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A backpack caught fire Tuesday in the cargo area at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, leading to an evacuation, but authorities said the flames were likely caused by heat from a conveyor belt. The bag contained no explosives or other banned items, just leaking toiletries.
Phoenix police Lt. Rick Gehlbach said the backpack likely began to smoke after it got jammed between two larger pieces of luggage on a conveyor belt. The impact probably caused toiletries containing alcohol to leak, and a combination of heat from the conveyor belt and its track rubbing against the backpack caused it to catch fire, Gehlbach said. The fire was extinguished quickly, Gehlbach said.
About 10 a.m., a baggage handler loading bags on the US Airways plane noticed that the backpack was hot and set it aside. The fire department was called when the bag began to smoke, and they in turn called in a hazardous materials team as a precaution. "When the bomb squad arrived, everything was melted in the bag," said Victor Rangel, a spokesman for the Phoenix Fire Department. Rangel said the backpack contained hairspray and other toiletries.
The gate area was evacuated as a precaution. The plane, bound for San Antonio, was taken to another gate, and passengers were allowed to board Flight 200 after about an hour's delay. The bag's owner was questioned by police and allowed back on the flight. US Airways spokeswoman Valerie Wunder said no other flights were affected.
Two South Korean ships hijacked six months ago by Somali pirates arrived in Yemen's southern port of Aden on Tuesday. Ali Ahmed Nasser, the director of the al-Awlaqy shipping agent company, said 21 crew members of the Mavuno 1 and 2 were taken to the Saber hospital in the al-Mansoura district for a medical checkup. Nasser said the crew reported that the hijackers had stolen most of the communication equipment on the ships.
The pirates agreed to leave the ships Nov. 4 and headed back to Somalia. A U.S. Navy ship and a helicopter guided the boats further out to sea, where navy personnel boarded the vessels and gave the crew medical treatment.
The conditions of freeing the two ships were not known, but South Korean media have reported that the Somali pirates were demanding between US$700,000 and US$1 million in ransom. South Korea at the time said all the sailors on board the two ships were safe and the Foreign Ministry said the ships were being escorted to Aden port at the request of the South Korean government. The sailors included 10 Chinese, four South Koreans, three Vietnamese, three Indians and four Indonesians.
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Ransoms should have a single currency payable in JDAMs only.
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The Afghan was a good read if not a bit too much contrived. But these were rusty-hulled fishing boats not container ships with a bomb on board.
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"The pirates agreed to leave the ships Nov. 4 and headed back to Somalia." The pirates should have been hanged on the spot by the Yemeni authorities, who are obviously complicit. Stephen Decatur would have shelled Aden for this.
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AH9418 - shelling Aden would be nice, but these were apparently Somalis. Pick a Somali port and I'm with ya
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Veterans day conversation went like this. Young E4 "I'm going to Horn of Africa next week." Retired Marine: "My niece a Capt. in the Navy is stationed there." Me "Is she on one of the destroyers looking for Pirates?" "No she is on a base."
So what are the probablities that Ashland (pop. 800) has to servicepeople from differnt branches stationed in the HOrn. Also, where, what and how many are over there? Inquiring minds want to know.
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Here is an update on CENTCOM and Horn of Africa Joint Command. It is a hot spot that has been quiet in the media but with Iraq and Afghanistan going bad for Doc and Binny, it could be the next war front of real hostility and fervent action.
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There are about 4400 in Djibouti and neighboring Somaliland, including some SOF folks helping organize and train an army. Lots of folks are Navy. Djibouti is the best port on the East African coastline. There are also a few hundred French Foreign Legion in the area, I believe.
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Thanks for the info: interesting stuff going on there.
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#6 -- The Yemenis are more at fault than the Somali pirates. Cooperating with piracy is worse than piracy.
