Huzzah! The 'Burg gets some linky love from Sweetness and Light via Atlas Shrugs. But I don't know about the packrat label. My closets have *never* been cleaner!
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All hilarity aside, one should type "Hillary" into the Rantburg archive search to see how many other negative leaning MSM articles have disappeared.
Money makes the world go around
The world go around
The world go around
Money makes the world go around
It makes the world go 'round.
A mark, a yen, a buck, or a pound
A buck or a pound
A buck or a pound
Is all that makes the world go around,
That clinking clanking sound
Can make the world go 'round.
...and I'll be squinting at it on Al-Jizz from my suite in Quetta, boys, so don't let me down.
Kabul- Taliban chief Mullah Omar called on his fellow Afghans to wage a united jihad or "holy war" on western soldiers in Afghanistan and urged them to prepare the defeat of the "invaders". That meant that Afghans across the country would have to put aside their tribal, linguistic and regional differences first. Oh, sure. That should be nooooo problem...
He added: "As the freedom fight is going on well in the country, there is sign of panic in enemies' fronts and their international partners are retreating, in this sensitive time." Yes. If it wasn't for all these dead guys, we'd be doing all right...
Mullah Omar also called on Afghans working with the government, parliament or senate, in the provincial council or with the police, army or intelligence "to join their brothers who struggle for the freedom of the country." Is good deal. Really. Free Pakistani vacation and all the lead you can eat...
He congratulated his fellow Afghans on the 88th year of independence from former British forces, but said: "Our country is once again occupied by the same forces," adding, "Our homes are destroyed, our children have become orphans, our courageous fighters are either martyred or are spending days and nights and thousands of invading forces are stationed in our country and our air space is covered with their aircrafts." Now there's a recruitment speech. Where do ya sign up?
Mullah Omar also called on Taliban fighters to try to win the hearts of the people: "You should try with all of your ability to avoid harming people during your jihadi operations". ...unless, of course, you're hiding behind them.
Taliban attacks and operations by international forces in Afghanistan have claimed many civilian lives. Analysts say that the insurgents consciously hazard fatalites among civilians in order to destabilize the central goverment in Kabul. So join Taliban! Better them then you!
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He really needs to lose the other eye - to a 20mm cannon shell.
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I'll take this as confirmation that Mullah Brother's pushing up daisies. He always issues a statement link his when one of the big turbans buys the farm.
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"Our homes are destroyed, our children have become orphans, our courageous fighters are either martyred or are spending days and nights and thousands of invading forces are stationed in our country and our air space is covered with their aircrafts."
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Impressive Scooter. Do you have a copy of the delapatory plug-in?
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Iff Osama is truly alive, for the sake of the Radical Islamist movement as a whole he needs to de facto physically present himself, for the movement and world to see. A GOOD LEADER "LEADS FROM THE FRONT", AND THAT INCLUDES ASSURING FOLLOWERS HE'S STILL EXISTS IN MIND, SOUL, AND BODY. His personal health status is separate, exclusive, and irrelevant.
A wanted Taliban insurgent leader in Afghanistan, Mullah Brother, was killed on Thursday in a U.S.-led raid in the southern province of Helmand, the Afghan Defence Ministry said, citing ground commanders.
Brother served as a top military commander for the Taliban government until its removal from power in 2001 and was a member of the movement's leadership council led by its fugitive leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar.
Brother served as a top military commander for the Taliban government until its removal from power in 2001 and was a member of the movement's leadership council led by its fugitive leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar. Mullah is a title for a Muslim cleric that many senior Taliban use. It was not clear if the name Brother, which other Taliban leaders have used to refer to him, was a nom de guerre.
It doesn't sound Pashto, does it?
Taliban members were not immediately available for comment and there was no independent verification of the ministry report.
Meaning that really should be the accordion lady playing whilst we wait for confirmation...
The raid was launched after Taliban insurgents ambushed an Afghan army convoy between Sangin and Sarwan districts of Helmand, the ministry said in a statement. Air support from U.S.-led troops was called in, said ministry spokesman, Zahir Azimi. "He was killed, probably in ground fighting," he said.
"Yep. Plugged him right through the brisket!"
