KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (10 December) Based on after action reports ISAF now believes troops repelling an attack killed seven or eight insurgents between Musa Qaleh and Nawzad districts on 02 December, not the figure of seventy to eighty shared widely with media based on incorrect early reports.
Reports that fighting has taken place in the district centre of Musa Qaleh or that the fighting represented a violation of the security arrangement reached between elders and the government there are patently false. This was originally a Reuters story. The ISAF press release, I noted at the time, did not have a number. Reuters, et al, reported their numbers from an unnamed ISAF spokesman. I have now posted this engagement, with a figure of 7 terrs killed, at Terrorist Death Watch
American-led troops and warplanes attacked a Taliban hideout in western Afghanistan, killing at least 12 militants, including a regional commander, police said on Monday. Provincial police chief Sayed Agha Saqeb said that coalition troops, acting on intelligence reports, had launched the operation in the Balabuluk district of Farah province on Sunday night. Among the nine Taliban killed in the operation, which lasted several hours, was a regional commander, Mullah Abdul Samad, the police chief added. An ISAF spokesman said that they were aware of fighting in the area.
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Paki paper. Not to question the veracity of a provincial police chief but the story itself says 12 in one place and 9 in another.
BTW, I think they just make up the district names.
A former member of Sudan's pro-government Arab militias, the Janjaweed, has told the BBC's Newsnight programme that ministers in Khartoum gave orders for the activities of his unit in the Darfur region, which included killings and rape. Following are excerpts of the interview with ex-fighter "Ali", who is now living in London.
'GOVERNMENT ORDERS'
The people who trained us came from the north, from the government. They gave us orders, and they say that after we are trained they will give us guns and ammunition...
They were wearing the uniforms of the military...
I tell you one fact. The Janjaweed don't make decisions. The orders come from the government...
One very well-known and regular visitor was Interior Minister Abdul Rahim Muhammad Hussein.
'KILL!'
We will be split into two groups, one on horses, one on camels...
The aircraft went ahead of the Janjaweed. We saw the smoke, we saw the fire, then we went in...
Whenever we go into a village and find resistance we kill everyone. Sometimes they said wipe out an entire village...
We hear kill! Kill! Kill! And we shoot to kill...
VICTIMS
Most were civilians - most were women...
Innocent people running out and being killed including children. And those who escape will die of thirst. There are many rapes. But they don't do it in front of others. They take the victim away and rape them.
Rebels in Sudan's western region of Darfur said a government warplane killed eight civilians, mostly children, in a northern village on Monday. Sudan's armed forces said the report was a fabrication designed for propaganda purposes. Jarennabi Abdel-Karim, a spokesman for a faction of the rebel Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) which refused to sign a peace agreement with Sudan's Khartoum-based government in May, said the plane fired a rocket at a house in the village of Hashaaba. "Eight people from the same family were killed," he told Reuters via satellite telephone. "Most of them are children."
He gave what he said were the names of the eight people, including 50-year-old Fatmah Abdullah and seven children whose ages range between three and 13 years old. The incident could not be independently verified.
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About 50 Brotherhood student members staged a military-style parade in black uniform and balaklavas at the Al-Azhar Islamic University campus.
Police have started a probe into whether the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt's top Islamic opposition group, is setting up a military wing after members demonstrated in a Cairo university in black-clad militia-style uniform, security officials said Monday. About 50 Brotherhood student members staged a military-style parade in black uniform and balaklavas during a protest Sunday by hundreds of Broterhood supporters at the Al-Azhar Islamic University campus. A security official told The Associated Press that the police had opened an investigation into whether the group has set up a militia.
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You can't get anything by these guys.
You refer to the ten rows of ten men each dressed in black, chanting in unison as they march with all right arms pumping together ?
An Algerian Islamist militant group claimed responsibility on Monday for the weekend bombing of a bus carrying foreign oil workers near Algiers and warned of further attacks. "We reiterate our call to all Muslims in Algeria to keep away from the interests of the infidels to avoid harm...once (these interests or individuals) are targeted," the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) said in statement posted on the Internet.
