MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - Two Americans were among at least 10 foreigners caught by Kenyan police at the Somali border after allegedly fighting with Somalia's ousted Islamic movement, an official said Friday. One of the Americans is wanted in America for links to radical movements, the Kenyan police official said. Kenya was preparing to deport the foreigners, seized after escaping advancing Ethiopian troops who helped oust the Islamists, to their home countries.
Among the foreigners in Kenyan custody were four Britons, a Frenchman, a Tunisian woman, Syrians and other Arabs, said the Kenyan official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the information. The date of their deportation was not yet known.
One of the Americans was arrested with his 9-year-old child, the Kenyan police official said. The American Embassy had no comment.
Harun Ndubi, a lawyer who represents some of the people in Kenyan custody, said the deportations violated human rights conventions.
I can't imagine how: they aren't Kenyans, they aren't Somalis, and they're crossing a closed border from a war zone.
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What is so sensitive about deporting them? Should they be sent back to the last of the Islamic army for a final murderous assault?
They could send them back to Somalia with a very public "Thank You" for helping the Ethiopians as spies, and we could see Islamic justice in action.
Mogadishu 03, Feb.07 ( Sh.M.Network) - Unknown gunmen have shot dead a Somali police Col. in south of the capital Mogadishu on Saturday morning. Mohammed Ali Qalaf, a police Col., was shot as he was driving around Bar Ubah neighborhood, near Bakara Market in south of Mogadishu.
Witnesses told Shabelle that he was rushed to Medina hospital after he was riddled with random bullets. He died on the way to the hospital. It is not clear why he was killed or who was responsible for the killing. The Somali government has not yet commented on the issue.
Who to blame, who to blame, who to blame ...
Attacks against the Somali police have mounted since the government launched operations to secure the tranquility of the city. More police have been positioned in many streets of the capital, but they have disappeared after many police officers were ambushed and killed by unknown armed assailants.
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Saudi anti-terror forces have arrested 10 people suspected of raising and smuggling funds for suspicious bodies, the official news agency said on Saturday.
The suspects raised donations illegally and smuggled and transferred funds to suspicious bodies that use them to lure citizens and attract them into turbulent parts, the Saudi Press Agency quoted an Interior Ministry spokesman as saying. Like other neighbours of Iraq, Saudi Arabia has often said it is working to prevent militants from crossing its border into Iraq to fight US-led troops. Many nationals of the conservative Muslim kingdom, including Saudi-born Osama Bin Laden, funded and joined Afghan fighters in their drive to eject Soviet forces from Afghanistan after its invasion in 1979. SPA said the group rounded up on Friday in the western cities of Jeddah and Medina consisted of nine Saudis and one foreign resident.
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Don't all Saudi family members write checks out of the same bank account in the same bank? Shouldn't it be easy to take a look at who is writing checks and where the money is going?
SRINAGAR: Police have arrested two senior officials who are alleged to be at the heart of a rogue police and army ring responsible for a series of fake encounters staged in the central Kashmir district of Ganderbal last year.
Ganderbal Senior Superintendent of Police Hans Raj Parihar and Deputy Superintendent of Police Bahadur Ram have been held for their alleged role in the murder of Larnoo resident Abdul Rahman Paddar one of the five victims of the rogue ring who have so far been identified. Both officers were stripped of their charge last month.
A resident of the village of Larnoo, near Kokernag in southern Kashmir, Mr. Paddar had disappeared on December 8, 2006 during a visit to Srinagar. A carpenter by trade, Mr. Paddar had travelled to Srinagar to visit Farooq Ahmad `Tanker,' a Larnoo resident who drew his nickname from his work as a truck driver for the police.
Six days after his disappearance, Mr. Paddar's relatives contacted the office of Srinagar's south-zone Superintendent of Police, Uttam Chand. At that stage, there was little reason to believe that the carpenter had been the victim of a crime. Nonetheless, Mr. Chand ensured that a Missing Person Report was filed, and asked his staff to begin investigation.
