US-led coalition forces killed nearly a dozen Taliban militants in raids on rebel hideouts in dangerous southern Afghanistan, the coalition said in a statement on Thursday. Coalition forces were searching compounds in the Garmsir district of restive Helmand province targeting "Taliban foreign fighters" on Tuesday as they came under attack, said the statement.
That'd be "al-Qaeda."
"Nearly a dozen militants were killed and two suspected militants were detained during a coalition forces operation to degrade Taliban support networks," it said. Afghan defense ministry spokesman Mohammad Zahir Azimi also said "over 10" Taliban insurgents were killed in the operation in Helmand, the country's biggest opium growing region and a rebel hotspot.
He said he could not confirm a claim by the governor of western Nimroz province, which borders Helmand, that 41 Taliban were killed in the clash.
Nimroz governor Ghulam Dastageer Azad said a Taliban commander named Mullah Tor Jan "with his 40 men were escaping to Pakistan from Nimroz via Helmand as they were attacked by the joint forces and they were all killed." He said 17 of them were buried in a district of Nimroz.
Separately in southern Zabul province Afghan and NATO forces attacked a Taliban hideout in Daychopan district overnight, killing three "foreign" Taliban and wounding six others, district governor Mullah Fazel Bari said.
In a separate incident a roadside bomb struck a police convoy Thursday on a highway in southern Wardak province, killing three policemen and wounding four others, provincial police chief Muzafarudin told AFP. The convoy was on its way from southern Ghazni province to neighbouring Wardak province when it was hit, he said. "Three police were martyred and four others were wounded in the blast," Muzafarudin, who goes by one name like many Afghans, told AFP.
A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, claimed responsibility for the blast in a telephone call from his hotel in Quetta an undisclosed location.
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A decisive Coalition strike against a high-level meeting of Taliban linked insurgents on March 12 took place one and a half kilometers inside Pakistani territory, US military officials have confirmed to the Long War Journal. Several precision-guided munitions struck a compound owned by a senior member of the Haqqani network, a powerful Taliban splinter group who is based out of the Pakistani tribal state of North Waziristan, shortly after multiple intelligence sources confirmed a high level meeting of the groups upper echelon was taking place in the compound. According to information made available to the Long War Journal, the owner of the compound and other Haqqani network leaders were in the compound at the time of the strike. Several other high level Haqqani commanders, including Sirajjudin Haqqani, had planned to attend this meeting, intelligence sources confirmed.
At 9:40 PM local time, US officials declared the group posed an imminent threat to forces inside Afghanistan and the call to strike the compound was made. After the orders were given to launch a coordinated strike, fixed wing and rotary wing air support along with Predator surveillance and recon began scanning likely insurgent attack positions inside Afghanistan. US military officials confirmed no women or children had been seen in the targeted North Waziristan compound or in any structures near it over the last five days.
Nearly four hours later, a salvo of indirect fire targeting the compound hit their mark, completely obliterating the building and killing an unknown number of people inside of it. Several insurgents working sentry posts around the compound were observed by aerial surveillance leaving the area on foot. Initial intelligence reports on March 12. Indicated three high-level Haqqani network commanders were killed and that many Chechen fighters also died in the blast.
The targeted strike inside Pakistani territory is the first public announcement by US military officials confirming the coordination of a cross-border attack. The attack is said to have occurred in the village of Lwara Mundi, a flashpoint for clashes between insurgents and security forces, according the AFP. Thousands of pro-Taliban insurgents, al Qaeda fighters, and tribal militias associated with the Taliban operate unhindered in the tribal states of western Pakistan, especially in their stronghold of North Wazristan. Previously, the Pakistani government has denied Coalition and NATO forces from conducting raids against targets inside Pakistani territory.
The attack on March 12 was quickly condemned by the Pakistani military, who claim the strike killed two Pakistani women and two children. Chief Pakistani military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told reporters, We have lodged a very strong protest with the coalition forces across the border. The US military has refused to comment on these claims, but intelligence reports strongly indicate no females or children were present in or near the compound at the time of the strike. The Pakistani military has denied commenting if insurgents were among the dead found in the rubble of the compound.
One night prior to the strike, Long War Journal correspondent Phil Peterson witnessed US military officials call off a targeted strike following intelligence reports that women and children were inside a house occupied by a high level insurgent commander. I watched them pass on taking out some bad guys because they were in a compound with other people and there might also be collateral damage to the surrounding structures, possibly causing civilian deaths or injuries, Phil recounted in an email from Bagram Air Force Base. The intel was solid; they knew who the guys were and where exactly they were in the compound but they passed to get them another time.
