A roadside bomb planted by the Taliban killed 11 civilians in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand on Sunday, the provincial administration said.
The dead included two children and two women, provincial governor's spokesman Daud Ahmadi told AFP, blaming the Islamist militant movement after a car struck the device in Nawzad district, in the north of Helmand.
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A ransom has been paid to Somali pirates in a bid to secure the release of a Greek-owned freighter and its crew of 19 being held off the Seychelles.
According to the Navfor, the EU's naval mission, on Saturday, "a ransom drop was successfully made for the release of the Greek owned Panama-flagged bulk carrier, Navios Apollon".
It was the second ransom drop to the pirates in two days, demonstrating the dilemma governments and companies are in over the need to recover their ships and crews and the fears of encouraging further piracy.
In both cases the amount of money handed over to the pirates was not given.
Almost immediately after the earlier ransom drop, a Singapore-flagged Indonesian chemical tanker and its 24-strong crew were released by the pirates, Commander John Harbour, a Navfor spokesman, told AFP.
The pirates disappeared back to the shore of impoverished Somalia.
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Dubai police says forensic tests show a Hamas commander was drugged and then suffocated in his hotel room. Police officials say tests showed a substantial amount of a fast-acting muscle relaxant called succinylcholine was found in Mahmoud al-Mabhouh's bloodstream. The drug is sometimes used to administer a breathing tube or anesthesia.
Dubai police on Sunday also said a third Palestinian suspect is in custody. At least 26 other suspects are wanted after being accused of traveling on fake European and Australian passports.
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The action profile of succinylcholine is unmatched even 50 years after its introduction into anaesthestic practice. This is probably why succinylcholine, despite its many and partly life-threatening side-effects, is still considered to be indispensable by many anaesthetists and emergency doctors. The main indication for succinylcholine--the facilitation of endotracheal intubation in patients considered to be at an increased risk of aspiration of gastric fluid, e.g. patients undergoing a Caesarean section or presenting with an ileus--remains undisputed. Some of the side-effects of succinylcholine can be diminished by precurarisation. However, just like priming, this technique holds some considerable dangers (such as a clinically significant attenuation of the protective reflexes) and has become a matter of increasing controversy. Rocuronium (> or = 1 mg/kg) is currently the best alternative to succinylcholine for rapid sequence induction. The routine use of succinylcholine as a relaxant for intubation is questionable, mainly because there are a number of modern anaesthetic techniques (laryngeal mask airway) and new drugs (rocuronium, mivacurium, remifentanil) which make succinylcholine quite dispensable except for a few situations (e.g. re-positioning of fractures). In the case of an expected difficult airway no muscle relaxant should be given, because severe hypoxaemia in these patients probably can only be prevented by a professional airway management. Succinylcholine is no longer an option in elective paediatric anaesthesia. The drug, however, retains its value in critical situations where a rapid onset but a short duration of action is of prime importance.
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PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > [Dubai Assassination]BRITAIN'S MI6 MAY HAVE COLLUDED WID MOSSAD.
* WMF > PLA SPECOPS EXPERT: DUBAI ASSASSINATION SHOWS THREE CAUSES OF CONCERN FOR WORLD INTELLIDENCE SERVICES.
To wit,
* LACK OF RECRUITS forcing FOREIGN INTEL SVCS to go outside their Agencies + National Govts to enable andor accomplish VITAL INTEL ACTIVITIES.
* TRADITIONAL = CLASSIC NUMINT METHODS COMPETING WID SIGNIFICANT, CHEAPER CHANGES IN HIGH TECHNOLOGIES e.g. Dubai hotel's ultra-modern CAMERA MONITORING SYS.
IOW, "FRANCHISING" > ITS NOT JUST FOR NUKES-HAPPY/SEARCHING ISLAMIST MILTERRS + IRAN ANYMORE!?
