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Good Morning
Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I see her name, and I can't help but think of the Nick Lowe song.
Posted by: Mike || 05/14/2008 0:14 Comments || Top||

#2  It's now a pink sheet?
Posted by: 3dc || 05/14/2008 0:14 Comments || Top||

#3  But she was comely in the heady days of her youth. A half ounce too much chin, but other than that quite lookable.
Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2008 8:20 Comments || Top||

#4  Cheeky.
Posted by: Excalibur || 05/14/2008 9:24 Comments || Top||

#5  A half ounce too much chin

sure, rub it in...
Posted by: Bashar Assad || 05/14/2008 9:59 Comments || Top||


Afghanistan
Rocket 'bounced off' army officer
An Army officer from the Highlands survived an attack in Afghanistan when a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) bounced off his chest before exploding.

Lt David Robertson, 30, of 4 SCOTS Royal Regiment of Scotland, escaped with minor injuries. The missile ricocheted off his body armour and detonated against his Warrior armoured vehicle.

While at Sandhurst Royal Military Academy, Lt Robertson hit Prince William with a potato in riot training.
Now, that's something unusual to put on your resume.
The soldier, from Inverness, received the Queen's Medal when he and William passed out in December 2006. The award is made to the officer cadet who achieves the best scores in military, practical and academic studies.

The rocket incident came on Saturday, when Lt Robertson's company and 1,000 Afghan National Army soldiers advanced on a Taleban position in the countryside around Musa Qala.

"We were advancing on an old graveyard, up on some high ground," he said. "There were some trees after a small village, as I crested the last hill before the trees, several RPGs were fired at us.

"I just saw this one coming head on." He added: "I didn't get my life flashing in front of me but it did slow down.

"The thing split into three parts - it coming towards me, it hitting me and bouncing off and then detonating.

"It must have just skiffed off me and went to my left and detonated on the fully open gunners hatch. I was knocked backwards I hit the back of the turret pretty hard.

"I remember a big bang and a heat wave and then felt burning in my arm and side."

Another soldier applied a field dressing and the company continued forward to retrieve an Afghan casualty. The operation ended in an air strike against the Taleban forces.

Lt Robertson was eventually treated for minor injuries by medics.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 05/14/2008 12:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  That's got to be pretty demoralzing if you're the bad guy who fired the rocket.

"Allan ackbar, I got him! I got him!...Aw, hell, he's really ticked now. Insh'allan, let my feet not fail me now."
Posted by: Matt || 05/14/2008 12:33 Comments || Top||

#2  I know, from being one, that Scots have hard heads, but hard "chest" too? This guy needs to play the lottery - he's on a lucky streak.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 05/14/2008 12:34 Comments || Top||

#3  Your piddly RPGs can't even hurt us now!
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/14/2008 12:34 Comments || Top||

#4  Amazing the RPG's shaped charged didn't burn into his vest/chest! Inshallah!
Posted by: Crolusing tse Tung2778 || 05/14/2008 12:49 Comments || Top||

#5  That certainly deserves an "Aloha Snackbar!"
Posted by: crosspatch || 05/14/2008 12:52 Comments || Top||

#6  Thinking the same thing Matt. One can only imagine the oh crap look in the muzzies eyes after finding out his enemy is now rocket-proof.
Posted by: Icerigger || 05/14/2008 13:07 Comments || Top||

#7  Sorry, Akmed, only 2 virgins for you...and they're both sheeps!
Posted by: Omavimble Poodle2382 || 05/14/2008 14:00 Comments || Top||

#8  Must have had his Ghost Shirt on.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/14/2008 14:26 Comments || Top||

#9  Lt. Robertson dipped DEEPLY into the Luck Barrel™.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 05/14/2008 14:33 Comments || Top||

#10  Lt. Robertson's guardian angel wins "Employee of the Month" for May, 2008, and gets the use of The Boss' parking space.
Posted by: Mike || 05/14/2008 14:38 Comments || Top||

#11  Use the force David.
Posted by: George Smiley || 05/14/2008 17:03 Comments || Top||

#12  the sheeps wouldn't be a bad punishment for him since they seem too like em anyway
Posted by: sinse || 05/14/2008 17:57 Comments || Top||

#13  Lt. Robertson shortly AFTER being hit by rocket ...
Posted by: DMFD || 05/14/2008 19:21 Comments || Top||


150 rebels killed in Afghan operation: governor
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - International and Afghan troops forged ahead with an offensive against the Taliban near the Pakistan border on Tuesday, with a governor insisting 150 rebels had been killed in the past week.

