#1
Sounds like its a hit with the kids too. I guess if you can't get your hands on a copy of Line of Duty:Modern Warfare, its the next best thing to watch.
Kabul, 10 July (AKI) - Afghan and international forces have killed a Taliban commander involved in planning suicide attacks in the capital, Kabul, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force announced on Thursday. Mohammed Daud Rahimi was killed Wednesday in Lowger province, south of Kabul, ISAF said in a statment. So long, Mo. Say hello to Big Mo for me...
An unnamed woman was wounded in Wednesday's operation, given medical care and released after testing positive for recent contact with explosives, the ISAF statement said. Ummmmmmmm...huh? Cherchez la femme.
Daud Rahimi had recently had been recruiting Taliban fighters, identifying targets for suicide bombers in Kabul and transporting suicide bombers into the capital, according to ISAF. Geez, how will they get their rides now?
#1
Just how many "commanders" do these Taliban have? Can anyone just proclaim themselves to be a "commander"? It seems we have killed dozens, if not hundreds of these guys since we first went in there.
I would hope they are getting close to the bottom of the barrel in both experience and competence.
#2
If you control the actions of at least two others, you're a "commander" as far as the talibunnies are concerned. Still, the more we wipe out, the better chance the stupid shall inherit the position - by default.
Posted by: Old Patriot ||
07/10/2008 15:40 Comments ||
Top||
Gunmen have murdered another driver working for the U.N.'s World Food Programme in southern Somalia, the humanitarian agency said on Wednesday.
Ahmed Saalim was the fourth WFP-contracted driver to be killed in the anarchic Horn of Africa nation this year. WFP said he was caught in crossfire during fighting between his convoy's guards and militiamen near Leego village on Monday. 'WFP food is reaching many people but our drivers are daily risking their lives to deliver it,' Peter Goossens, WFP Somalia country director, said in a statement. 'We send our condolences to the family ... and appeal for these killings to stop.'
Fighting between the interim government and Islamist insurgents has triggered a humanitarian crisis in Somalia that aid workers say may be the worst in Africa.
At least a million people have been uprooted by the violence since early last year, and their plight has been compounded by record high food prices, hyper-inflation and drought.
WFP said experts fear the number of Somalis needing food aid could reach 3.5 million people later this year -- nearly half the country's population.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/10/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11126 views]
Top|| File under: Islamic Courts
A top outlaw of Janajuddha faction of the banned Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) was killed yesterday in a 'shootout' with police at Taherhuda village in Jhenidah. Another commie bites the dust Never see this happening to an Islamonut, do ya ...
The dead was identified as Absal Hossain, 38, son of Monser Ali of Taherhuda village and a close aide to slain Janajuddha kingpin Dada Tapan. Now he's even closer
Officer-in-Charge of Harinakunda Police Station Abdul Khalek said they arrested Absal Hossain at Taherhuda village on Tuesday afternoon. "Howdy, Absal. Why don't you come down to the station with us and have a talk."
Acting on the information extracted from Absal, Sounds.....painful confessed to being at the grassy knoll, did he ...
they took him to a garden at the same village to recover illegal arms at about 1:00am. The old moonlight drive to the hidden arms cache
When they reached the place, Absal's accomplices opened fire on the law enforcers prompting them to retaliate. "It's the law! And dey's got Ab! Open fire recklessly!"
Absal was killed in the shoot out ... one behind each ear
... while his accomplices managed to escape. Like they were never even there
Two police constables Momtaj Uddin and Ibrahim Molla were also injured in the incident. They have been undergoing treatment at Jhenidah Hospital. "Coffee burns again, constable? You really need to get a insulated mug."
Police recovered a revolver, a light gun and eight rounds of bullet from the spot. I swear I've heard this same story a couple hundred times. They really need new script writers.
