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Afghanistan
Air Raid Whacks Taliban Leader
A NATO air strike destroyed a Taliban command post in southern Afghanistan, killing a suspected senior militant leader, the alliance said yesterday.

Also yesterday, an assailant gunned down an Afghan legislator who, under the former Taliban regime, oversaw the destruction of two Buddha statues carved into a cliff.

Maulavi Mohammed Islam Mohammadi, who was the Taliban's governor of Bamiyan province when the fifth-century Buddha statues were blown up March 2001, was killed on his way to Friday prayers in Kabul, deputy police chief Zulmai Khan said.

Mohammadi was elected in 2005 to represent the northern province of Samangan in Afghanistan's parliament. After he was elected, Mohammadi said he should not be held responsible for the destruction of the statues, which the Taliban considered to be idolatrous. "It was foreigners like Chechens and Arabs with the Taliban who made the decision. They were crazy people," Mohammadi said in an interview at the time. "Even though I was governor, I had no power."

International outcry followed the destruction of the giant Buddhas, which were chiselled into a cliff and famed for their size and location along the ancient Silk Road linking Europe and Central Asia. Archeologists in Bamiyan have been painstakingly collecting the stone remains of the two statues -- and are considering rebuilding them.

In southern Helmand province, a militant leader and his deputies were killed in an air strike Thursday, a NATO statement said. It did not disclose the name of the leader killed.

Later yesterday, a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the offices of an aid group in the capital of Helmand province, Lashkar Gah. A policeman and two civilians were wounded, police said.

NATO has claimed a string of successes against Taliban leaders -- including the killing last month of a top lieutenant of the militia's fugitive chief, Mullah Omar -- after a year of bitter fighting. The air strike occurred outside the town of Musa Qala, where a deal signed between local elders and the Helmand governor, with the support of the British task force based in the province, turned over security responsibilities to local leaders. The deal also prevents NATO-led troops from entering the town.

Before the deal, which has been criticized by some western officials as putting the area outside government control, the town was a centre of fierce clashes between British troops and resurgent Taliban militants. NATO said the air strike did not violate the pact. "This successful air strike took place in the vicinity of Musa Qala but was outside of the area of the agreement between the government of Afghanistan ... and local elders," the NATO statement said.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 01/29/2007 10:17 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Also yesterday, an assailant gunned down an Afghan legislator who, under the former Taliban regime, oversaw the destruction of two Buddha statues carved into a cliff.

Maulavi Mohammed Islam Mohammadi, who was the Taliban's governor of Bamiyan province when the fifth-century Buddha statues were blown up March 2001, was killed on his way to Friday prayers in Kabul, deputy police chief Zulmai Khan said.


Good riddance, you barbarian pig! Enjoy hell!
Posted by: mojo || 01/29/2007 10:21 Comments || Top||

#2  The air strike occurred outside the town of Musa Qala, where a deal signed between local elders and the Helmand governor, with the support of the British task force based in the province, turned over security responsibilities to local leaders. The deal also prevents NATO-led troops from entering the town.

Before the deal, which has been criticized by some western officials as putting the area outside government control, the town was a centre of fierce clashes between British troops and resurgent Taliban militants.

NATO said the air strike did not violate the pact. "This successful air strike took place in the vicinity of Musa Qala but was outside of the area of the agreement between the government of Afghanistan ... and local elders," the NATO statement said.


The local elders have to learn about the "fine print" stuff...
Posted by: tu3031 || 01/29/2007 10:25 Comments || Top||

#3  "Even though I was governor, I had no power." Sounds like - "I vass juzst followink orders!"
Posted by: M. Murcek || 01/29/2007 10:27 Comments || Top||

#4  "It was foreigners like Chechens and Arabs with the Taliban who made the decision. They were crazy people," Mohammadi said in an interview at the time. "Even though I was governor, I had no power."


Looks like someone disagreed.
Posted by: Mark E. || 01/29/2007 10:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Also yesterday, an assailant gunned down an Afghan legislator who, under the former Taliban regime, oversaw the destruction of two Buddha statues carved into a cliff

Karma restored . Bhuddism 2 Islam 1
Posted by: MacNails || 01/29/2007 10:45 Comments || Top||

#6  Note the negative context of the Tornto Sun: NATO has claimed a string of successes against Taliban leaders...
Posted by: anymouse || 01/29/2007 10:53 Comments || Top||

#7  Karma is a bitch, isn't she?
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/29/2007 11:17 Comments || Top||

#8  The actual NATO presser does not claim the death as fact,
A senior Taliban leader and his deputies are believed to have been killed in this strike.


Along with NATO's massive kill counts, this probably should be taken with a grain of salt.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins || 01/29/2007 11:51 Comments || Top||

#9  A dark gray shape cuts through the night
With fire and terror puts Taliban to flight
For Fear doth Rule
And Panic splits the Skies
When Something Wicked This Way Flies


- With apologies to Ray Bradbury


Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/29/2007 11:55 Comments || Top||

#10  Crom is satisfied.
Posted by: Excalibur || 01/29/2007 12:04 Comments || Top||

#11  As bummed out as I am that Congress, the Senate and the MSM has convinced America we a losing in every field of battle, I'm liking the "whacked bad guy numbers" we have been putting up since last fall.
I am hoping for and projecting more "quagmired hopelessness" for Q1_2007.
Posted by: Capsu 78 || 01/29/2007 22:07 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Somali govt jails suspected al-Qaeda operatives' wives
A spokesman for the interim Somali government said Sunday that prisoners transferred from Kenya yesterday included wives of suspected al-Qaeda operatives wanted by the American government. Abdiraman Dinari was speaking about 23 prisoners of war caught by Kenyan authorities in security operations along the common border, including Islamic Courts fighters. Two of the prisoners are the wives of suspected al-Qaeda militants wanted in connection with the 1998 U.S. Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, according to Dinari.

Kenyan police detained the wives earlier this month. Dinari said other prisoners included foreign fighters from Tanzania, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Syria, Ethiopia, Comoros, Kenya, Jordan and Morocco. Independent sources confirmed to Garowe Online that 32 prisoners were unloaded from the plane Saturday, blind-folded with their hands ties, and taken to an undisclosed location for further questioning.

The U.S. military admitted that its warplanes failed to kill the 3 high-profile al-Qaeda targets during air raids in southern Somalia earlier this month.

Meanwhile in Mogadishu, Somali authorities released 8 people working for the Elman Peace and Human Rights Agency who were arbitarily detained yesterday for questioning. Elman's chairman, Sudani Ali Ahmed, confirmed the release of all 8 employees Sunday, but accused government soldiers of using "illegal methods" during the interrogation.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Like jailing their wives will draw them out. Goats, now on the other hand......
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 01/29/2007 14:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Goat brothel, maybe.
Posted by: rhodesiafever || 01/29/2007 16:31 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Police officer, suspected Islamist militant killed in clashes in Algeria
A police officer and a suspected Islamic militant were killed in clashes in a mountainous region of eastern Algeria, a report said Sunday. Militants ambush a police station in the remote Skikda region, some 510 kilometers (317 miles) east of the capital, Algiers, on Saturday, Liberte newspaper reported. One officer was killed and four wounded in the attack on the town of Sidi Mansour, Liberte said.

Another attack Saturday on an army unit conducting a routine operation near the town of Oued Zeggar caused no casualties, the report said. Algeria's security forces dispatched helicopters to find those responsible for the two attacks. One suspected militant was killed and another wounded in the sweep, Liberte said.

Algeria is trying to pull itself out of an Islamic insurgency that started 14 years ago and has killed an estimated 150,000 people: Islamists, civilians and military.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Arabia
Six killed by Shia militants in Yemen
A series of attacks by Shia militants in Yemen's Saada province killed six members of the nation's military and wounded another 20. The BBC said the attacks, which were reportedly led by prominent Shia militant Abel Malek al-Houthi, were focused on unspecified area bases and were the most recent effort by the rebels against Yemen's government.
Yemen fought a miniature civil war with the Houthi clan a couple or three years ago. After Papa Houthi was bumped off they did the peace and reconciliation routine. They will now be appropriately surprised at the results. I'm suspecting the Houthi movement is remote controlled from Teheran, but that's just a feeling on my part.
The rebel forces strongly oppose the government's apparent ties to the U.S. government, which has supported Yemen with equipment and training during its ongoing internal conflict. No details were made available on Shia militants casualties in the attacks. A statement from the Saada security committee pledged to limit further violence in the area from what it called "saboteurs." "The local authority and the armed and security forces in the province of Saada ... will carry out their duties in preserving security and stability and ending these acts of sabotage carried out by these criminals," it said.
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Bangladesh
Bangladeshi militants appeal hanging sentence
Five top militants sentenced to be hanged for a spate of bomb attacks which killed dozens of people in Bangladesh will appeal to President Iajuddin Ahmed for mercy, police said on Sunday.

