(SomaliNet) Islamist insurgents attacked an Ethiopian military convoy south of Mogadishu leaving at least three civilians dead on Monday, witnesses said. "Heavily armed insurgents ambushed an Ethiopian military convoy that left Afgoye and the attack occurred between Lego and Jameo," local resident Hussein Abdullahi told AFP by telephone. Lego is a small town around 110 kilometres (70 miles) south of the capital.
"The Ethiopian forces killed three civilians after the attack and their dead bodies were brought here in Yakbiriweyne," Abdullahi said.
"We heard an intense gunbattle that lasted for about 35 minutes just after the Ethiopian military convoy passed through our village," said Madkarin Moalim Nur, another resident. "There were casualties (among the fighters) but we could not confirm a figure except the three civilians that the Ethiopians killed in a nearby village after the attack," he explained.
Sheikh Abdirahim Ali Ise, a spokesman for the Islamist insurgents, claimed responsibility for the ambush and said Ethiopian troops were killed. "Our forces ambushed a military convoy of Ethiopian invaders near Lego. We destroyed three of the trucks and killed many of them," he said by telephone from a secret location. No separate confirmation of this claim was available.
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Lego is a small town around 110 kilometres (70 miles) south of the capital.
"..known for its' snap-together structures and vehicles. The squat inhabitants are rather quiet with pleasant steady smiles and yellowish complexions"
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three civilians that the Ethiopians killed in a nearby village {having fled there?} after the attack
Or at least they were not wearing uniforms. They might even have left their guns in the truck. That would make them not just civilians, but unarmed civilians.
MADRID A powerful truck bomb detonated outside a barracks housing police officers and their families in northern Spain on Wednesday, tearing through the building and killing a policeman. The authorities immediately blamed Basque militant group ETA, though nobody claimed responsibility.
The blast on the outskirts of Legutiano, a small town near the Basque capital of Vitoria, struck the barracks without warning in the middle of the night, as some 30 members of the Spanish civil guard and their families slept. It blew out windows and shattered part of the roof, trapping people inside and spraying debris and car parts over a wide area, according to witnesses accounts. Juan Manuel Piñuel Villalón, 41, was killed and four others wounded, none seriously, police said.
Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, who flew to Vitoria to pay his respects to the dead officer, called the bombing cowardly, ignoble and criminal and vowed the killers would feel the full weight of the law.
Until the next time he cuts a deal with ETA ...
Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba, Spains interior minister, said ETA intended to produce a massacre but failed. He added: But they did not fail entirely because they killed an innocent person who was simply doing his job. Rubalcaba, who spoke to reporters after visiting the site, said the attackers had used a large amount of explosives.
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Like told in the article it was a outside the barracks housing the families. They wnet after causing a carnage not merely between officers but also with their children. But they were unable to do it when the dead policeman noticed the minitruck so the terrorists were forced to detonate it prematurely.
Pakistani authorities and Taliban militants exchanged dozens of prisoners Wednesday, officials said in the latest breakthrough in a peace process that is stirring growing alarm in the West.
Pakistan army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said tribal elders mediating in the talks Wednesday secured the release of seven security personnel, including two army officers.
In return, Abbas said authorities released 30 people detained in Waziristan, a key militant stronghold overlooking the Afghan border.
Abbas described the 30 only as "tribal people" and gave no further details. However, three Pakistani intelligence officials said they were suspected militants.
Pakistan's new civilian government has offered to negotiate with militants who renounce violence in an attempt to halt a bloody series of suicide bombings on its cities and security forces.
Western officials worry that poorly enforced peace deals will allow al-Qaida and Taliban militants to fortify their havens in the semiautonomous tribal belt on the Pakistani side of the frontier.
NATO on Wednesday reported a sharp rise in attacks by insurgents in eastern Afghanistan, saying it was concerned the violence is the result of agreements between Pakistani authorities and militants.
The Pakistani intelligence officials said the prisoner exchange took place in Razmak, a town in North Waziristan, after talks between tribal elders and envoys of militant chief Baitullah Mehsud.
The officials said 30 militants from the North and South Waziristan regions were freed. They said Mehsud ordered the release of 12 government soldiers five more than Abbas confirmed. It was not immediately possible to reconcile the varying accounts.
