A suicide car bomber was killed on Thursday in an abortive attack on Nato troops near the town of Farah in western Afghanistan. Officials say that the bomber's explosive device detonated too soon and that no-one else was injured.
So he 'aborted' himself.
Just another workmans' comp claim for Mutual of Kandahar.
They say that the bomb exploded in a secluded area near a base in the town used by US military forces. The incident follows a series of similar attacks across the country which have been blamed on the Taleban. "We do not know the target of the attack, but we can say it was a suicide raid and there were no other casualties apart from the suicide car bomber," the Governor of Farah, Izatullah Wasifiold, told the Reuters news agency.
Around 900 people have been killed in the Afghan insurgency since the beginning of the year, with half of that total dying in May. Nato officials say that US-led air strikes have inflicted heavy casualties on Taleban insurgents in the south of Afghanistan throughout May.
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I have mixed emotions about this - those being : Joy, and Happiness.
May many more incompetent mass murderers prematurely detonate.
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Post-partum abortions - the way to REALLY get things right. Lots of candidates for these...
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This is becoming the preferd method od AQ operatives all with the Iranian IED method as well.
No AQ or Taliban in Pakistan? Right. These are "locals" coming from Pakistan to cause trouble.
Time for some well planed and placed explosions in Pakistan.
Taliban fighters killed at least a dozen Afghan police and abducted up to 40 in two separate attacks in southern Afghanistan, while US-led forces launched an offensive in a nearby province, officials said today.
In the southern province of Zabul, a senior police official, Mohammad Rasoul, was killed and four other people, including two senior provincial officials, were wounded after the Taliban hit their car with a rocket yesterday. ''They were part of a reinforcement sent to help a group of highway police who had come under Taliban attack on a road of Zabul,'' said Yousuf Stanizai, the Interior Ministry spokesman.
An official in Zabul, who declined to be identified, said more than 10 policemen were killed in the Taliban assault.
The raid in Zabul came hours after the Taliban attacked a police base in Chora district of neighbouring Uruzgan province and abducted up to 40 policemen, an official in Kabul said on condition of anonymity. A Reuters reporter received a phone call from an unknown person who described himself as Mullah Ahmad, a Taliban commander, and said the militants had taken the police hostage and the Taliban's leadership would decide their fate.
He said militants had killed 12 police in the attack before kidnapping the others.
Separately, coalition and Afghan troops today scoured villages for Taliban insurgents in several areas of Ghazni province, said Sher Alam Ibrahimi, the region's governor. The operation was launched following a series of Taliban attacks in the province recently and amid reports the militants had regrouped there, Ibrahimi said. Coalition forces captured six suspected Taliban fighters, but there were no reports of fighting, he added. A coalition spokesman could not be contacted for comment.
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Look, if you're a cop and you're captured by the Taliban, the "Taliban's leadership would decide their fate". Code for: you're going to die. How do 40 cops get captured, and why would they surrender? Why aren't they going down with guns blazing?
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It may be a cross-cultural thing. If the captors were local tribesmen, ransom would be in order. Trouble is, these 'Taliban' are heavily influenced by Arabs.
Islamic militias and secular warlords resumed fighting for control of the Somali capital on Wednesday, killing at least 13 people and wounding 11 after a five-day lull, witnesses and medical workers said.
The fundamentalist Islamic militia expanded its control over parts of Mogadishu in the battle that began shortly after morning prayers, capturing a base on a key road linking the city with Somalia's central region, said Jamal Ali, who owns a garage in the northeastern neighborhood where the fighting was taking place. The radical fighters also seized at least five prized trucks mounted with heavy weapons from their rivals.
Dr. Sheikhdon Salad Elmi, director of Medina Hospital, said at least three bodies were taken to his hospital and two others were at the Keysaney Hospital. Ali told The Associated Press that at least eight other bodies, mostly civilians, could been seen in the battle zone.
Fighting stopped later Wednesday as both sides strengthened their positions, enabling hundreds of people to flee their homes.
A warlord controlling Somalia's southern Middle Shabelle region, Mohamed Dheere, also sent trucks mounted with heavy weapons and armed militiamen to back up forces battling the Islamic fundamentalists, Radio Banadir reported.
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The irony here is good. The Somali warlords are fighting the war on terror for us. The Islamic extreemists are trying to build a new country, not unlike Afghanistan in the late 80's, and even the thug warlord know this will not lead to anything good. We should send lots of ammo.
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Pan...It's sweet. I think the US should charter aircraft from Riyadh, Tehran, Damascus, etc. to bring in more lions of islam. It seems that a devout muslim just wants to kill. It doesn't seem to matter who.
The situation of Mogadishus northeast villages has been quiet on Tuesday after militia of Islamic courts took the control of key positions from the militia of anti terror alliance in heavy flare up of fighting in early morning, killing five militiamen loyal to Somali minister of militia rehabilitation Botan Isse Alin.
One of residents in the latest clashes told Somalinet the situation resumed in calm and very alert and heavy armed Islamic fighters could be seen appearing from main positions previously held by militia of anti terror alliance. Hundreds of pro-Islamic courts people rallied in the streets welcoming Islamic courts activities in which they have taken the control of strategic positions from anti terror alliance. The demonstrators were chanting slogans like we dont want more bloodshed, we want peace, we dont want dollar takers and down anti terror alliance.
Meanwhile, reports from Balad town of middle Shabelle region say militia loyal Mohamed Dhere who is member of anti terror alliance have reached El-Irfid village near to where this morning fighting has raged to enforce the defeated militia of Botan Isse. Sources say heavily armed militia with 15 battle wagons are now in El-Irfid in an attempt to launch an attack on Islamic militiamen who have just taken position from Darmolei area alongside the road and some miles away from El-Irfid village. The people in the area fear that fighting might happen since both sides regroup.
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Sources say heavily armed militia with 15 battle wagons
Did the Mighty Mo come out of retirement?
militia of Islamic courts who were said to have been using war techniques
Well, imagine that. Someone actually brought a strategy other than "spray and pray" into an African conflict?
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Battle Wagons: Probably the Toyota Land Cruiser of FJ-60 and FJ-62 variety. Love the LC (goes anywhere, run fo'ever w/ little maint.), but the FJ-60,62 in the V6 configuration is underpowered for such a heavy vehicle. The new 3.4 V6 would do the job though. And the new V8 is wonderful.
Now the FJ-55 Iron Pig really looks like a battle wagon. And the FJ-40,45 has the removable hard top for all kinds of options. Apparently, the latest in luxury, the 100 series, is being outfitted with combat accessories as well. And then there is the new, but terrible expensive for a Somali warlord, MegaCruiser. Or maybe some real military left a 70 behind years ago.
I'm still having trouble finding the gun mounts for my Tundra and 4Runner here in the States though. I'm thinking a TOW launcher would look good on top of the 4Runner. (More Toyota .mil vehicles)
Whoa! Sorry, I geeked-out for a moment. We now return you to your regularly scheduled programing.
