Islamic rebels ambushed and killed three Yemeni policemen on Tuesday in the second such attack in two days, sparking a fresh hunt for the group, Yemeni security sources said. They said six other policemen were wounded in the ambush by followers of slain anti-U.S. cleric Hussein al-Houthi in Amrah province, 100 km (62 miles) north of the capital Sanaa. On Monday, supporters of Houthi killed seven policemen and wounded 20 in an attack on a police station and an ambush in Saada province, 240 km (150 miles) north of Sanaa.
Local sources said Yemeni security forces killed 10 rebels on Monday in a large operation in Saada. They said the clashes continued on Tuesday, but gave no further details. Yemeni security sources have blamed Houthi's elderly father, Sheikh Badr el-Deen, for the new round of violence. They said he had shunned a government amnesty, quit Sanaa and returned to his Saada stronghold to foment violence.
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returned to his Saada stronghold to study Islam foment violence
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At least eight militants were killed in Yemen on Monday after they gunned down seven policemen in an ambush, the official Saba news agency reported. It said Yemeni security forces clashed with followers of slain anti-US cleric Hussein al-Houthi after the ambush in Saada province, 240 kilometres north of the capital Sanaa. Local sources said seven policemen and 10 militants died and that clashes were continuing. Houthi, leader of the Believing Youth group and a Zaidi Shia Muslim sect, was killed in September last year after two months of clashes with security forces in which over 200 militants and troops died.
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Anwar Al-Jilani, one of eight suspects facing trial on charges of plotting to attack Western targets in Yemen, told a Sanaa court yesterday that he had planned a strike against the British Embassy at the behest of Al-Qaeda's Saudi branch. "I was entrusted by the brethren in Saudi Arabia to plan an operation against the British Embassy. We collected information, which we passed on to the brethren in Saudi Arabia," Jilani told the court.
Jilani, a 20-year-old Iraqi who went on trial on March 21 has been described as the head of an eight-member cell suspected of membership in the terror network. The eight face charges of forming an armed gang to carry out attacks, forging passports and other documents, and possessing arms and explosives. Jilani insisted, however, that he never intended to carry out the attacks. "My task was limited to planning. Execution was up to the brethren in Saudi Arabia," he said.
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ANWAR AL JILANI
al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
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Human is earth's Choicemaker. Psalm 25:12 He is by nature
and nature's God a creature of Choice - and of Criteria.
Psalm 119:30,173 His unique and definitive characteristic
is, and of Right ought to be, the natural foundation of his
environments, institutions, and respectful relations to his
fellow-man. Thus, he is oriented to a Freedom whose roots
are in the Order of the universe.
Note: When humans don't know who they are they don't know anything else...
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Within the framework of a security pact signed between the two countries, Saudi Arabia and Yemen yesterday exchanged a total of 33 wanted criminals including 25 Saudis, according to the Interior Ministry. "Security agencies in the Kingdom have received 25 Saudis wanted for security-related issues while eight Yemenis detained for security reasons were extradited to the authorities in Sanaa," the Saudi Press Agency said, quoting an official. The official did not say whether any of the 33 were on the list of 26 wanted terrorists issued by the ministry in December 2003. Saudi Arabia has killed or arrested most of the wanted terrorists.
The Saudi official commended the security cooperation between the two countries saying it helped in exchanging many wanted criminals. Interior Minister Prince Naif visited Sanaa two weeks ago and met his Yemeni counterpart Rashad Al-Alimi. The two sides pledged to strengthen border security in order to prevent arms smuggling and infiltration.
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A Briton charged under the Terrorism Act for allegedly having a soldier's name and address on a piece of paper has been remanded in custody. Abu Baker Mansha, 21, appeared before Bow Street magistrates five days after his arrest in south-east London. He was charged under Section 58 (1b) of the Terrorism Act, which deals with the collection of information which could be of use to terrorists.
Mr Mansha, of Arnott Close, Thamesmead, was remanded to reappear on 5 April. It is alleged he was found with a newspaper cutting referring to a decorated soldier and also personal details, including that soldier's address. The charge said he "possessed a document, namely a piece of paper, containing the name and home address of a UK soldier - information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism". There was no application for bail made on his behalf. Mr Mansha, with a beard and close-cropped dark hair and wearing a checked shirt and jeans, spoke only to confirm his name, address and date of birth.
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Russian forces in Chechnya used helicopters and heavy artillery to pound rebel positions in the south of the republic on Monday, while four soldiers were killed in separate attacks over 24 hours, a member of the Russian unified command in the North-Caucasus told reporters.
The official, speaking under condition of anonymity, said missiles and shells were fired on positions in the districts of Itum-Kale, Vedeno and Nojay-Yurt in the mountainous south of the war-torn republic.
Elsewhere, rebels attacked Russian positions 16 times since early on Sunday, killing two Russian soldiers and wounding four, the same source reported.
Additionally, in Urus-Martan near Grozny, a shootout between occupants of a car and Russian soldiers at a check-point left one dead on both sides. One other soldier was wounded as well as two passengers of the car.
A Russian explosive expert was killed on Monday morning in the outskirts of Grozny during a mine-clearance operation.
A pro-Moscow Chechen policeman was also killed in the Chechen capital during a clash with presumed rebels Monday, the source said. He added that the body of another policeman was on Sunday found in the trunk of a car whose driver just had died in a car crash.
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they squall for ssympathy yet brag: rebels attacked Russian positions 16 times since early on Sunday, killing two Russian soldiers and wounding four, the same source reported. ?
sounds lik harsher standards are in order?
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The Homeland Security Department will assign more than 500 additional patrol agents to the porous Arizona border, saying they will help keep potential terrorists and undocumented immigrants from entering the country, The Associated Press has learned. Of course the Minutemen Project had nothing to do with this....
The border buildup was to be announced Wednesday - two days before civilian volunteers with the so-called Minuteman Project begin a monthlong Arizona patrol against immigrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico line.
About 155 agents will be immediately sent to Arizona, according to a department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the buildup was not yet announced. Another 350 agents - all new trainees - will be permanently assigned to the Arizona border by Sept. 30.
Until they are in place, an additional 200 agents will be temporarily stationed in Arizona during the high immigration season this spring and summer, the official said.
A Senate aide, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed Tuesday that more agents would be assigned to Arizona, but could not immediately say exactly how many were involved.
The 370-mile Arizona border is considered the most vulnerable stretch of the 2,000-mile southern border. Of the 1.1 million undocumented immigrants apprehended by the U.S. Border Patrol last year, 51 percent crossed into the country at the Arizona border.
Recent intelligence indicates that al-Qaida leaders are likely to enter the country through the Mexico border and "believe illegal entry is more advantageous than legal entry for operational security reasons," former Homeland Security Deputy Secretary James Loy said in written testimony to lawmakers last month.
The new agents will come on top of the 210 that President Bush has proposed for all U.S. borders in his budget last month - a number lawmakers have called inadequate to effectively secure the nation's borders. It also falls far short of the 2,000 new agents mandated in intelligence reform legislation enacted in December. Well, we don't want Vicente to get all worked up...
Hundreds of civilian "Minuteman" volunteers have signed up to patrol a 40-mile stretch of the southeast Arizona border. They say they will merely identify and follow illegal border-crossers and not interact with them. But some of the volunteers plan to arm themselves, although they have little or no training to confront border-crossers.
