[Ma'an] Hamas' armed wings the Al-Qassam Brigades announced the death of its co-founder in exile Mahmoud Al-Mabhuh died of terminal cancer in a hospital in the UAE on Wednesday. The Al-Qassam leader, a refugee living the Jabalia Refugee Camp until he left Gaza for the UAE, was behind a mission that successfully captured two Israeli soldiers, a statement from the brigades said. Al-Mabhuh was captured two Israeli soldiers, Elan Sa'dun and Avi Sbortas who were captured at the in the early 1990s by Al-Qassam fighters, the soldiers were killed in military action following their capture," the statement said.
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Mahmoud Al-Mabhuh died of terminal cancer in a hospital ...
Somebody's not getting their virgins... Can't die of natural causes in a hospital and get any perks and benefits...
[Iran Press TV Latest] The death toll has risen to 464 after four days of clashes between Christians and Muslims in the central Nigerian city of Jos.
"We found more than 200 bodies gathered at the mosque in Kuru Gada Biu and 22 more at Mai Adiko," said a senior mosque official, Muhammad Tanko Shittu.
Residents of Jos claim that the clashes were ignited over the reconstruction of a mosque in a Christian neighborhood of the Nassarawa Gwom city, according to Reuters.
The Nigerian government has imposed a 24-hour curfew to control the riots, but sporadic gunfire can still be heard throughout the night. Additional troops have been deployed to Jos to maintain order.
"This is one crisis too many, and the federal government finds it most unacceptable, retrogressive and capable of further sundering the bonds of unity in our country," Nigeria's Vice President Goodluck Jonathan said in a statement published Wednesday.
"The country cannot afford these constant eruptions, and ... the government is determined to find a permanent solution to the Jos crisis," he emphasized.
The unrest has prompted thousands of residents of the city to flee to neighboring towns.
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most unacceptable, retrogressive and capable of further sundering the bonds of unity in our country
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The Religion of Peace. Dont you wish you had a whole lot of Moslems for neighbors. Maybe a few minarets and a whole lot of Burquas in the PTA discussing the Curriculum?
yeah, and maybe a Mosque next to the Methodist Church across the street.
And a lot of good Moslem boys down at your local highschool waiting to join the Army? Why even our own President once was a little Moslem in the fifth grade...nothing wrong with it, we mustnt jump to conclusions.
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The Nigerians were complaining that the guy on that Detroit flight wasn't representative of Nigerian Islam, but good god, when they party, the bodies stack up pretty high pretty fast. Egyptian anti-Copt riots can't put a shadow on these Nigerian bloody-border affairs.
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Mitch,
The difference is Nigerian Christians fight back.
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And dish it out more to Abdul than they take.
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I've always heard that straight-up face-to-face Gangs of New York-style civilian rioting usually isn't all that fatal. It's the overrun attacks where one side is badly out-classed and out-numbered where you get a hell of a lot of dead people.
It's easier for a civilian to kill someone who's running and not looking at you than someone staring you down & trying to beat your head in with a lead pipe.
That's kind of why they're called "massacres", after all.
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The Saudi army has lost 113 troops since the kingdom launched a sweeping offensive against neighboring Yemen's Shiite rebels in early November, a military commander said in comments published Thursday.
The latest toll is a significant jump from last week, when assistant defense minister Prince Khaled bin Sultan said the Saudis had 82 dead and 470 wounded.
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Since "early November" isn't particularly precise, let's say that was 2 1/2 months ago.
That's about forty guys a month dead.
Has the US had that many casualties in Iraq or Astan in a month very often?
This means either horrid SA leadership and tactics, or some fighting whose intensity is unreported.
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Richard, it's the Saudi army, not US Special Forces. Those numbers sound about right for hill and desert country, hit and run stuff. Intense Indian-country sort of war.
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And I'd bet that even with Western advisors the Saoodi army isn't exactly a top ten in the AP poll ...
