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U.S. Military Rescues 41 Iraqis From Al Qaeda Prison
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Afghanistan
Hunt for "traitors" tears Taliban apart
Snip, duplicate.
Posted by: Mike || 05/27/2007 07:56 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Taliban insurgents fighting in Afghanistan and Pakistan have been hit by a wave of defections and betrayals that has resulted in a witch-hunt within the militant movement. . . . two of the Taliban's most senior commanders have now been killed after being betrayed by close associates. Up to a dozen middle-ranking commanders have died in airstrikes or other operations by Afghan, Nato or Pakistani forces based on precise details of their movements received from informers. Few details have been publicly released, but senior military sources speak of 'major hits' that they wish they could talk about openly.

Stop, stop ... you're ripping my heart out!
Posted by: Zenster || 05/27/2007 8:10 Comments || Top||

#2  During the algeria war, french counter-insurgency specialist planted the seeds of paranoia among the fln, in what was called the "bleuite", by leaking false informations and persuading the leaders that the ranks and files were ripe with traitors and informers... and so getting them to purge and torture recklessly.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 05/27/2007 8:14 Comments || Top||

#3  and so getting them to purge and torture recklessly.

Not thaqt they need any encouragement for that.
Posted by: JFM || 05/27/2007 9:09 Comments || Top||

#4  Saidur Rehman, 50, was shot dead 10 days ago after being tortured.

Let's hope his family/clan asks for dire revenge (TM) like recommended by their traditions.
Posted by: JFM || 05/27/2007 9:12 Comments || Top||

#5  Sounds like a plan for dealing with our home-grown conspiracy theory/leftoid scum problem. Tell them Al Gore masterminded the 9/11 attacks and refuse to explain how or why...
Posted by: Excalibur || 05/27/2007 9:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Your murderers come with smiles...
Posted by: Henry Hill || 05/27/2007 9:31 Comments || Top||

#7  was shot dead 10 days ago after being tortured.

This shows the cruelty and abuses of the American occupying... Oh.

Cancel the press release.
Posted by: Amnesty International || 05/27/2007 11:47 Comments || Top||

#8  Have we told them yet that the tribal leaders supporting them from the Tribal Agencies are only doing it so that the Agencies can be turned over to the Americans, and that they will identify all the Taliban living there? That all this support for "insurgents" is just a ruse to flush out the pakis? That the Tribal Agencies will then join in a Greater Afghanistan, and shoot all non-Pashtuns that live in the Tribal Agencies, especially the foreign fighters? Have they figured out yet that the Egyptian Zawahiri has changed sides, and is helping the NATO forces? Until they understand all that, they will never be able to purge all the spies in their ranks.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 05/27/2007 12:48 Comments || Top||

#9  ;-)
Posted by: occasional observer || 05/27/2007 12:56 Comments || Top||

#10  (singing)
Happy days are here again,
the skies are clear and blue again,
As we plant the Taliban again,
Happy days are here again.
(End Singing
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 05/27/2007 13:35 Comments || Top||

#11  (singing)
Happy days are here again,
the skies are clear and blue again,
As we plant the Taliban again,
Happy days are here again.
(End Singing
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 05/27/2007 13:35 Comments || Top||

#12  Damn "Submit" button's sticking again.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 05/27/2007 13:38 Comments || Top||

#13  "Hunt for "traitors" tears Taliban apart"

I love a happy ending. *sniff*

Pass the popcorn. :-D
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 05/27/2007 19:40 Comments || Top||


British soldier killed in Afghanistan blast
KABUL - A British soldier was killed and four wounded in an explosion in an operation against Taleban insurgents in Afghanistan, the Britain’s Ministry of Defence said on Saturday.

The soldier -- from the 1st Battalion the Grenadier Guards -- died on Friday evening during a mission to clear a Taleban-occupied compound on the outskirts of Garmser, in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. The soldier was killed and four wounded when a British force destroyed a Taleban stronghold with artillery, mortar and small arms fire and then began clearing Taleban positions.

“During this phase of the operation there was an explosion ... which resulted in five casualties,” the Ministry of Defence statement said. A ministry spokeswoman said an investigation was under way into what caused the explosion.

Three of the wounded soldiers were seriously hurt and they were evacuated by helicopter to a field hospital at the British desert base Camp Bastion.
Posted by: Steve White || 05/27/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Africa Horn
Mogadishu mayor deputies escape bomb attack
(SomaliNet) At least one person has been killed and four others were wounded when a roadside bomb went off in north of Mogadishu, Somalia capital on Saturday. Witnesses told Somalinet that the bomb exploded on the road of Huriwaa neighborhood around 8:30 am as convoy carrying deputies of Mogadishu’s Mayor was passing there.

Abdifitah Shaweye and Mohamed Osman Dhagahtur survived from the bomb attack but it killed a ten years old boy who was walking near the site of the blast and wounded four of their security guards.

