Coalition and Afghan forces killed an estimated 30 extremists Tuesday in a raid on a hideout in southern Afghanistan, the military said. Coalition aircraft destroyed a helicopter damaged in an emergency landing during the operation. The firefight came a day after a U.S. warplane bombed another militant hideout in southern Afghanistan, killing more than 40 Taliban fighters, the military claimed.
"While conducting the raid at the hideout location, Afghan and Coalition forces killed enemy fighters," said the statement. The military estimated that 30 militants died, but it did not explain how it came to that figure. More than 700 people, mostly militants, have died since mid-May in the deadliest spate of violence since the Taliban's late 2001 ouster, according to Afghan and coalition casualty figures tallied by The Associated Press.
Coalition forces also discovered a large weapons cache in the Helmand hideout and destroyed it. As the troops left the area, a malfunctioning helicopter was damaged "beyond repair" in an emergency landing and destroyed by a coalition airstrike. No coalition or Afghan forces were hurt.
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Killing them like it's free nowdays. Goofy bastards just conscript another junior high school class to fight for them though.
Keep it up guys, they'll run out of retards eventually.
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So now the number is 30 instead of the usual 40. What happened here? Did the graduation rate at the nearby Pakistani madrasasses drop? More madrasass drop-outs lately? No Jihadi Left Behind now is becoming No Jihadi Left With A Behind.
Abdi Hassan Awale Qeydiid, Somalia's last secular warlord in the capital Mogadishu, has surrendered to Islamic militants after a two-day battle that left at least 67 dead, militants said.
Some warlord. We want our money back.
The militants said on Monday that they had captured the warlord's headquarters in the south of the city and that his fighters had begun handing over their weapons.
"Please form a line so you can be executed in an orderly manner..."
The militants had claimed on Sunday that they had taken full control of the city after declaring victory over Qeydiid and fellow warlord and transitional government member Hussein Aidid, but heavy fighting had resumed early afternoon on Monday. Somalia's transitional government in Baidoa, about 250kms (150miles) from Mogadishu, demanded that the Islamists abandon territories they seized in Mogadishu and be excluded from peace talks with the government, expected to resume in Khartoum on Saturday.
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Yeah!!!
We have....Somalia....
Attention! We Have Islam, I repeat, We Have Islam!
(Crowd Cheers)
Now all we need is clean water, sewer treatment facilities, an economy, infrastructure, a working government, law enforcement, laws to be enforced, diplomatic relations, local stability, regional stability, a tsunami warning system, what else, oh yeah, FOOD!
But you got islam, enjoy.
Zenster said it best, muslims deserve islam.
Sonadanga police yesterday morning recovered the bullet-hit body of a top outlaw from Pujakhola area in the city.
Hit by bullets was he? Couldn't be an Islamicist then.
Later, the body was identified as that Wahid Murad alias Bihari Muna, 35, 'operation commander' of Janajuddho faction of Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP), who was in charge of Khulna city.
Ah yes, a commie, but a commie no more.
According to DB police, the slain outlaw was wanted in twelve systems seven criminal cases recorded with Khulna and Sonadanga police stations. Besides, he carried a conviction of 14 years in another case filed with Sonadanga thana on March 19 in 1995 for rape.
Pushing all the buttons.
A notorious terrorist listed with the Special Branch of Khulna Metropolitan Police, Bihari Muna was involved in regrouping cadres of Janajuddho under the of its founder Abdur Rashid Malitha alias Dada Tapan.
Bihari Munna served as a peon in the KD Ghjosh Road branch of Janata Bank. He was dismissed in 2002 after he was chargesheeted in a rape case.
Maybe he wasn't too happy about being a peon.
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KAZAN: Five Muslim teenagers appeared Monday in the highest court in the central Russian region of Tatarstan, where their trial for allegedly planning to commit terrorist attacks and create an Islamic state in the traditionally Muslim territory has been under way for a week. They and 19 adult members of the alleged plot face up to 10 years in prison if found guilty, but all insist on their innocence. Their relatives and rights advocates say the case was trumped-up. "They are turning my sons from peaceful Muslims studying the Korean into extremists and militants," protested Elgiz Shaydullin, a firefighter whose two sons have been accused in the plot and have been detained for 18 months already. He came to court in his firefighter's uniform. The Federal Security Service said it had uncovered an underground extremist group, Islamic Jamaat.
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Keep supporting Islamic "freedom fighters" throughout the World, Russes.
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Why do I have a mental picture of the Shaktyite trials? (1933, the run up to High Stalinism and the great Terror.)
The Soviets Russians seem to have not learned that ultimately terrorists are not a militarily useful weapon/tactic, and since they are sentient, are capable of doing unpredictable things, like coming back and biting you.
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Nahhhhhh .... must be some confusion here. Quick, call CAIR!
A wrap-up on Shamil. Nobody's posted a good obituary yet, except in yesterday's comments...
Russias most wanted man, Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev, was killed during an overnight operation by special forces, the state security chief told President Vladimir Putin on Monday. FSB security agency chief Nikolai Patrushev said Basayev, who had claimed responsibility for the bloody 2004 Beslan school attack, had been planning an attack in southern Russia to disrupt the Group of Eight (G8) summit of world leaders Putin is hosting this weekend in St Petersburg.
Shamil had a liking for high casualty events, from Budennovsk through the Nord Ost hostage incident through Beslan through Kadryrov's assassination.
Putin, whose already huge popularity will be boosted by the news just as he prepares to mark a high point of his six years in power by hosting the G8 summit, said Basayevs death was deserved retribution for his campaign of killing.
Seems like Putin deserves a bump in popularity, even if it was the Chechens' own clumsiness that did him in. He's dead, and he's dead in a 1-2-3 sequence that's included Maskhadov, Sadulaev, and now Shamil. Maybe they are getting better.
More than 331 people, half of them children, were killed in Beslan in September 2004 after Russian forces tried to end a siege of the school which had been seized by Islamist militants linked to Chechnyas fight for independence. This is deserved retribution against the bandits for our children in Beslan, in Budennovsk, for all these acts of terror they committed in Moscow and other Russian regions, including Ingushetia and Chechnya, the Kremlin leader said in televised comments. Budennovsk was a reference to an attack on a hospital in June 1995 long before Putin came to power. Rebels seized hundreds of hostages in the southern town and more than 100 people died during the rebel assault and a botched Russian commando raid.
Schools, hospitals, old folks' homes, they were all the same to Shamil: legitimate targets in a war that started with a lot of sympathy for the Chechen side. Shamil brought out their true colors like New Blue Cheer, showing them for what they really are, and now they're pariahs, except among the Vanessa Redgrave crowd.
