Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces have killed more than 90 militants during several days of fighting in the south of the country this week, the U.S. military and the Afghan Interior Ministry said on Saturday. More than three dozen insurgents were killed in clashes which erupted on Wednesday and were continuing on Saturday, a spokesman for the U.S. military said. Afghan and coalition forces had also killed more than 30 insurgents during three days of fighting in separate clashes in Kandahar province this week. Separately, on Friday Afghan police killed 23 insurgents after militants attacked two separate police checkpoints in Nad Ali district of Helmand province, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Saturday. A Taliban spokesman, Zabiullah Mujahid, said Taliban fighters had taken control of the Marja district in Helmand province and Nawa district in Ghazni province. Afghan district officials said their forces were pushing the Taliban back out of the districts.
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A word to you taliwhackers, wannabe jihadis, dupes of allan, and Lions of IslamTM: This ain't the 19th Century British Army...it ain't the 20th century Russian Army. The Coalition are going to friggin kill everyone of you islamo-cockroaches and there's no a d*mn thing you can do about it.
A bomb struck the convoy of Afghanistan's education minister on the outskirts of Kabul Saturday, with initial reports that one passer-by was wounded, a ministry spokesman said. Education Minister Mohamad Hanif Atmar was not hurt in the blast, ministry spokesman Hamid Helmi told AFP. "We don't know yet if it was planned or if it was an old mine," he said.
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HERAT, Afghanistan - Two Iranian nationals were abducted while travelling from the western Afghanistan city of Herat towards the Iranian border earlier this week, a provincial police spokesman said on Saturday. Kidnapping has become a lucrative business in Afghanistan, where dozens of Afghans and foreigners have been abducted by criminals or Taleban-linked militants.
"Two Iranian citizens were abducted on the highway between Herat and Islam Qala," said police spokesman General Abdul Rauf. "We are conducting an operation to release these two Iranians," he said.
Humayun Kamgar, an official from the Foreign Ministry in Herat, said he had been in touch with the two Iranians before they went missing but had lost contact with them on Wednesday evening. It was assumed they had been kidnapped then or shortly after.
One of the two kidnapped men is Reza Usmani, director of an Iranian road construction company which paved the road linking Herat with Iran, said Kamgar. His company is constructing a road from Herat to Faryab province to the northeast, Kamgar said.
The second man is Hasan Parsiyani, a businessman who was looking to invest in Afghanistan, he said.
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More bodies have been discovered in Somalia, near the scene of an attack on two minibuses outside Mogadishu. Local people returning to their farms after the attack said they had found a further 16 bodies, bringing to nearly 60 the number of civilians killed.
The Ethiopian forces started shooting after their military convoy was hit by a roadside bomb, witnesses said. Islamist insurgents have beeng carrying out frequent raids in the Mogadishu area. After the latest attack on minibuses, witness Sahra Nor Osma told the Associated Press news agency: "Ethiopian convoys opened fire into different areas where thousands of displaced people were living; they killed everyone on the road."
Another witness Fadumo Kheyre told AP: "Blood was pouring out of the buses."
In a separate incident on Friday, insurgents attacked the convoy of President Abdullahi Yusuf as it was leaving for Ethiopia for talks over the country's fragile ceasefire. Following that attack, Ethiopian-backed government troops responded by opening fire, killing five civilians.
President Abdullahi Yusuf has gone to Djibouti for talks with his estranged Prime Minister Hussein Nur Adde. The discussions are aimed at resolving a power struggle between the two men which could in turn affect a ceasefire agreement signed with the opposition in June.
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#1
This seems to be a pattern for the Brave, Brave Lions of Islam: find a group of civilians to blend in with, shoot at or bomb some opposing military people, and run away while those civilians get all shot up by return fire. The media and 'righteous indignation' will win you the battles your bullets won't. In fact, it is so effective you can even dispense with the riskiest part and just shoot the civilians yourself and claim it was enemy fire.
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This seems to be a pattern for the Brave, Brave Lions of Islam: find a group of civilians to blend in with, shoot at or bomb some opposing military people, and run away while those civilians get all shot up by return fire.
Actually, it's a variation of several tactics used by various insurgencies, guerrilla groups, and Asian marxists over the past decades.
