A roadside bomb killed five police and wounded two others on Sunday in eastern Afghanistan, while a clash and a suicide bombing in the west killed eight police and at least four suspected militants, officials said. A remote-controlled bomb in Ghazni province exploded as a police convoy was passing, killing five officers and wounding two others, Deputy Governor Qazim Allayar said.
In the western Farah province, insurgents ambushed a police convoy on Saturday in Bakwa district and the ensuing gunfight left eight police and at least four suspected militants dead, said police chief Gen Sayed Aqa Saqib. Intelligence reports indicate that 17 suspected militants may have been killed or wounded in the clash but only four bodies remained at the scene after the gun battle, Saqib said. Two other policemen were wounded, he added.
In neighboring Bala Buluk district, police opened fire on Sunday on a suspected suicide bomber, who then blew himself up, said Baryalai Khan, spokesman for the Farah police chief. No one else was injured in the attack.
There were three similar suicide bombings on Saturday in Paktika, Paktia and Farah, in which no one but the attacker was killed. Another suicide bomb attack on Saturday killed two police officers in the Nad Ali district of Helmand province.
Meanwhile, a man dressed in an Afghan army uniform shot dead two US soldiers on Sunday outside Afghanistans main high security prison in Kabul, US-led coalition forces said. He fired into a vehicle being driven by US service personnel as they were leaving the prison. This resulted in the death of two soldiers and left two others wounded, spokesman Major Sheldon Smith told AFP.
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My local newspaper this morning indicated that the Afghan "military person" was killed by Afghani soldiers after he opened fire on the US vehicle.
The Afghan Army needs some serious work. If I were Karzai, I'd try to mobilize a "national militia" of locals to protect their small patch of Afghanistan. Of course, that requires that the population be loyal to the central government - something not quite perfect in Afghanistan.
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Moroccan officials dismantled a terrorist network that was recruiting fighters for Al Qaedas North African branch and arrested 20 people in several towns across the country, state news agency MAP reported on Sunday. The gang was involved in sending volunteers to training camps run by the Algerian-based Al Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb, MAP said, citing police sources. Morocco, a staunch US ally, says it has broken up more than 50 militant Islamist cells, some linked to Al Qaeda, and arrested more than 3,000 people since the suicide bombings which occurred in Casablanca in 2003.
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Did they give 'em a dirt nap, or are they gonna set 'em free ?
Two Turkish soldiers and two Kurdistan Workers' Party guerrillas were killed late on Saturday in southeast Turkey, officials said on Sunday. Fighting tends to escalate in the spring as the snow melts and guerrillas cross the border from their hide-outs in Kurdish-ruled northern Iraq, where Anakara continues to urge the United States to crack down on militants. The governor of the province of Sirnak, which borders Iraq, said in a statement two soldiers had been killed in clashes in the province, while a security official said two militants had been killed in Hatay, which borders Syria. The security official said on Sunday fighting was most intense in the border areas. "Particularly in Hakkari and Sirnak clashes have increased in recent days .... groups trying to cross into Turkey from northern Iraq are being constantly followed," he said. Meanwhile in nearby Gaziantep late on Saturday one person was injured when a home-made bomb was left in front of a local police station, state news agency Anatolian reported.
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Who wrote this article, the Associated Press? Hatay is the little thumb of Turkey jutting down into Syria on the Mediterranean coast, a long way from Iraq. I think Syrian Kurds would be suspect, rather than Iraqi Kurds. I'd even be more apt to blame islamists.
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But, but, but...aren't they ALL deployed to Iraq and aren't the states woefully undefended and just can't scrape up the funds to fully train the troops?
That's what the governors of California, Kansas, and Louisiana have said to the media?
Woe, woe, woe! Who, oh, ever who are we to believe?
We're to believe in the incredibly worthy young women and men who willingly put themselves in harm's way to defend our nation against those who would do us great and grievous harm. No matter how hard I try, whenever I meet these brave warriors in the street, I cannot possibly thank them enough. I'd like to think that such a feeling will never change.