A lone gunman used a military assault rifle to fire on a dozen worshipers at an Islamic centre in French-speaking Switzerland late on Monday, injuring one seriously, police said on Tuesday. A 23-year-old local man, described by police as a practicing Swiss Muslim, was detained in connection with the attack. Police had scrambled to intercept a man carrying a weapon openly on the streets of Bussigny-pres-Lausanne near the lakeside city of Lausanne, according to a police statement. The man entered the centre and fired over a dozen rounds toward a prayer room, police spokesman Jean-Christophe Sauterel said. He injured one person seriously before worshipers immobilised him on the ground, police said.
Sauterel said a possible motive for the shooting had not been established and that the man had acted alone. The man used his military weapon and ammunition, police said. Switzerlands militia system allows soldiers to keep their weapons and ammunition at home, which has become the object of controversy in the wealthy Alpine country following recent attacks and high suicide rates involving military weapons kept at home.
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Well, at least this lone gunman didn't have a minaret tower to shoot from.
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Switzerlands militia system allows soldiers to keep their weapons and ammunition at home, which has become the object of controversy in the wealthy Alpine country following recent attacks and high suicide rates involving military weapons kept at home.
Well, well, well. Doesn't this fit ever so nicely with the argument before our supreme court today? Imagine the luck of this very phrase coming into print on the very day our own court was supposed to rule on this issue!!!
You see, we don't have the "right to bear arms", our militia system only allows us to store the guns and ammunition in our homes. Expect a media blitz on this exact same meme until our Supreme Court decides this issue.
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In a very distorted way, I would like to see the Supremes affirm the DC gun law (not the decision). Think about the revolution that would cause in America. People think Roe vs. Wade is the catalyst to civil war but they are wrong. Abortionists and their friends are armed with scapels, coat hangers and rubber gloves. However, how many guns and gun owners are there compared to those who don't own or know how to use? It would be lights out for the Democrats and gun control advocates politically. But the Supremes know this and will probably waffle just like in the 30's.
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Former Employee of CIA and FBI Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy, Unauthorized Computer Access and Naturalization Fraud hey you heartless peeps, She's just doing a JOB you lazy American bastids Refuse to Do...Yep..
DETROIT Nada Nadim Prouty, a 37-year-old Lebanese national and resident of Vienna, Va., pleaded guilty today in the Eastern District of Michigan to charges of fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship, which she later used to gain employment at the FBI and CIA; accessing a federal computer system to unlawfully query information about her relatives and the terrorist organization Hizballah; and conspiracy to defraud the United States. cunning, guileful, duplicitous, humm.. sounds like Hildabeast..
At a hearing in Detroit before the U.S. District Court Judge Avern Cohn, Prouty entered a plea of guilty to counts one, two and three of a second superseding information. Count one of the information charges conspiracy, for which the maximum penalty is five years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine. Count two charges unauthorized computer access, for which the maximum penalty is one year imprisonment and a $100,000 fine. Count three charges naturalization fraud, for which the maximum penalty is 10 years imprisonment and a $250,000 fine, and requires the court to de-naturalize the defendant. Hey She's a go getter..We need these hard workin ILLEGALS!
This case highlights the importance of conducting stringent and thorough background investigations, said U.S. Attorney Stephen J. Murphy. Its hard to imagine a greater threat than the situation where a foreign national uses fraud to attain citizenship and then, based on that fraud insinuates herself into a sensitive position in the U.S. government. I applaud the excellent investigative work of the FBI, ICE and DHS, which led to the successful prosecution today. gosh, no kidding.. are any of you clapping yet?
It is a sad day when one of our public servants breaches our security and trust, said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth L. Wainstein. This defendant engaged in a pattern of deceit to secure U.S. citizenship, to gain employment in the intelligence community, and to obtain and exploit her access to sensitive counter-terrorism intelligence. It is fitting that she now stands to lose both her citizenship and her liberty. "PUBLIC SERVANT"? WHAT? EXCUSE ME, mr. Wainstein, YOU ARE STOOPID.. that's sad..
the blood is a-boiling..plz excuse me, lots more at linky
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Uh, doesn't she qualify as a spy with non-diplomatic cover? And why aren't they going for treason?!