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And I bet that there is going to be so much video of those 500 taped for the MSM, that it will look like they are standing shoulder-to-shoulder along the entire border. I also wonder if they are going to take the phone off the hook, so when the Minutemen start phoning in reports, the feds can feign ignorance. Maybe the feds will tell the illegals to come in through San Diego for a month, but "Keep 'em coming! Just get on the bus and a job is waiting for you! Call your friends and get them to cross the border! Mmmm! Cheap labor! Gimmee gimmee!"
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The Arizona border, you say? What a coincidence!
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Squeaking wheel getting greased.
I say keep the pressure up Minute Men, it's the only way the government will do anything. As soon as we are not looking those agents will be assigned to other non border security assignments.
I don't think the new BP agents will kill anyone, but they will spend a lot of time looking at the Minutemen. Bush and the BP are working with fruit and vegetable growers, Fox and Mexico not the average American citizen. Vincente will also cut the flow to a trickle down there. You know he and the Federales are getting a cut from the smugglers.
So the reql question is who can last longer, the Minuitemen or the U. S. and Mexican governments. Because the day the last Minuteman and cameraman leave, the flood gates will be opened wider than ever.
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This had my blood pressure going: They say they will merely identify and follow illegal border-crossers and not interact with them. But some of the volunteers plan to arm themselves, although they have little or no training to confront border-crossers.
One has nothing to do with the other. Didn't the reporter just mention that they have no intentions of confronting or detaining anyone? Then why would their lack of training in confronting and detaining be an issue? I know this no load, panty-waisted wuss of a reporter thinks that because they're going armed (scary, scary), they're just itchin' to blow somebody away. No!, you idiot, it's not to confront. It's to defend oneself from the thugs and bandits crossing our borders that have openly called for violence against the Minutemen!
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I wonder if we should start a special page w/ minute man updates once it kicks off. Maybe even an office pool of when the first shot will be fired, etc.
I think the minuteman project is a cool idea in theory but I have a feeling it willout bad.
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When the People lead, the leaders will follow. We want good bilateral relations with Mexico and Canada. Bilateral means two ways. With Mexico, we must encourage honesty and integrety in government. We are not their dumping ground. Mexico needs to look at its internal affairs and clean them up, and not dump on the US for all its problems. The Minutemen are the results of when a US administration does not take on its responsibilities.
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Nice summary, Paul.
I read (some article, somewhere, no link, sorry) that Mexican ex-pats in America send >$45 billion to Mexico every year. It's Mexico's biggest industry, after oil. Fox is not gonna give up that revenue stream without a fight, nor the coyotes, nor the mid-level officiales who are accustomed to the baksheesh.
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hmmmmm nice TH - you support shooting Americans who are doing nothing wrong? Cowardly pieces of shit like you couldn't borrow your momma's car long enough to get out there, if you even had the real desire. FOAD
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FrankG - That post has a familiar patter... remember ol' Stevey Robinson?
Sounds a LOT like him, methinks, heh.
If so, lol, "How's the phone support / marketing / burger-flipping going, there, moron?"
A former Detroit schools official has been charged with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists. A criminal complaint unsealed Monday in Miami said Kifah Wael Jayyousi, 43, formerly of Detroit, conspired with Kassem Daher of Broward County, Fla., in the mid- and late 1990s to raise money and recruit Muslim extremists to fight in Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya and Somalia. The complaint was issued in December.
Authorities said Jayyousi, a former assistant superintendent, was arrested around 12:30 p.m. Sunday at Detroit Metro Airport after stepping off a flight from Amsterdam. U.S. Customs agents detained him after conducting a routine computer check that showed Jayyousi was wanted on a federal terrorism warrant out of Miami. It's unclear whether he was traveling alone. Authorities said he had flown to Amsterdam from Qatar. Jayyousi made a brief appearance Monday in U.S. District Court in Detroit, where the U.S. Attorney's Office requested that he be sent to Miami to answer to the charges. U.S. Magistrate Steven Whelan ordered him held until a detention hearing Wednesday, when his lawyer, Jon Posner, could be present. Posner is in the hospital, according to his law firm.
Jayyousi and Daher are charged with conspiring to provide material support and resources for terrorism and conspiracy to kill, kidnap, maim or injure people or damage property in a foreign country. The first charge carries a maximum penalty of 15 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. The second carries a maximum penalty of 35 years to life in prison. Daher, a former resident of Leduc, Canada, is a fugitive living in Lebanon.
A court affidavit signed by FBI agent John Kavanaugh Jr. said an investigation that began in late 1993 found that Jayyousi, Daher and two other men -- Mohamed Zaky and Adham Amin Hassoun -- were involved in a North American network to raise money and recruit fighters to wage violent jihad around the globe. Money initially was raised through charitable organizations known as Save Bosnia Now and American Worldwide Relief, the affidavit said. They were founded by Zaky of San Diego, who was killed in Afghanistan while fighting Russians in May 1995. Hassoun, a Palestinian national who was born in Lebanon, came to the United States in 1989 and has been in U.S. custody since June 2002, is awaiting trial in Miami on similar terrorism charges. He lived in Broward County, Fla.
The affidavit said Jayyousi is a Jordanian national and naturalized U.S. citizen who has lived in San Diego, Los Angeles, Detroit and Baltimore. It said he moved to Egypt in 2003. After Zaky's death, Jayyousi allegedly took over American Worldwide Relief. He also founded the American Islamic Group. Although that group touted itself as a nonprofit, religious service to protect the rights of Muslims and provide economic aid to needy people, it actually promoted terrorism, the affidavit said. The affidavit said Jayyousi used the group's monthly newsletter, Islam Report, to raise money and recruit fighters for jihad and to disseminate the accomplishments of terrorists worldwide. The affidavit said the newsletter described murders, executions and massacres committed by terrorists. The affidavit said all four men were followers of Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, an Egyptian cleric who was sentenced to prison in 1995 for plotting to blow up New York landmarks. From 1994 through late 1995, Jayyousi allegedly called Rahman in prison to update him about terrorist developments. Much of the information contained in the complaint came from court-authorized electronic surveillance.
Jayyousi worked as a senior engineer at the University of California-Irvine before he was hired in 1997 as assistant superintendent for physical facilities and capital improvement at Detroit Public Schools. In Detroit, he was responsible for overseeing the early stages of spending of the $1.5-billion school bond. During his tenure, the bond program was mired in two controversies: skepticism about the costs associated with a construction program led by then-Wayne County prosecutor candidate Mike Duggan and the firing of a minority company that managed the bond program, which led to a lawsuit against the district.
This article starring:
ADHAM AMIN HASUN
American Worldwide Relief
FBI agent John Kavanaugh Jr.
Jon Posner
KASEM DAHER
American Worldwide Relief
KIFAH WAEL JAIYUSI
American Islamic Group
KIFAH WAEL JAIYUSI
American Worldwide Relief
MOHAMED ZAKY
American Worldwide Relief
Omar Abdel-Rahman
American Islamic Group
American Worldwide Relief
Save Bosnia Now
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March 29, 2005: The War on Terror still gets the attention of the media, but the vast majority of the military related violence and deaths in the world comes from dozens of little wars. Actually some of them are not so little. While causalities from terrorism are relatively few, the dead and wounded from all the other wars are much more numerous.
