KABUL -Coalition soldiers killed five suspected militants in restive eastern Afghanistan as the US-led force pushed on with its biggest operation this year, the military said Tuesday. The rebels were killed Monday in Kunar province, where hundreds of foreign troops backed by more than 1,000 Afghan soldiers have been hunting militants since last Wednesday as part of Operation Mountain Lion, it said.
Coalition forces continued to improve security in Kunar Province late yesterday, killing five terrorists after a patrol spotted seven enemy fighters maneuvering in the open west of Asadabad, the military said in a statement.
Asadabad is the capital of Kunar. The death of another nine insurgents in the operation has previously been reported by coalition and Afghan forces.
As part of the same offensive seven civilians were killed during a firefight between coalition forces and insurgents on Saturday. Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the coalition have both ordered an investigation.
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once again i read it as five millipedes killed by coalition in afghanistan. Lol need new glasses, yeh well i guess 5 millipedes might find a home in thier 5 corpses.
Police arrested four Afghans on the Indus Highway on Monday for suspicion of having links with Taliban militants, security officials said. They are suspected of having links to the Taliban. We are investigating their links, the officials said on condition of anonymity. The four were arrested 15 kilometres south of Peshawar on the Indus Highway, the officials said. The suspects were armed with grenades and Kalashnikovs, but could not use them due to the swift action by police commandos of the CID (Crimes Investigation Department), witnesses said. Around two dozen police commandos surrounded a white car carrying the four after they refused to heed a police signal to stop, the witnesses said. They (police) broke the tinted glass of the car as the men had locked themselves inside. Two of the arrested suspects were wearing burqas (veil), the witnesses said.
Online adds: Ten armed men arrested near the Afghan border at Chaman three days ago have been handed over to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA). The ten men, residents of Dera Islmail Khan, Tank and Kullachi, were arrested in possession of heavy weapons and ammunition. They have been identified as Saifur Rehman, Suleman, Samiullah, Qamar Zaman, Muhammad Fiaz, Noor Muhammad, Ziaullah, Asmatullah and Abdul Karim.
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KANDAHAR -Taleban militants have torched a school in restive southern Afghanistan in the latest attack on the education system, police said on Monday. The incident late on Sunday in Ghazni province comes less than a week after seven schoolchildren were killed and several others wounded in a suspected Taleban rocket attack in the eastern province of Kunar. Taleban have torched and destroyed a school in Muqur district of Ghazni province, provincial police chief Abdul Rahman Sarjang told AFP.
The attack was the latest in a string of strikes against educational institutes, schools, teachers and in some cases students in southern and eastern Afghanistan, where the Taleban are most active.
Sarjang said a hunt was under way for the attackers, with suspected Taleban also targeting government officials and troops in the area in the past. Were hunting them in several districts, the police chief said.
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Give em' a break, they're trying to create a paradise and we're f*cking it up.
JAMAL Kiyemba, the Ugandan international terror suspect linked to Osama bin Ladens Al-Qaeda network, has been freed by Ugandan security.
The 27-year-old son of the late Simon Peter Musisi and Teresa Namuddu of Masaka, was captured in Pakistan in 2002 on suspicion of being an Al-Qaeda terrorist. He was jailed in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay in Cuba before being deported to Uganda.
Upon release from the notorious US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Britain denied him entry into London where his mother lives. He was subsequently deported to Uganda where, for two months, he was confined to a safe house, a beautiful storeyed mansion on Kololo hill.
I am now a very happy man because I am free to live my life. I have visited all my relatives. This is the first time I am free since 2002, an excited Kiyemba said yesterday morning.
He joined the Taliban in Pakistan along with hundreds of Muslims from all over the world who were willing to sacrifice their lives to fight for the cause of Islam.
In March 2003, he was arrested by Pakistani security along with hundreds of foreigners, especially Arabs. At that time, Americans were paying $5,000 for a Taliban suspect handed over to them. I was ready to assist my brothers there in any possible way, financially or by holding a gun, to defend them. We decided to join the war, he said. But his joy upon being released has quickly brought misery. Kiyemba is afraid of the future, saying he does not know what to do, having dropped out of university in 2001 to join an Islamic cause against western imperialists in Afghanistan after the Taliban fell.
I am looking for a job. I want to complete the university course. I want to be independent. I need help, he said in an impromptu roadside interview in Kampala.
A man of medium height and light build, Kiyemba wore a skimpy traditional Muslim tunic and still wears a goatee moustache, characteristic of Tabliq Muslims.
Last week, the Uganda security told me that I am a free man. The officer told me, You are free to go out and live your life but be careful with wrong groups out there. I am happy, said the overjoyed man, whose first interview with Sunday Vision was in the Kololo safe house.
A security source said Uganda did not find any cause to continue to detain him. He is a free man, but we shall nab him if he falls in wrong groups, the source said.
After the horror treatment in Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay prisons, he expected horrible treatment in Uganda. But he is now full of praises for Uganda.
I did not expect anything good in Uganda but I was instead treated quite fairly. I thank the Uganda security for being good to me. I thank all Muslims in Uganda and elsewhere who have been praying for me, stated the man, born in a strong Roman Catholic family but who turned radical Muslim in 2000.
He went to St. Savio Primary School in Kisubi and the prestigious St. Marys College, Kisubi.
However, his life changed dramatically when his parents divorced. His mother migrated to the UK and his father died in a car accident in 1989 and his maternal aunt found it increasingly difficult to look after him. In 1998, Kiyemba joined his mother, brothers and sisters in London, where he continued his education at Pope Paul II Secondary School in Wimbledon. Later, he joined De Montfort University in Leicester to study pharmacy.
I am determined to complete my studies but I need my independence. I need to sustain myself, not be a burden to relatives, he said. He quit the university to live in Afghanistan where people were dressed in accordance with the Islamic culture and adultery was punishable by stoning to death.
Islam teaches that a Muslim should move away from a lesser Islamic environment to a better Islamic environment. That a person living in such bad surroundings would be punished except when he had no means to escape, he told our sister paper Sunday Vision.
After the September 11, 2001 twin towers attack, the Americans invaded Afghanistan. Reports of bombings there disturbed Kiyemba so much that he decided to go and assist his brothers in the war.
Upon arrest, he spent six months in American prisons, first in Pakistan, then at the American Bagram Airbase in northern Afghanistan and finally in Guantanamo Bay.
He does not want to talk about his ordeal in Guantanamo Bay. In Guantanamo Bay, it was more of psychological torture. As a Muslim, you must be prepared to suffer and die for your religion. Being in Guantanamo Bay taught me one thing: to be patient and to put my trust in God, he asserts.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Saudi authorities arrested five suspected terrorists linked to February's deadly attack on the world's largest oil processing facility, a security official said Tuesday. One of those arrested is on the country's list of 36 most-wanted terrorist suspects, the official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media. He did not identify that suspect.
Militants driving two vehicles packed with explosives tried to enter the Abqaiq oil processing facility in eastern Saudi Arabia on Feb. 24. Guards opened fire on the vehicles and they exploded, killing the two suicide attackers and two guards. The attack affected global oil markets because Abqaiq processes most of the kingdom's crude, making it suitable for export at the nearby Gulf terminals. The kingdom is the world's largest producer of oil.
In late March, the kingdom said it had arrested 40 suspected al-Qaida members, including eight connected to the Abqaiq attack. Saudi Arabia launched an aggressive anti-terrorism campaign in May 2003 after suicide bombers linked to al-Qaida attacked three residential compounds in the capital, Riyadh. Hundreds have been detained in the campaign, which has managed to capture or kill most of those named on two most-wanted lists.
"If captured or killed, the vice-mullah will disavow any knowledge of your actions. Good luck, Achmed"
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The trial of 16-member gang was held in Azerbaijans Court for Grave Crimes today. The gang members are accused under articles 120.2.3, 120.2, 279.1, 228.3, 315.1 and others articles of Criminal Code.
In the court session presided by judge Abid Abdinbayov, the public prosecutor addressing the court required to jail the accused. Elman Osmanov, lawyer for one of the accused Gadji Chankayev told APA that the public prosecutor demanded jailing head of the gang Hajiyev Arif Hasanbayovich to life in prison, Hajiyev Emil Adil to 11 years, Hamdan Mohammed Ahmed Salem, Chankayev Gadji Ibrahimovich, Abdulkarimov Abdulla Magomedovich and Aliyev Shirin Sadri to 8 years, Berkov Aslan Hasanovich, Islamov Isa Azrailovich, Abdulhamid Karanay Zaulbasarovich, Gaziyev Arsen Yunusovich, Asadullayev Jembek Junaitovich, Dalka Faruk Selami, Dalibashar Mustafa Ahmad, Inan Emin Ahmad, Hayal Salcug Husnu and Karakash Cuma Shikimam to 7 years in prison. The trial will be continued with the participation of lawyers for the accused tomorrow.
The gang members are citizens of Azerbaijan, Russia, Turkey and Yemen. Most of them were members of religious organizations as well as al-Gaeda. They were trained in the camps in Pankisi, Georgia. The gang members are accused of terrorism acts, carrying illegal guns, murdering of official of Nasimi district police station Movlan Alibayov in the 3rd microdistrict circle in Baku in July last year and other crimes.
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A pro-Kurdish party said yesterday that Turkish security forces have raided several of its offices and detained dozens of its members over the past few weeks. The reported raids and detentions follow some of the most violent clashes in decades between Turkish security forces and Kurdish protesters, which left 13 civilians dead. Four other people were killed in attacks in Istanbul claimed by a militant Kurdish group.
The pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party said several of its offices had been raided and some 50 party members, including five provincial leaders and nine local leaders had been detained. The party said the detentions were the result of accusations leveled by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan against the party.
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His code name was Maximus, and he held secret meetings in a shabby room at the Banana City Hotel on the outskirts of Sarajevo.
Bosnian police put him under surveillance, and in a raid last fall on his apartment on Poligonska Street, authorities seized explosives, a suicide bomber belt and a videotape of masked men begging Allah's forgiveness for what they were about to do.
What they planned, investigators believe, was to blow up a European embassy. But compounding their concern, they say, was the ringleader's background: Maximus turned out to be Mirsad Bektasevic, a 19-year-old Swedish citizen of Serbian origin with ties to a senior al-Qaida operative.
Terrorists have been working to recruit non-Arab sympathizers _ so-called "white Muslims" with Western features who theoretically could more easily blend into European cities and execute attacks _ according to classified intelligence documents obtained by The Associated Press.
A 252-page confidential report jointly compiled by Croatian and U.S. intelligence on potentially dangerous Islamic groups in Bosnia suggests the recruitment drive may have begun as long as four years ago, when Arab militants ran up against tough post-9/11 security obstacles.
"They judge that it is high time that their job on this territory should be taken over by new local forces ... people who are born here and live here have an advantage which would make their job easier. By their appearance, they are less obvious," the report reads.
Arabs, it adds, "have become too obvious, which has made their job difficult."
Bosnia's minister of security, Barisa Colak, acknowledged the existence of the intelligence report but said authorities had no concrete evidence that recruitment efforts are widespread. There are no known cases of a Balkan "white Muslim" recruit being involved in an actual attack.
"Even so, we have to be extremely careful and serious and not miss anything," he told the AP.
Even if systematic recruitment has been occurring, citizens of ex-Yugoslavia need visas to travel to Western Europe or the United States _ a complicated and time-consuming process.
Dragan Lukac, the deputy director of SIPA _ Bosnia's equivalent of the FBI _ said authorities are taking no chances. Undercover counterterrorism agents have placed dozens of suspects under 24-hour surveillance and the country is "very intensively" sharing information with the FBI, the CIA, Scotland Yard and other agencies, he said.
"Bosnia has become a breeding ground for terrorists, including some on international wanted lists. We can clearly say that," Lukac told the AP in an interview.
Some disaffected young Bosnians may be receptive to the terrorist message: After the U.S.-led military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq, it was considered "almost fashionable" to spout extremist sentiment in public, Lukac said, especially among those "frustrated and influenced by ideology, Islamized through various extremist streams."
Authorities who arrested Bektasevic and several alleged associates last October tipped off police in Britain, who quickly arrested three suspected British Muslim accomplices. They also alerted authorities in Denmark, who took seven others into custody. Investigators say they since have established that Bektasevic maintained close ties to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq.
Since the 2001 attacks on the United States, Bosnia has deported dozens of Arabs and other foreign Muslims for suspected ties to terrorist groups or alleged involvement in dummy charities believed to have raised cash to bankroll attacks.
In February, the country launched an exhaustive review of all cases in which citizenship was granted to foreigners dating back to 1992 and vowed to deport any with suspected links to terrorism.
Police also confirmed they are keeping close tabs on dozens of mujahedeen _ Islamic fighters who came to Bosnia to fight on the Muslim side in the 1992-95 war. Although most left for other conflicts in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Iraq and elsewhere, some stayed and married local women.
The vast majority of Bosnia's Muslims rejects the mujahedeen's fiery brand of Islam. Yet young, restless men frustrated with 40 percent joblessness and angered by real or perceived insults to Islam can be open to hard-line dogma, the Prague-based think tank Transitions Online said in a recent report.
"A pool of potential white recruits carrying Bosnian or even Western passports would presumably be of great value to terrorists," it said, calling the Balkan country "a deeply traumatized society susceptible to extremism."
"Muslims are going through a very tempting time," conceded Mustafa Ceric, the leader of Bosnia's Islamic community. He insisted, however, that there was no stomach for extremist violence after years of devastating ethnic conflict.
"If we wanted terrorism, we had a chance to do so in the heat of our suffering, and we did not," he said in an interview.
NATO's top commander in Bosnia, U.S. Brig. Gen. Louis Weber, concurred in an interview, saying Bosnian Muslims overwhelmingly are moderate and secular, and the terror threat is fairly low because "there isn't a large community that would support that kind of activity here."
Although Ceric keeps close tabs on Bosnia's imams, the 6,500 European Union peacekeepers who now patrol Bosnia are one-tenth the number NATO deployed nationwide in 1995, meaning far fewer outside eyes and ears combing the country to disrupt any recruitment effort.
The U.S.-Croatian report says infiltration actually dates back long before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. It says Islamic militants with ties to al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations have been crisscrossing the Balkans for more than 15 years, financed in part with cash from narcotics smuggling and coming from Afghanistan and points further east via Turkey, Kosovo and Albania.
Since the Sept. 11 attacks, evidence has emerged that extremists have been trying to carve out a beachhead in the Balkans. The region is home to 8 million Muslims, roughly a third of Europe's Islamic faithful, and arms and explosives are easily obtained in what Lukac calls "a kind of El Dorado" for criminals.
Several Islamic militants who fought in the former Yugoslavia went to Spain, bringing back new military skills and expertise as well as access to contacts throughout Europe, a Western diplomatic official with intimate knowledge of counterterrorism measures in Spain told the AP on condition of anonymity.
"Yugoslavia was a meeting point," he said.
Among the Islamic leaders Bosnian authorities are monitoring closely is Nezim Halilovic, chief mufti of the King Fahd Cultural Center. The mosque, one of dozens being built around Sarajevo with Saudi donations, can accommodate 5,000 people and is part of a $9 million complex that includes a library, a sports hall, restaurants and classrooms for studying Arabic and the Quran.
Its imam has repeatedly has been accused of using his sermons to preach violence in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Israel, Iraq and Kashmir. Nothing like that was heard at one of his recent noon prayer sermons; addressing throngs of heavily bearded men and burqa-clad women, he spoke proudly of "bringing Bosnian Muslims back to Islam."
Halilovic denies he is a radical and insisted Bektasevic and the others arrested last autumn were the victims of an elaborate setup.
"This is just a trick played on the Muslims," he said in an interview. "They were framed to bring the world's attention on Bosnia-Herzegovina as a 'terrorist country.' Europe and the whole world should not be afraid of Bosnian Muslims."
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I imagine this could make them more vulnerable. More caucasian's are apt to change thier mind on this type mission, and or report the request. Or be spies for us.
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Her name was Lola, she was a showgirl. After hours she worked as an upstairs maid. It was a one story hotel and one story you'll never hear is the story of the upstairs maid.
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(CNSNews.com) - Former University of South Florida professor Sami Al-Arian has pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide services to the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), a designated terrorist group, in violation of U.S. law, the Justice Department announced Monday. As part of Al-Arian's plea agreement, the government plans to recommend a sentence of 46 to 57 months behind bars, based on a five-year maximum statutory sentence. Following his imprisonment, Al-Arian agreed to be deported to another country by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
"We have a responsibility not to allow our nation to be a safe haven for those who provide assistance to the activity of terrorists," said Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in a statement.
Al-Arian has been in U.S. custody since he was arrested on Feb. 20, 2003. He lived in the United States for about 30 years. "Sami Al-Arian has already spent significant time behind bars and will now lose the right to live in the country he calls home as a result of his confessed criminal conduct on behalf of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which is the same conduct he steadfastly denied in public statements over the last decade," said Gonzales.
Al-Arian admitted guilt to count four of the indictment against him -- conspiracy to make or receive contributions of funds, goods or services to or for the benefit of PIJ. President Bill Clinton issued an executive order in January 1995, banning certain transactions with groups and individuals who were "specially designated terrorists." Those included PIJ, Sheik Abd Al Aziz Awda and Fathi Shiqaqi and later, Ramadan Shallah.
Al-Arian admits he provided services for the PIJ in 1995 after he knew the group was designated a terrorist organization and while he was a professor at the University of South Florida. In the plea deal, Al-Arian admits he knew the PIJ used acts of violence to achieve its objectives. Despite this, he continued to help the organization by filing official paperwork to obtain immigration benefits for PIJ associate Bashir Nafi and hiding the terrorist associations of individuals linked to the group.
Al-Arian also admits to helping PIJ associate Mazen al-Najjar in a federal court proceeding where al-Najjar and Nafi both committed perjury, claiming they were not associated with the PIJ. Also, in late 1995, when Ramadam Shallah, co-conspirator and former director of Al-Arian's "think tank," the World and Islam Studies Enterprise (WISE), was named the new secretary general of the PIJ, Al-Arian lied to the media, claiming he knew nothing of Shallah's association with PIJ.
"The United States stands committed to bringing terrorists and their supporters to justice," said Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division in a statement. "Al-Arian has now admitted providing assistance to help the Palestinian Islamic Jihad -- a specially designated terrorist organization with deadly goals -- as the government has alleged from the start," said Fisher. "Because of the painstaking work of the prosecutors and agents who pursued this case, Al-Arian has now confessed to helping terrorists do their work from his base here in the United States -- a base he is no longer able to maintain," said U.S. Attorney Paul I. Perez of the Middle District of Florida in a statement.
