Mortar blasts and machine-gun fire rocked the Somali capital on Saturday as Ethiopia-backed Somali troops fought with rebels, shattering a brief lull after months of heavy clashes. Shells crashed into southern and northern Mogadishu, including residential areas. It was not immediately clear whether anyone had been killed.
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How do you have "heavy" fighting with no causalities?
Sounds like an oxymoron.
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Casualties are generally only reported when US forces are involved. Death and destruction, bombed out schools and mosques, dead terrorists freedom fighters, wimin, severly burned children..... all reportable only if US forces are within the area of operation or the range of blame.
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Remember folks, the Somalis are perfectly capable of trading rifle and machine gun fire the whole day without hitting anything. Accuracy isn't a strong point 'mongst the gunnies and hard boyz.
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(SomaliNet) The Ethiopian forces backing the Somalias interim government troops on Saturday morning carried out search operations for weapons and other explosives in Suuqa-Xoolaha village in Huriwa district, one of the areas actively operated by the Islamic fighters.
According to the local residents, the troops armed with battle wagons began door-to-door search operations in the area and faced no resistance so far. This came following days of ambush attacks by the insurgents on the government and Ethiopian forces positions. All the business shops were closed and people began to hide when the allied forces spread into the village in fear of fresh clashes.
I suddenly closed down my shop and manage a place where I can feel safe because it is more likely to happen fighting when ever troops start search for weapons, said Ahmed Kheyr, a local businessman.
The government and the Ethiopian soldiers were in position of vigilance during the search for weapons and suspects but found nothing so far as sources reports. Also search operations are under way on the main Industrial Road in Mogadishu where the soldiers are looking for mines and continue to check people and vehicles.
Meanwhile, the government officials in Dusa-Mareb, the provincial capital of Galgadud region in central Somalia were reported to have fled the city after received information saying that supporters of the Islamic Courts Union were preparing to attack the city. The governor and the police commander of Galgadud region Abdukadir Elmi Salad (Suufi) and Omar Hassan (Omar Yare) left Dusa-Mareb for unknown destination after they were informed by the citys local elders they might face harassments from the insurgent groups those are reportedly to be heading to the area.
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(SomaliNet) Somalia's Young Islamic Movement commonly known as 'Al-Shabab' said in a statement that they had appointed Sheikh Mukhtar Abdirahman Abu-Zubeyr as the new leader, an Arab newspaper reported on Saturday.
The London based Sharq Al-Aswsat newspaper said it received the statement from Al-Shabab saying the Islamic Movement had changed its former leader Sheik Mukhtar Robow Abu-Mansor with Abu-Zubeyr.
The new leader of Al-Shabab is said to have had training in Afghanistan during the Taliban regime and then came back to Somalia where he had founded the radical movement to face against the enemy of Islamic religion.
The radical movement in Somalia did not give details about the new change of their leadership. Al-Shabab, which is now waging insurgency attacks aimed to regain control in Somalia, said it will launch full scale war against the government and its Ethiopian ally. Former spokesperson of the Young Islamic Movement Abu-Mansor who is in Somalia' upper regions (Bay and Bakol) declined to comment on the new change.
The new leader of Al-Shabab is said to have had training in Afghanistan during the Taliban regime and then came back to Somalia where he had founded the radical movement to face against the enemy of Islamic religion.
Al-Shabab which was the military brigades of the ousted Islamic Courts Union is now actively involved in the ongoing hit and run attacks in Mogadishu which left hundreds dead, thousands more wounded and caused that 600,000 (half of the city's people) flee their houses.
This article starring:
SHEIKH MUKHTAR ABDIRAHMAN ABU ZUBEYR
Islamic Courts
SHEIK MUKHTAR ROBOW ABU MANSOR
Islamic Courts
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Ma'an An Egyptian border guard was shot to death by smugglers near the Egypt-Israeli border on Friday night, news agencies reported. Reports conflicted as to whether the guard, twenty-one-year-old Mohammed Abdel-Ghaffar, was killed by drug traffickers or by smugglers helping African migrants enter Israel.
By one account, Abdel-Ghaffar was killed in a firefight with the traffickers after he confronted them. Three people have been killed by police in separate incidents earlier this year while trying to cross the border into Israel.
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Sounds like a rookie, a newbie, one-toother, greenhorn, grub, maggot, yearling, etc.