Several people were arrested in connection with the explosion. “all the suspects will go under investigation and anyone who is found not guilty will be freed,” Shaweye said.
Posted by: Steve White || 05/27/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


India-Pakistan
Taliban kidnap two in Lakki Marwat
Now they're getting personal.
PESHAWAR: Suspected Taliban kidnapped two doctors in Lakki Marwat on Saturday. A police official, asking not to be named, told Daily Times that unidentified men intercepted Dr Abdur Rehman and Dr Muhammad Ishaq of Lakki Marwat District Headquarters Hospital at Khankhel Morr on Tajuri-Gambila Road in the Tajuri police precincts and kidnapped them. He said that the kidnappers also took away the driver of the vehicle, Anwaruddin.

The kidnapped doctors were residents of Tajuri and were going to the Lakki Marwat DHQ to attend their duties. According to the police official the kidnappers were driving an open truck and resembled Taliban.
"Baggy clothes?"
"Yup."
"Rifles and ammo?"
"Yup."
"Tightly-wound turbans?"
"Yup."
"Sounds like Taliban allright."
He said that no report had been registered with the police, but law enforcement agencies were searching for the abducted doctors.
Posted by: Steve White || 05/27/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Well now,
You know mighta be Taliban.....

When youz only feel comfy with 80 ft.lbs round your noggin.

Your AK-47 is cleaner than yur cave.

You maintain 4 seperate goat herds.

Missin parta yur foot.

Killed yur sistur for lookin at yur goats.
Posted by: Shipman || 05/27/2007 3:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Sounds like some Very Important (to them) Talibunnies have been injured, and they need some medical attention. Guess they're so well-known it wouldn't be safe for them to go to a hospital. Maybe Mullah Omar lost his other eye, or something. We can only pray that the doctors are able to effect a 'cure' at the scene, but that sepsis will set in later from poor hygiene.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 05/27/2007 12:55 Comments || Top||

#3  Don't they know "Western values (Medicines, Clean and sterile hospitals, antibiotics) are "Forbidden" as inventions of the "Unclean" non believers?
Call the local Imam, pray to Allah for recovery, and dig graves.
That's acceptable to your "Religion (And I use the term "Religion" very loosely here)
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 05/27/2007 13:24 Comments || Top||


Iraq
U.S. Military Rescues 41 Iraqis From Al Qaeda Prison
No panties on the head, just torture and broken bones? Andrew Sullivan would be so proud of AQ.
Funny how Andy has been rather quiet about AQ torture manuals and prisons.
U.S. forces rescued 41 Iraqi civilians Sunday from an Al Qaeda hide-out northeast of Baghdad, including some who showed signs of torture and broken bones, a senior U.S. official said.

Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, the top U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, said it was the largest number of detained Iraqis ever found in a single Al Qaeda hide-out. Some among the 41 had been held as long as four months, he said.

Details were incomplete, but Caldwell said some of the freed Iraqis were being transported to medical facilities for treatment of their injuries. There were no indications that Americans had been held at the hide-out, he said. It was not immediately clear whether any Al Qaeda figures were captured.

The discovery was unrelated to a search south of Baghdad for two missing U.S. soldiers.

U.S. forces previously have found a number of houses used by Al Qaeda for detention, including some where prisoners showed signs of torture. But the hide-out raided Sunday in Diyala province was the largest, Caldwell said in a telephone interview. He declined to be more specific about the location, citing security reasons.

Caldwell said a tip to U.S. forces from Iraqis in Diyala led to the rescue operation. "The people in Diyala are speaking up against Al Qaeda," he said. Caldwell said U.S. troops have been engaging more directly with Iraqi civilians in Diyala in recent weeks since an additional 3,000 U.S. troops entered the province.
Posted by: Frank G || 05/27/2007 10:34 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Any idea why these Iraqis are being held by AlQ?
Could this be how they create some of their suicide bombers, through torture and coercion?
Posted by: Robjack || 05/27/2007 11:35 Comments || Top||

#2  Could this be how they create some of their suicide bombers, through torture and coercion?

More likely, they were being held for ransom, or believed to have spoken out against Al-Qaeda, or they're thought to be cooperating with the Americans or the Iraqi government. There are still enough brainwashed idiots they can recruit to be suicide bombers.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 05/27/2007 13:00 Comments || Top||

#3  I would think that they are hostages to ensure that a free family member performs some behavior or service on a continuing basis.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/27/2007 13:05 Comments || Top||

#4  Media outrage over AQ prisoner abuses in ‡, ‡ +1, ‡ +2, ‡ +3 ...
Posted by: Zenster || 05/27/2007 20:11 Comments || Top||


Instant Replay - More Raids on Mookie's Boys From Bagdhad to Basra
BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi troops raided Sadr City on Sunday, targeting Shiite insurgent cells in the Baghdad slum for a second day, while British forces stepped up pressure on Shiite militants in the southern city of Basra.