Two of the officials said the militants were flown in from Dera Ismail Khan, a town close to the lawless tribal belt. The third official, based in South Waziristan, said the soldiers were flown in the opposite direction.
The three intelligence officials asked for anonymity due to their work's sensitive nature.
Pakistani officials have said an agreement with Mehsud and other Taliban chiefs along the border will include commitments to halt terrorist attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan and to expel foreign militants.
They already have reached an agreement with one pro-Taliban cleric in the Malakand region, further to the north, and announced concessions Tuesday on implementation of Islamic law in order to smooth ongoing negotiations with another.
U.S. and British officials, who have troops on the Afghan side of the porous border and are among those most concerned that al-Qaida uses the region to launch attacks on the West, have voiced cautious support.
Washington and London are co-funding a plan to flood the impoverished tribal belt, a possible hiding place for al-Qaida chief Osama bin Laden, with development aid in a bid to dry up support for extremism.
But they view past peace deals, struck under former army chief now president Pervez Musharraf, as failures and warn that any fresh accords must be strictly enforced.
Militants have demanded the withdrawal of troops sent into the border region in 2001 by Musharraf, a close U.S. ally who retired from the military last year and whose power has diminished further since his opponents won February parliamentary elections.
NATO spokesman James Appathurai said its eastern regional command reported attacks in its area of Afghanistan were up 50 percent in April compared with the same period last year.
"The principle concern is ... the deals being struck between the Pakistani government and extremist groups in the tribal areas may be allowing them ... to have safe havens, rest, reconstitute and then move across the border," Appathurai told reporters in Brussels.
He said the alliance was taking up the issue of militant safe havens with Pakistani authorities, and that NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer aimed to travel to Islamabad soon. "We do not want and do not intend to engage in the internal political activities of Pakistan, but we have every right to and will convey our concerns about what is happening inside Afghanistan," he said.
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Two Arab princes arrested in Pakistan for their alleged links to Al-Qaeda Prince Abdul Karim of Morocco and Yemens Prince Abdul Haq are to be deported. The Urdu-language newspaper Roznama Mashriq reported that the two princes were held on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in 2003. According to the report, Prince Abdul Karim and Prince Abdul Haq spent four years in a Pakistani jail and are being deported on the orders of the Peshawar High Court.
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Not only the Saudi princes that support ALQ/Terrorism!!!
Polictical Islam from Saudi/Iran govts downwards its all about changing the world to Islam/Sharia!!!!
Bottom line dont trust any TRUE Muslim as they all want the same thing eg.Muslim brotherhood,Hamas,Hezbollah etc etc
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i dind't even know that yemen had princes, and who want the shit hole of a country
The dead body of a missing Pakistan Army soldier was found on Wednesday in North Waziristan, along with a note in Pashto saying that he was killed for being a United States spy. Feroz, hailing from the Mir Ali town of North Waziristan, was kidnapped on April 23 and found dead 15 kilometres east of Miranshah in Pir Killay. Feroz, member of the Khushali Toorikhel tribe in Mir Ali town, was an American spy and his confession video will soon be made available in Miranshah markets, read the note found on his body. The body had bullet wounds and its severed head was lying nearby, a security official told AFP. Eyewitnesses said the soldier was beheaded, an act usually attributed to the Taliban. However, no group has claimed responsibility for the beheading yet. Dozens of people have been killed on charges of being US spies in North and South Waziristan. However, none of the spying charges have been independently verified.
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Underground militant organisation Ghazi Abdul Rashid Shaheed Brigade (GARSB) has threatened video shops owners in Quetta to quit their business or face suicide attacks.
All music centre owners, cable operators and cinema owners should immediately quit their businesses and seek Allahs forgiveness otherwise such individuals will be killed and suicide attacks will be carried out against them, reads the GARSBs recent warning. The organisation, named after Islamabads Red Mosques slain prayer leader Ghazi Abdul Rashid, has shocked the entertainment industry in Quetta following the distribution of the threatening pamphlets. The GARSB views all forms of entertainment as un-Islamic.
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SUICIDE attacks against music stores? The storekeepers are so well-armed that these nutjobs can't just walk in and trash the stores with grenades and shoot the merchants? Must be a glut of unemployed suicide bombers on the market these days.