The authenticity of the statement, posted late on Monday on a Web site used by Islamist militant groups, could not be verified. The attack on Sunday killed the Algerian driver and wounded nine people, including four Britons and an American. The GSPC said the attack was "a modest present to our Muslim brothers suffering the fire of the new crusade that targets Islam and its sanctities".
"We bring tidings to the crusaders and apostates that they will face what they dislike," it added. It said the "mujahideen" who carried out the attack -- which took place in a heavily protected district 10 km (six miles) west of Algiers -- returned to their base unharmed.
The United States on Monday urged Americans in Algeria, estimated to number about 800, to review their personal safety after the bombing, the first attack on Westerners in many years. The bus was ferrying employees of Brown Root Condor, a joint venture of Halliburton subsidiary Kellog, Brown and Root and Condor Engineering, an affiliate of Algerian state energy group Sonatrach, when a roadside bomb went off and gunmen opened fire.
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The armed forces personnel deployed on Monday across the country may launch illegal arms recovery operations today. Sources said the commanding officers of the armed forces held meetings with the officers of different law enforcement agencies to determine modus operandi of the operation.
"Just follow the 12-point checklist in your RAB handout."
According to the home ministry, troops have been deployed at 22 places in Dhaka, 14 spots in Chittagong and at district levels so far. If required, troops will be deployed at upazila levels," a home ministry official told The Daily Star last night.
The troops will act on demand from the civil administration to protect public life and properties, keep economic activities running, recover illegal firearms and curb criminal activities.
According to sources, the troops have set up 13 makeshift battalion headquarters at Science Laboratory, Airport, Uttara, Bashundhara Residential area, Postagola, Khilgaon, Wari, Mirpur Indoor Stadium, Mohammadpur Physical Centre, Cantonment police station area and Ramna, Azimpur and Paltan community centres. Each battalion will cover two to three police station areas in the capital, sources said.
An army officer at Mirpur Indoor Stadium told this correspondent yesterday that they are yet to launch operation. "A lieutenant colonel is in command of our unit and a brigadier general is supervising some such units," he said.
The members of the naval forces took positions at 13 places in the coastal belts of Chittagong, Bhola, Noakhali and Bagerhat. Air forces personnel were deployed at Zia International Airport, Shah Amanat International Airport at Sylhet and Jessore Airport.
If I was a suspious person, I'd say that would also be a great deployment plan if you were thinking about a coup. Hey, a guy can dream, can't he?
News agency UNB quoted Director of Inter Services Public Relations Lt Col Anisur Rahman Chowdhury as saying over 16,000 army, 1,000 navy and 500 air force personnel have been deployed across the country.
According to the home ministry, police and Rapid Action Battalion yesterday recovered 21 illegal firearms and 33 bullets and arrested 11 during their countrywide operations in different parts of the country.
Wonder if they've got enough shutter guns to go around?
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"upazila levels" ???
Push comes to shove, they'll even deploy at godzilla levels...
A Russian soldier was wounded when rebels ambushed federal troops in Chechnya, officials said Monday. The soldier received multiple gunshot wounds Monday when militants fired at a group of Russian servicemen who were conducting a security sweep in Chechnya's southern Shatoi region, the regional branch of Russia's Interior Ministry said in a statement. The attackers fled.
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A truck-driving student is in custody in Boston after raising suspicions when he wasnt interested in learning how to back up his rig.
WLVI-TV (Ch. 56) reported last night that the would-be trucker is a 28-year-old Muslim from India and had overstayed his visa. An investigation is under way to see whether there is any connection between his unusual behavior and a terrorism plot. Federal authorities were alerted by instructors at the Nationwide Tractor Trailer Driving School in Smithfield, R.I., WLVI reported.
The student was described as a resident of New York, with drivers licenses from New York, New Jersey and Rhode Island.
Every indicator was there, R.I. State Police Major Steve ODonnell told WLVI. Any one of these things alone is fine, but four or five together . . . ... and you have "profiling." It works, too.
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hmmm ...Mohammad Mullawala..3 drivers' licenses in 3 different states...hazmat permit...just wanted to learn to go forward...why does that sound familiar?
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Sounds like this guy's got a cousin named Drivin' B. Hard.
