Mullah Rahim and his men demonstrated a disregard for civilian safety, firing at the Afghan and Australian force from multiple machine gun positions in and around civilian compounds.
No Afghan civilians were injured or killed during the operation.
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Since this is being aired publicly, it sounds like the CIA is ensuring that the GITMO inmates have no where to go. I approve.
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I think this is a part of the great game, 21st century edition. Perhaps the best way to stop jihadist recruitment of muslims in the west might just be to arrest all of them, keep em a week and turn then loose again. Then they will always be suspect for being CIA/MI6 recruits, doubles or even triples.
11. Having converted spies, getting hold of the enemy's spies and using them for our own purposes.
14. Hence it is that which none in the whole army are more intimate relations to be maintained than with spies. None should be more liberally rewarded. In no other business should greater secrecy be preserved.
21. The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us
must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they will become converted spies and available for our service.
22. It is through the information brought by the
converted spy that we are able to acquire and employ local and inward spies.
25. The end and aim of spying in all its five varieties is knowledge of the enemy; and this knowledge can only be derived, in the first instance, from the converted spy. Hence it is essential that the converted spy be treated
with the utmost liberality.
27. Hence it is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for purposes of spying and thereby they achieve great results. Spies are a most important element in war,
because on them depends an army's ability to move.
Judge Mohsen Allwan ordered al-Awlaki to be "arrested by force, dead or alive" after he failed to appear for the start of his trial in Yemen on Tuesday. He was charged last week as a co-defendant in a surprise announcement as part of the trial of another man, Hisham Assem, who has been accused of killing a Frenchman in an Oct. 6 attack at an oil firm compound.
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Shortly before the German GSG9 stormed the hijacked Lufthansa plane in Mogadishu in 1977 the German emissary assured the Somalian president that they would hand over the surviving terrorists to Somalia.
The president replied: What survivors?
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There actually was a survivor (Souhaila Sami Andrawes Sayeh), and they did hand her over to Somalia, unfortunately.
[Yemen Post] Two people were killed and 23 others including soldiers maimed in a car boom attack in south Yemen on Thursday, local sources said.
Two of the hurt were at death's door after the attack that took place near the security office in downtown Dhale province, they said.
The car belonged to an officer in the small-time Mister Big investigative office and exploded at qat market in the Jumrok quarter, the sources said.
Unidentified attackers are thought to have planted an bomb inside the car with the aim to kill the officer, a security source said.
In another incident in the south rocked by violence of Al-Qaeda and separatists, a soldier was injured in an exchange of gunfire with armed people at Al-Azariq roundabout at the city's entry.
In recent months, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula AQAP has stepped up attacks against security buildings, patrols and officers and their cars as well as on military convoys and camps, mainly in southern and southeastern regions.
Dozens of officers and non-combatants were killed in the attacks.
In response, large scale operations against AQAP members have been carried out across Yemen, with many of them killed, maimed and jugged.
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[Arab News] Abu Dhabi's Etihad Airways has stopped cargo shipments from Yemen and Somalia, a front man said, as security measures are increased after two US-bound parcel bombs from Yemen were intercepted in Britain and Dubai.
The change, announced on Thursday, aims to meet several countries' plans to tighten air cargo monitoring after the bomb plot, the company front man said.
The parcel bombs are suspected to be the work of Al-Qaeda's Yemen-based regional arm, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). Lawless Somalia is also seen by security analysts as a breeding ground for Islamist snuffies and foreign jihadists.
"Etihad has ceased cargo shipments from Yemen and Somalia until directives from governments around the world permit carriage of goods to these ports," he said.
Most airlines have made similar changes for cargo shipment, he added.
Impoverished Yemen, trying to quash Al-Qaeda while tackling a separatist movement in the south and a shaky truce with forces of Evil in the north, has again surged to the forefront of international security concerns because of the snuffy group.
It is the second time AQAP is suspected of trying to strike US targets using aircraft. The group took credit for a foiled Christmas Day plot last year to bomb a US-bound carrier, though no claim of responsibility has yet been made for the parcel plot.
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[Al Jazeera] Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has said that it orchestrated a failed bomb plot on airliners headed for the US last month, and grabbed credit for the crash of an aircraft in Dubai in September.