Absal was accused on twelve systems in eight cases on different charges including murder, police added. Was this the RAB, or are they teaching the locals how to do it so they can get a night off? Sounds like the locals picked up a copy of "Crossfires for Dummies" Only the RAB can check out the shuttergun.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/10/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11128 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
Somebody please 'splain to me just how it is that the Amazing Disappearing Accomplices are ALWAYS at the secluded arms cache just when the RAB, complete with the soon-to-be-dispatched miscreant arrive....
I understand how Batman and Bruce Wayne are never around, but this...?
VANCOUVER - Convicted terrorist Inderjit Singh Reyat will have to raise $500,000 bail before he is released from jail for the first time in more than 20 years, Canwest News Service has learned.
Bail? Bail? BAIL?
Mr. Reyat, the only man convicted in the Air India bombing that killed 329 people, was ordered freed on bail by the B.C. Court of Appeal yesterday, pending a perjury trial in January.
The conditions of his release were kept secret. "I think it is safe to say that they are about as strict as you can get. I am not prepared to go any further than that," said B.C. Attorney General Wally Oppal. "But I think the public should know that. They are extremely strict.
"But the presiding judge today wanted to hear from counsel before the bail conditions would be made public."
However, Canwest News Service has confirmed that one of the conditions is bail to the tune of half-a-million dollars. Mr. Reyat's friends and supporters had not yet provided the court with sureties guaranteeing the bail by the time the appeal court registry closed yesterday.
Relatives of Air India bombing victims said they were devastated that Mr. Reyat, 56, could soon be out despite allegations that he lied about his knowledge of the June, 1985 plot by Sikh extremists to target Air India flights with suitcase bombs.
At 9:30 a.m. yesterday, Appeal Court Justice Anne Rowles overturned Associate Supreme Court Justice Patrick Dohm's decision in March denying the Air India participant bail on the grounds that to let him out on bail would undermine public confidence in the system. Judge Rowles' reasons for reversing the earlier ruling were also kept secret.
I thought Canada was a democratic society ...
Mr. Reyat was charged two years ago with perjury for allegedly lying 27 times during his September 2003 testimony at the trial of two other Air India suspects. Both men -- Ajaib Singh Bagri and Ripudaman Singh Malik -- were later acquitted of all counts in the terrorist attack.
Mr. Oppal says the strict bail conditions for Mr. Reyat -- who pleaded guilty to manslaughter for his role in the Air India bombing that killed 329 people -- mean public confidence in the judicial system should not be undermined. Mr. Oppal said Mr. Reyat will first have to find sureties for the bail amount in order to be released.
Registry spokesman Patrick Boyer said he had no idea when Mr. Reyat's supporters would attempt to meet the bail conditions. "I expect the sureties will be here tomorrow because it is a high bail," he told reporters yesterday, refusing to disclose the amount.
Vancouver resident Rene Saklikar, who lost her aunt and uncle in the bombing, said she was blind-sided by the Reyat news. "I am deeply uneasy, deeply unhappy and have many unanswered questions," Ms. Saklikar said. "Air India is a Canadian epic that will haunt our nation until justice is served."
The fact no one has been convicted of murder in the biggest terrorist plot in Canadian history frustrates family members, she said.
Mr. Reyat has been in jail since he was arrested in February 1988 in England and charged in the Narita case. He unsuccessfully fought his extradition and was put on trial in 1990. He was convicted of manslaughter in 1991 for building a bomb that exploded on June 23, 1985, at Tokyo's Narita Airport, killing two baggage handlers. Just before his 10-year sentence was about to expire, he was charged in the Air India blast and received another five years after his plea in February 2003.
#1
Appeal Court Justice Anne Rowles overturned Associate Supreme Court Justice Patrick Dohm's decision in March denying the Air India participant bail on the grounds that to let him out on bail would undermine public confidence in the system.
#3
Speechless!! This kind of krep will eventually stop - one way or another. I try to make allowances because this is, after all, Vancouver . . . but still . . . madness.
When it comes to the judiciary and their asshat rulings Canada is most definitely NOT a democratic society. The judge has to be mugged before they change their attitudes.
