Germany's armed forces on Friday said they had called the Nato airstrike on two hijacked fuel tankers in northern Afghanistan that burned more than 50 people to death. Well, thats's certainly going to give the MSM a new problem to solve.
A German army spokesman told news agency dpa that a German reconstruction team based in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan had requested the attack, which caused jet fuel in the tankers to ignite.
Scores of people were killed in northern Afghanistan when Nato aircraft struck fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban. A Nato spokesman said it was investigating reports of civilian deaths.
Mohammed Omar, the governor of Kunduz, told the Financial Times by telephone that the Taliban had stolen the vehicles, which exploded as villagers gathered near a river-bank in the middle of the night to collect fuel. Everyone knows that 2:30 in the morning is the best time to collect fuel. First you collect fuel, then a half-hour later you stage a cross-fire ...
However, the German defence ministry said it did not believe that bystanders were among the dead. German aircraft were not involved in the attack.
"After observing that only insurgents were in the area, the local ISAF commander ordered air strikes which destroyed the fuel trucks and killed a large number of insurgents," a spokesperson for Nato's International Security Assistance Force told Reuters. "The strike was against insurgents. That is who we believe was killed." "And if we're wrong about that, it wuz the evil Americans that made us do it. Or maybe the Joos."
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50 alleged dead, but how many bodies can they produce? It would be nice if the press got in the habit of the dead they report is an unconfirmed rumor and not a count.
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If they are gathered around a stolen fuel tanker to get fuel in the middle of the night... they probably aren't 'innocent civilians'...
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Did they check with German lawyers or American before requesting the strike? Did the pilots get authorization from US attorneys as well? Was a hold harmless issued?
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This appears to be another case where the liberal media will wring their hands, whine in dismay, and beg forgiveness - while the rest of us are wondering why we aren't reducing the Federal Deficit by selling video of the event on pay-per-view.
If you come to share "land pirate" plunder in the moonlight, don't cry when the anti-piracy forces "reach out and touch" your ass.
Thankfully, the progression of natural selection may eventually raise the level of caution among the unwashed rabble in the Afghan mountains.
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Yes they did and they had damn good reasons for it since the fuel tanks were hijacked to be used in suicide attacks.
Listening to the debate back home, I'm getting frigging tired with all this. I have a son serving in Afghanistan and if politicians think that you can fight a war but must not call it war, and that troops should protect without killing anyone, then those politicians should go there themselves and blow the Talibs into the sea with all the hot air they produce.
So the UN wants to "investigate" whether the attack was justified, because civilian casualties "could not be excluded?
Bolton was right. Let's hand the building over to Ghadaffi and drop a JDAM on it.
Sorry for the rant.
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Bolton is usually right. Pass along my thanks to your son EC.
"Thank you for your service" is something he will NEVER hear in Germany.
Instead ever shot he fires will be investigated by a lawyer
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yes, EC - a big thank you to your son and best wishes!
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Righteous rant, EC! Hear, hear! :-D
Many thanks to your son for his service - and to you for raising him.
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"50 alleged dead, but how many bodies can they produce?"
As many as they need. But generally they don't need to produce any. Associated Press just takes their word for it. Their motto is "always show solidarity with America's enemies".
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ION *** Breaking *** PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > GERMANY ON ALERT: INTEL AGENCIES ARE SWAMPED WITH THREAT WARNINGS [possib terror strikes, espec agz MERKEL]???
At least 90 people have been killed after a Nato air strike blew up a fuel tanker hijacked by the Taliban in northern Afghanistan, officials say. Nato confirmed to the BBC that the explosion happened in Kunduz province on the main road to Baghlan. The governor of Kunduz said the tanker was carrying jet fuel.
District police chief Basharyar Parwani told AFP news agency that Taliban insurgents tried to drive away the tanker that they hijacked on a highway. "The fuel tanker got stuck in the river. There were local civilians with them as well. The Taliban were bombed," Mr Parwani said. Seriously burned people are crowding a hospital in Kunduz, AFP reported. BBC Radio reports the Governor as stating that the majority of the victims were Taliban, including a number of ;senior commanders'.
