wait until after the elections for two reasons: 1) the added or spiked casualties on our side might spook the voters (in "W"'s eyes), 2)should the unthinkable occur with Bush losing, this would give President Kerry decision making finalism sooner, albeit "W" becoming a 'lame duck'! Kerry will probable want to exercise his executive privledges on 'the fly' taking this mandate from the people...unless he flip flops from his campaign promises to not let the US supercede the UN!
Three personnel of the paramilitary Frontier Corps were injured in an explosion caused by a remote-controlled improvised explosive device (IED) in Makeen in South Waziristan on Sunday while the brother of a pro-government tribal elder was killed in a land-mine blast in the same area.
Elsewhere in the restive tribal agency, troops recovered some more weapons while searching tribal homes in the former militants' stronghold of Spinkai Raghzai and a Jirga of elders of the three Mahsud sub-tribes in Barwand reiterated their support to the ongoing military operations to hunt down foreign militants.
The IED explosion that caused injuries to the three paramilitary troops of Swat Scouts occurred in almost the same place in Widhan on the Makeen-Razmak road where a similar blast the day before had killed a Frontier Corps Jawan and injured three of his colleagues. Tribal sources said the jeep carrying the Swat Scouts militiamen was on its way from Makeen to Razmak when it was blown up by the remote-controlled IED explosion and badly damaged. Naib Subedar Jehangir and Sepoys Sardar Khan and Mumtaz Khan, who received injuries, were evacuated by helicopter to the Combined Military Hospital in Bannu. Two of them were stated to be in critical condition.
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Two Palestinian security service members and four other Palestinians were killed late Sunday in at least four Israeli missile strikes in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestinian security sources and hospital officials said. Twenty-four other Palestinians, including civilians, were wounded, four of them seriously, when the Israeli army fired at least four air-to-ground missiles at a national security service position in the Khan Yunis sector, security officials said. One civilian dead was identified as a 24-year-old resident of the Mohammad Zoarub district. The name of another victim was given as 19-year-old Abdel Rahman Al Nimr. It was not immediately clear if he was an armed militant or a civilian. A spokesman for the Israeli army said the first two attacks had targeted "armed Palestinians who had approached (Israeli) forces," adding that the military had stepped up its activities in the area following dozens of recent mortar attacks by Palestinians on Jewish settlements. A third missile targeted a Palestinian planting a bomb that was apparently meant to go off as Israeli forces were driving by. The spokesman said a fourth missile hit four armed militants who had come close to Israeli units.
Bet they don't get so close anymore.
Palestinian security officials said about 30 Israeli armored vehicles and seven bulldozers entered a 800-meter section of the autonomous Palestinian sector from Khan Yunis, occupying an entire neighborhood.
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"seven bulldozers"
I can't even imagine one of these monster machines, much less seven. Ahhhhhhh, more settler land, I love it.
Oh this is really going to make the Euros all pissy.
BAGHDAD - Some 150 to 160 Arab fighters have appeared in Iraqi courts charged with carrying out terrorist attacks and could face the death penalty if convicted, the justice minister told AFP. "The Arabs have been referred to Iraqi courts and the verdicts against these foreigners are due to be pronounced soon for acts of terror they carried out in Iraq," Malik Dohan al-Hassan said in an interview on Sunday. He said those on trial included Egyptians, Iranians, Jordanians, Lebanese, Moroccans, Syrians and Yemenites.
No Pakistanis? There has to be some Pakistanis. You're yanking our chain, Malik!
"The crimes committed in Iraq will be judged according to Iraqi law which reserves the death sentence for those charged with premeditated murder or those who carry out a car bombing to kill the biggest number of people," he said. Despite personally disapproving of the death penalty, the minister said the dire security situation in Iraq—demonstrated by the weekend massacre of 49 new soldiers after they graduated from a training camp—demanded radical measures. "When one person is responsible for the death of 50 others, must we treat them with the regard that he chose not to give to those whose lives he took?" he asked.
