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Africa Horn
Group claims attack on Ethiopian base in Somalia
(SomaliNet) According to an internet website a little known group on Friday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing on an Ethiopian military base in Somalia, and said it used chemicals in the attack. The group, calling itself the Young Mujahideen Movement in Somalia, said one of its newly dead most prominent members, Abdul-Aziz Dawood Abdul-Qader, carried out Thursday's bombing.

"By God's grace, a qualitative martyrdom operation was carried out at the western entrance to the capital Mogadishu in which chemical materials were used," the Arabic-language statement said. It was not possible to verify the authenticity of the statement, which was posted on a website used by terrorists militants.
Don't expect the progressive Left to become upset over Islamicist terrorist groups using chemical weapons.
Experts say the Young Mujahideen Movement has claimed responsibility for several attacks on Ethiopian troops since they routed the forces of the Somalia Council of Islamic Courts in an offensive over the New Year.
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ABDUL AZIZ DAWUD ABDUL QADERYoung Mujahideen Movement
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Mogadishu's deputy mayor dies
(SomaliNet) Deputy Mayor of the Somalia capital Mogadishu Ibrahim Omar Sebriye Shaweye has died in Nairobi, Kenya after he had been in the hospital for an injury of explosion, government official said on Friday. He was in his 40s.

Abdulahi Muhyidin Odka, the acting spokesman for the Somali’s government confirmed to the local media that Mr. Shaweye passed away in Nairobi this afternoon. “The reports we have received from Nairobi told the government that Mogadishu’s deputy mayor has died of wounds that he had been suffering for long time,” said Odka

He has been in the hospital since he was injured by shrapnel of an explosion that was targeted on his convoy in Mogadishu last month. Two of his aides were killed in that explosion. In early March, the vehicle of Ibrahim Shaweeye, deputy mayor of Mogadishu, was blown up by a bomb allegedly hidden inside his vehicle. He sustained injuries and was flown abroad for treatment. The government blamed the action on remnants of the Islamists.
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Abdulahi Muhyidin Odka
Ibrahim Omar Sebriye Shaweye
Ibrahim Shaweeye
Posted by: Fred || 04/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Somalia: Clashes kill 20 in the capital as FM station bombarded
(SomaliNet) At least 20 people have been killed and more than 70 wounded in the latest round of fighting in the Somalia capital Mogadishu between the Ethiopian forces and the local insurgents, medical sources say on Saturday. Several artillery shells hit civilian areas in south of the capital this morning causing deaths and injuries. 135 people mostly civilians have been killed and 370 others were wounded in four days of heavy fighting. Most of the people were killed by the shrapnel of the mortar explosions.

Meanwhile, the Ethiopian forces have bombarded Saturday Horn Afrik Radio and TV station, one of the main local media outlets in the Somalia capital Mogadishu wounding at least two of its staff, sources confirmed to Somalinet.

Cameraman Abdi Yare and reporter Yahye Ali Farah have been seriously wounded when several artillery shells hit the building of Horn Afrik as the staff were doing their journalistic work. The latest shelling caused Horn Afrik Radio to go off air and it is feared the Radio’s transmission equipment was damaged by the explosion. Both Yahye and Yare are now being treated in Medina hospital as the medical officials say they are in critical condition. Horn Afrik Radio and TV station is situated in the stronghold of the local insurgents where the artillery fires are hitting.

Other developments say that the Ethiopian forces blocked the road between Mogadishu and Afgoye, 30km south of the city. It is unclear why this road was closed but some reports say that it was cut off for security grounds.
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Abdi Yare
Yahye Ali Farah
Posted by: Fred || 04/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  FM ain't squat.

/My Dad.
Posted by: Shipman || 04/22/2007 8:15 Comments || Top||

#2  perhaps the Horn Afrik "Morning Zoo" drivetime team was advocating less than cooperation with the Æthiops?
Posted by: Frank G || 04/22/2007 9:54 Comments || Top||

#3  "No static at all. FM".
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 04/22/2007 10:31 Comments || Top||

#4  Don't tell me that Imus and McGuirk now have new jobs?
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 04/22/2007 14:07 Comments || Top||


52 killed, 120 wounded in Somalia clashes
A human rights group and hospital officials say at least 52 people were killed and 120 were wounded Saturday in fighting in Mogadishu.
Posted by: Fred || 04/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is a more detailed article:

52 killed in Modadishu

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al || 04/22/2007 14:00 Comments || Top||

#2  At one time I had sympathy for these folks, but as time went on, and the killings showed that it just wasn't "civilians" getting killed, and amnesia international was as much a part of the problem as they were part of the solution, my sympathy leaked away. Now the barrel is empty. I'm beginning to suspect that each death is a step toward a lasting peace, and the more dead, the better.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 04/22/2007 14:34 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
13 JMB suspects held in Kurigram
Police yesterday morning arrested 13 suspected activists of the outlawed Islamist militant organisation Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) raiding different places in Kurigram. The arrestees are: Neamul Arif Likhi Chaudhury, 26, Ershadul Haque Mithu, 26, Mokhlesur Rahman Mithu, 20, and Mamun, 22, of Bhurungamari upazila, Angur, 18, Raihan Kabir Rana, 19, Shahidul Islam Shahin, 18, and Mahmudul Mamun, 20, of Chilmari upazila, Lal Miah, 28, of Raumari upazila and Abdul Hai Sarkar, 55, Ripon, 18, Maniruzzaman, 22, Alam, 19, of Sadar upazila of the district.

Police sources said police arrested them following information extracted from militant leader Matin Mehdi, chief of an Islamist militant organisation "Allaher Dal", and three others who were placed on a five-day remand Friday. Superintendent of Police of Kurigram Choudhury Manjurul Kabir said they are trying to find out how the militant network spread in the country by questioning the militants.
This article starring:
ABDUL HAI SARKARJamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
ALAMJamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
ALLAHER DALJamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
ANGURJamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
Choudhury Manjurul Kabir
ERSHADUL HAQUE MITHUJamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
MAMUNJamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
MANIRUZZAMANJamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
MATIN MEHDIAllaher Dal
MOKHLESUR RAHMAN MITHUJamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
NEAMUL ARIF LIKHI CHAUDHURYJamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
RAIHAN KABIR RANAJamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
RIPONJamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
SHAHIDUL ISLAM SHAHINJamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
Allaher Dal
Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh
Posted by: Fred || 04/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Turkey: Another suspect detained on religious murders
Turkish police detained a woman in Istanbul Saturday, bring to 12 the number of people believed to be connected to the killing of three Christians at a publishing house in eastern Turkey.

The three victims - one German and two Turkish men - were tied up and had their throats slit on Wednesday at a publishing house in the town of Malatya that nationalists had protested about because it distributed Bibles. The woman who was detained Saturday was the girlfriend of one of the 11 suspects already in custody, Malatya Gov. Halil Dasoz said.
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Malatya Gov. Halil Dasoz
Posted by: Fred || 04/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I hate the sneaking suspicion I feel that the police are only being so vigilant about finding the perpetrators because Turkey was embarrassed in front of the German who'd come to meet Prime Minister Erdogan. I hate it because I do believe that there are still many secularists amongst the Turks, Muslim though they be.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/22/2007 21:55 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
WaPo Cracks!
Top U.S. Officers See Mixed Results From Iraq 'Surge'
Front Page. Sunday Washington Post. "Mixed" Results. That means some good, right? Whaddaya say to that, Harry?

