British troops battling the Taliban are to withdraw from one of the most dangerous areas of Afghanistan after agreeing a secret deal with the local people, the Times reported on Sunday. Over the past two months British soldiers have come under sustained attack defending a remote mud-walled government outpost in the town of Musa Qala in southern Afghanistan. Eight have been killed there.
It has now been agreed the troops will quietly pull out of Musa Qala in return for the Taliban doing the same. The compound is one of four district government offices in the Helmand province that are being guarded by British troops.
Although soldiers on the ground may welcome the agreement, it is likely to raise new questions about troop deployment. The move opposed by Lieutenant-General David Richards, the NATO commander in Afghanistan turned the four remote British bases into what Richards called magnets for the Taliban, the Times reported. The soldiers risk sniper fire and full-scale assaults from experienced Taliban fighters who can then blend into the local population after each attack.
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consider the source,
but still a definate huh? moment. is this 'Paris Peace Accords' jr redux. [to quote Shipman.]
hopefully this is nothin but a sewer-bass floated by Perv & and those fun loving ISI killers.
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As long as it works. If it doesn't work, I would try the USMC.
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PakiWaki Times.
Told the NATO Commander to stuff it, did they? That said, the cousins do occasionaly get some odd notions, in that soft-power fuzzy huggable beret kind of way, but this doesn't smell right.
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My Frink-O-Matic Bullshit Meter is definitely twitching well above the median indicator. All said and done, I really need to upgrade to the Electronic Nose Mark II model so I can (remotely) sniff out this crap even better.
I am with .com I give at least 48 , i would think it would think the reverse... if it was tru., Richards would give the withdraw / ceasfire order Butler would deliver it. For Butler to make the "secret pact" would be a little out of chain of command , no?
Not sure , but sounds like a Paki war reporter with a wrapup due before the Afghan winter
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Was touted - much to my chagrin and disappointment - as cold, hard fact in the British press yesterday. The word is that the Army is reluctant for this to become public for face-saving reasons. This has nothing to do with the efficacy of our troops and all to do with Blair's reluctance to commit more troops for fear of sliding down the polls... Shame.
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It has now been agreed, by whom we don't have the foggiest, the troops will quietly pull out of Musa Qala in return for the Taliban doing the same.......and other special compensations niether implied nor mentioned.
WTF General Rirchards, you no longer engage in foreign internal defense (FID)? No VC for you.
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The British commander said that he was prepared to back a cessation of fighting if they could guarantee that the Taliban would also leave
note the words quoted - he didn't say the British would leave - that's the Paki writer's editorializing
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When the British ruled Afghanistan, they stayed in the big cities and defended the Khyber Pass; peace in the rest of the country was paid for in gold bribes to the warlords.
The rule was simple, if you had both feet on the Khyber Pass, and somebody shot you, the British would massacre the shooters entire village. This made sense to the Afghans, some of whom built rock tunnels so they could safely walk from their homes to the pass.
The trouble began with London bureaucrats decided to cut back on the gold being paid as bribes to the warlords.
Now, this being said, there is some concern that the Brits will start to get ideas from their old history books and screw up the NATO and US game plan because "they think they know better".
There has been a little supposition that the US has been backing away from Afghanistan to make it less of a target for Iran if they and the US get into it. Truth be told, this would be a good strategy, because Afghanistan would take five divisions to defend, and we need those divisions elsewhere.
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Poppy production is the only source of income there and the drug trade tends a blind eye because no one has focused on cutting demand, except the Taliban is also funded by heroin. Sticky wicket, I say.
Algiers, 2 Oct. (AKI) - The alleged leader of a terror cell of the Algerian-based Salafite Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) which has sworn allegiance to al-Qaeda, was killed a few days ago during armed clashes with members of a Mali-based armed group, Arab daily al-Hayat reported on Monday.
Mukhtar al-Mukhtar reportedly died during one of the periodic clashes between militants who use as their base a desertic area on the Algeria-Mali border...
Mukhtar al-Mukhtar reportedly died during one of the periodic clashes between militants who use as their base a desertic area on the Algeria-Mali border to train members and smuggle weapons.
"This here desert ain't big enough fur the two of us, Mukhtar! Go fur yer guns!"
The paper quotes as a source the alleged leader of militants in Mali, Hasan Faghagha who said the GSPC member, whose nom de guerre reportedly was Khaled Abu Abbas, was killed in Malian territory.
Mali Tuaregs say Algerian militant killed in clash
Former Tuareg rebels in Mali clashed with members of an Islamic militant group near the Algerian border last month and killed one of its leaders, a Tuareg spokesman said on Sunday. He told Reuters by telephone the gunbattle between Tuareg fighters and militants of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), an Algerian rebel movement which has pledged allegiance to al Qaeda, took place on September 19 some 400 km (250 miles) northwest of the Malian desert town of Kidal. "Yes, there was a clash ... the result was that one of the leaders of the GSPC was killed," said Eglasse Ag Idar, spokesman for the Democratic Alliance for Change, which groups Malian Tuareg fighters who staged a revolt in Kidal in May.
He could not name the dead GSPC militant but said he was close to Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a GSPC leader in the Sahara.
Speaking by satellite phone from Mali, Ag Idar said one Tuareg fighter was wounded. He believed other members of the GSPC unit could have been injured in the fight. He could not name the dead GSPC militant but said he was close to Mokhtar Belmokhtar, a GSPC leader in the Sahara. In the Malian capital Bamako, a government source who asked not to be named said he believed up to three GSPC fighters may have been killed in the clash but he had no more details.
The source denied that Belmokhtar, so called Khaled Abu El Abbès, was among the group. A number of Kidal Touaregs spotted an active movement of GSPC terrorists on their borders and shot them with bullets.
An element from the Salafiste Group for Preaching and Combat, GSPC, was killed during an armed confrontation with Malian Touaregs tribes on the Malian borders, security sources said. Non confirmed news about the killing of El Moulathamoune brigades chef Mokhtar Belmokhtar during the skirmishes engaged between both parties last Tuesday, the sources denied.
