Afghan and NATO-led forces killed 32 Taliban militants in two separate clashes in Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday.
This isn't war, this is bowling ...
At least 25 militants died in a 10-hour clash in western Badghis province on Wednesday during a joint operation by NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), the Afghan army and police, police said.
'At least 25 Taliban were killed and many were wounded in several hours of fighting after the Taliban attacked our troops,' provincial police chief Mohammad Ayob Niazyar told AFP. He said the clash started on Wednesday afternoon in Muqur district and lasted till midnight. No NATO or Afghan forces were wounded, he added.
The clean-up operation was conducted by the Afghan army and police force supported by Spanish ISAF troops, Niazyar said. There was no immediate comment from ISAF.
Badghis is an isolated rural province where Taliban attacks are relatively uncommon compared with almost daily rebel strikes in southern parts of the country.
Separately seven Taliban militants were killed in eastern Paktika province in a clash with Afghan army special forces, Ghamai Khan Mohammad Yar, the spokesman for the provincial governor, told AFP. The militants attacked an army convoy in Sar Hawza district which sparked a clash. There were no casualties to the Afghan forces, Yar said. 'Seven Taliban were killed and their bodies were left on the battlefield,' he said.
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Nowshera Police on Monday foiled a plot to wreak havoc in the city and arrested three alleged terrorists from the Azakhel area, News One reported. According to the channel, the police raided a house and recovered huge quantities of drugs and a powerful hand grenade. They arrested three people namely, Fawad, Nazim and Rehan. The police registered a case and took the accused to an undisclosed location for investigation, the channel reported.
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The Pak press has stopped giving the names of the guys arrested in a lot of these cases, much less their affiliations.
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terrorists = lotsa drugs and one grenade
Different countries, different definitions. It's like the English language is evolving!
A Pakistani paramilitary soldier was injured on Monday when attackers from within Afghanistan shot at the Chartanna checkpost in the Mohmand Agency. According to sources, the security forces returned fire but the attackers escaped. The incident, which occurred at around 3pm, was at a site only a few metres north of Gorapari. In June, United States forces carried out airstrikes that resulted in the deaths of around 28 people, including 11 paramilitary soldiers. The sources said that it was unclear who the attackers had been, adding that the attack was definitely from the Afghan side.
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I've been lumping these attacks generically under "Taliban," because I haven't been able to break them down any further. The actual "Taliban" is made up of multiple subgroups, ranging from pickup teams like the TNSM to hardcore Qaeda affiliates like Jaish-e-Mohammad.
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A young girl was killed and 13 others injured in a bombing at Minan Chowk in Quetta on Monday, Dawn News reported. According to the channel, the injured included 5 policemen. The police and other law-enforcing agencies were put on high alert after the attack, the channel said.
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Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Monday condemned a series of blasts in Karachi and ordered "high alert" security in all provinces. One person was killed and 50 others, including children, injured in a series of seven low-intensity blasts in two busy neighbouring towns of Karachi. Gilani, who is in Malaysia to attend the sixth D-8 summit, told his Adviser on Interior Affairs Rehman Malik that the government was committed to fighting anti-state elements. He also appealed to the people of Karachi to keep calm. The blasts in Karachi came a day after a suicide bomb killed 19 people near a protest in Islamabad marking the first anniversary of the government's raid on the Lal masjid.
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(Xinhua) -- The death toll in a deadly blast in Pakistani capital Islamabad has risen to 21, including 16 policemen, a local private TV reported on Monday.
The explosion occurred on Sunday in front of a police station near the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, in downtown Islamabad. The blast, apparently targeted at police, has also left more than 40 injured, the private Geo TV said. The explosion occurred shortly after the conclusion of a gathering at Lal Masjid, which was held in connection with the death of Lal Masjid supporters who were killed in an operation a year ago. It was not clear whether the blast is linked with the one-year anniversary of the army operation against the mosque.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. It is also alleged that the blast can be seen as dire revenge from the militant organization for the government's crackdown operation in northwestern Pakistan's tribal region. A joint investigation team, consisting of intelligence officials, had been constituted to probe into the attack.
