(Xinhua) -- Two Afghan soldiers were killed and 11 soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were injured when Taliban militants attacked an ISAF base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, an ISAF statement said. Some Taliban militants, wearing Afghan army uniforms, approached and attacked an ISAF base in Nuristan province at around 5:00 a.m. (0030 GMT), the statement said. Two Afghan soldiers were killed in the attack, it added.
Direct attacks on foreign military bases in Afghanistan have not been frequently launched by Taliban rebels, who, due to inferiority in military strength, are used to ambushing or launching bombing attacks against foreign soldiers. About 37,000 ISAF soldiers are being deployed in Afghanistan to fight militants and keep security. Due to rising Taliban violence, over 3,900 persons have been killed in Afghanistan this year.
Most of them Taliban.
Most of the rest camp-followers.
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Afghan police shot dead a Pakistani rickshaw driver on Wednesday when he was returning to Pakistan after dropping off commuters in Afghan territory. Chaman police said they were trying to ascertain whether the driver was killed in Afghan territory or inside the Pakistani border. Driver Azizullah had been hired by Afghan nationals to transport them to Killi Murad in Afghanistan, they added.
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Just like Coconut Grove in Miami. I was dropped off last night at Mr. Frogs and the next thing I know I'm hearing gunfire......
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(SomaliNet)An Ethiopian convoy has gone under attack in north of the Somalia capital Mogadishu on Wednesday as the insurgent groups continue targeting the government interests with bombing and killing. Witnesses told Somalinet that local militants threw grenade bombs at the convoy that passing Suuqa Xoolaha village in Huriwa district where the Ethiopians responded with the gunshots. Two civilians were confirmed dead and four others were wounded in bomb explosions but it is not yet clear the exact casualty on the Ethiopian soldiers. Three of the wounded were women. The Ethiopian troops sealed off the area and began searching for suspects but no one was arrested so far.
In another incident, the house of Wadajir district commissioner, Ahmed Daaci was attacked last night by unknown gunmen. Daaci told the local media that a grenade was hurled at his home on Tuesday evening. He said no one was hurt. Witnesses said his bodyguards opened fire at every direction after the incident.
Meanwhile, local medical sources say that 32 civilians were wounded in the violence in Mogadishu since last week, eight of them died of the wounds.
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Bejaia court accusation division referred a printing office-owner and one of his employed to the criminal court for charges of terrorist-acts apology and support to armed terrorist groups. The two men have recognized that they have made seals for Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb while threatened to death.
Actually, in 12/6/2006, a terrorist group required from the owner of a printing office, located in Sidi-Aich municipality, to manufacture 12 different-shapes of seals bearing different symbols to be used by Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb organization. Two days later, the same group came back and delivered him a letter signed by the emir of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, urging him to deliver as soon as possible the seals; otherwise the terrorists would murder him and make his family homeless, as to be an example for anyone who challenges the emir of al Qaeda, as mentioned in the letter. Felt threaten, the printing-owner decided to inform safety services who opened an investigation on this case, unveiling, thus, that the employee and some of his employed are involved in.
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You might say that by their threatening behavior they "sealed their fate".
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(Xinhua) -- Another three conspirators allegedly involved in two suicide attacks in the capital in July were arrested on Wednesday, Islamabad Police Chief Iftikhar Ahmed Chaudhry said. Talking to reporters at a news briefing, Chaudhry said that the three were arrested from an area in Islamabad called Bhara Kahu on Wednesday. Chaudhry said that two suicide jackets, some hand grenades and pistols were also recovered from them.
The Pakistani authorities confirmed Tuesday that the law enforcing agencies had arrested two terrorists who were directly involved in the Islamabad suicide bombing attacks in July. "I can say that the operating network has been busted and the immediate threat is at least reduced. There are five more people of this network who are still wanted by the police," Chaudhry said.
A suicide bomber blew himself up among a group of policemen during clashes at the Lal Masjid, or the Red Mosque, in Pakistan's capital Islamabad, killing at least 15 people and wounding scores of people on July 27. In another suicide bombing attack in Islamabad on July 17, at least 13 people were killed and more than 30 injured near the venue of convention of lawyers to celebrate the reinstatement of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. Chaudhry said that precautionary measures would continue in future as threat had not completely ended.
More, from Pak Daily Times ISLAMABAD: The capital city police on Wednesday arrested three people allegedly involved in last months suicide attacks on a lawyers convention in Islamabad and on the Police Training School in Sargodha, in which 44 people were killed.
Islamabad Police Inspector General (IGP) Iftikhar Ahmad Chaudhry said at a press conference that Fasiullah and brothers Faisal Mushtaq and Qasim Mushtaq were arrested in the limits of Bhara Kahu Police Station. Two suicide jackets were seized from them, he said. The IGP said Fasiullah, believed to have links with Waziristan suicide attackers, could be the ringleader. He said the two Mushtaq brothers might have associations with Lal Masjid.