US Marines and British troops under NATO command launched a significant new operation two weeks ago in Garmser district in southern Helmand province, a key battleground for a Taliban-led insurgency and an opium-producing centre.

Soldiers in a separate US-led coalition have also reported several engagements in the area in the past week. They said Tuesday they had killed a dozen rebels in Garmser on Monday.

Helmand governor Gulab Mangal told AFP on Tuesday that 150 Islamic rebels, most of whom he said were Al-Qaeda-linked Arab and Pakistani fighters, had been killed in military action in Garmser in the past week. "In the past seven, eight days, we have killed about 150 insurgents, most of them foreign fighters," he said, citing "intelligence."

"We have intelligence reports that more than 500 enemy fighters, most of them foreign terrorists, are in the district," he said. "The operation will continue until the district is cleared of these destructive elements."

The Afghan army, operating with some of the international deployments, could not be reached for comment. NATO's International Security Assistance Force could not verify the numbers. "The Marines continue to gain ground down in Helmand," ISAF Major Martin O'Donnell told AFP, adding that he could not comment on death tolls.

The Marines said: "While we are continuing operations to clear the Taliban from the Garmser district, it is not ISAF nor US Military policy to comment on enemy casualties as we do not consider this a reliable measure of success."

Information is difficult to independently confirm in Garmser, a remote desert province where there are few roads and government authority is limited. The military says Garmser is a rebel gateway into Afghanistan, bring fresh recruits and weapons from Pakistan where extremist rebels are said to have bases.

A local resident contacted by AFP by telephone said "more than 100 Taliban have been killed in the past several days." "They were killed in several different attacks and air bombardments," said the man, who identified himself as Abdul Baqi. He was speaking from Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital located about 50 kilometres (35 miles) north of Garmser, where he was taking refuge from the fighting.

The government said Monday about 6,000 people have fled their homes in Garmser, fearing the military operations.
Posted by: Steve White || 05/14/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  But Helmand governor Gulab Mangal told AFP on Tuesday that 150 Islamic rebels, most of whom he said were Al-Qaeda-linked Arab and Pakistani fighters, had been killed in military action in Garmser in the past week.

"In the past seven, eight days, we have killed about 150 insurgents, most of them foreign fighters," he said, citing "intelligence."

"We have intelligence reports that more than 500 enemy fighters, most of them foreign terrorists, are in the district," he said. "The operation will continue until the district is cleared of these destructive elements."


;) hummmmm.....
Posted by: RD || 05/14/2008 2:39 Comments || Top||

#2  What? No civilians? No fluffy ducks and bunnies?
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 05/14/2008 11:36 Comments || Top||


Taliban ban TV in Afghan province
Taliban insurgents have ordered residents of a province near the capital Kabul to stop watching television, saying the networks were showing un-Islamic programmes, officials and local media said on Tuesday. The order is the last in a wave of curbs that the resurgent militants have announced in areas they are active. A senior Afghan information ministry official, Najib Manelai, said that dozens of masked men with weapons entered mosques in Logar province at the weekend and threatened residents against watching television “They threatened the people that ‘if you do not give up watching televisions, you will face violence’,” Manelai told Reuters. Media reports quoted residents as saying that the Taliban imposed the ban because TV networks were showing programmes that were “un-Islamic and anti-Afghan culture”.
Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  How to Win Friends and Influence People, Taliban style.
Posted by: gorb || 05/14/2008 2:19 Comments || Top||


Al Qaeda operatives killed in Afghanistan were Saudis
We knew that...
New information has emerged on the two al Qaeda operatives who were recenty killed in Afghanistan's Paktia province. The NEFA Foundation has published a translation of the martyr's notice for Abu Suleiman al Otaibi and Abu Dejana al Qahtani, while a US intelligence official has provided background information on Otaibi's involvement with al Qaeda in Iraq's Islamic State of Iraq. Both Otaibi and Dejana are Saudi nationals, while Dejana is the brother of one of the four al Qaeda operatives who escaped from Bagram prison in 2005.
Obits at the link...

This article starring:
Islamic State of Iraq
Abu Dejana al Qahtanial-Qaeda
Abu Suleiman al Otaibial-Qaeda
Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  You Go Girl..You Twirl the Night Away..For the Good News is that the Saudi Islamic-Fanitcs are Tango Uniform in Hell LOL..