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This guy was definitely up to no good. In truck driving school, most of your time is spent on shifting (up and down) without tearing up the tranny followed by backing up. That includes being able to parallel park.
No backy up, no license. No kidding. Been there, done that.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The active duty US military met or exceeded its recruiting goals in November, the Pentagon said, staying on track to meet its annual troop requirements.
The recruiting and retention numbers have been closely watched for signs of cracks under the strains of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The army and marine corps, the military services most strained by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, exceeded their monthly recruiting goal by five and four percent respectively, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said.
The air force and navy met their monthly target, he said.
Most reserve and national guard components also met or exceeded their monthly goal, except the army reserve which fell 21 percent of the mark and the navy reserve, which was nine percent off, according to Whitman.
"With respect to retention, the active duty services are all starting off well, exceeding their overall retention missions right now," he said, adding that navy re-enlistments fell short for the month but remained on course to meet the service's target for the year.
The army, which has struggled to replenish its ranks in the midst of an unpopular war, has responded with lavish signing bonuses, revamped ad campaigns, beefed-up recruiting forces and an easing of standards that have allowed in older recruits and more that tested in the bottom third.
The army's goal is to enlist 80,000 fresh troops in fiscal 2007. It met that goal last year but fell eight percent short the year before.
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Once again, we see the failure of the Bush Administration to properly fund education programs throughout this great nation of ours. Having failed to learn to read, write and do that stuff with numbers that even a great intellect such as myself finds baffling, is it any wonder that these poor children, and do not be confused, despite being in their 20s and 30s, they are children, these poor children have little other choice but to join the US military as the Bush Administration has allowed the mass export of high-paying jobs in the important sectors of buggy whip and vacuum tube manufacture and in return given us a economy where you have to understand all that stuff with numbers that even a great intellect as I find baffling.
And I say these things with all due respect to our veterans who carry out the very necessary tasks of committing war crimes and slaughtering the innocent: you are idiots and not at all great intellects like Teresa and me.
Unfortunately, nothing in here is actually surprising.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Islamic militants are using a recent peace deal with the government to consolidate their hold in northern Pakistan, vastly expanding their training of suicide bombers and other recruits and fortifying alliances with Al Qaeda and foreign fighters, diplomats and intelligence officials from several nations say. The result, they say, is virtually a Taliban ministate.
The militants, the officials say, are openly flouting the terms of the September accord in North Waziristan, under which they agreed to end cross- border help for the Taliban insurgency that revived in Afghanistan with new force this year.
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24/7 B52 runs will put a big ass dent in this problem. We need to tell the Pakistanis to FOAD and get after it. If they say anything say "try to stop us and we will destroy you and your government."
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The moment they declare themselves seperate from Pakistan, they are fair game.
They've always considered themselves separate from Pakistan - that's what the whole problem is about. The Pakistani government can't control the area. It's about time to teach them what being on the receiving end of a high-tech, mechanized, combined-forces army is like. Screw Predators and Global Hawk - run B-1s and B-52s down through the area, hitting any gathering larger than three people. Destroy all the roads, all the buildings, any other infrastructure that can be found, and blow up all the caves. Leave them NOTHING during the "long, cold, Afghan winter". Play 'whack-a-mole' with JDAMS and napalm, and see how they like it. Anyone from AP, Rooters, KUNA, the Pak press, and a half-dozen other useful idiots are also fair game.
We screwed around like this in Vietnam far too long. We don't need to do it today in the NWFP. Crush them, drag their carcassas into a pile and burn them, and beat the crap out of anyone that objects, especially the pakis or the UN. We still have a terrorist problem because we haven't gone mongol on the terrorists, and they laugh at us. I doubt anyone would be laughing after the NWFP was fumigated. Trembling in their boots, I hope, but definitely not laughing.
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Can't argue with that Old Patriot. I think the pak's should give them indepence, since they can't do anything about the area anyway. Why on earth would they want this place anyway.
Even if they dont', they should be bombed, a lot.
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Several trillions spent to build, deploy, and upgrade a nuclear arsenal that sits and gathers dust and spider-webs. Here's an opportunity to reintroduce to our enemies (Japan, 1945) to the mushroom cloud. Has a way of humbling them.