Major military operations continue in places like Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Sudan, Colombia, Pakistan and Nepal. In all these countries, civil war is the main cause of conflict. The usual cause is a dispute over scarce resources, or territory that has changed hands in the past. There are no traditional "invasion" type wars going on at the moment. However, some of the conflicts involve the use of irregular troops to "invade" a neighbor and try to conquer disputed territory. This is the case in Kashmir, where Pakistani irregulars have been invading this disputed territory, trying to take it from India. The major threat of war these days is with China, which threatens to take Taiwan by force.
The major cause war and disorder today is terrorism and private armies. Private armies are proving a major barrier to peace. Calling the leaders of these forces warlords is pretty accurate, as these guys live off war. Stealing, or extorting, what they need, these groups have flourished on the availability of cheap Cold War surplus weapons from Eastern European and Russian arsenals. Africa is awash in warlords, with armed groups controlling turf in Ivory Coast, Sudan, Congo, Somalia, and Liberia. Warlords also hold sway in places like Sri Lanka, Philippines, Nepal, Chechnya, Colombia, Rwanda, Burundi and Afghanistan. The warlords have become a worldwide problem, with gunmen openly organizing and operating as private governments. The real governments prove helpless in dealing with the warlords, who openly play to the mass media and local political parties. While warlords have not exactly become respectable, they have become accepted as a "cannot ignore" part of the political landscape in much of the world.
Western nations, with their superior armed forces, are reluctant to take on the warlords. Doing so generates complaints at home that, "it's not worth the cost, " "it's not our business" and is generally viewed with hostility by the international community as an unwanted resurgence of "colonial imperialism". Part of this has to do with the clever way the warlords play the media game. It's a new generation of warlords, and eventually the world is going to have to deal with them. The warlords are often hospitable to Islamic terrorists, and this directly threatens Western nations.
Current wars are listed in alphabetical orders. Text underneath briefly describes current status.
AFGHANISTAN
Taliban losing ground as new government slowly extends control. But independent minded tribes, warlords and drug gangs still stand in the way of peace, prosperity and true national unity.
ALGERIA
Islamic rebels on the run, but a general uprising looms because of dissatisfaction with the old revolutionaries that refuse to honor election results or share power.
ANGOLA
Main rebel group (UNITA) defeated, but smaller ones have appeared to fight over oil wealth.
BALKANS
The Greater Albania Movement is driven by part time Albanian nationalists, full time gangsters and a growing number of Islamic radicals.
CENTRAL ASIA
Dictators brew rebellion by suppressing democrats and Islamic radicals.
CHAD
Peace has broken out, for the moment.
CHINA
The confrontation with Taiwan continues, as do hostilities with neighbors, separatists, dissenters and ancient enemies. China speeds up modernization of its armed forces.
COLOMBIA
After over three decades, leftist rebels losing support, recruits and territory.
CONGO
Multiple tribal and political militias, plus an increasing number of bandits, continue to roam the countryside.
INDIA-PAKISTAN
Kashmir is but one of many rebellions that beset the region. But India and Pakistan have nukes, making escalation a potential catastrophe. Recent peace talks have lowered the possibility of war, but both sides continue an arms race.
INDONESIA
Separatism, pirates, Islamic terrorists and government corruption create an increasingly volatile situation.
IRAN
Minority of Islamic conservatives have veto power over the majority of reformers. The supply of peaceful solutions is drying up. After that comes
another revolution. Meanwhile, the Islamic conservatives are determined to build nuclear weapons.
IRAQ
Sunni Arab minority makes peace with the majority Kurds and Shia Arabs. But Sunni Arab Islamic radicals still back terrorism attacks against government and Shia Arabs (who are considered heretics).
ISRAEL
Jewish and Palestinian radicals continue to confront peacemakers. The Palestinian people got tired of terrorism and are trying to work out a peace deal with Israel.
IVORY COAST
The north and the south fight over money, religion and power.
KOREA
After half a century, North Korea continues to destroy its economy to maintain armed forces capable of invading South Korea.
KURDISH WAR
Kurds continue 5,000 year struggle to form their own country.
LIBERIA
Chaos, collapse and tired of fighting.
MICRONESIA
Several "failed states" (countries with populations that cannot govern themselves) are found here.
NEPAL
Radical communist rebels battle to overthrow a popular monarchy.
NIGERIA
Too many tribes, too much oil money and too much corruption creates too much violence.
POTENTIAL HOT SPOTS
Various places where the local situation is warming up and might turn into a war.
PHILIPPINES
Islamic minority in the south wants it's own country, and expulsion of non-Moslems. Communist rebels in the north fight for social justice and a dictatorship.
RUSSIA
Rebuilding and reforming the Soviet era armed forces and fighting gangsters and Islamic radicals in Chechnya.
RWANDA & BURUNDI
War between better organized and more aggressive Tutsis and more numerous Hutu tribes. It's been going on for centuries.
SOMALIA
A failed state. It was never a country, but a collection of clans and tribes that fight each other constantly over land and other economic issues. Attempting to establish a new government.
SRI LANKA
Tamil minority (19th century economic migrants from southern India) battle to partition the island.
SUDAN
Moslems in the north try to suppress separatist tendencies among Christians in the south. Complicated by oil fields in the south, and Moslem government attempts to drive Christians from oil region. Battles over land in the west pit Arab herders against black Sudanese farmers. Both sides are Moslem, but the government is backing the Arabs.
THAILAND
Moslems in the south have a different religion than most Thais, and are different ethnically as well (they are Malays). Islamic radicalism has arrived, along with an armed effort to create a separate Islamic state among the few million people in the area.
UGANDA
Religion and tribalism combine to create a persistent rebellion in the north, which is aided by Sudan.
WAR ON TERROR
International terrorism has created a international backlash and a war unlike any other.
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Four members of the Abu Sayyaf extremist group were killed and a Marine was wounded in a clash in the southern Philippine island of Jolo, the military said on Monday. Fighting broke out on Friday when the Marines encountered about 20 Abu Sayyaf members who were believed attempting to disrupt Good Friday Christian ceremonies in the island's capital town, the military said in its report. The gun battle lasted 15 minutes before the Abu Sayyaf withdrew dragging four of their dead, the military's southern command said.
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Additional 2000 Syrian troops have left Lebanon, lowering Syria's military presence to 8,000 soldiers, a military official said on Monday. According to The AP, more troops are due to leave this week. Syrian soldiers were seen dismantling eight positions near the eastern city of Baalbek on Monday. In Chaat, The Associated Press saw Syrian soldiers loading equipment onto 10 trucks, each of which had an anti-aircraft gun in tow. A Lebanese military official said the 2,000 Syrian soldiers had left the eastern Bekaa Valley and returned home during the past few days. Before the assassination of Lebanon's ex-Premier Rafic Al Hariri on Feb. 14, about 14,000 Syrian troops were in Lebanon. Some 4,000 soldiers left in the first phase of a withdrawal that was completed March 17.
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Lebanon's military was said to be incapable of providing national defense. Officials said the Lebanese military could not fill the void left by the withdrawal of the Syrian Army. They said the Lebanese military was too inexperienced and ill-equipped to provide either external defense or internal security. Beirut has been rocked by three bombings in a period of eight days.