Drinks are on US!!
Posted by: RD || 05/14/2008 2:06 Comments || Top||

#2  We should find out which Saud mosques set them on the terror path, and then blow them up.
Posted by: McZoid || 05/14/2008 6:54 Comments || Top||

#3  There is a sinister extreme Islamic connection between Saudi and Pakistan ie funded Wahabbism which needs looking at/crushing!!!!
Posted by: Paul || 05/14/2008 13:07 Comments || Top||

#4  Back tracking these bastards would be interesting. Funding, family members and Zoids suggestion, the mosques. Trouble is the Saudis are notoriously unhelpful.
Posted by: Icerigger || 05/14/2008 13:12 Comments || Top||

#5  We should find out which Saud mosques set them on the terror path, and then blow them up.

I'm sure GWB will raise the question while visiting Saudia (what is, if he just can take time from drafting a join communique with Abdullah on Israeli-Palestinian conflict).
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/14/2008 17:59 Comments || Top||


US aircraft 'kill Taliban fighters'
US-led troops and military aircraft have killed around a dozen Taliban in fighting in southern Afghanistan, the US military has said. The fighters were killed on Monday in Helmand province's Garmser district which borders Pakistan, the military said on Tuesday.

US troops were searching compounds in Garmser for a Taliban commander suspected of supplying weapons to fighters when they saw Taliban forces preparing an ambush, a statement said. They responded with small arms and "around a dozen extremists were killed," it said.

US Marines and British troops under Nato command launched an operation in Garmser two weeks ago, saying they aimed to drive out the Taliban and destroy their support networks. A separate air strike on Monday by Nato's International Security Assistance Force killed four Taliban fighters, including a local commander in the eastern province of Paktia which also borders Pakistan, an Afghan army spokesman said.
Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  The common expression 'border's Pakistan' is a clue to which country is supporting the Taleban
Posted by: Paul || 05/14/2008 13:04 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Ethiopia Soldiers Detain Then Release Islamic Clerics
A group of Muslim clerics in central Somalia were briefly arrested and later released by Ethiopian soldiers deployed to help restore order in the chaotic Horn of Africa country, our central regions correspondent reported.

Ethiopian troops have for the first time reportedly setup base at the main administration building in Beletwein, the capital city of Hiran region in central Somalia. Witnesses saw the Ethiopian soldiers unload mattresses and utensils, while Ethiopian women, whom locals assumed were the soldiers' wives, looked on.

Residents in the Beletwein neighborhoods of Lamo-Galay and Koshin have reportedly began packing their belongings and leaving the area for fear of insurgent attacks.

Everywhere in Somalia, Ethiopian soldiers have been targeted with a barrage of shootouts, rocket fire and roadside bombings since the Ethiopian army's invasion of southern and central Somalia in late 2006. But locals in Beletwein were particularly perplexed by the arbitrary arrest of 15 Somali men, who were reported to be active members of Islam's Tabliiq movement and were visiting Beletwein to spread Islam. The 15 clerics were transported to a major Ethiopian army base in the outskirts of Beletwein, where they were questioned for a few hours before being released, sources said.

One of the released clerics confidentially told Garowe Online that the Ethiopian commanders ordered their release after failing to "link" them to any crimes.

No one, including traditional elders and local politicians, played a role in the Ethiopian commanders' decision to free the clerics, the source added.

Last month, Ethiopian troops were accused of massacring Tabliiq clerics in the capital Mogadishu, including the shooting death of Tabliiq leader Sheikh Said Yahya inside a mosque.

Beletwein has not had a governor or a mayor since April, when former Gov. Yusuf Daboged was chased out of town by Islamist rebels.

Somali Prime Minister Nur "Adde" Hassan Hussein has appointed a new administration to replace Mr. Daboged, with emerging reports indicating that the Ethiopian troops are securing Beletwein before new Gov. Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed takes office.
Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Islamic Courts


Home Front: WoT
US Drops Charges Against Alleged '20th Hijacker' in September 11 Attacks
The United States has dropped charges against the alleged "20th hijacker" in the September 11th, 2001, terror attacks on the United States. The Defense Department says charges against Mohammed al-Qahtani of Saudi Arabia were dropped without prejudice, meaning they can be filed again later. Charges against five other suspects in the attacks were referred to trial. Those suspects include the alleged mastermind of the attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman could not say why the charges against al-Qahtani were dropped, but did say that the reasons could include the nature of the charges, the evidence and commission rules, among other potential factors. Whitman says the five suspects referred to trial should be arraigned within 30 days, and the trial could begin within 120 days. The Pentagon says the five men will be tried jointly in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and that they face the possibility of being sentenced to death.