Meanwhile, in Kut, 100 miles southeast of Baghdad, 70 police officers resigned Sunday morning and handed over their weapons. Police said they cited their fears of being targeted by anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militants.
They should be targeting Mookie rather than fearing and fleeing him. Must be Democrat cops.
Al-Sadr emerged from hiding on Friday with a call for Sunnis and Shiites to band together to force foreign troops out of Iraq. Sadr's Mahdi Army militia has repeatedly battled with U.S. and British troops in the streets of Sadr City and Basra.

Hours after Sadr delivered a sermon in the holy Shiite city of Kufa, British and Iraqi troops killed the Mahdi Army commander in Basra in a gunfight. Militants responded with attacks on British troops and Iraqi forces there. The attacks continued late Saturday and early Sunday when British camps in the city were shelled repeatedly, British troops said in a statement.

The British, meanwhile, carried out an arrest raid early Sunday when their forces were attacked with roadside bombs, rocket propelled grenades and small arms fire, the British said. The troops returned fire, killing three of their attackers. No British forces were injured. The troops also arrested four militants.
I tried to calculate the casualty ratio but the display just flashes 'error' - must be Mookie's 'B' team at work, with the Iranian-trained units still hiding.
In Sadr City, U.S. and Iraqi forces carried out several raids targeting insurgent cells, arresting one suspect believed to be involved in smuggling Iran high-powered, armor piercing bombs from Iran that have been used against U.S. armored vehicles, the U.S. military said. The cell also has sent Iraqi militants to Iran for training, the military said.

During another raid in Sadr City, troops shot an approaching vehicle that ignored their signals to stop, the military said. No one was injured in the shooting, but the vehicle was set ablaze, the military said.
It takes a real slow learner to not understand the procedure at this point - certainly way too deficient to have a Drivers License.
AP Television News footage showed several cars burned and destroyed in the street, including a van that was scorched black, had its windows knocked out and its upholstery incinerated.
Windows knocked out? Must have been an IED dud.
The footage also showed a house that appeared to have been ransacked.
The house wouldn't have gotten messed up if we hadn't had to toss it to find the trigger man.
Also Sunday, gunmen in two cars threw concussion grenades at a popular market in northern Baghdad and then opened fire at shoppers, ...
Brave, brave 'Lions of Islam'. ROPMA
... killing one person and injuring eight others, police said. Later, the same gunmen ambushed a minibus, killing the driver, stealing the vehicle and abducting six passengers, police said.
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/27/2007 08:39 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "The cell also has sent Iraqi militants to Iran for training..."

It isn't really Vietnam, but at least it has Cambodia and Laos.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/27/2007 13:10 Comments || Top||


U.S. Security Contractors Open Fire in Baghdad
Employees of Blackwater USA, a private security firm under contract to the State Department, opened fire on the streets of Baghdad twice in two days last week, and one of the incidents provoked a standoff between the security contractors and Iraqi forces, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.

A Blackwater guard shot and killed an Iraqi driver Thursday near the Interior Ministry, according to three U.S. officials and one Iraqi official who were briefed on the incident but spoke on condition of anonymity because of a pending investigation. On Wednesday, a Blackwater-protected convoy was ambushed in downtown Baghdad, triggering a furious battle in which the security contractors, U.S. and Iraqi troops and AH-64 Apache attack helicopters were firing in a congested area.

Front-page Wapo. More at link, but I didn't bother to read past what I posted.
Posted by: Bobby || 05/27/2007 08:12 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is news because one would not expect or even want armed security company personnel to shoot back in order to extract their client's convoy from an ambush. The desired outcome is that they be captured, then murdered, and their bodies desecrated and hung from a bridge for the entertainment of the people.
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/27/2007 8:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Ouch. Scalpel sharp, Glenmore.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/27/2007 10:46 Comments || Top||

#3  That's what I'd like to see, Glenmore. Then I can say "screw 'em" again.
Posted by: Kos || 05/27/2007 11:50 Comments || Top||


British forces battle Mehdi Army in Basra
BAGHDAD - British forces battled Mehdi Army fighters in the southern city of Basra after their leader, Shia cleric Moqtada Al Sadr, made a rare public appearance and called on US troops to get out of Iraq. The British military said ”a number” of militia fighters were killed in an air strike overnight after Mehdi Army militia fighters attacked British troops with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars and machineguns.
The Brits do air strikes? Excellent!
The attacks were believed to be in retaliation for the killing of the top Mehdi Army commander in the city on Friday by British-backed Iraqi special forces, British military spokesman Major David Gell said in a statement.

A Reuters reporter saw eight caskets at a funeral for those killed in Basra. A hospital official said 22 others had been wounded. Residents said a helicopter had attacked a group of civilians protesting against the death of the Mehdi Army leader.
They're all civilians, of course, never a combatant amongst them. Learned that trick from Hezbollah and Hamas.
Gell said British forces had responded “robustly” to attacks on their positions, using “a number of appropriate and proportional assets ... including a low-flying aircraft”.