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Has the US had that many casualties in Iraq or Astan in a month very often?
In Iraq, US dead on a monthly basis were greater than or equal to 40 per month roughly 3/4 of the time. 2008 was the first year that monthly US death toll was less than 40 3/4 of the time. The Saudis are not likely to have as much trouble with the Yemeni rebels. At the onset of the invasion of Iraq, Saddam had more ammo cached away than the US, meaning that Iraqi rebels had huge amounts of material with which to make IED's. Ultimately, the absence of Saddam-sized ammo caches in Afghanistan is one reason we are unlikely to take as many casualties there.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Yemen has launched an air strike on the house of a leading al-Qaeda figure in Maarib province, east of the capital Sanaa, a security official said on Wednesday, but there was no immediate word on casualties.
Ayed al-Shabwani was one of the six members of al-Qaeda the central government said had died in an air strike last week, which the militant group later denied in a statement.
The strike comes less than a week after Yemen said it killed six suspected leaders of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula in Saada province, north of the capital, including Shabwani.
AQAP denied that anyone was killed in the attack on three 4X4 vehicles in a remote desert area of the province, saying instead that some of its members had been wounded.
The government said Qassem al-Rimi, the military leader of AQAP, was among those who died in the missile attack.
It also said Shabwani, Ammar al-Waili, Saleh al-Tais, Egyptian Ibrahim Mohammed Saleh al-Banna and an unidentified sixth person were also killed.
Rimi was among 23 people who had made a daring escape from a state security prison in Sanaa in February 2006 that left the Yemeni government red-faced, and he was on a list of 152 wanted suspects.
Western powers and neighboring Saudi Arabia worry Yemen could turn into a failed state, and fear al-Qaeda could exploit the ensuing chaos to strengthen its foothold in the poorest Arab state and turn it into a launchpad for further attacks.
Yemen is also fighting a northern Shiite insurgency and faces separatist sentiment in the south.
Yemen gained a reputation as an al-Qaeda haven after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the United States, and came under the spotlight after crackdowns on the group in Pakistan and Afghanistan raised fears Yemen was becoming a training and recruiting center for militants.
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See also WMF > YEMEN IS AFGHANISTAN OR HAITI IN THE RED SEA/GULF OF OMAN, A PERENNIALLY POOR COUNTRY WITH WEAK INEFFECTIVE GOVT BUT STRONG TRIBAL ALLIANCES AND ULTRA-CONSERVATIVE ISLAM.
* SAME > "YEMEN POST" MEDIA: YEMEN FORMALLY ASKS RUSSIA AND CHINA FOR ECONOMIC DIRECT INVESTMENT AND DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE IN LIEU OF FOREIGN MIL INTERVENTION IN SUPPORT OF THEIR FIGHT AGZ AL QAEDA.
Flights from Yemen to the UK have been banned in a new crackdown aimed at increasing border security, Gordon Brown announced today. Two new terror watch lists will also be created as part of the package to counter terrorism following the failed Christmas Day bomb plot.
The Prime Minister, who unveiled the plans in a statement to the Commons, said a new 'no fly' list will be used to ban terror suspects from boarding flights to Britain. The list will be complemented by another, larger tally of people who will be subjected to greater security checks before they are allowed to fly to the UK.
Direct flights from Yemen operated by Yemenia Airways have been suspended while security is improved, he said. Yemen carrier Yemenia Yemen Airways, which had been operating two flights a week between London and Yemen, said it had suspended services last week.
The decision was made after the UK Government demanded flights stop in Cairo to be unloaded and checked.
I imagine security in Egypt is marginally better than in Yemen, but does the prime minister seriously think it will meet Western standards?
He warned that 'a number of terrorist cells' were 'actively' seeking to target Britain. Today's measures come after the failed bomb plot over Christmas.
The PM also pledged that all major ports and airports would be covered by the Home Office's £1.2billion e-borders scheme by the end of this year. Under the programme, passengers must provide detailed personal information when buying their tickets so they can be checked against watchlists before flying.