BAGHDAD, April 21 -- Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said the ongoing increase of nearly 30,000 U.S. troops in the country has achieved "modest progress" but has also met with setbacks such as a rise in devastating suicide bombings and other problems that leave uncertain whether his counterinsurgency strategy will ultimately succeed.

Assessing the first two months of the U.S. and Iraqi plan to pacify the capital, senior American commanders -- including Petraeus; Adm. William J. Fallon, head of U.S. forces in the Middle East; Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, commander of military operations in Iraq; and top regional commanders -- see mixed results. They said that while an increase in U.S. and Iraqi troops has improved security in Baghdad and Anbar province, attacks have risen sharply elsewhere. Critical now, they said in interviews this week, is for Iraqi leaders to forge the political compromises needed for long-term stability. The commanders search for signs of success. On Friday night at dusk, Petraeus boarded a helicopter to look for scenes of normalcy and progress from above the maelstrom of the capital.

"On a bad day, I actually fly Baghdad just to reassure myself that life still goes on," he said, leaning back and propping his legs on the seat in front of him. The aircraft banked right and Petraeus caught sight of a patch of relative calm. "He's actually watering the grass!" Petraeus said with a laugh, peering down at a man tending a soccer field, with children playing nearby.

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Posted by: Bobby || 04/22/2007 07:57 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Almost worth a flying pig.
Posted by: DarthVader || 04/22/2007 8:53 Comments || Top||

#2  front page - same article - San Diego Union Trib... how did this escape The Embargo™?
Posted by: Frank G || 04/22/2007 9:48 Comments || Top||

#3  Y'all sure this isn't just the "Token Good News" to justify returning to the normal bashing?
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/22/2007 10:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Hope you're wrong RJim but I fear you're right.
Posted by: Shipman || 04/22/2007 10:19 Comments || Top||

#5  Maybe we should apply the "repeaters" test, see if more "Good News" pops up in (Say) a week or so, don't cheer until it repeats.

Actions speak louder than words.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/22/2007 10:35 Comments || Top||

#6  the quote Bobby expected to be on page 96 is on page 20, 2nd column

the Iraq story is the only thing on pg 20
Posted by: mhw || 04/22/2007 11:42 Comments || Top||

#7  Was also in the Austin Statesman and included only 7 paragraphs! All details left out.

Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, said the ongoing increase of nearly 30,000 U.S. troops in the country has achieved "modest progress" but has also met with setbacks such as a rise in devastating suicide bombings and other problems that leave uncertain whether his counterinsurgency strategy will ultimately succeed.

Now, did Gen Petraeus say there are problems that leave uncertain whether his countersurgency strategy will ultimately succeed, or is this author conjecture?
Posted by: Sherry || 04/22/2007 12:14 Comments || Top||

#8  Sherry! You know the answer to that one!

Good catch, nevertheless...
Posted by: Bobby || 04/22/2007 13:26 Comments || Top||

#9  If today's WaPo had been reporting WWII's Marianas Turkey Shoot, they whould ahve called it "Mixed Results".

i.e. This must be a spectacular victory if WaPo calls it "mixed results".

Al
Posted by: Frozen Al || 04/22/2007 13:48 Comments || Top||

#10  A "mixed result" in Washington is pretty much illustrated by them getting a ML baseball team (finally) but it sucks big time (as usual). So they know one when they see one. A "mixed result" is having a John McCain (hero) in the same Senate as Harry Reid (cockroach). A "mixed result" is having Nancy Pelosi (certified idiot) acting as if Petraeus (another hero) is contaminated with Bushpetitis.
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 04/22/2007 14:13 Comments || Top||

#11  I didn't get past the Petraeus comment about the need for Iraqi political reconciliation as a prerequisite to success. That gives me a sick feeling.

I could be very wrong, but I don't think the political stuff he refers to (incl. hydrocarbons law, de-Ba'athification issues, etc.) will have one iota of impact on the security situation in the near or mid terms. Not one iota. The people fighting us (the crucial majority, at least) and the Iraqi govt. and cooperating with AQ Iraq, etc., do so for a myriad of reasons (all bad, not all equally irrational), NONE of which cross at any point with the issues in question.

Vicious wars end through victory and defeat, not reconciliation. Gross generalization, but get granular in Iraq and I doubt you'll find much to contradict the basic point. The folks most interested in the political issues mentioned are not the ones who are the problem.


Posted by: Verlaine || 04/22/2007 14:21 Comments || Top||

#12  To me the most important sentence in the article is :"Iraq is going to have to learn -- as did, say, Northern Ireland -- to live with some degree of sensational attacks."
Posted by: RWV || 04/22/2007 19:31 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Jihadist video shows boy killing Pakistani militant
Follow-up and more information.
KILI FAQIRAN, Pakistan -- The boy with the knife looks barely 12. In a high-pitched voice, he denounces the bound, blindfolded man before him as an American spy. Then he hacks off the captive's head to cries of "God is great!" and hoists it in triumph by the hair.

A video circulating in Pakistan records the grisly death of Ghulam Nabi, a Pakistani militant accused of betraying a top Taliban official who was killed in a December airstrike in Afghanistan. An Associated Press reporter confirmed Nabi's identity by visiting his family in Kili Faqiran, their remote village in southwestern Pakistan.

Captions mention Mullah Dadullah, the Taliban's current top commander in southern Afghanistan, although he does not appear in the video. The soundtrack features songs praising Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar and "Sheikh Osama" -- an apparent reference to Osama bin Laden, who is suspected of hiding along the Afghan-Pakistan border.

The footage shows Nabi making what is described as a confession, being blindfolded with a checkered scarf. "He is an American spy. Those who do this kind of thing will get this kind of fate," says his baby-faced executioner, who is not identified.
His mom must be so proud ...
A continuous 2 1/2-minute shot then shows the victim lying on his side on a patch of rubble-strewn ground. A man holds Nabi by his beard while the boy, wearing a camouflage military jacket and oversized white sneakers, cuts into the throat. Other men and boys call out "Allahu akbar!" -- "God is great!" -- as blood spurts from the wound. The film, overlain with jihadi songs, then shows the boy hacking and slashing at the man's neck until the head is severed.

A Pashto-language voiceover in the video identifies Nabi and his home village of Kili Faqiran in Baluchistan province, which lies about two hours' drive from the Afghan border. A reporter went to the village, and Nabi's distraught and angry father, Ghulam Sakhi, confirmed his son's identity from a still picture that AP made from the footage. He said neighbors had told him the video is available at the village bazaar, but he had no wish to see it. Sakhi said his son had been a loyal Taliban member who fought in Afghanistan and sheltered the hard-line Afghan group's leaders in the family's mud-walled compound.
And then someone ratted out your boy, pops.

Continued on Page 49
This article starring:
GHULAM NABITaliban
Ghulam Sakhi
Human Rights Watch
Iqbal Haider
MULLAH AKHTAR MOHAMAD OSMANITaliban
MULLAH DADULLAHTaliban
QARI YUSAF AHMEDITaliban
Sam Zarifi
Posted by: Steve White || 04/22/2007 00:04 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And why should anyone be surprised? islam is a death cult. No different than the child-soldiers of Africa.
Posted by: anymouse || 04/22/2007 1:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Sakhi said his son had been a loyal Taliban member who fought in Afghanistan and sheltered the hard-line Afghan group's leaders in the family's mud-walled compound.

I guess he must have been out of the loop when they circulated that update memo about how “Muslim loyalty” is an oxymoron.

"If I got my hands on them I would kill them and even tear their flesh with my own teeth."

Mmmmmm … Taliban flesh.