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the generation(s) that so many disparage have shown their stuff. In time of war against barbaric animals, with stealth killing by IEDs - they volunteer. Against the Donk/MSM antiwar propaganda - they volunteer. They deserve your praise and respect
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WAFF.com > THE ARMED CIVIL GUARD OF US STATES. Iff I remember the correct number, according to this article 29-20 US States have armed State Civil Guards/Militias to back up local USDOD Reserves and National Guard - some States even belabel = empower their local Civil Guards as "National Guard Reserve(s)". Are State-funded and responsible only to the State Governor = State Gubmint. WOT > WAR AGZ AMERICA - as said times before, I doubt Amer's enemies, INCLUDING ANTI-AMER AMERICANS, are gonna care whether Amer unilaterally accepts ANTI-US OWG-SWO, or is milpol forced to do by the "world/international community".
ISLAMABAD - Around 250 gunmen described as Taleban set up checkpoints in Pakistans northwest Bajaur agency by the Afghan border and terrorized travellers, news reports said Sunday. Masked men forced drivers from vehicles at gunpoint and took and destroyed tape recorders in incidents Saturday. They also snatched mobile phones and threatened clean-shaven males with strict action if they did not grow beards.
Although Pakistans tribal areas by the border have seen a sharp increase in so-called Talebanization in recent months, this was the first time militants had openly paraded and set up checkpoints, residents told the Dawn newspaper.
Local authorities allegedly made no attempt to deal with the threat. A large group of men with automatic weapons also came to audio entertainment shops in the town of Inayat Kali and warned the owners to stop trading.
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Very progressive. Can you listen to jihad tapes? Or is that haraam too?
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This is why the Taliban became so unpopular in Afghanistan. Let them run the territory for a few years and then the locals will help chase them out.
The ammunition dump at Kohat police lines blew up on Sunday after ammunition there caught fire, police said. There were no causalities, they added. Kohat Additional District Police Officer (ADPO) Akhtar Nawaz told Daily Times that the ammunition began to explode following a fire in the armoury, which was caused by a short circuit at around 11.45am. Another police official told Daily Times that the police stored illegal arms in the armoury and officials also used it to repair their weapons. Some grenades stored in a room of the armoury caused the apparently accidental blast, Nawaz told AFP. According to APP, the IGP has formed a committee to investigate the incident.
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Intelligence agencies have warned the government that militants from tribal areas bordering Afghanistan might possibly use carpet brushes to conceal explosives for sabotage, Daily Times has learnt. The agencies, in their separate reports submitted to the Interior Ministry, said an unidentified person recently approached the shopkeepers of Ichhras furniture market in Lahore for creating a concealed space in carpet brushes. When enquired, he told shopkeepers that he would place cell phone sets in the brushes. He left the market on refusal. The agencies warned that militants could use carpet brushes to avenge killings by the security forces in tribal areas. Sources said in the light of the warning, the Interior Ministry had directed home secretaries, provincial police chiefs and the Islamabad chief commissioner to constitute teams of Special Branch at district level to visit markets and keep an eye on the visitors.
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militants from tribal areas bordering Afghanistan might possibly use carpet brushes to conceal explosives for sabotage
In other news, Rosie O'Donnell reported for major reconstructive orthodontic surgery after a rather unsuccessful and unexpectedly damaging encounter with some sort of furniture maintenance device.
Former provincial minister and PPPP NWFP Senior Vice President Syed Qamar Abbass and his relative Muhammad Ali were gunned down in the Hasthnagri area on late Sunday. Hastnagri police said the slain PPPP leader was on his way home after attending a marriage ceremony when some unknown assailants ambushed his motorcycle near Hastnagri pattak. Muhammad Ali was killed on the spot and Abbass sustained critical injuries. He was rushed to Lady Reading Hospital where he succumbed.