FSB chief Patrushev said Basayev, together with other Chechen fighters, was killed in Ingushetia, a region neighbouring Chechnya. Patrushev said it was in Ingushetia that Basayev and his men had been planning to carry out a terrorist act to coincide with the G8 summit. They intended to use this terrorist act to put pressure on Russias leadership at a time when the G8 summit was being held, Patrushev said.
Pictures on state television showed the wreckage of a truck that had been packed with explosive and apparently blown up, killing Basayev and several other rebels. There was no information that the truck had been under fire from security forces when the blast happened.
Coulda been an accident, coulda been a landmine, coulda been a grenade dropped from an overpass or launched from behind a tree. Whatever it was, Shamil and his buds came out of it smelling the same.
The heavily-bearded Basayev, who was born in 1965, professed to be a devout Muslim. His left foot was blown off by a mine in 2000 and he wears a prosthesis.
Now he needs a full-body prosthesis...
Basayev, in a television interview aired last year, justified the attack on Beslan by saying Russian civilians including children were legitimate targets in his homelands bloody fight for independence from Moscow. We are at war. Russians ... pay their taxes for this war, send their soldiers to this war, their priests sprinkle holy water on the soldiers, Basayev said in his soft lilt. How can they be innocent? Russians are accomplices in this war. It is just they dont all have weapons in their hands, he said in the interview with Britains Channel 4.
"The little kids grow up to be soldiers, or the wives of soldiers, or somebody who knows soldiers, or somebody who knows what soldiers are, so they're all legitimate targets!"
Chechen rebels confirmed Basayevs death, but said he died accidentally in an explosion of a convoy transporting explosives, and not in a special operation led by Russian forces. The Chechen commander died following the accidental explosion of a truck transporting explosives on July 10, 2006, near the village of Ekazhevo, in Ingushetia, Chechnyas separatists said in a statement published on a website, which they use frequently to make announcements.
Works for me. As long as he's got that fresh earthy smell, that'll do.
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Happy early birthday, SPoD! And it must be true, even NPR was reporting it this morning. Including an in-depth with what must have been Basayev's favorite reporter, who spoke of his charm and ironic sense of humor -- revealed during a great many interviews over the years -- and how Basayev accepted the label of terrorist, the end justifying the means and all that. But, the reporter also said that Basayev was the last of the original leaders in a movement that is petering out as the cadres have been killed off with no significant replacements, making Chechnya a win for the Russians.
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If it's a win, the Russians need to publicize it. We need to hear the phrase "the defeat of the jihad in Chechnya" repeated a few hundred times until the treacherous dimwits in the MSM realise the same outcome is on the cards in Afghanistan in Iraq.
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Do you think we're winning in Afghanistan then, Apostate? I was struggling with that yesterday, after reading Michael Yon's latest post from there, and could use some reassurance. Thanks!
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I think we are doing what we should, starving him, ignoring him, marginalizing him, making the world see that his importance to, and command of us is nothing. That little runt will be deposed at some point. Being deposed usually doesn't end well for a dictator. You can only starve and threaten a population for so long before they figure they have nothing to lose. When that day comes, his name is shit. By jumping every time he says BOO! we just encourage his aberrant behavior. I'm suprised how the SKors roll over for him, and how pissed the Japs got.
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The only thing that would work is a physical blockade to stop the flow of weapons, drugs (what is white slag, anyway?) and counterfeit US $100s -- it isn't like North Korea has much in the way of legal trade with the rest of the world to sanction.
The overlapping / relevant part, I guess, is this:
This has gone on at least three or four decades too long. During that time, this grotesque little tyranny has actually become dangerous to someone other than Seoul and the fools in the South who are so schizophrenic about the North that they've given the rest of us a case of their mental paralysis.
and this:
1a. North Korea. Go ahead and kill it. Decimate the whole thing on a grid. If Seoul gets wasted then they've had it coming for the entire time they've supported this abomination and helped to guarantee its survival.
Etc. blah, blah, blah.
Better today than tomorrow, when they might be able to wipe out something other than Seoul.
Germany has arrested a man of Moroccan origin on suspicion of terrorism after finding evidence that linked him to al-Qaeda and suicide attacks in Iraq, federal prosecutors disclosed Saturday.
Police monitored Redouane E H, 36, on the internet as he aired his Islamist opinions on chat websites and offered to help volunteers go to Iraq to conduct suicide bombings. There was no evidence he was planning attacks in Europe. The police took H into custody Thursday in Hamburg as signs grew that he intended to leave Germany soon. Prosecutors described H as "of Moroccan origin" but did not identify his citizenship. His full name was withheld. The man, who lived in the city of Kiel, north of Hamburg, had acted as an intermediary in contacts with Said Bahaji, who is wanted worldwide as one of the plotters of the September 11, 2001 attacks. H had attended a training course in the use of explosives last November in Algeria with a terrorist group there and was also in contact with violent Islamists in Syria, Algeria and Iraq. After the arrest, police searched several homes in Kiel.
The prosecutors, based in the south-west city of Karlsruhe, said suspicion against H had mounted "because of his statements during internet chats." He had attempted to recruit people for suicide attacks and offered to pass funds to groups mounting such attacks. At a hearing before a federal magistrate, he was remanded in custody on suspicion of the second-degree crime of supporting al-Qaeda rather than the first-degree charge of actually being a member of it.
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OTTAWA (CP) - A suspected accomplice in a plot to bomb tunnels in New York City was questioned by RCMP for an entire day and remains under surveillance in Montreal, The Canadian Press has learned. A source familiar with the investigation said the man is a friend of Assem Hammoud, pegged by U.S. authorities as a key figure in the purported scheme to flood lower Manhattan by blowing up commuter tunnels. The 31-year-old Hammoud, who taught business ethics and human resources courses at a Beirut school, earned a commerce degree from Montreal's Concordia University four years ago after seven years of study in Canada.
Eight al-Qaida-linked suspects, one of them reported to be a Canadian, had hoped to wage the attack on New York's tunnel system in October or November, U.S. officials say. But the plan had not progressed beyond the planning stages. Three people, including Hammoud, have been arrested.
The Canadian was not named by authorities. However, CP reported Friday that Canadian police questioned a man they suspected of active involvement in the alleged conspiracy. He was released because there wasn't enough evidence to hold him. Still, sources say Canadian authorities are actively pursuing leads as part of a six-country investigation into the alleged plot.
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Terrorist attacks/plots from Canada: 3 or more
From Mexico: 0
Perhaps northern border security/transit should be revisited.
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Amen. I'm definitely a believer in Harper, but the facts can't be ignored.
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Prime Minister Harper is rolling up the bad guys he inherited from Chretien -- both at home and in Afghanistan -- and his people are cooperating with the US and others.