Fasiullah is from DI Khan and the two brothers from Alipur Frash, a village on the outskirts of Islamabad, he added. Earlier, on August 20, the police arrested Imdad Hussain and Nasir Mehmood for their alleged connections with terrorist activities. Chaudhry said two hand grenades and two pistols were recovered from them.
The IGP said police had busted a terrorist network in the city, but five members of the network were still at large. I can say that the operating network has been busted and the immediate threat has at least been reduced. There are five more people of this network who are still wanted by the police.
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FAISAL MUSHTAQ
Taliban
FASIULLAH
Taliban
IMDAD HUSEIN
Taliban
Islamabad Police Chief Iftikhar Ahmed Chaudhry
NASIR MEHMUD
Taliban
QASIM MUSHTAQ
Taliban
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This is richif convictedwill these suspects be placed in the cell with that revolving door? After decades of sponsoring terrorism, it will be more than a little amusing to see how Pakistan's government manages to justify actual prosecution of these perps.
(Xinhua) &0151; Six persons were killed and 12 others injured in a bloody shoot-out between two groups at a peace jirga in the North West Frontier Province on Wednesday evening, the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) reported.
Okay. I'm savoring the content of that sentence:
Six deaders.
12 wounded.
Bloody shootout.
At a peace jirga.
Hararararararar!
[Snorks.]
[Gasps.]
[Wheezes.]
[Wipes real tears.]
[Blows nose.]
[Attempts to catch breath]...
The incident occurred in a remote and mountainous village named Zargari in Hangu district of the province, APP said, quoting district coordination officer Fakhar-e-Alam. The shoot-out, which lasted for about half an hour, erupted when one gangster, Gul Muheed, became infuriated and started shooting at jirga members trying to settle a dispute between two groups, APP reported. Muheed, his three sons, and two members of the peace committee were killed while 12 others received bullet wounds. The injured were whisked to a local hospital and some were listed as in critical condition.
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erupted when one gangster, Gul Muheed, became infuriated and started shooting at jirga members trying to settle a dispute between two groups, APP reported. Muheed, his three sons, and two members of the peace committee were killed
Well, Gul, looks like they figured out how to solve your problem....
People who bought "Conflict Resolution for Dummies" also bought "Mahmoud alias Achmed's Field Guide to Red Wires and Green Wires" and "Better Hutments and Minefields"
BANNU: Four Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel and three militants were killed in two separate attacks when militants attacked a checkpost jointly manned by police and FC personnel in the Miran police precincts in Bannu as well as a checkpost in Tiarza on Wednesday.
Miran police station duty officer Qudratullah told Daily Times by phone that unidentified militants attacked the Norar checkpost, 12 kilometres from Bannu, at around 2:45am on Wednesday. He said that three FC men died in the attack, while three attackers were killed and two injured in retaliatory firing.
However, the attackers managed to take their injured accomplices with them. Qudratullah said the militants attacked the checkpost from two sides and used rockets and other weapons. He said there were 10 FC personnel and seven policemen present at the checkpost at the time of the attack. The dead officials are havaldar Saeed Amin, lance naik Ishaq Ali and sepoy Bedar Bakht. In another incident in South Waziristan Agency, militants fired rockets at the Tiarza checkpost, injuring six soldiers, military spokesman Maj Gen Wahid Arshad told Daily Times.
However, sources in Wana told Daily Times that one soldier was killed when militants fired at a military transport helicopter that was landing at the Tiarza helipad. Maj Gen Arshad rejected the report, saying that the militants attacked the security checkpost and not the helicopter.
He told AFP that the soldier later died of injuries sustained during the battle. Meanwhile, MNA Maulana Mirajuddin of the MMA has reached an undisclosed area in South Waziristan to hold talks with militants who recently kidnapped 15 FC soldiers.
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MINGORA: Swat District Coordination Officer Syed Mohammad Javed has stopped NGOs from working in the district after they received threatening letters from suspected militants. Two NGOs SPEED and PLAIN which had set up offices near the office of the Swat DCO were sealed by the DCO. Militants have also sent threatening letters to Swat Serena Hotel and Mary Stopes, an NGO. Sources said the letters asked women performing in CD-dramas or working at beauty parlours to stop their immoral activities. Earlier, medical reps in Swat were asked to stop wearing paint/jeans and shirts as they are un-Islamic dresses.
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Two unidentified men hurled a hand grenade in a barbershop, resulting in six injuries, including a minor boy, here on Wednesday, police said. The perpetrators fled the scene on a motorcycle and the injured were shifted to Civil Hospital Quetta. Hospital sources said the injured were out of critical condition. Industrial Police Station has registered a case against unknown miscreants. Investigation is in progress.