British troops have stepped up operations against Shia militias in Basra recently as they prepare to hand it over to Iraqi security forces. Britain is preparing to reduce its 7,000-strong force to about 5,500 within the next few weeks.
Posted by: Steve White || 05/27/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tater needs to die. Now. Please. And his stinking gang of thugs called the Mehdi army.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 05/27/2007 2:49 Comments || Top||

#2  Sorry, AP, I disagree. Sadr needs to be captured, thrown into a 6x6x6 cage, and the bars welded shut. He then needs to be hung above one of the bridges in Baghdad, and crowds of people march underneath, shouting derisive and abusive epithets about him, 24/7, until he croaks. He needs to be so thoroughly humiliated that none of his followers will EVER mention their connection. When he's dead, his body needs to be chopped into little pieces and dumped into the river for the fish to eat. Vulgar jokes need to be written about him, and circulated throughout Iraq. He needs to be so thoroughly repudiated that no one, anywhere, would ever want to emulate him, even in part.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 05/27/2007 13:12 Comments || Top||

#3  Well, OP, all right then....I was thinking just about economics.....
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 05/27/2007 13:48 Comments || Top||

#4  #2: Sorry, AP, I disagree. Sadr needs to be captured, thrown into a 6x6x6 cage, and the bars welded shut.

"Crows Cage".
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 05/27/2007 13:58 Comments || Top||

#5  lol.
yeah mee likes.
that certainly would be alot of "little pieces" of flesh, prolly feed the fish for quite some time.
Sure wouldn't want the job of doing the cutting. Who would you like to assign that job?
Posted by: Jan from work || 05/27/2007 14:35 Comments || Top||

#6  Sure wouldn't want the job of doing the cutting. Who would you like to assign that job?

I think traditionally that was the job of the next "Occupant".
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 05/27/2007 16:57 Comments || Top||


Three US troops killed in Iraq
BAGHDAD - Three US servicemen have died in a series of incidents across Iraq, the US military reported on Saturday. On Friday evening a roadside bomb killed a soldier northeast of the capital in Diyala province.

Another soldier was killed by small arms fire during a battle in the Baghdad area, also on Friday, and in the western province of Al Anbar a marine died in a non-combat incident.
Posted by: Steve White || 05/27/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Hamas to agree to rearm hudna if Israel stops reprisals
Posted by: ed || 05/27/2007 20:27 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hit 'em again. Hit 'em while they are down. Hit 'em after they say "Stop!".
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/27/2007 21:44 Comments || Top||

#2  I haven't heard a single arab country support Hamas yet in this current round.
Posted by: mhw || 05/27/2007 21:54 Comments || Top||

#3  Shipman is our best hudna man, I'll wait till he divines the Taqiyya while funneling all the kitman thru the bourse 3.0.
Posted by: RD || 05/27/2007 22:06 Comments || Top||

#4  "No"
Posted by: Frank G || 05/27/2007 22:34 Comments || Top||

#5  "No"

LOL Frank, I've been busy as hell and RantBurg has been so sticky I've had trouble getting thru on all the channels! ;-)

Posted by: RD || 05/27/2007 23:59 Comments || Top||


Israel escalates attacks on Hamas in Gaza
Israel escalated on Saturday its air attacks on Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and the Interior Ministry executive force that it controls, leaving five people killed and some 16 wounded.In the day-long time, Israeli aircraft carried out seven consecutive air strikes on different posts and compounds belong to Hamas movement, leaving five people killed and more than ten wounded.

A fresh Israeli air strike had targeted at night a post belonging to Hamas' armed wing al-Qassam Brigades in the town of Rafah in southern Gaza Strip, said Palestinian security sources, adding no injuries had been reported. Shortly before the last air strike, two more air strikes were carried out against two posts belong to the Hamas controlled Interior Ministry executive force in Gaza City, leaving ten civilians wounded, said medics at local Sheffa Hospital. They added that among the casualties, a pregnant woman and a 15-year-old boy were in critical conditions.

Four air strikes were carried out earlier in the day. The most serious one was when Israeli aircraft struck on a Hamas executive force in Zeitoon neighborhood in southern Gaza, leaving five people killed and six wounded. No injuries were reported in the other three airstrikes, said security sources.

The escalating air strikes came in retaliation against continuo militants' rocket attacks on Israel. Hamas' armed wing claimed responsibility on Saturday for launching three homemade rockets from northern Gaza Strip at coastal Israeli town of Ashkelon and at the town of Sderout in southern Israel. Israel Radio reported that one of Hamas rockets hit an empty Israeli house in Sderout, without injuries.

In response to rockets fire from the Gaza Strip on Israeli border towns, Israeli army has also conducted large-scale arrest operations against senior members of Hamas in the West Bank. Early on Saturday, Israeli troops arrested Palestinian minister of state Wasfi Kabha in his house in the northern West Bank city of Jenin during an overnight raid. On Thursday, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) also detained 33 Hamas officials including the education minister, four mayors and municipality heads as well as three lawmakers.