Nabi ran a religious school in the Baluchistan capital of Quetta and had regularly sheltered both Osmani and Dadullah at the family compound, the father said.

So, in other words, his death was a good thing.

But this kind of act is really egregious. It's off the charts."

And 9-11 wasn’t, you stinking bleeding heart bastard?
Posted by: Zenster || 04/22/2007 1:45 Comments || Top||

#3  Mods this is the video but censored.

Usually I don't watch 'em as a class anymore, too bloody sick and ignorant. I did watch this one though so i could review it inorder to warn. I wouldn't let young kids see this, but heh that's just me.
plz review and sink trap it.. if needed.
Thanks in advance.

Video: Censored Version
Posted by: RD || 04/22/2007 1:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Savages!
Posted by: Percy Clomonter1426 || 04/22/2007 3:14 Comments || Top||

#5  Not savages yet. Animals.
Posted by: Shipman || 04/22/2007 8:17 Comments || Top||

#6  The sound of crickets from all the self-righteous traitors in our midst. Some Orc gets a scratch at our hands and they are up in arms but this medieval performance does not pass the sniff test.

Fine. Allow me to say I no longer care what the Orcs do to each other. They cannot even flee properly; arriving on our shores with the Orc priests and child-mutilation in the baggage. So, yes, this is a grisly display but if it results in one more dead muslim I am all for it.

More. More. More.
Posted by: Excalibur || 04/22/2007 8:30 Comments || Top||

#7  I no longer care what the Orcs do to each other.

Hear, Hear, If they'd only slaughter one another there'd be no problem, trying to slaughter everyone is their (Probably fatal) downfall.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/22/2007 10:15 Comments || Top||

#8  Unlike Gideon's son Jether who wouldn't slay the Zebah and Zalmunna. Judges Chapter 8, verse 21.
Posted by: Penguin || 04/22/2007 10:33 Comments || Top||


Police arrest suspects in attack on Fazl's brother house
Dera Ismail Khan police have arrested an undisclosed number of people on suspicion of firing a rocket at the house of the brother of Muttahida Majlis Amal (MMA) leader Maulana Fazalur Rehman in the Saddar police precincts late Friday. “Yes. Police have arrested some suspects,” spokesman for police Malik Ramzan told Daily Times on the phone from DI Khan. He, however, refused to say the number of people arrested. He said some unknown attackers fired a Russian-made rocket at Maulana Attaur Rehman’s house at around 11:45pm on Friday. The rocket hit the upper storey of the house, damaging a wall. No one was injured.

Last Tuesday, the Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam-Fazl organised a clerics’ convention for the protection of madrassas in Peshawar. The convention declared suicide attacks and forced Sharia un-Islamic. JUI-F DI Khan Secretary Ahmed Kamran said the houses of Maulana Fazalur Rehman and Attaur Rehman were located at the same place. “The rocket was fired from Bannu Road and it made holes in three walls of the upper floor,” he said. “Attaur Rehman was in Lahore at the time of the attack,” he added.
This article starring:
AHMED KAMRANJamiat Ulama-e-Islam-Fazl
Malik Ramzan
MAULANA ATTAUR REHMANMuttahida Majlis Amal
MAULANA FAZALUR REHMANMuttahida Majlis Amal
Jamiat Ulama-e-Islam-Fazl
Muttahida Majlis Amal
Posted by: Fred || 04/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Jaish reorganising under new commander
The banned jihadi organisation Jaish-e-Muhammad is fast reorganising itself under its new commander Mufti Abdul Rauf, younger brother of Maulana Masood Azhar.

Sources told Daily Times that the JM had established a transit camp in Islamabad for its activists coming from southern Punjab and travelling to Kohat where another camp had been established. “Mufti Abdul Rauf is spearheading the reorganisation of JM,” the sources said. Rauf appeared on the scene after Maulana Azhar went underground following two suicide attacks on President General Pervez Musharraf.

The president banned the organisation in January 2002. “Mufti Rauf is receiving directions from Muft Azhar,” the sources claimed. The camp in Islamabad is supposed to serve as the base for the organisation for its propaganda campaign and distribution of pamphlets in tribal areas.
This article starring:
MAULANA MASUD AZHARJaish-e-Muhammad
MUFTI ABDUL RAUFJaish-e-Muhammad
Jaish-e-Muhammad
Posted by: Fred || 04/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  JM had established a transit camp in Islamabad for its activists coming from southern Punjab

The MSM will report these Pak Punjabi terrorists as "Indian Rebels", "Kashmiri militants" etc
Posted by: John Frum || 04/22/2007 6:48 Comments || Top||


Nuggets from the Urdu press
British usurp Indian jobs
According to Sarerahe in daily Nawa-i-Waqt, a British hermaphrodite has started living in a temple (mandir) in Hyderabad. If a gay man enters an Indian temple, people throng to get his blessings but if a gay man enters a mosque people start refreshing their ablutions. Islamic fiqah allows a separate row for gays in a mosque. People have sympathy with the local gays of Hyderabad because a white gay has usurped their livelihood. American gays have been teaching them the secrets of gays (passivity).

Imran Khan brought hash to cricket
According to daily Express, ex-cricketer Sarfaraz Nawaz said that after the departure of the Pakistan cricket team, Imran Khan wrote an article in a newspaper and said that Pakistan was a good team that could reach the final. After the defeat at the hands of Ireland he said that the preparation was poor and the Cricket Board had destroyed the system. Sarfaraz said that Imran Khan was responsible for bringing hash smoking and betting into the team. Imran Khan is a liar.

Inzamam was responsible for defeat
According to daily Khabrain, the ex-captain of the Pakistan cricket team Imran Khan said that the atmosphere of fear spread by Inzamam ul Haq in the national cricket team was responsible for the early exit from the World Cup. He said the dictator captain did not listen to coach Bob Woolmer and he was ignorant about cricket strategy. He is the most unsuccessful captain of the World Cup.

Jinnat on the loose in Salanwali
As reported in daily Khabrain, after killing one woman and a man by twisting their necks, the murderer Abdul Sattar and a young girl are having fits. People told the correspondent that when the bodies were still in the house, mysterious voices told them to leave the house or they would burn the dead bodies. People are leaving the area in fear and some are thinking about hiring pirs to find a remedy.

Internet marriage in Kohat
According to daily Khabrain, a 49 year old American woman, Selton, from California, came to Pakistan to marry 28 year old Ali Tipu in Kohat. The internet friendship started in 2003, and she started going to a local mosque to collect information about Islam on the insistence of Ali. She was living in Kohat when she received a frantic call from her mother who was sick and was worried about her due to violence in the Northern areas of NWFP. She left for California; Ali Tipu will join her after two years.

Akhand Bharat ka Khannas
According to Daily Pakistan, the chief coordinator of Nazria Pakistan Foundation, Main Aziz ul Haq Qureshi, said that Pakistan is not the daughter of the same mother as India is. India is also not our jigar ka tukra. He was responding to a statement by Indian parliament delegation leader Hazari Lal Raghonshi. He warned the Hindus that they would not be dodged by their sweet talk. The friendly ties between Pakistan and India would not be established unless the Indian leadership got rid of the khannas (devil) of Akhand Bharat from their minds.

Restaurant employees suffer from hepatitis
As reported in daily Nawa-i-Waqt, the employees of big hotels, restaurants and a biscuit factory were found to be victims of hepatitis and tuberculosis (TB). The district government checking team found 11 to 13 members of two five star hotels to be suffering from hepatitis and few were also suffering from TB. The food department has conducted 3,600 tests of employees.