Gosh, that seems an awfully similar to that dreadful Bush scheme that everybody was fussing about some years ago. It couldn't be that the cowboy Bush was actually right, could it?
Serious questions were raised over e-borders last month after it was revealed that the compulsory element of the scheme breached EU law. EU citizens cannot be made to hand over personal details because stopping them travelling would breach rules on free movement, the European Commission said.
[Bangla Daily Star] Sixteen BDR jawans of 7 Rifle Battalion yesterday admitted to their involvement in mutiny and begged for mercy in writing before BDR Special Court-1 in Satkhira just a day after they claimed themselves innocent.
This is the first instance that any suspected BDR mutineers admitted to their guilt since the trial began in four BDR courts on November 24 last year.
The three-member court headed by BDR Director General M Mainul Islam received sixteen petitions for mercy, reports our Satkhira correspondent.
The court said it would consider the petitions as per the BDR Act.
Sixteen of the sixty accused BDR jawans of 7 Rifle Battalion submitted the mercy petitions to the court confessing to their involvement in the BDR mutiny at Nildumur of Shyamnagar upazila on February 26 last year.
In their statements, they said they took part in the revolt in gross violation of the BDR Act at the instigation of other mutineers and out of greed.
The BDR jawans include Lance Nayek Minhaj Uddin, Nayek Subedar Akmal Hossain, habildars Abdul Baten Bhuiyan, Sheikh Tahmid Uddin, Golam Masud, Abu Khaja, Jahangir Hossain, and Abul Kashem, nayeks Mokbul Hossain and Abdur Rahim Sarkar, sepoys Ziaur Rahman, Anwar Hossain, Nur Hossain, Golam Mostafa Sagir and Abu Yusuf Fakir.
The sixteen BDR jawans claimed themselves innocent on Monday denying the accusations brought against them by the prosecution during the hearing for framing charges at the same court.
But two of them at one point of trial proceedings on Tuesday told the court verbally that they are "guilty" and confessed to their guilt during cross-examination.
The court told them that it would not take their verbal confessions into cognisance. It asked them to submit their statements in writing if they wished to do so.
Meanwhile, three more prosecution witnesses gave statements before the court set up at 41 Rifle Battalion headquarters in Satkhira.
As per the BDR law, the accused cross-examined the prosecution witnesses with the assistance of BDR officer Maj Shamim Reza and lawyer Zahid Hossain.
Ten of 40 prosecution witnesses gave their depositions before the court till yesterday. The court took depositions of seven others on Tuesday.
Two other members of the special court, headed by M Mainul Islam, are Lt Col Gazi Khalid Hossain and Maj Lutful Karim.
The court adjourned the proceedings till 9:30am today.
Deputy Attorney General advocate Khasruzzaman presenting the attorney general and senior public prosecutors Mosharraf Hossain Kajal and Sahidur Rahman stood for the state.
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A US Airways passenger plane was diverted to Philadelphia on Thursday after a religious item worn by a Jewish passenger was mistaken as a bomb, Philadelphia police said.
A passenger was alarmed by the phylacteries, religious items which observant Jews strap around their arms and heads as part of morning prayers, on the flight from New York's La Guardia airport heading to Louisville.
"Someone on the plane construed it as some kind of device," said officer Christine O'Brien, a spokeswoman for the Philadelphia police department.
No one was arrested or charged, O'Brien said.
The plane landed without incident and the passengers and crew were taken off the plane, a spokesman for US Airways said.
Phylacteries, called tefillin in Hebrew, are two small black boxes with black straps attached to them. Observant Jewish men are required to place one box on their head and tie the other one on their arm each weekday morning.
AP summarized: Two high school classmates of Mr. Zazi have been charged with going with him to be trained in Pakistan by an Al Qaeda-linked organization. Adis Medunjanin is also charged with getting the training for the purpose of killing American troops in Afghanistan. Cab driver Zarein Ahmedzay was previously charged with lying to the FBI. Prosecutors anticipate additional charges against both, and are due back in court February 25th.