In late January, senior al Qaeda commander Abu Laith al Libi was killed during a missile strike in North Waziristan along with several Arab lieutenants. Al Libi was a top-tier al Qaeda leader and led the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, which merged with al Qaeda in Nov. 2007. He attended a high level meeting among insurgents at a compound in Azam Warsak village in North Waziristan, a key al Qaeda controlled village since 2002. American al Qaeda representative, Adam Gadahn, may have also died in the same attack that killed al Libi, according to western sources who spoke to Pakistani news outlets.
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Now put a trace on the Paki military officers who are covering the a$$es of these miscreants. Let them have an accident in the countryside. Oh, and Nice Shooting SOCOM!
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Indirect fire? I wonder if they used those new guided artillery rounds? A battery of the new towed guns plus guided munitions could put down several rounds per gun all at one time (10-12 rounds). Nice!
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Four hour delay? Calling an attack because of women and children (which only guarantees the increased use of innocent hostage shields)? This is no way to win a war. We are going to have to get serious before we can win this and I shudder to think what it will take for us to get serious.
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Do you think those A-holes are getting the feeling that they arent safe anywhere? If they aren't, they should be. Predator drones, satellites,snitches, cell phone traces, I hope they go insane from the pressure. Wait, what the hell am I saying? They already are insane, I hope they go more insane.
From now on, no meeting of any kind will be allowed in Lichtenstein unless women, children, and fluffy kittens are present, even if they are chained to the walls.
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US military officials confirmed no women or children had been seen in the targeted North Waziristan compound or in any structures near it over the last five days.
The last five days? Were I on the far side of the observers, I'd be concerned.
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Considering that some of the lions of pisslam like to wear burquas, how could they tell there were no women? It's not like the presence of facial hair on a burqua clad person is definitive in any way...
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The next time, I think a flight of six BUFFs loaded to the gills with 500lb unguided iron bombs would make a greater impression, not only on the Taliban, but on the Pakistani military as well. Let them know just how barbaric we CAN be if we choose to be. Maybe the main target should be Rawalpindi, instead of some cluster of mud huts in the middle of nowhere, so the message gets seared - seared - in their brains.
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I have to wonder if the Pakistani protests are to keep everybody guessing as to which side they're on. Or maybe it's just window dressing so they can maintain the fiction that they are in control of the tribal areas. Because, if they were in control, we'd have to bomb them too.
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if there women there they wheer prob associates of the ppl they where going after so that makes them just as guilty and the kids start fighting over there at like 12 years of age, in other words kill them all or they are going too be future militants anyway
#8: Considering that some of the lions of pisslam like to wear burquas, how could they tell there were no women? It's not like the presence of facial hair on a burqua clad person is definitive in any way...
Probably by whether or not they peed standing up.
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Sudanese authorities accused on Thursday five Sudanese of involvement in the killing of US diplomat John Granville and his Sudanese driver, Abdul-Rahman Abbas. A Sudanese daily today said police finished interrogating the suspects and recorded their full confessions of the crime.
"Aieee! Ooof! We dunnit! Put those ow! away!"
The daily reported a police source as saying police forces arrested the accused who sold the pistol used in the crime to the arrestees and he confessed to the fact.
"The Lindbergh baby? Yep, 'twas me too. I'm also DB Cooper. Just quit that! Aieeeeeeeeee!"
John Granville, a US diplomat who worked at the Agency for International Development, was killed in Khartoum when a vehicle intercepted his car and opened fire, killing him and his driver. The US sent a security team to follow up on the investigations.
About 20 Belgian soldiers left on Thursday for Chad as part of the EUs peacekeeping mission to protect refugees and civilians who have sought refuge in eastern Chad from the violence in neighbouring Darfur. According to the Belga news agency of Belgium, the task of the soldiers will be to build transit camps at N'Djamena airport to house about 150 people.
A whole 150 people. That's what, 0.02% of the total number of refugees?
The Belgian government approved, on 19 February, the participation of Belgium in the EU mission to Chad and the Central African Republic (CAR) with the aim of protecting civilians in danger, particularly refugees and displaced persons for a period of one year at the cost of five million euro.
The Belgian unit will be tasked with search, information-gathering and protection and setting up of military camps.
Just remember the Congo.