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of course, the minute the Islamic Courts militias took control, they built hospitals, daycares, raised nutrition levels, opened schools and freed the slaves, right Senator Murray?
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I always had a soft spot for the 80's caprices and impalas aka the 'crip gunship'.
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JHead a firm I worked for had a fleet of 6 of the last of the big GM 350 rear-wheel drive sedans. We ran them to death, over 200,000 miles each. We were stunned at the price they brought come salvage time.
Nouakchott, 1 June (AKI) - Police in Mauritania arrested four militants suspected of being members of the al-Qaeda linked Algerian Salafite Group for Preaching and Combat, Radio Sawa reported on Thursday. The militants, all citizens of Mauritania, were allegedly among the organisers of terrorist attacks against Mauritanian military bases in the southern part of the country and of the 1998 attack on the US embassy in Nairobi.
Mauritanian authorities have reportedly arrested 21 alleged members of the Algerian terrorist group since the beginning of April this year.
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Egyptian security forces yesterday arrested two men suspected of involvement in a string of deadly bombings in the Sinai Peninsula over the past two years, security sources told AFP. Yussef Ali Mohammed Hamad and Ali Mohammed Hadi Salem, whose names appear on a wanted list issued by Egyptian police, were arrested in northern Sinai, one of the sources said. "The two were carrying weapons and hand-held explosives," the source said, without reporting a clash. Twenty people were killed, including several foreigners, on April 24, when three suicide bombings ripped through the popular Red Sea resort of Dahab during a peak holiday season.
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A member of Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) Red Flag faction was killed in 'crossfire' between Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and his accomplices at Terokhada of Sathia upazila in Pabna yesterday.
What other color flag would a commie use?
Abdul Dayen also known as Bolai Mistiri, 45, was arrested at Harianpur in Pabna on Tuesday afternoon. A Rab press release claimed during interrogation he had confessed to Rab about his involvement in several murders.
"I'll confess! I'll confess, just get THAT away from me! Power tools scare me"
Following his information, a Rab team went to Terokhada with him in the early hours of yesterday to arrest his accomplices and retrieving hidden arms.
Say "Goodbye", Abdul
As they reached Terokhada, Bolai's accomplices started firing on the Rab team forcing them to retaliate.
Like the 'script' sez..
During the gunfight Bolai tried to escape custody and was caught in the line of fire, Rab claimed.
"Honest, would we lie? Don't answer that..."
On duty doctors declared fatally wounded Bolai dead when he was rushed to Pabna Sadar Hospital.
"He's dead, Jim"
Rab men recovered a shutter gun, two bullets from the spot. Bolai's accomplices however managed to escape.
It's like they were ever there
The Rab press release said Bolai was accused in nine cases for murder and other criminal cases.
"Then there was all the times he sold dope disguised as a nun."
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Abdul was over the hill at age 45, anyway. Say hello to Chairman Mao for us.
Police in Chechnya pursued a group of fighters into neighboring Ingushetia on Wednesday, cornering them at a home and sparking a gun battle that killed three fighters and one police officer, officials said. Ingush Interior Minister Beslan Khamkhoev said in televised comments that the fighters had fled from the southwestern Chechen district of Achkhoi-Martan after a battle with Chechen police. They moved into Ingushetia, pursued by Chechen forces, and holed up in a house basement in the village of Nesterovskaya, he said.
Three of the fighters were killed during the gun battle at the house, said Roman Shchekotin, spokesman for the Interior Ministry's southern district, along with one Chechen police officer. Four other police were wounded. Khamkhoev said three police officers were wounded during the pursuit into Ingushetia and one fighter was killed. The battle ended when militants blew themselves up in the basement, news reports said.
[sniff] I love happy endings!
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Five armed insurgents, one police officer and a bystander were killed on Wednesday in separate clashes near Russia's turbulent Chechnya region, local media reported.
The bodies of three rebels were recovered from a house in the Ingushetia region, where police had trapped them after pursuing them from neighboring Chechnya, Itar-Tass news agency reported. It said one police officer was killed.
Two insurgents were killed in a gunfight with police in the nearby region of Dagestan, which also borders Chechnya, Interfax news agency reported. A bystander was hurt in the shooting and later died in hospital, the agency said.
Analysts say the insurgency is driven by militant Islamist ideas and resentment at police harassment. In some areas the fighting is also linked to organized crime.
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Chechnya's prime minister said Wednesday the militant gang killed in the neighboring republic of Ingushetia had returned from Turkey.
Ramzan Kadyrov said gangs had become proactive in other North Caucasus regions "as they have nowhere to hide in Chechnya."
Three militants, including a warlord by the name of Khaikhoroyev, were killed and one hostage was freed in an operation in Ingushetia Wednesday.
One policeman was killed and three wounded after law enforcers surrounded a house in which militants had taken a man hostage. The militants later blew up the basement in which they were holed up.
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Geez, what a shock.
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Spain's High Court acquitted on Thursday a man accused of conspiring to help commit the September 11 attacks on New York and Washington, court papers said.
Judicial sources said the man, known as Abu Dahdah, would serve 12 years in jail for leading a terrorist group rather than the full 27 years to which he had been sentenced.
Abu Dahdah, whose full name is Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, was accused of being an al Qaeda member.
"We must absolve, and we do absolve, Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas of the crime of conspiracy to commit terrorist murder for which he was accused," the court document said.
It added that other convictions of Abu Dahdah still stood.
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Because the EUropeans will never let that person face a death penalty trial in the US. No chance in hell of Spain extraditing him. At some later date he will likely be part of a dhimi operation and traded for a Spaniard who gets kidnapped due to an act of their own stupidity. That is how it works right?
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Well, that and the Bush administration never provided any evidence, and never pushed for extradition. You see, Yarkas is exiled Syrian Brotherhood, which in turn had a state sponsor in Iraq. And if the Bush points the finger at Iraq again, al-Douri gives the word to mail some more of that neato-o keen trillion CFU/g anthrax. This is why Saddam will be on perpetual trial. He's willing to negotiate, you see.
Anti-terror police in Turkey are reported to have foiled a plot to kill Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkish newspapers says nine people, including three soldiers, have been detained in the capital, Ankara. Police are said to have found grenades, explosives, a timer, and a sketch showing Mr Erdogan's route home.
There has been no official comment. Mr Erdogan, whose party has Islamic roots, last month criticised the army's chief for encouraging popular protests. He attacked General Hilmi Ozkok for supporting demonstrations against Islamist militancy after a judge was murdered by a suspected Islamist gunman. The army sees itself as the guardian of secularism in predominantly Muslim Turkey.
The Hurriyet and Sabah newspapers suggested Cuneyd Zapsu, one of Mr Erdogan's advisers, was also the target of a likely attack. There has been no confirmation from the police, but the semi-official Anatolia news agency said the suspects were "allegedly planning an attack against a politician".
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Exactly. Just like the Council of State attack.
