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Afghanistan
Dangerous Afghan highway threatens NATO supply flow
Posted by: ed || 06/30/2010 16:46 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bad, bad Highway! you better straighten out!
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 06/30/2010 18:40 Comments || Top||


Afghan Taliban attack airfield
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 06/30/2010 11:01 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1 
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC || 06/30/2010 11:07 Comments || Top||

#2  It seems YouTube's rare & non-existent problems have returned...again...
Posted by: logi_cal || 06/30/2010 15:55 Comments || Top||


US overstates military ability of Afghan army
American commanders have often overstated the ability of Afghan soldiers and police to replace coalition troops, a US government inspector has reported.

Some newly trained units rated as first class were in fact incapable of fighting the Taliban on their own, his investigation found. Other units quickly deteriorated after they left training and the system used to judge if new units were effective was inconsistent and unreliable.

The critical report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction appeared at odds with claims that the growing Afghan forces were on track to take over from the coalition.

The report came as Gen David Petraeus, the newly nominated commander in Afghanistan, told US senators that the fighting in the country could intensify in the coming months and it could take "a number of years" before Afghan security forces would be ready to take over.

Training Afghan forces to replace foreign soldiers has become the focus of the Nato-led coalition as Western politicians face pressure to set timetables to withdraw their troops.
I thought it was going to take a full generation to get a truly functional NCO cadre, and for the East Point ringknockers (did I get that right?) to reach critical mass... If so, it's not fair to expect Afghanistan to produce a turn-key army after only a few years.
Posted by: lotp || 06/30/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE (1822–1915) on Afghans: "Magnificent guerrillas. Totally useless for real soldiering".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/30/2010 6:57 Comments || Top||

#2  Sir Harry would have done quite well in the Obama Whitehouse.
Posted by: Matt || 06/30/2010 9:11 Comments || Top||

#3  Sir Harry would have done quite well in the Obama Whitehouse

Yes, since both are imaginary heros and scalliwags.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 06/30/2010 10:41 Comments || Top||

#4  Sir Harry would have done quite well in the Obama Whitehouse

No he wouldn't---he's a Brit, see?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 06/30/2010 12:13 Comments || Top||

#5  *giggle* All good points, gentlemen. I'm awfully glad y'all are the real thing.
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/30/2010 12:58 Comments || Top||

#6  Sir Harry fought on both the Confederate and Union sides in the Civil War, so his being a Brit doesn't matter.
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 06/30/2010 20:44 Comments || Top||


Petraeus: Afghan fighting may intensify over coming months
Gen David Petraeus, the man shortly to become the commander in Afghanistan, has warned fighting may intensify in the coming months while it could take "years" before Afghan security forces take over.

Gen Petraeus, the country's most revered military officer, told senators the coalition force "has achieved progress in several locations" this year but warned of a "tough fight" ahead against Taliban insurgents, with violence expected to rise.

He was speaking in front of the US Senate Armed Services committe shortly before they approved his nomination to run the war in Afghanistan, clearing the way for a full Senate vote expected this week.

With lawmakers concerned over strained relations between military and civilian leaders, Petraeus vowed to work closely with his civilian counterparts and also promised to review disputed rules restricting troops' use of firepower.

As public backing for the nearly-nine-old war declines, President Barack Obama nominated Gen Petraeus to take the helm in Kabul after the sacking of General Stanley McChrystal as commander last week.

Gen McChrystal was forced to step down over a Rolling Stone magazine article that quoted him and his staff disparaging their civilian counterparts in the administration, including Mr Obama himself, the US envoy to the region and the US ambassador.

Gen Petraeus, speaking at a senate hearing on his nomination, said he would seek "to forge unity of effort" with diplomats and White House officials.

He recounted how during his time in Iraq, he worked "very closely" with the then-US ambassador in Baghdad and that he would do the same with the American ambassador in Kabul, Karl Eikenberry, as well as NATO and UN envoys.