The security source told El Khabar the confrontation has ended by the killing of the element of a Group which was wandering in the Sahara. The killed person is one of the soldiers of the Fifth Region (East), who was a member of a group which was looking for arms in the Sahara at the rebel tribes of the African Sahel.. The source denied that Belmokhtar, so called Khaled Abu El Abbès, among the group which confronted the elements of the Democratic Alliance for Change. The source added that the information we obtained from the confrontation field say that a number of Kidal Touaregs spotted an active movement of GSPC terrorists on their borders and shot them with bullets.
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SANAA - Yemeni security forces on Sunday killed the alleged mastermind of the bombing of the French oil tanker Limburg in 2002 and a second suspected Al Qaeda fugitive, both of whom who broke out of jail earlier this year, a security official said. Fawaz Al Rabihi, who was convicted of plotting the 2002 bombing of the French supertanker Limburg, was killed in a shootout with security forces in a suburb of Sanaa, where he was hiding in a house, the official told AFP.
Security forces also killed Mohammed Dailami, another suspected Al Qaeda operative who was sentenced to five years in prison in 2004 for his role in a number of plots including an attempted attack in 2002 against a US Hunt helicopter, the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. Dailami was hiding in the same house as Rabihi, the official added.
Mind if we see the severed heads?
The two were among 23 Al Qaeda suspects who walkeddugtunneledstrolled broke out of their detention facility in Sanaa in February 2006.
They were the ones who tunneled their way to the mosque.
Rabihi was sentenced to death in 2004 for his role in the attack on the French tanker, which killed a crewmember and injured 12, but broke out of prison with 22 other suspected Al Qaeda members in February.
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Milan, 2 Oct. (AKI) - The Italian police said on Monday that they have identified and dismantled a suspected terrorist cell. The group, made up mainly of Algerians, has been accused of "financing and logistically supporting Islamic terrorism responsible for masscares in Algeria". The exact number of people detained is unclear as the arrests are ongoing. The operation, known as Touareg, was carried out in an area of the northern city of Milan in the early hours of Monday morning and were part of a joint operation with Swiss police.
Reports say that a press conference is scheduled later on Monday to give more details about the arrests.
Milan, 2 Oct. (AKI) - Italian police on Monday issued six arrest warrants - three of which were served - and announced they had dismantled a terrorist cell suspected of having financed two terror attacks near Algiers last year in which 20 people died. The group, made up mainly of Algerians, was allegedly close to the Salafite Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), which has recently sworn allegiance to al-Qaeda, and to the Armed Islamic Group (GIA).
One of the suspected militants is Mejri Afif, a Tunisian, who was arrested in Switzerland while Ahmed Nacer and El Heit Ali were already in jail on different charges. The other three suspects are reportedly still at large.
The cell had allegedly funded the Algerian militant groups through shops in Italy, raising a reported 2 million euros in three years. It was reportedly led by Djamel Lounici, a former member of the now dissolved Algerian Islamic Salvation Front, arrested last year on arm trafficking charges. The militants reportedly operated in the northern Lombardy and Liguria regions and in Campania, in southern Italy, as well as in Switzerland, Spain and the Netherlands.
In July, police arrested four suspected members of GSPC who were allegedly preparing terrorist operations in Algeria and in Iraq.
The GSPC, Algeria's largest outlawed militant group, has been operating since 1996. Earlier this year, it rejected an amnesty offered by Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika aimed at ending years of bloodshed during which a reported 200,000 people have died. The GSPC grew out of another of Algeria's leading militant groups, GIA, held responsible for the nail bomb attack on a Paris metro in 1995 as well as many attacks on civilian and military targets in Algeria. In contrast to the GIA, the GSPC reportedly gained popular support by vowing to avoid civilian targets inside Algeria - a promise it has not kept.
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Poor Djamel Lounici. One can only hope he doesn't speak English amongst his other obvious talents... else he would eventually notice that his name phoneticizes to either "lunacy" or "loon ici" (I'm a loon, if one is willing to butcher the name bilingually). ;-)
PATNA: A Bihar jail is ready to provide the right rope to hang Mohammed Afzal, who has been sentenced to death for the 2001 terror attack on Parliament.
The Buxar Central Jail, 100 km from Patna, has a history of providing the special Manila ropes spun in the jail premises to hang convicts. The rope costs Rs 180 a kilo. We are ready to send the rope if a demand is made, a jail official said.
Afzal, a Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist, has been sentenced to hang on October 20 at the Tihar Jail in New Delhi. But protests are gathering momentum in Jammu and Kashmir against his hanging and he can seek clemency from President APJ Abdul Kalam.
When Dhananjay Chatterjee, accused of raping and killing a 14-year-old, was hanged at the Alipore jail in Kolkata in 2004, the rope was supplied by Buxar Jail.
There are varieties of ropes made by Buxar inmates - tent rope, handcuff rope and hanging rope. The count of the yarn indicates its finesse.
A lot of hard work goes into the making of the Manila rope. First the yarn is spun into a thick thread from J-34 variety of cotton. Then the thread is smoothened by soft wax. While making the rope it is important to ensure there are no knots in the thread, the official added.
According to the jail records, the rope was supplied to the Andhra Pradesh government in 2003. A consignment was also sent in 1995 to the Bhagalpur Central Jail where a dozen convicts who are sentenced to death are lodged. The demand for the hanging rope has decreased over the years as the number of cases of hanging has reduced, jail superintendent I H Ansari said.
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Acting on behalf of the International Islamic Front (IIF) for Jihad Against the Crusaders and the Jewish People, which is headed by Osama bin Laden, the Markaz-ud-Dawa (MUD) of Pakistan, which is the political wing of the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET), is reported to have issued a Fatwa calling upon the Muslims to kill Pope Benedict XVI for a recent speech of his delivered on September 12,2006, which has been projected as anti-Islam by Al Qaeda and other jihadi terrorist organisations of the world.
2. The issue of the MUD fatwa came a few days before the latest video message of Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's No.2, in which he has made a severe attack on the Pope.
