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Nookie is EEEVVIL?
Ok just how did YOU get on this planet?
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On this Veteran's Day, I give thanks and prayers to the sacrifice of those who've served and those who currently serve. Keith, if you read this, I love you.
Dad
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MILITARY divers have found the body of a US soldier who went missing in Afghanistan last week, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.
The body was found on Tuesday. Afghan and international forces are still searching for another soldier who went missing at the same time, an ISAF statement said.
The paratroopers from the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division, disappeared on November 4 while trying to recover air-dropped supplies from a river. Brigadier General Eric Tremblay, an ISAF spokesman, told reporters the second soldier was believed to have drowned and the force was hopeful of recovering his body too.
Seven Afghan soldiers and police were killed in what Afghan officials called a mis-targeted NATO air strike during a search for the missing paratroops.
ISAF said its personnel and Afghan forces had been "engaged by enemy forces'', meaning the Taliban, during the search, and that 25 troops were killed or wounded during a battle lasting several hours. Five of the wounded were Americans, it said.
The alliance force said it was ``investigating whether some of the casualties were caused by ISAF close air support.''
If proven, Friday's incident will have been one of the deadliest of its kind.
Here's one for your arsenal: Wait until the pirate's speedboat pulls up alongside, douse them and the surrounding water with gasoline, and stand over them with a lit cigar. They can't fire their own weapons without risk, they can't stay where they are, and the best they could hope to do would be that the motor doesn't backfire while they are bugging out.
Sailors who've been hijacked often say they never saw the pirates coming.
That's because pirates like to strike at dawn and dusk, when the light is lowest, sneaking up on ships in small skiffs at great speed.
"Sometimes it's not until the pirates have come over the helm that people realize they're under attack," Royal Navy Cmdr. John Harbour told CNN. Harbour is with the EU Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) that monitors the Horn of Africa.
"They often fire a Kalashnikov into the bridge [of the ship] to scare the crew. Sometimes they will go further and fire rocket-propelled grenades. Once they think the crew have their heads down, they will throw grappling hooks over the ledge with ropes and ladders to climb on board," he said.
The very first piece of advice we give is to keep a good look out."
Pirate attacks worldwide are on the increase in 2009, affecting even amateur mariners, what do the authorities advise yachtsmen do to protect themselves?
Of course, the most effective protection is to avoid high-risk waters like those off the Somali coast, particularly the Gulf of Aden. Already in 2009 there have been 102 pirate attacks and 39 hijackings in the region, according to EU NAVFOR.
In the past two weeks alone Somali pirates have seized a private yacht in the Indian Ocean, taking a British couple hostage, as well as a Greek bulk carrier. There have been at least two more attempted hijackings reported near the Kenyan port of Mombassa.
"Stay well clear of the area," warned Elaine Bunting of Yachting World. "That really is the most important thing. The risk extends all the way down to the Seychelles."
Pirate attacks are on the rise around the globe though, not just in the Indian Ocean. In the first nine months of 2009, 306 attacks occurred worldwide, compared to 293 for all of 2008, according to the International Maritime Bureau.
In other piracy problem spots, such as the coast of Venezuela, the risk of robbery, not hostage taking.
Somali pirates "are very well organized and they are seeking a ransom. These people are under instruction not to a kill a hostage," Bunting told CNN.
Of course, sometimes the worst is unavoidable.
What to do if pirates attack: Most important is not to slow down in the face of fire. Also consider evasive maneuvers, such as short cycle zag zags. EU NAVFOR said this technique successfully deterred two pirate attacks already in November.
"At 15 knots the ship's own wake will become a deterrent," said Cdr. Harbour.
Swerving should amplify the wake, disrupting the pirates' assault.
Daniel Auwermann, Lieutenant Colonel in the EU Maritime Security Centre -- Horn of Africa also recommended non-lethal defensive measures such as activating the fire pumps, "as the water will spray onto the pirates' ship, making it harder for them to get on board."
Security firms also offer deafening horns, such as Proform Marine's L-RAD -- a long-range acoustic device that blares so loudly it can force pirates to retreat.
Erecting barricades such as barbed wire and netting can also be helpful in preventing pirates from getting on board.
Most important of all, though, may be notifying the Navy, transmitting Mayday signals and satellite messages as soon as possible.
The Maritime Security Center calls on crew members "not to offer any resistance, cooperate with pirates, not to use any firearms -- even if available and not to make any sudden movements around the pirates."
If a ship has a safe area, try to get as many crew inside as possible.
Finally, the center tells crew members that "if military forces intervene, keep low to the deck and cover head with both hands, with hands visible and empty."
Are you better off with a gun? While most authorities do not advise firing back, some ship owners feel that carrying weapons is the only effective deterrence.
"I recommend conveying to approaching pirates that the vessel is fully armed and prepared to defend itself," said Michael Moore, a lawyer specializing in maritime law. Moore said having weapons on board was fundamentally dangerous and that transporting firearms through international waters was difficult, but added that "a few warning shots will almost always result in the pirates turning back to await a safer target."
Choosing whether or not to carry weapons "is a personal decision," said Bunting, who has written about the dilemma of bringing guns on board. "It's not something we can recommend. It's really a big risk."
Dozens of incidents of self-defense have been reported this year. Last December the crew of a Chinese freight carrier managed to deter an attack by throwing improvised Molotov cocktails at approaching pirates in the Gulf of Aden.
Extra precautions:
The "absolute most critical measure is to register with the UK Maritime Trade Organization (UKMTO) in Dubai and also with the Maritime Security Center -- Horn of Africa," before traveling through the Indian Ocean said Graeme Gibbon-Brooks, CEO of Dryad Maritime Intelligence.
Once on the water, it is important to regularly report location updates to the authorities. Checking maritime security updates, avoiding the shore and using the guarded international transit corridor between North Somalia and Yemen can all further reduce risk.
"The trouble is that there are some situations, including the recent British hostage taking, where none of these deterrents is likely to work," Bunting said.
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I like the approach used by South Africans to avoid carjacking. In this case you would put a manifold around the ship on the outside just below the deck line. It is connected to a tank of liquefied gas. When the grappling hooks come over the rail, you open the valve and give it a spark.
A hose connected to the "black water" holding tank might be a good deterrent, too. Hose them down with the solid waste holding tank.
[Iran Press TV Latest] The EU anti-piracy mission says a Danish-flagged container ship survived a pirate attack deep into the Indian Ocean, amid concerns that the bandits are growing bolder and expanding their domain.