Al-Arian was acquitted of eight of the 18 counts against him after a six-month trial on Dec. 6, 2005. The jury deadlocked on three of the four most serious conspiracy charges against him.
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He very possibly wasn't innocent but the government clearly couldn't PROVE he was guilty. This is another defeat for the law enforcement method of combatting terrorism.
Given that law enforcement is the preferredmethod of the Democrats and they are going to win the presidency sooner or later, this does not bode well for us.
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In a related manner, many mossies still believe that Neil Armstrong never landed(no Apollo did!) on the Moon BUT if he had really converted(as wrongly claimed for decades afterwards), watch the torrents of acceptance than man really did land on the Moon!
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He's lived in the US for 30 years. Presumably he'll be deported back to his previous country of citizenship/residency. Which likely means either Jordan (West Bank) or Egypt (Gaza Strip). Despite his connections with Islamic Jihad, he won't enjoy either place, nor the PA if his old friends insist he join them there. At his great age, and accustomed to being Caliph in his surroundings as he no doubt had become, he isn't likely to try to sneak back in across the Mexican border. I can live with this outcome.
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In a related manner, many mossies still believe that Neil Armstrong never landed(no Apollo did!) on the Moon BUT if he had really converted(as wrongly claimed for decades afterwards), watch the torrents of acceptance than man really did land on the Moon!
OT : Duh!, a few years ago, before the airing of a very fun and well-made "mockumentary" about Stanley Kubrick having directed the faked moon-landings clips, there was mention by the introducing commentator (Alexandre Adler, whose storytelling is just magnificent btw) of the fact that this particular conspiracy theory is supported and propagated (presumably with Gulf oil money) by muslim orgs... because one hadith explicitely sez that "islam will last until man walks on the moon" (that is, forever, from a 7th century perspective).
Thus, the moon landings HAVE to be fake.
Just as the Meyssan "9-11 inside job-no plane on the Pentagon" as been heavily promoted by various arabo-muslim channels, including the very official late Zayed institute, or the various holocaust deniers being offered hefty sums of money to keep them going and published, I'm pretty sure the web of financing of various conspiracy theorists could be traced to the ME (and yet God know how much I enjoy PCT).
Damn you, you hapless yankees, you put yet another hole in the Master Religion(tm)'s intellectual design...
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I'm sure he can get a tenured position at An-Najah Death Cult U. But he better be prepared to pray five times a day, every day without fail in ShariaNation.
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This guy is worthless as a blow up civilians type of Jihadi. He is probably best suited as a professor in another country. Hugo Shuvass would probably welcome this guy.
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Hopefully he gets married to the man with the most cigarettes and learns that fist can be a verb.
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#9, OT, yes, but interestingly related to how the musselman can't get their acts sync. like e.g., with the more "modern" muslims in Malaysia, many wouldn't know about exactly what their own book contains ; some were denying the moon landing while others claimed that Armstrong converted on hearing the Azan while call on the Moon, haha.
The "inside job-no plane on the Pentagon" as been heavily promoted by various arabo-muslim channels.." matter is also being moronically denied by a kackling mossie commentor called 'Observer'.
But one thing they share always, archaic muslims or "modern" ones, is the state of brainwashed ideological bigotry and denial. They can therefore only stay backward.
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia - The judge in the death penalty trial of confessed Al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui called an unexepected recess in the case on Monday and convened a closed session.
US District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema called prosecution and defense lawyers to the bench as soon as she entered the courtroom on Monday morning after a weekend break. She told the lawyers she was taking them into another courtroom for a closed session. We need to take care of a matter, Brinkema said, giving no explanation for the unexpected recess.
Moussaoui, who is facing a possible death sentence for his role in the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, was allowed to attend the session but the jury, reporters and people not directly connected with the case were not.
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We need to take care of a matter, Brinkema said, giving no explanation for the unexpected recess.
"It has come to my attention that the defendant does not yet have a pony...."
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"And, for that matter, neither does the prosecutor..."
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How about we "take care of a matter" for the American people and just hang the ignorant murdering SOB. I suppose we should count ourselves lucky that his accomplices all died in the act as opposed to having parachuted out at the last minute. The legal system would have a real time of it with the whole lot.
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Just hang that wicked bastard. The fear of making him a martyr is lame. The islamofascists can always create all the martyrs they choose to on the cheap all the time anyway.
Pakistani anti-terror police commandos on Monday arrested two Afghans and an Arab, suspected to be Al Qaeda militants, after a gunfight outside the northwestern city of Peshawar, two intelligence officials said.
The officials did not reveal the identity of the arrested men, and it wasn't immediately clear if they were suspected to be senior figures in the terror group.
The police opened fire on a car carrying the men after it sped through a roadblock mounted on the outskirts of the city, and the suspects returned fire, said the officials who both requested anonymity as they weren't authorized to speak to journalists.
Police shot out the tires of the car forcing it to halt. One man escaped while the three others were arrested _ two of them sitting in the back seat, disguised as women wearing all-covering burqa shrouds, one of the intelligence officials said. One of the arrested men was injured in the hand.
An AK-47 assault rifle and grenades were found inside the car.
Interior Ministry officials could not immediately confirm the arrests, which comes less than a week after Pakistani officials reported security forces had killed an Egyptian Al Qaeda suspect on the U.S. FBI most-wanted list for his alleged role in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa.
Mohsin Musa Matawalli Atwah, 45, died along with at least six other militants in a raid last Wednesday in the remote North Waziristan tribal region near the Afghan border, about 120 miles southwest of Peshawar, the officials said.
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"...disguised as women wearing all-covering burqa shrouds..."
Doesn't it seem like in that part of the world the penalty for disguising oneself as a woman should be to have to permanently live as a woman (surgical emasculation?)
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It seems this is becoming a regular policy. I suppose Al-Q thinks that two men and two women in a car look less suspicious than four men. I wonder how long the deception worked.
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Just shoot them now and allah will turn them into virgins in Jannah.
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Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) chief Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti has said that at least 11 Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel have been critically injured in recent clashes with insurgents in Dera Bugti, and landmine explosions in the area have left several FC personnel dead.
In a telephone interview on Monday from an undisclosed location, Bugti said that the recent exchange of fire and bombing between the security forces and the insurgents had "badly hit" the former. He praised the "successful strategy" adopted by insurgents in Balochistan, through which they had minimised their losses and were inflicting "maximum damage" on the security forces. He said the "series of skirmishes" between the insurgents and security personnel had continued in and around Dera Bugti since Sunday, adding that the bombing had "left the security forces licking their wounds". Fierce fighting is also ongoing in areas of the Loti Gas Field, Jagseela and Ghori, he said. "Our drive has gained acceleration with time, and in the past few months the success ratio has increased," the JWP chief said. "Our morale has been boosted."
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Pakistan on Monday handed over an alleged Al Qaeda militant of Turkish origin to Ankara. Muhammad Yousaf was captured by Pakistani authorities on January 28 in South Waziristan, on suspicion of being a Qaeda operative, and detained for two months for interrogation purposes. The Pakistani authorities are currently investigating another suspected militant who was picked up in Lahore.
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Taliban forces have so far killed 150 pro-government tribal Maliks in the North and South Waziristan Agencies and are openly challenging the writ of the government by engaging a number of security forces personnel in the area, the federal cabinet was told on Wednesday, sources told Daily Times.
Briefing the cabinet on the law and order situation in FATA, Interior Minister Leslie NielsenAftab Khan Sherpao told the cabinet that the presence of the Taliban in FATA was a threat to national security and Pakistans economic development. Religious extremism, militancy and terrorism are continuously undermining Pakistans image in the international community he was as quoted saying.
He said that the Talibanisation of Waziristan was damaging other parts of the NWFP and that the local Maliks and political administration had been limited to their houses and offices, sources said. The Talibans sphere of influence has expanded to DI Khan, Tank and the Khyber Agency, where clerics of the area have started to join them. There has been a sharp increase in attacks on heavily-defended military targets in these areas as well, Sherpao was quoted as saying.
According to sources, he admitted before the cabinet that the situation remained volatile in the North and South Waziristan agencies, despite the deployment of a heavy contingent of armed forces. The other concern of the government is the presence of Indian consulates in the Afghan cities, which are near the Pakistani border, the minister said.
Yep. No doubt they're the ones stirring it all up.
Sources said that Sherpao deemed the restoration of order in all districts of the NWFP and eliminating militancy and Talibnisation as the top priorities, saying that the people were being fooled in the name of nationalism and jihad. He told the cabinet that the government had adopted a two-pronged strategy to control the situation. The government, on one hand, is focusing on briberyDanegeld socio-economic development and political dialogue while, on the other hand, it is utilising its military options as well, he said.
He said that the towns and major markets of the area had been declared weapon-free zones; political administration would take punitive action against defiant tribes; position of tribal elders and Maliks would be restored; the institution of political agent would be reinforced; and new levies forces would be sent to North and South Waziristan Agencies.
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Pro-Taliban militants beheaded two tribesmen in North Waziristan for allegedly working for American forces, said a security official on Monday.Gunmen captured one of the tribesmen and killed him in Khar Qamar on Sunday, said the official. "They beheaded the man and fled in his vehicle," the official said on condition of anonymity. Residents also found a headless body in Madhakhel, said the official. "All those working as US spies will face the same fate," proclaimed a note found near the body.
