Kabul, 12 March (AKI) - The Afghan authorities reportedly arrested a Pakistani who has been accused of helping the leader of the al-Qaeda terrorist network, Osama Bin Laden take refuge in the eastern Afghan province of Nuristan. Nabbed one of the ISI goons, did they?
This is according to Pakistani sources sited in the Arabic newspaper al-Hayat. The authorities in Islamabad have reportedly been informed of the arrests and have asked Kabul permission to send Pakistani officials to Afghanistan in order to interrogate this person. The man, identified as Sidi Akbar, is accused of not only helping the al-Qaeda leader escape but also of having hosted him in a location in Nuristan, far away from Afghan and American troops.
According to Karim Rahimi, the spokesperson from Afghan president Hamid Karzai, Sidi Akbar is believed to be a lover of very close to bin Laden and reportedly accompanied the Saudi terrorist leader from the Pakistani region of Chitral to the Afghan province of Nuristan. The report did not specify when the terrorist leader made this move but it is believed to have happened some months ago.
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Karim Rahimi, the spokesperson from Afghan president Hamid Karzai
SIDI AKBAR
al-Qaeda
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The Paks are so close, Binny can almost hear the drums...
"Niagara Falls! Slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch, I walked up to him. I smashed him like this, I hit him, I bopped him, I tore him to pieces, and I knocked him down!" (Moe and Larry)
"I don't understand it. Every time we get to that inch by inch part something always happens." (Larry)
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Cheney make it too hot in Pakistan? One of the reports I read stated that during Cheney's visit a portfolio was presently to Musharaff on the recently arrested former Taliban defense minister stating his where abouts (a hotel in Quetta?) along with photos. Basically, Cheney was daring Mushie to blow him off like Mushie did to Karzai last year. The Taliban minister was arrested within hours.
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Kabul, 12 March (AKI) - At least five civilians were killed during a NATO airstrike in the southern Afghan province of Helmand on Monday, according to a local tribal leader but NATO troops have however denied this report saying that two insurgents were killed in the course of fighting in the area. According to statements made by tribal leader Mira Jan Adil to China's Xinhua news agency, the air force of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), carried out an air strike around 3.00 am local time, and hit the home of Hajji Yar Mohammad, in the district of Gereshk.
Five civilians including women and children were killed and four people were injured. Hajji Mohammad Agha, a member of the family which was hit, confirmed that the attack occured but refused to provide any details.
An ISAF spokesperson denied the charges saying that the strike was carried out after NATO forces themselves came under fire. "Militants opened fire from the house, injuring one ISAF and two Afghan soldiers," said ISAF spokesperson David Marsh, who is based in the neighboring Kandahar province. "The soldiers then called in air support," he was quoted as saying in the Xinhua report. He said that two militants were killed in the attack.
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Sounds like follow up from an attack a few days ago where 2 taliwackers were seen retiring to a compound after firing on a patrol and were promptly turned into red mist. Life lesson for the rest of the clan: Don't go hiding cousin Ackmed after he fires on American patrols.
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F(*&^%$#! Sympathy Meter's on the fritz AGAIN! There must be something about dead Muslims that just FREEZES that pointer on zero, zip, zilch, nada...
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Memo to tribal leader: Stay away from islamo-scum and you won't get blowed up.
Pakistani, Afghan and U.S. troops teamed up to stop a group of Taliban insurgents from crossing the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan during a March 7 incident, officials said.
Pakistani border forces reported that an insurgent vehicle was attempting to enter Pakistan from an area where Afghan and U.S. soldiers were attacked near the Afghan village of Shkin, in Paktika province.
Afghan and U.S. forces responded with two 105 mm artillery rounds, resulting in a direct hit on the insurgents vehicle. Secondary explosions were observed, leading the force to conclude that the vehicle was loaded with munitions to be used in further attacks against Afghan citizens and Afghan and coalition forces.
There were no reported injuries to Afghan citizens or troops or coalition forces during this engagement. Coalition officials said the strike illustrates effective coordination between Afghan and Pakistani border forces.
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Reach out and touch someone....
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Mighty good shooting there. Arty hitting a moving vehicle implies direct fire. AA-130?
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AC not AA. Sorry, on pda.
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Mighty good shooting there. Arty hitting a moving vehicle implies direct fire. AA-130?