"Reports conflicted as to whether the guard, twenty-one-year-old Mohammed Abdel-Ghaffar, was killed by drug traffickers or by smugglers helping African migrants enter Israel.
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Must be noted, sounds like he was actually doing his job.
(KUNA) -- Belgian authorities released Saturday 14 alleged terror suspects who were arrested in a raid early Friday, local media reported. According to Belgian authorities, they were allegedly planning to use force to free Tunisian Nizar Trabelsi, who is currently serving a ten-year-prison sentence for planning an attack on a military base that houses American soldiers in Belgium. Police and security services were placed on a heightened state of alert to thwart any terror attacks in Brussels.
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Actually, sarcasm aside, Wafflestan is sort of microlab of developments that would later transpire, in a larger scale, in the whole Europe. The first attempt for establihing emirate will happen there, I submit.
LUCKNOW: Two suspected Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorists were on Sunday gunned down in an encounter in Barabanki with police, who believed they were planning to target Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati.
A map of five Kalidas Marg, official residence of Mayawati, 10 hand grenades, two AK-47 rifles, a suicide belt, six magazines and a number of cartridges were recovered from the possession of the two, Deputy Superintendent of Police, STF, Ram Badan told reporters. Both of them were stated to be Pakistani nationals.
Reeeeeaally? Not Saoodis or Libyans?
UP Police and Central security agencies yesterday arrested two militants of banned Harkat-ul-Jehadi-Islami (HuJI) from Barabanki railway station alleged to be involved in recent serial blasts in the state.
The two were identified as Khalid Mohammed and Tariq. Some gelatin sticks and 1.25 kg of RDX were recovered from their dead, lifeless corpses them.
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Lashkar-e-Toiba
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Pakistani authorities have arrested a man over a suicide attack at a mosque on Friday that killed at least 50 people. Police on Saturday picked up the suspect in Charsadda, the same district where a suicide bomber detonated around 10kg of explosives amid a packed 1,000-strong congregation celebrating the festival of Eid. "We're looking for another man who could be a second accomplice," a security official said.
Reports said four people, including three Afghan nationals, were arrested late on Friday in a town four kilometres from the site of the attack. But it was unclear if the detentions at a religious school in the North West Front province were related to the blast.
Friday's bombing, apparently targeting Aftab Khan Sherpao, the former interior minister, was the second such attack on him in eight months. Sharif Virk, the provincial police chief, said that so far forensic evidence at the site of the blast was insufficient to give up any strong leads. "No head has been found from the scene," he said, referring to the fact that the heads of suicide bombers are often blown off by the force of the explosions and later found intact. "We have found four legs which we have sent for DNA test, but it could be little help unless we know the family."
Virk said the attack could be linked to armed groups in the adjacent Mohmand tribal region. The attack sparked anger and fears of further attacks should Pakistani forces crackdown on tribal fighters.
Fawad Khan, relative of a blast victim, said: "Why did these people, the government, spoil the situation in Swat, Bajaur and the Red Mosque? Now that they have done so, naturally even those people the militants are going to retaliate."
Kamal Hyder, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Pakistan, said: "It was widely expected that there would be attacks against Aftab Khan Sherpao ... he had been warned there would be revenge attacks." Besides being blamed for a security crackdown on armed tribal groups, many hold Sherpao personally responsible for the assault on a hardline mosque in Islamabad in July.
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"Fawad Khan, relative of a blast victim, said: "Why did these people, the government, spoil the situation in Swat, Bajaur and the Red Mosque? Now that they have done so, naturally even those people the militants are going to retaliate."
Must be a missquote - cause it sounds like blaming Raid for yellowjackets being so pissy.
#5
Maybe this check list will help them find the miscreants:
You Might Be a Member of the Taliban or Al Qaeda if...
10. You refine heroin for a living, but you have a moral objection to beer.
9. You own a $300 machine gun and a $5,000 rocket launcher, but you can't afford shoes.
8. You have more wives than teeth.
7. You think vests come in two styles: bullet-proof and suicide.
6. You can't think of anyone you HAVEN'T declared Jihad against.
5. You consider television dangerous, but routinely carry ammunition in your robe.
4. You've never been asked, "Does this burka make my ass look fat?"
3. You were amazed to discover that cell phones have uses other than setting off roadside bombs.
2. You've never uttered the phrase, "I love what you've done with your cave."
1. You wipe your butt with your bare left hand, but consider bacon unclean.
DUBAI (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-linked group in Iraq has confirmed the death of Abu Maysara, a top operative who the U.S. military said was killed in a clash last month, according to a recording posted on the Web on Saturday.