[Geo News] At least two people have been killed while six others sustained injuries as violence erupted in various areas of the metropolis on Wednesday. Moreover, four vehicles were set on fire by the angry mob in different parts of the city. As per details, unknown armed men opened fire at the office of a construction company situated in Gulistan-e-Jauhar block 19, killing Zareen Khan and injuring Wali Muhammad. The victims were shifted to a private hospital near stadium road. Police officials said initial investigation suggests that it was a business dispute, however, an inquiry is underway in this regard. Separately, two people were injured when unknown assailants opened fire on them. They were later shifted to nearby hospital. However, condition of one injured was termed critical. After the incident, some unidentified gunmen started aerial firing, forcing the shops to close down. Furthermore, heavy contingent of police was deployed in the affected areas to maintain the law and order condition. Aerial firing incidents were also reported in different parts of the city including Shah Faisal Colony, Landhi, Qaidabad, Esa Nagri and Hasan Square.
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Three people were injured in firing inside the parking lot of Allama Iqbal International Airport in Lahore on Wednesday evening. One of them is reportedly in a critical condition, DawnNews reported.
According to reports, those involved in the firing incident -- which included two police officials and a civilian -- came in two cars and had passed through all the security checks before the incident occurred.
The Airport Security Forces suspect that the incident was a case of planned target-killing. 'The target was Tipu Truckan Wala who had arrived in Lahore from Dubai on a PIA flight earlier this evening,' airport officials said.
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[Dawn] Lasbela police foiled a terrorism bid by arresting two suspected suicide bombers and recovering a vehicle carrying 25-30 kgs of explosives on Wednesday.
DIG Khuzdar Range, Asif Ejaz Shiekh, told DawnNews that he received information that some terrorists wanted to carry out a suicide bombing in the Lasbela district, following which strict checking of vehicles was ordered across the area.
He said police also recovered a list from their possession with names of several government officials and police officers who may have been their target.
He said that the suspects were arrested from Gadani Road in the Gadani police area. A search of their vehicle resulted in the recovery of a repeater, three detonators and around 25 kg of explosives placed in a CNG kit.
The DIG said the accused have been identified as Habibullah and Safdar. He added they have a link with the Qari Abid Masood group in Waziristan and belong to the banned outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
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[Dawn] A US drone missile attack Tuesday killed at least six suspected militants in the 11th such strike targeting Pakistan's northwest Taliban stronghold this month, intelligence officials said.
The strike took place at 6:30pm (1330 GMT) in Degan village, 30 kilometres (18 miles) west of Miranshah, the main town of the tribal North Waziristan district and a known hub of Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked militants. "Two missiles fired by a US drone hit a compound which was being used by militants," a senior security official in the area said. "One missile hit a compound and the other hit a vehicle outside it. Six militants were killed." The death toll had initially been put at three.
Another security official confirmed the hit and casualties, saying that the nationalities of those killed was not yet known. "It is also not clear if any high-value target was present in the area at the time of the attack," he said, adding that the death toll may rise.
A volley of drone strikes has hit the northwest this month, all targeting North Waziristan, a bastion of Al-Qaeda fighters, the Taliban and the Haqqani network.
US officials say the missile strikes are carried out under an agreement with Islamabad that allows Pakistani leaders to decry the attacks in public, but Islamabad denies this.
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These dronezaps have been going on at a pretty constant tempo. If this keeps up, signing up with the Talibunnies will not be a career move.
JAMMU: Pakistani troops fired at an Indian border post in the Krishna Ghati sector of Poonch district for over an hour Monday night, an army officer said here. There were no casualties. Sending in some more infiltrators...
