More than a 100 people including civilians, police and Taliban militants have been killed in massive fighting in the past three days in southern Afghanistan, Afghan officials said Monday.
Lt. Col. Maria Carl, a spokeswoman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force, said there is "definitely a large engagement that has been going on there," for the last three days. She could not confirm casualty figures.
Because of the continued fighting in Uruzgan province, precise casualty numbers were hard to come by. Mullah Ahmidullah Khan, the head of Uruzgan's provincial council, said clashes in Chora district had killed 60 civilians, 70 suspected Taliban militants and 16 Afghan police.
An official close to the Uruzgan governor, who asked not to be identified because he was talking about preliminary estimates, said 70 to 75 civilians had been killed or wounded, while more than 100 Taliban and more than 35 police had been killed.
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And despite the screaming, the crime is NOT by the US. To use children as a shield is a war crime, but to HIDE those children so that they will be killed in retaliatory fire is far worse.
KABUL, Afghanistan - Seven children were killed in a U.S.-led coalition airstrike targeting suspected al-Qaida militants in eastern Afghanistan, a coalition statement said Monday. The strike came hours after the deadliest insurgent attack since the Taliban fell in 2001.
In an operation backed by Afghan troops, jets on Sunday targeted a compound that also contained a mosque and a madrassa, or Islamic school, in the Zarghun Shah district of Paktika province. Early reports indicated seven children at the madrassa and "several militants" were killed, and two militants detained, the statement said.
Coalition troops had "surveillance on the compound all day and saw no indications there were children inside the building," said Maj. Chris Belcher, a coalition spokesman. He accused the militants of not letting the children leave the compound that was targeted. "If we knew that there were children inside the building, there was no way that that airstrike would have occurred," said Sgt. 1st Class Dean Welch, another coalition spokesman.
The U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan said it has sent a team with the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission to investigate the incident.
Afghan officials have recently said that civilian deaths are the main concern of Afghans, and President Hamid Karzai has repeatedly called for foreign troops to do more to prevent civilian casualties.
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Its Karzai and the Afghan legislature who need to unambiguously state the fact that the Taliban are the ones committing the war crimes. Karzai has said this kind of thing in closed meetings (e.g., Davos) but not in the open.
Without that, the tranzis, jihadi sympathizers, Bush haters, etc. will be taking this one and running hard with it.
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Point taken. Though I think we are long done with trying to convince our traitors to learn what actually constitutes a war crime (non-uniformed combatants, firing from "religious" structures, hiding behind women and children, targeting civilians, etc. etc.). We should instead take to tarring and feathering them. And that goes double for the Supreme Court having continually sanctioned the "rights" of those in violation of these treaties.
MOGADISHU - Somali authorities announced a nightime curfew in the central town of Baidoa on Sunday after a grenade attack on a bank, killing a security guard, the second such attack in four days. After realising that people are causing insecurity and chaos here, we have decided to impose a curfew on Baidoa for a week, from 9:00 pm (1800 GMT) to dawn, Ibrahim Hashi Gabo, Baidoa police chief, told a press conference.
Sundays attack in the town, about 250 kilometres (155 miles) northwest of the capital Mogadishu, left one bank security guard dead and three other people injured, police official Adan Bid told AFP. Government forces sealed off the area after the suspected assailant fled the scene. We are investigating the matter, but it seems that this grenade explosion is linked to terrorist actions that are taking place in the country, Bid said.
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After realising that people are causing insecurity and chaos here,
Amen, brother. Grenades don't kill - people do!
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Two people were seriously injured in a landmine explosion in North Waziristan, officials said on Sunday, while local authorities said that security at the agencys various check posts was being increased following information that foreign terrorists were planning to enter the area.
Officials said that the landmine blast occurred at about 11:00pm at Miran Shah Bazaar, in the Tochi area, two kilometers south of the agencys capital.
The two injured men have been identified as Hamid Ullah and Gul Sher Khan. Locals said that they reached the spot after hearing the explosion and took the two men to the District Headquarters hospital. Medical sources said that one of the injured men had lost a leg as a result of the blast. They did not name him.