The 3,700-strong mission is one of the largest of its kind ever undertaken by the EU. It has been authorised by the UN, has its headquarters near Paris and is to be made up mainly of French troops under an Irish general's command.
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Are you suggesting Sponge Bob collaborates with muzzies? And when was the last time Sponge Bob molested an 8 year old? Naw, the Belgics do much more to advance the UN agenda.
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Are you suggesting Sponge Bob collaborates with muzzies?
No way, man. By 'peace-keeping', I meant actual peace-keeping - the kind you get when Marines with guns show up and express their sincere desire that everyone play nice or else. NOT the UN-style peace-keeping that involves child-molesting smurfs in blue helmets with Shoot Me signs on their backs.
BEIJING - Protests led by Buddhist monks against Chinese rule in Tibet turned violent Friday, with shops and vehicles torched and gunshots echoing through the streets of the ancient capital, Lhasa. A radio report said two people had been killed.
The European Union called on China to show restraint and Washington said Beijing needed to respect Tibetan culture. Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, appealed to China not to use force against protesters. He called on the Chinese leadership to "address the long-simmering resentment of the Tibetan people through dialogue with the Tibetan people. I also urge my fellow Tibetans not to resort to violence."
The largest demonstrations in nearly two decades against Beijing's 57-year-rule over Tibet began Monday, coming at a critically sensitive time for China as it attempts to portray a unified and prosperous nation ahead of the Beijing Olympic Games in August.
The demonstrations turned violent Friday when witnesses reported hearing gunfire and seeing vehicles in flames in the city's main shopping district in the center of Lhasa. Crowds hurled rocks at security forces and at restaurant and hotel windows. Radio Free Asia, which is funded by the U.S. government, quoted witnesses as saying two bodies were seen lying on the ground in the Barkor area, a shopping district in the old city where the protests have been centered.
The protests that began on Monday's anniversary of a 1959 uprising against Chinese rule were initially led by hundreds of Buddhist monks, but also attracted large numbers of ordinary Tibetans. They were spreading to Tibetan areas outside Lhasa, a city of about 250,000 permanent residents, not including large numbers of soldiers and members of China's paramilitary People's Armed Police.
A Western traveler told BBC World television that police had attacked monks near monasteries and said he saw military convoys moving into Lhasa carrying heavily armed troops. Photographs taken by camera phone and forwarded to journalists by the Indian branch of Students for a Free Tibet showed an apparently peaceful protest march staged Friday in Xiahe, a traditionally Tibetan corner of the western Chinese province of Gansu. The pictures showed robed monks some displaying the banned Tibetan national flag and lay people marching along a main street. Security forces with riot helmets and shields lined the way, but there was no indication of clashes.
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I have wondered what Tibet would be like in the absence of the Chinese occupation. Granted, the current Dalai Lama is westernized and so wouldn't be too obnoxious.
However, it would most likely be a theocracy. And even though it would be a Buddhist, not Muslim theocracy, I'm not comfortable with religious police enforcing religious laws.
Remember that Buddhism isn't all sweetness and light everywhere in the world. In Thailand, for example, Buddhist monks have a tendency for making violent trouble.
There is also a big problem with cultural traditions being enforced with religious law.
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TOPIX > NEW TIBET CRISIS TO TEST CHINESE POWER?; + SRI LANKA ACCUSES US OF GIVING LIFELINE TO TAMIL TIGERS [by criticizing Sri Lankan human rights].
Bush will veto this version. There is no retroactive protection for the telecoms. Lawyers and terrorists win!
Won't get past the Senate. We'll be doing this again in two weeks. Article EFL to the new stuff as we have an article from earlier today.
The House on Friday narrowly approved a Democratic bill that would set rules for the government's eavesdropping on phone calls and e-mails inside the United States.
The bill, approved as lawmakers departed for a two-week break, faces a veto threat from President Bush. The margin of House approval was 213 to 197, largely along party lines.
Because of the promised veto, "this vote has no impact at all," said Republican Whip Rep. Roy Blunt of Missouri.
The president's main objection is that the bill does not protect from lawsuits the telecommunications companies that allowed the government to eavesdrop on their customers without a court's permission after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
The vote sent the bill to the Senate, which has passed its own version that includes the legal immunity for telecom companies that Bush is insisting on. Without that provision, House Republicans said, the companies won't cooperate with U.S. intelligence.
"We cannot conduct foreign surveillance without them. But if we continue to subject them to billion-dollar lawsuits, we risk losing their cooperation in the future," said Rep. Lamar Smith, R-Texas.