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This report calls it an airstrike
Afghan official says 90 killed in NATO airstrike, mostly Taliban
by Staff Writers
Kabul (AFP) Sept 4, 2009
A NATO airstrike in northern Afghanistan on Friday killed around 90 people, most of them Taliban insurgents, a spokesman for the provincial government said.
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said it was investigating reports of civilian casualties in an airstrike that destroyed two fuel tankers hijacked by the Taliban in northern Kunduz province.
"Some 90 people were killed in this incident and most of them are Taliban. It was an ISAF force airstrike," Mahbubullah Sayedi, a spokesman for the Kunduz provincial government, told AFP.
"A small number of the casualties are local civilians, including a few children who had come to take free fuel," he added, declining to give any further details.
The German army, whose soldiers are based in Kunduz under NATO command, said the airstrike killed 56 Taliban militants after they attacked an alliance convoy.
"There were no civilian casualties. There were no German casualties," an army statement said.
Civilian casualties during Western military operations in Afghanistan are hugely sensitive and a major source of tension with the Afghan government.
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Civilian casualties during Western military operations in Afghanistan are hugely sensitive and a major source of tension with the Afghan government.
Tensions about civilian casualties between the Taliban and the Afghan national government are apparently non-existent.
So the lesson here is that if you are Taliban and your actions place civilians in danger, civilians don't mean sh*t!
#7
I thought we had been over the geography back in 2001.
the north of Afghanistan is almost entirely non-Pashtun and is the most secure area.
EXCEPT Konduz province, which is mainly Pashtun. Some 19th cent Afghan king or other decided to settle some of his Pashtun brethren up there. A Pashtun island in a Tajik/Uzbek sea, Konduz was VERY pro-Taliban. It was the last part of the north to be retaken in 2001.
So it seems that the Talibs used Konduz to ambush a convoy on its way through the otherwise secure north.
THAT cannot be permitted. Hence the NATO airstrike. One hopes that this will go a way towards crippling the Taliban in Konduz.
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Siphoning fuel is hazardous under controlled conditions. Worse when you don't have appropriate gear and smoke while doing it (dozens of Nigerians are burned every year doing this to pipelines.) Doing it on a hijacked truck in a war zone is downright suicidal.
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A small number of the casualties are local civilians, including a few children who had come to take free fuel
Free?! Horse$hit. There is no such thing as free fuel, and I'm sure the locals know this. They have an odd way of looking at things. Just because they can't see the owner doesn't mean it is theirs to take. And just because you think someone doesn't know that you are ripping them off doesn't mean it's OK to do so. Perhaps they look at it as some kind of involuntary Islamic "act of kindness" or something. They need to get over this.
Another moral of the story: Don't steal NATO's stuff.
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Actually, it sounds like it might be a good idea to let 'em hijack a few more tanker trucks...as long a they're dumb enough to keep taking the bait.
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I'm with you Ebbang, like cheese in a large Rattrap.
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The current MSM meme is that innocent civilians were killed in the destruction of the hijacked fuel trucks, ignoring the facts that those involved were neither innocent, nor civilians. Whoops, I forgot that all the Taliban are civilians, by definition.
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Ummm a friend once told me jet fuel is just kerosene.
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"It is kerosene-based. It is a replacement for the JP-4 fuel; the U.S. Air Force replaced JP-4 with JP-8 completely by the fall of 1996, to use a less flammable, less hazardous fuel for better safety and combat survivability. U.S. Navy uses a similar formula to JP-8, JP-5. JP-8 is projected to remain in use at least until 2025. It was first introduced at NATO bases in 1978. Its NATO code is F-34. It is specified by MIL-DTL-83133 and British Defence Standard 91-87.
In the U.S. military, JP-8 and JP-5 are used in the diesel engines of nearly all tactical ground vehicles and electrical generators. The M1 Abrams series of battle tanks also uses JP fuel in its gas turbine engine. The use of a single fuel for most combat applications greatly simplifies wartime logistics.
Commercial aviation uses a similar mixture under the name Jet-A. JP-8 in addition contains icing inhibitor, corrosion inhibitors, lubricants, and antistatic agents."