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Azad, I saw your response to my question yesterday -- thank you. Your sensible Turkish Kurd perspective is much appreciated (and I envy you the keyboard that lets you type the appropriate Turkish squiggles!) Salaam aleikum, as Mr. Wife would say. He brought me back lovely pictures and stories from his time working in Turkey.
The AK's major opposition, the CHP, is accusing Erdogan of "interfering with the judicial process" (Article 288 of the new Turkish penal code--one that has been very popular lately). How soon will it be before Erdogan is formally charged?
It will also be interesting to find out if they will also accuse him under Article 216 (inciting hatred and enmity among the people).
Dozens of youths stoned a police station early Wednesday in a second night of trouble in a rough Paris suburb, as authorities arrested a youth whose injury along with the death of two friends sparked last year's wave of rioting. Street violence opposing local gangs and police continued late Tuesday and early Wednesday in both towns, as youths attacked a police station, set ablaze a dozen cars and rained stones down on public buildings.
Four police officers were lightly wounded while protecting the Montfermeil police station from stoning by a gang of around 30 youths. Four other officers, visibly rattled, managed to get out of their car, in front of the Bosquets public housing estate on the border of the two towns, after youths set it on fire, AFP witnessed. A helicopter with a spotlight canvassed the neighbourhood throughout the night, on the alert for new flare-ups. Five youths were arrested among them Muhittin Altun, who narrowly escaped electrocution in October after hiding from the police in a power sub-station. Altun, released Wednesday morning with a court summons, was detained in Clichy-sous-Bois on charges of pitching rocks at a police car. His lawyer denied the charge.
The Montfermeil area has been tense since the centre-right mayor passed a tough anti-crime decree later blocked by the courts forbidding young people from gathering in the streets. On Monday, the Montfermeil town hall and the mayor's home were attacked by gangs of masked youths wielding sticks and baseball bats. A 250-man police contingent was sent to quell the unrest, which left seven officers lightly injured.
France's tough interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, pledged late Tuesday he would clamp down on any further violence. "I won't let chaos be stirred up anywhere in France," he said. Speaking to a group of policemen, he described Monday's violence in Montfermeil as a well-orchestrated strike. "More than 100 troublemakers set upon you, masked and carrying weapons," he said. "It's impossible to deny the evidence: this was premeditated."
Left-wing municipal authorities in Montfermeil said Monday's incidents were sparked by the "heavy-handed" arrest of a woman from the Bosquets estate whose son was wanted in connection with a robbery. But Sarkozy brushed aside the criticism saying said it showed only that "by battling delinquency, we have upset some of the delinquents." Two police unions, Alliance and the SCHFPN, charged meanwhile that a "weak judicial response" to local crime had "encouraged a hard core of delinquents".
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Left wing municipal authorities...openly siding with the "youths". So long Frawntz...nice knowing ya. OK..I lied, it wasn't all that nice, and I could truly give a rats @$$.
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I could give a rat's @$$, I'm connected to these wingnuts by a tunnel with a high-speed train link. Pretty soon I'll be just miles away from Europe's most powerful Islamic nuclear state.
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"Five youths were arrested among them Muhittin Altun, who narrowly escaped electrocution in October after hiding from the police in a power sub-station...His lawyer denied the charge."
Your honor, my client not only denies this charge but the last charge as well. In fact, he would like to dispense with all the formalities and deny any and all charges that may or may not occur in the future.
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Are French Police armed?
If not, why not?
If yes, why don't they use their weapons?
Makes no sense.
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Yes, they are armed : non-lethal weapons including "flashballs" impact stun devices and CS grenade launchers, pepper spray (I think we still prefer teargas), tonfas, saps, ye olde 12 gauges pump shotgun, some carbines like the Ruger mini-14, various smgs, notably the Beretta m12, hk mp5, various handguns,... some of them coppers are actually well-known for taking names and kicking *ss (Bac anti-gangs brigades, CRS and Gendarmes mobiles anti-riot units, various swat type units like the regional GIPN), they've got recognized high quality anti-terrorist units (GIGN, EPIGN, RAID),... but they can't fight back, both paramiltary police and civilian police.
I mean, they can defend themselves, bash in a few heads, etc, etc... but they are not to antagonize when confronted.
You've got to understand that the main motto of the "tough on crime" Sarko during the ramadan riots was "no casualty among the rioters". So, police had to leave them burn cars, not to act out too harshly, and avoid clashes.
So, there were real ambushes of police units, trapped and surrounded, with the reinforcement meant to bail them out trapped by the responding reinformcement of Youths (thanks, mighty cellphone, truly the best weapon of french Youths, able to summit a posse in no time), there were actual reports of riot police being shot at and not even responding or chasing the culprit...
The french police during the riots was outstanding by its self-control and endurance.
Simply, they were not meant to enforce the law and order, as there is NO political will. And the riots were only an exacerbated example of that long-running "response" of french authorities, which prefer to let the underground economy flourish, so peace can prevail.
One reason Sarko is HATED in the 'hoods, beside his phony "tough on crime" media image (with the help of the leftists & msm, but I repeat myself, who diabolize him, as he's actually some kind of real conservative in the french political scenery), and his supposed jewishness (remember the "Sarko dirty jew" shouts?), is that he established anti-organized crime regional units which are actual efficient at rooting out that underground economy based on cannabis traffic from Morocco (80% of all european production).
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The Image of a French Police Officer with a MP5 or Beretta M12 is pretty vivid for me. These were cops on the street carrying sub guns. To bad that they can't cut lose. It would only take a few times and this "problem" would be solved.
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The French need to break some heads. This won't stop until the penalty for it is greater than the reward ("self-esteem", feeling of power). I mean BREAK HEADS, and hands, and feet, and knees, and arms, literally. Don't shoot the little bas####s, but break their bones. Let them remember the rest of their lives what happens when you decide you're bigger than the rest of the world. Unfortunately, it takes guts and the willingness to send a few of the ringleaders to the mortuary to make it work, something I don't think the French are capable of at the moment. If this continues, however, they may actually develop a spine - or die trying.
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Should be "no survivors among the rioters."
Give 'em 2-3 chances to disperse, then open up on 'em.
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Simply, they were not meant to enforce the law and order, as there is NO political will.
At some point the police are going to provide the will and their own ROE.
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During the "student" protests this spring, the cops were griping about all of the extra work. They were working as many as (mon dieu!) 47 hours a week.
ROCKVILLE, Md. - Twice-convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad was sentenced Thursday to six consecutive life terms in prison with no possibility of parole, a sentence prosecutors consider insurance in case his Virginia death sentence is ever overturned.
You, Mr. Muhammad, have no hope. You have no future. You will spend every day for the rest of your life locked in a cage, Montgomery County Circuit Judge James Ryan said.
Muhammad, 45, stood with his head bowed as the sentence was announced. Some in the audience applauded.