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KARACHI: The government has resolved the Balochistan issue amicably and no law and order situation exists there anymore, said President General Pervez Musharraf on Monday. The government will introduce administrative reforms in Balochistan, said the president. Several development projects have been started in Balochistan so that the people of the province can be brought to par with the other provinces, he said. Peace has been restored in the province in letter and spirit, he added.
KATHMANDU - Nepali troops opened fire on anti-monarchy demonstrators in an eastern town on Monday, killing at least one man, witnesses said. They said the protest took place in the town of Nijgadh, about 200 km (140 miles) east of Kathmandu. The man was the fifth person to be killed in a wave of anti- monarchy protests that have swept the country over the past 12 days.
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Rival Shiite leaders agreed Sunday to allow Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari's party to nominate the next prime minister on the condition that Jaafari step down, Iraqi politicians said.
The move could bring the Shiite bloc closer to resolving a nearly two-month impasse over the candidate for prime minister and speed the formation of a new government.
As of Sunday evening, Jaafari remained unwilling to abdicate, but officials in his party were discussing options, Shiite leaders said.
To allow more time for negotiations, the acting speaker of Parliament, Adnan Pachachi, canceled a meeting of the 275-member assembly that had been scheduled for Monday.
He said in a telephone interview that he had acted "against my better judgment," but that a solution might be reached within a few days.
Pachachi called the meeting last week to try to set a deadline for the Shiites to resolve the issue and present a nominee to Parliament.
In recent weeks, rival factions within the Shiite bloc, which holds 130 seats in Parliament, have been jockeying for the post of prime minister. The bloc, the largest in Parliament, has the right to make a nomination.
Jaafari, considered by many to be an ineffectual leader, won the nomination in February by a single vote in a secret ballot among the Shiites. He was backed by the anti-American cleric Moktada al-Sadr.
But in late February, the main Sunni Arab, Kurdish and secular blocs in Parliament said they would not accept Jaafari. Since a two-thirds vote of Parliament is essentially needed to install the executive branch, the process is at a standstill.
The Shiites have been trying to come up with another nominee for nearly two months. The candidate who lost to Jaafari in the secret ballot, Adel Abdul Mahdi, was considered a front-runner. But Sadr despises Abdul Mahdi's party, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq.
It appeared Sunday that Abdul Mahdi would take a vice president position rather than continue fighting for the nomination, said Khalid al-Attiyah, an independent member of the Shiite bloc. "He's no longer running for the premiership," said Pachachi, the speaker.
Attiyah and Pachachi said the Shiite leaders agreed that Jaafari's political group, the Islamic Dawa Party, could nominate a candidate if it withdrew Jaafari, but it was unclear whether Dawa officials would be able to persuade Jaafari, the party's leader, to step down. Shiite politicians mention two party deputies inside Dawa - Jawad al-Maliki and Ali al-Adeeb - as possible replacements.
Some Shiite officials said they saw those men as weak, like Jaafari. "The options are limited for the Dawa Party," Attiyah said.
The Shiites have come under increasing pressure from the clerical leadership in Najaf and the American government to resolve the dispute. American officials have made it clear to the Shiites that they would prefer a replacement for Jaafari because of his close ties to Sadr, who oversees an unpredictable militia, and his relationship with Iran, where he lived for many years in exile.
Jaafari's party is the most respected Shiite political group in Iraq. It was heavily persecuted by Saddam Hussein and came to represent the Shiites' sense of victimhood under the old government. Shiite officials have considered nominating some politicians outside the Dawa Party. They include Hussein al-Shahristani, a former nuclear physicist; Kassim Daoud, national security adviser under the government that preceded Jaafari's; and Ali Allawi, the finance minister and a nephew of Ahmad Chalabi.
Iraqi politicians are also fighting over the post of speaker of Parliament. The main Sunni Arab bloc is pushing the other blocs to support its leader, Tariq al-Hashemi, for the job. But some Shiites oppose Hashemi, saying he is too hard-line and sectarian, said Sami al-Askari, a member of the Shiite bloc.
American and Iraqi officials say they hope the formation of a unified government will help stop the sectarian bloodletting that has taken hold in Iraq.
In the power vacuum, the rate of killings has soared. On Sunday afternoon, a suicide car bomb detonated outside the Shemal restaurant in the town of Mahmudiya, killing at least 10 and wounding at least 25, police officials said.
Guerrillas in Anbar Province, to the west, carried out assaults that killed four marines in two incidents on Saturday, the American military said Sunday. A British soldier was killed and three were wounded in a bomb explosion on Saturday, the British Defense Ministry said.
Early Sunday, American-led forces raided a home in the town of Yusufiya, the American military said in a written statement.
During the ensuing battle, five insurgents and a woman were killed, and three women and a child were wounded, the military said, while declining to give details on who was responsible.
It said the aim of the raid was to search for a suspected member of Al Qaeda, whom troops found.
In eastern Baghdad, a bomb planted in a minibus killed at least four people and wounded six others, an Interior Ministry official said. Gunmen killed a policeman in northern Baghdad and wounded four others. Policemen found three bodies in the Tigris River, all shot in the head.
In Kirkuk, men dressed in Iraqi Army uniforms opened fire on civilians stopped by a road, killing two and wounding two others, said Col. Yadgar Abdullah of the Kirkuk police.
Dozens of policemen who were missing after an insurgent ambush on a police convoy north of Baghdad on Thursday have been accounted for, said Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, a spokesman for the American military.
He said he did not know their condition. At least nine other policemen were killed and seven were wounded in the nighttime attack.
The police chief of Najaf, where the policemen work, said Friday that the convoy had been forced to drive back to Najaf in the dark because the Americans had refused to let the policemen stay at an American base in Taji, where the policemen had been picking up new vehicles.
Johnson said Sunday that the Americans had actually tried to prevent the police from leaving the base for safety reasons, but that the convoy had driven out a side gate.
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Efforts to form a unity government suffered a new setback Sunday as Iraqi leaders postponed a parliament session after failing to agree on a prime minister. Bombs targeted Shiites near a mosque and on a bus as attacks nationwide killed at least 35 people.
Four more Marines were reported killed in fighting west of Baghdad as the U.S. death toll for this month rose to 47 compared with 31 for all of March.
U.S. officials believe the best way to stem the violence is for the Iraqis to establish a government comprising Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, paving the way for the United States to start withdrawing its 133,000 troops.
But progress has stalled over Sunni and Kurdish opposition to the Shiite choice of Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari to head the new government. With al-Jaafari refusing to step aside, acting speaker Adnan Pachachi called a parliament session for Monday, hoping the full legislature could agree on a new leadership after the politicians failed.
On the eve of the session, Pachachi announced a delay of "a few days" to give the religiously and ethnically based parties more time to agree on the new prime minister, president and five other top posts that require parliamentary approval.
Before the announcement, Shiite official Hussain al-Shahristani told Sunni and Kurdish leaders that his bloc, which controls 130 of the 275 parliament seats, would decide what to do about al-Jaafari "within the coming two days," Kurdish lawmaker Mahmoud Othman said.
Majority Shiites have been giving similar assurances for the past two weeks, and it was unclear how soon the issue could be settled.
# Four Marines three from Regimental Combat Team Five and one from the 2/28 Brigade Combat Team died Saturday in Anbar province, the U.S. command said Sunday. Their deaths raised to at least 2,376 the number of U.S. military members who have died since the war began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
# At least 10 people died in a car bombing near a Shiite mosque in an outdoor market in Mahmoudiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad, police said. Three others were killed when a bomb exploded on a minibus in a Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, police said.
# Earlier Sunday, six people were killed when U.S. troops stormed a house looking for an al Qaeda suspect in Youssifiyah, 12 miles south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. Six people, including the suspect, were arrested. The military didn't identify the suspect but said he worked with foreign fighters to plan bombings.
# In Najaf, Brig. Gen. Abbas Maadal said 29 policemen remain unaccounted for three days after their convoy was ambushed near the U.S. base at Taji just north of Baghdad. Nine police were killed in the attack Thursday night. Maadal said officials were trying to determine if the missing police were dead, captured or in hiding.
Voters chose the new parliament on Dec. 15, but the legislature met briefly only once last month.
The bitter fight over al-Jaafari has heightened friction among the rival parties, raising the spectre of deadlock over other top jobs. Some Shiite officials say that if they must change their nominee for prime minister, other parties may not win approval of their first choices for major posts either.
CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier reports that it is as if Shiite politicians have decided that if they do not get their top choice for the prime minister position, other groups will not get their top choices for other government positions (video). The Shiite objections to Sunni and Kurd candidates has created a new deadlock.
For example, the Shiites rejected the Sunni nominee for parliament speaker, Tariq al-Hashimi. Disputes also emerged Sunday over the two deputy speakers and two vice presidents jobs expected to go to Sunnis and Kurds.
"This delay will affect everything," Sunni lawmaker Naseer al-Ani said. "The Shiites did not tell us the reasons behind rejecting al-Hashimi like we did about al-Jaafari. We're still waiting to hear the reasons."
Pressure has been mounting on the Shiites to replace al-Jaafari, whom critics accuse of failing to curb sectarian tension that has soared since the Feb. 22 bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra, which triggered a wave of reprisal attacks against Sunnis.
Shiite politicians not affiliated with major parties have proposed that al-Jaafari step aside in favor of another candidate from his Dawa party. In return, the biggest Shiite party, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, would not push Vice President Adil Abdul-Mahdi for the post.
