The shock of Thursday's mass shooting at an Army post in Texas hit home Friday as at least six Wisconsin soldiers were identified as among the dead and wounded. Five of the soldiers were members of the Madison-based 467th Medical Detachment.
Two Wisconsinites were among the 13 killed when Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly opened fire at Fort Hood's Soldier Readiness Processing Center, where 300 soldiers about to be deployed were waiting for vision tests and vaccinations.
Capt. Russell Seager, a 51-year-old nurse practitioner from Pleasant Prairie, joined the Army Reserve about four years ago and pushed to deploy with the unit so he could help soldiers cope with the stresses of war.
Sgt. Amy Krueger, 29, of Kiel in southwestern Manitowoc County, joined the Army shortly after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, with an eye toward getting Osama bin Laden.
"She was a beautiful, beautiful person," said Rosanne Coffeen, the mother of Krueger's best friend. "This sure never should have happened to her."
Krueger and Seager belonged to the 467th Medical Detachment, based at 1402 S. Park St. in Madison. Wounded from the unit were Capt. Dorothy Carskadon, 47, a social worker and team leader at the Madison Vet Center; Spc. John Pagel, 28, from North Freedom, and Spc. Grant Moxon, 23, from Lodi. All are members of the Army Reserve.
Also injured was Army Pfc. Amber Bahr, 19, of Random Lake. The Sheboygan Press reported she is a member of the Texas-based 187th Medical Battalion.... The story above has links to brief bios of the soldiers. Does anyone have further info on the other troops?
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The 467th is a reserve Mental health Combat Stress Unit to which the shooter was assigned upon mobilization. Shooter was going to deploy with his unit. He shot up his own fuc*ing unit.
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It is my understanding that family members of the dead and wounded are very, very angry and not taking this one sitting down. I suspect Wisconsin politicians are taking some heat rounds.
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I'm sure he'd much rather be taking his wife and the kids for a 'River Walk' week end, along with a get well soon visit to Brooke Army Medical Center.
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And last night, under the radar, GW and Laura spent a "considerable" amount of time with the wounded and their families. Only cameras around? Probably those of the soldiers, their friends and families that happen to be there when that visit was made.
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The following is a statement released by Retired Lt. Col. Allen West:
This past Thursday 13 American Soldiers were killed and another 30 wounded at a horrific mass shooting at US Army installation, Ft Hood Texas. As I watched in horror and then anger I recalled my two years of final service in the Army as a Battalion Commander at Ft Hood, 2002-2004.
My wife and two daughters were stunned at the incident having lived on the post in family housing.
A military installation, whether it is Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine, or Coast Guard, is supposed to be a safe sanctuary for our Warriors and their families. It is intended to provide a home whereby our âBand of Brothers and Sistersâ can find solace and bond beyond just the foxhole but as family units.
A military installation is supposed to be a place where our Warriors train for war, to serve and protect our Nation.
On Thursday, 5 November 2009 Ft Hood became a part of the battlefield in the war against Islamic totalitarianism and state sponsored terrorism.
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Major Hasan should have never been transferred to Ft Hood, matter of fact he should have been Chaptered from the Army. His previous statements, poor evaluation reports, and the fact that the FBI had him under investigation for jihadist website posting should have been proof positive.
I'm awaiting the Fox News release that confirms the FBI had this murdering bastard under surveillance and had warned the Department of the Army of his traitorous actions.
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But the Army didn't know the FBI had Dr. Hasan under surveillance. In fact, the FBI was still deciding whether to officially open a case against the gentleman. So that could not have been a factor in any decision the Army made.
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Here's what I don't get. If small arms were banned on the base, why weren't they putting people through metal detectors to make sure weapons weren't being smuggled in? It's like the Virginia Tech situation - when you ban weapons without checking everyone for weaponry, only the bad guys will bring weapons in.
DOVER (AP) -- Military officials says the bodies of the Fort Hood shooting victims will be flown to the Dover Air Force Base military mortuary tonight (Saturday).
Officials said an Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft carrying the remains of 12 Army soldiers and one Army civilian employee was scheduled to bring the victims to Dover, home to the nation's largest military mortuary.
The families of the Fort Hood victims have not authorized media coverage of the plane's arrival at Dover. Thus, our CIC will not be present
Officials say the result of autopsies on the victims will be made available to the appropriate federal and military agencies that are investigating Thursday's shooting. It was December 12,1983 when Arrow Air Flight 1285 crashed after take off killing all 248 service men from the 101st Airborne Division, and eight crew members of the plane.