Tuesday's incident occurred some 1,000 nautical miles east of the Somali capital Mogadishu, just one day before a long-range attack on an oil tanker had been foiled, AFP quoted the EU NAVFOR mission as saying.
"Pirates attacked Tuesday a Danish-flagged container ship a day after a foiled long-range attack on an oil tanker in the same area deep into the Indian Ocean...[They] fired automatic weapons on MV Nelle Maersk but she could outrun the pirates with a high speed. No casualties were reported," a statement said.
The mission also noted a second attack early Tuesday on Marshall Islands-flagged container ship Felicitas Rickmers in the southern part of the Somali Basin.
On Monday, pirates reportedly fired rocket propelled grenades at the Hong Kong-flagged tanker BW Lion in their farthest-ever strike from the coast.
Since last year, the EU force has been monitoring the dangerous Gulf of Aden waters with a fleet of frigates and naval assets from more than 20 nations, in line with international attempts to curb growing piracy in one the world's busiest shipping routes.
Despite their presence, piracy is thriving in the region and armed bandits are now shifting their focus to the wider Indian Ocean, a vaster area much harder to patrol, venturing as far as the Seychelles and beyond.
In the past, the pirates would normally return the ship and its crew unharmed after receiving millions of dollars in ransoms. However, the presence of monitoring teams has seemingly made the pirates more dangerous.
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OK, all you jihadi imams, saddle up.
Editors Note: This story is the result of a two-year CNN investigative report into peace talks held between the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) and the Libyan Government which recently culminated in the LIFG, a militant jihadist group once close to Osama bin Laden, repudiating al Qaeda. "The Jihadi Code," a documentary on the breakthrough against al Qaeda in Libya, airs on November 15 at 1200 GMT.
Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- From within Libya's most secure jail a new challenge to al Qaeda is emerging. Leaders of one of the world's most effective jihadist organizations, the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG), have written a new "code" for jihad. The LIFG says it now views the armed struggle it waged against Col. Moammar Gadhafi's regime for two decades as illegal under Islamic law.
The new code, a 417-page religious document entitled "Corrective Studies" is the result of more than two years of intense and secret talks between the leaders of the LIFG and Libyan security officials.
The code's most direct challenge to al Qaeda is this: "Jihad has ethics and morals because it is for God. That means it is forbidden to kill women, children, elderly people, priests, messengers, traders and the like. Betrayal is prohibited and it is vital to keep promises and treat prisoners of war in a good way. Standing by those ethics is what distinguishes Muslims' jihad from the wars of other nations."
The code has been circulated among some of the most respected religious scholars in the Middle East and has been given widespread backing. It is being debated by politicians in the U.S. and studied by western intelligence agencies.
In essence the new code for jihad is exactly what the West has been waiting for: a credible challenge from within jihadist ranks to al Qaeda's ideology.
While the code states that jihad is permissible if Muslim lands are invaded -- citing the cases of Afghanistan, Iraq and Palestine -- the guidelines it sets down for when and how jihad should be fought, and its insistence that civilians should not be targeted are a clear rebuke to the goals and tactics of bin Laden's terrorist network.
CNN was given exclusive access to the Abu Salim jail where the code was written to talk to the LIFG prisoners. The jail has a bloody reputation; in 1996 prison guards put down a revolt by allegedly killing more than 1,200 prisoners in less than 24 hours. Read how CNN got inside the prison
We also had exclusive access to the story behind the new code from two of its principle architects.
When Saif al Islam al Gadhafi, the son of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, decided he wanted to open a dialogue with the LIFG he needed to convince them he was genuine so he sought out a former LIFG commander Noman Benotman, who was living in London.
The younger Gadhafi convinced Benotman he would free LIFG members from jail if they renounced their long war with the regime. He promised Benotman immunity from prosecution and in January 2007 flew him back to Libya to meet with the LIFG leaders in the high-security Abu Salim jail.
Benotman and the other leaders in the LIFG had fought together in Afghanistan in the early 1990s helping the Afghan Mujahedeen overthrow the Soviet-backed government in Kabul. During those years they'd come to know bin Laden and many other of al Qaeda leaders.
Although they'd been brothers in arms with bin Laden, the LIFG never merged its operations with al Qaeda due to differences in approach. In particular the Libyan group never endorsed bin Laden's global jihad, preferring to concentrate their attention on overthrowing the Gadhafi regime and replacing it with an Islamic state. From the mid-1990s the Libyan Islamic Fighting Group's Afghan-trained fighters waged a fierce insurgency against the Libyan regime.
In a face-to-face meeting in 2000 Benotman warned bin Laden not to attack the United States because any gains would be outweighed by the inevitable retribution, and undermine his group's efforts in Libya. By then Libyan security services had arrested many of the group's fighters in Libya.
Despite their differences bin Laden respected the LIFG's leadership. Indeed, according to Benotman, in the years before 9/11, bin Laden wanted to use the LIFG's extensive global network for his own ends but the group refused to put its assets at al Qaeda's disposal.
When Benotman met with the LIFG leaders in January 2007 it was the first time they'd seen him in years. Some had been in jail for more than a decade. Others were captured in the international dragnet for jihadists thrown out by security services in the wake of 9/11. They agreed to consider Saif al Islam's proposal but had demands of their own.
They wanted greater freedoms in jail, the right to consult with their rank and file membership, access to religious research books and more. Over time and many meetings the security officials granted most of their demands.
Saif al Islam was motivated not just to bring a formal end to the civil war but to put a stop to al Qaeda's growing influence in Libya.
As recently as 2006 al Qaeda documents captured by U.S. forces in Iraq showed per capita more Libyans than any other Arab nation were joining al Qaeda's fight. The regime's fear was that they'd bring their fight back to Libya.
In late 2007 as Benotman, the LIFG leadership and Libya's security officials debated the way forward al Qaeda tried to derail the peace process. Bin Laden's deputy Ayman al Zawahiri issued a statement declaring the LIFG had joined al Qaeda.
Benotman fired back an open letter to Zawahiri questioning his credibility. "I questioned their idea of jihad ... directly you know. This is crazy, it is not Islamic and it's against the Sunni understanding of Islam," Benotman told CNN. Zawahiri chose not to respond. As late as this August Zawahiri's video statements included praise of LIFG leaders, in what may have been a desperate attempt to head off the condemnation he could see coming.
Even so progress in the jail was slow. In April 2009 the talks were nearly derailed when Ibn Sheikh al Libi, a prominent jihadist was found hanged in his prison cell. According to sources familiar with the talks, Saif al Islam feared his death, which some LIFG members considered suspicious, could put the whole process in jeopardy. He put pressure on prison officials to meet the LIFG's remaining demands, giving them greater freedom to consult with the rank and file.