U.S. prosecutors said al-Qahtani did not take part in the attacks because he was denied entry into the United States by an immigration agent. Al-Qahtani recanted a confession he made at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, alleging it was made after he was tortured and humiliated.

Prosecutors filed murder and war crimes charges in February against the suspects, who also include Walid bin Attash, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali and Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawi. All of the men are being held at the U.S. military facility in Guantanamo Bay.
This article starring:
Ali Abd al-Aziz Alial-Qaeda
Bryan Whitman
Khalid Sheikh Mohammedal-Qaeda
Mohammed al-Qahtanial-Qaeda
Mustafa Ahmed al-Hawsawial-Qaeda
Ramzi bin al-Shibhal-Qaeda
Walid bin Attashal-Qaeda
Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  Talk about being shamed. This is shameful. If this jerk is freed, he'll be on the street in Riyadh within 30 days, as per normal. His situation should have been taken care of long ago. Permanently.
Posted by: Woozle Elmeter 2700 || 05/14/2008 9:09 Comments || Top||

#2  You don't understand, WE2700. We turned him, he's OUR man in Riyadh. He probably won't be able to get within ten miles of an al-Qaida operative for the next 50 years. He's damaged goods, suspect, a possible traitor. His life will be a living hell.

"There's more than one way to skin a cat, and none of them are pleasant to the cat..."
Posted by: Old Patriot || 05/14/2008 12:54 Comments || Top||

#3  I think it's the quid for the expected 'pro quo' as Bush has to beg ask King Abdullah to do something to make gas prices go down.

Grrr.
Posted by: Seafarious || 05/14/2008 17:19 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
'Indian Mujahideen sends pre-blast video footage'
An e-mail along with a video clip of the pre-blast footage has been sent exclusively to Aaj Tak and Headlines Today, after almost 24-hours of the blast.

In the video footage a cycle with a bag on its carrier allegedly loaded with explosives is shown. The cycle's frame no. is 129489. It was positioned near Choti Chaupal.

The e-mail that has been sent by a lesser known terrorist outfit 'Indian Mujahideen' that warns the Indian government of similar attacks in the future if the government continues to support US and its policies.

The e-mail claims that the blasts were intended to hit the tourism sector of Rajasthan.

The outfit has threatened of similar attacks in the four metros cities vis Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai.
Posted by: john frum || 05/14/2008 16:23 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Global Jihad

#1  More evidencia that despite the rumblings in Lebanon + Africa, the REAL COVERT FOCII OF THE JIHAD 2008-2012/13 IS NOW FULLY = SOLELY AGZ RUSSIA-CHINA + CENTRAL ASIA, i.e. Cold War/Commie "Attacking where the US/US-NATO, etc. are NOT", "Hugging the Waist/Brlt", etc. + POST-COLD WAR/USSR ANTI-US "LOCAL/WAR/BATTLE ZONE" STRATEMS.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 05/14/2008 17:59 Comments || Top||

#2  All cities with teams in the new IPL. Maybe, they hate cricket.
Posted by: phil_b || 05/14/2008 22:00 Comments || Top||

#3  REDDIT > UPI - INDIA DECLARES NATIONWIDE TERRORISM ALERT.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 05/14/2008 22:31 Comments || Top||


Soldier killed in Bajaur attacks
A security officer was killed and two people injured when unidentified men attacked security checkposts with missiles and rockets in Bajaur Agency late on Monday, sources and locals said on Tuesday. Fighting continued for nearly three hours after the attacks on Bajaur Levies and Scouts checkposts in Raghgan Dag, Haji Long Chowk, Badan Kot, and Inayat Qilla. Security officer Mohibullah Khan was killed and another, Khitab Khan, was injured. A 10-year-old girl was also injured when a shell hit a house in the Raghgan area. On Tuesday, the political administration diffused a missile about 15 kilometres from Khar. A remote-controlled bomb was also set off on the Pakistan Highway in the Ali Masjid area, damaging a security vehicle. No loss of life was reported.
Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban


Maulana Abdul Aziz makes bail in 26 of 27 cases
Anti-Terrorism Court No 1 on Tuesday granted bail to Lal Masjid cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz in six of seven cases.