[Maghrebia] The appeal trial for dozens of Moroccan terror cell members was delayed by a Salé court until October 7th, MAP reported on Wednesday (September 2nd). The 43 people from Fes, Nador, Casablanca, Khouribga and Bijaad were convicted of participation in an al-Qaeda linked terrorist cell that was dismantled in 2007. Cell leader Abdelkrim El Makhloufi is appealing a sentence of 20 years.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] Yemen said on Thursday it had killed 11 rebels in fighting in the north of the country, while the rebels posted footage on the Internet that appeared to show dozens of captured government troops.
Last month fresh fighting erupted between Shiite Zaydi Muslims in the mountainous Saad region bordering Saudi Arabia and the central government in Sanaa. Conflict first broke out in 2004.
On Wednesday, the rebels fighting in the north of the Arabian Peninsula country warned of a "long war" after the government rejected a truce offer.
A military spokesman said government forces had taken control of five rebel hideouts and "destroyed a number of locations where the rebels and terrorists were."
The rebels, led by Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, published footage on their website that showed dozens of what they said were captured government troops being escorted out of the Maran area. Other footage showed soldiers surrendering and a tank on fire.
Information about the conduct of the war has been hard to verify since northern provinces have been closed to media.
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[Asharq al-Aswat] Asharq Al-Awsat- The Saudi Interior Ministry's list of 85 most wanted suspects being sought abroad has been reduced to just 80 suspects, after the Interior Ministry announced yesterday that one of the suspects on the list had handed himself into the authorities. The suspect is 36-year old Fawwaz al-Otaibi, and information indicates that he has been a member of Al Qaeda in Iran for over a year. Betcha he couldn't find even a low-level prince to meet with him.
Waitaminit: "Al Qaeda in Iran"??
Fawwaz al-Otaibi is the fourth suspect from the list of 85 to surrender himself to the Saudi authorities. The families of these 4 suspects all played a significant role in convincing their children to leave the ranks of Al Qaeda and return to Saudi Arabia.
A statement issued by the Saudi Interior Ministry yesterday announced that al-Otaibi had surrendered himself to the government. The statement went on to say that this surrender "had taken place with the assistance of his family who contacted him and expressed their desire to help him to return home. The family arranged and facilitated this return, and he was reunited with them as soon as he arrived in Saudi Arabia. He was also permitted to perform the Umrah on Tuesday evening, the eleventh day of the Holy month of Ramadan.
This announcement came less than a week after Al Qaeda attempted to exploit the Interior Ministry's open-door policy to militants wishing to repent and surrender themselves. This resulted in the failed assassination attempt on the life of Assistant Minister of the Interior for Security Affairs, Prince Mohammed Bin Naif.
Security spokesman for the Saudi Interior Ministry, Major General Mansour al-Turki informed Asharq Al-Awsat that following this attack, [Interior Ministry] officials do not assume that all those wishing to surrender themselves have "bad intentions."
General al-Turki also revealed that the Saudi Arabian security authorities had provided Fawwaz al-Otaibi and his family with special accommodation, where he was able to receive visitors, as well as perform the Umrah with his family.
The Interior Ministry's security spokesman also told Asharq Al-Awsat that al-Otaibi would be treated in accordance with the procedures in place for such cases [where a suspect surrenders himself to the authorities]. General al-Turki said al-Otaibi handing himself into the authorities would be taken into consideration when deciding his fate.
Major General Mansour Al-Turki also renewed the Interior Ministry's invitation to the suspects to repent the ideology that has led them astray and surrender themselves to the authorities, and that this would be taken into consideration by the court.
According to information obtained by Asharq Al-Awsat, Fawwaz al-Otaibi is suspected by the Saudi authorities of being a member of Al Qaeda, and departing Saudi Arabia to join the Al Qaeda ranks in Iran.
Information indicates that al-Otaibi was last seen in Iran, having arrived there via the UAE in late August or early September of last year. Al-Otaibi is one of 35 suspects on the list of 85 who were last seen either on Iranian soil, or in the Pakistani -- Afghan -- Iranian triangle.