They said mercy petitions, handed to prison authorities by the five including Shayek Abdur Rahman and Siddikul Islam Bangla Bhai would be sent to the president shortly as the hangings were expected to be carried out by the middle of February.

They were sentenced for killing two judges in the southern town of Jhalakati in November 2005, police said. Shayek and Bangla Bhai, head of outlawed groups Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen and Jagrata Muslim Janata Bangladesh, respectively, were also blamed for masterminding and participating in a series of bomb blasts in August 2005, in their pursuit of introducing Sharia law in Bangladesh, a mainly Muslim democracy. The militants now can only be saved by the president, legal officials said.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Not so tough now, are they?
Posted by: Tony (UK) || 01/29/2007 2:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Busted on March 6, to the gallows in less then a year.
Jeez, we could actually learn something from Bangladesh. Whodda thunk it...
Posted by: tu3031 || 01/29/2007 8:58 Comments || Top||

#3  Still a chance President Sahib might pardon them. No fat lady until they dangle and at least one's head pops off.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2007 10:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Difficult to believe that the government that funds our RAB buddies would commute anything, speed up maybe, but not commute.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/29/2007 12:10 Comments || Top||

#5  Nevermind, these ain't commies. Who knows, maybe they will walk.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/29/2007 12:12 Comments || Top||


Europe
Attackers stone Turkish church
Unidentified attackers threw stones at a church in the northern Turkish town of Samsun on Sunday in the latest attack on Christians in predominantly Muslim Turkey, Anatolian news agency said.

Windows were broken but Mehmet Orhan Picakcilar, a priest at the Agape Church, was quoted as saying there were no casualties. “This does damage to Turkey. This attack depicts Turkey in a bad way before international public opinion,” Picakcilar said. The attack happened hours after a nationalist protester with a handgun made a brief attempt to hijack a commuter ferry in the Dardanelles strait on Saturday.

Passengers said he had been angered by pro-Armenian sentiment in Turkey after the January 19 killing of the Turkish-Armenian editor Hrant Dink, which prompted large pro-Armenian protests.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A Christian priest named "Mehmet"? Bit of cognitive dissonance here.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/29/2007 2:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Picakcilar = O'Brien in Turkish
Posted by: Frank G || 01/29/2007 8:32 Comments || Top||


Home Front: WoT
Terror suspect pleads not guilty
It's all a misunderstandin, ya see...
WASHINGTON - An Iraqi-born Dutch citizen pleaded not guilty Monday in what the Justice Department called the first U.S. terror charges against insurgents targeting Americans in Iraq. Wesam al-Delaema, 33, has been wanted by the United States since 2003, when he and his fellow "Mujahideen from Fallujah" videotaped themselves planting explosives along an Iraq road used by U.S. troops. The explosives did not result in any deaths.
Ooooops. Gotta be careful when you tape those snuff films, Wesam. Could come back to bite you in your non martyred ass...
He was extradited from the Netherlands over the weekend after being held there for nearly two years, and will become the first suspect tried in a U.S. court for alleged terrorism in Iraq's bloody insurgency."After a lengthy extradition process, this defendant will now face justice for his efforts in orchestrating and launching roadside bomb attacks against our men and women serving in Iraq," Assistant Attorney General Kenneth Wainstein said Monday.

Al-Delaema has claimed he is innocent, and his lawyers have argued the U.S. does not have the right to try him. He nodded his head and spoke in broken English with his attorneys during a 10-minute hearing in front of U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman in Washington. Prosecutor Gregg Maisel said the government would be seeking hair samples and other DNA from al-Delaema, but did not say why.
Hey, let's break Wesam's balls...
As part of the extradition agreement with the Netherlands, Justice Department spokesman Dean Boyd said that al-Delaema will be tried in a federal court — not by a military commission such as those set up for terror suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The U.S. will also not oppose al-Delaema serving his sentence in a Dutch prison if he is convicted, Boyd said.
Sounds like they think they have Wesam by the balls...
Al-Delaema's attorney, Victor Koppe, had argued that he feared al-Delaema could be tortured by U.S. authorities and said the U.S. legal system couldn't be trusted.
Fine with me, Victor. Send him back to Iraq and let them try him. Okay with you?
Al-Delaema traveled to Iraq after the U.S.-led invasion. Evidence against him includes a videotape he filmed of a group called "Warriors of Fallujah" preparing a roadside bomb, which was widely shown on Arabic TV stations. The tape was seized by police who raided al-Delaema's house in the Dutch city of Amersfoort in May 2005 following a tip from U.S. authorities. In extradition hearings in the Netherlands, al-Delaema argued that he was forced to make the video after being kidnapped and beaten. He said he feared being beheaded if he resisted.
Yeah....ummmmmmmmmmmm...beheaded! We they do that stuff, ya know...
In a 2003 interview broadcast on Dutch television, al-Delaema accused the U.S. and its allies of waging war in Iraq to control its oil reserves. "The Americans and British are coming to our country to steal oil and everyone knows it," he said. "I don't care if I myself die or not. I want to offer myself up for my land, for my people. I'm not more or less important than the women and children who you see on television dying because of America," al-Delaema said.
Behold another Brave Jihadi Pussy...
His family said the interview was intended as a joke.
Oh, he was... just kidding. He's a kidder.HaHaHa. He's a funny guy.
Posted by: tu3031 || 01/29/2007 10:46 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In a 2003 interview broadcast on Dutch television, al-Delaema accused the U.S. and its allies of waging war in Iraq to control its oil reserves. "The Americans and British are coming to our country to steal oil and everyone knows it," he said.

Holland has oil? One of these days I really must take a geology course -- the things I don't know!
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/29/2007 12:31 Comments || Top||

#2  TW, there's oil and natural gas under the North Sea, and the Dutch have claim to some of it.

My favorite way to reach "hearts and minds" is with a 3.0 treble snagging hook firmly attached to two feet of 1-inch heavy-gauge link chain. It works from either direction.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 01/29/2007 15:49 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Bomb Wounds 5 in Mosque in Pakistan
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- A bomb exploded inside a Shiite Muslim mosque Monday in the northwestern Pakistan city of Bannu, wounding five people, two seriously, police said.

The bomb went off as people were arriving in the mosque for a gathering in connection with the Shiite mourning festival of Ashoura, said Sadullah Khan, a Bannu police officer.

Dozens of people were inside the mosque as the blast happened, and two of the five wounded were in serious condition, Khan said.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 01/29/2007 09:56 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Peshawar suicide blast: Hunt on for 3 LJ activists
The Interior Ministry has directed law enforcement and intelligence agencies to arrest three activists of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) for their suspected involvement in Saturday’s blast near Qissa Khawani Bazaar’s Qasim Ali Khan Mosque. Peshawar Police Chief Malik Muhammad Saad and DSP Khan Raziq were among the 15 killed in the attack. Saad has been buried in Kohat, while DSP Khan Raziq has been buried in Nowshera.

Daily Times learnt that LJ activists Jalil Ahmed, Ilyas Moawia and Nazir Ahmed are suspected of orchestrating the Peshawar blast. The Interior Ministry issued the directive following reports that the three had been planning to target Shias in Peshawar and Hangu during Muharram. Sources said that law enforcement agencies had been directed to use all resources to arrest the three “terrorists” and crack down on the LJ network in the country.

Meanwhile, a senior police official said three teams had been formed to investigate Saturday’s suicide attack, and police had been deployed in extra strength for peaceful Muharram processions. “Teams for the collection of evidence, investigation and arrest purposes have been formed,” the new Peshawar police chief, Abdul Majeed Marwat, told Daily Times. Majeed said that statements by injured policemen and other people had not yet been recorded, but when this was done, it could provide police with more clues. Majeed said it was difficult to suggest whether the suicide bomber was targeting police officials, but Adviser to Chief Minister Allama Ramzan Tauqir said that police had been targeted in the attack.

Heavily armed police and security forces in pickup trucks and armoured personnel carriers patrolled streets in Shia-dominated areas of Peshawar. NWFP Governor Ali Jan Orakzai did not rule out “foreign involvement” in the attack, but said it would be too early to name the country that masterminded the attack.