The bombing of Air-India Flight 182 was the worst airborne terrorist action prior to the September 11, 2001 attacks. On June 23, 1985 a Boeing 747 en-route from Montreal, Quebec, Canada to New Delhi and Bombay, India via London Heathrow exploded as it entered Irish airspace at an altitude of 31,000 feet (9500 m). The plane crashed into the sea killing all 329 people on board, of whom 280 were Canadian citizens.[1]
Until September 11, 2001, the Air India bombing was the single deadliest terrorist attack involving aircraft. It remains to this day the largest mass murder in Canadian history. The incident occurred within an hour of the Narita Airport Bombing.
A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction and 30-year sentence of a Pakistani man found guilty in an unsuccessful plot to bomb a busy subway station in New York. The Manhattan court decided that Shahwar Matin Siraj, 25, was treated fairly at his federal court trial. A jury found him guilty in a 2004 plot to blow up the Herald Square subway station in a congested shopping district where Macy's has long had its flagship store. Lawyers for the defendant had argued that a police informant had set up their client. But the government proved Siraj had shown an interest in violent jihad through books and a videotape.
This article starring:
Shahwar Matin Siraj
Posted by: Fred ||
07/10/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11126 views]
Top|| File under: Global Jihad
#1
But...but...but...most Pakistan immigrants are hard working moderates who believe in America.
A string of five rocket attacks in a high security zone of the Nowshera Cantonment rocked the area on Wednesday. One of the rockets landed on the ground of the Armoured Cover Centre at 4am, while another hit the house of a senior Irrigation Department official, though the residents of the house remained unharmed. According to police officials, the rocket attacks were carried out from the mountainous area of Badrashi Ziarat. The Nowshera police were receiving threats from the local Taliban.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/10/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11125 views]
Top|| File under:
#1
ION IRNA > NORTHEAST SEPARATISTS [ULFA Group-India] REFUSES TO LAY DOWN ARMS.
Two bombs went off in Khyber Agency's Landi Kotal sub-division early on Wednesday, residents said. The improvised explosive devices were placed in two shops in the Sadukhel area. A third bomb, which was found by children in the area, was defused safely, the residents said, adding that there were no casualties. Security personnel arrested Malak Hamid Khan, the younger brother of tribal elder Malak Ataullah Kookikhel, in the Jamrud sub-division. Zwan Pakhtun Organisation Chairman Ikramullah Jan said Hamid was arrested on charges of possessing unlicensed weapons. He criticised the arrest, and said Hamid was a tribal chief and was carrying weapons for his safety. Security officials did not comment on the arrest.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/10/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11132 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
The Lahore Police CID arrested four alleged terrorists with strong links to banned militant organisations early on Wednesday. Intelligence sources told Daily Times that the CID personnel, working in co-operation with other law enforcement agencies, had also seized a large quantity of explosives from the accused. According to the sources, security has been beefed up at all official buildings and sensitive installations following intelligence reports that suspected terrorists have reached Lahore. Sources within the police said that over 1,000 mobile squad officials were patrolling their respective jurisdictions to thwart any terrorist attempts. They said that following instructions from Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Punjab Inspector General of Police Shaukat Javed had also ordered the repair of all non-functioning CCTV cameras.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/10/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11127 views]
Top|| File under: al-Qaeda
Seven more teenaged boys went missing from various areas in the Swat district, raising the number of missing teenaged boys in the district to 25, a private television channel reported on Wednesday. According to Dawn News, eighteen teenaged boys had already been missing from the Dakorak and Gullibagh areas of Swat's Charbagh tehsil for about one week. The families of the missing boys say their children went to school but never returned. They fear that their children might have been murdered, the channel said. Swat District Co-ordination Officer Wakif Khan told the channel that he was unaware of the missing boys, since nobody had reported the incident at the Charbagh Police Station. Khan said it was not possible for police to carry out investigations in the absence of registered case.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/10/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11124 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
Local Taliban in Swat on Wednesday warned the NWFP government of vigilante action if it fails to take action against kidnappers in Malakand Division's Sakhakot area. Swat Taliban spokesman Haji Muslim Khan said in a statement that the government should arrest kidnappers in the area. He quoted Taliban commander Fazlullah as demanding the government recover hostages from kidnappers' custody. Fazlullah also demanded compensation for damages caused during the recent military operation in Swat. He said union council nazims were involved in irregularities in development funds and "the Taliban would also take action against them if they did not mend their ways".