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneya of Hamas denounced Saturday the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as "a real war". His remarks came not long after five members of Hamas' Executive Force were killed in a series of air strikes on their bases in Gaza Strip on Saturday, which are part of an ongoing offensive that killed more than 40 people since mid-May.

Earlier on Saturday, Hamas has warned Israel against harming Haneya after helicopters targeted a post for his bodyguards twice in 24 hours. Meanwhile, Hamas' military wing renewed threats to abduct more Israeli soldiers and to renew suicide attacks inside the Jewish state.
Posted by: Pappy || 05/27/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  This is interesting. Looks like the IAF is kicking their asses with impunity. What happened to the threats from French about shooting down Israeli aircraft ? Awful quiet after Sarko came aboard isn't it ?
Posted by: Woozle Elmeter2970 || 05/27/2007 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  We're talking Gaza, WE2970, not southern Lebanon, where the French troops are.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 05/27/2007 2:51 Comments || Top||

#3  In the day-long time, Israeli aircraft carried out seven consecutive air strikes

Joooooooooooooos! Make Gaza and Dresden siner nyms. LOL. Oh the humanity.
Posted by: Shipman || 05/27/2007 3:49 Comments || Top||

#4  What happened to the threats from French about shooting down Israeli aircraft ?

For your information France has come under new management. And Sarkozy (pease refrain from using Sarko like the French left does) is pro-Israel and (if his victory speech is to be believed) is aiming to break France's traditional policy of championning two bit dictators.
Posted by: JFM || 05/27/2007 5:35 Comments || Top||

#5  Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneya of Hamas denounced Saturday the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank as "a real war".

Unlike the "fake war" launched by Hamas against Israeli school children. Haniya needs to tucked in for the dirt nap along with all other Hamas scum. If Sarkozy can wean France off of its perennial support for the Palestinian terrorists, perhaps Europe might begin to follow suit.
Posted by: Zenster || 05/27/2007 6:10 Comments || Top||


Five killed as Israel hits Hamas targets in Gaza
GAZA CITY - Israeli aircraft pounded more targets in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, as the main armed factions discussed a truce call by ineffectual Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas to end ”futile” rocket barrages. But Hamas put the onus on Israel for any hope of an end to the rocket fire, demanding that it stop shooting first.
"Even though we started it, they have to stop."
Five Palestinians were killed and eight wounded in a quick succession of four morning air raids on buildings used by the paramilitary Executive Force loyal to the senior Palestinian coalition partner, Hamas, medical sources said.

The bodies of three Palestinians were found under the rubble of a building destroyed in one attack, in Zeitun settlement south of Gaza City. Six people were wounded, including three critically, two of whom died later.
No word on the fluffy kittens.
Two other Executive Force posts were attacked, one in the nearby Shati refugee camp, in which four people were wounded, and the other at Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. The fourth raid targeted a militant training camp at Khan Yunis, also in the south. No casualties were reported.
Rats, missed!
Posted by: Steve White || 05/27/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  These days it's just getting a lot harder to be HAMAS ... can't drive or hitch a ride or use yer darn cellphone! Oh the humnaity.
Posted by: Crurt Lumplump3873 || 05/27/2007 9:51 Comments || Top||

#2  One person killed in Kassam rocket attack on Sderot
A 35-year-old man was killed on Sunday morning when a Kassam rocket slammed into the road near his car in Sderot, as rockets continued to rain on the southern town.
Posted by: gromgoru || 05/27/2007 10:58 Comments || Top||

#3  These days it's just getting a lot harder to be HAMAS

Not hard enough. There are only three kinds of people in the Gaza Strip: terrorists, terrorist facilitators, and terrorist supporters. The "kittens and fluffy bunnies" have rabies, and the baby ducks carry Asian Bird Flu. The place needs to be totally fumigated by 155mm artillery for a few months.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 05/27/2007 13:44 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
Thai generals ask former assassin to be security adviser
Frustrated by their inability to pacify a Muslim insurgency and concerned about rising impatience toward their rule, Thailand's generals have named a former commando and self-described assassin as their top security adviser.

The appointment this month of Pallop Pinmanee, a retired general notorious for his harsh tactics but admired for his survival instincts, appears to be an acknowledgement that the military-backed government's conciliatory approach toward Muslim insurgents in southern Thailand has failed.