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State in Iraq, hailed Maysara as "a martyr who was a scholar and a mujahid (holy war fighter)", on the audio tape posted on Islamist Web sites.
And now he's dead. Excellent.
The U.S. military said earlier in December that Maysara, a Syrian, was among nine senior al Qaeda members killed in November. It described him as an adviser to Baghdadi, also known as Abu Ayyub al-Masri, and his slain predecessor Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
Baghdadi called on insurgents to keep fighting during the current Eid al-Adha feast, when Muslims sacrifice animals. "May God accept your sacrifice, and may they be the apostates of the Awakening Councils, who are servants of the Crusaders," Baghdadi said, referring to U.S.-backed neighborhood patrols who fight insurgents.
You guys are picking fights with everyone. And losing. Think about it ...
The tape's authenticity could not be verified but was posted on a main Islamist Web site often used by insurgent groups and the speaker sounded like earlier recordings of Baghdadi.
"Sounds like Omar, all right, Omar with a rag over his face, speaking softly into a microphone lest he be overheard, but yup, that's him ..."
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n Web postings, the Islamic State of Iraq has identified its leader as Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, with al-Masri as minister of war. There are no known photos of al-Baghdadi. Bergner said al-Mashhadani had told interrogators that al-Baghdadi is a "fictional role" created by al-Masri and that an actor is used for audio recordings of speeches posted on the Web. "In his words, the Islamic State of Iraq is a front organization that masks the foreign influence and leadership within al-Qaida in Iraq in an attempt to put an Iraqi face on the leadership of al-Qaida in Iraq," Bergner said. 'burg link
(KUNA) -- An Iraqi group leader was killed on Saturday while leaving a mosque in western Baghdad, an Iraqi security official said. An unidentified gunman shot dead a leader of the Al-Sahwa (Awakening) Councils while he was leaving a mosque at Al-Jameaa Neighborhood in western Baghdad, the source, on anonymity, told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA).
Al-Sahwa Councils are US-supported Iraqi groups set up to fight Al-Qaeda militants in Iraq. The perpetrators fled the site after they had assassinated the Al-Sawha leader, only identified as Colonel Rabeaa. Al-Sahwa Councils were set up by the Americans as an example of how Sunni Arab Iraqis have united to combat Sunni Islamist Al-Qaeda group.
Early December, the Iraqi government unfolded a plan to integrate Al-Sahwa Councils into Iraqi army and police forces pursuant to a program set by commanders of the Operation Imposing Law. A total of USD 123 million have been allocated for the implementation of the plan, including pays and wages for members of those councils. The group has actually managed to expel Al-Qaeda from Anbar, al-Ameriya and al-Adhamiya.
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Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish guerrilla targets in northern Iraq on Saturday in a new cross-border offensive, the General Staff said.
The Turkish military said the offensive against outlawed separatist Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) guerrillas inside Turkey and across the border in northern Iraq would continue. "Turkish Air Force warplanes struck important targets of the PKK/KONGRA-GEL terror group in northern Iraq ... between the hours of 14:25-15:00 (1225-1300 GMT)," the General Staff statement, posted on its website, said. "The PKK will understand through experience that northern Iraq is not a safe place and they will understand once again that they have no chance against the Turkish military," it said.
Turkey says it has the right to use force to combat separatist rebels who shelter in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq and mount attacks in which they have killed dozens of Turkish troops in recent months. But the United States and the European Union fear a further escalation in tension could destabilise the region.
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It takes willful blindness on the part not to see what the Turks have in mind. All people who are in positions of responsibility who are watching the Turks mass on the border with 100,000 troops and stick their heads in the sand and say, ooohh, but they are just going after the PKK, will have their heads handed to them on a public platter when the obvious and inevitable happens and they it becomes painfully obvious that they were too stupid or weak to have forseen it.
(KUNA) -- The Iraqi Islamic Party, led by Iraqi Vice-President Tareq al-Hashimi, said here Saturday US-Iraqi forces launched a crackdown on its headquarters in Baghdad on Friday evening. Some 20 firearms were seized by the joint forces during the crackdown on the party head office, the party said in a release handed out here.