"Brother was on the black list," Azimi said referring to a wanted U.S. list involving Taliban leaders and al Qaeda members. Brother was a top military aide to Taliban leader Omar. An Afghan man convicted of killing four journalists in 2001, including two from Reuters, told his trial in 2004 that Brother had given the order that the four be killed.
He had the death sentence on twelve systems!
Gunmen captured the journalists on the main road from Pakistan in the east of the country, while they trying to reach Kabul days after the defeated Taliban had withdrawn from the city. They were shot dead.
If confirmed, Brother's killing would represent another blow to the Taliban insurgency which has had several of its top leaders either killed or arrested in the past nine months.
Mullah Dadullah, the Taliban's top operational commander in southern Afghanistan, was killed in May. In December, U.S.-led forces killed another top Taliban official, Mullah Mohammad Akhtar Osmani, in an air attack in the south of the country after a tip-off by Pakistan. But several previous Afghan government reports of the arrest or killing of top Taliban commanders have turned out to be erroneous.
Which is why the accordion lady is sulking so prettily at this moment.
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No, where Osama and Zawi are concerned, "Brother" is a specific, special reference/title given many many years ago, "IN A DIFFERENT PLACE AND TIME" AS THE GEICO CAVEMEN WOULD SAY.
A Pakistani suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded bazaar in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing four civilians and two Afghan soldiers, a provincial governor told AFP. About a dozen other people, most of them civilians, were wounded in the attack near the Pakistani border, Paktika Governor Mohammad Akram Khepelwak told AFP.
The blast was the second in as many days in the region. Three international soldiers were killed in a similar bombing at a bridge construction site on Tuesday in neighbouring Paktia province. The target of the attack in the district of Barmal appeared to be Afghan soldiers who were in the bazaar shopping, reports said.
The blast was similar to scores of others carried out by Pakistanis the Taliban, which is waging an Al Qaeda-backed insurgency that sees regular attacks along the border region. It comes amid a spike in clashes between the Taliban and security forces, which include about 50,000 international soldiers supporting the fledgling Afghan security forces. The US-led coalition said late Tuesday that more than 100 Taliban rebels were killed in a day of fierce fighting in the southern province of Kandahar.
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(SomaliNet) Fresh clashes erupted in the southern parts of the Somalia capital Mogadishu on Wednesday between government’s security forces and supporters of the defeated Islamic Courts Union – following today’s string of grenade attacks and shootouts that wounded more than ten people including policemen.
The fighting started around 7:50 pm local time near the villages surrounding MogadishuÂ’s main Bakara market as explosions and heavy machine-gun gunfire could be heard in the area. Witnesses told Somalinet tonight the latest gun battle came when heavily armed police forces were deployed on the main roads of Wadnaha and Sodonka to bolster the peace as the reconciliation conference is due to be concluded on Thursday. The soldiers who were put on alert clashed with local insurgents. There was no immediate casualty from the latest nighttime skirmishes.
Meanwhile, two police officers wounded when a bomb exploded on vehicle carrying government soldiers in the capital. Several other blasts rocked the capital today alone causing the injury of eight civilians. On Wednesday afternoon, the allied forces of Ethiopia and Somalia ended their military operations seeking for weapons in Huriwa and Yaqshid districts as the situation resumed normal.
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A Chittagong court yesterday framed charges against five Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) activists in two cases filed for bomb attacks and possession of illegal explosives.
Judge Md Enamul Haque Bhuiyan of the Fourth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge's Court framed charges against four JMB men for their alleged role in masterminding bomb attacks on Chittagong Court Building premises on October 3, 2005. The case against Javed Iqbal alias Mohammad, Chittagong divisional chief of the JMB, Jahid Hossain alias Bomb Mijan, an explosives expert, Shahdat Hossain alias Shahdat Ali and Abdul Malek alias Laltu was filed with Kotwali Police Station.
The same court framed charges against Rafiqul Islam alias Javed and Javed Iqbal alias Mohammad for possessing illegal firearms and explosives which law enforcers recovered from the port city's Kattali area on December 13, 2005. A case was filed against them with Pahartali Police Station the following day. The court earlier dropped the names of three JMB kingpins -- Abdur Rahman, Siddiqul Islam alias Bangla Bhai and Ataur Rahman Sunny -- from the charge sheets of the cases following their executions late last March.