Gen McChrystal and Mr Eikenberry had widely-publicised tense relations and sharply disagreed last year over plans for a major troop "surge" in Afghanistan. Obama approved the troop build-up over the ambassador's objections, which were leaked to the media.

Gen Petraeus said there had been "security gains" over the past year in Afghanistan, particularly in southern Helmand province, and credited McChrystal for reshaping the campaign to focus on key towns and villages.

But he warned that violence would likely rise as Islamist insurgents seek to test NATO's will, and that would it take "a number of years" before Afghan security forces would be ready to take over.

The four-star general, credited with turning around the war in Iraq, pledged to review how new rules on the use of force are carried out, saying he was aware of complaints by troops that their hands were sometimes tied in combat.

"When our troopers and our Afghan partners are in a tough spot, it is a moral imperative that we use everything we have to make sure that they get out of it," the general said.

But he said the rules are "fundamentally sound" and that he agreed with the former commander that it was crucial to prevent civilian deaths in military operations.
Posted by: lotp || 06/30/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  But he said the rules are "fundamentally sound" and that he agreed with the former commander that it was crucial to prevent civilian deaths in military operations.

Yes. And I would like to see everyone get universal coverage from a government I could trust. But we can't afford either yet.
Posted by: gorb || 06/30/2010 2:22 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
Bangla Jamaat big turbans held on court order
Top brass of Jamaat-e-Islami -- Motiur Rahman Nizami, Ali Ahsan Mohammad Mojahid, and Delwar Hossain Sayedee -- were arrested from the capital and Savar, hours after a Dhaka court ordered the move yesterday.

The court issued the order to arrest four Jamaat leaders including the detainees, as they had failed to comply with earlier summonses for court appearances in a case filed on charges of hurting religious sentiment of the Muslims.

The other Jamaat leader with an arrest warrant against him is the party's Dhaka City unit chief Rafiqul Islam Khan, who was still free at the time of filing this report last night, as police could not find him when they raided Jamaat's Dhaka City unit office in the afternoon, to arrest him.

The court had granted bail to another accused in the case, Dhaka City President of Islami Chhatra Shibir ASM Yahia, as he had appeared before the court yesterday. Islami Chhatra Shibir is a student organisation backed by Jamaat, an Islamist political party.

Jamaat right away announced rallies across the country for today, protesting the arrests and demanding immediate release of the detainees.
Jamaat right away announced rallies across the country for today, protesting the arrests and demanding immediate release of the detainees.

Meanwhile, ruling Awami League's Joint General Secretary Mahabubul Haque Hanif said the Jamaat leaders were arrested on specific allegations, and there was no political motive behind the move.

A team of Detective Branch (DB) police picked up Jamaat Ameer Nizami from in front of the National Press Club in the capital around 5:00pm, when he went there to participate in a discussion organised by the National Doctors' Forum.

About an hour earlier, a team of Ashulia police arrested Jamaat secretary general also former social welfare minister, Mojahid, from Savar. A top DB official said Mojahid was arrested as he was fleeing the town, but a Jamaat media release claimed that he was going to Faridpur. He was taken to Ashulia police station in the immediate aftermath of the arrest.

Another DB team picked up Jamaat Nayebe Ameer Delwar Hossain Sayedee from his Shaheed Bagh residence in the capital around 5:30pm.

All three were finally taken to DB's Minto Road office in the capital between 5:30pm and 7:30pm. DB sources said the arrestees would be kept in that office until they were produced before a court.

"The detective branch and Ashulia police arrested the three Jamaat leaders, executing the arrest warrants issued by a Dhaka court," DB Deputy Commissioner Monirul Islam told The Daily Star in the evening.

On March 21, Syed Rejaul Haque Chandpuri, secretary general of Bangladesh Tarikat Federation, filed a case with a metropolitan magistrate's court in Dhaka against the four Jamaat, and one Shibir leaders, accusing them of hurting religious sentiment of the Muslims.