The areas Political Agent Pirzada Khan, Frontier Corps (FC) security personnel and a Pakistan Army bomb disposal squad also arrived at the scene.
Apprising Khan of the situation, locals reiterated their demanded that the government send minesweepers to clean the area of landmines. The explosion represents the third such incident in Miran Shah in four days.
Increased security: Meanwhile, local authorities said on Sunday that they had increased security at existing FC check posts and were setting up additional check posts in North Waziristan, following information that foreign terrorists based in neighbouring South Waziristan were planning to enter the area.
They confirmed that additional check posts were being set up at Boya Rizmak Road, Dosali Garyum, Esha Khujre and Tardoni.
Meanwhile, a private television channel on the same day reported that walls were being constructed alongside the check posts. It quoted local authorities as describing the move as routine work.
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Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki fired the Basra police chief Monday over his force's failure to stop weekend attacks on Sunni mosques in Iraq's second-largest city, police said.
At least two major mosques were attacked in the Basra area over the weekend in retaliation for Wednesday's toppling of minarets at a prized Shiite shrine in Samarra.
A new police chief would replace Maj. Gen. Mohammed Hamadi al-Mousawi on Monday, a Basra police officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information. Al-Mousawi was "seen as incompetent, because he couldn't stop attacks by Shiite extremists against two Sunni mosques in the wake of the Samara attacks," the officer said.
An adviser to al-Maliki confirmed the report but would not elaborate. An official in the office of al-Maliki's spokesman, Ali al-Dabbagh, confirmed it as well, saying only that the replacement came as part of the reconstruction of the police department.
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Meanwhile, Iraqi and British forces fought a fierce battle with Shiite militiamen while conducting house-to-house searches early Monday in and around Amarah, 200 miles southeast of Baghdad. It was unclear whether the fighting was part of the new military operations.
A doctor at Amarah's general hospital said 36 bodies had been taken to his facility, though he could not determine how many were militiamen and how many were civilians. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to media. More than 100 people were injured in the fighting, and at least three of those killed were Iraqi policemen, police and hospital officials said.
The British military in Iraq could not immediately comment on the reports, but a Ministry of Defense spokeswoman in London said details of the fighting were still "quite sketchy" but that there were no British casualties. The spokeswoman, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with ministry policy, said the British soldiers played a supporting role to Iraqi security forces during the raid and fighting.
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Ah the smell of napalm. That's the smell of victory, son.
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Go, Brits, go! Their young prince must be so disappointed to have missed all the fun. And cheers for the Iraqi forces, too, learning what they need to eventually handle this on their own.
U.S. spy satellites discovered a training camp inside Iran, where there was a mock up of an Iraqi compound that was the scene of a well planned commando raid that led to the death of five American soldiers. Subsequent arrests of Iranians and pro-Iranian Iraiqs inside Iraq, led to information about this being an Iranian commando raid. The new satellite pictures seem to confirm this. Iran denies everything.
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It is time to get tough with these thugs and take the rags off their heads and replace them with panties. Squeeze em for intelligence. Oh I forgot, we can't torture them and it is hard to impossible to get much intelligence out of them. Send em to Gitmo. Maybe we will get lucky and they will off themselves.
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Every day new relelations concerning Iran's duplicity come to light, yet nothing is ever done. Why? must be somebody in high places has pictures of Buch with the goats........
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I still have a hard time understanding why we continue to allow Iran and Syria to play with us this way. There is something I am missing here. Lieberman, who is a good bellweather for what's happening, is saying we have to do something. So, why don't we? Who is putting up the roadblocks? I'll put my money on the EU & Diplomats (one and the same) telling Bush he will ruin everything and Bush probably more worried about his immigration kerfuffle than Iraq now. But Petraeus must have some kind of ROE on Iran since they are key to the pacification process. Anybody figure this out yet?
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Salman Pak redux. Of course, Saddam simply insisted this was a Special Ops hostage rescue training camp. I'm sure Aquavelvajad will use the same line.
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The US and its allies never divulge espionage operations, despite what the MSM might think. And though we here might miss out on the lovely stories of derring-do and smiting of villains, rest assured that now, especially, such things are going on.