So what have they been doing all this while? Has the entire army been on KP?
"The forces of the Lebanese army are not sufficient to permanently replace the Syrians who might leave the Bekaa Valley where they are now concentrated," Defense Minister Abdul Rahim Murad said. About 4,000 of the 14,000 Syrian soldiers in Lebanon have left for home. Officials said about 1,000 soldiers left the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon for Syria over the weekend. Syrian President Bashar Assad has pledged to complete the military withdrawal from Lebanon within several months.
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I'm sure Israel will be glad to help out - just ask them nicely. :-D
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who exactly is the threat facing the Lebanese army? Israel aint going in. Syria is presumably headed out. Leb doesnt need an army to deal with external threats (it NEVER had an army that could stop Israel OR Syria) it uses politics and diplomacy, and the threat of quagmire for that.
The only question is internal - and the main threat in that regard is Hezbollah.
A Marine from the Southern Tier has quite a story to tell. Lance Corporal Jason Hunt cheated death when a car bomb exploded in Iraq. The big blast was caught on tape. It is an amazing act of heroism, caught on tape; a Western New York Marine on the front line of the fight for freedom in Iraq.
To on-lookers it appears to be just an abandoned car, sitting idle just outside Fallujah. But to Marines, every abandoned car is a potential bomb. Western New York native, Marine Jason Hunt, was inside an armored humvee pushing the car out of the way when it happened. The force of the blast threw a CNN photographer traveling with the Marines twelve feet back.
Amazingly, Hunt who inside the humvee right next to the car when the bomb went off, walked away unharmed. Lance Corporal Jason Hunt: "I was pretty close, I consider myself lucky."
NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq - A few Marines from Dragon Platoon survived an improvised explosive device while moving an abandoned vehicle from an important main supply route from Fallujah to Baghdad.
After finding the suspicious vehicle, the Marines eventually used an armored Humvee to push the car off the side of the road. As Marines were securing the area, the vehicle suddenly exploded while a CNN crew was videotaping.
The Marines believe it was detonated remotely by an insurgent triggerman who was watching and waiting for the right moment to injure or kill as many U.S. troops as possible. In this case, nobody was seriously hurt. The blast blew CNN Cameraman David Allbritton back 12 feet.
CNN Reporter Alex Quade said, "I saw he (Allbritton) was okay and I picked up my mini-cam to help record what was happening in front of us."
Immediately after the explosion the Marines climbed into the flaming Humvee to get ammunition out because the ammo could blow and cause other casualties. One of the lucky Marines, Lance Corporal Jason Hunt, told CNN that he thought he was going to die when the car exploded, then he immediately walked away from Quade to begin securing the area.
The explosion did not deter the Marines from their security duty; they were all out on patrol hunting for improvised explosive devices the next day.
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What's wrong with a couple of dozen rounds of fiftycal?
This is too risky.
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Maybe there needs to be an attachment or pole that can be attached to the hummer so that there is more "stand-off distance" between the hummer and the suspect vehicle needing pushing?
Lots of ideas better than just "pushing it out of the way with a hummer."
Can't really just fire up a .50 cal in an occupied city area. You wouldn't want one of those being fired in your neighborhood without really good cause. Could kill innocents.
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a.Jammers are provided as fast as the manufacturers can get them there. Warlock being the best to date
b. We do have blades for the M1
c.We are getting Buffaloes and their supporting systems (as pictured by CS) in country and the boys are learning to use them OJT
d. I will agree this isn't the best idea to get a suspect vehicle out of the road, but I suspect there something pressing about to come this way since the the theater commander is issuing smart cards on how to handle this given situation, and this isn't it.
Alleged mugger killed in crossfire
An alleged mugger was killed in crossfire when members of the gang encountered a police team at Shyampur in the city late Sunday night. The dead was identified as Kawser, 20, son of Sukur. He used to live at Gaspipe Lane area in Shyampur. Reportedly the chief of 'Kawser bahini,' he was wanted in a number of cases including two of murder. Police said, Kawser, along with his two of his accomplices Abdul Quader and Basiruddin alias Imon, stormed into a computer shop at Alam Market at Jurain of Shyampur at about 11:30pm. They reportedly took away Tk 2,500 and two mobile phone sets.
"Can you hear me now? Good!"
Later, they went on mass snatching in the Gaspipe Lane area. As a team of patrol police rushed there, the gang members charged cocktails on the team to flee.
"Sarge, they're charging cocktails on our bar tab!" "The fiends! Get them, boys!"
Police returned the fire to nab the criminals. At one stage, Kawser was hit by bullet and died on the spot.
"Aaaah, they got me! Rosebud!"
In the next stage he was hit again...
Police chased and arrested Quader and Imon with the help of local people. Police recovered the booty including cash and mobile sets along with a knife and a live cocktail from their possession. Police said, local people brought out a procession hailing the killing of Kawser, who was wanted in Labu and Deelbahar murder cases.
"Huzza! Kawser's dead! Drinks all around!"
"Bartender! Cocktails for everyone!"
Three cases were filed with Shyampur police station in this connection. Body of Kawser was sent to Mitford Hospital morgue for post-mortem.
"He's dead, Jim!"
Meanwhile, police recovered a body of an unidentified young man from Madartek under Sabujbagh police station in the city yesterday morning. The unidentified about 25-year-old man was tortured to death by unidentified miscreants sometime on Sunday night, police suspected. On information. Sabujbagh police recovered the body at about 11:30 am, both hands of was tied, from near the wall of a building. The body was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for autopsy.
"He's dead, Jim!"
"This part of him looks dead, too, Bones!"
Red Handed Chicken Seller Nabbed
A man was caught red handed in the city''s Mirpur area on Monday while selling dead chickens at different hotels. The police arrested Azad (20), a resident of Road No-4, Kalshi under Pallabi police station with 53 dead chickens while he was supplying them to hotels at 11 am.
"Evening, Azad. What's with the birds?"
"They're dead, Jim!"
According to Mirpur police, Azad is a regular supplier of dead chickens in the area.
Guess there's no selling dead chickens without a permit
A case was filed with Mirpur police station in this connection.
RAB seizes 63 firearms, arrests 202 in Rajshahi
RAJSHAHI, Mar 27:—Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-5 seized 63 firearms along with 124 ammunition and arrested 202 alleged criminals from various parts of Rajshahi division during the last 12 months, reports BSS. RAB sources said, the seized firearms, included nine pistols, 13 revolvers, 15 pipe-guns, three rifles, 10 shutter- guns, five SBBL guns, one air-pistol, several single-barrel guns, 124 ammunition, 40 crude bombs, 14 cocktails and 54 lethal weapons.
You could find more guns under one persons bed in Afghanistan
Other drug items, including 11,906 bottles of phensidyl, 2.650 kilograms of heroin, 17.850 kilograms of hemp, 260 ample of morphine injection, 20-litre alcohol, 81-litre liquor, three bottles of poison and 300 grams of narcotics were recovered. In addition to recovering 290 sacs of chemicals, 5.5 kilograms of explosive, seven black and touchstone statues and 5.850 kilograms of raw materials for making phensidyl were also seized by the elite force.
"Careful, Mahmoud! Don't light a match! And don't breathe too deep!"
Some 202 alleged criminals, including a good number of outlawed extremists were brought to book.