"The way to solve the problem in the south is to get the people on your side," Pallop said in an interview this week. But if the violence continues, he said, the military should carry out "search and destroy" missions against the insurgents. "If we cannot make them surrender, then we have no choice - we have to destroy them."
Is that the sound of slipped gloves falling to the ground?
Posted by: gromgoru || 05/27/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You got it General. They ate the carrots now whack the hell out of them with a very big stick.
Posted by: Woozle Elmeter2970 || 05/27/2007 0:34 Comments || Top||

#2  Finally! Itsa wahabbit season!
Posted by: twobyfour || 05/27/2007 0:47 Comments || Top||

#3  People mistakenly think that Buddhists are pacifists : they are generally not. And the Muslims in the south of Thailand are about to learn just how NOT pacifistic this particular Thai can be.
Posted by: Shieldwolf || 05/27/2007 2:15 Comments || Top||

#4  Pallop Pinmanee

The name Hudna holds. (sigh)
Posted by: Shipman || 05/27/2007 3:51 Comments || Top||

#5  "But if the violence continues, he said, the military should carry out "search and destroy" missions against the insurgents. "If we cannot make them surrender, then we have no choice - we have to destroy them.""

Works for me. Go for it. Soonest.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 05/27/2007 5:10 Comments || Top||

#6  The appointment this month of Pallop Pinmanee, a retired general notorious for his harsh tactics but admired for his survival instincts, appears to be an acknowledgement that the military-backed government's conciliatory approach toward Muslim insurgents in southern Thailand has failed.

The man sounds emminently suited to deal with Muslims.
Posted by: Zenster || 05/27/2007 6:56 Comments || Top||

#7  Here in Bangkok, one of the great "money quotes" of 2006 was by this guy, as he was being sacked as effective head of the Thai Internal Security Operations Command - because of suspicion that he was behind a failed half-ass asssination attempt on then-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. His words: "If had wanted to do it, I would have done it more subtly...In my career, I have lead death squads. If I had wanted to kill him, the Prime Minister would not have escaped."
Posted by: Lone Ranger || 05/27/2007 7:54 Comments || Top||

#8  sounds like the right guy at the right time. No more paper origamis, now you feel the blade and bullet, biatches!
Posted by: Frank G || 05/27/2007 10:31 Comments || Top||

#9  Ummmm, My new boss is an assasin?
Are you trying to tell me something?
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 05/27/2007 16:53 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Achile Lauro Hijacker at Nahr al-Bared refugee camp
A Palestinian who escaped from Italy while on parole for the 1985 hijacking of cruise ship Achille Lauro is holed up in the Lebanon refugee camp where the army is besieging Islamist militants. Bassam al-Ashker, now 39, told Agence France Presse by telephone that he is now a militiaman for the mainstream Fatah faction of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and saw it as his duty to brave the fighting to help the thousands of trapped civilians.
Thanks, Italy!

Ashker was just 17 when he took part in the assault on the Achille Lauro by commandos of the Palestine Liberation Front of Abu Abbas in which some 450 passengers were held hostage for several days and a wheelchair-bound U.S. tourist was killed.

He told AFP he had retained his radical anti-Western politics and, after fleeing Italy in 1991 following his release on parole from nearly six years in jail, spent 14 years in Iraq before moving to Lebanon's Nahr al-Bared refugee camp.

"I organize the training of young Palestinian recruits who we send to fight the Americans alongside the Iraqi resistance," Ashker told AFP. "I have even fought them myself in Fallujah and Ramadi," two rebel bastions west of Baghdad.
And Saddam Hussein harbored American-killing terrorists.

Despite his anti-Western views, Ashker insisted he had no link with the Islamist fighters of fringe militant group Fatah al-Islam who are under siege by the Lebanese army and stand accused of using camp residents as human shields.

"They have certainly proved their military prowess," he said referring to the fighting of the past week in which 33 Lebanese soldiers but only 25 of the group's fighters were among the 78 dead.

"If they had used it to fight Israel, I would have been the first to join them, but they are fanatics who believe only in religion and have no regard of the consequences of their actions on civilians," he said.

"Not along time ago, Muslim clerics reminded them that it was wrong to attack Palestinians or Lebanese but they retorted that their religion took primacy over everything else."

Despite his disdain for the Fatah al-Islam fighters, Ashker insisted he had no intention of leaving the Nahr al-Bared camp, where living conditions have been deteriorating amid chronic shortages of water, food and power.

"It is shameful for a young man to leave the camp -- we need all the help we can get," he said.

"My men are organizing food and drink for trapped civilians, notably by going up on the rooftops to get water from the cisterns there, which is dangerous because of sniper fire. We're also organizing patrols to prevent burglaries from the homes of residents who have fled."(AFP)

Yeah, right. Now the US has a reason to MOAB that roach trap.
Posted by: mrp || 05/27/2007 13:20 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If there isn't an empty cell available in GITMO for this guy, give one of the hardcore guys back his belt, a piece of paper and a black crayon so that he can express some sentiments as he checks out.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/27/2007 15:13 Comments || Top||

#2  Bassam al-Ashker, now 39, told Agence France Presse by telephone that he is now a militiaman for the mainstream Fatah faction

One a no good rotten low down mother*uckin scum always a no good rotten low down mother*uckin scum.
Posted by: Glaimble Protector of the Apes4393 || 05/27/2007 15:16 Comments || Top||

#3  an empty cell available in GITMO for this guy

I'd prefer an empty grave in Lebanon.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 05/27/2007 15:17 Comments || Top||

#4  It is shameful for a young man to leave the camp

Atta boy, don't leave your refugee camp terrorist shithole unless it's feet first. I'm sure that they'll have a pine box garbage bag ready for you. Fucking wheelchair-cripple-murdering Lions of Islam™.
Posted by: Zenster || 05/27/2007 16:14 Comments || Top||

#5 
I'd prefer an empty grave in Lebanon.