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I anticipate a shockingly lax sentence, followed by a commutation or pardon by a future President. You read it here first.
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So, basically, hizbullah is not only operating smuggler, drug, car thefts,... rings in the USA, probably maintining a sleeper infrastructure as well, but it also is capable of breaching US intelligence...
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With the reported history she could have not been hired by the FBI without the diversified track. Even that requires a degree and 3 years work experience. The FBI and CIA vetting procedures should have caught this. When a friend of ours went to work for the white house in the press office an agent came out to ask us questions about her background. IS this is a case of the FBI and toeing the PC line in hiring? If so how many other arabic speakers are guilty of similiar acts and just have not been discovered?
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#4 -- probably quite a few. I would be more concerned about moles from Red China. The USA is remarkably naive and thick-headed about learning to avoid being tricked like this, repeatedly. Remember the recent story about George Koval? His espionage was covered up by the US for about 50 years.
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Have her hung for treason, then shoot the person that approved her working there. It is time to send a goddamn message that this multiculturalism is going - to -fucking -kill -us!
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This babe has done an excellant job of infiltrating our secret gubmint offices, so she should be given the contract to test security in the gubmint. To me she is a hero of sorts. Any attempt to expell her is an attempt to further coverup the security lapses. We should be taking lessons from her.
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There is a fine line that, once crossed, means that vigilantes will take on the duties the state refuses. Think back not only to 9/11 but to the hostage taking in 1979. In almost thirty years when has an aggrieved relative taken revenge on the "terrorists" and their enablers? I cannot think of a single instance. We cannot possibly expect this state of affairs to continue indefinitely.
Hang her. Deport her family. Bomb her home village. Televise all of the above. Charge anyone who complains with sedition. Rinse and repeat.
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One imagines at least some of the delay in arresting Miss Prouty was due to them tracing her connections, tapping her computer and cell phone and such. One hopes her job assignments were chosen to limit her access to things we didn't want known. ICE has been having some successes lately resulting from years-long tracking and tracing of connections.
Nada Nadim Prouty is facing less than 12 months of jail time, or no jailtime at all, and three years of supervised probation and a fine totaling $2,225 under the plea agreement.
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I want more info...
Yes, she broke the law. But why? She looked up relatives and friends, then Hizbollah: to help the freaks, or because she was worried about people she knew?
Not saying let her off, certainly not for getting papers illegally.
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Love the self-congratulatory "excellent investigative work of the FBI, ICE and DHS," all of which passed her not only for citizenship but for entry to sensitive positions. If it wasn`t a sting from the start, how did she get there while hundreds of thousands of people with common names are on the "no-fly" (including at least one pilot who discovered he could fly any way other than as a paying passenger) list?
DS: "..And get this: The FBI and U.S. Attorney Stephen Murphy (and before him, U.S. Attorneys Craig Morford and Jeffrey Collins) knew Prouty was a spy for Hezbollah back in 2003, but they allowed her to work for the FBI and CIA for over FOUR Years! They did not remove her from the job until the end of this past September--1.5 years after her brother-in-law was indicted for financingHezbollah!
DS: And I was right on another thing. She will do no or almost no jail time. Read the plea agreement (pdf), As reader Tim points out:
DS: Nada Nadim Prouty is facing less than 12 months of jail time, or no jailtime at all, and three years of supervised probation and a fine totaling $2,225 under the plea agreement. For infiltrating the FBI and CIA and spying for Hezbollah.
DS: That's no surprise. In fact, what is surprising is that this woman is among the first they've caught. She's a drop in the bucket.
>below.. more ammo for you know who! LOL!
DS: As long as we continue to hire Muslims to be translators and analysts, as long as we continue to give money to Arabic and Muslim schools to teach their kids Arabic instead of non-Muslim, non-Arab Americans, as long as the FBI (and ICE) continues to turn down Sephardic Jews and Maronite Lebanese Christians who speak Arabic and who've applied for jobs in favor of extremist Muslims, that's the result we will get. Spies, spies, and more spies.