3. A report on the the MUD Fatwa to kill the Pope has been carried by the Pakistani journal "Ausaf" in its issue dated September 18,2006. It has reported as follows:
"Pakistan's Jamaat-ud-Dawa has issued a Fatwa asking the Muslim community to kill Pope Benedict for his blasphemous statement about Prophet Mohammad. The Jamaat-ud-Dawa has declared death to Pope Benedict and said that in today's world blasphemy of the Holy Koran and the Prophet has become a fashion. The leaders of the Jamaat were speaking at a Martyrs' Islamic Conference in Karachi. Prominent Jamaat leader Hafiz Saifullah Khalid said that in the present circumstances, jehad has become obligatory for each Muslim. Muslims are being declared terrorists and our battle for survival has already started. The Muslim world has rejected the Pope's apology and decided to continue protests and demonstrations in big cities. The Pope's apology is just a drama and no political leader has any power to pardon him. It is part of a crusade initiated by the US in the name of terrorism. Instead of accepting fake apologies, Muslims should realise Europe's enemity towards Islam and Muslim Ummah should prepare itself to defend its faith. Jamaat-ud-Dawa leader Hafiz Abdur Rahman Makki said the West and Europe have started a campaign against the Holy Koran and the Prophet and have abused jehad. We should take appropriate steps to deal with the champions of crusade. It is time for Muslim leaders to open their eyes and understand that the West had never been a friend of the Muslims and will never be so."
4. In his video message disseminated through the Internet on September 29,2006, Zawahiri called Pope Benedict XVI a "charlatan" and stated that the Pope "accused Islam of being incompatible with rationality while forgetting that his own Christianity is unacceptable to a sensible mind."
5.The LET has secret cells in the UK and France, but there is no confirmed information of any LET activity in Italy so far. It is likely that the task of executing this Fatwa might be entrusted to one of its cells in the UK or France.
6. The US State Department categorises the JUD as well as the LET as terrorist organisations. President General Pervez Musharraf has rejected the US categorisation of the JUD as a terrorist organisation. He treats it as an Islamic charity organisation, which, according to him, has been doing humanitarian relief work in Pakistan and he asserts that it has nothing to do with the LET. The media had recently reported that a move in the UN Security Council to order the freezing of the accounts of the JUD under the Security Council Resolution No.1373 failed because of Chinese opposition. According to the media, China supported Pakistan's contention that the JUD is not a terrorist organisation. The Security Council acts as the Monitoring Committee for monitoring the implementation of the UNSC Resolution No.1373. The JUD issue has come up before it in its capacity as the Monitoring Committee.
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So they are going to kill the Pope because he suggested Islam is inherently a violent religion. In Arabic, the word for 'irony' must be a synonym for metallic.
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I posted on this subject a few weeks back when I first started reading about muzzie death threats against the Pope. I'm going to post again.
In 1981 a turkish muzzie attempted to murder JPII. That muzzie (and all his muzzie brethern) got a pass because the attempted murder was traced to the behest of the Bulgarian Commie Party with orders from Moscow.
That was 1981. This is post 2001. If a satellite fell out of the sky and killed the Pope; if the Pope tripped on the root of a tree while walking in the park and injured himself; if a train on the other side of town derailed and the Pope heard the news of same causing him a heart attack; if the Pope so much as catches a severe cold: all bets are off. Muzzies around the world will reap the whirwind, including here in the USA. CAIR is always claiming muzzies are the victims of unprovoked hate crimes. CAIR has seen nothing yet. By way of reminder, Catholics invented medevil.
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if the Pope so much as catches a severe cold: all bets are off. Muzzies around the world will reap the whirwind, including here in the USA
BS.
Absolutely nothing would happen except for calls for "understanding" and "tolerance" -- of the Muslim rage.
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Acting on behalf of the International Islamic Front (IIF) for Jihad Against the Crusaders and the Jewish People
Don't bet on it. You don't know who they've pissed off now, but you shoudl know that there are a lot of people that you would not want pissed at you or your country or your religion.
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This war on terrorism has been always a religious war. The MSM and the secular govmints have chosen to downplay this at all times. This is an open declaration of war. No less. If Islam even tries to follow thru with this Christians will remove the gloves.
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Count this Fundamentalist Baptist in for defending the Pope. Jeebus, this is beyond the pale and the irony of it all fails to show itself to the muzzies, doesn't it?
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Salman Rushdie is still alive and kicking. Fatwas aren't a big deal -- the Muzzies already hate everybody anyway. Even each other. It's the way of the Death Cult.
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If they did actually kill the Pope it would be beyond ugly. If they think the Crusades sucked just wait until they see the bulk of the Christian faith decide to defend themselves.
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A letter found when al-Qaeda's chief in Iraq was killed said the group's leadership was based in Waziristan, Pakistan, the Washington Post reports.
The December 2005 missive is said to be the first to emerge from what the US military calls a "treasure trove" after Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's death in June.
It was reportedly sent by a member of Osama Bin Laden's high command, who said he wrote from Waziristan.
That's about where we thought they were.
Bin Laden is suspected of hiding along the Afghan-Pakistani border. If accurate, the letter would confirm the location of the al-Qaeda leadership at the time it was written, the newspaper said.
The missive was uncovered from Iraqi safe houses at the time of Zarqawi's death in a US air strike, according to the Washington Post. A 15-page English translation of the Arabic document was released last week by a US military counter-terrorism centre, the paper reported.
The author said he was writing from al-Qaeda headquarters in the restive border region, where Taleban and al-Qaeda fugitives have been active. The paper said the letter was signed by "Atiyah," whom counter-terrorism officials believe is Atiyah Abd al Rahman, a 37-year-old Libyan who joined Bin Laden during the 1980s. "I am with them," the letter says. "And they have some comments about some of your circumstances."
The letter described the difficulty of direct communications between Waziristan and Iraq, and suggested it was easier for Zarqawi to send a representative to Pakistan than the other way around, the Washington Post reported. It also warned Zarqawi that he risked removal as the leader in Iraq if he continued to alienate Sunni leaders and rival insurgent groups, the paper said.
He did and he was. "Removed" from the living, that is.
The "brothers wish that they had a way to talk to you and advise you, and to guide and instruct you; however, they too are occupied with vicious enemies here," Atiyah reportedly wrote. "They are also weak. And we ask God that He strengthen them and mend their fractures."
Counter-terrorism officials reportedly deemed the document authentic.