By now I imagine that especially in western Iran, there has been a marked upsurge in sightings of "black djinn" that come in the night and steal souls, and worse. Not that they actually saw such black djinn, just their handiwork.
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As satisfying as you all think it would be, open warfare with Iran wouldn't be useful or productive at this time. There are other ways, some of which are being employed.
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I talked to a guy last week who was an instructor in Iraq, teaching Iraqi police recruits how to be cops. Lots of stories there, all of them entertaining and frightening.
He had various assessments of recruits from different ares in Iraq, but not good reports about the ones from Karbala. From his info, the team that abducted our five guys in Karbala had white SUVs, just like the Blackwater ones. They had flash-bangs, handcuffs, etc. Their attack was very professionally done. It was not the usual Al Q guys. Had to be Iranian directed and executed.
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Iraqi Police detained four wounded insurgents engaged by U.S. helicopters after being observed digging a hole at approximately 12:30 a.m. just outside of Tikrit June 18.
U.S. surveillance helicopters from the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade engaged the four individuals after observing them carry and place materials into the hole. Wires were also noticed leading from the hole to across the street. The individuals are suspected of emplacing improvised explosive devices. They are being treated for their wounds and detained for further questioning by local Iraqi Security Forces.
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The individuals are suspected of emplacing improvised explosive devices. or perhaps wabbit hunting.
Since they failed as splodydopes, let's give them a shot at Water Board Pop Quiz.
A Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldier was killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near a foot patrol in the southern part of the city. Elements of this unit have conducted numerous patrols and raids in Baghdad this past month. These operations have netted 12 weapons caches and several arrests in an effort to provide a more secure environment for Iraqi citizens. The Soldiers name is being withheld pending notification of next of kin and release by the Department of Defense.
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Rest in peace, soldier, with our thanks. You've done well.
Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldiers and aviation assets discovered six rockets in a school yard in the Rashid District of the Iraqi capital June 17.
At approximately 3 p.m., aircrews from the 4th Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment spotted suspicious looking objects in a school yard while investigating an area suspected as the point of origin for rocket fire against the International Zone in southern Baghdad.
Thirty minutes later, Soldiers from Company A, 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, assigned to the 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, arrived at the scene and found six Iranian-made 107mm rockets.
After the troops secured the area, an explosive ordnance disposal unit was called in and successfully disposed of the munitions. Great teamwork and cooperation between vigilant Army aviators and our Soldiers prevented those rockets from being used against the people of Rashid and the Forces securing the district, said Col. Ricky D. Gibbs, the 4th BCTs commander.
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"Rocket science" being studied at the school? Naw.
Soldiers from the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, detained five individuals while conducting a company-sized operation in the city of Duraiya June 17.
Operation Chosin supported the efforts of Marne Torch, an offensive operation against Al Qaeda strongholds around Baghdad recently announced by Secretary of Defense Robert W. Gates and Gen. David Petraeus, Multi-National Force-Iraq commander. The purpose of the mission, according to 1-15 Inf. leaders, was to disrupt key insurgent networks from freedom of maneuver in the battalions area of operation.
The mission began as elements from 1-15 Inf. air assaulted into the vicinity of targeted houses late Saturday night. During the ground operation, several houses were searched for weapons and improvised explosive device- making materials resulting in the detention of five individuals and the seizure of one rifle. The 1-15 Inf. is assigned to the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, from Fort Benning, Ga., and is one of the U.S. Armys surge brigades.
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I can understand Operation Chosin if the Marines were involved (doesn't appear to be) but Marne Torch? Marne was the Brits and the French versus the Germans. Anyway, I wonder how the jarheads feel about the DoD giving the Army an operation in Iraq named Chosin????
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The 3rd ID is known as "The Rock of The Marne".
"The 3rd Infantry Division was activated at Camp Greene, North Carolina, in November 1917. Eight months later, at midnight on July 14, 1918 the Division went into combat for the first time. During World War I, as a member of the American Expeditionary Force to Europe the Division earned its name as the "Rock of the Marne," when surrounding units retreated, the 3rd Infantry Division remained. Although the stand was quite successful, the unit suffered many casualties."