An eminently sensible man.
Capital punishment, which was in force under the ousted regime of president Saddam Hussein, was reinstated by the interim government on August 8 after being abolished by the previous US-led occupation authority. Hassan recognised that on occasion, arrests and detentions in Iraq were not strictly in accordance with the law, but he reasoned that this was due to the instability of the country and was a temporary phenomenon. "According to the law, a suspect must appear before a judge within 24 hours after his detention, who must issue an arrest warrant," he said. "Prisons refuse entrance to anyone who does not have such a warrant." But if the police do a raid in Najaf, for example, and arrest 500 people on the same day, how could they all be brought before a judge, questioned the minister. Such suspects are therefore detained in local police stations, where they are kept in small cells due to a lack of space. "In certain cases, violations of the law can take place," said Hassan.
This will really set the Euros off. Imperfect justice? How could such a thing be allowed to happen?
The ministry would resolve these situations, however, by the dispatch of special judges into the towns were large-scale arrests have occured. In addition, really big, solid, impenetrable new prisons will be built, one in Nasiriyah, to the south, which will hold 4,000 detainees and another for 3,000 people in Khan Bani Saad, 40 kilometres (25 miles) east of Baghdad. Such measures, however, will take time to formalise as the ministry has not been prepared to deal with the situation, the minister said. At the same time, Hassan noted an improviment in prison conditions, noting that the Red Cross has unhindered access to Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison, where US jailers shocked the world by posing for photographs with naked and hooded Iraqi inmates. Hassan, however, condemned the back-seat his ministry had been given in dealing with the scandal, involving several low-ranking soldiers charged in the affair. "All crimes committed in a country must be judged by the penal code of that country, but the United States refuses to apply this rule with its soldiers," he said. "We are examining the possiblity of lodging a complaint against the Americans or the British at courts in the United States or Britain for the crimes they have committed in Iraq," he said.
I think that's the obligatory domestic consumption.
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"There has to be some Pakistanis"
Don't you know it's politically INcorrect to label Paki terrs, Paki's. Repeat after me!! they are called "Taliban". The non-terrs Paki's (if there is such a thing) are called, Paki's.
The Palestinian Authority Sunday denied reports Yasser Arafat has cancer and will be treated for the illness abroad, the Jerusalem Post reported.
"No, no! Certainly not!"
Sources close to Arafat insisted he is only suffering from the flu, characterized by symptoms of weakness and vomiting. Amid growing concerns for the 75-year-old chairman's health, Arafat was reportedly examined Saturday by a team of Tunisian doctors, who found he was inflicted with gallstones and peritonitissepsis an intestinal infection, the Post Reported.
I don't think I'm a cruel man by nature, but I like the idea of Yasser curled up with the agony of gallstones...
Perhaps some nice spikey kidney stones instead?
Nah, let him go into labor. He's a man, he'll never last ...
Maybe it's one of those cases of Russian flu, the kind Politbureau members used to catch. Normally fatal, they lingered till a replacement was appointed.
Arafat had been reported ill with a severe case of the flu for more than a week, but the dramatic request to Israel to grant permission for an examination by the Tunisian specialists heightened speculation about the severity of his illness. During the past few days Arafat had cut short a number of meetings after complaining of exhaustion, shivering and general weakness. The decision to summon the specialists came shortly after Arafat was unable to complete Friday prayers at a small mosque inside his compound. A top Fatah leader dismissed reports that Arafat was seriously ill as "Israeli propaganda." But some officials in Arafat's compound told the Jerusalem Post the chairman needs to be institutionalized hospitalized as soon as possible.
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The flu is often fatal to men of his age and physical infirmity (hurrah!)
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"'E's not pinin'! 'E's passed on! This parrot is no more! He has ceased to be! 'E's expired and gone to meet 'is maker! 'E's a stiff! Bereft of life, 'e rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed 'im to the perch 'e'd be pushing up the daisies! 'Is metabolic processes are now 'istory! 'E's off the twig! 'E's kicked the bucket, 'e's shuffled off 'is mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir invisibile!!"