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Master of obvious sign should be used for this article.
Everybody knows Taliban and Al Qaeda are operating with the protection of the dreaded ISI
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Binny's latest videos show Taliban garbed soldiers guarding an al-Qaeda compound. Taliban/al-Qaeda have been integrated since 1996. When Mushy recognized Taliban/al-Qaeda governance in Waziristan, he reconstituted the Afghan terror base on Pakistan soil. He should not have received the kiss-butt media coverage on his recent US trip.
Pakistan-America websites claim 600,000 Pakis live in the US. Most of them are Punjabi oppressors, as in Mushy. By indulging creation of a new al-Qaeda base, another 9-11 catastrophe is probable.
Check out your local Paki run Muslim Students Association. Media infiltrations - government agents leave them alone - of the MSA reveal terror advocacy.
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600,000 Pakis live in the US. Most of them are Punjabi oppressors, as in Mushy.
An interesting perspective. May I ask your connection, Snease Shaiting3550? I quite agree with your assessment of the MSAs -- not necessarily all the members, but certainly the noisy ones and the leadership.
CHAMAN: A bomb blast set an oil tanker ablaze at a Pakistani border crossing, slightly injuring the driver as he attempted to deliver fuel for US forces in Afghanistan, a security official said on Sunday. The official said the explosion ripped through the truck while it was parked at the Pakistani border town of Chaman. Driver Mohammed Rasul received slight injuries to his head and one hand. The truck was heading to a US military base in the main southern Afghan city of Kandahar, a former Taliban stronghold.
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QUETTA: Police arrested nine Taliban suspects in a raid on a private hospital here on Sunday. Sources said that the raid was conducted on Al-Khidmat Hospital on a tip off. Six of the arrested Taliban were injured in a fight in Afghanistan and were under treatment at the hospital, while three others were there to look after the injured. They were taken to an undisclosed location for investigation.
The militants arrested on Sunday will be brought before a court to decide whether to repatriate them or jail them in Pakistan, Balochistan Police chief Chaudhry Muhammad Yaqoob said. Last month, more than 40 other Taliban fighters, including two senior commanders, were arrested from hospitals in Quetta where they were undergoing treatment for their wounds, police said. Yaqoob said on Sunday that 21 of those who were captured last month have returned home after they were handed over to Afghan authorities.
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Just goes to show that there is NO Taliban in Quetta!!!
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And what about the doctors who treated these terrorists, were they ignored?
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Excuse me, I'm a bit dull this afternoon, of course they were ignored, they're left as bait for the next batch of wounded.
And probably can't even sneeze without a three page report sent in on how, which direction the snot went, and did he wipe with his hand, a towel, tissue, or just his sleeve.
Bait, this can work both ways, either we capture more wounded, or they avoid these particular doctors, have to recruit more, or just suffer and die (Hopefuly in great pain)
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Suspected Islamic militants fired rockets at a military base in South Waziristan early on Sunday, but nobody was injured, said officials. Three rockets, launched in a pre-dawn attack, slammed into a field inside the base in Wana, the main town of South Waziristan, said a government official and an intelligence agent in the area. Troops retaliated with small weapons fire in the direction from which the rockets were launched. It was unknown if the assailants had suffered any casualties, said the intelligence official. The sprawling base in Wana is home to thousands of army and paramilitary troops, and also houses offices of civilian government security officials in the area. No one claimed responsibility for the attack.
Meanwhile on Sunday, an Uzbek national's body was found in South Waziristan. The man had been strangled to death, and it is believed that he was Uzbek commander Jaffar Asad's son, who has been missing since Saturday. Asad is thought to be hiding in Wana.
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Suspected Islamic militants
They were suspected of being Islamic? In Waziristan? I suppose the local Presbyterians could be acting up.
Or were they suspected of being militants? The rocket firing might provide a clue. Hmmm.
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Violence in Waziristan? Didn't they just sign a peace treaty or something? Or was that North Waziristan?
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ), a banned sectarian militant group, has started a recruitment drive and is forming new cells at the district and provincial levels, Daily Times has learnt. Intelligence agencies have reported to the Interior Ministry that notorious terrorist Matiur Rehman had been tasked with reorganising Lashkar cells, sources told Daily Times.
Rehman is believed to have links with Al Qaeda and is one of the prime suspects in the London airline plot. He is also believed to have been involved in the murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl, the multiple assassination plots on President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, and the attack on the US Consulate in Karachi in March 2006. The report added that drug money from the Taliban was being used to fund the recruitment drive and reorganisation.
Abdullah Faryad, the LJ president in Ditta Khel, has been told to help Rehman reorganise the cells, said the intelligence report. Sheikh Ahmed Saleem, an Arab member of Al Qaeda, has given money to Qari Idrees, an LJ activist based in Sahiwal, to recruit militants for the new cells, the report said. Abu Khabaib, an Arab explosives expert who had been spotted several times in the hills of Chitral, is helping Saleem find new recruits, the report said.
Abdul Wahab Rashad, wanted for killing over 10 Shias in Shah Najaf Mosque, Rawalpindi, is also helping reorganise the LJ, said the intelligence report. Rashad was a close associate of Riaz Basra, a founding member of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi who was killed in 2002.
Nasimul Haq and Salahuddin from Quetta, Muavia from Hangu, Shoaib Khan and Usman Ghani from Hyderabad, and Jamil Khan from Karachi are also involved in the recruitment and reorganisation, according to the report. The Interior Ministry has asked the home secretaries and the Islamabad chief commissioner to use all possible resources to foil the LJ attempt to recruit new members, the sources said. They added that the police had been asked to form raiding parties to track down the LJ activists.
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The more the merrier. Happy hunting you deer hunters - No Tags. Go to town. You are big house materiel anyways. :)
EL CENTRO, Calif. - After a bomb exploded beneath his tank last month in Iraq, Army Sgt. Luis Montes was able to climb free but rushed back to help two fellow soldiers trapped inside. Struggling to pull his men from wreckage, Montes was burned over more than half his body.
He was flown to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio. There, in the presence of his family, he was removed from life support and died Sept. 7. He was 22.