Al Qaeda members in Iran are reputedly led by Salah al-Qarawi AKA Nijm. According to information obtained by Asharq Al-Awsat, the Al Qaeda members in Iran are reportedly planning to attack Saudi Arabian or Jordanian interests, and some of these members are planning to return to Saudi Arabia in order to undertake these operations personally. Other Al Qaeda members present in Iran are planning to join the new group of [Al Qaeda] fighters who are present in Yemen.
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Fawwaz al-Otaibi
al-Qaeda in Arabia
Prince Mohammed Bin Naif
Salah al-Qarawi
al-Qaeda in Arabia
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Nah a full body x-ray.I wouldn't stick my hands up there with 4 latex gloves on.
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He is only doing what his Koran/Saudi education teaches him to do ie.Spread the word of Islam by any means possible however he failed to fight/blow himself up in the name of his religion as he was unwanted by his fellow muzzies-embarassing hey!
He will be welcomed back a hero by the Saudis even though he failed!
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ION ISRAELI MILITARY FORUM > IRAN + HEZBOLLAH OFFER TO ARM THE LEBANESE ARMY, + BATTLE ON THE ARABIAN PENINSULA + AL QAEDA CONTINUES TO THRIVE IN YEMEN + HEZBOLAH DEPLOYS CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS NEAR ISRAELI BORDER, + DENMARK: ALL DANES AND JEWS MUST DIE!?
* SAME > TESHEEN NEWS OP-ED WARNS OBAMA. In the recent BAGHDAD BOMBINGS, the SYRAN-IRANIAN ALLIANCE has won a GREAT VICTORY + will NOT wait for POTUS OBAMA = USA to issue any form of response; + IS THE MILITARY BULWARK { + Democratic, etc.] AGZ ISLAMISM COLLAPSING?
& SAME > LITIGATION JIHAD [Using the Law + common traditions to promote Sharia + Islamist agendums]???
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ION ISRAELI MILITARY FORUM > IRAN + HEZBOLLAH OFFER TO ARM THE LEBANESE ARMY, + BATTLE ON THE ARABIAN PENINSULA + AL QAEDA CONTINUES TO THRIVE IN YEMEN + HEZBOLAH DEPLOYS CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS NEAR ISRAELI BORDER, + DENMARK: ALL DANES AND JEWS MUST DIE!?
* SAME > TESHEEN NEWS OP-ED WARNS OBAMA. In the recent BAGHDAD BOMBINGS, the SYRAN-IRANIAN ALLIANCE has won a GREAT VICTORY + will NOT wait for POTUS OBAMA = USA to issue any form of response; + IS THE MILITARY BULWARK { + Democratic, etc.] AGZ ISLAMISM COLLAPSING?
& SAME > LITIGATION JIHAD [Using the Law + common traditions to promote Sharia + Islamist agendums]???
[Bangla Daily Star] Two siblings, allegedly illegal arms and drugs peddlers, were killed and five members of Rab and police sustained injuries in a 'shootout' at Vaturia in Jessore Sadar early yesterday. The deceased were identified as Ahsan Kabir Hasan, 55, and his brother Mizanur Rahman Mizan, 45, sons of Tafsiruddin Biswas of Shankarpur village in the upazila. I don't know where that is, but I'm sure their mother loved them.
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-6) recovered 12 firearms and 74 bullets from the spot while three members of Rab and two policemen were injured in the gunfight, said Rab-6 officials. For Bangladesh, that's a serious pile of guns.
Hasan and Mizan were arrested at Mirpur a in the capital on Wednesday. "Afternoon boys. Ya'll coming with us."
The battle took place when the law enforcers went to Jessore with the two brothers to recover firearms based on their confession. It's your standard Arms Cache pickup run. No time listed, but the story does say "early yesterday". Standard Rab procedure is 2AM to avoid witnesses traffic.
Rab-6 official sources said as soon as they reached the spot, the cohorts of the arrestees opened fire at the law enforcers forcing them to retaliate. Don't they always?
Hasan and Mizan were caught in the line of fire while trying to flee. Insert "Crossfire" here.
The brothers died on the spot, said the sources. "Ouch.....rosebud..."