A report submitted with the Interior Ministry says that a group of LJ activists, led by Wali Dad, has been planning attacks on Shia processions in Parachinar. Similarly, a four-member group of the LJ, led by Izatur Rehman, is working to disrupt peace in Sindh, and is likely to carry out suicide attacks on Shia gatherings in Karachi or Hyderabad during Muharram. Another report mentions that a few Shia leaders are triggering conflicts by inciting young people to avenge the murder of Syed Agha Ziaud Din. The provincial home secretaries, the chief secretaries of Northern Areas, Azad Jammu and Kashmir and the Islamabad chief commissioner have been directed to improve interaction with Shias, and monitor the activities of some “dissident elements”.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


'Suicide bomber targeted cops'
Police officials, who were injured in Saturday’s Peshawar blast, said on Sunday that the attack was a “target killing of senior police officials”. Peshawar Police Chief Malik Saad and DSP Raziq Khan were among the 15 people killed in the attack. Three injured policemen, including Muzzamil and Zahid Hussain, told Daily Times at Lady Reading Hospital that they saw an unidentified man wearing a shawl blow himself up among a police convoy that was deployed for a Muharram procession in a narrow street of Dalgaran Bazaar, near Qissa Khawani. “The suicide attacker moved so quickly into the police convoy that police officials did not notice whether he had a beard or not,” said the injured cops.

Inspector General of NWFP Police Muhammad Shareef Virk also described the attack as a “target killing of police officials”. Nadeem Khan, a local, told Daily Times, “We condemn the attack that killed police officials who were trustworthy and brave.” He said the blast was so powerful that blood and flesh were found on an outside wall of the fifth storey of a building. Some local nazims, including one from a minority, branded the attack a “failed attempt at sectarian violence”. “The suicide attacker’s target was Najmul Hassan Kararvi Imambargah in Dalgaran Bazaar, where Shias had gathered for a Muharram procession that was supposed to be taken out 30 minutes after the blast,” Union Council Nazim Haidri and a minority councillor told Daily Times. Dr Riaz confirmed that 15 people died in the blast. Riaz said the blast also killed three Shias. He said that of the 19 indoor patients, 17 were police officials.
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Rockets fired at Levies check post in Salarzai
Unidentified people fired rockets late on Saturday night at a Levies check post located in Salarzai, 10 kilometres from Khar in Bajaur Agency. After the rocket attack, the attackers used heavy weapons. No one was hurt in the attack, but it caused enormous damage to the check post. The political administration has not made any arrests so far.
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35 tribesmen released in Waziristan
Thirty-five tribesmen held hostage by rival clans in North Waziristan were released on Sunday after a negotiation breakthrough, a private television channel reported. According to the report, the Dawar tribe had taken hostage three members of the Bakakhle tribe, who had seized 32 Dawar members, following the murder of a tribesman. Local tribal chieftains and Ulema negotiated between the two clans, leading to the release of all detained members.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: Howard UK || 01/29/2007 5:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Bunch of total and utter loonies. Can we nuke em now?
Posted by: Howard UK || 01/29/2007 5:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Can we nuke em now?
ARCLIGHT. Nukes mess up the environment.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 01/29/2007 15:58 Comments || Top||


Pipeline bombed in Dera Bugti
Unidentified people blew up a gas pipeline in Dera Bugti, Geo television reported. The channel quoted their sources as saying that miscreants planted an explosive device near the gas pipeline from Zafar Colony to the purification plant. The explosive device went off and fire erupted in the 8-inch diameter gas pipeline, the channel reported. Officials reached the scene and suspended gas supply to the purification plant to repair the line, it added.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  We're Bugtis and we hates cylinders Yar!
Posted by: Shipman || 01/29/2007 6:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Must be outta pylon bombs...
Posted by: tu3031 || 01/29/2007 8:59 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Bill Roggio reports on the fighting in Najaf
Hattip Instapundit. Lots of good stuff, but I found these bits particularly intriguing:

Early reports indicated there were both Sunni terrorists and Shia cultist involved in the fighting. "Governor Asaad Abu Gilel as saying that the militants, who included foreign fighters, had arrived in the city disguised as pilgrims in recent days and based themselves in the orchards, which he said had been bought three or four months ago by supporters of Saddam Hussain."

An American military intelligence informed us the early indications are that the Omar Brigade, al-Qaeda in Iraq's unit designated to slaughter Shia, was involved in the fighting.

...the likelihood is the enemy composition consisted of a mix of the Shia Army of Heaven cult and al-Qaeda in Iraq fighters from the Omar Brigade. Cooperation between Shia and Sunni insurgent groups is not a new development in Iraq, as Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army and al_Qaeda cooperated during the Fallujah/Najaf uprisings in the spring and summer of 2004. Shia Iran has been supplying the Sunni insurgency, al-Qaeda and Ansar al-Sunnah with weapons and bomb making materials, and is currently sheltering senior al-Qaeda leaders within its borders.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/29/2007 14:04 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Also tension between the Lidless Eye and the White Hand.
Posted by: Excalibur || 01/29/2007 15:04 Comments || Top||

#2  Apparently the Shia cult is one that wanted to kill Sistani and other Shia mucky-mucks in order to bring on the re-appearance of the 12th Imam. Just like whatzhisname the Prez of Iran.
Posted by: Spaque Elmeash5137 || 01/29/2007 15:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Apparently the Shia cult is one that wanted to kill Sistani and other Shia mucky-mucks in order to bring on the re-appearance of the 12th Imam.

so now they can visit the imam at home, instead.
Posted by: PlanetDan || 01/29/2007 17:12 Comments || Top||

#4  Dang Bluetooth coonection to H*ll is down. Can't reach the 12th Iman.
Posted by: anymouse || 01/29/2007 19:14 Comments || Top||

#5  CNN this AM > 200 fighters reported killed. US-suppor Iraqi forces involved and fighting credibly agz militants.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 01/29/2007 20:22 Comments || Top||

#6  Good catch JoeMan, that might be the big story.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/29/2007 22:20 Comments || Top||


Another Update to the Karbala Killings
Correction: A previous version of this release cited an incorrect date for the incident.
BAGHDAD -- Armed insurgents attacked the Provincial Joint Coordination Center in Karbala, about 30 miles south of Baghdad, dressed in U.S. Army styled combat uniforms Jan. 20, in which five U.S. Soldiers were killed and three others wounded.

At approximately 5 p.m., a convoy consisting of at least five sport utility vehicles entered the Karbala compound. The armed militants wore American-looking uniforms and carried U.S.-type weapons convincing Iraqi checkpoints to allow their passage. Once inside the compound, an estimated nine to 12 armed militants engaged the American troops with rifle fire and hand grenades.

While defending the command post, one Soldier was killed and three others were wounded by a hand grenade thrown into the center's main office which contains the provincial police chief's office on an upper floor. During the attack in the main building, Soldiers defending it reported hearing a series of explosions in the compound causing the Soldiers to seek cover. Three U.S. military Humvees were damaged from the explosions.

The attackers broke off the assault withdrawing from the compound with four captured U.S. Soldiers. The insurgents then drove out of the Karbala province and into neighboring Babil province, encountering an Iraqi police checkpoint.
The sport utility vehicles passed through the checkpoint, but the Iraqi police trailed the vehicles, suspicious of the group.
After proceeding further east and crossing the Euphrates River, the assailants drove north toward Hillah, abandoning five SUVs, U.S. Army-type combat uniforms, boots, radios and a non-U.S. made rifle.

Iraqi police in pursuit found the abandoned vehicles and equipment near the Iraqi town of Al Mahawil. Two Soldiers were found handcuffed together in the back of one of the SUVs. Both had suffered gunshot wounds and were dead. A third Soldier was found shot and dead on the ground. Nearby, the fourth Soldier was still alive, despite a gunshot wound to the head. The Iraqi police rushed the severely wounded Soldier to a nearby hospital, but the Soldier died enroute.

"The precision of the attack, the equipment used and the possible use of explosives to destroy the military vehicles in the compound suggests that the attack was well rehearsed prior to execution," said Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl, spokesman for Multi-National Division-Baghdad. "The attackers went straight to where Americans were located in the provincial government facility, by-passing the Iraqi police in the compound," said Bleichwehl. "We are looking at all the evidence to determine who or what was responsible for the breakdown in security at the compound and the perpetration of the assault."

Bleichwehl said the U.S. Soldiers of the Karbala compound demonstrated uncommon courage and valor. "Our hearts go out to the families of the fallen warriors from Karbala," he said. "They were true heroes who fought to the last."
Posted by: Bobby || 01/29/2007 13:05 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This crosses the line so far that a large number of orders should be issued that contain the phrase "with extreme prejudice".
Posted by: Anonymoose || 01/29/2007 13:27 Comments || Top||

#2  "Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl, spokesman for Multi-National Division-Baghdad. "The attackers went straight to where Americans were located in the provincial government facility, by-passing the Iraqi police in the compound," said Bleichwehl."

Deja Vu all over again. I would start by waterboarding the Iraqi soliders guarding the main gate and work my way to the point of attack. Somebody "on our side" gave these guys up.
Posted by: VietVet68 || 01/29/2007 13:33 Comments || Top||

#3  "The attackers went straight to where Americans were located in the provincial government facility, by-passing the Iraqi police Iraqi police Iraqi police Iraqi police Iraqi police Iraqi police Iraqi police in the compound," said Bleichwehl. "We are looking at all the evidence to determine who or what was responsible for the breakdown in security at the compound and the perpetration of the assault."