It is either them or us. Unfortunately, the Appeasementcrats are willing to sacrifice an American city before we go Roman on the Islamo-Nazis.
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It is either them or us. Unfortunately, the Appeasementcrats are willing to sacrifice an American city before we go Roman on the Islamo-Nazis.
And even after we've lost a city or three, the Appeasers will still want to surrender. Change is going to have to start at home. I din't think I need to elaborate.
Two alleged conduits of banned terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), including a junior assistant with the Revenue Department in Jammu and Kashmir, have been arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi police at Mahipalpur here. The police claim to have recovered 1.5 kg of RDX, Rs. 6 lakh in hawala money and detonators from them.
A team led by Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma received a tip-off recently that Mohammad Akmal, a resident of Pakistan and LeT district commander of Pattan in the Valley, had been sending people to Delhi to collect money sent through illegal hawala channels and deliver explosives to militants. Acting on a tip-off that the two would again come to a Mahipalpur bus shelter on Sunday, the police laid a trap and arrested them after recovering the explosive consignment, two detonators and the hawala money.
They identified themselves as Gulzar Ahmad Ganai (20), a second year undergraduate student; and Mohammad Amin Hazam (29), junior assistant with the Revenue Department at Baramulla, both residents of Pattan. The accused purportedly admitted that they came into contact with Akmal, who operated under the codename Abu Tahir in October. He purportedly persuaded them to work as conduits for the outfit.
At his instance, the accused collected Rs. 5 lakh from Delhi in November. During their second visit, the two went to Mumbai where they allegedly collected the explosive and the hawala money from one Nazir at the Gateway of India.
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LeT Perps in custody...
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The heat was supposed to be off by now. At some point the case will quietly be dropped for lack of evidence.
Witnesses are all dead, ain't they?
The appeal case of Sheikh Omar, convicted of involvement in the killing of American reporter Daniel Pearl, began on Monday.
I am confident that the appeal against the verdict will be accepted and the accused will be free.
Sheikh Omar, 32, whose full name is Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, was not released from a high-security prison to attend court proceedings. But his father was present.
Defence lawyers opened their argument by telling the panel of two judges that the verdict was unfair because they had not been able to interview Pearls widow Mariane. I am confident that the appeal against the verdict will be accepted and the accused will be free, defence counsel Khwaja Sultan said after the proceedings were adjourned until Tuesday. Lawyers said they expected to the hearing to take about a week.
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yeah, right, his wife has a lot of evidence to free this POS. Kill. Him.
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QUETTA: Talal Bugti, son of the late Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, on Monday alleged that his son Shah Zain Bugti had escaped an assassination attempt the other day. In a press statement, Talal said that Shah Zain was visiting his agricultural land in the Pat Feeder Canal area when some unidentified men attacked him. They are the same people who had isolated my father in the mountains, he said.
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I miss ol' Foster Grant. The 'Burg's just not the same without him.
8th Iraqi Army division forces, with the assistance of coalition advisers, detained the head of the Al Kut Office of the Martyr Sadr on Dec. 9, for alleged involvement in illegal arms smuggling activities and directing attacks against Iraqi Security Forces in the area.
Based on credible intelligence, he was detained by Iraqi forces because he allegedly orders his followers to conduct indirect fire attacks and place improvised explosive devices in Al Kut and An Numaniyah targeting Iraqi and Coalition Forces. He is also suspected of approving an ambush carried out against an Iraqi Army patrol on Sept. 11, 2006.
Iraqi Army forces cordoned and entered the OMS and several adjacent buildings to detain the suspect and other cell members. The suspect was found in the OMS building along with IED making components consisting of an artillery projectile, 2 rocket propelled grenades, hand grenades, blasting caps and propellant charges for mortar rounds. Also found were 2 assault rifles, 17 rifle magazines, night vision goggles, a video camera, tactical vests, cell phones and a hand-held two-way radio
Five doors were damaged by Iraqi forces when entering the buildings. No other damage was caused by Iraqi or Coalition Forces to the OMS or surrounding area. Iraqi forces exchanged small arms fire with hostile elements, slightly wounding one enemy fighter. The fighter was treated by medical personnel on-site and detained along with three additional armed suspects. There were no Iraqi forces or Coalition Forces casualties. There were no reports of civilian casualties.
