U.S.-led coalition forces killed 32 insurgents in fighting that erupted in a village in eastern Afghanistan following a raid on a hideout of bomb-makers, the U.S. military said on Wednesday. Not such a good hideout after all, was it?
Violence has surged in recent years in Afghanistan since the Taliban, ousted in a U.S.-led invasion in 2001, regrouped in 2005 for driving out the foreign troops and to topple the Western-backed government of President Hamid Karzai.
Tuesday's operation was in a village of Laghman province and targeted a Taliban roadside bomb cell responsible for numerous attacks throughout the region, the U.S. military said in a statement. Whoops, look like you violated the terms of your group life insurance polices.
"During the operation, as many as 75 armed militants exited their compounds and attempted to converge on the force. Shooting from rooftops and alleyways, the militants engaged Coalition forces with small-arms fire in the village," it said. Next time try bigger arms.
"Coalition forces killed 32 armed insurgents including one female, detained one suspected militant, and destroyed two large caches of weapons, explosives and roadside bomb materials during an operation," it added. Better check under the burqa on that "female".
It did not mention any troop or civilian casualties in the operation. Bummer if you're a Taliban. But I'm sure the Taliban PR Department will come up with something.
The Taliban were not immediately available for comment and Reuters could not verify independently the U.S. military's accounts about the clash. That's because they get confused when asked to count higher than ten.
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"Violence has surged in recent years in Afghanistan since the Taliban, ousted in a U.S.-led invasion in 2001, regrouped in 2005 "
Uhm, no. Violence has surged exactly as the US commander there said it would as we get more aggressive in finding and confronting the Taliban. The Taliban aren't "regrouping" and attacking, we are seeking them out, making contact, and killing them.
Notice this raid. It was us locating and attacking a "hideout". A person who is hiding is doing the opposite of "driving out the foreign troops". They are trying to avoid contact with foreign troops and we are not allowing them to do that. They are going to be cold, hungry, and tired come Spring.
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crosspaych, i'm glad too see someone who thinks the same thing i do. I'm also tired of reading those same lines in every damn story written about afghanistan
PARIS Looters ransacked a Paris watchmaker and grabbed more than EUR 200,000 worth of stock in the wake of a protest against Israel's Gaza offensive, the shop said Monday.
A manager of the Louis Pion boutique in central Paris' Opera district said "40 vandals came in, in three successive waves at three-minute intervals," on Saturday. Police confirmed they had opened an inquiry.
More than 20,000 demonstrators marched in Paris on Saturday to protest Israel's assault on Palestinian Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip and, while most dispersed peacefully, between 200 and 300 went on the rampage. Following the protest, mobs that peeled off from the main march overturned around a dozen cars, burning several of them, and smashed the windows of several shops on Paris's iconic shopping street, the Boulevard Haussmann.
Twelve people remained in custody Monday in connection with the violence, judicial officials said.
On Monday, some 500 people marched in the southern French city of Marseille behind a Palestinian flag and giant banners reading "Israel terrorists, child killers" and "Boycott Israeli products".
"We are all Palestinians," chanted the demonstrators, who included far-left activists.
Saturday's anti-Israeli protest in Paris was one of several around the world, and coincided with the launch of an Israeli ground offensive.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Pakistan's information minister says an investigation has revealed that the lone surviving Mumbai gunman is a Pakistani citizen, as India has alleged.
Up until now Pakistan had refused to confirm Ajmal Kasab's nationality, saying he was not registered in the country's identification databases. Information Minister Sherry Rehman confirmed Kasab was a Pakistani in a text message but gave no other details.
The confirmation Wednesday comes a day after New Delhi handed over a dossier of what it said was evidence linking the Mumbai attackers to Pakistan.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan's government has sacked its top security adviser after he publicly acknowledged a connection between Pakistan and the Mumbai terror attacks in late November.
The office of Pakistani Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani confirmed Wednesday that National Security Adviser Mahmud Ali Durrani had been fired, but gave no reason for his dismissal.
Earlier in the day, Durrani said the sole surviving suspect in the Mumbai attacks -- in which more than 160 people were killed -- had ties to Pakistan. "I think it probably would be true now that for example [Mohammed Ajmal Kasab] had Pakistani connections," said Durrani. "So one cannot deny there was zero link with Pakistan. How much, who all was involved, that we have to investigate."
Statements from Kasab, the sole surviving suspect, were among evidence that India submitted to Pakistan on Monday regarding the attacks. Also included in the dossier were phone records and information about captured weapons.
Pakistani media reports indicated Durrani was fired for revealing the alleged Pakistani connections to the media without privately consulting the prime minister.
India has said Islamic militants trained in Pakistan were behind the three-day siege of India's financial capital.
Pakistani officials have promised to cooperate with the investigation, but have insisted that India show it the evidence supporting its case.
Durrani is a former ambassador to the United States and a former Pakistani soldier.
Indian Foreign Secretary Shiv Shankar Menon called on Pakistan on Monday to cooperate fully in the investigation. "We would like to see real action [from Pakistan] as soon as possible," he said at a news conference.