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Gunmen shot dead two Shia clerics in suspected sectarian violence overnight in a town 150 kilometres northwest of Multan, police said on Sunday. The attackers, believed to be Sunni militants, sprayed bullets at the clerics who were sleeping in the guesthouse of a Shia leader in the town of Chaubara, local police chief Rai Muhammad Tahir said. The clerics, who were visiting Chaubara, died on the spot while another guest, a Shia lawyer, was injured, he said. The attackers fled in a car.
It might be a sectarian attack because the slain men were visiting the town to collect donations to build a Shia madrassa (seminary) in the area, he told reporters. We are investigating the case, he said adding that no one had been arrested so far. Shia leader Sajid Naqvi condemned the killings.
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Read the whole thing. Yon is so good. So are the Brits he is traveling with. The Iranian hand is there for all to see and apparently will be even more so in the next dispatch.
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one hell of a report. maybe his bravo best..
If you are like me.. Yon will have you on the edge of your seat while "witnessing" one nights combined op along the marshes near Basra. The Brit team he was embedded with were mighty impressive. Video too.
BALAD - Iraqi Special Operations Forces captured a suspected terrorist cell leader near Balad Air Base on 6 May. The suspect is accused of financing al-Qaeda members for terrorist activities and kidnapping operations. Iraqi SOF initiated the raid with coalition forces present as advisors. Eight other individuals present during the operation were also detained.
Iraqi SOF also confiscated a large amount of U.S. and Iraqi currency, cell phones ... In this context one suspects the phones were actually for communication rather than IED triggers - could be some 'interesting' directories and call records on them.
... and al-Qaeda propaganda. Iraqi forces moved to detain these individuals acting on intelligence gathered from local citizens.
This action is aimed at disrupting the ability of the suspected terrorists to kidnap and extort innocent civilians in order to finance the construction of improvised explosive devices which are used against Iraqi and coalition forces. No Iraqi or coalition forces were injured during this operation.
With apologies to Yogi Berra
Two suicide car bombers attacked a market and a police checkpoint on the outskirts of Ramadi, killing at least 20 people and dealing a blow to recent U.S. claims of success in reclaiming the Sunni city from insurgents. Can't even finish one sentence without dealing a blow to fair and balanced.
Typical progressive agenda: if we can't do something completely and correctly the first time then we shouldn't bother. Unless it's national health care or more money for education ...
The first attack targeted a public market about noon northwest of Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, killing 10 civilians and wounding about 30, police said. About 15 minutes later, another bomber detonated his vehicle at a nearby police checkpoint, killing five police officers and five bystanders and wounding 10 others, police said.
The violence came a day after roadside bombs killed eight American soldiers, including six who died in a single blast in the surrounding province of Diyala. The mounting U.S. casualty toll highlights the dangers facing troops as they take to the streets more as part of a security crackdown in the Baghdad area.
The U.S. military has struggled for years to secure Ramadi, the capital of the insurgent stronghold of Anbar province. But...
Struggled for 'years'?
The city has shown recent signs of calming, with whole neighborhoods being walled off and military units moving off the major bases and establishing smaller U.S.-Iraqi posts in the most violent areas downtown. But the violence has continued as insurgents fight back for control of the US Congress.
Violence also has surged north of Baghdad, where militants have fled the security crackdown in Baghdad that began on Feb. 14. A bombing and an ambush in Baqouba, a Sunni insurgent stronghold northeast of Baghdad, killed two soldiers and two policemen Monday as militants apparently step up a campaign against Iraqi security forces. The attacks began about 4:30 a.m. when a booby-trapped house exploded during a raid, killing two Iraqi soldiers and wounding three. About six hours later, gunmen ambushed a police station elsewhere in the city, killing two officers and wounding two others, police said.
The bullet-riddled body of a policeman bearing signs of torture also was found outside the northern city of Kirkuk, but I don't remember the date.
An al-Qaida front group claimed responsibility for a suicide car bombing on an uspecified date against an Iraqi army recruiting center in Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, which killed 10 recruits and five soldiers.