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I know your comments are all snark aimed at the AP, but this fellow may well have been a 'good guy' - even the AP has them - which makes it a sad event.
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Given the current level of sectarian violence, it's hard to know whom to believe over there when it comes to Iraqi spokesmen and wire-service stringers.
In any case, he left behind a wife and two small children. My condolences.
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Glenmore - you are correct, however, the AP has brought this cynicism on themselves with their blatant lies, photoshopped images, terrorist stringers, agitprop as news, et al. Until he's proven to be a "good guy", I remain snarky and unsympathetic...and BTW, what are they going to do to prove he's a "good guy"? We have to take the AP's word on it?
Bwahahahaha
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At this point in AP's credibility, if they reported that the sky was blue, I'd still run outside and take a look.
What a sad, sad thing it is for a venerable and once-trusted institution to have pissed away the high regard in which they were once held.
Hey, I'm on my second glass of chablis. I always sound high-mindedly Victorian when I am slightly mellow.
The gentleman might very well have been one of the "good guys" but given AP's recent track record, it's not something that I intend to take AP's unsupported word for, either.
Baghdad (Rooters) - A suicide bomber killed 45 people and wounded scores in central Baghdad today after luring a crowd of poor day labourers to his vehicle with promises of work, the Interior Ministry said.
Police said 148 people were wounded when the bomber's vehicle exploded at 7am (1500 AEDT) in Tayran Square, sending a cloud of black smoke into the sky.
Gunfire sounded immediately after the blast.
Tayran Square is typically a gathering point for carpenters, plumbers, brick-layers, painters and other workers in the construction trade who frequent the cafes and street vendors in the early morning while waiting for the chance of some work.
About 90 minutes later, a roadside bomb exploded near an Iraqi police patrol, but the Interior Ministry said there were no casualties in that incident.
A third explosion rocked the centre of the city shortly afterwards, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.
Update: Dual Bombing in Central Baghdad Kills 57
Suspected insurgents set off two bombs in a main square of central Baghdad where scores of Iraqis were waiting for jobs as day laborers on Tuesday, killing at least 57 people and wounding 151, police said.
The carefully coordinated attack in Tayaran Square at 7 a.m. involved a parked car bomb and a suicide attacker who drove up in a minibus, pretended to hire day laborers, then set off his explosive as they got into his vehicle, said police Lt. Bilal Ali.
The simultaneous explosions, which occurred about 100 feet apart, shattered windows in store fronts, left crafters and blood stains in the road, and set fire to least 10 other cars.
At least 57 Iraqis, including seven policemen, were killed in the attack and 151 people wounded, Ali said. More at Update link...
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Take with a huge grain of salt. I just googled "Bilal Ali", and he turned up on this website. In fact, I would recommend the information from this site be put somewhere on Rantburg for everyone who posts a story to check out. Apparently "Lt. Bilal Ali" is another "Capt. Jamaal Hussein". There are quite a few other names on the list, and Centcom has more.
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Excellent suggestion, OP! That Malkin list would be a good benchmark on dubious AP sources.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A Marine helicopter made a hard landing Monday in a remote desert area of Anbar province, injuring 18 people, the third U.S. aircraft to go down in the insurgent stronghold in two weeks. The CH-53E Super Stallion, the U.S. military's largest helicopter, was conducting a routine passenger and cargo flight with 21 people on board when it went down about noon, the U.S. command said, adding that hostile fire did not appear to be the cause.
Nine of the 18 injured were treated and returned to duty, it said. The military did not give the exact location where the hard landing occurred, saying recovery efforts were under way.
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BAGHDAD - Gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms ambushed a security vehicle transporting money to the Central Bank in Baghdad and made off with $1 million in cash on Monday, police and Interior Ministry sources said.