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CHAMAN: Unknown gunmen here killed one Mullah Abdul Waris, identified as a former Taliban commander, SHO police Lateef told APP on Wednesday. Mullah Waris was sitting with his friends in a shop at western bypass when unknown motorcyclists pelted him with bullets, killing him on the spot. Police officials said they were investigating the case.
Bomb injures 8 children: Eight children were injured when they were trying to manufacture a homemade bottle bomb in Jahanian. The children were experimenting with an indigenously prepared bottle bomb by stuffing pebbles and gunpowder in empty bottles before setting fire to it. The explosion, besides injuring the children, also created a panic in the area near Wording School. Police immediately shifted the injured children to a nearby private clinic. Eyewitnesses said the injured children had been playing with fireworks.
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May his memory be a comfort and an inspiration to all who knew him, Iraqi and American alike. And may the afterlife he went to so willingly be more than his fondest dreams.
In an echo of Hollywood blockbuster 'Saving Private Ryan', a California family's third son is to return home from Iraq after his two brothers were killed in action.
The Hubbard family lost its second son, Nathan Hubbard, 21, in Iraq on Wednesday - one of the 14 U.S. soldiers killed in a Black Hawk helicopter crash. Nathan's older brother Jared Hubbard, a marine, died in a roadside bomb explosion in Ramadi in 2004.
Now their third son, Jason, is to return from Iraq to be with the family, in a striking similarity with events in Steven Spielberg's 1998 war film 'Saving Private Ryan.'
The family was said to be taking the death of their second son "very hard" according to a police spokesperson. The soldier's father, Jeff Hubbard, is a retired 30-year veteran of the police department.
The helicopter went down during a nighttime mission in the Tamim province that surrounds Kirkuk, an oil-rich city 180 miles north of Baghdad. Nathan Hubbard was assigned to the 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii, where officials said 10 of the soldiers killed in the crash were based.
Keith Butterfield, a family friend, said the Hubbards were worried for their sons but proud because they knew they were committed to going on behalf of their fallen brother. "There is nothing anyone can say to make it better, but it's good to know that there are other families that can help you cope," said Butterfield, who became close to the Hubbards after his own son died in Iraq last year. "It's bringing up the feelings of everyone else's loss, but we will be there for them."
Nathan and Jason Hubbard joined the Army together in 2005, shortly after their brother was killed. Their mother, Peggy, told the Fresno Bee newspaper in a 2005 interview that she believed Jason joined in part to protect Nathan after not being there to help Jared.
The brothers said at the time that they didn't worry about dying in the war. "People are going to be hurt, and people are going to be killed," Nathan Hubbard told the Bee. "That is a reality you have to accept, but not dwell on."
Aircraft assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 1, stationed aboard USS Enterprise (CVN 65), conducted multiple-strike missions, providing air support to Coalition ground forces.
Rear Adm. Daniel Holloway, Commander, Enterprise Strike Group, said the strike group is ready to do what it takes to accomplish the mission.
This is part of what we are out here to do, said Holloway. We are a nation at war and we will continue to do our part to stabilize the current situation in Iraq and eliminate terrorist threats.
CVW-1 is comprised of the Checkmates of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 211, flying the F/A-18 Super Hornet; the Knighthawks of VFA-136; the Sidewinders of VFA-86; the Thunderbolts of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 251, all flying the F/A-18 Hornet. Also joining CVW-1 are the Dragonslayers of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron (HS) 11 flying the SH-60 Seahawk; the Rooks of Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 137, flying the EA-6B Prowler; the Screwtops of VAW-123, flying the E-2C Hawkeye; the Maulers of Sea Control Squadron (VS) 32, flying the S-3B Viking; and the Rawhides of Fleet Logistics Support Squadron (VRC) 40, flying the C-2A Greyhound.
Friends of mine out there in the "Snoops" (Navy folks will know who I am talking about)
Swing position is the north Arabian Sea area, - gives them leverage over Iran (and also out of the easy operating area for the Iranian subs and aircraft), and can do Afghan support - and Sudan support if needed (with aerial refuelling).
Geography, what an important thing. If more people would look at the geography of the middle east, they'd see ho important Iraq is. Hub of the wheel.
And with American bases in Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran NEEDS to destabilize the countries to keep from being boxed in. Much like Syria too with Israel on one side and the US on the other.
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interesting hornet / super hornet mix; i would have thought there would have been 2 S/h sqdns. despite the press reports, there is very little commonality between the two airframes, and avionics are world's apart.
Prowlers from my neck of the woods, with the EA6B's getting old and experiencing the same wing fatigue / cracking that the Intruders had, they have to manage their assets very carefully, but beginning in 2010, there will be Growlers @ NASWI to help shoulder the load, and the Q's will be gone by 2013 (if current sked holds)
latest iteration of the Hummer is an awesome platform, new avionics, new engines, glass cockpit, but still ugly so you know it's Grumman.
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We been needing a 6B replacement for a while, and SH frame is a good one (plus it keeps up with the strike package), and it will strap up the AN/ALQ-99's, but...
