Fierce clashes broke out again yesterday between followers of a radical preacher and government forces in northern Yemen after efforts exerted by tribal chieftains to mediate an end to the standoff failed. Tribal sources in the northern province of Saada said military forces surrounding remote mountainous areas resumed bombardment on hideouts of the preacher Badruddin Al-Houthi, whom the government blames for violence in the province. More than 30 people were killed or wounded yesterday as heavy fighting pitted army troops and counter-terrorism units against the rebels the Al-Shafia and Wadi Nushur (Nushur Valley) areas of Saada province, military and tribal sources said. Meanwhile, the deputy governor of Saada, Hassan Mannaa, escaped an ambush laid by the rebels in the town of Saada yesterday, a source close to Mannaa said. But five of his bodyguards were seriously wounded when his car came under fire.
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Two 16-year-old girls from New York City have been arrested on immigration charges after federal authorities said they planned to become suicide bombers, according to a published report.
The teenagers were arrested March 24 and were being held in a detention center in Leesport, Pa., The New York Times reported Thursday, citing a government document provided by a federal agent.
According to the document, the FBI found that the girls posed "an imminent threat to the security of the United States based upon evidence that they plan to be suicide bombers," the Times said.
The evidence was not described in the document.
Manny Van Pelt, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, a division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, would confirm only that two juveniles had been arrested on "administrative immigration violations" and remained in custody.
The girls — one from Bangladesh, one from Guinea — were living in the United States illegally, the Times reported.
Adam Carroll, a community activist with the Islamic Circle of North America, told the Times one of the girls had been arrested after she stopped attending public high school in September. Federal immigration agents investigated her home and discovered an essay about suicide and Islam on her computer, Carroll said.
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OK, it should be 'teenage mutant jihad muslimahs'.
Not sure I know how to square the "were living in the United States illegally" with "one of the girls had been arrested after she stopped attending public high school".
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The girls â one from Bangladesh, one from Guinea â were living in the United States illegally, the Times reported.
Send them and their families back home. No need for a trial beyond the immigration hearing. Deny them any claims for asylum, just put them on a plane ASAP.
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Why waste time on a hearing. Either you came in legal and have documentation or you don't. It's an easy enough system to negotiate. Make your claims for asylum or whatever up front not after arrest. Post arrest b.s. should not be invited. Planes are too expensive. Let em ride a slow boat or the cheapest option. Bill the parents and perhaps pay the cost of arrest, detention and deportation via forfeiture of their assets. That would change the dynamics.
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sounds more to me like your basic f**ked up suicidal teens, a la Columbine and Red Lake, but expressing it the way youd expect a muslim would, rather than anything connected with terror groups. But you never know.
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"Immigration Detention Centers" are merely the nearest jail. Overstayers are mixed in with the general population of car thieves, assaulters, and drug dealers. It sucks, but no level of government sees it as a problem, and it won't be a problem until an illegal immigrant gets beaten to death by a real criminal.
Which is not to say that being an illegal isn't a crime, but other nations have seperate immigration detention facilities that reflect the fact that illegal aliens deserve a different standard of detention than violent criminals.
JAKARTA: Planning is well under way for a terrorist attack in Indonesia this year that could be as devastating as the 2002 Bali bombings, according to a document obtained by The Straits Times. The document is a letter from a Sumatran-based operative of the Jemaah Islamiah which tells of militants being trained for suicide bombings in the capital.
It was written to the network's top bomb maker Azahari Husin, a Malaysian who has been on the run after plotting three of Indonesia's worst terrorist strikes. A leading Indonesian security official and terrorism expert believes the note is authentic.
Dated Nov 26, 2004, the seven-page letter is written in pidgin Arabic, which is used by religious clerics in boarding schools here. Ansyaad Mbai, a senior Indonesian counter-terrorism official who studied the letter, said: "It is a credible document and corroborates some of our findings in the field that there will be another bombing."
They've been quiet for a while now, I've been expecting a boom
They chose a letter to communicate because the Internet and telephones in the region are being monitored closely, a fact acknowledged in the document itself. The letter also names Palembang and Padang in Sumatra as hiding places for "the tools" of a future terrorist operation.
Ansyaad, who heads the counter-terrorism desk in the Co-ordinating Ministry for Politics and Security, estimated that there were up to 30 JI members involved.
"Indonesia is facing an imminent Bali-style attack from these radicals," he said. "The cells might be splintered but they are still being held together by a common jihadist ideological platform to build an Islamic Caliphate in the region."