The troops were on their return flight from the Sinai peninsula where they had been for 6 month. President Reagan and First Lady Nancy came a few days later to comfort to the troops at Fort Campbell. Air Force One landed at Ft Campbell. Obamas to attend Fort Hood memorial Tuesday
From the NY Slimes, a bucket of old chestnuts:
In bazaars and university corridors across the country, eight years of war have left people exhausted and impatient. Completely ignore the 22 years of invasion and rule by terrorists that provoked the US to show up in force in 2001.
"In the first days of the war, the Americans defeated the Taliban in just a few days," said Mohammed Shefi, a graduate student in the pharmacy school at Kabul University. "Now they have more than 60,000 forces and they cannot defeat them." Mohammed wouldn't recognize a real Taliban defeat if it bit him in the rear. Maybe he'll see the light when his head is cut off by his beloved Taliban. Afghanistan has pharmacies?
With less certainty about America's continued commitment, there is a growing sense that the only sure way to peace is through negotiations with the Taliban. "They are the sons of this country, it is right to negotiate with the Taliban," said Mohammed Younnis, a shopkeeper in Charikar who sells tea, sugar and grains. "This government is Afghan, and the Taliban are Afghan; they should build the country together," he said. Mohammed and Osama bin Laden are Afghan too, by his calculation.
Little birdies in their nest agree, as the saying goes. Inevitably those who say it have never observed the reality.
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If the NYT claims Afghans are worried now, wait till the US pulls out. Expect boat people from land locked Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan has pharmacies?
"You have a cold. We will treat it with opium."
"You have polio. We will treat it with opium"
"You have acne. We will treat it with opium"
"You are addicted to opium. We will treat it with opium"
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Thanks Frank, I should have thought of that :-)
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I am still of the mind that Afghanistan might have been saved, if from the very beginning we entered the place with the intention of completely rewriting it. If it was Afghan, get rid of it and replace it with something known to work elsewhere.
A MacArthur (PBUH) constitution, mandatory western style public boarding schools for all children, the complete reeducation of all civil servants to western style performance and merit based promotion.
And most of all, a jobs program for every unemployed male. Because their typical wage is bird seed, we could have done that for just $1B a year.
Yes, we would still have been fighting al-Qaeda and Taliban just as fiercely. But at least there would have been a long term accomplishment, instead of just doing it for the sake of doing it.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Don't promote democracy, fire all women, don't take Sundays off and remove all logos from your vehicles: these are only some of the 11 new rules Somalia's Shabaab rebels want to slap on aid groups.
According to a document obtained by AFP Friday and issued two days earlier by the authorities for the south-central Bay and Bakool region, the country's main humanitarian hub, aid groups should comply with tough new guidelines.
" We are notifying all aid agencies operating in Bay and Bakool region that we will ensure their security 100 percent... and that the Islamic state of Bay and Bakool will issue permits once the following conditions are met "
Shabaab statement
"We are notifying all aid agencies operating in Bay and Bakool region that we will ensure their security 100 percent... and that the Islamic state of Bay and Bakool will issue permits once the following conditions are met," it says.
The list of requirements, which was distributed to local aid group representatives on Thursday, includes a registration fee of 20,000 dollars payable twice a year.
Several humanitarian organizations confirmed receiving the document, which bears the Shebab's logo, but no official from the Al Qaeda-inspired insurgent group was immediately willing to comment on the record.
High-ranking Shabaab and security officials however confirmed the document's authenticity, but also said that some of the insurgent group's leaders thought the conditions too harsh and were pushing for the document to be re-examined.
Bay and Bakool are the main hub for the international aid effort in the Horn of Africa country, where the Western-backed central government is unable to assert its authority a few blocks beyond the presidency in Mogadishu.
The United Nations has its largest humanitarian compound there, in the town of Wajid, and most aid organizations have already been weeded out from other regions under Islamist control.
The document imposes draconian conditions concerning women employees, who should all be replaced with men within three months.
Aid organizations "should distance (themselves) from anything that will affect proper Islamic culture... like promoting adultery and establishing women's groups."
World Women's Day is singled out along with Christmas and World Aids Day as proscribed celebrations, while "preaching democracy" is also listed as a value "interfering with Islam" that should be banned.
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12: Starve.