OK, we can all agree that this is a huge revolting developement right.. Or was she just part of a counter-op run by the Fumbling Bunch of Idiots?
The FBI could have been rolling up much more Intel on the whole net by just watching all the activities, meetings, phone calls etc. of the entire family and assoiates.
Debbie Schlussel, As my late Dad used to say, "Cast thy shit upon the waters." That's what they did, even after 9/11 and even today. And that's why they--and sadly, we--reap it back tenfold and more.
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Detroit lawyer/writer, Debbie Schlussel, finds dubious connections to almost 100% of local Muslim leaders. And the authorities either can't find this information themselves, or ignore objective reportage. Where does public safety fit into this type of incompetent administration.
PAKISTANI religious students detained cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan today when he emerged from hiding to join a student rally against emergency rule, witnesses said.
A spokesman for Khan's party said it was not clear if he had been detained by police or students from an opposition religious party who had been trying to block his rally, but witnesses said it was students who had held him in a faculty building.
Khan, who heads a small opposition party, went into hiding soon after military ruler Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency on November 3 and rounded up thousands of opposition politicians, activists, lawyers and rights workers.
He had been greeted by scores of students shouting "go Musharraf go" when he appeared on the campus of Punjab University in the city of Lahore earlier.
"Jamaat-i-Islami students came and took him in there. They say they are keeping him for his safety but they basically hijacked our protest," said student and Khan supporter Faizal Sheikh.
A spokesman for Khan's party said he did not know who had detained him. "A few men in civilian clothing, we don't know who they are, took him inside ... We cannot be sure if they are students or police," spokesman, Saifullah Khan Niazi said.
But Niazi said Jamaat-i-Islami students had been trying to block Khan's protest. "They are the only student union active on the campus and I guess they feel threatened," he said.
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Why isn't he in Gwalior for the one days?
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For the same reason Garry Kasparov isn't playing chess these days, Jack. Both have more important things to do.
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ISLAMABAD - At least four pro-Taleban militants were killed on Tuesday as helicopter gunships continued to pound their positions for the second consecutive day in Pakistans volatile north-western valley of Swat, officials said. Government forces destroyed four bunkers of the militants in Sambat area in the Swat district, 160 kilometres from the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) capital Peshawar, the military said.
According to the information that we have received from the local sources, four insurgents were killed in the strike, army spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. We have also destroyed a check post the militants had set up to tax the people in a nearby area, he added. Five people were wounded in the incident.
After around a week-long unannounced ceasefire the government forces resumed operations on Monday.
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Around 500 local Taliban took over control of Shangla district headquarter Alpuri moments after sunset on Tuesday, occupying the DPO, DCO and police lines offices without facing any resistance from the government, eyewitness and a local nazim told Daily Times. The eyewitnesses said the armed militants urged locals to stay calm and extend all possible support to them. Alpuri union council Nazim Sabir told Daily Times that the armed militants, led by Maulana Muhammad Alam, a close associate of rebel Swat cleric Maulana Fazlullah, captured the district. All government functionaries, including the DPO and DCO, left the area the moment they heard of the fall of Shangla Top police station, located at the border between Swat and Shangla, Sabir said.
Taliban commander Maulana Muhammad Alam was quoted as saying that no one would be harmed nor would any private or state property be damaged. We only struggle for the enforcement of Shariah, he told Alpuri residents.
Curfew imposed: Meanwhile, the government imposed a curfew in Swat, the army said. The curfew has been imposed to check the movement of the militants, chief military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad told AFP, adding that it would be in force from midnight Tuesday to 5am on Wednesday. Witnesses said the curfew announcement was made over mosque loudspeakers.