"Awright, youse! Into the paddy wagon wit' yez!"
"All 202 of us?"
Meanwhile, the crime rate has been reduced to a greater extent in the city and its adjoining areas especially in the outlawed infested areas under Rajshahi, Naogaon, Natore, Pabna, Bogra and Sirajganj districts due to the RAB deployment, police and other law-enforcing agency sources said. Talking to BSS President of Rajshahi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI) Lutfor Rahman said the RAB operation had been playing a vital role in ensuring peace and security last year. "We are relieved from anxiety since the RAB operation started and this should be continued for smooth running of our business," Rahman said adding that drug lords and smugglers in the region should be arrested and tried. People of all religious communities have celebrated their respective religious festivals with peace and enthusiasm last year as the law and order improved remarkably, police sources said.
Leaving out the usual grenades being tossed into said religious festivals.
7 bombs recovered in Jessore
"Honey, have you seen my bombs?"
"Oh, dear! I think I left them in Jessore. I took them out of my purse when I was looking for my wallet..."
JESSORE, Mar 28: The police here today recovered seven bombs from different places and sent those to explosive experts of Bangladesh Army for investigation, reports BSS. According to Kotwali thana, police recovered one bomb from in front of the gate of local journalist Hanif Dakua''s house and the rest from the Government Chicken Farm at Shankarpur.
The old "exploding chicken" gag
A threatening letter was found with the bomb sent to Hanif, photojournalist of the Daily Loksamaj.
"Dear Hanif, stop taking my picture. "
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Am I the only one who thinks that the Crossfire Gazette is really written by some Harvard intern who's spending a semester having nonstop laughs? It's too consistently funny to be real.
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Other drug items, including 11,906 bottles of phensidyl, 2.650 kilograms of heroin, 17.850 kilograms of hemp, 260 ample of morphine injection, 20-litre alcohol, 81-litre liquor, three bottles of poison and 300 grams of narcotics were recovered.
Hey you know a fella good have a pretty good time in Karachi with all this stuff.
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We had two bags of grass, 75 pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers . . . and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.
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We had two bags of grass, 75 pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers . . . and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.
It's important too be prepared. It's a 500 miles run and who knows what might be lacking at the destination?
Heh... I used to could name all no Sunday sales/dry counties in Florida, I'm seriously slipping.
A militia led by a Somali warlord and lawmaker opposed to plans by the new government to establish itself in the town of Baidoa, took control of the southwestern trading centre yesterday, throwing the peace process into question.
Heavy fighting between militias led by two lawmakers in Somalia's new parliament broke out on Saturday. The fighting in Baidoa was between a clan faction allied to neighbouring Ethiopia, commanded by Hassan Mohamed Nur Shargudud, and a group led by Mohamed Ibrahim Habsadeh.
After heavy fighting at dawn, Habsadeh's forces were in control of Baidoa, 300 kilometres northwest of Mogadishu, by midday. Shargudud's forces withdrew to a village about 10 kilometres outside of Baidoa.
''The town is now peaceful, calm and the business activities are back to normal,'' Habsadeh said by telephone from Baidoa.
Casualty figures were not immediately available, though five people were reported killed on Saturday.
The two men have disagreed about where the new government, currently in exile in Kenya, should be established and the role of Ethiopian troops as peacekeepers to protect the interim government.
Ethiopian-backed Somali warlords, now lawmakers _ and the Ethiopian-backed President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, have suggested setting up the new government in Baidoa and in Jowhar, 80 kilometres (50 miles) north of Mogadishu because the capital is too dangerous. Yusuf has also called for Ethiopian and other regional peacekeepers to protect the new government.
Habsadeh and other Somali leaders who consider Ethiopia an enemy have rejected both proposals, causing a split among the warlords who took part in the peace process to form the new government. Mediators have said that reconciliation efforts have stalled, placing the peace process in danger.
Islamic fundamentalists, who make up a small percentage of Somali society, have also opposed the new government.
Shargudud's militia attempted to organize a public demonstration of support for Yusuf and his proposals in Baidoa when Habsadeh's men prevented it. The confrontation deteriorated into heavy fighting with rocket-propelled grenades, anti-aircraft guns and small arms on Saturday.
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Warlord and Lawmaker. I thought the koran was the ultimate and final authority.
Fighting broke out between militias loyal to Mr. Habsadeh and a rival militia commanded by Hassan Mohamed Nur Shargudud. Both men are members of the transitional parliament, temporarily based in Nairobi.
"Mister Speaker! Point of order!"
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They reportedly disagreed over whether the new government should be relocated from Kenya to the former Somali capital, Mogadishu, or to two cities near it, Baidoa and Jowhar.
"Arrrr! Baidoa!"
"Yarrr! Jowhar!"
"Less taste!"
"More filling!"
"Go fer yer guns, Hassan!"
Jabril Ibrahim Abdulle is the co-director for the Center for Research and Dialogue, based in Mogadishu.
Bet that's a lonely job...
Mr. Abdulle told English to Africa reporter William Eagle that Mr. Habsadeh favors having the Somali capital in Mogadishu.
"Harrr! Yez can't have the capital in Baidoa, 'cuz I'm in control of Baidoa! I'll kill the first guy dat passes legislation in Baidoa!"
He and others are also against the use of troops from front-line states in stabilizing the country.
"Don't need no damn' furriners here, sniffin' 'round our wimmin!"
Mr. Abdulle says he thinks the occupation of Baidoa will prolong the timetable set for introducing troops from Uganda and Sudan, and for moving the interim government from Kenya to Somalia.
Holmes! How do you do it?
He also says there may be common ground among the country's various militias.
"Hrarrr! Let's settle on a standard caliber for ammunition!"
"Hey! That's common ground!"
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For example, he says many would likely support a deadline for establishing security in Mogadishu (April 30). If by then security cannot be established, he says many would probably agree to establish an interim government in more secure towns nearby.
... and if that doesn't work, move someplace a little more civilized. Like Liberia.
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Human is earth's Choicemaker. Psalm 25:12 He is by nature
and nature's God a creature of Choice - and of Criteria.
Psalm 119:30,173 His unique and definitive characteristic
is, and of Right ought to be, the natural foundation of his
environments, institutions, and respectful relations to his
fellow-man. Thus, he is oriented to a Freedom whose roots
are in the Order of the universe.
NOTE: ALL HUMANS MAKE CHOICES ALL DAY LONG -- EVERY DAY, YET THEY CAN'T SEEM TO FIGURE OUT WHO THEY ARE... IQ Test?
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Algerian authorities have killed a senior member of the country's main Islamic militant group with suspected ties to al Qaeda, a security source said on Monday. Malik Nacer, also known as emir Abu Ayoub, was killed by security forces on Sunday, a security source, who declined to be named, told Reuters. "This is a big fish because he has been in the terrorist network for more than a decade and we are happy that he is neutralised," he said.
Nacer, who kept a low profile, was suspected of being a founding member of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, which is on the U.S. list of foreign terrorist organisations. Working on information obtained from rebels captured last week, army units tracked down Nacer to a house in the Zermouri area, some 30 km (20 miles) east of the capital Algiers. Nacer's death came as the military intensified a sweep on rebel strongholds in the north of Algeria.