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If it was a 105 round from an AC-130 (which sounds likely), the "secondary" could have been a few 20mm or 40mm insurance rounds from the same platform.
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Sadly, there is nothing here that makes me think the Pakiwackers did anything except report.
wonder just how sincere ol' what's-his-ass is about this anyway....
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"Secondary explosions"--That's just icing on the cake.
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Delphi2005: Please do not post long URLs in Rantburg comments. With some web browsers, doing so busts the page formatting. Post all URLs as links, instead.
Thank you.
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This is the first time trying this. The links appears to work. I did not know about the problems with posting links on this previously. Now I know.
Eight Afghan border security soldiers and five Taliban fighters have been killed in a clash in southern Afghanistan, near the Pakistan border, a senior official said on Sunday. The fighting broke out in Arghastan district of Kandahar province after insurgents attacked a border security post on Saturday night. A major operation has been launched against the rebels in the area, said Abdul Razzaq, chief of the border security force in the area. He said two soldiers were also wounded in the fighting.
Meanwhile, a suicide car bomb ripped through a US and Afghan military convoy in western Afghanistan on Sunday, killing an Afghan policeman and injuring three others, a police commander said. There were no casualties among the US-led troops in the incident in Farah provinces Bala Blok district, said Ikramuddin Yawar, police chief for the western provinces, including Farah. The US military headquarters in Kabul could not immediately confirm the blast. It was a suicide bombing. I personally checked the remains of the suicide bomber, Yawar said. He had been travelling in the same convoy.
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Morocco said on Monday it was investigating whether an overnight blast was a militant suicide attack after a man with explosives under his clothes was blown up and three others were wounded at a Casablanca Internet cafe. The Sunday night blast occurred in the commercial capital's Sidi Moumen slum, home to 13 suicide bombers who killed 32 people in Casablanca in 2003. Sunday was the third anniversary of train bombings in Madrid that killed 191 people.
"The man used to come to view jihadist Web sites and the dispute was prompted by the Internet cafe owner's decision to prevent him this time from viewing such propaganda material," said the official. "We do not know whether the explosion was a suicide bombing or the explosive device went off inadvertently during the dispute."
Government security officials in the North African country said the man had a dispute with the Internet cafe's owner and that the explosion occurred as the two men were coming to blows. "We do not know whether the explosion was a suicide bombing or the explosive device went off inadvertently during the dispute," said one official, asking not to be identified. "The man used to come to view jihadist Web sites and the dispute was prompted by the Internet cafe owner's decision to prevent him this time from viewing such propaganda material," said the official. Another man at the scene who attempted to flee was arrested by police and was being questioned. "The investigation is continuing and we hope the arrested man will talk and clarify more the matter, including whether the man with the explosives planned a bomb attack elsewhere," said the official. Snipped a fair amount of handwring, and then:
Morocco has backed the U.S.-led war against terrorism launched after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
CASABLANCA, Morocco - Moroccan officials on Monday questioned a man caught carrying explosives who tried to flee a Casablanca Internet cafe after a suspected suicide bomber was blown up in the cafe during a tussle with its owner. Security officials in the North African country said on Sunday night a man with explosives hidden under his clothes had a dispute with the owner of an Internet cafe and the blast occurred as the two men were coming to blows. The the man armed with explosives died and three other people were wounded in the blast. Another man at the scene who attempted to flee was arrested by police and found to be carrying explosives, security sources said. He was being questioned on Monday.
Investigators said they were trying to determine if the explosion was a suicide attack or if the device detonated accidentally and the man had been planning another attack. The investigation is continuing and we hope the arrested man will talk and clarify more the matter, including whether the man with the explosives (who was killed) planned a bomb attack elsewhere, said one official, who asked not to be identified.
The blast occurred in the commercial capitals Sidi Moumen slum, home to 13 suicide bombers who killed 32 people in Casablanca in 2003. Sunday was the third anniversary of train bombings in Madrid that killed 191 people. Morocco, on high alert after a string of bomb attacks last month in neighbouring Algeria, has said it had information about an Al Qaeda plot to mount an attack but that the circumstances of the Internet cafe blast were not clear. We do not know whether the explosion was a suicide bombing or the explosive device went off inadvertently during the dispute, the official said. The man used to come to view jihadist Web sites and the dispute was prompted by the Internet cafe owners decision to prevent him this time from viewing such propaganda material, said the official.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility by militants for any attack in Casablanca. Security forces cordoned off the area as police sifted through the blast scene for clues, witnesses said.