Four militants killed: Separately, four militants were killed and over 50 wounded as army helicopters continued pounding their positions in various areas of Swat late on Monday night and early on Tuesday, the military said on Tuesday. Military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad confirmed that four militants were killed and four or five of their bunkers and an ammunition dump were destroyed as gunship helicopters targeted their hideouts in the Sambat area. Another militant checkpost in Kabal tehsil was also destroyed, the army spokesman added. An estimated 35 militants were injured in the airstrike, he said.
Five suspects detained: Another 15 to 20 rebels were injured when they tried to attack and capture the Saidu Sharif airport late on Monday night, said Gen Waheed, adding that five suspects, including four locals and one Afghan, were detained by paramilitary personnel in Chakdara on Tuesday. He said telephone directories had been confiscated from the suspects. Some weapons were also recovered from their possession, he said. He said ground troops would be used against the militants when required. Answering a question on when the military operation would end, Gen Waheed said, It will take time to eliminate the militants.
One civilian killed: The spokesman said the government was not aware of any civilian deaths during the operation, however locals said one civilian was killed and seven were injured in the airstrikes on Monday night and Tuesday. There were no reports of any retaliatory fire by the rebels.
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telephone directories had been confiscated from the suspects.
A FC personnel was killed and 10 others injured when unknown militants attacked a convoy with a remote-controlled bomb and rockets in the Ghulam Khan area near Miranshah, officials said. They said the incident occurred at around 10pm on Monday, adding that the security forces retaliated with artillery fire that continued till 8am on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the political tehsildar of Datta Khel tehsil issued a letter to local residents warning them of bombing if they did not relinquish a militant who recently attacked an army convoy and killed one soldier.
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A man died when a bomb exploded in a cyber café in the Gulbahar police precincts on Tuesday, police said. Gulbahar Police Station Investigation Officer Mirza Khan told Daily Times that the bomb was Russian made, weighed around 700-800 grammes, and went off at around 2.30pm in the Nihar Net Café located near the Gulbahar Police Station.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Tahir Khan told Daily Times that the blast had blown off both hands of the deceased, and it seems that he was trying to plant the bomb.
He said the identity of the man killed had not yet been verified and that the cyber cafés owner, Nihar, had fled after the blast. An eyewitness told Daily Times that there were two or three people in the cyber café at the time of the explosion. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Tahir Khan told Daily Times that the blast had blown off both hands of the deceased, and it seems that he was trying to plant the bomb. The SSP said police were trying to identify the deceased, who could not have been a suicide attacker as the amount of explosives was small.
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The SSP said police were trying to identify the deceased, who could not have been a suicide attacker as the amount of explosives was small.
A tragic case involving premature explodulation of the under-endowed.
Police arrested Muttahida Majlis-e-Amals (MMA) central leader Liaquat Baloch on Tuesday from the Parliament Lodges under section 3 of Maintenance of Public Order (MPO).
According to the MMA sources, Baloch, who was underground since the promulgation of emergency rule on November 3, participated in a protest demonstration of journalists at Aabpara to express solidarity with them. However, when he went to his official residence at the Parliament Lodges, a heavy contingent of police headed by Assistant Commissioner Kamran Cheema arrested him.
Later, Baloch was shifted to Adiala Jail. It is pertinent to mention that the authorities had already issued his detention orders on November 3.
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The Iraqi government seized the west Baghdad headquarters of a powerful Sunni Muslim group Wednesday, cordoning off the building and accusing the group of supporting al-Qaida, officials said. The Association of Muslim Scholars, a hardline Sunni clerics group with links to insurgents, has its headquarters in the Um al-Qura mosque in the capital's Sunni-dominated Ghazaliyhah neighborhood.
The Muslim Scholars have been a thin veneer front for al-Qaeda since 2003 at least. The government is just now getting around to shutting them down?
Iraqi security forces dispatched by the Sunni Endowment, a government agency that cares for Sunni mosques and shrines, surrounded the mosque complex at 9 a.m. Wednesday and demanded that the building be evacuated before noon, the association said in a statement posted on its Web site. Employees were told to remove all personal belongings and even haul out furniture, that troops said would be destroyed if left behind, it said.
