(KUNA) -- Fresh violence in different parts of Afghanistan claimed 13 lives, including a soldier of the International Security Assistance Force. A statement released from ISAF headquarters says one soldier died today (Sunday) from a gunshot wound sustained during a multinational operation in Musa Qala district in Helmand province. The incident occurred when ISAF troops came under small arms fire, following a successful mission, said the statement. It says nationality of the soldier will not be released by ISAF headquarters while further details about the operation, if becomes available, will be released later.
In the same province, fierce battle between Taliban fighters and Afghan security forces left at least 10 insurgents dead, claimed the Afghan government on Sunday. Provincial government's spokesman Mohyuddin Khan told journalists their forces clashed with Taliban as the latter attacked their convoy in the Garamser district last night. He said the fighting continued for several hours which resulted in killing of 10 attackers. Five others were arrested while rest of their colleagues managed to escape taking advantage of the dark. Khan said the Afghan army and police were supported by British forces in the battle. Taliban did not issue any statement on the fresh government's claim. Both Afghan officials and Taliban issue conflicting statements about losses and casualties to their opponents.
“The attacker pre-maturely blew up his explosive-packed car and the blast took place yards away from the convoy...”
In a separate attack in western Afghanistan , a group of armed men rained rockets at a police check post in the night killing two policemen. The provincial security officials in Badghis, the province where the attack was carried out, are tight-lipped about identity of the attackers. In Kandahar, the former stronghold of Taliban, a suicide bomber was killed when he missed his target Sunday morning. The failed attack was carried out in Daman district of Kandahar when a NATO convoy was passing through the area. The attacker pre-maturely blew up his explosive-packed car and the blast took place yards away from the convoy. Spokesman for the multinational force Major Innis said none of their soldiers was hurt in the botched up attack.
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Watch that car, watch that car, Carl it's low on the axles, cock that 50, watch that car. KABLOOOII er what car sarge.
RABAT, Morocco (AP) - Moroccan security services have arrested 44 suspected terrorists and dismantled a network allegedly planning attacks in the North African country, the state news agency reported Monday.
“The ministry said that the group's leader was a former convict who recruited Islamic radicals to train them in explosives use and planned to wage a holy war...”
The suspects, who included five former soldiers with explosives expertise, were tracked down in Casablanca and six other cities and towns, the MAP agency reported, citing a statement from the Interior Ministry. Police also seized explosives, laboratory materials and propaganda leaflets, the report said.
Morocco's government has cracked down on suspected terrorists since suicide bombings in Casablanca in 2003 left 45 people dead, and stunned a nation where most espouse moderate Islam.
The ministry said that the group's leader was a former convict who recruited Islamic radicals to train them in explosives use and planned to wage a holy war. The group allegedly sought to finance its activities through robberies of financial institutions and bank trucks, the statement said.
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Steve! You edited out the most important part!
Human rights groups allege that innocent people have been caught up in the government's sweep, and that many are tortured.
Without that line, the AP would never have run the article. How many innocent people are killed by the barbarians? Is terror not a form of torture?
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Ah! It seems that Human rights groups are trying to welcome their new overlords and are in distress that they are not allowed to.
ROSTOV-ON-DON, August 8 (RIA Novosti) - The interior minister of the southern Russian republic of Daghestan survived an assassination attempt Tuesday morning but a regional prosecutor was killed in an earlier car bombing, a spokesman said. Minister Adilgerei Magomedtagirov emerged unhurt from the attack on his car as he was traveling a highway connecting the North Caucasus republic's capital Makhachkala and Buinaksk, another regional center, the spokesman said. Three of accompanying policemen were wounded.
Andzhela Martirosova said an explosion went off as the minister's motorcade was passing. His car managed to travel another 100 meters after the explosion before it came under a sustained five-minute burst of gun fire from a nearby forest. Magomedtagirov was on his way to the crime scene in Buinaksk, where at 8:30 a.m. local time (4:30 a.m. GMT) Bitar Bitarov, the town's prosecutor, was seriously wounded when an explosive device planted on a roadside detonated as his car was passing. Bitarov later died in the hospital.
Russian television channel Vesti reported that armored personnel carriers and a helicopter had been brought into the area of the attack on the interior minister to hunt down a group of militants thought to be responsible for the assassination attempt.
Daghestan, which borders on Chechnya, has had a troubled history in the last few years and Bitarov was the chief legal officer in a town which itself saw a horrific apartment-block bombing in 1999 that killed 64 people. Law-enforcement officials in Chechnya said the events in Daghestan had not affected the situation in the republic and no measures to tighten security along the border would be taken.
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10 kafirs (infidels) and munafiqs (traitors) were annihilated and at least 13 others wounded in various military operations of the Mujahideen in the Chechen capital Jokhar and in southern Chechnya during 24 hours (August 5 to August 6), reports a spokesman in the Chechen Military Command. These figures are not complete and do not include the information coming with some delay from certain areas of Chechnya, stressed the spokesman. 2 Mujahideen martyred (Shaheeds insha Allah) in the attacks, and 4 others were slightly hurt.
The Mujahideen attacked kafirs and munafiqs in Jokhar [Grozny] as well as in Vedeno, Nozhai Yurt and Kurchaloi districts of Chechnya. 2 Russian invaders were killed and 3 injured in Jokhar. One invader and 3 proxies were annihilated and 5 others wounded in two different attacks in the area of village Dargo and the district center Vedeno. 1 Russian soldier was killed and 4 wounded in a brief firefight in the area of village Nikikhat. The invaders used support helicopters in this battle. 3 Russians were killed and one wounded in a special operation of Mujahideen in a forest tract near village Yalkhoi Mokhck. No detais of this attack were reported. It is only known that the Mujahideen traced a mobile group of Russian kafirs and blew it up.
Russian artillery and aviation bombarded the Vedeno Gorge and mountain areas near villages Dargo and Yalkhoi Mokhck as well as the regions on the Chechen-Dagestani border. No information on the casualties of civilians is available.
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Eleven Egyptian students who arrived in the United States last month are being sought by authorities after failing to turn up for an exchange program at Montana State University. The Egyptian men were among a group of 17 students who arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York from Cairo on July 29 with valid visas, according to U.S. authorities and university officials.
The other six have arrived at the Bozeman, Mont., campus for a monthlong program on English language instruction and U.S. history and culture, university spokeswoman Cathy Conover said.
When the 11 didn't turn up by the end of the last week, the FBI issued a lookout to state and local law enforcement, said FBI Special Agent Richard Kolko. "At this point all they have done is not show up for a scheduled academic program," Kolko said. "There is no threat associated with these men."