Police suspect Saad Houssaini, 38, of involvement in the 2003 Casablanca bombings and the 2004 Madrid bombings. Only the narrow Strait of Gibraltar separates Morocco from Spain. Security experts believe the MICG is one of the small militant factions to have joined the Al Qaeda group. Security sources said police were hunting for suspected Al Qaeda members who may have infiltrated from Algeria.
Morocco, a constitutional monarchy and heavily dependent on agriculture, has backed the U.S.-led war against terrorism launched after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
This article starring:
SAAD HUSEINI
Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group
Al Qaeda organisation in the Islamic Maghreb
Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group
Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat
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A member of outlawed Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) was arrested and a firearm along with six rounds of cartridges was seized from his possession by police in the city on Saturday night. The arrestee was identified as listed JMB activist Dulal alias Dulaia alias Dula Mia, 32, son of late Shafiul Islam of West Baraikara village of Baralia union in Potiya upazila.
Dulal is accused in at least 13 criminal cases including robberies and a murder case filed with Potiya and Anwara police stations.
Dulal was arrested before on October 3 in 2005 from the Chittagong Court premises immediately after a bomb attack on the court of Metropolitan Magistrate Akram Hossain, police said. Sources said Dulal was also arrested on September 9 in 1997 for his involvement in murder of a police and snatching a rifle. Police recovered six firearms from his possession at that time as well, said Sub Inspector Wahiduzzaman of Potiya Police Station.
Police produced Dulal before the court yesterday morning while the court granted a two-day remand. Dulal is accused in at least 13 criminal cases including robberies and a murder case filed with Potiya and Anwara police stations.
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DULAL ALIAS DULAIA ALIAS DULA MIA
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
Metropolitan Magistrate Akram Hossain
Sub Inspector Wahiduzzaman
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
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Well, I guess it's easier than holding them with legs, which would be awkward...
(I'll be here all week. Tip your blogmaster.)
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so can we expect to see him starring in a future RAB Crossfire?
British police have found evidence that Al-Qaeda plotted to disrupt use of the Internet in Britain to spread chaos through the business and financial services industry, a newspaper said Sunday. A spokeswoman for Londons Metropolitan Police told AFP that her force would not be prepared to dicuss the alleged plot when asked to comment about a Sunday Times report about it. Detectives recovered computer files showing that the terror group had plotted to sabotage an Internet hub in Londons Docklands where virtually all information on the Internet travels in and out of Britain, the report said. The suspects were arrested following the raids in southern England last year.
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TBILISI, March 12 (Reuters) - Georgia said on Monday three Russian helicopters had attacked a disputed gorge under Georgian control in the breakaway region of Abkhazia, an incident likely to worsen tensions between Moscow and Tbilisi. Russia's air force denied the reports.
"Wasn't us! Musta been dem jooos or sumbody else."
Moscow-backed separatists rule most of Abkhazia, which broke away from Georgia in a war in the 1990s, but their government is not recognised internationally. The Kodori gorge has long been a flashpoint for tension. Its upper part is occupied by Georgian security forces and a local pro-Georgian administration while the lower part is controlled by Abkhazian separatists.
Russian helicopters late on Sunday fired on the upper Kodori gorge, the de facto border between Abkhazia and Georgia, Shota Khizanishvili, chief-of-staff at the Georgian interior ministry, told Reuters. "Three helicopters bombed the gorge for a half an hour. They were Russian helicopters. There are no victims, but several buildings were partly destroyed," Khizanishvili said. Russia's air force called the Georgian announcement a "provocative act", RIA news agency reported.
A source in the pro-Tbilisi administration in the gorge said two villages were also attacked with rockets from Abkhazia. "These two actions took place at the same time. We are dealing with a co-ordinated action from Russia and the Abkhazian separatists -- there is no other way to explain how these actions happened simultaneously," the source said.
Abkhazian separatist officials said they had no information about the incident.
Georgia's army and air force were put on alert after the raid, Deputy Defence Minister Levan Nikoleishvili said. A Georgian helicopter crashed, killing the servicemen, after being scrambled, he said. Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili plans to return early from Kazakhstan, where he made a stopover after an official visit to Japan, his press service said.