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ALI-YURT, Russia (Reuters) - Petimat Tatriyeva was woken up one morning late last month by shouts and banging coming from the courtyard of her home. She said it was a raid by Russian security forces. "About 15 men ... burst into the yard. One of them put a machine gun to my forehead. They said: 'Where are the men? We'll count to ten, then throw a grenade into the house'," she told Reuters. "When my 15-year-old son woke up, they threw themselves at him and beat him up," she said. "They beat my husband on the kidneys and pressed their fingers into his eyes."
Tatriyeva and her family live in Ingushetia, a mainly Muslim republic where for more than a decade Moscow's forces have been fighting a low-level military campaign against armed Islamist militants linked to separatists in neighboring Chechnya.
But things are getting worse. In response to an escalation in attacks by insurgents, Moscow in late July sent in an additional 2,500 interior ministry troops, almost tripling the number of special forces in Ingushetia. The escalation in violence shows that seven years after President Vladimir Putin came to power on a pledge to "wipe out" the insurgency in Russia's North Caucasus region that includes Chechnya and Ingushetia, the rebels are not beaten. In Chechnya, attacks have grown rare, but the problems appear to have shifted next door.
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(KUNA) -- Two Turkish soldiers were severely injured in clashes with rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, Turkish military sources said on Wednesday. A statement by the Turkish Chief of Staff headquarters said that two soldiers were injured when PKK's rebels opened fire on a Turkish patrol in Gentish town in the Bingol region. The Turkish military reinforced its presence in the region and chased away the rebels, the statement added.
The PKK, listed as a terrorist organization by Ankara, the United States and the European Union, has stepped up its military activity this year. The group has been fighting for self-rule in Turkey's mainly Kurdish areas in the east and southeast since 1984 in a bloody conflict that has claimed more than 37,000 lives.
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The Kurds need to retract their nationalist efforts in Turkey.
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The Kurds can do whatever they dam$$$ well please in Turkey, as far as I'm concerned. I just don't want them bringing the problem into the Kurdish region of Iraq. I can also gladly give them a free hand in Iran, under the same caviats. The arrogance of the Turks goes without saying, and a good kick where it does the most good might wake them up from their headlong plunge into islamism.
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Dutch police arrested Philippine Communist rebel leader Jose Maria Sison on Tuesday on suspicion of ordering the murder of two former allies in the Philippines, prosecutors said. Jose Maria Sison, founder of the Communist Party of the Philippines and its armed wing, the New Peoples Army, was arrested in Utrecht, the central Dutch city where he has lived in exile for 20 years, they said. He was due to appear in a Hague court on Friday.
''The Communist leader is suspected of ordering from the Netherlands the murders of his former allies Romulo Kintanar and Arturo Tabara in the Philippines,'' said a statement from the Public Prosecutor's Office.
Spokesman Wim de Bruin said Sison, 68, will be put on trial in the Netherlands, not the Philippines. ''There is no extradition request,'' De Bruin said. ''These are crimes that were committed in the Netherlands. Ordering murders is a crime according to Dutch law.''
Kintanar was gunned down in a Japanese restaurant in the Philippines on 23 January 2003. Tabara and his son-in-law Stephen Ong were shot dead in a parking lot as they got out of their car on 26 September 2004, the statement said. The Philippines Communist Party's armed wing claimed responsibility for the slayings.
In Utrecht, teams of police raided the Sison's office, seizing computers, CDs, documents and books, said Aldo Gonzalez, who said he was questioned during the six-hour police operation at the office. Prosecutors said at least seven other addresses in Utrecht and the nearby town of Abcoude were searched as part of the investigation.
Sison now calls himself a political consultant for the Dutch-based National Democratic Front of the Philippines, which has been involved in off-and-on peace negotiations for many years with Manila. Gonzalez, who said he was a staff member of the Front's negotiating team, dismissed the well-known allegations against Sison for the murders. ''They are all fabricated charges,'' he said.
"Nope. Nope. Never happened."
The European Union added Sison to its terror list in October 2002. He was placed on the list both as an individual and as a member of the New People's Army.
''Ironic as it is, he is assured of his day in court - a right denied to the thousands of innocent victims of Communist kangaroo courts,'' Bacarro added.