They are between 18 and 22 years old, said a law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity because the search for the men is continuing. U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement declined to make their names public.
"Calling all cars! Calling all cars!" Be on the lookout for eleven men with characteristics typical of young Egyptian men!"
"Uh, Chief, what are their names?"
"We can't tell you that, it would violate their rights. But be on the lookout!"
The government probably will seek to send the students home once they are located because they have violated the terms of their visas, the official said.
Boy howdy, THAT'll bring them out of hiding.
The government tightened the student visa process after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks when it learned that four of the hijackers entered the country on foreign student visas.
The school has tried repeatedly to contact the students, Conover said, including sending e-mails. When that failed, the school notified Homeland Security officials and registered the Egyptians as "no-shows" in the system developed after Sept. 11 to track foreign students, Conover said.
There, that oughta do it.
They were participating in an exchange program Montana State arranged with Mansoura University in Mansoura, Egypt. "We hope this doesn't cast doubt on this program because we think it's important to have international students on our campus and in our community," Conover said.
We do too. There are some great students from India, Poland, Bulgaria ..... and even some from Egypt who show up where they're supposed to.
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Oh ya. Dumb ass, foggy bottomed, liberal jackassed state department.
Not just them, but also universities and colleges who are more concerned about their bottom line than America. Not surprising given the amount of Anti-Americanism that is promoted in both those institutions.
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"Calling all cars! Calling all cars!" Be on the lookout for eleven men with characteristics typical of young Egy…uhm…er… characteristics typical of young men”
"Uh, Chief, whatÂ’s their description?"
"We can't tell you that, that would be profiling and it would violate their rights. But be on the lookout!"
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Maybe they were gonna study goats. Ya know, Montana's full of "wildlife," lol.
Of course, I think they should be detained forever for not having met the terms of their "student visas". We have GOT to take these threats seriously, and the student visa entry point is one we need to shut down ASAP (at least to select nationals).
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A comment from underneath the article.
Why shouldn't the photos and names of these "students" be listed and available to the public? If Homeland Security can take away the privacy rights of U.S. citizens why should these people have preferential treatment? I say to the F.B.I. FIND THEM and find out who sponsered them and follow the money trail!
It is well past time that names and pictures of such people be public knowledge.
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And of course the question is, why the hell are we still giving out student visas to these countries?
That question leapt to mind for me as well, DV. Countries with major terrorism problems should be subject to intense scrutiny with respect to visa issuance. Short of radio collar tracking, there are few ways to ensure that individuals remain available for interview and deportation subsequent to visa expiration.
Substantial monetary bonds are not the answer in that terror groups would happily sacrifice the funds to insert operatives. As always, the Muslim pratice of taqiya makes any and all efforts ineffectual. Our government needs to better understand the exact nature of the threat we face due to Islamism. Currently, they do not and Americans routinely are placed in harm's way due to this.
Short of an outright ban on issuing visas to all nations with Islamic majorities, it is hard to envision what other measures would be of substantial use. I'm confident there would be a large number of individuals (including some here) who would argue that such an approach could only serve to further alienate our Middle East allies.
Personally, I would see such a restriction as one more solid object lesson in the penalties faced by nations that countenance terrorist operations (specifically Islamist) in their midst. Why America should reward such countries by giving their populations access to our superior educational systems and technical on-the-job training when we face internal attack by their less savory elements is beyond me.
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Umm The New York BinLaden Times of course has not been spilling the beans publically, aided by Clintonista CIA moles traitorous to the USA.
BTW : Here are the 11 :
Ibrahim El Sayed Ahmed Elsayed 4/29/86 20
El Dessouki Eslam Ibrahim Mohamed 2/21/85 21
El Bahnasawi Alaa Abd El Fattah Ali 4/2/86 20
Abd Alla Mohamed Ragab Mohamed 2/15/84 22
El Laket Ahmed Refaat Saad El Moghazi 9/1/86 19
El Ela Ahmed Mohamed Mohamed Abou 2/2/85 21
El Moghazy Mohamed Ibrahim Elsayed 8/8/86 20
Abdou Ebrahim Mabrouk Moustafa 2/25/84 22
El Gafary Moustafa Wagdy Moustafa 7/1/88 18
Maray Mohamed Saleh Ahmed 9/12/85 20
El Shenawy Mohamed Ibrahim Fouaad 8/12/88 17
Now lets do some basic detective work :
Its called Google.
Google search on #1, above - Ibrahim El Sayed Ahmed Elsayed...and guess what comes up. Another fellow in France with the name all the same except the first Name... Ayman El Sayed Ahmed Elsayed...Is this guy with the website an older brother?
http://www.inrialpes.fr/planete/people/elsayed/
Hello Homeland Security? Is anyone there?
Anyone curious about such a connection?
Has anyone talked to Ayman?...
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Once again the FBI is left with a massive recovery to cover a State Department screw up.
I would love to see the FBI director do a full blown rant on the MSM chewing out the head of the State Department. Maybe the SD would awaken just a tad.
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An Iranian runs down students at UNC and it's not terrorism.
A Pakiwaki shoots Jewish women in a Jewish Community center because he's mad abbout Israel and it's not terrorism.
An Egyptian shoots employees at the El Al counter and it's not terrorism.
Mel Gibson shoots his mouth off while drunk, and it's non-stop hate crime time.
We doubled the number of student visas from Saudi Arabia this year. (Anyone remember Visa Express?)
I think a large part of the country is stuck on stupid.
Four outta five ain't bad, SR-71, but you're way off base with Mel Gibson. Alcohol never does any talking. It lowers inhibitions a person might have with respect to any well-submerged feelings they maintain, but alcohol never speaks on its own.
Mel Gibson enjoys an unusual degree of purported credibility as a major celebrity. His previous film came dangerously close to perpetuating the ancient blood-libel against the Jews and his spouting off while being arrested now seems to bear this out. I urge you to connect the dots. Remember, Gibson's father is well-known for his Holocaust denial.
As to the other four, you are absolutely correct and this country's media bears direct responsibility for obsfucating the material nature and consistent pattern of Islamist hate crimes against peaceful American citizens.
Finally, good catch BigEd. Five years ago our nation was attacked by those who chose to overstay their visas. Why our population should not be made immediately aware of another round of potential assailants is beyond me. These names should be spread far and wide so that law enforcement and service industry employees can be alerted to their presence.
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Recently saw where two university with which I am familiar initiated programs on "internationalism." This is another name for multiculturalism. Many universities are doing this. Since universities generally cap enrollment, I can only assume that U.S. citizens are getting frozen out of professor and student slots.
