In the late-morning lull that followed the thump of shellfire and chatter of machineguns, the preparations for a small war seemed to be unfolding in the orchards and paddy fields beneath the towering Spingar mountain range.
Scores of heavily armed Afghan troops and fighters from special border police units determined, professional and evidently spoiling for a fight gathered around their senior officers for orders. Artillery men waited beside their 122mm field guns hidden among the mulberry groves. And in nearby village bazaars tribesmen clustered around their elders, asking for weapons of their own so that they could join the fray.
Yet the enemy was not the Taleban, nor an infiltrating column of al-Qaeda fighters. Instead, in the remote border district of Ali Kheyl in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan security forces have found themselves pitted against an older and bigger enemy: Pakistan.
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I always thought that Taleban and Al-Q were extensions of pakistan... looks like the afgans have the right idea. if you want a weed out of your garden you have to go for the root.
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I think it's about time to dismember pakiwakiland. There is no further reason to continue the farce of this British-made, peace-destroying, terror-facilitating piece of excrement. The Alliance and India should simply crush paki resistance, destroy all the madrassahs, kill all the "holy" men, and split the former nation of pakiland at the Indus river. If the Indian muslims start acting up, India should whack them equally as hard. Since the only thing muzzies seem to understand is power, the two groups should show them that they are the biggest, meanest, and most determined, and that pakiland pays the price. Just think of how much money we could save by not having to prop up this tinhorn dictatorship. It would also put all of pushtunistan into Afghanistan, where with a little honest negotiation, things could be better for all concerned. The sooner pakiwakiland is dismembered, the sooner that part of the world can enjoy a semblance of peace.
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Shortly after 9/11, I was visiting my favorite Indian restaurant for lunch when the Sikh chef stepped out of the kitchen, sat down at my table, and said, "If your President Bush gives us the word, we will take care of Pakistan!" He then slapped the table hard for emphasis.
If Perv retires, voluntarily or not, Pakiland is a dead nation walking.
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"Afghanistans 46,000-strong army is in no position to take on the military might of Pakistan"
But after four years of training with US forces they likely punch above their regional weight class. That, plus their innate 'warriorness' ought to make Pakistani authorities hesitate a long time before deciding to gin up a war to distract their own people from their government. (Too many vague pronouns, but I don't feel like fixing it; you can figure out what I mean.)
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If there were to be an air war, then the Afghanis would be in trouble. But if we are talking artillery, armor, and infantry incursions, the Pakis are in a world of hurt. The ANA now has a lot of rebuilt Soviet gear, courtesy of the East Europeans and their parts industry. Plus, AKs, mortars, RPGs, smaller caliber AAA, and howitzers are a dime a dozen in the ANA.
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air war? the Afghan air force has a lotta assets, as Fred said, with that 5-pointed star in a blue circular backgound
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It is interesting that no Afghan government ever recognized Pak-Afghan border, or, so called, Durand line. Not even the Taliban government, that received a lot of help from Pakistan.
Durand line is no valid since year 1999. Since then, the border between two countries is undefined.
Air strikes targeted a convoy of Taliban who had left a meeting in western Afghanistan, leaving 14 suspected militants dead and 10 wounded, a provincial governor said on Friday. The Taliban had met on Thursday to appoint a leader in western Farah province, said Governor Muhaidin Baluch. As the fighters left the meeting in Bakwa district, air strikes hit seven Taliban vehicles, he said.
Two of the 10 wounded lost their legs, and the 14 dead were buried near where they were killed.
Two of the 10 wounded lost their legs, and the 14 dead were buried near where they were killed, Baluch said. NATOs International Security Assistance Force and the US-led coalition said they had looked into the report, but had no information about it.
In the eastern Khost province, US-led coalition and Afghan forces detained five suspected militants and destroyed a cache of weapons early on Friday, the coalition said in a statement. Credible intelligence led the forces to the compound suspected of housing an assassination cell.
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14 KIA + 10 WIA = actionable intel from the local populace. only bad news is that it was not 24 KIA.
Three Vietnamese sailors were among the 21 seized aboard two Korean fishing vessels off the coast of Somalia on Wednesday, according to news released by the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
The Viet Nam Embassy in South Korea is currently trying to identify the sailors, but no further details were provided. The ministry said four Koreans, 10 Chinese, four Indonesians and three Indians were among the crew. The pirates have sailed the ships to a village on the coast of Somalia and all the crew members are safe, according to the International Maritime Bureau's Piracy Reporting Centre.