Four private security guards were kidnapped in the daylight robbery in busy Sadoun Street in central Baghdad in an attack that highlighted the lawlessness gripping the capital. The security vehicle was transporting money in sacks from a local bank to the Central Bank in nearby Rasheed Street when it was stopped by about 20 gunmen travelling in three vehicles with no license plates, police and Interior Ministry sources said.
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Suspected Sunni insurgents abducted nine Shiites on Monday after pulling them off a minibus on its way to a predominantly Shiite area south of Baghdad. The bus had left the capital on its way to Kut when it was stopped at 6:30 p.m. at a checkpoint set up by the suspected insurgents. The attackers checked the IDs of the passengers, then drove away with them apparently after determining they were Shiites, police Lt. Hadi Hassan said. They let the driver and three or four passengers go because they were Sunnis, but they stole the minibus, said Hassan, an officer in Madain, a town near the area where the bus was stopped.
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Some 21 people were killed in violence across Iraq on Monday including a pregnant woman and three of her children who were savagely gunned down in the north of Iraq. The US military also reported that two powerful roadside bombs had killed four soldiers on Sunday.
Armed men burst into the home of a pregnant Shia woman of the Turkmen ethnic group and sprayed her and her children with bullets in the town of Salaja, 75 kilometres south of Kirkuk. Three of her children, aged between five and 13, were killed while two other daughters survived the fusillade. Police could give no motive for the attack, but noted that her husband was a Kurd and a member of the old army.
Nine people were shot dead in the restive province of Diyala, northeast of Baghdad, including three policeman, in a series of incidents, police said. Just north of Baghdad, in the town of Dujail, gunmen hijacked a minibus carrying five primary school teachers on their way to work and kidnapped them, said police at the joint coordination centre in Tikrit. Once again, police could not comment on the motive.
Further kidnappings took place in central Baghdad, when gunmen in four pickup trucks pulled up at the Istithmar (Investment) Bank and seized four employees who were about to enter the bank with money. In south Baghdad, four mortar rounds slammed into the often-targeted Abu Chir neighbourhood, killing four people and wounding 11, a Defence Ministry official said. A suicide bomber blew up his vehicle against an Iraqi police commando base in the southern Dura district, killing a policeman and wounding five others, a security official said.
In northwest Baghdad, a car bomb in a garage in the al-Iskan neighbourhood exploded as a police commando patrol passed. The blast near the private al-Maamun university killed a bystander and wounded four others, including two police commandos. Across town near central Baghdads Mustansiriyah University, another bomb went off killing a student and wounding eight others, according to a medic in the nearby al-Kindi hospital where they were treated. He said that another civilian was shot dead by gunmen in the nearby Fadhel neighbourhood.
One US soldier was killed early on Sunday by a roadside bomb west of Baghdad, while three others were killed by another bomb that night in the northern part of the city.
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From Okinawa? Simply everyone deploys from Okinawa, dahling.
GAZA, Dec 12 (Reuters) - President Mahmoud Abbas ordered security forces to deploy across Gaza on Tuesday after the killing of three young sons of one of his loyalists shocked Palestinians and stoked fears of internal strife. President... Impressive. Sounds like it means something, y'know?
Tension between the moderate Abbas and the governing Hamas Islamist group soared after the attack by unidentified gunmen on Monday. The three children of a senior intelligence chief were shot dead as they arrived at school. I don't think we have a pic of "soaring tension". Fred? Mebbe a "twisting rope" thingy like in the old headache remedy ads? Nah, doesn't connote "soaring". I'm stumped.
Early on Tuesday, heavily-armed members of those security forces that take their orders from Abbas took up positions around key installations and road junctions in Gaza City. "Palestinian security forces deployed in all streets of Gaza City to prevent crime. This was upon orders from President Abbas," said one Palestinian security source. Makes it sound like a BIG place, eh? Very colorful.
A force loyal to the Hamas government also strengthened its positions. There was no immediate sign of friction between the Abbas and Hamas loyalists, but fear of fresh clashes deepened sharply on Monday. They added another layer of tires and tricycles.
It was the first time that children have been targeted in such an attack. Angry mourners firing guns stormed the parliament compound during the funeral for the boys, aged 6 to 9. Prolly killed a few more in their display of unrequited ferocity.