Relations between Tbilisi and former Soviet master Moscow have been severely strained by a spying row, trade disputes and the ambitions of Georgian leaders to join NATO and the European Union.
And on the other side: MOSCOW, March 12 (RIA Novosti) - Shelling early Monday in the Kodori Gorge, the de facto border between Georgia and its breakaway region of Abkhazia, was the result of an incursion by Georgian troops into the area, a senior Russian diplomat said Monday.
"We was invaded!"
Georgian authorities said Monday that the upper part of Kodori was under rocket and artillery fire for 40 minutes during the night. They cited local police and witnesses who saw two helicopters that had violated Georgia's airspace by flying from Abkhazia, and that the artillery shelling had also originated from the same direction. No casualties were reported.
"The incident in the Kodori Gorge can only be qualified as the logical result of last year's escalation of the situation there and the incursion of Georgian troops and the deployment of the Abkhazian 'government in exile' in the area," Mikhail Kamynin said. The Russian Air Force has denied the reports, calling them a mere provocation.
"The report by Georgian authorities alleging that a part of the Kodori Gorge, where the villages of Azhara, Gentsvishi and Chkhalta are located, came under attack by a helicopter that presumably flew from Russia, is nothing but a pure provocation," Air Force spokesman Alexander Drobyshevsky said.
It is not the first time Georgia has accused Russia and the breakaway republic of Abkhazia of violating a ceasefire agreement signed to end a bloody war that broke out after the separatist region proclaimed its independence in the early 1990s. Abkhazia has not been recognized as a sovereign state either by Tbilisi or by the international community. Moscow supports the self-proclaimed republic's bid for independence, and has said that if the United Nations grants full sovereignty to the Serbian province of Kosovo, it should treat Abkhazia the same way.
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said Monday that any attack on upper Abkhazia, where the Georgian military has been deployed since the summer of 2006, would be regarded as an attack on Georgia. "Any attack on the population of upper Abkhazia is an attack on Georgia, and the country, in accordance with available means, will respond to the attack and defend itself," Saakashvili told the National Security Council.
Georgian Interior Minister Vano Merabishvili said a shoot-to-kill order would be in effect against all violators of Georgian airspace from now on. "In the case of repeated violations of our airspace, we will open fire, as the security of our population requires of us," he told journalists.
This could go badly. I'll make popcorn.
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May a crate of Stingers fall off the ramp of the next cargo plane to visit Georgia.
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Russians! What have they got against gorges? Leave the gorge alone! It's just sitting there getting eroded by the river at its bottom.
A Swiss newspaper claimed on Sunday that the Talibans former defence minister was free two days after his reported capture by Pakistani security forces. The Swiss weekly SonntagsBlick said one of its reporters spoke to Mullah Obaidullah Akhund on February 28 unhindered in an Islamic school in the southwestern city of Quetta.
Akhund, considered a key ally of fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar, was the most senior leader from the hard-line militia to be reported arrested since US-led troops ousted it from power in 2001. Several Pakistani intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said earlier this month that he was among five Taliban suspects arrested on February 26 in a raid on a Quetta home. However, Pakistani government officials at that time did not confirm any arrest publicly, and one senior Interior Ministry official who handles counterterrorism issues denied a top Taliban figure was captured.
Pakistani officials could not be reached for comment late on Sunday on the Swiss newspapers claim. The arrest purportedly took place the same day US Vice President Dick Cheney visited Pakistan, which has been under growing international pressure to crack down on Taliban militants. The news is not true, SonntagsBlick wrote. The world press reported: top-Taliban imprisoned. At the same time he was sitting with a SonntagsBlick reporter having coffee.
This article starring:
MULLAH OBAIDULLAH AKHUND
Taliban
Vice President Dick Cheney
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Nothing contradictory - maybe he got captured, then the Pakipowers 'remembered' who was in charge, and released him for his luncheon engagement with the European press.
A suicide bomber blasted a truck carrying Shi'ite pilgrims returning from a major religious commemoration Sunday, killing at least 31 people a day after Iraqi leaders warned sectarian violence could eventually spread around the region. The truck was among the convoys carrying millions of pilgrims home from Karbala in southern Iraq, where Shiites attended an important religious event. Hundreds were killed by bombers and gunmen while heading to the annual gathering.