The Lebanese man arrested in an alleged plot to bomb New York transit tunnels under the Hudson River had been recruited by al-Qaeda three years ago and members of his cell had been attempting to seek help from the organization for the attack, U.S. and Lebanese officials said yesterday.
Authorities announced the arrest of Assem Hammoud, 31, on Friday. They said he had been held in Beirut since April 27 and had been planning an assault on PATH commuter trains this fall, though the alleged conspiracy never reached the point of the suspects beginning to gather intelligence and explosives. In addition to Hammoud, U.S. officials say, two suspects are being held overseas without charges, five others are at least partly identified and six foreign governments are cooperating. Rest at link.
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A terrorist was on Tuesday arrested in south Delhi and 2.5 kg RDX seized from his possession, police said. Aijaz Hussain, hailing from Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, was arrested from Lodhi road area after police received a tip-off about his movement, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Alok Kumar said. Police was interrogating him to find out if he has any links with the serial blasts in Srinagar and Mumbai and to find which terrorist outfit he belonged to, he said.
An amount of Rs 49 lakh was also seized from his possession, police said, adding according to their information Hussain was working for one Pakistan-based militant Mukhtar Ahmed. Hussian, who has been living in Jangpura locality of south Delhi, was arrested when he reached the Lodhi Road area in a car to apparently hand over the cash and explosives to someone.
Police, meanwhile, has stepped up security and checking in and around the national capital in the wake of blasts in Mumbai and Srinagar. They are also conducting random searches in hotels and lodges.
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Nice work.
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Any chance Bangla could put a couple of RAB batallions on loan? RAB-7 and RAB-9 would do nicely, and perhaps a few members of the shadowy RAB-10 interrogation team. They can leave the shutter gun safe at home in the evidence locker, it won't be needed in Bombay.
Bombay has "Encounter Specialists" like Daya Nayak (83 kills) and his colleagues..
They are a small, tightly-knit group of policemen who are given much of the credit for cleaning up crime in India's commercial and entertainment capital Bombay (Mumbai).
But they are no ordinary cops.
I have done 83 encounters. I have arrested more than 300 criminals. I have solved many big cases.
I eliminated many top criminals of Mumbai -- Vinod Matkar, Rafik Dabawala, Taufiq Kaliya. In an encounter at Dadar's busy flower market during peak hours I was injured and hospitalised for 17 days. I gunned down three terrorists. They had thrown a bomb at me but luckily I only suffered minor injuries.
"Anyone can be killed," says Daya Nayak.
He recalls being shot twice and badly wounded when he ambushed a notorious gangster in 1997.
"I shot him dead in front of 10-15,000 people, but got hit twice. I was in hospital for 27 days."
They have Pradeep Sharma
The leader of the crack team Pradeep Sharma says he is just doing his job.
"As a policeman my job is to clean the city of criminals which is what I am doing."
Recently, Mr Sharma marked a grand total of 100 "successful" encounters with suspected criminals.
Pradeep Sharma insists most deaths at his hands have been accidents.
"When criminals on the run resist arrest, such encounters happen. It is more of an accident when we go to arrest criminals," says Mr Sharma.
They have up and coming Vijay Salaskar (33 kills)
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Absolutely, John. You've posted before about these fine gentlemen. Their dedication and skills have undoubtedly kept India safe from other attacks.
I am very sorry for the losses suffered today by our friends and allies in India. I'm sure they will find the fortitude to take the steps they will need to take next.
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The Indian IB (Intelligence Bureau) - created by the British during the days of the Raj for internal security is quite good. It has a vast network of informers.
They recently raided RAW (the external spy agency) investigating a number of double agents they tracked.
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"Kim" the character in Rudyard Kipling's 1901 book reported to the IB.
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Bombay police are calling the explosions "a well-coordinated attack," and the quick succession of bombs in crowded rush hour trains echoes the strike on Madrid's train system in 2004 that killed 191 people. And the timing of the Mumbai attack, just days before the G-8 summit of leading economic powers, parallels the London subway bombings which occurred on the day of last year's G-8 meeting.
Analysts say that these similarities, as well as the sophistication of the Mumbai attack, suggests ties to international Islamic terror groups, perhaps working through a local militant outfit.
"[The attack was] well planned, orchestrated, simultaneous [and was] designed to inflict maximum loss of life. It's probably the handiwork of a well-equipped, well-funded, terrorist group that hews to the Al Qaeda school of thought," says Sajjan Gohel. "In the region, only Lashkar-e-Tayyaba has such capabilities."
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That policeman has balls big enough to come in a dump truck. We need him in New Orleans.
Several grenade blasts have rocked the capital of Indian Kashmir, killing six people and injuring nearly two dozen. The victims included many tourists. The Himalayan region is at the heart of a 17-year Muslim separatist insurgency.
The deadliest attack targeted a tourist bus at Dal Lake, the most popular tourist destination in Kashmir's summer capital of Srinagar. Witnesses said a grenade was tossed into the bus, killing and wounding tourists and bystanders, including women. More attacks took place in quick succession in separate parts of the city, including near the tourist center. One grenade exploded in a busy market area, injuring civilians and prompting shopkeepers to close their shutters. Two more grenades were hurled at vehicles in the main commercial center of the city, known as Lal Chowk. The series of blasts created panic in the city. But officials were most worried by the attack that hit the tourist bus.
It is the sixth time that suspected Muslim militants have targeted visitors since the start of the tourist season in April. Officials fear that the string of attacks may scare away visitors, damaging the region's economic future.
Deputy Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Muzaffar Baig described the violence as a concerted effort to "create a scene of terror", and destroy the state's tourism industry. "This we have witnessed during the last one or two months; there is a pattern in creating a situation where people lose confidence in Kashmir, not only in the government, but Kashmir as a whole and so isolate Kashmir from the rest of the country," he said.
Tourists had stayed away from Kashmir since 1989, when the tense region between Pakistan and India became wracked with violence as Muslim separatist groups fought to end Indian rule. Islamabad and New Delhi each claim sovereignty over the entire region, which is divided between them. A peace process between India and Pakistan during the past two years helped bring about a lull in the violence, prompting visitors to flock back to the scenic region. Nearly one million tourists visited Kashmir last year, helping to revive the economy.
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Six explosions hit Bombay's commuter rail network during rush hour Tuesday evening, ripping apart train compartments and reportedly injuring dozens of people, police and Indian media said. Indian television news channels broadcast video of the wounded sprawled on train tracks and being carried through stations. The Press Trust of India news agency said six blasts occurred along the city's commuter rail network, which is among the most crowded in the world. India's financial center of Bombay and the capital of New Delhi were reportedly on high alert.
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Seven bombs hit Bombay's commuter rail network during rush hour Tuesday evening, killing at least 105 people and wounding more than 300 in what authorities called a well-coordinated attack.