The claims were made in a statement published by the Yemen-based al-Qaeda wing on Islamist websites and subsequently translated by the SITE Intelligence Group on Friday.
SITE said that Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) called for more explosive parcels to "enlarge the circle of its application to include civilian aircraft in the West as well as cargo aircraft".
Two bomb attempts in October were foiled by security services in the UK and Dubai, where parcels containing the explosives were in transit, having originating from Yemen.
September crash
AQAP also said that it was behind an incident on September 9 when an aircraft belonging to UPS, the US delivery firm, crashed near Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.
The group claimed it had planted a bomb on the airliner, but that the authorities had kept the cause of the crash quiet.
"We downed the plane belonging to the American UPS company, but because the media of the enemy did not attribute responsibility for this work to us we kept quiet about the operation until the time came that we hit again," it said.
Governments around the world have tightened security surrounding freight coming from Yemen after the two parcel bombs, addressed to synagogues in Chicago, were discovered at a UK airport and in a cargo terminal in Dubai.
Qatar Airways said the Dubai parcel had been transported on two of its passenger planes from Sanaa via Doha.
The incident prompted Britain to ban unaccompanied cargo freight to the UK from Yemen and Somalia.
The Netherlands and Canada suspended all cargo flights from Yemen, and France and the US also banned air freight from Yemen in response to the plot.
'Mass punishment'
Germany extended its ban on cargo aircraft from Yemen to include passenger flights, sparking shock from Yemen which described the decision as a "mass punishment".
Earlier, US authorities said that they knew al-Qaeda had planned to use international cargo systems several weeks before last week's foiled plot.
At least one of the bombs was hidden inside a computer printer with a circuit board and mobile phone SIM card attached.
The bomb was said to contain pentaerythritol trinitrate (PETN), a highly potent explosive which is difficult to detect in security screenings.
A leading al-Qaeda fighter in Yemen who surrendered to Soddy Arabia last month provided the tip that led to the thwarting of the mail bomb plot, according to Yemeni security officials.
The officials said Jabir al-Fayfi, a Saudi who had joined al-Qaeda in Yemen, had told Saudi officials about the plan.
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"We downed the plane belonging to the American UPS company, but becauseour useful tools in the media of the enemy did not attribute responsibility for this work to us we kept quiet about the operation until the time came that we hit again,"
Did the intelligence community know? Did they tell any one? If they Knew would they tell, or keep it quiet to avoid inflaming the islamophobic public?
US authorities said that they knew al-Qaeda had planned to use international cargo systems several weeks before last week's foiled plot.
Knew? And did they tell anyone? Or did they just allow the plot to unfold so that it would lead them to Mr. Big?
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Just because they claim they'd done something does not mean they did. And knowing that something is going to happen is not the same as knowing who, what, when, where and how.
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Targeting freight is part of the economic disruption AQ aims for--what about the fires at UPS in TN before Christmas a year or so ago? Just the extra scrutiny required by the threat will hamper the busy holiday season. I hope the hounds are after the bombmaker as few are trained to be this sophisticated.
(KUNA) -- Extremist preacher Abu Hamza has won his appeal against the Government's attempts to strip him of his British passport, a special tribunal ruled here Friday. The radical holy man argued that such a move would render him "stateless" as he had already been stripped of his Egyptian citizenship.
I have a friend from Eritrea who was stateless at one point, so he acquired a U.N. passport -- no big deal. Later he became an American citizen, and has worked hard to be worthy of the gift. A pity Mr. Hamza doesn't understand gratitude, but I'm sure the U.N. would be happy to provide him with papers; he's just their type.
Delivering its 12-page ruling today, the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) allowed his appeal.
In his ruling, the Judge said: "We are satisfied on balance of probabilities that if a deprivation order were to be made, the appellant (Hamza) would be made stateless.
"The conclusions which we have reached in the closed judgment supplement, but do not contradict, that conclusion. "Accordingly, this appeal is allowed." Hamza, 52, was jugged for seven years in February 2006 for inciting murder and race hate. He is in Belmarsh Prison, south London, as he challenges attempts to extradite him to the US on terror charges. That case was delayed by the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg in July, which called for further submissions over the length of his sentence and the conditions he would experience if extradited to ADX Florence, a so-called "supermax" prison in Fremont County, Colorado.
