3 officers on foot patrol were killed by a remote detonated IED hidden in a dumpster on Avenue Imam Shamilya near the "Europe" banquet hall in the capital Makhachkala. The device was loaded with shrapnel and had a charge of about 6kg. Two of the killed were from the Dagestan police, the other was on temporary duty from the Stavropol region.
PETER Costello is urging radical Muslim clerics to leave Australia if they do not share the nation's values ahead of today's national terrorism summit organised by the Prime Minister. As Muslim leaders gather in Canberra to discuss the spread of Islamic fundamentalism, the Treasurer has warned Australia cannot afford to be ambivalent about the teachings of extremists. John Howard has urged Islamic leaders to take a greater role in rejecting violence but he has been more restrained than the Treasurer. "If you don't like those values, then don't come here. Australia is not for you," Mr Costello said yesterday. "This is the way I look at it: Australia is a secular society, with parliamentary law, part of the Western tradition of individual rights." In an interview with The Australian, Mr Costello said migrants needed to understand and respect the "core values" of democracy, a secular society and the equality of women. And he warned that Australia needed to be clear that the nation's core values would not change.
Bravo! Hurrah! [Clap clap clap!] A politician who likes raw meat!
"If you are looking for a country that practises theocracy, sharia law - which is anti-Western - there are those countries in the world ... you will be happy there. But you won't be happy in Australia."
"You don't like us, we don't need you." Gosh, but that sounds fair.
But he stopped short of supporting the deportation of radical Muslim leaders, in the wake of similar debates in Britain and France.
That's because nobody's blown anything up in Australia yet. It'll come.
Mr Howard said in Sydney that he would be reminding the Islamic leaders at the summit that "our common values as Australians transcend any other allegiances or commitments". He said Muslim leaders had a "particular responsibility" to make clear that Islam totally rejected violence and terrorism and that he wanted them to take ownership of the process of dealing with extremists' views. "The purpose of this meeting is to underline to the leadership of the Muslim community that it has responsibilities," Mr Howard said. He refused to budge on suggestions he should include extremists in the summit and said they would flood the media with extreme remarks. "It would undermine the good work of the leaders of 99 per cent of the Muslim community in Australia who are trying to do the right thing, are trying to work with their fellow Australians and don't want prominence given to extremists," he said.
Well, maybe 80 percent. We realize he has to be polite...
Kim Beazley and Labor foreign affairs spokesman Kevin Rudd said it was important to speak as widely as possible but said the Government would be receiving sensible advice on who should be included. "I want to see the determination that we're going to uphold respect for Australian values - Australian values of tolerance, Australian values of ensuring that we respect another person's rights, both in religious terms and their own dignity - and to make sure that this notion of respect is included in the curriculum of all schools," Mr Beazley said.
That's a bit more watery than Costello's remarks.
Mr Costello also threw his support behind Australia maintaining a strong skilled migration policy. "Immigration overall helps our country in a security sense and an economic sense. I think there is an acceptance of immigration, more so than 10 years ago. I would like to see a strong immigration policy. I am not putting numbers on it." Earlier this month, the Treasurer said the notion that terrorists secured a reward in the afterlife for waging jihad against Westerners was "repulsive". Yesterday he said: "I have seen people that say they believe in sharia law and theocracy. If that's their view, don't come to this country. This one is not for you. I don't think we can afford to be ambivalent about this point to young people or anyone else." Foreign Minister Alexander Downer also compared fundamentalist Muslims to Nazis as he defended the decision not to invite radical clerics to today's summit.
That'd still get him fired in the USA. We've fallen behind the Brits, which is understandable, since the American bodies are cold, and behind the Australians, who're surprisingly more robust than we are.
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NOWKANDI: Nine personnel of Iranian security forces and one Baloch tribesman were killed in a gunbattle in Nowkandi, a Pakistani town bordering Iran, on Monday. Several Iranian security force personnel had crossed the international border on Monday morning and attacked Yaqoob Bazaar in Bahu Kalat town in Pakistan to secure the release of their missing officials allegedly abducted by local tribesmen. The attack prompted a shootout between Iranians and the tribesmen in which nine Iranian security personnel and one tribesman were killed. The Iranians reportedly used heavy artillery in the attack.
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nice rescue....probably their own artillery got em...
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Y'know, I kinda like it when that happens...
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The son of the Libyan leader Muammar al-Qadhafi has said the US will open open an embassy in Tripoli within days and that Libya will be removed from the US list of state sponsors of terrorism by year's end. Saif al-Islam al-Qadhafi, who runs the Qadhafi International Association for Charitable Organisations and who has assumed an increasingly prominent international role, said on Monday that Libya would also soon open its embassy in the American capital. "The Libyan and American flags will be raised in Tripoli and Washington within the coming days," he said.
Next year, at Wheelus...
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A Syrian linked to an Iraqi-based terrorist group has been arrested as the prime suspect in the rocket attack that barely missed U.S. warships docked in the port of Aqaba, the Jordanian government said Monday. The government statement, read on state television, said the suspect, Mohammed Hassan Abdullah al-Sihly, plotted and carried out the attack along with two of his sons and an Iraqi. I didn't find him in Thugburg.
So "al-Qaeda in Jordan" turns out to be Pop and his two boys, plus an Iraqi? I'm impressed.
The statement said the plotters were part of an Iraq-based terrorist group, which was not named.
I'd sneer and say "not a very big one," but probably they're just the cannon fodder and there is something of an organization behind them. I'd guess it's al-Tawhid, or whatever Zark's mob calls itself this week.
Al-Sihly, who lives in Amman, had been surveying sites for the Katyusha rocket attack in Aqaba since Aug. 6, the statement said. He was joined by his two sons â Abdullah and Abdul-Rahman â and Mohammed Hamid Hussein, the Iraqi, in "carrying out the heinous crime." Hussein, also known as Abu Mukhtar, was the leader of the Iraq-based group, the announcement said.
He'd have probably been the cell's controller, and the only one of the four with any contact with the rest of the organization — and that only with a runner.
The First Amendment and I have been evicted from ABC Radio in Washington, DC. [actually the first amendment is not in question - Graham can say what he wants and WMAL can hire who it chooses]
On July 25th, the Council on American-Islamic Relations demanded that I be âpunishedâ for my on-air statements regarding Islam and its tragic connections to terrorism. Three days later, 630 WMAL and ABC Radio suspended me without pay for comments deemed âhate radioâ by CAIR.
CAIR immediately announced that my punishment was insufficient and demanded I be fired. ABC Radio and 630 WMAL have now complied. I have been fired for making the specific comments CAIR deemed âoffensive,â and for refusing to retract those statements in a management-mandated, on-air apology. ABC Radio further demanded that I agree to perform what they described as âadditional outreach effortsâ to those people or groups who felt offended.
I refused. And for that refusal, I have been fired.