American officials here said that the document "tracks with some of the information we have been receiving". Lewis Amselem, the Deputy Chief of Mission in the US Embassy said: "It is in keeping with some of the things that JI militants have done before and are planning to do." — The Straits Times/ANN
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CAIRO, Egypt - An explosion went off at a bazaar popular with tourists near Cairo's al-Azhar mosque Thursday, killing one person and wounding eight, police said. It appeared that at least some tourists were among the wounded, police officials said. Their nationalities were not yet known.
Police did not rule out the possibility that the blast was an accident, but they also were investigating reports that it was caused by a person on a motorcycle, official said.
One of the fabled Cycles Of Violence, no doubt
A number of tourist bazaars surround al-Azhar, one of the most prestigious Islamic institutions in the Sunni Muslim world, in Cairo's old city. Egypt has largely seen calm since it suppressed a fierce campaign of violence by Islamic militants seeking to overthrow the government in the 1990s.
The last major attacks came in late 1997. In September that year, two gunmen fired automatic rifles at a tour bus parked outside the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo, killing 10 people — mostly German tourists. A month later, militants killed 58 foreign tourists and four Egyptians in an attack at a pharaonic temple in Luxor, southern Egypt.
Last October, explosions hit several hotels in the Sinai Peninsula, including one in the resort of Taba that killed 34 people and was linked by Egyptian authorities to Israeli-Palestinian violence.
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What is the sound of chicken coming home to roost? In ME, it seems to be, definitely, a boom.
EFL: BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamist Shi'ite Ibrahim Jaafari was named as Iraq's next prime minister on Thursday, moving the country a step closer to its first democratically elected government in more than 50 years.
Jaafari announced his own nomination shortly after Iraq's new president, Kurdish former guerrilla leader Jalal Talabani, was sworn into office in parliament, along with two deputies.
"Today represents a big step forward for Iraq and a big responsibility for me," Jaafari, who spent more than two decades opposing Saddam Hussein from exile, told reporters. His appointment to the most powerful post under the interim constitution had long been agreed in principle but was held up by weeks of bargaining over other jobs among the Shi'ite and Kurdish groups that dominate the parliament elected on Jan. 30. Jaafari is seen as a moderate Islamist, favoring a strong role for Muslim teachings but reaching out to all communities.
U.S. officials say they are confident Iraq will not emulate Shi'ite Iran in establishing an Islamic state hostile to Washington. Jaafari says he backs the U.S. military presence in Iraq -- at least until the country's own security forces are better able to tackle the mostly Sunni Arab insurgency. He said on Thursday that interim prime minister Iyad Allawi, a secular Shi'ite appointed under U.S. supervision 10 months ago, had resigned but would carry on as a caretaker while Jaafari worked on the finishing touches to his cabinet line-up.
"I hope within one or two weeks maximum I will name the cabinet," a smiling Jaafari said after his formal appointment by Talabani and the Shi'ite and Sunni Arab vice presidents. "I am going to do my best to finish within two weeks."
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Bin Laden needed a role in the Iraqi insurgency, and Zarqawi needed outside support. How a deadly deal was made.
Newsweek April 11 issue - Hardly anyone was more surprised by Iraq's insurgency than Osama bin Laden. The terrorist chief had never foreseen its sudden, ferocious spread, and he was likewise unprepared for the abrupt rise of its most homicidal commander, Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi. Bin Laden and his aides knew the Jordanian-born Palestinian from Zarqawi's Afghan days, but mostly as a short-tempered bully and a troublemaker. So in the late summer of 2003, unwilling to sit on the sidelines, bin Laden sent two of his most trusted men to assess the Iraqi resistance and carve out a leading role for Al Qaeda. "The resistance happened faster than we expected, and differently, so we were not prepared to assist and direct it," one of the two envoys later told a senior Tali-ban official. "The sheik sent me to see how we could help."
The Taliban man recently told the envoy's story to NEWSWEEK. He personally heard the account from the envoy, a top-ranking Qaeda member known as Abdul Hadi al-Iraqi, at a meeting last December in western Pakistan. The Taliban official, who uses the name Zabihullah, is a liaison between his group and Al Qaeda. Many of the account's details are borne out by interviews with other well-informed jihadis. Officials familiar with U.S. intelligence, while refusing to discuss many of the story's specifics, confirm that its fundamentals are accurate.
The two bin Laden envoys traveled overland from Afghanistan separately. One never got to Iraq. Authorities in Iran later announced that they had apprehended the Egyptian-born Saif al-Adel, and he seems to be there still. Al-Iraqi did better. Those who know him say he fits in perfectly wherever he goes. Born in Iraqi Kurdistan about 1960, he rose to the rank of major in Saddam Hussein's Army before joining the jihad in Afghanistan in the late 1980s. He speaks not only Arabic but Urdu, Kurdish, the Waziri tribal dialect of Pashtu and a courtly form of Persian. In the palatial salons of the gulf states he has raised millions of dollars for Al Qaeda. But dressed for the part he can easily pass for a mountain tribesman. "He's just like any Afghan," says Zabihullah. "He doesn't have the arrogance and formality of other Arabs."