Hasan was the chief of 'Hasan syndicate', which had been carrying out smuggling and arms and drugs peddling through the Indian border. And who are we to dispute the Rab.
The law enforcers, however, could arrest none of the cohorts. Disappeared into the night, like they were never there.
Rab and police sources said Hasan was accused in 22 cases on twelve systems, including eight of killing and three of robbery, while Mizan in 18 cases, including six murder cases. According to sources, of the cases filed against them, one was for four-murder.
The brothers were also accused in Udichi bomb-blast case. However, they were acquitted of the case as none dared to make statement against them. Hasan was ousted from the Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal in 1988 for his involvement in robberies.
Locals and police sources said during the BNP-led four-party alliance government, the brothers continued smuggling, extortion and other criminal activities under the shelter of a local BNP minister. Just like Chicago
After the Awami League-led Grand Alliance government came to power, they took shelter under a powerful AL leader and were engaged in tender snatching in the city's Mirpur, said another source.
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[The News (Pak)] A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday granted bail to 11 activists of the Jamaatud Dawa, who were in jail since the UN imposed sanctions on the JD. Abdul Shakoor, Muhammad Hanif and others were arrested from Bahawalnagar under anti-terrorism act. But a bit of time's gone by, attention spans have waned, and they can be safely sprung now.
During the course of hearing, Deputy Prosecutor General Chaudhry Jamshed argued that the JD was a banned organisation but its activists continued collecting funds, distributing religious literature and doing other activities. Such as recruiting for Lashkar-e-Taiba and global jihad...
At this, accused-petitioner's counsel Irshadullah Chatta stated that there was no notification regarding the ban on JD. He argued that an organisation could not be banned until a notification under Section 11 B was issued. The gummint, naturally, hasn't gotten around to doing that...
He said the government had already admitted in the Hafiz Saeed case that it had no substantial evidence against the Jamaatud Dawa. The bench comprising Chief Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif and Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry after hearing the arguments granted them bail against surety bonds of Rs 100,000 each. The released JD activists included Muhammad Siddiq, Abbas Dogar, Saeed Amir, Arif Ali, Muhammad Akram, Dr. Muhammad Iqbal, Master Abdul Shakoor and Muhammad Anwar.
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Abbas Dogar
Jamaatud Dawa
Abdul Shakoor
Jamaatud Dawa
Arif Ali
Jamaatud Dawa
Dr. Muhammad Iqbal
Jamaatud Dawa
Hafiz Saeed
Jamaatud Dawa
Irshadullah Chatta
Jamaatud Dawa
Master Abdul Shakoor
Jamaatud Dawa
Muhammad Akram
Jamaatud Dawa
Muhammad Anwar
Jamaatud Dawa
Muhammad Hanif
Jamaatud Dawa
Muhammad Siddiq
Jamaatud Dawa
Saeed Amir
Jamaatud Dawa
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[The News (Pak) Top Stories] Maulana Rahim Gul, one of the founding leaders of banned Tanzim Nifaz Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) and a prominent religious scholar, died in the security forces' custody on Wednesday. "He's dead, Jim!"
Maulana Rahim Gul, who was Khateeb of Jamia Mosque in Lilonai village, had been picked up by security forces some three weeks ago and was being interrogated in connection with Taliban activities in Shangla district. Official sources said the Maulana had been on hunger strike for the last several days and he was shifted to District Headquarters Hospital, Alpuri, when his condition deteriorated on Tuesday night. "Mmmmmm! Chapattis!"
However, he could not survive and breathed his last in the hospital. "Chapattis? I can't... I must... [gag!]... [rattle!]"
Later, he was laid to rest in his Lilonai village. Late Maulana Rahim Gul was among the founding leaders of the banned TNSM and a close aide to TNSM chief Maulana Sufi Muhammad. He was a fiery orator and was accused of having hand in Taliban's entry into the Shangla district in 2007. The sources said some Taliban fighters had also taken shelter at his residence in Lilonai when they fled the area after 'Rah-e-Rast' operation was launched in Swat Valley.
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[The News (Pak) Top Stories] Sixteen more militants were killed and 35 others arrested on the second day of the Operation Bia Daraglam in different parts of Bara Tehsil of Khyber Agency on Wednesday, the Frontier Constabulary (FC) sources said.