A prominent left-wing group in the Philippines, The New Patriotic Alliance or Bayan, condemned the arrest of Sison and raids on his group's offices as attacks on civil liberties. ''This bodes ill for the peace process,'' the group said. ''The arrest was most probably undertaken with the knowledge and prodding of the (Gloria Macapagal) Arroyo government which is out to sabotage all hopes for peace talks.''
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The Dutch liberal laws make the Netherlands an excellent refuge for rebel leaders and heavy criminals from around the world. Foreign suspects laugh about Dutch prisons and the soft Dutch justice system. So don't be too impressed when Dutch do arrest "a foreigner",they are in The Low Lands for a reason.
At least three army personnel were injured when a remote-controlled bomb exploded in Datta Khel tehsil, around 50 kilometres west of Miranshah. The soldiers were carrying water to the Behramand army camp when the bomb went off. The injured were airlifted to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Bannu by helicopter.
SANA adds: Militants also fired rockets on the Frontier Constabulary (FC) fort in Miranshah again on Wednesday, official sources said. They said that the miscreants fired two rockets on the paramilitary forcesÂ’ fort, but there were no casualties. The rockets landed and exploded in an uninhabited area near the camp, they said.
The situation is North Waziristan has turned volatile after the announcement of local Taliban to scrap their peace deal with the government in July following the Lal Masjid operation. A number of attacks have since been made on paramilitary forcesÂ’ convoys and checkposts, in which a number of soldiers have been killed and injured. Security forces are also carrying intermittent operations against the militants to incapacitate them.
One injured in Peshawar rocket attack: A man was injured when unidentified attackers fired a rocket on a vehicle in the Yakatoot police precinct early on Wednesday, police said. Yakatoot Police Station Duty Officer Syed Bacha told Daily Times that at around 5am, a rocket hit a bus leaving for Parachinar with 14 passengers on board. He said the attack partially damaged the vehicle and that a passenger named Israr Ali received minor injuries. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Operations Muhammad Tahir told Daily Times that the rocket was fired from 30 to 40 yards from the bus. He said police had not arrested anybody yet, but were investigating the matter.
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Unidentified militants fired eight rockets on a camp of Mekran Scouts, a wing of the Frontier Corps, in BalochistanÂ’s western district of Panjgur early on Wednesday.
Barkat Baloch, a Panjgur-based journalist, told Daily Times that the rocket explosions were heard in the remote areas of the district. The FC authorities in Panjgur only confirmed the firing of three rockets. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. Also, there were no reports of casualties. Sources told Daily Times that an exchange of heavy fire continued between the two sides for more than an hour after the attack. Local police and the FC cordoned off the district. The local administration also started a search operation in the district.
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BAGHDAD - Iraqi Special Operations Forces, with U.S. Special Forces as advisers, detained a suspected battalion commander of a rogue element of the Jaysh al Mahdi militia and one suspected insurgent during an intelligence-driven operation in Baghdad Aug. 27. I wonder what he had to say the past couple of days.
The suspected Shi'a extremist operates in Qhadirah, an area in Baghdad. Reports indicate he directs a group that targets Iraqi citizens for kidnapping and extrajudicial killings. The alleged leader also maintains connections to insurgents in the Hayani area, Baghdad and Basrah.
Intelligence indicates the targeted individual's group is also responsible for emplacing explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, in Sadr City targeting Iraqi and Coalition Forces.
The men are currently being detained for questioning for their involvement in criminal activities and the deaths of local citizens.
No Iraqi or U.S. Special Forces were injured during the raid.
(KUNA) -- Angered by Tuesday's clashes between policemen of Karbala City and the Shiite militia of Al-Mahdi's Army, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki decided Wednesday to sack commander of police operations' center Major General Saleh Khazal Al-Maliki and run the center by himself. He also fired 1,500 other police officers.
Al-Maliki's decree sacking the police chief and other police officers was meant to blame them of professional incompetence, Spokesman of Iraqi Ministry of Defense Staff Major General Mohammad Al-Askari told KUNA here. The Prime Minister visited the embattled city earlier in the day to defuse the two-day riots and chaos among Iraqis during religious Shiite rites. Soon after his arrival in Karbala, Al-Maliki convened with Minister of Defense Mohammad Abdul-Qader Al-Ubaidi and National Security Advisor Mowaffaq Al-Rubaiei as well as local military and civilian leaders.