The Islamic State of Iraq identified the suicide bomber as Abu Abdel-Rahman and claimed that at least 100 people killed, contrary to police reports, and it warned Iraqis not to join the army. "We tell every father, mother, wife or brother who do not want to lose a relative to advise them not to approach the apostates and we swear to God that we will use every possible means to strike at the infidels and the renegades and any of you poor, dumb bastards who happen to be within the blast radius," the group said in an Internet statement posted on a militant Web site. "Targeting the volunteers to the so-called Iraqi army in Abu Ghraib is the best proof to our words."
Iraqi security forces have been the frequent targets of attacks as insurgents accuse them of collaborating with U.S.-led forces and the Iraqi government, highlighting the challenges in preparing them to take over their own security so that U.S. and other foreign troops can go home. This guy can't finish a sentence without more bad news.
Of course the Iraqi army is working with us: that's their job. They represent the legitimate government that is allied with us.
Underscoring the dangers, a funeral procession was held in the northern city of Samarra on some day or another for the city's police chief who was killed the day before along with 11 other officers in a bold daylight ambush suicide car bombing and shooting attack. AP Television News footage showed tearful Iraqi police in blue uniforms carrying banners and marching as the coffin was covered with an Iraqi flag and borne through the city in a white pickup truck.
The car bomber detonated his payload as he came under fire just inside a checkpoint outside the police headquarters, military officials said. The building was not struck, but the police chief, Col. Jalil Nahi Hassoun, and 11 other policemen were killed as they fought off al-Qaida linked gunmen outside. At least five al-Qaida fighters were killed, a U.S. military official told The Associated Press, providing new details on condition of anonymity because of a lack of authorization to release the details. U.S. paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division came under small arms and rocket-propelled grenade fire when they rushed to the scene, the military said in a separate statement. Two Americans were wounded and a vehicle was damaged.
Samarra was the scene of the Feb. 22, 2006, bombing that destroyed a major Shiite shrine and triggered the wave of Sunni-Shiite reprisal attacks that has plunged this country into civil conflict. U.S. and Iraqi officials blame that bombing on al-Qaida, which has been active in the city for years. Despite all the efforts of the ineffective US troops.
Two other American soldiers died Sunday in separate bombings in Baghdad. The military Sunday also reported three other deaths _ two Marines in a blast Saturday in Anbar province and a soldier who died Sunday in a non-combat incident in northern Iraq.
On Sunday, an American general warned of more casualties to come. "In the next 90 days we're going to see increased American casualties because we're taking the fight to the enemy," Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch, commander of U.S. troops south of Baghdad, told reporters. But the endless supply of brave Lions of Islam will continue until the last infidel is driven from the Holy Land Between the two Rivers.
This article starring:
Islamic State of Iraq
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Did he forget the Crusades? And the "plastic" turkey? I find this stuff too tiring to scan (excepting the high-lite colour commentary).
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Gosh, guess we better just quit and give up. Didn't realize that this would be hard, thought they'd just lie down and die if we yelled "Trick or Treat" at em.
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These guys always do the same thing. As soon as we say it's better, they do something to show it's not. And despite the fact that on average, it's less, the MSM uses this to prove it's still just as bad.
For these men and women in uniform , to put up with this backstabbing, and keep doing thier jobs, is amazing to me.
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And people that double-post the articles, even after checking it once, really honk me off!
Sorry.
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By HAMID AHMED
Associated Press Writer
Too bad the Germans didn't take over reporting for the AP. The war might have gone better for them.
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Plainslow,
He's not stabbing anyone in the back - he's on the other side. Why the AP is hiring operatives for AQI as their only reporters in Iraq is beyond me.
Getting the enemy's perspective from time to time might be interesting, but the AP and other MSM may as well be working for Al Qaeda. Which is shy I only read the sports section of my newspaper.