Police investigators began by trying to trace Mr. Paddar through his mobile phone. Bharat Sanchar Nigam staff found that while Mr. Paddar's phone number had become inactive, his telephone identified by its IMEI number, 357054000874988 was still running, now fitted with a new SIM card.
Investigators were able to trace the new phone number 9419901156 to Abdul Rashid Wagay, a resident of the town of Hajan. Questioned, Mr. Wagay said he had obtained the phone from assistant sub-inspector of police, Farooq Guddu a key member of Mr. Parihar's counter-terrorism operation in Ganderbal.
Mr. Guddu provided the Jammu and Kashmir Police with a full account of Mr. Paddar's killing. Mr. Paddar, he confirmed, was lured to Srinagar by Mr. Ahmad on December 8. Late that afternoon, a police team led by Mr. Guddu kidnapped the carpenter. He was driven to Ganderbal in a police vehicle, and shot the next day.
Evidence supporting Mr. Guddu's testimony soon emerged. Police were able to locate witnesses who had seen Mr. Paddar with Mr. Ahmad on December 8. It also emerged that Mr. Guddu had been briefly detained by the Central Reserve Police Force at Panzath while on his way to Srinagar, after an altercation with civilians.
During their interrogation, both Mr. Guddu and Mr. Ahmad said they had acted on the direct instructions of Mr. Parihar a claim the special investigation team set up to probe the Ganderbal killings has spent the past fortnight examining. Details of the corroborative evidence found by the police, however, have not yet been made public.
Participants in the rogue cell were driven to murder by the prospect of professional advancement and cash rewards. Interestingly, Mr. Ahmad had taken a bribe of Rs. 75,000 to get Mr. Paddar a job. He could not deliver on his promise and the carpenter was asking for his money back. Mr. Ahmad then allegedly conspired to select the carpenter as a victim so that he did not have to return the money.
By questioning Mr. Parihar and Mr. Bahadur in custody, investigators hope to gain a new insight into at least four separate fake encounters thought to have been organised by the rogue ring in Ganderbal last year. While Mr. Paddar's killing was carried out by the police, the other four murders involved Army jawans.
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While Mr. Paddar's killing was carried out by the police, the other four murders involved Army jawans.
Actually they were done by the Rastriya Rifles, a paramilitary counterinsurgency force, not be Indian Army jawans (soldiers).
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Four suspected Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists, including a Pakistani national, were on Sunday night, arrested after a gunbattle with police in the heart of the city here and three kilograms of RDX was seized from them.
Police had information that the terrorists -- one Pakistani and three Kashmiris -- would be coming at the Ranjit Singh Flyover stretching from Barakhamba Road to Deen Dayal Upadhaya Marg. As the ultras arrived they were challenged by the police who were fired at. Police fired several rounds in retaliation before arresting them. "Their interrogation is going on," Deputy Commissioner of Police (special cell) Alok Kumar said. The terrorists have been identified as Shahid Gaffoor from Sialkot in Pakistan, Bashir Ahmed, Fayyaz Lone and Abdul Majid.
Besides the RDX, six hand grenades, four detonators, one timer, $10,000 and Rs 50,000 were recovered from them. The whole area near the flyover has been cordoned off after the shootout.
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Civil Judge Irfan Sheikh on Saturday rejected a bail application by Khalid Khawaja, a former Pakistan Air Force and Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) official, in a case against him for his involvement in the distribution of hate material outside Lal Masjid here at Aabpara.
Defence counsel Hashmat Habib said that Aabpara police had implicated his client in a false case. He said his client was on his way to the mosque for Friday prayers at Lal Masjid on January 26 when the police arrested him. He said the authorities had not kept Khawaja in a B class jail despite court orders for the provision of this facility. The Adiala Jail assistant superintendent told the court that Khawaja had been kept away from other inmates because of the sensitivity of his case.