Helped by several Iraqi army officers, 30 servicemen of the Multi-National Forces in Iraq stormed the party building, tampered with its contents, smashed the doors of its rooms and seized 20 kalashnikovs, according to the release. The Iraqi Islamic Party blamed the Iraqi government for the damage that affected it, calling upon it to put an end to what it billed as "illegal practices". The party also admonished that civil institutions would be violated by anybody unless it played its due role in the protection of such bodies.
The party bolted from the incumbent Iraqi government, led by Nouri al-Maliki, but its leader Tarek al-Hashimi still holds the veep post. It is a key component of the Iraqi Accord Front, which has 44 out of a total of 275 parliamentary seats, in addition to General Council for the People of Iraq led by Adnan al-Dulaimi and the Iraqi National Dialogue Council led by Khalaf al-Ulayyan.
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seized 20 kalashnikovs
Think of them has voting guides for the illerate and you'll feel better.
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(KUNA) -- At least four people were killed and six were injured, mostly servicemen, when a suicide bomber blew up the car he was driving at a checkpoint in western Baghdad on Saturday, Iraqi police said.
A source at the police told KUNA the suicide attacker detonated the explosives in the car he was driving at a check point jointly manned by Iraqi police and army. The bomb explosion killed four people, injured three policemen, two army soldiers and a civilian, said the source. The checkpoint is located at Al-Ghazaliya area in western Baghdad. The Iraqi forces cordoned off the area, banned cars and civilians from approaching, said the source. Meanwhile, the Iraqi police said a bomb went off in southern Baghdad today causing injuries to seven civilians.
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How do we know he's a suidide bomber? Did he leave a note? Kee-rist! Some people jump to conclusions so fast!
Maybe, he was just holding it for a friend. Yeah! Yeah! That's the ticket!
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(KUNA) -- The Multi-National Force (MNF) said Saturday soldiers arrested an alleged terrorist technical advisor and an improvised explosive device cell leader during two raids in the Doura neighborhoods in the Rashid District on December 17. According to an MNF release, the man is believed to be a Qaeda technical advisor for an IED strike that killed nine soldiers. The suspected terrorist, who has multiple sworn statements against him, was taken to a Coalition Forces detention facility for further questioning. Also that day, soldiers arrested the suspected leader of an IED cell during a cordon and knock operation. The detainee was also taken to a Coalition Forces detention facility for further questioning.
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Hang him, in public, short rope, no blindfold.
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A military wing of Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on Sunday announced it had arrested several spies involved in helping Israel assassinating leaders of Palestinian factions.
Abu Obaida, spokesman for Ezz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades, said that the recent interrogations on some collaborators led to the discovery of some spies who were suspected of being involved in the assassination of a number of resistance leaders, including the late Hamas leader Abdel Aziz al-Rantissi who was killed in 2004. While denying the spies were affiliated with his movement, the spokesman rejected to make the names of the spies public for security reasons.
Ma'an Two Palestinian resistance fighters were injured after and Israeli tank fired three artillery shells at them, in the town of Juhor Ad-Dik, east of Al-Burej refugee camp in the Gaza Strip on Saturday. Muawiya Hassanein, the director of ambulance and emergency services in the Palestinian Health Ministry, described the injuries as "moderate."
An Israeli ground incursion in the same area of the Gaza Strip left nine dead and 20 injured on Thursday.
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Prolly not true, I'm sure they rape virgins on a fairly regular basis.
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"Two Palestinian resistance fighters were injured after and Israeli tank fired three artillery shells at them"
Not as resistant as they thought they were.
Prolly not true, I'm sure they rape virgins on a fairly regular basis.
Don't know, they just had another eid - may be in short supply for a season.
Refugees from where? going where? In Gaza? Is it their contention that they are all part of a dislocated population from the occupied territories? Or is it really that the term refugee camp has more of victim quality then say "Shanty Town?
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DepotGuy - the "leaders" of a dozen Arab nations decreed that none of the "palestinians" that left Israel during the War of Independence in 1948 would ever be resettled anywhere but "Palestine". It's a deliberate tactic to keep the "refugee" situation in the minds of all Western nations, and to get as much graft as possible from guilt. Why do "palestinians" have to be in refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza, other than to be a political tool? Just another great thought from the Arab world. May they all choke on sand and die.
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Ma'an The military wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, claimed responsibility for shooting an Israeli soldier in a guard tower east Gaza City on Saturday. In a statement received by Ma'an, the fighters claimed that the soldier was "directly shot."
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soldier was "directly shot."
But, as there is no conformation, not "directly hit".