How about workload in the Growler cockpit? That would be my worry. They gone to a 2-man crew like the old USAF Wild Weasel, and one of those is flying the AC. Thats short handed. And it means either more EW airframes needed or a lot more automation (which in EW, isn't always a good thing, past a given point).
Same issues hold with the F-35 when the Navy goes that way (And the USAF and F-22)
6B is the only proper crew-set EW strike AC left in US inventory. I'd rather we had something more akin to the old Ravens - them things got 'varks into places even God would have trouble going undetected.
IMHO:
EW aircraft are one of the few AC that need to be purpose built. Lash-ups just do not work as well as integral antennas, etc.
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OS, I agree, to a point; the Aardvarks were a maintenance headache and especially the escape capsule was a nightmare, but having said that, both that and the Prowler are about as stealthy as a freight train. And since stealth is sexy, the SH has it over both those platforms. while still AD, i got to do some low-observable work at NAS PAX on a variety of platforms and we were even able to make the Intruder 'Dim-out,' not invisible, but close. And the work we did on the Hornet and Tomcat would surprise a lot of folks.
all that aside, your next point about workload has me wondering also, especially since the Growler pods are based on the ALQ-99s, and I know that the 3 ECMOs in the Prowler can get a real workout. The 'G' is supposed to have the ability for the pilot to take some of that work, but he will need first of all to keep his eyes outside and the flying workload will be heaviest when they are also trying to manage multiple EW threats.
It will be real interesting when the Growlers get up and running and both the USN and USAF are hollering for assets how that gets handled.
your comment about 'lash-ups' is spot on: turning the lawn dart into an all purpose platform is just one of compromises. let me once again recommend the John Stephenson book: "Pentagon Paradox" for an expose' on the birth of the Lawn Dart. (out of print, but should be in most libraries).
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I hope HS-11 is successful in picking up Iranian diesel sub signatures drop a few sonar bouys and then plant a few cans on them for the fun of it. That'll keept the IRG in swimming lessons for a long time.
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This time, Al Qaeda kidnaps the women and children. They really must be struggling to survive when they pick on the weak this way.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Al Qaeda fighters kidnapped 15 Iraqi women and children after rival Sunni Arab militants repelled their attack on two villages in a fierce battle on Thursday in which 32 people were killed, police said. This time it's Sunni-on-Sunni? Isn't that unusual or does the MSM just not report it because it doesn't fit the "civil war" meme?
The fighting, rare on such a large scale, underscored the growing split between Sunni Arab militant groups and al Qaeda that U.S. forces have sought to exploit as they try to quell sectarian violence that has killed tens of thousands. Wait a New York Minute! I thought the MSM body count was up around 700,000 or so? What's up with this reporter?
U.S. President George W. Bush, under pressure to show progress in the war or start bringing troops home, on Wednesday compared Iraq to Vietnam in urging Americans to be patient. His administration had previously avoided such comparisons, saying there were few parallels. Except that the Donks wanna cut-n-run in both cases.
Many U.S. Democrats have likened Iraq to Vietnam, calling the war a quagmire that has exacted a toll in American lives and money without furthering U.S. interests. Yeah, losing only a few hundred more troops in 4 years of battle than how many civilians we lost in a few hours on 9/11 is very comparable to Vietnam, who was backed by the only other superpower in the world at the time.
About 200 al Qaeda fighters raided the villages of Sheikh Tamim and Ibrahim Yehia in restive Diyala province, north of Baghdad, in the early hours of Thursday after launching a mortar attack on the area, police said.
The attack came despite a U.S. offensive in Diyala targeting al Qaeda. U.S. troops launched an operation in June to oust fighters who had taken over large parts of the provincial capital, Baquba. Many escaped to fight on.
Brigadier-General Ali Delayan, the police chief of Baquba, told Reuters that 22 residents had been killed in the fighting along with 10 al Qaeda fighters.
Several wounded residents said villagers were loyal to the Sunni Arab insurgent group, the 1920 Revolution Brigade. So, does that make them terrorists, or just average Iraqis who have begun turning in all the AQ baddies left and right of recent?
Delayan said the attackers had escaped with eight women and seven children as hostages.
A mosque that served the two villages was destroyed in the fighting and its imam was among those killed, he added. And, those dastardly 'mericans didn't do it? Why is this even in a MSM report then?
Delayan said the al Qaeda attackers mortared the villages before storming into them. Rocket-propelled grenades were used in the fighting, in which three houses were destroyed.
He said the gun battle with fighters loyal to the 1920 Revolution Brigade, which has recently distanced itself from al Qaeda, was triggered by the execution of four men, including the mosque imam.
Police said they arrested 22 of the attackers. Out of 200 or so? While I applaud the police and citizens in this standing up to AQ, looks like they need a little more work on how to capture attackers. More hand-wringing over Maliki's gov't at link.