Posted by: Fred ||
07/10/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11127 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
Local Taliban in Hangu district ended the siege of a police station after successful talks with the administration on Wednesday, Geo News reported. The Taliban besieged the Doaba Police Station following the arrest of seven colleagues, according to Staff Report. They were demanding the release of their colleagues. There were 35 policemen in the besieged police station. The seven Taliban had been arrested after an encounter with police, Hangu Senior Police Superintendent Muhammad Idrees Khan said. District officials alleged that the Taliban had also abducted 15 officials, including security personnel, from various areas of Doaba tehsil. Army spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas told AFP that the army had sent one battalion to the area to deal with the situation.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/10/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11127 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
The district courts in Islamabad and Rawalpindi will remain closed on July 12 (Saturday) after District and Sessions Judge Mirza Rafiuz Zaman received a threatening letter by post on Wednesday warning that three suicide bombers would target the district courts on July 12. Islamabad Bar Association (IBA) General Secretary Riasat Ali Azad told Daily Times that Zaman immediately called a meeting of IBA officials and other judges, which decided that the judges would not sit in the courtrooms on July 12 and only cause lists would be displayed.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/10/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11127 views]
Top|| File under: al-Qaeda
A landmine went off at a camp in Kurram Agency on Wednesday, killing a man and injuring another, official sources said. The landmine went off in the Sateen Camp area of the Kurram Agency, the sources said, adding that the injured person had been admitted to Sadda Hospital. Meanwhile, some unidentified people blew up a CD shop and two centres believed to be drug dens in the Landi Kotal area of Khyber Agency. The political administration has started investigation into the incidents.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/10/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11125 views]
Top|| File under: Taliban
(VOI) - Security forces on Wednesday arrested seven wanted persons in Thi-Qar province, a police spokesman said. "Thi-Qar department police, commanded by its chief Brig. Sabah al-Fatlawi, conducted a security operation in Dawaya district, 80 km north of Nassiriya, to implement arrest warrants for wanted individuals,"Maj. Nasir al-Majidi, spokesman for Thi-Qar police, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI).
The spokesman pointed out "police forces coordinated with troops from the Iraqi army 40th brigade to set up stationary and mobile checkpoints at the district's inlets and outlets."
"The joint forces captured 8 persons who were on a wanted list and transfered their cases to investigating offices," he added. The spokesman did not elaborate on the details. Nassiriya, the capital city of Thi-Qar province, has witnessed security measures to contain those fleeing from the major military operation launched in neighboring Missan province in June.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/10/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11126 views]
Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency
(VOI) -- Casualties from the suicide car bomb in Mosul that targeted on Wednesday the convoy of Staff Major General Riyadh Jalal Tawfeeq, Ninewa operations commander, rose to eight civilians killed, and 41 others wounded, said a source from Ninewa police. "The final casualties of the suicide car bomb blast that targeted the convoy of Staff Major General Riyadh Jalal Tawfeeq, Ninewa operations commander, on Wednesday in al-Faisaliya neighborhood (eastern Mosul city) is eight civilians killed, and 41 others wounded, including seven of Tawfeeq's personal guards and five traffic policemen," the source told VOI.
Earlier today, Ninewa operations command's official spokesperson said that casualties from the suicide bomb in Mosul that targeted the convoy of Staff Major General Riyadh Jalal Tawfeeq, Ninewa operations commander, rose to eight civilians killed, and 27 other persons were wounded.