At the hospital, another soldier who witnessed the Sept. 1 explosion west of Baghdad in Abu Ghraib told Montes' mother of watching him on fire and yet returning for the other soldiers. "He didn't want to go up in the helicopter until he knew his men were all right," his mother, Marisela, told the Los Angeles Times.
The other two soldiers survived. One lost a leg and the other was burned over 20 percent of his body, Marisela said.
Montes was born in Mexicali, Mexico and grew up in El Centro. As a teenager at Southwest High School, Montes played on the soccer team and at one point planned to attend technical school in Phoenix. After graduation, however, he decided to enlist, and finished boot camp in mid-2003.
Montes was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division at Ft. Hood, Texas. There, he quickly went through the ranks and was promoted sergeant. He later applied for, and received, U.S. citizenship. Last year he reenlisted for a three-year stint and was sent to Iraq in December.
His mother said when he came back in July on furlough, Montes talked about his desire to buy a house and maybe join the city police department or U.S. Border Patrol.
Montes was buried Sept. 16 in El Centro. The Army awarded him a Purple Heart and Bronze Star, and gave them to his mother.
I don't know all the rules, but geez, he sounds like a DSC to me. On fire and going back to get others out of the tank? Rest in peace, Sargaent, you're a hero to all of us.
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Seems like he should've received a higher award than a certain Senator who ran down an injured guy and finished him off...
And that was .... a Silver Star, right?
I was thinking the CMH - you can't hardly get more "above and beyond the call of duty" than he did. See John 15:13.
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*Much* more selfless and heroic than being brainwashed for weeks, and strapping an explosive belt to blow up oneself in a kiddie pizzeria to finally get laid with 72 sluts... yet, the americans are the effeminated and decadent westerners who can't fight without overhelming firepower, and the Lions of Islam(Tm) are the brave desert warriors who love death more than we love life... if we believe the narratives.
Go figure.
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This guy personifies the difference between us and them. A taliwhacker will fire on coalition troops and then run into a crowd of schoolchildren to cover his escape. This guy pulls his unders from an exploded tank to get them to the ambulance all the while on fire.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2006 The battle for Ramadi has "tipped" in favor of the government of Iraq and the coalition, the commander of 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, said today.
Army Col. Sean MacFarland told the Pentagon press corps in a video teleconference call that attacks are down 25 percent over the past couple of months, and coalition forces, together with the Iraqi security forces, have steadily increased their presence inside of the city.
Ramadi, the capital and largest city in Anbar province, has been an al Qaeda in Iraq and Sunni insurgent hotbed. But now the tide seems to have turned, MacFarland said. The Iraqi police recruiting has soared tenfold, and the Iraqi army readiness has improved to the point where Iraqi army battalions are now assuming the lead in portions of the city and its suburbs, he said.
Coalition-sponsored public works projects are bringing improvements in Iraqi quality of life. Water and power projects are moving forward, he said. And by February, we will have more than doubled both basic services.
MacFarland said he is encouraged by the attitude of the people of the city. The people who were fence-sitters in the battle between the Iraqi government and al Qaeda in Iraq are stepping forward and cooperating with Iraqi security forces against al Qaeda, he said.
I think al Qaeda has been pushed up against the ropes by this, and now they're finding themselves trapped between the coalition and (Iraqi security forces) on the one side and the people on the other, the colonel said. Now it's the al Qaeda forces that need to be worried about living in those neighborhoods. They stick out like a sore thumb. Everybody knows who the terrorists are.
Local sheikhs are cooperating with the Iraqi government. Tribal leaders are steering new recruits to the police, and they are becoming more effective. MacFarland said that Iraqi police in Ramadi today intercepted insurgents driving a car loaded with rocket-propelled grenades. The insurgents tried to run away, he said. (The police) chased them, and they killed or captured the entire group.
In another instance, the police intercepted a suicide car bomber before he could detonate the car at an Iraqi police position.
There's still a lot of work to be done, but I'm very encouraged by the direction of events here, he said.
The colonel said the insurgency is beatable in Ramadi, but it will not be coalition forces that do the beating. The instrument of their destruction will be the Iraqi security forces, he said. And that's why we've been working so hard to develop the Iraqi police and the Iraqi army in and around Ramadi, and to that end the acceleration of their readiness has been very heartening.
The aim of U.S. forces in the city is to drive the level of violence in Ramadi down to a level that the Iraqi security forces will be able to manage after the coalitions departure. So I am responsible for setting the conditions for success for the (Iraqi forces), and I think we're making good headway on that, he said.
But MacFarland again stressed the importance of getting the population on the Iraqi governments side. It's got legs; it's moving forward, and it's because success begets success, he said. The people are beginning to recognize that the coalition and the Iraqi security forces mean business, that they're here to stay -- especially on the Iraqi security force side -- and that they have the ability to stay.
At the same time, they've come to recognize that al Qaeda offers them nothing, nothing but death and destruction, and that they are turning away from the al Qaeda fighters and turning toward their own sons who are in the Iraqi security forces.
"Meanwhile, an insurgent website announced that leaders from several clans of the Dulaim tribe met today in Ramadi at an Iftar banquet held at the residence of a tribal leader from the Mahamda clan, known for its strong support for the insurgency. The tribal chiefs decided to excommunicate and shed the blood of tribal leaders who had pledged to fight Al-Qaeda fighters in Anbar during meetings with PM Nuri Al-Maliki and American military commanders at Baghdad.
The tribal leaders are: Sheikh Sattar Bizai Al-Fitaikhan, leader of the Al-Bu Risha clan; Sheikh Hameed Farhan, of the Al-Bu Dhiyab clan; Sheikh Amer Ali Al-Salman, of the Al-Bu Assaf clan; and Sheikh Khalaf Al-Tarmouz, of the Al-Bu Ghanim clan. All are influential leaders of the Dulaim tribe.
An ultimatum was sent to their family members to disavow them within three days. Their clan members will meet to elect new leaders at a forthcoming meeting in an undisclosed location at Ramadi.
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Well, it's not over yet, and the resilient and adaptable freedom fighters are fully engaged in disrupting the Bushian hegemony and the fighters are multiplying like rabbits due to the US presence in Iraq (see April 2006 NIE) and still could overwhelm the inadequate numbers of poorly-trained-and-controlled US troops, bogged down with Abu Ghraib and underwear and civilian casualties.