That led the LIFG to start writing their Revisons. In July 2009 the peace process received a boost when 30 LIFG members living in the UK, some of them senior figures in the group, signed on. The group's UK members, some of whom were under British government Control Orders because they potentially posed a danger to UK national security, had previously been openly skeptical of the talks.
In September the new code, the "Corrective Studies", was completed, resulting in scores of lower and mid-level LIFG members being freed. Moammar Gadhafi's son says the group's leaders will be released at some point in the future, and will be encouraged to educate and dissuade Libya's youth from going off to fight with al Qaeda.
According to Libyan sources, the British domestic intelligence agency MI5 passed on the Revisions document, after it was published, to a number of individuals subject to Control Orders in the UK. Those sources say the peace process led to Control Orders being dropped against 11 members of the group living in the UK, leaving only one Libyan subject to the restrictions. The process initiated in Tripoli appears to have directly made the West safer.
In their new code for Jihadists, LIFG's leaders made it clear that battling extremism will be challenging. "We have written this book knowing full well that the old motives and ideas which made us take up the armed struggle in the past are still to be found in the hearts and minds of many young Muslims today," they wrote.
"We know there are many issues that might lead them to take the same path; that's why we are offering our advice and guidance to these brothers."
Given its credibility and the fact that several other prominent Jihadists in the Middle East have turned against al Qaeda, the LIFG's about face may be an important step toward staunching al Qaeda's recruitment.
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The zeitgeist, she is a'changing. This is the third or fourth book to come out recently by the philosophers of jihad explaining exactly why the Al Qaeda approach is contrary to Islam. The big one was by that Muslim Brotherhood man, the one whose earlier writings had so inspired Osama bin Laden. As I recall pediatrician Ayman al Zawahiri was so upset by this that he wrote his own book in defence of the Al Q. approach.
Perhaps this will spark an improvement in the dismal Muslim literacy rate. As New York Times readers have been complaining lately, one can't have an opinion until one has read it.
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I agree trailing wife, getting education and literacy to the "unwashed" masses in these muslim countries will get them onto equal footing education wise, the women must be the priority i suspect as they are the shapers of the "household" in Muslim tradition
[Maghrebia] A roadside bomb blast on Monday (November 9th) killed a senior Algerian army officer and wounded two soldiers at Cap Djenet, Boumerdes province, Tout sur l'Algerie reported. Investigators believe the attack was perpetrated by the al-Arqam brigade of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] One of the Saudi soldiers reported missing in Yemen returned to the kingdom on Monday with important maps and other military documents.
The Saudi forces said they have also picked up communications in Farsi among the rebels.
The Saudi forces said they have also picked up communications in Farsi among the rebels.
The kingdom said on Sunday it had regained control of territory seized by the rebels.
The world's top oil exporter has become increasingly anxious about instability in Yemen, which, as well as the Shiite insurgency in the north, faces separatist sentiment in the south and a growing threat from resurgent al-Qaeda fighters.
In the past few weeks Houthi rebels have accused Saudi Arabia of allowing Yemeni forces to use its territory as a base to launch attacks against them, but the kingdom has denied the allegation.
The rebels, referred to as Houthis after the clan of their leader Abdel-Malik al-Houthi, first took up arms against President Ali Abdullah Saleh's government in 2004, citing political, economic and religious marginalization by the Western-backed administration.
The conflict intensified in August when Yemen's army launched Operation Scorched Earth to crush the rebels.
Aid groups, which have been given limited access to the northern provinces, say up to 150,000 people have fled their homes since 2004.
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What, all that in a single sentence? Sounds pretty intriguing, if you ask me.
You have Orthodox Islam in Saudi making a determined effort to stamp out "terrorists" for their own territorial interests in their border regions...Shia areas in Saudi's north and against Houthi and the obvious ( although denied ) Iranian backed Yemeni Civil War in the south..
Iran is therefore being strategically isolated from Sunni Islam in the Gulf States and in Saudi Arabia. This isnt just "tension" this is bang bang. This is commit Moslem troops with bayonets and in your face with some solid Ya Allah behind it.
In North Africa you have the Libyan and Algerian fronts for Jihad producing new ethical protocols and seeking peace from within...this is very important in Islamic ideological foundations... and the religious implications are enormous. It will SPREAD.
In Egypt you are seeing the Moslem Brotherhood facing Intelligence threats which are formidable.
Syria is a joke, you can smack Syria like a drooling drunk.
Iraq is a done deal. Laugh in anyone's face if they tell you we didnt win there. Zarquawi and Saddam aint coming back to say hello..and Mookie Sadr is a Charter member in the Men's biffy at Qom.
In Palestine you are seeing the "Peace Process " not only at a standstill, but collapsing. The window is CLOSING there. I am a strong believer in the basic principle that "Somebody wins and somebody Loses". You get "peace" when somebody squashes somebody else in a final and definitive way. The Palestinians are being surrounded and swamped by the settlements. The entire West Bank will be gone eventually...and Gaza is literally a collapsing hole. The Jews are going to win and so are we.
The Jews ARE going to rebuild the Great Temple, and probably in the next 20 years.
Hamas is shooting itself and Hizbollah wont survive Iran. Neither has a long term future. Their curve is bye bye, they both are in a strategic closet. Israel can have the run of Gaza and has proved it. Hamas cant fight and they proved that.
Organization and Authority in world Polity are necessary, not always perfectly Just ,I grant you, but NECESSARY. No prisoners. Get the babies and give them to our mommys to raise... and shoot the dog.
IRAN IS FALLING APART. They arent going to make it. Bomb or not, Iran will collapse. Drugs and whores, corruption, and a really monstrous disillusionment.
Afghanistan can be won with Leadership. Guns do work. So does money. Afghanistan can be bagged like anyone else. There is nothing magic about it.
And Pakistan is kicking the living shiite out of the Goons there. Osama is dead.
What we have to worry about really is Traitors and Cowards.. we got some.
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The Jews ARE going to rebuild the Great Temple, and probably in the next 20 years.
No, we will not, Angleton9. Not ever. The Jewish view is that rebuilding the Temple is the job of the Messiah when he establishes God's kingdom on earth at the end of days. Rebuilding the Temple before then would be sacrilege.
Judaism achieved the transformation from animal sacrifices to prayer and good works during the Babylonian Exile after the fall of the first Temple in 586 BCE. Until the Messiah comes, we'll be just fine.