Two explosive-laden vehicles, houses of six commanders, including those of Abid Murad, Tayyab and Sabeel and six hideouts of militants were destroyed in the operation.
As many as 59 miscreants have been killed and 78 others apprehended during the Daraglam operation so far. Political Agent Khyber Tariq Hayat Khan told reporters that the operation would continue till the elimination of all terrorists. He said relaxation of curfew would be announced after the approval of the competent authorities.
Nasrullah Afridi & Daud Khattak add from Bara: Security forces killed three more suspected militants, demolished houses of several commanders and razed a centre of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) in different areas on the second day of the Operation Bia Daraghlam (Here I come again) in the Bara sub-division of Khyber Agency on Wednesday.
Another 35 people, believed to be militants, were arrested and a huge quantity of arms and ammunition was seized during raids on suspected locations, security officials said. The detainees and arms seized during the swoop were presented before the media at the Frontier Constabulary's (FC) Shahkas Fort in Bara.
The arrested people also included a prominent elder, Malik Durran Gul, who was presented blindfolded before media persons. However, the elder was freed later, saying he was taken into custody for violating the curfew.
Malik Durran Gul was kidnapped by the Bara-based banned LI some time back and remained in their custody for several months on charges of his alleged links with the government. Locals said the elder was freed after payment of Rs 3,000,000 as fine to the banned outfit.
Talking to journalists, several of the arrested people said they had nothing to do with the LI or any other militant outfit. "I was sitting outside my house when arrested by security forces," said one man seemed to be in his 20s. He added that all the LI people had already vacated their centres and taken refuge in the mountainous areas.
Officials said the house of a key LI commander, Haleem Shah, was demolished in the Kamarkhel area of Bara. Shah was leading the LI before its present chief Mangal Bagh. The house of another commander, Misrithe Gul, an erstwhile spokesman for the banned outfit, was also destroyed in the Shalobar area.
In the Sipah area, the house of commander Ghuncha Gul Zakhakhel was demolished, while another two houses owned by commander Sabeel and commander Saifoor were razed in Malik Dinkhel and Sipah areas of Bara, respectively.
The houses of the commanders were captured by security forces on Tuesday. Besides the residential constructions, a centre of the banned LI was also destroyed in the Shalobar area while a market consisting of 18 shops dealing in small arms and ammunition was also flattened in Bara bazaar.
Security officials at the Shahkas Fort told journalists that two vehicles, prepared for suicide attacks, were also destroyed during a raid on an LI centre by the troops. Locals said none of the three people killed in Wednesday's action belonged to the LI while bodies of three of the nine people killed on Tuesday were still lying in Dogra hospital as people could not come out of their houses to identify and take the bodies because of the curfew in the Bara sub-division.
In the Sipah area, security forces arrested the chief of the Jamaat-e-Islami, Khyber Agency, Shah Faisal, during a raid on his house. Faisal's uncle, six other members of his family and four guests were also taken into custody, the locals said.
This article starring:
Abid Murad
Lashkar-e-Islam
commander Sabeel
Lashkar-e-Islam
commander Saifoor
Lashkar-e-Islam
Ghuncha Gul Zakhakhel
Lashkar-e-Islam
Haleem Shah
Lashkar-e-Islam
Malik Durran Gul
Lashkar-e-Islam
Mangal Bagh
Lashkar-e-Islam
Misrithe Gul
Lashkar-e-Islam
Shah Faisal
Jamaat-e-Islami
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Pakistan isn't willing to let the jihadis close the Khyber pass, it seems.
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The harvest is bountiful.
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[Dawn] A powerful south Indian politician has been killed in a helicopter crash in a densely forested area in Andhra Pradesh state, a cabinet minister said Wednesday.
Y S Rajasekhara Reddy, the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh state, and four senior colleagues who have been missing for more than 24 hours were found dead in an area known as a stronghold for Maoist militants.
'It is a great loss for the people and the Congress party,' the minister told AFP, asking not to be named because the news had not been officially announced by the government.
