(SomaliNet) The deputy mayor for security and policy in Banadir province in Somalia, Ibrahim Shaweye announced Monday that his authority would act quickly to restore law and order in the capital which had plunged into violence and turmoil.
Amid waves of explosions and attacks targeting the police stations in Mogadishu, Mr. Shaweye vowed that the security forces would soon start operations in the capital to pursue the insurgents. He described those people as elements risking the security and stability in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. We would not tolerate the acts by the remnants of the ousted Islamists that still hiding in the capital and accustomed to launch ambush attacks, Shawaye said.
His latest comment came day after bloody battle raged in north of Mogadishu where the government policeman clashed with Islamist supporters. Two policemen have been killed and eight civilians were wounded in the yesterdays clashes. Mogadishu, which seen six months of peace and stability introduced by the Islamic Courts, is now experiencing days of turmoil and violence and it appears no symptoms to resolve the current crisis.
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"Mogadishu, which seen six months of peace and stability introduced by the Islamic Courts"
Who publishes this? I guess they don't count getting executed for watching tv etc. as 'unpeaceful.'
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it appears no symptoms to resolve the current crisis.
Ain't life a bitch. I'd advise gettin a priff reader or the Ethipoians gonna come kick yur ass agin.
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Did this article, with the 6 month peace report, come out of the New York Times? In Mogadishu, they don't need a "crack down" of terror boys, they need a "shoot down."
Terrorists attacked a military position in Beni Fadala commune, in Batna, on the night of Sunday to Monday, killing five soldiers, including an officer, a communal guard and wounding three militaries. The attack on an army position in the place called Boussalam took place at midnight, the terrorists used an RPG-7 rocket.
In spite of the surprise factor, the army managed to quickly riposte pushing the terrorist group to run away towards neighbouring forests. Local sources said blood drops on the scene showed some terrorists would have been wounded. Army force, using helicopters, continued tracking terrorists until late yesterday afternoon. The same area witnessed, two weeks ago, terrorist bomb attack leaving six soldiers wounded, including an officer.
In Skikda, Army force apprehended a terrorist on Sunday, in Zeffar, 6 km from Ain Kechra city centre, vast raking by Special Forces is taking place following the armed fighting between terrorists and Army force in the area. The clash caused the death of a military. Local sources said terrorists ambushed Army forces that were combing the area which witnesses intense movement of terrorist groups. Terrorists fired on Army force killing one military and wounding another, but are now tightly besieged, and one of them has been arrested.
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This just in from our ace reporter, D.J. Wu...
Yemen's president on Monday warned Islamist Shi'ite militants who killed six soldiers to surrender their weapons or face a showdown with security forces. 'There is a special force ready to uproot them if they do not disband and put down their weapons as soon as possible. This operation would not take long,' President Ali Abdullah Saleh said at an army event in the capital, Sanaa. Should have a pretty good idea how to go about it, since you've had practice...
'You have been forewarned,' he added, addressing the rebels. The six soldiers were killed and 20 wounded when the rebels launched rare attacks on government forces in the northern province of Saada on Saturday. The rare attack hasn't elicited a rare response yet...
Officials said Shi'ite rebel leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi and his followers were behind the attacks. Houthi is the son of Sheikh Badr el-Deen al-Houthi and the brother of hardline cleric Hussein al-Houthi who was killed in 2004. Yemen accuses the rebels led by the Houthi clerics of wanting to install Shi'ite religious rule and of preaching violence against the United States. I'm guessing the Houthi tail is being wagged by the Persian dog...
Saleh accused 'some countries' he refused to name of supplying Houthi's group with weapons and financial support. Kinda like Iran, y'mean?
Sunni Muslims make up most of Yemen's 19 million people, while Shi'ite Muslims account for about 15 percent of the population. In March 2006, Yemen freed more than 600 Shi'ite rebels as part of an amnesty to end two years of clashes that have killed several hundred soldiers and rebels.