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What we've seen posted about Somalia over the last couple of months highlights the need for a proactive force, rather than a reactive force. If you wait to be attacked, your chance of inflicting any damage on the attacking group is small. If you go looking for them, you'll probably end up finding - and killing - some of them. That's the difference between pre-surge and post-surge Iraq, and why the Brits had such a difficult time in Basra. Nothing is going to change in Somalia (except maybe get worse) until there's a large enough force there to do some proactive raiding.
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So will the poisoned Khat have any useful effect?
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What we've seen posted about Somalia over the last couple of months highlights the need for a proactive force, rather than a reactive force.
Therre is also a need to develop intel assets in the population.
Problems are:
The clan structure is much tighter than the tribes in Iraq are,
The Ethiopians, the AU and the troops of the rump Somali government are, at best, typical African troops and also lack sufficient intel/counterintel ability.
The money-sources backing the Islamic Courts and certain clans continue to have great influence.
The wetern-installed Somali government troops and their Ethiopian allies sprayed bystanders with gunfire in response to two separate bomb attacks, killing at least 42 people Friday, witnesses and a nurse said. The killings occurred a day before the Ethiopian-installed president and his estranged prime minister are to hold talks amid a protracted power struggle between them that has complicated efforts to end Somalia's expanding insurgency. One man said Somali government forces opened fire after two explosions went off near the president's convoy as it was traveling to Mogadishu airport. In a separate incident, a witness said Ethiopian soldiers opened fire indiscriminately on the road between the capital, Mogadishu, and Afgoye after roadside bombs targeted their convoy. Witness Ali Jama said he counted 35 dead. A woman who fled the scene with her two children said there were more than 30 bodies in the street.
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A blast on Sunday at a mosque in Azerbaijan's capital killed at least two people and injured nine others, local police said. Police said a hand grenade was thrown into the Abu-Bekr mosque in central Baku during evening prayers. About 100 people were in the mosque when the grenade exploded.
A HUMAN tide of more than 300,000 civilians has fled the al-Qaeda badlands, amid indications that the fighting there has reached unprecedented levels, with the Pakistani army using massive firepower to attack jihadi militant strongholds. Helicopter gunships, fixed-wing strike aircraft, tanks and heavy artillery have been used in the onslaught that follows the visit last month by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to Washington, where he was berated for Pakistan's failure to wipe out the militants.
The offensive runs counter to perceptions that Pakistan's new civilian Government is "soft" on Islamic extremism, The Australian reports. This will reassure Washington, whose ally in the war in terror for the past nine years, President Pervez Musharraf, was given by the Coalition Government until midnight last night (4am today AEST) to resign or face impeachment proceedings beginning tonight in the National Assembly.
Pakistani television showed thousands of civilians caught in the crossfire streaming out of the Bajaur, Mohmand and Kurrum agencies in the fighting estimated to have killed more than 500 militants. Tens of thousands of people are camping on the perimeter of Peshawar, the capital of the North West Frontier Province, and some have reached Rawalpindi, the garrison city adjoining Islamabad.
New security csar Rehman Malik, the architect of the get-tough policy against the militants who have over-run the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, said at least 220,000 civilians had been displaced. But welfare agencies said the figure was probably well in excess of 300,000.
An NWFP government official appealing for federal assistance said yesterday: "There are hundreds of thousands of people waiting for help and we don't have the wherewithal to deal with the situation."
In a speech to the National Assembly on Saturday, Mr Gilani declared the Government was determined to re-establish control in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. "We will establish the writ of the Government at all costs (as) a parallel government cannot be tolerated," he said.
The offensive, launched without fanfare to avoid conveying the notion it was done at the insistence of Washington, is targeting primarily Bajaur, slated as the most likely hiding place of Osama bin Laden. Fierce fighting is also under way in areas of the NWFP where many of Pakistan's nuclear weapons are believed to be based.
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uh huh....and how long before the "500 dead" are revived by the ISI? Call me a cynical bastard, but also a realist
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Oh dear. More poor men to kill their families when they can't afford to feed them, more divorcees to clutch their infants to their breasts as they jump in front of trains in their despair, more to sell their sons and daughters into slavery for a handful of pulses -- not even a chicken. The vultures and the rats will feast, the trains will be unable to leave the stations... and the Indian army will perforce come across the Line of Control to rescue the Pakistanis from their self-imposed chaos.