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Judaism achieved the transformation from animal sacrifices to prayer and good works during the Babylonian Exile after the fall of the first Temple in 586 BCE. Until the Messiah comes, we'll be just fine.
Meh, not impressed. I gotta rooster and a cigar gonna show gawd how much I luvs heeem. My gawd is like the good smokes and Cornell Chicken.
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Trailing wife I like your posts. But the Jews have a SINGLE view? Who knew? But you sound like a very Doubting Thomas to say "No, we will not, Angleton9. Not ever."
Never? Yeah? Never is a long time, trailing wife.
Never is hard to keep in a can.
The Apocalypse of St. John ( not a recent book but written by a Jew in about the year 90AD at a guess)predicts ( prophecies?) that the Anti-Christ( a boogeyman by anyone's standards) will have to HAVE a rebuilt Temple to declare himself. Of course , John could have been talking about Nero or Domitian as well as anybody, who knows,.... but that good 'ol Book of Daniel Imagery is a winner with smoke and lightening anytime.
It would be logical that Brand X ( Djalla himself) cant declare himself without an i.e. "rebuilt Temple" to desecrate, as it were. THEN he gets to meet the Bonifide Messiah and not before.. so he can inherit what the bad guys are said to get in the final scenes.
Its all over my head but it would appear that you need a Temple ( there isnt one now) before you can declare a phoney Messiah and then get to meet the Real ONE who steps in to kick ass. I am betting the Great Temple will be rebuilt and the Boogeyman will then say its his...and then look behind him because the music gets creepy at that point and you know the Hero is just off camera getting to make his Entrance.
Then 3 and ahalf years of bad news and the whole thing looks black rain and bad fallout, followed by a Happy Ending for the white yarmulkes and a Sea of Fire for the losers.
I always figured the Great Temple being rebuilt was a very good way to poke Islam right in the eye with your greasy thumb and who can be against a little of that.?
Its got my vote and Jacob can do it anytime he pleases. Go for it Jacob.
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Angleton9, you flatter me inordinately. And you are quite right that the Jews are about as non-homogeneous as a a group can be and still cohere. Nonetheless, the Third Temple will not be built by the Jews before the coming of the Messiah, because it is our belief that he will rebuild it after he establishes God's kingdom on earth. (Perhaps I should have written that before, instead of "never".) St. John is one of Christianity's writers; his book is part of the New Testament, not part of the Jewish bible. Whether or not he considered himself a Jew, by our beliefs he ceased to be when he became a Christian, and so his prophesies have no meaning for us. Likewise .5MT finds both of us silly when knows with perfect faith it's Cornell Chicken that predicts the coming of Heaven on earth.
If the Jews were going to rebuild the Temple, the planning would have begun by July 1, 1987, and the first shovelful of earth would have been lifted by January 1, 1968, with the project fully funded and the money in hand. Too, it isn't Jews who are breeding toward perfect red calves for sacrifice.
You're going to have to find that thumb for Islam's eye on someone else's hand. There are plenty of thumbs around -- each day we don't submit is another thumb in the eye of the fanatics. Each day a child goes to school in Afghanistan is another thumb. Each successful election in Iraq is an entire fist.
Yemeni Shia Houthi fighters have released recent footage of clashes with the Saudi military at the two countries' joint border.
The video shows the seizure of Saudi army vehicles by the fighters. It also shows Saudi soldiers fleeing the scene of battles as Houthi fighters open fire on them.
The Saudi Arabian air force launched a deadly offensive against Houthis eight days ago, accusing the Shia resistance fighters of killing two Saudi soldiers on the border.
While Riyadh says that its offensive targeted Houthi positions on 'Saudi territory', the fighters say Yemeni villages, far from the battlefield, were being bombarded.
On several occasions, the Saudi air force has also attacked the areas of al-Malahaid and the border region of Jabal al-Dukhan with white phosphorous bombs, the fighters say.
Their attacks have killed and wounded several people.
The Houthis say they've captured an unspecified number of Saudi troops inside the Yemeni territory in response to Saudi attacks on their positions and villages.
They have also posted footage of a man they identified as one of several Saudi soldiers in their custody. The video showed a man in military uniform with facial wounds and an apparent leg injury receiving medical attention. It identified him as Staff Sergeant Ahmad Abdullah al-Omari.
Houthi fighters accuse Riyadh of supporting the Yemeni government in launching attacks against them.
The Yemeni government accuses Houthi fighters of seeking to reinstate the imamate rule, which ended in a 1962 coup. The Houthis, however, say they are defending themselves against religious oppression as well as social, economic and political 'discrimination' against them in the country.
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North and South Korean warships exchanged fire along a disputed sea border area off the west coast of the Korean Peninsular on Tuesday, just days before US President Barack Obama was due to embark on a crucial tour of Asia.
The skirmish in the Yellow Sea left a North Korean patrol vessel "engulfed in flames" as it retreated back across the border under fire.
The skirmish in the Yellow Sea -- the first for seven years -- left a North Korean patrol vessel "engulfed in flames" as it retreated back across the border under fire, according to the South Korean prime minister, Chung Un-Chan.
The clash came at a time when relations between the divided nations appeared to be thawing following increased tensions earlier this year caused by North Korea's decision to test a second nuclear device in defiance of UN sanctions.
South Korean analysts speculated that the apparent provocation by Pyongyang was an attempt to serve up a timely reminder of the volatility of the Korean Peninsular to Mr Obama who agreed on Monday to send an envoy to North Korea for direct talks.
Seoul said it had suffered no casualties from the exchange which took place after a South Korean patrol boat fired warning shots across the bow of the North Korean naval vessel that had crossed the disputed Northern Limit Line, 120 nautical miles west of Incheon.
"It wasn't a close-range battle. We fired heavily on the North Korean vessel," an unidentified navy official told South Korea's Yonhap news agency.
"It is our initial assessment that the North Korean boat suffered considerable damage."
South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement that the North Korean patrol boat crossed the disputed western sea border around 11.27am (0227 GMT), drawing warning shots from a South Korean navy vessel after ignoring five warnings to turn back.
The North Korean boat then opened fire and the South's ship returned fire before the North's vessel sailed back toward its waters, the statement said.
North Korea's military, however, blamed South Korea, calling for it to apologise for a "grave armed provocation", and claiming that Seoul's ships had opened fire while its craft was still north of the disputed border.
The North added its boat "lost no time to deal a prompt retaliatory blow at the provokers".
North and South Korean navies fought deadly skirmishes along the western sea border in the Yellow Sea in 1999 and 2002, when six South Korean sailors were killed.