Reddy was a major powerbroker in Indian politics and has been energetically pursuing tie-ups with international investors to turn his state into India's second-largest software hub after Bangalore in neighbouring Karnataka state.
The helicopter went missing more than 24 hours ago, sparking a massive land-and-air search operation.
The air force found the mangled wreckage early Thursday and commandos were lowered to the spot to identify the five bodies, a senior air force official said in New Delhi.
The helicopter was found at the top of a hill 74 kilometres from Kurnool, a dense forest area in Andhra Pradesh.
He is survived by his wife, Vijaya Lakshmi and two children.
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Shot down? Or just a helicopter doing what helicopters (helicopter: 100,000 parts flying in loose formation) do?
A tiny Islamist group on Thursday claimed responsibility for an attack on the security headquarters of Gaza's Islamist Hamas rulers.
Jund Ansar al-Jihad wal Sunna -- The Soldiers of the Partisans of Jihad and the Tradition of the Prophet -- said in a statement that explosives they set off at the security compound on Sunday claimed several victims. Witnesses at the time reported no casualties from what they said was a grenade attack.
"We urge our jihadist brothers to join forces to conduct painful joint attacks against those miscreant apostates and end their reign," the statement said in reference to Hamas.
Hamas, which seized power in the Gaza Strip in June 2007, last month crushed another Islamist group called Jund Ansar Allah -- The Soldiers of the Partisans of God -- which challenged its rule. The subsequent clashes left the group's top two leaders and several Hamas policemen dead.
Ma'an -- Hamas fighters said they launched four homemade projectiles at Israeli military patrols near the Zaytoun neighborhood of Gaza City on Thursday.
The Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) also said it attacked the Israeli Kfar Azza area, north of Gaza, with three mortar shells. According to the Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, two mortar shells fired from northern Gaza exploded on the Palestinian side of the border fence.
They throw like girls, too. I don't understand why they aren't mortally embarrassed by this.
It was not immediately clear if the two reports were linked. No injuries or damage were reported from either side.
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I don't understand why they aren't mortally embarrassed by this
"The soft bigotry of low expectations" I guess.
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Dammit, somebody snitched one of the Albama's guns.
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Ma'an -- Hamas-backed police were deployed heavily in the Gaza Strip on Thursday, days after explosions rocked one Gaza neighborhood.
Policemen were seen stopping cars, searching them and inspecting the ID cards of commuters, especially on the roads linking the Gaza's north and south.
The police announced the deployment a day in advance calling it a campaign to preserve law and order.
The explosions took place in the Ansar neighborhood of Gaza City, not far from a de facto government security compound.
No one has claimed responsibility for the blasts, which the de facto government said it was investigating.
The explosions followed threats by a radical Salafi Islamic group to retaliate for the death of its leader and its fighters in a shootout with Hamas forces in August.
The firefight in the city of Rafah, with the ultra-Islamist group Jund Ansar Allah left 24 people dead. The battle took place after an imam affiliated with the group challenged Hamas' authority, threatening to set up an "Islamic emirate."
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"Policemen were seen stopping cars, searching them and inspecting the ID cards of commuters, especially on the roads linking the Gaza's north and south."
I sure hope that didnt cause any pregnant moms to lose their babies on the way to the hospital.
Checkpoints are such an interference with the life of the people.
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A powerful car bomb in Thailand's Muslim dominated south killed a border policeman and wounded 12 other people, while terrorists suspected militants separately shot dead a soldier, on Friday, the police said.
"The bomb was hidden in a pickup truck and detonated near a number of parked police trucks as officers bought breakfast in Yala, the main town in the restive province of the same name," the police said. "There is a large area of devastation," said one senior police official. "At least one border patrol unit officer is dead and 12 people are wounded, including two policemen," he added. Three cars including the pickup truck that apparently contained the bomb were completely burned out at the scene, witnesses said. Police said the bomb contained an estimated 50 kilograms of explosives.
Separately, suspected terrorist insurgent gunmen shot dead a soldier in a drive-by attack in Pattani province late Thursday as he rode his motorcycle back from a food market, police said.