South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min-Soon sent an appeal to his Somali and Kenyan counterparts yesterday to ask for help in securing the release of crewmen, said ministry spokeswoman Han Hye-Jin. Unidentified gunmen hijacked the Tanzania-registered ships about 200 nautical miles off the coast of Mogadishu, Somalia. But, the boats had left Mombassa in Kenya on May 11 for Yemen.
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Reports of a heavily armed column of gunmen advancing on Cananea, Sonora, were a joke made in poor taste, the citys mayor said Friday afternoon.
At shortly after 10 a.m. Friday, Mayor Luis Cha Flores issued a state of alert for his city after receiving what were then described as credible reports that a convoy of rogue gunmen had entered a town 10 miles west of Cananea. But by early afternoon, Cha Flores was calling the reports a false alarm, and urged the people of Cananea to return to their normal activities, the Hermosillo newspaper El Imparcial reported on its website.
Sonora state attorney general Abel Murrieta Gutierrez had earlier dismissed the reports as unreliable.
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no real surprise that this could have been true. Thankfully it isn't, but it's probably only a matter of time. Wonder what "back to normal" regarding security means.
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Reports of a heavily armed column of gunmen advancing on Cananea, Sonor
Mayor, there is a heavily armed column of soldiers with air support advancing to engage the gunmen.
(Xinhua) -- Sweden has extradited a Moroccan man suspected of aiding al Qaida in Iraq and helping set up a terrorist organization in Sudan, Radio Sweden reported on Friday. Germany's Federal Prosecutor's Office was quoted as saying that the 24 year-old Moroccan, identified only as Redouane E. H., is now in investigative custody at a jail in Karlsruhe, Germany.
The man was arrested in Sweden in March after Germany issued an arrest warrant, accusing him of trying to set up an Islamist cell in Sudan, the Swedish Broadcaster said. The aim of the cell was to conduct a holy war against "crusaders" on the orders of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, it was reported. German prosecutors said that last month Sweden extradited another Moroccan man to Germany in connection with the same case.
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Harkat-ul-Jehad-i-Islami (HuJI) activist Mohammed Abdul Sahed alias Bilal, wanted for the blasts on the Samjhauta Express, has emerged as a key suspect in the bomb attack at the Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad.
A SIM card believed to have been used to trigger the explosive device at the mosque on Friday was purchased from Kolkata and its trail had led to a link with Bilal, sources in the team probing the attack said.
They said that indications had emerged that Bilal could have masterminded the attack with some cadres of the banned SIMI and sleeper cells of Jaish-e-Mohammed. Both HuJI and Jaish follow the Deobandi sect of Islam.
Eleven people died in the bomb attack at the mosque while five more died when police fired on protestors who attacked shops in the Charminar area of Hyderabad.
Bilal, who took over the command of HuJI on October 12, 2005, has been on the list of most wanted terrorists after he masterminded a suicide attack on the Special Task Force's headquarters in Hyderabad that left one police personnel dead.
Bilal, who is believed to be in Karachi, is also wanted for the blasts on the Samjauta Express in February that left 68 people dead.
An associate of Rasool Khan Party, a Gujarat resident, Bilal has been instrumental in sending youths for arms training to Pakistan through Dhaka and some Gulf states, the sources said.
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Minority Affairs Minister Mohammed Ali Shabbir said that the police had withdrawn surveillance cameras and horse-mounted police which were deployed near Mecca Masjid every Friday on the request of Muslim elected representatives and religious leaders as they alleged that Muslims coming to prayers were being frisked and checked as if they were unsocial elements.
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as if? I'd suggest the obvious answer: "they are"
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activist Mohammed Abdul Sahed alias Bilal, wanted for the blasts on the Samjhauta Express, has emerged as a key suspect in the bomb attack at the Mecca Masjid in Hyderabad.
Two oil tankers carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan exploded near Saranan on the Quetta-Chaman highway on Friday, police told APP. The tankers were parked on the highway when the explosion occurred. The force of the explosion overturned them, and a blaze started shortly afterwards but no one was hurt. The cause of the explosion is not clear, police said, adding that the drivers and conductors are missing and it is not known if they escaped. They said no one had accepted responsibility for the explosion and an investigation was currently in progress.
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I smell fish. I'm no expert, but parking vehicles of the highway can't possibly be regular procedure.
I hope this isn't a sign of more Iraq settle insurgent attacks in Afghanistan.