Last month the North's navy accused South Korea of sending warships across the border to stir tensions, warning that the "reckless military provocations" could trigger armed clashes.
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[ADN Kronos] An Australian man accused of sending harassing letters to the families of dead soldiers has been described by his lawyer as a man who is "preaching peace". Man Monis, who also uses the name Sheikh Haron, appeared in a Sydney court on Tuesday with his lawyer Chris Murphy.
The 45-year-old man is accused of seven counts of using a postal or similar service to menace, harass or cause offence. Monis allegedly sent the letters over two years, devastating the families of seven soldiers who died in Afghanistan.
Monis, wearing long flowing robes and a white turban, also chained himself to a railing outside the court.
Good. Leave him there. As Mad Max pointed out in a similar case, the chain is hardened steel, it'll take ten minutes to cut through ...
Media reports said he was holding an Australian flag in one hand and a sign calling for Australian troops to be brought home from Afghanistan.
He was arrested by counter-terrorism police at his Croydon Park home in Sydney's inner-west last month. Police said he sent letters to the families of Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan, accusing some of the soldiers of being criminals and murderers.
His lawyer Chris Murphy told the court his client was a peace activist.
"I don't want to lose our soldiers. I don't want Australia to be unsafe," Monis said outside the court.
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Why waste perfectly good chain? I'm sure a fire ax or chainsaw can cut through the softer bits instead of the chain. Of course, you can also just burn away the offending material from the chain. After all, what did that chain do to anyone? And think of it's feelings, touching that vile beast.
A 43-year-old Somali man from Minneapolis was arrested this week in the Netherlands for allegedly financing the recruitment of up to 20 young Somali men from Minnesota to train and fight with terrorists in their homeland.
He's not from Minneapolis. He's from Somalia; he just domiciled in Minneapolis.
The arrest appears to be the most significant development yet in one of the most far-reaching counterterrorism investigations since 9/11.
The identity of the man, who was arrested Sunday at an asylum-seeker's center 45 miles northeast of Amsterdam, was not released. But Special Agent E.K. Wilson of the Minneapolis FBI office confirmed Tuesday that the man was arrested in connection with the ongoing counterterrorism investigation that began here when young men began disappearing in 2007.
Dutch prosecutors said in a statement that the man lived in Minneapolis before leaving the United States in November 2008 and arrived in the Netherlands about one month later.
The statement said American authorities asked for the man's arrest and are seeking to have him extradited. Wilson said he could not confirm or deny that.
According to the Dutch statement, U.S. prosecutors suspect the man of bankrolling the purchase of weapons for Islamic extremists and helping other Somalis travel to Somalia in 2007
and 2008.
Jeanne Cooney, director of community relations for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Minneapolis, which has been handling the case here, said she could not comment.
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Is Lutefisk 'Halal'?
It goes good with Edamer.
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A senior government official tells ABC News that investigators have found that alleged Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan had "more unexplained connections to people being tracked by the FBI" than just radical cleric Anwar al Awlaki. The official declined to name the individuals but Congressional sources said their names and countries of origin were likely to emerge soon.
The FBI said it turned over the information to the Army, but Defense Department officials today denied that. One military investigator on a joint terror task force with the FBI was shown the e-mails, but they were never forwarded in a formal way to more senior officials at the Pentagon, and the Army did not learn of the contacts until after the shootings.
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but they were never forwarded in a formal way to more senior officials at the Pentagon,
Hasan was a good FBI/CIA source, why alert the Army and have him busted and the source terminated? The last thing the bureau would want is some young Army CI agent following Hasan around, reporting on him enter Guns Galore. So what if he wakes up one morning and decides to go on his own bloody jihadi rampage. That's the Army's problem right?
This is going to get very ugly at the national agency level. Never trusted the FBI or the Agency. Never did, never will.
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Authorities intercepted the e-mails but later deemed them innocent or protected by the first amendment.
So how about releasing these "innocent" e-mails so that we can all have our daily dose of laughs, guffaws, sneers, mockery etc at the "Authorities" expense?
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I can barely recognize what the Bureau has become, a bit more like HUD and EPA, sorry to say. How can they come out a few minutes after an event like Ft.Hood (and there are other examples) and declare it not to have a terrorism nexus? They sure have set the bar quite high...I guess that if the instructions didn't come from a letter postmarked Peshawar, Pakistan, affixed with the al-Qaeda stamp with Sayydd al-Qutb and signed by Usama bin Laden, then it's not terrorism.
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This is going to get very ugly at the national agency level. Never trusted the FBI or the Agency. You're an optimist. Basically nothing was done to the FBI or the CIA in the aftermath of 9/11. In 2001 Bush should have fired George Tenet, on general principles and pour encourager les autres. Our current political leadership is even less able to deal with terrorism than W was.
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How can they come out a few minutes after an event like Ft.Hood (and there are other examples) and declare it not to have a terrorism nexus?
With great respect to your service G-Man, it is quite simple. The Bureau's denying "terrorism" removes it from their sphere of responsibility as the agency responsible for domestic terror.
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The argument against Hasan and "terrorism" is both incredulous and counterintutive. Why would US Intelligence have any interest in the man at all if it were not his involvement in suspected terrorist activity? Was Hasan involved in interstate traffic of stolen goods, car theft, bank robberty, kidnapping?
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Besoeker: With great respect to your service G-Man, it is quite simple. The Bureau's denying "terrorism" removes it from their sphere of responsibility as the agency responsible for domestic terror.
Good point, but know that a majority of the street Agents don't have that belief, but for those on the career ladder to the top (minus a few well-grounded in management), they are steeped in PC just to play along and get ahead. Very sad.
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Yeah, shit ben going down hill long time now.
Perhaps we can get FormerCIAz view on this vital matter.
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Nobody got fired after 9-11. One of the people that reportedly instituted the administrative "wall" on intelligence---Jamie Goerlick---was on the 9-11 commission that examined the 9-11 attacks.
There is no accountability at the top. In WW2, after Pearl Harbor was attacked, at least the CINPAC at the time, Admiral Kimmel, was relieved of duty and a change was made. Nothing was done after 9-11.
And after the Hasan shootings, we are back to the same 9-10 mentality. When the government does not protect the people against the country's enemies, then the people must protect themselves. This is not necessarily a good thing, but that is what we are facing. In general, Americans are not the type of people that will scatter like sheep from the wolf.