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ABU AIUB
Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat
MALIK NACER
Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat
Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat
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Thank you Algeria. The only good Salafist is a dead one.
A car bomber killed seven people and wounded nine in Iraq on Monday near a crowd of Shi'ite pilgrims traveling to an annual religious ceremony.
In Baghdad, political leaders met again to try to agree on cabinet posts two months after an election. Iraq's National Assembly is due to meet for its second session on Tuesday and may unveil some senior positions, but not the full cabinet.
Three journalists from Romania, a U.S. ally which has 800 troops in Iraq, were kidnapped in Baghdad on Monday, Romania's President Traian Basescu said.
Police in Iskandariya, south of Baghdad, said the bomber struck on a road leading toward Kerbala, a sacred Shi'ite city where this week hundreds of thousands of pilgrims will mark Arbain, an annual mourning ceremony.
Shi'ites have frequently been attacked by Sunni-led insurgents over the past two years, particularly during religious occasions. At ceremonies in Kerbala and Baghdad last year, more than 130 pilgrims were killed by suicide bombs.
Iraqi police have strengthened security in and around Kerbala over the past week, fearing attacks in the buildup to the commemoration of the death of a 7th century martyr, Imam Hussein. The ritual climaxes on Thursday.
Traditionally, Shi'ites walk from their hometowns to Kerbala for Arbain. The pilgrims were attacked on Monday as they passed through an area south of Baghdad dubbed the "triangle of death" because of the frequency of insurgent strikes.
In apparently related violence, a bicycle strapped with explosives blew up near a police car on the main road from Baghdad to Kerbala, killing two policemen and wounding several other police and civilians, local police said.
In the Doura district of southwestern Baghdad, police chief colonel Abdel Karim al-Fahad was gunned down by unknown assailants as he drove to work. His driver was also killed. In an Internet statement, al Qaeda claimed responsibility.
And in Najaf, south of Kerbala, police major Nour Karim Nour was shot dead by U.S. troops after approaching a checkpoint on the wrong side of the road, Najaf's police chief said. The U.S. military said it had no immediate information.
Despite the violence, Interior Minister Falah al-Naqib told a news conference the insurgency was weakening.
"I think they will collapse very soon," he said. "Maybe by the end of this year we will see a change."
Two of the kidnapped Romanian journalists worked for Romania's Prima TV, where an editor had received a phone call from them saying they had been abducted, Romania's TVR1 said.
It named the two Prima reporters as Marijan Ion and Sorin Miscoci. Also kidnapped was Ovidiu Ohannesian of Romania Libera newspaper, it said. The three had been making a short reporting trip to Baghdad from Romania.
"We have alerted all the secret services and the foreign intelligence services of our allies to solve the case," Basescu told Romanian TVR1 television after returning from a whistlestop visit to Iraq.
Efforts to form a government two months after elections inched ahead on Monday, with Shi'ite and Kurdish leaders -- representing the two groups that did best in the ballot -- saying they were closer to deciding the top jobs.
The votes of two thirds of the 275-seat national assembly are needed to approve the top government posts, a majority the Kurds and Shi'ites can only achieve if they join forces. That mutual dependence has created tensions that have delayed formation of the government.
The National Assembly, which met for the first time on March 16 but has not done so since, was due to reconvene on Tuesday.
Political sources have said the names of the country's president and two deputy presidents, as well as the assembly's speaker and two deputies should be announced at that meeting, and possibly the name of the prime minister.
With about 30 cabinet seats to decide, Shi'ites and Kurds are battling for the most influential ministries, while also trying to ensure that Sunni Arabs, most of whose supporters did not turn out to vote in the election, are not left out.
Ghazi al-Yawar, a Sunni Arab who is currently Iraq's president, was suggested by Shi'ites and Kurds as a candidate for speaker. But aides said on Monday he had declined.
Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari, a Kurd, said political leaders would meet before Tuesday's session to try to agree on an alternative to Yawar.
"The matter will be ultimately decided on the assembly floor tomorrow. We want to preserve balance through an Arab Sunni speaker," Zebari told Reuters.
There are fears the insurgency could intensify if the Sunnis are seen to be marginalised in the composition of the new government, and in the leadership of the assembly which will draft a new constitution.
Shi'ite politicians said Finance Minister Adel Abdel Mehdi was their candidate for one of the vice president posts, and Hussein al-Shahristani, a nuclear scientist who spent 12 years in Saddam's jails, was likely to be a deputy speaker.
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An explosion ripped through a car late Monday in Gaza City, police said, wounding a lawyer who was in the vehicle, as well as two bystanders. Israel Radio reported that the bombing was criminally motivated, but Palestinian police could not confirm that. The lawyer, identified as Majad Jaafarwi, was seriously hurt. The bystanders were treated at the scene for minor injuries. Police closed off the area after ambulances raced to the scene. Palestinians said Jaafarwi, 55, is well known and is not politically involved. The Israeli military spokesman said the military was not involved in the incident.
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hmmmm who could've done it? The Jooooos?
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Islam is infatuated with assassinations and cowardly murders by stealth . Ever since Muhammad trod the earth. He ordered three assassinations of people who mocked him. One was a female poet
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A female poet with a baby nursing at her breast and three other children IIRC, sea cruise. From the ahadith, it seems as though she was a widow, doing the best she could for her kids.
Who knows, (pure speculation follows) maybe she was the author of some of the "tolerant" verses of the Quran and some of the more beautiful poetry and he murdered her in a fit of jealousy? After all, there was already a native Arab monotheistic movement (Hanbali) prior to big Mo. It's all but certain that the compilers of the Quran borrowed from it and other sources.
You do not have to go to the extent of comparing Quran to Torah or the Bible. Just take the life of Muhammad. He was a Psycopathic Pedophile. Not only that,Muhammad was one of the biggest and most ruthless mass murderers of this world. He assassinated his opponents simply for criticizing him. Asma Bint Marwan was a poetess and a mother of five small children, Muhammad sent one to pierce her chest in the middle of the night only because she wrote a poem that Muhammad did not like.
A Moroccan court has granted bail to two former inmates of the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and adjourned the start of their trial on terrorism-related charges to 4 July. The two men, Muhammad Mazuz and Ibrahim Binshakrun, were among five people handed over to the Moroccan authorities by the United States on 1 August last year. The other three, who are due to face terrorism-related charges in the same trial, were freed on bail last December. They are Abd Allah Tabarak, Muhammad Uzar and Ridwan Shakkuri. At Monday's hearing the Rabat criminal court said it was adjourning the trial at the request of the defence. The five face charges of "support for a criminal group by transferring money to Moroccans to create a gang that threatens Morocco's interests" and assistance in forging passports.
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ABD ALLAH TABARAK
al-Qaeda
IBRAHIM BINSHAKRUN
al-Qaeda
MUHAMAD MAZUZ
al-Qaeda
MUHAMAD UZAR
al-Qaeda
RIDWAN SHAKKURI
al-Qaeda
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Interim Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawir has declined a nomination to become the speaker of the new Iraqi parliament, according to an aide to al-Yawir. Sunni Arab MPs have been calling on al-Yawir to refuse the post, offered to him by a Kurdish and Shia bloc who between them have the two-third majority needed to form a government, saying it would signal the marginalisation of their once politically dominant sect. "The president has declined the nomination. He does not wish to say why at present," an official in al-Yawir's office said on Monday.