Dhaka City Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Rafiqul Islam Khan, at a discussion in the city on March 17, put Nizami at a par with Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), which hurt the Muslims' religious sentiment.
The case stated that Dhaka City Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Rafiqul Islam Khan, at a discussion in the city on March 17, put Nizami at a par with Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), which hurt the Muslims' religious sentiment.

Nizami had also been arrested on May 18, 2008 in connection with the Gatco graft case following an arrest warrant. Mojahid is also accused in the case.

Both of them are also accused in the Barapukuria coal mine graft case, but they were granted bail in the case, all proceedings of which have been stayed by an HC order.

The two are also accused in two murder cases, filed with Keraniganj and Pallabi police stations, in connection with killing of freedom fighters and general public during the country's liberation war in 1971.
The two are also accused in two murder cases, filed with Keraniganj and Pallabi police stations, in connection with killing of freedom fighters and general public during the country's liberation war in 1971. The cases were filed in 2007 and 2008.

Our staff correspondent reported from Chittagong that police were put on high alert there to avert any possible untoward incident in the port city following the arrests yesterday.

Police dispersed a march of Jamaat-Shibir activists at Bakolia in the evening, and arrested three marchers.

Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) yesterday evening issued a red alert to maintain law and order in the north-western city after the arrests, reported our Rajshahi staff correspondent.

RMP Commissioner M Nawsher Ali said the alert was issued to avert any untoward incident.

In Rangpur town, police dispersed a Jamaat-shibir march, and arrested one Jamaat and one Shibir activists.
Posted by: Fred || 06/30/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jamaat-e-Islami

#1  Fred, where on earth did you find those exquisite drawings?
Posted by: trailing wife || 06/30/2010 0:13 Comments || Top||

#2  I'd say the first drawing is from Wizard of Oz: Cowardly Lion + 30 years.
Posted by: ed || 06/30/2010 0:30 Comments || Top||

#3  They came with the original article. I couldn't pass them up.
Posted by: Fred || 06/30/2010 8:43 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
El Paso City Hall Hit by Stray Bullets
Rewritten lead. See link for details
The El paso, TExas City Hall building was hit by several stray bullets from accross the Mexican border Wednesday afternoon, according to the El Paso, Texas daily El Paso Times.
Posted by: badanov || 06/30/2010 00:38 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Act of WAR..........let's roll
Posted by: armyguy || 06/30/2010 7:06 Comments || Top||

#2  You don't want war with Mexico - you might WIN, and then it would be YOUR mess to take care of (and we can't/won't even take care of our own mess!)
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/30/2010 7:26 Comments || Top||

#3  VERY good point Glenmore!
Posted by: tipover || 06/30/2010 10:46 Comments || Top||

#4  Glenmore, I disagree. I think we need to put some serious hurt on a few thousand criminals in Mexico, especially in border cities. Closing the US/Mexico border, except at established, MANNED border crossings would also help. Now if Calderon complains TOO much, we can always take out Mexico City with a half-dozen ARCLIGHT strikes or a large nuke...

Something, something positive, has to be done about the violence and mayhem going on in Mexico. If putting a stop to the illegal border crossings will do any good at all (and I think they will), we should do it, and do it yesterday.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 06/30/2010 12:55 Comments || Top||

#5  "Chihuahua? I don't know... Oh! You must mean South Texas!"
Posted by: mojo || 06/30/2010 15:23 Comments || Top||

#6  Since City Hall was hit several times I call that well aimed, not stray.
Posted by: ed || 06/30/2010 15:26 Comments || Top||

#7  War with Mexico would be worth it if we annexed it and governed it with common law. The problem in Mexico is not the average Mexican, as the many immigrants to the US demonstrate, but its elite and the legal system they use to remain in power.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 06/30/2010 15:45 Comments || Top||

#8  War with Mexico would be worth it if we annexed it and governed it with common law. No, no, a thousand times no! I've had it up to HERE with nation-building. Let the Mexicans govern their own country rather than trying to annex ours.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 06/30/2010 15:49 Comments || Top||