Attempts to take his passport away were launched in 2003 but delayed by other legal actions against him. At a three-day hearing in London last month, Hamza's lawyers argued he has already been stripped of his Egyptian citizenship so cannot have his British passport taken too, as that would render him "stateless". But the Home Office said there was no documentation to prove he was no longer an Egyptian national and though he was once denied an Egyptian passport, he was later allowed one. The commission heard Hamza may have had his Egyptian nationality revoked but the country's government would not confirm whether he had or not. The holy man came to Britain on a student visa and acquired a British passport through marriage. He was denied an Egyptian passport in 1982 because he had not undertaken military service, the panel heard, but a decree in 1988 allowed him his citizenship back.
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This sickening story is actually true.
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A U.N. passport? For "global citizens"? You couldn't make this sh*t up if you tried.
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Special Immigration Appeals Commission
another waste of UK taxpayers' money
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(KUNA) -- Britain is calling Friday on the US authorities to remove from a "jihadist" website a list of MPs who voted in favour of the Iraq war and an appeal to harm them. A Home Office front man said it was actively working to have the material removed from the site - among those cited as an influence by a student who tried to kill Labour's Stephen Timms. In a post made yesterday, the site lists 395 politicians who backed the 2003 invasion in the House of Commons - many of whom are no longer MPs - and gives advice on finding details of constituency surgeries. It describes as a "heroine" Roshonara Choudhry, 21, who stabbed Timms twice in the stomach at his surgery after watching orc sermons online. She was this week jugged for life with a minimum term of 15 years for attempted murder but the site said it hoped she would inspire others to similar actions. "We ask Allah to keep her safe and secure, to hasten her release and to reward this heroine immensely," the site says.
Hundreds of videos inciting violence, including some linked to the suspected al Qaeda criminal mastermind of the cargo plane terror plot, were removed from YouTube yesterday. The clips by Anwar al-Awlaki, a high-profile member of the terror group thought to be behind the cargo bomb plot, were deleted from the video sharing site and more were being examined today. Choudhry claimed to have been inspired by the radical holy man's online sermons. Scotland Yard said it was aware of the website and was "making inquiries". A Home Office front man said: "We should all stand up against orcs, we will raise this with our overseas counterparts to encourage them to remove this content from the website. "We are determined to tackle extremism and always press for the removal of jihadist material on the Internet. Where sites are hosted abroad our ability to close them down is limited."
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Some Brit politician could make much hay, if he very carefully worded a statement which says that calls for insurrection and murder might eventually force Britain to restore the death penalty, it having no other choice or means at its disposal to otherwise halt such crimes.
"Individuals and groups that abhor democracy, the common law, and advocate murder and the violent overthrow of the government, cannot be dealt with using the civility merited by the civilized, both of which they despise.
"Therefore, in the same recognition that civilized society must imprison the barbaric, it must also be understood that there are times when even imprisonment is not enough to deter the viciousness of the worst of these criminals. So it should be no surprise if society is inclined to exercise its ultimate authority to remove them forever as a threat against the innocent."
The item on the shooting in San Nicolas is updated.
Several attacks and firefights took place in the last week between Mexican security elements and armed suspects with a toll of two armed suspects dead and four wounded including three soldiers, say various Mexican news accounts.
On Tuesday, armed suspects traveling aboard a crew cab pickup truck were pursued by a Mexican Army patrol into the center of Allende, Nuevo Leon exchanging fire. The patrol found the suspects stopped before starting the chase.
Two armed suspects died and four soldiers were wounded in the firefight, including two hurt in a wreck.
On Wednesday, a police substation near the corner of calles R�o Guayalejo and Rio Eufrates in the Dos Rio district in Guadalupe was attacks by armed suspects using grenades and small arms fire.
One municipal police officer was wounded in the attack and eight patrol cars were damaged as well as three private vehicles. One patrol vehicle was burned by the detonation.
The attack took place when about ten armed suspects riding aboard four vehicles attacked the station at about 2020 hrs. Four police officers exchanged gunfire with the suspects, along with six auxiliary officers. The firefight lasted eight minutes before the suspects fled.