[I think it is quite possible he will get a new gig and from the gig, the CAIRites will wish they hadn't ever picked on him]
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LOL, in a follow-up to the SCOTUS Kelo decision, Napolitano is now saying that the city / township where Justice Souter lives has agreed to hear the offer of the developer who wants to have Souter's home condemned to build the Lost Liberty Hotel. Heh. I hope it happens. Not quite as good as a full scale civil uprising against judicial activism, but it's a start.
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I think CAIR protest too much. Worldwide terrorism and almost all current conflicts have an islamic component to them. To state that is just a statement of fact, not a racists comment. If CAIR cannot grasp that factoid then they are in for a rude awakening and it's tragic that they can't look in their own backyard and see the weeds.
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CAIR used their intimidation factor on ABC Radio, which are a bunch of wusses. ABC has the right to let Graham go for any reason; it's ABC's radio station. Naturally this is upsetting.
However, every disaster is a new opportunity, as they say. Mr. Graham will find a new station that will take him and his message, and ABC can go pound sand will find that its ratings will suffer. You want to be mainstream with an agenda? Then follow the playbook of the alphabet channels and the newspapers and see your ratings tank. ABC-123.
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Regarding Islam and the constitution: it was agreed upon that no laws that are against the widely agreed upon values of Islam can be issued and no laws that are against the values of democracy and human rights can be issued.
Natural resources according to the draft will be managed in cooperation between the central government and the local administrations of the federal states/provinces
Sounds simple. I think I'm impressed.....I think. There won't be any conflicts between Islam and democracy, will there?
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This islam/democracy tension will depend on who is making the interpretations. Laws are made of words: if you frame the words right, just about any law can be made to conform with islamic values.
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I forsee a number of "you got peanut butter in my chocolate" "no you got chocolate in my peanut butter" debates in the Iraq Parliament...
#12
Its been clear for a few days that the Sunnis wanted to block agreement and they have been sidelined and a deal cut between the Shiia and Kurds. I'm in favour of a federal Iraq, not least as an object lesson to other oil states to treat your minorities well or risk losing the oil. And BTW, I don't read too much into the Islam clause.
#14
I wonder how long it would take us to come up with a Constitution in today's political environment.
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Cindy Sheehan: "And just why should we provide for the common defence? This country isn't worth defending! And this part about domestic tranquility is obviously a code for Bush's plan to repress dissent more than he already has."
John Kerry: "I have a plan for a better Constitution."
Howard Dean: "This thing would let Republicans vote!"
NYT editors to staff: "Get the records on any adopted children of the drafters. It's part of, uhh, our normal investigative process, you know."
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Ship, baby, you can redraw the map from the bar of your favorite dive in the Green Zone, man. It's about preventing the Sunnis from killing it. Note: They can do that with a 2/3 vote in 3 of the 5 provinces in which they have the numbers...
Security forces arrested 10 suspected militants from Pakistan's turbulent tribal regions and recovered weapons, wigs and women's outfits from a fake madrassa, the military said on Monday. The raid on a deserted compound which was designed to look like one of Pakistan's thousands of religious schools happened on Sunday night near Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan region, it said. "The compound was being used as terrorist den and security forces carried out a search following a tip-off by locals that suspected militants visited the compound," the military said in a statement.
Even Legume couldn't miss this one.
During the search the troops recovered grenades, fuses, guns, binoculars, daggers and commando uniforms, as well as female costumes and wigs, it said. "The madrassa had been established in an unpopulated location and is an attempt on part of terrorists to use the cover of religious places for sabotage activities," the military said.
What good is a wig for a woman in a burqa?
In a "related development", security forces arrested seven suspected terrorists from Mera Din town in Shawal Valley in the tribal belt while three others were held from various places in the area near the Afghan border. The detainees were all aged between 18 and 25 but their identities could not be established immediately, the military said. They were handed over to security agencies for interrogation, the statement added.
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"They were handed over to security agencies for interrogation, the statement added.
I can see the iterrogation now. How stupid are you to let us catch you in a deserted compound, when we were'nt even looking for you and there were plenty of women's clothing to go around, you Rue Paul wanna be's.
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I don't get it. Why not the "Complete Gang" magazine with the novel by Anatole Feldman instead? It seems to me it would be a lot more appropriate...
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Sounds like they were just forming a new rock band.
#11
I was going to say ARMY OF ISLAM, LIONS OF JIHAD, or SAMURAIS OF THE DESERT strike again, but methinks I'll go today with SHADE/DRESSES/DOGS OF HERBERT HOOVER, or maybe NIGHTRANGER or NELSON TWINS!?
U.S. Marines and Afghan forces killed more than 40 suspected militants in an operation against insurgents who had inflicted the deadliest blow to American forces since the Taliban's ouster, a military spokesman said Monday. The weeklong operation, which concluded over the weekend, was aimed at rebels in the eastern Koregnal Valley believed responsible for twin attacks that killed 19 troops in June. Three Navy SEALs were killed in an ambush, and all 16 soldiers on a helicopter sent to rescue them died when it was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. "It was successful," Lt. Col. Jerry O'Hara told The Associated Press. "We had over 29 separate engagements with enemy forces that resulted in more than 40 enemy killed in action and many others wounded." O'Hara also announced that a separate three-day battle from Aug. 7-10 in southern Zabul province's Daychopan district left a total of 65 suspected militants dead. The military had previously reported that 16 rebels had been killed...
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This is the second time you've lost more people trying to get people out of a tight situation. You think maybe the enemy is getting his TTP down to be more effective. I certainly hope there is some reexamination on our own TTP if this happens again. Think maybe its in anyone's brain to have a contract proposal out asking for something other than a Chinook to perform the mission profile which seems to put all the eggs in one basket in the Afghan highlands?
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The Chinook mission was silly. No cover from Apaches or an A-10 apparently. Landing zone not cleaned.. From what i can tell some commaders have no experience.
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This is not the second time we've lost more trying to get people out. The Chinook episode was in June. Please re-read. AoS
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From what I gather about the situation, they were flying in mountains, with the Chinook below the crests. They opened the back door to either deploy or recover personnel and were still in the air when a muj *not on the dz*, but hiding on a mountainside, popped an RPG right up their ass. I would call that pretty "no fault".
I also remember a Chinook safety brief I heard once from the co-pilot: "If you smell something funny, it's probably hydraulic fluid, which is basically JP-4. It means we're all gonna die." Then he turned around and went back to the cockpit. That was it.
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American fighting men typically trade at a ratio of 20:1. What is this 4:1 crap? I won't be satisfied until another 435 black turbans are dead. Can the Taliban even muster that many regulars? And that's even assuming that the 105 figure is accurate, which it isn't.
Sorry to sound so clinical and detached, but them's the cold, hard, numerical facts, gentlemen.
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Shooting down helicopters from the side or above where they are unarmoured was a decisive Mujadeen tactic against the Soviets. They got really good at it and eventually the Soviets wouldn't send their helicopters into narrow valleys.