Strap him into a wheelchair, tie some cinder blocks to it, give him one of those emergency air tanks divers use, and chuck him over the side of a ship in the middle of the Med.

Why give him air? So he lives for ten minutes or so, thinking about his fate.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 05/27/2007 17:01 Comments || Top||

#6  Baptise him with pig fat first, to guarantee his Allah's devils heap burning coals in his belly instead of the houris feeding his many lusts afterward, and you've got a deal, Rob.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/27/2007 17:58 Comments || Top||

#7  boy, I thought I was harsh.... guess I'll put my cordless drill away...
Posted by: Frank G || 05/27/2007 18:00 Comments || Top||

#8  Actually, I think it might be better if while clearing out the Fatah al-Islam guys, the Lebanese army emptied that "refugee" camp entirely, bulldozing it flat. Think of how entertaining it might get to deport them to Gaza.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 05/27/2007 18:09 Comments || Top||

#9  guess I'll put my cordless drill away

Bah! Always room for one more, Frank. We know how it is with you engineers and your power tools. We'll leave the kneecaps just for you. Gotta let this maggot have a good excuse to be in a wheelchair before we give him the heave ho.
Posted by: Zenster || 05/27/2007 20:05 Comments || Top||

#10  I was just kidding, btw. For adequate torque and speed you should use a hard-wired drill
Posted by: Frank G || 05/27/2007 20:08 Comments || Top||

#11  Sorry guys, small error there, he'd die quickly from pressure, only provide a ten minute air supply if you leave off the cinderblocks so he sinks slowly.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 05/27/2007 20:18 Comments || Top||

#12  Give him the John Clark hyperbaric treatment
Posted by: Frank G || 05/27/2007 20:36 Comments || Top||

#13  Despite his anti-Western views, Ashker insisted he had no link with the Islamist fighters of fringe militant group Fatah al-Islam who are under siege by the Lebanese army and stand accused of using camp residents as human shields.

So he's just your garden-variety terrorist beloved by the Left, instead of a religious fanatic-type terrorist. Hopefully he'll meet a bullet soon.
Posted by: Pappy || 05/27/2007 20:41 Comments || Top||

#14  Bomb the entire camp, all the other camps, the Gaza strip, and West Bank until nothing is alive, there is no hope for these people.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge || 05/27/2007 21:15 Comments || Top||

#15  I wonder how to arrange it so his air runs out just as his head implodes from the pressure?

I am but a lowly civil engineer; this would be more of a physics experiment, no?
Posted by: Bobby || 05/27/2007 21:58 Comments || Top||


Iran: Western spy networks discovered
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran said Saturday it has uncovered spy rings organized by the United States and its Western allies, claiming on state-run television that the espionage networks were made up of "infiltrating elements from the Iraqi occupiers."
Those aren't our spies. Our spies are much better than that.
The Intelligence Ministry has "succeeded in identifying and striking blows at several spy networks comprised of infiltrating elements from the Iraqi occupiers in western, southwestern and central Iran," said the statement, using shorthand for United States and its allies. The broadcast did not elaborate, saying further details would be published within days.
I'm waiting for them to show a picture of some '50s spy, much like they show pictures of out-of-date weapons systems as evidence of their new, glorious progress.
Meanwhile, the state IRNA news agency said the uncovered networks "enjoyed guidance from intelligence services of the occupying powers in Iraq" and also that "Iraqi groups" were "involved in the case."

Since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Iran has often accused the United States and Britain of trying to undermine the security of the Islamic Republic. The allegations Saturday come two days before American and Iranian ambassadors are to meet in Baghdad to discuss ways to ease the crisis in Iraq. It remains unclear how the announcement will affect those talks, although it clearly reflects a toughening of Iran's stand.
Wotta coincidence, huh?
Posted by: Steve White || 05/27/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Hey, do you want to know who a spy is?
Anyone who is not a Mullah.
Posted by: newc || 05/27/2007 0:29 Comments || Top||

#2  I can kinda guess under whose bed The Mossad! has been hanging out recently.

Correct me ifn I'm wrong, but try to avoid killing me. Thank you, in advance.
Posted by: Shipman || 05/27/2007 3:55 Comments || Top||

#3  No, dipshits - those "spy rings" are just who we want you to think is spying for us.

Our spys in Iran are other people, not those poor saps we set up for you to catch. Yeesh.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 05/27/2007 5:02 Comments || Top||

#4  The American spies are everywhere! We need more loyalty tests! More informer! Higher rewards for identifying spies!