And look how long it's taken, compared to the original liberal forcasts of how long it should have taken if they were in charge with The (secret) Plan™. Why it's a failed-President-since-he-was-Governor and a failed not-quite-a-plan-from-the-beginning Rovian Plot.
Elect a Democrat in 2008 and we will have "Peace With Honor In Our Time™".
/moonbeams
Oops. Did I say 2008? Freudian slip!
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the resilient and adaptable freedom fighters are fully engaged in disrupting the Bushian hegemony
Hey, what does the New York Times have to do with this?
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Well, Matt, somebody has to counterweight the military Goebellian feel-good-speak with good-facts.
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Many Shia joined the Iraqi military to get equipment and training. The cynic in me reads this report and thinks perhaps the Sunni wanted some equipment and training as well for the eventual Rwanda to come.
I hope not mind you, but the Arabs seem to defy my Western Logic on what is in their best interests nearly every time so its hard to be hopeful.
IRAQS ARMY ASSUMES CONTROL OF FORCES NEAR FALLUJAH
NASSER WA SALAAM, Iraq Iraqs army took a leap forward toward greater independent responsibility Oct. 1 when the 1st Iraqi Army Division assumed operational control of another brigade.
Marines and soldiers of Regimental Combat Team 5, based in Fallujah, turned over operational control of Iraqi soldiers assigned to 4th Brigade to the 1st Iraqi Army Division in a ceremony marking the transfer of authority. Iraqi soldiers serving in the brigade operate in joint and independent battlespaces ranging from this small city west of Abu Ghraib to regions north of Fallujah.
On behalf of the 5,000 Marines, sailors and soldiers of Regimental Combat Team 5, I want to say how special and important today is, said Col. Larry D. Nicholson, commanding officer of RCT-5.
Nicholson said Iraqi soldiers, or jundi, proved their mettle in the past months by fighting insurgents alongside Marines, sharing in the risks and the victories over terrorism.
Last week, jundi, Marines and police patrolled the streets of Gharmah, he explained. That couldnt have been imagined two years ago. Marines and jundi have fought together, died together and bled together.
Iraqi Army Brig. Gen. Abdullah Abdul Satter Abdul Karem, commander of 4th Brigade, said the transfer from U.S. to Iraqi command was a historic occasion for the brigade, stating his Iraqi soldiers honor the men of our country.
This is an indicator of the level of training of the jundi of 4th Brigade, Abdullah said. We are dedicated to building a free Iraq to defeat terrorism.
Iraqi soldiers from 4th Brigade fought battles in Fallujah, Gharmah and Karbala, he said. They also distributed medical assistance to local residences and assisted in rebuilding Fallujah following the battle in 2004. Additionally, they protected electoral candidates from assassination attempts prior to Iraqs first free elections last year.
Although the relationship has changed, Nicholson said, well continue to look forward to working together to defeat the enemy.
This was the second such ceremony in as many months. In September, Iraqs 1st Division assumed authority over 3rd Brigade, based in Habbaniyah.
A group of American terrorist-hunters that included one of the most senior commanders in Iraq quickly descended on the burned-out rubble that framed the dying body of Abu Musab Zarqawi.
The deadly operative of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, Zarqawi had been the personal quarry of a super-secret task force whose backbone is the Army Delta Force and Navy SEALs of U.S. Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC). Its commander, Army Lt. Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, was so personally involved in the hunt that he went with his men to the bombed-out hut near Baqouba to make sure they got their man.
A source close to the special-operations community said Gen. McChrystal's eyes-on identification is representative of the three-star general's hands-on approach as Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's chief terrorist pursuer in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"He goes on raids. He doesn't sit back at headquarters," said the source, who asked not to be named. A spokesman at U.S. Special Operations Command in Tampa, Fla., declined to comment on the general's operating style.
The West Point graduate's personal commitment to the mission has led some to dub him the first "commander-forward" of JSOC. He spends little time at the command's headquarters at Fort Bragg, N.C. Instead, he shuttles between task forces in Afghanistan and Iraq to personally supervise hundreds of commandos.
Gen. McChrystal's team was so instrumental in finding Zarqawi, and enabling an Air Force F-16 National Guard pilot to kill him in an air strike, that President Bush thanked the general in a phone call to him and Gen. George Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq.
"I haven't spoken to our commanders yet, except to call Gen. Casey and McChrystal and congratulate them, but more importantly, for them to congratulate the troops and the intel groups that were working on finding Zarqawi," Mr. Bush said at a June 10 press conference at Camp David.
The "intel groups" represent part of Gen. McChrystal's domain. He oversees a task force that includes JSOC, as well as a special intelligence group that specializes in intercepting communications and the "Night Stalkers" aviation unit. The group is augmented by intelligence officers, including the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency.
The task force's special intelligence unit cinched the kill. Once Jordanian agents identified Zarqawi's clerical adviser, a frequent visitor to the al Qaeda in Iraq leader, the intelligence unit used special technical means to track his whereabouts. On June 7, the unwitting accomplice ended up on the front door of the terrorist's hide-out. JSOC has used the technical means to track and capture scores of Zarqawi henchmen.
Mr. Rumsfeld takes a personal interest in the assignment of admirals and generals, especially for such a key post as JSOC commander. The defense secretary has made it a priority to bolster special-operations spending and manpower. Shortly after the war on terrorism began, he traveled to Fort Bragg and toured the highly secret training ground of Delta Force. He watched a HALO (high-altitude, low-opening parachute jump), a practice raid and some sharpshooting, and he met Delta recruits.
Gen. McChrystal caught the defense secretary's attention in 2003 when the formertwo-star general was vice director of operations in the Joint Staff, the planning arm of the Joint Chiefs chairman. He conducted nationally televised press briefings at the Pentagon and met frequently with Mr. Rumsfeld and others to map strategy.
At his debut in March 2003, as war kicked off in Iraq, former spokeswoman Victoria Clarke introduced him. "I won't quite say he volunteered, but he's going to help out on the briefings," she said.
After less than a month of fighting, Gen. McChrystal declared from the podium, "I would anticipate that the major combat engagements are over."