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I am under the impression that apache helicopters don't work very well at the higher altitudes in the area.
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I am under the impression that apache helicopters don't work very well at the higher altitudes in the area.
Well, I've seen them around the crest of Pikes Peak (14,115'), but there are plenty of areas in the Hindu Kush over 23,000'. That's not a problem for an A-10, however. They're good to up around 35,000, and there are no mountains that high. They're BEST at lower altitudes, but they're not restricted.
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Well you _should_ have a SEAD plan before going into Injun Country. Without seeing the OPORD or debriefing the participants, we'll never know, will we? Besides, if you have a team about to get overrun, you execute first and then worry about things like SEAD. An experienced, well-led enemy will turn a surrounded pilot or recon team into an ambush of opportunity (baited attack). Americans don't leave their men behind to get captured by savages.
The Iraqi government has accused Jordan of allowing family members of Saddam Hussein to finance an insurgent campaign to destabilize Iraq and restore the Baath Party.
"I am sorry to say there are a lot of figures, not only senior regime members, but those who supervise the terrorist groups, in Jordan," Laith Kubba, a spokesman for Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari, told reporters Sunday in Baghdad. turning up the heat
Saddam's relatives "live there and have huge sums of money, and they are supporting political and media activities and other efforts to revive the Baath Party," Kubba said, calling it "unacceptable."
Maybe the Jordanians wouldn't mind if we dealt with the problem.
In violence across Iraq, an Interior Ministry official said four Iraqi commandos were killed Sunday by a roadside bomb south of Baghdad. The official also said a car bomb in Kadhimiya, a Shiite area of Baghdad, had killed three people outside a popular restaurant.
The U.S. military said a soldier was killed Sunday in Ad Dwar, near Tikrit, when his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb. Two soldiers were killed when a vehicle rolled over near Tal Afar.
In northern Iraq, the U.S. commander for western Mosul, Lieutenant Colonel Erik Kurilla, was wounded when he was shot three times Friday during fighting that eventually ended in hand-to-hand combat, according to Michael Yon, a writer embedded with the military who posted an account on his Web site. A military official confirmed that Kurilla, commander of the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry, had been shot in the legs and was in stable condition.
Kurilla's unit has been at the forefront of efforts to calm Mosul. The battalion faced an insurgent uprising soon after arriving last fall, but in recent months it had captured scores of militants.
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Can't have an article without the obligatory "more killed by surging violence", but actually citing a blogger as a source?
Well, only because a big officer got wacked, I suppose; this original was NYSlimes, after all.
Best wishes to LTC Kurilla and JOURNALIST Michael Yon!
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Can't have an article without the obligatory "more killed by surging violence", but actually citing a blogger as a source?
Well, only because a big officer got wacked, I suppose; this original was NYSlimes, after all.
Best wishes to LTC Kurilla and JOURNALIST Michael Yon!
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I say that family's life should be forfiet now that they've paid for Americans to die.
Mohammed Ouathi, 46, a soundman, was kidnapped by three armed and masked men close to his hotel in Gaza. The other three members of his TV crew managed to escape. There has been no contact with him since the kidnapping. Ouathi was in Gaza with a large contingent of international media to cover tensions related to Israel's withdrawal from that Palestinian territory after 38 years of occupation. "We do not yet know who was responsible or why this kidnapping took place, but we do know that it was not a terrorist or political affair," Pflimin said.
"No, no! Certainly not!"
Earlier on Saturday, the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Aburish group and Popular Resistance Committees held a joint press conference in Gaza City amid mounting concern over Ouathi's fate. The three armed Palestinian factions called for Ouathi's immediate release, saying his kidnapping had damaged the national cause.
"Idiots! The French are on our side!"
"What worries us most today is that so much time has passed," Pflimlin said. "While the kidnappings that have taken place in the Gaza strip in recent months have been fixed in 48 hours or at most three days, here we have gone eight days without information. Today, it is this lack of information that worries us and worries the family." you know, it's telling that these things are so routine they have the timetable down
The Palestinian representative in France, Leila Shahid, telephoned the family of kidnapped French TV soundman Mohamed Ouathi on Saturday urging them to remain hopeful. "In Palestine, we have not yet descended to the level of kidnapping and assassination," Shahid told Ouathi's family during a 10-minute telephone call she placed from Beirut, according to an AFP journalist on the scene.
He could take that act to Vegas ...
Shahid spoke with Ouathi's sisters in the presence of his extended family, who had gathered in Nanterre near Paris, where the soundman for the France 3 television channel lives. "This call gives me new hope," Ouathi's sister, Rekia, said. "But so long as he is not free, I will remain worried." The mayor of Nanterre, Patrick Jarry, and France 3's Pflimlin also were at the gathering.
Pflimlin said on Sunday that he had received reassurances from Palestinian authorities and that the case was occupying the French government at the highest level. At the same time, Pflimlin said, France 3 had sent its own team to Gaza to make contacts and persuade local authorities to do everything in their power to free Ouathi.
Telling the family that efforts to free Ouathi would be "mobilized every second", Shahid recalled that she has been in contact with French and Palestinian authorities about the matter. "You should remain confident because in Palestine, we love the French and we are even more close to a Frenchman with his origins in Algeria, which is close to the Palestinians," Shahid told Oathi's family. "Several people have been kidnapped in Palestine, but all of them have been freed safe and sound."
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Sounds like the resurgent traditional economy in Gaza is already bearing fruit after the pullout.
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Don't worry, France will pay the price, any price.
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"he was increasingly concerned about the fate of one of the network's journalists, who was kidnapped in Gaza August 14 and has not been heard from since."
HA! Anybody ask themselves when was the last time a reporter or cameraman was kidnapped by Israelis?
"France 3 had sent its own team to Gaza to make contacts and persuade local authorities to do everything in their power to free Ouathi"
My advice: bring lots of US 100 dollar bills.
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"In Palestine, we have not yet descended to the level of kidnapping and assassination,"
And if you'd connect her to a truth detector, you'd see she really believes that.
It should have been a slam dunk. In Afghanistan's eastern border region, US troops say they photographed Taliban fighters firing a rocket-launcher at them from the safety of the Pakistani side - within sight of a Pakistani military observation post. But a frustrated US military official in Kabul explains: "We thought we had them. But when we showed the pictures in Islamabad they said, 'We saw nothing.' It's the same when we call on our direct communications lines to say we're chasing the Taliban over the border - they see us coming and they refuse to pick up the phone," he said, speaking anonymously.