Al-Iraqi needed all the poise and charm he could muster for his mission to the insurgents. By the time he reached Iraq, in late 2003, Zarqawi had built a fearsome team of resistance fighters. The Jordanian considered himself to be the obvious choice for Al Qaeda's top man in Iraq. He was livid at the news that bin Laden had chosen al-Iraqi for the job. "I'm already here!" Zarqawi told al-Iraqi. "So why is the sheik sending someone else?"
No one but Zarqawi could see much mystery there. Zarqawi was widely disliked in Afghanistan. Even bin Laden was repulsed by reports of his vicious temper and gratuitous cruelty. In the late 1990s, commanding a unit of Arab irregulars near Afghanistan's Iranian border, the Jordanian terrorized local civilians and infuriated Taliban leaders. Mullah Mohammed Omar's men had just taken control of the area and were trying to win the trust of its mostly Shiite inhabitants. When Zarqawi wasn't busy persecuting Shiites, he wrangled with other Arabs and with the local Taliban chief.
Zarqawi had "a terrifying face," al-Iraqi recalled later. But the envoy said he knew at once that Zarqawi was exactly what Al Qaeda needed. "There is no —doubt that he is the best man to lead foreign and Iraqi insurgents in Iraq," al-Iraqi told bin Laden when he got back to the caves, according to Zabihullah's account. "He deserves our support." The envoy has made three trips to Iraq since then. Just before the last, in September, a London-based Arabic-language daily quoted Zarqawi as repudiating bin Laden and Al Qaeda: "I have not sworn allegiance to the sheik and I am not working within the framework of his organization." But after meeting again with al-Iraqi, the Jordanian proclaimed his loyalty to bin Laden and announced a new name for his terrorist group: "Al Qaeda in the Land of the Two Rivers." "I'm a loyal soldier and ready to sacrifice myself to the sheik, who is our leader," he told al-Iraqi.
Bin Laden replied by issuing an audiotape that praised Zarqawi's exploits and called him the "prince of Al Qaeda in Iraq." The tape instructed all Qaeda supporters to follow Zarqawi's orders. Bin Laden had already made his wishes known to Zarqawi via al-Iraqi. "My greatest wish is for you to keep the resistance alive and growing, to increase the number of local insurgents and give the Iraqis more decision-making powers," Zarqawi was told. "Make it as much of an Iraqi organization as possible." Bin Laden also urged his prince to widen the war against America: "We have to expand our attacks on the enemy outside Iraq."
The envoy is proud of his work. "I'm the person who broke the silence and solved the difficulties between Zarqawi and the Al Qaeda leadership," he told Zabihullah. Donations to Al Qaeda's coffers had dried up as bin Laden's top men were killed or captured. Now private money is once again flooding in. Bin Laden himself is looking more confident and relaxed—maybe too relaxed, al-Iraqi said. When he visited the Qaeda leader in November, the envoy noticed fewer checkpoints than previously along the trail. "The sheik has a new mentality and is more healthy," he told Zabi-hullah. On his last visit to Iraq, the envoy got an offer from Zarqawi: if life got too risky in the mountains along Pakistan's border, bin Laden would be welcome to take refuge with him among the insurgents in Iraq. The envoy politely declined. At present, the Qaeda leader seems to be doing just fine where he is.
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Excerpts from his emails follow. Names blocked out.
"Yeah, I don't know what the news is saying, but it was no small deal. I was assigned to go with a group of Humvees and drive around, so I pass up a few humvees and finally decide to get into one, get this, *******'s in it! He just convoyed up from Bucca! So me and ******* were driving around together through all the morters and stuff! It was great!"
"Well, i guess i can actually wear my combat badge without feeling guilty now. i was up in a tower when the first mortar rounds fell. an ice truck got hit in front of my tower so i grabbed my rifle, shotgun and ammo and ran for the bunker. so i had ALL my ammo which was a good thing cuz the guy i was sharing the bunker with didn't have any. i spent the battle in a bunker covering the north gate. after the firing died down a little i had to us the FN-303 to make sure the detainees didn't riot. they rioted in other compounds, but not mine. it was crazy shit man. don't believe what the news says, the marines killed ALOT of people. i heard CNN say that only one insurgent was killed...bull????. and despite what the news says, no marines were killed. i saw the first mortar hit, and i was there to see the last one. i saw the WHOLE thing, fun stuff. even though ******* is in camp Bucca way in the south, he happened to be up here for convoy duty, so him and ***** where roving together. but the battle really ended when the apaches showed up. after that they were ????ed, they were doomed. there are body parts laying around all over the place outside. so im still doing good and I'm ok. wish you were here! Well, the marines are actually going home in a few days, so they don't need anything. only 3 marines were seriously injured. one will lose an eye. the other two i don't know about."