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Saud Memon, a merchant who owned the plot from where US journalist Daniel Pearls body was found, died on Friday at Liaquat National Hospital in Karachi. Memon was the first on the list of Pakistans most wanted and carried head money of Rs 3 million. But he croaked in the hospital just like anybody else.
"Pointation"
Sauds name first surfaced when the police recovered Pearls remains on May 17, 2002, on the pointation of his servant Fazl Kareem who was arrested three days earlier.
When Daily Times visited Memons house in Nazimabad No 4s Pakhtoon-dominated Mujahid Colony before the burial, his eldest son Fahad was not present. Fahad had been sent away but Daily Times was able to confirm on the phone the death at the ICU, declared by doctors at 2:30pm. The scared family was exceedingly hostile and reluctant to allow interviews but told the media there was no dying declaration.
According to family sources, when Memon returned home on April 28, he was well enough to feed himself but could not recognise anyone. While the family source was narrating these details someone shouted from behind.
They killed him by injecting him with Cortisone!
They killed him by injecting him with Cortisone! The person was immediately hushed up. When the family returned from Friday prayers at 2:30pm, the doctors told us he had died, family sources said.
Memons brother Mahmood said Saud died 20 days after being admitted to hospital. Mahmood had appeared before the Supreme Court on May 14 in the forced disappearances case along with his brother who was unable to speak as a result of alleged torture by an intelligence agency during an undeclared confinement that lasted an estimated three years, one month and 21 days. Memons arrest was never brought on the record.
According to Mahmood, his brother left for South Africa after the police recovered Pearls remains from his plot in Ahsanabad, Gadap Town. He was apprehensive of his likely arrest in the high-profile murder case and fled the country.
The FBI arrested him from South Africa on March 7, 2003, kept him at Guantanamo Bay for more than two years and then handed him over to the Pakistani authorities.
The FBI arrested him from South Africa on March 7, 2003, kept him at Guantanamo Bay for more than two years and then handed him over to the Pakistani authorities.
An intelligence agency then secured his custody for investigation. He subsequently lost his contact with the family. The family heard about his alleged detention last year through a man who was released by the same agency sometime ago. Mahmood denied his brother had any links with the Pearl murder. He acknowledged, however, that Memon used to donate funds to the Al-Akhtar and Al-Rashid trusts. My brother knew nothing about Daniel Pearl or his killers. If he had killed Pearl, he would certainly have not buried him in his own plot, he said.
Police on Friday ordered video shops in a northwestern town to remove tapes of risqué stage shows after militants threatened attacks over the obscene footage. We have asked shop owners to remove the obscene videos and CDs to avoid any crackdown against them, police officer Syed Liaqat Shah said. So the coppers are aiding and abetting the Talibs in their efforts to bully the local populace. I guess it's understandable. The shopkeepers are less likely to be armed and dangerous.
One shop in Nowshera received an anonymous letter signed by well wishers demanding the closure of all outlets that sold un-Islamic material, including videos of suggestive dancing and songs.
One shop in Nowshera received an anonymous letter signed by well wishers demanding the closure of all outlets that sold un-Islamic material, including videos of suggestive dancing and songs. We have been asked to wind up the business in the next 10 days or face dire consequences, shop owner Sagheer Khan said. He said militants had warned that shops would receive the same treatment as those in Charsadda.
Khan said police had assured shop owners of their full cooperation in tracking down those who wrote the letter. Police said they had intensified security around all video and CD shops in Nowshera, 60 kilometres west of Islamabad, and plain-clothed officers would be deployed.
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I bet that 'Well Wishers' is code for the 12th imam mastermind society!
Pakistan on Friday deployed soldiers to the tense northwestern town of Tank, where earlier clashes between Taliban militants and security forces left eight people dead. We have deployed troops to prevent sabotage activities, local administration chief Syed Mohsin Shah said.
The troop movement comes after intelligence reports of increased numbers of militants entering Tank, which adjoins the volatile tribal region of South Waziristan bordering Afghanistan. We had reports that around 200 militants entered the town, Shah said.
Fighting in Tank on Wednesday between Taliban and security forces left six civilians dead and 17 others, including five security personnel, wounded. Residents said soldiers were patrolling the town on Friday and also manning security posts at entry and exit points. Shops and schools have closed, with authorities postponing annual examinations, they said.
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U.S. forces broadened their hunt Saturday for three missing comrades beyond the rural area south of Baghdad where they disappeared, and their top commander expressed optimism that at least two of them were still alive a week after their isolated outpost was ambushed.