#9  Declare a stretch 1 mile south of the border as an exclusion zone and start from there. Offer letters of marque and reprisal against coyotes and other smugglers.
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 06/30/2010 15:55 Comments || Top||

#10  Texans and Mexicans have exchanged bullets for 174 years. Mexican drug boys should do what they think best; Texans will do what they think best.
Posted by: whatadeal || 06/30/2010 16:38 Comments || Top||

#11  If it gets any hotter along the border I expect to see the 251st Mexican Roofer Battalion (MRB)and the 301st Latin Landscape Group (LLG) mobilized here in Fairfax County. Texas has better settle down and accept the inevitable.
Posted by: Besoeker || 06/30/2010 17:25 Comments || Top||

#12  The last two times Texas tangled with Mexico, it cost Mexico huge chunks of land. This time, just push back any towns and make a 10 mile wide cordon sanitaire in Mexico.
Posted by: Shieldwolf || 06/30/2010 21:30 Comments || Top||

#13  Now if Calderon complains TOO much, we can always take out Mexico City with a half-dozen ARCLIGHT strikes or a large nuke...

Even if he doesn't complain, we should incinerate Mexico City, it might get their attention.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man || 06/30/2010 22:02 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Kashmir Korpse Kount
New Delhi — Three teenagers were killed Tuesday in Indian-controlled Kashmir when security forces fired on thousands of protesters calling for independence, police said. The shootings were part of a pattern of violence over the last three weeks that has left 11 people dead and dozens injured.

Street protests have hit the Indian-held portion of Kashmir since June 11, when a 17-year-old student died after being hit by a tear gas shell fired by police during a pro-independence demonstration in Srinagar, the region's main city. That was compounded by a police investigation early this month that concluded that Indian soldiers had killed three civilians a few weeks earlier and that the troops had staged a firefight to claim the civilians were militants and justify the killings. After the findings were released, the army suspended two officers.

That wasn't enough to mollify angry Kashmir residents, who have long bridled at the checkpoints, curfews and restrictions imposed by half a million Indian security personnel in their mountainous region.

As passions flared in recent weeks, protesters have attacked troops with rocks and sticks, yelling, "Blood for Blood!" and "Freedom for Kashmir!" even as security forces answered with tear gas, batons and live ammunition.

Civic groups said the core problem is a lack of trust between residents and security forces going back decades that can turn even a small incident into a spiral of violence.

"Recently, India has started to talk about how normalcy had returned to Kashmir, that there were more tourists, fewer attacks and fewer bomb blasts," said Meenakshi Ganguly, clueless South Asia representative at Human Rights Watch.

"There are a huge number of angry Kashmiris," she said. "Let the situation also improve for them, with fewer uniforms, fewer boots on the ground. The state isn't willing to do that."
Ms. Ganguly has an impeccable resume to say stuff like that ...
Security officials counter that they can't reduce their presence until the situation calms down and incursions from Pakistan end.

On Monday, a gun battle near the India-Pakistan frontier erupted when suspected militants crossed into Indian territory in the Nowgam sector, said army spokesman Col. Vineet Sood, resulting in the death of five suspected insurgents and three Indian soldiers.

The three deaths Tuesday occurred in the town of Anantnag, 35 miles south of Srinagar, police said. The conflict was apparently sparked by a crowd that assembled at a bus stand in the morning to protest the earlier killing of five young men in the town of Sopore and the district of Baramulla, allegedly at the hands of paramilitary forces.

Police and paramilitary forces then reportedly asked them to disperse, which they refused to do, at which point the security forces fired tear gas and protesters threw rocks.

Also on Tuesday, cellphone service was suspended in north Kashmir, while text-messaging services were blocked throughout the Kashmir valley, reportedly to stop more residents from massing. This follows threats by opposition politicians and protest groups to mount a general strike and organize an extended march this weekend.
Posted by: Steve White || 06/30/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Former TNSM Shangla leader granted bail
A cleric with strong links to outlawed terrorist group Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat-e-Muhammadi (TNSM) was allowed bail on Monday after the submission of surety bonds of Rs 50 million and guarantees of 15 "influential people" of Shangla district to the authorities.