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Several raids, all after the same kind of quarry: sounds like a roll-up of leads from a pretty big recent catch - maybe one of the 'almost al-Baghdadis'.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Coalition Forces captured 15 suspected terrorists during operations Sunday morning targeting al-Qaida in Iraq and foreign fighter facilitators. Early morning operations conducted by Coalition Forces west of Abu Ghurayb led to the capture of a suspected foreign terrorist facilitation network leader and one of his associates.
Four suspects were detained northwest of Karmah ... Bad karma there
... and three suspects were detained in Fallujah, all with alleged ties to al-Qaeda in Iraq and foreign fighter facilitation.
Northeast of Al Asad, three suspects who allegedly operate an al-Qaeda associated foreign fighter training camp were detained. Coalition Forces also captured three suspected al-Qaeda members operating west of Taji.
"Coalition Forces are working diligently to eliminate al-Qaeda and foreign facilitation networks in Iraq," said Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, MNF-I spokesperson. "These networks are a hindrance to the peace and stability the Iraqi people deserve."
Bored?
GAZA CITY (AFP) - Armed men have kidnapped a British correspondent for the BBC in the volatile Gaza Strip, Palestinian security sources said Monday. Alan Johnston, who is the BBC's primary journalist in Gaza, was snatched from a car on Palestine Street in Gaza City not far from his office. He had been coming from the Erez checkpoint, the main crossing point between Gaza and Israel, they said. Oh, talkin to the Jews, eh? Seize him!
Armed men stopped his car and forced Johnston out before driving off with him, the sources added. C'mon, Scoops, ya comin with us...
The Palestinian interior ministry and the presidency ordered all security services and police to search for the missing journalist, security sources said. Mahmoud, round up the usual suspects. And don't forget to ask for a cut.
The BBC bureau in Jerusalem declined to comment on the report. Must be too busy looking for their checkbook.
Abductions of foreigners have been fairly common in the impoverished Gaza Strip, with 20 such cases over the past year. Oh, well, then I guess it's okay...
In most instances, the kidnappers used the hostages as bargaining chips to gain concessions from the Palestinian Authority, and the detainees were released unharmed within days. Just one of those quaint local customs in Gaza. You really haven't been there unless you do it...
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Beat me to it, Excalibur. Though I have met some decent and interesting Beeb types, and of course in any case I hope this guy is released without incident (or, uh, conversion ....). I suppose it's about $$$$, as even the Paleostinians could hardly ask for more ridiculous, unprofessional, anti-Israel "coverage" than the BBC normally spits out (and that's just in English - imagine what their Arabic language channel must be like - skeeery).
GAZA (Reuters) - The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas rejected on Monday criticism by al Qaeda's second-in-command and said it was still committed to Israel's destruction despite a power-sharing deal with the Fatah faction. "We will not betray promises we made to God to continue the path of Jihad and resistance until the liberation of Palestine, all of Palestine," Hamas said in a statement, in a clear reference to Israel as well as to the occupied West Bank.
In an audio recording posted on the Internet on Sunday, al Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahri accused Hamas of serving U.S. interests by agreeing to respect past Palestinian peace accords with Israel in a recent Saudi-brokered unity government deal with moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah. The coalition agreement fell short of meeting demands by the Quartet of peace mediators -- the United States, the European Union, the United Nations and Russia -- to recognize Israel, renounce violence and accept existing interim peace deals.
Zawahri said the Mecca accord, which calmed weeks of Hamas-Fatah warfare in which more than 90 Palestinians were killed, was part of an attempt by Washington to offset Muslim anger at what he described as its bias toward Israel. "It is an American scheme to hit the Islamic jihadist resistance against the Crusader-Zionist campaign. America wanted a sham solution to the Palestinian issue to remove the biggest reason for Muslim hatred (of the United States)," he said. Zawahri accused Hamas of abandoning a tradition of suicide bombings for political gains. "They have ditched the movement of martyrdom operations ... for a government that plays with words in palace halls," he said.
Hamas killed nearly 300 Israelis in 58 suicide bombings after a Palestinian uprising began in 2000. It last carried out a suicide bombing in Israel in 2004.
In its statement Hamas said it continued to be a "movement of resistance, seekers of martyrdom" and that its "principles will never be changed." "Zawahri's recent statements were wrong ... Resistance is our strategy. How and when? This depends on the reality at the time and our corresponding view of things," Hamas said. "So be assured doctor Ayman, and all those who love Palestine like yourself, that Hamas is still the group you knew when it was founded and it will never abandon its path."