Unlike the usual ill-coodinated attacks that are the norm in Kashmir. I'd guess this one's another L-e-T operation, though I suppose it could be Jaish-e-Mo. Regardless, it's likely a Qaeda affiliate.
India's major cities were put on high alert after the blasts, and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called an emergency Cabinet meeting. Chaos engulfed the crowded rail network in India's financial capital following the blasts that ripped apart train compartments as authorities struggled to treat the wounded amid heavy monsoon downpours. Doors and windows were blown off the train cars, and luggage and debris were strewn across the tracks. Police Chief A.N. Roy said on Indian television that an estimated 100 people were killed and more than 250 were wounded. "We are busy in the rescue operation. Our first priority is to rescue the injured people," he said.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility in the bombings, which came in quick succession a common tactic employed by Kashmiri militants that have repeatedly targeted India's cities.
Ohfergawdsake. It's either L-e-T or Jaish. It's always them. Unless it's commies.
A senior Bombay police official, P.S. Pasricha, said the explosions were part of a well-coordinated attack. Vilasrao Deshmukh, the chief minister of Maharashtra state, where Bombay is located, said bombs had caused all seven blasts. Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil told reporters that authorities had had some information that an attack was coming, "but place and time was not known."
The first explosion hit the train at a railway station in the northwestern suburb of Khar. India's CNN-IBN television news, which had a reporter aboard one train, said a blast struck a first-class compartment as the train was moving, ripping through the compartment and killing more than a dozen people. Some of the injured frantically dialed their cell phones. Another CNN-IBN reporter said he had seen more than 20 bodies at one Bombay hospital. The Press Trust of India, citing railway officials, said all the blasts had hit first-class cars.
Pranay Prabhakar, the spokesman for the Western Railway, said all train service had been suspended and appealed to the public to stay away from stations in the city. The bombings in Bombay came hours after a series of grenade attacks by Islamic extremists killed eight people in the main city of India's part of Kashmir. UPDATE: MUMBAI (Reuters) - Bombs exploded on packed commuter trains and stations in India's financial hub, Mumbai, on Tuesday, killing over 160 people and wounding hundreds, officials said. "The death toll is 163 and around 460 people have been injured," police inspector Ashok Jadhav told Reuters. "We are not sure if it is RDX or not," city Police Commissioner A.N. Roy said, referring to the possible use of high-powered plastic explosives.
The first attack took place at 6.24 p.m. (1154 GMT) with the others following in quick succession. "Incidents had taken place in the space of 10 minutes. It appears to be pre-planned," Anil Sharma, chief security commissioner of Western Railway, told CNN-IBN television channel.
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Sounds like the Islamofascists are having a field day.
My condolences to the Indian families who will suffer from this further demonstration of the barbarism of the Islamofascists. One wonders when we will suffer the same fate thanks to the New York Times and the other facilitators.
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Methinks the Indian response will be "different" than the Spanish one.
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DEBKA: First 20 bodies recovered at one station after six or seven nearly simultaneous bomb blasts hit moving commuter trains in western Mumbai. Police suspect terrorists struck Indias financial hub at the commuter rush hour in coordinate attacks. The first blast occurred in a first class carriage near Khar station breaking the car in half. The roof of one train was blown off. Mumbai rail stations are cordoned off across the city. Telephones are jammed. Mumbai, New Delhi and international airports are on high terror alert.
Same tactics as Spanish attack. Likely cell phones and backpacks.
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#3 Methinks the Indian response will be "different" than the Spanish one.
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Steve, I'd like to edit your comment to "Meprays the Indian response will follow Lt. Col. Ralph Peters' advice."
#7
The islamofacists are a cancer that needs to be eradicated. They are truly evil. There is nothing but destruction and killing wherever they are. They contribute nothing or less than nothing to society. They are hellbent on ruling the world and remaking it into a Taliban type of society or worse--which is possible. The looney left and fellow travelers better realize they are not immune under such a scenario. This a world war. I also hope the Indians respond harshly and swiftly--public hangings are appropriate.
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These ignorant turds never learn. The last time they set a train on fire , they were rolled up, stacked up, and incinerated in large numbers. The Indian Army came by for PC reasons, but kept their distance and let the festivities roll.
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Can someone please explain how it is that we all know that radical Islam is the enemy. We all know that radical Islam must be overwhelmed and stompted out before it stomps us out. We all know that radical Islam is the product of brainwashing which takes place in the madrasses. Then, why the phalk is there approved plans to build a qiant mosque and school (madrass) in Florida ?
Who is so stupid to allow that ?
WHO ? WHO ? STUPID, stupid, stupid.
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So, is this payback for years of India's exploitation of the third world, and its cowboy attitude to global diplomacy? Or is it possible that terrorists are motivated by something else?
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Breaking News: Fox News is reporting that India has arrested Islamic terrorists connected with the bombing.
I wonder if they grabbed the usual group of troublemakers or they actually had a group they were watching (not closely enough).
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wonder if they grabbed the usual group of troublemakers or they actually had a group they were watching.
We'll know for sure soon enough, but I'd expect they've got something more than just the usual suspects. India has a long heritage of efficient British colonial administration to draw from, and a pretty good intelligence service.
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Buddhist seperatist. Muslim's would'nt do this.
#26
I think it's time for all free men living in democracies to demand those democracies take the proper steps to assure safety and security within said democracy. In other words, it's time to declare Islam non grata and outlaw the practice of Islam and it's doctrines.
If not now, when ?
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Terror attack on Mumbai trains was carried out by Lashkar-e Toiba and Students Islamic Movement of India activists to trigger communal conflagration, intelligence sources said.
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Update:
there were 8 bombs.
I wonder if the ACLU (with offices in Manhattan) is still going to insist that bag searches on the subway are not needed.
Al
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I've always said that I'm not a rascist, but I AM a culturist.
Funny. In france culturist means body builder like Arnold Scharzenegger's first "job".
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Yep -- I only read for about 2 minutes, and Bush caused this with his "Bring it on." That's why these bombs are happening. Muslems doing what Bush told them to do..... I really do want to think these DU folks just make all this stuff up from deep, down inside their creative brains... but I know that is wrong.
#33
Peters has balls to finally say in the MSM what we've been saying here for years.
More civilized lives wasted by barbarians. SOP35 is right. It wasn't pretty in the villages last time there was a train attack. You think that the "Land of the Pure" can handle another 100 million mojahirs?"
#35
I'm tired of Islam.
I'm tired of those who produce excuses for Islam.
I'm tired of those who put up with people who produce excuses for Islam. I want my son to grow up in a world without Islam!