Ma'an Israeli soldiers seized a Palestinian man at Huwwara checkpoint, south of the West Bank city of Nablus on Friday. The man was accused of transporting a homemade projectile. An Israeli military spokesperson declined to give details about the incident, but said that the alleged projectile was destroyed and the man detained for interrogation.
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Is that a projectile in your pocket or are ya just glad to see me?
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(KUNA) -- At least 14 rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and a government soldier were killed in different clashes in Sri Lanka's northern region. The Sri Lankan Army launched an attack on seven LTTE bunkers in Mannar area Saturday, killing eight rebels and injuring 12, the Media Centre for National Security (MCNS) said in a statement in Colombo. One trooper was also killed and six others injured in the incident, MCNS said. In another incident, six LTTE rebels were killed in an Army attack at Palamoddai also in Mannar Friday, news agency Press Trust of India reported.
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FOOL!
Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 Bg7
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In this version of the Kings Indian Defence, who mans the machine gun?
The bishop is dug in, making that seem like the obvious choice, but his field of fire is blocked by his own night.
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Fred, that is why I push for the naughty list all year. I never need to worry about it. Fortunately, my raw animal magnetism and charisma make up for it and I still get lots of presents.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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Meanwhile, the government officials in Dusa-Mareb, the provincial capital of Galgadud region in central Somalia were reported to have fled the city after received information saying that supporters of the Islamic Courts Union were preparing to attack the city. The governor and the police commander of Galgadud region Abdukadir Elmi Salad (Suufi) and Omar Hassan (Omar Yare) left Dusa-Mareb for unknown destination after they were informed by the citys local elders they might face harassments from the insurgent groups those are reportedly to be heading to the area.
(SomaliNet) Somalia's Young Islamic Movement commonly known as 'Al-Shabab' said in a statement that they had appointed 
(KUNA) -- Belgian authorities released Saturday 14 alleged terror suspects who were arrested in a raid early Friday, local media reported. According to Belgian authorities, they were allegedly planning to use force to free Tunisian 
LUCKNOW: Two suspected 
Pakistani authorities have arrested a man over a suicide attack at a mosque on Friday that killed at least 50 people. Police on Saturday picked up the suspect in Charsadda, the same district where a suicide bomber detonated around 10kg of explosives amid a packed 1,000-strong congregation celebrating the festival of Eid. "We're looking for another man who could be a second accomplice," a security official said. 
DUBAI (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-linked group in Iraq has confirmed the death of 
(KUNA) -- An Iraqi group leader was killed on Saturday while leaving a mosque in western Baghdad, an Iraqi security official said. An unidentified gunman shot dead a leader of the Al-Sahwa (Awakening) Councils while he was leaving a mosque at Al-Jameaa Neighborhood in western Baghdad, the source, on anonymity, told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA).
Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish guerrilla targets in northern Iraq on Saturday in a new cross-border offensive, the General Staff said.
(KUNA) -- The Iraqi Islamic Party, led by Iraqi Vice-President Tareq al-Hashimi, said here Saturday US-Iraqi forces launched a crackdown on its headquarters in Baghdad on Friday evening. Some 20 firearms were seized by the joint forces during the crackdown on the party head office, the party said in a release handed out here.
(KUNA) -- At least four people were killed and six were injured, mostly servicemen, when a suicide bomber blew up the car he was driving at a checkpoint in western Baghdad on Saturday, Iraqi police said.
(KUNA) -- The Multi-National Force (MNF) said Saturday soldiers arrested an alleged terrorist technical advisor and an improvised explosive device cell leader during two raids in the Doura neighborhoods in the Rashid District on December 17. According to an MNF release, the man is believed to be a Qaeda technical advisor for an IED strike that killed nine soldiers. The suspected terrorist, who has multiple sworn statements against him, was taken to a Coalition Forces detention facility for further questioning. Also that day, soldiers arrested the suspected leader of an IED cell during a cordon and knock operation. The detainee was also taken to a Coalition Forces detention facility for further questioning.
(KUNA) -- At least 14 rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and a government soldier were killed in different clashes in Sri Lanka's northern region. The Sri Lankan Army launched an attack on seven LTTE bunkers in Mannar area Saturday, killing eight rebels and injuring 12, the Media Centre for National Security (MCNS) said in a statement in Colombo. One trooper was also killed and six others injured in the incident, MCNS said. In another incident, six LTTE rebels were killed in an Army attack at Palamoddai also in Mannar Friday, news agency Press Trust of India reported.