Music night on Eid Milad-un-Nabi
According to Daily Pakistan, different religious leaders have termed the musical night by an English daily paper as treason against the religion on the sacred day of the birth of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). They said that a certain enlightened class wants to shun its religious traditions and spread nudity and freedom among the nation.

April Fools’ Day is against Islam
As reported in daily Nawa-i-Waqt, the famous ulema karam of the country said that April Fools’ Day is against the sharia and since April 1 is the birthday of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), therefore the whole nation shall abstain from celebrating April Fools’ Day and shall focus on prayers and religious rituals. Islam strictly forbids spreading false news and rumours.

Rival religious groups fight in Tirah
As reported in Daily Pakistan, fierce fighting in Bara has claimed the lives of 14 people. Ansar-e-Islam claims it has captured the positions of Lashkar-i-Islam in Tirah Maidan and burned three houses of the Lashkar group. One commander of Ansar Islam, Arshad Khan, was killed with three other fighters. The fighting is still on in the Shalobar area in Tirah.

Currency notes from a helicopter
As reported in daily Khabrain, in Wazirabad the brother of a pir, Syed Sibte Hassan (Double Shah) who doubled people’s money, spread a rumour that currency notes would be dropped from helicopters on Pakistan Day. Thousands gathered at his place (astana) near the railway lines. A few were injured when some youngsters threw pieces of paper in the air and the mob started running towards the papers. The villagers waited a full day without food or water on the railway lines.

Ajoka play is against Islam
As reported in Daily Pakistan, Islami Jamiat Talibat said that the Ajoka play, Burqavaganza, ridiculed Islamic teachings. Hijab (veil) is the identity of a Muslim woman that provides her complete security and Islam doesn’t teach obscurantism. The play ridiculed the burqa and veil and is part of an anti-Islam campaign. They demanded that the government take action against the theatre and its management. The government should ban such dramas.

Madrassas not nurseries of terrorism
In daily Nawa-i-Waqt, the head of the Tanzim Jamiat Tuleba Arabia Pakistan in an interview said that the propaganda of terrorist training in madrassas has gone on for some time. The ministers of government, Sheikh Rashid, Chaudhry Shujaat and Ijaz ul Haq have said that the madrassas are not centres of extremism and terrorism. Defending our land against the invaders with money, life and for the protection of Islam is shahadat. Mujahideen are fighting for their survival in Iraq, Kashmir, Afghanistan and other countries.

1,800 khatib trained for family planning
According to daily Express, the Provincial Minister for Population Welfare, Nasim Lodhi, has said that according to the social welfare programme 1,800 imams and khatibs have been trained to promote family planning. The minister said that 105 ulema karam have received four days of a master trainer program. These master trainers will conduct workshops to train a further 1,795 ulema karam for two days.
Posted by: Fred || 04/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  And from these nuggets are two that may be found uesful:
1: since April 1 is Morehammads birthday, it is imperative that more jokes, mirth and general frivolity take place on that day.
2) if there are those so gullible about dollars from a helicopter, then that should become a new non-lethal tactic used. Not really our fault if the raining of dollars coincided with the southbound 5:18 freight, is it?
Posted by: USN, ret. || 04/22/2007 0:38 Comments || Top||

#2  I can't say anything.... but let me say thisn whilest I dance with my local Tree Jinn, best Nuggests EVER! And I'm not saying that because the Dictator Captain is hold a sticky wicket against my head. Nope, this is superior stuff. I assume this expense was compiled with help from currency note dropped from HelioCopters. Thank gawd now matter what our differences we can agree that India is also not our jigar ka tukra you can take thatn to your bank and get a feel of the tree Jinns.
Posted by: Shipman || 04/22/2007 8:24 Comments || Top||

#3  great country....dipshits
Posted by: Frank G || 04/22/2007 10:00 Comments || Top||

#4  Ask Kimmie if he wants a side job making counterfeit Dinars (their currency?) Drop those, watch the fun.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/22/2007 10:18 Comments || Top||

#5  So passivity is the secret of American gays...
Posted by: Grunter || 04/22/2007 11:49 Comments || Top||

#6  What a country - cricket playing playboys (Imran Khan) who smoke hashish, bet on themselves or even against themselves. Kill the coach to cover up for their own incompetence. Pass hepititis off in biscuits (that were probably infected by the British hermaphrodite) and sucker in gullible American widows over the internet. You know these people could be a serious threat.
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 04/22/2007 14:19 Comments || Top||

#7  Three's one I saw last night. A Pakistani warlord who's tribe actually fights Al Queda, said He would shelter binLaden, bacause he said it its tribal custom to help the oppressed. You just know he wants that 25 mil. The ol' April fools day sucker punch
Posted by: Vinegar Ulogum7733 || 04/22/2007 16:43 Comments || Top||

#8  April 1 is the birthday of Prophet Muhammad

I guess the joke's on us.
Posted by: Zenster || 04/22/2007 18:03 Comments || Top||

#9  I wonder about that. Since their lunatic religion uses a lunar calender, how do birthdays and such get recorded? Do they track them on a civilized calendar? Do they just record the lunar date and let it slip around the year (like Ramadan)? Or do the evil clerics use a complicated formula?
Posted by: Jackal || 04/22/2007 20:57 Comments || Top||

#10 
"Ajoka play is against Islam"
Burqavaganza
Posted by: RD || 04/22/2007 21:44 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraqi PM orders halt to Baghdad barrier
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Sunday that he has ordered a halt to the construction of a barrier that would separate a Sunni enclave from surrounding Shiite areas in Baghdad, saying there are other ways to protect the neighborhood.

The U.S. military announced last week that it was building a large concrete wall in the northern Azamiyah section of Baghdad in an effort to protect the minority Sunnis from attacks by Shiites living nearby. The decision drew sharp criticism from residents and Sunni leaders who complained it would isolate their community.

In his first public comments on the issue, al-Maliki said he had ordered the construction to stop. "I oppose the building of the wall and its construction will stop," al-Maliki told reporters during a joint news conference with the Secretary-General of the Arab League Amr Moussa in Cairo, Egypt. "There are other methods to protect neighborhoods."
Fair enough, let's see it.
He did not elaborate but added "this wall reminds us of other walls," in an apparent reference to the wall that divided the German city of Berlin during the Cold War.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 04/22/2007 17:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good luck, Mal!
Posted by: Bobby || 04/22/2007 17:05 Comments || Top||

#2  He did not elaborate but added "this wall reminds us of other walls," in an apparent reference to the wall that divided the German city of Berlin during the Cold War.

I'm suprised that the author missed his chance to sideswipe Israel's security barrier. It is supposed to be an equally hateful sign of repression and subjugation. Funny how Palestinian vest bombings have dropped so precipitously since its construction. I guess he didn't want to risk having people make any connection between walls and actual protection.

With each passing day Maliki becomes more and more an enemy of our troops. The Azamiyah wall would have established choke points whereby both Sunni and Shiite terrorists could be intercepted. Instead, the mayhem will continue unabated and more of America's finest will die because of it.
Posted by: Zenster || 04/22/2007 17:16 Comments || Top||

#3  Fiddling while Iraq burns
Posted by: Grumenk Philalzabod0723 || 04/22/2007 17:48 Comments || Top||

#4  I suspect that his real reason was that the Sunnis are scared of a wall, because it is like something Saddam would have done to a hated minority--like Sadr City.