Official sources said Maulana Ahmed, prayer leader at the main Besham mosque, had been in detention since November 18, 2009.

Under the terms of the release, the cleric will report to the military camp in Besham on the 14th and 28th of every month and will need prior permission if he wishes to go outside Shangla district. Maulana Ahmed is believed to be a close aide of Sufi Muhammad, father-in-law of Swat Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah, and was the TNSM vice-president in Shangla.

His bail follows his criticism of Fazlullah's activities in Swat and his declaration of suicide attacks being contrary to Islamic teachings. Speaking on the occasion of handing over Ahmed to local elders, Commanding Officer Col Asif said the security situation in the region deteriorated when a handful of people tried to enforce their brand of Islam on others.
Posted by: Fred || 06/30/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


4 soldiers, 66 Taliban killed in Orakzai, Bajaur
At least 66 Taliban were killed and another 30 injured in airstrikes and clashes with the security forces across the country' northwest on Sunday, security sources said.

In Orakzai Agency, the forces said they killed at least 63 Taliban in the last 24 hours.

The sources said around 15 Taliban were killed and another six injured in a clash with the forces in the agency's Dabori area.

Three soldiers were critically injured in the clash.

Separately, eight Taliban were killed and another 24 injured in a clash with the security forces in the Bakar Ghari area of Upper Orakzai.

Also, the sources added that fighter jets attacked a Taliban-run makeshift hospital in Upper Orakzai late on Sunday, killing 40 Taliban under treatment at the facility.

Meanwhile, in Khar, four soldiers were killed when the Taliban ambushed an army patrol in Bajaur Agency, officials told AFP.

The terrorists attacked the troops during a patrol in the border town of Kharaki, 25 kilometres north of Khar.

"Four soldiers were killed in the attack", which in turn triggered retaliation from the soldiers in which three terrorists were killed, he said.
Posted by: Fred || 06/30/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP


Five Americans appeal against convictions
Five American men sentenced last week to serve 10 years in prison on terrorism charges appealed against their conviction in the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday, their defence lawyer said.
"Ummm... Really. We've decided we don't wanna be terrorists no more. Can we go home now?"
The five Americans,
... Tom, Dick, Harry, Chuck, and Brad...
who were of Egyptian, Eritrean, Pakistani and Yemeni descent and are aged from 19 to 25, were sentenced on Thursday for contacting terrorists online and plotting attacks. "We believe all evidence we produced in their defence were not considered by the court and it relied on prosecution witnesses," defence lawyer Hassan Katchela said. The appeal will be heard by the LHC, but no date has been set for the hearing. Waqar Hussain Khan, Ahmed Minni, Ramy Zamzam, Aman Yemer and Umar Farooq were each charged with five counts of conspiracy, raising funds for terrorist acts, planning war against Pakistan, directing others to launch attacks and attempting to cross the Afghan border illegally. Deputy Prosecutor Rana Bakhtiar said the men were convicted on two counts each.
This article starring:
AHMED MINNIal-Qaeda in Pakistan
AMAN YEMERal-Qaeda in Pakistan
OMAR FARUQal-Qaeda in Pakistan
RAMY ZAMZAMal-Qaeda in Pakistan
WAQAR HUSEIN KHANal-Qaeda in Pakistan
Posted by: Fred || 06/30/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda in Pakistan

#1  10 years in Lahore prison? Curious how long 10 years really is in that system. And how their prisons compare to, say, Attica.
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/30/2010 7:30 Comments || Top||

#2  From what I understand, they're not QUITE as bad as Turkish prisons, but that's like saying double pneumonia unresponsive to antibiotics isn't quite as bad as lung cancer.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 06/30/2010 13:08 Comments || Top||

#3  least they'll get to learn arabic and build up that forehead knot
Posted by: Frank G || 06/30/2010 14:24 Comments || Top||

#4  Trailer from Airplane! 2010:
Captain Oveur: Achmed, have you ever been in a... in a Pakistani prison? ... Oh, you have.
Posted by: ed || 06/30/2010 15:09 Comments || Top||


Iraq
13 killed in Iraq attacks, including army general
BAGHDAD - A series of bombings and shootings around Iraq Tuesday claimed 13 lives, including four policemen, an Iraqi army general and a 9-year-old girl, Iraqi officials said.