"Yo! I think the news reports are saying that one insurgent died. Not true at all. We only found one body, but that's because they drag their dead away. However, there is a ditch surrounding Abu Ghraib and the Marines that manned the towers said that they were literally mowing fools down. IN the morning everyone saw the ditch, it was filled with body parts. I'm sorry, but you find someone's jaw, I'd count that as a kill, but I'm not the defense department. We'll tell you all about it when we get to Utah. As for now, I'm doing good. Oh, and please thank The Horde for me. the movies and music were all very much appreciated! Adios for now."
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I think the policy of not acknowedging enemy body counts works against the US. When a situation like this happens and a lot of jihadi bodies are stacked up, I think a count should be made known and images broadcast. If not for US tv, then for Iraqi and Arab tv to drive home the knowledge that to F with the US military is to meet certain and unromantic death.
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I cannot find one mention of a Miranda warning being issued to any of the Minutemen who had showed up for what they obviously thought was "Visiting Day at Abu Ghraib". I'm sure the ACLU will look into this for us.
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I think the policy of not acknowedging enemy body counts works against the US.
Absolutely not.
Body count games are an instant win for the press. They'll ALWAYS accept the numbers claimed by America's enemies, and if the military presents numbers that differ at all, the press will play "gotcha". If the military estimate is too high, then "as in Vietnam, reports are being inflated to make the situation look good". If the military estimate is too low, "critics believe the military is underplaying the lethality and randomness of their firepower in order to curtail criticism".
More importantly, body counts are meaningless in determining who won. You want to know how this battle turned out? You sure as hell don't count corpses -- you look at the fact that we still hold Abu Ghraib and that none of the inmates got out. Sounds like a victory to me.
No body count games, ever. Just the facts on the mission, please.
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Iâm sorry, but you find someoneâs jaw, Iâd count that as a kill, but Iâm not the defense department.
Somebody share that line with Roger Simon, that just has to make it into the next Moses Wine novel.
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They'll ALWAYS accept the numbers claimed by America's enemies, and if the military presents numbers that differ at all, the press will play "gotcha".
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We don't need to play up body counts. Just keep taking them out. If more want to play, fine. Take them out, too. Then all the Saudi dads and moms can talk to each other and sometime it will hit them like a ton of bricks that all of their boys are gone. Then they will start asking questions about a possible Black Hole.
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You got it, body counts a lose-lose game
. Meanwhile spread the word about our special lockup.
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I wonder how many mass attacks these morons are going to try. This has to be the work of replacement higher-ups who are either so stupid or so desperate that they will try anything. I read that this was an extremely well executed plan...and they got their asses wiped. DO NOT, repeat DO NOT f**ck with the US Marines!
Random Probabilities is pleased to bring you this long situation report with 19 (!) photos from an Army officer in Tikrit - including preparation for and execution of an amphibious assault.
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The preparations for the amphibious operation reminds me of when Easy Company had to employ boats to evacuate the Red Devils after the failed attack on Arnhem.
Saddam Hussein watched the televised election of Iraq's new president from his jail cell yesterday and was "clearly upset", a senior official said. Jalal Talabani, a former Kurdish guerrilla commander and sworn enemy of Saddam, was elected to the highest office in a parliamentary ballot, bringing a new government a step closer. Under Saddam the only way Mr Talabani would have left his northern redoubt was in chains or a coffin, but yesterday he arrived in Baghdad in a blaze of triumph. Adel Abdul-Mahdi, a Shia who is finance minister in the outgoing government, and Ghazi al-Yawer, a Sunni Arab tribal leader, were elected vice-presidents. It was galling viewing for Saddam, according to Bakhtiar Amin, the human rights minister, who said the former dictator had chosen to view the recording of the parliamentary vote. "He was clearly upset. He realised that it was over, that a democratic process had taken place and that there was a new, elected president," Mr Amin told Reuters.
Now if we can only achieve democracy in Berkeley ...