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Jacko, the 5th and 6th Marine Regiments were attached to the 3rd ID for all those actions and frankly did a shit load of the heavy lifting. :> Got all the PR too.
Coalition Forces killed at least 20 terrorists, wounded six suspected terrorists and detained one suspected terrorist during operations targeting Secret Cells operating in Amarah and Majjar al-Kabir.
The individuals detained during the raid is believed to be members of the secret cell terrorist network known for facilitating the transport of weapons and explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, from Iran to Iraq, as well as bringing militants from Iraq to Iran for terrorist training.
In coordination with the Government of Iraq, Coalition Forces conducted coordinated raids in the Maysan province of eastern Iraq. During the mornings operations, Coalition Forces came under heavy small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenade attacks in both Amarah and Majjar al-Kabir. Using appropriate escalation of force measures, ground forces were forced to use close air support to suppress the enemy fire. During the close air support, at least 20 terrorists were killed and six suspected terrorists were assessed to be wounded by the strafing. A vehicle being used by the terrorists as a fighting position was also destroyed by the close air support.
Intelligence reports indicate that both Amarah and Majjar al-Kabir are known safe havens and smuggling routes for Secret Cell terrorists who facilitate Iranian lethal aid. Reports further indicate that Iranian surrogates, or Iraqis that are liaisons for Iranian intelligence operatives into Iraq, use both Amarah and Majjar al-Kabir as safe haven locations.
Terrorists learned this morning that there is no safe haven in Iraq, said Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, MNF-I spokesperson. Coalition Forces will seek out and find terrorists anywhere and everywhere in Iraq.
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This is from a coalition press release and it mentions Iran to Iraq EFP supply bridge. So, why the hell do we write about it and not do anything. I am really starting to lose faith in our ability to protect our forces.
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Coalition Forces detained 11 suspected terrorists during operations Sunday and Monday to disrupt the al-Qaeda vehicle-borne improvised explosive device network in Baghdad.
Sunday, Coalition Forces conducted an operation to capture a suspected member of a VBIED cell active in Baghdad and Haditha. The assault force detained six suspected terrorists, including the target, whose network supports Syria-based extremists and provides suicide bombers, vehicles and explosives for the cell.
A Monday raid south of the city netted four suspected terrorists allegedly involved with the VBIED cell in Baghdad. Coalition Forces captured another individual within the city limits suspected of association with a smuggling ring known for bringing bomb-making materials into Iraq. Disrupting the bombing network in Baghdad is a high priority for us, and we will continue to target the cells leaders and members, said Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, MNF-I spokesperson.
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I notice we 'detain' a lot of 'suspects' lately in Iraq. I hope they are put to work busting their butts while waiting for formal charges or regular beatings or whatever Iraqis do with vermin.
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The Iraqis like to hang IED builders : they are given a quick trial, quick appeals, and then are hanged. Average time between sentence and execution in Iraq is about 6 months.
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We musn't complain, anymouse. If this is the Iraqi version of the mills of Justice grind slow, but they grind exceeding small, that's an awful lot faster than we've been processing them at Gitmo, or in the American courts. No doubt in a generation or so they'll come to match American rates.
BAGHDAD - Iraqi newspaper editor Filaih Wadai Mijthab, who was kidnapped by gunmen last week, has been found dead in a Baghdad mortuary, the journalists union said on Sunday. His body was found in the mortuary today, the unions secretary Mualid Allami said. The body was riddled with bullets.
Mijthab, the managing editor of the state-run Al Sabah daily, had been abducted on Wednesday from the Habibiyah neighbourhood, near the east Baghdad Shia militia bastion of Sadr City. He is the latest of scores of print and broadcast journalists to lose their lives in Iraq since the US-led invasion of 2003.
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Hey, its the Islamic version of EEO/AA - Equal Embalment Opportunity/Affirmitive Action - no discrimination here. Everyone is a infidel target.
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murder = Iraqi soul food.
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Abducted Iraq newspaper editor found dead deleted
Shooting broke out Monday at the Erez crossing between Israel and Gaza, and a number of Palestinians were wounded, one seriously, Palestinian hospital officials said.