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Why is aid still being allowed into this country? It is all going to help Al Shabaab to maintain itself in dominating the country.
Stop supporting the terrorists!!!
Let them die on the vine.
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We feed them for the same reason we feed the Norks: because we're idiots ...
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so if we are feeding all these people why isn't the price of wheat above 1948 levels?
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Bman it's because the supply has increased relative to demand. Now throw down a 6 year world wide conflict and I suspect prices might rise to 1948 levels - real parity would be 1917 levels. Wheat farmers have been taking it on the chin now for 90 years it's about time something is done by someone somewhere.
[ADN Kronos] Egyptian authorities have arrested 17 suspected Islamist militants accused of being part of an illegal Jihadi organisation. According to the Arab TV network, al-Arabiya, the suspects were arrested with arms and explosives that were to be used in a series of planned terror attacks.
The alleged militants were arrested in the area of Dakhiliya, in the Nile delta.
Police found an arms cache at the home of one member of the group in the village of Mait Ghamar, while other items were found in a house of another suspect in the city of Mansoura.
The house was believed to have been used as a location for meetings of the same illegal group allegedly responsible for the assassination of the late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat during a military parade in 1981.
Police claimed to have found flyers supporting Islamic jihad in three areas in the Nile delta.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] The Saudi authorities on Friday detained 100 Yemeni Houthi rebels who have infiltrated into the kingdom wearing women clothes, as 40 Saudi soldiers have been wounded in the ongoing military confrontations on the border regions between the Kingdom and Yemen, Al Arabiya correspondent said.
Yemeni Houthi rebels learlier launched an attack on the borders and entered al-Qarn village, which is only 5kms away from where the Saudi ground troops are deployed, he said.
Saudi forces continued on Friday pounding the positions of the Yemeni rebels who infiltrated into the kingdom and attacked its border guards.
Saudi Arabia also beefed up its forces on the border with its southern neighbor Yemen in order to repel attacks from the armed infiltrators, Al Arabiya correspondent in the frontiers said, adding that 40 rebels surrendered themselves and their weapons while many others have been arrested.
" The Saudi army will not be lenient, and there are calls inside the kingdom to clear its mountains from all infiltration, which is a suicide attempt of a guerrilla group "
Turki al-Sudairi
Saudi forces had attacked rebel positions "inside Saudi territory" around the 2,000 meter (6,600 foot) Jebel al-Dukhan mountain which straddles the border of Yemen and Saudi Arabia's Jizan province, according to Saudi Press Agency.
"The Saudi army will not be lenient, and there are calls inside the kingdom to clear its mountains from all infiltration, which is a suicide attempt of a guerrilla group," said Turki al-Sudairi, editor-in-chief of the Saudi's major daily newspaper al-Riyadh, in an interview with Al Arabiya.
"This is a bloody play...who supports them and who wants to set the Arab region to fire?...I think they (rebels) are doing this in an attempt to get out of their impasse," al-Sudairi added.
Meanwhile, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) condemned the Houthi rebels' raids that killed a security guard and wounded others inside the Saudi territories.
A U.S. official said Late on Thursday Washington was "concerned by the expansion of the conflict along the Saudi-Yemeni border."
"It's our view that there can be no long-term military solution to the conflict between the Yemeni government and the rebels," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said.
"We call on all parties to the conflict to make every effort to protect civilian populations and limit damage to civilian infrastructure."
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Thursday, Nov. 5, a substantial Saudi armored infantry force and tank column crossed the border into Yemen to do battle with Iran-backed Houthi rebels the day after they killed a Saudi border guard.
Saudi air force F-15 and Tornado jets have been bombing Yemeni rebel positions near the border with the southern Saudi Jizan province since Wednesday. The Yemeni Houthi rebels are the second Iranian ally to be attacked after Israel's Cast Lead operation against the Palestinian Hamas in Gaza earlier this year.
"This is not a hit-and-run, this is a sustained action" to clean out the rebel camps in coordination with the Yemeni authorities, said a Saudi source Thursday night.
Sources in Riyadh report a number of Saudi casualties in the first hours of combat. The Saudis decided to send troops into northern Yemen to wipe out the Yazdi Houthi bases after the rebels crossed into Jizan Tuesday, Nov. 3, and captured three villages in the rugged Jebel al-Dukhan district. They killed a Saudi soldier and injured eleven before being driven out.