However, Dawa leaders complained of interference by outsiders and insisted they should decide al-Jaafari's fate, according to several Shiite officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because the negotiations were at a sensitive stage.
In an interview Sunday on CNN's "Late Edition," Iraq's ambassador to the U.S., Samir Sumaidaie, said Shiite lawmaker Ali al-Adeeb had emerged as a possible prime minister candidate. Al-Adeeb is a member of al-Jaafari's party but spent many years in Shiite-dominated Iran which could cause problems with the Sunnis.
Al-Jaafari won the nomination in a vote last February by Shiite lawmakers due to strong support from radical anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The mercurial young cleric, who heads the dreaded Mahdi Army militia, has vowed to stand behind the incumbent.
With little progress on the political front, Iraq's slide toward chaos continued.
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This is bad news. Though I totally support Bush and vehmently dislike the biased MSM, if Jaafari doesnt step down I see things getting much worse.
U.S. troops repelled an attack Monday by Sunni Arab insurgents who used suicide car bombs, rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons in a coordinated assault against this city's main government building and two U.S. observation posts.
The fighting in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, provided fresh evidence that the insurgency is thriving in Sunni Arab-dominated areas despite last month's decline in U.S. deaths.
In Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi forces fought an hours-long gunbattle with about 50 insurgents in the Sunni Arab district of Azamiyah, the U.S. military said. Five insurgents were killed and two Iraqi troops were wounded, the U.S. said.
There were no reports of U.S. casualties in the 90-minute attack in Ramadi, the second in the past 10 days against the government headquarters for Anbar.
The latest attack began when two suicide car bombers sped toward the government building, known here as Government Center, using a road closed to civilian traffic, Marine Capt. Andrew Del Gaudio said.
U.S. Marines fired flares to warn the vehicles to stop. When they refused, the Americans opened fire with .50 caliber machine guns from the building's sandbagged rooftop. The vehicles turned and sped away but exploded on a main road, sending a huge fireball into the sky and triggering a shock wave that damaged the U.S. post, Del Gaudio said.
As part of the assault, other insurgents fired mortars and rocket-propelled grenades at Marine positions at the roof of the Government Center, which includes the office of the Anbar governor, and at another observation post, Del Gaudio said.
A U.S. Army tank fired a 120 mm shell at a small white mosque where about 15 insurgents were shooting at the Government Center, Del Gaudio said. The round damaged part of the minaret and the firing ceased, he said.
Lt. Col. Stephen M. Neary, commander of the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, said it was the fourth time in the past 3{ weeks that insurgents had used the mosque to fire on the government building.
The total number of insurgent casualties was unknown. But Lt. Carlos Goetz said Marines killed at least three insurgents firing mortar rounds toward the Government Center.
In Baghdad, fighting erupted in Azamiyah before dawn when an Iraqi army patrol came under fire, a U.S. statement said. Four hours later, gunmen attacked a U.S.-Iraqi checkpoint in the area, prompting the command to send American and Iraqi reinforcements. The U.S. statement said clashes continued until early afternoon.
The attack in Ramadi was the biggest since April 8, when insurgents besieged the Government Center until U.S. jets blasted several buildings used by gunmen to fire on the Marines.
U.S. officials had been encouraged by what they described as a relative lull in Anbar, suggesting it was a result of weariness among ordinary Sunni Arabs who were turning against al-Qaeda-led insurgent groups.
Last week, Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch told reporters in Baghdad that insurgent attacks in Anbar were down to an average of 18 a day compared to a daily average of 27 last October. At the same time, U.S. deaths for March numbered 31 the lowest monthly figure since February 2004.
However, U.S. deaths have been rising this month. Of the 47 American service members reported killed in Iraq so far in April, at least 28 have died in Anbar.
Anbar was largely spared the wave of sectarian violence that has swept much of Iraq since the Feb. 22 bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra largely because the province is overwhelmingly Sunni.
Most of the sectarian violence has occurred in Baghdad and other religiously mixed areas. A Shiite cleric was killed Monday night in southwest Baghdad during a drive-by shooting, police said.
In order to quell sectarian unrest, U.S. officials have been urging the Iraqis to speed up formation of a national unity government of Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds. The process has stalled because of Sunni and Kurdish objections to the Shiite candidate to head the new government, Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari.
Prospects for a quick end to the stalemate were in doubt Tuesday as al-Jaafari's Dawa party pledged to support him for another term as long as he wants the job. Al-Jaafari has refused to give up the nomination, which he won in a Shiite caucus last February.
Parliament had been set to meet Monday to try to break the deadlock, but the session was postponed after Shiite politicians gave assurances they could reach a decision on al-Jaafari themselves without a bruising parliamentary fight.
One option floated called for replacing al-Jaafari with another candidate from Dawa, one of the seven parties in the Shiite alliance.
But Ali al-Adeeb, a top Dawa official whose name has been mentioned as a possible replacement, said Monday that the party would not put forward a new candidate unless al-Jaafari decided to step aside, suggesting further delays.
"Dawa cannot present any candidate unless al-Jaafari decides to step aside," al-Adeeb told The Associated Press. "So far his position has not changed."
Shiite officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the issue is sensitive, said some Dawa figures were willing to see al-Jaafari go in favor of either al-Adeeb or Jawad al-Maliki. But the party resented outside pressure from Shiites representing other parties as well as from the Americans and British.
The Shiites won 130 of the 275 parliament seats not enough to govern without the Sunnis and Kurds. Those groups oppose al-Jaafari, saying he has failed to stop the recent surge in sectarian bloodshed, and neither side has enough votes to force a decision.
Another 17 bodies of people believed victims of sectarian reprisal killings were found Monday, including one in Basra and the rest in Baghdad. They included the body of Taha al-Mutlaq, brother of leading Sunni Arab politician Saleh al-Mutlaq, who was found in a Shiite area of west Baghdad.
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Actually I continue to be very troubled by events like these (both Adamiyah and Ramadi) - not because they "provide fresh evidence" of anything, but because they result in anything less than a disaster for the bad guys. The govt. center in Ramadi has been a target for 2 years - is it really beyond our capability to lay traps, prepare the battlefield, and otherwise do the neccessary (perhaps special heliborne QRF ready to get behind the enemy without warning) so that these things are giant suicide debacles for the enemy?
Something similar about the Adamiyah event - if more than 10 bad guys gather together for an operation, we should have ample QRFs on hand to saturate the area and nab/kill every last one. And part of this is sitting on the locals to see if they know any of the culprits - second place prize (first place is telling the truth) is an all-expenses-paid 6-mont vacation at Camp Bucca.
I know, I know - we want/need to get the ISF up on its feet, and bonded with the populace, and all that. But I don't see why that aim can't be furthered even while we kill a lot more enemy. Contrary to self-serving declarations by many around here, the enemy is generally neither brave nor resourceful - and certainly not in the context of a fight against an advsersary like us. Could be wrong, because I lack critical info & details, but I have long sensed a disastrously timid and small-minded approach to this fight.
Even with the size of forces we have here, we should be capable of much, much, much larger and more decisive actions than we ever see. I have read/heard of only scattered instances of truly aggressive and creative approaches here (setting traps, sweating the local populace for info, using our ridiculous technical/material/personnel superiority to engineer decisive engagements - and yes, there such things in insurgencies, especially in such essentially weak and narrowly-based ones as that in Iraq).
A specific peeve: in the actual MNF-I release describing the Ramadi events, a Marine officer is quoted as expressing pride in his unit's use of proportionate force to respond to attacks. With all due respect, and acknowledgement of the common sense need to avoid superfluous damage, the people of Ramadi not only will not be alienated by a vigorous response - eons of experience have conditioned them to have real confidence only when overwhelming power has been demonstrated. In this case, there are many more "minds" to be won through displays of power than through evidence of humanity, professionalism, and good intentions.
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The fighting in Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, provided fresh evidence that the insurgency is thriving in Sunni Arab-dominated areas despite last month's decline in U.S. deaths.
Strike two Rumsfeld. Or it could be the generals, depending on whom you believe.
Notice that Verlaine actually comes up with some ideas and Intel from theater? Suggestions from someone in theater has allot more value for me than an opinion here stateside, But maybe I'm mistaken maybe your there on patrol everyday RR or commanding a brigade in al Anbar.
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A U.S. Army tank fired a 120 mm shell at a small white mosque where about 15 insurgents were shooting at the Government Center, Del Gaudio said. The round damaged part of the minaret and the firing ceased, he said.
Lt. Col. Stephen M. Neary, commander of the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, said it was the fourth time in the past 3{ weeks that insurgents had used the mosque to fire on the government building.
Good, atleast it won't be used for awhile! They should shut that mineret down and secure it with guards.
If the battle was really hours long, the forces in Ramadi had plenty of opportunity to maneuver the terrorists into an exposed position and have air mobile forces come in to Ramadi and wipe the terrorist force out.
In fact, the mystery here is why there is no mention of air power being used in this latest action.
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Lt. Col. Stephen M. Neary, commander of the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, said it was the fourth time in the past 3{ weeks that insurgents had used the mosque to fire on the government building.
CT2686, I'll go ya one better. If it's been used 4 times in 3 weeks, I think the whole thing should be leveled. I hear Flaterpillar has some good 'dozers that can do the work. And, only the MSM could call (only) a 90-minute firefight a thriving insurgency. Note it's the largest attack since April 8th. Things are calming down, now we just have some hot spots to put out.