Muhammad was convicted Tuesday of six counts of murder for six of the 10 deadly sniper attacks that terrorized the Washington area in October 2002. This time, Muhammad acted as his own attorney at trial, and his young accomplice, Lee Boyd Malvo, took the stand for the first time to testify against him. Malvo told jurors how the older man, his one-time mentor, trained him to shoot and drew him into a sinister plan to kill people, including children, indiscriminately.
Jurors deliberated less than five hours before finding Muhammad guilty.
Malvo, sentenced to life in prison in Virginia, had agreed to plead guilty in the Maryland killings. He was not promised leniency but told jurors he wanted to face the man who he said trained him to be a killer. He called Muhammad a coward and, at one point, glared at him, saying: You took me into your house and you made me a monster.
Muhammad called him son and questioned Malvos credibility, saying the 21-year-old had problems with exaggeration and memory. He also claimed he was framed by investigators who planted and fabricated evidence and said he was the victim of a broad law enforcement conspiracy.
Muhammad could be returned to Virginias death row as early as Thursday afternoon, according to Darren Popkin, Montgomery County chief deputy sheriff. Malvo likely will remain in Maryland until he formally enters a plea in October. Other states still have outstanding charges against Muhammad from earlier shootings, including Louisiana and Alabama. It will be up to Virginia whether to send him away again for further prosecution.
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"...Feds see sentences as insurance in case Virginia death verdict overturned..."
I don't see how this is much insurance. It seems to me that if the death sentence is overturned in VA, there would have to be a new sentencing. If the guilty verdict in VA was overturned, it would have to be based on a flaw in the prosecution's case or in some aspect of the trial. If it was the former, the Md verdict would be in jeopardy.
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Nope, no effect on the MD case. Two seperate states, two seperate courts with no bearing on each other. It's insurance only in the sense that Mr. Mo will never go free.
Federal prosecutors in Sacramento announced Wednesday that they had obtained a guilty plea from a Pakistani-American ice cream truck driver who was accused of lying to the authorities during a terrorism investigation.
The driver, Umer Hayat, agreed to plead guilty to lying to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and customs officials about how much money he was carrying on a trip from California to Pakistan in 2003, said McGregor W. Scott, a United States attorney for the Eastern District of California. Mr. Hayat had told officials during a stopover in Washington that he and his family were carrying less than $10,000, while prosecutors said the amount was more than $28,000.
Mr. Hayat, 48, had been expected to face trial next week on more serious charges of lying to federal investigators in relation to his son, Hamid, who was convicted on April 25 of lying to federal agents and providing material support to terrorists by attending a training camp of Al Qaeda in 2003. A separate jury had deadlocked on charges against the elder Mr. Hayat on the same day, but prosecutors had sought to retry him.
The plea puts at least a temporary end to an inquiry that disrupted the rural town of Lodi, where the Hayats live in a close-knit Muslim community. It also brings to a close a federal prosecution that raised questions about government interrogation techniques. Both Hayats had submitted confessions to investigators despite limited English, an element that some legal experts say could open their convictions to appeal.
In a statement on Wednesday, Mr. Scott, the prosecutor, seemed to strike a victorious note. "After 9/11, the U.S. Justice Department's top priority is to detect, disrupt, and deter future acts of terrorism," he said. "This mission was accomplished."
In exchange for his plea, federal officials said they would dismiss all previous charges and recommend that Umer Hayat receive a sentence of three years supervised release. Since his arrest in 2005, Mr. Hayat has served 330 days in jail and 30 days of home confinement, prosecutors said. Sentencing is Aug. 18.
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Mr. Hayat is merely a terrorist. In the olden days the ice cream truck drivers used to deal drugs.
Police in India say they have killed three suspected militants who were planning an attack on the headquarters of a Hindu right-wing organisation.
Officials said the militants were targeting the headquarters of the Rashtriya Shyamsevak Sangh (RSS) in western Nagpur city early on Thursday. Police said the attackers belonged to an unspecified Islamic group.
The RSS is the ideological fountainhead of various Hindu groups including the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party. Police officials told the BBC that the police intercepted the militants, who were armed with hand grenades and assault rifles, near the RSS headquarters in Maharashtra state at 0400 on Thursday. Two policemen were also injured in the five-minute-long gun battle.
Officials said the men, who were dressed in police uniform, came in a car and fired upon the policemen who stopped them for questioning outside the organisation's headquarters. Nagpur police chief SDS Yadav said that security was tight at the RSS headquarters as it had always been a potential target for militants. Security at all RSS offices in the country has been tightened after the incident, the BBC's Zubair Ahmed reports from Mumbai.
"We will be cautious. We have asked RSS offices all over the country to be on guard," RSS spokesman Ram Madhav said. The 81-year-old RSS is India's oldest Hindu nationalist organisation with an estimated 1.3 million members. The organisation came into existence in 1925 in Nagpur with an avowed objective to make India a Hindu nation. Some RSS members take part in military drills and exercises - a guiding principle of the organisation is that India should be Hinduised and militarised.
Critics of the organisation say that its hardline ideology is based on intolerance towards religious minorities. Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948 by a militant Hindu who had once been an RSS member.
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Is it me or these bloody muslims cause trouble all over the world.
The world needs to stand up and realise who the global enemy is funded by Saudi and Iran!!!!
A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has sentenced an Islamist militant to death for an attack on a gathering of Shi'ite Muslims seven years ago that killed 16 people, a lawyer said today.
The convict, Qari Omar Hayat, belonged to the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, one of the most feared militant groups blamed for most attacks on minority Shi'ite Muslims in Pakistan.
Hayat and three other militants were convicted yesterday for firing on a crowd of Shi'ite Muslims near the town of Muzaffargarh in central Punjab province in 1999, said state prosecutor Malik Najaf Ali Mahe.
''He was one of the attackers who fired at the gathering with a Kalashnikov rifle. The three other attackers have already been killed in police encounters,'' Mahe told Reuters.
Hayat had the right to appeal.
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Militants set off a roadside bomb and fired rockets and mortars at security posts in separate attacks on Wednesday in a tribal region, leaving two soldiers wounded, an official said. The soldiers were in a pickup truck travelling along a road in Shakai, a mountain valley in South Waziristan tribal region, when the bomb exploded nearby and wounded them, a government official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to make media comments. The victims were moved to a military hospital in Wana, South Waziristan's main town, he said. There was no word on how seriously they were hurt.
Hours before the bombing, militants targeted several security posts with around 45 rockets, mortars and assault rifles at various locations in Shakai, a former militant stronghold, he said. No one was hurt in the spate of small-scale attacks that began after midnight on Tuesday and continued through the early hours of Wednesday, he said. Troops retaliated, firing mortars and other heavy weapons, but it was not known whether there were any casualties among the assailants. Authorities said they had launched a search operation in the Shakai region.
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A Saudi member of al Qaeda, captured in northern Iraq, was handed over to the U.S Army, according to a minister in the Kurdistan regional government.