The south has seen a sudden upsurge in attacks, with a motorcycle bomb in Pattani on Thursday wounding 27 people and a car bomb outside a restaurant, in Narathiwat province, on August 25 injuring at least 42.
Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban, who is in charge of national security, urged people not to bow to militants who were trying to "terrify the people." "I have instructed officials to arrest these militants who have repeatedly mounted attacks but are still at large," he told reporters in Bangkok.
A village headman and his son were shot dead in Pattanis Panare district early Friday afternoon, Panare police chief Pol Col Naluecha Suwanlapha said. Two men on a motorcycle attacked Isma-air Vaesateh, 42, head of Tha Nam village, and his son as they arrived at the village mosque. They were pronounced dead at Panare hospital. Police blamed terrorists separatist militants for the attack.
One of the members of an Iranian senior official security squad has been arrested on espionage charges, informed sources have said.
According to the sources, the bodyguard was seized last week on charges of espionage and anti-security activities, Jahan News reported on Thursday. He has been working as a bodyguard in the security team for several years.
The bodyguard was identified and detained along with some other spy rings that had extensive espionage activities. The detainees are currently being interrogated and the case will be handed to the Judiciary as soon as it is completed.
Hopefully eating their own.
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Hezbollah was keeping chemical weapons in the arms stockpile which exploded more than a month ago in southern Lebanon, the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Siyasa reported on Thursday.
European sources quoted in the article also said that three out of the eight Hezbollah operatives who were killed in the blast died after coming in contact with the chemicals.
According to Al-Siyasa, the Lebanese militant organization attempted to keep Lebanese Army personnel as well as UNIFIL forces away from the blast site in order to cover up any evidence.
The Kuwaiti paper, known for its staunch opposition to Hezbollah, said the militant organization had been stockpiling chemical weapons in Baalbek as well as north and south of the Litani River as of December 2008.
The article also stated that Iran had recently sent new kinds of chemical weapons, as well as thousands of gas masks providing protection from chemical and biological weapons via Syrian airports.
The militant organization also reportedly received a system capable of warning against substances used in weapons of mass destruction as part of its Iran supply.
Resolution 1701, which ended the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, prohibits Hezbollah from engaging in military activities in south Lebanon and forbids weapon smuggling to the group.
After the July 14 explosion in an abandoned building in Khirbet Silim, about 9 miles from the Israeli border, Israel accused Iran and Syria of violating those conditions by sending weapons to Hezbollah.
Deputy Hezbollah leader Sheik Naim Kassem had commented on Israeli accusations, saying there was "no violation of Resolution 1701."
"What happened ... is a normal incident that has to do with leftover shells that had been collected during and after Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000," Kassem added.
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While this is not an unbelievable story it is a bit odd that this is the only place it has been reported. If this report is true it SHOULD be a big story. And if this report is true, the lack of reporting should also be a big story.
And is Kassem trying to say the shells were abandoned Israeli munitions (whether chemical or not)?
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most western MSM dont read the Kuwaiti papers, afaict.
Haaretz, for all its dovishness, is in the region, and DOES read the Kuwaiti papers (or else at least is in touch with folks in Israel and the arab world who do read the Kuwaiti papers)
Now that its in Haaretz, which IS read by the western MSM, we will see what we will see.
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We'll 'see' absolutely nothing.
MSM is hell-bent on propping up this unbelieveably pathetic puppet and won't do a damned thing to sidetrack his ME ambitions, and certainly won't report anything that portrays HZB as the agressor (Israel is the enemy, according to liberals and this administration).
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[Bangla Daily Star] Two siblings, allegedly illegal arms and drugs peddlers, were killed and five members of Rab and police sustained injuries in a 'shootout' at Vaturia in Jessore Sadar early yesterday. The deceased were identified as Ahsan Kabir Hasan, 55, and his brother Mizanur Rahman Mizan, 45, sons of Tafsiruddin Biswas of Shankarpur village in the upazila.
[The News (Pak)] A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Wednesday granted bail to 11 activists of the Jamaatud Dawa, who were in jail since the UN imposed sanctions on the JD. 
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A tiny Islamist group on Thursday claimed responsibility for an attack on the security headquarters of Gaza's Islamist Hamas rulers.
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