Israel TV reported Palestinians opened fire at Israeli soldiers at the crossing, and they returned the fire. There were no Israeli casualties, the TV report said. The Israeli military had no immediate comment.
Palestinian hospital officials said a seriously wounded Palestinian was being treated. Ambulance drivers said the exchange of fire was between the Hamas militia and Israeli soldiers at the crossing.
Since the Islamic Hamas took over Gaza, the Erez crossing has been crowded with Gazans trying to flee. Israel has let only a few through the crossing.
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Oh-oh, Al. Don't look like this thing's gonna go down like you thought it would...
Islamist group Hamas has told the Palestinian militants holding BBC correspondent Alan Johnston it will free him by force if they do not release him by the end of today. There's only one hitch with that book deal, Al. Ya gotta be alive to write it...
Johnston was abducted by armed men in Gaza City on March 12 and Wednesday will mark his 100th day in captivity. Does he win a swell prize?
Reuters quoted a senior Hamas official as saying: "If he is not released we would use all means to secure his life and to free him. Today is the last day for the captors to release Alan Johnston." Oh, I wouldn't worry, Al. I'm sure they won't come in blowing shit up and firing at anything that moves...including you.
NABLUS, West Bank - A Palestinian accused of collaborating with Israel was killed by militants on Sunday while being treated at a hospital in the occupied West Bank, security sources said. The man, thought to be in his 20s, was kidnapped two weeks ago by the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a militant group loosely linked with president Mahmud Abbass Fatah party, the sources said.
On Sunday, the militants shot him in the legs and left him in a street in the northern city of Nablus. He was then taken to a local hospital and while getting X-rays, more gunmen from the group came and killed him in front of hospital staff.
Sloppy, sloppy. The Great Satan would never have to do this twice.
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Very much in keeping with Islam's 7th century traditions, hospitals are death traps instead of healing centers.
Per LGF, this is kabuki theater designed to make Hamas look good. Whatever. Something tells me he's in Tehran anyway.
A SHADOWY group which has been holding BBC journalist Alan Johnston for three months yesterday threatened to kill him, in a video broadcast by the al-Jazeera satellite TV channel. A spokesman for the Army of Islam, identified as Abu Khattab, denied they had reached a deal, announced by Hamas, to release Gaza correspondent Mr Johnston. In the video, the masked spokesman added: "If the situation gets more complicated concerning us and our group, then we will ingrate ourselves to Allah by slaying this journalist."
After taking control of the Gaza Strip last week, Hamas officials said they had made contact with Mr Johnston's kidnappers and would work to win his release - in an apparent bid to gain favour with the international community and impose order in Gaza. Since then, the group has sent mixed messages about how soon Mr Johnston could be freed.
Last night, Sami Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman, told The Scotsman that "regardless of what was said in this videotape, Hamas is exerting intensive efforts to release Alan. "This file is among the most important files the Hamas movement is working for. The movement will not accept any delay in the release of Johnston."
He added Hamas's defeat of the Fatah security apparatus last week had opened an opportunity for working towards Mr Johnston's release. He said: "With the return of security to Gaza after the expulsion of the groups that caused the security chaos, it is natural that Alan Johnston be among our first files." Asked if Mr Johnston would be released in the coming days, Mr Abu Zuhri said "Hamas will not delay in closing this file. Alan will say a lot when he is free and what he says will surprise the world."
Earlier, Islam Shawan, a spokesman for the executive force militia of Hamas, claimed Mr Johnston's release was imminent. "From the first day of the kidnapping we knew the kidnapper and his name is Moutaz Doghmush, who claims that he heads the Army of Islam."
In the new video shown yesterday, the masked spokesman repeated demands for the release of Islamic militant prisoners, in particular Palestinian-born cleric Abu Qatada, who is detained in the UK. "There are developments and we will let you know when there are new developments," he said. "If they do not meet these demands there will be no release of this prisoner, but if things get worse we will get closer to God by killing this journalist."
Palestinian officials have said they know where to find Mr Johnston, but have held back on raiding the hideout at Britain's request, for fear of harming him.