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I encourage shite to rebel... Can we have a war, please?
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Yemen freed more than 600 Shi'ite rebels as part of an amnesty to end two years of clashes that have killed several hundred soldiers and rebels
so now they only kill 6 or so at a time. Shiites seem to understand smiting with overwhelming power, anythig else is a victory for them, so smite away!
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Four Russian servicemen and one Chechen rebel were killed on Monday in clashes in the southern region of Chechnya, media reported. Interfax news agency said a group of Russian soldiers came under fire during a special operation against militants in a forest in Chechnya's Gudermes region. The town of Gudermes is home to the headquarters of Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya's Moscow-backed prime minister and leader of a powerful personal militia force. Russia has fought two wars against separatist fighters in Chechnya since 1994 but despite continued violence there it says it has regained control of the war-town region.
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According to Russian law enforcement official police and security agents clashed with gunmen holed up in a village in Russias troubled North Caucasus early Monday, at least one gunman killed, the Associated Press reported Monday. Regional Interior Ministry spokeswoman, Angela Martirosova, reported that between two and four militants had entered Kosyakino village in Dagestan. Fire started at dawn as Federal Security Service confronted the gunmen and ordered them to surrender, Martirosova said. Like other provinces in the poor, largely Muslim North Caucasus, Dagestan, located on the Caspian Sea, has seen increasing violence directed at police and government officials, spilling over from war-wracked Chechnya.
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Police have detained 46 people for suspected links to al-Qaeda in an operation conducted in five provinces, the state-run Anatolia news agency said. The operation concentrated mainly in the central Anatolian province of Konya, where some 25 people were detained. Another 21 people had been taken into custody in raids in the western provinces of Ýstanbul, Ýzmir and Kocaeli, and in the southeastern province of Mardin. Those detained in Ýstanbul, Ýzmir, Kocaeli and Mardin were later sent to Konya for interrogation, private NTV television said.
Police have carried out several operations against suspected al-Qaeda members since 2003, when homegrown Islamic militants with alleged ties to the group bombed two synagogues, a British bank and the British consulate in Istanbul, killing 58 people. Some 73 people, including two Syrians, are on trial for their alleged roles in those attacks, though police say some suspected ringleaders fled the country and others died fighting US forces in Iraq. Many of those arrested in connection with the 2003 attacks acknowledge attending militant Islamist training camps in Chechnya and Afghanistan, but deny direct ties to the al-Qaeda network.
Last Friday, a court jailed seven militants for a plot to kill US President George W. Bush during a 2004 NATO summit in Istanbul. The seven men were members of Ansar al-Islam, a radical group believed to have links to al-Qaeda. Last December, police detained a lawyer who said he was the leader of al-Qaeda in Turkey and seized bomb-making material.
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The seven men were members of Ansar al-Islam, a radical group believed to have links to al-Qaeda.
Ummm... didn't Ansar al-Islam change it's name to Al-Qaeda in Iraq? Were't they led by Zarquai? WTF??
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FR, sorta different animal, but the links to AQ are there. Zarky managed a different outlet. It is necessary to understand that although these groups act, on the surface, independently, their goals and modus operandi overlap. The naming of different cells/groups is just the part of deception.
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The naming of different cells/groups is just the part of deception.
That and every Mommas turbin wants to grow up to command a 10 man Brigade of "your historical obsession here"
A Falls Church man who was acquitted three years ago of providing services to the Taliban went on trial again Monday, this time accused of lying to a federal grand jury about his training as a jihadist. The lawyer for defendant Sabri Benkahla, 31, told a jury during opening statements in U.S. District Court that prosecutors essentially laid a perjury trap for Benkahla after his acquittal. The defense has also accused the government of pursuing a vindictive prosecution in response to its legal defeat.