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I've been telling Guam locals that Guam has a stake in whether the USA wins or loses the WOT, including as per OWG-NWO, and that it will likely face VARIOUS, MULTI-DIMENS, SERIOUS TO CATASTROPHIC INTERNAL + EXTERNAL PRESSURES AS PER CHINESE AMBITIONS, THE RADICAL ISLAMIST THREAT TO ASIA-PACIFIC, + GLOBAL WARMING INDUCED/RELATED PAN-ENVIRO CRISES [Oil, Food, Resources] INCLUD EARTH/LAND CHANGES + MULTI/TRANS-REGIONAL POPULATION DISPLACEMENTS [ripple/domino?] SUCH AS THIS ONE ONLY WORSE, ESPEC AFTER 2010. These factors can detrimentally, even protractively alter Guam's "status quo" Establishment-Order, + CNMI-MICRONESIA-OCEANIA, as the present generations know it to be. As per normal USDOD MilPlanning, the anticipated relocation of US Marines from OKINAWA IS NOT INCONSISTENT WID US PLANS TO MILPOL LEAVE THE WESTPAC/ASIAN REGION(S) IFF SO REQUIRED - this is exclusive of any effort by JAPANESE-OKINAWAN, SOKOR, or other Regional Pols to try and have US Milfors stay = leave their countries.
And OTHERS...
*LEST WE FERGIT > BESIDES ASIA-PACIFIC, CHINA HAS DECLARED 1/2 [and ideally more]OF CONUS-NORAM PER SE AS FUTURE CHINESE TERRITORY VV "LIVING SPACE".
* GUAM SELF-DETERMINATION > MANY US POLITICIANS + ORDINARY CITIZENS ARE NOT GOING TO FAVOR GIVING GUAM ANY SORT OF IMPROVED POLITICAL STATUS [Guam Pols > read, $$$ Budget] - COMMONWEALTH [any] + STATEHOOD + INDEPENDENCE - WITHOUT ANY EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF A VOTER-BASED POPULAR REFERENDUM(S).
The USA, despite its hyperpower-plus status is NOT IMMUNE, INVULNERABLE, NOR IMPERVIOUS to same. WAR FOR OWG-NWO > US DOMINATION IS NOT ABSOLUT ASSURED DESPITE GLOBAL ENTRENCHMENTS, RADICAL ISLAM IS NOT ABSOLUT DEFEATED DESPITE IS DEFEATS AND IS IN FACT ATTEMPTING TO NUCLEARIZE.
MSM-NET > COME NOW "THE BEAR"???
Guam needs to SOUL-SEARCH and decide what it whats to be vv the USA-World, + WHILE IT STILL HAS A SAY HOWEVER IMPERFECT.
9-11/WOT > THE "STATUS QUO" = POLITICS-AS-USUAL, "CRITICAL MASS", etc. IS NO LONGER ACCEPTABLE OR TOLERATED, BY ANY CAMP, IDEO, and -ISM!
...But If 5000 Talibs and Hostile jihadis were definatley confirmed Deader than Doornails and another 5000 Doomed Islamics were minutes away from certain Death; Then and only then would I begin to believe.
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Unidentified men murdered a Shia leader in the Khyber Police Station precincts here on Saturday. Police sources said that unidentified assailants shot Tehreek-e-Nifaz Fiqah Jafria NWFP General Secretary Mumtaz Ali Qazalbash outside his house in Hayatabad Phase-III at 11am and fled. His body was taken to Imambargah Haider Shah in Kohati for funeral prayers.
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Ten members of a banned Islamic group were arrested Saturday in connection with a series of bombings last month in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, police said, according to CNN sister network CNN-IBN.
Indian police officials display some of the suspects arrested in the July 26 bombings in Ahmedabad.
Two Islamic militant groups claimed responsibility for the attack. But P.C. Pandey, director of the general police for Gujarat state, told reporters Saturday that the Students' Islamic Movement of India carried out the attacks, CNN-IBN reported. Nine members of the group as well as suspected ringleader Mufti Abu Bashir were arrested, Pandey said. Bashir was arrested in Lucknow, India, on Saturday morning.
"Bashir is the brains behind the blasts," Pandey said, as reported by CNN-IBN. "He is being brought to Gujarat soon. We are confident that after interrogating him we will get more information related to the blasts."
The investigation spread over several Indian states, he said. Authorities hope the arrests may lead to information about other blasts, including those in Jaipur, Hyderabad and Uttar Pradesh, Pandey said, according to CNN-IBN.
All 10 suspects face charges, including murder and waging war against the state, he said.