He said the footage demonstrating the progress towards a democratically elected government could change attitudes in the prison camp where Saddam and his former aides are being held. "They know for sure that they are not coming back and my feeling is that they may be inclined to be more honest when they go before the tribunal," he said. Mr Talabani, 72, promised pluralism and respect for Iraq's Islamic identity in his acceptance speech. "After being liberated from the most hideous of dictatorships our people - the Arabs, the Kurds, the Turkomans and the Assyrians - want to build a new Iraq free from dictatorship and tyranny, a democratic, unified Iraq," he said.
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Except, of course, for those who desire separate but equal Kurdistan, Turkmenostan, Arabostan, Sunnistan, Shiastan, and ... waitaminute ... Assyrians? I thought they were all dead?
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Saddam Hussein watched the televised election of Iraq's new president from his jail cell yesterday and was "clearly upset", a senior official said.
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Take away the TV.
No, leave it on. He's watching the people he oppressed for years take back their country. Think of it as slow mental torture. Soon it'll be time for the first trials to start, that'll be even better. He'll know they're testing the legal machinery, warming it up and getting the rust off. When it's all greased and humming along, it'll be his turn in the box.
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Bobby, why would be Assyrians all dead? Is it remotely possible that your edumacayshun is full of holes? Or are you one of these easy, breezy types... air going to one ear hole is coming out unadulterated from another?
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I'm with Steve. If he doesn't wanna watch, staple his eyelids to his forehead and MAKE him watch
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Give him a quick five day trial on one good charge. Obtain a conviction. Sentence him to extinction. Let him cry on appeal. Then whack him and wrap him for delivery to his relatives. He doesn't need TV or toture. They need to do him quickly, fairly and cheaply.
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This should be like "A Clockwork Orange" done right. We'll need to use something other than Beethoven though.
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"We'll need to use something other than Beethoven though."
Agreed. What about disco? Hours and hours and hours of disco. Very LOUD disco.
He'll be a quivvering mound of jelly, in about a week. Sooner than that, if there is extra Donna Summer.
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If you listen to it enough, Disco kind of grows on you. Especially if you didn't grow up with Rock and ROll and consider it blasphemy. Believe it or not, it is the same with Hip Hop.
Something that will torture him, play him Bjork, 24/7.
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24/7 of Captain Beefheart with his 64th and 128th notes at 200mph.
Start with something easy like "Trout Mask Replica" and work from there. beefheart.com
The idea to provide Mr. Hussein with a television for the occasion was taken to Mr. Amin by Kosrat Rasoul, a top official in the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the Kurdish party that Mr. Talabani founded, Mr. Amin said.
"We want them to know that they are not presidents or ministers or anything other than prisoners," Mr. Amin said. "Their time is over."
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How bout
When the Saints Go Marchin In?
It's Western, it has that Crusader feel to it--bet he'd pull out the last of his hair over it.
Remember, it's not what bugs us-it's what would bug HIM.
An update on the Abu Ghraib where 40 US personnel were reported wounded. Turns out 7 required surgery and 16 were superficial. Soldiers and Marines successfully repelled a well-coordinated attack by 40-60 terrorists on Forward Operating Base Abu Ghraib April 2 at about 7 p.m. Abu Ghraib is a detention facility for 3,400 detainees as well as an Iraqi-run prison. In an attempt to gain access to the prison, terrorists launched a simultaneous attack in multiple locations using indirect fires, rocket-propelled grenade fire, small arms fire and a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device. Just as the sun was setting, indirect fire from 81 mm and 120 mm mortars began impacting the operating base. This was followed by multiple RPG attacks and a large volume of small arms fire focused on two guard towers, one on the northwestern and the other on the southeastern corner on the operating base. Using the cover of the mortar fire and the intense fire on the guard towers, the terrorists launched a VBIED to penetrate the perimeter wall near the southeastern guard tower. Marines defending the base returned fire and the VBIED exploded before it reached the perimeter. Marines in the tower were forced to evacuate but were quickly reinforced by a quick reaction force.
The terrorists, using residential areas for cover and concealment, then conducted a ground assault towards the southeastern tower. With reinforcements from the quick reaction force, Marines and Soldiers halted the advance of the terrorists. Additionally, Apache helicopters and artillery fire began to engage the remnants of the attackers. The terrorists were forced to withdraw after suffering an estimated 50 casualties. The attack was over by 9 p.m. US forces sustained seven wounded who were evacuated to a combat support hospital and sixteen minor injuries from shrapnel who have been returned to duty. Additionally, thirteen detainees were also wounded from indirect fire, and all detainees remained accounted for.
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Yessss.....more evidence of quagmire and the growing power of the oppressed-freedom-loving-people-who-didn't-need-a-US-invasion-to-spoil-their-country.