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These "Made for TV Attacks" sound more like photo opportunities for AP stringers. Film at 11:00. 35mm quagmire.
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I find it interesting that the 2 explosive-laden cars turned and sped away, and then blew up. Were the explosives on a timer or perhaps being controlled by a remote person who didn't like it that the drivers chickened out? Does that make the drivers martyrs-by-proxy? Do they get drive by virgins?
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Unless you've had some kind of experience in the Middle East, you cannot believe what a warren their cities really are. I'll try to find a couple of photos to link to. You can't drive down streets looking for bad guys. Alleyways run in 20 directions over a half-mile, and may or may not connect up to what we would consider a street. Zoning and American-style layout DO. NOT. EXIST - except in certain parts of Baghdad where the city was bulldozed flat and they started over. You could hide half the Chinese Army in some of those cities. As for using airpower, the same thing applies. Unless you're directly overhead, you cannot see what's going on in those alleyways, courtyards, cul-de-sacs, and other blind spots. If you ARE directly overhead, you're vulnerable to ground fire, and you have to twist and turn so much trying to follow the crooked alley your back seater is puking down your collar.
I think we're doing damned well for what we're up against. We could do better, but at such a great expense to the Iraqi civilians that it would be a Phyrric victory.
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Accurate assessment of the urban threat Patriot, as usual. Thanks!
He looks every inch the face of the Iraqi resistance: a tribal leader from the Sunni badlands, west of Baghdad, who once served in Saddam Hussein's feared intelligence apparatus.
But Sheik Osama Jadaan's dislike of foreign occupation is nothing compared with his contempt for Iraq's other intruders: the foreign jihadists who have killed thousands of his countrymen indiscriminately. Now, in what coalition commanders hope will mark a turning of the tide against al Qaeda in Iraq, he has become the first of the Sunni tribal leaders to declare war on the terrorists to whom, until now, they have given safe haven.
He is well-placed to do so. His al-Karabla tribe lives in the desert city of Qaim near the Syrian border in Anbar province, an insurgent stronghold.
Sheik Jadaan's armed followers said they have arrested and killed 300 would-be jihadis entering from Syria, many bound for service as suicide bombers with Abu Musab Zarqawi, the leader of al Qaeda in Iraq.
"I am doing this job because the foreign terrorists kill the civilians," said Sheik Jadaan, 52, at his heavily guarded villa. "None of them ever attack the Americans except occasionally; they just attack the innocents. This is to restore the reputation of jihad."
Coalition commanders were unable to verify the sheik's claims, but there seems to be little doubt that he is a bitter enemy of Zarqawi's forces.
Since he started his campaign last year -- angry at a suicide bombing that killed 70 Sunnis in Ramadi -- two attempts have been made on his life, first with a roadside bomb and then with a machine gun.
The attacks forced him to swap his tribal home for a more easily defended villa in a Baghdad suburb, backed by his formidable security entourage. When his armor-plated Chevrolet four-wheel-drive leaves the gates of his compound, monitored by closed-circuit television, so do 13 escort vehicles packed with armed bodyguards.
On his side against al Qaeda are thousands of his fellow tribesfolk, whose bond of blood takes precedence over loyalty to any other cause.
Sheik Jadaan fled Iraq in 1998 after falling out with Saddam's regime. In November, he accused U.S. and Iraqi forces of heavy-handedness, calling for the "American occupiers to get out of Iraq and leave Iraq to the Iraqis." However, he is convinced that the presence of foreign terrorists such as Zarqawi risks leading Iraq into permanent chaos, potentially prolonging the occupation.
Many secular Sunni insurgents also have ended their marriage of convenience with al Qaeda to protest its brutal methods.
The split is understood to have received tacit encouragement from the U.S. military.
The military, however, is reluctant to encourage private militias, which it says operate on no agreed military guidelines and could be pursuing private feuds.
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BAGHDAD - Police on Monday recovered 17 bullet-riddled bodies in Baghdad as rebels killed nine people in fresh attacks across the country. Twelve bodies of men shot to death were found in Baghdads notorious Dura neighborhood, while three corpses were recovered in the capitals Al Shuala district and two more in the Shiite Kadimiyah neighborhood, an interior ministry official said. Of the 12 bodies found in Dura, two were found inside a foreign car, while five next to the car, the official said.
Hundreds of bodies have been recovered in the last two months across Iraq since sectarian clashes erupted between the Shiites and the Sunnis after the bombing of a Shiite shrine in the northern town of Samarra on February 22.
Iraqs Sunni leaders claim that most of the corpses have been identified as Sunni Arabs allegedly shot to death by Shiite-led interior ministry forces.
This is the real civil war in Iraq, and it's going to continue for a while.
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"...most of the corpses have been identified as Sunni Arabs ..."
And most of Saddam's family, friends, and co-Baathists were Sunni Arabs - are these shooting victims the result of random sectarian violence or targeted retribution?
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Before everyone jumps off the civil war cliff, me thinks that this is part of the "jihad against foreign jihadists" or more accurately the tribes taking care of business with ex Baathists and other semi-terrorist Zarqawi sympathizers. The press is twisting this big time but I do not think this is a civil war.
Pass the popcorn, its only a matter of time before that crazy Jordanian is run to ground.
Gunmen killed the brother of a top Iraqi Sunni politician, officials said on Monday, in the second killing in days of a relative of a Sunni leader as deadlock over a unity government showed no sign of loosening. One day after Monday's parliamentary session was delayed to give bickering politicians more time to form a government aimed at averting civil war, the body of Saleh Mutlak's brother was identified in a Baghdad morgue. Mutlak, a wealthy businessman with links to former Baathists close to the insurgency, heads an Arab nationalist list which has 11 seats in parliament. The body of his brother, kidnapped three weeks ago, had bullet wounds to the head, interior ministry sources said.
The discovery, after gunmen shot dead the brother of leading Sunni politician Tareq Hashemi on Thursday, threatens to intensify sectarian tensions between Iraq's majority Shiite community and minority Sunni Arabs. The bodies of 12 shooting victims, some showing signs of torture, were found in different areas of Baghdad on Monday, interior ministry sources said.
Highlighting Iraq's security crisis, about 50 insurgents mounted a brazen attack on Iraqi forces in Baghdad early on Monday, prompting US troops to provide support in a battle that lasted seven hours, said an American military spokesman. The guerrillas attacked Iraqi forces in the mostly Sunni Arab district of Adhamiya in northern Baghdad overnight, forcing other Iraqi toops to come to their aid. Five rebels were killed and one member of the Iraqi forces was wounded. There were no US casualties, said the spokesman. "It was quite a battle. It lasted seven hours," said the spokesman.
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IsraelNN.com) A Tanzim operative wanted for planning suicide bombings was picked up overnight in the IDF sweep which landed some 38 terrorists.
Defense officials have just released the information about Mahmoud Ga'alad, a senior terrorist with Tanzim, who was picked up Monday night in Tul Karem.
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(IsraelNN.com) Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations told a Security Council session on Monday that actions by the Palestinian Authority, Syria and Iran constitute "declarations of war". Dan Gillerman cited Syria and Iran's financing of terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah, comments from Hamas leaders based in Syria and the PA, and the call by Iran's President to wipe Israel off the map as proof of their intentions to take their words to the battlefield.
Said Gillerman, "A dark cloud is looming above our region and it is metastisizing as a result of the statements and actions by leaders of Iran, Syria and the newly elected government of the Palestinian Authority."
Despite the fact that the PA observer to the UN, Riyad Mansour repeated a condemnation of the attack by PA President Mahmoud Abbas, the Hamas-led government itself has issued no such statement. "These recent statements are clear declarations of war,"charged Gillerman, "and I urge each and every one of you to listen carefully and take them at face value."
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...I urge each and every one of you to listen carefully and take them at face value."
They won't. They will still have their heads stuck in the sand when the atomic clouds mushroom over their them.
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I would like to hope that this statement opens the door for an Isreali, U.S. or joint strike on Iran.
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It's about damn time someone called a spade a spade. This pussy-footing, PC, diplo-speak is probably at least as responsible for the "cycle of violence" as anything that goes boom or bang.
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The Islamic religion commands all of its followers to either forcibly convert or physically annihilate all non-Muslim "infidels." Muslims are commanded to wage eternal jihad (holy war) until the entire world is dar al Islam (under Islamic rule).
An American vehicle is destroyed by a roadside bomb in Muslim terrorist Iraq - Over 2,300 brave American military personnel have been murdered bringing "democracy" to the Muslim terrorist nation
Muslims are required to fanatically hate all non-Muslims. The Koran and the Hadith (the Islamic "holy" books) explain to us that all non-Muslims are "pigs," "dogs," and "devils." The Christians and the Jews, according to the Koran and the Hadith, must especially be despised, and Muslims are commanded to brutally torture them to death.
Therefore, anyone who is moderate or pro-American or pro-Western is rejecting the commandments of Islam and cannot be a real Muslim.
The Islamic Revolution party of Iraq, that George Wahabi Bush tells us is "moderate," was formed in 1982 in Iran.
The principles and ideology of the Islamic Revolution party are based entirely upon the teachings of the late and unlamented Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran. The party promises to install an Islamic terrorist dictatorship in Iraq modelled after the Islamic terrorist dictatorship of Iran.