"We have uncovered this network, and it will help in solving the cases of other offensives across the country," he said, according to CNN-IBN. "We have some hints ... but the media needs to bear with us."
The Students' Islamic Movement of India was not one of the groups initially thought to be responsible for the Ahmedabad blasts. Media outlets, including CNN-IBN, as well as the country's Intelligence Bureau received an e-mail shortly before the bombings, purportedly from the Muslim militant group Indian Mujahedeen, warning of a possible attack. But afterward, the Islamic militant group Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami -- or the Movement of the Islamic Holy War -- claimed responsibility for the bombings, CNN-IBN reported.
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Indian troops have martyred four Kashmiri youth, two at Hurur in Kishtwar and one each at Paeth Wader in Handwara and Thinmarg in Reasi, Ptv reported Saturday.
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At least 12 more people were killed and 15 others injured in fresh clashes between Torri and Bangash tribes in Kurram tribal agency. Official sources said Saturday that 10 days of unabated factional fighting had so far left about 170 people killed and over 200 injured. The government on Friday gave 72 hours deadline to the warring tribesmen to end the fighting, otherwise operation would be launched in order to restore peace.
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Pakistani artillery and helicopter gunships killed nine pro-Taliban militants in an assault on their hideouts in the restive northwestern Swat valley on Saturday, army officials said. Security forces also arrested eight militants in the fighting that followed a search operation in the Kabal area, one of the militant strongholds in the region, 27 km east of Swat's main town of Mingora. "We have killed nine militants and the operation is still continuing," an army official said while speaking on the condition of anonymity. Residents said there were also civilian fatalities in the bombing, but the military said they were only targeting militants' positions. Nearly 160 people have been killed in the renewed fighting in Swat, which erupted into violence in November last year when militants led by a radical cleric called Fazlullah launched a campaign to enforce Taliban-style rule. The latest fighting has virtually ended a peace deal agreed in May to stop violence in the alpine Swat valley, until recently a top tourist resort. Militants accuse the government of violating the accord and have attacked security posts and police and army patrols and have blown up dozens of girls' schools. Security forces are separately battling militants in another northwestern tribal region, Bajaur on the Afghan border. About 170 people have been killed in the 10 days of fighting.
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Half of the Bajaur population has migrated to safer places and hundreds of families, including children and women, continue exodus amid the ongoing military operation against Taliban militants while the government's help to the victims is barely discernible.
"Out of 0.6 million population, over 300,000 people have migrated from the area," volunteers and locals said.
A pamphlet dropped from helicopters asked the people of the Taliban-infested areas to immediately leave, saying the government action was only against the terrorists.
The pamphlet said the roads would remain open so the people could shift but asked the migrating people to stop their vehicles and raise their hands when they see helicopters in the air and avoid sitting under trees or else they would be hit.
The Al-Khidmat Foundation's Fazl Mehmood, looking after all relief activities in the district, said they had properly registered and accommodated 60,000-plus affected people in their camps in Munda alone and provided temporary stay to over 100,000 migrants.
"We have set up relief camps at Balambat, bus terminal in Timergara, Talash, Munda and Chakdara," he said.
In addition, hundreds of families are staying with their relatives in Lower Dir and other districts and thousands of victims have moved to down districts.
From Batkhela, the headquarters of the Malakand Agency, to Munda, volunteers were raising funds for displaced people at numerous places. The affected families -- could be seen sitting in the open, under-construction markets, bazaars, bus stands, at roadsides and in camps in a miserable condition -- from Khazana, situated six kilometres off the district headquarters, to Timergara and to Munda town bordering Bajaur Agency, waiting for shifting to plain areas.
Women, children and elderly people with their luggage walked for hours to leave the troubled agency, believed to be the hotbed of hardcore militants.
Tractor-trailers, vans, pick-ups, trucks and cars carrying the victim families and their household items were seen between Munda and Timergara.
Residents of almost all villages along the road had set up camps, offering drinking water to the migrating families. As Al-Khidmat Foundation and other groups and individuals had provided free transport service to facilitate the migration, the transporters, as usual, had increased their fares manifold to fleece the distressed people.
As choppers and fighter aircraft shelled various towns, people fled to save their lives. "Several persons were killed and houses damaged by shelling," Gul Sher Khan, a resident of Daag area and currently accommodated in government high school Munda camp, said.
Another resident of the same area, Roshan Ali, said the entire Dag village had been vacated. The NWFP government set up this camp but people complained of food shortage, drinking water and absence of toilet.