He added that seven of Tawfeeq's personal guards are among the injured. "Casualties from the suicide bombing that targeted the convoy of Staff Major General Riyadh Jalal Tawfeeq, Ninewa operations commander, near the traffic building in al-Faisaliya neighborhood (eastern Mosul city) increased to eight dead civilians, and 27 injured persons, including seven of Tawfeeq's personal guards," Brigadier Khalid Abdul-Sattar told VOI. "Tawfeeq was 100 meters from the site of the attack," he said. "Four civilian cars and three Iraqi military vehicles (Hummers) were burnt in the attack," he added.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/10/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11125 views]
Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq
Iraqi police say a bomb in the city of Fallujah has killed four police and one civilian. A police official says 15 people were injured in the blast outside a bank in the one-time Sunni insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad. The injured included an Iraqi television cameraman. Police and a crowd gathered in the bank area after an explosion at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday. A second blast caused the casualties. The police official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/10/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11124 views]
Top|| File under: Iraqi Insurgency
(VOI) - Three anti-Qaeda Sahwa members were wounded by a rocket attack in Salah al-Din on Wednesday, a police source said. "Unknown gunmen fired a rocket targeting a checkpoint manned by Sahwa fighters in Bishkan village, 5 km east of Dhuluyia, leaving three variably wounded," a Salah al-Din police source, who requested anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). The source did not elaborate on the details.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/10/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11126 views]
Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Iraq
Israeli troops raided the city hall of the West Bank town of Nablus on Wednesday, seizing computers and causing damage, Palestinian officials said. The troops also raided six mosques and confiscated three buses from an Islamic school in town, the officials said.
An Israeli military spokesman had no immediate comment on the operations, which coincided with a stepped up campaign against organisations that Israel suspects have links to the Islamist group Hamas. Nablus stores and businesses announced a general strike in protest against the raid.
Nablus is governed by President Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority, but the Israeli army mounts frequent raids into the city in what the military describes as efforts to prevent attacks by militants.
Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said the incursions were "extremely disruptive" and undermined U.S.-backed security efforts by the Palestinian Authority to establish law and order in areas under its control in the West Bank.
Acting Nablus mayor, Hafez Shahin, said: "The municipality is a service institution. I see no reason to raid the place. I see it as an attack on the Palestinian Authority."
On Tuesday, Israeli forces raided a popular shopping mall in Nablus, ordering its closure for two years over its owner's alleged links to the Hamas. Hamas, which opposes Abbas's peace talks with Israel, seized the Gaza Strip from his Fatah faction in fighting a year ago.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/10/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11124 views]
Top|| File under: Hamas
#1
I have a better idea involving fast air enhanced demolition.
Two residents of the southern Israeli town of Rahat were indicted Wednesday for allegedly being al-Qaeda operatives. Taher and Omar Abu-Sakut, who are registered members of the Islamic Movement, were arrested following a joint Shin Bet, police and Border Guard operation that took place in June.
According to Shin Bet records, Taher abu-Sakut's interest in radical Islam began in 2006, when he became involved with the Islamic Movement. Soon after that, the Shin Bet says, he began surfing al-Qaeda-affiliated websites, as well as sites calling for the destruction of Israel. According to the indictment, he then contacted several al-Qaeda operatives and provided them information about the location of various IDF bases and strategic facilities in Israel, in a bid to promote the terror organization's plans to stage an attack in Israel. Taher reportedly gave his handlers information about the location of the Azrieli Towers in Tel Aviv, Ben Gurion International Airport, and various routes in the West Bank, through which terrorists might be able to infiltrate Israel.
Taher and Omar Aabu-Sakut were arrested in early June and reportedly confessed to the charges. The two were arraigned at the Beersheba District Court. The indictment against them includes charges of affiliation with a known terror organization, aiding and abetting an enemy at war, and providing the enemy with intelligence intended to undermine national security.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/10/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11126 views]
Top|| File under: al-Qaeda
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran test-fired more long-range missiles overnight in a second round of exercises meant to show that the country can defend itself against any attack by the U.S. or Israel, Iranian state television reported Thursday.