More than 700 Afghans and 45 Americans have died as border raids intensified since the northern winter. This is all the more puzzling because Pakistan says it has sent 74,000 troops to the border region to rein them in. Despite superficial civility and an aid cheque for $US100 million ($133 million) from Islamabad, a spokesman for Afghanistan's President, Hamid Karzai, recently told reporters: "All the weapons, ammunition, budgets, money transfer systems and safe havens for terrorists are located in Pakistan." Afghan officials suspect parts of Pakistan's military and intelligence services that are loyal to the Taliban have been training the fighters to use more sophisticated remote-controlled bombs. Pakistan denies Afghan claims that a system of extremist training camps operates in Pakistan. But Zulfiqar Ali, a Pakistani journalist, reported visiting such a camp. Men and boys as young as 13 took an 18-day "ideological orientation" and weapons training.
Despite General Musharraf's promises, the gunmen and the bombers keep arriving in Afghanistan, and only a few hundred of the estimated 15,000 madrassas in Pakistan have complied with his demand that they register with the authorities. All that, he says, is about to change. NATO's civilian representative in Kabul and a former Turkish foreign minister, Hikmet Cetin, said last week: "The madrassas in Pakistan remain a critical issue. The border between these countries is 2400 kilometres and very mountainous. It's very difficult to patrol, and with 2 million Afghan refugees still in Pakistan it's easy for them to bring the Taliban ideology back here when they come home." The new US ambassador to Kabul, Ronald Neumann, said last week: "We are urging the Government of Pakistan to take all possible action to control extremism. We'll work with both countries to bring about better relations and institutions to fight terrorism. I think we are having some success."
The US military official speaking on condition on anonymity spoke more bluntly. "We are looking for commitment - we've seen none in the last 12 months. All they do is arrest someone on the eve of an official US visit to Islamabad, and they release them once we've left town." Most US criticism of the ease with which the Taliban slip away into Pakistan has been confined to soldier level in the US forces. They are often forced to halt while in hot pursuit when they come to what they believe is the border. Known as the Durand Line, the 1893 British-drawn frontier is ill-defined and disputed. The US military officer seemed to share his men's frustration, exclaiming: "Anyway, where is the f---ing Durand Line?"
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Maybe it is time for a few "friendly fire incidents" that hit Paky obsevation posts.
Gee we must of entered the wrong GPS co=ordinates. Sorry about that
#4
Time to chase after them and level bases and areas on the Pak side. If the Paks complain, tell them if they make one more statement other than, "Have a nice day," the f-16s they ordered will be routed to India.
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This is exactly the game played by the Mexican government when the Apaches would run across the border after raiding in the US. Finally, military columns were sent in to clear bases of operations. It was the Mexican government's turn the bitch. Just make sure you have overwhelming force to interdict the interference from Pak personnel. Oh, and start joint exercises in the INDIAN Ocean.
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May want to vote against the proposal to sell F-16s to the PakiWakis
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Hague Convention of 1907 ..."a neutral country has the obligation not to allow its territory to be used by a belligerent. If the neutral country is unwilling or unable to prevent this, the other belligerent has the right to take appropriate counteraction."
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"warning to Pakland: next time the artillery will take out any living thing as hot pursuit. You've been warned"
then do it
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Pakistan isn't a neutral. The "land of the pure" is on the other side.
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The Durand line should be considered invalid.
The treaty between the British Raj and the Afghan king expired in 1993. Afghanistan refused to renew it so the border is in fact disputed.
Given that the terrorists operate in a region claimed by Afghanistan, the US forces present in that country (legimately under both UN sanction and Afghan government request) should be free to operate there, ignoring the illegitimate Pak border posts.
This business of fighting a war with hands tied behind your back cannot continue. Have the lessons of Vietnam been forgotten?
Sacrificing the lives of US troops to avoid offending Pakistan is absurd.
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Another pressure point would be for the US and ISAF to invite Indian participation in the peacekeeping/enforcement operation in Afghanistan.
I'm sure India would jump at the chance to place an armored division or two and a few squadrons of Su 30 Fighters on Pakistan's western border.
Pakistan must be made to choose.
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"We thought we had them. But when we showed the pictures in Islamabad they said, 'We saw nothing.' It's the same when we call on our direct communications lines to say we're chasing the Taliban over the border - they see us coming and they refuse to pick up the phone,"
Go after 'em. Excuses from Pervy's minions no longer count. If they get in the way, drop 'em.
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If the border treaty has expired, then the Karzai goverment must formally enter into discussions with Musharref, on the grounds that there is documented evidence that Pakistan is unable to control the border as it was formerly located. And, until the new border is finalized, Afghanistan willingly and immediately takes on the burden of controlling the region, freeing Pakistan's Border Patrol for activities more suited to its abilities.
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This is the game that Pak plays with India, providing safe haven for terrorists right under border posts.
Unlike India, the US doesn't have to tolerate this.
It can "end" Pakistan.
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When the sun goes down.... there are no Coalition Forces or PakMil troops to rule the night along the AfghanPak border area. Waziristan, NW Frontier or whatever you want to call that hole is no more enforceable than the US/Mexican border or Kennedy's, Clinton's or Kerry's anti-American mouths. Ain't no one running crap in that part of the work... just the Waziris and anyone they tolerate or welcome. If you ain't in their inner circle or are very useful to them then you are a dead man.
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It is the Pakistani ISI's money and trainers that operate the terror camps.
The Pak military has both the manpower and material to enforce its laws in these so called wild areas.
They simply choose not to.
Don't buy the Pak propaganda about the British being unable to pacify Waziristan etc.
The military governors in these areas have total legal power. They can arrest anyone and imprison them for life. They can certainly crack down.
When its interests are threatened, the Pakistan Army can be utterly ruthless. It has killed more of its own citizens that any armed force in the past 4 decades (millions in East Pakistan, Tens of thousands in Baluchistan, thousands in Gilgit).
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"This is all the more puzzling because Pakistan says it has sent 74,000 troops to the border region to rein them in."
Maybe to the idiot reporter but to those that live in the real world, this isn't "puzzling" at all. These are the same Paki troops that got their asses handed to them in Waziristan last year. So what's the big surprise here? Seen their helmets? They're still wearing W W I left-over Tommy helmets. And I swear, I've seen German-made MG-42 models mounted on Paki Army trucks!
Time for the occasional T.O.T. artillery barrage ... 155-mm. should send the message loud and clear.
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Those are paramilitary forces, saddled with hand-me- downs from the regular army. They have little training.
The regular Pak army is quite well equipped and trained.
If Pak was really serious, Perv would unleash a Corps from the Eastern border.
Pak SSG could then force compliance (as they have done in Gilgit via their anti-shia pogroms).
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Perhaps India could use a little help with a homemade SOSUS line.
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If Pak was really serious, Perv would unleash a Corps from the Eastern border. Pak SSG could then force compliance (as they have done in Gilgit via their anti-shia pogroms).
Well yeah, but that was different.
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The terrorist entity of Pakistan employs only locals from Islamofascist' polluted Balochistan and the North West Frontier Provinces, as federal officers. The terrorist Muttahida-Majlis-e-Amal party controls - directly in NWFP and by power sharing in Balochistan - both provinces, and collects over 14% of US aid to Pakistan, under the constitutional distribution formula.