* "VALID/LEGITIMATE FOREIGN PASSPORTS" > i.e. alleged "Valid/Legit" UK Passports used by alleged MOSSAD HIT TEAMS = POTENTIAL FOR SERIOUS, UNRECOEVRABLE HARM TO INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS + GEOPOL SECURITY.
Late last year, under the watchful eye of Australia's security services, Sydney man "Abdullah" boarded a plane out of Mascot airport, bound for the Middle East. An associate of the nine-man cell that was recently convicted of preparing for a terrorist act in Sydney, the man had been under close surveillance for several years. But on this occasion, it was his destination that set red lights flashing in counter-terrorism circles. He was travelling to Yemen, now regarded among CT professionals as "the new Afghanistan" for al-Qa'ida, and a magnet for Australian and other Western supporters of the global jihadist cause.
Abdullah was one of at least 20 Australians known to have travelled to Yemen in recent years, whose movements are being monitored by ASIO and counter-terrorism police. The group includes several people with links to the convicted terrorists who were sentenced last Monday in Sydney to up to 28 years in jail. Their activities illustrate a key point of the federal government's white paper on counter-terrorism released last week: that successes against al-Qa'ida and its affiliates in Afghanistan and Pakistan have been offset by the rise of militancy elsewhere, most notably in Yemen and neighbouring Somalia. And Australia is directly at risk as a result.
Australia's ambassador for counter-terrorism Bill Paterson reinforced the point at a national security conference in Sydney on Thursday, saying Yemen and North Africa have become "new safe havens" for global jihadists. "Yemen especially is at risk of becoming a magnet for radicalised individuals from elsewhere to join together to train and perhaps take the step from radicalism to violent extremism, and then to project back into other parts of the globe," Paterson says.
Equally worrying for the authorities are contacts between certain suspected radicals in Australia and the newly notorious American-born Yemeni-based cleric Anwar al-Awlaki. To the concern of Australian authorities, counter-terrorism agencies have monitored a stream of communications between Awlaki's group in Yemen and a small circle of followers in Australia. The contacts include mobile phone and email messages. Videotaped copies of Awlaki's sermons, in which he espouses the cause of violent jihad, have also been circulated among this group. "His teachings are of great concern to us," Detective Superintendent John O'Reilly, Commander of the NSW Police Counter-Terrorism and Special Tactics Operations Group, tells The Australian.
The activities of Abdullah, who has not returned to Australia since his recent trip to Yemen, illustrate why Australian authorities are so concerned. Abdullah had only recently had his passport returned by ASIO, after it was confiscated when he was judged "likely to support or participate in acts of politically motivated violence". ASIO's interest in him dates back to 2000 when, after doing the haj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, he continued to Pakistan with a group of friends from Sydney who went on to train with the Pakistani militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba, which had not at that stage been banned in Australia. When interviewed later by the Australian Federal Police, Abdullah denied undergoing training. However former Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks told the AFP that he and Abdullah trained in the same camp at the same time.
Abdullah was interviewed by ASIO seven times between 2000 and 2004, and several more times after that date. His home was raided in 2002 and again in 2005. The agency's interest was piqued by the fact he was working at the Indo-Malay halal butchery in Lakemba in Sydney's southwest, which was run by an Indonesian-Australian identified as the deputy leader of the Australian branch of the Indonesian militant group, Jemaah Islamiah. The butchery, which was under surveillance and had its phones tapped, was also a contact point for the French terrorist Willie Brigitte in 2003.
Abdullah was investigated again during Operation Pendennis, which resulted in the arrests and convictions of the nine-man Sydney terror cell, the last of whom were sentenced last week. Evidence produced by the crown revealed that Abdullah had been involved in the purchase of laboratory equipment with one of the cell members. He claimed it was for use in his perfume business. However, judge Anthony Whealy said in his sentencing remarks that the equipment "was plainly to be used for the purposes of the conspiracy". The police were keen to charge Abdullah but the evidence against him was deemed to be weaker than that against the nine men who were ultimately charged.