Unknown attackers blew up a power transmission line in Darra Adam Khel causing power outage to various parts of the region, Geo News reported on Wednesday. A power pylon which was blown up in Kandoli cut the power supply to various areas, Geo News said. The administration has registered a case against the culprits.
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BARA: A tribal elder was killed and his driver badly injured when armed men ambushed his vehicle near the Karkhano market in Peshawar on Wednesday. Malik Ahmad Khan Kookikhel was on his way to Peshawar from Bara when armed men in another car intercepted his car and opened fire. The tribal elder and his driver Azizullah were rushed to Hayatabad Medical Complex in critical condition, where Malik Ahmad died later.
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An old guy who just wouldn't adjust to the times, still stuck in the 20th century, rather than the 7th century, where he should be.
Security forces on Wednesday launched a military operation in Darra Adam Khel and demolished the house of a local militant commander after talks between security forces and local tribal elders fell apart.
Aaj TV reported that a jirga held in the Zarghon area of Darra Adam Khel had collapsed when local elders failed to present militants who had opened fire on a security forces vehicle to the jirga. It said that the jirgas failure had resulted in security forces demolishing the house of local Taliban commander Ajmal. The militants retaliated, but the security forces continued their operation and destroyed several positions, it added.
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Around 24 madrassa students from Swat are being investigated by security forces, while first information reports (FIR) have been registered against six others for being involved in child militancy during the military operation in Swat.
In his report on childrens rights, the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) Child Rights Committee (CRC) District Co-ordinator Shaukat Salim said that child militancy in Swat is on the rise.
He told Daily Times that about 25 to 30 madrassa students (from seven to 15 years of age) of Kabal tehsil were used as child militants by rebel cleric Mullah Fazlullah.
Salim said that security forces had registered FIRs against six students at Kabal Police Station after thwarting a planned suicide mission against security forces. He said the remaining 24 students were still under investigation at an undisclosed location.
The militants forced several medical centres to shut down, including a non-governmental organisation Plan Pakistan, claiming that these centres were carrying out the US anti-Islam agenda.
Forced: Revealing the ordeal of one Abid, 12, Salim said that the boy had been admitted to Fazlullahs madrassa by his parents to memorise the holy Quran. I learnt 18 siparahs (volumes) of the Quran at the madrassa. Then, during the military operation, Mullah Fazlullah and his spokesman Sirajul Haq compelled me to wear a suicide jacket and target the district courts of Swat, the CRC district co-ordinator quoted Abid as saying.
He said that Abid had entered the district court premises on February 26, but exited without detonating his suicide jacket for fear of being arrested by police at the court. He said that he had been followed by intelligence agencies and then arrested at the militants Imam Dheri complex. He said the police had also recovered eight piles of improvised explosives and suicide jackets from the same place. The Kabal Police Station registered an FIR against Abid on charges of terrorism and the boy was currently detained in a Swat prison, he added.
Salim said that the CRC had launched a campaign to apprise parents of the region about the issue of child militancy. He said the militants had forced several medical centres to shut down, including a non-governmental organisation Plan Pakistan, claiming that these centres were carrying out the US anti-Islam agenda.
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He said that Abid had entered the district court premises on February 26, but exited without detonating his suicide jacket for fear of being arrested by police at the court
I think Abid was unclear on the level of possible consequences...
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At least a dozen militants including foreign fighters were killed Wednesday in a suspected US missile strike on two houses in northwestern Pakistan, a senior security official said. Two missiles apparently fired by a US drone aircraft demolished a house and a compound used by suspected Al-Qaeda militants in Bajaur tribal region near the border with Afghanistan, the official, who declined to be identified, told AFP. "We have reports that the missile strike killed at least 12 militants including some foreigners," the official said.
No word yet on the baby duck count, but it'll probably be out soon enough...
The houses targetted belonged to Maulvi Taj Mohammad and Maulvi Hassan, the official said, though it was unclear if they had been killed in the strikes. "Both were Al-Qaeda facilitators," he said, adding there was an ammunition dump in one of the houses.