From the party's founding in 1982 until the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Iranian terrorist regime had complete control over the party and all of its activities:
Never trust a Muslim - Iraqi leader Ahmad Chalabi (inset, at a January 15, 2005 Baghdad news conference), was arrested by American military authorities in May 2004 for passing secrets to Iran's Muslim terrorist ayatollahs. Considered one of America's most important "allies" in the war against Saddam Hussein, Chalabi was instrumental in convincing American leaders that the Iraqis had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction; in fact, his disinformation campaign was a cunning ploy designed to divert American resources from the far more important task of destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program. After his arrest, Chalabi's pro-Iranian Iraqi supporters turned out in droves to demand the death of America.
* The party's headquarters was in Iran;
* The party's terrorist "Islamic revolutionary" training bases were all in Iran;
* All of the party's funding came from Iran;
* All of the party's weaponry came from Iran;
* The party's propaganda programs in Arabic and Farsi were broadcast from Iranian television and radio stations;
* The party's written materials were all printed in Iran.
When the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, the Islamic Revolution party was welcomed into Iraq by the Bush administration. The party quickly became the largest and most popular party in Iraq.
The second largest Shiite party in Iraq is the Islamic Dawa party, which is also pro-Iranian. The Bush administration also supports the Islamic Dawa party. 'http://www.jtf.org/
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Just say IRAN - iff MadMoud + Mullahs get their nukes and concessions, the next step(s) are for Regional and finally Global Empire. Whether Regional or Global, the PA and Syria, etal. in ME are future Iranian provinces; or North Korea-style Iran-controlled Bloc States, i.e are sovereign and independent as long as they + World wilfully mentally pretend Iran doesn't control them.
DEBKAfile Exclusive: Hizballahs Gaza-based 1800 Forward Command orchestrated the massive Tel Aviv suicide bombing that left 9 dead, 65 injured Monday
Hizballahs 1800 Forward Commands mission was set up to design quality terror attacks against Israel. DEBKAfiles exclusive counter-terror sources reveal: The Tel Aviv attack was originally planned for Saturday or Sunday, April 15-16, to coincide with the finale of the three-day Tehran conference in support of the Palestinian cause. The last pieces were put in place at a four-way meeting last week in the Iranian capital between the Damascus-based Jihad Islami chief Ramadan Shalah, the Jihad Islami Gaza commander Mohammad al Hindi, the Hizballah second-in-command Sheik Ali Qassem and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards chief of the al Quds Brigades and Middle East terror networks, General Kasim Suleimani.
The bombing attack at the old Tel Aviv bus terminal Monday was the first suicide strike against Israel to be planned outside Palestinian territory. While from last week, Israeli security forces had more than 70 terror threats in hand, they had no advance intelligence of this one. Hours later, Israeli interrogators were still groping in the dark for the full shape of the conspiracy.
Israels counter-intelligence services had never heard name of the Jihad Islami suicide bomber, Sami Salim Mohammed Hammed, 16, from Tubas, although they were familiar with the network which ran him. They assume he was kept out of sight by Hizballah agents, who went to the West Bank to choose and prepare him for the mission, well away from Israels ears and eyes in the Palestinian territory. Hammeds departure from his home last Tuesday or Wednesday, April 12-13, was therefore unnoticed.
Five hours after the blast in Tel Aviv, Israel forces surrounded Tubas, where they assume he was trained, and carried out arrests. Israeli investigations soon uncovered the fact that the al Aqsa Suicide Brigades of Mahmoud Abbass Fatah had pre-knowledge - if not more - of the Tel Aviv attack. They keep cells in touch with Hizballah agents. For this attack, they are believed to have been asked to aid in the transportation of the bomber to a point close to his Tel Aviv target, or possibly all the way there.
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What a culture. I think that Iranian woman psychologist on TV had it right. Not a single Imam has strapped a bomb on and blown himself up. Nor has a single Imam sent his son on a suicide mission. Islam is not a religion of peace and love, it is a cult of death and destruction. They are being led down the path to their own destruction. Israel could end this shit in 30 minutes, forever. They are living on borrowed time and toasting their spoilers. Are they really that stupid?
AN ARAB man accused of selling his property in the fiercely contested region of east Jerusalem to Jewish settlers was buried in a traitors grave yesterday after Palestinian police found his body riddled with bullets in a burnt-out car. Israeli police believe that Muhammad Abu al-Hawa, 48, whose body showed signs of torture, was murdered by Palestinians outraged by the sale to Jews of the three upper floors of a four-storey property on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
The al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility, saying that a similar fate awaited traitors who sold to Jews land or property in Arab east Jerusalem, which Palestinians still hope will be their capital.
Mr Abu al-Hawas family protested his innocence. One of his brothers, Mahmoud, 42, said that the property, and two adjacent apartment blocks, were sold to an Arab land dealer who sold them a Jordanian investment company.
Arab residents of the A-Tur neighbourhood were incensed when Jewish settlers moved into the properties two weeks ago and have since clashed repeatedly with Israeli police. A restaurant owned by Mr Abu al-Hawas family was torched and Mr Abu al-Hawa was repeatedly summoned for questioning by the Palestinian Authority security forces. On Wednesday, in a telephone call to his wife and brother, he claimed to have found documents to prove his innocence. He told them that he was driving to Jericho to clear his name.
Three hours later he was found in Jericho, shot seven times in the head and chest and with a badly bruised face. He was buried in an outcasts grave near Jericho after residents of A-Tur barred his burial there. Please add A-Tur to the IDF arty target folder if you would.
Philippine military and police seized hundreds of blasting caps and an amount of explosives in raids against Abu Sayyaf terrorists.
The Manila Times on Monday, quoting the Philippine News Agency, said authorities believe the successful raids in the areas of Barangays Rio Hondo and Baiwasan in Zamboanga foiled possible Holy Week attacks in the city.
Authorities said troops and police, acting on tips from citizens, raided two houses last Thursday morning and seized 300 Indian-made blasting caps, C-4 explosives and electronic timers.
The houses were empty at the time of the raids and no arrests were made.
Earlier in April an Abu Sayyaf leader, Amilhamja Ajijul, was killed in a clash with government forces east of Zamboanga City. Four other Abu Sayyaf members were captured.
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Operation Praying Mantis was the 18 April 1988 action waged by U.S. naval forces in retaliation for the Iranian mining of an American warship. The 14 April mining nearly sank the guided missile frigate USS Samuel B. Roberts, which was sailing in the Persian Gulf as part of Operation Earnest Will, the 1987-88 convoy missions in which U.S. warships escorted reflagged Kuwaiti oil tankers to protect them from Iranian attacks. By the time the Roberts was towed to Dubai on 15 April, battered but saved with no loss of life, U.S. planning for the retaliatory operation had already begun in Washington and in the Middle East. The battle, the largest between surface forces since World War II, sank two Iranian warships and as many as six armed speedboats. The attack by the U.S. may have helped pressure Iran to agree to a ceasefire with U.S-backed Iraq later that summer, ending the eight-year conflict between the Persian Gulf neighbors. More at the link.
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The attack by the U.S. may have helped pressure Iran to agree to a ceasefire with U.S-backed Iraq later that summer, ending the eight-year conflict between the Persian Gulf neighbors.
Sounds like a strategic mistake. Should have sold them more TOWs at 5X markup to keep the war going for another 20 years.
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I was on the Big E when this happened. Mess Deck Intelligence has it that the Air Wing used cluster bombs to knock out some of these speedy and manouverable "speedboats".
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During the first Gulf War I remember a breathless reporter on CNN announcing that a Navy A-6 had sunk a "Zodiac Patrol Craft."
Made it sound like the Bismark. I was shouting at the TV, "It's a rubber boat! A R-U-B-B-E-R BOAT!"
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Somewhere, I would like to think that there is a US Navy Seal Team who just *live* for the day when they scuttle everything Iranian that floats larger than a rubber ducky.
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...If I may, I'd like to remind everyone about another anniversary that we should remember today: on 18 Apr 1942, 16 B-25s commanded by LTC James Doolittle were launched against Japan. Although militarily the effect was negligible, the Japanese were so badly infuriated and embarassed that they made the decisions that led directly to the battle of Midway - and their ultimate defeat.
We need men like Doolittle's Raiders once more...and thank God we have them.
Mike
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It's also the anniversary of the Doolittle Raid and the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere.
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Tehran, 18 April (AKI) - Tehran's police chief has announced a new crackdown against any woman not respecting the strict Islamic dress code. "We will not allow women to show a lack of respect towards society as a whole by not fully respecting the dress rules and by refusing to wear the hijab," said General Morteza Talaii. He added that as of 22 April police would show zero tolerance "towards those who represent a threat to the Islamic culture and morals".
"The police must defend citizens' rights and it is the right of a citizen believer not to have to endure vulgar scenes which wound his religious sensibility," Talaii added. "We will not only target those who don't respect the Islamic moral code but anyone who encourages young people to disobedience," he said.
Daily newspapers close to the most fundamentalist segment of the Iranian leadership have been talking about a Western cultural offensive which, in their view, "is more dangerous than a possibile military attack".
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38 But in his estate shall he honor the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honor with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.
39 Thus shall he do in the most strongholds with a strange god, whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory: and he shall cause them to rule over many, and shall divide the land for gain.
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"...endure vulgar scenes which wound his religious sensibility..."