While taking notes and talking to displaced people, this correspondent was surrounded by scores of victims who wanted to 'enlist' their names for relief items, as they considered this scribe a government official registering names for providing relief items.
Around one dozen people along with their household items were herded in every tent without the facility of power in the hot weather.
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Baghdad_(dpa) _ In the third attack in as many days on Shiite pilgrims, a car bomb killed six civilians and wounded 11 others in Baghdad's north-eastern neighbourhood of Ur on Saturday, Iraqi authorities said.
The attack, which targeted Shiite pilgrims boarding minibuses in Baghdad, is the third in a series of attacks targeting visitors heading to the holy city of Karbala to mark the al-Ziyara al-Shaabaniya or the mid of Shaaban visit pilgrimage on Sunday.
The bombing followed Friday night's attack when at least 9 pilgrims were killed and 40 others wounded when a car bomb ripped through a bus station in the district of Balad in Saladdin province, 90 Kilometres north of Baghdad.
The deadliest attack came on Thursday, when at least 20 people were killed and around 100 injured in the Iskandariyah district 40 kilometres south of Baghdad as two women suicide bombers wearing explosive belts blew themselves up amid pilgrims.
Shiite pilgrims have been a constant target of extremist Sunni Muslim groups operating in Iraq, mainly al-Qaeda, during their annual religious celebrations.
US and Iraqi authorities say al-Qaeda militants have increasingly been relying on women to conduct suicide bomb attacks, as their clothing makes it easier for them to evade security searches.
In Karbala, security measures were tightened in preparation for the occasion in which millions of pilgrims from Iraq and neighbouring countries are expected to pour into the city 110 kilometres south-west of Baghdad to commemorate the birth of the 12th Imam revered by Shiites.
A total ban on the movement of cars has been in effect since Friday, security officials said. A total of 40,000 security personnel will be deployed.
The Iraqi Air Force will carry out reconnaissance flights over all areas before and during the pilgrimage, while the US Air force will secure the area around the city. Hundreds of policewomen to search and deal with female pilgrims have been deployed to all checkpoints inside and outside of the city.
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Somebody is still trying to get a religious civil war going. Most likely some Zarqawi wannabe who figures eventually the Shia government will come down hard and indiscriminately on Sunni, driving them back to al Quaeda. But it could be some Sadr wannabe trying to show the Shia that this Shia government can't protect them and they need to support a different Shia government.
(VOI) -- The Iraqi army forces arrested two gunmen who were trying to emplace a 10-kg TNT explosive charge in northern Mosul on Saturday, a senior security official in Ninewa province said. "The gunmen were trying to plant the explosive device in al-Qahira neighborhood, northern Mosul," Brig. Khaled Abdelsattar, the official spokesman for the Ninewa Operations Command (NOC), told Aswat al-Iraq -- Voices of Iraq -- (VOI). "The Iraqi forces seized a cell phone and a camcorder in the gunmen's possession," Abdelsattar added. He noted that the charge, which was in the form of a box, contained 10 kg of the highly explosive substance TNT. "The two gunmen are in investigative custody," he said, not revealing more details about the arrest or the organization to which the gunmen belong.
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I just had an idea on how we can use that airborne laser thingy . . . .
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Put it aboard a very large, very stealthy helicopter, slave a high-intensity searchlight to it, and zap 'em as they're setting up. Pass the word that Allah has turned his face from those that plant IEDs/EFPs, and strikes them dead with a lance of pure light. The Iraqis aren't as superstitious as some muzlimbs, but after the fourth or fifth attack, some of them would begin to get pretty shaky. You don't want to have the shakes while wiring a bomb.
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(VOI) -- Iraqi army forces arrested four gunmen believed to belong to the self-styled Islamic State of Iraq group in eastern Mosul on Saturday, an official security source said. "The four wanted gunmen, nabbed in al-Qahira neighborhood, eastern Mosul, have confessed to the crimes they committed during initial investigations with them," the source, who declined to have his name mentioned, told Aswat al-Iraq -- Voices of Iraq -- (VOI). Earlier on Saturday, an official military source said Iraqi army forces captured five wanted men belonging to the so-called Islamic State of Iraq in the northern Iraq district of Makhmour. "The force conducted a search raid on a house in the village of Makkuk, (12 km) southern Makhmour, arresting five wanted men members of the Islamic State of Iraq," the source, who requested anonymity, told VOI.