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No doubt the Pakistani gunman's Pakistani father is relieved to get confirmation that his Pakistani son is, indeed, a Pakistani. The suspense must have been exhausting.
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If the federalists had any power - or common sense - they would use the connection to attack Taliban. The captive admitted to having trained in the water reserve. India has yet to disclose exactly how they got through the thousands of checkpoints in Pakistan, without being discovered. Then there is the matter of Pakistan regulations involving boat rental and cargo control. All aid to Pakistan must cease until these and other questions are answered.
A gunbattle between Indian soldiers and a group of heavily-armed Islamic militants raged for a seventh day Wednesday, making it one of the longest battles in Kashmir in years, officials said.
The fighting erupted last Thursday in the Indian-administered Kashmir district of Poonch after soldiers and police, acting on a tip-off, carried out a search operation of a densely forested area. The battle has so far left four terrorists militants, two soldiers and a policeman dead and several security force members wounded.
The terrorists militants were using natural caves as hideouts, senior army officer Brig. Gurdeep Singh said. "We are carrying out a deliberate operation to wear out the terrorists and to ensure that the casualties among our own forces are avoided," he said.
Police say about eight to 10 terrorists militants are holed-up in the area.
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One good round of WP into that cave, and your troubles would be over. Don't tell me the Indian Army doesn't have a 106mm Recoilless in its inventory.
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One good round of WP into that cave, and your troubles would be over
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WAFF > US: PAKISTAN ["turbulent regions"] POSES THREATS TO INDIA AND WORLD ala NatSecur Advisor Stephen Hadley. HADLEY > CANNOT SOLVE PAKISTAN WIDOUT [FIRSTLY]SOLVING AFGHANISTAN???
Also from WMF > INDIA TO FENCE BANGLADESHI BORDER [Israeli-asst super-fence].
Following the announcement of imposing sharia law in Orakzai Agency, the Taliban on Tuesday occupied the Political Rest House in the agency, locals and political administration sources said.
A political administration official told Daily Times that the Taliban captured the rest house late on Monday.
He said the political authorities had already vacated the premises due to the growing Taliban presence in the area, adding the Taliban had little difficulty in overpowering two Khasadars deployed to guard the rest house. Taliban sources said they would use the building as their office.
Bannu: An official of the Bannu Bomb Disposal Squad was killed when he tried to defuse a bomb in Cantonment police station precincts of Bannu district, police said on Tuesday.
Police official Gul Khan told Daily Times that the bomb was planted in a bazaar close to Peepal Road in Bannu Cantt and exploded as the official, Rehmatullah Marwat, tried to diffuse it.
Meanwhile, unidentified men on Tuesday torched Government Girls' High School in Fatehpur area of Swat district.
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Is a rest house and a motel the same thing?
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The Pakis are brain dead. Those animals are now a stone's throw from the country's water supply. Already the Sindhis complain of Punjab hoarding. If they don't wipe out Taliban, the entire country is at risk. And if we don't stop supporting the Pashto slimeball - Karzai - who is sandbagging the anti-terror effort, our troops will be put at unnecessary risk.
Don't support elections in midst of conflict, because the results will exacerbate conflict. Smack yourself in the head if you disagree.
Swedish-based company Nordic Leisure says it expects to fly to the Iraqi capital once a week. The plane, carrying about 150 passengers - mainly Iraqis - arrived from Denmark.
Air services to Iraq are gradually increasing after UN sanctions were imposed following the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. More international arrivals are expected in the next two days, including one from Hong Kong, Iraqi Transport Minister Amer Abduljabbar Ismail told journalists, AFP news agency reported.
Turkish Airlines restored links to Baghdad in October last year, offering three flights a week.
But while few direct flights between Europe and Baghdad are available, a number of airlines have been running services for some time to the northern Iraqi cities of Sulaimaniya and Irbil. Austrian Airlines started flying to Irbil in February last year and has since increased its service to five flights a week.
Iraqi national carrier Iraqi Airways has said it hopes to start flying routes to Europe in the coming months. Air France-KLM signed a preliminary accord with Iraq just days ago, setting out plans for Iraqi Airways to fly to European destinations.
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Thank you, United States military, certain brave Iraqis, a certain unpopular US president, and a small number of stalwart regular Americans. You all will or shall have honor in your times. It isn't churlish or small to wish that those who helped make this so difficult, and who even know blacken your names without cause, get the dishonor in their times that they deserve. Not churlish or small, but presently looking unrealistic, as the latter group is being rewarded with power, perks, and (nominal) respectability.
Aswat al-Iraq: A civilian was wounded on Tuesday in a roadside bomb explosion, while four bombs were defused in eastern Mosul, an army source said. "An improvised explosive device went off on Tuesday (Jan. 6) in al-Nour neighborhood in eastern Mosul, targeting an Iraqi army vehicle patrol, injuring a passing civilian," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "The wounded was rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment," he added. "Anti-bombs squad managed to defuse four bombs in al-Nour, al-Qadissiya and al-Karama neighborhoods in eastern Mosul," he also said.