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Shortly after midnight on the morning of June 13, 1942, four men landed on a beach near Amagansett, Long Island, New York, from a German submarine, clad in German uniforms and bringing ashore enough explosives, primers, and incendiaries to support an expected two-year career in the sabotage of American defense-related production. On June 17, 1942, a similar group landed on Ponte Vedra Beach, near Jacksonville, Florida, equipped for a similar career of industrial disruption.
The purpose of the invasions was to strike a major blow for Germany by bringing the violence of war to our home ground through destruction of America's ability to manufacture vital equipment and supplies and transport them to the battlegrounds of Europe; to strike fear into the American civilian population, and diminish the resolve of the United States to overcome our enemies.
By June 27, 1942, all eight saboteurs had been arrested without having accomplished one act of destruction. Tried before a Military Commission, they were found guilty. One was sentenced to life imprisonment, another to thirty years, and six received the death penalty, which was carried out within a few days.
Oh, for the old days when PC did not reign supreme. Threats to the U.S. were dealt with in appropriate ways.
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20 children will grow up minus one parent all in the name of 'political correctness'.
We all deserve the truth, but I'm hopeful the affected families will hammer the responsible agencies until they're forced to admit how this was allowed to happen.
Washington D.C. and the Bureau are the problem, NOT the SAC's and agents in the field. I can take issue with Legats as well, but thats a story for another time. My limited and very dated experience anyway.
1) The administration wants this not to be "terrorism" since it happened on Obama's watch (and evidences that his overture in Cairo to Muslims has failed).
2) If this isn't terrorism, why then did the DOJ charge and convict the Fort Dix Six (Bosnian Muslims) of terrorism when they merely plotted to kill soldiers there a couple of years ago? If Hasan is not charged with terrorism, then I guess only failed assailants are terrorists.
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You have hit the nail on the head G-Man. The "NOT a terrosit act" mantra has come down from POTUS and DOJ. You may recall Barry's early admonition regarding "jumping to conclusions.'
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Terrorism: violent acts which are intended to create fear (terror), are perpetrated for an ideological goal, and deliberately target or disregard the safety of non-combatants.
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The only problem with that definition in this case is that Hasan did not target non-combatants ... he targeted US troops about to deploy to operations in a Muslim country.
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lotp, IIRC, many of the people the traitor targeted were part of a medical unit. Therefore, they were non-combatants. He also killed two civilians.
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Jarratt, Virginia (CNN) -- -- Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad was executed Tuesday by lethal injection, a Virginia prisons spokesman said. He was declared dead at 9:11 p.m., said Larry Traylor, director of communications for the Virginia Department of Corrections.
"There were no complications; Mr. Mohammad was asked if he wished to make a last statement," he told reporters. "He did not acknowledge this or make a last statement whatsoever."
Save it for Himmler ...
Mohammad, 48, said nothing from the time he entered the death chamber accompanied by guards, Traylor said.
Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine denied a last-minute clemency request Tuesday for Muhammad, the mastermind behind the Washington-area sniper attacks of 2002 that terrorized the nation's capital.
During three weeks in October 2002, Muhammad and accomplice Lee Boyd Malvo, then 17, killed 10 people and wounded three, while taunting police with written messages and phoned-in threats and demands.
"Having carefully reviewed the petition for clemency and judicial opinions regarding this case, I find no compelling reason to set aside the sentence that was recommended by the jury and then imposed and affirmed by the courts," Kaine said in a written statement. "Accordingly, I decline to intervene."
Kaine's announcement came a day after the Supreme Court declined to intervene in the case.
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au revoir POS
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Good.
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I really doubt this had anything to do with Islam. This ass was a getto bottom feeder. He was trying to cover for killing his wife. Sick or not, he murdered and will have to pay, er had to pay. He decided to end his life when he killed, no remorse from my side, thats for sure.
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#12 I really doubt this had anything to do with Islam.
I beg to differ. See the notes written by the little side kick of Muhammad:
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/11/09/the-beltway-snipers-and-the-fort-hood-killer-peas-in-a-jihad-inspired-pod/
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Yes, Muhammad appears to have thought of himself as being on jihad, albeit a rather illiterate and rambling one.
However there is no evidence that he had direct support and encouragement from the Nation of Islam, even if he was steeped in their worldview. Reading his notes and statements, it appears his was an anti-White campaign with a thin veneer of Islam (sort of) as a rationale.
Hasan OTOH is directly tied to the radical mosque in Virginia that also spawned 3 of the 9/11 attackers, was in direct and regular contact with a number of such leaders and was accepted at jihadi websites, among other places. His Islamicism was right in line, theologically and operationally, with other violent jihad against all kaffirs, starting with the US - not just whites, since the US armed forces are quite integrated.
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Mitch - it's a cultural/race thang. You We wouldn't understand. A muslim can kill a muslim, and a black can kill other blacks without the Outrage Chorus appearing
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Terrorist Sniper Murdering piece of sh*t LOSER John Allen Muhammad executed
Fixed.
Enjoy eternity in HELL, assh*le.
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[The News (Pak) Top Stories] While electioneering in Gilgit-Baltistan entered in its final phase on Tuesday, unidentified men ambushed a vehicle, killing three people and injuring two others.
The incident occurred at around 8:00 pm when the vehicle coming from Astore to Gilgit came under fire near Pari, about 35 kms from here, sources said. Ali Mohammad, Abdul Haleem and Nizamuddin were killed in the attack. The injured, Mohammad Abbas, and Nadeem are stated to be in stable condition.
Police and district administration officials said it was premature to say who could be behind the attack. But, they added, according to initial investigation, personal enmity could be the cause of the killings that created panic among the candidates who were busy winding up their election campaign before 12:00 pm.
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Weird I had a GilGit go Tango Uniform Coyote Perfecta Hotel.... I worry about Cisco.
[The News (Pak) Top Stories] The jet fighters of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) on Tuesday pounded the positions of the militants in Kurram and Orakzai Agencies, killing nine fighters and destroying their hideouts.
Security forces claimed to have killed six militants and destroyed seven hideouts in the air strikes carried out in various parts of Central Kurram Agency. Tribal sources said Pakistan Air Force jet fighters pounded the compounds and hideouts of the militants in Tarai and Sperkat areas in Central Kurram, killing six militants and destroying seven hideouts.
The militants reportedly include those who have fled South Waziristan after the launching of the military operation Rah-i-Nijat there. In Orakzai Agency, the jet fighters also bombed positions of the militants and killed three militants. Four hideouts of the fighters and a mosque were also destroyed in shelling in various parts of the agency.