The weapons have "special capabilities" and included missiles launched from naval ships in the Persian Gulf, along with torpedoes and surface-to-surface missiles, the broadcast said. It did not elaborate.A brief video clip showed two missiles being fired simultaneously in the darkness. Wow. Two at once. And in the dark. I wonder if that's their "special capability"?
Among the missiles Iran said it tested Wednesday was a new version of the Shahab-3, which officials have said has a range of 1,250 miles and is armed with a 1-ton conventional warhead. That would put Israel, Turkey, the Arabian peninsula, Afghanistan and Pakistan all within striking distance. ...and the probable real reason for their little show.
Oil prices jumped on news of Wednesday's tests, rising $1.44 to $137.48 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange
#9
Hey, the enemy that predicts our immanent demise has mobile missiles that can hit US carrier groups. Maybe we have to take out large areas, where the missiles might be posted. How on earth could we do that? Let's dust off the shelves, and see what we have.
Hey, the Ayatollahs are raking in more money for missiles everyday. And in face of our indulgence, they will soon have a nuclear ICBM capability. Why is this happening?
The U.S. navy has sent a third aircraft carrier to its Fifth Fleet area of operations, which includes Gulf waters close to Iran, the navy said on Tuesday.
"Enterprise (aircraft carrier) provides navy power to counter the assertive, disruptive and coercive behaviour of some countries, as well as support our soldiers and marines in Iraq and Afghanistan," a U.S. Navy statement said.
The move comes weeks after a flotilla of U.S. warships sailed through the narrowest point in the Gulf to hold exercises off Iran's coast in a major show of force.
Tension over Tehran's nuclear ambitions has raised regional fears of a military confrontation. Recent U.S. naval presence in the Gulf has been the largest since the 2003 Iraq war.
The Fifth Fleet area of operations includes the Arabian Gulf, Arabian Sea, Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman and parts of the Indian Ocean.
#17
See also STRATEGYPAGE > NAVAL DEFENSES [US] AGAINST IRANIAN MISSLES. Iran versus the USN AEGIS System. USN confident on AEGIS, but worries more about Iranian attacks agz LAND BASES/
TARGETS, espec vv SHORT-RANGE MISSLES which AEGIS wasn't designed for.
#18
ALso from STRATEGYPAGE > HIZBULLAH READY FOR ANOTHER ROCKET WAR. In next Israeli-Hizb Lebanon conflict, Israel may face up to 300 LONG-RANGE ROCKETS + approxi 5000 SHORT-RANGE ROCKETS, which Irael intends to take out using mainly GROUND FORCES OPERATIONS.
ARTICLE - CLAIMS UN PEACEKEEPERS IN LEBANON ARE NOT DOING ANYTHING TO STOP THE HIZZIES, HUZZIES, HEZZIES, etal. FROM REARMING WID ROCKETS,ETC. BUT ARE ALLEGEDLY ONLY "PRETENDING TO DO THEIR JOB"???
Heavy fighting erupted again Wednesday between pro- and anti-government supporters in northern Lebanon, killing at least three people and wounding 32 others and shattering a fragile truce that lasted just two weeks, security officials said. Five soldiers were among the wounded in clashes in the northern city of Tripoli that began overnight and continued Wednesday morning, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
Among those killed was a woman, identified as Leila Shami, who died of a heart attack after a hand grenade landed near her, the state-run National News Agency reported. It said the fierce fighting forced a large number of people to flee their homes to safer areas.
Last month, nine people were killed and 44 others were wounded in two days of fierce sectarian fighting between Sunni Muslim government supporters from Tripoli's Bab el-Tabaneh district and Alawite followers of the Hezbollah-led opposition in the nearby Jabal Mohsen neighborhood, before the army and police deployed to quell violence.
A bomb also hit an apartment building in Bab el-Tabaneh last month, killing one person and wounding 28 others.