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Aswat al-Iraq: Unidentified gunmen set two communication towers of AsiaCell ablaze in eastern Mosul, a police source said on Tuesday. "Unknown gunmen set fire to two communication towers in al-Quds and al-Taameem neighborhoods in eastern Mosul on Tuesday (Jan.6)," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "They fled to unknown place," he added. Last month, the company urged the Iraqi government to protect it from the armed attacks, which affected its services, according to a company's statement.
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They must not have paid off the people who "run" the neighborhood.
Aswat al-Iraq: Police patrols on Tuesday found a body of an element of the oil protection force in southeastern Mosul, a police source said. "Policemen found on Tuesday (Jan. 6) a body of an element of the oil protection force in al-Wehda neighborhood in southeastern Mosul," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "He was choked to death and his body bore no signs of gunshot wounds," he added.
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Aswat al-Iraq: A civilian was killed and six others were wounded on Tuesday in a car bomb explosion in southwestern Baghdad, a police source said. "A car crammed with explosives went off near al-Halawani markets in al-Sidiya region in southwestern Baghdad on Tuesday (Jan. 6) while an Iraq army vehicle patrol was passing, killing a citizen and injuring six others, including three soldiers," the source told Aswat al-Iraq.
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Aswat al-Iraq: The spokesperson for Baghdad's Operations Command (BOC) on Tuesday said there have been intelligence tips that a male or female bomber was recruited to conduct a suicide attack inside or outside al-Kadhimiya Shrine during the Ashuraa occasion, a matter which has necessitated preventing women from entering Kadhimiya. "The decision is effective on Tuesday and Wednesday," General Qassim Atta told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. "Iraqi security forces are currently conducting search and raid operations in certain areas," he added.
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If I was a prepubescent boy living in Kadhimiya, I would run like hell.
Most of those "lions of Islam" like little boys much more than they tolerate women.
It strikes me as funny that the Taliban seems to hate women so much.....it must have something to do with their mommies......Oediphus complex perchance???
Mahmoud, where is your teddie bear?
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Abu Jundal stands on a Gaza City street, unarmed and wearing civilian clothes. Only his black, multi-pocketed tabard and his beard give a hint of who he really is: a Hamas platoon commander having a day off in the middle of the war with Israel.
We work in shifts, one day on, one day off, so we do not get exhausted, he said, adding that his shifts run from 10pm until 5am every other night. His was one of three platoons operating in this sector of the northern Gaza Strip.
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It pretty much has to be that way to run a sustainable military organization. Human beings are not machines and need to rest. I am sure the IDF does the same thing. You engage troops for some period of time and then you relieve them.
Now if Israel would simply pick up all military aged males and place them into "temporary protective custody" until hostilities are over, things might go a little quicker for them.
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In 632 AD the Arab savage set out to conquer the world. They can't stop because they hold a manual of aggression - the quran - to be sacred.
Smack yourself on the head if you disbelieve that Muslims are anything but inherently aggressive, and that anyone who appears otherwise is either betraying cult dogma or playing taqiyah subversion.
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If they had to work to buy food they would not be able to do this. The UN and various government funded NGOs take care of the food, clothing, health and education of the Paleos. They have a far higher standard of living than hundreds of millions in India, China and Africa.
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On their day off they probably go to the job bank.
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Exactly, crosspatch. I whined and pushed for the same thing (mass preventive detention of military-aged males - targeted, however) in Eye-rak. Yes, yes, yes - lots of unpleasantness and complications. But all well worth the effect. Especially in this case. Iz'rl is doing a time-limited op in a small area. Detaining and screening every MAM would surely pay off, and simultaneously put a crimp in Hamas' sitcheeation.
The name of the game for Hamas at the moment, defense [IDF] officials say is to reach significant psychological achievements, such as kidnapping a soldier or firing rockets that will cause damage to Israeli life and property. To this end, Hamas is exercising great caution in this arena and is preserving their weapons caches, even rationing them so that their inventory does not run out too soon.
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Hamas is still taking action against Fatah affiliates and is willing to take all measures in order to swipe at them. For instance, this week a 70-year-old elderly man was shot to death when he refused to disclose the location of his son, a Fatah operative.
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Which is why Israel has to stay in Gaza for a long period, wearing them down and picking them off. There is no way they can re-supply with the strip cut in half.
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I guess Im in general more of "walk away from the table when youre ahead" kind of guy. Lots of things can happen in war. So far Israel is ahead - lots of damage to Hamas - leaders killed, terrs killed and captured, infrastructure and weapons stocks destroyed, at the cost of only a handful of IDF casualties, and even the "qana" event Israeli PR is fighting back manfully on - Hamas has been shown to be far weaker then Hezbo, and IDFs deterrence restored. And heading toward what may be a ceasefire on Israels terms.
I wouldnt endanger that, take the chance on a big bad thing happening (a major kidnapping, a real Qana, etc). I think this will done by Shabbos.