The search for the missing soldiers involves some 4,000 troops who "will not stop searching until we find our soldiers," said Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad. "We're using all available assets and continuing to assault the al-Qaida in Iraq network," he said.
Acting on a tip, Garver said troops raided a building in Amiriyah on Saturday morning and captured nine Iraqis suspected of involvement in the attack. Amiriyah is a stronghold of Sunni insurgents with close tribal ties to Quarghuli, where the outpost was overrun.
He said U.S. troops also detained two Iraqis in Baqouba who he said were "associated" with the al-Qaida command network. He did not tie those arrests directly to the missing soldiers. Their outpost in Quarghuli is about 12 miles south of Baghdad and about 50 miles from Baqouba, a violence-wracked city to the north.
A group that claims ties to al-Qaida has claimed responsibility for the May 12 attack that resulted in the kidnapping and the deaths of four American soldiers and an Iraqi aide. However, there has been no evidence, such as photos, video or audio, released by that or other groups.
Army Gen. David Petraeus, the senior American commander in Iraq, told the Army Times newspaper in an interview Friday night that U.S. forces were focusing on an insurgent who is "sort of an affiliate of al-Qaida."
He said an informant provided U.S. forces with names of those who took part in the raid and kidnapping but they were still at large. "We've had all kinds of tips down there. We just tragically haven't found the individuals," he said.
Petraeus said he did not know whether the three missing soldiers, from the Army's 10th Mountain Division, were alive. But "as of this morning, we thought there were at least two that were probably still alive," he said. "At one point in time there was a sense that one of them might have died, but again, we just don't know."
An Iraqi army intelligence officer, who said he helped interrogate two suspects detained in recent days in Mahmoudiya, said they confessed to participating in the raid. Mahmoudiya is the largest town in the search area.
They said 13 insurgents conducted the surprise attack and then escaped in two groups. The leader of the group, along with some gunmen, took the kidnapped soldiers to a destination unknown by the two detainees, he said. He added that the two detainees gave interrogators the hiding place for weapons used in the ambush and U.S. troops went there and took them.
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In the New York Times, eh? Too bad I gotta register.
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save you the pain, Bobby: American soldiers on Friday captured six men in northeast Baghdad suspected of involvement in smuggling materials for deadly armor-piercing bombs, the military said.
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The Reach of War
Go to Complete Coverage » The arrests, during multiple raids, came on a day when the military announced the deaths of five American soldiers. ABC News also said that two of its Iraqi employees had been killed while driving home from the networks bureau here.
The military said that two of the six suspected insurgents arrested Friday, who were not identified, were considered key leaders of a secret-cell terrorist network, one of whom was involved in numerous murders, kidnappings, assassinations of Iraqis and coalition troops.
The group was also known for facilitating the transport of weapons and explosively formed penetrators, or E.F.P.s, from Iran to Iraq, as well as bringing militants from Iraq to Iran for terrorist training, the military said in the statement.
The Bush administration has criticized Irans government for failing to shut off the flow of E.F.P.s into Iraq, though officials have conceded that they have no conclusive intelligence that senior officials in Tehran are behind the smuggling.
The penetrators use explosives to fire a molten slug that is able to penetrate even the strongest armor plating, and they are responsible for dozens of American and Iraqi military deaths every month, according to military officials
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Thanks, Frank.
According to military officials.
According to unnamed sources.
According to the editor, who wishes to remain unnamed.
The New York Times is on the payroll of Osama bin Laden, according to sources who wish to remain anonymous, because they are not authorized to release the information.
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Transfer them to Iraqi jurisdiction, who set them free.
(KUNA) -- A booby-trapped car blast on Friday left at least five Iraqis killed and seven others injured near a traffic department and the Bader Organization building of the Supreme Islamic Council in the Tobaji area in Baghdad. A police source told KUNA the blast occurred near the traffic department as a result of a parked booby-trapped vehicle. Eyewitnesses said that the blast took place in a football field located between a residential compound and Tobaji area west of here.
Furthermore, a suicide bomber blew himself up in a US military convoy in central Fallujah. Iraqi police said a huge explosion was heard that was a result of a suicide bomber blowing himself up in a US Humvee leaving it totally scrambled. The police said it was not yet known whether there were casualties among the US army personnel.
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A US helicopter was destroyed and nine others were damaged in an artillery attack on a US camp in Taji on Sunday but only disclosed yesterday, news reports said - while elsewhere at least 19 more deaths were reported in Iraq.