The Pakistani troops from Kaddu post fired at Kranti post on the Indian side, the officer said, adding that the firing was unprovoked. "They fired with machine guns and rockets for over an hour on our position," a brigadier general of the Indian Army's 16 Corps said Tuesday. Pointing out that this was yet another violation of the November 2003 ceasefire agreement between the two countries, the officer said the Indian side retaliated to the firing. Which the Paks bitched about...
He added that the Indian side was yet to ascertain the reason for the firing which could be "cover fire to infiltrators or some other reason. But the matter shall be taken up with Pakistan in a serious way".
Infiltration attempts from Pakistan and firing across the border have been on the rise in recent months. The Border Security Force (BSF) has foiled about a dozen infiltration attempts this year near Jammu.
Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of BSF J.B. Sangwan said that the infiltration focus from the border near Jammu "signifies that militants were planning strikes in and around Jammu. We are on alert to foil such attempts." Security forces are anyway on high alert in the run-up to Republic Day, with additional deployment at vulnerable places.
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I'll take "cover fire to infiltrators" for $500, Bob.
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In the old days, "India" ran clear up into Afghanistan. See Kipling.
The Indian Army's staff college was at Quetta, now in Pakistan.
Busting that up wasn't so bright,now, was it?
Theoretically, it was to prevent a civil war in India after independence. In the event, Joe Shit the Ragpicker and Mrs. Shit and all the little Shits killed one million of their friends and neighbors while the various government forces tried to stop them.
Jesus wept.
What a bunch.
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In even older days, India included all of Afghanistan and a small part of Iran
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The Pakistani journalist Ayaz Amir on the reason for the partition of British India But to recap the usual factors held responsible for the founding of Pakistan, Islam was not in danger in pre-1947 India. Indeed, considering the sectarian violence and religious bigotry we face today, it was in better health then. Nor was democracy the issue because even if partition had not happened, India was getting democracy once the British left. The Indian Independence Act promised that.
So what was the compelling reason for the Muslims to insist on a separate homeland especially when there was no going around the uncomfortable fact that, no matter how generously the frontiers of the new state were drawn, an uncomfortably large number of Muslims would remain in India?
The purpose of Pakistan, transcending anything to do with safeguarding Islam or promoting democracy, was to create conditions for the Muslims of India, or those who found themselves in the new state, to recreate the days of their lost glory.
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[Dawn] A suicide car bomber targeted an Iraqi army base in the northern city of Mosul on Wednesday, wounding at least 33 people, including 20 members of the security forces, a military official said.
The attack occurred around 10.00 am (0700 GMT) in the east of the city, located 350 kilometres north of Baghdad.
The military official said 15 soldiers and five policemen were among the wounded.
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How many months now has it been since the US military in Iraq hasnt had a single casualty?
Have we closed down the Bases yet? More Ice Cream?
Have any democrats from back in 2005 come forward to advocate the war is unwinnable and we should run hide flee? They havent?
I wonder why.
Is Mookie Sadr demanding things and threatening us with the wrath of Allah and calling out his mahdi army right about now? Are the "Mighty Muj" swarming the streets of Fallujah and hunting down the last of the bleeding and wounded USMarines?
Is John Kerry saluting and standing tall for duty and honor? Is Edwards of Breck boy fame one step away from the Presidency?
How DO they do it? The democrats are such Giants...Aces everyone of them. Both morally and spiritually.
How about Zawahiri and Zarquawi? The lions of Islam? No? Where did they all GO? Its all Bush's fault.
And the Iraqis are STILL killing one another and what's not to like about their culture and their values and their religion. Dont you wish you were a Moslem? Dont you wish YOU lived in Mosul and were a proud Iraqi with Iraqi values ?
[Al Arabiya Latest] Israel expelled an American journalist working for a Palestinian news agency after detaining him for a week and banning him from contacting anyone, the Maan news agency said on Wednesday.
Jared Malsin, the English-language editor of Maan, said he was being placed on a flight to New York after he was randomly picked up and held at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport for the past week.