The latest clashes began overnight when three hand grenades exploded in a street separating the two rival districts. It was not immediately known who threw the grenades. Gunmen from the two sides exchanged machine-gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades for hours, the officials said. Despite an army and police presence in the area, tension has been rising between the two sides. About 20 houses in both neighborhoods were torched last month in apparent acts of revenge.
The violence in the north comes as Western-backed Prime Minister Fuad Saniora is having trouble forming a national unity Cabinet in line with an Arab deal that ended an 18-month political stalemate that nearly plunged Lebanon into a new civil war.
Located 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Beirut, Tripoli is Lebanon's second largest city and is predominantly Sunni Muslim, a majority of which support the government. But it is also home to Alawites, a small offshoot of Shiite Islam that is allied with Syria and the Lebanese opposition, led by the Shiite militant Hezbollah group.
The same area witnessed heavy fighting in May, when pro-government gunmen and militias loyal to the opposition clashed after Hezbollah militants overran streets in Beirut. Nationwide, the violence in May killed 81 and wounded over 200 people, and was Lebanon's worst since the 1975-90 conflict.
Posted by: Fred ||
07/10/2008 00:00 ||
Comments ||
Link ||
[11135 views]
Top|| File under: Hezbollah
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A top outlaw of Janajuddha faction of the banned Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) was killed yesterday in a 'shootout' with police at Taherhuda village in Jhenidah. 
A federal appeals court has upheld the conviction and 30-year sentence of a Pakistani man found guilty in an unsuccessful plot to bomb a busy subway station in New York. The Manhattan court decided that 
A string of five rocket attacks in a high security zone of the Nowshera Cantonment rocked the area on Wednesday. One of the rockets landed on the ground of the Armoured Cover Centre at 4am, while another hit the house of a senior Irrigation Department official, though the residents of the house remained unharmed. According to police officials, the rocket attacks were carried out from the mountainous area of Badrashi Ziarat. The Nowshera police were receiving threats from the local Taliban.
Two bombs went off in Khyber Agency's Landi Kotal sub-division early on Wednesday, residents said. The improvised explosive devices were placed in two shops in the Sadukhel area. A third bomb, which was found by children in the area, was defused safely, the residents said, adding that there were no casualties. Security personnel arrested Malak Hamid Khan, the younger brother of tribal elder Malak Ataullah Kookikhel, in the Jamrud sub-division. Zwan Pakhtun Organisation Chairman Ikramullah Jan said Hamid was arrested on charges of possessing unlicensed weapons. He criticised the arrest, and said Hamid was a tribal chief and was carrying weapons for his safety. Security officials did not comment on the arrest.
The Lahore Police CID arrested four alleged terrorists with strong links to banned militant organisations early on Wednesday. Intelligence sources told Daily Times that the CID personnel, working in co-operation with other law enforcement agencies, had also seized a large quantity of explosives from the accused. According to the sources, security has been beefed up at all official buildings and sensitive installations following intelligence reports that suspected terrorists have reached Lahore. Sources within the police said that over 1,000 mobile squad officials were patrolling their respective jurisdictions to thwart any terrorist attempts. They said that following instructions from Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, Punjab Inspector General of Police Shaukat Javed had also ordered the repair of all non-functioning CCTV cameras.
Seven more teenaged boys went missing from various areas in the Swat district, raising the number of missing teenaged boys in the district to 25, a private television channel reported on Wednesday. According to Dawn News, eighteen teenaged boys had already been missing from the Dakorak and Gullibagh areas of Swat's Charbagh tehsil for about one week. The families of the missing boys say their children went to school but never returned. They fear that their children might have been murdered, the channel said. Swat District Co-ordination Officer Wakif Khan told the channel that he was unaware of the missing boys, since nobody had reported the incident at the Charbagh Police Station. Khan said it was not possible for police to carry out investigations in the absence of registered case.