The helicopters had been stationed at the camp about 30km north west of the capital Baghdad, the sources said. A spokesman for the US defence department had confirmed the attack, according to the report that gave no indication of perpetrators or casualties. Reports said this was the first announcement by the US army of the destruction and damage to its helicopters at one of its bases since the start of the US-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
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was this near or at Al Asad Air base?
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my bad, I have to get my bearings better
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Ah, but the Al Arab headline was Militants Down Helicopter .. implying in flight, but what they really meant was from "on the ground" to "flat down on the ground".
Spin comes to the arab news...
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RD:
That map is outdated, and doesn't even show the Green Zone. Most west Tigris Sunnis have crossed, although a US Army corps is building a Sunni protection wall, West of Sadr-City. Mortar attacks are hard to prevent, unless you target the supply source, which happens to be in foreign countries.
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I'm actually suprised something like this hasn't happened sooner. We've been there 4 years. Also I notice that no soldiers were killed in the incident, which is the reason they had to throw in the "19 more deaths" part. I'm curious what kind of helicopters were destroyed though.
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1 destroyed, 9 damaged, smells like a Mikey post.... but it's from DarthFred. We shall see.
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By 'artillery' I presume they mean mortar fire. Either the nine helicopters were not severely damaged, or they were parked way too close together, or the bad guys managed to get an unusually large number of well-targeted rounds off before scooting. A lucky shot can take out one bird but not ten. And these guys have not been noted for their ability to drop one down a chimney - or even land two in the same football field. And a base of significant size would normally have counter-battery capability (wouldn't it?) that should prevent a sustained barrage.
An IAF airstrike targeted an empty Hamas school in northeast Gaza City on Friday night, Palestinian security officials said. Rescue workers said one person was injured. The IDF had no immediate comment.
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Schools are used as rocket sites, yes?
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Nope. Schools are Paleo equivalent of munition factories (produce self-guided bombs).
Israel is to destroy the home of one of Hamas's senior commanders, Channel 10 reported Friday. Ahmad al-Jaafari, who is believed to have commanded the kidnapping of Cpl. Gilad Shalit, received notice Friday evening by the IDF Intelligence Unit. The unit ordered the commander and his family to evacuate their home in the Sajjaiyeh neighborhood of Gaza.
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Why call ahead ? Get the house, him and all his kin in one neat package.
(Xinhua) - Three members of Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) were killed and five others wounded in an Israeli missile attack on a car traveling on a street in Gaza city on Friday afternoon, hospital sources here said. Muawia Hassanin, spokesman for the ambulance service, told reporters that the paramedics have evacuated three dead bodies from a Volkswagen minibus, adding that five others were wounded in the missile attack, including bystanders.
Witnesses said that an Israeli helicopter fired more than one rocket on the vehicle that was passing through a densely-populated area near Sheikh Radwan suburb in the north of Gaza city. According to Mushier al-Masri, a Hamas lawmaker, said that the three men were members of Ezz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas.
The latest Israeli operation brought to eight the number of people killed in aerial attacks on Gaza Strip since midnight. Four Hamas men died in pre-dawn air raid on a site for Hamas' military wing in eastern Gaza city and one bystander. Meanwhile, the hospital sources said a woman also died due to wounds she sustained during the first Israeli air strike on Gaza that took place on Thursday noon on a building for Hamas police force, known as the Executive Forces. In general, the death toll of the Israeli offensive since it was unleashed Thursday hit 16 people, most of them affiliated with Hamas. As for the inter-Palestinian infighting, two people were killed Friday in Gaza city in separated incidents.
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HellFire = Instant CarBQ = Car Swarm
I luvs a good Car Swarm
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They need to start an underground black market for "martyr parts". $100 US for a limb, $500 for the head, $800 for the heart, and $1000 for the embalmed body to be placed with ropes on your ceiling(The martyrs watch over you while the family rests). The heart could turn into a novelty cure-all like a Tigers liver.
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Israel needs to start firing a Maverick, followed by a GBU-82 cluster-bomb with 30-minute delayed fuses. I'm sure 'car swarms' will drop off quickly after the second one.
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That picture is of a sinkhole, not a crater.
No surrounding debris, smooth sides.
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RD---Thanks for the video. The IDF needs to hit that building again when they are swarming, and keep hitting it again until the Paleos finally stay away.
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tracer chemicals or bio tracers in the initial hit could have interesting tagging attributes.