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The pictures mentioned above are after things have been somewhat cleaned up. I'll bet there are a couple truckloads of body parts. Wait a few days and they'll show up on some terrorist website proclaiming how wonderful all this is. You can't kill these perps slow enough.
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#32 Yep -- I only read for about 2 minutes, and Bush caused this with his "Bring it on." That's why these bombs are happening. Muslems doing what Bush told them to do..... I really do want to think these DU folks just make all this stuff up from deep, down inside their creative brains... but I know that is wrong.
Speaking of blame Bush, has anyone seen the H&C footage of Kevin Barrett, U-Wisconsin asshat that proclaims 9-11 and other terr acts (no doubt he'll cite this one as well) as inside jobs by US?
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Following is the chronology of major bomb blasts in Mumbai since 1993:
March 12, 1993: A series of bomb blasts ripped through 13 places in the city, killing 257 people and injuring 713. These were the first blasts in which RDX was used and the explosions were allegedly planned by underworld don Dawood Ibrahim.
December 2, 2002: Two persons were killed and 31 injured when a powerful bomb exploded in a municipal bus outside Ghatkopar suburban railway station.
December 6, 2002: Twenty-five people were injured when a bomb exploded in a food plaza at Bombay Central railway station. The bomb was planted in an air-conditioning duct.
January 27, 2003: Thirty people were injured when a crude bomb planted in a bicycle exploded at a shopping complex outside Vile Parle railway station.
March 13, 2003: Eleven people were killed and 65 injured when a powerful bomb exploded in a ladies special train when it was entering Mulund railway station in the peak hours.
August 25, 2003: Two blasts occurred one after the other at the Gateway of India and Zaveri Bazaar, killing 46 people and injuring more than 160. RDX was planted in taxis parked at both these places.
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graphic of the blast locations
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So what are muslims in Mumbai doing? Are they staying off the streets in fear of revenge attacks like those after that train fire?
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A Kashmiri militant believed to have masterminded a weekend grenade attack that killed five and wounded 45 others has been shot dead by security forces, police said on Monday. Reyaz Lone, district commander of Hizbul Mujahedin, was killed during a gun battle on Sunday near the southern highway town of Qazigund, a police spokesman said.
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At least 40 men belonging to the Bugti tribe, including a camp commander, have surrendered to the government, Dera Bugti District Coordination Officer Abdul Samad Lasi said on Monday. Talking to Pakistan Television, Lasi said that the men belonged to the Baqlai and Ferozani branches of the Bugti tribe.
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QUETTA: Unidentified persons on Monday fired eight rockets at security force check posts, while four people, including one Frontier Corps officer, sustained serious injuries when a landmine exploded in Dera Bugti district, sources said. Sources told Daily Times that unknown assailants had fired eight rockets at the FC Bhadur check post in Kohlu district, before firing indiscriminately against officers. There were no reports of FC casualties.
In a separate incident, four people, including a FC officer, sustained serious injuries when a landmine exploded in the Sangsila locality of Dera Bugti district.
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Tribal militants in North Waziristan said on Monday that the government's response to their month-long unilateral ceasefire had been "unsatisfactory", and urged it to step up its efforts to make the offer sustainable. Abdullah Farhad, the purported spokesman for the tribal Taliban in North Waziristan, said that the government's response during the first 15 days of the ceasefire had been "below our expectation".
"Yes, some tribesmen arrested during military operations were released. But nothing substantial has occurred since then," he told Daily Times via phone from an undisclosed location. "We want the government to recover its tempo."
He said that the government should remove all check posts in the agency within the next 15 days and release the remaining tribesmen.
The Taliban's "dissatisfaction" coincides with a bomb attack on a military convoy in Mir Ali, in which no one was injured. Farhad denied Taliban involvement in the incident. Troops retaliated to the blast by opening fire, killing a seminary student and injuring two, an official said.
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(KUNA) -- A landmine Monday exploded near the Indo-Pakistani border in Ramgarh sub-sector of Jammu region in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. According to the news agency Press Trust of India (PTI), wild animals stepped over an anti-personal mine in Ramgarh sub-sector resulting in a powerful explosion.
Meanwhile, a gunman belonging to Hizb-ul-Mujahideen was arrested in Doda district of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday night, news agency PTI reported Monday.
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This video was acquired from http://www.mnf-iraq.com and was published following a successful raid in which between 30 and 40 terrorists were killed and one "significant criminal" was also captured.
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Yeah,W, I got sumthin' in my eye,too.
I'm sure that all the fishwraps and cable TV channels that spent so much time on Mama Sheehan will also carry this story. Right!
The trial court found Peter/Abu Hamza Cheraf guilty of illegal border crossing, in violation of Article 24 of the Iraqi Passport Law, and sentenced him to 15 years imprisonment. Coalition Forces apprehended the defendant after they discovered he did not have a valid passport or any identification in his possession.
The trial court found Abdullah Radda Zayed Al-Harithi guilty of illegal border crossing, in violation of Article 10 of the Iraqi Passport Law, and sentenced him to 15 years imprisonment. Coalition Forces apprehended the Saudi Arabian national while illegally entering Iraq.
#1
Great title to the thread. I'd like to see us have work camps on the border in the style of Maricopa County for our illegals. Put'em to work on that wall.
BAGHDAD Coalition forces detained a terrorist they were targeting and four other adult males during a raid in the vicinity of Baqubah early July 10.
Troops received fire as they moved toward the target area. The incoming fire immediately ceased as the ground force returned fire. Upon arrival to the target, the troops discovered three wounded individuals.
One of the wounded was the targeted individual and two of the wounded were Iraqi human shields civilians; one woman and one child. The troops immediately provided medical attention on site and evacuated all three to a nearby military medical center for treatment.
The four additional adult males were detained without incident when the assault force secured the target building.
The raid was targeting associates of a terrorist network with links to multiple senior al-Qaida leaders throughout the region, including a senior al-Qaida cell leader throughout central Iraq, north of Baghdad, with extensive links to foreign terrorists. He was detained along with three suspected terrorists during coordinated raids southwest of Baqubah June 19.
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Not sure if this is the same guy, but Polish forces today captured (unfortunately, not killed) 38-year-old Salah Khabbas. He was responsible for the killing of a Polish journalist and technical staff. His photo is here. He's apparently well connected to Al-Q.
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He's got the Khalid Sheikh Mohamed jihadi-on-the-run-loungewear-chic thing happening, but I'm not sure why they've got the Vogue "fashion don't" bar across his eyes.
Good work Polish troops. Somewhere, Sobieski is smiling.
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The story says he is responsible for the killing of two US soldiers in Mahmudija, and the convoy carrying him to the jug was attacked in an apparent rescue effort.
If someone tried to have him sprung, he must be big.