LTC Bleichwehl, may I direct your attention at the highlight area above?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/29/2007 13:35 Comments || Top||

#4  Classic op, clean execution, no way the Iraqi's could have done it without help both from the outside as well as in the compound. One of the guards or staffers, gave them up. I would start with the staff in the building and see who was not at work that day. The message seems to be that we are vulnerable even in our camps and the more important mission is to drive a wedge between us and the joint command. They need to handle this carefully.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 01/29/2007 14:56 Comments || Top||

#5  Question the Iraqi police like Tony Soprano would.
Posted by: anymouse || 01/29/2007 20:16 Comments || Top||


Mahdi Killed In Najaf Battle
The leader of an Iraqi cult who claimed to be the Mahdi, a messiah-like figure in Islam, was killed in a battle on Sunday near Najaf with hundreds of his followers, Iraq's national security minister said on Monday.

Women and children who joined 600-700 of his "Soldiers of Heaven" on the outskirts of the Shi'ite holy city may be among the casualties, Shirwan al-Waeli told Reuters. All those people not killed were in detention, many of them wounded.

Authorities were on alert on Monday as hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite Muslims massed in the area to commemorate Ashura, the highpoint of their religious calendar, amid fears of attacks by Sunni Arab insurgents linked to al Qaeda.

But Sunday's battle involved a group of a different sort.

The final casualty toll, put by other Iraqi officials at 300 gunmen, was still being calculated, Waeli said, putting the initial figure at about 200. Searchers were still scouring the area where U.S. tanks, helicopters and jets reinforced Iraqi troops during some 24 hours of fighting.

"He claimed to be the Mahdi," Waeli said of the cult's leader, adding that he had used the full name Mahdi bin Ali bin Ali bin Abi Taleb, claiming descent from the Prophet Mohammad.

He was believed to be a 40-year-old from the nearby Shi'ite city of Diwaniya: "He was killed," Waeli said.

The group, which other Iraqi officials said included both Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims as well as foreigners, had planned an attack on the Shi'ite clerical establishment in Najaf on Monday, the climax of Ashura.

"One of the signs of the coming of the Mahdi was to be the killing of the Ulema (hierarchy) in Najaf," Waeli said. "This was a perverse claim. No sane person could believe it."

Though Sunnis and Shi'ites are engaged in an embryonic sectarian civil war in Iraq, there have been instances in Islamic history where groups have drawn from both communities to challenge the authority of the existing clerical leadership.

Waeli said the death toll among Iraqi forces was around 10 soldiers and police. Najaf's police chief was wounded, he said.

Two U.S. soldiers were killed when their attack helicopter came down during the fighting, the military said. Iraqi officials and witnesses said it appeared to have been shot down.

Some of the fighters wore headbands describing themselves as "Soldiers of Heaven," Iraqi officials said. It was not clear how many women and children were present: "It is very sad to bring families onto the battlefield," Waeli said.

When police first approached the camp and tried to call on the group to leave, their leader replied: "I am the Mahdi and I want you to join me," Waeli said, adding: "Today was supposed to be the day of his coming."

Other Iraqi officials said on Sunday that a man named Ahmed Hassani al-Yemeni, who had been working from an office in Najaf until it was closed down earlier this month, had assembled the group, claiming to be the messenger of the Mahdi.

Among previous violent instances of people saying they were the Mahdi were an opposition movement to British imperial forces in Sudan in the 1880s and a group of several hundred, including women, that took over the Grand Mosque in Mecca in 1979.

The U.S. military declined to provide details, saying operations were continuing.

The U.S. military officially handed over responsibility for Najaf province, in southern Iraq, to Iraqi security forces last month and withdrew most U.S. troops, to be recalled only to help in emergencies.

There are precedents in Islamic history for such violent cults. They have declared temporal Muslim leaders illegitimate infidels and have drawn followers from both Sunni and Shi'ite believers, proclaiming a unity of inspiration from Mohammad.

In today's Iraq, the powerful Mehdi Army militia of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr shares the name but not the ideas.

Up to 1.5 millions pilgrims gathered in Kerbala, 70 km (40 miles) north of Najaf, for the climax of Ashura and 11,000 troops and police were deployed.

More than 100 people were killed there by suicide bombers three years ago, as Shi'ites marked the first Ashura after the end of heavy restrictions imposed by Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated state.

Shiyaa Mousa, 49, a tribal leader who was in Kerbala, said he was worried about violence. "They started in Najaf yesterday and they will do it tomorrow, God forbid," he said.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 01/29/2007 09:39 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  So.... instead of the sign of the cross like Christians do, will his followers do "Oh SHIT!" and duck and cover from the 500lb JDAM?
Posted by: DarthVader || 01/29/2007 9:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Ha! Phony bastard!
I hate poseurs...
Posted by: Ahmadinejad || 01/29/2007 10:19 Comments || Top||

#3  Wassent me.
Posted by: mahdi as a hatdi || 01/29/2007 11:33 Comments || Top||

#4  the article points out that: "Women and children who joined 600-700 of his "Soldiers of Heaven" on the outskirts of the Shi'ite holy city may be among the casualties"...but fails to mention if PUPPIES may also be among the casualties!

Posted by: Justrand || 01/29/2007 11:54 Comments || Top||

#5  Sounds like a small end-timer sect, I assume the sects will get bigger.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/29/2007 12:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Shipman, don't you mean "get buggered"?
Posted by: RWV || 01/29/2007 12:22 Comments || Top||

#7  Indeed. Let us prey.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/29/2007 12:26 Comments || Top||

#8  One has to feel for the women and children. They were so looking forward to stripping and abusing the corpses of their fallen enemies.

Posted by: trailing wife || 01/29/2007 12:44 Comments || Top||

#9  I am concerned this whole battle may be just a diversion for something bigger. There seem to be significant elements of both AQ Sunni and apocalyptic Shia involved in it. The Apocalytists don't seem to be very 'professional' in their battling - which makes me suspect they may be nothing more than 'useful idiots' for some other group with some other plan.
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/29/2007 13:07 Comments || Top||

#10  You're well on your way to understaning the muzzie mind Glenmore. Their phueching lives evolve around conspiracies of all shapes and colours.
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/29/2007 13:11 Comments || Top||

#11  Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting

Mahdis come, Mahdis go.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 01/29/2007 13:33 Comments || Top||

#12  Z, at 'Healing Iraq', posted the following regarding this battle:

"An Iraqi security source, however, as well as the local Iraqi media, identified the militants as members of a Shi’ite splinter group called Al-Mahdiyoun or Ansar Al-Imam Al-Mahdi, which if true means the U.S. military was once again duped into doing the dirty work of SCIRI and other Shi’ite factions – and, I daresay, Iran – for them."
Posted by: Glenmore || 01/29/2007 13:43 Comments || Top||

#13  "This was a perverse claim. No sane person could believe it."

I guess sanity is a relative thing, too.
Posted by: gorb || 01/29/2007 14:12 Comments || Top||

#14  Oh crap -- more virgins!
Posted by: Mahdi bin Ali bin Ali bin Abi Taleb || 01/29/2007 14:31 Comments || Top||

#15  "There are precedents in Islamic history for such violent cults."

Does anybody want to field this one....?

heh.
Posted by: Mark E. || 01/29/2007 16:01 Comments || Top||

#16  The worst part of this report is that they're actually using embryos in this conflict.

"Though Sunnis and Shi'ites are engaged in an embryonic sectarian civil war in Iraq..."

This madness must be stopped. It's bad enough that Hezbulla is arming children. But using the unborn in Iraq? Disspicable.
Posted by: OregonGuy || 01/29/2007 17:07 Comments || Top||

#17  [/emilylitella]
Posted by: Parabellum || 01/29/2007 17:55 Comments || Top||

#18  Cage match between the Mahdi and the 12th Imam, who would win?

Or are they the same thing?
Posted by: rjschwarz || 01/29/2007 18:24 Comments || Top||

#19  Cage match between the Mahdi and the 12th Imam, who would win?

Same thing, I think. See also "Anti-Christ".
Posted by: Robert Crawford || 01/29/2007 20:20 Comments || Top||

#20  Melikey the following two sentences in this article.

"Today was supposed to be the day of his coming."

The U.S. military declined to provide details, saying operations were continuing.