In the Monterrey suburb of San Nicolas de los Garza, one man was shot to death and two unidentified individuals were reported wounded in a shooting near the intersection of calles Rio Tekachi and Puerto Angel in the Vicente Guerrero district.
Two vehicles carrying armed suspects arrived at the intersection and commenced their attack on three individuals. AK-47 assault rifles were used in the assault.
The Brownsville Herald says 47 have died, but the death toll is confirmed by unnamed Mexican sources, which could be anyone. At the moment, Mexican national press is running with the 47 dead, but as of posting time, we have less than ten confirmed dead.
This story will be updated as information becomes available.
As Rantburg readers may be aware Matamoros officials are notorious for not confirming anything except through Twitter and Facebook.
Story is updated with new casualties updates and details on the shootouts
Nine is the death toll in a Mexican Navy counternarcotics operation and in numerous firefights taking place in Matamoros, Tamaulipas starting Friday morning, according to several Mexican news sources. There are plenty of places in Iraq that are more peaceful than this ...
There are probably places in the non-Pashtun areas of Afghanistan that are more peaceful than this.
Reports say gun battles took place between the Mexican military and armed groups starting at 1000 hrs in various sectors of Matamoros, including the Victoria district and near the intersections of avenidas Pedro Cardenas and Mexicali in southern Matamoros. Several gunshots and grenade detonations were reported by residents.
The leader of the Gulf Drug Cartel in Matamoros, Ezquiel Cardenas Guillen, was killed in the initial encounters which included a toll of one Mexican Army soldier and two Mexican Marines dead, and two soldiers and four marines wounded. The firefights began when a military patrol fired on a convoy of eight vehicles, presumably Guillen's security detail. Four unidentified associates of Guillen were also killed in the firefight as well.
At 1100 hrs, Mexican photojournalist Alberto Guajardo Romero, 36, was found shot to death aboard his Ford Lobo pickup truck. Romero worked for the Expresso de Matamoros. Romero was apparently caught in the crossfire of the battle that killed Guillen.
On Boulevard Cavazos Lerma, Pedro Cardenas and Diagonal Cuauhtemoc, roads were closed as well as a bridge to commercial traffic into Brownsville,Texas. Later roads from Matamoros to Reynosa, Valle Hermosa and Ciudad Victoria were also closed by road blocks.
At 1300 hrs near the corner of calles Gonzalez and 8th streets were blocked by special nails designed to puncture vehicle tires laid down by armed groups. The area was cordoned by unidentified elements of the Mexican military.
At around 1600 hrs renewed fighting began anew on Avenida Gonzalez reportedly including hand grenade detonations and RPG fire, which trapped city residence in many commercial centers.
The Mexican Secretaria de Marino (SEMAR) said Friday's operation had been planned for six months and involved 660 military personnel, including 150 Mexican Marines, as well as other support units including three helicopters and 17 military vehicles.
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There are plenty of places in Iraq that are more peaceful than this ...There are probably places in the non-Pashtun areas of Afghanistan that are more peaceful than this.
Not so sure about parts of Detroit, LA, or Chicago.
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A former Durango state police commander and his wife were shot to death by armed suspects in Durango, Durango Friday, say Mexican news accounts.
Armando Avila, who was formerly commander for the Durango Policía Estatal Investigadora (PEI) a year ago.
Reports say Avila was aboard his Chevrolet Blazer when he was intercepted by armed suspects riding on a Dodge Voyager van on bulevar Domingo Arrieta, who were apparently laying in wait for him.
Avila was the escorting officer for former state police commander Eulalio Aldama, who was assassinated by an armed group on 17 September 2009.
Durango, as with ten other Mexican states just changed administrations from the 2010 Mexican midterms.
A settling of old accounts, I guess.
In Chihuahua, several retired cops have been murdered who were tied to the mayoral administration previous to the one just replaced, and IIRC, some former state police from the administration before the Chihuahua governor Reyes Beliza, who also ended his term.
The pursuit -- recounted to The Associated Press by officials in the U.S., Britain, Yemen, Germany and the United Arab Emirates -- shows that even when the world's counterterrorism systems work, preventing an attack is often a terrifyingly close ordeal.