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(VOI) -- Security forces on Saturday arrested four wanted people, including a drug dealer, in two separate operations in Wassit, said a security source from the province. "Security forces arrested four wanted people, including a drug dealer who had quantities of hallucinogenic pills, in two separate operations in Wassit," the source told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI) on condition of anonymity. "The arrest operations were conducted according to legal warrants that were issued by the investigation judge in Kut," he said.
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(VOI) -- Security forces arrested a Jordanian gunman in a border village, western Mosul, Ninewa operations command's official spokesperson said on Saturday. "A force from the border 6th brigade on Saturday arrested an Arab fighter in one of the border villages of al-Baaj suburb (126 km west of Mosul)," Brigadier Khalid Abdul-Sattar told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI). "The gunman is a Jordanian citizen, who was carrying a Jordanian passport, a pistol, 23 bullets, GPS, cell phone, banking card, and various currencies," he said. He did not mention further details, but noted "interrogation is currently underway with the arrested Jordanian gunman."
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Jordan has naturalized a couple of million people from the region that was once the Roman province of Palestine. I recall Churchill's quote: "I created Jordan one Sunday afternoon in Jerusalem, with the stroke of a pen."
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Actually, MZ, its the other way around "Palestinians" (except Gazans) are recent 1920 (post Jewish return and Land restoration) immigrants from Syria & Transjordan. Gazans are from Egypt (that's why they and West-Bankers have so much trouble---they don't even speak mutually comprehensible dialects).
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Could be innocent: If YOU were going to rural Iraq on business (er, smuggling - that's pretty much 'innocent' in the area) would you want to go unarmed?
(VOI) -- Saturday's blast in the eastern Baghdad neighborhood of Ur was the result of a sticky improvised explosive device emplaced inside a civilian vehicle, the Baghdad Operations Command (BOC) said.
"Today's blast in Ur neighborhood resulted from a sticky IED inside a civilian vehicle," BOC official spokesman, Maj. General Qassem Atta, told Aswat al-Iraq -- Voices of Iraq -- (VOI). Earlier on Saturday, the Iraqi authorities said seventeen civilians were killed or wounded in a car bomb attack that ripped through the neighborhood of Ur. "Today, a roadside car rigged with explosives detonated in an Ur street, northeastern Baghdad, killing six civilians and wounding 11 others," a police source, who preferred to remain unnamed,
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BAGHDAD, Aug. 16 (VOI) – Saturday's blast in the eastern Baghdad neighborhood of Ur was the result of a sticky improvised explosive device emplaced inside a civilian vehicle, the Baghdad Operations Command (BOC) said.....
STICKY IED... hummm ..STICKY WICKET
Damn this sounds like a secrete weapons program!
Question, Is it a present from Muqtada al-Sadr or a Dead Beat al-Qaeda member?
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I'm reminded of the 'sticky bomb' from Saving Private Ryan, from the gooiness of the material that allowed it to be stuck to something.
As opposed to one hidden from view, buried in the road.
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(VOI) -- Iraqi security authorities on Saturday arrested a Saudi man carrying a fake Iraqi passport while trying to enter Iraqi territories to carry out armed activities via the Zurbatiya outlet in eastern Wassit province on the borders with Iran, a security source said. "Initial investigations revealed that the Saudi man's fake Iraqi passport was issued by the al-Qadissiya province under the name Ahmed Adel Dhahir al-Zayyadi," the source, who did not want his name published, told Aswat al-Iraq. He added that the 20-year-old man, whose real name is Hosayn Elewi Hosayn al-Irjani, turned out to have received instructions to conduct a series of armed operations in Iraq after he had received training in Iran from more than nine months.
"The arrest was made based on intelligence tips received by security agencies that tighten their grip on the province's outlets within preparations for al-Ziyara al-Shaabaniya pilgrimage on Sunday," the source said, noting the suspect was referred to the institutions concerned for further investigations.
This article starring:
Ahmed Adel Dhahir al-Zayyadi
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Hosayn Elewi Hosayn al-Irjani
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BAGHDAD - At least six people were killed in a car bombing in Baghdad on Saturday targeting Shia pilgrims heading to the holy city of Karbala for a religious festival, police and hospital officials said. Saturday's attack, in the northeastern Baghdad district of Ur, also wounded 11 people, the officials said.