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RUSSIA TODAY > HAMAS SECRET WEAPON AIMED AT ISRAEL? IDF believes is most lkely a long-range rocket [40-mile range] capable of hitting DIMONA [hardened] and espec SPRAWLING TEL AVIV [how to miss a City widout really trying]!?
Also from RUSSIA TODAY > ISRAELI WARFARE: EMERGENCY BACKUP. Israel calling up Milyuhns and Zilyuhns and Tilyuhns = 000's of extra Reservists as precaution agz Islamist attacks from other strategic directions [read, NORTHERN FRONT = HIZBOLLAH IN LEBANON]???
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besides scaring civilians are the rocket teams really effective? Not up too US or Israeli thoughts of being effective like killing 10 or 20 fighters with 1 strike
Israel has announced that it will halt its bombing of the Gaza Strip for a three-hour period each day, starting tonight.
A military spokeswoman said there will be a halt to all offensive actions for three hours every day. "It was decided to suspend bombings between 1 and 4 o'clock (11:00pm GMT and 14:00pm GMT) every day starting today," the army spokeswoman said. "The army will respond to any fire including rocket fire," she said.
This way they can watch the roaches scurry about, and especially see where they end up at 3:59 ...
An official at the defence ministry said "the army will stop its operations in the area of Gaza City".
Palestinian officials in the Gaza Strip said they had been informed by Israel that it would stop its attacks during that time period to allow shops to open and for funerals to take place.
Israel says this will give aid agencies time to get help to the people of Gaza. The move is linked to an Israeli decision to open a humanitarian corridor into Gaza. "In order to prevent a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert decided to adopt a proposal by the security establishment to open a humanitarian corridor into the Gaza Strip to assist the population," a statement from the Prime Minister's office said. "This involves opening up geographical areas for limited periods of time during which the population will be able to receive the aid and stock up."
Mr Olmert's spokesman, Mark Regev, described the measure as a "special status to allow the transfer of people, foodstuffs and medicines".
The statements come as mounting camp-follower civilian casualties in Israel's war in Gaza upped the international pressure on the Jewish state to stop its largest military operation since the 2006 Lebanon war.
Thanks to Roooters, AP, AFP and other MSM outlets that have swallowed Paleo propaganda. Again ...
In a blow to Israel's international image the United Nations has denied Israeli army allegations that militants were inside a school in Gaza that was hit the previous day by an Israeli strike, killing at least 42 people. "Following an initial investigation, we are 99.9 per cent sure that there were no militants or militant activities in the school and the school compound," Christopher Gunness, spokesman for the UN refugee agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said.
Saying this means the Paleos at the 'school' won't kill Christopher today ...
"We are calling for an independent investigation to establish the facts," he said. "If the rules of war had been broken those found guilty must be brought to justice."
Meanwhile, the Israeli Cabinet is meeting to consider its wider options. They include the possibility of intensifying this campaign and an Egyptian proposal for a ceasefire.
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Its already starting.
That's just three hrs. a day for Hamas to truck around rockets and move freely throughout gaza.
Why even bother starting a war you don't intend to win?
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Israel tries to fight humanely in this war.
No other country would have stopped bombarding the enemy who sends missiles to her highly populated cities in order to let food supplies
get to the enemy. We should all applaud Israel.
A: When the South was burned, occupied, and crying uncle.
Q: When did World War I end?
A: It didnt really end until World War II ended.
Q: OK, Mr. Smarty Pants, when did WWII end?
A: It ended when Germany was burned, occupied, and crying uncle. And when Japan was burned, occupied, slightly radioactive, and crying uncle.
Q: Well, what about Korea?
A: That war is still on, too.
Q: Oh.
A: Did you have another question?
Q: Yes. When did Vietnam end?
A: It ended when South Vietnam was burned, occupied, and crying uncle.
And that makes this a very modern war, which wont end until one side or the other is burned, occupied, and crying uncle. Fact is, the Palestinians cant do that to the Israelis. Another fact is, the Israelis wont (but could) do it to the Palestinians.
And that is why you almost never see me write anything about the Middle East peace process. The only process towards peace is the kind of war one side cant commit, and the other side wont.
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5:44 PM Israel Channel 1 TV reports: Apparently, the long range rockets (3) which hit Be'er Sheva at 4:28 PM were set up by Hamas during the 3 hour "Humanitarian" cease fire.
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If a drone saw it and the IAF didn't hit it, it means that they didn't know it was a launch team until the launch was made. If they would have known and been able to hit it, they would have done so.
At least 30 Palestinians were killed and over 50 wounded in an IDF attack on a Hamas rocket squad based in a UN school in Jabalya on Tuesday, military sources said.
Dr. Bassam Abu Warda, director of Kamal Radwan Hospital, said 34 people were killed by an Israeli strike outside the school. The UN confirmed that 30 were killed and 55 were wounded by tank shells.
The school grounds were being used by terrorists to fire mortar shells at troops stationed nearby, and the soldiers responded by firing mortars back, the army said. According to the IDF, the dead included members of the Hamas rocket cell, including senior operatives Imad Abu Askhar and Hassan Abu Askhar. Now why on earth would senior operatives need to be around to instruct a mortar team how to do their job? Suppose they thought they were safe for some reason?