Hamas said its decision to run in the January 2006 Palestinian election that brought it to power and last month's unity deal with Fatah "came only to preserve the higher interests of the Palestinian people." Hamas leaders have offered a long-term truce with Israel in return for a viable Palestinian state in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip. The group's 1988 founding chapter calls for the destruction of the Jewish state.
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Poor guys. "Doctor Ayman" is mad at them for making nice with Fatah and the Euroweenies are mad at them because they still want to kill Jooooooos. They can't please anybody.
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I sure wish Israel would really start seeking Hamas' destruction. If they assiduously worked at it, I'd bet they'd find it--and we'd all be MUCH better off. The only good Hamas member is a dead Hamas member.
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"Hamas said it continued to be a 'movement of resistance, seekers of martyrdom' and that its 'principles will never be changed.'"
Did anyone really think the tiger changed its stripes? Predators have an instictive ability to recognize when the next meal is infirm or vulnerable. The term of the "long-term truce" dends on the health of the next meal.
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They really Really REALLY R-E-A-L-L-Y RRREEEEAAAALLLLLYYY, D *** ng it, R-E-E-E-L-L-L-Y
WANNA MAKE PEACE WID ISRAEL BUT-T-T, ALAS, THEY EVEN IN PEACE THEY STILL HAVE TO KILL 'EM.
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Sniff, sniff, all Amer doesn't want HAMAS, or wants to force HAMAS, TO DISOBEY GOD + MARX + HAMAS POLITBURO, DO YOU - how we have God-based Secular Totalitarian Communist Libertarianism in the ME iff we do??
Al Qaeda's number two leader criticized the Palestinian Hamas for agreeing to respect past agreements with Israel as part of an accord to form a national unity government, according to an audio recording broadcast Sunday by Al-Jazeera satellite channel.
Ayman Al-Zawahiri's message was broadcast just minutes before the Israeli prime minister and the moderate Palestinian president ended their meeting in Jerusalem. Al-Zawahiri lashed out at Hamas over agreeing last month in the Saudi holy city of Mecca to forming a national unity government. Under that accord, the new government only agrees to "respect" past agreements, falling short of the international conditions.
Hamas and the Fatah faction of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are under pressure to agree on the final details of the Cabinet ahead of an Arab summit later this month that is expected to relaunch an initiative for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. "Hamas has fallen in the swamp of surrender," Ayman al-Zawahiri said in the excerpts broadcast by the Qatari-based channel.
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Easy for 'A man', he can just scurry out of his hole in the ground, make decrees, and slither back in. Being wanted 'Dead or Alive' tends to do that to a Public Figure however!
Islamist militants in the South have shot and killed three Burmese workers, beheading one of the dead men in the 26th such atrocity since the conflict flared in early 2004..
Police say that six insurgents attacked a construction site in Pattani province, where around 15 Burmese workers were camped on the job. The attackers fired indiscriminately into the group of workers, wounding four in addition to killing three of the men. The attack may have been a mistake by the insurgents, however. They left a note on the body which said, "kill the innocent and we kill Thai Buddhists." It indicated they did not know the construction workers were immigrant labourers.
In a separate incident, a 3kg (6.6 pound) improvised bomb triggered by mobile phone exploded in a crowded market in Yala province on Monday, wounding eight people, police said.
In Narathiwat, suspected insurgents burned down a school building in the town. The fire left students from first to third year without a schoolhouse.
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TERRORISM. Ya see, we have a perfectly word for deliberate, barbaric murder or injury of innocents. It's called TERRORISM. A few years into the orwellian era of utterly twisted English by the media, I'm still not used to it and it still makes me angry.
THE Court of Appeals (CA) has denied for lack of merit a petition of a captured Indonesian national alleged to be a member of the terror group Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) seeking to overturn a Pasay court decision that sentenced him to 17 years imprisonment for illegal possession of firearms and explosives.
The CA 13th Division chaired by Associate Justice Edgardo Cruz declared final and executory the ruling of the late Pasay Regional Trial Court (RTC) Judge Henrick Gingoyon who ordered the entry of judgment of the case against petitioner Agnus Dwikarna. The appellate court concurred with Gingoyon's Dec. 19, 2002 ruling that Dwikarna has forfeited his right to appeal his case for failure to file a notice of appeal within 15-day reglementary period from the promulgation of judgment. "We have reviewed the records of the case and find that respondent judge correctly denied petitioner's motion to reconsider the entry of judgment because the RTC decision had already attained finality," the CA said.