If we are at war with the islamofacists, then every facet of this war must be waged. The hell with them filling student and professor slots. Taxpayers are helping to subsidize them only to have them turn around an plot 911s. Screw them. This is idiotic and dangerous. We need to get smarter and not be stuck on stupid.
I have to respectfully disagree with you on the alcohol thing. I've known some alkies who, while not resorting to racist rants, will say some pretty vicious and untrue things simply for effect. It doesn't mean they actually believe it. They're simply out to hurt the other person with whatever comes to hand.
As Jonah Goldberg pointed out, if alcohol were truth serum then Andrew Sullivan could untwist his panties over waterboarding at Gitmo while we served the scum there a dozen Cosmopolitans.
That said, who knows? Maybe Mel is an anti-Semite. As you pointed out, he was brought up by a wacky father.
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Sorry but I am an alcoholic been clean for 20 years and I been so drunk I didn't even know what my name was and could have said anything and would have never remembered it.
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I still call bullshit on the POTC being antisemite. If you know anything about the bible - Jesus was preordained to die for our sins. The Romans and Jewish powerbrokers simply did their part. As a Catholic I wouldn't be Christian to hold those events against our Jewish friends, neighbors, and allies.
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Zenster, if you don't see the difference between Mel Gibson and the other cases I cite, I can't help you.
Mel spoke hatefully and stupidly. No one I know gets moral or religious instruction from a drunken Hollywood actor. These others atempted to or succeeded in killing people.
The point is the stupid media, Homeland Security, the FBI,... are all unable or unwilling to admit what is operating here.
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Homeland Security should be posting photos, names, etc. on the internet for these 11 - they need to be found right away. As in "before August 22", for instance. This has all the indications of being really serious. There MAY be an innocent explanation, but it will take a whole lot to convince me. And 'deportation' should not be the first choice if they are found and cannot satisfactorily explain themselves - unless you drop them off at 30,000 feet and let Allan catch them.
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I believe that Homeland Secrurity is so wracked with political correctness that they cannot come to grips with the problem. If this is true, they are part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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"I think a large part of the country is stuck on stupid."
I used to believe that, not anymore. When it comes to the State Dept., I think they know exactly what they are doing. They're helping their allies.
"Four outta five ain't bad, SR-71, but you're way off base with Mel Gibson."
No. You are missing his point. His first four bullet-points might as well earn crickets chirping, but let a drunken actor shoot his mouth off and the media holds a circus.
The media actively supports our nations enemies, the DoS actively supports our nations enemies while simultaneously treating us as though we're stupid, and our politicians stand around with their thumbs up their ass.
It looks to me like someone is waiting for something bad to happen. I still believe and say that we're going to have to take these assclowns to the woodshed! Media, State and our elected representatives. Soon.
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Both points are true of Mel Gibson.
Zenster is right. His Aalcohol/truth serum rant seemingly proves the biaas contained in a movie that has become a religious icon, tainting otherwise decent folk.
and at the same time he is just a hoolywood actor s77tfacedly running his mnouth and hardly worth all that media time compared to actual events.
PS. I think they could use Alcohol as truth serum, but people who don''t ordinarily drink will get sick before they get to that point, so you'd have to work them up to it.
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No moore guinness for you !
MAnishewitz.
hmmmmmmm....
come to think of it MAnishewitz might work at gitmo too.
Don't be wasting that Shapiro's tho'.
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I saw at least 4 of those camel dudes, in white robes and standing by a nuke plant. Boys will be boys.
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How will you feel on 8/23 when nothing's happened?
If nothing happens but nothing changes not that much better.
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I'll give 'em a hint. Start checking businesses run by Egyptian immigrants in the Northeast - motels, distributorships, restaurants, etc. Lots of 'students' work under the table at these places during their stay.
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The government tightened the student visa process after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks when it learned that four of the hijackers had entered the country on foreign student visas.
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Hurry up US congress and pass the “Comprehensive Immigration reform” legislation so these “Undocumented Workers” can come out of the shadows and onto the path of citizenship they so rightly deserve!
A computer technician was sentenced to a year in prison for trying to ship to Iran more than 100 pressure sensors that could be used as components in explosive devices. Mohammad Fazeli, 27, pleaded guilty in May to one count of violating a US embargo prohibiting trade with Iran. Under a plea agreement, prosecutors agreed to drop one count each of conspiracy and making false statements.
US District Judge George H. King sentenced Fazeli in federal court on Monday. In an indictment unsealed in March, prosecutors alleged that Fazeli, a US citizen of Iranian descent, ordered 103 Honeywell sensors from an electronics company in St. Paul, Minnesota, in September 2004. Working with an associate based in Iran, Fazeli tried to ship the sensors to an address in the United Arab Emirates, authorities said. Prosecutors believe the ultimate destination was Iran. However, the devices never left the United States. The sensors were built to detect the pressure of liquid or gas, but authorities were concerned they could be used to detonate explosive devices.
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A computer technician was sentenced to a year in prison for trying to ship to Iran more than 100 pressure sensors that could be used as components in explosive devices.
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My first read was 1 year per sensor. but a re-read proved me wrong; a Google search turned up the fact that he is a Clinton appointee; only 1 year for 100+ sensors to an enemy of the state. And he wil probably get out w/ time served or some other BS. Silly me for thinking we are serious.
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A computer technician was sentenced to a year in prison for trying to ship to Iran more than 100 pressure sensors that could be used as components in explosive devices. Mohammad Fazeli, 27, pleaded guilty in May to one count of violating a US embargo prohibiting trade with Iran. Under a plea agreement, prosecutors agreed to drop one count each of conspiracy and making false statements.
ONE YEAR? For potentially facilitating Iran's nuclear weapons R&D? You've got to know that these pressure sensors were most likely destined for efforts at physically modelling the explosive lensing needed to initiate a fission or fusion reaction (read; nuclear explosion). Other applications could be for monitoring line pressure in centrifuge outputs or hexaflouride production reactors.
Fazeli, a US citizen of Iranian descent.
Yoohoo, State Department. Are any of you connecting the dots with respect to how severe the problem of mixed alliegences are within America's Muslim population?
Finally, why in blue blazes was this maggot offered any sort of plea bargain? The obviously got the goods on this traitorous maggot. Collaborating with a terror sponsoring rougue regime that has overtly threatened use of nuclear weapons against America does not merit any sort of plea bargain. Rather the opposite, I would think. Maximum hard time, with no reduced sentencing for good behavior and minimum privileges during incarceration. These are our mortal enemies and are out to do us serious harm. It's long past the time for the judiciary to begin acting accordingly.
Seven people have been killed in continuing separatist violence in Indian Kashmir, but Islamic rebels freed three civilians held hostage during a standoff with the army, Indian police said on Monday.