Said Saad Said al Qarni, also known as Abu Qatiba, a former student of Imam Mohammed bin Saud in Riyadh, was detained by the Kurdish police last summer in Mosul , after failing to blow up the Kurdish Democratic Party headquarters in the city.
Abdul Karim Sinjari, minister of state for the interior in the regional government, told Asharq al Awsat that the 24-years journey began in Jeddah where he met a man known as Abu Abada, before boarding a flight together to Damascus, with $2000 in his possession.
In Syria, al Qarni stayed at a number of safe houses before illegally crossing the border into Iraq and traveling to al Qaim. According to the investigation, al Qarni met an Iraqi called Abu Mohammed and stayed at his home with four other terrorists, including a Saudi called Abu Azzam.
In Falluja, the former student asked to take part in a suicide attack against the coalition forces. However, he was chosen to carry out an attack in Iraqi Kurdistan and entered northern Iraq with forged documents. He was later arrested in Mosul.
The U.S. military investigation of how Marine commanders handled the reporting of events last November in the Iraqi town of Haditha, where troops allegedly killed 24 Iraqi civilians, will conclude that some officers gave false information to their superiors, who then failed to adequately scrutinize reports that should have caught their attention, an Army official said yesterday.
The three-month probe, led by Army Maj. Gen. Eldon Bargewell, is also expected to call for changes in how U.S. troops are trained for duty in Iraq, the official said.
The promotion of a top Marine general also has been put on hold.
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Foreign terrorists, led by fighters from Saudi Arabia, are behind an upsurge in attacks against British troops in Basra, military sources said yesterday. The Saudi influence on terrorism in Shia-dominated Basra has not been previously reported but has caused concern among military commanders because of their training, technology and finance.
Although the majority of Saudi Arabians are Sunni, the minority Shia have taken part in terrorist attacks.
Des Browne, the Defence Secretary, admitted that a recent surge in violence was a cause of "major concern". Dozens of soldiers have been targeted by advanced "improvised explosive devices" (IED) that the Army has been unable to disable or jam.
Morale is also being affected by the continual danger, with older soldiers saying the apprehension is similar to that experienced on the streets of Northern Ireland in the 70s and early 80s. "People are dying and morale is being affected by it," said an officer operating in Iraq. "The perception is that attacks are becoming more lethal and better targeted and the delivery process is more effective. There is a definite sense that we are still making progress but because there is no real defence against IEDs people are feeling a bit glummer."
Commanders are concerned that Saudi and other foreign fighters are co-ordinating the attacks in a "consensual environment", in which the locals will not tell the military where roadside bombs have been planted. "The concern is that support for our presence is going down," a defence source said. There is also a strong belief, particularly among the Americans, that Iran is continuing to ferry bombs to Baghdad via Basra.
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Commanders are concerned that Saudi and other foreign fighters are co-ordinating the attacks in a "consensual environment", in which the locals will not tell the military where roadside bombs have been planted.
One must keep things like this in mind, when judging Haditha
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Not to be rude about our Brit friends, but they've had their head in the sand about Iran in that region for some time. Their policies have benefits, but also costs and now the time has come to pay those costs.
The notion that it's the Soddis is questionable, at best. Why not blame the Kuwaitis? From purely a geographic and economic point of view, they're equally likely. Realisticly, it's Iran and a few odds and sods.
Iraqi and coalition forces captured eight terrorist leaders in recent operations in Baghdad neighborhoods. Also, the Iraqi-led Combined Review and Release Board released more than 200 detainees. Yesterday, Iraqi forces raided two targets in the Karada area of Baghdad and detained seven individuals responsible for homemade bomb attacks against Iraqi security forces.
The first target was a dormitory on Baghdad Technical University's campus where two student cells, operating out of dormitory rooms, built bombs and later initiated attacks against Iraqi army and police forces. Four students were detained during this operation. At the second target, an apartment building near the campus, Iraqi forces detained three cell leaders responsible for emplacing bombs made by their student cells. All three cell leaders are believed to be Palestinians, and they were financed by a local business. This cell is responsible for at least two attacks against Iraqi security and police forces in the Karada area. The first attack, in December 2005, resulted in no casualties. The second attack, in January of this year, killed several Iraqi police officers riding in a vehicle.
A SUICIDE bomber in a car killed at least 12 people in the Iraqi town of Hilla, police sources said. They said 36 people were wounded in the attack near a car dealership in Hilla, 100km south of Baghdad.
The mainly Shiite town has suffered some of the biggest bombings in the Sunni guerrilla campaign to topple the Shiite-led government.
Hours later a car bomb killed at least five people in the northern Baghdad district of Husaniya, police said.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Wednesday declared a month-long state of emergency in Basra after sectarian tension increased in Iraq's second-largest city. In a speech broadcast by Iraqi television al Iraqiya, al-Maliki said the cabinet would use an "iron fist" against "criminal gangs" he accused of holding the city's oil exports to ransom. During his visit to Basra on Wednesday, al-Maliki also denounced a wave of killings and kidnappings that Sunni religious leaders have blamed on Shiite death squads.
Basra has registered growing tensions among Shiite groups vying for political power and control over the area's vast oil wealth.
A Shiite faction has moreover threatened to sabotage oil exports through Basra to exercise pressure on the Iraqi government.
Addressing some 700 tribal sheiks, religious leaders, officials, army officers and other residents in Basra on Wednesday, the premier also said the government will "ask all security departments to draw up an effective and quick plan to achieve security."
Al-Maliki's comments came as a new Pentagon report indicated that Sunni insurgent strength should remain steady this year, though it warned about increasing threats from al-Qaeda in Iraq.
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At least 40 corpses, shot in the head and showing signs of torture, have been found in different locations around Iraq, an interior ministry official said on Wednesday. The largest cache of 16 bodies turned up in Baladiyat in the eastern outskirts of Baghdad, while five were found in Husseiniya, northeast of the capital where a car bomb killed 22 people on Tuesday. Another four were found in Baghdad's impoverished Shiite district of Sadr City, three decapitated bodies were discovered in Muqdadiya, northeast of the capital and another 12 around Baghdad. All bodies had their hands tied and showed signs of torture, the official said.
The sudden flood of corpses comes after a comparative hiatus in night-time killings believed to be carried out by armed gangs on sectarian grounds following the destruction of a Shiite shrine in February. Monday and Tuesday saw an explosion of violence and bombings around the country, mostly focused on Baghdad, that claimed the lives of over 100 people. In other violence Wednesday, a mortar attack in the southern outskirts of Baghdad killed nine people and wounded 17 on Wednesday, police sources said. They said four mortar bombs landed south of Baghdad's Dora district. No other details were immediately available.
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Insurgents killed Wednesday an Iraq Sports broadcaster of the Iraqi satellite network in western Baghdad, a security source said. The source added that the victim was parking near a store in Al-Shorta neighborhood west of Baghdad when the insurgents attacked him with a hail of gunfire. Meanwhile, hand-grenades were thrown at a security checkpoint in Kirkuk city and caused the injury of five Iraqi civilians.