All I can say is...if'n our infidel boyz can keep the Mahdi from gettin' his due, I'ma gonna back 'em even more than I already do. Allan Snackbar, baby!
Posted by: BA || 01/29/2007 20:36 Comments || Top||

#21  Anonymoose

Bob Bob Bob Bob Bob Bob Bob Bob Bob...
Posted by: 3dc || 01/29/2007 22:04 Comments || Top||

#22  Does that mean the Anti-Christ (Muslim Dajjal) won the battle? Another prophecy bit the dust.
Posted by: Sneaze Shaiting3550 || 01/29/2007 22:06 Comments || Top||


Iraq: 300 Insurgents Killed in Battle
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 01/29/2007 04:43 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Remember, only *left* ears count."
Posted by: Anonymoose || 01/29/2007 13:34 Comments || Top||


Some 13 killed, 35 injured in two car bombs N. Iraq - police
(KUNA) -- Some 13 Iraqi civilians were killed and 35 other were wounded as a result of two car blasts in Kirkuk northern Iraq, police said Sunday.

The first explosion killed eight people and injured 19 others, as a roadside bomb, which was placed near a car showroom in al-Mass neighborhood downtown Kirkuk went off, resulting also in damaging cars and buildings, Brigadier Sarhad Qader of Kirkuk's police told KUNA. The other explosion took place in al-Shourja neighborhood, where five civilians were killed and 16 others were injured, Qader added, pointing that both areas were of Kurds and Christians inhabitants.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:


US and Iraqi forces kill 250 militants in Najaf
US and Iraqi forces killed 250 gunmen in a fierce battle involving US tanks and helicopters on the outskirts of the Shia holy city of Najaf on Sunday, a senior Iraqi police officer said. The day-long battle was continuing after nightfall, Colonel Ali Nomas told Reuters, as tens of thousands of pilgrims converged on the nearby city of Kerbala for the climax of the Ashura commemorations.

A US helicopter was shot down in the fighting, Iraq security sources said. The US military declined comment. Officers in Iraq’s 8th Army Division and policemen said the helicopter had crashed and that the two crew members were dead.

At least 61 people were killed and scores wounded in Iraq Sunday, while police found 54 more corpses of people in Baghdad. Two car bombings killed 16 people and wounded 30 in Kirkuk, police said. Eight more people were killed and 18 wounded as a car bomb ripped through the Sadr City in Baghdad. Casualties were also reported from south of Baghdad in the Babil province where several mortar rounds killed another 10 people, a police officer said.

Five Iraqi soldiers were killed and 19 people, including policemen, were wounded in a dawn battle in the area that pitted Iraqi and US forces against the militiamen, defence and security sources said. Bodies of 54 people were recovered from the streets of Baghdad on Sunday.

In another Baghdad attack, an adviser to Industry Minister Fawzi Hariri was killed along with his daughter, driver and bodyguard in an ambush, a security source said. Gunmen raked the convoy of Adel Abdel Mohsen with automatic weapons fire in Yarmuk, western Baghdad. At least 18 more Iraqis died in other violence.

Iraqi forces, meanwhile, beefed up security south of the Iraqi capital, along the 110 kilometres of highway from Baghdad to Karbala. Three foreign suspects, including an Afghan and a Saudi, were arrested near Baghdad as they wired a car bomb to be used against Shias in Karbala, security sources said.

In Washington, meanwhile, tens of thousands of protestors told lawmakers to cut off funds for US President George Bush’s new Iraq strategy. In another development, “Chemical Ali”, a cousin of Saddam Hussein and lead defendant in the genocide trial of six former regime officials, on Sunday defended having ordered a military campaign against Iraqi Kurdish villagers in the late 1980s.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Two amazing things in this story: the number of terrorist casualties in Sunday's fighting & the fact that Iraqi Shiites persist in assembling in huge numbers for Ashura during a time of murderous chaos, making a most tempting target for the Sunnis & al Qaeda to hit.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 01/29/2007 2:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Keep 'em coming in herds. A target rich environment.
Posted by: anymouse || 01/29/2007 3:07 Comments || Top||

#3  while police found 54 more corpses of people in Baghdad

Is this the same 54 as five sentences later?

Bodies of 54 people were recovered from the streets of Baghdad on Sunday.

Poor editing? Doubling up to magnify the carnage? I report; you decide.
Posted by: Bobby || 01/29/2007 6:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Sounds almost like a Georgetown deal, hellishly amateur tactics, gotta be the cult.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/29/2007 6:11 Comments || Top||

#5  Three foreign suspects, including an Afghan and a Saudi, were arrested near Baghdad as they wired a car bomb to be used against Shias in Karbala, security sources said.

Well done! It sounds like it's working.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/29/2007 6:56 Comments || Top||

#6  It's up to 300 "insurgents" killed now.

Jan 29, 3:45 AM (ET) Ahmed Deaibil, a spokesman for Najaf province, said the fighting had stopped but U.S. and Iraqi forces still had the area surrounded and had seized heavy machine guns, ammunition and other weapons. He said 300 militants had been killed and 13 arrested, while the casualty toll for Iraqi forces was three soldiers and two policemen killed and 30 wounded. Iraqi security officials said earlier that one Sudanese was among the fighters captured.

Officials were unclear about the religious affiliation of the militants.

Iraqi soldiers attacked at dawn and militants hiding in orchards fought back with automatic weapons, sniper rifles and rockets, Provincial Gov. Assad Sultan Abu Kilel said. He said the insurgents were members of a previously unknown group called the Army of Heaven. "They are well-equipped and they even have anti-aircraft missiles," the governor said. "They are backed by some locals" loyal to ousted dictator Saddam Hussein.

[Separately,] The U.S. command announced the arrest of 21 suspected terrorists, including an al-Qaida courier, in a series of raids in Baghdad and Sunni areas north and west of the capital. Three are believed to have close ties to the leadership of al-Qaida in Iraq, the military said.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/29/2007 7:16 Comments || Top||

#7  And from the Washington Post:

The fighting began overnight when a police checkpoint near Najaf came under fire, leading the Iraqi police to the farms in the Zargaa area where the fighters had dug trenches and stockpiled weapons, said Lt. Rahim al-Fetlawi, a police officer in Najaf. The officers who responded found themselves outgunned by the estimated 350 to 400 insurgents entrenched there, said Col. Majid Rashid of the Iraqi army in Najaf. Reinforcements from the Iraqi army's 8th Division arrived along with U.S. helicopters and ground troops. Iraqi security forces maintain primary control of Najaf province, and U.S. forces do not have an established, full-time presence there. U.S. military units based in Baghdad responded to Najaf when the fighting escalated.

"They saw that they needed some help and called in air support," a U.S. military official said on condition of anonymity. "That's exactly what they're supposed to do." Iraqi officials said the insurgents were using shoulder-fired rockets, antiaircraft guns and Katyusha rockets.

Iraqi officials said the insurgent leader on Sunday was Ahmed Hassan al-Yamani, a Shiite from Diwaniyah province in southern Iraq.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/29/2007 7:46 Comments || Top||

#8  Okay, time for me to voice some reservations.

Until I actually see a photo of 250 Jihadi corpses in neat LONG rows, I am loath to believe reports coming from arabs. Even arabs that are putatively on our side.

Now, I am very much aware that these bastards drag away, where possible, the bodies of their fallen comrades, not out of a sense of duty or reverence to their own, but to ensure that the body counts are lower than they actually are. In view of that, I'd believe one of our soldiers, raised in a culture (both civilian AND military) where honesty is encouraged, to be telling the truth when he says, "I tagged a couple of them, and I think I dropped another three."

Let's face it, the gap between Arab talk and Arab reality has been DEMONSTRATED to require that it be expressed in units of light years.

I've been here long enough for all of you to know that, if these guys really sent 250 militants to meet their 72 white grapes, I'd be utterly delighted. However, I've decided to live my life in accordance to the below sign I saw in a Christian oriented business a while back:

In God We Trust.

All others pay cash.
Posted by: Ptah || 01/29/2007 8:11 Comments || Top||

#9  Good points Ptah.

This must have killed the AP to report this one. Let's see if our traitors in the TV MSM report this one on the 6pm news. Not holding my breath.
Posted by: Icerigger || 01/29/2007 9:05 Comments || Top||

#10  Ok, lunch is over, back to work. We have more body sponges coming up from Supply, so no slacking off. Good job.
Posted by: steven || 01/29/2007 9:19 Comments || Top||

#11  TW,
May I point something out in your post:

Katyusha rockets

Katyushas - if this is indeed what they are, one must allow for the MSM's inability to distinguish one weapon from another - are not something one just hides until you need it. The smallest Katya launchers are about the size of four average office desks stacked two end to end then two more on top of that. It would take, at the very least, a 1/4 ton pickup to haul one, and even that's iffy. If these guys are pulling Katyas and launchers out of their hats, they're doing it because someone is LETTING them store them quite safely somewhere - or they're being brought in as needed.
*looks at Iranian border*

Mike

Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/29/2007 9:21 Comments || Top||

#12  It could be that the terrorists were using Russian made morters and that Iraqi army slang (maybe even Arab slang) for all Russian made launchers (whether they lauch rockets or shells) is "Katyuskas".
Posted by: mhw || 01/29/2007 11:14 Comments || Top||

#13  Let's face it, the gap between Arab talk and Arab reality has been DEMONSTRATED to require that it be expressed in units of light years.