A tribesman was killed and three troops were injured in two landmine explosions in South Waziristan on Sunday as Bajaur Scouts and Mehsud tribesmen continued their hunt for suspected militants in the Spinkai Raghzai area. The three soldiers were injured when a military vehicle hit a remote-controlled explosive device near the Makeen area. Another vehicle hit a landmine in Makeen, killing the brother of Makeen Peace Committee president Ahmad Shah. Clashes between security forces and suspected militants left 10 fighters dead on Saturday night, AP quoted officials as saying. The shootout began when the troops returned fire after they were attacked near Lalizai village northeast of Wana, said FATA security chief Brig Mahmood Shah.
Are you sure the shootout didn't begin when the troops were attacked, rather that when they returned fire? Think hard now...
He said the troops did not suffer any casualties and the militants retreated to nearby hills after about an hour of fighting. He said intelligence information indicated 10 fighters were killed, but conceded that no bodies have been retrieved because the fleeing militants took them along. An army spokesman could not confirm the fighting.
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The head of held Kashmir's main opposition party, Omar Abdullah, and his father Farooq Abdullah survived an assassination attempt on Sunday when rebels exploded a bomb a few steps away from him, police said. One person was killed and six were injured in the blast in the insurgency-racked Himalayan region,
"Ha! Y'missed me, bitch!"
two critically, police said. Omar Abdullah leads the pro-India National Conference party and earlier served as India's junior foreign minister. Farooq Abdullah is a former chief minister. "It was a narrow miss for Omar Abdullah," a police officer said. Abdullah and his father had just emerged from their car when there was a deafening explosion, sending people fleeing for cover, said Nazir Ahmed who witnessed the blast. "They were only a few meters away from the site of the explosion," Ahmed said. Security personnel fired into the air to scare away the militants. "The explosion sparked panic — everyone ran for cover," said Ahmed. The bomb was detonated as Abdullah arrived to attend a prayer ceremony for former National Conference minister Safdar Ali Baig, gunned down by militants last Thursday.
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Proclaimed offender Saeed Ahmed Notani, suspected to be involved in the Gwardar bomb blast in which two Chinese workers were killed a few months ago, surrendered to the local administration on Sunday. An anti terrorism court had issued arrest warrants for Saeed Ahmed Notani and had declared him proclaimed offender.
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Terrorists bombed the main gas pipeline supplying Karachi and Hyderabad from Sui in Balochistan, at a village in district Sanghar, some 22km from here, on Sunday evening, a Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) official said.
It wasn't terrorists. It was just the damned Bugtis again, and you know it...
No casualty was reported, the police said. This brought stopped gas to some suburban towns of Hyderabad district, Hasan Nawaz, senior manager of the SSGC said, adding gas was now being supplied to Karachi and Hyderabad by two other supply lines. He described the incident as subversion and an anti-state action. Smoke clouded the area following the blast, the police said. The SSGC official said the gas pipeline was bombed at Pir Abdul Nabi Sarhandi village near Odero Lal town in the police limits of Tando Adam in district Sanghar. The Hyderabad district police officer rushed to the scene with other police officials, cordoned off the blast site and evacuated Sarhandi village and five other villages in its vicinity as a precautionary measure. After the blast, gas spread over an area of about 10 kilometres. A bomb disposal squad from Hyderabad also inspected the scene of the explosion and said it was caused by explosives.
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A crew was working furiously with some tin some very large hose clamps and a old inner tube to patch the hole.