The head of the Sunni Endowment held a news conference at the mosque later Wednesday, accusing the clerics group of supporting al-Qaida. "The Association of Muslim Scholars has regrettably been attacking any tribal awakening, resistance or worshippers whenever they form a force to purge their neighborhoods of al-Qaida elements. The association has always justified killing and assassinations carried out by al-Qaida," Ahmed Abdul-Ghafoor al-Samarraie, the Sunni Endowment chief, told reporters. "The association no longer has a place here... These headquarters now belong to the Sunni Endowment," he said.
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"The Association of Muslim Scholars has regrettably been attacking any tribal awakening, resistance or worshippers whenever they form a force to purge their neighborhoods of al-Qaida elements."
so this is the reason to go after them now, the awakening has isolated AMS. OTOH, it would have more credibility if the Iraqi govt was more clearly reaching out to the awakening.
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so this is the reason to go after them now, the awakening has isolated AMS. OTOH, it would have more credibility if the Iraqi govt was more clearly reaching out to the awakening..
Liberalhawk, NPR reported Maliki announced he's going to appoint Cabinet Ministers from amongst the Sunni Awakening leaders, to replace those elected Sunnis who either quit or are useless. So there is government support, at least for the moment.
Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'.
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What were Muhammed's credentials as to his "prophet" claims?
Uberthug. He was worse than a phone company--he could do whatever he wanted and claim whatever he wanted. And if someone disagreed or just made a fun of him, he sent an unterthug for a hit job on the offender.
UPDATE: Coalition forces positively identify terrorist killed in recent raid
BAGHDAD One of the terrorists killed in Tarmiyah Nov. 5 has been positively identified as Thair Malik.
Thair Malik was the al-Qaeda in Iraq leader for the Tarmiyah sector of the northern belt. Reports indicate Malik was previously involved in a terrorist group that conducted attacks against Iraqi citizens for not following Taliban-like rules.
During the operation, surveillance elements observed Malik operating in the area and supporting aircraft was called to strike the time-sensitive target. Secondary explosions erupted from the building, indicating that weapons and ammunition were stored inside.
As Coalition forces cleared the surrounding area, they discovered two terrorists believed to be killed by the initial blast to include Malik.
As Coalition forces cleared the surrounding area, they discovered two terrorists believed to be killed by the initial blast to include Malik, small arms ammunition and rocket-propelled grenades. The target building ignited from the secondary explosions, preventing the ground force from assessing the buildings interior.
Malik was a subordinate of Abu Ghazwan, the al-Qaeda in Iraq senior leader of the northern belt and direct associate of Abu Ayyub al-Masri. Reports indicate that as Coalition forces operations captured al-Qaeda in Iraq elements in Tarmiyah, many of the northern belt leadership were forced out, but Malik remained and was promoted to military emir of the northern belt network.
He was allegedly in charge of as many as 120 individuals and directed a variety of operations, including kidnapping, car-jackings, extortion, and attacks on Coalition and Iraqi security forces.
He was allegedly in charge of as many as 120 individuals and directed a variety of operations, including kidnapping, car-jackings, extortion, and attacks on Coalition and Iraqi security forces, and members of the Awakening. The previous AQI military leader for the Northern Belts who Malik replaced was killed as a result of Coalition Force operations last August.
This was a dangerous terrorist who is no longer part of the al-Qaeda in Iraq network, said Maj. Winfield Danielson, MNF-I spokesman. We will continue to relentlessly pursue the terrorist leaders and their replacements who plan to deny the Iraqi people a future of their choice.
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al-Qaeda in Iraq
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al-Qaeda in Iraq
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al-Qaeda in Iraq
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November - August = a 3 month short time position.
Very good!
No time to get familiar with the job.
Turkish military aircraft attacked a handful of abandoned villages in northern Iraq on Tuesday, Iraqi officials said, in the first cross-border assault since tensions between Turkey and Kurdish rebels began intensifying last month. Turkish officials also said that Kurdish militants in southeast Turkey had killed four Turkish soldiers and wounded nine in clashes.