THE Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda has put on the Internet a video showing the mutilated bodies of two US soldiers kidnapped in June and executed to "avenge" an Iraqi woman raped near Mahmudiyah south of Baghdad. "Here is a film on the remains of the bodies of the two American soldiers kidnapped near Yussufiyah (south of Baghdad). We are showing it to avenge our sister who was raped by a soldier belonging to the same division as these two soldiers," said a preamble by the Mujahedeen Al-Shura Council, an al-Qaeda dominated alliance of armed Sunni groups in Iraq.
When guerillas learned of the rape, "they repressed their sighs to avoid news of the affair spreading but they swore to avenge their sister", the council said on its usual website. "Praise God, they captured two soldiers from the same division as this vile crusader. Here are the remains ... to rejoice the hearts of the faithful," the statement said.
The nearly five-minute film shows the horribly mutilated bodies of the two soldiers, who had had their throats cut. The head of one of them was held high by an armed man, like a trophy. The head of the other was being stamped on by another armed man.
The film is accompanied by extracts of old speeches by the head of the al-Qaeda terror group, Osama bin Laden, and the ex-head of its Iraqi wing Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi, who was killed June 7 by the US Army. The Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda said on June 20 that it had executed the two US soldiers whose bodies were found south of Baghdad.
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Fortunately, there have only been 3 US military captives since the Hussein tyranny was tossed out. Rather than speculate on how they were Murdered, we should retaliate disproportionately. Savagery should not be allowed use as a weapon.
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Spod, you forgot to mention their families as well.
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Disgusting.
They're just upholding a proud arab tradition, dating back to at least the 1930s pogroms in british Palestine from what I read, and actually probably a few hundred years before that, back to 7th AD.
This type of ante or post mortem mutilations was so common during algeria independence war that each french soldier (this was a draftee war, though a large part of the meaningful fighting was done by enlisted soldiers) was given a little booklet at his arrival in algeria, chokeful of pictures of mutilated bodies, head cut with gonads in the mouth, forearms flesh cut off to the bone, etc, etc...
This is part and parcel of the arab way of war. And I'd even say it's a very common feature of non-western wars; it's the western soldier who is the exception and actually fights fair and "humanely".
We can continue to fight our way, and eventually prevail after many many more are killed and mangled, or we can give them what they understand - much more of the Uday, Qusay, and Zarqi images, which they actually understand. Primitive? Of course it is. We are facing primitives - and have yet to fully grasp that fact and use it, exploit it. I can hear the derision and objections, but that changes nothing.
My opinion is we will get a lot "dirtier" before this is over. Or we will lose, clinging to the belief there is some sort of honor in that. I understand, but respectfully disagree.
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Well said, Wheang. I held out for a while -- civility, rule of law, yada yada. F*ck it. Every move they make is a war crime, yet we're the ones under the microscope. And now their propaganda machine is making spurious claims that we will stupidly take seriously, drawing us into the same endless tit-for-tat the Israelis have been putting up with since Day 1. Peace will come only after we crush them. And I'm no longer real concerned with how we get there.
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This means that the guys who we arrested and are investigating for the rape are innocent then right?
They got there revenge. Now lets take ours and send Gitmo prisoners back from 30,000 feet.
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Sadly, I have no other real solutions on how to deal w/the extremists and their co-religionist sympathizers either. Other then going "hitler" or "genghis" on their collective asses I see no way to effectively end them. As we've noted on the 'burg ad nauseam the only way they understand is through brute force. We need to unappologetically make an example of a known terrorist sympathizing village (I know there's plenty) similar to what the Nazis did to that village in either Czech or Poland early on in the war - not one stone left unturned. Make it so attacking U.S. forces becomes so disadvantageous that they lose their stomach for it. I hate to come to the thought of scorched earth policies but I remember an old master saying often times one needs to meet people on their own level.
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Broadhead-
There's actually a slightly more humane approach that still gets the message across. In the last year of WWII in the Pacific, when 20th AF B-29s were about to hit a target city or town, leaflets would be dropped saying:
Tomorrow at such and such a time, the United States Army Air Force will attack and destroy this target. THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO PREVENT IT.
And then we'd burn the place to the ground. After a month or three of this, the message changed slightly but with great effect. It now said:
Tomorrow at such and such a time, the United States Army Air Force will attack and destroy this target. YOU KNOW WHAT YOU MUST DO TO PREVENT IT.
...And the townsfolk would go to the local military commander and politely ask if he would move his troops or go to the factory and ask that it be relocated. I'm thinking a few of these in Iraq would work quite nicely.
Mike
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Broadhead6, I don't agree with you.
Doing that is an act of desperation.
The simple way to handle this sh*t is to stop taking prisoners. Just kill them whenever they pop their heads up.
The message will get through better, without handing a propaganda free kick to them.
It's a lot of stress to put on our soldiers, so perhaps we should begin planting bombs and using death squads in the night as a kind of terrorism unexplained. The unit that tracks down the cells can be the unit that makes that nightly call.
We're looking into it, but we find no clues.
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Tipper & Mike K. - I concur w/both of your COA's. In fact, I've been one of the biggest advocates on this site for summary execution of captured islamonutz & so called insurgents, but that doesn't go far enough, their co-relgionist enablers need to feel the pain as well. I'd even go for liquidating hate mongering imams via wetwork ops. As for the "moderate" villages I agree that you could give them a notice and then crush'em if they don't want to play ball as we did in WWII wrt the japanese. However, having been there, I've still no problem w/what I've already posted (yes, it would help politically to have the media blackout or not to do it at all) but at this point I don't think the muzzies would consider it desperation - that's what typical westerners would think, the muzzies would see it as the gloves are off. It would also prolly end up saving more U.S. lives. It's also past time to really stop giving a rat's ass what the rest of the world thinks.
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I do like to think that these soldiers didn't suffer and were dead long before all of the terrible mutilation crap as Oldspook mentioned;
I get angry that they are able to do these atrocities and get away with them, but we are held to a higher accountability this is so very wrong.
There is no such thing as playing fair, we need to level the playing field, and nip this crap in the butt and to do so need to hit them hard. I believe we look very weak to them while being so PC and they will continue to do these horrible acts. They only seem to respond to direct actions, not PC lingo.
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I'm going to shock everyone and call for a unilateral and unconditional, total withdrawal from ALL Middle East countries, including Turkey. Once all US forces, US contractors, and US diplomats are out of all the Middle East (from Libya to Pakistan, from Somalia in the south to Turkey in the north), nuke the entire place until it's one sheet of glazed sand. THAT'S what it's going to take to end this farce. Islam is a "religion" of war. Let them have ultimate war, and be done with it.
As for the dummycrats, the Repuglycons, the MSM and the ACLU, it's time to do some housecleaning at home as well. Be sure to include a few dozen senators, congresscritters, and at least four supreme court justices, plus 80% of the ninth circus.