Pakistan has seen a fall of terrorist attacks in recent months, but violent attacks occur from time to time. On June 2, a car bomb was detonated outside Denmark's embassy in Islamabad, killing more than eight people.
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Pakistain's "fall in terrorist attacks" has been connected with the process of trying to surrender to Baitullah Mehsud in the Great Wazoo. When the surrender process is interrupted they get boomed in Karachi or Islamabad.
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Or its AQ trying to stop the negotiations (no, I dont think thats likely, but its possible)
Or its the AQ obsession with anniversaries.
Or its just a sign that AQ thinks the full destabilization of Pakistan is within site, and possible easier to achieve than taking on the coalition in Afghanistan
(Xinhua) -- One person was killed and up to 40 others injured in at least six blasts in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi on Monday, state-run PTV reported.
One person was killed in a blast in the Qasba colony in Karachi and the blasts also caused traffic jam in some parts of city, said the report. TV channel reports said the blasts occurred at Orange Town, Banaras square, Pahar Gunj, Nazim Abad, Shahrah-e-Noor Jehan and Qasba colony in Karachi. The Capital City Police Officer of Karachi Wasim Ahmed was quoted by TV channels as saying that all the blasts were of low intensity and aimed at creating panic in the city. There is no immediate claim of responsibility for the blasts.
Some people were outraged over the blasts and took to the street in protest. Police and security personnel have been put on high alert in the city following the blasts. Emergency has been declared in local hospitals. Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani strongly condemned the blasts and asked people to help the government maintain law and order in the country.
The blasts came just one day after an explosion in the capital Islamabad , which left 21 people, mostly policemen, killed and more than 40 others injured. A conference called 'Lal Masjid Shuhada Conference' was held to observe the first anniversary of the military operation against Lal Masjid, also named Red Mosque on Sunday. The authorities deployed some policemen at the site of the gathering to provide security for the participants. At the conclusion of the conference, a suicide bomber approached the policemen and launched the attack.
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BAQUBA, Iraq - Six people were killed north of Baghdad on Monday, two of them in a bombing in a women's clothing store in the Diyala provincial capital of Baquba, medical and security sources said.
The blast in the city's Al-Mafraq market had initially been reported as the work of a female suicide bomber but the US military said the woman died when she stepped on a bomb that had been planted in the store. "Our reports indicate the woman killed was an innocent victim of a senseless attack," the military said in a statement.
The US military could confirm only the one death but a medic at Baquba hospital said two people were killed and 14 wounded in the bombing.
Three other attacks in Diyala killed another four people, police said.
A roadside bombing in the Al-Rahima neighbourhood of north Baquba killed a woman, police said. Soon after the blast, residents fired in the air, leaving a second woman killed by a stray bullet.
And two members of anti-Qaeda fronts were killed by snipers, police added. One was murdered in Khan Beni Saad and the other in the Al-Hashmiyat neighbourhood of Baquba.
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A massive amount of natural uranium has been removed by the Iraqi government, and sold to a Canadian company, government spokesman Ali Al Dabbagh said.
The 550 tonnes of uranium, named 'yellowcake' was stored in a compound at Tuwaitha, south of Baghdad. This used to be a nuclear complex during Saddam Hussain's era. 'The Iraqi government decided to get rid of the uranium, which amounted to 550 tonnes, because of its potentially harmful affects on Iraq and the region and because it causes pollution,' Dabbagh said on Sunday.
Dabbagh said the uranium had not undergone any enrichment. The Canadian company that purchased the stockpile wasn't named.
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Sure as heck didnt come from Niger.
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There you go all you skeptics, drive-by media types, liberals, communists, and other treasonous groups/individuals...proof there were WMDs.
The thing that puzzles me is the emphasis the media and uninformed put on the WMD issue, when President Bush made it clear in the UN speech that preceded the Iraq invasion that WMDs wasn't the number one reason for the offensive. It wasn't second or third, either.