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Nothing like good old, muslim on musilm violence. I guess being a Muslim sports broadcaster is worse than being an infidel or Joooo.
A PALESTINIAN security officer was killed and seven were wounded in clashes between rival Fatah and Hamas factions in Gaza today, underscoring growing tensions in the impoverished coastal strip.
Earlier, thousands of Palestinian security men fired automatic rifles and vandalised the parliament in Gaza in one of the biggest protests over unpaid wages since the Hamas government took office in March.
Medics and a security official said Khader Afana, a Fatah member of the preventative security force, was killed by unknown gunmen in Gaza City. No one claimed responsibility for the shooting.
In further violence, three more security officers were wounded as their vehicle was attacked in a village east of the town of Khan Younis, the security official said, accusing Hamas of the ambush.
Hamas said the Fatah fighters fired at one of its senior commanders, which prompted them to return fire.
A Hamas gunman was slightly hurt in the exchange.
The clashes have disrupted a tenuous peace that had been in place since President Mahmoud Abbas, Fatah's leader, and Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's Hamas-led government began talks last week to try to end violence in Gaza.
Witnesses and medics said a further three Fatah members were slightly wounded in a gunbattle between Fatah and Hamas gunmen in Khan Younis early today.
The government's inability to pay wages and a power struggle with Mr Abbas over control of the security forces have sparked fears tensions could spiral out of control. Clashes last month between Fatah and Hamas in Gaza killed 10 people.
Protesters in Gaza criticised a plan by Mr Haniyeh, who is also a senior leader of the Hamas Islamic militant group, to make only partial payments to employees of the Palestinian Authority in the next few days.
"We want to know when this tragedy will stop," one security official shouted through a loudspeaker outside the parliament building in central Gaza City.
The protest occurred while lawmakers were holding a routine session.
No one was hurt, but witnesses said demonstrators smashed windows and a lawmaker added they damaged doors, air-conditioners and electronic equipment.
Most of the demonstrators were from forces loyal to Mr Abbas's Fatah movement.
The new government has been unable to pay salaries for three months to 165,000 government workers after the United States and other western countries imposed sanctions over Hamas's refusal to recognise Israel, disarm and accept interim peace accords.
The embargo has deepened a humanitarian crisis in the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
Mr Haniyeh pledged on Tuesday to pay a full month's wages in a few days to 40,000 workers whose monthly salaries are less than 1500 shekels ($440).
He also promised to pay each of the other 125,000 government workers, who earn higher salaries, an advance of 1500 shekels ($440).
The finance minister later said it was unclear when workers who earn more would get their money.
Hamas formed a government in March after beating Fatah in parliamentary elections in January. Mr Abbas, a moderate, was elected separately in early 2005 in a ballot Hamas did not contest.
The latest unrest comes a day after a senior UN official said international proposals to pay only some Palestinian workers, mainly in the health sector, could fuel tensions unless major donors agreed to leave the door open to expand the mechanism later to pay security forces and others. Around 70,000 security men are on the government payroll.
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I wish at least one side had better marksmanship. But then that probably wouldn't work out too well for the IDF. But isn't there some way to up0 the body count?
A group of Palestinian children were sent towards the Gaza Strip border fence holding toy guns on Thursday in order to test the vigilance of the soldiers on duty.
From a distance, troops noticed four apparently armed Palestinians approaching the border north of the Kissufim crossing.
When the four were some 400 meters from the fence, the soldiers realized that they were children, who looked to be about 13 years of age, and that their guns were toys.
The Gaza security fence has become the scene of almost daily incidences of would-be infiltrations from the Gaza Strip, attempted terror attacks, and occasionally exchanges of fire. Earlier Thursday, IDF forces arrested two unarmed Palestinians who breached the fence in order to cross into Israel.
And only Monday, a Palestinian was shot and killed by IDF soldiers after they identified three men near the fence and fired at them, suspecting they intended to carry out an attack.
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Tear gas, in increasing amounts, until the kiddies leave.
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Cheap effective way (if one's society sees humans as disposable) to initiate an international firestorm of criticism. Foolproof, to: virtually ignored by MSM if no Israeli armed reaction...
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Wait, are they sure they were toy guns? The photo of the AK-47 I saw in the hands of the paleo 3 year old in Ramallah Ramah (I Sam 7:15-17) sure looked real to me.
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Wait, are they sure they were toy guns? The photo of the AK-47 I saw in the hands of the paleo 3 year old in Ramallah Ramah (I Sam 7:15-17) sure looked real to me.
Real guns are for propaganda pics ("see how ferocious we are? We'll fight until the very last drop of our children's blood, our kiddies just want to kill some jews, arrrr") shooted by paleo photographers aimed at arab/muslim consumption, toy guns are for propaganda pics ("innocent kids playing around murdered by childkillers nazionist jackbooted soldiers") shooted by paleo stringers working for western news agencies aimed at international consumption???
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The Israelis should open a small, well-covered gap in the fence for the kids to come through. Then if the kids ever do come through, catch them.
Once you have them, it's 'Alice in Wonderland' time for them. Take 48-72 hours and reprogram their asses, then turn them loose with a boring and dull cover story.
Since the Israelis are so squeamish about playing dirty, reprogram the kids to be "wet blankets", to convince their friends that attacking Israelis isn't worth it, isn't fun, and doesn't work. Train them to just automatically reject violence and disapprove of those who do. To be bringdowns to the enthusiasm to hurt others.
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That kind of thing would take more than 48 hours.
Start out with the tittys and beer and they will forget all about alan. Make them question and wonder why the people where they are from have decided to live in such a self inflected shite hole. That might work.
Sending the kids out for "martyrdom operations" is an allen approved tactic. Like German National Sociaism this sect needs to be curtailed.
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The children were sent. They were to appear armed and attacking. These sick, sick dregs of beasts must be killed, exterminated, not "recognized" or given a land.
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In a way, I am impressed. Previously, I would have thought that nothing could further increase my contempt for this group of people. Do we give an award for the Most Morally Depraved Act o' the Day?
Thousands of Palestinian security men fired off automatic rifles and smashed windows at parliament in Gaza on Thursday in one of the biggest protests over unpaid wages since the Hamas government took office.
Protesters criticized a plan by Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, who is also a senior leader of the Hamas Islamic militant group, to make partial salary payments to the lowest paid workers in the Palestinian Authority in the next few days. Haniyeh pledged on Tuesday to pay a full month's wages in a few days to 40,000 workers whose monthly salaries were less than NIS 1,500. [one New Israeli Shekel = about $0.25]
He also promised to pay each of the other 125,000 government workers, who earn higher salaries, an advance of NIS 1,500. The finance minister later said it was unclear when workers who earn more would get their money. "The NIS 1,500 are not enough to pay debts, buy milk and diapers," said one banner stuck to the gate of parliament.
Wotta shame. Maybe you could get a job doing something constructive?
3-quart sauce pan with lid.
Popping corn, premium only.
1 stick of unsalted butter.