Three militants and two Indian soldiers died in three separate gun battles with troops and counter-insurgency police, in the southern districts of Anantnag and Doda, late Sunday and early Monday, a police spokesman said. The region's powerful rebel group Hizbul Mujahedin claimed in a telephone call to an Indian news agency that its members had killed the soldiers and snatched their weapons.
In Anantnag district, a soldier was killed and two others were hurt when militants opened fire on patrolling troops on Monday, the spokesman said. Suspected militants, encircled by troops in the south of the state, held three civilians hostage for several hours before freeing them. "The three were freed by the militants unharmed," the spokesman said, adding that the troops engaged the militants in a fierce gun battle after they refused to surrender. Hizbul Mujahedin said that two of its members were involved in the fighting.
Meanwhile, a civilian was shot dead when suspected militants raided his house in Anantnag district late Sunday.
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QUETTA: Baloch insurgents on Monday claimed to have killed nine security personnel and injured 12 following clashes in Dera Bugti. Wadera Alam Khan, a spokesman for the Baloch insurgents, told reporters via satellite phone that violence had escalated on Monday after a brief break. "Nine security forces personnel were killed while 12 were seriously wounded," he said, adding that the clash had occurred at Daman in the north of Uchh gas field. "The assault was launched when security forces attacked the hideouts of Baloch fighters. Subsequently, both sides traded fire for many hours," he said.
Khan said the militants had captured seven security forces vehicles. "Two helicopters assisted the security forces and bombed the area, destroying one of the vehicles that the Baloch fighters had taken," he said. "No fighter was killed or injured." A Balochistan government official called the militants' claims "absolute nonsense".
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BARA: The political administration of Khyber Agency on Monday ended the suspension of 400 khasadars (tribal policemen) and released their salaries but warned that the administration would launch a crackdown on Zakha Khel Bazaar if the Lashkar-e-Islami did not abandon its activities by August 17. The administration made this decision at a jirga between the assistant political agent (APA) and elders of Zakha Khel Bazaar led by Malik Nadir Shah Afridi, Malik Mahmud Afridi and Malik Habib Jan. Around 300 Zakha Khel elders attended the jirga at Khyber House.
The APA warned the elders that arrests would be made under the Collective Responsibility Act if the Lashkar-e-Islami headed by Mangal Bagh did not stop its activities by August 17. The jirga also discussed the restoration of peace in Bara and the tribal elders assured the government of full cooperation. The APA urged the elders to protect their land and expel individuals challenging the government's writ from Zakha Khel Bazaar.
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MIRANSHAH: Suspected tribal militants in North Waziristan have beheaded a man they accused of acting as a "US spy", officials said on Monday. The headless body of the local man was found at Madikhel village, 35 kilometres south of Miranshah, administration officials told Daily Times. A letter found near the body claimed that the man had been executed because he had spied for the United States. The killing represents the first such incident since June 25, when local militants announced a unilateral ceasefire to facilitate the Grand Jirga's "peace mission" to the area.
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The killing represents the first such incident since June 25
After all July is the month you take time off to barbeque...
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Iraq's prime minister sharply criticized a U.S.-Iraqi attack on a Shiite militia stronghold in Baghdad, exposing a rift with his American partners on security tactics, as 24 people were killed Tuesday in a series of bombings and a shooting.
The U.S.-Iraqi air and ground attack was launched before dawn Monday in Sadr City, which is controlled by radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his Mahdi Army militia. Police said three people, including a woman and a child, were killed in the raid, which the U.S. command said was aimed at "individuals involved in punishment and torture cell activities." Three people were captured, the U.S. military said.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, a Shiite, said he was "very angered and pained" by the operation, warning that it could undermine his efforts toward national reconciliation. "Reconciliation cannot go hand-in-hand with operations that violate the rights of citizens this way," al-Maliki said in a statement on government television. "This operation used weapons that are unreasonable to detain someone - like using planes." He apologized to the Iraqi people for the operation and said "this won't happen again."
Hours after he spoke, central Baghdad was shaken early Tuesday by three near-simultaneous bomb explosions near the Interior Ministry building in the Al-Nahda neighborhood. Ten civilians were killed and eight people were injured, said police Lt. Bilal Ali Majid. Cause - meet effect.
A few hours later, two roadside bombs exploded within minutes of each other in the main Shurja market in central Baghdad, killing 10 people and injuring 50, said police Lt. Mohammed Kheyoun.
On Monday, President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd, met with the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. George W. Casey Jr., to discuss security operations in Baghdad. Talabani said he told Casey "it is in no one's interest to have a confrontation" with al-Sadr's movement.
The public positions taken by al-Maliki and Talabani signal serious differences between Iraqi politicians and both U.S. and Iraqi military officials on how to restore order and deal with armed groups, many of which have links to political parties.
Speaking to reporters Monday, Casey made no mention of al-Sadr but said he had discussed plans with Talabani to bring "fundamental change to the security situation in Baghdad" before Ramadan, which begins in late September.
Al-Sadr has risen to become a major figure in the Shiite community and a pillar of support for al-Maliki. The prime minister's apology and criticism of the U.S. forces may have helped placate al-Sadr, who on Monday urged his followers to show restraint. Don't go out and kill so may Sunnis today. Wait until tomorrow.
In a statement read at all Mahdi Army offices, al-Sadr urged his militiamen to be "calm and patient, and avoid being drawn into civil war," said the cleric's aide, Mohammed al-Fartousi.
He said al-Sadr urged the militiamen to purge all those who bring the Mahdi Army into disrepute. They should also "denounce the kidnapping of Iraqis, denounce destruction of mosques and denounce killing of innocent people," said his aide, Mohammed al-Fartousi.
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The US will regret that they let Mookie slip out of Najaf unharmed. Another effort by our brave troops wasted. Bring in Gen. Honore!
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In a statement read at all Mahdi Army offices, al-Sadr urged his militiamen to be "calm and patient, and avoid being drawn into civil war," said the cleric's aide, Mohammed al-Fartousi.
Boy, if that's not rich, I don't know what is. Tater's now pacifying his goons from trying to start a civil war? The ultimate example of projection, methinks...PTUI!
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What is this fu*kers game ? He goes to DC and demands help after he falls on his ass. Now he chastises that too much force is being used. He wants US military to go in and hold hands ? Time to dump this asshole and basically abandon this hole. Send all US troops to guard oilfields and pipelines. Pump the oil. Anyone gets within 1 mile, waste them.
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The Mahdi Army has murdered thousands of Sunnis and cleansed much of north Baghdad of the majority Muslim sect. Should this continue because the PM has political relations with the al-Sadrites?