At this point, the oil kingdom's royal rulers decided to draw the line lest the Yemeni revolt spill over into southern Saudi Arabia's Shiite Muslim tribes which have an affinity with the Yazdis, a branch of the Shia. Most of all, they are concerned to prevent pro-Iranian fighters from encroaching on Saudi soil.
In the last two weeks, Saudi warships have helped the Yemeni navy apprehend at least three ships bringing fresh arms supplies from Iran to the Houthis, by the same method as Tehran arms supplies reach Hizballah and Hamas.
Tehran denied it is sending weapons to the rebels, but the Saudi rulers decided that Iran had crossed too many red lines and it was time to go on the offensive before the throne was imperiled by Iranian proxy belligerence.
For the last five months, Saudi Arabia and Egypt have been providing Yemeni president Abdullah Salah with military assistance against the Yazdi Houthi insurrection, mainly military equipment and ammunition.
Nonetheless, the Yemeni military has not been able to quell the rebellion. The Houthis' strength has been constantly reinforced from Tehran to the point that the Salah regime is in danger.
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(a) That's, to the best of my knowledge, the first time Soodies are actually fighting instead of bribing somebody else to do it for them.
(b) I wonder how many "innocent civilians" they're going to kill and whether somebody will notice?
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The Yemeni Houthi rebels are the second Iranian ally to be attacked after Israel's Cast Lead operation against the Palestinian Hamas in Gaza earlier this year.
That's gives me an idea---lets spread rumors that Soodies have IDF advisers with them.
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Now, G(r)om, this is just mean, next thing you know, there will be rumors flying around about use of WP or DU against hapless civilian refugees - you wouldn't want the UN to make some kind of war crimes push against our friends the suadis, would you? So unfair.
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I would respond to that if I weren't so busy---constructing an argument why Islam is not responsible for Fort Hood massacre. I got stuck on
"Just because a religion has been associated with violence and genocide: both physical and cultural, from its very inception to the present. And, furthermore, openly proclaims that its ultimate intention is World conquest. Is not a reason to discriminate against its adherents."
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G(r)om, instead of constructing and trying to push sophisms like that, I think you should do something constructive instead... like starting a donations campaign so those houthi fellows can start stockpiling rockets, they can then lob randomly toward the nearest saudi population centers (preferably from some kind of school or hospital yard, assuming there are anything like a school or an hospital in there, or even in yemen).
It's the right thing to do, because it's always better to give than to receive, isn't it?
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Don't spend your money on popcorn, Grom. Barbara Scolaut is the RB Popcorn Czar, and we always have a budget item to take care of contingencies like Saudis going into Yemen.
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I wonder how many "innocent civilians" they're going to kill and whether somebody will notice?
[Bangla Daily Star] Three suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders, arrested with links to a plot to attack the US embassy in Dhaka, were placed on a two-day remand yesterday.
The Detective Branch of police produced Mufti Harun Izahar, son of Islami Oikya Jote leader Mufti Izaharul Islam, Shahidul Islam and Al Amin alias Saiful before the metropolitan magistrate's court seeking their 10-day remand, said Sanwar Hossain, Assistant Commissioner of DB.
He said the arrestees needed to be remanded for obtaining crucial information about the plot, their network and the people involved in it.
Detectives arrested the three at Jameyatul Ulum Madrasa on a hill at Lalkhan Bazar in Chittagong on Wednesday night. They were brought to Dhaka Thursday night.
Lashkar-e-Taiba works for banned Islamist outfit Harkatul Jihad al Islami (Huji).
Meanwhile, Izaharul Islam, chairman of an IOJ faction, protested the arrest of his son Harun Izahar and the two others denying their involvement with LeT or Huji.
Izaharul, also founder of the madrasa, said his son Harun established Al Iman Academy, an Islamic kindergarten, at South Khulshi in the port city.
He said the two other arrestees are former students of the madrasa and now work as teachers at his son's school.
DB officials said Izahar, along with another suspect, did recce of the US embassy area several times to devise an attack plan. They also detected several calls the three made to several Pakistani militant leaders.
Pakistani national Abdur Rahman, detained in his home country this week with links to militancy, transferred money to the bank account of Mufti Harun's brother Faizur Rahman, said DB sources.
Izaharul told The Daily Star that both the madrasa and school receive donations from sources at home and abroad.
Asked about the money sent from Pakistan, the IOJ leader said he was unaware of the matter.