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There is another comparison with Vietnam and that is the use of stringers by reporters. Halberstam, Sheehan and the boys used an NVA propagandist as their source just like our AP, Rooters and the BBC use propagandist today to make the "news" comply with the agenda of the Cronkites and Brokaws.
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I would have thought that Bush's Vietnam reference would have been to highlight that what happened in Vietnam will occur in Iraq if we pull out and leave the Iraqis to unnecessary slaughter.
Second, in the fact that this article is outright propaganda, it is instructive in showing exactly what the new Democratic strategy will be, and here it is right here:
The attack came despite a U.S. offensive in Diyala targeting al Qaeda. U.S. troops launched an operation in June to oust fighters who had taken over large parts of the provincial capital, Baquba. Many escaped to fight on.
While the above statement is true - I suspect the focus until the election will be the futility of fighting because the Iraqis will never be able to form a functioning government. You have lost the war, go home.
The Democrats are busy right now sending out flyers to their constituents on how they SUPPORT THE SURGE! With no mention of how they wanted to withdraw or don't support the war. That's why they are suddenly on board. There is an election coming up and they support the surge - until they are elected of course- then once elected, they will have four years to undermine the war effort. Gotta get elected and those pesky Americans are sick of politicians who undermined the troops.
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Bush's reference to Vietnam was exactly about the consequences (deaths, deaths and more deaths) of our precipitous withdrawal from the region. Of course the assholes who write this article won't mention that. Fucking traitors.
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He (W) spent as much time talking about Japan, Germany and South Korea as he did Vietnam. But the MSM are fixated (like their party machine the Dems) on Vietnam. They successfully led to our retreat there and this is their territory of delight not W's. He has done a Clinton and coop their issue and argument by giving the horrific not the defeat.
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It doesn't matter what the Bush admin says or does. If he said, "It is a beautiful day.", they would spin him as being oblivious to global warming and write an article on how he and Cheney are responsible for the melting ice caps.
The MSM is a function of the last century and it seems to me that they are doing all that they can to hasten their demise by making the American people despise them more and more every day.
Take this article for example. Is it me, or does it seem to others that around the same time the Democrats were forced to acknowledge that the surge was working, that the intensity of the terrorist atrocities in Iraq increased as well.
Suddenly we get stories about 5 year olds lit on fire, and other vicious crimes against women and children. It is difficult to know if the MSM has decided to shift their focus to these crimes or if to get more attention, of if AQ Inc. has actually made a decision to attack children to stay in the headlines. Lord knows the MSM was never around to report the rapes and mass atrocities during Sadaam's, or any other despot's reign.
But this is exactly what makes me despise the media. The terrorists know they will do their bidding. And when the MSM stops doing their bidding and stops writing about the day to day bombings in Iraq, the terrorists simply commit such horrific crimes that the MSM once again complies. If the staff at Reuters and other media outlets had any soul - they would realize that it is they, the men and women in the mirror who are encouraging these attacks against women and children by providing the fire that fuels the only tool the terrorists have in their hope of winning the war - negative publicity.
TIKRIT, Iraq - A suicide bomber killed at least 20 people and wounded 80 on Wednesday when he slammed his explosives-laden truck into a police station in the northern town of Baiji, medics and police said.
Doctor Saad Jasim from Baiji General Hospital confirmed the attack and said his medical facility had received 20 bodies of people killed in the blast. Eighty more wounded had also been admitted. The toll is expected to rise as many people are trapped in the debris of the police station. The majority of the victims are civilians, he told AFP, adding that the dead included five police officers.
Baiji police Captain Saad Noori said the targeted police station was in the centre of a market in the town, 200 kilometres (125 miles) north of Baghdad. A big part of the police station has collapsed and lots of shops are damaged, he said.
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Iraqi Army Scouts, with U.S. Special Operations Forces as advisers, conducted an intelligence-driven helicopter assault in western Iraq Aug. 21, resulting in the elimination of a suspected weapons cache and the destruction of an insurgent safe house.
Forces conducted a targeted raid at a residence in the vicinity of Karmah suspected of being used by foreign fighters and al Qaeda in Iraq terrorists. While clearing the building, the assault team noticed that the floor in the main room of the structure had recently been dug up and fresh cement covered the floor with wire leading out of the house.
Further investigation revealed the presence of a command detonation wire and the area was immediately evacuated. After ensuring full accountability of all forces on target, close air support was called in to destroy the target and multiple secondary explosions were observed by the assault force.
Although no insurgents were on target at the time of the raid, intelligence sources reported that the former safe house was being occupied by foreign and Iraqi-born al Qaeda members. It was also a suspected storage location for weapons caches and believed to be the point of origin for launching mortars at the Iraqi Police Station in Karmah. No civilians, Iraqi Scouts or U.S. Forces were injured during this operation.
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why not wait until the buzzards come home to roost and then try out that red wire / green wire thingy????