Abdullah had first planned to move to Yemen with his wife and eight children in 2004, but his passport was confiscated by ASIO on the eve of his departure. He told ASIO his visa to Yemen had been arranged by a friend from Sydney, a Polish-born Australian, Marek Samulski, who was already living in Yemen. Samulski was arrested in the Yemeni capital Sanaa in October 2006, and accused by Yemeni police of being part of an al-Qa'ida ring that was funnelling weapons to the Islamist insurgency in neighbouring Somalia.
Two other Australians, who had long been of keen interest to security agencies, were also detained in the Sanaa raid. They were two brothers, Mustafa and Ilyas bin Ayub, the sons of one-time Australian JI leader, Abdul Rahim Ayub, and his former wife, Sydney woman Rabiah Hutchinson. The brothers had travelled to Yemen to undertake Islamic studies and lived in the same apartment block as Samulski. The Yemeni Interior Ministry claimed initially that the three Australians had confessed to involvement in al-Qa'ida weapons smuggling. But the Ayub brothers were released without charge after seven weeks, when their Yemeni lawyer announced that the allegations against them had been found to be false. Samulski was detained for longer while his file was referred to terrorism prosecutors for possible charges. But he too was ultimately released without charge. He has not returned to Australia since.
The leader of the armed Basque group ETA was arrested in France on Sunday, officials said, in another setback for the separatists, who have seen five of their commanders taken into custody in the last two years.
ETA chief Ibon Gogeascoechea and two other suspected separatists were arrested in a joint French-Spanish police operation in the village of Cahan, France, following a long surveillance operation on a cottage that had been rented using false identity papers, said Spanish Interior Minister Alferdo Perez Rubalcaba.
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NEW DELHI: The terror attack in Kabul was on the pattern of the 26/11 Mumbai carnage, with six to eight terrorists targeting two hotels and hunting for victims during the strike in which nine Indians were killed.
Investigators suspect involvement of the Taliban, particularly the Haqqani group, in league with elements of Lashkar-e Taiba in Friday's assault, sources said.
The attack was carried out in a coordinated manner with the terrorists first exploding bombs and then launching the armed assault, hunting for the targets, particularly the members of the Indian medical mission, a pattern seen in Mumbai during the 26/11 attack, they said.
About six to eight terrorists are suspected to have been involved in the assault at around 6.30 am at the Park Residence Hotel and adjacent Noor guest house, where Indians on transit usually stay, the sources said.
Two or three of the attackers might have been killed in the gunfight with Afghan security forces, they said.
Two major-rank officers of the army were among the nine Indians killed and some others, including five army officers, were injured in the assault.
The terrorists targeted those Indians who were engaged in helping Afghan people and building partnership between the two countries, Indian Ambassador Jayant Prasad said.
He said those targeted were earning goodwill for India by bringing the people of the two countries closer through their developmental efforts.
"It is the handiwork of enemies of Afghan people and friendship between people of India and Afghanistan," Prasad said and asserted that these attempts would not deter India from pursuing its goal of helping Afghanistan.
Taliban, at the behest of Pakistan's intelligence agency ISI, has been expressing opposition to India's developmental works in Afghanistan. They have been demanding that India should end its presence in Afghanistan.
The sources said the attack reflected a change of pattern by Taliban terrorists, as this time they went for the soft targets, unlike the protected installations and persons as in the past.
Yesterday's attack was the fourth on Indian interests in Afghanistan since July 2008 when a car laden with 100 kgs of explosives was blown up at the gate of Indian Embassy, killing 60 people, including four Indians -- a Brigadier-rank officer, a senior IFS officer and two ITBP personnel.
In October last year, terrorists struck again at the Embassy, carrying out a car bomb explosion near its outer wall and killing 17 people.
Subsequently, in December, a hotel housing staff of an Indian IT company was targeted. Eight people were killed and two IT executives, an Indian cook and a cleaner were among those injured.
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wonder if these were also armed, trained, and guided by the ISI?