Benkahla was one of only two defendants who obtained acquittals in the government's prosecution of a dozen Muslim men who participated in what the government called a "Virginia jihad network" that used paintball games in the Virginia woods in 2000 and 2001 as a means to train for holy war around the globe. Several of the men admitted that they traveled shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks to Pakistan to receive jihad training with the eventual goal of joining the Taliban and fighting against U.S. troops. Three of the defendants received what amounted to life sentences.
While Benkahla is on trial for perjury and not terrorism, the specter of the Virginia jihad prosecutions quickly raised its Monday. Defense lawyers objected when prosecutor Gordon Kromberg mentioned Benkahla's association with some of the paintball group, including Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, a Falls Church man who was convicted of joining al-Qaida while studying in Saudi Arabia and plotting to assassinate President Bush. Defense attorney John Keats accused Kromberg of trying to imply Benkahla's guilt by association. Kromberg said he was simply explaining that the government had valid reasons for seeking Benkahla's grand jury testimony.
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1. tell the truth, or 2. lay on the floor and pretend you passed out until they take you to the hospital, or 3. take the 5th Amendment. Taking the 5th Amendment means you don't get your clothes wrinkled on the floor and is a somewhat more sophisticated way of expressing yourself. Perjury to a Federal Grand Jury is a no brainer, life changing, go to jail card.
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I cannot help but wonder why, when he was acquitted and a free man, he didn't have an 'altercation' with some of the local rednecks. I figgered Billy Bob and his buds would have 'jes happened' to run into him one fine day.......Guess maybe VA is getting pussified, being so close to DC and all....
Unidentified men fired 10 rockets at an airport and a Frontier Corps (FC) camp in three incidents on Monday. The militants fired three rockets at an airport and another four at an FC camp in Panjgur district, 600 kilometres from Quetta. The rockets missed their target, but caused partial damage to the airport building, an official told Daily Times. In the attack on an FC camp, officials said that FC personnel returned fire in the same direction from where the rockets had been launched, adding that a special team had been formed to investigate the incident. In the third incident, three rockets were fired at a security checkpoint in Bhambore, Kohlu district, but there were no casualties.
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If it were not the invasion to Europe and to a degree here in US, Canada an Oz/NZ, the orcs would be happily killing each other as there is no tomorrow.
Law-enforcement agencies have shifted six men, who were arrested on Monday morning in Dera Ismail Khan on suspicion of planning suicide attacks during Ashura, to Islamabad. The men were arrested in a raid by intelligence agencies in Nawab Zafar Colony. Six suicide belts and some videos were also retrieved.
Sources said the arrested men were believed to be members of the Baitullah Mehsud group.
Sources said the arrested men were believed to be members of the Baitullah Mehsud group. They said that investigators were focusing on arresting more accomplices of the men in custody, as their arrest was followed by a suicide blast in Dera Ismael Khans Liaqat Park. Baitullah Mehsud is a leading Taliban commander in Waziristan. AFP reported that sectarian literature and a computer disk showing militants slaughtering two suspected government spies were also recovered from the suspects custody. We believe the group was planning suicidal attacks in the country, said the official.
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computer disk showing militants slaughtering two suspected government spies were also recovered from the suspects custody
well, they apparently will be committing suicide, whether they intended to or not, now
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Somehow I don't think the Pakistani government will exercise the same level of humainty with these guys as we have in Iraq/Afghanistan.
A suicide bomber killed two people, including a policeman, in Dera Ismail Khan on Monday, said police, while an imambargah in Bannu came under a rocket attack.
The suicide bomber was a young boy. He initially refused to be searched, and when police began searching him, he blew himself up. The bombers age was estimated to be 17 or 18 years.
In the attack in Dera Ismail Khan, the suicide bomber denoted explosives strapped to his body at a checkpost when police stopped him from entering a Muharram procession near Liaqat Park, said police. Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Captain Hamad told Daily Times over the telephone that the suicide bomber, wearing a black shawl, blew himself up as policeman Abdul Halim was searching him. He said that Naseer, a civilian working at a nearby petrol pump, was also killed, and seven other people, including two policemen, were injured. The suicide bomber was a young boy. He initially refused to be searched, and when police began searching him, he blew himself up, killing a policeman, a civilian and himself, police officer Aslam Khattak told Daily Times. The bombers age was estimated to be 17 or 18 years.