The government does have the power to compel telecommunications companies to cooperate with wiretaps if it gets warrants from a secret court. The government apparently did not get such warrants before initiating the post-9/11 wiretaps, which are the basis for the lawsuits.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, said the bill is meant to fix that. It would let a judge determine whether lawsuits should be dismissed, rather than having Congress make that decision.
Because a judge knows more than the President, National Security Council, Director of Central Intelligence, the NSA and the intel leaders of Congress. Stands to reason.
"I believe that the nation is deeply concerned about what has gone on for the last seven years, and I want to restore some of the trust in the intelligence community," Reyes said.
Frankly Silvestre, the nation doesn't give a rip just as long as it's protected from the bad guys. If bad guys stage another 9/11 and we figure out that we would have known about it, if only we could have listened in, your party will never win another election.
Democrats argued against quashing the lawsuits without knowing in detail why the immunity is necessary. Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., said the government may have as many as five ongoing clandestine surveillance programs. "Congress is not fully informed, and it would be reckless to grant retroactive immunity without knowing the scope of programs out there," Harman said.
Congress is as informed as it wants to be. The House and Senate Intel committees can dig as deep as they want, and Harman should know that since she's been there.
"All members of Congress should see those documents so they could see the breadth and scope" of the wiretapping program, said Rep. John Tierney, D-Mass.
And share them with the New York Times.
The Democratic bill also would initiate a yearlong bipartisan panel modeled after the 9/11 Commission to investigate the administration's so-called warrantless wiretapping program.
Just what we need, another investigation.
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"All members of Congress should see those documents so they could see the breadth and scope" of the wiretapping program, said Rep. John Tierney, D-Mass.
John Tierney AKA Marty Meehan Lite...
Good God, John, don't call attention to yourself! The voters will remember you're down there!
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Please correct me if I am wrong but the totality of the lawsuits AGAINST telcomms number about 12. So the Commie Pinko Faggots (aka Democrats) are hoplding the nations security at bay for a dozen moonbats? Please somebody give a speech outlining this and describing what actually happened after 9/11 versus some moonbat black helocopter wet dream. The only way that you could have had your rights "technically" violated was if you were in direct communications with a KNOWN or HIGHLY SUSPECTED terroroists over seas. I was in the intel community for 20 years and I have to tell you right now that this is NOT a FISA question, This very scenario is taught at intel school TODAY.
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political treason for lawyer contributions and to placate the moonbat wing. Get their names on the record (including their lawyer backers) and when the next attack happens...prosecute and string em up (in whichever order you wish to do that....not up to me to judge...). The Senate and the Exec won't go along and this needs to be made into GOP attack ads at the national level: "when the means to provide security to the nation were up for a vote, House Democrats chose terrorist's privacy rights and big windfalls for their trial lawyer backers over teh safety of your wife going to wor, your kids in their school, your coworkers and friends. Why? Because the House Democrats have different priorities and values than you, America. Sleep well?"
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wor? work, even.....Damn, I hate typing when I'm angry
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if your lying insurance company whom you have been paying premiums to for years, denies benefits you are entitled to after an accident, and you are suffering physically, a trial lawyer is your only hope
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Cingold, AFAIK, is not a class-action parasite like the ones for whose benefit this is intended. If Cingold is, then I reserve the right to criticize. Given the reasonable responses/comments from Cingold, I think I'm safe
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Problem is there seem to be more trial lawyers bent on abusing the system than those with establishing a just outcome.
And in general, most I have met are intelligent, liberal and sleazy.
Sorry - although that sort of occupation draws crusaders, it also draws far more con men.
We would not allow such scumbag behavior on the part of Doctors or Bankers, so why not some common sense on Lawyers?
Eliminate lawyers receiving any share of the awards. Awards are for plaintiffs. Not the lawyers.
Put limits on punitive awards above and beyond actual provable damages in civil cases.
The problem is that civil suits do not really punish scumbag lawyers for bringing frivolous suits, nor using bad tactics. Like the McDonalds verdict, or the venue shopping (E Texas for example). They instead encourage bringing suit for an amount that will cost less to settle than it would to litigate. And that is no good in that for anyone except the scumbag lawyers who bring such suits.
For big awards, make the lawyers put some of their own skin into the game on BOTH sides.
If you want to sue under unlimited awards, or take a share of the award (contingency), then you must agree to the rule that the losing side pays the fees of the winning side. In the case of the indigent, the LAWYER pays.