It goes against what they are hoping for in the new Iraq, that they won't be ghettoized in part of the city.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 04/22/2007 18:09 Comments || Top||

#5  Displacement and ghettoization are natural and normal effects of a conflict like this. That old cause and effect mystery biting Middle Easterners in the rear again. Azamiyah's elders might have considered the consequences of abetting yet more murderous violence against their countrymen (or not actually fighting same) when the occupiers rolled in and the old system collapsed.

On the whole it's starting to seem that Iraqi Sunnis in mixed areas have a future similar to that of the Germans of East Prussia in 1945. My sympathies are similar, as well.
Posted by: Verlaine || 04/22/2007 19:20 Comments || Top||

#6  So he's against it, after he was for it?
Posted by: KBK || 04/22/2007 19:54 Comments || Top||

#7  So where is the US response, that SHOULD go something like this: STFU, until you can prove you have a plan.

if this is needed to give our forces cover to 'assist the Iraqis, then build the freaking wall and let al-Malibu simmer.
Posted by: USN, ret. || 04/22/2007 21:31 Comments || Top||

#8  STFU, until you can prove you have a plan.

I'm afraid we'd be in for an awfully long silence.

These stupid fucks can't look beyond gaining revenge on a rival clan for cheating their way to victory in a camel race over 300 years ago.
Posted by: Zenster || 04/22/2007 21:50 Comments || Top||


3 Suspects Talk After Iraqi Soldiers Do Dirty Work
BAGHDAD, April 21 — Out here in what the soldiers call Baghdad’s wild west, sometimes the choices are all bad. In one of the new joint American-Iraqi security stations in the capital this month, in the volatile Ghazaliya neighborhood, Capt. Darren Fowler was heaping praise on his Iraqi counterparts for helping capture three insurgent suspects who had provided information he believed would save American lives.

“The detainee gave us names from the highest to the lowest,” Captain Fowler told the Iraqi soldiers. “He showed us their safe houses, where they store weapons and I.E.D.’s and where they keep kidnap victims, how they get weapons, where weapons come from, how they place I.E.D.’s, attack us and go away. Because you detained this guy this is the first intelligence linking everything together. Good job. Very good job.”

The Iraqi officers beamed. What the Americans did not know and what the Iraqis had not told them was that before handing over the detainees to the Americans, the Iraqi soldiers had beaten one of them in front of the other two, the Iraqis said. The stripes on the detainee’s back, which appeared to be the product of a whipping with electrical cables, were later shown briefly to a photographer, who was not allowed to take a picture.
Continued on Page 49
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 04/22/2007 12:19 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Craftsman (tm) Tools...making the world safer, one terrorist at a time!!
Posted by: Justrand || 04/22/2007 13:43 Comments || Top||

#2  As I suspected. The New York Times. I need read no further.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/22/2007 13:47 Comments || Top||

#3  First, the characteristic outrageous distortion and editorializing posing as reporting:

The use of torture by American soldiers and contractors at Abu Ghraib only compounded Iraqi hatred of Americans and further undermined American moral claims in Iraq. It also produced little valuable information.

Whuh? Basis for this claim, and crucially for the premise of "compounded" pre-existing hatred, please? You think lots of Shi'a were troubled by the high-jinks at Abu? Kurds? Many, many Sunnis sick of the thugs in their midst? But unpacking this nugget of distortion would take too long - suffice it to say that getting information and something qualifying as "torture" had little or nothing to do with the criminal misbehavior at Abu.

Leaving this aside, the article has something useful info - some troubling, some encouraging.

First, let's all stop chuckling at the NYT's identification of a "dilemma" facing the US in that a tiny bit of roughing up is used to loosen the lips of a suspect in order to disrupt the operations of vile mass murderers who are dedicated to killing thousands and wrecking a society. Good thing the "dilemma" posed by the need to vaporize millions of Axis civilians in order to avoid killing tens of millions of them through prolonged conquest didn't paralyze the Allies 60 years ago.

Bad news: foot patrols are avoided because the area's hot. While completely understandable - uh, then what's the point of our recently adopted non-commuter engagement strategy?

Better news: the apparently casual (therefore unambivalent) view of US soldiers that security must PRECEDE all the other good collateral stuff like jobs and development. The inversion of this common sense idea has, and still does, bedevil us in a disastrous fashion.

Posted by: Verlaine || 04/22/2007 14:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Article: Most experts, including in the military, say they believe that coerced confessions are an unreliable way to learn about enemy operations because people being tortured will often say whatever they think it will take to stop the pain.

This is really moronic. People aren't tortured to get confessions, which are useless. They're tortured to get locations of weapons caches, safehouses, cell leaders, etc. All of which can be taped and cross-checked against information from other captives.
Posted by: Zhang Fei || 04/22/2007 15:11 Comments || Top||

#5  "To the Iraqi soldiers, the treatment was normal and necessary. They were proud of their technique and proud to have helped the Americans."

This is indeed necessary. The actions and handling must be porportionate to the culture and behavior. Otherwise - we have plenty of examples of "integration" in Europe, where women getting raped, people robbed, cars burned because of no decent punishment.
Posted by: Nesvarbukas || 04/22/2007 15:57 Comments || Top||

#6  So what? The injuries weren't debilitating although I wouldn't care if they were because terrorists don't deserve human rights.

Somebody send these guys the full-line Craftsman Tool catalog.
Posted by: gorb || 04/22/2007 16:03 Comments || Top||

#7  Hey, it's their culture. Who are we to judge?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 04/22/2007 16:10 Comments || Top||

#8  were later shown briefly to a photographer, who was not allowed to take a picture.

Oh, the humanity!

Let's do some simple math: For terrorists, there are no holds barred. Anything goes, mayhem, murder, mass murder, chemical weapons, nuclear weapons, you name it.

In my book, if you want to play terrorist, then you leave yourself open for any and all means required to make you sing the entire lead role of Rigoletto, including the difficult Cortigiani, vil razza dannata passage.
Posted by: Zenster || 04/22/2007 16:22 Comments || Top||


18 Terrs Toes Up, 2 Anti Air Weapons Trashed
Coalition Forces killed 15 terrorists and detained seven more individuals suspected of kidnapping, facilitating foreign fighters and working with the al Qaeda in Iraq network Sunday.

Coalition Forces conducted air strikes on a known al Qaeda meeting location south of Baghdad that killed fifteen terrorists. Later in the operation, ground forces killed three terrorists loading a vehicle carrying an anti-aircraft weapon.

The raid also uncovered several weapons caches and a second anti-aircraft machine gun.

Northwest of Taji, Coalition Forces detained an individual suspected of ties to kidnapping operations and al Qaeda in Iraq.
Posted by: Chuck Simmins || 04/22/2007 12:28 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This surge is sure working well, isn't it Harry ?
Posted by: wxjames || 04/22/2007 13:17 Comments || Top||

#2  Pay attention Harry. Harry? Harrrrrry...
Posted by: Blinky Snealet7719 || 04/22/2007 13:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Looks like they are working on improving the killed/captured ratio. Good work, guys! Still some room for improvement, though! :-)
Posted by: gorb || 04/22/2007 16:36 Comments || Top||

#4  More, please.
Posted by: anymouse || 04/22/2007 17:20 Comments || Top||


Insurgents battling al-Qaida outside Baghdad
We knew this already but apparently it's news to the AP and in Seattle.
MUQDADIYAH, Iraq — At least two major insurgent groups are battling al-Qaida in provinces outside Baghdad, American military commanders said Friday, an indication of a deepening rift between Sunni guerrilla groups in Iraq.