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What's amazing is that the Obama administration still touts the arrest of David Headley (a 26/11 conspirator) as a major success in "preventing" terrorist attacks. Headley helped LeT successfully attack Mumbai. Now the Mumbai attacks are being used as model for further attacks in Afghanistan.
John Brennan is one of the people who bragged about the Headley arrest. I also heard DNI director Blair bragging about it too on CSPAN radio this weekend.
So many dead in India and Afghanistan and our intelligence professionals think it's a success. Disgusting.
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wonder if these were also armed, trained, and guided by the ISI[.]
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PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > KABUL TERROR ATTACK INTENDED TO SHOW TALIBAN STRENTH, TARGET INDIA.
+ [Indian DM} ANTONY: 42 TERRORIST TRAINING CAMPS IN PAKISTAN, which Antony claims PAK is doing little to nothing to dismantle.
OTHER > [After KABUL incident] INDIA THE NEXT TALIBAN TARGET?
AFGHANISTAN described as a PROXY BATTLEGROUND BWTN PAKISTAN = GOVT-SUPPOR ISLAMIST MILITANTS, versus INDJUH.
* SAME > HAFEEZ SAEED: PAKISTAN "WILL HAVE TO FIGHT A WAR AGZ INDIA AT ALL COSTS", iff India refuses to engage in talks.
ISLAMABAD worried as many INDIAN NATIONALS have died, etc. in recent TALIBAN terror strikes.
Gunmen opened fire on a religious procession in northwestern Pakistan Saturday, killing a man and wounding several others, officials said.
The attack came as thousands of Muslims staged rallies across the country to celebrate Eid Miladun Nabi, which marks the Prophet Mohammad's birthday. The rally was organised by a Sunni Muslim party. No arrests were reported.
Two or three armed men hiding behind the trees opened fire on hundreds of people carrying banners and reciting hymns in the Dhaki More neighbourhood of Dera Ismail Khan district, senior police officer Bashar Khan said. Khan said seven participants in the rally were wounded in the attack, one of whom died later in hospital.
Health officials confirmed the casualties. "We received seven people with bullet wounds, one died of his injuries and two are still in critical condition," said Akhtar Ali, a doctor at a local hospital.
Officials refused to speculate who could be behind the attack, in a town which has been hit frequently by sectarian violence and extremist attacks.
"Dera Ismail Khan has been target of both militant attacks and sectarian violence," local police chief Gul Afzal Afridi told AFP. "We cannot immediately blame any group, we are investigating."
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[Dawn] A suicide car bomber killed five people and injured at least 26 others on Saturday in an attack on a police station near Peshawar, police said.
The explosion took place as an explosives-laden vehicle rammed into the Karak police station, police officials said.
"Three policemen and a child were killed," police official Gul Sadi Khan confirmed. At least 26 people were wounded, including 21 policemen, he added.
"The attacker detonated his pick-up van at the gate of the main police station in Karak," local police chief Sajid Mohmand told AFP.
Police officials said the bombing badly damaged the building while two police vehicles were also damaged. The blast also toppled a mosque next to the police station. "We fear more people are trapped under the debris," said Khan.
The injured have been shifted to District Headquarters Hospital. Some are listed in critical condition. Hospital sources have confirmed the death of three victims, while the number of casualties is feared to rise.
Local hospital doctor Nazrul Islam said some of the wounded were in a serious condition.
Meanwhile, another terror bid has been foiled by the Peshawar police by arresting a suicide bomber trying to enter Matni police station.
Karak is located 150 kilometres southeast of Peshawar. It lies between violence hit areas of Lakki Marwat and Kohat; this was the first suicide attack in the area.
No one claimed responsibility, but militants have targeted police, security forces and government offices in various parts of Pakistan in recent years.
It follows a clash in the nearby garrison city of Kohat on Friday in which Pakistan security forces killed 17 militants, officials said.