Separately, chief military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas told AFP that the army was unaware of any missile strike in the region. "We have no information about the strike," he said, adding the army was not in the area.
"Nobody told us..."
Similar missile attacks in the past have claimed the lives of several militants in Pakistan's volatile tribal belt. Although there were no immediate claims of responsibility Wednesday, a US Predator drone targetted Al-Qaeda's deputy leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Damadola in January 2006, killing several rebels but missing him. A similar missile strike on a pro-Taliban militant camp in another tribal area killed 10 people in November last year, though it was not clear who was responsible. Pakistan's army at the time said it was not involved while the US-led coalition in Afghanistan, the only force known to operate drones in the area, said it was not aware of any activity.
The attack on Wednesday came as NATO urged Pakistan to improve security on its border with Afghanistan following a rise in cross-border attacks by Taliban fighters and Al-Qaeda militants. "The number of attacks is up significantly from the same period last year," the alliance's chief spokesman James Appathurai said in Brussels. "There is not enough effectiveness in border control on Pakistan's side. The concerns have been communicated to Pakistan."
Pakistan this week moved its troops away from villages and towns in a volatile tribal region bordering Afghanistan as a peace process moves forward, officials said Wednesday. As part of the process, more than 30 tribesmen held in various prisons were freed Tuesday in return for the release of a dozen soldiers detained by pro-Taliban militants, a security official said.
The new government in North West Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan, which replaced the pro-Taliban Islamist administration after February elections, has launched peace talks with the militants led by Al-Qaeda-linked Pakistani warlord Baitullah Mehsud, local officials said. "Talks are being held behind closed doors," a senior government official told AFP. "Some progress has been made," he said but did not elaborate. It was not clear what impact Wednesday's missile strikes would have on those talks.
The United States has expressed concern about any peace deal between Pakistan and militant fighters. Pakistan's military said troop positions across the restive region were being "readjusted," with soldiers being moved away from towns and villages. The moves were mainly to facilitate the return of people who had fled the area due to previous unrest, the military said.
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At least a dozen militants, including foreign fighters, were killed on Wednesday in a suspected United States missile strike on two houses in the Damadola area of Bajaur Agency, a senior security official said. Two missiles, apparently fired by a US drone aircraft, demolished a house and a compound used by suspected Al Qaeda militants, the official, requesting anonymity, told AFP. Two large blasts were heard around 8pm. Residents said they saw drones flying in the area beforehand, AP reported. They said that Taliban militants cordoned off the site soon after the attack.
Taliban spokesman Maulvi Omar told Daily Times by phone that Taliban commander Maulvi Obaidullahs house had been targeted. He said most of the houses residents, including women and children, were killed.
Toldja the baby duck count would come quick enough...
He said the Taliban believed that the US army had initiated the attack to undermine peace efforts, adding, We will avenge this but will continue talks with the government. Separately, however, military spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said that there was no army in the area and he had no knowledge of any missile strike.
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they don't see the drones , since they don't see paki helis or american planes they just guess. of course it couldn't have been the ammo dump goin kabloooey on it's on
Here's another round Mahmud, I'm going back into the building to check on the goat. Don't worry, Allan will protect you from the Infidel's rockets and if he doesn't you'll have all the goats you want. Inshallah!
Baghdad,May15, (VOI)-Iraqi security forces arrested (833)in the main northern city of Mosul as a new crackdown against Al-Qaeda entered its second day on Thursday, Interior ministry official said.
About (833)suspected terrorists were detained so far since Saturday, Brig. Gen. Abdel karim Khalaf, director of National command, told Aswat al-Iraq-Voices of Iraq(VOI) from Mosul.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki who travelled to Mosul on Wednesday to spearhead the latest drive on al-Qaeda network, codenamed Um al-Rabiaeen (Mother of Two Springs), spent the night in the city of more than one million people, Iraqi officials said.
52 of the arrested detainnees have been released for pleading innocent, Khalaf said, while investigations were underway with the rest.
He added the two offensives launched in Mosul were implemented by Iraqi troops.
The US military said it was providing logistics and intelligence support for the Iraqi-led offensive.
Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa province, lies 405 km north Baghdad.
BAGHDAD An Iraqi soldier was watching over the concrete wall on Monday when a .50-caliber round ripped into his head.