"He sounded shaken and confused," said George Hale, a fellow journalist with Maan.
Israel was deporting Malsin based on "security" grounds stemming from his political beliefs, according to court documents attributed to Maan, although they do no mention any other details.
Malsin had appealed the expulsion order but apparently dropped the challenge on Tuesday without the knowledge of his lawyer, Maan said in a statement.
"Maan is deeply concerned that there was no lawyer present when Malsin apparently filed this independent motion," the private news agency said.
"Without jumping to conclusions, Maan wants to be sure these events did not take place under duress," it said, adding that Malsin's lawyer and relatives had been unable to reach him in the 24 hours before the deportation.
Malsin was detained on Jan. 12 upon returning from vacation in Prague and told he would be deported on security grounds, Hale said.
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Think of a country as a household. Its your house. Its your family. Its where you have your kitchen, your dinner table. The bedrooms and the bathrooms and the children.
Its where you sleep at night and its "home". There is a guest who comes over and you allow him to come in. He says something insulting to your wife. He made a big mistake. You dont hurt him. You make sure he leaves and you make sure he leaves fast.
"Journalists" who have personal views had better bear in mind that they are in some one elses "home."
And inside that house you play by the rules of the house as long as you are there. If you dont , you may be lucky if you mouth off and DONT get hurt. They may show you the basement. Ever had a bad bad thorough beating? Something systematic and professional?
Spit on the floor and call the man's wife a puta so the kids hear it. Then try and make the door.
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Good analogy, Knuckles. It's direct and even simple enough that my liberal friends might understand it.
Hope you don't mind if I 'borrow' it.
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Of course real journalists like CNN would just bribe Saddam's lackeys to keep an office open in Baghdad and only write happy glad stories they were handed. We know what you are. We're just negotiating the price.
[Ma'an] A Qassam projectile was launched from Gaza into Israel on Wednesday morning, an Israeli military spokeswoman confirmed. The projectile landed in Ein Shlosha, south of Kissufim, in the Eshkol Regional Council, southern Israel, the spokeswoman said.
"Blasts were head in Kissufim," she added.
No injuries were reported.
The Israeli military added that the projectile was launched from the central Gaza Strip.
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Israel is tired of this shit, agreement missle, agreement missle, soon the Israelis will end this with huge armored bulldozers and push the whole area into the sea,,Arabs will scream, but after all this bullshit I'm willing to look the other way.
Remember the Hassassins?
Umm, they don't exist,
soon people will say Gazans, what's that?
I will give them credit for patience, Mine ran out years ago.
You shoot at me you better hit, or you're a deader.
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There will come a day when you will blow the dust off a volume of History back in the stacks...and read a footnote about the "Palestinians" and not have a damn clue about who they were.
Do you remember the Rugians...they once had their own language. What did the Varangian Guard actually guard? What was the name of a the oasis ( Silwa? )in the Sahara where Alexander the Great sent an Army and it vanished? Fifty thousand men gone and never found. Just like that.
And how did Richard Helms actually die? Yeah, the "Palestinians"...right up there with the Philistines and the Hittites and the Peleshti.
In a cardboard box in the basement with the Wonder Woman comic books and the Tom Mix decoder ring. Its all buried in a car trunk in Arafat's Tomb.
[Ma'an] Medical sources in Gaza announced on Wednesday that Ghassan Salim At-Tarabeen, 21, died from his injuries following an explosion on 12 January. On 12 January the Al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas' military wing, said that one of its members died and three others were injured during a "Jihad mission" in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza. Medical sources confirmed that At-Tarabeen had been brought in to undergo treatment for injuries caused by an explosion.
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I love sad stories like this. This is the stuff you weep silently at the window in February with the tissue clutched to your trembling lips in your sobbing teeth...yeah.
BANG! And then there is "stuff" all over the ceiling in Beit Tampon and Gassan and Salim are dripping off the banisters.
And then you grin and get a Beer in the back of the fridge.