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After Hamas' loud promises to get the gentleman of the press freed, to not do so quickly -- for whatever reason -- will cause them to lose face. Kabuki or no, if they can't produce, what boots their promises of law and order? One man, one vote, one time is hard to enforce when almost every household is armed to the teeth with guns, knives, the makings of bomb vests... and a pathological need to use them on someone.
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Johnston is lapping up every minute. He is looking at a big book deal, maybe a TV movie, fame and fortune while taking sides when he is released. Another BBC human puppet on a string.
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TW. If one is a freedom fighter opposing Zionist occupation, one cannot lose face with MSM.
A bomb exploded Monday at a teashop in Yala province, wounding 14 people, while two other bombs left three injured in Narathiwat, police said.
The Yala bomb was hidden in a teashop, located near a government school in troubled Bannang Sata district. The explosion seriously wounded four people, Pol Lt Yothin Wanthawee said. In next-door Narathiwat province, two bomb blasts wounded two soldiers and a government employee in separate insurgent attacks.
The first bomb was detonated on a road in Tak Bai district while a six-man military patrol was passing through the area on foot. Preliminary investigation also found the remains of a remote-controlled bomb weighing about 5 kg at the scene. A second bomb exploded nearly simultaneously on a bridge over a waterway sluice gate in Tak Bai district. A worker of the Royal Irrigation Department, Soon Khongpoon, was wounded and sent to hospital.
In Narathiwat's Tak Bai district, deputy governor Niphon Narapitakkun presided over a Muslim religious ceremony to pray for peace in the area. Nearly 1,000 villagers attended the ceremony to express their opposition to school arson attacks. Bansriphangan School in the district was torched on Sunday night, forcing the students to study in three makeshift tents, set up on the football field today.
Meanwhile, in adjacent province of Yala, more than 400 students from Banbannang School in the provincial seat must sit on the ground under seven makeshift tents, used as temporarily classrooms after their school was burned. School director Wirat Phuphongpiboon called for assistance from other agencies and donation from private sector. The school needs desks, chairs, and textbooks for students.
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Is there a war going on in Thailand?? Why don't we hear anything from the US embassy or Washington, no offer to help? This is going to get really interesting in the next 3 to five when the muzzies own, without a fight, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and then into Cambodia.
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The firing of Katyusha rockets from south Lebanon at north Israel on Sunday poses a major challenge to the Lebanese army and UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL). It is also a breach of UN Resolution 1701.
Two Katyusha rockets exploded near the northern Israeli border town of Kiryat Shmona. There were no casualties, but roads and vehicles were damaged. They were fired from al-Edesa which is controlled by the Lebanese army and UNIFIL. The rocket-firing has raised fears over the UN resolution, which ended 34 days of military operations between Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah fighters on August 14, 2006.
Israeli security sources said they believed a Palestinian group had fired the rockets. Israel said it would not "succumb to provocation". The Lebanese group Hezbollah has denied any involvement in the attack. No-one has yet claimed responsibility for it. A Hezbollah spokesman in Beirut said his group was not involved in the attack, saying: "We had nothing to do with this." It is the first time Israel has come under such an attack from Lebanon since last year's conflict with Hezbollah. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) said it had nothing to do with the rocket attack at north Israel.
The Lebanese army said in a release, "Unknown elements fired three 107-mm rockets at occupied Palestinian territories at 5:10 pm." Immediately, a Lebanese military force combed an area which might be the source of firing and where it found a rocket that was ready to fire, it said.
For its part, the UNIFIL said the firing of Katyusha rockets was a serious breach of the UN Resolution 1701. Joint forces of the UNIFIL and Lebanese army have been deployed at the area in a bid to hunt the attackers and to thwart more potential rocket attacks, the UNIFIL added.
Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad al-Siniora condemned the attack as aiming to cast doubts on the ability of the Lebanese army and the UNIFIL to protect south Lebanon, labeling it as "just attempts doomed to failure". Siniora vowed that all state security agencies would spare no effort to maintain security and stability in Lebanon.