Anything to cover up the fact that Aminijihad is on the CIA payroll, tasked to destroy the Mad Mullahs.
Posted by: Bobby || 05/27/2007 7:29 Comments || Top||

#5  Everybody, please try to keep in mind that in the Iranian mind, an unplugged Cisco router hub represents a "Western Spy Network".
Posted by: Zenster || 05/27/2007 8:04 Comments || Top||

#6  Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Momoud Ahmadinejad are CIA operatives.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/27/2007 10:57 Comments || Top||

#7  Why do I constantly get the image of the "Spanish Inquisition" in my mind?

"Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it".
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 05/27/2007 13:52 Comments || Top||

#8  Wait until they figure out that 2/3 of their population are spies for Western powers, including a dozen high generals in the Quds Brigade, IRGC, and the Iranian Air Force. One of our spies is one of Ahmedinnerjacket's drivers. Another is his part-time cook. We have spies everywhere! You cannot escape, you WILL be assimilated! Things will really get bad in a couple of weeks, when we get our Mind Control Ray calibrated. You'll be a spy for us, and you won't even know it.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 05/27/2007 13:56 Comments || Top||

#9  Wait until they figure out that 2/3 of their population are spies for Western powers, including a dozen high generals in the Quds Brigade, IRGC, and the Iranian Air Force. One of our spies is one of Ahmedinnerjacket's drivers. Another is his part-time cook. We have spies everywhere! You cannot escape, you WILL be assimilated! Things will really get bad in a couple of weeks, when we get our Mind Control Ray calibrated. You'll be a spy for us, and you won't even know it.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 05/27/2007 13:57 Comments || Top||

#10  There's only one solution, purge em.
Posted by: Glaimble Protector of the Apes4393 || 05/27/2007 15:21 Comments || Top||

#11  God, if only we were that good at mis-direction and mis-information, but sadly we aren't....or maybe we are, or maybe we are good enough to make you think we aren't good enough, or maybe we are able to make you think we aren't thinking about making you think we are that good..... gee, confusing isn't it.....wilderness of mirrors.... and speaking as one who has had some insight into this, we aren't that good....or are we?
Posted by: JustABoutEnough || 05/27/2007 17:21 Comments || Top||

#12  The third button on every one of Ahmadineedsastraightjacket is a US spy camera and microphone pickup.

We're everywhere! We're everywhere!

Posted by: FOTSGreg || 05/27/2007 18:24 Comments || Top||


Fatah Islam vows to fight 'the Americans and the Jews'
A purported leader of the militant Fatah al-Islam group, which has been battling the Lebanese army in a Palestinian refugee camp, vowed on Saturday to fight "the Americans and the Jews". Al Jazeera television, which broadcast the videotaped message, identified the man as Shaker al-Abssi and said it was the Palestinian's first public appearance. "We say to you, the guardians of the American project, the Sunni people will be leaders in fighting the Jews, the Americans and their loyalists," Abssi said, referring to Lebanese leaders.

The channel also aired footage of what it described as training camps for the Islamist group. Abssi, bearded and wearing camouflage fatigues, was shown wrapping a black and white chequered scarf around his head. A young militant stood beside him, holding a machine gun.
Posted by: Seafarious || 05/27/2007 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Oh my goodness. Who could have known?
Nice to see you on my radar, and nice to know that you are gone Fatah Islam.

Sleep well in the sh!thole you created. for your grave shall be shallow and non important.
Posted by: newc || 05/27/2007 0:32 Comments || Top||

#2  "shown wrapping a black and white chequered scarf around his head" Known as a damn table cloth in the civilized world.
Posted by: Woozle Elmeter2970 || 05/27/2007 0:36 Comments || Top||

#3  Playing the American and Jews card hoping it will save their sorry asses.
Posted by: JohnQC || 05/27/2007 11:03 Comments || Top||

#4  Nobody else to blame,
They themselves are completely blameless, they couldn't possibly be wrong.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 05/27/2007 14:13 Comments || Top||

#5  Known as a damn table cloth in the civilized world.

I thought the red checks were the table cloths and the black were mechanics grease rags.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 05/27/2007 14:21 Comments || Top||

#6  vows to fight 'the Americans and the Jews'

Gee. Gosh. I'm drawing a blank here, fellas. What's the difference between us again? Must be a mullah thing to be able to eyeball us apart, cuz I thought we was all like peas in a pod.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 05/27/2007 15:49 Comments || Top||

#7  Black checkered headresses are available at Cracker Barrel for cheap. I think you can also get them at most Nascar events but those are usually plastic and won't breath well in th desert heat.
Posted by: Super Hose || 05/27/2007 16:44 Comments || Top||

#8  Is there any way to put a slow poison in black dye and ship it over there, it would solve many problems.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 05/27/2007 20:32 Comments || Top||

#9  "Nuke the site from space. It's the only way to be sure."
Posted by: SR-71 || 05/27/2007 23:04 Comments || Top||



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