Defense officials told The Associated Press that booby-trapped bombs in the school had triggered secondary explosions that killed additional Palestinians there.
The army noted that Tuesday was not the first time Hamas had attacked Israel from within a school. The IDF released a video taken by an unmanned aerial vehicle in late 2007 showing terrorists firing mortars from right outside a school. Click the link and you can watch the video.
"Hamas has in the past fired at Israel and at troops from inside schools, [exploiting] civilians, as is proven by UAV footage," the army said.
The UN said hundreds of people from a Gaza City refugee camp had gone to seek shelter in the school from the IDF's offensive.
"There's nowhere safe in Gaza. Everyone here is terrorized and traumatized," said John Ging, an Irishman who is the top UN official in Gaza. Apparently even the terrorists are terrorized. I wonder how they like it. "I am appealing to political leaders here, in Israel, and in the region and the world to get their act together and stop this," Ging said, speaking at the Strip's largest hospital. "They are responsible for these deaths." Methinks Ging is confused.
Maxwell Gaylard, the UN humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian territories, has a very unfortunate name demanded an investigation. If I were Israel, I would agree to it on the condition that if it were discovered that Hamass fired first from within the school that Hamass bears the blame.
"As one of the most densely populated places in the world, it is clear that more civilians will be killed," Gaylard said. So what are you trying to say?
"These tragic incidents need to be investigated, and if international humanitarian law has been contravened, those responsible must held accountable." How the fuc& does that group of cowards who hide behind committees of committees intend to hold Hamass accountable?
Earlier Tuesday, seven Palestinians were killed in several separate incidents. One young man was killed in an attack on a Hamas charity building, a 15-year-old was killed in an air force attack in the center of Gaza City and five people were killed when their house in the eastern part of Gaza City was shelled. Note: That roaring sound coming from your roof may sound fierce, but it does not offer any protection whatsoever. It really means you have about 30 seconds to get the hell out and down the street as quickly as your legs will carry you. Allan does not offer Martyr bonus-points for willing stupidity.
Palestinians also said nine members of the same family were killed in the Zeitun neighborhood of Gaza City, six of them children. Three other people were reportedly killed in the strike. Well, perhaps next time the "Palestinans" get an opportunty to vote, they should pick the lesser of two evils. Of course, this problem doesn't seem to be limited to the "Palestinians" these days.
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If I were Israel, I would agree to it on the condition that if it were discovered that Hamass fired first from within the school that Hamass bears the blame.
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I think the correct term in diplomatic language is "find yourself a quiet private appropriate accommodation and have intimate relations with yourself"
Or something like that.
Gaylard seems to be appropriately named
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The UN's Sgt Schultz denial (I know nutink) does not cut it.
This situation requires a very public demand that we have a thorough inquiry of UN facilities for terrorist activities.
I'm talking banging shoes on table and full-throated demands to determine "What did the UN know, and when did they know it."
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the UN came out with a statement today that they are sure Hamas didn't use there school.
So what were the Hamas deaders doing there? At least two were senior operatives. Were they there learning Shakespeare?
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"I think the correct term in diplomatic language is "'find yourself a quiet private appropriate accommodation and have intimate relations with yourself.'"
Personally, James, I've always preferred "You are cordially invited to perform an anatomically impossible auto-erotic act."
But that's just me....
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"Please engage reflexively in sexual congress."
#18
The MSM almost always falls for the Hamas propaganda thus once again aiding and abetting the Islamic cause. If they are not duped and sucked in then they willingly are aiding and abetting the Palestian terros.
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Listening to NPR this evening, some American on-the-scene reporter was talking about the 30 people killed. No mention of HamAss. No mention of secondaries. Said the Perfidious Juice justified the attack because the school was used in the past for firing mortars, a fact that is demonstrably true, but ignores the present use of the school by HamAss for the same purpose. Bastards, all of them.
Israel will halt its bombardment of Gaza for three hours every day to allow residents of the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory to obtain needed supplies, a military spokesman said Wednesday. WWHD - What Would Hamass Do?
The announcement follows Israels decision to open a humanitarian corridor into Gaza in response to mounting concerns about shortages of food, water and medicine in the territory. The military did not immediately say when the bombing halt would begin, however. How about starting a month after Hamass stops forcing kids to remain in a school while they use it to launch missiles at Israel?
Fresh gunfire and explosions echoed across Gaza early Wednesday in a 12th day of an Israeli military campaign against Hamas. Israeli warplanes and helicopter gunships hit 30 targets in Gaza overnight, while land-based artillery and warships offshore fired at Palestinian fighters in support of Israeli ground troops, the Israel Defense Forces reported.
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Not sure what that means but onependonge is almost certainly a lefty, probably of the academic PIB (person-in-black) sub-species: I recognize the style of gibberish.
#8
Is it too much that we ask our trolls to at least have a rudimentary knowledge of spelling? I know punctuation and capitalization would be too much to ask, but could they at least learn how to spell? Consider it a "humanitatrian" gesture to us "civiliasns", okay, retard?