Yeah, still I'm hoping against hope. Sounds like something happened tho, maybe they broke up a dinner-on-the-grounds.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/29/2007 12:23 Comments || Top||

#14  Mike, you have an astounding breadth and depth of knowledge on such matters, whereas I recently learned that missiles always explode because of the rocket fuel, so if I see something on the ground, even with fins, it will be a bomb. ;-) Not just *Iran* must be looked at askance -- the owner of the date palm orchard didn't send a lad to inform the police or the Iraqi army or the Americans about what he'd been forced to allow on his property. And orchards take several decades to establish from the bare ground, so...
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/29/2007 12:54 Comments || Top||

#15  TW-

*bows deeply*
Thank you, Ma'am. I only use my powers and skills for good.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/29/2007 13:51 Comments || Top||

#16  For which I, at least, am profoundly grateful.
Posted by: trailing wife || 01/29/2007 13:53 Comments || Top||

#17  And orchards take several decades to establish from the bare ground, so...

Send in the D8s and sow the ground with salt!
Posted by: Robert Crawford || 01/29/2007 20:17 Comments || Top||

#18  So, taking my eye off of Najaf, I'ma lookin' at Sadr City. What's goin' on there? A car bomb kills 8, but I thought we and/or the IA were headin' in there. Did we not cordon, clear and hold there (at least not yet)?
Posted by: BA || 01/29/2007 20:21 Comments || Top||

#19  18 - definitely not yet. Weve only just started bringing new units in, and the gleanings in the parts of the MSM that actually know something about whats happening on the ground are that the op will start with the mixed areas first.
Posted by: liberalhawk || 01/29/2007 23:04 Comments || Top||

#20  Many of us have heard bodycounts by the natives before. Al-Haig introduced it into the then popular lexicon. Estimates usually factored into an order of magnitude higher than discoverable bodies.

Just kill'em all. No counting required.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/29/2007 23:09 Comments || Top||

#21  Many of us have heard bodycounts by the natives before. Al-Haig introduced it into the then popular lexicon. Estimates usually factored into an order of magnitude higher than discoverable bodies.

Just kill'em all. No counting required.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/29/2007 23:09 Comments || Top||

#22  Many of us have heard bodycounts by the natives before. Al-Haig introduced it into the then popular lexicon. Estimates usually factored into an order of magnitude higher than discoverable bodies.

Just kill'em all. No counting required.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/29/2007 23:10 Comments || Top||

#23  Many of us have heard bodycounts by the natives before. Al-Haig introduced it into the then popular lexicon. Estimates usually factored into an order of magnitude higher than discoverable bodies.

Just kill'em all. No counting required.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/29/2007 23:10 Comments || Top||

#24  Many of us have heard bodycounts by the natives before. Al-Haig introduced it into the then popular lexicon. Estimates usually factored into an order of magnitude higher than discoverable bodies.

Just kill'em all. No counting required.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/29/2007 23:10 Comments || Top||

#25  Many of us have heard bodycounts by the natives before. Al-Haig introduced it into the then popular lexicon. Estimates usually factored into an order of magnitude higher than discoverable bodies.

Just kill'em all. No counting required.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/29/2007 23:10 Comments || Top||

#26  Many of us have heard bodycounts by the natives before. Al-Haig introduced it into the then popular lexicon. Estimates usually factored into an order of magnitude higher than discoverable bodies.

Just kill'em all. No counting required.
Posted by: Skidmark || 01/29/2007 23:10 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Three killed in first suicide bombing to strike Eilat
In the first suicide bombing to strike Israel's southernmost city, a bomber blew himself up in an Eilat bakery shortly before 9:30 a.m. Monday morning, killing three people but wounding only a few others. Director of MDA in Eilat Robert Tolesco said that when paramedics arrived on the scene, they had found no one in need of medical attention. Surprisingly, only three people arrived at Yosephtal Hospital in Eilat following the bombing. All three required treatment for shock, and one woman was also suffering from ringing in her ears as a result of the explosion.

Al-Arabiya television reported on Monday that the bomber was Muhammad Faisal al-Saksak, a 21-year-old Gaza resident and member of Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades.
If my name was Mohammad Faisal al-Sucksuck I'd try and kill myself, too. I probably wouldn't have lasted until I was 21, either.
According to reports by security sources, at least two local residents had spotted the al-Saksak, whose heavy coat and large bag aroused their suspicions, and called the police. When al-Saksak - who, according to security forces, appeared to have stopped for coffee on his way to execute the bombing in a more crowded area - saw police cars approaching the bakery, he blew himself up.
"I'd like a coffee to go, infidel."
"Grande? Demi-grande? Latte? Double-latte? Expresso? Cappucino? Foam?"
"Oh hell with it!" [ka-boom!]
Benny Mazgini, 45, said he was in an apartment across the street when the building shook from the force of the blast. "It was awful - there was smoke, pieces of flesh all over the place," Mazgini said. Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades, the Islamic Jihad (which until recently refused to sign any cease-fire agreements), and a new terror group calling itself "Army of Believers" claimed joint reponsibility for the attack.

Eilat firefighter Shahar Zaid told Channel 2 that the bombing had not resulted in a blaze, as often occurs after an explosion, and that because the bomber had blown up inside the bakery, the damage had been comparatively contained. According to Channel 2, Eilat authorities had recently received warnings of possible terror attacks. However, police later denied that there had been warnings.

Eilat's police commander said his forces were working to secure the city. "Our assumption is that it's not one bomber, and there might be more bombers in Eilat right now," Stein said.

Some two hours after the bombing, roadblocks had been erected at all entrances to and exits from Eilat. In addition, police raised the level of alert nationwide. Police and the Shin Bet were looking into the possibility that the bomber had infiltrated Israel from the Sinai Peninsula. Global Jihad cells are known to be operating just south of Israel's border with Egypt.

Only Saturday, Egyptian security forces arrested a 17-year-old Alexandria resident who told a taxi driver in Sinai that he intended to execute a suicide bombing in Israel. Egypt said in response to Monday's bombing that there was "no way" that either the bomber or the explosives used could have been smuggled through Sinai, Israel Radio reported.

No suicide attacks have been carried out in Israel since April 17, 2006, when nine people were killed after a bomber blew himself up at a shwarma restaurant in Tel Aviv's old central bus station. Islamic Jihad claimed that attack.
Posted by: ryuge || 01/29/2007 07:07 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A question for Rantburgers. Do they have levels of Martyrs.? Like does this guy only get two virgins and a goat, since he was a failure, but tried? Do they grade on a bell curve when giving virgins?
Posted by: plainslow || 01/29/2007 8:43 Comments || Top||

#2  Depends on the hadith quoted and the interpretation.

The majority view is that all moslems (male) get at least 72 virgins (plus lots of other goodies); but the matyrs (as was al-Saksak) get their rewards instantly.
Posted by: mhw || 01/29/2007 9:18 Comments || Top||

#3  I'm too old for feckless, giggly virgins, but a John Deere 25 horse, with a 54 inch deck would be handy. Enclosed cab with an AC unit (just in case). What religion was it again...?
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/29/2007 9:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Tractorism , Besoeker . A very rewarding religion , 'cept after an oil leak .
Posted by: MacNails || 01/29/2007 9:32 Comments || Top||

#5  Whahahhahahaha
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/29/2007 9:34 Comments || Top||

#6  "Tractorism" sounds viable, I propose "Church" be A 40 acre field (minimum) needing attention, We"ll have different "Sects" ,mowing, plowing, harrowing, planting, and a sub-sect or two for Quail, partridge, Deer or whatever the local game is. Meetings are irregular, depending on season.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 01/29/2007 12:42 Comments || Top||

#7  No PETA members need apply.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 01/29/2007 12:54 Comments || Top||

#8  Peretz ordered operations inside Gaza. If someone here is competent enough to post the article with a proper link, here it is.
Posted by: Mike N. || 01/29/2007 15:01 Comments || Top||

#9  And here I was all set to add that it must have been a "Starblast" coffee shop, but then got sidetracked with all the discussion about John Deeres and big decks and such.
Can hardly wait for mowing season. Grass. Talibunnies. It don't matter.
Remember: Except for the Brave Lions of Islam, Nothing Runs (Away) Like a Deere.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 01/29/2007 15:15 Comments || Top||

#10  Enclosed cab with an AC unit

Bah, no modern religion for me. I grew up on a Ford 8N tractor with the Model T engine, complete with front mounted magneto. Cleverly located where the fan would blow melted snow all over it while plowing the road in a blizzard. Had to keep stopping to dry it out while fighting off packs of hungry wolves.
Posted by: Steve || 01/29/2007 15:15 Comments || Top||