A police-led operation targeting the master bombers of Rashidabad appears to have been sucked deeper into the mire after raiding teams failed to arrest three of the four fugitives. A raiding team that had taken along their relatives during its searches on Sunday returned empty handed. One of the bombers, Syed Amjad Abbas Shah, was earlier arrested by policemen in Bhakkar following a mid-night swoop. Shah's father-in-law and three brothers-in-law, who had accompanied the raiding police team, were later released when Shia leaders pleaded with the police. However, his father, Ghulam Abbas Shah, and a brother-in-law of his, Ali-Raza, aged 10, still remain in police custody.
Thirty-two-year-old Syed Irfan Ali, one of the car bombers serving a 14-day remanded will appear in court on November 4. Under the pressure of police questioning, Ali went to pieces and confessed the crime and also gave the names of his collaborators, including one being a Pasban-i-Islam activist. Ali also revealed the names of three of his accomplices, Ali Shah, from Rawalpindi, and Amjad Shah and Ghulam Abbas, from Bhakkar, admitting that they too were the Pasban-i-Islam zealots. It was later emerged from the questioning that their original plan had targeted leaders of the outlawed militant organisation, Millat-i-Islamia, by parking a car near the congregation, but instead they were forced to park it elsewhere when it was all over.
Police sleuths squeezed more information out of Ali who admitted that he had arrived in Multan to plan terror attacks and stayed in an inn near the Gaddafi Square on October 2. Ali revealed that he had carried six fake identification cards, including a police service card, to escape being recognised. Akhtar Bharwana, who had reactivated the Pasban-i-Islam after the bombing in Sialkot, had left Iran for Pakistan last year and began contacting several activists of the Pasban-i-Islama and the Sipah-i-Sahaba, Ali told interrogating officers.
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Bannu Police seized 120 kilogrammes of explosives from a vehicle travelling to Bannu from North Waziristan on Sunday. A police team headed by Sikandar Khan, a deputy superintendent of police, stopped a Datsun pickup on the Bannu-Miran Shah road and seized arms and ammunition hidden under bags of corn. One light machine gun, 48,247 bullets, and one anti aircraft gun were also seized, besides the explosives. The police arrested Habibullah, Naseebullah and Khairullah, all residents of Bannu, and registered a case against them.
So they were lightly armed.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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A prominent member of the Basque terrorist group ETA was arrested Monday, Guardia Civil sources said. 
Al-Qaeda leader 
Israel decided Monday to allow Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat to leave his Muqata headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah so he can get a medical checkup. This would be the first time in two years that Arafat will be leaving the compound. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz made the decision in response to a request to allow Arafat to go for medical examinations in the Ramallah hospital. It is unclear when exactly Arafat will be going to the hospital. In the last few weeks, Arafat?s medical condition has worsened and he has been examined by doctors from Egypt and Tunisia. Arafat, 74, is considered relatively healthy, but suffers from several medical problems including the trembling of his lips and face and a skin disease. 
A safe haven in southern Fallujah, used by a member of the Abu Musab al Zarqawi inner circle, was raided at 1:30 a.m. Oct. 23 as Multi-National Force-Iraq continued to put pressure on Zarqawi's network, whittling away at his support base. The individual targeted and captured today was recently assessed to be a relatively minor member of the Zarqawi network, according to intelligence sources. However, due to a surge in the number of Zarqawi associates who have been captured or killed by MNF-I strikes and other operations, the member had moved up to take a critical position as a Zarqawi senior leader. There were also five other terrorists detained during this raid. 
Two other suspects were said to be at large: 
A police-led operation targeting the master bombers of Rashidabad appears to have been sucked deeper into the mire after raiding teams failed to arrest three of the four fugitives. A raiding team that had taken along their relatives during its searches on Sunday returned empty handed. One of the bombers, 
Bannu Police seized 120 kilogrammes of explosives from a vehicle travelling to Bannu from North Waziristan on Sunday. A police team headed by Sikandar Khan, a deputy superintendent of police, stopped a Datsun pickup on the Bannu-Miran Shah road and seized arms and ammunition hidden under bags of corn. One light machine gun, 48,247 bullets, and one anti aircraft gun were also seized, besides the explosives. The police arrested 