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Why is everything so sensitive when they arrest Mullah boys doing evil things to good people? Is it sensitive down to the time they set off the bomb in a crowded market?
ISLAMABAD - Two Pakistani soldiers were killed on Saturday in a suicide car bombing near the remote town of Tank in the North- West Frontier Province, police said.
The bomber rammed his explosive laden car head-on into the pilot vehicle of a military convoy that was returning to the South Waziristan tribal region after escorting an army unit to the city of Dera Ismail Khan. In total, three people including the attacker were killed immediately and six troopers were wounded, Dera Ismail Khan District Police Officer Abdul Rasheed told Deutsche Presse-Agentur.
Rasheed said the bombing took place at Purana Baddakhel Adda area just five kilometres from Tank. The authorities have also recovered the blown-off head and body parts of the suicide bomber, he added. The midday attack came in an area where a cell of suicide bombers thought to have been sent by a local Taleban commander, Baitullah Mehsud, carried out strikes in recent days to avenge the last months government aerial raid on the hideout of foreign militants and their local facilitators.
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BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber killed 135 people on Saturday in the deadliest single bombing in Iraq since the 2003 war, driving a truck laden with one tonne of explosives into a market in a mainly Shia area of Baghdad. The blast, which Shia Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki blamed on Saddam Hussein supporters and other Sunni militants, shattered fruit and vegetable stalls, caved in shopfronts and left the smashed bodies of shoppers strewn in the street.
It was a terrible scene. Many shops and houses were destroyed, said one resident, Jassem, 42, who rushed from his home to help pull people from the rubble after hearing the explosion that rocked central Baghdad.
Police said 305 people were wounded. The casualties swamped the capitals hospitals. There were chaotic scenes at Ibn al Nafis hospital in central Baghdad, where hallways overflowed with wounded on trolleys. Emergency workers dragged bodies from the debris and piled them on pickup trucks, a Reuters reporter at the scene said.
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SoldiersAngels.org is taking donations from those who wish to help Iraqis injured by terrorists.
By the way, Mohammed of Iraq the Model says that this was not a mainly Shia area. He feels the media is just saying that to assist in continuing to fuel tensions in Iraq. Works for the terrorists and Democrats and MSM.
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How brave is it to kill a lot of children and women buying vegetables for dinner? How long are going to wait before a mullah begins to preach that mass murder is wrong?
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Whatever happened to the banning of vehicles in public places to stop attacks just such as this? It worked in the past, do ya think it might work now?
US troops have killed four militants linked to Al-Qaeda in a series of raids and detained dozens more. In an operation targeting Al-Qaeda operatives in the former rebel bastion town of Fallujah in western Iraq, troops killed three militants, the US military said Saturday. Ten other suspects were detained.
In a raid at Tarmiyah, on the northern outskirts of Baghdad, another militant was killed while running towards troops while holding what appeared to be a grenade, it said. "Coalition Forces told the man to get on the ground. The man complied at first and then got back up and charged toward coalition forces with what appeared to be a grenade," the statement said, adding that the troops killed him. "Upon searching the man, coalition forces determined the man was charging at them with a rock in his hand instead of a grenade."
Eight others were detained in Tarmiyah, and 11 more suspects were detained in a number of other raids, the US military said.
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Somethin' tells me MNF-I's press release did not use the word "militants". Just sayin'.
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"Upon searching the man, coalition forces determined the man was charging at them with a rock in his hand instead of a grenade."
Where is my paper? Snip, snip.
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Real smart, bring a rock to a gunfight.
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Imagine their great surprise when they wake up in hell with 72 of THESE ladies comin' for 'em! Paradise, indeed.