Al
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Glad this guy didn't report WWII, we might have just given up rather than win. Jeez what is wrong with the current crop of reporters (this includes Viet era writers and news types)? Why don't they just skip the pretense and go to work for Al Jazeera?
BAGHDAD - Eight American soldiers were killed in Iraq on Sunday, including six who died along with a European journalist in a roadside bomb attack north of Baghdad, the US military said.
In a statement, the military said the deadliest incident took place in volatile Diyala province. It said the bomb hit a vehicle that the soldiers and the journalist were travelling in. US military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Christopher Garver said the journalist was European and worked for a news organisation that did not have a permanent presence in Baghdad. He declined to give more information.
Many foreign reporters have been embedding with US military units during a US-backed security crackdown in and around Baghdad that began in February.
Didn't know that.
The attack in Diyala, where the US military recently sent around 1,000 reinforcements to fight entrenched Al Qaeda militants and Sunni Arab insurgents, was one of the worst single attacks against US forces in months.
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It's always the worst in (insert your favorite time period here). This morning on the radio, they teased (before the commericals which preceeded the news)"Americans Attacked Again in Iraq".
Duh, I thought it wuz s'posed ta be a civil war. Why is dey targetin' 'Mericans?
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And of course on NPR this morning, "The bombing attack was a server blow to the US claims that Anbar Province is now safer".
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Deacon - I thought our NPR folks were the best and brightest in the media, what with their British-styled accents and all. So to them a big attack in Diyala Province, east of Baghdad, proves Al Anbar Province, west of Baghdad, is not safer. East is west, up is down, wrong is right.
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Boggled me, roo, Glenmore. The laziness and ignorance of the Media these days! Back just before the first Iraqi elections this same, "Reporter" gave the astonishing news that ONLY 15 of Iraq's Provinces were safe enogh for people to vote. No mention of the fact Iraq has ONLY 18 Provinces. Talk about spin!
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Darth, the approved expansions of NPR are "National Pacifist Radio" or "National Palestinian Radio", dontcha know.
Glanced at the news service story top right in the local rag that Frank G also has to suffer through, about the car bombs in Iraq. Again, as usual, "nationwide" was inserted to describe the extent of the violence. Once again, as usual, wrong. "Widespread" and "across Iraq" are inserted in almost every single story on violence in Iraq, regardless of the facts.
On the car radio today, I hear the local stations parroting the silliness about the Kansas NG equipment not being available for tornado relief. Which town was leveled, Kansas City? Can't lease/borrow some dump trucks and cranes (the equipment specifically mentioned) locally, in the next state? Where is this, the Congo?
Then I see the latest attack on "story" on the Wolfowitz thing, and natch the AP story condenses the Wolfowitz defense to a bland claim he did nothing wrong, ignoring the extensive detail (all of it exonerating Wolfowitz and implicitly condemning the current lynch mobs) about the affair that has been published elsewhere. All hooked to - yep - anonymous source claims that an internal report showed "wrong-doing" in the matter.
It's almost enough to get one discouraged about our future.
BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed at least 35 people and wounded 80 on Sunday next to a crowded market in a Shia district of Baghdad which has been a repeated target of attacks blamed on Sunni Muslim Al Qaeda. Bystanders used blankets to carry the dead and wounded onto pick-up trucks. The bomb tore off the fronts of shops and destroyed cars. The explosion was next to a crowded market in the Bayaa district. Markets are a favourite target of carbombers.
What did these innocent people do to get killed in a car bomb? Where is the government? ... Where is security? Let the government come and see this situation, said one man, angrily gesticulating at the scene.
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Where is the government? ... Where is security?
Where are the local citizens tipping off the good guys to where the bad guys are hanging out? This guy's already a leftist - it's aways somebody else's fault!
Well, at least as he is portrayed here...