At any rate, here we have confirmation of the existence of WMDs and where there's one, there are bound to be others.
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This looks like a rehash of the same story about the GWI discovery.
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Where did it come from, if not Niger? Doesn't uranium have a "fingerprint" identifying the source? The UN claimed it had destroyed the nuclear program following Desert Storm but we now know how they all had a piece of the sanction pie and reluctant to cut the cash flow. It would be most interesting to see just who the supplier was. Maybe Libya got caught with the enrichment tubes intended for Iraq's eventual use?
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The uranium was to be used to in the Osirak reactor and turned into plutonium. That type of reactor is not for power production but very suited for plutonium production due to its very high neutron flux. That's no even taking into account the bomb grade uranium that would fueled the Osirak reactor.
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(Xinhua) -- Unknown gunmen on Monday shot dead the local office head of a Sunni Arab party in a town near Mosul, the capital city of Iraq's Nineveh province, a provincial police source said. 'Abdul Bari Ibrahim, head of the Iraqi Islamic Party, was shot when unknown gunmen opened fire on his car in Allaw village in the ethnically mixed town of Tal Afar, some 70 km west of Mosul,' the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
It was the second attack targeting members in the Islamic Party in two days. On Sunday a roadside bomb detonated near the car of Khaled al-Ubeidi, head of the Iraqi Islamic Party in Fallujah city, who escaped the attack with wounds. The Iraqi Islamic Party headed by Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, is part of the Accordance Front, a major Sunni bloc in the Iraqi parliament.
Separately, five mortar rounds landed on the provincial government office in Mosul on Monday, wounding six people, including two government employees, the source said.
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(Xinhua) -- Palestinian militants fired a mortar shell from the northern Gaza Strip at a border crossing on Monday afternoon, a spokeswoman of Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) told Xinhua.
The spokeswoman said no one was hurt and no damage was caused by the attack on the Karni cargo crossing. But he did not say how Israel would respond to the latest breach of the Gaza truce.
The attack came one day after Israel reopened some border crossings with Gaza following three days of closure in response to Thursday's rocket attack, according to Israeli official Peter Lerner.
The Erez crossing, the main passage for people between Gaza and Israel, was opened to allow Gazans in need of urgent medical attention to travel into Israel.
In addition, the Sufa crossing was opened to allow goods and cement into Gaza, and the Nahal Oz fuel depot was also opened.
Israel closed its border crossings with Gaza again on Thursday following a rocket attack from the Hamas-ruled enclave, which was at least the fifth such attack since the Egyptian-brokered truce went into effect on June 19.
Following Thursday's violation, for which no group has claimed responsibility, Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak instructed the army to close all the border crossings with the Palestinian territories.
The move marked the third time that the Jewish state closes the border in response to rocket attacks from Gaza since the implementation of the ceasefire. The previous two closures lasted for four days and one day respectively.
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Just like clockwork, or 6 more weeks of winter after the groundhog sees his shadow;
as soon as Isreal opens / reopens a crossing, some Paleoscum fires rockets or rockets at them.
And while you cannot teach the Paleo dogs any sort of new tricks, it sure looks like the Isrealis are drinking from the same waterdish. What will it take for them to wake TF up?????
Suspected Islamic terrorists separatists on Tuesday shot dead a couple and burned their bodies on the roadside in the latest atrocity to hit Thailand's troubled, majority-Muslim deep South.
Thai-Buddhists Chachawan Sonkamnong and his wife Amphai were shot dead in an ambush in Mayo district of Pattani province, about 750 kilometres south of Bangkok, as they drove a motorcycle to work in a rubber plantation, police said. Their 14-year-old son, Suphot, who was also on the motorcycle, managed to flee the assailants. The perpetrators, believed to be Muslim terrorists militants, doused the dead couple with kerosine and burned their bodies on the roadside. 'We believe the assailants were people from the area bent on scaring the local population,' said Major General Thawatchai Samusakorn.
On Monday in Nong Chik district, also in Pattani, assailants attacked a military truck escorting children to school, killing two soldiers. Three children were injured when their school bus crashed after the attack.