Like an ankle. Or a wrist. Or an eyebrow. Vulgarity beyond belief-created by Allah. How do Muslims square that these "vulgar" parts of humans were created by Allah? Is he the creator of vulgarity? I thought he was perfect?
Must be that they're ashamed of Allah's creations. Guess they coulda done a better job themselves.
Tehran, 18 April (AKI) - Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reiterated his country's intention to press ahead with its nuclear programme, warning that "the strong army of Iran will cut off the hands of every aggressor and will humiliate the enemy." In a speech at a parade to mark Iran's Army Day, the president vowed that "Iran poses no threat to any country but will strike its enemies like a meteor." The comments come as tension between Iran and the international community escalated over Teherans refusal to stop enriching uranium. The presidents speech and the impressive military parade were broadcast live on state-run television. Missiles, bombs, tanks and torpedoes were paraded on trucks in central Tehran.
"Today, you are among the worlds most powerful armies because you depend on God," Ahmadinejad told the parade. Irans enemies know your courage, faith and commitment to Islam and the land of Iran has created a powerful army that can powerfully defend the political borders and the integrity of the Iranian nation and cut the hand of any aggressor and place the sign of disgrace on their forehead, Ahmadinejad said.
The latest belligerent remarks from Iran's leader come ahead of talks scheduled late Tuesday in Moscow to seek a solution to the nuclear stand off between Tehran and the West. Diplomats from six countries - Russia, the United States, China, Germany, France and Britain - are due to meet over dinner Tuesday to discuss Iran.
How very 19th century
The first course will be a Belgian waffle with Pepto-Bismol reduction...
During recent exercises in the Persian Gulf, Iran test-fired what it called a secret missile, an ultra-horizon weapon that could be fired from military helicopters and jet fighters.
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His spews in threats come faster than any UN resolutions ever had. He should be taken for his words and held responsible for the consequences. That's the only way to deal with islamo-bullies. Start with say, the US asking for a full apology for being called "The Great Satan" and the hostage 444 days in torment from the evil Ayatollah Calumny.
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Just what the Fuck is an ultra-horizon weapon? This sounds as laughable as that green lawn mower powered flying contraption they wheeled out the other week, or as dumb as thier non existant super stealthy scud, rofl or their nuke program actually being completed, or even the speedboats of doom. What ever next eh - im betting it'll be something equally stupid
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They wont be able to stand economic sanctions
more news from Iran:
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"For the second time in a week protesting workers from 4 textile factories who had not received salaries in 13 months blocked the transit road between the cities of Kashan and Bandar Abbass. READ MORE
The regime-run news agency, ILNA's workers reporter, before the Norouz holidays the workers had threatened that if the issue of their back pay is not resolved, they will not allow for work to start up again in the new year, 1385*. In view of the lack of resolution to this issue, on April 3rd, the workers gathered inside their respective factories and refused to work.
As a result of the ongoing negligence of the factory management therefore, the workers of the 4 factories gathered on Sunday, April 9th and blocked the transit road; after a couple of hours however the regime's security and disciplinary forces intimidated the workers into disbanding.
The ILNA report also states that the workers representatives were to meet with the factories management groups on Tuesday, April 11th, however the management of neither factory was willing to meet with groups of workers. The workers therefore blocked the same transit road again on Tuesday."
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the bus transit workers went on strike and the MM's thugs arrested a bunch, including the "union" leaders (actually, IIRC the union is prohibited, prolly some hadith or fatwa), but the tensions are simmering. A long hot summer with power outages, shortages, a crashing stock market might make a huge crackdown ineveitable. THEN the decapitation airstrikes and attacks on MM assets could win hearts/minds
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Ahmadinejad Marks Army Day With New SECRETE SUPERLATIVES
I think you have identified a key point behind Ahm_an_Idjit's rantings (probably not a properly respectful term to use on this site.) The classic response to internal problems is to identify/create an external threat so the people's attention can be diverted from failings of the powers in charge. I suspect similar problems in China will soon lead to escalating threats against Taiwan.
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KABUL -Coalition soldiers killed five suspected militants in restive eastern Afghanistan as the US-led force pushed on with its biggest operation this year, the military said Tuesday. The rebels were killed Monday in Kunar province, where hundreds of foreign troops backed by more than 1,000 Afghan soldiers have been hunting militants since last Wednesday as part of Operation Mountain Lion, it said.
Police arrested four Afghans on the Indus Highway on Monday for suspicion of having links with Taliban militants, security officials said. They are suspected of having links to the Taliban. We are investigating their links, the officials said on condition of anonymity. The four were arrested 15 kilometres south of Peshawar on the Indus Highway, the officials said. The suspects were armed with grenades and Kalashnikovs, but could not use them due to the swift action by police commandos of the CID (Crimes Investigation Department), witnesses said. Around two dozen police commandos surrounded a white car carrying the four after they refused to heed a police signal to stop, the witnesses said. They (police) broke the tinted glass of the car as the men had locked themselves inside. Two of the arrested suspects were wearing burqas (veil), the witnesses said.
KANDAHAR -Taleban militants have torched a school in restive southern Afghanistan in the latest attack on the education system, police said on Monday. The incident late on Sunday in Ghazni province comes less than a week after seven schoolchildren were killed and several others wounded in a suspected Taleban rocket attack in the eastern province of Kunar. Taleban have torched and destroyed a school in Muqur district of Ghazni province, provincial police chief Abdul Rahman Sarjang told AFP.
A pro-Kurdish party said yesterday that Turkish security forces have raided several of its offices and detained dozens of its members over the past few weeks. The reported raids and detentions follow some of the most violent clashes in decades between Turkish security forces and Kurdish protesters, which left 13 civilians dead. Four other people were killed in attacks in Istanbul claimed by a militant Kurdish group.
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia - The judge in the death penalty trial of confessed Al Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui called an unexepected recess in the case on Monday and convened a closed session.
Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) chief Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti has said that at least 11 Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel have been critically injured in recent clashes with insurgents in Dera Bugti, and landmine explosions in the area have left several FC personnel dead.
Pakistan on Monday handed over an alleged Al Qaeda militant of Turkish origin to Ankara. Muhammad Yousaf was captured by Pakistani authorities on January 28 in South Waziristan, on suspicion of being a Qaeda operative, and detained for two months for interrogation purposes. The Pakistani authorities are currently investigating another suspected militant who was picked up in Lahore.
Taliban forces have so far killed 150 pro-government tribal Maliks in the North and South 
He said that the Talibanisation of Waziristan was damaging other parts of the NWFP and that the local Maliks and political administration had been limited to their houses and offices, sources said. The Talibans sphere of influence has expanded to DI Khan, Tank and the 
According to sources, he admitted before the cabinet that the situation remained volatile in the North and South Waziristan agencies, despite the deployment of a heavy contingent of armed forces. The other concern of the government is the presence of Indian consulates in the Afghan cities, which are near the Pakistani border, the minister said.
Pro-Taliban militants beheaded two tribesmen in North Waziristan for allegedly working for American forces, said a security official on Monday.Gunmen captured one of the tribesmen and killed him in Khar Qamar on Sunday, said the official. "They beheaded the man and fled in his vehicle," the official said on condition of anonymity. Residents also found a headless body in Madhakhel, said the official. "All those working as US spies will face the same fate," proclaimed a note found near the body.
KARACHI: The government has resolved the Balochistan issue amicably and no law and order situation exists there anymore, said President General Pervez Musharraf on Monday. The government will introduce administrative reforms in Balochistan, said the president. Several development projects have been started in Balochistan so that the people of the province can be brought to par with the other provinces, he said. Peace has been restored in the province in letter and spirit, he added. 
KATHMANDU - Nepali troops opened fire on anti-monarchy demonstrators in an eastern town on Monday, killing at least one man, witnesses said. They said the protest took place in the town of Nijgadh, about 200 km (140 miles) east of Kathmandu. The man was the fifth person to be killed in a wave of anti- monarchy protests that have swept the country over the past 12 days.
BAGHDAD - Police on Monday recovered 17 bullet-riddled bodies in Baghdad as rebels killed nine people in fresh attacks across the country. Twelve bodies of men shot to death were found in Baghdads notorious Dura neighborhood, while three corpses were recovered in the capitals Al Shuala district and two more in the Shiite Kadimiyah neighborhood, an interior ministry official said. Of the 12 bodies found in Dura, two were found inside a foreign car, while five next to the car, the official said.
Gunmen killed the brother of a top Iraqi Sunni politician, officials said on Monday, in the second killing in days of a relative of a Sunni leader as deadlock over a unity government showed no sign of loosening. One day after Monday's parliamentary session was delayed to give bickering politicians more time to form a government aimed at averting civil war, the body of 
AN ARAB man accused of selling his property in the fiercely contested region of east Jerusalem to Jewish settlers was buried in a traitors grave yesterday after Palestinian police found his body riddled with bullets in a burnt-out car. Israeli police believe that 
Tehran, 18 April (AKI) - Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has reiterated his country's intention to press ahead with its nuclear programme, warning that "the strong army of Iran will cut off the hands of every aggressor and will humiliate the enemy." In a speech at a parade to mark Iran's Army Day, the president vowed that "Iran poses no threat to any country but will strike its enemies like a meteor." The comments come as tension between Iran and the international community escalated over Teherans refusal to stop enriching uranium. The presidents speech and the impressive military parade were broadcast live on state-run television. Missiles, bombs, tanks and torpedoes were paraded on trucks in central Tehran. 