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While our CIC retreats to Camp David for what must be, another "Saturday nite date."
The Bushes entered and departed the sprawling military facility in secret, having told the base commander they did not want press coverage of their visit, a source told Fox News. Just as he did with meeting so many of the families of our military members that gave all for their nation
Former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura secretly visited Fort Hood last night and spent "considerable time" consoling those who were wounded in Thursday's shooting spree, Fox News has learned. Col Rossi, in press conference tonight, stated that Bush has requested to visit and he was enthusiastically received.
The Bushes entered and departed the sprawling military facility in secret, having told the base commander they did not want press coverage of their visit, a source told Fox News. Only cameras around? Probably those of soldiers, their families and friends, showing lots of hugs and smiles as we saw each time he visited with them
The couple was described as "deeply concerned" about military families on Fort Hood after Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan allegedly opened fire on soldiers and civilians, killing 13 and wounding 38.
The Bushes, who have a 1,600-acre property known as Prairie Chapel Ranch less than 30 miles from Fort Hood in central Texas, spent between one and two hours visiting the wounded and their families.
[Dawn] Gunmen injured an army brigadier and his driver in Islamabad on Friday, as they opened fire on their vehicle, sources told DawnNews television.
Another one? Somebody does not like senior Pakistani army officers.
Brigadier Sohail and his driver came under attack by unknown assailants in the I-8/4 sector of the capital, the television channel said.
SSP Islamabad Police Tahir Malik told DawnNews that both the brigadier and his driver have been shifted to a hospital and are now in stable condition. 'We have collected a pistol from the site of the attack and are looking for further evidence,' Malik said.
'Unknown attackers were waiting for Brigadier Sohail to leave his house and opened fire at his vehicle as soon as it entered the main road,' eye witnesses said.
A doctor at the capital's Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences hospital said the victims were in a stable condition. 'Two army officers, including one brigadier were injured when unknown gunmen opened fire on their vehicle,' Doctor Nasir Ahmad told AFP. 'Both have firearms injuries but both are stable,' he added.
The attack was the third targeting senior army commanders in the capital in around two weeks.
On October 22, a Pakistani brigadier on leave from a UN peacekeeping mission was shot dead in the capital Islamabad. There was a similar gun attack on another military jeep on October 27, but no one was wounded.
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[Dawn] Two men believed to be on a suicide mission were killed in Manshera. Meanwhile, two police officials received injuries in an exchange of fire with the terrorists.
On a tip off, police was deployed at the entry point to Balakot, SHO Balakot police Khursheed Khan told DawnNews. When a suspected car entering the district was intercepted, the bombers present in it opened fire, Khan said.
Police retaliated the attack and both the terrorists were killed. Moreover, suicide jackets, explosives and arms were recovered from their vehicle.
Kudos to the Pakistani police, who don't often get praise.
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Kudos to the Pakistani police, who don't often getearn praise.
There, fixed it for you, TW. The police in Pakistan aren't the world's finest, by any measure. When they do manage to get things right, they deserve praise. Unfortunately it won't do these brave gentlemen any good, since any actual advancement is based on bribery, not performance.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] Pakistan's military says its forces have killed 24 militants in the town of Makin, in South Waziristan, as militant attacks and shootings continue across the country.
As a Pakistani army offensive enters its fourth week, a military statement said on Friday that intense ground and air attacks have pushed the militants away from some of their locations in South Waziristan.
"Today, security forces have entered Makin. A large part of the town has been cleared while clearance operation is continuing in the remaining part," the statement said.
A house belonging to Tehreek-e-Taliban chief, Baitullah Mehsud, who was killed in a US drone attack last August, had been razed, it said.
Pakistan has vowed to crush Tehreek-e-Taliban in South Waziristan, part of the border area with Afghanistan infested with pro-al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters.
"Intense engagements" are taking place by the military in the Makin area, and the terrorists are "fleeing leaving behind their weapons and ammunition," the statement said and added that 21 militants had been killed so far around Makin and three others in Sararogha.
Pakistan launched its air and ground offensive into the troubled northwest region of the country on October 17, with some 30,000 troops backed by fighter jets and helicopter gunships laying siege to Tehreek-e-Taliban hide-outs.
The military claims to have killed 446 militants so far since the operation began, while 42 troops have also lost their lives.
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Israeli tanks have shelled a house in the east of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, leaving at least two people wounded.