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Rubber Ducky, please use English, not Ghetto Gutter "U" for "You" it shows ignorance and your postings show you're not a moron.
So why pretend to be one?
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[The News (Pak) Top Stories] The Army on Tuesday claimed killing nine more militants to raise the Taliban death tally to 492 since the launch of the military operation in South Waziristan on October 17.
Sources said security forces were now controlling more than 80 per cent of the Mehsud areas in the agency as there was no or little resistance from the militants in recent days.They said majority of militants had either fled into the neighbouring North Waziristan and Orakzai Agencies or sneaked into the adjacent districts of Tank and Dera IsmailKhan in the garb of fleeing population.
Azam Tariq, spokesman for the Hakimullah Mehsud-led Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), claimed on Tuesday in a telephonic call to reporters from an undisclosed location that the Army had so far captured only roads while the Taliban were holding the key locations in forests and mountains.
He said they had adopted the hit-and-run policy and were preparing to fight a long guerrilla war against the advancing Army. He also claimed inflicting casualties on security forces, but did not give the exact number.
The TTP spokesman said they were ready for tough resistance against the Army. Earlier, he had admitted the death of only 11 Taliban in the operation. Among the nine slain militants, the Army said five were killed in the north of Ladha and four others were eliminated in Tauda Cheena and Fort Knoll areas of Makeen.
According to the ISPR, security forces continued a search and clearance operation in Sarai Ghundaka, Kandao, Spinkai and Zariwam areas on the Jandola-Srarogha axis. Security forces have discovered and dismantled a private jail near the Bangalkhel area of Ladha, where they are conducting a search and clearance operation over the past few days. Several caves, bunkers, towers and observation posts of the Taliban were also destroyed in the same area, said the ISPR.
On the Razmak-Makeen axis, security forces recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition and arrested one militant from the area. Political administration officials said the troops were in complete control of Makeen, the nerve centre of the TTP. They said the areas of Shakai, Kaniguram and Makeen had been cleared while a search operation was underway in Maidan, Kot Langarkhel and Bazay. Security forces have also established posts on mountains in Srarogha to strengthen their positions. The troops also started a search operation on the Srarogha-Piazha Road. The troops are now advancing towards Janta, Piazha and Makeen from the Srarogha side.Sources said security forces had also started a search operation in the Sam area of Ladha while posts had been established on the hilltops in Karwan Manza, Karam and Delay.
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Let's look at it.
The Paks are killing Taliban to the tune of 10%...in combat if you kill 10% of an enemy unit that unit is HURT bad. A Division with 10% KILLED is destroyed as an effective unit. Wounded to killed is five to seven times that. See how well a man with a wounded leg does in February in the mountains. That will be educational, aint no doctors in the Hindu Kush, dearest.
Ever seen an amputation performed with just a can opener?
The Taliban are hurt..they are running. They have LOST THE INITIATIVE. In six months they will be bandits stealing goats and scratching themselves with no shoes. The locals will be potting them without Army even being required.
The PAK strategy has taken all three of the Taliban concentration centers in the South, that's 80% of their former territory. The PAKS control the roads and they will also eventually control the heights...this is a roads and peaks sort of war. The Taliban are outgunned. They will be sectioned off and chopped up.
the North of Wazoo is NEXT. They saw what happened in the South, they will want to "negotiate".
When they do the PAKS will move into the borders of Wazoo with Afghanistan. If we were smart we will move in as well with money to buy the local leaders and to plan markets and show some "progress" and spread cell phones and import goats.
South Wazoo can be bought, and probably with goats. Dont give the money to PAKS, they will keep it for their own jing jing. Give it to goat dealers and contract that wheeler dealer named Mahmoud who is related to the local cousin of the Goombah of Upper Putz who can build a whatever and take the credit. Get lots of informers and put them all in the rolodex on the Computer. Make sure Uncle gets his cut regularly and who cares about the girl's school. That can wait.
Allah is Beneficent, pay me. Here, buy your wife a new pair of earrings. And get back to me on who dont like all the happy happy. More goat?
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Angleton, you are assuming the Pak Army reports of Talis whacked are anything close to accurate. They never have been in the past. Off about an order of magnitude.
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I hope you're right, Angleton9. But Glenmore raises one point. A second is that, as far as I can tell, the Pakistani army is only going after the Pakistani Taliban groups, not the Afghan Taliban groups. That is, those Taliban who aim to drive out the Coalition are being left strictly alone if not actually being aided, while those Taliban who presume to threaten the home turf are being whacked about the head until they give up their foolishness.
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WAFF > MEMRI > AL-JAZEERA = TALIBAN SEIZE WEAPONS AND AMMO FROM [three?] MILITARY POSTS EVACUATED BY US FORCES [NURISTAN Province under Taliban control, NOT AFGHAN-KABUL Govt?]. Talibs also repor able to arrest many many AFGHAN GOVT. MIL-POLICE Members???
[Dawn] The military claimed killing at least nine militants during the past 24 hours of the operation in South Waziristan. One militant was also arrested.
Security forces continued search and clearance operations on the Jandola-Sararogha Axis and also cleared the area north of Ladha.
Troops also claimed discovering a private jail near the Bangel Khel area. A number of caves, bunkers, towers and observation posts of militants were destroyed in the region.
Clearance and consolidation of positions was under way on the Razmak-Makeen axis. Security forces carried out house-to-house searches at Tauda China Khula and Fort Knoll and recovered a huge cache of arms and ammunition.
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[Dawn] Security forces arrested four Turkish nationals, including a woman, in Balochistan's Zhob district.
Official sources said the Turkish nationals were arrested from the Mari Khawa check post. They were travelling from Dera Ismail Khan to Zhob and did not have any valid travel documents.
Sources added that security agencies were interrogating the four Turkish nationals.
However, they said it was premature to speculate over their affiliation with any militant group.
Zhob is considered to be a transit point for militants. Pakistani Taliban leader Abdullah Mehsud was killed in an operation in the area in July 2007.
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[Dawn] At least 34 people were killed and nearly 100 others injured when a powerful car bomb ripped through a crowded intersection in Charsadda bazaar on Tuesday afternoon.
Scores of women and children died and dozens of shops and vehicles were damaged in the suspected suicide attack. A power breakdown caused by the explosion and lack of facilities hampered rescue work.
Doctors said five bodies and 65 wounded people were taken to the Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, and the condition of 10 of them was critical.
An official of the NWFP health department said that 29 bodies and 35 injured people were received in the Charsadda district headquarters hospital. He said several bodies were charred.
District police chief Riaz Khan said the explosives were packed in a car parked near the Farooq-i-Azam chowk.