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Defense officials vowed a tough response Sunday night to a Kassam rocket attack in the afternoon that wounded two people at a gas station near Sderot. A 24-year-old worker at the gas station sustained moderate wounds after his body was hit by shrapnel from the rocket attack. Another bystander was lightly wounded. The rocket, with a sticker reading "Quds" - Jerusalem in Arabic - struck the gas station in Sha'ar Hanegev and caused light damages. The wounded youth was evacuated to Ashkelon's Barzilai Hospital.
The IDF said 10 Kassam rockets have been fired at Israel since Friday. Two more were fired Sunday night but landed in open fields. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack and said it was in retaliation to IDF operations in the West Bank.
Defense officials estimated that the government would not launch a ground operation inside Gaza in response to the attack, but would order the IDF to step up pinpointed strikes on terrorists and infrastructure involved in the production and operation of Kassam rockets.
Earlier in the day, a 42-year-old security guard was seriously wounded after Palestinian terrorists gunned him down at the joint Israeli-Palestinian tank farm where he was employed in the West Bank. The guard was exiting the second-floor balcony where the facility's bathrooms are located when three or four attackers in a passing car opened fire at him. Employees of the facility, which is located not far from Nili, west of Ramallah, said the bathroom area was the one part of the facility exposed to attack. The facility is a transfer point where gasoline from Israel is transferred to PA distributors. Filled with hundreds of gallons of flammable gasoline, the facility is considered to be a potential powder keg. Due to the level of danger, few people are willing to work as security guards at the site. But the worker, a new immigrant, had been employed there for around a year.
Witnesses said they saw the car involved in the shooting speed off towards the nearby Palestinian village of Dir Kadis. The IDF later closed the village of Ein Arik, to which they believe the terrorists fled. Coworkers, including one man who had worked for years as an MDA ambulance driver, piled the guard into a car and drove him to the Na'alin checkpoint, where an MDA ambulance waited to rush him to Sheba Hospital at Tel Hashomer Medical Center. Medics said that although the guard was conscious immediately following the attack, his condition deteriorated en route to the hospital. Ultimately, rescuers were forced to resuscitate him before reaching the intensive care unit.
Binyamin Police who swept the area for evidence discovered shells near the scene, which they suspected had come from the gun used in the attack. Doctors said the shooting victim remained in extremely serious condition on Sunday night. His condition still had not stabilized, and doctors emphasized that he was still fighting for his life, after losing a leg and an eye, as well as sustaining severe head wounds. At least two of the guard's wounds are each life-threatening on their own, even before taking into consideration the "whole picture" of the additional wounds.
The Aksa Martyrs Brigades later claimed responsibility for the shooting. Security forces believe that the same group was responsible for an attack in the area three weeks ago in which four Israelis were wounded. In that case, too, the shooters were members of the group, and the attack was carried out by a car speeding by.
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Like last time? And the time before? Olmert, are you paying attention here?
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When will we see the first deployment of lasers against hostile missiles? Will the Israelis try to demonstrate the capability as early as possible? Or do you wait till Hezbollah starts up again.
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Stop talking. Bring heavy artillery up to the front. Every time a missile is launched into Israeli territory initiate rapid fire barrage for 30 minutes in general sector of the origin. No comments, no apologies.
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Aw, hell, go high tech - Put a JSTARS up there to watch for the launches, and set the exchange rate at 1 2000 lb JDAM for every missile launched. Response time bonuses for the crews...
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someone was actually wounded this time, so I imagine IDF will respond.
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A joint Israeli PA operation? and the stupid paleomonkeys shot a watchman? need to either shut the place down or blow it up. ( I vote to blow it up after evacuating all the good guys of course.)
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Guys, Guys, get real, locate the Kassam's launch site and use artillery to level the nearest mosque (Watch for secondaries)fastest response tome possible ,load, aim, shoot.
Repeat until the launches stop or you run out of Mosques.
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Repeat until the launches stop or you run out of Mosques.
I like the way you think, RJ. Old Danish saying:
Go to the horse's head, not its tail.