Soon after the attack was reported on the tactical radio, two American military advisers were on their way to the scene, laser range finder in hand, to call in a Hellfire missile strike on a sniper position on the far side of a desolate no mans land.
This is the war over the wall. It is a daily battle of attrition waged over the large concrete barrier that the Americans have been building across Sadr City in the hope of establishing a safe zone in the southern tier of the Shiite enclave.
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Well, on the bright side, now they don't have to worry about drowning if they decide to go for a swim and something goes wrong. That must be very comforting : one less thing to be anxious about.
A suicide bomber killed 20 people and wounded dozens more when he blew himself up at a funeral west of Baghdad on Wednesday, Iraqi police said. There was no claim of responsibility, but suspicion is likely to fall on al Qaeda in Iraq militants. The group is blamed for most suicide attacks in Iraq.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered a new assault on Al-Qaeda in the main northern city of Mosul on Wednesday, the jihadists' last urban bastion in Iraq according to the US military. Maliki travelled to Mosul with top aides to take command of the US-backed drive against Al-Qaeda in Iraq in the province, defence ministry spokesman Major General Abdul Kareem Khalaf said.
The prime minister, who ordered a similar offensive against Shiite militias in the main southern city of Basra two months ago, was accompanied by Interior Minister Jawad Bolani and Defence Minister Abdel Qader Jassim Mohammed. "Operation Umm al-Rabiain (Mother of Two Springs) has just started against those threatening the civilian population and attacking Iraqi forces in Mosul," defence ministry spokesman Khalaf told AFP.
"This operation is targeting terrorists and criminals," he said, alluding to Al-Qaeda, which has been accused of a string of major attacks across Nineveh province of which Mosul is the capital.
Khalaf said some 560 people had been rounded up in the area since Tuesday.
Hours later, a suicide bomber detonated explosives at a wake, killing at least 18 people and wounding 35 in the overwhelmingly Sunni Anbar province, west of the capital, security officials said.
Around Mosul, security forces announced a "new phase" in their operations earlier this week. Officials said they advanced from the preparatory stage of the campaign to a full-scale offensive on Wednesday in a bid to flush out Al-Qaeda in Iraq, who are Sunni Arab insurgents loosely linked to the network of Osama bin Laden.
The US military confirmed that they were providing the Iraqi security forces with air cover, logistics support and intelligence. "The operation is conducted and led by Iraqi security forces, but we have a significant contribution to that," Major General Kevin Bergner said in Baghdad.
Shops closed and streets were empty in Mosul as the offensive got into full gear, residents said.
In February, Maliki had announced plans for a decisive battle against Al-Qaeda and called on the population to support the security forces to get rid of "terrorists."
In Baghdad, US troops went from house to house on Wednesday in the militia stronghold of Sadr City looking for bombs and arms ahead of an Iraqi army deployment in line with a truce agreed on Saturday with the Shiite radical movement of Moqtada al-Sadr. Motorcycles and trucks were also subjected to searches by sniffer dogs before being allowed into the impoverished east Baghdad district of some two million people.
The operations were concentrated in the immediate neighbourhood of a wall the Americans have been building that cuts off one-third of Sadr City from the rest of the district. AFP correspondents said that even the small arms traditionally owned by Iraqis were being confiscated.
The US military says the wall is intended to help reduce the smuggling in of rockets and mortars that have been used against the Green Zone compound where the Iraqi government and the US embassy are based.
Just one deadly exchange was reported overnight, when US troops killed two men suspected of planting a roadside bomb, a US military spokesman said. "We welcome the reduced levels of violence because it benefits the Iraqi people," US Lieutenant Colonel Steven Stover said. Medics said the bodies of five people killed in clashes had been received at hospitals in Sadr City overnight.
A deal between Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia and the government to end violence was announced at the weekend and was set to go into full effect from Wednesday, according to the two sides.
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Jordan's military court convicted three terrorists Wednesday of plotting to assassinate US President George W. Bush during a 2006 visit to the kingdom, and sentenced them to 15 years in jail.
The Jordanian men - Nidhal Musleh al-Momani, Sattam al-Zawahrah and Tharwat Daraj, all in their 20s - were arrested on Nov. 28, 2006, the day before Bush landed in the Jordanian capital Amman.