Malacañang stood pat on its no-ransom policy as negotiations continue to seek the freedom of four employees of the Basilan Electric Cooperative (Baselco) taken hostage by alleged members of the Abu Sayyaf, Press Secretary Jesus Dureza said.
In a news conference Monday, Dureza said security forces are dealing with the situation and efforts are underway to release the hostages safely. 'Our security forces are handling these on ground. Malacañang is steadfast on no-ransom policy, we'll not change that. We hope local efforts will work so we can bring home these people safely,' he said.
Baselco employees Ronnie Tansiung, Emilberto Singson, Alberto Singson, Paul Herwig, and Ian Herwig were seized last June 26 in Tuburan town. Tansiung was freed the same day. The kidnappers are reportedly demanding P1 million for the hostages.
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The military has claimed to have foiled a plot to bomb a transport terminal in Sultan Kudarat province with the arrest of an alleged self-confessed Moro Islamic Liberation Front member (MILF) on Sunday, the military spokesman in the region said.
Intelligence operatives arrested the suspect, identified as Arman Mano, in Talayan town, Maguindanao province at around 12:15 a.m. on Sunday, Major Armand Rico, spokesman of the Armed Forces Eastern Mindanao Command (Eastmincom), told reporters on Monday.
An improvised explosive device, composed of an 81-millimeter mortar, with a Nokia 3315 cellular phone as triggering device, was seized from the suspect, said Rico, who could not immediately provide details on Mano's arrest, saying follow-up operations are ongoing.
During interrogation, Rico said Mano admitted to being a member of the MILF's bomb squad or Special Operations Group (SOG) and that he was planning to use the bomb, which he assembled, to attack a passenger van terminal in Isulan town, Sultan Kudarat, near the Maguindanao provincial border.
Rico said the foiled attack could have been motivated by extortion or the delay in formal peace talks between the government and the MILF.
Security forces launched follow-up operations against other suspected members of the group, Rico said.
The police chief in Zamboanga city, where an ordnance team detonated a powerful bomb on Saturday, said suspects included militants belonging to the al-Qaeda-linked Abu Sayyaf group and the MILF, a group engaged in Malaysian-brokered peace talks with the Philippine government.
Saturday's bomb was packed with about 2.2 pounds (a kilogram) of nails for added lethal effect, Laurimer Detran said.
Police also recovered two unexploded homemade bombs Friday under a delivery truck by a worker at a soft drinks company in the city, he said.
The foiled bombings might have been intended to disrupt sporadic military assaults against the Abu Sayyaf and the MILF, which have collaborated on nearby Basilan Island, Detran said. They also may have been part of an attempt by the militants to extort badly needed funds from local companies, he said.
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Iranian forces have killed a suspected Kurdish insurgent and captured another in a clash in the country's northwest, media reported on Monday.
Iran's Press TV quoted witnesses as saying the gunmen possibly had links with the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), a Kurdish rebel group operating in border areas near Iraq and Turkey.
Iranian forces often clash with guerrillas from PJAK, an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) which took up arms in 1984 to fight for a Kurdish homeland in southeast Turkey. Press TV quoted provincial Revolutionary Guards commander Majid Arjmandi as saying four wounded gunmen fled into the mountains after the clash with his forces. Other Iranian media said it took place on Saturday night.
"Insurgents affiliated to foreigners had intruded into the Iranian territory overnight to destabilise the situation, but they suffered heavy losses in clashes with Iranian forces," Arjmandi was quoted as saying, without elaborating.
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Israel and Hezbollah have signed a U.N.-mediated prisoner exchange deal and the date for the swap will be settled this week, a Lebanese political source and the Israeli prime minister's office said on Monday.
The Lebanese source said Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert had both signed the deal under which the Jewish state will release five Lebanese prisoners and Hezbollah will hand over two Israeli soldiers.
Hezbollah seized the soldiers -- army reservists Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev -- during a cross-border raid that triggered the 2006 war between the Iranian-backed group and Israel. Hezbollah has given no word on their condition, although they are widely presumed dead.