The clashes have erupted over the last two to three months, pitting al-Qaida in Iraq against the nationalist 1920 Revolution Brigades in Diyala and Salahuddin provinces north of Baghdad as well as Anbar to the west, U.S. officers said. In Diyala, another hard-line militant Sunni group, the Ansar al-Sunna Army, is also fighting al-Qaida, they said. "It's happening daily," Lt. Col. Keith Gogas said Thursday in an interview at an Army base in Muqdadiyah, 60 miles northeast of Baghdad. "Our read on it is that the more moderate, if you will, Sunni insurgents are finding that their goals and al-Qaida's goals are at odds."

American commanders cite al-Qaida's severe brand of Islam, which is so extreme that in Baqouba, al-Qaida has warned street vendors not to place tomatoes beside cucumbers because the vegetables are different genders, Col. David Sutherland said.
"Oh Mahmoud! The tomatoes are severely arousing me! I'm so helpless! I must .. go shoot off .. my gun! Yes, my gun!"
"To hell with the tomatoes, Achmed, let me at the cucumbers!"
Such radicalism has fueled sectarian violence in Iraq and redrawn the demographics of many mixed Sunni-Shiite towns in Diyala, where tens of thousands of Shiites have been forced to flee large population centers. Previously 55 percent Sunni, 45 percent Shiite, Baqouba — where rival insurgents also have clashed — is today 80 percent Sunni and 20 percent Shiite, Sutherland said.

The rift among insurgents has also been sparked by reports that some militants have been negotiating with the government and U.S. officials, who are trying to draw Sunni groups away from al-Qaida. Iraqi police and security forces — not Americans — have been negotiating with 1920 Revolution Brigades fighters, who have said "they want some help against al-Qaida," said U.S. Maj. David Baker on Friday in Baqouba.
Posted by: Steve White || 04/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "It's happening daily," Lt. Col. Keith Gogas said Thursday in an interview at an Army base in Muqdadiyah, 60 miles northeast of Baghdad. "Our read on it is that the more moderate, if you will, Sunni insurgents are finding that their goals and al-Qaida's goals are at odds."

Luvs these bed-timey stories.

American commanders cite al-Qaida's severe brand of Islam, which is so extreme that in Baqouba, al-Qaida has warned street vendors not to place tomatoes beside cucumbers because the vegetables are of different genders, Col. David Sutherland said.

OK test time RBees:

True or False

Tomatoes are female?

Cucumbumbers are Male?
Posted by: RD || 04/22/2007 0:18 Comments || Top||

#2  Cucumbers are a vegetable,
Tomatos are a fruit.
Who really cares about fruit / vegetable gender? Well, other than these losers.....
Posted by: USN, ret. || 04/22/2007 0:34 Comments || Top||

#3  I can see it as an issue for melons and cucumbers, but tomatoes? Come on!
Posted by: Penguin || 04/22/2007 0:43 Comments || Top||

#4  al-Qaida has warned street vendors not to place tomatoes beside cucumbers because the vegetables are different genders

And it is this sort of picayune bullshit that will eventually make al Qaeda a reviled bunch of puritanical bullies. Osama bin Laden deemed ice to be too hedonistic. ICE fer cripes sake! In a desert environment, no less! No music, no kites, no dancing, no fun at all. How the fuck do these pious morons think that their sterile and morose brand of worship is ever going to catch on?

Islam seems fatally infected with a "more Islamic than thou" strain of overcompensation. With the Muslim propensity for violence and mayhem, it amounts to a contest to see who is "more readily martyred suicidal than thou". Saddest of all is that these stupid fucks cannot possibly kill each other off fast enough before some loon amongst them gets hold of a nuclear bomb. Otherwise, the West could merely sit back and enjoy the show. Instead, we're obliged to wade into this imbecilic cesspool of violent fanaticism.

With little or no pretense made by Islam regarding reform, they mandate their own extermination. This should be clear as daylight to all Muslims but, save for a very minuscule few, they abjectly refuse to recognize the danger confronting them. How pathetic. How fatal.
Posted by: Zenster || 04/22/2007 0:53 Comments || Top||

#5  AQ is warped beyod hope.
Posted by: anymouse || 04/22/2007 1:29 Comments || Top||

#6  anymouse, thanks, I really appreciate your assurance. ;-)
Posted by: twobyfour || 04/22/2007 1:35 Comments || Top||

#7  Bless you boiys. Report back when you fixed it. We got many projects.
Posted by: newc || 04/22/2007 1:48 Comments || Top||

#8  Islam seems fatally infected with a "more Islamic than thou" strain of overcompensation.

Dead right, Zenster. The same mentality affects the Shias, who think they are better muslims because they venerate (i.e. practically worship) the prophet's family.

Posted by: Apostate || 04/22/2007 2:45 Comments || Top||

#9  Apostate, are you a one-time Muslim who has rejected Islam out of frustration or dissatisfaction with its lack of reformation?

This board is in desperate need of testimony by Muslims who have sought Islamic reform and are less than pleased with the results.

Courageous reformists like Dr. Jasser are Islam's last and only hope. I look forward to your own commentary about people like him. Islam's continued existence hinges upon the efforts of brave individuals like him.
Posted by: Zenster || 04/22/2007 3:32 Comments || Top||

#10  Um, cucumbers contain seeds, which grow into new cucumber plants. By definition, that makes them fruit, even though they're not noticeably sweet. ;)
Posted by: Brian H || 04/22/2007 3:47 Comments || Top||

#11  But if cucumbers have seeds, then they must be male, right? Cuz females have eggs.

Not surprising a cucumber is a male fruit, like a carrot is a male vegetable, no doubt.
Posted by: Bobby || 04/22/2007 7:23 Comments || Top||

#12 
Fruits and Vegetables living together - mass hysteria.
Posted by: doc || 04/22/2007 7:49 Comments || Top||

#13  5% of cucumbers will attempt to rape uncovered tomatoes.
Posted by: Excalibur || 04/22/2007 8:46 Comments || Top||

#14  It's ugly when fruits go bad. I've seen it with my own eyes in the bottom of the fridge.
Posted by: Shipman || 04/22/2007 10:24 Comments || Top||

#15  And it's all the tomatoes fault for being on display uncovered.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/22/2007 10:26 Comments || Top||

#16  I see Elwood's working as an exterminator again.
Trees that produce seeds are considered female, why not fruit ?
Posted by: wxjames || 04/22/2007 13:27 Comments || Top||

#17  I expect to see Iraqi Pie with a major scene of the AQ guy encounter a mixed salad and...
Posted by: Jackal || 04/22/2007 16:41 Comments || Top||

#18  Well, cucumbers come from female blossoms of the cucumber plant, as any fruit does. The cucumber plant produces male blossoms at the beginning of the growing season, and female blossoms later.

Carrots are root vegetables; the division between female and male doesn't apply to them.