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Most discouraging. How the hell do we hold in and create a realistic government when there are armed militias that have the defacto backing of the prime minister? It is no wonder that the military is itching to have a coup. So do the Iranian puppet strings go to Maliki then Sadr or the other way around?
(KUNA) -- A member of Al-Qaeda terrorist organization was killed and 11 others were arrested during a raid on Saturday, the US army on Sunday. In a press release, US army said the raid took place to the north of Baghdad in Al-Taji area that's known for containing a number of elements launching terrorist attacks in central Iraq. Through intelligence efforts, the cell was known for its role in producing bombs and launching attacks against security forces and civilians, added the army.
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(KUNA) -- Three Iraqis were killed and a citizen was abducted Monday in unrelated incidents in Kirkuk city in northern Iraq. A police source told KUNA that a bomb planted in a car at the Wahed Huzayran (first of June) area exploded in Kikruk. The explosion resulted in the death of two and the injury of a civilian who was sent to Kirkuk Public Hospital for treatment.
In another incident, masked gunmen shot dead a civilian in Al-Hurriya area. Masked gunmen also abducted a citizen in Al-Wehda neighborhood in Kirkruk.
Meanwhile in Baghdad, six Iraqi soldiers were killed in Dayali province north of the capital, said a security source today. The source added that masked gunmen attacked a security checkpoint in Balaad Rose in Dayali killing six soldiers and injuring 15 others.
A joint Iraqi police and military force captured four insurgents in Kora Tapeh town. The arrest came after a short clash between the forces and the insurgents.
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(KUNA) -- Six Iraqis were killed and 20 others were injured Monday during several attacks in Baghdad and Dayali Monday, a police source said. The source in press remarks that six civilians were injured after a booby-trapped car exploded near the southern gate of Al-Mustansirya University. The explosion caused damages to nearby properties, added the source.
Meanwhile, a statement by the joint Iraqi police and army forces in Dayali province said that four Iraqis were killed and seven injured due to a road-side bomb explosion. In another incident, road-side bomb targeting a police car patrol in Khan bani Saad town near Ba'akoba in northern Iraq. An Iraqi joint forces source told KUNA that the explosion caused the death of two Iraqi and the injury of seven others.
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(KUNA) -- Two Iraqi police officers were killed on Monday and three were injured among them one civilian when gunmen attacked them in the city of Mosul. An Iraqi police source from Mosul said unknown armed men opened fire at several policemen in the city, killing two, and injuring three others, among them a civilian bystander.
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Fighting erupted early on Monday in a Shia militia stronghold of Baghdad, leaving three people dead, while 10 people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up among mourners at a funeral in Saddam Hussein's hometown. A roadside bombing southwest of Baghdad killed three U.S. soldiers late Sunday, the U.S. military said. No further details were released. Seven other people were killed and six bodies were found on Sunday. In Baghdad, sounds of heavy gunfire and explosions rattled the Sadr City district starting about 1 a.m. Monday and persisted for more than an hour.
“... sounds of heavy gunfire and explosions rattled the Sadr City district starting about 1 a.m. Monday and persisted for more than an hour...”
Iraqi government television and aides to radical Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said U.S. aircraft were attacking buildings in the area. ``Several aerial and ground raids began in central Sadr City,'' al-Sadr aide Jaleel al-Nouri said by telephone as detonations could be heard in the background. ``We can see several houses on fire.''
The U.S. military said in a statement the fighting started when Iraqi and U.S. forces raided the area to catch extremists suspected of running torture cells. The forces took fire as soon as they arrived and one U.S. soldier was injured, statement said. The U.S. military recently reinforced its troop strength in the city to try to reclaim the streets from militias, including al-Sadr's Mahdi Army. ``There's gunfire from all sides,'' Kadhim al-Mohammedawi, a civil servant who lives in Sadr City, said by telephone. ``We can hear women and children screaming.''
The district became quiet after more than an hour, except for the sounds of emergency vehicles racing through the streets. Col. Hassan Chaloub, police chief of Sadr City, said three people including a woman were killed and 12 injured, including five children and two women. He said three cars and three houses were destroyed. He said U.S. jets flew over the city and calls of ``God is Great'' and ``There's no God but God'' blasted from loudspeakers in mosques.
Late Sunday, scattered clashes broke out between Shia militiamen and Iraqi soldiers near Hamza Square on the edge of Sadr City, police said. Two militiamen were killed and five combatants were wounded, including two Iraqi soldiers, police said.
“... the mourners were attending services for the father of a local council member, who was killed in the attack...”
The attack on the mourners occurred about 8:15 p.m. in Tikrit, Saddam's hometown, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad. The bomber mingled among the crowd in a funeral hall and detonated an explosive belt, police said. Police Capt. Laith Hamid said the mourners were attending services for the father of a local council member, who was killed in the attack. Part of the ceiling collapsed and some people might be trapped under the rubble, Hamid said, adding that 10 people were killed and 22 injured. Later, the attacker's vehicle was found and detonated as a safety measure in case it was rigged as a car bomb, police said.
No, the sidebar doesn't make any sense to me, either. Why hold a funeral for him if he wasn't killed until the attack?
The bombing was the latest in a series of attacks across northern Iraq in recent days that have tested the capabilities of Iraq's U.S.-trained security forces. Iraqi authorities, however, have been heartened by the performance of the police in the northern city of Mosul, who stood their ground and drove off the insurgents after a series of attacks last week. In November 2004, Mosul's entire 5,500-member police force fled during an insurgent uprising and the U.S. military had to send American troops and Kurdish fighters to regain control of the city, Iraq's third largest.
Also Sunday, several U.S. Marines were wounded and a few vehicles were destroyed by a suicide car bombing in Anbar province, the U.S. military said without further details. Iraqi police said the attack was in Fallujah, a heavily guarded city 65 kilometers (40 miles) west of Baghdad.
In scattered violence across the country Sunday, two policemen, two truck drivers, a government security guard, a Sunni preacher and a suspected insurgent were killed. Also Sunday, five bodies were found in Baghdad and one in the southeastern city of Amarrah. In the Kurdish province of Sulaimaniyah, security forces fired warning shots to disperse hundreds of demonstrators who burned tires and blocked roads to protest high fuel prices and poor living conditions. Three people were injured in the protest in the town of Chamchamal.
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maybe, from his smell, they thought he'd been dead for a couple days?
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Careful or Miss Deitz will make you diagram the sentence.
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the mourners were attending services for the father of a local council member, who was killed in the attack.
I think the local council member was attending the funeral of his father. It was Mr. Council Member who was killed in the attack. They can just drop him in the hole with dear old dad.