The Lebanese source said he expected the exchange to take place by the middle of next week.
'We expect the deal to move ahead, and it is possible we will have Regev and Goldwasser back in Israel next week,' a senior Israeli government official in Jerusalem said.
The Israeli government statement said the completion of the deal still depended on the a number of components being finalised, after which Olmert's cabinet would vote to give it final approval.
Under the deal, which was negotiated by a German intelligence officer, Israel will also hand over the bodies of around 200 Arabs killed while infiltrating northern Israel while Hezbollah would return body parts of Israeli soldiers killed in south Lebanon in 2006.
The dead include Palestinian and Lebanese guerrillas killed in decades of conflict with Israel and the bodies of eight Hezbollah fighters.
An Israeli army spokeswoman said the exhumation of bodies began on Monday and that it would take a number of days to complete the process.
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Does the agreement still count as a plus for the U.N. if the Israelis are in a pine box?
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They'll be hauling out the privacy issues any time now.
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Technology, despite the combined hysteria of the left and the Libertarian Right, will save us all from the terrorist nightmare.
Actually, I worry these days, who's gonna protect us from the yuppies.
Just imagine, the current lead candidate for the Presidency is someone who doesn't think the war is all that important, and votes for telecom immunity anyway. What's he planning to do with all that state?
(For that matter, what's the state department, which IMHO so thoroughly hosed the Iraq War, want to do with all that power?)
Part of the reason I supported the war was because it was a third way between surrendering to the terrorists or going the European route, where they pay the weregild to Al Qaeda and then stick a camera on every street corner to pretend they're fighting terrorism, but they're just fighting their own serfs.
(Search images.google.com for 'george orwell camera' if you haven't seen the pics already).
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Afghan and NATO-led forces killed 32 Taliban militants in two separate clashes in Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday.
A Pakistani paramilitary soldier was injured on Monday when attackers from within Afghanistan shot at the Chartanna checkpost in the Mohmand Agency. According to sources, the security forces returned fire but the attackers escaped. The incident, which occurred at around 3pm, was at a site only a few metres north of Gorapari. In June, United States forces carried out airstrikes that resulted in the deaths of around 28 people, including 11 paramilitary soldiers. The sources said that it was unclear who the attackers had been, adding that the attack was definitely from the Afghan side.
(Xinhua) -- The death toll in a deadly blast in Pakistani capital Islamabad has risen to 21, including 16 policemen, a local private TV reported on Monday. 
(Xinhua) -- One person was killed and up to 40 others injured in at least six blasts in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi on Monday, state-run PTV reported. 
A massive amount of natural uranium has been removed by the Iraqi government, and sold to a Canadian company, government spokesman Ali Al Dabbagh said. 
(Xinhua) -- Unknown gunmen on Monday shot dead the local office head of a Sunni Arab party in a town near Mosul, the capital city of Iraq's Nineveh province, a provincial police source said. 'Abdul Bari Ibrahim, head of the Iraqi Islamic Party, was shot when unknown gunmen opened fire on his car in Allaw village in the ethnically mixed town of Tal Afar, some 70 km west of Mosul,' the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. 
(Xinhua) -- Palestinian militants fired a mortar shell from the northern Gaza Strip at a border crossing on Monday afternoon, a spokeswoman of Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) told Xinhua. 
Malacañang stood pat on its no-ransom policy as negotiations continue to seek the freedom of four employees of the Basilan Electric Cooperative (Baselco) taken hostage by alleged members of the Abu Sayyaf, Press Secretary Jesus Dureza said.
The military has claimed to have foiled a plot to bomb a transport terminal in Sultan Kudarat province with the arrest of an alleged self-confessed Moro Islamic Liberation Front member (MILF) on Sunday, the military spokesman in the region said.
Israel and Hezbollah have signed a U.N.-mediated prisoner exchange deal and the date for the swap will be settled this week, a Lebanese political source and the Israeli prime minister's office said on Monday.