Prosecutors said they were found with machine guns and large plastic bottles filled with gasoline meant to be used for bombs, and had planned to attack the American and Danish embassies in Amman. The three were apparently unaware Denmark had no embassy in Jordan at the time.
Defense attorneys called the case "exaggerated and unrealistic," saying their clients had neither the organizational capability nor the skills to carry out such attacks. But security officers testified that they overheard one of the defendants, al-Momani, saying he wanted to blow himself up in Bush's convoy.
The men went on trial in 2007, pleading not guilty to charges that included planning to carry out terrorist attacks using flammable substances and illegal possession of explosives and automatic rifles.
On Wednesday, the court found all three "guilty beyond doubt of the crime of plotting terrorism," according to the verdict statement.
The defendants, wearing long beards and blue prison uniforms, kneeled as in prayer in the dock as the verdict was read out. They were initially sentenced to death, but the court commuted their jail terms to 15 years, saying they were "young men that deserved another chance in life to repent." Their lawyers said they would appeal the verdict.
According to prosecutors, the three met in Zarqa - an industrial city northeast of Amman and the hometown of slain al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who was killed in a US airstrike in Iraq two years ago.
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Palestinian sources reported early Thursday morning that two Hamas terrorists were killed in an IAF strike of a Hamas look-out station in the Saja'iya neighborhood in Gaza City. A strike against terrorists in Gaza had been authorized by the IAF, according to the IDF spokesman's office. Palestinians also claimed that IDF artillery was fired in the direction of the north of the Strip. No casualties have yet to be reported from this alleged separate strike.
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vengeance that is quiet, deliberate, and restrained
A senior intelligence official and 40 Lebanese army officers have submitted their resignation, following the recent unrest in the country. Deputy chief intelligence for the Lebanese army, Brigadier General Ghassan Balaa, and the officers have resigned to protest 'the way the military handled the latest violence in Lebanon', Press TV's Beirut bureau reported.
Army Commander General Michel Suleiman has reportedly refused to accept the resignations.
Addressing Lebanese army officers on the issue of the recent clashes, Suleiman had said, "what has happened in the streets of Lebanon was a real civil war." Claiming that some of the world's most powerful armies have failed to handle civil wars, he said, "crisis in this country started the day ex-Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri was assassinated, that urgent situation was overcome by your determination, selflessness and devotion."
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What happened was a civil war ? Naaa, what happened was organized thugery pushing the people around and getting away with it due to fear of them. Next time, plan to split them up and make the first move. And, take lots of prisoners, or don't take prisoners, whatever.
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(SomaliNet) Islamist insurgents attacked an Ethiopian military convoy south of Mogadishu leaving at least three civilians dead on Monday, witnesses said. "Heavily armed insurgents ambushed an Ethiopian military convoy that left Afgoye and the attack occurred between Lego and Jameo," local resident Hussein Abdullahi told AFP by telephone. Lego is a small town around 110 kilometres (70 miles) south of the capital. 
MADRID A powerful truck bomb detonated outside a barracks housing police officers and their families in northern Spain on Wednesday, tearing through the building and killing a policeman. The authorities immediately blamed Basque militant group ETA, though nobody claimed responsibility.
At least a dozen militants including foreign fighters were killed Wednesday in a suspected US missile strike on two houses in northwestern Pakistan, a senior security official said. Two missiles apparently fired by a US drone aircraft demolished a house and a compound used by suspected Al-Qaeda militants in Bajaur tribal region near the border with Afghanistan, the official, who declined to be identified, told AFP. "We have reports that the missile strike killed at least 12 militants including some foreigners," the official said.
Baghdad,May15, (VOI)-Iraqi security forces arrested (833)in the main northern city of Mosul as a new crackdown against Al-Qaeda entered its second day on Thursday, Interior ministry official said.
BAGHDAD An Iraqi soldier was watching over the concrete wall on Monday when a .50-caliber round ripped into his head. 
Jordan's military court convicted three terrorists Wednesday of plotting to assassinate US President George W. Bush during a 2006 visit to the kingdom, and sentenced them to 15 years in jail. 