The incident came while the Lebanese army was still engaged in a violent gunfight with Fatah al-Islam militants at the Nahar al-Bared Palestinian Refugee Camp in north Lebanon, which claimed the lives of at least 65 soldiers and scores of militants. The incident also came as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrived in New York for a three-day visit to the US. He had been informed of the attack. An Israeli official travelling with Olmert said: "It seems that it was Palestinians, not Hezbollah." Israel believed Palestinians were trying to trigger a military response but it would "not be drawn in", the official said.
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Israel believed Palestinians* were trying to trigger a military response
*Put in the words 'Iranian-sponsored' and it'd be more accurate.
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UNIFIL would send a letter of protest but they don't have an address.
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A previously unknown militant Islamic group claimed responsibility Monday for a weekend rocket attack on northern
Israel. The self-proclaimed "Jihadi Badr Brigades Lebanon branch," vowed in a statement faxed to The Associated Press in Beirut to continue attacks.
"We had promised our people jihad (holy war)," the statement said. "Here, we again strike the Zionists when a group from the Jihadi Badr Brigades struck the Zionists in the occupied Palestinian territory."
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Large teams of newly trained suicide bombers are being sent to the United States and Europe, according to evidence contained on a new videotape obtained by the Blotter on ABCNews.com.
Teams assigned to carry out attacks in the United States, Canada, Great Britain and Germany were introduced at an al Qaeda/Taliban training camp graduation ceremony held June 9.
A Pakistani journalist was invited to attend and take pictures as some 300 recruits, including boys as young as 12, were supposedly sent off on their suicide missions.
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Oh my gawd!!
And this all happened before Salman Rushdie was knighted!!!
Sounds like we should just go ahead and piss them off all we want, since they are going to do their level best to blow us the fuck up anyway.
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Currently 20-60 thou terrorist already in the US. I'm confident that as soon as the call comes in from Iran, we go boom boom across the US. Then the American Patriot goes Stuck Mojo on their Jihad asses. Just sayin' *wink*
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I wonder if this will have any impact on the "Open Borders" idiots...like Booooosh!
Just one Jihadi detonates here and the whole (Sh)Amnesty Bill is Tango Uniform. Or not.
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One damed boom stateside and a whole bunch of fully occupied Pakistani madrassas had better be converted into blood-soaked smoking rubble. Pakistan's coddling of the Taliban is totally unacceptable.
Hey, you write up the grant proposal and I'll work out the experimental protocol for a comprehensive investigation of how to create "Hematically Doped High Temperature Plasma Fused Silicacious Oxides".
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Suicide bombers in the US would most likely mean a faster abandonment of Iraq, and probably Afghanistan, too. Hell, give the press a big enough head of steam and we'd abandon Israel to the barbarians, too.
So long as the press is in a de facto alliance with the terrorists, the jihadis are winning.
Posted by: Rob Crawford ||
06/18/2007 19:44 Comments ||
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These are the kind of guys, I suggested long ago, that should be captured, reprogrammed, and given a "return to sender".
Imagine the effect if you got a dozen of them, implanted them with a radio activated 3lb bomb in their abdomen, that would turn their bones into lethal projectiles. Then you re-wrote their minds to seek out the top enemy leaders.
#11
Actually robert crawford I think the opposite would happen. I can only think of one democracy (spain) that caved to terrorism on their own soil rather than redoubling their efforts. I'd be happy to hear examples.
I think the center and left (but not the nutty super-left) would all come ot the same conclusion. That Islam is not a religion of Peace, they are a problem that must be dealt with harshly.
#13
Suicide bombers in the US would most likely mean a faster abandonment of Iraq, and probably Afghanistan, too.
While I understand your position, Rob, I sure as Hell hope you're wrong. I still hope that couple of shopping mall booms would galvanize America so as to overcome its squeamishness and finally (as David D. would say), "peel back the Islamic world's Foreskin Of Ignorance and apply briskly the Wire Brush Of Enlightenment".
#14
The compliant little jihadis in the video seemed kind of phlegmatic and unenthused. They waved their little jihadi flags half-heartedly. I must say they have the propaganda (bullshit) thingee going. As was stated in the article, an official in GB said we have to be lucky every time. They only have to be lucky once. I only hope our decision makers have the will to build a good wall and control our borders. However, I suspect we already have jihadi sleepers waiting for the opportunity to blow up some shit in the U.S. I don't have a lot of faith in Washington to do anything with any effectiveness or efficiency.