He imposed a curfew as of Wednesday morning pending further notice and ordered the arrest of anyone who breaks his instructions.
Al-Maliki held "criminal gangs" and "remnants of Al-Baath Party" responsible for the riots and attacks against visitors of the holy city. He vowed to track down the perpetrators and culprits of the riots that left 55 dead and some 300 others injured.
The malicious design targeting the stability in the holy city and the safety of its citizens was aborted, the prime minister asserted, adding that the situation was brought under full control of the security forces after the arrival of military backup. The militants targeted to occupy the two holy shrines and topple Al-Maliki's government, Al-Rubaiei said. Commandoes took part in normalizing the situation in the southern Iraqi city, he added.
However, local sources told KUNA two secretaries of the Shiite cleric Al-Sistani; Sheikh Abdul-Mahdi Al-Karbalaei and Ahmad Al-Safi were still seized in areas adjacent to the two holy shrines of the city which are under full control of Al-Mahdi Army.
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Weren't Sadr's boys the first to knock off a high-profile rival right after the invasion? In a holy place, IIRC?
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How is it that the Karbala police are deemed incompetent when they've been fighting against an attack by the Jaish al Mahdi for the previous two days? Surely that's what we want the local guardians of law & order to do in between finding lost kittens and tracking down runaway six year olds who can't yet cross the street?
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Maliki is the one who sent Sadr a warning to get out of Dodge when the US made the mistake of sharing their surge plans with him. Of course he'd can anyone going after his pudgy little buddy.
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Just out of naive and indeed somewhat desperate curiosity, who would you install in place of Maliki? Perhaps an American Viceroy? A hidden candidate? Maybe no-one? Destroy the government? All options. Which do you prefer at the moment?
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Thomas, are you free? Health & life insurance all paid up?
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How is it that the Karbala police are deemed incompetent when they've been fighting against an attack by the Jaish al Mahdi for the previous two days?
Karbala police are SCIRI. Maliki is Dawa party.
Which do you prefer at the moment?
Former Prime Minister Allawi. All the other Shia leaders of Dawa, SCIRI, JAM spent their exile in Iran and are beholden to the Tehran. Allawi spent exile in the UK and, from what I can tell, not the least islamist.
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If this current batch of wannabe warlords and gangsters can't get on the same page and be damn quick about it, we should give all of them the boot and hold a new round of elections. And please don't give me any "sovereignty" crap. Iraq is our piece until we deem otherwise. We were the worst sort of fools to let them incorporate shari'a law into their constitution. If we had any brains, we'd cite that as ample reason to send them all back to the drafting board and come up with a document that doesn't reach back to the Stone Age.
I no longer have any delusions about bringing democracy to Muslim majority nations. It WILL NOT work. Islam demands theocratic rule and Muslims do not want anything else. Democracy is a complete and total affront to Islam. Man made laws can never trump the laws of Allah.
For us to pretend that we can change this without first crushing Islam like the ideological cockroach it is goes beyond foolish. Despite being liberated from abject tyranny, these hideous bastards immediately reintstituted shari'a law at the very first opportunity.
Shari'a and democracy are not just immiscible, they are mortal enemies. It is better by far for the West to subjugate Muslim majority countries by outright force than to delude ourselves that they will ever exhibit the least sort of reliable or genuine friendship. Muslim countries with shari'a law intact will be nothing more than manufactories for terrorists who will than strike against us. Period.
As with all relationships involving Islamic counterparts, any agreements are merely tools of convenience amounting to nothing more than hudna. There is not a single Muslim leader on earth who will ever defy the advancement of Islam in order to keep even the most insignificant promise to an Infidel. They have given themselves the ultimate tools of deceit and we are idiots to rely upon them.
I'll repost some observations about Maliki made by Khudayr Taher:
Taher wrote an editorial in Arabic saying that he used to meet Maliki at the local library in Syria, where he would be doing research for his master's degree in Arabic literature, pointing out: "I do not claim that we were friends." Taher said Maliki had "modest general knowledge ... he will be a puppet in the hands of Jaafari, Hakim, the Kurds and Sunnis". He added that Maliki "does not believe in democracy because of his ideological commitments" in al-Da'wa Party, claiming that political Islam and democracy do not meet for someone like Maliki.