A senior Palestinian intelligence official in the occupied West Bank said it was unclear who was behind the attack on Colonel Baha Balousha's children. Someone. Someone mean. Someone nasty. Besides internal political unrest, Gaza is riven with clan fighting and a surge in crime following a Western aid embargo on the Hamas government that has deepened poverty. Do we gots any pics for "riven"? Damn, this Paleo stuff strains the archives.
Political tension has been rising over the failure of Hamas and the formerly dominant Fatah movement to form a unity government that Palestinians hope might end the Western boycott. Unity is one elusive bugger, alright. 'Specially when all you gots is Hate.
Abbas aides said on Saturday the president planned to call early elections after talks on a unity government foundered. Hamas accused Abbas of trying to topple the government, which came to power after winning elections. There's a "government". Who knew?
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Fatah should understand that as long as Hamas gunmen are deprived of their rights they will resist in the only way they can. Hamas does not have helicopters or rockets so it attacks children in response to Fatah aggression and occupation of Hamas land. Violence by Fatah in response would derail the fragile peace process and escalate the cycle of violence. When Fatah recognizes the legitimate rights of Hamas supporters and ends it brutal occupation the fighting will end. We must do all we can to implement a three state solution.
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Perish the thought, Baba Tutu, unless you give a thought to the plight of poor Islamic Jihad, left penniless and oh-so-vulnerable on the sidelines. For the sake of the children, and the rocks they are reduced to wielding against the agressors, we must surely implement a four state solution.
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what about the PFLP? Call it a five-state solution..
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I share Baba tutus thoughts. Ive posted them on site inhabited by a somewhat broader range than here, and the usual voices of terror apology were silent.
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There are a bunch of uninhabited but habitable rocks in the Pacific. Let's give each group their own rock! That would solve LOTS of problems, since most paleostains cannot swim - especially the women (can you imagine swimming in a burqa?).
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An IDF soldier from the Lavi Battalion was moderately wounded Monday during clashes with Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank town of Kabatiya, south of Jenin. The soldier was evacuated by helicopter to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa and was treated for a gunshot wound to the forehead. The soldier was wounded during a routine arrest raid in the West Bank town. An armed Palestinian opened fire at the military force and hit the soldier. Another soldier was lightly wounded during the gun clashes.
The Palestinians opened fire in a well-planned ambush at the soldiers after a Humvee vehicle, used by the troops, accidentally overturned. No one was injured in the accident. The cause of the jeep accident was unknown. IDF patrols operate regularly in Jenin, and the West Bank city is the frequent site of clashes between soldiers and Palestinians. Overnight Sunday, Palestinians threw several bombs at IDF troops operating in the area. No casualties were reported in the incident.
Elsewhere in the West Bank, IDF troops arrested a Palestinian woman west of Bethlehem who approached them in possession of a knife. The woman told her interrogators that she intended to attack the soldiers.
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Unidentified gunmen killed three sons of a Palestinian intelligence official loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza on Monday, firing at a car as it dropped the boys at school, police and hospital officials said. An adult bystander was also killed in the attack in Gaza City, which came amid growing tension between Hamas, the governing militant group, and Abbas's more moderate Fatah.
Angry mourners firing automatic weapons later stormed into the parliament compound during a funeral for the boys, who were aged between 6 and 9. There were no reports of injuries. Some 2,000 people took part in the funeral, including the boys' father, Colonel Baha Balousha, who was heavily guarded. Relatives carried his three sons in their arms. The bodies were wrapped in white sheets.
Balousha, who was not in the car when it was attacked, is a senior intelligence official close to Abbas. Gunmen tried to kill him in Gaza in September, one of several attacks on intelligence officials loyal to Abbas in the strip this year. Abbas called the shooting "a condemned, ugly and inhumane crime, carried out by a bunch of bastards."
He and Palestinian Prime Minister and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who arrived in Sudan on Monday, said they had urged the interior minister to take all measures to find the perpetrators. The car taking the children to school was peppered with bullet holes and blood stains covered the seats. Two school bags, one green and the other blue, lay inside.