The attack was the latest in a wave of bombings since Thursday that have now killed at least 36 people, most of them pilgrims, despite a massive security operation. The worst attack against the pilgrims occurred on Thursday when two women suicide bombers detonated their explosives-packed vests in Iskandariyah, south of Baghdad. The blasts killed 22 people and wounded at least 73, most of them young men but also women and children.
More than 40,000 soldiers and police have been mobilised, including 2,000 female security workers, to boost security in and around Karbala ahead of a festival on Sunday commemorating an eighth century imam.
Tens of thousands of Shias are heading on foot to Karbala to venerate Imam Mahdi, who vanished as a boy and whom Shias believe will return to bring justice to the world. Bloodshed routinely marks Shia pilgrimages. On July 28, three female suicide bombers blew themselves up in a crowd of pilgrims near a Baghdad shrine, killing 25.
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Al Qaeda-linked militants killed two Philippine marines in an ambush Saturday on a southern Philippine island, a military spokesman said. The two men, who were intelligence operatives, were passing through a village outside Panamao town on Jolo island when their motorcycle broke down, navy spokesman Lt. Col. Edgard Arevalo said. They were then attacked by Abu Sayyaf gunmen, he said.
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#5
The satellite is a dummy, as Iran's admitting now.
I am not sure that Kremlin is pleased that Iran displays ballistic capability, at this particular juncture in time, in the context of the missile defense system for Poland.
#6
Test launch for an EMP weapon? Assuming they can build borrow steal an EMP weapon.....
Posted by: Alaska Paul back from SE Alaska ||
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The bare minimum payload for carrying a nuke is about 1100 pounds. Practically speaking, Iran has the technology to mass produce missiles capable of that sized payload.
Importantly, if North Korea had provided Iran with enriched uranium and plutonium, Iran could have long ago made a dozen or more nuclear weapons.
In use, Iran would then spend most of its resources to make dozens of conventional ballistic weapons, to deplete the anti-ballistic missiles in a first salvo, then use its nukes in a second or third salvo.
These missiles might even be designed to break, so that two or more anti-missiles would be used to shoot down the different sections. This happened in the first Gulf War.
All of this assumes that most targets are theater, and not strategic.
#8
These missiles might even be designed to break,
A poor man's decoy?
Posted by: john frum ||
08/17/2008 17:30 Comments ||
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Inshallah duct-tape application
Posted by: Frank G ||
08/17/2008 18:08 Comments ||
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"The Safir (Ambassador) satellite carrier was launched today and for the first time we successfully launched a dummy satellite into orbit," Reza Taghizadeh, head of the Iranian Aerospace Organisation, told state television.
Posted by: john frum ||
08/17/2008 19:46 Comments ||
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I don't think you'd have to worry about an EMP for some time. We exploded over 800 nuclear devices in the years after WWII, of various sizes. An EMP is the advanced class, and requires DEVELOPEMENT, by exploding dozens and dozens of devices. I don't even think we have a special purpose EMP nuke. There is a moderate EMP effect during any nuke explosion though, I think.
#13
I don't even think we have a special purpose EMP nuke.
with all due respect, Don Vito. We do. We also have enhanced radiation nukes (i.e.: neutron bombs) despite Jimmy *spit* Carter's direction otherwise. Both are natural side effects of nukes, and can be fine-tuned for strategic effect
Posted by: Frank G ||
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Iran claimed Sunday it has increased the range of its warplanes, allowing them to fly as far as Israel and back without refueling.
State TV quoted air force chief Gen. Ahmad Mighani as saying Iranian warplanes can now fly 3,000 kilometers without refueling. He didn't specify the aircraft type or explain how the range was extended.
Israel is about 1,000 kilometers from Iran.
Such a range could be achieved by using external fuel tanks attached to the wings or fuselage that can be released when empty.
Sunday's report did not refer to Israel by name, but Mighani's remarks come after an IAF air exercise in June that US officials described as a possible rehearsal for a strike on Iran's nuclear facilities.
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Capable and able are two different things. It's a matter of can versus may.
Posted by: ed ||
08/17/2008 12:45 Comments ||
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Funny how Iran suddenly announces all these new capabilities. Either they are developing a bunch of new stuff simultaneously or they can develop anything they want almost instantaneously.
I wonder how nukes are going to fit into this picture.
#7
They might, just might, be able to get to Israel, if they didn't use Iraqi air space and the Turks didn't object. If they tried to use Iraqi air space the USAF would smoke them in short order. I also can't realistically see the Turks allowing them overflight rights.