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I believe this shows more than ever the desperation of the terrorist insurgency. I mean, how many times have they attacked abu ghraib now? And with no real success. Sure, every serviceman hurt is horrible, but you know there's a new stack of dead jihadi's every time they pull these hairbrained schemes. And what is the significance of Abu Ghraib? Is it simply symbolic to them due to the "scandal" or is there some other significance?
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Oh and Bobby, not sure if you are a troll or being sarcastic, but what are you smoking? If a quagmire includes free elections, I'm all for quagmires throughout the ME.
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Bobby's cleverly employing sarcasm....jeesh. Phil B bashes him for a "cryptic post" on Chicago (the link was to the ChiTrib) and "Quagmire!" is taken at face value? Everyone have a cup of coffee...
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Just make it decaf.
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Sarcasm? On Rantburg? What *is* the world coming to? Next we'll be having snarky remarks.
All I gotta say is, if this is a quagmire, count me in! Quackmire, quackmire!
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Still alleged to inhabit the vast Iraqi mires by much of the American and European news media, the rare and elusive Iraqi Qwag has been hunted nearly to the brink of extinction.
THE GREAT IRAQ QWAG HUNT is thus established to help find the last of these endangered critters.
THE GREAT IRAQ QWAG HUNT is open to those who have photographic evidence of the possible existence of any Iraqi Qwag(s) that may still exist in Iraq.
THE PRIZE: THE HONOR of having actually taken a picture of a Qwag, or photoshopped one into existence, THUS PROVING that Iraq does indeed have Qwags in its mires. Successful pictures may appear on PAGE ONE of the New York Times or The Guardian (U.K.) Topless Qwags may appear on Page 3 of The Sun (U.K.) Any living captured Iraqi Qwags may be allowed to nominate Hillary Clinton at the next Democratic National Convention.
Iraqi Qwags are believed to look something either like winged nutria-like amphibious dwarf zebra chupacabras, or something entirely otherwise, but nobody seems to know for sure. They are often seen lurking in pictures of US military personnel waving their hands while surrounded by grinning children.
But there are many, many people who have staked their reputations and careers on them being there. So, HELP THEM OUT AND FIND THOSE QWAGS!
Law enforcement agencies on the forth day of their disarmament drive seized 25 illegal arms in the adjoining areas of Gilgit on Wednesday, sources in the Northern Areas Home Department told Daily Times. Sources said that the Northern Areas administration was helped by the army, Rangers, Northern Areas Scouts and police and they had seized 446 weapons so far. At least 21 people have been arrested for illegal possession of weapons. Sources said that the telephone link of the Gilgit city with the rest of country was restored in the afternoon and that the disarmament drive would continue in Gilgit's adjoining areas.
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I think they need the entire assembly (head, torso, arms, legs, et al), not just the arms, on a slab with a toe tag, but that's just me. They can put little X's on the eyes of the deaders, too, cuz it helps to clarify which ones still require some personal attention.
We expected nothing less from the Lions of Islam...
Two suspected gun-toting militants launched an attack yesterday against the biggest India-Pakistan peace gesture in decades, storming a guesthouse holding more than two dozen passengers of the first bus across divided Kashmir, sources said.
"Hmmm... Legume, those men were wearing table cloths across their faces and waving AKs, firing indiscriminately, and their targets were unarmed civilians. I suspect they were gun-toting militants!"
"Inspector! How do you do it?"
They set on fire the heavily guarded complex but security forces said the passengers were safe. Both attackers were killed and at least three people were injured, said Director-General of Police Gopal Sharma, the state's police chief before the sprawling building was gutted by flames 100-feet high. Smoke poured from the windows of the guesthouse as people jumped from the ground floor assisted by soldiers. The heat was so intense that firefighters could not enter the building. The raid was the biggest attack yet targeted at the bus service, set to be inaugurated today by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. It will connect Srinagar and Muzaffarabad, the capitals of the Himalayan region divided for decades between India and Pakistan.
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QUETTA: Four rockets slammed into Kohlu on Wednesday, shattering windows at several homes, an official said. No one was reported injured in the attack. Two rockets landed in a field near the homes of Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) workers in Kohlu, said Frontier Corps Lt Col Rizwan Malik. The two other rockets hit a wall around the houses. The blasts shattered windows but no one was injured, he added. No one claimed responsibility and Lt Col Malik would not speculate who might be behind the attack. Separately, saboteurs destroyed four power transformers by shooting at them in the Nushki area on Wednesday, resulting in a complete power blackout. The saboteurs managed to escape. Concerned authorities are working to restore electricity to the area.