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Didn't see what I consider a funderal on TV. Did, however, see footage of three small white-wrapped bodies being passed from arms to arms in a huge crowd ranting with hatred. Crowd of hundreds, seething and nearly dropping the corpses and they struggled to hold them away from prying hands. Not my idea of a funeral. The footage was chilling. No respect for the dead. Just worship and celebration of hatred and evil. Respect for the fury caused, not the deaths.
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I believe she was in Attack of the 50ft Woman... Lesse, if she was 50 ft tall, then say you multiply by 12, and divide by 8.5 on the centerline, squeezify by 13¾, carry the 17, take the square root of Tai an... Holy Shit! Haul out the climbin' gear! It B True Love! Lol.
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American-led troops and warplanes attacked a Taliban hideout in western Afghanistan, killing at least 12 militants, including a regional commander, police said on Monday. Provincial police chief Sayed Agha Saqeb said that coalition troops, acting on intelligence reports, had launched the operation in the Balabuluk district of Farah province on Sunday night. Among the nine Taliban killed in the operation, which lasted several hours, was a regional commander, 
Rebels in Sudan's western region of Darfur said a government warplane killed eight civilians, mostly children, in a northern village on Monday. Sudan's armed forces said the report was a fabrication designed for propaganda purposes. Jarennabi Abdel-Karim, a spokesman for a faction of the rebel Sudan Liberation Army (SLA) which refused to sign a peace agreement with Sudan's Khartoum-based government in May, said the plane fired a rocket at a house in the village of Hashaaba. "Eight people from the same family were killed," he told Reuters via satellite telephone. "Most of them are children."
An Algerian Islamist militant group claimed responsibility on Monday for the weekend bombing of a bus carrying foreign oil workers near Algiers and warned of further attacks. "We reiterate our call to all Muslims in Algeria to keep away from the interests of the infidels to avoid harm...once (these interests or individuals) are targeted," the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) said in statement posted on the Internet.
The armed forces personnel deployed on Monday across the country may launch illegal arms recovery operations today. Sources said the commanding officers of the armed forces held meetings with the officers of different law enforcement agencies to determine modus operandi of the operation. 
Two alleged conduits of banned terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), including a junior assistant with the Revenue Department in Jammu and Kashmir, have been arrested by the Special Cell of the Delhi police at Mahipalpur here. The police claim to have recovered 1.5 kg of RDX, Rs. 6 lakh in hawala money and detonators from them. 
QUETTA: Talal Bugti, son of the late Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, on Monday alleged that his son Shah Zain Bugti had escaped an assassination attempt the other day. In a press statement, Talal said that Shah Zain was visiting his agricultural land in the Pat Feeder Canal area when some unidentified men attacked him. They are the same people who had isolated my father in the mountains, he said.
Baghdad (Rooters) - A suicide bomber killed 45 people and wounded scores in central Baghdad today after luring a crowd of poor day labourers to his vehicle with promises of work, the Interior Ministry said.
BAGHDAD - Gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms ambushed a security vehicle transporting money to the Central Bank in Baghdad and made off with $1 million in cash on Monday, police and Interior Ministry sources said.
Some 21 people were killed in violence across Iraq on Monday including a pregnant woman and three of her children who were savagely gunned down in the north of Iraq. The US military also reported that two powerful roadside bombs had killed four soldiers on Sunday. 
Besides internal political unrest, Gaza is riven with clan fighting and a surge in crime following a Western aid embargo on the Hamas government that has deepened poverty.
An IDF soldier from the Lavi Battalion was moderately wounded Monday during clashes with Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank town of Kabatiya, south of Jenin. The soldier was evacuated by helicopter to Rambam Medical Center in Haifa and was treated for a gunshot wound to the forehead. The soldier was wounded during a routine arrest raid in the West Bank town. An armed Palestinian opened fire at the military force and hit the soldier. Another soldier was lightly wounded during the gun clashes. 
Unidentified gunmen killed three sons of a Palestinian intelligence official loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas in Gaza on Monday, firing at a car as it dropped the boys at school, police and hospital officials said. An adult bystander was also killed in the attack in Gaza City, which came amid growing tension between Hamas, the governing militant group, and Abbas's more moderate Fatah.