The procession was cancelled. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. On-duty police officials said the attackers target was the Muharram procession in the main Tupanwala Bazaar.
In Bannu, at least 12 people were injured when unidentified assailants fired a rocket at an imambargah. However, AP reported that two rockets were fired. The rocket, which fell in front of Hussainia Imambargah in Hussainabad Colony, injured 12 people, Bannu District Police Officer Mazharul Haq told Daily Times.
He said the injured people, including Shias and other minority members, had been shifted to Bannu Headquarters Hospital. Two of the injured are in critical condition. We are still clueless about the location from where the rocket was fired, he said.
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The procession should have gone on as scheduled: you don't hold up a parade because a dog turd is in the road.
AR RAMADI, Iraq Emergency Response Unit personnel, Iraqi Police, and civilians northwest of Ramadi were attacked by a suicide vehicle-born improvised explosive device (SVBIED) early Sunday [Jan 28, 2007]. Coalition forces responded to the attack to provide immediate medical assistance and evacuate the wounded to medical facilities.
Along with the suicide bomber, 16 people were killed by the attack.
The SVBIED was a dump truck filled with explosives and included a chlorine tank. The truck crashed into the Emergency Response Unit compound and detonated. There are no indications of any casualties caused by the release of chlorine gas.
The Al Jazeera Police and U.S. Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 37th Infantry Brigade responded to the scene and worked together to evacuate the casualties. The majority of the casualties were evacuated to the U.S. medical facility at Camp Ramadi. Some victims of the attack were evacuated to Coalition medical facilities in Balad and Baghdad.
Emergency Response Units serve as a quick reaction force to augment and support the police in Anbar province. They are made up of Iraqi citizens and are led by the commander of the Iraqi Police in Anbar.
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How hard are such SVBIEDs to cobble together? How hard is it to assemble that amount of chlorine? How stable is the chlorine gas in a (pressurized?) tank?
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Chlorine itself is not very stable; the reason it makes a good bleach is that it will react with damn near anything. I suspect the heat and pressure from the explosion was more of a boost to the reactive nature, and most of the chlorine was chemically bound pretty quick.
Naturally, some of those compounds could be dangerous, but I suspect this is another example of the jihadis operating more on faith (or Hollywood physics) than brains.
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Actually, considering the nature of chlorine, a SVBIED is probably the worst way to deliver such an attack. A truck-mounted bug-spraying unit would be much effective : gets the gas up in the air a few feet where it can settle down and spread. When the Germans used chlorine against the British in the Second Battle of Ypres, they used the heavier than air aspect of chlorine to their advantage : the gas was pumped from tanks over No-Mans Land, and filled the British trenches, causing most of the fatalities from gas.
However, due to its volatility, chlorine is best used on cloudy, windless days and against dug-in positions. I can think of few climates that would be worse for the use of chlorine than Iraq on a sunny or breezy day.
I wonder what they'll be doing. I filed under 'Iraq', but could be anywhere around the Indian Ocean.
USS BATAAN, At Sea The multipurpose amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD 5) and the Sailors and Marines of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) successfully transited the Suez Canal Jan 30 and entered the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations (AOO). While in the region, the Bataan Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) will conduct Maritime Security Operations (MSO). MSO help set the conditions for security and stability in the maritime environment, as well as complement the counter-terrorism and security efforts of regional nations. These operations deny international terrorists use of the maritime environment as a venue for attack or to transport personnel, weapons or other material.