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The primary reason for the chaos and the constant fighting is ISRAEL and those jews in D.C that are more loyal to Israel than to America. The whole world is witnessing mass killings of children who you say are being used as human shields!!! how stupid and inconsiderate, when the children are being killed in their homes. Families of 8, 9 or more are being decentegraded into ashes because of the Israeli bombardment (Just like the 1000s that were killed in Lebanon in 2006 if your empty head remembers!). As I was saying, America is the only country objecting resolutions condemning Israelis for their cruel murders, and that, my friend (enemy), what makes America is the Biggest supporter of terror in the world. The PAlestinians, since the creation of this zionist country, negotiated down to more than %85 of their original land. You, Israelis, are the ones that are never happy and keep building illegal settlements and violate ALL of the UN resolutions that call for removal of those settlements that are the source of true terrorism. Israel has proven to be a BAD NEIGHBOR for the past 100 years and was the source of most of the true holocausts in the world. They have earned the title of children killers, Today, the death toll in Gaza stands at 690, 1/3 of which are children under 10. How do you justfy that? Other than the Evilness and the disreguard for human lives and humanity. Yeah, we do hate Israel more than anything, and thats because weve been their neighbors for a very long time and we know their truth more than anyone else. Their truth is that to them a non-jew is not worth a dime and is called a goim. Do you think they care how many children they behead? their agenda is to dominate the world (by leaching on the super power, USA) and make everyone their servant. They succeeded in America and most of Europe(proof: you can doubt the existance of God but you cant doubt the existance of the holocausts .lol), but not in our terrirories! Death to the Zionists!
I'm pretty sure Marvin Martian has a decentegrator, but I didn't know the Juice had them.
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The double standard being applied to Israel in pro-Palestinian blogs is not a new story. On the one hand, some people accept whatever news comes out of Gaza, knowing that all media in that region is under Hamas absolute control, while, on the other hand, they conveniently call every word that comes out of Israel an absolute lie, even though the international press has been free to report anything inside that country for years. At the same time, nobody acknowledges or addresses the indisputable fact that Hamas has been launching thousands of missiles into civilian areas of Israel for that last 8 years, or that Hamas stated objective is to wipe Israel off the map. And when innocents in Gaza are killed or injured in this inevitable conflict, they forget that Hamas, like most terrorist organizations, positions its militants in otherwise peaceful neighborhoods, near schools and hospitals. During the recent hudna (cease-fire) Hamas dedicated itself to re-arming and continuing to build its network of weapons caches and tunnels, in a constant state of preparation for a war that they fully intended to provoke.
This is what Nizar Rayan, a recently deceased Hamas leader in Gaza, said in an interview prior to the beginning of this recent conflict: The only reason to have a hudna (cease-fire) is to prepare yourself for the final battle. We dont need 50 years to prepare ourselves for the final battle with Israel. There is no chance that true Islam would ever allow a Jewish state to survive in the Muslim Middle East. Israel is an impossibility. It is an offense against God. You (Jews) are murderers of the prophets and you have closed your ears to the Messenger of Allah. Jews tried to kill the Prophet, peace be unto him. All throughout history, you have stood in opposition to the word of God.
How do the pro-Palestinian bloggers propose that Israel negotiate any kind of peace or common trust with an adversary like Rayan? The answer is simple: they don't. Rayan is typical of Hamas leadership. For every story of an Israeli atrocity, there are hundreds of stories about Hamas kidnappings and attacks inside Israel. At this very moment, Hamas is refusing to allow injured Gazans with treatable wounds to be taken to nearby hospitals in Egypt unless that country agrees to allow more arms to be brought across its border into Gaza. A classic example of exploiting innocent people to enable its attacks. This is why Israel has been imposing a blockade on Gaza. Not, as some suggest, because it just wanted to hurt innocent children, etc.
The Jewish people called the region of Palestine home thousands of years ago. King David and Solomon reigned in Jerusalem more than 1,500 years before Mohammed was born. Following World War II, more Jews lived in Palestine than so-called Palestinians. The Jewish state itself was formed in response to what happened during the war, when many Jews trying to escape Nazi Europe were turned away by other countries. The vast majority of them died in the camps. Thats why there is an Israel today and will be forever more. If the Arab world actually wanted to live in peace with Israel, the people of Gaza would be living in the garden spot of the world. But angry, anti-Israeli Muslims like Nizar Rayan will never allow that. Theyre more interested in dead Israelis than in peace.
Are the pro-Palestinians interested in genuine peace? Or is it more important for them to express blind rage at Israel? The answers to those questions is why the Mideast has been in such chaos and poverty for the last half century. You don't necessarily have to be ignorant, illiterate and anti-semitic to support Hamas. But it sure seems to help.
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Today, the death toll in Gaza stands at 690, 1/3 of which are children under 10. How do you justfy that?
Hey, Spanky, you frickin' moron, the justification is easy. Hamas wanted war and now they have it.