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[Al Arabiya Latest] U.S. soldiers killed an Iraqi tribal chief's son and wounded his wife in what the Americans on Saturday called a tragic accident, although local accounts of the incident differed.
U.S. troops were travelling through the district of Kanaan, northeast of Baghdad, late on Thursday when Zhaheri tribe chief Thaher Zaihud al-Zhaheri's son, Ahmed, walked outside the family's front door and was shot dead, the tribal leader said.
Further gunfire wounded Zhaheri's wife in the leg.
According to the U.S. military, American soldiers were conducting a reconnaissance patrol ahead of a combined operation with Iraqi security forces when the "tragic accident" occurred. "Villagers responded to what they thought were intruders and began firing in the darkness, which caused other residents to come out of their homes and also fire their rifles," a statement said.
"Thinking they were under attack, the U.S. soldiers returned fire to protect themselves. Regrettably, as a result of this gunfire exchange, a young man was killed and a woman was wounded."
Investigation launched
The statement said an investigation had been launched. According to Zhaheri, however, there was no shooting prior to the family hearing a noise near their home and they thought there might be thieves in their village, Saisabanah.
"Ahmed went outside and when he opened the door and walked outside, the Americans shot and killed him," he told AFP.
"They continued shooting at our house and one bullet hit my wife's leg."
Zhaheri's account of the incident was repeated by an Iraqi military officer in Diyala's provincial security operations centre.
Saisabanah is a village of around 10 houses, and families there are known to have fought U.S. forces since the 2003 invasion.
Zhaheri's wife Sabiha Nahath Saud, 56, was in stable condition, according to Ahmed Alwan, a doctor at the main hospital in Baquba, Diyala's provincial capital.
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sounds a bit like 'evolution in action'
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Sounds OK to me.
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....and families there are known to have fought U.S. forces since the 2003 invasion.
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Why would they just start shooting at something they can't see when there are NATO forces in the country with night vision? That kind of tactic might have worked in the past, but is it indicated under present conditions?
An al-Qaida double agent that killed seven CIA agents and Jordanian spy has called for jihad in Jordan and attacks on its intelligence agency in a new video message. Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi described Sunday in the 43-minute video that appeared on jihadi Web sites his recruitment by Jordanian intelligence and how he double crossed them.
The video was apparently filmed shortly before the 32-year-old al-Balawi blew himself up at a CIA facility on Dec. 30 in Afghanistan's eastern province of Khost where he'd been invited to reveal information on al-Qaida. Al-Balawi said he had only expected to kill his Jordanian handler, Ali bin Zeid, but the addition of the CIA members was a windfall.
Al-Balawi called for attacks on Jordanian intelligence agents everywhere.
[Ma'an] Five tunnel workers sustained moderate and light injuries when a smuggling route under the Gaza-Egypt border collapsed Saturday morning, medics said.
Eyewitnesses said the tunnel was in the As-Salam neighborhood southeast of Rafah, and described the tunnel collapse as a result of floods.
The injured tunnel workers were taken to Abu Yousif An-Najjar Hospital in Rafah for medical treatment.
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11 Dead Including Infant, as al Qaeda-Linked Militants Assault Village, Torch Houses Following Rescue of Hostages
About 70 suspected al Qaeda-linked militants stormed a village in Basilan province in Southern Philippines, killing at least 11 people, including a one-year-old baby, reporting CBS News' Barnaby Lo from Manila. Police suspect the attack was launched by a joint group of Abu Sayyaf and rogue Moro Islamic Liberation Front members, allegedly led by sub-leader Puruji Indama. What exactly is 'rogue' about Islamic hard boyz torching a village and killing infants?
Indama has been blamed for the kidnapping of two Chinese and a Filipino worker from a plywood factory.
Authorities said they could not ascertain if the attack had anything to do with the recent deaths of several Abu Sayyaf members, including Albader Parad, the man behind the kidnapping of International Red Cross volunteers. His death could set back the militants' plans to disrupt elections in the south. Then again, it might make the place more peaceful, especially when Indama gets his ...