It's clear that the bombs would not have been found without very specific information. The British examined the printer and missed it. Then they cleared the aircraft for takeoff. News of the Dubai bomb find caused them to look again, while in direct contact with Dubai officials.
"See that red wire going to the small circuit board? And the green wire? That circuit board isn't part of the printer's electronics."
"It isn't? Really? What is it then?"
We are going to "hear" from these guys again. Taking apart all electronic shipments and knowing what to look for is beyond current shipper capability, I think.
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seems easier to accept that it was an operation by the West to justify aggressive attack against Yemen than to believe that AQ wasn't able to put an effective bomb on board and they were happened upon. Either way, AQIP needs to be stomped out.
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The campus is closed and evening classes have been canceled today and Saturday, Nov. 6 because of gunfire taking place across the Rio Grande. Homecoming activities for Saturday, Nov. 6 have been affected. Coffee with the President has been canceled. The Golden Scorpions Reunion at noon will be on the patio at Lolas Bistro at 1335 Palm Blvd. in Brownsville. The Distinguished Alumnus Award event has been postponed until further notice...
Mexican marines killed a reputed Gulf cartel leader and one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords in a spectacular, hours-long gunbattle near the U.S. border, the latest in a growing number of hits on the country's drug kingpins.
Antonio Ezequiel Cardenas Guillen, also known as "Tony Tormenta" or "Tony the Storm," was killed Friday along with four of his gunmen and three marines in the city of Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas, the Mexican navy said in a statement.
(KUNA) -- At least three people were reportedly killed and several others were maimed in an kaboom that destroyed a mosque in a northern Pak city, second since morning, said police.
An kaboom went through Salman Khel mosque at the time when a large number of people had gathered to perform Esha (or evening) prayer in Budhbeer area of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhawa province. Police sources told KUNA that the kaboom could have been a suicide blast. They said at least three people were killed and several others were maimed in the blast. Police cordoned off the site and was conducting investigations. Also, security was put on red alert in the city.
This was the second blast that targeted a mosque in northern Pakistain while worshippers were performing their prayers. In the first kaboom that took place in Derra Adamkhel district, in the outskirt of Peshawar, more than 67 people were killed and over 70 others were maimed.
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(KUNA) -- At least five people were killed and more than thirty were maimed in the second attack since morning on a mosque in the northern Pak city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar on Friday, said police.
Unknown assailants hurled three hand-grenades inside the Sulieman Khel Mosque in Budhbeer area of the city, local senior police officer, Aijaz Khan, told newsmen. He said at the time of kaboom, between sixty and seventy people were inside the mosque.
He confirmed five casualties and said that more than twenty others were maimed. Some segments of local media put the number of maimed people to more than forty. No group, so far, has grabbed credit for the blast.
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(KUNA) -- More than sixty-seven people were killed and over seventy others were maimed in a suicide kaboom on Friday in a northern Pak district, said officials.
A boomer, apparently 17 years old, went kaboom! himself up in a mosque where more than two hundred people were offering the Friday prayer, District Coordinating Officer (DCO) Shahidullah Khan told newsmen. He said the kaboom completely destroyed the mosque and buried the worshipers under the debris. Commissioner Kohat, Khalid Umerzai, said that the number of killed people has reached sixty-seven. Whereas, he added, more than seventy were maimed in the blast. The commissioner feared further rise in the corpse count saying several of the maimed were at death's door. This was one of the worst terrorist acts in the region. President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari strongly condemning the incident said that the fight against snuffies will continue till their complete elimination. He in his message expressed the resolve not to be deterred by such acts of terrorism and vowed to continue the fight against terrorism till its logical conclusion. Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has also condemned the blast. He said that the snuffies were pursuing their own agenda and were enemy of the state and the people and said the fight against terrorism will continue till its complete elimination.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... according to local media, the Taliban have grabbed credit for the attack.
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DIALA / Aswat al-Iraq: Nine people were killed in a car bomb blast in central Baaquba district on Friday, according to a local police source in Diala.