U.S. 5th Fleets AOO encompasses 2.5 million square miles of water and includes the Arabian Gulf, Arabian Sea Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman and parts of the Indian Ocean. Well continue our role as the surface warfare commander and the air defense commander for the Bataan Expeditionary Strike Group, said Cmdr. Jon Carriglitto, Bataans operations officer. Together with the MEU, we bring the ability to insert a quick, capable amphibious force where its needed.
While in theater, approximately 6,000 U.S. Sailors and Marines assigned to the ESG and the 26th MEU provide the combatant commander a versatile sea-based force that can be tailored to a variety of missions. The Bataan ESG has the capabilities to support MSO, combat operations and humanitarian assistance/disaster relief.
Bataan ESGs presence in the U.S. 5th Fleet will require the crew to conduct what it does best well deck and flight deck operations, said Carriglitto. Well be conducting varsity-level operations, but much of it falls right in line with our ongoing training, so I know were ready to meet those challenges.
Bataan, commanded by Capt. David Hulse, left its homeport of Norfolk, Va., Jan. 4, on a regularly-scheduled deployment as the flagship of the Bataan ESG. The ESG is comprised of the Bataan Strike Group, commanded by Commodore Donna Looney, Commander, Bataan Strike Group/Amphibious Squadron 2, and the 26th MEU based out of Camp Lejeune, N.C., commanded by Col. Gregg Sturdevant.
In addition to Bataan, the strike group consists of USS Shreveport (LPD 12), — (LSD 51), USS Vella Gulf (CG 72), USS Nitze (DDG 94), USS Underwood (FFG 36), and USS Scranton (SSN 756).
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Hmm, I wonder if the need for "surged" troops is for real: many in the blogosphere have argued that we don't need more troops in Baghdad, but a change in the ROE to be more agressive. If these troops are part of the surge, then exactly how do they support counter-insurgency operations in Baghdad?
Something's going down, and it ain't in Baghdad. My only complaint (apart from the democrats running congress) is that popcorn is getting boring. Pizza is fattening, and Shrimp is too rich for my pocketbook.
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Ptah: Though it's hard to find anymore, eating about half a gallon of mint chocolate chip low carb ice cream gives one an immense amount of flatulence some hours later.
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"Gator freighters" are awesome (LHA/LHD, etc.), but don't provide the type of penetration required to "Git 'er Done" in Iran.
Just another political band-aid to stanch a National sucking chest wound.
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Somalia is within the announced zone of the MEU, and the US has announced that it would be willing to provide air support to African peacekeepers in Somalia. Also, it is carrying enough Marines to provide some heavy firepower to the Ethiopians/Kenyans/Djiboutians/Somalis if the Islamic Courters start some trouble on the borders.
I'm as shocked as everybody else... GAZA (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead a Hamas commander in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday and the Islamist group blamed a Fatah-dominated security service for the first killing in the territory since a ceasefire went into effect overnight. Almost eight hours? Is that the new record?
Hospital officials in the southern town of Khan Younis said Hussein Shabasi was shot in the head. That'll do it...
A spokesman for Hamas's armed wing said he was killed by the Preventive Security Service, most of whose members belong to President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction. The security service denied any connection with his death. Ummmmmmm...jealous husband? The ceasefire had appeared to be holding, bringing people out of their homes for the first time in five days as shops reopened and traffic again clogged Gaza's narrow streets. Sure. Ask Hussein Shabasi about that...
The truce took effect after Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas met an aide to Abbas on Monday in a bid to stem a surge of fighting in which at least 30 Palestinians were killed. The internal violence that began on Thursday was the fiercest since Islamist Hamas, which rejects peace talks with Israel, trounced the more moderate Fatah in an election last year, triggering a Western aid embargo."We are very happy and we hope that this time, the ceasefire will last," said Yahya Zaki, a clothing store owner. Care to put some money down on that, Yahya?
Some gunmen remained on the streets in the Gaza Strip and police deployment was limited. The bloodshed has derailed unity government talks between Hamas and Fatah and prompted some Gazan families to flee their homes. "I hope that calm and stability will last so that we can resume dialogue over formation of a national unity government," Haniyeh said after the truce began. The "unity government". I'll have to that one too.