Too bad, your propaganda isn't working here. You'll have to do better than that or waste your time on some other blog.
You want all of us pigs and apes either dead or converted to your perverted little death cult, right? Yeah, we know. We understand that when it comes to muzzies like Hamas it's either kill or be killed. So your poor, little Gazans are dying. Sucks, huh? Maybe when they've had enough they'll stop the rockets.
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Sorry Spanky - people here have functioning minds.
The sole reason there are so many civilian deaths is because of HAMASS storing arms and ammo in schools, hospitals, mosques (did you see the secondary explosions when that mosque was hit - what was that Allah's fart?). Not to mention the hiding behind their women and children (there are actual videos of this). The blame for their deaths lies with HAMAS and with the apologist (like you) and media which willingly, and with full knowledge that children will be killed as a result, buys and publicizes their crap..
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Spanky, you really need to do a little research before going off like that.
Come back after you have internalized the answers to a few questions:
1) What does Hamas think ambulances should be used for?
2) What does Hamas think mosques should be used for?
3) Does Hamas think it's OK to fire rockets and mortars from positions abutting schools?
4) Why don't the kids leave the schools when Hamas shoots rockets or mortars from them?
5) Are there any videos on the internet of Hamas shooting rockets or mortars from schools?
6) If Israel isn't supposed to shoot back, then what is your genius solution to the problem?
7) Do Hamas operatives use humanitarian cease fires to rearm and setup rockets on timers to shoot at Israel?
8) Would you volunteer to live your life within 30 seconds of a bunker for an undetermined number of years due to Hamas? Or would you run away? Should you have to? What if running away just meant it would take a bit longer for them to come after you again?
9) If the Palestinians truly and honestly agreed to and implemented a unilateral ceasefire, would Israel stand down?
11) If Israel truly and honestly agreed to and implemented a unilateral ceasefire, would Hamas stand down?
12) Given Hamas' history, how would another cease fire help solve the situation for longer than it would take Hamas to rearm (again)?
13) Given the chance, would Hamas snipers try to kill Israeli children playing outside their homes? Are there any documented cases of this happening before the wall went up? Do "Palestinians" throw candy when this kind of thing happens? Is that candy a sign of mourning or joy?
14) Could Israel bomb the "Palestinian" areas back to even deeper into the stone age in a week if they wanted to? Have they? What would Hamas do if the tables were turned? Would they show as much restraint?
15) Does Israel telephone or "roof knock" those Hamas operatives whose houses they are about to bomb and warn them of what is coming? What is the "Palestinian" "civilian" reaction to such warnings? Also, do Hamas operatives return the favor with a phone call before they set off a suicide bomb?
16) Does Hamas' charter say that they are for or against the existance of Israel, and under what circumstances?
16) Do you believe this list of questions even scratches the surface of what the mainstream media doesn't bother to tell you about?
18) Why wouldn't the mainstream media integrate all these obvious tidbits into their reporting?
19) Do you truly believe that a society such as Israel, which pound for pound is more educated and productive than pretty much any other society than I can think of, suddenly went immoral? Honestly?
20) Whose side are you on? Why? If you say you are on the side of peace, then why don't you think Israel should finish off Hamas so everyone can get on with their lives, including the "Palestinians"?
(AKI) - An Israeli warplane on Tuesday struck the home of a militant leader from the Islamist group Hamas' rocket division in the Gaza Strip.Ayman Siam is believed to have been killed in the strike against the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza. The Israel Defense Forces said Siam was at home at the time of the attack.
As well as being the founder of Hamas' rocket launching programme, he headed the group's artillery throughout the territory, the IDF said. Another damaging loss to the Gaza Space Program...
This article starring:
Ayman Siam
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Is there a greater waste of human potential as that which the PLO and now HAMAS has squander? The crap the the toddler Paleos have been feed in cartoons and other indoctrination programs will be the death nail to these people.
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Hamas was able to launch about 30 rockets into Israel on Tues. This is down from the 60 or so at the start of the operation. However, Hamas still had, I think, at least two operational Grad launch teams at the end of the day.
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She packed my bags last night pre-flight
Zero hour nine a.m.
And I'm gonna be high as a kite by then
I miss the earth so much I miss my wife
It's lonely out in space
On such a timeless flight
And I think it's gonna be a long long time
Till touch down brings me round again to find
I'm not the man they think I am at home
Oh no no no I'm a rocket man
Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone
Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it's cold as hell
And there's no one there to raise them if you did
And all this science I don't understand
It's just my job five days a week
A rocket man, a rocket man
And I think it's gonna be a long long time...
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You don't have to live like a refugee
/Abu Tom Petty
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EJ, hahaha, I was just thinking of that tune when I read the title of the article. LOL.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told the Security Council that the United States, Israel's closest ally, understands "the urgency of an end to the fighting" and is working around the clock to achieve it.