Vegetable oil (I use Crisco Pure Canola Oil).
Freshly ground Sea salt
Preparation:
1. Turn on stove and adjust to somewhere between medium and high heat.
2. Poor vegatable oil in the pan to cover bottom and then some.
3. Place pan on stove and let heat for 1 minute.
4. In the mean time, put a stick of butter in another pan and start it melting at medium heat.
5. Put three popcorn kernels in the pan.
6. When one or two of them pop, cover the bottom of the pan with popcorn and then some, but not a whole lot. You should not be able to see the bottom of the pan.
7. Place the top on the pan ajar. The popcorn should start popping in a minute or so.
8. Continuously shake the pan across the burner until popping reaches a crescendo.
9. Move to a unheated burner and back to the heated burner once or twice (this is an art).
10. Move to an unheated burner when the popcorn reaches the lid and wait while it finishes popping.
11. Pour popcorn in a large bowl, pour on butter, and salt to taste. The butter and salt can be distributed by pouring the popcorn back and fourth between the bowl(s) and pan. If some fall on the floor, I eat them anyway.
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I beg to differ, Mike. With a recipe like that, mcsegeek1 was properly reared by a loving mother. Thanks for the recipe -- I've saved it to my personal cookbook!
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Isn't this the guy who had a "somewhat of a reaction" when he saw the picture of the kids of the guy he just killed? I say drop the guy in a wood chipper. Feet first. Along with a pig. Can't go to heaven and get your slave virgins that way. Bummer. Of course, you're all doing this in the name of Allah, and not for the slave virgins. So I'm sure you'll donate them to charity when we get there. Right? All this assuming that Allah smiles upon this behavior. Right? If he doesn't, you'll be able to explain it away when you face your Creator. I'm sure he'll accept intentional ignorance as an excuse. Right?
I imagine the conversation will go something like this:
"So, Achmed, exactly what do you suppose I intended for you to do with that brain I gave you?"
"Err, invent rationalizations for evil behavior?"
"No. Try again."
"Err, avoid compassion for other humans and logic like the plague?"
"No. One more try."
"Believe the stupidest things imaginable as long as they get me to carry some idiot's hare-brained plan forward? Like the virgin thingy for example? Or perhaps the one about 'this bomb here will only blow up infidels when it goes off in the crowded market'?"
"No. Look, this isn't working out like I planned. You head downstairs and see if you can't get that brain of yours to figure out what's wrong here. Here's a hint: Remember all those people you killed? I have different plans for them, but they're my children, too. Have a nice eternity."
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Philippine group of radical Muslim converts with suspected links to foreign and local militant groups still poses a serious threat despite the arrest of its two top leaders, a senior counter-terrorism official said.
Ricardo Blancaflor of the Philippine counter-terrorism task force said yesterday that the Rajah Solaiman Movement continued to plot attacks in Manila despite the arrest of its leader, Hilarion del Rosario Santos, and his number two in 2005.
The threat has not diminished, Blancaflor told reporters after the US embassy awarded $500,000 to two Filipinos who tipped police off about the whereabouts of Santos, alias Ahmed Islam. The informants identities were not revealed.
They deserve the reward, US Ambassador to the Philippines Kristie Kenny told reporters, saying Washingtons programme to pay tipsters to track down and arrests militants across the globe was an effective weapon against terrorism.
There are estimated to be more than 100,000 converts to Islam in the Philippines, Asias largest Catholic country, and analysts have said the emergence of a militant movement among them could increase bombings in northern Philippines.
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We always said when the Muzzie terrorist come to Manila then the Phil Government will focus on the problem. Now that they are in Manila lets hope they get after the ASG/MILF.
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Finally, the SS Clue stops at Manila.
I good indicator of how average politicians are is the lack of reaction against the deadly Islam flu. This flu passes from mislead simpleton to mislead simpleton. After a brief period of feverish dogma, the infected become outraged against all non-muslims. This is the time when people die. And still, the flu transmits, steping it's way across the sea of humanity, one simpleton at a time. If not stopped, all civilization will fail. Who can stop it if politicians are just average and don't or can't react ?
Eleven suspected militants, arrested since April, helped those who had organised the 2002 Bali bombers escape capture. They also belonged to a group that had plans to create an Islamic state spanning Indonesia, Malaysia, south Thailand and the southern Philippines.
Police established that they were working with militants in Indonesia and the Philippines.
That was the good news. The less assuring news was that the 11 detained were not the leaders or masterminds. "We are still trying to ascertain who is behind them," said Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Bakri Omar.
The police success came after a one-year operation. Six Malaysians, three Indonesians and two Filipinos have been arrested in Sandakan, Tawau and Klang. The 11 members of the group, based in Sabah, have been smuggling firearms and ammunition in the region. "With the arrests, the police have crushed the underground network of the militant group Darul Islam Sabah which collaborated with Indonesian militants," said Bakri.
All 11 are being held under the Internal Security Act.
Malaysian authorities said one of the 12 terror suspects arrested in Sabah had trained terrorists in the southern Philippines, where Filipino security forces are battling members of the al Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group.
The suspects, believed to have links to the Indonesian terrorist group Darul Islam, have been detained and authorities were investigating their links with the Abu Sayyaf group operating in the southern Philippines.
Philippine troops were pursuing the Abu Sayyaf, blamed for two cross-border kidnappings in Sabah in 2000 and the spate of deadly bomb attacks in the southern Philippines, since 1994.
The Jihad Islamic extremist group has issued a number of leaflets calling on the Muslims of Muttur Town to vacate their homes immediately, local sources said. In the leaflet Jihad had said that they were planning to carry out a number of attacks on innocent Tamil civilians and that they did not want any Muslims to be caught up in any retaliatory attacks.
However, a vast number of peace loving Muslims have staid put and prevented the planned attack by Jihad, sources added.
The new attacks by Jihad are said to be masterminded by Al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan and delivered to Jihad via EPDP armed gang leader Douglas Devananda.
Sources said that the Sri Lanka Muslim Council (SLMC) has done the usual by twisting and turning, before finally putting the blame on the LTTE.
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The Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka is a Island. 69.4% of the population consists of Buddhists, mostly Sinhalese, the Hindu population comprises 15.6%, 7.7 percent is muslim, and 6.3% is Christian.
Pakistan is a long boat ride away. India is it's closest neighbor but "The new attacks by Jihad are said to be masterminded by Al-Qaeda leaders in Pakistan and delivered to Jihad via EPDP armed gang leader Douglas Devananda."
Pakistan and it's ISI really need to be taken down a big notch. Pakistan causes many more problems than it's worth to keep as a single nation state. I think it needs a revolution and fragmentation. When it happens squash all the cockroaches it harbors and fosters as they attempt to flee to other bases and refuges.
Iran, apparently anticipating an American invasion, has quietly been restructuring its military and testing a new military doctrine that calls for a decentralized, Iraqi-style guerrilla campaign against an invading force.