Previous ceasefires, including one last month, have been short-lived. Oh, keep trying, boys. You'll get it right one of these milleniums...
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If the Israelis had a real Prime Minister in place right now like Golda Meir, the Israeli Special Squads would be running around Gaza with 2 different sets of clothing : one to match Hamas, and one to match Fatah. Use brass catchers on the AKs and Dragunovs, and headshot the hell out of both sides. Really stir the pot and get the necessary civil war going.
Instead, they have Olmert, a man that makes Neville Chamberlain look like Ghengis Khan.
JERUSALEM - Israeli aircraft struck a tunnel on the border with the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, hours after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed three people in the Red Sea resort of Eilat, a military spokesman said. Palestinians were preparing to use it to commit an attack in Israel, the spokesman said of the tunnel located near the Karni border post, the main crossing point for goods traffic between Israel and the Gaza Strip.
"Mahmoud, you sure it's okay down here in the tunnel?"
"Relax, Achmed, those stupid Zionists will never suspect ...."
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The old ground penetrating radar trick, eh chief?
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JPost last night was reporting that there was at least a couple of secondary explosions in the tunnel. Sounds like them crafty Joooos had some good intel.
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cease fire = resupply
fragile cease fire = reloading and only shooting women, children, and men who love their families
cease fire talks = uh oh, we been shooting at da boss
cease fire in place = now we can get some money from our supporters and resupply
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Still a bad idea to damage an enemy that's playing lotto. Perhaps the Jooooooooos pushed a couple hundred crates of 7.62 to the weaker side to make up.
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Politically not responding at all would be difficult, and, it could be argued would send a wrong message of weakness. And its not like Olmert can get up and say "we dont need to hit them cause Mo Dahlan is doing our work for us" You almost need to hit to maintain the fiction that Israel does NOT have a stake in the Pal festivities. At the same time you want a hit thats not going to distract from those festivities. Hitting a tunnel seems like a decent compromise.
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Actually, Excalibur, Israel has been negotiation the return of Palestinians to their historic homeland for some time. However, Beelzebub have proved to be a very refractory negotiator.
Ten policemen on their way to a southern Thai village to protect teachers have been injured by a roadside bomb. In another district in the southern province of Narathiwat, a teacher was seriously injured after being shot on Tuesday. The attacks follow the killing of three labourers on Monday and four other people over the weekend.
Police Lieutenant Chavanin Kittichaiwan said the 10 policemen were in a van on their way to a school in Beuloh as part of a daily mission to protect teachers in the village when the bomb exploded. The bomb was triggered by a mobile phone and separatists were believed to be responsible, he said.
Details of the shooting in the Rue So district were not immediately available but police suspect Muslim fighters were behind it also.
Iran's Revolutionary Guard, the Pasdaran, have threatened to abduct US troops if Washington does not release five Iranian officials kidnapped in the northern Iraqi town of Erbil in a raid on Tehran's consulate earlier this year. In an article published by the Pasdaran's mouthpiece, Sobhe Sadegh, the director of the centre for strategic studies of the Iranian presidency, Reza Zakeri, also says Iran will retaliate against any further abduction of Iranian nationals.
Five Iranian officials were detained in the Kurdish-controlled city on charges of being connected to a faction of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the Pasdaran, that funds and arms insurgents in Iraq.
"The United States has put together a list including the names of 35 high officials of the Pasdaran and Iran's atomic agency to kidnap and question them on the military and nuclear potential of the Islamic Republic but if they will try to kidnap even one person our reaction will be harsh and immediate," Zakeri wrote in the article.
The article follows a report in the Washington Post last week saying that the Bush administration has authorized US troops to kill or capture Iranian operatives in Iraq.