Aziz was arrested last year during the Lal Masjid military operation.

ATC Judge Chaudhry Habibur Rehman granted bail over charges of kidnap; violating Section 144 of the Constitution; and delivering speeches against President Pervez Musharraf.

Aziz’s bail plea on charges he and students of Jamia Hafsa madrassa illegally occupied a children’s library was rejected.

Earlier the Islamabad High Court granted bail in four cases including murder and kidnap.

The ATC-1 previously granted bail in 16 cases. It is expected Aziz will soon be freed from detention. Imran Shafiq, a lawyer representing Aziz, told Daily Times that an appeal seeking his client’s bail in the last case would be filed.
This article starring:
Lal Masjid
Imran Shafiq, a lawyer representing Aziz
Judge Chaudhry Habibur Rehman
Maulana Abdul AzizLal Masjid
Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Taliban

#1  A perfect example why you cannot fight terror in the criminal court system. Every person in the United States should read this and understand the limits of the criminal justice system in fighting a war.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 05/14/2008 13:00 Comments || Top||


80 killed, 150 wounded in Jaipur blasts
Updates yesterday's story...
Terror struck yet again — this time in Jaipur, at the busiest market, at the busiest hour, aimed with chilling precision to kill, maim, terrify and cleave the country. At last count, the toll was 80 killed, and with over 150 injured, it could go up.

The first blast took place at 7.20pm on Tuesday in the crowded Johari Bazaar and within 15 minutes seven more blasts occurred in adjoining areas in the walled city — near the Hanuman Mandir, which was milling with devotees, near Hawa Mahal, at Badi Chaupad, Tripolia Bazar and Chandpole.

Within minutes, the entire market was a picture of total chaos. People ran screaming, jumping over dead bodies and severed limbs, skirting mangled rickshaws and damaged cars. The piercing wail of ambulance sirens replaced the firecrackers that would go off every other day in Jaipur to celebrate its victorious Rajasthan Royals T20 team.

Terrorists displaying the telltale tactics of Lashkar-e-Taiba and SIMI struck with bombs planted on cycles and cycle-rickshaws. In the past three years, this is the 21st terror attack outside Jammu & Kashmir. Chief minister Vasundhara Raje said, "We will not tolerate this."

Police later arrested a man from Mumbai. Rajasthan's director general of police, A S Gill, said the attacks were designed to cause maximum damage and the sites had been picked with care. He confirmed that bombs had been planted on brand- new Avon cycles. Similar cycle blasts on September 8, 2006, in Malegaon, Maharashtra, had killed 38 people during a Muslim festival day. Bombs on cycles were also used for the attack on the Faizabad court.

The Malegaon attacks were blamed on LeT and the banned Students' Islamic Movement of India.

The Jaipur attack might have been worse had three unexploded bombs not been defused in the walled city area. Another bomb was defused in the upmarket Raja Park area, triggering fresh fears. Mercifully, the city was keeping calm.
Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Lashkar e-Taiba


Iraq
Teenage Girl Used In Suicide Bombing
A teenage girl strapped with explosives has blown up and killed an Iraqi army captain. The bomb was detonated by remote control, injuring four soldiers in addition to the one who died, an Iraqi Army spokesman said.

Local authorities imposed a curfew in the area and American troops launched a search for those responsible.

US soldiers originally said an eight-year-old girl was used in the attack, which took place near Youssifiyah, south of the capital, Baghdad. But the US army now believes the girl was around 16-years-old.

The horrific bombing came as Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki flew to Mosul to take charge of a major offensive against al Qaeda.

The US military says the northern city is the terror group's last major urban stronghold in Iraq. Military officials hope the offensive will deliver a knockout blow. Sunni Islamist al Qaeda gunmen have regrouped in Mosul and the surrounding province of Nineveh after being pushed out of Baghdad and western Anbar province by US and Iraqi forces.
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 05/14/2008 17:30 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq

#1  Why is Maliki going too mosul too take charge of a military op?
Posted by: sinse || 05/14/2008 17:55 Comments || Top||

#2  I think to show the flag and make sure the IA commanders understand that it has to be done right. Just my guess.
Posted by: Steve White || 05/14/2008 18:01 Comments || Top||

#3  Maliki needs to show that he's in charge of the Iraqi army.
Posted by: buwaya || 05/14/2008 18:36 Comments || Top||