"In this regard, we are pleased by, and wish to commend, the statement of the president of Egypt and to follow up on that initiative," Rice said, referring to a cease-fire plan proposed by Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
Rice cautioned, however, that any solution must include an end to Hamas rocket and mortar attacks on southern Israel, she should have said all rocket attacks because that wording allows so called splinter groups to fire off rockets
the opening of all borders in Gaza, hope this means border crossings, not borders
and an end to arms smuggling into the Palestinian territory.
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she should have said all rocket attacks because that wording allows so called splinter groups to fire off rockets
Very good point. Hamas can just hand the keys to PIJ, or PFLP, or teh Palestinian Centre for Human Rights - and then look all innocent when the mortars take flight.
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And what, exactly, is the point of having a truce if one side is still determined to eradicate the other? Wars end when either both sides say enough ( Iran vs Iraq, 1980s) or when one side is crushed ( US vs Japan, WWII). Any kind of truce or hudna is simply postponing the day of reckoning.
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It seems Hamas understands the diff between 'border' and 'border crossings' better than our Sec of State.
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Osama Hamdan, a Hamas representative in Lebanon close to the group's leadership in Syria, told al-Jazeera television that Hamas would not accept any initiative that does not include the withdrawal of the Israeli army from Gaza and the opening of all of the territory's border crossings.
(AKI) -- More than 4,000 Indonesians have offered to support Hamas and fight against Israel, a radical Islamist group has told Adnkronos International (AKI). The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) has been mobilising jihadists to support the ruling Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip against the current Israeli offensive.
"We started the list last Friday and more than 4,000 people registered to go and fight Israel," Sobry Lubis, secretary-general of the FPI told AKI.
Sobry said the FPI wanted to send only a thousand jihadists and the group was considering the background of the volunteers. Among the criteria is a willingness to die as a martyr.
"We have a list of ten points that volunteers must endorse for them to be considered. One of the obligations is a willingness to be a martyr."
Sobry did not provide details about finance for the mission, possible departure dates or the group's itinerary.
The FPI is one of several Indonesian groups to have drawn up a recruitment list. Analysts have expressed doubts suggesting that several groups had sought to do something similar in the past but there was no proof that Indonesians had fought in the Middle East.
Nevertheless, many in Indonesia - the world's largest Muslim country - feel strongly about the Palestinian issue. Thousands of people have protested in major cities throughout the archipelago against Israel's offensive over the past ten days.
Jakarta has no diplomatic relations with Israel and the Indonesian government has promised 2 million dollars in humanitarian aid. The Indonesian military has also said it is ready to send troops to Gaza if the United Nations requested members to take part in a peace mission.
An Indonesian humanitarian contingent arrived in Egypt on Monday in a bid to organise a medical aid centre on the border with Gaza.
The FPI is a hardline Islamic group known for conducting annual raids targeting night clubs, bars and venues that failed to observe the holy month of Ramadan.
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Ditto for MECCA MARTYRS BRIGADE, ala WORLD MIL FORUM.
Sri Lankan troops are in full control of this air strip from where Tamil Tigers launched many a surprise air raids deep into government controlled areas including the capital Colombo, but there is yet no inkling of the fate of air force of the LTTE.
Sri Lankan army liberated the sensitive Iranamadu, known for LTTE airstrips, recently, which is located a few kilometers away from its defacto capital Kilinochchi. But apparently the Tigers had moved their Czech made fighters. More like light attack (very light attack)
And the government forces are also within striking distance of two more Air Tiger air strips located just outside the LTTE's last bastion of Mullaittivu and hope to obliterate the Tiger's fledgling Air arm. I always thought it was actually pretty spiffy for terrorists to have an air force. At last, something for air defense artillery to do!
LTTE created a sensation when it sent its air craft in May last year to bomb Colombo and the planes took off from the Iranamadu air strip. One was reportedly shot down by the Sri Lankan security forces. The SLA spent a lot of effort running fighter patrols and buying radars just to counteract 3 LTTE planes. Then they shot 1 down on its way home from a successful mission...yippee.
Sri Lankan government troops on Tuesday captured a key Tamil Tiger defence line on the Jaffna peninsula, killing scores of rebels, the defence ministry said.
A statement said the rebels were "in total disarray following concentrated armour and infantry assaults backed by heavy artillery attacks".
It said government troops pushing south from the top of the peninsula were able to advance 500 metres into Tamil Tiger territory after breaching the line -- which featured some of the toughest rebel fortifications.
There was no immediate comment from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), who appear to be rapidly losing ground in the north in the face of a huge government offensive.
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U.S.-led coalition forces killed 32 insurgents in fighting that erupted in a village in eastern Afghanistan following a raid on a hideout of bomb-makers, the U.S. military said on Wednesday.
PARIS Looters ransacked a Paris watchmaker and grabbed more than EUR 200,000 worth of stock in the wake of a protest against Israel's Gaza offensive, the shop said Monday.
"I am appealing to political leaders here, in Israel, and in the region and the world to get their act together and stop this," Ging said, speaking at the Strip's largest hospital. "They are responsible for these deaths." 
(AKI) - An Israeli warplane on Tuesday struck the home of a militant leader from the Islamist group Hamas' rocket division in the Gaza Strip.