The Washington Post reported that the so-called 'kill or capture' programme of the Bush administration was authorized by the president himself at a meeting with top advisers earlier last autumn in a bid to diminish Iran's influence across the Middle East and convince the country to ultimately give up its nuclear programme. The idea reportedly gained momentum after the 34-day war between Israel and Lebanese militia Hezbollah, armed by Iran, which ended with a fragile ceasefire on 14 August.
"The US military presence in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Caucasus, central Asia, Europe and Latin America is significant and at the same time extremely isolated and therefore abducting a US soldier in uniform is less expensive than buying a low quality product made in China," the article also said.
Stressing how the Mahdi militia of Shiite radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who have no military preparation, were able to kidnap US soldiers, the Sobhe Sadegh article claimed it would be an easy enough task for the well-trained Pasdaran.
"Even if a state had no influence in the country where US troops were posted and had no close relations with local forces and, finally, even if it did not have well-trained officers for similar actions, it would not be difficult to capture blond men with blue eyes wearing a military uniform, it would just be necessary to open a wallet and be generous," Reza Zakeri concluded.
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Stressing how the Mahdi militia of Shiite radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who have no military preparation, were able to kidnap US soldiers, the Sobhe Sadegh article claimed it would be an easy enough task for the well-trained Pasdaran.
Yeah, funny how they stress that. Almost like they had nothing to do with it.
Find them. Kill them. Now.
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I wonder what the Geneva Convention says about kidnapping troops of a foreign power for purposes of obtaining the release of agents captured in a foreign country operating against the designs of the foreign country whose troops are to be kidnapped.
I also wonder what the US military would tend to say about said kidnappings.
If Israel's reaction to having its troops kidnapped in a cross-border raid I'd be really, really careful about kidnapping US troops.
Of course, to the Iranians who have been at war with us since 1979, America is a mere paper tiger.
It's way past time these idiots received a serious and up-close taste of the kind of smackdown only the US can deliver to them.
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That's because kidnapping is a normal tool of warfare, as is terror... all this while pretending not to be at war and claiming victim status, yet flaming the rubes with high-octane hate rethoric.
Or when the western way of war and interaction between Nation-States meets its islamic counterpart. We're just not playing according to the same rules, because we're not hardwired the same way (see what's happening in lemmingsland gaza).
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It's way past time these idiots received a serious and up-close taste of the kind of smackdown only the US can deliver to them.
That's pretty much the problem, isn't it? all those warriors declaring war, bombing randomly, breaking stuff, making dire threats and grandiloquent stories... without having to ever pay the piper, because the other side isn't really at war (while they are, at least mentally and psychologically, even the bulk of supposedly "moderates"). Is it because at heart their religion-civilization is in a perpetual state of war and aggression against th eoutside world?
Funnily enough, this might apply to the car-BBQ and rapes and assaults in France and elsewhere, too. A constant forward drive from one side, no response from the other.
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Exactly Zhang: Whoever it was that we grabbed, they were important enough for these guys to start issuing threats.
Its the snarling of the cornered dog: Iraq fought them to a standstill, and they saw what the US did to Iraq, so they know they don't have a prayer save in what the Democrats do.
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Iran's Revolutionary Guard, the Pasdaran, have threatened to abduct US troops if Washington does not release five Iranian officials kidnapped in the northern Iraqi town of Erbil in a raid on Tehran's consulate earlier this year.
Kidnapped? KIDNAPPED? They were Iranian military in Iraq illegally in possesion of material implicating them in fomenting terror, murder, and treason.
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Iran kidnapped British soldiers not long ago and the response was to do exactly nothing. Much like the British response to street crime, sedition, the moth-balling of the Royal Navy, etc. etc. etc.
We have some very hard lessons to re-learn. I hope we survive the process.
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As long as the US was acting with the permission of the Iraqi govt in arresting Iranian agents on Iraqi soil we were well within rights our rights (actually we may be within our rights even if Maliki says no, given UNSC resolutions authorizing the status of the occupation) If Iran, without permission from the Iraqi govt, were to abduct US troops using their own personnel, that IIUC, would go beyond the "wink, its only covert support" rule and would give the US a pretty widely recognized right to respond with deadly force on Iranian soil.