Even if they did, the IAF would quickly make sure their excursion was a one-way trip. If the Iranians get in their cockpits to strike Israel, they better say their goodbyes first because they won't get another chance.
The MMs of Iran announce new 'secret' propaganda arsenal, capable of describing anything in intimidating nuances that will bring the Great Satan™ to its knees, or knot its knickers without a shot fired or drunk.
Posted by: Alaska Paul back from SE Alaska ||
08/17/2008 13:25 Comments ||
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A+ thread LOL!
#2 they'll photoshop superduper large fuel tanks on 'em...
LOL! Quick as per usual Mr. G!
#4 They must be some bad muther f-ers.
I better clean out under my bed. ROLF!!
#3 Must be that new Insh'Allah fuel injection system. LOL Shway Shway injection system
Posted by: Red Dawg ||
08/17/2008 13:57 Comments ||
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Surviving the trip across Iraq against American fighters though...
#11
They've been capable of flying to Israel and back without refueling for a long time - under their own power on the way over and in little tiny pieces on the way back.
Posted by: Red Dawg ||
08/17/2008 17:20 Comments ||
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"Either they are developing a bunch of new stuff simultaneously or they can develop anything they want almost instantaneously."
I'll take what's behind Door #3, gorb.
They're lying.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut ||
08/17/2008 18:28 Comments ||
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All of you are wrong, they are going to Mars. Upon landing they will discover evidence on Olympus Mons that Muhammed stopped by to have picnic there on his way to Heaven, Thus building the Solar Systems largest Mosque on top of the mountain.
Posted by: Charles ||
08/17/2008 18:38 Comments ||
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Iran announced today that they have developed a breed of dogs with exceptional endurance - able to chase down an M1A1 tank at full throttle.
Hey "Spike" - have fun!@ Go chase down that Main Battle Tank. Be sure to tear it up real good, once you catch it.
Not as obscure as all that in certain circles, Spike Uniter. He rode his favourite white horse, if I recall correctly, appropriate for creating a moon shadow.
#23
"Fly me to the Moon and let me play among the Stars. Let me see what Spring is like on Jupiter and Mars." They've either been listening to Frank Sinatra or watching too much "Mystery Science Theater 3000".
Posted by: Deacon Blues ||
08/17/2008 21:28 Comments ||
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the(y) plan to put a man on Mons Veneris sometime in the next ten years.
heh, our Iranian friends, guess what, we've already been there, IYKWIM, and I think you do... *wink wink* and she says it was the best ;-)
Posted by: Frank G ||
08/17/2008 21:54 Comments ||
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HERAT, Afghanistan - Two Iranian nationals were abducted while travelling from the western Afghanistan city of Herat towards the Iranian border earlier this week, a provincial police spokesman said on Saturday. Kidnapping has become a lucrative business in Afghanistan, where dozens of Afghans and foreigners have been abducted by criminals or Taleban-linked militants.
At least 12 more people were killed and 15 others injured in fresh clashes between Torri and Bangash tribes in Kurram tribal agency. Official sources said Saturday that 10 days of unabated factional fighting had so far left about 170 people killed and over 200 injured. The government on Friday gave 72 hours deadline to the warring tribesmen to end the fighting, otherwise operation would be launched in order to restore peace.
Half of the Bajaur population has migrated to safer places and hundreds of families, including children and women, continue exodus amid the ongoing military operation against Taliban militants while the government's help to the victims is barely discernible.
Baghdad_(dpa) _ In the third attack in as many days on Shiite pilgrims, a car bomb killed six civilians and wounded 11 others in Baghdad's north-eastern neighbourhood of Ur on Saturday, Iraqi authorities said. 
(VOI) -- Iraqi security authorities on Saturday arrested a Saudi man carrying a fake Iraqi passport while trying to enter Iraqi territories to carry out armed activities via the Zurbatiya outlet in eastern Wassit province on the borders with Iran, a security source said. "Initial investigations revealed that the Saudi man's fake Iraqi passport was issued by the al-Qadissiya province under the name 
BAGHDAD - At least six people were killed in a car bombing in Baghdad on Saturday targeting Shia pilgrims heading to the holy city of Karbala for a religious festival, police and hospital officials said. Saturday's attack, in the northeastern Baghdad district of Ur, also wounded 11 people, the officials said.