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Beat this one up...
How about we start off in a new PR direction. One that will bring the images they understand in a context that works for Iraq. The closest I've heard of was the Wolf Brigade (?) stuff, but I don't think they took the idea far enough.
At the next shithole we decide to sweep and clear we take the most professional MNF outfit - mixed Shia and Sunni if possible. Definitely not Kurds - or at least not heard speaking... embed the best combat cameramen (is it still 84Charlie?) and cover it - with sound. Edit up several 1 hour segments showing them in action, fighting for Iraq, killing bad guys. Bloody. Ugly. Nasty. Roll the bodies face-up. Take off their rags and show their faces. Make it pretty gory - none of this cleaned faces in a framed pciture BS. Use coalition air power and armor - but NO US or UK faces or voices - all Iraqis, all speaking local dialect. They should be the ones calling in the strikes - at least for show.
Put it on the Government channel with much fanfare. One hour per night. Use whatever descriptive titling would have the desired effect - The Cleansing of Ar Ramadi, or whatever. The ultimate reality show. Your country. Your Home. Your safety. Your men. In action. A completely Iraqi face and voice.
At the end of the very very bloody combat series, you follow up with garrisoning. Show the kids playing in the streets. Show the shops open and the Iraqi MNF mingling and high-fiving or doing sucky-face with everyone. Show the reconstruction. Schools, Water and power facilities. Plenty of gas in the petrol stations. Soccer games in the streets. All Iraqi faces. All Iraqi voices.
Yeah, it's obvious. Simple. Corny. To US. Maybe they can't make all the connections the way we do. Maybe this, or something similar, is the way to make the connections for them. In images and words and places they know and understand.
Just an idea that, as far as I know, has not been tried.
If it doesn't work, if they still don't get it, then we can always still go medieval on their asses.
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"It's also past time to really stop giving a rat's ass what the rest of the world thinks."
Amen, BH6. The only people we have to try to communicate with are the Iraqis. If they get it, fine and dandy. If they don't, then it's well past time to force the issue to our advantage.
The rest of the world can kiss our asses. I liked flyover's Saturday post where he advocated the return of TDR.
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SF will make them pay (if they haven't already).
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Wonder what this discussion would have been like, a week before that first bomb was dropped on Japan? Dropped because, as many people as it would kill, it would end the war and save more folks lives. It worked then. What is the difference of dropping that bomb then, and maybe, taking out a few of these villages and towns in Iraq and Afghanistan? And maybe a few in Iran and something in NKorea. In Vietnam, we took out villages, and basically, our guys won that war. The press just didn't want to believe it.
Seems, it works when power of force is exercised. And another question, for which I haven't the vaguest idea to the answer, but we keep getting lambasted with the fact that our troops are stretched thin. Yet, never having been in the military, but married to a Marine, I can't help but feel, that our Navy and Air Force aren't being used to their capacity.
If I were a warrior, I don't think I would like sitting on the sidelines, watching soldiers and Marines, ( I do know, we got lots of AF and Navy folks on the front lines now ) knowing, we got some pretty potent power in our other two services. But then, I only watch war movies and the Military channel, and football and basketball and baseball. And when reading our milblogs and their commenters, sheezz, we hear about that million man army NKorea has, I just have to think, we got a million guys and gals, former warriors, sitting and working at home, ready to go, prolly within 72 hours when needed. Talk about experience they would bring to this "Greatest Generation" and what pain they could deliver to an enemy.
See, I believe in the folks of our country. Anyway, I'm back to the All Star game, pulling for the National League because of our Astros! It doesn't get much better than our Star Spangled Banner and jets flying over a stadium! Ever notice, no matter what stadium, what sport, who's singing, when those words at the end of that stanze, O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
begins, the entire stadium cheers? Interesting that.
Three killed, 33 injured in explosion in Al-Shawrjah, violence in Al-Dawra
(KUNA) -- Three Iraqis were killed and another 33 injured today when an explosive device blew up in a popular restaurant in Al-Shawrjah mall in Baghdad, Iraqi Police said. The explosion, now most probably suspected to be a suicide bomber, destroyed the restaurant and several surrounding shops causing chaos in the mall, while ambulances and rescue teams attempted to reach the closest point possible to the site, one kilometer away, where they attended to the injured. Conflicting stories arose earlier, some said it was a suicide bomber and others said it was a bomb planted in the restaurant, it is still to be confirmed.
Moreover, an Iraqi Minister of Interior source said that violent confrontations broke out today between National Police troops and Sunni armed gunmen near Hatem Al-Saadoun Mosque in Al-Dawra town south Baghdad. Violence broke out in Baghdad killing at least 100 civilians and injuring more than 200 others in a sectarian attack on the Jihad town west Baghdad, and the blowing up of two booby-trapped cars in Al-Kisra, and another in Jameela town near Al-Sadir area.
Suicide truck bomb kills four, wounds seven A suicide truck bomb struck a Kurdish political office in the northern city of Kirkuk on Monday, killing four people and wounding seven others, police said. The truck exploded as it tried to plow through the concrete wall surrounding the complex of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the main Kurdish political parties in Iraq. Four people were killed and seven were wounded, police Brig. Sarhat Qadir said. The oil-rich city of Kirkuk is 290 kilometers north of Baghdad.
Eight dead, dozens wounded in Baghdad blast
Two car bombs struck a Shi'ite district in Baghdad on Monday, killing at least eight people and wounding dozens, officials said, as sectarian tensions rose following a rampage by Shi'ite gunmen killed 41 people, most of them Sunnis. Gunmen also ambushed a bus in the predominantly Sunni neighborhood of Amariyah in western Baghdad, killing six of the passengers, including a woman, and the driver, police Capt. Jamil Hussein said.
Iraqi army clashes with gunmen in Ghazaliya district
(KUNA) -- Iraqi army clashed Monday night with gunmen in Ghazaliya district in Western Baghdad, said Iraqi police source without disclosing any information about casualties. The source told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) forces from the Iraqi army have besieged gunmen in Ghazaliya and started dismantling bombs planted in the district's streets. He said mortar shells fell in Ghazaliya's houses from nearby districts, noting that the clashes lasted for three hours. Eyewitnesses described the situation as similar to the unrest witnessed in Jihad district a few days ago.
Bus passengers killed by insurgents in Baghdad
(KUNA) -- Bus passengers were Monday killed by unidentified gunmen in the troubled district of Al-Amiriya northern Baghdad, said the Iraqi Police. Local patrols found seven unidentified bodies including a woman in an operation similar to a "genocide," according to police sources. They added that four bodies were found inside the bus and the other three were found laying 10 meters away from the vehicle. Meanwhile, three unidentified bodies were found in Al-Ghadeir district eastern Baghdad.