The four policemen were killed when an explosives-laden car detonated next to a police patrol in the town of Beiji, 155 miles (250 kilometers) north of Baghdad, said Iraqi police officials. A civilian in a nearby vehicle was also killed and at least seven civilians were wounded in that attack.

A brigadier general with the Iraqi army was killed when a bomb attached to his car exploded in Kazimiyah, a primarily Shiite district in northern Baghdad, police and hospital officials said.

In the volatile Diyala province, gunmen shot dead four members of a Sunni family, including a 9-year girl, as the family was walking near their house in the town of Khalis, 50 miles (80 kilometers) north of Baghdad, said local police officials.

An official with the Baghdad provincial council, Qahtan Abdul-Hussein, died when a bomb attached to his vehicle went off Tuesday morning as he was driving through a security checkpoint in the mainly Shiite district of Hurriyah in northern Baghdad, the Baghdad provincial council said in a press release.

“Terrorists have killed an official in charge of the social welfare department in Baghdad's provincial council,' the council said in the statement. “This cowardly terrorist attack will not undermine its (the council's) employees from carrying out their jobs in serving Baghdad and its people.'

According to the statement, a policeman at the checkpoint was also injured in the incident.

In a separate attack in Beiji, police said gunmen opened fire on an oil truck traveling on a highway just outside the city, killing its driver. Oil-related infrastructure such as pipelines or refineries have often been targeted by insurgents looking to disrupt the flow of oil and hurt Iraq's oil income.

In the northern city of Mosul, gunmen broke into a house, killing one woman and wounding two others, police and hospital officials said.

Also on Tuesday, officials in southern city of Basra said that a bullet-riddled body of Sabri al-Asadi, a municipal official who missing for two days, was found. Al-Asadi has criticized political groups thought to have been stirring up anti-government protests over power shortages in Basra last week. The demostrations turned violent and claimed two lives.
Posted by: Steve White || 06/30/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


21 wanted men arrested in Basra
BASRA / Aswat al-Iraq: Police forces arrested on Tuesday 21 wanted men and seized weapons and explosives in separate areas of Basra, a police source said.

“Policemen waged crackdown operations in separate areas of Basra, where they arrested 21 wanted men, including five for terrorist crimes,' the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“The forces seized an amount of light weapons and explosives in a house in al-Qebla region, western Basra,' the source added.
Posted by: Steve White || 06/30/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Mookie's mooks?
Posted by: Glenmore || 06/30/2010 7:27 Comments || Top||

#2  I don't think so. Hard-line Shiites? Most likely. But there are others besides Mookie's.
Posted by: Pappy || 06/30/2010 21:35 Comments || Top||


Southeast Asia
'Prince of Jihad' jailed for five years in Indonesia
An Indonesian publisher and Islamist blogger known as the "Prince of Jihad" was sentenced to five years in jail Tuesday for concealing information about suicide attacks on two Jakarta hotels last year.

Mohammed Jibril Abdurahman, publisher of extremist literature and a militant blog, was arrested at his Ar-Rahmah media company weeks after the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotel bombings that killed seven people on July 17, 2009.
Posted by: ed || 06/30/2010 16:30 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "The Princess of Jihad Cell Block D"
Posted by: Frank G || 06/30/2010 16:45 Comments || Top||

#2  Five whole years? That was worth it.
Posted by: gorb || 06/30/2010 21:09 Comments || Top||


Saudi acquitted of terrorism charges in Indonesia
A retired Saudi Arabian teacher was acquitted Monday of charges he helped finance last year's attacks on two luxury hotels in the capital that left seven dead and wounded more than 50.