In a private discussion held when both men were in Syria, Maliki told Taher: "We declare our acceptance of democracy, but in reality, we are tricking them [the Americans] in order to topple Saddam and come to power." Taher writes: "I swear to God that this is exactly what he said!"
Taher adds that Maliki does not believe in the equality of women and will refuse to give any cabinet posts to Iraqi women, unless those imposed by the Kurds. He wraps up by saying that Maliki is anti-American, and has expressed his anti-American views to friends and in private discourse.
In light of how Khudayr Taher had the courage and intellectual honesty to advocate deportation of all Muslims from Western countries—including his own self—I'm rather inclined to take his word. Maliki must go and either we find some way of getting non-shari'a law emplaced in Iraq or we are far better off turning it into a Ssuzerain of America just like we did with the Philippines and Japan.
Sporadic gunfire echoed through the center of Karbala early Wednesday after daylong clashes between rival Shi'ite armed groups claimed up to 51 lives and forced officials to abort a Shi'ite religious festival that had drawn up to 1 million pilgrims from around the world.
Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki arrived early Wednesday to meet with local officials trying to restore order and move the hordes of refugees away from the beleaguered city. Security officials said Mahdi Army gunmen loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Tuesday fired on guards around two shrines protected by the Badr Brigade, the armed wing of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council.
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The U.S. military in Baghdad says a leader of al-Qaida in Iraq was killed after grabbing a soldier and attempting to detonate a "suicide vest."
Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner, spokesman for the Multinational Force Iraq, told reporters Wednesday operations in Tarmiya, a small town in the northern part of Baghdad Province, "resulted in the death of Ali Latif Ibrahim Hamad al-Falahi, also known as Abu Ibrahim, an al-Qaida in Iraq leader who oversaw terrorist operations in the northern belts of Baghdad. He was killed after he grabbed a coalition soldier and was attempting to detonate a suicide vest."
Bastard.
A suicide vest or belt usually is filled with explosives and a hand detonator.
"He kidnapped and murdered Iraqis, including a 9-year-old girl, to intimidate local citizens," Bergner said, "and his group was also likely responsible for the April 12 bombing of the Sarafiyah bridge here in Baghdad."
Hell is too good for ol' Abu. Hope it's even hotter and impossibly empty wherever he's gone.
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I would surmise that the vest must have been a two step activation trigger, and not with a 'deadman switch' (one wouldn't want to prematurely explode before mission certainty!!) This gave the time for him to be stabbed or sniped on the spur!
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Maybe God can reconfigure a small portion of Hell to meet your specifications, Mojo. We can always hope. If there was ever anyone that deserved it, this POS does.
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Three Palestinian children were killed on Wednesday in an IDF strike on a number of Kassam rocket launchers in the northern Gaza Strip. The IDF confirmed it had fired on figures handling rocket launchers, saying in a statement that it regretted that Palestinian groups "used children for terrorist purposes."
Witnesses said an IDF tank shell exploded near Beit Hanun. The IDF said it targeted a number of Kassam rocket launchers and several suspicious-looking people who were handling them. Dr. Moaiya Hassanain of the Palestinian Authority Health Ministry, reporting the deaths of the children, said 10-year-old Mahmoud Ghazal and his 12-year-old cousin Yehiya Ghazal were killed. Their 10-year-old cousin Sara Ghazal was brought to hospital for treatment but later died of her wounds.
A relative of the children, Wasfi Ghazal, said he heard an explosion and then children screaming. He held both Israel and the rocket squads responsible. "We are victims of the occupation and victims of the misbehavior of some of the fighters, who are randomly choosing our area to target Israel," Ghazal said.
Chief PA negotiator Saeb Erekat condemned the killing of the children, predicting violence would breed more violence. "This will add to the complexities and feed the fire," Erekat said.
In the West Bank, the IDF continued its pursuit of terrorists. Thirty-three Palestinians were wounded in clashes with the IDF as soldiers arrested gunmen in Kalkilya. All but one were very lightly wounded. Armored bulldozers razed several buildings where gunmen had barricaded themselves.
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Nits make lice. They were probably loaders.
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The day the palis feel collective remorse about putting their children in danger intentionally is the day we'll see some sort of breakthrough. I'm not hopeful.