Defense Minister Amir Peretz held a security meeting on Friday afternoon with IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, intelligence officials and Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh, on the subject of IDF operations against Kassam fire in the Gaza Strip. At the meeting, Peretz ordered the IDF to continue with its current policy of pinpointed airstrikes against Hamas terrorists and Kassam infrastructure. Peretz also said the infantry force that had taken up positions in Gaza on Thursday would maintain its presence in effort to assist in identifying Kassam squads.
Earlier, a high-ranking IDF officer said Friday that the goal of the current operation in Gaza was to "make Hamas pay" for its continued terror attacks against Israel. Predicting that Kassam rocket fire would continue over the next few days, the officer said that the IDF planned to continue its current policy of bombing Kassam manufacturing plants, warehouses, Kassam rocket squads and other Hamas infrastructure involved in terror attacks. He also hinted that the IDF operations could continue even if Hamas stopped firing rockets.
Israel is not "conducting a dialogue" with Hamas, he said, and added that IDF operations were not necessarily dependent on the continuation of rocket attacks. "We're not just attacking real estate. We want to make Hamas pay for the terror," he said.
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Eight members of a Muslim rebel group planning to bomb a public park and a shopping mall in the Philippine capital have surrendered, a Marine general said yesterday. Major-General Benjamin Dolorfino said the military learned about the plot to plant crude bombs in Rizal Park and a popular shopping mall in Manilas financial area from the members of the Abu Sayyaf group who voluntarily turned themselves in on May 1. They were ready to attack and were just waiting for their leaders to order them to carry out the bombings, he said. Dolorfino said the eight men were part of a larger group of 38 Abu Sayyaf militants dispatched to the capital to plan attacks on shopping malls, public parks and the transport network, including commuter buses, trains and ferries. He did not say why the men gave themselves up or the whereabouts of the other members of the group.
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would it be too much to ask that number of coments be bolded above to help in navigating. i like the informative nature of the number of hits, but the number of comments is what i find i am digging for and bolding it would help the 2 pieces of information stand apart...
not wanting to sound like a whiner, just offering a suggestion..
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Air strikes targeted a convoy of Taliban who had left a meeting in western Afghanistan, leaving 14 suspected militants dead and 10 wounded, a provincial governor said on Friday. The Taliban had met on Thursday to appoint a leader in western Farah province, said 
Three Vietnamese sailors were among the 21 seized aboard two Korean fishing vessels off the coast of Somalia on Wednesday, according to news released by the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
(Xinhua) -- Sweden has extradited a Moroccan man suspected of aiding al Qaida in Iraq and helping set up a terrorist organization in Sudan, Radio Sweden reported on Friday. Germany's Federal Prosecutor's Office was quoted as saying that the 24 year-old Moroccan, identified only as Redouane E. H., is now in investigative custody at a jail in Karlsruhe, Germany. 
Police on Friday ordered video shops in a northwestern town to remove tapes of risqué stage shows after militants threatened attacks over the obscene footage. We have asked shop owners to remove the obscene videos and CDs to avoid any crackdown against them, 
An IAF airstrike targeted an empty Hamas school in northeast Gaza City on Friday night, Palestinian security officials said. Rescue workers said one person was injured. The IDF had no immediate comment.
Israel is to destroy the home of one of Hamas's senior commanders, Channel 10 reported Friday. 
Defense Minister Amir Peretz held a security meeting on Friday afternoon with IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, intelligence officials and Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh, on the subject of IDF operations against Kassam fire in the Gaza Strip. At the meeting, Peretz ordered the IDF to continue with its current policy of pinpointed airstrikes against Hamas terrorists and Kassam infrastructure. Peretz also said the infantry force that had taken up positions in Gaza on Thursday would maintain its presence in effort to assist in identifying Kassam squads. 
Eight members of a Muslim rebel group planning to bomb a public park and a shopping mall in the Philippine capital have surrendered, a Marine general said yesterday. Major-General Benjamin Dolorfino said the military learned about the plot to plant crude bombs in Rizal Park and a popular shopping mall in Manilas financial area from the members of the Abu Sayyaf group who voluntarily turned themselves in on May 1. They were ready to attack and were just waiting for their leaders to order them to carry out the bombings, he said. Dolorfino said the eight men were part of a larger group of 38 Abu Sayyaf militants dispatched to the capital to plan attacks on shopping malls, public parks and the transport network, including commuter buses, trains and ferries. He did not say why the men gave themselves up or the whereabouts of the other members of the group.