I've always maintained that Islam's clergy should be our prime target. Your suggestion is right on target (so to speak).
Israeli troops shot rubber-coated steel bullets at stone throwers in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank on Sunday, injuring three children and a man, Palestinian medics said. The stone throwing began when Israeli jeeps entered the camp in an attempt to arrest a suspected militant, witnesses said. The troops fired in response, injuring children ages 10, 12 and 13, the medics said. The thirteen-year-old girl was shot in the eye, they said. The army confirmed that rubber-coated steel bullets were used to disperse a demonstration of stone throwers.
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Were any puppies, kittens, or baby ducks hurt? Or had their feelings hurt?
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Wretchard's remarks about human love making things real flies in the face of our enemy, Islam.
Think about it; Human love is not important in Islam. Inanimate objects are not important under Islam. Is it any wonder that the right stands against Islam, but the left who value creation so lowly and conformity so highly doesn't even realize the enemy's identity.
In Islam, if you need a child to believe what you teach, beat him. If you need sex, tie a goat to a fence. Feelings need never be displayed. Don't laugh, sing or dance. Islam has sold those human activities to the Devil, and the Devil has provided them a thrist for blood beyond human exceptability.
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Topic last nite [Guam time] on COASTTOCOASTAM wid ART BELL was Artificial Intelligence and robotics, etc - looks like the TERMINATOR + "I, ROBOT" flicks = ROBOT REVOLUTION aren't just movies anymore.
Suspected Muslim insurgents shot dead two Buddhist laborers and injured another Monday in the latest case of violence in restive southern Thailand, police said. The victims were working on a rubber plantation in Yala province's Thanto district when a group of gunmen opened fire on them, said Police Lt. Alongkorn Semawut. Another rubber plantation worker was severely injured, he said.
Meanwhile, some 100 Muslims continued their road block for the second day in Yala's district of Bannang Sata, calling for the unconditional release of 21 suspected insurgents called by the military for interrogation, said Nattapon Visienpraet, deputy governor of the province.
Another group of Muslim protesters, mostly women and children, dispersed peacefully Sunday after a four-day road blockage when authorities agreed to release 24 suspects and withdraw a unit of paramilitary rangers from the mountainous district of Krong Pinang within one month.
A landmine detonated by Tamil Tigers killed three police commandos in eastern Sri Lanka on Sunday while seven suspected rebels died elsewhere in the embattled region, the defence ministry said.
The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) attack blew up a police Special Task Force vehicle in Batticaloa district killing three officers and wounding three more, the ministry said in a statement. Security forces shot five rebels in the north of the island early Sunday while two more were killed in Batticaloa, the statement said.
It said the guerrillas fired mortars across their front line in Vavuniya, in the north of the island Sunday, injuring several soldiers. Security forces retaliated, but there were no immediate reports of rebel casualties. There was also no word from the Tigers about the latest reports of fighting.
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We were just curious as to which articles are most viewed. Everything prior to about 1 pm today's junk numbers -- Google and Yahoo visits and the occasional browser or researcher -- but from starting tomorrow they should be pretty accurate.
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Kool! I've been wanting to know if anyone reads the State Department weekly wrapup I post; it's a tiny bit tedious to format it, and not many folks comment. But I see today that some frequently-viewed articles do not draw many comments. I can't wait for Friday!
Well, TGIF, too.
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Fred, thank you so much for posting the view numbers. They are a very useful gauge in helping determine reader interest in the articles we submit.
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Do you have to click on the link to go directly to the article to increment the "viewed" number? I tend to just open each page and keep scrollin, scrollin, scrollin down the R-burg.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Moroccan officials dismantled a terrorist network that was recruiting fighters for Al Qaedas North African branch and arrested 20 people in several towns across the country, state news agency MAP reported on Sunday. The gang was involved in sending volunteers to training camps run by the Algerian-based Al Qaeda Organisation in the Islamic Maghreb, MAP said, citing police sources. Morocco, a staunch US ally, says it has broken up more than 50 militant Islamist cells, some linked to Al Qaeda, and arrested more than 3,000 people since the suicide bombings which occurred in Casablanca in 2003.