Local Taliban in Swat on Wednesday warned the NWFP government of vigilante action if it fails to take action against kidnappers in Malakand Division's Sakhakot area. Swat Taliban spokesman Haji Muslim Khan said in a statement that the government should arrest kidnappers in the area. He quoted Taliban commander Fazlullah as demanding the government recover hostages from kidnappers' custody. Fazlullah also demanded compensation for damages caused during the recent military operation in Swat. He said union council nazims were involved in irregularities in development funds and "the Taliban would also take action against them if they did not mend their ways".
Local Taliban in Hangu district ended the siege of a police station after successful talks with the administration on Wednesday, Geo News reported. The Taliban besieged the Doaba Police Station following the arrest of seven colleagues, according to Staff Report. They were demanding the release of their colleagues. There were 35 policemen in the besieged police station. The seven Taliban had been arrested after an encounter with police, Hangu Senior Police Superintendent Muhammad Idrees Khan said. District officials alleged that the Taliban had also abducted 15 officials, including security personnel, from various areas of Doaba tehsil. Army spokesman Maj Gen Athar Abbas told AFP that the army had sent one battalion to the area to deal with the situation.
The district courts in Islamabad and Rawalpindi will remain closed on July 12 (Saturday) after District and Sessions Judge Mirza Rafiuz Zaman received a threatening letter by post on Wednesday warning that three suicide bombers would target the district courts on July 12. Islamabad Bar Association (IBA) General Secretary Riasat Ali Azad told Daily Times that Zaman immediately called a meeting of IBA officials and other judges, which decided that the judges would not sit in the courtrooms on July 12 and only cause lists would be displayed.
A landmine went off at a camp in Kurram Agency on Wednesday, killing a man and injuring another, official sources said. The landmine went off in the Sateen Camp area of the Kurram Agency, the sources said, adding that the injured person had been admitted to Sadda Hospital. Meanwhile, some unidentified people blew up a CD shop and two centres believed to be drug dens in the Landi Kotal area of Khyber Agency. The political administration has started investigation into the incidents.
(VOI) - Security forces on Wednesday arrested seven wanted persons in Thi-Qar province, a police spokesman said. "Thi-Qar department police, commanded by its chief Brig. Sabah al-Fatlawi, conducted a security operation in Dawaya district, 80 km north of Nassiriya, to implement arrest warrants for wanted individuals,"Maj. Nasir al-Majidi, spokesman for Thi-Qar police, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI).
(VOI) -- Casualties from the suicide car bomb in Mosul that targeted on Wednesday the convoy of Staff Major General Riyadh Jalal Tawfeeq, Ninewa operations commander, rose to eight civilians killed, and 41 others wounded, said a source from Ninewa police. "The final casualties of the suicide car bomb blast that targeted the convoy of Staff Major General Riyadh Jalal Tawfeeq, Ninewa operations commander, on Wednesday in al-Faisaliya neighborhood (eastern Mosul city) is eight civilians killed, and 41 others wounded, including seven of Tawfeeq's personal guards and five traffic policemen," the source told VOI. 
Iraqi police say a bomb in the city of Fallujah has killed four police and one civilian. A police official says 15 people were injured in the blast outside a bank in the one-time Sunni insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad. The injured included an Iraqi television cameraman. Police and a crowd gathered in the bank area after an explosion at 6:30 a.m. Wednesday. A second blast caused the casualties. The police official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media.
Israeli troops raided the city hall of the West Bank town of Nablus on Wednesday, seizing computers and causing damage, Palestinian officials said. The troops also raided six mosques and confiscated three buses from an Islamic school in town, the officials said.
Two residents of the southern Israeli town of Rahat were indicted Wednesday for allegedly being al-Qaeda operatives. Taher and Omar Abu-Sakut, who are registered members of the Islamic Movement, were arrested following a joint Shin Bet, police and Border Guard operation that took place in June. 
Heavy fighting erupted again Wednesday between pro- and anti-government supporters in northern Lebanon, killing at least three people and wounding 32 others and shattering a fragile truce that lasted just two weeks, security officials said. Five soldiers were among the wounded in clashes in the northern city of Tripoli that began overnight and continued Wednesday morning, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