Risk and reward needs to be rebalanced. That would do it.
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More or less any "class action" lawyer is pond scum. They make millions for themselves and award pennies to the "members" of the class. How many times have you gotten something in the mail notifying you that you, as a member of a class, are entitled to damages as a result of a class action suit? The amounts to which I was entitled varied from 47¢ to $1.17. When I lived in Cincinnati, I watched Stan Chesley shamelessly exploit human suffering for personal enrichment (always contributing huge amounts to the Dems). You may know a few good ones, but the ones I have met have their own circle in Hell, just above their Dem enablers.
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No insult to the good barristers here, but I have seen far too many medical lawsuits against doctors I know that were completely frivolous, but were launched to make money for the lawyer with no regard to the truth. They were suing for a payday, because they knew how much the malpractice insurance would pay out in lieu of the cost of a trial.
You cannot guarantee outcomes in medical procedures. Human bodies react differently and there are cases where predisposition and circumstances overcome the skill of the doctor.
That is why I despise these lawyers. They and the unjust astronomical awards are one of the major drivers of medical costs and one of the reasons for over-prescription and overly cautious and counterproductive medical practices (c.f. rise in c-sections).
The lawyers that promote these types of suits deserve to be beaten to death by chimpanzees.
Same thing goes with product liability suits, and many other cases of Legal Idiocies.
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If you would like more discussion about lawyers, and are having a problem with overly low blood pressure, and would like to raise it, I recommend Overlawyered.com
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The Pentagon says authorities have captured a high-level Al Qaeda figure who helped Usama bin Laden escape from Afghanistan in 2001. Officials declined to say when or where Mohammad Rahim was captured -- announcing only that he was handed over by the CIA to the Pentagon earlier this week and is entitled to an all-expenses-paid Caribbean vacation is being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Defense Department spokesman Bryan Whitman says Rahim is a close associate of bin Laden and has ties to al-Qaida organizations throughout the Middle East. Whitman says Rahim helped prepare the hideout at Tora Bora, a mountain area used by bin Laden as the U.S. invaded Afghanistan in 2001. Whitman says Rahim assisted Al Qaeda's escape from the area during the U.S. operation to try to catch the al-Qaida leader.
According to an e-mail from CIA Director Michael Hayden that was obtained Friday by FOX News, "Rahim is a tough, seasoned jihadist. His combat experience, which dates back to the 1980s, includes plots against US and Afghan targets. He reportedly sought chemicals for one attack on US forces in Afghanistan, and tried to recruit individuals with access to American military facilities there." Hayden also wrote: "Rahim is perhaps best known in counter-terror circles as a personal facilitator and translator for Usama bin Ladin and other al-Qaida leaders. In 2001, as the terrorist haven in Afghanistan was collapsing, Rahim helped prepare Tora Bora as a hideout. When al-Qaida had to flee from there, Rahim was part of that operation, too."
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Ya know, harry, I was just discussing with a co-worker about how the Confederate and Union cannons are somewhere around 100 yards apart at Manassas Battlefield (civil war). When those guys fired their weapons, they could actually see the other guy raising his weapon to kill him.
Now that took guts, to stand there that close to your enemy!
When would you have considered that war as 'lost', Harry?
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This is great news!!!! They've had Rahim for a few days then...I wondered why President Bush was so happy he did a little song and dance the other day when all the other doom and gloom economic news and the battle with Congress was raging! Turkmenistan? The former President Bush recently went to China...
At least six Bangladeshi operatives of the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI) are believed to be hiding in Mumbai, according to specific inputs available with Indian intelligence agencies. Information available with us and related agencies points to a group of Bangladeshis who have scattered after sneaking into Mumbai some time back. We are ascertaining if the duo killed on Tuesday (at Kashimira) could be linked to other undercover members of a particular group fostering terrorist aims, said state anti-terrorism squad chief Hemant Karkare.
Top police and intelligence officials say dormant terror cells of jehadi groups like HuJI have been steadily growing in strength in the country over the last few years.
The city police are particularly worried because HuJI blacklisted as a global terror outfit by the US has established a pan-Indian presence and has successfully targeted several major Indian cities over the last couple of years.
Senior ATS officers said the two suspected Bangladeshi terrorists Mohammad Ali and Baboo gunned down at Kashimira may have been part of a loosely organised collection of HuJI operatives working to give final shape to a terror plot. But it is too early for us to figure out the precise nature of their plot and the chosen list of targets, Karkare said.