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Antiterrorism court's Rawalpindi division and capital territory Judge Safdar Hussain Malik indicted eight suspects arrested for involvement in plotting a suicide bomb attack on Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. The suspected suicide bombers belong to banned organisations. Adjourning the hearing till April 19, the court has summoned prosecution witnesses for recording their statements. The accused have pleaded not guilty.
"Nope. Nope. Wudn't us."
Nisar Ahmad, Moulvi Siddique, Qari Ahmad Khan, Abdul Munim, Qari Abdul Basit, Qari Suleman, Noor Badshah and approver Suleman alias Zohair were presented in the court from Adiala central jail, along with their defence councils. The prime minister was targeted in a suicide bomb attack on July 30, 2004 during an election campaign near Fateh Jang. One attacker Irfan was killed and the explosive belt of the second accused did not open in time. 7 people were killed in the attack and 45 were injured.
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MULTAN: The Border Military Police (BMP) and Levies averted a hostile situation when more than 200 Qaiserani tribesmen besieged the Rodho gas fields in Taunsa Sharif on Tuesday after security forces arrested seven Qaiserani tribesmen for attempting to kidnap Chinese and Pakistani engineers at the gas field.
The arrested tribesmen including Sardar Shabbir Ahmed Qaiserani, a local councillor, Imran Qaiserani, Rehmatullah and Farrukh Qaiserani had reportedly tried to take 20 Chinese and some Pakistani engineers working at the gas field hostage because the management of the company exploring gas at the fields had allegedly not fulfilled its commitment to provide jobs to local tribesmen.
"Arrrr! I'm here for my new job!"
"Hokay. What kinda skills you got?"
"Shootin', rocket launchin', grenade tossin', pickup truck ridin', an' knife fightin'! An' I memorized the Koran!"
"I feel more secure already!"
Later, more than 200 Qaiserani tribesmen encircled the area and stopped water to the engineers' camps. However, the arrested men were released after two hours of negotiations with the tribesmen that ended at 2:00am on Wednesday. "Although we have released the seven tribesmen who had barged into the engineers' camps to press the company's management to accept their demands, a case has been registered against them under sections 354 and 324 of the PPC. BMP personnel have also been suspended for negligence because the armed tribesmen entered the camps despite presence of the security forces," said BMP Commandant Imtiaz Hussain Shah. He said the Qaiserani tribe had agreed to provide security to the Chinese engineers and that the tribe's grievances would be addressed in a meeting in Taunsa Sharif on April 17.
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BAGHDAD - A US soldier was killed when insurgents ambushed a patrol in Baghdad with a roadside bomb and small arms fire, the American military said on Wednesday. A military statement did not specify when the attack took place.
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BASRA: Iraqi security forces seized four tonnes of hashish being smuggled into the country from Iran, officials in Basra said on Wednesday. They said six people had been arrested in the operation to seize the drugs, found in a large truck east of Basra, Iraq's second city, 550 km (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad. Iraq's government has accused neighbouring countries including Iran of failing to do enough to stop insurgents, drugs and weapons crossing the country's porous borders.
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KARACHI: Gunmen opened fire at a roadside teashop killing three people and injuring two others, police said on Wednesday. It was not clear who was behind the attack in Gulshan-e-Rahman. City police chief Tariq Jamil said the dead included Mohammed Zeeshan, a former Mutahida Qami Movement member. A passer-by and a teashop employee were the other two killed. "It seems to be a planned killing," said Jamil. Separetely, unidentified gunmen killed Maulana Amin Qadri, member of the old men's committee of the Sunni Tehrik, in the Pirababd area on Wednesday. The gunmen opened fire at Qadri, 55, near a government school and fled.
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Israel's Shin Beth internal security service said Wednesday that it had dismantled an intelligence cell of the Lebanese resistance group Hizbullah in the occupied West Bank. Three Palestinians suspected of being recruited into the cell were detained in the northern West Bank city of Nablus on February 25, a statement said. The primary suspect is a 21-year-old student from nearby An-Najah University, Wassam Nasser, who is accused of having been recruited by the resistance group and given military and intelligence training during a trip to Lebanon, the statement said. Shin Beth officers charge that the student sent Hizbullah chiefs pictures of Israeli roadblocks and bases around Nablus via Internet. Two Palestinians of the same age were also detained on suspicion of assisting the intelligence gathering.
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there'll be more. If Hezbollah fails at whipping up the Paleos against the Jooos, their whole reason for being may collapse. The lebanese don't want them.
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Lebanese resistance group, my ass. If the Hizoblahblah is Lebanese, then Bush is Korean.