#4  It worked OK in Basra.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 05/14/2008 19:13 Comments || Top||

#5  1) it helps with morale for troops to see the leadership out there with them; 2) it helps his political credibility; and 3) it sends a message to the enemy that the government is serious about removing them.
Posted by: Shieldwolf || 05/14/2008 22:10 Comments || Top||

#6  IIRC, Age EIGHT is officially a CHILD, NOT A "TEEN" NOR EVEN "PRE-TEEN"!?
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 05/14/2008 22:39 Comments || Top||

#7  Correct, JosephM, but in the third paragraph it says they now believe the girl was 16, hence a teenager. But it is the kind of act that will send the perpetrators to Hell, if there is a Hell.
Posted by: trailing wife || 05/14/2008 23:11 Comments || Top||


Apache Videos -= Composite
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 05/14/2008 12:56 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Good Lord
Posted by: Neville Ebbung2859 || 05/14/2008 13:11 Comments || Top||

#2  Good Lord

Just Lord...
Posted by: RD || 05/14/2008 17:22 Comments || Top||

#3  Good Lord.
Posted by: George Smiley || 05/14/2008 17:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Such a waste of human life. I hate Islam for filling these minds with hatred to the point where we had to blow up the bodies that house them.
Posted by: OldSpook || 05/14/2008 18:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Name that tune. That soundtrack is impressive.

It is not a waste of human life. If there was ever a legitimate need to dehumanize such animals, this is it. I feel no more compassion for such scum than if they were Einsatzgruppen or Red Khmer. They are a plague upon the world, and deserve no respect or quarter.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 05/14/2008 19:01 Comments || Top||


Marine is IA Mobile Recruiting Advisor
A short video on how one marine is helping the IA improve its mobile recruiting procedures.
Posted by: gorb || 05/14/2008 04:35 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Turkish raid kills 11 PKK militants
Turkish commando units have killed at least 11 PKK 'terrorists' through attacks on their bases in Northern Iraq over past two days.

The operations launched over the past two days in the Avasin-Basyan region, five kilometers (three miles) from the border, AFP quoted military sources as saying on Tuesday. Special teams involved in the operations were backed by air cover, with Turkish warplanes bombing the area, the sources added.

According to the army several facilities, including the Kurdistan Workers Party's (PKK) media and propaganda centre, were destroyed.

An attack by the PKK rebels on a Turkish military outpost on Friday, which resulted in the killing of six soldiers and 19 militants, reportedly prompted the Turkish air raid on rebel positions in Avasin-Basyan late Saturday.
Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


US kills 11 people in Sadr City
A US overnight military attack has killed at least 11 people in Baghdad's Sadr City, despite a ceasefire agreement to end the bloodshed.

Another 20 people were wounded, some of them women and children, medics from Sadr City's Imam Ali and Al-Sadr hospitals said on Tuesday. Sporadic armed clashes have also been reported despite Saturday's ceasefire agreement between the Iraqi government and cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army.

The Sadr movement said it was the US military which was violating the truce with its repeated air strikes against the slum district. "We demand that the government stays committed to the deal and stop the repeated violations, especially the continuous US air strikes," Sadr's spokesman in the central city of Najaf, Sheikh Salah al-Obeidi, told AFP. "We are still committed to the deal but for its successful implementation on the ground, the air strikes and artillery shelling must stop. "

Both the Iraqi government and Sadr's movement have said that it will take until Wednesday to fully implement their truce agreement.
Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Mahdi Army

#1  HA! The Taters are all Sniveling now LOL!... It's all they got left--> Shit-Sandwiches for the Leftard Press.
Posted by: RD || 05/14/2008 1:44 Comments || Top||

#2  This is going all wrong, guys. The Americans are supposed to stop shooting and we continue. It's the Mohamand way! Only Allah's enemies are supposed to follow the terms of a truce. We continue to kill until all of Allah's enemies are dead.The Prophet, himself, said so.
Posted by: Jack Slineger4174 || 05/14/2008 13:02 Comments || Top||

#3  My best friend grew up in Baghdad. He told me this weekend that Sadr City (formerly Saddam City) has always been a hellhole. His description was it's like South Central Los Angeles on steroids!
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 05/14/2008 14:57 Comments || Top||

#4  man our troops really know how too kill women and children but not one single bad guy ever / sarcasm hell kill all the SOBs
Posted by: sinse || 05/14/2008 17:59 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
At least 14 hurt as Grad rocket hits Ashkelon shopping mall
time for a 55 gallon drum of Kosher Whupass
At least 14 people were wounded Wednesday evening, including a baby girl and her mother, when a Grad rocket fired from Gaza hit the Hutzot Shopping Center in Ashkelon.