Karkare said the recovery of fake currency worth over Rs10 lakh (mostly of Rs1,000 denomination) proved that they were backed by a hard-core terror group.
The 2 kg RDX, weapons and Alis Bangladeshi passport have been sent for forensic examination.
The ATS and the Intelligence Bureau (IB) are also trying find if the duo and other members of the group were also known to Faheem Ahmad - the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist arrested by the UP police recently.
We are leaving nothing to chance and would probe every possible aspect of the encounter, said senior ATS officer Parambir Singh.
Addressing the media, senior ATS officers said Ali had come to Kashimira to hand over a consignment of explosives and weapons to Baboo. There is a possibility that some other people were also with them, said another senior ATS officer.
The police are also probing whether Baboo had succeeded in arranging logistics at Kashimira or Thane. ATS officials had said on Tuesday that they had trapped the duo while exchanging RDX and counterfeit currency.
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Security forces on Thursday arrested seven militants, including notorious militant Amjad, during a search operation in Char Bagh, Swat.
The security forces also launched a search operation in the Shakar Darra area of Matta. However, there were no reports of arrests made or weapons recovered. A curfew remained in place in Char Bagh and Shakar Darra during the search operation. The security forces were also expected to advance on Garh Piyochar, but they suspended the plan for unknown reasons.
Separately, militants set ablaze three general stores in the Kuza Banda area of Kabal tehsil.
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Unidentified assailants on Thursday killed two schoolteachers here in Badeabas Khel, while another man was killed in a separate incident in lower Orakzai Agency. Police said the assailants gunned down teachers Muhammad Hassan and Moaisar on their way back from school. They died on the spot. The deceased were teaching at the Government Primary School, Badeabas. Hangu Nazim Haji Khan Afzal Orakzai and Hangu District Police Officer Quresh Khan rushed to the spot, and urged local people to remain calm and help the authorities to catch the culprits.
Separately, Alif Khan was killed due to a personal feud. He hailed from the Tari area of Orakzai Agency.
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AL ANBAR PROVINCE, Iraq Iraqi Police discovered two significant weapons caches in Anbar Province over the past seven days.
The first cache was discovered west of Rawah, March 7 and the second in Fallujah March 11. Hassa IP, near Rawah, discovered and reported a weapons cache on a farm. A Marine unit launched a mounted patrol to investigate the report. Marines confirmed the discovery, and an explosive ordnance disposal units support was requested.
At the site, a young sheep herder directed Marines to three more caches. The boy claimed to have seen the farms owner bury items at night with a bulldozer. The caches had all been emplaced within the week but the majority of the items buried were unserviceable.
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Steve: the sort of Army-Navy store that would get the owner run out of town on a rail for selling dangerous, unstable crap, maybe. This stuff sounds like a series of work accidents in the making.
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I bet it all makes a nice, big bang when it's disposed.
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From headline thought maybe they found a bunch of stuff made in china. But can you pay with little bits of string?
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Maybe an opportunity is being missed: sell to some poor unsuspecting gun-runner that will deliver tot he Paleos; they are used to 'work accidents' and the uptick would probably not even sway the stats at Mutual of Gaza......
The death of a senior Christian churchman who had been kidnapped in Iraq has been denounced by the Pope as an "act of inhuman violence." Paulos Faraj Rahho was the Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul. His body has been found half-buried near the northern city, where he was seized shortly after leaving Mass at the end of last month. It is unclear if his captors killed him or he died from ill health.
Members of the autonomous Chaldean Church make up most of Iraq's Christians and recognize the Pope. Vatican Spokesman Father Lombardo said: "We had hoped that the bishop could be freed but this has not happened. We are near to the community of the Christians in Iraq, a little community that has so big difficulties and terrible violence against it."
The archbishop's driver and two guards were killed during his abduction. Reacting today to the churchman's death, Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki put the blame on al Qaeda.
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Matthew 10:28 Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Fatah's Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said, Thursday, that they will not be party to any truce with Israel.
You can tell this isn't Rooters or AP on account the link to Fatah is acknowleged.
This applies to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, where the Palestinian people are suffering from siege and a series of assassinations of brigade leaders, in addition to incursions into Palestinian refugee camps, the statement added. "We are not obliged to honor any truce or ceasefire in the West Bank or Gaza Strip," said the brigade.