It was unclear whether the confrontations were connected, but they appeared to signal a revival of the fighting between Turkish troops and the Kurdistan Workers Party, or P.K.K., a nationalist group of militants in Turkey and Iraq. This represented the most significant military action between the groups since a round of diplomacy among American, Iraqi and Turkish officials early this month, but they did not immediately set off additional attacks.
The Turkish attack, in the early morning, in and around the remote village of Zahku, killed no one and damaged little. Officials from Iraqs autonomous Kurdish region could not agree on whether helicopters or planes had been used, and they defined the assault as a scouting mission, possibly in search of P.K.K. positions. It affected nobody and nothing, said Fouad Hussein, chief of staff for Massoud Barzani, the Kurdish leader of northern Iraq. It may have been to discover something, so they could see something.
The Turkish government has massed tens of thousands of troops along Iraqs northern border, but so far they have not made a major attack. American officials have been pressing for a diplomatic solution, fearing that an invasion would destabilize Iraq, but no agreement has been reached.
The attack on Tuesday on Turkish troops will probably not help the effort. It occurred in Sirnak Province in the southeast, Turkish officials said. A statement posted on the Turkish Army Web site said that an operation in search of rebels continued.
The Web site of a Turkish news channel, NTV, reported that Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a meeting of his political party on Monday night, If we dont see concrete things from the other side an operation is near echoing comments he has been making for weeks.
American officials in Baghdad declined to comment on either attack. Leaders in Iraqs autonomous region of Kurdistan questioned how Turkey could have crossed the border by air without American approval. The sky is in the hands of the Americans, so they knew about this attack and they know Turkish planes entered Iraqi territory, said Mr. Hussein. We hope this will not be repeated again.
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KOMMERSANT > AZERBAIJAN NOW AMERICA'S [new] PROBLEM. Anti-Fredom of the Press, etc. troubles signals rising anti-democraticism and Islamist radicalism.
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REGNUM > Analyst claims that rising Islamic-Islamist fundamentalism in SOUTH CAUCASUS regions [post-USSR Caucasus Muslim states] is NOT TO RUSSIA'S BENEFIT.
Hamas police officers rounded up scores of supporters of the rival Fatah movement here today, a day after a mass rally in honor of Yasir Arafat, the late Palestinian leader and founder of the Fatah, ended in violence.
Hamas, which rules Gaza, also threatened a political crackdown, saying in a statement that their leaders would take measures to ensure the protection of internal security.
At least six demonstrators were shot dead in Mondays armed clashes, and over a hundred were wounded, mostly participants in the rally. Each side blamed the other for starting the violence.
Yet even as they mourned, Fatah supporters were buoyed by the massive turnout of the day before, estimated at more than 200,000, the largest show of support for the organization here since Hamas seized control of the territory last June.
Fatah succeeded in sending a message to the United States and to Israel before Annapolis, that the Gaza Strip is not only Hamas, said Ayman Shahin, a political scientist and Fatah member in Gaza. He was referring to the American-sponsored Middle East peace gathering that is planned to take place in Annapolis, Md., this month.
Hamas routed Fatah forces in a brief, but fierce, factional war with Gaza as the prize. Since then the area has been politically and economically isolated, its main border crossings with Israel and Egypt closed. Israel has declared Gaza as hostile territory and allows in only the minimum quantities of essential goods necessary to avoid a hunger crisis.
People are comparing their experience under Hamas and their previous experience under Fatah, said Talal Okal, a political analyst and a member of the board of Al-Azhar University in Gaza, which is affiliated with Fatah. They are choosing Fatah, he said, despite the past problems of corruption they all know about.
Still, Fatah activists remained realistic about their chances of regaining control of the area any time soon. Hamas has succeeded in sending its own message, said Mr. Shahin, that it has full military control over the Gaza Strip.
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"If they send one of ours to the hoosegow, we send ten of theirs to Supermax!"