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Fierce clashes broke out again yesterday between followers of a radical preacher and government forces in northern Yemen after efforts exerted by tribal chieftains to mediate an end to the standoff failed. Tribal sources in the northern province of Saada said military forces surrounding remote mountainous areas resumed bombardment on hideouts of the preacher Badruddin Al-Houthi, whom the government blames for violence in the province. More than 30 people were killed or wounded yesterday as heavy fighting pitted army troops and counter-terrorism units against the rebels the Al-Shafia and Wadi Nushur (Nushur Valley) areas of Saada province, military and tribal sources said. Meanwhile, the deputy governor of Saada, Hassan Mannaa, escaped an ambush laid by the rebels in the town of Saada yesterday, a source close to Mannaa said. But five of his bodyguards were seriously wounded when his car came under fire.
Saddam Hussein watched the televised election of Iraq's new president from his jail cell yesterday and was "clearly upset", a senior official said. Jalal Talabani, a former Kurdish guerrilla commander and sworn enemy of Saddam, was elected to the highest office in a parliamentary ballot, bringing a new government a step closer. Under Saddam the only way Mr Talabani would have left his northern redoubt was in chains or a coffin, but yesterday he arrived in Baghdad in a blaze of triumph. Adel Abdul-Mahdi, a Shia who is finance minister in the outgoing government, and Ghazi al-Yawer, a Sunni Arab tribal leader, were elected vice-presidents. It was galling viewing for Saddam, according to Bakhtiar Amin, the human rights minister, who said the former dictator had chosen to view the recording of the parliamentary vote. "He was clearly upset. He realised that it was over, that a democratic process had taken place and that there was a new, elected president," Mr Amin told Reuters.
Soldiers and Marines successfully repelled a well-coordinated attack by 40-60 terrorists on Forward Operating Base Abu Ghraib April 2 at about 7 p.m. Abu Ghraib is a detention facility for 3,400 detainees as well as an Iraqi-run prison. In an attempt to gain access to the prison, terrorists launched a simultaneous attack in multiple locations using indirect fires, rocket-propelled grenade fire, small arms fire and a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device. Just as the sun was setting, indirect fire from 81 mm and 120 mm mortars began impacting the operating base. This was followed by multiple RPG attacks and a large volume of small arms fire focused on two guard towers, one on the northwestern and the other on the southeastern corner on the operating base. Using the cover of the mortar fire and the intense fire on the guard towers, the terrorists launched a VBIED to penetrate the perimeter wall near the southeastern guard tower. Marines defending the base returned fire and the VBIED exploded before it reached the perimeter. Marines in the tower were forced to evacuate but were quickly reinforced by a quick reaction force.
Two suspected gun-toting militants launched an attack yesterday against the biggest India-Pakistan peace gesture in decades, storming a guesthouse holding more than two dozen passengers of the first bus across divided Kashmir, sources said. 
QUETTA: Four rockets slammed into Kohlu on Wednesday, shattering windows at several homes, an official said. No one was reported injured in the attack. Two rockets landed in a field near the homes of Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA) workers in Kohlu, said Frontier Corps Lt Col Rizwan Malik. The two other rockets hit a wall around the houses. The blasts shattered windows but no one was injured, he added. No one claimed responsibility and Lt Col Malik would not speculate who might be behind the attack. Separately, saboteurs destroyed four power transformers by shooting at them in the Nushki area on Wednesday, resulting in a complete power blackout. The saboteurs managed to escape. Concerned authorities are working to restore electricity to the area.
Antiterrorism court's Rawalpindi division and capital territory Judge Safdar Hussain Malik indicted eight suspects arrested for involvement in plotting a suicide bomb attack on Prime Minister 
MULTAN: The Border Military Police (BMP) and Levies averted a hostile situation when more than 200 Qaiserani tribesmen besieged the Rodho gas fields in Taunsa Sharif on Tuesday after security forces arrested seven Qaiserani tribesmen for attempting to kidnap Chinese and Pakistani engineers at the gas field.
KARACHI: Gunmen opened fire at a roadside teashop killing three people and injuring two others, police said on Wednesday. It was not clear who was behind the attack in Gulshan-e-Rahman. City police chief Tariq Jamil said the dead included Mohammed Zeeshan, a former Mutahida Qami Movement member. A passer-by and a teashop employee were the other two killed. "It seems to be a planned killing," said Jamil. Separetely, unidentified gunmen killed Maulana Amin Qadri, member of the old men's committee of the Sunni Tehrik, in the Pirababd area on Wednesday. The gunmen opened fire at Qadri, 55, near a government school and fled.
Israel's Shin Beth internal security service said Wednesday that it had dismantled an intelligence cell of the Lebanese resistance group 