The IDF officer who accidentally entered Jenin on Monday and narrowly escaped a lynching was sentenced to 28 days in prison on Wednesday. He was tried before deputy Central Command head Brig.-Gen. Motti Iloz. OC Central Command Maj.-Gen. Gadi Shamni received the findings of a probe into the incident, which revealed that the officer had ignored safety regulations when traveling in the West Bank, resulting in his accidental foray into Jenin.
Shamni has ordered that all regulations and orders pertaining to traveling in the West Bank be updated and transmitted to officers who are stationed in Judea and Samaria.
In the Monday incident, the officer, a major, was rescued from the lynch mob by Palestinian Authority security forces. The PA security officers were subsequently condemned by Islamic Jihad, which took responsibility for the attack.
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Each and every morning upon rising, this remarkably fortunate individual should French kiss the floor of his jail cell. He just as easily could have provided an entire crowd of eager Palestinians with a semi-conscious vivisection specimen. What's worse is that he actually allowed the PA's police to look good for once in history. Facilitating any rehabilitation of Fatah's image is most certainly actionable.
Thai Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont yesterday said that terrorists separatists fighting in Muslim-majority provinces have refused to take up his offer to launch peace talks.
"As of now, there has been no progress on starting negotiations, because that would require the agreement of both sides. So there are no talks for now," he told reporters. "My government is still adhering to a policy of non-violence, but cooperation from the people is crucial," he said.
Human Rights Watch said in a report Tuesday that despite the peace gestures, Thailand still has no concrete strategy to end state-sanctioned abuses. But rest assured that HRW will immediately pounce upon and attack any strategy the Thai government develops. In fact the more "concrete" the strategy, the more they will howl, no doubt.
The report warned that the conflict was degenerating into a brutal armed conflict in which 89 per cent of the fatalities have been civilians.
Foreign Minister Nitya Pibulsonggram welcomed the report and said he believed it would help the international community understand why Thailand has struggled to find ways of reining in the shadowy jihad insurgency. "The international community will have a positive attitude toward Thailand. The report is fair and does us justice," he said. "We always regret the loss of life, regardless of who the victims are," he said.
Meanwhile, Thailand yesterday blasted a request by the European Union to send observers to the nation's post-coup elections in December, saying the kingdom was "not a failed state". Foreign Minister Nitya Pibulsonggram said it was "unacceptable" that the EU had asked Thai electoral officials for permission to send up to 500 observers to the polls on December 23. "We, in Thailand, have a track record across history. We are not a failed state or on any watch list," he said.
"We are mature. We can solve our own problems," he said. "I don't think we need anybody to teach us how to vote," he said.
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The report warned that the conflict was degenerating into a brutal armed conflict in which 89 per cent of the fatalities have been civilians.
So it doesn't matter if most of those civilian deaths have been schoolteachers, rubber plantation workers and such who happen to be ethnic Thais and Buddhists who were killed by muslim jihadis. It's still the government's fault, right? I guess we'll know when the government is finally on the right track when HRW starts screaming bloody murder.
After the Lebanese army evacuated their women and children, the Fatah al-Islam terrorists are now trying to evacuate their wounded fighters. Lebanon's bravest response: Surrender or die.
The Lebanese army responded by demanding that all the terrorists surrender if they want any hope of staying alive, and then proceeded to bombard Fatah al-Islam positions in the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon. Lebanese army gunship helicopters staged repeated air raids on Fatah al-Islam positions inside Nahr al-Bared where the army has besieged the extremist militants since May 20, he said. The army had warned it would intensify attacks after Friday's evacuation from the camp of the militants' wives and children, a total of 63 people.
No Mercy for Terrorists
Palestinian clerics are continuing to try to negotiate the evacuation of nine wounded Fatah al-Islam members from Nahr al-Bared. However the army is done playing games, and has insisted that the wounded would only be evacuated when the remaining fighters, thought to number about 70, surrender. The Lebanese Army and government demonstrated ample humanity by assisting in the evacuation of the wives and children of the fighters who brought their terror campaign to Lebanon. The evacuees with Syrian travel documents have reportedly already left for neighboring Syria over the weekend. Evacuees with Jordanian travel documents also headed to Jordan by land from Syria on Tuesday.