#11  Steve: did'ja leave out the part about having to keep one hand on the carb linkage to keep it running whilst fighting off said wolves ?:)
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 01/29/2007 15:19 Comments || Top||

#12  A friend of mine has an 8N with some kind of road gear. I swear that thing will clip along at like 30. I admit, I lust after it. Which model Ford tractor had the V8 flatty in it? I saw 3 of them at a car show one time. Scored very high on the woodometer.
Posted by: Mike N. || 01/29/2007 16:03 Comments || Top||

#13  Had an allis-Chalmers "C" one time, it"s surprisingly easy to get parts for these old beasts.
Posted by: Had an allis-Chalmers"C", surprisingly easy to get parts for these old beasts || 01/29/2007 16:08 Comments || Top||

#14  Cookie monster struck again.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 01/29/2007 16:10 Comments || Top||

#15  Martyrs also get a pass to jannah for 80 of their relatives. Got a no good cousin? Then off yourself Achmed.
Posted by: ed || 01/29/2007 16:20 Comments || Top||

#16  Farmall H. Surprisingly impractical for plowing my driveway. Thought it would be neat. Neighbors hated it. I hate them, so it worked perfect.
Posted by: Mike N. || 01/29/2007 16:21 Comments || Top||

#17  Oddly enough they hate my racecar too. Some people don't appreciate methanol motors with open headers.
Posted by: Mike N. || 01/29/2007 16:26 Comments || Top||

#18  #6 "Tractorism" sounds viable, I propose "Church" be A 40 acre field (minimum) needing attention, We"ll have different "Sects" ,mowing, plowing, harrowing, planting, and a sub-sect or two for Quail, partridge, Deer or whatever the local game is. Meetings are irregular, depending on season. Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-01-29 12:42
Sounds like Baptists to me...
Posted by: Old Patriot || 01/29/2007 17:13 Comments || Top||

#19  Re:#18: and #6 "Tractorism" sounds viable, I propose "Church" be A 40 acre field (minimum) needing attention, We"ll have different "Sects" ,mowing, plowing, harrowing, planting, and a sub-sect or two for Quail, partridge, Deer or whatever the local game is. Meetings are irregular, depending on season. Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-01-29 12:42
Sounds like Baptists to me...
I demand my own splinter sect; dedicated to racing lawn mowers. Something dreadfully wrong with going 35 + mph on a 12 hp Briggs-powered JD SX38. Fun, but everybody ensures their children are safely away from you (me) when the sport is mentioned...... Only oval racers allowed, btw.
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 01/29/2007 17:40 Comments || Top||

#20  only oval racers allowed

If its on dirt, I'm in.
Posted by: Mike N. || 01/29/2007 17:49 Comments || Top||

#21  Can I request open wheels? Fenders are just silly.
Posted by: Mike N. || 01/29/2007 17:50 Comments || Top||

#22  Sounds like Baptists to me...

Actualy I was raised as A "pissypalian" but it didn"t "Take"
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 01/29/2007 18:08 Comments || Top||

#23  Grew up with a Farmall Cub and an International Harvester of a forgotten model. Both were older than me, and both are probably still running.
Posted by: Robert Crawford || 01/29/2007 20:14 Comments || Top||

#24  No PETA members need apply.

Unless, of course, PETA stands for People Eating Tasty Animals. And, on the Baptist front, I resemble that remark, just not old enough to talk about farm life (grew up in suburban Atlanta).

*DUCKS all older folk mad at me*
Posted by: BA || 01/29/2007 20:29 Comments || Top||

#25  Open wheels and of course on dirt; pavement is just for gettin' there. But watching a Toro lay rubber or a Craftsman w/ an 883 Harley do a burnout is a bit, uh, different.
check out www.fasttractors.com, our BC racing buddies
Posted by: USN, ret. || 01/29/2007 22:07 Comments || Top||

#26  Had to keep stopping to dry it out while fighting off packs of hungry wolves.

At least you had wolves, we had to make do with the neighbors picture of an angry Lassie.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/29/2007 22:31 Comments || Top||


Palestinian president escapes assassination attempt
(KUNA) -- Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas escaped an assassination attempt last week, the Israeli Yediot Ahronot daily reported on Sunday. "Four large explosive devices were uncovered by Abbas' security officers on the road leading from the Erez crossing to Gaza, as the Palestinian president left Ramallah and was about to travel on that route," the paper said.

Upon discovering the devices, Abbas' security officers instructed him to return to Ramallah. The explosive devices were detonated by sappers of the Presidential Guard. The assassination attempt took place while the Palestinian president was on his way to meet Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh to discuss the establishment of a national unity government.

The Israeli newspaper quoted Palestinian sources as blaming the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) for the attempt on Abbas' life. Palestinian security forces claimed last week that they had uncovered what they called a large network of tunnels at Jabaliya camp in northern Gaza Strip where explosive devices were planted. Fatah accused Hamas' supporters of planning to assassinate its leaders, chiefly Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and its member of the Legislative Council Mohamed Dahlan, a charge which Hamas emphatically dismissed as baseless.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tambien mal, mescal.
Posted by: gromgoru || 01/29/2007 0:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Tambien mal, mescal.
Posted by: gromgoru || 01/29/2007 0:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Sorry.
Posted by: gromgoru || 01/29/2007 0:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Hamas season, Fatah season... faster.
Posted by: twobyfour || 01/29/2007 0:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Keep digging, boys!
Posted by: Excalibur || 01/29/2007 9:18 Comments || Top||

#6  Oh boy! Is this another ratchet click on the Paleo "cycle of violence"?

If they're now trying to off the really big dogs I say screw the pop corn. It's time to break out the shrimp cocktail and Martinis.
Posted by: AlanC || 01/29/2007 10:27 Comments || Top||

#7  Ooh yes please AlanC ! Almost worthy of a full-on 6 course banquet , but shrimps and martini will do fine .
Posted by: MacNails || 01/29/2007 11:08 Comments || Top||

#8  MacNails,

This is the cocktail party before the banquet.

The first time they actually off A biggie, THEN we move on to the full 6 ccourses!!
Posted by: AlanC || 01/29/2007 13:04 Comments || Top||

#9  How about a 7 course meal: a pizza and a 6 pack?
Posted by: USN, Ret. || 01/29/2007 15:16 Comments || Top||

#10  well beat me and call me a liberal, but if I have my druthers, Abbas and Dahlan wont get killed.

But meanwhile a whole lot of thugs ARE getting killed, and thats good enough for me.
Posted by: liberalhawk || 01/29/2007 15:29 Comments || Top||

#11  well beat me and call me a liberal,

Liberal.
Posted by: Mike N. || 01/29/2007 16:23 Comments || Top||

#12  Well Mike N. took care of point 2, who's up to take on point 1? ;^)

Sorry LH I want them all to burn, maybe when they get down to the 8th string they'll find someone sane.
Posted by: AlanC || 01/29/2007 16:28 Comments || Top||

#13  what do we want from Abbas?

Nice words. Hes been willing to say nice words since 2001, since even before Yasser died.

Attempt to do certain cabinet maneuverings to get control of the PA sec forces. Well, after Arafat died, he started doing some of that.

Kick Hamas' ass. Thats been our last real gripe. Abbas is a talker not a doer. Says good things, but lets Hamas walk around with guns. Right? Well now Abbas' guys are in the streets killing Hamasniks, and being killed by them.

What the hell more could we ask? What would a sane Pal leader look like, that would be different from Abbas? He should, like, attack Meretz and Avodah for being too dovish? He should give a speech about why Maalei Adumim is a grand idea? He should endorse Bibi's latest book? And you guys think I'm naive?
Posted by: liberalhawk || 01/29/2007 17:00 Comments || Top||

#14  LH, why ya gotta be like, all reasonable and shit?

Excellent rant by the way. 3 1/2 stars out of 5.
Posted by: Mike N. || 01/29/2007 17:39 Comments || Top||

#15  By the way, the Big Guys called a ceasefire. Which was promptly ignored, the shootings and explosions have started up again.

Its great having folks you can count on, isnt it?
Posted by: liberalhawk || 01/29/2007 23:01 Comments || Top||


Islamic Jihad fires two rockets on Israeli locations
(KUNA) -- Islamic Jihad movement's military wing, Al-Quds brigades, claimed on Sunday responsibility for firing two rockets that hit the occupied City of Magdal and Sderot in North-East Gaza Strip.

One of the rockets targeted an Israeli military base in Magdal, said the Islamic Jihad in a statement, noting that its members who carried out the operations returned safely. The statement said that the operations had come in retaliation to "Zionist violations" against Palestinian people of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:


Palestinian factions exchange abduction operations
(KUNA) -- Palestinian movements of Hamas and Fatah on Sunday exchanged abduction operations in Gaza and Khan Younis. Hamas sources said that a group of Fatah gunmen abducted tonight Sheikh Raed Farwaneh, one of Hamas' leaders in Khan Younis. The sources added that farwaneh was abducted along with two of his guards while walking in the city. They were taken to an unknown destination.