The Palestinian faction called on the Arab and Islamic world to uphold their historical responsibilities towards the Palestinian people, and to the Aqsa Mosque which is suffering the most dangerous phases of judaization, the statement added. The brigade also stated that this step came avenge the recent assassination of four Aqsa and Quds brigade leaders in Bethlehem on Wednesday.
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The Palestinian faction called on the Arab and Islamic world to uphold their historical responsibilities towards the Palestinian people
Those responsibilities were amply demonstrated historically from 1948-67 when they segregated you into ghettos and refused to integrate you into their societies. That was about the same time frame when Silesian Germans were ethnically cleansed from lands they had occupied for hundreds of years too, but their fellow Germans didn't do on to them that your fellows Arabs and Islamics have done on to you.
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The Palestinian faction called on the Arab and Islamic world to uphold their historical responsibilities towards the Palestinian people
They already do. That's why you live in squalor in whatever Arab country you set foot in and in the hellholes you currently call "home". It's not in their bset interests for you to become a prosporus and productive people rather then their pathetic anti Israeli showpieces.
Israeli warplanes hit Hamas-run Gaza on Thursday after militants rattled the Jewish state with rocket fire, ending a five-day lull and threatening efforts to push forward Middle East peace talks. The violence flared within hours of an Israeli operation on Wednesday in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, where undercover special forces killed four Palestinian militants, including two senior commanders.
Militants in the Hamas-run territory fired a dozen rockets into the Jewish state during the night, Israeli warplanes struck targets in northern Gaza early during the day and gunmen fired another dozen rockets afterward, according to the army and the militant groups. There were no casualties, but the renewed tit-for-tat attacks put at risk international efforts to broker a more permanent deal to end the violence and the isolation around the impoverished territory. They also come a day before the Israelis and Palestinians are to meet with a US general to resume peace talks that Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas suspended amid a week of strikes in Gaza that killed more than 130 Palestinians, including children and other civilians.
Addressing the summit of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference in Dakar on Thursday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned Israel's "inappropriate and disproportionate use of force" and called on the Jewish state to stop strikes that end up killing civilians.
Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade, head of the OIC for the next year, said he would make efforts to end the Middle East conflict his number one priority. He also urged a ceasefire but called on Israel to end "all of its illegal activities in the occupied territories ... the blind repression inflicted on the Palestinian people."
Glad to see he's taking an even-handed approach to it. I'm sure he'll be very successful.
After the Bethlehem raid, the Palestinian presidency accused Israel of "barbaric crimes" in a rare harshly worded statement. "These barbaric crimes reveal the truce face of Israel, which speaks loudly about peace and security all the while committing murders and executions against our people," it said.
But Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak vowed to keep hitting militants. "Yesterday in Bethlehem we proved again that Israel will pursue and hit all assassins with blood on their hands. No matter how much time has passed, Israel will be waiting for them," he said.
And the Jewish state said it held Hamas, which violently seized control of Gaza in June, responsible for the rocket fire, even though the radical Islamic Jihad group claimed the salvoes. "Hamas controls the Gaza Strip and they are accountable for every active aggression against Israel," said government spokesman Mark Regev. "We will not allow Hamas to sub-contract out terrorism."
Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad, a radical group that has claimed most of the rocket fire and suicide attacks against Israel over the past several years, vowed revenge after the Bethlehem deaths.
Israel, Hamas, and Islamic Jihad had been observing a tacit truce in and around the Gaza Strip since early Saturday as Egypt seeks to work out a more permanent deal. Egypt has been holding talks aimed at ending Israeli strikes on Gaza, rocket fire into Israel and a lifting of a crippling regime of Israeli and international sanctions on the coastal strip, one of the world's most densely-populated places where most people depend on aid.
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WAFF.COM > NEW REPUBLIC - IRAN, ISRAEL PRACTICALLY AT WAR. Iran anticipated to achieve nuclear weapons capability in early 2009.; + DEFENSE OFFICIAL: HIZBULLAH READY TO ATTACK ISRAEL.
OTOH, FOX NEWS > IS AL QAEDA SETTING UP IN CHINA? China's Xinjiang Province = Muslim East Turkemenistan/Turkistan.
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We haven't heard too much since they were delivered about the new and improved IDF Killdozers.... i think it is probably time they got a bit of a shake down.
(Xinhua) -- The military in Sri Lanka said Thursday that 27 rebels were killed in separate clashes between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels in the north on Wednesday. Officials from the Media Center for National Security said 20 LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) members were killed in three different places in the Vavuniya district.