MDA said that the baby was listed in moderate condition, her mother and two others were seriously wounded, two people were in moderate condition and nine people, including two children, were lightly hurt. Dozens of people were treated for shock. The casualties were evacuated to the city's Barzilai Hospital.

The rocket hit the top floor of the building, where offices and clinics are located, and the shopping mall sustained considerable damage. Rescue service director Eli Bean said at least two people were trapped under the rubble. They were later rescued and taken to the hospital.

Witnesses said an early warning siren meant to give a few seconds for people to take cover did not sound before the rocket slammed into the mall.

Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the rocket attack in a statement on its Web site.
Guess they're not covered under the Hamas hudna ...
The attack came as Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and US President George W. Bush concluded their meeting in Jerusalem.

Olmert said at the end of the talks that Israel would not tolerate attacks from Gaza terrorists. "We will not be able to tolerate continuous attacks on innocent civilians. We hope we will not have to act against Hamas in other ways with the military power that Israel hasn't yet started to use in a serious manner in order to stop it," said Olmert before learning of the attack on Ashkelon.
Except that you have been tolerating it, which over time tends to undercut your message ...
Likud MK Gideon Sa'ar said the attack was the result of the government's "continuing weak policy of restraint" that he said was effectively the abandonment of residents of the South. He called for a wide-scale military operation in Gaza "in order to restore security to southerners."
Posted by: Frank G || 05/14/2008 13:49 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Likud MK Gideon Sa'ar said the attack was the result of the government's "continuing weak policy of restraint" that he said was effectively the abandonment of residents of the South.

Israel has waited long enough for "peace" to break out!

ACT!

Posted by: RD || 05/14/2008 15:02 Comments || Top||

#2  I'm sure Bush was impressed with their willingness for peace. What a bunch of idiots, Bush may just say open your can of whupass, we will pressure Syrias borders.
Posted by: bman || 05/14/2008 15:09 Comments || Top||

#3  It's 77 now.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 05/14/2008 16:14 Comments || Top||

#4  Are they putting rat poison in their rockets, too, or is there a possibility of survivable injuries?

Posted by: trailing wife || 05/14/2008 23:09 Comments || Top||


Israeli blitz kills Hamas activist
An Israeli air strike has killed a Hamas activist and wounded three other people in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian medics say. An Israeli army spokeswoman confirmed the strike against Palestinians in the coastal territory on Tuesday. Muawiya Hassanin, the head of Gaza's emergency services, also confirmed the casualties.
Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hamas

#1  a "blitz" should add a couple zeroes to that casualty figure. I remain unfazed
Posted by: Frank G || 05/14/2008 0:05 Comments || Top||

#2  Frank, since "blitz" is the German word for lightning, I think its use here is appropriate - a sudden, fairly precise strike.
I, too, would like to see a Bogenlicht (arc light) strike on Gaza and a few other places, though.
Posted by: Rambler in California || 05/14/2008 12:05 Comments || Top||

#3  time for me to pass out the reciprocation chocolate and do the happy dance?
Posted by: Querent || 05/14/2008 17:30 Comments || Top||


Sri Lanka
'Tamil Tigers killed' in new clash
At least 10 fighters from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) have been killed in battles with Sri Lankan government forces, according to the country's defence ministry. Sporadic fighting took place around the northern Vavuniya district on Monday, the ministry said, without giving casualty figures for its own troops. The defence ministry also blamed the LTTE for killing a policeman during fighting in the eastern district of Batticaloa on Monday. There was no immediate comment on the defence ministry's statement from the LTTE, who are fighting the Colombo-based government to win autonomy for ethnic Tamils.