Gen. McChrystal long had a special-operations niche: He trained and deployed as an Army Ranger, an elite special-operations force that does the big missions of unconventional warfare.
"There are very few flag-officer movements the secretary doesn't decide," said Larry Di Rita, a former senior aide to Mr. Rumsfeld who worked with Gen. McChrystal. "He tends to invest a lot of time into those decisions, and this one was no different."
He added, "[McChrystal] is well-known in the Army as an exceptional operator and an ability to work in a joint environment, an ability to work at various levels of operational skills. It is those things the secretary tends to look at in these kinds of commands. An ability to communicate. [McChrystal] is a very good communicator."
Special-operations insiders say that when it is time to replace Army Gen. Bryan "Doug" Brown, commander of Special Operations Command, Gen. McChrystal will likely be a finalist, along with Lt. Gen. Dell Dailey, a former JSOC chief.
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Article: "He goes on raids. He doesn't sit back at headquarters," said the source, who asked not to be named.
If the terrorists boast of bagging a general, we'll know who the victim was and why. The day of generals leading from the front went out a long time ago, beginning with the advent of reliable and accurate missile weapons.
Why is my BS meter going off?
Not about the general per se, but the tone and angle of the whole piece. Maybe because its MSM that I'm suspicious.
Is the reporter creating something that is more than what it appears? And if so why?
In the pre-WWII days, the hacks would cover personalities, generals or colonels, and make great story in their reporting. The big man theme. In WWII, the focus shifted from the big man to the average citizen, the GI Joe. It was the time of Ernie Pyle. It was a democracy fighting the institutions of the personality cult. So the whole underlying structure of the approach appears eschewed. Now while reporting from the fronts have been abysmal, every now and then you detect that the trade has short flashes of their shortcoming. Is this some response to provide an upbeat story?
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GG4308: This is the Washington Times, not Post, so I'd imagine they're reporting the "good stuff" from the front lines (or at least 50/50 good/bad ratio), unlike the rest of the MSM.
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He is a great officer and leader. I hear people complaining about him all the time and his up front and in your face style. Makes him an ace in my book. Future SOCOM Commander???
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For whatever its worth--
I am of mixed feelings about having high ranking officers out in the field with me. If this story is true, I'm:
0. glad that they're willing to share the risks,
1. worried by the potential for unconstructive micromanagement,
2. annoyed by the possiblility that they are just out joyriding/glory-hoging/curing a bad case of Power Point Fever.
Still, RHIP, if this story is true. One of the (many) little annoyances that comes with the pay check.
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One of the principle of war is the protection of command. If this two star has a deccent security team and wants to be in the action, this shoudn't be a problem. What really shouldn't have happened is this press release. Now every towel head on the planet will be gunning for this guy.
Two car bombs killed four people in the Iraqi capital on Sunday. A large car bomb exploded in western Baghdad, apparently targeting a US patrol but killing an Iraqi bystander, as a curfew of the capital came to a noisy end, officials said. The were no reports of US casualties but the blast left a building in flames, destroyed several cars and also wounded four people in Baghdads leafy residential neighbourhood of Jamaa, an Iraqi security official said. The explosion came after a period of relative calm due to a citywide curfew between Friday night and Sunday morning, which took cars and pedestrians off the streets and gave Baghdad one of its quietest days in months.
The curfew, which ended at 6:00 am, was imposed due to reports of a plot to attack the heavily fortified Green Zone, the seat of the Iraqi government, with a wave of suicide car bombers.
Three people were killed and eight wounded in central Baghdad when a car exploded in the early afternoon. Security officials said US and Iraqi forces took advantage of the curfew to mount several operations around Baghdad. Residents of Sadr City reported a joint US-Iraqi military operation early on Sunday. The US military said only that specially trained Iraqi army forces conducted an early morning raid today to capture a suspected terrorist involved in the kidnapping and murder of Iraqi civilians in northeast Baghdad.
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(Xinhua) -- Unknown gunmen stormed on Sunday afactory in south western Baghdad and kidnapped 26 workers, a well-informed police source told Xinhua. "Unknown armed men in three cars stormed a food factory in al-Amil neighborhood and kidnapped 26 workers from the factory," the source said on condition of anonymity. The attackers also took away two refrigerator trucks and two modern civilian cars from the factory, he said.
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EIGHT people were killed and the Palestinian cabinet building was set on fire yesterday in the worst outbreak of fighting between the rival Fatah and Hamas groups since the latter was elected to govern. Hamas militiamen's efforts to break up anti-government protests sparked running street battles across the Gaza Strip, and activists from the opposition Fatah group retaliated by torching the cabinet building in Ramallah on the West Bank. The violence dampened already fading hopes of a national unity government being formed by the two groups that could end crippling economic sanctions.
Six killed, 50 injured in this version in the Khaleej Times.
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Somehow I'm having trouble getting real upset about this. I guess they can tell the difference between each side, but I can't.
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The very obvious answer for "unity" might once again be found in division, ie, a North and South Palestine, but then you have the Hamas splinter groups? These I suppose might be subdivided into independend East and West Palestinian Hamasaland, or NE and NW something or other. More US embassies, more consolutes....? More diplo-dink bafoonocrats and aid workers? The US State Dept. and UN are bound to love these retro city-state options. Quite progressive, wouldn't you agree?
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I'm only upset that the MSM needs to give 'em so much coverage for so long but never critically all along. This is the logical and deserved anti-climax they can only reap. Have fun!
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Pretty funny shit, actually. The Paleos / Arabs can't even manage simple stability, and here the MSM woofwoofs are bemoaning that they can't achieve fucking unity.
It's remarkable, but in only 6 years time people, excepting the patriotic residents of the Rachel Corrie fevered swamps, have forgotten that Bush extracted the US from the idiocy of trying to deal with the Paleos, as if their self-determined devolution could be avoided with more Big Hugs and PC-addled Accords. Tanks, Dubya.
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Let them all kill each other, and have Israel take over and clean up what's left. Best solution of a bad lot.
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Officer Krumpky you've done it again,
This boy don't need a job, he needs a year in the pen,
He's not disadvantaged, nor misunderstood,
Deep down inside, HE'S JUST NO GOOD.