Al-Yawir has said Sunnis, who won only 17 of the 275 parliamentary seats after largely boycotting the 30 January elections, must retain the presidency to help stabilise the country and ensure their involvement in the political process. The presidency could still go to another Sunni candidate, Fawaz al-Jarba, a general in the former Iraqi army. But al-Jarba is among the few Sunnis on the Shia list which won the election and which many Sunnis are wary of.
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I'm amazed. I didn't think ANYBODY would be able to rise to the level of the Palestinians when it comes to taking every opportunity to miss an opportunity.
Keep it up, Al-Yawn. The competition is stiff and experienced, but you're doing great.
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al yawer wants a VP post, which is not unreasonable, he WAS prez, and they HAVE been saying theyre going to give a VP slot to a Sunni Arab - I dont think they were planning on giving it to Yawer though, but to another (whom?) Yawer isnt so much maneuvering for more Sunni slots, as trying to ensure that HE gets the best one. I think. Pachachi (the defeated State Dept/UN choice for prez back in June) and Husseini (sp?) of the monarchists would be the next most prominent Sunni Arabs in the Assembly, but the Shias are not fond of either, IIUC.
In any case a COMPETENT Shia leadership would have sorted this out a tad earlier. This is all reflecting rather badly on the back room political competence of the UIA leaders (Hakim, Jaafari, Chalabi, Sistani) Sausage is one thing, but it shouldnt take THIS much time to make.
Which isnt necessarily a bad thing. While I certainly applaud the election, and affirm the right of the UIA to take the lead based on the election results, it might not be a bad thing if ordinary Shias consider other alternatives in the NEXT election. More homegrown pols instead of exiles, and maybe even (relatively) more secular pols.
Sudanese authorities have detained 14 people on suspicion of crimes, including rape and murder, committed in the war-wracked western region of Darfur. According to Justice Minister Ali Muhammad Usman Yasin on Monday, the detainees were mostly from the army, security and police forces in South Darfur and not from the numerous Janjawid militias blamed for many of the abuses in the region. "They are accused of rape, arson and other crimes and will go on trial very soon," Yasin said, adding that he was unsure of the precise date of their arrests.
Official media announced on Sunday that Sudan planned to try at least 164 suspects for Darfur crimes - 14 of them in South Darfur and 150 in North Darfur. But Yasin took issue with the latter figure. "That report was inaccurate, because, while 14 people have indeed been arrested in South Darfur, the 150 people in North Darfur have not been arrested or charged but are merely witnesses in various cases unconnected to the crimes in Darfur," the minister said.
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Not mentioned is that the 'victims' (women and young girls who have been driven off to refugee camps and are terrified to even return.... ) have to produce 2 male eye-witnesses.....
Mahmud Zahar, one of the main leaders of the resistance group, said on Monday that disagreements over the PLO charter and the size of Hamas's representation in the council had delayed its incorporation. "Our decision to participate in the PLO is not new. It is a longstanding and clear decision," Zahar said after a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas in the Gaza City.
"All they gotta do is give us what we want."
"What do you want?"
"All of it."
The Hamas leader said some progress has been made in minimizing disagreements. "A committee grouping the general secretaries of the Palestinian factions was set up to look at this issue and the results have opened the way to the entry of Hamas and other factions into the PLO," he said.
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thank you for publishing a chain of command - Mossad
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Put all your rotten eggs in one basket, then toss in a grenade.
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i dont think the charter explicitly affirms israels right to exist - all they did under olso was declare inoperative the parts that deny Israels right to exist. Theyre waiting for a final settlement to affirm. I dont think this studies ambiguity is whats giving Hamas problems - I presume instead its references to a "secular" state that are at issue.
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How about Hamas' charter which calls for the destruction of Israel? Does have to renounce that? Seems to me that if they don't we're back to around 1988.
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yes,Liberal,you are correct but the point is that the PLO is incorporating an organization (Hamas)whose charter calls for the destruction of Israel...be kinda like the Republicans incorporating NOW with its avowedly pro-abortion position...does Hamas tow the PLO line or are they free to call for pushing the jews into the sea?It's all nice that Hamas wants to join the process(assuming you believe that)but it seems to me that some basic ground work needs to be done first...like Hamas renouncing the destruction of the jewish state.
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IIUC some of the existing components to the PLO deny Israels existence. I think that was overlooked in Oslo, cause everybody knew it was Fatah that was important. Arguably Hamas is bigger than any other non-Fatah elements in the PLO, so its a bigger concern.
An Israeli soldier was wounded predawn on Monday when Palestinian fighters hurled an explosive device at occupation troops operating near Jenin. Palestinian fighters opened fire on the troops several times during the raids. During the operation in Jenin and in a nearby village, Israeli soldiers arrested eight Islamic Jihad members.
Meanwhile, an Islamic Jihad leader in the Gaza Strip said Monday that The Palestine Liberation Organization may let his group and Hamas join its ranks for the first time, Reuters reported. The PLO, the main governing body of the Palestinian people, was founded by the late Yasser Arafat in the early 1960s. In a meeting late on Sunday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to Islamic Jihad representatives participating in a meeting of the PLO executive this week to help reinforce the March 17 truce, Islamic Jihad leader Mohammed al-Hindi said. According to him, both his group and Hamas would attend the PLO session "to discuss a basis on which the PLO should be rebuilt" and said the PLO would consider a bid to let them join the organization.
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MOHAMED AL HINDI
Islamic Jihad
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Yasser Arafat
Islamic Jihad
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...Ya know, it's GOTTA be hard to see six inches in front of you with that freakin' hood, much less actually hit a target.
Mike
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Hit a target? You mean like on purpose?
Um, Mike, aren't you setting your sights a little high there, so to speak?
Israel's military has determined that the Palestinian Authority has smuggled surface-to-air missiles from Egypt. Israeli officials said Soviet-origin SA-7 missiles were smuggled from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula to the Gaza Strip over the last few days. They said the missiles were ordered by PA officials and their delivery to the Gaza Strip was facilitated by elements within the PA and Egyptian security forces. On Sunday, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said the SA-7 Strella was transferred from Egypt to the Gaza Strip through any one of 18 tunnels that connect the divided city of Rafah. Mofaz said PA intelligence helped relay the missiles, but did not elaborate. "Last week, several Strellas were smuggled in by Palestinian military intelligence," Mofaz told the Cabinet. "If the Palestinians don't get seize the Strellas, we will."
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Egyptian police detained more than 230 members and supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood before and during an attempt to protest outside Parliament in favor of political reform, a Brotherhood leader said yesterday. The detainees include 84 Brotherhood leaders taken from their homes on Sunday morning and more than 150 demonstrators taken from the streets later in the day, Mohamed Mahdi Akef said in a statement. An Interior Ministry spokesman said police detained 50 people altogether in connection with the protests. Police sources said 12 of those 50 a photographer, four journalists and seven Brotherhood members had since been released. Thousands of police armed with sticks and shields were deployed in central Cairo from early Sunday and prevented most of the Brotherhood supporters from reaching Parliament. But pockets of up to several hundred protested at other sites in the Cairo area.