Iraqi Security Forces, with U.S. Special Forces as advisers, detained a high-level terrorist during an intelligence-driven operation in Mosul on Aug. 20.
Intelligence indicates the targeted individual is believed to be in charge of security for Mosul-based ISI, an organization established as a front for al-Qaeda in Iraq and uses kidnapping and executions to enforce his security actions. He also reportedly interrogates kidnapping victims for extortion, information collection and executes them. One other suspicious individual was also detained during the operation. The forces also seized a variety of military equipment and documents at the targeted residence. No Iraqi or U.S. Special Forces coalition forces were injured during this raid.
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Intelligence indicates the targeted individual is believed to be in charge of security for Mosul-based ISI, an organization established as a front for al-Qaeda in Iraq and uses kidnapping and executions to enforce his security actions. He also reportedly interrogates kidnapping victims for extortion, information collection and executes them.
most of these A-Q types squeal like little piglets when caught, but a few of these "big shots" need some prep work...
Commercial Spin Dryer with locking Door, Check
Hand Cuffs & Leg Irons, check
Begin with Heat Set to hummmm.... 125f, check
Slo cycle, check
Add a few 10 Lb Rocks, check
Tenderize al-Qaeda types one at a time, while the next "riders" watch and listen.
In the meantime begin drawing up a preliminary list of questions to ask. lets see....
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Geeze, how many more of these "high-level" guys are there?
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I believe "high level" is everything better than cannon fodder.
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"High-Level" is anyone left that's 22 years or older.
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"High Level" is a reference to their IQ. It is somewhere between 50 and 60.
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I suspect that we also use "pink champagne on ice", one shot of which makes you not only our bestest friend in the whole world, but makes your terribly chatty about every little thing.
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The box remains on the organization chart even after the occupant has moved on, and must be filled. The original plan was to promote from within, but for quite some time the need for promotions has cycled more quickly than the training period needed to produced quality managers. Technicians, too, but there the training needed takes considerably longer, and in the fields required is quite risky for semi-trained personnel.
Soldiers from the 1st Brigade, 4th Iraqi Army Division, with U.S. Special Forces as advisers, conducted an intelligence driven raid, detaining one individual who is suspected of money laundering Aug. 20 in Bayji.
During the operation, Iraqi Army Scouts simultaneously raided multiple buildings, detaining their primary target. The suspected terrorist is believed to be responsible for smuggling money in exchange for weapons, explosives and men, which are then used by the al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorist network for attacks against innocent civilians and Coalition Forces. Ledgers, a large sum of Iraqi and U.S. money, money counting machines, a9mm pistol and various ammunition were confiscated for further analysis. No Iraqi or U.S. Special Forces were injured during the raid.
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EGGCELLENT!.....~:)
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Something to note is that we are training Iraqi SF's and they are now getting deployed and getting results. Just like we need more SFO's so do the IA and the sooner the better.
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One thing that worries me about our training of Iraqi forces is that we may end up having to fight against them sometime soon. Sort of like the Israelis are dealing with regarding the Paleos we trained.
Surrprise, surrrrprise, surprise...
American-run programs that train Fatah militias were instrumental in the "success" of the Palestinian intifada that began in 2000, a senior Fatah militant told The New York Sun.
"I do not think that the operations of the Palestinian resistance would have been so successful and would have killed more than one thousand Israelis since 2000 and defeated the Israelis in Gaza without these [American] trainings," a senior officer of President Abbas's Force 17 Presidential Guard unit, Abu Yousuf, said.
America has longstanding training programs at a base in the West Bank city of Jericho for members of Force 17, which serves as de facto police units in the West Bank, and for another major Fatah security force, the Preventative Security Services.
This weekend diplomatic security officials announced that the State Department will begin training Force 17 again this year in an effort to bolster Mr. Abbas against Hamas, which took over the Gaza Strip in June when the terror group easily defeated American-backed Fatah forces in the territory.
Under an agreement signed this month by Secretary of State Rice and Palestinian Arab Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, Force 17 officers are slated to take course work and conduct VIP protection exercises under the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security. The new training program aims to help the Palestinian Authority "deliver security for the Palestinian people and fight terrorism, build confidence between the parties, and ultimately help to meet the security needs of Palestinians and Israelis alike," a State Department press release said.
The training program, which includes courses in the use of weapons, paid with $86.5 million in funding granted to the Palestinian Authority by Congress in April.
Many members of Force 17 and the Preventative Security Services also openly serve in Fatah's declared "military wing," Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which took credit along with the Islamic Jihad terror group for every suicide bombing in Israel between 2005 and 2006. The Brigades is responsible for more terrorism from the West Bank than any other Palestinian Arab organization.
Abu Yousuf, the Force 17 officer, received American training in Jericho in 1999 as a member of the Preventative Security Services. He is a chief of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades in Ramallah, where he is accused of participating in anti- Israel terrorism, including recent shootings, attacks against Israeli forces operating in the city, and a shooting attack in northern Samaria in December 2000 that killed the leader of the ultranationalist Kahane Chai organization, Benyamin Kahane.