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Palestinian terror groups announced on Monday night that they had successfully launched a Kassam rocket from Jenin in northern Samaria toward the community of Ram-On in northern Israel. According to the joint announcement put out by the Aksa Martyrs Brigades of the Fatah and the Jerusalem Brigades of the Islamic Jihad, the rocket landed in the Palestinian autonomous area. IDF sources from Central Command rejected the Palestinian report, claiming that not only had the rocket not landed in Palestinian autonomous territory, it had never even been fired.
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...So let me get this straight: Not only did they NOT hit Israel with a rocket that was NOT fired, they're taking credit for it?
Man, these guys are dumber than ditch carp...
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Kassam launching foiled in northern Gaza
Palestinian sources reported early Monday that an Israeli artillery shell had been fired at a group attempting to launch a Kassam rocket towards Israel. Other sources reported hearing a loud blast in northern Gaza.
2 Palestinians killed in IAF strike
Two Islamic Jihad operatives were killed in an IAF missile attack in southern Gaza on Monday. IAF aircraft fired at a car in the village of Abassan near Khan Younis.
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had been fired at a group attempting to launch a Kassam rocket
Must be the new endochronic radar controlled counter-battery (ERCB). Able to fire shortly before the enemy shell or missile is launched. It will be interesting when this goes into full-scale production.
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KAZAN: Five Muslim teenagers appeared Monday in the highest court in the central Russian region of Tatarstan, where their trial for allegedly planning to commit terrorist attacks and create an Islamic state in the traditionally Muslim territory has been under way for a week. They and 19 adult members of the alleged plot face up to 10 years in prison if found guilty, but all insist on their innocence. Their relatives and rights advocates say the case was trumped-up. "They are turning my sons from peaceful Muslims studying the Korean into extremists and militants," protested Elgiz Shaydullin, a firefighter whose two sons have been accused in the plot and have been detained for 18 months already. He came to court in his firefighter's uniform. The Federal Security Service said it had uncovered an underground extremist group, Islamic Jamaat.
Russias most wanted man, Chechen rebel leader 
OTTAWA (CP) - A suspected accomplice in a plot to bomb tunnels in New York City was questioned by RCMP for an entire day and remains under surveillance in Montreal, The Canadian Press has learned. A source familiar with the investigation said the man is a friend of 
A terrorist was on Tuesday arrested in south Delhi and 2.5 kg RDX seized from his possession, police said. Aijaz Hussain, hailing from Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir, was arrested from Lodhi road area after police received a tip-off about his movement, Deputy Commissioner of Police (Special Cell) Alok Kumar said. Police was interrogating him to find out if he has any links with the serial blasts in Srinagar and Mumbai and to find which terrorist outfit he belonged to, he said. 
Six explosions hit Bombay's commuter rail network during rush hour Tuesday evening, ripping apart train compartments and reportedly injuring dozens of people, police and Indian media said. Indian television news channels broadcast video of the wounded sprawled on train tracks and being carried through stations. The Press Trust of India news agency said six blasts occurred along the city's commuter rail network, which is among the most crowded in the world. India's financial center of Bombay and the capital of New Delhi were reportedly on high alert.
India's major cities were put on high alert after the blasts, and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called an emergency Cabinet meeting. Chaos engulfed the crowded rail network in India's financial capital following the blasts that ripped apart train compartments as authorities struggled to treat the wounded amid heavy monsoon downpours. Doors and windows were blown off the train cars, and luggage and debris were strewn across the tracks. Police Chief A.N. Roy said on Indian television that an estimated 100 people were killed and more than 250 were wounded. "We are busy in the rescue operation. Our first priority is to rescue the injured people," he said. 
A Kashmiri militant believed to have masterminded a weekend grenade attack that killed five and wounded 45 others has been shot dead by security forces, police said on Monday. Reyaz Lone, district commander of Hizbul Mujahedin, was killed during a gun battle on Sunday near the southern highway town of Qazigund, a police spokesman said.
At least 40 men belonging to the Bugti tribe, including a camp commander, have surrendered to the government, Dera Bugti District Coordination Officer Abdul Samad Lasi said on Monday. Talking to Pakistan Television, Lasi said that the men belonged to the Baqlai and Ferozani branches of the Bugti tribe.
QUETTA: Unidentified persons on Monday fired eight rockets at security force check posts, while four people, including one Frontier Corps officer, sustained serious injuries when a landmine exploded in Dera Bugti district, sources said. Sources told Daily Times that unknown assailants had fired eight rockets at the FC Bhadur check post in Kohlu district, before firing indiscriminately against officers. There were no reports of FC casualties. 
Tribal militants in North Waziristan said on Monday that the government's response to their month-long unilateral ceasefire had been "unsatisfactory", and urged it to step up its efforts to make the offer sustainable. Abdullah Farhad, the purported spokesman for the tribal Taliban in North Waziristan, said that the government's response during the first 15 days of the ceasefire had been "below our expectation".
(KUNA) -- A landmine Monday exploded near the Indo-Pakistani border in Ramgarh sub-sector of Jammu region in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. According to the news agency Press Trust of India (PTI), wild animals stepped over an anti-personal mine in Ramgarh sub-sector resulting in a powerful explosion.
THE Iraqi branch of al-Qaeda has put on the Internet a video showing the mutilated bodies of two US soldiers kidnapped in June and executed to "avenge" an Iraqi woman raped near Mahmudiyah south of Baghdad. "Here is a film on the remains of the bodies of the two American soldiers kidnapped near Yussufiyah (south of Baghdad). We are showing it to avenge our sister who was raped by a soldier belonging to the same division as these two soldiers," said a preamble by the Mujahedeen Al-Shura Council, an al-Qaeda dominated alliance of armed Sunni groups in Iraq.
A suicide truck bomb struck a Kurdish political office in the northern city of Kirkuk on Monday, killing four people and wounding seven others, police said. The truck exploded as it tried to plow through the concrete wall surrounding the complex of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, one of the main Kurdish political parties in Iraq. Four people were killed and seven were wounded, police Brig. Sarhat Qadir said. The oil-rich city of Kirkuk is 290 kilometers north of Baghdad.
Palestinian terror groups announced on Monday night that they had successfully launched a Kassam rocket from Jenin in northern Samaria toward the community of Ram-On in northern Israel. According to the joint announcement put out by the Aksa Martyrs Brigades of the Fatah and the Jerusalem Brigades of the Islamic Jihad, the rocket landed in the Palestinian autonomous area. IDF sources from Central Command rejected the Palestinian report, claiming that not only had the rocket not landed in Palestinian autonomous territory, it had never even been fired.