A defence volunteer was shot dead in a roadside ambush in Narathiwat while he was riding a motorcycle back home late on Thursday morning, Pol Col Thirawat Payungtham, chief of Si Sakorn police station, said. Isma-air Yusoh, 42, a defence volunteer at Ban La Oh, was attacked on an intra-village road in Narathiwat's Si Sakorn district. He was shot in his head and body and died at the scene. Police blamed terrorists separatist militants.
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran has notified the U.N. nuclear watchdog it rejects key parts of a draft deal to send abroad most of its enriched uranium, designed to ease fears the material could be used to make nuclear weapons, diplomats said on Tuesday.
It was Iran's first apparently formal answer to the proposal hatched in October and echoed months of dismissive or ambiguous remarks made through the media. The United States rejected Tehran's reply as "inadequate."
U.S. intelligence agencies were finalizing a new assessment of Tehran's nuclear program that sees Iran pushing forward with nuclear weapons research but not yet re-launching its bomb program in full, U.S. officials said.
Diplomats said Iran's position on enriching uranium abroad was reflected in a memo in the hands of the International Atomic Energy Agency. It repeated verbal calls for amendments that Western powers had dismissed as non-starters but said did not amount to a final response.
Load 'em up, Avi. It's time for those birds to fly.
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[Iran Press TV Latest] An explosion has ripped through a military base in Iran's southern province of Hormozagan, damaging properties and leaving three people injured.
The incident took place at around 9 a.m. local time on Wednesday (0530 GMT) as an explosive charge went off in Naiband district of Bandar Abbas -- Hormozagan Province's capital.
"Garbage collected at the base was set on fire, which caused the explosive charge to go off," Police and Security Chief of Hormozgan province Mohammad Hassan Poravar was quoted as saying by Mehr news agency.
"Three people were wounded in the explosion. They have been taken to hospital for medical treatment and there has been no further damage," he said, adding that "nothing else happened and the rumors going around in the city are all baseless and untrue," he added.
This is while Fars News Agency, citing eyewitnesses, reported that several nearby houses sustained different levels of damage and fire broke out following the incident.
According to the eyewitnesses, shrapnel as big as a cellular phone and with a thickness of two centimeters flew by and landed in the yards of houses about 1 km away from the blast site.
It looks like the spy squirrels have been getting squirrely again.
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It is too much to hope that the opposition in Iran is now transforming itself into revolt?
If the good ladies in green hit the streets and we get the "husbands and boyfriends" in the military to join in, will Bambi send help or will he send a letter telling them to make nice?
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Karl, you know that bambi will help......unfortunately he'll help the wrong side.
Dancing girls pic pulled, accordion lady substituted. Let's get confirmation. A severed head would be nice.
A Filipino militant wanted by the United States is believed to have been killed in an American drone strike close to the Afghan border earlier this month, Pakistani intelligence officials said Thursday.
If confirmed, the death of Abdul Basit Usman would represent another success for the U.S. covert missile program on targets in Pakistan. There have been an unprecedented number of attacks this month following a deadly Dec. 30 militant attack on a CIA base in Afghanistan.
Two military intelligence officers in northwestern Pakistan said Usman was believed killed on Jan. 14 on the border of Pakistan's South and North Waziristan tribal regions. Another 11 militants were also killed in the strike on a militant compound. Authorities have previously said the attack had targeted the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud.
There had been no previous indication Usman was in Pakistan. If the reports of his death in Pakistan are true, it may indicate stronger ties between al-Qaida and Southeast Asian terrorist groups than previously thought.
The U.S. State Department's list of most-wanted terrorists identifies Usman as a bomb-making expert with links to the Philippines-based Abu Sayyaf militant group and the Southeast Asian Jemaah Islamiyah network. It puts a bounty of U.S. $1 million for information leading to his conviction, and says he is believed responsible for bombings in the southern Philippines in 2006 and 2007 that killed 15 people.
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