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IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz has decided on Tuesday to appoint Deputy Chief of General Staff Maj.-Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky as his representative in the Northern Command for the duration of the war.
Kaplinski was appointed to supervise and coordinate activities on the northern front.
OC Northern Command Maj.-Gen. Udi Adam was to remain in his current post, while retaining all of the responsibilities and authorities of the position.
When pressed by Channel 2, Adam expressed some displeasure, but said it was perfectly legitimate to appoint a senior officer, especially when it is a deputy chief of staff, to assist the commander of a front at times of war.
Some senior officers in the Northern Command were reportedly more disturbed. They stated that the nomination was a real hit to Adam's authority. Channel 2 quoted unnamed sources as saying that Adam considered resigning because of the move.
Halutz expressed his full confidence at the capabilities of the IDF's chain of command and in particular those of the Northern Command headed by Maj.-Gen. Adam, an official statement released by the IDF said.
The reason behind the decision was not immediately clear. It may be related to the planned cabinet meeting on Wednesday and the possible approval of a massive expansion of the ground operation up to the Litani River or even further north.
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This is a very positive move. Kick some serious ass, Sherman's March to the Northern border (of Lebanon).
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No surprise. Hope it fixes some stuff(it is impossible to fix all and even less considering Halutz and Olmert ). He is a former Golani Brigade Commander. I said things werent going right, HZB is still popping almost 200 rockets a day.
I hope he isnt a Zukhov...Russkies know it wasnt good idea to serve under Zukhov he shortenend the live of his own soldiers with his brutal offensives.
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Remember Kaplinski is the guy who at the end of week one said we won't have to send in ground troops because the IAF has destroyed 40% of Hezb'Allah's infrastructure. Again, I can't wait for the book.
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Okay, so he bought the flyboy jib, at least he's infantry. The Golani Brigade brings fear to the enemy.
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Could have been disinformation, too. That's why I'm waiting for the book. I'll bet there's been more fighting going on within the senior command/political levels of Israel than with Hezb'Allah.
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Big boss doesnt like the job North boss is doing so sended a supervising boss :) The supervising and the big boss have apparently the problem of thinking that airforce mainly can finish the job and made various over optimistic declarations in the past. The North boss from the news just seems to be happy doing the less possible.
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Which part? The disinformation meant he was lying to the press to mislead the Hezb'Allah about Israeli assessment of the situation and plans. That's the problem for a civilian of trying to figure out what's going on real time during war. It may or may not be in the interest of either party to let you know the truth because when they tell you, they also tell the enemy.
JERUSALEM -Four Palestinians were wounded and two militants arrested Tuesday during an Israeli incursion in the northern West Bank, Palestinian security sources said. Some 40 armoured vehicles thrust into the town of Qabatiya and Israeli troops captured two members of the Al-Aqsa MartyrsÂ’ Brigades, an armed offshoot of moderate Palestinian president Mahmud AbbasÂ’s Fatah movement.
The Israeli soldiers responded with gunfire to stone-throwing, wounding four Palestinians, the sources added.
Never throw rocks at guys with guns.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.
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...What I find amusing is that the Hezzies made SURE there was a big Hezbollah sticker on the vertical stab - "Not only are we stupid, we're proud of it!!"
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"Tonight on a very special edition of TLC's What Not To Wear, Stacy and Clinton do a fashion intervention on the Hezbollah drone fleet . . . and hilarity ensues."
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What I find amusing is that the Hezzies made SURE there was a big Hezbollah sticker on the vertical stab - "Not only are we stupid, we're proud of it!!"
Perhaps they didn't want to be accused of any war crimes by flying an unmarked plane.
The State Security Court (SSC) prosecutor on Monday charged four men with the possession and attempted sale of 39 kilogrammes of an explosive substance, judicial sources said. The four men were identified in the charge sheet as Fadi Abu Fara, Mohammad Yousef, and brothers Jihad and Imad Hassan, both being tried in absentia. The prosecution alleges that the men were found in the possession of 39 kilogrammes of mercury, a substance used in the manufacture of explosives.
On May 28, the prosecution claims the four men left their homes in Salt in order to sell two kilogrammes of the chemical but were unable to find a buyer. On returning to Salt, the men then hid some of the mercury by a farm fence close to the house of one of the defendants, said the charge sheet. Jihad Hassan was arrested while attempting to sell mercury to an unnamed buyer. The rest of the group was arrested shortly afterwards before allegedly being able to sell any of the substance, according to the charge sheet.
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The gentlemen were messing with mercury? Mad Hatter's Disease coming up!
(KUNA) -- The Israeli army aborted Sunday an operation that was planned to be carried out by Palestinian groups within Israel, Radio Israel claimed. The radio indicated that the army arrested a Palestinian from Nablus at a military checkpoint with four kilograms of explosions in his possession. The radio also claimed that the Palestinian removed his explosive belt after the army was suspicious of him.
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Interrogate the gentleman, then, after all the valuable intelligence is obtained, if any, reattach aforementioned explosive belt to his person in an open field, and set him off, like any unexploded ordinance.
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AP - I assume you wanted him to be read his Miranda rights, first, no?
How about a single bullet, and use the explosives for something constructive?
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Palestinians/Lebanese reported. Israel claimed.
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Bobby---Maybe they can get some of his colleagues around him and they can sing Kumbayah while the belt goes off. Just an idea.
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I would consider that 'constructive'.
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Miranda for splodydopes;
You have the right to remain intact.
Anything that can be found which was once a part of you will be used to prove that you did not remain intact.
If intact, you have the right to an atorney.
If you can't afford an atorney, you have one phone call. If you can't afford a phone call, press one now.
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Guess I'm on a short fuse today because I say send him back into his own neighborhood on a crowded market day and detonate the charge there. Sauce for the gander and all that. Give these Palestinian morons a first-hand understanding of what they're breeding up in their midst.
(KUNA) -- A 23-year-old Alquds brigades memebr, Rashid Al-Amri, Sunday died of wounds caused by Israeli bullets, said medical sources. Eyewitnesses told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that Israeli forces surrounded a house in Silat Al-Harthiya and demanded its residents to evacuate it. The Israeli forces then opened heavy fire on the house, killing al-Amri, added the eyewitnesses.
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RAMALLAH, Aug 6 (KUNA) -- A 23-year-old Alquds brigades memebr, Rashid Al-Amri, Sunday died of wounds caused by Israeli bullets, said medical sources.