Fatah sources accused gunmen from Hamas of abducting three relatives of a senior preventive security body in Gaza. The sources said that gunmen from Hamas kidnapped two children of Colonel Khamees Al-Ajouz, an official of the preventive security body, in addition to his nephew and took them to an unknown destination. Palestinian sources said that Hamas gunmen also abducted Brigadier Sayed Shaaban Abu Asr, an official of the preventive security body while he was driving his car south of Gaza City.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Decapitation videos?
Posted by: art lover || 01/29/2007 0:21 Comments || Top||

#2  All the humor and pathos of that gangster episode of Star Trek.
Posted by: SteveS || 01/29/2007 0:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Palestinian factions exchange abduction operations

Here's a video of one 'em being abducted, Ima guessing, Al-Aqsa Man-Jammies and Night-Soil Brigade.. sister org to Ham'ass

Linky
Posted by: RD || 01/29/2007 18:40 Comments || Top||

#4  see the M72 about 3/4 thru video..
Posted by: RD || 01/29/2007 18:51 Comments || Top||


2 more killed in Palestinian fighting
A Hamas supporter and another gunman were killed in a drive-by shooting in southern Gaza on Sunday, bringing the death toll in four days of Hamas-Fatah fighting to 27. In all, more than 60 Palestinians have been killed in internal fighting since December, including 26 in the latest round which began Thursday. Sunday’s violence began with a blast at the home of a bodyguard to Fatah strongman Mohammed Dahlan. The guard was not in the building, and no casualties were reported. Other clashes took place near security installations in Gaza City, and several Hamas loyalists were abducted in the northern Gaza Strip, Hamas officials said.

The violence also spread to the West Bank, where about 15 Fatah gunmen stormed into a West Bank bank and snatched a local Hamas leader, witnesses said. There has been a rash of kidnappings throughout the fighting. In all previous cases, the hostages have been released unharmed relatively quickly. By midafternoon, a lull appeared to be taking hold in Gaza City. The city’s main marketplace reopened, and people were out and about running errands. Gunmen opened fire on a police station in northern Gaza after sundown, wounding a police officer, security officials said. Also, they said, an intelligence officer and his bodyguard from Fatah were kidnapped. In the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis, a Hamas gunman was shot dead in a drive-by shooting after nightfall, Hamas officials said. A second gunmen was killed later, hospital officials said. His affiliation was not immediately known.
Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Finally, Palestinians discover why Allan created them.
Posted by: gromgoru || 01/29/2007 0:41 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm very confused, I thought they were initially conceived to burrow, have litters, seethe, and pursue a pointless deathwish, just like the lemmings. Does intercine fighting counts?
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 01/29/2007 5:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Man's gotta have a hobby 5089.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/29/2007 6:13 Comments || Top||

#4  Man's gotta have a hobby 5089.

I'll stick to stamp collecting ... unless they declare open season on congresscritters.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 01/29/2007 17:19 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Jihadis kill three in southern Thailand as violence spreads
Suspected Muslim insurgents shot and killed three laborers Monday morning in the Thai province of Songkhla, raising concern that violence may be spreading from the country's three southernmost, Muslim-dominated provinces.

The victims, all Buddhists, were on their way to work at a rubber plantation when they were ambushed by a group of assailants who opened fire on them with shotguns and pistols, said police Col. Thammasak Wasasiri. Another man was badly wounded in the attack, he said. The attack was under investigation.

"Initial investigations showed that it was an attack by Muslim insurgents," Thammasak said. The attack took place in Sabayoi, a predominantly Muslim district, next to Pattani province, which along with Yala and Narathiwat provinces has been the scene of an Islamic insurgency that has led to more than 1,900 deaths in the past three years.

The insurgency takes advantage of long-standing sentiment among southern Muslims that they are treated like second-class citizens in Buddhist-dominated Thailand. Attacks on civilians and officials in the three restive provinces close to Songkhla are seen as a move to drive out Buddhists from the area. "Sabayoi has become one of the red zones where the insurgency movement have become active in recent months," Thammasak said. Songkhla has seen an occasional spillover of violence, but nothing like the almost daily bombings and shootings that plague its neighboring provinces.

In Pattani, a group of 70 veiled women along with their children gathered Monday in front of a police station in Nong Chik district to demand the release of Manadee Samah, a suspected Muslim insurgent who was arrested Sunday. There was no violence reported, but such confrontations usually contribute to tensions in the area, and sometimes escalate.

On a Saturday visit to southern Thailand, Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont restated his hopes for a peaceful solution to the conflict. When he took over as interim prime minister after a coup last September, he said that restoring peace in the south would be one of his administration's priorities.

He said that Indonesia and Malaysia, Southeast Asia's main Muslim-dominated countries, will join hands with the Thai government in developing the three troubled southern provinces based on Islamic principles.
Posted by: ryuge || 01/29/2007 07:11 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The victims, all Buddhists, were on their way to work at a rubber plantation when they were ambushed by a group of assailants who opened fire on them with shotguns and pistols

I am vaguely pleased it isn't just us Christians who are being total pussies about this. Time for some Banzai-Crusading spirit. Retaliate in kind. Burn'em out.
Posted by: Excalibur || 01/29/2007 15:06 Comments || Top||


Good morning to yez...
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Posted by: Fred || 01/29/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mullah Tallulah?
Posted by: Frank G || 01/29/2007 7:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Ah...Tallulah. Daughter of a diplomat, lesbian, alcholic, and a certifiable wack job.
3 out of 4 ain't bad.
Posted by: JerseyMike || 01/29/2007 8:00 Comments || Top||

#3  Mike:

Agree with you on the US State Dept. connection, but am deeply troubled at the other assertions! Many of my closest friend here have had a lot in common with her!
Posted by: Besoeker || 01/29/2007 8:16 Comments || Top||

#4  Beosoker,
Sadly, Miss Tallulah never hid her proclivities, but say this about her: she never took any sh*t about it, as demonstrated by the following quote:

"My father warned me about men and booze... but he never said anything about women and cocaine."

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 01/29/2007 8:23 Comments || Top||

#5  Daughter of a diplomat, lesbian, alcholic, and a certifiable wack job.

I bet she was a thespian too!
Posted by: SteveS || 01/29/2007 9:27 Comments || Top||

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Posted by: JessicaL || 01/29/2007 9:46 Comments || Top||

#7  I bet she was a thespian too!

I read somewhere there was a political campaign during the Victorian age - I can't remember who it was, where the "smear" against the other guy was - "...his sister is a notoriuos and unrepentant thespian."
Pretty funny I think.
Posted by: JerseyMike || 01/29/2007 9:55 Comments || Top||

#8  In her later years, while entering the Brown Derby restaurant, Tallulah ran into a young starlet who held the door for her, saying "Age before beauty!"

Unfazed, Tallulah breezed past, saying "Pearls before swine!"...
Posted by: mojo || 01/29/2007 10:44 Comments || Top||

#9  And she used to masticate PUBLICLY and sometimes even in the presence of CHILDREN.

For SHAME!
Posted by: eLarson || 01/29/2007 11:28 Comments || Top||

#10  JerseyMike that was the George Smathers vs. Old Man Red Pepper for a Florida Senate seat back in '58. Pepper was the incumbent, Smathers won. Pepper latter won election to the US from Miami.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/29/2007 11:45 Comments || Top||

#11  And her daddy wasn't a diplomat, he was the Speaker of the US House of Representatives.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/29/2007 11:48 Comments || Top||

#12  Thanks Ship - I was only 70 years or so off.
Posted by: JerseyMike || 01/29/2007 11:51 Comments || Top||

#13  Well within the margin of error JM. :>
Posted by: Shipman || 01/29/2007 12:14 Comments || Top||

#14  Shipman, as I remember, Claude Pepper also practiced nepotism in his very own family.
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 01/29/2007 18:32 Comments || Top||

#15  3 out of 4? Which item isn't bad? I put my money on lesbian. Offspring of diplomats are a well known evil.
Posted by: JabbaTheTutt || 01/29/2007 19:45 Comments || Top||

#16  Indeed Eric he did, he was a bad 'un. I think his brother Frank (seriously) is still alive, lives up the street and spends his pension playing the lottery.
Posted by: Shipman || 01/29/2007 21:58 Comments || Top||

#17  She was gruesome. She affected a drole accent to mimic a bona fide thespian, in order to proffer false credentials. She was one of the first of the no talent celebrities: famous for being famous.
Posted by: Sneaze Shaiting3550 || 01/29/2007 22:52 Comments || Top||

#18  Hello! Is there a better seller of event tickets than ticketmaster?
I really need this info..Thanks :)
Posted by: JessicaL || 01/29/2007 9:46 Comments || Top||



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