Fred: YES or NO? AFFIRM or DENY?
Do American taxpayers subsidize, indirectly, terror operations against US troops in Afghanistan?
As the PEW polls consistently reveal 90% Pakistan opposition to the US, would it not reflect due diligence to expect that this hate will be translated into subversion of the nominal counter-terror operations?
Does US policy towards Pakistan project weakness and irresolution, in the face of the crystalized genocidal jihadism that is manifesting in Central Asia, and arising throughout immigrant communities (ummahs) in the West?
Can you point to benefits of said US-Pak relations, that outweigh the human costs of jihad indulgence?
Do you affirm or deny the assertion that America's inclusivist policy - viz importuned (especially under Nancy Powell's ambassadorship) Islamofascist participation in nominal democratic processes - is in conformity with fundamental American values?
Are you willing to write-off peoples - Pashto Afghanis, Pak Punjabis, Sunni Iraqis, Qom Iranians, Karbala Shiites, for example - en toto, thereby making same personna non grata, viz practical US projection of power?
If Robert Spencer can question the exportability of democracy to the demographic-territorial pig pens of the world, and still place a book on the NYT best-seller list, then you can stop ducking the above questions. The only future is PAX AMERICANA.
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Jordanian security authorities detained a couple of Egyptian men last night for a possible involvement in Friday's missile attacks that targeted two American warships in Jordanian port of Aqaba, 300 KM south of the capital, said a Jordanian security source on Sunday. The source told KUNA that security forces were keeping on operations in the search for other suspects, after detaining an Iraqi suspect yesterday.
The security condition in Jordan was "stable as life was proceeding normally" in all Jordanian cities, the source added. Since the attacks, the authority launched a campaign to hunt down four Iraqi and Egyptian suspects possibly involved in the incident. Jordanian Interior Minister Ouni Yerfas said, earlier today, that the detainees were being questioned. No details in this regard were revealed yet. In the meantime, the US Embassy here warned American citizens in Jordan, via an Internet statement, to stay cautious when moving around, indicating that local authorities informed the embassy over boosting security measures around its headquarters in the capital.
A group claiming link to al Qaeda network had announced responsibility for the assault, which killed a Jordanian solider and wounded another. One of three rockets of the attack fell in the Israeli port of Eilat. The Egyptian community in Jordan denounced in a statement issued here the attack, describing it as a crime against Jordan's security. Egyptians in Jordan make the great majority of foreign labors in the country, followed by Iraqis.
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The US forces arrested on Sunday eight gunmen, including a leader of an armed group, in Tikrit Province, north of Baghdad. Spokesperson for Task Force Liberty told Kuwait News Agency that members of the force arrested eight gunmen in a burst and search operation, noting that the gunmen were involved in a number of attacks with explosives against the coalition forces. The source said that one of the gunmen is a leader of an armed group, noting that the detainees were possessing weapons and different types of explosives.
Meanwhile, the Iraqi Police on Sunday found a weapons hideout in a voting center in Kirkuk, northern Iraq. A press release issued by the Informational Team in north central Iraq said today that the members of Kirkuk Police found the hideout in a school used currently as a polling station in northern Kirkuk Province. It added that the hideout contained six 60mm mortar rounds, two rocket lunching assemblies, detonator, and an explosive belt, noting that the weapons were clean and wrapped in fabrics. The Independent Commission for Elections in Iraq opened 25 voting centers in Kirkuk Province in preparation for the referendum process on the permanent Iraqi constitution.
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Sounds like the AIF are pre-staging weapons and explosives for election day, so all they need to do is bring a 'voter' through security, who can then load up and blow up.
Algerian forces killed 11 militants and arrested two others in extensive search operations over the past three days, a security source said Sunday. The source said in statement that the operation took place in the village of Daraq in the province of Mdiyya, 90 kilometers west of Algiers, adding that the area had witnessed terrorist activities over the past decade.
The militants belong to Algeria's Salafiya Group for Preaching and Combat and would stand before justice by the end of this week, the source added. Algerian President Abdul-Aziz Bouteflika had announced a pardoning decree of militants as part of the national peace and reconciliation accord upon which a referendum is to be held on September 29. Meanwhile, the same source said that Algerian forces had detained three people suspected of being implicated in militant acts in the area of Balabas, 490 kilometers west of Algiers, and that they were currently being interrogated.
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Four US soldiers were killed and three wounded in a bomb explosion in Southern Afghanistan on Sunday, said media reports. Reports citing a US military statement, issued in capital city of Kabul, said that a roadside bomb exploded in Daychupan district of Zabul province when the Afghan and the US troops were conducting an operation against Taliban rebels. Maj. Gen. Jason Kamiya, the U.S.-led coalition's operational commander, in the statement said that the three wounded soldiers were hit by shrapnel and were in stable condition.
"The unit was conducting offensive operations in support of an ongoing mission to find and defeat enemy forces in the area when the attack occurred," the statement said. "The unit's mission is part of a much larger operation to disrupt enemy forces and to thereby provide a safe environment for upcoming September elections", the statement said, adding, the attack would strengthen, not weaken, the resolve of the troops.
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God bless them. NSDQ
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A powerful bomb explosion Sunday morning destroyed at least eight cars of a train and wounded two railway guards in Pakistan's violence-stricken Karachi city, said witnesses and officials. The explosion took place in Interior Sindh bound food train on Malir Railway Bridge near Cantonment area, a police official told KUNA speaking at the site. He said the explosion was so powerful that it destroyed at least eights cars of the train and tore apart the rail track. He added that two railway guards, on duty, sustained minor injuries. It was not immediately clear who was behind the explosion but authorities termed it a sabotage act. A triple train collision had last month in the southern Sindh province killed over 50 and wounded about 200 passengers.
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Two militants were killed Saturday evening and two others were arrested after confrontations broke out between Iraqi police and militants in Mosul, northern Iraq, it was reported Sunday. Iraqi police sources said in a statement to reporters on Sunday that among the two militants arrested was a Jordanian national, adding that five policemen were wounded in the clashes. According to the sources, the militants were found in possession of a large amount of weapons, as well as videos documenting executions of Iraqis carried out by the militants.
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Commander of Iraqi Border Guards Major-General Ali Hamadi was wounded on Saturday after being shot at while driving his private car in Baghdad, Iraqi police sources said on Sunday. The sources said in a statement to reporters that the official, who sustained shots to the stomach, was taken to hospital immediately for treatment. Meanwhile, a multi-national force source denied reports that US soldiers opened fire on the car, saying that no patrols were present at the area of the attack at the time. Hospital sources said that Hamadi's situation was stable and that he was recovering.
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Shot in the stomach while drivimg his car? Who was in the passenger seat?
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Two US embassy officials have been hurt in a roadside bomb that hit their convoy near the Afghan capital, a spokesman says.