He said he suspected that it was a suicide attack because limbs and shoes of the suspected bomber had been found. The DPO had crossed the intersection minutes before the explosion.
Shopkeepers and vendors were preparing to put down the shutters and a large number of people were waiting at a taxi stand when the explosion took place. Plumes of smoke blanketed the place after the blast.
Several women and children were among the victims. The place was littered with flesh and charred bodies. People were crying for help and all markets were closed. The area was strewn with damaged vehicles, pushcarts and debris from destroyed shops.
Absence of an ambulance service and trained rescue teams forced the authorities to seek the help of Peshawar-based government and private organisations. An ambulance of the District Headquarters Hospital was out of order.
Local people expressed anger over delay in taking the injured people to hospital.
CONDEMNATION
Awami National Party's president Asfandyar Wali Khan, Chief Minister Amir Haider Khan Hoti and Senator Afrasyab Khattak condemned the blast.
'These barbaric elements have no religion and faith. The government is determined to eliminate terrorism and our struggle will continue,' they said in a statement. They urged people, particularly party workers, to donate blood and help the affected people.
Agencies add: The blast on a road lined with fruit and juice shops ripped off shop roofs and littered the ground with slippers and debris.
'I was buying something before closing my shop. A car was parked on the other side of the road and all of a sudden there was a huge blast,' said Hazrat Ali, a shopkeeper with shrapnel wounds to his chest and forehead. 'There was smoke and darkness everywhere. I passed out,' he said.
Rashid Kaka said he was returning from a mosque to his shop when the bomb exploded, destroying stores on both sides of the road and knocking down electrical wires.
'It was deafening and there were clouds of dust all around. I could not see anything around me. Later I saw many bodies lying scattered.'
The blast damaged signboards and at least six vehicles, including two buses. Seven children and three women were among the dead, police said.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] A senior commander of the Sadrist Movement has been fatally shot in a house in southeastern Kirkuk.
"The police received reports that unidentified assailants targeted a man with silencer-equipped gun and shot him dead in front of his house in al-Asra neighborhood of southeastern Kirkuk at 08:30 p.m. local time (1730 GMT) on Sunday night," Colonel Anwar Qadir told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
He said the victim was Hadi Luaybi al-Zuhaibawi -- a leader in the Sadrist Movement and president of the Southern Tribes Assembly in Kirkuk Province.
The terrorist attack took place on the same day that Iraqi security forces killed a top military commander with links to the terrorist al-Qaeda network in Salaheddin Province.
Police and Sahwa fighters came under heavy fire at a farm between Samarra and Baghdad and engaged in a gunfight with militants which led to the death of Hazim Ismail.
Hazim Ismail -- also known as Abu Janna, 35 -- had been wanted since 2005 for kidnappings and murders.
Twelve men were also captured during the anti-terrorist operation and a full-scale investigation exposed a site where weapons and two explosives-filled belts were seized.
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He said the victim was Hadi Luaybi al-Zuhaibawi -- a leader in the Sadrist Movement and president of the Southern Tribes Assembly in Kirkuk Province.
And Iraqi security forces killed a top military commander with links to the terrorist al-Qaeda network in Salaheddin Province.
Are they describing the same incident?
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"unidentified assailants". Yaaasss.
Its not nice, but it works. Who benefits? that's who did it.
He wasnt OUR friend , now was he? Too bad for him.
Get the shovel.
[Ma'an] The Israeli military court in Salem sentenced a Palestinian man to nine years in prison on Monday nine on the charge of leading q group of fighters in opposition to occupying forces.
Yousef Abdel Rahman Shtewi was accused of leading members of Fatah's armed wing, the Al-Aqa Brigades, in the West Bank city of Qalqiliya.
Local sources said Shtewi was detained by Israeli soldiers during a raid on his house on 23 February 2007. He is being held at Israel's military prison in Meggido.
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Suspected Islamic terrorists insurgents shot and killed two Muslim civilians in Thailand's restive south, where more than 4,000 people have died in nearly six years of unrest, police said on Wednesday.
A former deputy village chief was shot dead in troubled Narathiwat province late on Tuesday as he walked near his home, said police. In Pattani province a Muslim villager was killed in a drive-by shooting, also on Tuesday.
[ADN Kronos] Police in the southern Philippines have found the severed head of a school teacher who was abducted by Islamist militants nearly a month ago. Gabriel Canizares was abducted by Abu Sayyaf militants three weeks ago and his body is still missing.
Canizares was travelling with colleagues on the southern island of Jolo when he was kidnapped by the Al-Qaeda linked militants and his head was left at a petrol station in Sulu province early Monday, a ranking military official said.
According to GMA TV news, Armed Forces Chief Gen. Victor Ibrado condemned the act as "dastardly and inhuman," while defense secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. said the incident illustrated the challenge for the people in Sulu in fighting terrorism.
The militants had demanded a ransom of 42,000 dollars for Canizares, but his family had refused to pay the amount.
Education secretary Jesli Lapus expressed shock at the teacher's killing, saying six other teachers who had been kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf earlier this year had all been released.
She said president Gloria Arroyo had ordered "punitive action" to "put an end to the Abu Sayyaf group's heinous and inhumane atrocities".
"The people of Jolo are condemning this dastardly act," Jolo municipal mayor Hussin Amin said in a television interview aired in Manila.
The beheading occurred only three days before a visit to Manila by US secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
Abu Sayyaf has been blamed for many of the country's terrorist attacks, including the firebombing of a ferry in Manila Bay that claimed more than 100 lives in 2005 and the abduction of American tourists in 2001.
A land mine explosion targeted a military convoy carrying American troops on 29 September killed two soldiers - the first US military deaths in the southern Philippines in seven years.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
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[Iran Press TV Latest] The EU anti-piracy mission says a Danish-flagged container ship survived a pirate attack deep into the Indian Ocean, amid concerns that the bandits are growing bolder and expanding their domain. 
North and South Korean warships exchanged fire along a disputed sea border area off the west coast of the Korean Peninsular on Tuesday, just days before US President Barack Obama was due to embark on a crucial tour of Asia.
Jarratt, Virginia (CNN) -- -- Washington-area sniper John Allen Muhammad was executed Tuesday by lethal injection, a Virginia prisons spokesman said. He was declared dead at 9:11 p.m., said Larry Traylor, director of communications for the Virginia Department of Corrections.
[Iran Press TV Latest] A senior commander of the Sadrist Movement has been fatally shot in a house in southeastern Kirkuk. 