An Abu Sayyaf member involved in the kidnapping of several Europeans and one American in Malaysia back in 2000 was also arrested a few days ago.
The military has been expecting the small but violent Abu Sayyaf group, known for kidnappings, bombings and beheadings, to launch retaliatory attacks for Parad's death.
An army spokeswoman said villagers in Tubigan were asleep when the rebels came and started spraying houses with automatic gunfire, setting them on fire. "Each rebel brought a gallon of gasoline, then they started torching the houses," said one member of a civilian militia force.
The army said nearly 20 others were wounded, including four children who suffered third-degree burns. Those in critical conditions were taken to hospitals in Zamboanga City on the mainland.
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ION NEWS KERALA > PM SINGH: TERRORISM THE GREATEST SINGLE THREAT TO SOUTH, EAST ASIA.
Early last year, a Chinese company placed an order with a Taiwanese agent for 108 nuclear-related pressure gauges. But something happened along the way. Paperwork was backdated. Plans were rerouted, orders reconfigured, shipping redirected.
And the gauges ended up in a very different place: Iran.
The story behind the gauges shows how Iran is finding its way around international sanctions meant to prevent it from getting equipment that can be used to make a nuclear bomb. At least half a dozen times in recent years, the Persian Gulf nation has tried to use third countries as transshipment points for obtaining controlled, nuclear-related equipment.
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Maybe we ought to start enabling conflicts which the Chinese alone will be forced to deal with.
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IN NOT-NECESSARILY-UNRELATED-NEWS, PAKISTANI DEENCE FORUM > CHINA'S NAVY WANTS TO DEV HIGH-ENERGY LASERS FOR CIWS.
* SAME > CHILE'S 8.8-MAG QUAKE has caused the USN to depart Pearl Harbor in fear.
IOW, EVEN THE SUN WANTS AMERIKAN GEOPOL POWER TO DESTABILZ, WEAKEN, + GET ROLLED BACK TO CONUS-NORAM [just in time for "Red Dawn" original movie on TV].
[Asharq al-Aswat] Sources from the Jundallah organization cast doubt on the validity of the confession made by Jundallah leader Abdol Malek Rigi that was broadcast by Iranian media recently. In the confession, Rigi stated that he has ties to the US and that he "committed a number of crimes against Iranian civilians."
The sources who spoke to Asharq Al-Awsat by phone from eastern Iran, refusing to disclose their whereabouts for security reasons, said that the content broadcast by Iran regarding Rigi was an attempt to tarnish the image of the Jundallah organization which, in the past, denied having any ties to any regional or international intelligence apparatus.
The sources described what they called a false confession as a "failed attempt by Iranian security and intelligence apparatus to link Jundullah to US-Iranian disputes," indicating that Tehran wants to manipulate Rigi's arrest in order to suggest that the US is behind the series of military operations that the organization carried out on Iranian territory. The sources added: "Everybody knows how false confessions such as these are fabricated. The confessions are made under torture and psychological pressure. Therefore, we do not consider it as representative of us or of the heroic face of Rigi."
The sources added: "Anyone who saw that footage that showed our leader Rigi will certainly realize that he is not composed and not in a natural state. It is certain that they subjected him to torture or drugged him in order to extract such lies from him, which they want the world to believe."
According to the video broadcast by the official Iranian television channel Press TV on Thursday evening, Rigi appeared in carefully prepared footage saying that US officials provided his organization with different kinds of arms, bombs and communication equipment and told him that there is no problem between the US and the Al Qaeda organization.
As part of the false confession broadcast by different Iranian media, Rigi also stated "that the head of the CIA provides support to all anti-Iran organizations and has the ability to create difficulties for this country because it is too difficult for America to launch military attacks."
He stated that during his meeting with CIA [officials] in Dubai, they promised him extensive support and that a base, as well as arms, will be at his disposal near the area, indicating that this base was to be set up in Manas near Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan.