In Egypt, at least, and in the latter part of the 1980s, the standard of beauty for women was 100 kg (220 lb). So there is a certain segment of the population for which such a bevy of ladies as in the picture are the very picture of paradise found, Jump Wheatch9614. *shrug*
A Fatah affiliated National Security Forces officer was killed in the center of Gaza City Saturday evening, apparently at the hands of Hamas gunmen. The incident occured only a few hours after Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas urged gunmen to withdraw from Gaza City's streets, as clashes between Fatah and Hamas militants resumed Saturday across the Gaza Strip in defiance of a truce deal. Also Saturday, Fatah gunmen kidnapped two Hamas militants in the West Bank city of Nablus, one of them the head of the Shari'a faculty at the city's A-Najah University.
Earlier Saturday, Interior Minister Saeed Seyam of Hamas said Saturday that senior offficials from rival Fatah and Hamas factions agreed to implement immediately a new cease-fire aimed at stopping the violence. Speaking after talks with Fatah security official Rashid Abu Shbak, Seyam said the two sides agreed to withdraw their gunmen from Gaza streets and rooftops, remove checkpoints, and halt media incitement.
Haniyeh said that Gaza City's Islamic University, a Hamas stronghold, sustained $15 million in damage during attacks in recent days by security forces allied with his political rival, Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. He added that the Hamas-led government would give a grant of $1 million to the university.
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Palestinian W. Bank residents: 'We don't deserve a state'
As the fighting between Fatah and Hamas continues in the Gaza Strip, many residents here said Saturday that they were concerned that the international community would turn its back on the Palestinians. Don't worry boys. The support that you receive from international community was never based on liking for you.
Hamas captures key posts in Gaza
Security forces loyal to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas suffered a major blow on Saturday when a number of their headquarters fell into the hands of Hamas militiamen in the Gaza Strip. Some of the security installations were completely damaged by fire while others were leveled by Hamas militiamen and their supporters. The attackers captured documents and equipment as residents rushed to loot the offices. Funny how peaceful Palestinian civilians cannot pass an opportunity to loot.
US gets Israeli security for Super Bowl
While coaches worry about how to protect their quarterbacks on the field come Super Bowl Sunday, an Israeli-developed system for identifying potential security threats has been adopted at nearby Miami International Airport to help keep visitors to South Florida safe. Protecting America from their Saudi allies.
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Hamas and Fatah gunmen fought in Gaza City's beachfront neighborhoods and around security compounds Saturday, ignoring renewed truce appeals and Arab mediation efforts. One man was killed, raising the death toll from three days of fighting to 26.
Bursts of gunfire alternated with periods of calm, and in areas of Gaza City not affected by the fighting, people tried to go about their lives. Boys played soccer in the streets, horse-drawn carts maneuvered through alleys and shoppers stocked up on supplies for the next round of battle.
Nasser Mushtaha, who owns a high-rise near President Mahmoud Abbas' compound, said members of Abbas' Presidential Guard were posted on his roof and at the entrance to the building. He said he received phone calls from Hamas members, who warned they would blow up the building unless the troops left. But some of the guardsmen refused. Mushtaha complained about his building being used as an outpost. "Who will protect us? What is our fault? We are neither Fatah nor Hamas," he said, adding that dozens of windows had already been shattered by bullets.
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Crazy bellringer was right, there's money to be made in a place like this.
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Fighting Thursday had knocked out electricity to much of western Gaza City, the hardest-hit area, and a spokesman for the electric company said Saturday repair crews had trouble reaching some damaged lines. The technicians have repeatedly come under fire
Looks like they've saved Israel the trouble of doing that for them. Next the Palestinian fighters will cut off the water somehow, I s'pose, saving Israel the trouble of doing that, too.
Ignoring a truce and Arab mediation offers, Hamas and Fatah fighters exchanged gunfire in upscale beachfront neighborhoods Saturday, and Hamas gunmen threatened to attack high-rise buildings unless residents force rival snipers off their rooftops. Bursts of gunfire alternated with periods of calm, and in areas of Gaza City not affected by the fighting, people tried to go about their lives. Boys played soccer in the streets, horse-drawn carts maneuvered through alleys and shoppers stocked up on supplies for the next round of battle.