(KUNA) -- An envelope containing suspicious white powder was received at the Palestinian Ministerial Council Monday and sent a security officer to hospital in 'critical condition,' council employees told KUNA. The envelope was addressed to Deputy Prime Minister Naseredeen El-Shaer but appeared suspicious to security staff. Upon opening the envelope and inhaling the powder inside, five of the workers fainted and one is now in hospital in critical condition. A worker identified the victim as head of the security crew.
Palestinian security authority teams rushed to the scene and vacated the building and an investigation is already underway. Sappers are also combing the building in fear of explosive devices or other suspicious items somewhere inside. It was not apparent yet whether El-Shaer, who has been man-hunted by Israel since last June 25th, was in the building at the time of the incident. Security teams are banning the press and everybody else from entry to the building.
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Candygram
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If the press is banned, why aren't they livid about being denied access? Without their valiant efforts, how do we know this is not another set-up? Don't the press have noses?
Mebbe they gotta cold.
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Infidel Dr. Stephen Hatfill, obvious Joooooooo sympathizer, is a person of interest, the FBI confirmed
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Beat me to it, Frank. Good 'un.
Speaking of which, maybe America needs to start its own mass mailing campaign.
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Upon opening the envelope and inhaling the powder inside, five of the workers fainted and one is now in hospital in critical condition. A worker identified the victim as head of the security crew.
Hey, what is this stuff? Smell this. Whaddya think it is? Pass it over to him. Whadda you think it is?
DENPASAR, Indonesia - Indonesian prosecutors on Tuesday sought jail terms of up to 15 years to four militants accused of involvement in the 2005 Bali bombings.
The four have been on trial under anti-terrorism laws since May over various roles in the Oct. 1, 2005 suicide blasts that ripped through three restaurants on the resort island, killing 20 people.
The highest demand—a 15-year jail term—was sought for Muhammad Cholily, who prosecutors said had close links with Azahari Husin and Noordin Top, leading figures in the al Qaeda-linked Southeast Asian network Jemaah Islamiah, blamed for various bombings in Indonesia. “Cholily was directly involved in the Bali bombings. His role is very big because the defendant made the bombs with Azahari. The bombs were later transported by Noordin Top,” prosecutor Suhadi told reporters after the trial session in a district court.
In separate trials, prosecutors asked the Denpasar court to punish the other three, including Anif Solchanuddin who is accused of delivering bombs to Top, with 10 years in jail each. Under Indonesian law, sentencing demands from the prosecution serve as strong advice, but judges could also punish defendants with harsher sentences. That means all four could still receive the death sentence, the maximum penalty for their charges, if convicted.
Jemaah Islamiah is also blamed by police for another terror strike in Bali, the 2002 nightclub bombings that killed 202 people, mostly foreigners, partying on the tourist island.
Azahari, who often travelled with Top, was killed last year during a shoot-out near the East Java city of Malang. In a late April raid, Indonesian police killed two militant suspects at TopÂ’s suspected hideout in the Central Java town of Wonosobo, but failed to capture him.
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Maybe they will get 2 years in the can, like their partners.
At least two people, one of them a three-year-old boy, have been killed by a car bomb in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo, police and witnesses say. The bomb went off near a girls' school in a residential area of the city. A Tamil government minister opposed to the Tamil Tigers told the BBC the target was one of his party colleagues. The blast comes as the Tigers and military continue heavy fighting in the Trincomalee district in the north-east of the island.
Douglas Devananda, the leader of the Eelam People's Democratic Party (EPDP) which opposes the Tamil Tigers' armed separatist campaign told the BBC that the target was his colleague S Sivathasan. Police say the bomb was attached to the van that Mr Sivathasan was travelling in.
I'd say that was a clue
Mr Devananda told the BBC's Sinhala service that Mr Sivathasan was in intensive care in a Colombo hospital but that his life was not in danger. The grandfather of the boy killed in the blast said: "The child is three-years-old. His mother is working as a maid here. We were going home after work when it exploded," Reuters reports. A number of other people were injured in the blast. Last month, Mr Devananda's press aide was shot dead by gunmen in Colombo.
Meanwhile a French relief agency, Action Against Hunger, says two more of its workers have been found dead in the town of Muttur in Trincomalee district. On Sunday, 15 aid workers were found dead in their compound lying face down and shot at close range. There has been widespread international outrage at the killings, which came as government and rebel forces fought over a water dispute. Both sides have accused each other of the killing of the aid workers.
The two new bodies were found in a car - they had apparently been killed while trying to flee the scene of the attack on the aid group's compound. Action Against Hunger has suspended all its work in the area and says it is waiting for the results of a post mortem. The Sri Lankan government has promised an independent investigation into the killings of the workers - 13 men and four women.
Journalists have not been able to get into Muttur. Reports from those residents who have not fled the town speak of rotting bodies in the streets. Some also say that the Tigers have blindfolded some civilians and taken them away for questioning.
On Tuesday the military said suspected Tamil Tiger rebels had ambushed a government patrol near an air force base in the north-east, killing one person and injuring two others. More than 800 people are estimated to have been killed in Sri Lanka in low-level fighting in recent months. Despite the upsurge in fighting both sides still say they are acting defensively and therefore complying with the conditions of a 2002 ceasefire.
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An Indonesian Muslim group announced Tuesday that it had sent 20 of its members to Lebanon in order to join the Jihad against the Jewish state. The claim, made by the Islamic Defenders Front, was reported by the Associated Press, which warned that it had not been verified.
Spokesman Soleh Mahmud said the 20 men left Indonesia five days ago and are now undergoing training in Lebanon under the supervision of Hizbullah. "They are ready to die to defend Muslims," Mahmud said.
(KUNA) -- Israeli warplanes struck on Monday the coastal town of Al-Ghazia located just south of the port city of Sidon killing 15 people, a security source said. The source said the aircraft carried out three raids targeting residential districts in the town, killing 15 people and wounding 18 others. The strikes devastated three apartment buildings and 15 residences, the source said, adding that rescuers were facing enormous difficulties in trying to remove rubble and pull out victims trapped underneath.
Earlier today, the assaulting jet fighters struck a residential building in the beachfront town of Al-Ghassania, farther to the south, killing a whole seven-member family.
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Only 20 ? Any respectable bombing run should have produced 100 times as many ? Surely this is a joke.
(KUNA) -- Israeli warplanes Monday bombed the southern suburb of Beirut hours after Arab foreign ministers ended an urgent meeting in the Lebanese capital, a security source said. The source told KUNA the Israeli jet fighters unleashed two missiles at the southern suburb and a huge explosion could be heard around the capital. No casualties were reported so far.
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Two missiles is front-page news?
How many did the Hezbos fire at civilians?
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No casualties were reported so far
Them bastid Jews bomb us, and them bastid Blogers won't let us lie about civilian casualties!