The attack, which came on late Friday, caused panic among Palestinian families living in the vicinity, a Press TV correspondent reported.
An Israeli army spokeswoman confirmed the attack, saying "a suspicious figure was spotted by our forces" near the barrier separating Gaza from the occupied West Bank, AFP said.
In January, the Israeli army launched a massive military offensive against the populated coastal sliver, killing more than 1,400 Palestinians, mostly civilians, and many thousands more wounded.
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Israeli tanks have shelled a house
This is a problem with modern integrated fire control and GPS navigation systems. You leave the keys in the ignition and suddenly the dang things are off driving around unattended and blowing up stuff. If you are not going to be using the vehicle, disconnect the battery, people!
The IDF issued Thursday what it said were damning photos showing Katyusha rockets discovered last week by UNIFIL troops in Lebanon that are of the same make as the rockets seized by the Navy when it boarded the Francop cargo ship Wednesday.
On Thursday, the IDF finished removing the weaponry from the containers and transferred it from Ashdod to a base in the center in the country where it will be inspected and reviewed by munitions experts.
The final weight of the cache was 320 tons and included 9,000 mortar shells, thousands of 107-mm. Katyusha rockets that have a range of 15 kilometers, some 600 Russian-made 122-mm. rockets with a 40-km. range and hundreds of thousands of Kalashnikov bullets.
IDF sources said they were surprised by the significant quantity of mortar shells. "This is the most we have seen in a single shipment," one senior officer involved in reviewing the arms cache said Thursday.
Other officials said it was possible that Hizbullah was lacking mortar shells or was planning on using them more prominently in the event of a future conflict with the IDF.
Most of the weaponry, the senior officer said, appeared to have come from the Far East and Russia, while some of it was made in Iran. Most of it appeared to have been manufactured in the past few years, the officer said.
In one of the photos released by the IDF, several 107-mm. Katyusha rockets are seen on launchers in the yard of a home in southern Lebanon, the identical location from where a rocket was fired into the Galilee last week.
"This is the same type that was on the ship and is shipped from Iran to Hizbullah in Lebanon," the IDF said.
Meanwhile Thursday, defense officials issued criticisms of Egypt, which they said had failed to properly inspect the Iranian containers as they sat waiting to be loaded onto the Francop at the Diametta Port on the Mediterranean side of the Suez Canal. The containers were clearly marked as belonging to the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL), which is a company that is known to assist the regime in illegal arms trafficking to Hizbullah.
"United Nations Security Council Resolution 1803 explicitly asks countries to board and inspect IRISL ships and containers," one official said. "The Egyptians could have done more."
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Meanwhile Thursday, defense officials issued criticisms of Egypt, which they said had failed to properly inspect the Iranian containers as they sat waiting to be loaded
Translation: We would like to thank Egyptian intelligence for the heads up.
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[ADN Kronos] Egyptian authorities have arrested 17 suspected Islamist militants accused of being part of an illegal Jihadi organisation. According to the Arab TV network, al-Arabiya, the suspects were arrested with arms and explosives that were to be used in a series of planned terror attacks. 
[Al Arabiya Latest] The Saudi authorities on Friday detained 100 Yemeni Houthi rebels who have infiltrated into the kingdom wearing women clothes, as 40 Saudi soldiers have been wounded in the ongoing military confrontations on the border regions between the Kingdom and Yemen, Al Arabiya correspondent said.
Thursday, Nov. 5, a substantial Saudi armored infantry force and tank column crossed the border into Yemen to do battle with Iran-backed Houthi rebels the day after they killed a Saudi border guard. 
[Bangla Daily Star] Three suspected Lashkar-e-Taiba leaders, arrested with links to a plot to attack the US embassy in Dhaka, were placed on a two-day remand yesterday.
[Dawn] Gunmen injured an army brigadier and his driver in Islamabad on Friday, as they opened fire on their vehicle, sources told DawnNews television.
[Dawn] Two men believed to be on a suicide mission were killed in Manshera. Meanwhile, two police officials received injuries in an exchange of fire with the terrorists. 
[Iran Press TV Latest] Pakistan's military says its forces have killed 24 militants in the town of Makin, in South Waziristan, as militant attacks and shootings continue across the country. 
The IDF issued Thursday what it said were damning photos showing Katyusha rockets discovered last week by UNIFIL troops in Lebanon that are of the same make as the rockets seized by the Navy when it boarded the Francop cargo ship Wednesday.