Chorus
He's no good, he's no good,
He's no earthly good,
He is definately no darn good
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COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Three Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in a clash with the Sri Lankan navy on a northern islet, the military said on Sunday. The rebels were killed Saturday evening on the island of Kayts, west of the Jaffna peninsula, an official at the Media Center for National Security said on condition of anonymity, citing policy.
On Friday, the navy said it destroyed a rebel boat that attempted to enter a base near the island. The navy searched Kayts on Saturday and four Tiger rebels were killed in an ensuing sea battle, it said. Two bodies were recovered.
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Beirut, 2 Oct. (AKI) - Lebanese regular army units on Monday began deploying in border villages along their country's border with Israel a day after Israeli troops vacated the area in fulfilment of a key condition in the UN-brokered ceasefire that ended a month long war.Hundreds of Lebanese soldiers in armoured troop carriers, trucks and jeeps deployed in the villages of Marwaheen, Ramia, Kfar Kila and Maroun al-Ras. In Marwaheen, villagers lined up the streets and threw rice and flowers at an army convoy. Women ululated and men waved at the soldiers.
But the Lebanese government and militant Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah have questioned Israel's announcement that it has withdrawn all its troops from Lebanon and demanded that Israel stop what they called violations of Lebanon's airspace, sea and land.
Israel withdrew the last of its troops from most of southern Lebanon early Sunday, fulfilling a key condition of the UN cease-fire agreement that ended a month-long war with Hezbollah guerrillas. However, Israel troops continue to hold the Lebanese part of the divided border village of Ghajar, and its planes still patrol Lebanon's airspace.
The United Nation peacekeeping force which has been deployed in southern Lebanon, UNIFIL, said in a statement that it was "in close contact with the IDF to facilitate a speedy withdrawal from the area of Ghajar." The statement also said that peacekeepers are "in the process of confirming" that there are no Israeli troops present in the areas that Israel declared as vacated. It said Lebanese army troops began taking over the area on Monday morning.
It added that after a full Israeli withdrawal, UNIFIL in cooperation with Lebanese army would inspect the entire length of the border to ensure that there are no violations of the blue line border.
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careful, the Lebanese Army might unintentionally be effective
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The most common position is the ankle grab, although others have climed trees or jumped into wells.
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UNIFIL in cooperation with Lebanese army would inspect the entire length of the border to ensure that there are no Joooooooo violations of the blue line border.
Israel withdrew the bulk of its remaining troops from Lebanon after its war with Hezbollah. The pull-out, which did not include part of the eastern village of Rajar, for which security arrangements have still to be negotiated, was confirmed by United Nations' troops, who have been taking up positions in southern Lebanon in support of the country's army, in accordance with UN Security Council resolution 1701. But Dan Halutz, the Israeli army's chief of staff, warned his forces would strike again if Hezbollah sought to rebuild its positions near the border. General Halutz also raised the prospect of a broad ground offensive in Gaza to try to stop Palestinian militants from firing homemade rockets into Israel.
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That was my reaction too, Jack. So I Googled up some images of her and most of the pictures show both eyes. One of those pictures was taken with Alan Ladd and he appears a head taller than Veronica. Now I understand Besoeker's ladder comment. Ladd was himself short.
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British troops battling the Taliban are to withdraw from one of the most dangerous areas of Afghanistan after agreeing a secret deal with the local people, the Times reported on Sunday. Over the past two months British soldiers have come under sustained attack defending a remote mud-walled government outpost in the town of 
Algiers, 2 Oct. (AKI) - The alleged leader of a terror cell of the Algerian-based Salafite Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) which has sworn allegiance to al-Qaeda, was killed a few days ago during armed clashes with members of a Mali-based armed group, Arab daily al-Hayat reported on Monday. 
SANAA - Yemeni security forces on Sunday killed the alleged mastermind of the bombing of the French oil tanker Limburg in 2002 and a second suspected Al Qaeda fugitive, both of whom who broke out of jail earlier this year, a security official said. 
QUETTA: Police arrested nine Taliban suspects in a raid on a private hospital here on Sunday. Sources said that the raid was conducted on Al-Khidmat Hospital on a tip off. Six of the arrested Taliban were injured in a fight in Afghanistan and were under treatment at the hospital, while three others were there to look after the injured. They were taken to an undisclosed location for investigation. 
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Suspected Islamic militants fired rockets at a military base in South Waziristan early on Sunday, but nobody was injured, said officials. Three rockets, launched in a pre-dawn attack, slammed into a field inside the base in Wana, the main town of South Waziristan, said a government official and an intelligence agent in the area. Troops retaliated with small weapons fire in the direction from which the rockets were launched. It was unknown if the assailants had suffered any casualties, said the intelligence official. The sprawling base in Wana is home to thousands of army and paramilitary troops, and also houses offices of civilian government security officials in the area. No one claimed responsibility for the attack. 
EL CENTRO, Calif. - After a bomb exploded beneath his tank last month in Iraq, Army Sgt. Luis Montes was able to climb free but rushed back to help two fellow soldiers trapped inside. Struggling to pull his men from wreckage, Montes was burned over more than half his body.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 29, 2006 The battle for Ramadi has "tipped" in favor of the government of Iraq and the coalition, the commander of 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division, said today. 
Two car bombs killed four people in the Iraqi capital on Sunday. A large car bomb exploded in western Baghdad, apparently targeting a US patrol but killing an Iraqi bystander, as a curfew of the capital came to a noisy end, officials said. The were no reports of US casualties but the blast left a building in flames, destroyed several cars and also wounded four people in Baghdads leafy residential neighbourhood of Jamaa, an Iraqi security official said. The explosion came after a period of relative calm due to a citywide curfew between Friday night and Sunday morning, which took cars and pedestrians off the streets and gave Baghdad one of its quietest days in months. 
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka - Three Tamil Tiger rebels were killed in a clash with the Sri Lankan navy on a northern islet, the military said on Sunday. The rebels were killed Saturday evening on the island of Kayts, west of the Jaffna peninsula, an official at the Media Center for National Security said on condition of anonymity, citing policy.