It's not as though there's any science in what al-Qaida is thinking, however. Should we send them a catalogue from a Georgia O'Keefe exhibition?
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 04/22/2007 17:02 Comments || Top||

#19  Ummm, both Tomatoes and Cucumbers contain seeds, therefore they're both Female, (Maybe some percieved lesbo action here)

Nahhh, they're just Crazy.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/22/2007 18:05 Comments || Top||

#20  Fruits and nuts are seduction tools -- as are insect-pollinated flowers at the previous stage -- to get animals to widen the distribution of the seeds. Some trees, as with some herbaceous plants and some woody shrubs, carry male and female flowers on separate plants. Most plants, however, have both male parts (stamens bearing pollen) and female parts (pistols to receive the fertilizing pollen grains) in the same flower.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/22/2007 22:18 Comments || Top||

#21  (pistols to receive the fertilizing pollen grains)

Proper Islamic methods dictate about 750 "pollen" grains to load those pistils pistols.
Posted by: Zenster || 04/22/2007 23:25 Comments || Top||

#22  Now I'm embarrassed. Thanks for catching that spelling error, Zenster dear.
Posted by: trailing wife || 04/22/2007 23:32 Comments || Top||

#23  Not to worry, tw. As always, but especially so in your case, it's the thought that counts.
Posted by: Zenster || 04/22/2007 23:37 Comments || Top||


Clashes erupt near mosque in western Baghdad
US helicopters pounded an area near a Shi'ite mosque with heavy machine-gun fire, killing two militants just ahead of the start of weekly prayer services and outraging preachers loyal to radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

The US military said American soldiers called for support and cordoned off the area after they were attacked by small-arms fire. After killing two militants, the soldiers searched nearby buildings, found chemicals believed to be bomb-making materials and detained an Iraqi civilian, the military said.
Posted by: Fred || 04/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  US helicopters pounded an area near a Shi'ite mosque with heavy machine-gun fire, killing two militants just ahead of the start of weekly prayer services and outraging preachers loyal to radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

Who's yer Daddy Mookie-Clerics?

you what...!

LOL, oh well Mookie's clerics don't like us again.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Shiite's with "chemicals" and bomb making materials.. hummm.
Posted by: RD || 04/22/2007 0:29 Comments || Top||

#2  The "outraging" needs to become "killing". Starting with Sadr hisself.
Posted by: Zenster || 04/22/2007 0:34 Comments || Top||

#3  outraging preachers loyal to radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

Good, Very Good, take names, make lists, pass out lists to assassins, pay them on results, problem solved. World intelligence rises several percent.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/22/2007 10:02 Comments || Top||

#4  "Nyaaaah, shaddap!"
Posted by: mojo || 04/22/2007 12:22 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm beginning to think the only solution to the "sadr" problem is to pull all US personnel out of Baghdad and carpet-bomb sadr-city. First, put up a few dozen minefields along all routes leading OUT of sadr-city. Let al-sadr feel the FULL wrath of the US. So far, we've fought this war totally on the pc level. I think going mideival just ONCE would be a huge wake-up for all the mme.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 04/22/2007 15:18 Comments || Top||

#6  Yeah Boss, I know, I know, too simple, and it'd work, so shaddup already, Right!
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/22/2007 16:21 Comments || Top||

#7  I think going mideival just ONCE would be a huge wake-up for all the mme.

Which is what we should have done within hours of 9-11. On that fateful day, my immediate response was to suggest that Khandahar be blanket bombed as a demonstration of our displeasure. We might even have caught mullah Omar in the shitstorm. Regardless, Omar's birthplace and home turf would have ceased to exist.

We are dealing with people who respond only to violence. Therefore, Islam must be made to feel our pain. To do so will require that a large number of Muslims die. Not suffer, but perish outright. Once enough Muslims have died as a direct result of terrorist activities, they will begin to police themselves or continue to die in vast numbers. My bets are on jihadist imams getting their throats slit after just a few such demonstrations. Until we begin connecting the dots for those who refuse to comprehend Cause & Effect, it will only be more of the same shit.
Posted by: Zenster || 04/22/2007 16:37 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas calls for offensive against Israel
Hamas militants called Sunday for a fresh wave of attacks against Israel after troops killed nine Palestinians in weekend fighting, straining a five-month-old cease-fire. In response to the bloodshed, ineffectual Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' more moderate Fatah movement urged him to consider breaking off contacts with the Israeli government, despite his pledge to the United States to hold regular meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

Among the nine Palestinians killed in the weekend upsurge of violence were two gunmen and a 17-year-old who died Sunday in the West Bank. The fighting also included a Palestinian rocket attack on the southern Israeli town of Sderot that damaged a home.
How's that Trucefire™ working out?
Israeli officials defended the killings as part of operations that have drastically reduced the number of attacks against Israelis. Palestinian officials, however, said that the deaths jeopardized their efforts to expand the Gaza truce to the West Bank.
Boy howdy there's an idea, Gaza is working so well let's extend it to the West Bank!
Hamas, which has killed scores of Israelis in suicide bombings, sought to rally other Palestinian militant groups in a new offensive that would shatter the truce in the Gaza Strip.
There's a flying pig moment; the writer actually describes Hamas as killers.
"The blood of our people is not cheap," a Hamas statement said, ...
... though it does seem to flow freely ...
... inviting Palestinians of every ideological stripe to unite and "use all possible means of resistance and to respond to the massacres."

Fatah also called for measures against Israel. "The Arab and the Palestinian leadership should evaluate the contacts with Olmert's government and reconsider these contacts and meetings," Fatah spokesman Abu Hakim Alwad said at a news conference. "Israel is sabotaging the efforts made by the president to maintain calm and to strengthen the cease-fire."

Miri Eisin, a spokeswoman for Olmert, said Israel "reaches out for peace, while at the same time we will always consistently fight against terror." Israel will continue its operations against Palestinian militants, she said, while "always doing our utmost to avoid any innocent casualties."

Troops killed the Palestinian teenager Sunday in a village near Ramallah. Palestinian officials said he was throwing stones at an Israeli patrol when he was shot. The army said soldiers opened fire as the youth was about to throw a firebomb at a military jeep.
Just a mis-guided lad ...
Earlier, an army task force raided the militant stronghold of Nablus, killing two Palestinian gunmen, including Amin Lubadi, a top bombmaker who had been wanted by Israel for more than three years. The army said an Israeli soldier was lightly wounded in the battle.

In unrelated violence late Sunday, four Palestinians were killed in Gaza, two in a gunfight among family members and two others in apparently random shootings by criminals, security officials said. Also, shadowy Islamic groups sent warnings to cigarette dealers to destroy their wares and to barbers to close their shops.
Zionists get blamed for those deaths too, it's just the way things work ...
After weeks of Trucefire™ relative quiet, the latest surge in violence began on Saturday, when five people were killed during Israeli arrest raids in the northern West Bank.

Palestinian officials said one of the dead was a 17-year-old girl shot by troops as she stood at the window of her home. The army said its soldiers had returned fire from a gunman in a window, but said the incident was being investigated.
Gunnie was hiding behind the girl, was he?
In the Gaza Strip on Saturday, Palestinians fired a rocket at the Israeli town of Sderot, hitting a house but causing no injuries. The army subsequently attacked a car it said was carrying the attackers, killing a 37-year-old man. Palestinian officials said he was a civilian.
They're all civilians, you know, even the attackers ...
The Gaza truce has largely not held, though militants have frequently fired rockets into Israel and have attacked Israeli patrols along the border fence. Olmert's government has warned it will not tolerate continued rocket fire.
We're waiting, Ehud ...
Israel is still in control of the West Bank, and unlike Gaza, that territory is dotted with Jewish settlements, making a cease-fire there a different issue. Israel has been reluctant to agree to a West Bank truce, concerned that militant groups would take advantage of it to hit settlers and prepare attacks in Israel.
Sorta like the way Gaza turned out ...
Israel sealed the West Bank and Gaza Strip early Sunday ahead of the country's Memorial Day for fallen soldiers, restricting the movement of Palestinians into Israel.
How 'bout permanently restricting them from moving into Israel?