The blast near Kabul came hours after a bomb attack killed four US soldiers in the restive Zabul province, in the southern part of the country. "I can confirm that two American personnel of the US embassy were slightly hurt while on a routine embassy mission," Michael Macy, a US embassy spokesman told Reuters.
He declined to identify the two and also refused to say if the US ambassador to Afghanistan, Ronald Neumann, was in the convoy when the blast occurred. He says an investigation has been launched to find out who was behind the attack. Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Lutfullah Mashal says the incident occurred on a dirt road in Paghman, a resort area located some 20 kilometres west of the capital.
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The embassy teams are unsung hero's our country never hears about. They routinely take very high risks with little or no training.
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Some 2,100 members of Egypt's security forces swept through the rugged desert of the Sinai Peninsula on Sunday, arresting 300 people as they searched for terrorists involved in a series of recent bombings, security officials said. Most of the arrests took place in el-Arish, a north Sinai town near the border of Gaza and Israel, a security official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to issue public statements. Earlier, another security official said troops would start searching for suspects in the region on Monday.
The open-ended manhunt is not connected with the deployment of 750 Egyptian security forces along the Gaza-Egypt border, in agreement with Israel as it abandons settlements in the Palestinian enclave. Israeli forces have clashed often there with Palestinian arms smugglers and have destroyed dozens of smuggler tunnels.
Until last year, the Red Sea area, including Egypt's Sinai, had been free of militant-inspired violence. Beginning last October, however, the area has seen a string of deadly attacks that began at hotels in the Egyptian resort of Taba. Last month, dozens were killed in three blasts that targeted Sharm el-Sheik, the highly popular resort at the southern tip of the Sinai. Last week, a bomb in northern Sinai hit a vehicle carrying peacekeepers of the Multinational Force and Observers, which is helping monitor the 1979 Egypt-Israeli peace agreement. Two Canadian soldiers were injured.
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Two suspected rebels were killed when a bomb they were making exploded in western Bangladesh, while riot police in the capital clashed with protesters angry over the government's failure to prevent a wave of bombings last week. At least a dozen protesters were hurt Saturday when riot police used batons to control the crowd in two neighborhoods in the capital, Dhaka. Police arrested 30 protesters, local media reports said. The protest was part of a daylong general strike called by opposition parties that blame Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's government for failing to prevent more than 100 homemade bombs from going off across the country on Wednesday. The blasts killed a rickshaw driver and a 10-year-old boy and injured 125 people.
Meanwhile, two suspected Maoist rebels died Friday night when the bomb they were making exploded in an abandoned house in Kushtia district, 80 miles west of Dhaka, local police officer Awlad Hossain said.
Another comp claim for Mutual of Dhaka.
Businesses and schools shut throughout the country during Saturday's strike, called to demand the government's resignation for failing to prevent Wednesday's bombings. Political strikes are a common opposition tactic in the South Asian nation to press demands and embarrass the government. They often turn violent. No one has claimed responsibility for Wednesday's bombings, but leaflets from the banned Islamic group Jumatul Mujahedin were found at all of the blast locations, officials said. The group wants to establish an Islamic state in Bangladesh, a Muslim-majority nation governed by secular laws. Police have so far interrogated more than 100 people in connection with the bombings.
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Thai police arrested two Pakistani men for allegedly purchasing stolen passports that were to be altered and then sold, police said on Sunday. They seized a total of 112 passports. Acting on a tip, police investigators followed Muhammad Saqib and Amanullah on Saturday in the parking lot of Bangkokâs international airport, a tourist police bureau statement said. Police arrested the men after a foreign woman gave them a grey suitcase in which police later found 58 stolen passports from 13 countries, mostly European, the statement said. The woman fled the scene and escaped, it said.
It said Saqib told police that they had met the woman, identified as an Italian named Tara, near the popular backpacker street Khao San Road. It said they ordered and purchased the passports, which she delivered to them on Saturday. Near the airport, police later found a bag belonging to the woman which contained 54 more stolen passports, the statement said. It said the suspects had planned to deliver the passports to a foreigner named Johnny who would alter and then sell them. The passports were from 10 European countries, New Zealand, Vietnam and Israel. Fifty-three were from France and 25 were from Northern Ireland, tourist police said.
You wonder at what point the Thais will pass a law limiting Pakistanis to no more than, oh, five passports or so.
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LAHORE: A tribal elder from Khost province (southern Afghanistan) was kidnapped along with his son while going back to Afghanistan from Peshawar, Pajhwok Afghan News reported on Sunday. Nauroze Khan, a tribal elder and resident of Zambar village in Sabroi district, had accompanied his wife and grandson to Peshawar for medical treatment, it said, adding that men in tinted car intercepted him while he was returning to Afghanistan. His grandson, who was present on the occasion, said the gunmen pushed Nauroze and his son in their car and left, Pajhwok Afghan News said. He said his grandfather was not linked to any group not had enmity in the area, it reported. Pajhwok Afghan News quoted Khost deputy security chief Naqibullah Esmati as saying that the tribal elder was returning home when he was kidnapped inside Pakistan. Meanwhile, a resident of the area said the victim supported the US presence in the region, which might be a reason behind his abduction, it reported.
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LADHA: Assailants fired rockets apparently targeting Pakistani security forces in a northwestern tribal town, with one rocket slamming into a bazaar and another inside a base housing troops, officials said on Sunday. No one was reported hurt. Five rockets were fired in the attack late on Friday in Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal area, a local government administrator, Iftikhar Ahmed Khattak, said. One rocket damaged a shop in the townâs bazaar, a second rocket hit a watch tower on the roof of a canteen in a base for paramilitary troops and three others slammed into fields, Khattak said. Army and paramilitary troops fired in the direction from where the rockets were believed to have been fired, but it was not known whether there were casualties among the attackers, he said. Islamic militants have been blamed for roadside bombings and rocket attacks against security forces in the region, bordering Afghanistan.
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BAGHDAD - Iraq has in custody 281 foreigners suspected of involvement in insurgent activity, a spokesman for the Iraqi government said on Sunday. âAll of the foreigners currently in custody are involved in charges that are related, one way or another, to terrorism networks,â said spokesman Leith Kubba. âFigures from the former regime, according to intelligence information, are regrouping in a neighbouring country,â Kubba said.
âThey have begun funding the spreading of rumours to demoralise Iraqis, damage the image of democracy and thwart the referendum on the constitution.â
Topping the list of detaineesâ nationalities were Egypt (80), followed by Syria (64) and Sudan (41). Kubba said there was also a Briton in the group. He named a total of 14 countries, all of them Arab, except Iran, Turkey and Britain.
Not as many Saudis as I thought. They must be home arranging the financing.
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Execute them all as spies. Now. That will send a badly needed message.
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Wonder if Kos considers them to be 'mercenaries'?
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I am trying to remember during my black and white TV days of youth Do I remember seeing people taken to the wall and shot in Cuba? Trying to see how this is any different. If it was good enough for El Comandante and Fidel Castro it should be OK in Iraq. Give them an El Commandante trial and then a trip to the wall.