One suspected terrorist insurgent was killed and 33 others were arrested during an overnight police raid late Tuesday, while a local was resident was gunned down on Wednesday.
Police found the body of the dead man, identified as Bueraheng Duerasokuelae, Wednesday morning after exchanging gunfire with suspected terrorists insurgents during a raid on Bankutong village in Rangae district seeking to find gunmen who were reportedly in the neighbourhood. An assault rifle and ammunition was found near the corpse. The police arrested 33 terrorist insurgent suspects during the raid.
Meanwhile, Sungai Padi district, a 61-year old barber and traditional Thai masseur was gunned down in a hail of bullets in front of his home. Police believed the incident related to the southern jihad unrest.
At least 12 people including two civilians died in fighting in Sri Lankas troubled northern and eastern regions, the defence ministry said on Tuesday. Troops shot dead four members of the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) along the de facto frontline with guerrilla-held territory at Vavuniya in the north of the island on Monday, the ministry said. It said six more Tigers were killed in two clashes elsewhere in the north and the east in the 24 hours ending Tuesday noon.
The civilians were gunned down by suspected Tamil rebels in the northern Jaffna peninsula on Monday, the ministry said. It did not say if troops suffered any casualties in the various clashes with Tiger rebels.
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HeyheyheyHEY - don't you guys dis Angie. She was the hottest and SMARTEST of all the lady lawyers on Law and order.
Carey Lowell is a close second, but she lost a lot of points when she married Richard Gere.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Two South Korean ships hijacked six months ago by Somali pirates arrived in Yemen's southern port of Aden on Tuesday. Ali Ahmed Nasser, the director of the al-Awlaqy shipping agent company, said 21 crew members of the Mavuno 1 and 2 were taken to the Saber hospital in the al-Mansoura district for a medical checkup. Nasser said the crew reported that the hijackers had stolen most of the communication equipment on the ships.
Around 500 local Taliban took over control of Shangla district headquarter Alpuri moments after sunset on Tuesday, occupying the DPO, DCO and police lines offices without facing any resistance from the government, eyewitness and a local nazim told Daily Times. The eyewitnesses said the armed militants urged locals to stay calm and extend all possible support to them. 
A FC personnel was killed and 10 others injured when unknown militants attacked a convoy with a remote-controlled bomb and rockets in the Ghulam Khan area near Miranshah, officials said. They said the incident occurred at around 10pm on Monday, adding that the security forces retaliated with artillery fire that continued till 8am on Tuesday. Meanwhile, the political tehsildar of Datta Khel tehsil issued a letter to local residents warning them of bombing if they did not relinquish a militant who recently attacked an army convoy and killed one soldier.
A man died when a bomb exploded in a cyber café in the Gulbahar police precincts on Tuesday, police said. Gulbahar Police Station Investigation Officer Mirza Khan told Daily Times that the bomb was Russian made, weighed around 700-800 grammes, and went off at around 2.30pm in the Nihar Net Café located near the Gulbahar Police Station.
Police arrested Muttahida Majlis-e-Amals (MMA) central leader Liaquat Baloch on Tuesday from the Parliament Lodges under section 3 of Maintenance of Public Order (MPO).
The Iraqi government seized the west Baghdad headquarters of a powerful Sunni Muslim group Wednesday, cordoning off the building and accusing the group of supporting al-Qaida, officials said. The 
One of the terrorists killed in Tarmiyah Nov. 5 has been positively identified as 
Turkish military aircraft attacked a handful of abandoned villages in northern Iraq on Tuesday, Iraqi officials said, in the first cross-border assault since tensions between Turkey and Kurdish rebels began intensifying last month. Turkish officials also said that Kurdish militants in southeast Turkey had killed four Turkish soldiers and wounded nine in clashes. 
Hamas police officers rounded up scores of supporters of the rival Fatah movement here today, a day after a mass rally in honor of Yasir Arafat, the late Palestinian leader and founder of the Fatah, ended in violence. 