However IIUC this is not a reliable source, and I wouldnt count on this happening. It does quote a Pasdaran paper, so presumably they didnt make it up, but I wonder if the Pasadaran paper is really that authoritative, or this is just some guy spouting off.
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The Iranian people are right to rise up against US imperialism. Bush is worse than Hitler. Anyone who disagrees with me is a fascist. Vive Fidel! Vive Che!
#14
The Iranian people are right to rise up against US imperialism. Bush is worse than Hitler. Anyone who disagrees with me is a fascist. Vive Fidel! Vive Che!
#15
The Iranian people are right to rise up against US imperialism. Bush is worse than Hitler. Anyone who disagrees with me is a fascist. Vive Fidel! Vive Che!
#18
One the the arrested is third in command of the IGRC Quds force, the official terrorist force of the Iranian government. Among other things, these are the guys protecting Saad bin Laden and Seif al Adel and other top AQ leaders. They are directing Al Qaeda operations in Iraq, supplying armor piercing and anti-aircraft missiles, and laying the foundation for an Iranian run Iraq.
Another arrested is Mahommad Jaafari. He is wanted for killing in Vienna the leader of the Kurds on the orders of Rafsanjani (actually the ambush meeting itself was arranged by Rafsanjani). A big club if the Americans can turn him.
Those arrested were under the protection of the Iraqi government. The first batch were sponsored by Talibani and meeting in Hakim's house at the time of arrest. The second batch in a "consulate" in Kurdish Arbil. Our forces almost got into a shooting war with Kurd forces during the Arbil operation.
Expect more operations like the recent abduction in Karbala and stepped up attacks including missile attacks on helicopters. If we get real lucky, then a real shooting war will break out between the US and Iran. But, I fear the Iranians are not yet that arrogant or stupid and US leaders too timid to provoke one.
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God, it's gonna feel so good to line up revolutionary asstards against a wall and shoot them.
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#20
I wonder if Iran has Iraqi permission to perform ops in Iraqi territory.
#22
gorb - the problem is, even if Maliki wants Iranians there, he can hardly say so in public. Not now, with the Dems screaming about him. Good cop, bad cop.
#23
Methinks the real message here is that Radical Iran does NOT recognize the new Iraqi Govt-Democracy, nor international border lines ala LEBANON 2006. IOW, IRAN = NORTH VIETNAM, and LEBANON-IRAQ-SYRIA? = SOUTH VIETNAM = SSSSSHHHHHHH, PART OF "GREATER" IRAN/VIETNAM???
#24
These guys have to be real card carrying idiots to think this. Have they looked towards the water lately? And what do they see? gray boats. lots of gray boats. and some of them have aeroplanes on them.they can load all sorts of explodythings on them aeroplanes and deliver them just about any place they want.
#25
US Forces appear to have picked up some fairly large fish. One could say that if a #3 is captured, then Iran must have extensive assets in Iraq at the moment. American intelligence is also better than advertised.
Why start a hot war with Iran when the 'flypaper' still works well.
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#26
Wasn't it the Iranians who kidnapped our Chief of Station in Lebanon and tortured him to death? They are now sending AA missiles and bombs to Iraq to kill GIs? The Pasdaran may not deserve the "shoot on sight" orders, but they did ask for it. It may not be as much fun for those cowards, when the intended victims begin the "shoot on sight" orders.
Oh, we can turn him, and in such a way that he'll never even know he talked; it just takes a little time. OldSpook wrote a very interesting post on applied psychiatric chemistry around the time Saddam Hussein was captured, if I recall correctly. No torture, not even a broken hangnail, just comfortable surroundings and a carefully chosen menu... and a sympathetic ear. Basic research so often benefits humanity in unexpected ways.
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