Nine were wounded within an initial count of casualties from an earlier car bomb attack near the Firefighting & Civil Defense Department in New Baaquba neighborhood, in the central part of the district, the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
The New Baaquba neighborhood has been the scene for several attacks during the past years, the recent of which was in mid-August, when a car bomb blast went off near a vehicle of the Diala governors guards, leaving two killed and four others wounded.
Baaquba, the capital city of the troubled province of Diala, lies 57 km northeast of Baghdad.
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KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: The leader of a pro-government sahwa (awakening) tribal fighters was killed when an improvised explosive device went off near his vehicle southeast of Kirkuk on Friday, according to a senior security official.
An IED went off near the al-Rashad sahwa leader Awwad Hammoud Nassif on the Kirkuk-Tikrit highway, (35 km) southwest of Kirkuk, killing him instantly, Brig. Sarhad Qader, the director of the Kirkuk Districts Police Department (KDPD), told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.
In a separate incident, a source from Kirkuk police said a force from the al-Miqdad Police Department arrested two persons near an amusement park on al-Corniche street with about 345 kilograms of explosive material in their possession in accordance with Article 4 of the law on terrorism.
The apprehension took place upon intelligence tip-offs by a local resident, the source added.
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A missile fired from an American warship in the Mediterranean hit the car in which Muhammad Jamal A-Namnam, 27, was driving in the heart of Gaza City Wednesday, Nov. 3 and killed him, debkafile's exclusive counter-terror sources report. Namnam was an operational commander of the Army of Islam, Al-Qaeda's Palestinian cell in the Gaza Strip. He was on a mission on behalf of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula AQAP to plan, organize and execute the next wave of terrorist attacks on US targets after last week's air package bomb plot. Well, that either damn good shooting or...bullshit.
According to our sources, the Palestinian cell members were planning to infiltrate northern Sinai from the Gaza strip over the coming weekend and strike American personnel serving with the Multinational Force and Observers Organization MFO, which is under American command and is stationed at North Camp, El Gorah, 37 kilometers southeast of El-Arish. In a coordinated operation, Al Qaeda fighters hiding up in the mountains of central Sinai were to have attacked US Marines and Air Force troops stationed at the South Camp in Naama Bay, Sharm el Sheikh.
"Hamas security sources in Gaza now suspect that Israel had its own reasons for permitting new cars to be imported to the Gaza Strip for the first time in two years, knowing that they would be commandeered for the personal use of the chiefs of armed organizations, including Namnam."
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The thought that crossed my mind would be that the Navy would want a field test of an air dropped SDB II prototype, so it could get some data back to Raytheon. Projected to be like the SDB, at 250lbs, there might be a way to "light load" it, with still far more than enough for a car.
The reason for SDB II is specifically to nail moving targets.
[Al Arabiya] Iranian authorities have jugged "four Britain-linked terrorists" who were paid for to carry out liquidations in the Islamic republic, the State-run Press TV reported on Thursday.
The state's Intelligence Ministry said it had confiscated weapons and documents from the terror suspects.
The detainees were allegedly promised $20,000 for each liquidation but were only paid $8,000 after they carried out five murders in the past two years, according to the Press TV report.
The four suspects received orders from their commander Jalil Fattahi in the Iraqi city of Suleymaniy and he reportedly resides now in Britain.
The report identified Fattahi as a commander of the Komala group suspected of orchestrating a number of attack and liquidations in Iran's Western region since the establishment of the Islamic Theocratic Republic.
The ministry said the detainees--Majid Bakhtiar, Hajeer Ebrahimi, Loqman Moradi and Zanyar Moradi--were all members of the Komala group.
Iran has repeatedly accused Britain of conducting espionage activities seeking to destabilize Tehran and overthrow the Islamic regime.
In an unprecedented public speech, MI6 chief John Sawers said last week that intelligence activities were responsible for Iran's admission last year of a second enrichment plant, which in turn led to tougher diplomatic pressure.
"Stopping nuclear proliferation cannot be addressed purely by conventional diplomacy. We need intelligence-led operations to make it more difficult for countries like Iran to develop nuclear weapons," he said.
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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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[Yemen Post] Two people were killed and 23 others including soldiers 
[Al Jazeera] Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has said that it orchestrated a failed bomb plot on airliners headed for the US last month, and 