After the Kahane murder, Mr. Yousuf was extended refuge by Yasser Arafat to live in the late Palestine Liberation Organization leader's Ramallah compound, widely known as the Muqata. Mr. Yousuf still lives in the compound. Prime Minister Olmert last month granted Mr. Yousuf amnesty along with 178 other Brigades leaders reportedly in a gesture to Mr. Abbas.
Speaking during an interview for the upcoming book "Schmoozing with Terrorists," Mr. Yousuf said his American trainings were instrumental in attacks on Israelis. "All the methods and techniques that we studied in these trainings, we applied them against the Israelis," he said. "We sniped at Israeli settlers and soldiers. We broke into settlements and Israeli army bases and posts. We collected information on the movements of soldiers and settlers. We collected information about the best timing to infiltrate our bombers inside Israel. We used weapons and we produced explosives, and of course the trainings we received from the Americans and the Europeans were a great help to the resistance."
Mr. Yousuf said the training included both intelligence and military tactics. "In the intelligence part, we learned collection of information regarding suspected persons, how to follow suspected guys, how to infiltrate organizations and penetrate cells of groups that we were working on and how to prevent attacks and to steal in places," he said.
"On the military level, we received trainings on the use of weapons, all kind of weapons and explosives. We received sniping trainings, work of special units especially as part as what they call the fight against terror. We learned how to put siege, how to break into places where our enemies closed themselves in, how to oppress protest movements, demonstrations, and other activities of opposition."
Mr. Yousuf seemed to anticipate criticism for speaking publicly about the training. He's not "talking about U.S. training in order to irritate the Americans or the Israelis and not in order to create provocations," he said. "I'm just telling you the truth."
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We should only be training people who are responsbile and respect human life.
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Another screw-up that's going to have to be corrected. We shoud NEVER be training ANY Paleostains. The US is indirectly responsible for the deaths of 1000 Israelis. We need to redeem ourselves by ARCLIGHTing the entire Gaza strip for a week. Whatever scum wriggle out of the rubble can be handled by two Boy Scouts with dull pocket-knives.
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So then, logically, could Philippine surrender spark a narrower war?
As Philippine Armed Forces (AFP) - advised by US military personnel - move against insurgents in the southern Philippines, there is the danger that the clashes could ignite more violence in the restive region. However the offensive could lead to large-scale fighting, as two larger militia groups opposed to the government have exchanged fire with the army in recent weeks.
Good backgrounder on operations in the Philippines, but the "fears" are tedious.
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Such one sided bull. Ya had to know it was not good when the map had Viet-Nam centered on the map. The Basilan model worked, when the Marines pushed onto Jolo they did not stop the ASG from moving to Basilan and the ASG regrouped there back under the watchfull eye of Wahib Akbar.
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Jihad armed group has suddenly gone berserk killing recently two Tamils in the East.
On the last 20 August, according to reports, Jihad armed men have killed, Jeyaraj, (29 years), a three-wheeler driver, at Jinna Nagar, a suburb located at the Third Mile Post, three km north of Trincomalee Town. Also on the same day, Jihad gunmen killed Thiyagachandran (54 Years) at Valaichchenai, who is the brother of the Tamil National Alliance (TNA) Batticaloa parliamentarian S. Jeyananthamoorthy.
In a statement, Eelam Revolutionary Organization (EROS) revealed that they have lost one of its members known within EROS as "Gerald" otherwise known as Jeyaraj, who EROS claims was shot and killed on the evening of 20 August at Jinna Nagar in Trincomalee by a man identified as "Nizam" who is affiliated to a group calling themselves the Jihad a armed group mainly of the Muslims in the Eastern Province.
The Jihad armed group have been in existence since 1985 and known to have targeted political opponents and civilians in the past, however this is the first time the Jihad group who are based in parts of Trincomalee, Amparai and Batticaloa have begun to Targets Tamils from the East. Sources in the East told the Asian Tribune that since of late, Jiahd claiming themselves as holy warriors of Islam, has started functioning in the East and are involved in resettling Muslims in Oddamavadi and in the adjacent villages.
Sources told Asian Tribune that Jihad armed group works very closely with some Muslim Government Ministers from the East. Also it was revealed that Jihad and some Muslim Ministers have taken steps to bring in Muslim internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and making arrangements to settle them from Welikantha to Oddamavadi with the view to carve out that region as a separate Muslim district.
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Still a 2 way, the Muslims regard themselves as a separate community, while the Tigers regard them as Muslim Tamils. As such the Sri Lankan Muslim are on the governments side in the civil war.