Two Turkish soldiers and two Kurdistan Workers' Party guerrillas were killed late on Saturday in southeast Turkey, officials said on Sunday. Fighting tends to escalate in the spring as the snow melts and guerrillas cross the border from their hide-outs in Kurdish-ruled northern Iraq, where Anakara continues to urge the United States to crack down on militants. The governor of the province of Sirnak, which borders Iraq, said in a statement two soldiers had been killed in clashes in the province, while a security official said two militants had been killed in Hatay, which borders Syria. The security official said on Sunday fighting was most intense in the border areas. "Particularly in Hakkari and Sirnak clashes have increased in recent days .... groups trying to cross into Turkey from northern Iraq are being constantly followed," he said. Meanwhile in nearby Gaziantep late on Saturday one person was injured when a home-made bomb was left in front of a local police station, state news agency Anatolian reported.
ISLAMABAD - Around 250 gunmen described as Taleban set up checkpoints in Pakistans northwest Bajaur agency by the Afghan border and terrorized travellers, news reports said Sunday. Masked men forced drivers from vehicles at gunpoint and took and destroyed tape recorders in incidents Saturday. They also snatched mobile phones and threatened clean-shaven males with strict action if they did not grow beards.
The ammunition dump at Kohat police lines blew up on Sunday after ammunition there caught fire, police said. There were no causalities, they added. Kohat Additional District Police Officer (ADPO) Akhtar Nawaz told Daily Times that the ammunition began to explode following a fire in the armoury, which was caused by a short circuit at around 11.45am. Another police official told Daily Times that the police stored illegal arms in the armoury and officials also used it to repair their weapons. Some grenades stored in a room of the armoury caused the apparently accidental blast, Nawaz told AFP. According to APP, the IGP has formed a committee to investigate the incident.
Former provincial minister and PPPP NWFP Senior Vice President Syed Qamar Abbass and his relative Muhammad Ali were gunned down in the Hasthnagri area on late Sunday. Hastnagri police said the slain PPPP leader was on his way home after attending a marriage ceremony when some unknown assailants ambushed his motorcycle near Hastnagri pattak. Muhammad Ali was killed on the spot and Abbass sustained critical injuries. He was rushed to Lady Reading Hospital where he succumbed.
Gunmen shot dead two Shia clerics in suspected sectarian violence overnight in a town 150 kilometres northwest of Multan, police said on Sunday. The attackers, believed to be Sunni militants, sprayed bullets at the clerics who were sleeping in the guesthouse of a Shia leader in the town of Chaubara, local police chief Rai Muhammad Tahir said. The clerics, who were visiting Chaubara, died on the spot while another guest, a Shia lawyer, was injured, he said. The attackers fled in a car.
BAGHDAD - Eight American soldiers were killed in Iraq on Sunday, including six who died along with a European journalist in a roadside bomb attack north of Baghdad, the US military said.
BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed at least 35 people and wounded 80 on Sunday next to a crowded market in a Shia district of Baghdad which has been a repeated target of attacks blamed on Sunni Muslim Al Qaeda. Bystanders used blankets to carry the dead and wounded onto pick-up trucks. The bomb tore off the fronts of shops and destroyed cars. The explosion was next to a crowded market in the Bayaa district. Markets are a favourite target of carbombers.
Defense officials vowed a tough response Sunday night to a Kassam rocket attack in the afternoon that wounded two people at a gas station near Sderot. A 24-year-old worker at the gas station sustained moderate wounds after his body was hit by shrapnel from the rocket attack. Another bystander was lightly wounded. The rocket, with a sticker reading "Quds" - Jerusalem in Arabic - struck the gas station in Sha'ar Hanegev and caused light damages. The wounded youth was evacuated to Ashkelon's Barzilai Hospital. 