Court records showed that Dwikarna and two other Indonesian companions -- Hamsin Lin Rung and Abdul Jamal Balfas -- had been indicted before the Pasay RTC for illegal possession of firearms and explosives shortly after they were arrested before boarding an international flight at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (Naia) on March 13, 2002.
Aviation policemen claimed a search of the three Indonesians' luggage yielded detonating cords, blasting caps, and a small quantity of C4 plastic explosive. After a preliminary investigation, the Pasay City Prosecutor's Office recommended on April 19, 2002 the dismissal of charges against Rung and Balfas for lack of sufficient evidence while found probable cause to indict Dwikarna. Investigators also found pieces of evidence linking Dwikarna to JI, which has connection with Al-Qaeda terror group. After trial, Gingoyon rendered a decision finding Dwikarna guilty beyond reasonable doubt of violation of Presidential Decree (PD) 1866 or illegal possession of firearms and explosives charges.
This article starring:
ABDUL JAMAL BALFAS
Jemaah Islamiyah
AGNUS DWIKARNA
Jemaah Islamiyah
Associate Justice Edgardo Cruz
HAMSIN LIN RUNG
Jemaah Islamiyah
Judge Henrick Gingoyon
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A roadside bomb killed two special forces commandos in eastern Sri Lanka Sunday, the Defence Ministry said. The deaths came amid heightened fighting between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and Sri Lankas military. The LTTE terrorists detonated a Claymore mine targeting a STF (Special Task Force) foot patrol. Two STF officers were killed, the ministry said in a statement posted on its Web site.
The Tigers began fighting for a separate homeland in Sri Lankas north and northeast in 1983 for ethnic minority Tamils, citing decades of discrimination by the Sinhalese majority.
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The family of Ali Reza Asgari, the Iranian general and former deputy defense minister who disappeared from Turkey last month, snubbed recent newspaper reports claiming he defected to the West and insisted instead that he was kidnapped by foreign agents. His wife Ziba Asgari, 46, contended Western reports that Asgari was a spy and smuggled his family out of Iran prior to his escape. We are here. Those are mere rumors being spread by the enemies, she said. His 20-year-old daughter Alham told journalists she was certain Israel or the United States kidnapped him, as they are Irans main enemies. My father worked hard for the regime and he had many enemies due to his position, she was quoted by Fars, the Iranian news agency.
According to the Fars report, Asgaris wife, two daughters, son and brother arrived at the Turkish embassy in Tehran Monday seeking information on his whereabouts and met with Deputy Ambassador Dorim Ozturk. Asgaris brother demanded answers from the Turkish representatives, who noted that the matter was being examined and vowed to help as much as they could. We tried to check for ourselves if there was any new news. Were very concerned. I really miss my father, Alham told reporters.
Ziba, 46, said the since her husband retired from military positions, he was an olive and olive oil merchant in Syria . She said the family had last been in contact with him in December. On December 7, she said, Asgari traveled from Damascus to Istanbul and checked into a hotel. Two days later, they lost contact with him. We were in touch with him until Friday, December 8, but on Saturday, we lost contact. His cell phone was turned off and we started to be concerned, Ziba said.
She rejected outright various reports that her husband defected to the West after smuggling his family to a safe place. He had no problems in Iran that would make him want to escape. Someone seeking refuge takes his family with him, she said.
Unless he's already got himself a sweet young thing..
On Sunday the British newspaper The Sunday Times reported that Asgari had been spying on Iran since 2003 when he was recruited on an overseas business trip.
Asgari, 63, was apparently at a NATO base in Germany undergoing a debriefing, the report said. According to the Times, a daring getaway via Damascus was organized by western intelligence agencies after it became clear that his cover was about to be blown. Irans notorious secret service, the Vavak, is believed to have suspected that he was a high-level mole, the report said.
London-based Asharq al-Awsat newspaper reported Friday that upon his disappearance Asgari was carrying documents and maps that shed light on Irans military and the Revolutionary Guards' links to Hizbullah , Islamic Jihad, the Mahadi Army and the Badr Corps (military forces of The Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq).