THE southern Lebanese port city of Tyre was completely cut off from the rest of the country by Israeli bombardments today, witnesses and police said to AFP. Israeli jets destroyed a makeshift bridge in Qasimiya, north of Tyre, and the military continued to bombard the road leading out of the city to the south, they said.
UN force spokesman Milos Strugar said "the provisional bridge north of Tyre, over the Litani river, and which connects the city to Sidon (further north) has been cut" by the bombing. He said traffic was also blocked from the south by intense shelling on the road leading to the coastal town of Naqura. The makeshift bridge in Qasimiya had been erected after Israeli warplanes destroyed two weeks ago the two bridges in the area which lead to Tyre.
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In the same province, fierce battle between Taliban fighters and Afghan security forces left at least 10 insurgents dead, claimed the Afghan government on Sunday. Provincial government's spokesman Mohyuddin Khan told journalists their forces clashed with Taliban as the latter attacked their convoy in the Garamser district last night. He said the fighting continued for several hours which resulted in killing of 10 attackers. Five others were arrested while rest of their colleagues managed to escape taking advantage of the dark. Khan said the Afghan army and police were supported by British forces in the battle. Taliban did not issue any statement on the fresh government's claim. Both Afghan officials and Taliban issue conflicting statements about losses and casualties to their opponents.
RABAT, Morocco (AP) - Moroccan security services have arrested 44 suspected terrorists and dismantled a network allegedly planning attacks in the North African country, the state news agency reported Monday. 
Eleven Egyptian students who arrived in the United States last month are being sought by authorities after failing to turn up for an exchange program at Montana State University. The Egyptian men were among a group of 17 students who arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York from Cairo on July 29 with valid visas, according to U.S. authorities and university officials. 
A computer technician was sentenced to a year in prison for trying to ship to Iran more than 100 pressure sensors that could be used as components in explosive devices. Mohammad Fazeli, 27, pleaded guilty in May to one count of violating a US embargo prohibiting trade with Iran. Under a plea agreement, prosecutors agreed to drop one count each of conspiracy and making false statements. 
Seven people have been killed in continuing separatist violence in Indian Kashmir, but Islamic rebels freed three civilians held hostage during a standoff with the army, Indian police said on Monday.
QUETTA: Baloch insurgents on Monday claimed to have killed nine security personnel and injured 12 following clashes in Dera Bugti. Wadera Alam Khan, a spokesman for the Baloch insurgents, told reporters via satellite phone that violence had escalated on Monday after a brief break. "Nine security forces personnel were killed while 12 were seriously wounded," he said, adding that the clash had occurred at Daman in the north of Uchh gas field. "The assault was launched when security forces attacked the hideouts of Baloch fighters. Subsequently, both sides traded fire for many hours," he said.
MIRANSHAH: Suspected tribal militants in North Waziristan have beheaded a man they accused of acting as a "US spy", officials said on Monday. The headless body of the local man was found at Madikhel village, 35 kilometres south of Miranshah, administration officials told Daily Times. A letter found near the body claimed that the man had been executed because he had spied for the United States. The killing represents the first such incident since June 25, when local militants announced a unilateral ceasefire to facilitate the Grand Jirga's "peace mission" to the area.
Al-Sadr has risen to become a major figure in the Shiite community and a pillar of support for al-Maliki. The prime minister's apology and criticism of the U.S. forces may have helped placate al-Sadr, who on Monday urged his followers to show restraint. 
(KUNA) -- A member of Al-Qaeda terrorist organization was killed and 11 others were arrested during a raid on Saturday, the US army on Sunday. In a press release, US army said the raid took place to the north of Baghdad in Al-Taji area that's known for containing a number of elements launching terrorist attacks in central Iraq. Through intelligence efforts, the cell was known for its role in producing bombs and launching attacks against security forces and civilians, added the army.
(KUNA) -- Three Iraqis were killed and a citizen was abducted Monday in unrelated incidents in Kirkuk city in northern Iraq. A police source told KUNA that a bomb planted in a car at the Wahed Huzayran (first of June) area exploded in Kikruk. The explosion resulted in the death of two and the injury of a civilian who was sent to Kirkuk Public Hospital for treatment.
(KUNA) -- Six Iraqis were killed and 20 others were injured Monday during several attacks in Baghdad and Dayali Monday, a police source said. The source in press remarks that six civilians were injured after a booby-trapped car exploded near the southern gate of Al-Mustansirya University. The explosion caused damages to nearby properties, added the source.
(KUNA) -- Two Iraqi police officers were killed on Monday and three were injured among them one civilian when gunmen attacked them in the city of Mosul. An Iraqi police source from Mosul said unknown armed men opened fire at several policemen in the city, killing two, and injuring three others, among them a civilian bystander.
Fighting erupted early on Monday in a Shia militia stronghold of Baghdad, leaving three people dead, while 10 people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up among mourners at a funeral in Saddam Hussein's hometown. A roadside bombing southwest of Baghdad killed three U.S. soldiers late Sunday, the U.S. military said. No further details were released. Seven other people were killed and six bodies were found on Sunday. In Baghdad, sounds of heavy gunfire and explosions rattled the Sadr City district starting about 1 a.m. Monday and persisted for more than an hour. 
The State Security Court (SSC) prosecutor on Monday charged four men with the possession and attempted sale of 39 kilogrammes of an explosive substance, judicial sources said. The four men were identified in the charge sheet as Fadi Abu Fara, Mohammad Yousef, and brothers Jihad and Imad Hassan, both being tried in absentia. The prosecution alleges that the men were found in the possession of 39 kilogrammes of mercury, a substance used in the manufacture of explosives.
(KUNA) -- The Israeli army aborted Sunday an operation that was planned to be carried out by Palestinian groups within Israel, Radio Israel claimed. The radio indicated that the army arrested a Palestinian from Nablus at a military checkpoint with four kilograms of explosions in his possession. The radio also claimed that the Palestinian removed his explosive belt after the army was suspicious of him.
(KUNA) -- Israeli warplanes struck on Monday the coastal town of Al-Ghazia located just south of the port city of Sidon killing 15 people, a security source said. The source said the aircraft carried out three raids targeting residential districts in the town, killing 15 people and wounding 18 others. The strikes devastated three apartment buildings and 15 residences, the source said, adding that rescuers were facing enormous difficulties in trying to remove rubble and pull out victims trapped underneath.
THE southern Lebanese port city of Tyre was completely cut off from the rest of the country by Israeli bombardments today, witnesses and police said to AFP. Israeli jets destroyed a makeshift bridge in Qasimiya, north of Tyre, and the military continued to bombard the road leading out of the city to the south, they said. 