Nasser Mushtaha, who owns a high-rise near President Mahmoud Abbas' compound, said members of Abbas' Presidential Guard were posted on his roof and at the entrance to the building. He said he received phone calls from Hamas members, who warned they would blow up the building unless the troops left. Some of the guardsmen refused. Mushtaha complained about his building being used as an outpost. "Who will protect us? What is our fault? We are neither Fatah nor Hamas," he said, adding that dozens of windows had already been shattered by bullets.
In the Sheik Radwan neighborhood, Ali Ustaz used a lull to buy a battery-powered radio so he could follow developments despite frequent power cuts. "There is no hope for a solution," Ustaz said, referring to an elusive power-sharing deal between Abbas, the Fatah leader, and the Islamic militant Hamas, the two factions grappling for control of the Palestinian government.
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an especially bloody round of fighting - 25 killed and more than 230 wounded since Thursday - has deepened resentment on both sides
Might as well leave the popcorn machine in the lobby next to the newspaper stand... and have a barrel of makings next to it so that whoever walks in can add another scoop. They've established a perpetual motion cycle of violence, it looks like.
COLOMBO - Sri Lankan police on Saturday arrested 266 people on the eve of independence day celebrations in a security roundup after finding a powerful bomb in the capital. The 2.5-kilo (5.5-pound) was found in a three-wheeler taxi parked in a garage near the R. Premadasa International cricket stadium, where troops are billeted, and defused by explosives experts.
The police arrested people who could not immediately explain their presence in the area, said a police official involved in the investigation. The discovery (of the bomb) was made following a tip-off and those arrested were being questioned, added the official, who declined to be identified.
Security was intensified in Colombo to counter possible attacks by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) ahead of independence day celebrations on Sunday. Security forces armed with tough anti-terror laws increased road blocks and random checks the city of 600,000 people and were carrying out searches to counter any threat from Tamil rebels, a police official said.
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Two hundred sixty six people? Isn't that rather a lot?
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An RB hideaway in Belize would be delightful. Just as soon as I requisition a new set of kidneys after riding in a bus over their "roads". We be jammin'!
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Mogadishu 03, Feb.07 ( Sh.M.Network) - Unknown gunmen have shot dead a Somali police Col. in south of the capital Mogadishu on Saturday morning. Mohammed Ali Qalaf, a police Col., was shot as he was driving around Bar Ubah neighborhood, near Bakara Market in south of Mogadishu.
Four suspected 
ISLAMABAD - Two Pakistani soldiers were killed on Saturday in a suicide car bombing near the remote town of Tank in the North- West Frontier Province, police said.
US troops have killed four militants linked to Al-Qaeda in a series of raids and detained dozens more. In an operation targeting Al-Qaeda operatives in the former rebel bastion town of Fallujah in western Iraq, troops killed three militants, the US military said Saturday. Ten other suspects were detained.
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Hamas and Fatah gunmen fought in Gaza City's beachfront neighborhoods and around security compounds Saturday, ignoring renewed truce appeals and Arab mediation efforts. One man was killed, raising the death toll from three days of fighting to 26.
Ignoring a truce and Arab mediation offers, Hamas and Fatah fighters exchanged gunfire in upscale beachfront neighborhoods Saturday, and Hamas gunmen threatened to attack high-rise buildings unless residents force rival snipers off their rooftops. Bursts of gunfire alternated with periods of calm, and in areas of Gaza City not affected by the fighting, people tried to go about their lives. Boys played soccer in the streets, horse-drawn carts maneuvered through alleys and shoppers stocked up on supplies for the next round of battle. 
COLOMBO - Sri Lankan police on Saturday arrested 266 people on the eve of independence day celebrations in a security roundup after finding a powerful bomb in the capital. The 2.5-kilo (5.5-pound) was found in a three-wheeler taxi parked in a garage near the R. Premadasa International cricket stadium, where troops are billeted, and defused by explosives experts.