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After German infiltrators were caught wearing US uniforms during the Battle of the Bulge, field commanders summarily executed them under terms of the Geneva Convention. Iraqis should be treating alien secret combatants in a similar manner. But then again, that would offend the State Department' engineered Sharia constitution of Iraq. And we all know that most of those captives are from the Saudi terrorist entity.
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Must be running a diversity program.
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âThey have begun funding the spreading of rumours to demoralise Iraqis, damage the image of democracy and thwart the referendum on the constitution.â
After graduating from US MSM University with bs degrees.
AMMAN - Jordan was interrogating about 30 suspects arrested in connection with Fridayâs rocket attack that targeted a US warship, a Jordanian army training centre and the Israeli port of Eilat, Jordanian Interior Minister Awni Yerfas said on Sunday.
Without providing details about the suspectsâ exact number and identity, he was quoted by the official Petra news agency as saying that interrogators were making progress in finding out those behind the attack that left one Jordanian soldier dead and another wounded.
Citing security sources, the pro-government newspaper Al-Rai said on Sunday that about 30 men among them Jordanians, Iraqis, Egyptians, and Syrians had been arrested in the investigations since Friday. According to the Al-Arabiya television network, Jordanian police detained a 39-year-old Iraqi, who is believed to be a member of the group that rented the warehouse from which the attack was staged, as well as a Syrian who allegedly guarded the compound.
âThe authorities have closed Aqabaâs maritime and land outlets, including the ferry service with Egyptâs Nuwiabe port and the Durra frontiers with Saudi Arabia to prevent culprits from fleeing to the neighbouring countries,â Al-Rai said, quoting security sources.
Anyone think to close the sand dunes leading to Saudi-land?
Meanwhile, the regional Al Hayat newspaper reported that the Katyusha rockets used in the attack were partly made in Iraq. Quoting security sources, the report said the rocketsâ warheads were Iraqi-made but their bases âlooked like they were manufactured in Jordan.â The newspaper also said that security forces found four further Katyusha rockets that did not detonate in the Aqaba warehouse. âRemote control devices were found in the warehouse from where the rockets were fired,â Al Hayat added.
Since the Lions of Islam⢠didn't feel like hanging around to admire their handiwork.
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SRINAGAR - Indian security forces on Sunday attacked a hideout of suspected rebels in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, killing two in a shootout, an army spokesman said.
There were no government casualties in the raid on a house in Ashmander, a village in Pulwama district, said spokesman Lt. Col. V.K. Batra. Ashmander is 60 kilometers south of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indiaâs Jammu-Kashmir state.
Batra said those killed belonged to Hizbul Mujahedeen, one of nearly a dozen insurgent groups that have been fighting since 1989 for Kashmirâs independence from India or its merger with Pakistan. There was no independent confirmation of the armyâs claim.
Also Sunday, government forces killed two other suspected rebels in separate clashes in the Indian portion of Kashmir, the spokesman said.
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Up to 281 people have been arrested around Iraq for being implicated in terror-related attacks, said spokesman for the Iraqi government Laith Kibba on Sunday. Speaking at a press conference, he said that among those arrested were 80 Egyptians, 64 Syrians, 41 Sudanese, 22 Saudis, 17 Jordanians, 10 Palestinians, seven Libyans, six Tunisians, as well as 12 Iranians, four Turks and one British national.
He added that all those arrested would stand before Iraqi courts, warning that terrorism in Iraq may spread to neighboring states if not countered. Kibba expressed hope that Jordan would sign a security agreement with Iraq so as to allow for the pursuit of terrorists in its territories, adding that new laws would be passed allowing for aiding families for those killed in terrorist attacks.
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Jordanian authorities are still interrogating those suspects to be implicated in Friday's rocket attacks on the city of Aqaba, said Jordanian Interior Minister Ouni Yarfas Sunday. The minister said in a statement that investigations were ongoing to discover the perpetrators, affirming that progress was being made. Jordanian sources had told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) yesterday that authorities had arrested an Iraqi national suspected of being implicated in the attack. Three rockets had been launched at the Jordanian city of Aqaba on Friday, where two fell over Aqaba Port and third on the Israeli Eilat Port, killing a Jordanian soldier and wounding another.
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A British soldier was wounded Sunday when a roadside bomb went off on the way to the Shatt Al-Arab Hotel north of Basra. Eyewitnesses told KUNA the explosion took place when a patrol of British troops was passing in the direction of the hotel. A British spokesman in Basra however told reporters that no casualties were reported after the explosion.
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NOWKANDI: Nine personnel of Iranian security forces and one Baloch tribesman were killed in a gunbattle in Nowkandi, a Pakistani town bordering Iran, on Monday. Several Iranian security force personnel had crossed the international border on Monday morning and attacked Yaqoob Bazaar in Bahu Kalat town in Pakistan to secure the release of their missing officials allegedly abducted by local tribesmen. The attack prompted a shootout between Iranians and the tribesmen in which nine Iranian security personnel and one tribesman were killed. The Iranians reportedly used heavy artillery in the attack.
Security forces arrested 10 suspected militants from Pakistan's turbulent tribal regions and recovered weapons, wigs and women's outfits from a fake madrassa, the military said on Monday. The raid on a deserted compound which was designed to look like one of Pakistan's thousands of religious schools happened on Sunday night near Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan region, it said. "The compound was being used as terrorist den and security forces carried out a search following a tip-off by locals that suspected militants visited the compound," the military said in a statement.
U.S. Marines and Afghan forces killed more than 40 suspected militants in an operation against insurgents who had inflicted the deadliest blow to American forces since the Taliban's ouster, a military spokesman said Monday. The weeklong operation, which concluded over the weekend, was aimed at rebels in the eastern Koregnal Valley believed responsible for twin attacks that killed 19 troops in June. Three Navy SEALs were killed in an ambush, and all 16 soldiers on a helicopter sent to rescue them died when it was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade. "It was successful," Lt. Col. Jerry O'Hara told The Associated Press. "We had over 29 separate engagements with enemy forces that resulted in more than 40 enemy killed in action and many others wounded." O'Hara also announced that a separate three-day battle from Aug. 7-10 in southern Zabul province's Daychopan district left a total of 65 suspected militants dead. The military had previously reported that 16 rebels had been killed...
Jordanian security authorities detained a couple of Egyptian men last night for a possible involvement in Friday's missile attacks that targeted two American warships in Jordanian port of Aqaba, 300 KM south of the capital, said a Jordanian security source on Sunday. The source told KUNA that security forces were keeping on operations in the search for other suspects, after detaining an Iraqi suspect yesterday.
The US forces arrested on Sunday eight gunmen, including a leader of an armed group, in Tikrit Province, north of Baghdad. Spokesperson for Task Force Liberty told Kuwait News Agency that members of the force arrested eight gunmen in a burst and search operation, noting that the gunmen were involved in a number of attacks with explosives against the coalition forces. The source said that one of the gunmen is a leader of an armed group, noting that the detainees were possessing weapons and different types of explosives.