The latest clashes raise the number of LTTE fighters killed by Sri Lankan troops to 3,614, according to the country's defence ministry. The ministry says that 272 security force personnel have died in the fighting. The defence ministry's death toll cannot be independently verified as the government prevents media and human rights workers from entering areas where combat is taking place.
Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


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Leb army expands deployment to impose order
The Lebanese army expanded its troop deployment to tense areas around the country Tuesday, saying its soldiers would use force if needed to impose order after clashes between the U.S.-backed government and Hezbollah-led opposition.
They won't use force against Hezbollah, of course...
The army, which is respected by the Hezbollah militants, has played a central role in defusing the violence by calling on armed supporters from both sides to leave the streets. But it has remained neutral in the conflict and did not intervene as Shiite gunmen from Hezbollah overran much of western Beirut and the offices of Sunni parliamentary majority leader, Saad Hariri.
That's not being neutral...
President Bush and Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal accused Iran of exacerbating the situation by supporting Hezbollah. In an interview with BBC Arabic TV, Bush called Iran the "crux of many of the problems in the Middle East," adding that "Hezbollah would be nothing without Iranian support." In a sign of rising regional tensions over the conflict, Saud also warned that Tehran's relations with Arab countries would be affected by its support for the militant group. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad responded quickly, telling reporters that Saud's comments were made in anger and likely did not reflect the views of Saudi King Abdullah.

In his first public appearance since immediately after the clashes began, Hariri blamed Iran and Syria for the outbreak of violence, telling a news conference the allies wanted to "play a political game in Lebanon's streets."

The country's worst internal fighting since the end of the civil war in 1990, which has left at least 54 people dead. "Army units will prevent any violations, whether by individuals or groups, in accordance with the law even if this is going to lead to the use of force," the army said in a statement released late Monday.
But they're not gonna shoot it out with Hezbollah. Prob'ly they won't shoot it out with Jumblatt's Druzes, either. Too tough.
Troops deployed to several neighborhoods in the capital and to the mountains overlooking Beirut. They also sent troops to the northern city of Tripoli that witnessed heavy clashes on Monday.

Hezbollah supporters and their allies were seen in several areas of Beirut on Tuesday, but none were armed. Streets in the capital were busy as more businesses opened, though many roads were still blocked by opposition supporters, including the highway leading to the country's only international airport. The U.S. Embassy said Tuesday that U.S. military helicopters will be flying in supplies.

Bush expressed his support for the Lebanese government and army on Monday during an interview with Al-Arabiya television, saying Washington would continue to supply and train the country's forces. He also confirmed that the U.S. military has moved the destroyer USS Cole off the coast of Lebanon but said it was "part of a routine training mission that had been scheduled a long time before."

Future TV, a station owned by Hariri, was back on the air after Hezbollah threatened to destroy the station's offices, said chief editor Nadim Mounla. He said Hariri's Al Mustaqbal newspaper will also resume publication Wednesday, four days after its offices were ransacked and burned.
Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  Rantburgers you need to read Farah's article on yesterdays CT Blog comparing the Druze to the 300 Spartans at Thermopalyae. Amazing juxtaposition.
Posted by: Rightwing || 05/14/2008 11:34 Comments || Top||


Pro-govt Lebanon TV station resumes broadcasting
The pro-government Future TV station, forced off the air by opposition gunmen last week, resumed broadcasting on Tuesday with footage of violence from Beirut and a fiery speech by its owner Saad al-Hariri.

After an initial technical glitch in which no sound was heard for a few minutes after 1330 GMT, the backdrop of a Lebanese flag was shown and a news broadcaster said: "They wanted us without a voice and now we come back loudly ... we said we would come back and we did."

Lebanon has a variety of TV stations allied to rival domestic political factions. Future TV is viewed as the mouthpiece of the fragile U.S.-backed government that has lost much of its credibility in its 18 months of conflict with Hezbollah.

A building housing some of the station's studios was set on fire by pro-Syrian gunmen during Hezbollah's rapid takeover of the Muslim half of Beirut last week before they later handed positions over to the army.
Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah


Lebanese army bans carrying arms
The Lebanese army says it will impose a ban on carrying arms in the streets as of Tuesday morning and it will use force to enforce the ban. The military announced on Monday that the ban would impose from 6 a.m. Tuesday, warning that it would resort to force if it had to do so.

The announcement was made following days of fierce clashes between rival political groups across the country. The battles spread to northern Lebanon and the Mount Lebanon region after relative calm was restored to Beirut.

The army has been struggling to quell violence without taking sides. The fierce fighting started after the Western back government outlawed a telecommunication network used by Hezbollah and sacked Beirut Airport's security chief over alleged ties with the resistance movement. At least 61 people were killed and more than 200 injured in the battles.
Posted by: Fred || 05/14/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Hezbollah

#1  Lebanese army bans carrying arms

That'l make them easy to beat.
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 05/14/2008 12:33 Comments || Top||



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