While the US State Department denied Iran's claims on Thursday that Washington has ties to the Jundallah organization that is headed by Rigi and described these claims as "Iranian propaganda," the UAE Foreign Ministry denied Friday that the leader of the Jundallah group entered Dubai before he was arrested by Iranian authorities. The UAE authorities confirmed that he was at [Dubai International] airport for two hours only on his way from Afghanistan to Kyrgyzstan.
The statement issued by the UAE Foreign Ministry said that "what is being reported by Iranian media about the arrest of a man called Abdol Malek Rigi in the Islamic Republic of Iran after he returned from Dubai is inaccurate and lacks any credibility." The UAE Foreign Ministry indicated that Rigi was in possession of an entry visa; however he did not use it. The statement confirmed that "the name that appeared on the visa shown by the media never entered the country. He made a two-hour stop-over in Dubai as he arrived from Kabul en route to Kyrgyzstan, without using the entry permit."
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Iran has left international weapons inspectors stunned over the past two weeks as it suddenly moved virtually all of its underground nuclear fuel stockpile to an above-ground plant, and now the international community is struggling to determine what the country might be planning.
Administration officials and international experts, according to the New York Times, are considering numerous possibilities. It could be, some say, that the country simply ran out of space for its underground stockpile. But others warn that the Iranian government, which orchestrated a brutal crackdown of demonstrators after last year's presidential elections, may have more nefarious intentions:
The strangest of the speculations -- but the one that is being talked about most -- is that Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps is inviting an attack to unify the country after eight months of street demonstrations that have pitted millions of Iranians against their government. As one senior European diplomat noted Thursday, an Israeli military strike might be the "best thing" for Iran's leadership, because it would bring Iranians together against a national enemy.
As one senior adviser to Mr. Obama said late last year, "We've got a near-perfect record of being wrong about these guys for 30 years."
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Are the ones scared that Iran is "trying to provoke an attack", the same imbeciles who are afraid that if the US has anti-missile defenses that it will "provoke" other countries to throw missiles at us?
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Can you spell ambush, at the tactical and strategic level?
1. How do we know if this is all of the material, or a mix used to dupe whatever morons the IAEA has onsite?
2. What Air Defense systems (ADA) have been moved onsite, proximate, and along likely air corridors of approach? Can you spell Chinese and Russian systems, and dare I say it, operators?
3. Because it now on the surface, and I suspect proximate to civilian population centers, now the US planners have to look at collateral damage and the risks of condoning/allowing a strike that allows radioactive contamination that will last for a long, long time.
4. The attack will prompt immediate reactions worldwide, but aside from the meaningless frothy muzzies on CNN, Hezbollah attacks from Lebannon, Syria goes for the Golan again, Gaza erupts, Jordan and Egprt get colder to cooperation with Isreal, Turkey gets much colder, Iraq destabilizes, and Iran gets tom play the brave victim card, and then, amazingly, finds more material and proudly annouces the bomb anyway, with victim card credentials arguing that they need it to keep the nasty Joooos away, and the West dumbly nods as Oblahblah Hussein makes speeches.
What part of this equation is bad for Iran or it's nuclear and regional power goals?
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Dubai police says forensic tests show a Hamas commander was drugged and then suffocated in his hotel room. Police officials say tests showed a substantial amount of a fast-acting muscle relaxant called succinylcholine was found in Mahmoud al-Mabhouh's bloodstream. The drug is sometimes used to administer a breathing tube or anesthesia.
[Dawn] A suicide car bomber killed five people and injured at least 26 others on Saturday in an attack on a police station near Peshawar, police said. 
An al-Qaida double agent that killed seven CIA agents and Jordanian spy has called for jihad in Jordan and attacks on its intelligence agency in a new video message. Humam Khalil Abu Mulal al-Balawi described Sunday in the 43-minute video that appeared on jihadi Web sites his recruitment by Jordanian intelligence and how he double crossed them. 