This article starring:
Amin Lubadi
Posted by: Anonymoose || 04/22/2007 17:01 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Hamas calls for offensive against Israel"

Well, Ham-ass has the offensive part down pat....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 04/22/2007 19:03 Comments || Top||

#2  tired of internalizing all that urgin for killin?
Posted by: Frank G || 04/22/2007 20:09 Comments || Top||

#3  "The blood of our people is not cheap,"

Quite right, it's dirt cheap.
Posted by: Zenster || 04/22/2007 20:14 Comments || Top||

#4  far as Ima concerned: live ammo against stone-throwers, and that includes Illegals on our own border
Posted by: Frank G || 04/22/2007 20:39 Comments || Top||

#5  Ima still waiting for the results from the finals of the 500 Meter Gaza Brown Wrinkled Neck Trout and Sewage Freestyle.
Posted by: USN, ret. || 04/22/2007 21:38 Comments || Top||


Palestinian fugitive threatens to bomb Ramallah
A Palestinian fugitive threatened to blow himself up Saturday in central Ramallah if authorities did not return his weapon to him, confiscated earlier by Palestinian police.
"Gimme my gun back or I go kaboom, damn youse!"
Police managed to overtake the man
"Get 'im, Mahmoud!"
and are now destroying the explosive belt which had been strapped on his body during the incident.
Honest to Gawd, we hardly make any of this stuff up.
Posted by: Fred || 04/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I can only suppose that the Palestinian inability to comprehend Cause & Effect extends to the "Rats in an Overcrowded Cage" experiment as well. Oh well, on with the show! Please pass the popcorn.
Posted by: Zenster || 04/22/2007 0:37 Comments || Top||

#2  I dunnno, I just don't know. Are you sure you not making this shit up?
Posted by: Shipman || 04/22/2007 10:28 Comments || Top||

#3  The real beauty of suicide bombers is that they can only do it once, then you have to find another idiot.
The bad part is there seems to be an unending supply of morons.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/22/2007 10:30 Comments || Top||

#4  So is there a gene for this form of insanity and can one develop a virus to home in upon those with this gene?
Posted by: 3dc || 04/22/2007 12:05 Comments || Top||

#5  Police...are now destroying the explosive belt

"Destroying" in the Palestinian argot may mean "giving to some other guy and pointing him toward a Jew."
Posted by: Baba Tutu || 04/22/2007 13:10 Comments || Top||

#6  Tie him to a post (With Belt) and call "Target Practice", First to set off the belt wins.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/22/2007 18:00 Comments || Top||


IAF kills Kassam cell member in Gaza
IAF helicopters killed a member of a Kassam rocket cell in a car in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday night, wounding one of his confederates. It was the second such missile strike since Israel accepted a Gaza cease-fire in November.

Earlier Saturday, Gazans fired four Kassam rockets into Sderot; one scored a direct hit on a home, sending several people into shock.
Three terrorist organizations - Islamic Jihad, the Popular Resistance Committees and Fatah's Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades - claimed responsibility for the rocket attacks in a joint statement. They said they were carried out to avenge the deaths of three terrorists killed by border police in Jenin earlier in the day.

In the Jenin incident, an undercover Border Police unit killed three known terrorists belonging to the Aksa Martyrs Brigades who were driving in a car. Later in the evening, a Palestinian teenager was killed in Jenin when security forces raided her house in search of her brother, a wanted terrorist. Several hours earlier, gunfights broke out between troops and Palestinians in a village near Jenin. PA policeman Muhammad Said Abed, 22, was killed in the clashes.

Separately, a full closure was imposed on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip starting at midnight, to remain in effect until after Independence Day on Monday. IDF officials said its liaison office would allow Palestinians to enter Israel in cases deemed "exceptional."
Posted by: Fred || 04/22/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  IAF helicopters killed a member of a Kassam rocket cell in a car in the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday night, wounding one of his confederates.

Memo to IDF, increase warhead size/strength.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/22/2007 17:50 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Man killed, wife wounded in drive-by shooting in southern Thailand
A Muslim couple were attacked allegedly by insurgents in another drive-by shooting in this southern border province Sunday morning, killing the husband and injuring the wife. The husband, Ayu Tayeh, 46, died at the Panare Hospital. The wife, Mualah Yayeh, was still in critical condition.

The attack came at 9:30 am on a village road in Tambon Tanyong Juanga of Yaring district. Police said the couple were riding their motorcycle to a rice mill but were attacked by two gunmen on a motorcycle.
Posted by: ryuge || 04/22/2007 09:47 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Rival Muslim sect or Buddists who have finally had enough of their shit?
Posted by: USN, ret. || 04/22/2007 21:41 Comments || Top||


Bomb blast wounds villager in southern Philippines
A bomb exploded in a southern Philippine town Sunday, wounding a villager, following U.S. and Australian warnings of possible terrorist attacks in the country.

Two men on a motorcycle left the homemade bomb — a mortar shell attached to a timer — on the side of a road in Midsayap township, North Cotabato province, Midsayap police chief Superintendent Chino Mamburam said. A woman sleeping in a nearby house was wounded when the bomb exploded, Mamburam told The Associated Press by telephone.
Posted by: ryuge || 04/22/2007 03:16 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:


Good morning
Canadian arrested for naked Hitler birthday eventBlinky urges more kaboomsSomalia: Clashes kill 20 in the capital as FM station bombardedKhaleda sets out for exile any time now...Jaish reorganising under new commanderhttp://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?D=2007-04-22&ID=186450&TINDEX=2SKorea Agrees to Send Food Aid to NKoreaThabo's Zim mission falters
Posted by: Fred || 04/22/2007 00:03 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  the juxstaposition is sublime Fred.

;-)
Posted by: RD || 04/22/2007 2:14 Comments || Top||

#2  Enough to make me a Marxist!
Posted by: Zenster || 04/22/2007 4:49 Comments || Top||

#3  Remember the old Firesign Theatre album cover: "All hail [Groucho] Marx and [John] Lennon"?
Posted by: Mike || 04/22/2007 6:56 Comments || Top||

#4  Chico was the badn'un. Graucho was a mensch, he and Harpo took care of him. SP?
Posted by: Shipman || 04/22/2007 8:13 Comments || Top||

#5  So your saying I have a shot?
Posted by: Excalibur || 04/22/2007 8:22 Comments || Top||

#6  "you're saying"

/pimf
Posted by: Excalibur || 04/22/2007 8:22 Comments || Top||

#7  Excalibur, CFPS (Coffee first, post second)
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/22/2007 9:44 Comments || Top||

#8  ♫ Hello! I must be going. ♫
Posted by: Groucho || 04/22/2007 9:44 Comments || Top||

#9  W. C. Fields (another great)
"Anyone who hates children and dogs, can't be all bad."
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 04/22/2007 10:05 Comments || Top||

#10  Boy, she looks aa lot like that Norma Jean Baker you featured the other day.
Posted by: GK || 04/22/2007 12:00 Comments || Top||

#11  W. C. Fields walks into a bar and orders a scotch. The Bartender asks if he wants water with it. Fields tells him "Never drink the stuff, fish make love in it" .
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 04/22/2007 14:05 Comments || Top||

#12  Well not in those exact words about what the fish do.
Posted by: OldSpook || 04/22/2007 20:09 Comments || Top||

#13  Note to the Rantburg readerhip -

Something's a little wonky in the back end of the 'Burg tonight. The front end seems to be ok, but I think someone's knocking hard on the back door, Fred may have to get out the varmint gun.

If you submit an article and don't see it, or if the site and/or comments starts running slow, please be patient and check back later. Thanks and have a happy Monday.
Posted by: Seafarious || 04/22/2007 23:59 Comments || Top||



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