Those with Lebanese documents have stayed with relatives or at other Palestinian refugee camps in the country. The wife of Fatah al-Islam leader Shaker al-Abssi was staying at an undisclosed location known to Lebanese security officials.
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Didn't we read yesterday about this Leb army is so lacking in all things, using Huey's and manually pushing bombs out of them! Rigging "stuff" with any other "stuff" they can find.
These guy deserve some big time hero stuff...
Bet there are lots of Marines who would volunteer to get there and help them!
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Hasn't the 'Surrendor or Die' option been the one consistent thing throughout this whole operation? Other than the multiple 'Final Pushes,' of course...
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Other than the multiple 'Final Pushes,' of course...
USN, I'd give the Lebs the benefit of inexperience. They're Muslims, used to shooting their mouths off like this stuff. "Mother of all battles" and crap like that. After they start getting used to being feared and dangerous because, well, they ARE fearsome and dangerous, they'll realize that "do", not "talk", is the coin of the military realm.
ABCNews has learned that United Nations weapons inspectors discovered six to eight vials of a dangerous nerve gas, phosgene, as they were cleaning out offices at a U.N. building in New York Thursday morning.
Whose offices?
Federal authorities said the office, in a U.N. building near headquarters, was being evacuated and the White House had been notified at 10 a.m. New York police and fire officials said federal authorities had not notified them of any problem at the U.N. building, as of 11 a.m. Glad to see we've got those communications and turf problems resolved.
Authorities said the phosgene was believed to have been discovered in Iraq and manufactured prior to 1991. "If it is properly sealed, it should not pose much of a threat unless it is dropped," said former New York City emergency services director Jerry Hauer, an ABC News consultant. "They need to get it out of there and put it in a safe canister," Hauer said. "It shows immense stupidity to have that kind of thing sitting around as a souvenir."
Phosgene was used extensively during World War I as a "choking agent" and, according to the CDC Web site, among the chemicals used in the war, it was responsible for the large majority of deaths.
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Of course, as several other people have pointed out elsewhere, phosgene is not a nerve gas. It was used during WWI as a choking agent, and is definitely a chemical weapon. According to Wikipedia, it does have uses in chemical manufacturing.
Yet another example of MSM ignorance showing through.
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Article read - USA found it, USA kept findings secret from world, and now USA is negligent in storing it away safe from innocent Amerikans. IN SHORT, REST EASY ,AMERICA, DUBYA IS STILL AT FAULT.
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I'm sure the Kos Kiddies are busy spinning all sorts of conspiracy theories on this one. The timing is perfect ("must be Rove"), just before Gen. Petraeus' report. Or, hey, I heard that Al Gonzales ain't doin' nuttin' now...maybe he planted it.
As Rambler points out, nothing too spectacular, yet, it's just another notch in the belt to prove Bush's case for going in. "See, we told ya they had chem weapons, they were just storing them at Turtle Bay."
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
A wanted Taliban insurgent leader in Afghanistan, 
Gunmen captured the journalists on the main road from Pakistan in the east of the country, while they trying to reach Kabul days after the defeated Taliban had withdrawn from the city. They were shot dead.
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(KUNA) -- Two Turkish soldiers were severely injured in clashes with rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, Turkish military sources said on Wednesday. A statement by the Turkish Chief of Staff headquarters said that two soldiers were injured when PKK's rebels opened fire on a Turkish patrol in Gentish town in the Bingol region. The Turkish military reinforced its presence in the region and chased away the rebels, the statement added.
Dutch police arrested 
(KUNA) -- Angered by Tuesday's clashes between policemen of Karbala City and the Shiite militia of Al-Mahdi's Army, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki decided Wednesday to sack commander of police operations' center Major General Saleh Khazal Al-Maliki and run the center by himself. He also fired 1,500 other police officers. 
Three Palestinian children were killed on Wednesday in an IDF strike on a number of Kassam rocket launchers in the northern Gaza Strip. The IDF confirmed it had fired on figures handling rocket launchers, saying in a statement that it regretted that Palestinian groups "used children for terrorist purposes." 
ABCNews has learned that United Nations weapons inspectors discovered six to eight vials of a dangerous nerve gas, phosgene, as they were cleaning out offices at a U.N. building in New York Thursday morning. 