Last week an official American intelligence source told the Washington Post that Israel had orchestrated Asgaris defection to the West and that he was was cooperating with his questioners and divulging classified information on Iran.
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Irans notorious secret service, the Vavak, is believed to have suspected that he was a high-level mole, the report said.
And yet they let him leave? Sounds mighty suspicious.
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We were in touch with him until Friday, December 8, but on Saturday, we lost contact. His cell phone was turned off and we started to be concerned, Ziba said.
Interesting. I thought he disappeared in Turkey on February 8th.
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If he's gone, and the Mullahs don't know whether he ran - or was snatched - they gotta be lyin' awake nights wonderin'....
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Hmmm...just noticed, her father worked for the regime. I would've used different words - My father worked for his country.
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Either he was a spy/defector and his family got scooped on their way out, or I would guess that we did actualy snach his a*s and the last couple days of "leaks" were part of a cover and breaking him.
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CL: Either he was a spy/defector and his family got scooped on their way out, or I would guess that we did actualy snach his a*s and the last couple days of "leaks" were part of a cover and breaking him.
Another possibility is that they're threatening the wife's family - and the wife is trying to prevent any harm from coming to them by toeing the official Iranian line. A second possibility is that the wife and family weren't in on the thing, and the government is using them to lure Asgari back to Iran, where he'll be hanged from the nearest crane.
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If your marriage becomes boring, and your job dull, I suppose you could always change jobs, and
1. go into the international olive oil business in Syria;
2. go be a bus driver in Baghdad; or
3. go hold tent revival Christian camp meetings in Afganistan.
Rome, 12 March (AKI) - A former Iranian deputy defence minister and retired general who mysteriously disappeared in Istanbul two weeks ago was an avowed enemy of current president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a well-placed Iranian source has told Adnkronos International (AKI). "As soon as Ahmadinejad came to power in July 2006, [General Ali Reza] Asgari was sidelined. For months after that the general feared he may fall victim to an 'accident' or be accused on trumped up charges," the source told AKI.
I figured he skipped out just ahead of a purge
The spy who came in from the cold, it seems. Whether it was a purge or whether the Iranian counter-intel had gotten wind of him still isn't clear.
Asgari's disappearance shortly after checking into a Istanbul hotel - the retired general had flown to the Turkish city from Damascus - has triggered media speculation that he may have defected and that he is co-operating with Western and Israeli intelligence services.
Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharanot, citing unidentified Israeli security sources, has indicated Asgari worked as an agent for Israel's Mossad intelligence services since 2003, and that he had "fled with a suitcase stuffed with documents," with Mossad's help. But sources close to Iran's former president Mohammad Khatami, under whom Asgari served as deputy defence minister, have told AKI they are sure the 63-year-old retired general did not work for Mossad. However, they said they believed Asgari had voluntarily defected to the West and that he was not kidnapped.
The Iranian sources said that before his cabinet appointment, Asgari had been responsible for several "highly sensitive" operations. In the early 1980s he supervised the training of Hezbollah fighters in their Bekaa Valley stronghold in Lebanon, also helping them install missiles, according to the sources. Following his return to Iran in 1986 Asgari was made responsible for the missile programme of the elite Pasdaran Revolutionary Guard and posted in Isfahan, an important centre of Iran's miilitary industry.
According to Israeli security sources contacted by AKI, Asgari represents a "goldmine of information" and that has information on Tehran's ties with Palestinian militant groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad. In addition the retired general could also shed light on the July 1994 attack against a centre of the Jewish community in Argentina, beleived to have been masterminded by Imad Mughnyeh a Hezbollah operative based in the Latin American country.
You'd like to think that people in the West could keep their mouths shut on this fellow, but no .....
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I'm confused. His family and one part of the government sez he's kidnapped. But others say he defected.
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As someone who has paid admission the the Spy Museum in Washington, I can say with some certainty that we really don't know what is going down.
I stayed at Holiday Inn Express that week too, if memory serves...
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A roadside bomb killed two special forces commandos in eastern Sri Lanka Sunday, the Defence Ministry said. The deaths came amid heightened fighting between the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and Sri Lankas military. The LTTE terrorists detonated a Claymore mine targeting a STF (Special Task Force) foot patrol. Two STF officers were killed, the ministry said in a statement posted on its Web site. 