Algerian forces killed 11 militants and arrested two others in extensive search operations over the past three days, a security source said Sunday. The source said in statement that the operation took place in the village of Daraq in the province of Mdiyya, 90 kilometers west of Algiers, adding that the area had witnessed terrorist activities over the past decade.
Four US soldiers were killed and three wounded in a bomb explosion in Southern Afghanistan on Sunday, said media reports. Reports citing a US military statement, issued in capital city of Kabul, said that a roadside bomb exploded in Daychupan district of Zabul province when the Afghan and the US troops were conducting an operation against Taliban rebels. Maj. Gen. Jason Kamiya, the U.S.-led coalition's operational commander, in the statement said that the three wounded soldiers were hit by shrapnel and were in stable condition.
A powerful bomb explosion Sunday morning destroyed at least eight cars of a train and wounded two railway guards in Pakistan's violence-stricken Karachi city, said witnesses and officials. The explosion took place in Interior Sindh bound food train on Malir Railway Bridge near Cantonment area, a police official told KUNA speaking at the site. He said the explosion was so powerful that it destroyed at least eights cars of the train and tore apart the rail track. He added that two railway guards, on duty, sustained minor injuries. It was not immediately clear who was behind the explosion but authorities termed it a sabotage act. A triple train collision had last month in the southern Sindh province killed over 50 and wounded about 200 passengers.
Commander of Iraqi Border Guards Major-General Ali Hamadi was wounded on Saturday after being shot at while driving his private car in Baghdad, Iraqi police sources said on Sunday. The sources said in a statement to reporters that the official, who sustained shots to the stomach, was taken to hospital immediately for treatment. Meanwhile, a multi-national force source denied reports that US soldiers opened fire on the car, saying that no patrols were present at the area of the attack at the time. Hospital sources said that Hamadi's situation was stable and that he was recovering.
Two US embassy officials have been hurt in a roadside bomb that hit their convoy near the Afghan capital, a spokesman says. 
Some 2,100 members of Egypt's security forces swept through the rugged desert of the Sinai Peninsula on Sunday, arresting 300 people as they searched for terrorists involved in a series of recent bombings, security officials said. Most of the arrests took place in el-Arish, a north Sinai town near the border of Gaza and Israel, a security official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to issue public statements. Earlier, another security official said troops would start searching for suspects in the region on Monday.
Two suspected rebels were killed when a bomb they were making exploded in western Bangladesh, while riot police in the capital clashed with protesters angry over the government's failure to prevent a wave of bombings last week. At least a dozen protesters were hurt Saturday when riot police used batons to control the crowd in two neighborhoods in the capital, Dhaka. Police arrested 30 protesters, local media reports said. The protest was part of a daylong general strike called by opposition parties that blame Prime Minister Khaleda Zia's government for failing to prevent more than 100 homemade bombs from going off across the country on Wednesday. The blasts killed a rickshaw driver and a 10-year-old boy and injured 125 people.
Thai police arrested two Pakistani men for allegedly purchasing stolen passports that were to be altered and then sold, police said on Sunday. They seized a total of 112 passports. Acting on a tip, police investigators followed Muhammad Saqib and Amanullah on Saturday in the parking lot of Bangkokâs international airport, a tourist police bureau statement said. Police arrested the men after a foreign woman gave them a grey suitcase in which police later found 58 stolen passports from 13 countries, mostly European, the statement said. The woman fled the scene and escaped, it said.
LAHORE: A tribal elder from Khost province (southern Afghanistan) was kidnapped along with his son while going back to Afghanistan from Peshawar, Pajhwok Afghan News reported on Sunday. Nauroze Khan, a tribal elder and resident of Zambar village in Sabroi district, had accompanied his wife and grandson to Peshawar for medical treatment, it said, adding that men in tinted car intercepted him while he was returning to Afghanistan. His grandson, who was present on the occasion, said the gunmen pushed Nauroze and his son in their car and left, Pajhwok Afghan News said. He said his grandfather was not linked to any group not had enmity in the area, it reported. Pajhwok Afghan News quoted Khost deputy security chief Naqibullah Esmati as saying that the tribal elder was returning home when he was kidnapped inside Pakistan. Meanwhile, a resident of the area said the victim supported the US presence in the region, which might be a reason behind his abduction, it reported.
LADHA: Assailants fired rockets apparently targeting Pakistani security forces in a northwestern tribal town, with one rocket slamming into a bazaar and another inside a base housing troops, officials said on Sunday. No one was reported hurt. Five rockets were fired in the attack late on Friday in Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal area, a local government administrator, Iftikhar Ahmed Khattak, said. One rocket damaged a shop in the townâs bazaar, a second rocket hit a watch tower on the roof of a canteen in a base for paramilitary troops and three others slammed into fields, Khattak said. Army and paramilitary troops fired in the direction from where the rockets were believed to have been fired, but it was not known whether there were casualties among the attackers, he said. Islamic militants have been blamed for roadside bombings and rocket attacks against security forces in the region, bordering Afghanistan.
BAGHDAD - Iraq has in custody 281 foreigners suspected of involvement in insurgent activity, a spokesman for the Iraqi government said on Sunday. âAll of the foreigners currently in custody are involved in charges that are related, one way or another, to terrorism networks,â said spokesman Leith Kubba. âFigures from the former regime, according to intelligence information, are regrouping in a neighbouring country,â Kubba said.
AMMAN - Jordan was interrogating about 30 suspects arrested in connection with Fridayâs rocket attack that targeted a US warship, a Jordanian army training centre and the Israeli port of Eilat, Jordanian Interior Minister Awni Yerfas said on Sunday.
SRINAGAR - Indian security forces on Sunday attacked a hideout of suspected rebels in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir, killing two in a shootout, an army spokesman said.
Up to 281 people have been arrested around Iraq for being implicated in terror-related attacks, said spokesman for the Iraqi government Laith Kibba on Sunday. Speaking at a press conference, he said that among those arrested were 80 Egyptians, 64 Syrians, 41 Sudanese, 22 Saudis, 17 Jordanians, 10 Palestinians, seven Libyans, six Tunisians, as well as 12 Iranians, four Turks and one British national.
Jordanian authorities are still interrogating those suspects to be implicated in Friday's rocket attacks on the city of Aqaba, said Jordanian Interior Minister Ouni Yarfas Sunday. The minister said in a statement that investigations were ongoing to discover the perpetrators, affirming that progress was being made. Jordanian sources had told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) yesterday that authorities had arrested an Iraqi national suspected of being implicated in the attack. Three rockets had been launched at the Jordanian city of Aqaba on Friday, where two fell over Aqaba Port and third on the Israeli Eilat Port, killing a Jordanian soldier and wounding another.