Iran's military planners are acutely aware that a military confrontation with technologically more advanced U.S. armed forces would be rapid and multifronted, unlike the static and slow-paced 1980-88 war with Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
Therefore, a series of war games have been carried out since late last year to test the army's readiness.
In December, more than 15,000 members of the regular armed forces participated in an exercise in northwestern Iran's strategically sensitive Azerbaijan border provinces that focused on irregular warfare carried out by highly mobile army units, according to the official MENA news agency.
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Is'nt this to our advantage. They would have to send people to all parts of thier country. The longer they stay there, the sooner they think like the people of that area, which is'nt always good for the mullahs. And since we know we are not going to attack, but they don't, they will be out there a while.
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Wouldn't it be easier just to hit the Nuclear sights and let contamination take care of the hard-boys assigned to protect it?
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There is no certainty that any air campaign only, however prolonged and intensive, will result in either "regime change" via domestic uprising, or in inducing Moud-Mullahs to voluntarily give up dev nuke weapons. A ground invasion in parallel wid democratic "regime change" is the ultimate best way to ensure Iran has no nukes - even presuming that the flyboyz or missleboyz obliterate the surface of Iran 100% or 1000%, the possibility will always exist that Iran's Radical govt, as remaining in Tehran or in hiding underground, post-attack(s) will rebuild and re-dev indigens nukes, or buy nukes, or receive nukes, from the black market or foreign nations hostile to American or Western interests. The uncertainty inherent to any air-only campaign > RADICAL IRAN GETS ITS NUKES LATER, NOT NOW OR IN VERY NEAR-TERM. An air campaign by itself is also unlikely to preclude Iran from supporting Iran-sponsored/sup armed terror groups whose focii is the destabilization and destruction of Israel and the entire pro-Western, Neutralist, or democratic ME, I.E. IRAN-CENTRIC/DOMIN REGIONAL later GLOBAL [RADICAL ISLAMIST] EMPIRE. And regardless of what the statistics say about how strong or weak, mostly weak, Iran is, we are dealing wid an ideo such that Radical Iran = Cold War USSR-Commie Bloc > have no qualms ignoring or writing off wilful massive account deficit(s) to achieve desired levels of military-econ parity or superiority against the US-NATO/West, I.E. DON'T GIVE A DAMN, AND NEVER GAVE A DAMN, WHETHER THEY CAN AFFORD IT OR NOT.
Prince Turki al-Faisal, Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, has warned that any military actions against Iran will be "catastrophic" for the region. In an interview run by the Christian Science Monitor, the ambassador said, "We are against any military conflict in the Gulf whose aim is to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear know-how. We think (it would be) catastrophic to us because - the immediate result of course is - another spike in oil prices. And this time nobody knows how high up the price will go. Secondly, there will be counter-measures by Iran if it is attacked ... It is not just going to be the Gulf states that will be affected by responses from Iran if it is attacked. But we think that there would be a worldwide manifestation of Iranian response."
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The first shot hasn't even been fired yet, and Turki al-Faisal is already grabbing the ankles!! Wussies!
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Dont blow him off he is absolutely correct. Iran has spent 30years of so preparing their terrorist proxy groups and connections the world over while we have been naval gazing finding every possible evil the US ever did to deserve self hatred.
The only question knowing this horrific response will happen thou is will it be more or will it be less worse than the response in the future when Iran has nukes + all these current abilities?.
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Prince Turki al-Faisal, Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, has warned that any military actions against Iran will be "catastrophic" for the region.
I can hear most of their neighbors now: "Oh, thtop it!"
Sure, if you call "peace" a catastrophe. Hmm, maybe that explains a lot. How do you stay in power if there's nothing to rally the ignorant masses against to keep their attention diverted from what it should be on? Maybe it should be "Oh thtop it, but leave a piece so we can rally the ignorant masses against to keep their attention diverted from what it should be on!"
We think (it would be) catastrophic to us because - the immediate result of course is - another spike in oil prices.
How could that be catastrophic to Saudi Arabia? Sounds like someone's desperate or insincere here. Or, more likely, desperately insincere.
Secondly, there will be counter-measures by Iran if it is attacked
Assuming we launch some kind of decapitating strike against their medieval leadership, who's going to lead their army to battle? Why should they follow? They'll have better things to do, like affixing satellite dishes to their rooftops to get the Playboy Channel! Where are the communications, the supplies? OK, for argument's sake, suppose you manage to mass the 10% of the army that will work without pay on the border. We've been looking for an opportunity to try out that MOAB thingy anyway . . . .
"Secondly, there will be counter-measures by Iran if it is attacked. But we think that there would be a worldwide manifestation of Iranian response."
Like what? A few suicide bombs go off in my back yard? It's worth it. I won't be happy about it, but I'll die so that many more can live without fear. They blow all the oil wells? We'll live. That might just be what it will take to get people to stop whining and get real about being more energy efficient anyway. Besides, what would the worldwide manifestation be if they weren't attacked?
I'm going to cut this off now. I want to run out and get some popcorn before the rest of the planet beats me to it. :-)
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Turkey Fossil states the obvious, but for what reasons? (1) to hedge its bets should the US not take military action, (2) to keep the oil $$.$ gravy train rollin, (3) to supposedly postpone the inevitible Shia-Sunni regional war.
The Sauds are invested in the status quo, but one way or another, big change is afoot.
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Turkey Fossil
LOL! I was wondering what clever pseudonym one of you would come up with!
Yeah, he'd probably like that war pushed back until he was a fossil. Or at least dead. He, like many, probably doesn't give a $hit what happens after he's dead.
Kind of makes you wonder how much of Iran's moves are serious, and how much of them are designed to push up oil prices, both to the detriment of the US and to the benefit of his own country's coffers. Maybe they'll back off just enough to keep the tension going but not get smacked.
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The Saudis have a lot invested in the Islamic Bomb Project. They don't want their investment wiped out AGAIN.
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06/01/2006 6:07 Comments ||
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Turki realizes Saudi is next after Iran.
Posted by: ed ||
06/01/2006 7:38 Comments ||
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But we think that there would be a worldwide manifestation of Iranian response."
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If you were a Saudi royal, you'd want status quo too. Iran isn't building bombs to attack Saudi Arabia, but Iran may attack Saudi Arabia to damage the U.S. if the U.S. attacks Iran. As for spikes in oil prices, the Saudis don't want to see the U.S. move toward energy independence and they certainly don't want instability that causes the U.S. to start seizing control of supply.
What they cannot say is that a military and mullah decapitation of Iran by the U.S. may be their best bet for long-term stability. They can think it, but they dare not say it.
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Turki has as much credibility as Prince Charles. Al-Faisal has been kissing al Qaeda's and the terrorists' @sses for so long that he blows his nose with toilet paper.
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Do not make the fatal error of mistaking this scumbag as any sort of friend to America. This walking waste-of-skin has been kissing terrorist @ss so long he blows his nose with toilet paper. A little background for the unfamiliar:
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