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Funerals were held for 50 unidentified bodies found last week in a ditch close to the village of al-Hafriya. The village lies within the administrative borders of the southern province of Wasit. "The bodies were found last week scattered in orchards ⊠Most of them were shot in the head. There were women and children among them with obvious traces of torture," a police officer, who refused to be named, told the newspaper. The village is part of the restive district of Madain which was the scene of heavy clashes between US troops and gunmen last week.
Of the 50 bodies only one was identified, according to the officer who gave the victim's name as Faleh Abdulridha. He said the funerals were held following a court order to bury the victims. "All the bodies were photographed before burial to enable relatives identify their beloved ones and their graves," the officer added. It is currently quite common in Iraq to come across unidentified bodies of people stabbed, blown up, beheaded or simply shot in the head. The cost of rampant crime, violence and chaos in Iraq is estimated at tens of thousands of unidentified bodies whose refrigeration and burial has become a nightmare to morgues and police across the country.
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ahhh further exploits to be told by the campfires in the future of the Lions of Islamâ¢
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Settling up of old scores to some extent I am sure.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Islamic rebels ambushed and killed three Yemeni policemen on Tuesday in the second such attack in two days, sparking a fresh hunt for the group, Yemeni security sources said. They said six other policemen were wounded in the ambush by followers of slain anti-U.S. cleric Hussein al-Houthi in Amrah province, 100 km (62 miles) north of the capital Sanaa. On Monday, supporters of Houthi killed seven policemen and wounded 20 in an attack on a police station and an ambush in Saada province, 240 km (150 miles) north of Sanaa.
At least eight militants were killed in Yemen on Monday after they gunned down seven policemen in an ambush, the official Saba news agency reported. It said Yemeni security forces clashed with followers of slain anti-US cleric Hussein al-Houthi after the ambush in Saada province, 240 kilometres north of the capital Sanaa. Local sources said seven policemen and 10 militants died and that clashes were continuing. Houthi, leader of the Believing Youth group and a Zaidi Shia Muslim sect, was killed in September last year after two months of clashes with security forces in which over 200 militants and troops died.
Within the framework of a security pact signed between the two countries, Saudi Arabia and Yemen yesterday exchanged a total of 33 wanted criminals including 25 Saudis, according to the Interior Ministry. "Security agencies in the Kingdom have received 25 Saudis wanted for security-related issues while eight Yemenis detained for security reasons were extradited to the authorities in Sanaa," the Saudi Press Agency said, quoting an official. The official did not say whether any of the 33 were on the list of 26 wanted terrorists issued by the ministry in December 2003. Saudi Arabia has killed or arrested most of the wanted terrorists. 
Authorities said Jayyousi, a former assistant superintendent, was arrested around 12:30 p.m. Sunday at Detroit Metro Airport after stepping off a flight from Amsterdam. U.S. Customs agents detained him after conducting a routine computer check that showed Jayyousi was wanted on a federal terrorism warrant out of Miami. It's unclear whether he was traveling alone. Authorities said he had flown to Amsterdam from Qatar. Jayyousi made a brief appearance Monday in U.S. District Court in Detroit, where the U.S. Attorney's Office requested that he be sent to Miami to answer to the charges. U.S. Magistrate Steven Whelan ordered him held until a detention hearing Wednesday, when his lawyer, 
Additional 2000 Syrian troops have left Lebanon, lowering Syria's military presence to 8,000 soldiers, a military official said on Monday. According to The AP, more troops are due to leave this week. Syrian soldiers were seen dismantling eight positions near the eastern city of Baalbek on Monday. In Chaat, The Associated Press saw Syrian soldiers loading equipment onto 10 trucks, each of which had an anti-aircraft gun in tow. A Lebanese military official said the 2,000 Syrian soldiers had left the eastern Bekaa Valley and returned home during the past few days. Before the assassination of Lebanon's ex-Premier Rafic Al Hariri on Feb. 14, about 14,000 Syrian troops were in Lebanon. Some 4,000 soldiers left in the first phase of a withdrawal that was completed March 17.
Lebanon's military was said to be incapable of providing national defense. Officials said the Lebanese military could not fill the void left by the withdrawal of the Syrian Army. They said the Lebanese military was too inexperienced and ill-equipped to provide either external defense or internal security. Beirut has been rocked by three bombings in a period of eight days.
A few Marines from Dragon Platoon survived an improvised explosive device while moving an abandoned vehicle from an important main supply route from Fallujah to Baghdad.
After finding the suspicious vehicle, the Marines eventually used an armored Humvee to push the car off the side of the road. As Marines were securing the area, the vehicle suddenly exploded while a CNN crew was videotaping.
CNN Reporter Alex Quade said, "I saw he (Allbritton) was okay and I picked up my mini-cam to help record what was happening in front of us."
As a team of patrol police rushed there, the gang members charged cocktails on the team to flee. 
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An explosion ripped through a car late Monday in Gaza City, police said, wounding a lawyer who was in the vehicle, as well as two bystanders. Israel Radio reported that the bombing was criminally motivated, but Palestinian police could not confirm that. The lawyer, identified as Majad Jaafarwi, was seriously hurt. The bystanders were treated at the scene for minor injuries. Police closed off the area after ambulances raced to the scene. Palestinians said Jaafarwi, 55, is well known and is not politically involved. The Israeli military spokesman said the military was not involved in the incident.
A Moroccan court has granted bail to two former inmates of the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and adjourned the start of their trial on terrorism-related charges to 4 July. The two men, 
Interim Iraqi President Ghazi al-Yawir has declined a nomination to become the speaker of the new Iraqi parliament, according to an aide to al-Yawir. Sunni Arab MPs have been calling on al-Yawir to refuse the post, offered to him by a Kurdish and Shia bloc who between them have the two-third majority needed to form a government, saying it would signal the marginalisation of their once politically dominant sect. "The president has declined the nomination. He does not wish to say why at present," an official in al-Yawir's office said on Monday. 
Sudanese authorities have detained 14 people on suspicion of crimes, including rape and murder, committed in the war-wracked western region of Darfur. According to Justice Minister Ali Muhammad Usman Yasin on Monday, the detainees were mostly from the army, security and police forces in South Darfur and not from the numerous Janjawid militias blamed for many of the abuses in the region. "They are accused of rape, arson and other crimes and will go on trial very soon," Yasin said, adding that he was unsure of the precise date of their arrests. 
An Israeli soldier was wounded predawn on Monday when Palestinian fighters hurled an explosive device at occupation troops operating near Jenin. Palestinian fighters opened fire on the troops several times during the raids. During the operation in Jenin and in a nearby village, Israeli soldiers arrested eight 
Israel's military has determined that the Palestinian Authority has smuggled surface-to-air missiles from Egypt. Israeli officials said Soviet-origin SA-7 missiles were smuggled from Egypt's Sinai Peninsula to the Gaza Strip over the last few days. They said the missiles were ordered by PA officials and their delivery to the Gaza Strip was facilitated by elements within the PA and Egyptian security forces. On Sunday, Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz said the SA-7 Strella was transferred from Egypt to the Gaza Strip through any one of 18 tunnels that connect the divided city of Rafah. Mofaz said PA intelligence helped relay the missiles, but did not elaborate. "Last week, several Strellas were smuggled in by Palestinian military intelligence," Mofaz told the Cabinet. "If the Palestinians don't get seize the Strellas, we will."
Egyptian police detained more than 230 members and supporters of the 