In the northeastern Welioya area, four rebels were killed and 40 were injured on Wednesday in several battles. Officials also said three LTTE rebels were killed during confrontations with Army troops in the Mannar district. However, there was no independent verification to the government's claims.
Sri Lanka's troops are currently engaging the rebels in the Northern Province after they claimed in July last year that the entire Eastern Province had been free of LTTE rebels.
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US-led coalition forces killed nearly a dozen Taliban militants in raids on rebel hideouts in dangerous southern Afghanistan, the coalition said in a statement on Thursday. Coalition forces were searching compounds in the Garmsir district of restive Helmand province targeting "Taliban foreign fighters" on Tuesday as they came under attack, said the statement.
A decisive Coalition strike against a high-level meeting of Taliban linked insurgents on March 12 took place one and a half kilometers inside Pakistani territory, US military officials have confirmed to the Long War Journal. Several precision-guided munitions struck a compound owned by a senior member of the Haqqani network, a powerful Taliban splinter group who is based out of the Pakistani tribal state of North Waziristan, shortly after multiple intelligence sources confirmed a high level meeting of the groups upper echelon was taking place in the compound. According to information made available to the Long War Journal, the owner of the compound and other Haqqani network leaders were in the compound at the time of the strike. Several other high level Haqqani commanders, including Sirajjudin Haqqani, had planned to attend this meeting, intelligence sources confirmed. 
Sudanese authorities accused on Thursday five Sudanese of involvement in the killing of US diplomat John Granville and his Sudanese driver, Abdul-Rahman Abbas. A Sudanese daily today said police finished interrogating the suspects and recorded their full confessions of the crime. 
About 20 Belgian soldiers left on Thursday for Chad as part of the EUs peacekeeping mission to protect refugees and civilians who have sought refuge in eastern Chad from the violence in neighbouring Darfur. According to the Belga news agency of Belgium, the task of the soldiers will be to build transit camps at N'Djamena airport to house about 150 people.
The Pentagon says authorities have captured a high-level Al Qaeda figure who helped Usama bin Laden escape from Afghanistan in 2001. Officials declined to say when or where 
According to an e-mail from CIA Director Michael Hayden that was obtained Friday by FOX News, "Rahim is a tough, seasoned jihadist. His combat experience, which dates back to the 1980s, includes plots against US and Afghan targets. He reportedly sought chemicals for one attack on US forces in Afghanistan, and tried to recruit individuals with access to American military facilities there." Hayden also wrote: "Rahim is perhaps best known in counter-terror circles as a personal facilitator and translator for Usama bin Ladin and other al-Qaida leaders. In 2001, as the terrorist haven in Afghanistan was collapsing, Rahim helped prepare Tora Bora as a hideout. When al-Qaida had to flee from there, Rahim was part of that operation, too."
At least six Bangladeshi operatives of the 
Security forces on Thursday arrested seven militants, including notorious militant Amjad, during a search operation in Char Bagh, Swat.
Unidentified assailants on Thursday killed two schoolteachers here in Badeabas Khel, while another man was killed in a separate incident in lower Orakzai Agency. Police said the assailants gunned down teachers Muhammad Hassan and Moaisar on their way back from school. They died on the spot. The deceased were teaching at the Government Primary School, Badeabas. Hangu Nazim Haji Khan Afzal Orakzai and Hangu District Police Officer Quresh Khan rushed to the spot, and urged local people to remain calm and help the authorities to catch the culprits.
AL ANBAR PROVINCE, Iraq Iraqi Police discovered two significant weapons caches in Anbar Province over the past seven days. 
The death of a senior Christian churchman who had been kidnapped in Iraq has been denounced by the Pope as an "act of inhuman violence." Paulos Faraj Rahho was the Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul. His body has been found half-buried near the northern city, where he was seized shortly after leaving Mass at the end of last month. It is unclear if his captors killed him or he died from ill health.
Israeli warplanes hit Hamas-run Gaza on Thursday after militants rattled the Jewish state with rocket fire, ending a five-day lull and threatening efforts to push forward Middle East peace talks. The violence flared within hours of an Israeli operation on Wednesday in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, where undercover special forces killed four Palestinian militants, including two senior commanders.
(Xinhua) -- The military in Sri Lanka said Thursday that 27 rebels were killed in separate clashes between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels in the north on Wednesday. Officials from the Media Center for National Security said 20 LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam) members were killed in three different places in the Vavuniya district. 