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Cripes Zenster! - that description is gonna give me nightmares!
Posted by: Tony (UK) ||
06/18/2007 20:09 Comments ||
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Speaking from inside the Beltway -- (Falls Church, not too far from that big terrorist infested mosque that sane.org brought to light last week) -- this confirms my worst fears. It's gonna get a whole lot worse. Think the DC Sniper X 30, Schools attacked like what Russia experienced. I'd have more hope for the West if I saw some glimmer in the people (outside our amazing U.S. military folks -- they can't do it all). Maybe if some soccer hooligans were to take out a Mosque -- or a Waco-like raid at Islamburg. SOMETHING. ANYTHING.
Posted by: Captain Lewis ||
06/18/2007 20:29 Comments ||
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Zenster, be careful, someone might think you went to the Dan Rather school of journalism with descriptions like that. Ima thinkin Ima goin to have nightmares too.
#18
The West is most likely to roll over if things go as they are - with left and MSM slowly wearing us down. If the muzzies do another attack on US soil they are making the right's point and will galvanize a real response.
So if the muzzies were smart they'd just lay low and work on Isreal the EU and MME. But the muzzies seem to never miss a chance to miss a chance and will probably attack the US at some point and cause reality to move much closer to the muzzies death warrant.
#19
If they do pull something off...I still don't think W has the cajones to man up and render the Wazoo Valleys uninhabitable for the next 10,000 years. We would likely call in airstrikes, launce a few TLAMS, pop a few caps with SOF. Nothing more.
#20
On a much lighter note (compared to my previous post #16) -- is anyone watching those Sands of Passion videos over at http://nationalbanana.com? Hil-f'ing-larious. (funny because they're true)
Posted by: Captain Lewis ||
06/18/2007 22:06 Comments ||
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I saw the sands of passion clips - they are damn funny.
#22
Yawn. I'm still waiting for Saddam's suicide squads.
Posted by: Mark E. ||
06/18/2007 23:06 Comments ||
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Cripes Zenster! - that description is gonna give me nightmares!
Zenster, be careful, someone might think you went to the Dan Rather school of journalism with descriptions like that.
Alas, if only I could take sole credit for penning such turgid prose. Evidently, none of you remember when the inestimable David D. posted this niftyif not exquisitebit of metaphor in the Gunmen shoot elderly nun dead thread from 09-17-2006. Here is his entire post in all its former glory:
#16 "They've just pissed off every Catholic in the world, and most Christians not Catholic as well, any attack on the Pope, whether successful or not, will cause an uprising you'd never believe until you see it."
I doubt it. Although you'd think that would be the perfect occasion to peel back the Islamic world's Foreskin Of Ignorance and apply briskly the Wire Brush Of Enlightenment, I doubt it'd happen: most of Christendom seems to have sunk into passivity, self-blame, and a burning desire to avoid being offensive.
It'd take a LOT more than that to light much of a fire under their butts.
All of this assumes a degree of increased relativity with today's thread that tangentially touched upon this same topic.
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Posted by: Mike ||
06/18/2007 9:40 Comments ||
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Not to be confused with the ruthless cheesecake that are my ex-girlfriends.
I'm the kind of nitwit who goes around spamming other people's websites. Really, I have no product to sell, I'm just into making a pest of myself and leaving lots of blank lines on the page so it looks like I've said something.
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We need a troll cage. I'll look around for some old Pontiac grills, a bit of 1/2" rebar, some barbed wire, a little 1/4" sheet steel, some mirrors, and an old hand-cranked telephone, and see what I can come up with. Nothing uncivilized, just something painful, cramped, and exposed to the elements.
Nan looks like she's marching to her own funeral - or a marriage to that second cousin she can't stand. I'm sure I could cheer her up a bit...
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OP: I bet you could probably score a 57 Belvedere from the good folks in Tulsa right about now for your troll cage. One owner, lo miles, only buried once (dug up this weekend)
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