A panel of judges at the South Jakarta District Court, however, sentenced Al Khelaiw Ali Abdullah to 18 months in prison for violating immigration laws.
Posted by: ed || 06/30/2010 16:28 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Indonesian website owner jailed over hotel attacks
An Indonesian court sentenced a website owner to five years in jail on Tuesday for hiding information from authorities that militants were planning to bomb two luxury hotels in Jakarta last year.

Muhammad Jibriel Abdul Rahman, 25, the owner of the Ar-rahmah website, met with Noordin Mohammad Top, who headed a violent wing of regional militant group Jemaah Islamiah, before Top carried out the hotel attacks in July 2009, the court heard. Jibriel had been charged with abetting terrorism.

"The judges view that the defendant has plenty of information about the Islamic struggle fostered by Noordin Top in Indonesia," justice Erlin Hermanto told the South Jakarta district court. The sentence, less than the seven years demanded by prosecutors, drew screams from women clad in black burqas, the all-enveloping veils worn in some Islamic communities. "A damnation from God awaits," one woman shouted from the court gallery.

Jibriel said he would appeal against the sentence.
This article starring:
MUHAMAD JIBRIEL ABDUL RAHMANJemaah Islamiah
NURDIN MOHAMAD TOPJemaah Islamiah
Posted by: ryuge || 06/30/2010 02:42 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
UAE freezes 41 Iran-linked bank accounts: report
The central bank of the United Arab Emirates has told financial institutions in the Gulf Arab country to freeze 41 Iran-linked accounts, in a move based on new UN sanctions on Tehran, a UAE daily reported on Monday. It came a week after another Emirati newspaper said the seven-member UAE federation was "tightening the noose" on companies the United Nations Security Council suspects act as fronts for Iran's disputed nuclear programme.

The Islamic state and the UAE have close economic and historic relations. Tens of thousands of Iranians live and work in Dubai and elsewhere in the UAE, many involved in the multi-billion-dollar re-export trade to Iran. With Iran facing growing Western pressure, Iran's ties with Dubai have drawn scrutiny from the US, which has been spearheading a drive to isolate Tehran over nuclear work the West fears is aimed at making bombs. The UAE is an ally of Washington, but Dubai's economy partly depends on trade with nearby countries such as Iran. "The UAE central bank has told all financial institutions in the UAE ... to freeze 41 accounts and stop remittances in the names of entities and individuals mentioned by the UN Security Council," the Emirates Business daily reported on its website on Monday.
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Wed 2010-06-30
  Bangla Jamaat big turbans held on court order
Tue 2010-06-29
  Kabul dismisses report Karzai met Haqqani
Mon 2010-06-28
  Drone strike kills six Taliban in N Wazoo
Sun 2010-06-27
  15 insurgents killed by their own bombs in Afghan mosque
Sat 2010-06-26
  Mir Ali dronezap waxes two
Fri 2010-06-25
  7 Afghan construction workers killed in bombing
Thu 2010-06-24
  Iranian Flotilla Backs Down
Wed 2010-06-23
  President Obama Relieves Gen. Stanley McChrystal of Afghan Command
Tue 2010-06-22
  Guilty Plea to all Counts in Times Square Bomb Plot
Mon 2010-06-21
  Iran hangs top Sunni rebel Rigi: Report
Sun 2010-06-20
  Gunmen Raid Aden Police HQ, Free Prisoners
Sat 2010-06-19
  Pakistani officials: Suspected US strike kills 13
Fri 2010-06-18
  Malaysia: Terror bombing plot foiled
Thu 2010-06-17
  Uptick in Violence Forces Closing of Parkland Along Mexico Border to Americans
Wed 2010-06-16
  Taliban 'reappear' in Bajaur Agency

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