Also called a motorized Rickshaw, think Cushman three-wheeled motor scooter, used as a taxi
(One of the Bond Films had him riding around in a souped-up version)
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A Palestinian cleric trying to negotiate a ceasefire to allow the families of Islamist militants to leave a besieged camp in northern Lebanon said on Wednesday phone contact with the Fatah al-Islam extremists had been lost. "We were awaiting a response about the number of people to be evacuated and the time, in order to secure a corridor," Mohammed Hajj, spokesman for the Ulemas or clerics, told reporters. "We were surprised because they are no longer answering their phone."
Lebanese army helicopters launched six raids on Fatah al-Islam positions inside the Nahr al-Bared camp overnight. Intermittent artillery and tank fire continued to target militants inside the camp on Wednesday. Hajj had said on Tuesday that a representative of Fatah al-Islam contacted the clerics overnight on Monday, seeking a way out for the women and children who are said to number less than 100. The army said it had agreed and was ready for a truce that would allow the families safe passage out of the devastated Palestinian refugee camp. "We gave our agreement on Tuesday but have heard nothing since," an army spokesman said.
He also said the army had detained a Fatah al-Islam fighter three kilometres (two miles) north of Nahr al-Bared on Wednesday. The man, a Palestinian, was captured by an army patrol on the coast after he had fled the camp by sea, the spokesman said.
According to a source close to the negotiations, the clerics have drawn up a list of 50 women and 20 children, including the wife of Fatah al-Islam chief Shaker al-Abssi and the widow of his number two, Abu Hureira, who was killed at the beginning of August. Previous mediation attempts over the past three months by the Palestinian clerics aimed at securing the militants' surrender or the safe conduct of their families have failed.
On July 11 the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) tried in vain to evacuate 45 women and 20 children, all related to Islamist fighters inside Nahr al-Bared. The remaining militants, thought to number about 70, have been holed up inside the camp since May 20. At least 200 people, including 141 soldiers, have been killed in the deadliest internal unrest in Lebanon since the 1975-1990 civil war.
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According to Mohammed Hajj, their contact is Abi Salim Taha. Taha's cellular phone was not operational but service has since been resumed and he should now be in a position to receive and make calls. Hajj also stated that he sensed more flexibility on the issue of the surrender of the fighters of Fatah al Islam, when he last talked to Taha. According to army sources the logistics for evacuating the women and children have been completed. Women army soldiers will handle the evacuation with the help of the Red Cross.
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I suspect he might have had a problem getting around to paying his phone bill. Could have happened to any of us (involved in a months long armed siege).
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Afghan police shot dead a Pakistani rickshaw driver on Wednesday when he was returning to Pakistan after dropping off commuters in Afghan territory. Chaman police said they were trying to ascertain whether the driver was killed in Afghan territory or inside the Pakistani border. Driver Azizullah had been hired by Afghan nationals to transport them to Killi Murad in Afghanistan, they added.
(Xinhua) -- Another three conspirators allegedly involved in two suicide attacks in the capital in July were arrested on Wednesday, 
ISLAMABAD: The capital city police on Wednesday arrested three people allegedly involved in last months suicide attacks on a lawyers convention in Islamabad and on the Police Training School in Sargodha, in which 44 people were killed. 
(Xinhua) &0151; Six persons were killed and 12 others injured in a bloody shoot-out between two groups at a peace jirga in the North West Frontier Province on Wednesday evening, the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP) reported. 
BANNU: Four Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel and three militants were killed in two separate attacks when militants attacked a checkpost jointly manned by police and FC personnel in the Miran police precincts in Bannu as well as a checkpost in Tiarza on Wednesday.
Two unidentified men hurled a hand grenade in a barbershop, resulting in six injuries, including a minor boy, here on Wednesday, police said. The perpetrators fled the scene on a motorcycle and the injured were shifted to Civil Hospital Quetta. Hospital sources said the injured were out of critical condition. Industrial Police Station has registered a case against unknown miscreants. Investigation is in progress.
CHAMAN: Unknown gunmen here killed one 
In an echo of Hollywood blockbuster 'Saving Private Ryan', a California family's third son is to return home from Iraq after his two brothers were killed in action. 
TIKRIT, Iraq - A suicide bomber killed at least 20 people and wounded 80 on Wednesday when he slammed his explosives-laden truck into a police station in the northern town of Baiji, medics and police said.
Iraqi Army Scouts, with U.S. Special Operations Forces as advisers, conducted an intelligence-driven helicopter assault in western Iraq Aug. 21, resulting in the elimination of a suspected weapons cache and the destruction of an insurgent safe house.
A Palestinian cleric trying to negotiate a ceasefire to allow the families of Islamist militants to leave a besieged camp in northern Lebanon said on Wednesday phone contact with the Fatah al-Islam extremists had been lost. "We were awaiting a response about the number of people to be evacuated and the time, in order to secure a corridor," Mohammed Hajj, spokesman for the Ulemas or clerics, told reporters. "We were surprised because they are no longer answering their phone."
