KHOST, Afghanistan - The governor of Afghanistans southeastern province of Khost survived a suicide attack on his convoy on Wednesday, officials said. Three people, including a bodyguard of governor Arsala Jamal, were wounded in the raid which happened on a road in a district of the province close to the border with Pakistan.
Minutes after the attack, Jamal said he had escaped unhurt. I was in another car of mine. The car bomber hit a vehicle ahead of me. I am fine, he told Reuters.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility
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Two insurgents were arrested Wednesday in Ingushetia on suspicion of bombing a passenger train traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg in August, the Interior Ministry said. If the suspects prove to be both insurgents and train bombers, it would mean militants have again begun venturing out of the North Caucasus after a lull of more than two years.
"Inspector! How do you do it?"
Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said the suspects had been transferred to Moscow for questioning. "There is circumstantial evidence that is very compelling. ... The information is very interesting," Nurgaliyev said, Interfax reported.
Itar-Tass, citing an unidentified Ingush law enforcement official, identified the suspects as Markham Khidriyev, 30, and his brother, Maksharip, 29. FSB agents and local policemen arrested the two in the village of Ekazhevo, the official said, adding that they were also suspected of carrying out a series of robberies in central Russia. Phone calls to the spokesman for the investigators in the Prosecutor General's Office who are handling the bombing went unanswered Wednesday afternoon.
The Aug. 13 explosion derailed the train as it passed through the Novgorod region, injuring 60 people.
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Investigators have identified the woman who blew herself up in a minibus in Dagestan this week as 18-year-old Sidrat Gasanbekova, Itar-Tass reported Wednesday.
An F-1 hand grenade that Gasanbekova was carrying in her bag accidentally went off Tuesday, killing her and injuring eight passengers, said Saidula Badalov, the lead investigator into the explosion, the report said.
The minibus was traveling to Khasavyurt, and the blast occurred just after it passed a police checkpoint in the village of Dylym, some 10 kilometers east of the border with Chechnya.
Investigators have found no evidence linking Gasanbekova to any rebel groups in the North Caucasus, Badalov said. Gasanbekova was wearing blue jeans and had kept her hair loose, an appearance that would not be adopted by women associated with the rebels, who practice a strict form of Islam, Badalov said. Gasanbekova lived in a village near the scene of the explosion. Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev suggested on Rossia television Wednesday that the blast might have been an act of revenge. He did not elaborate.
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AN Australian Digger has died in Afghanistan less than three weeks after a roadside bomb killed Brisbane soldier David Pearce.
A Special Air Service (SAS) soldier has become the second Australian to be killed in combat in Afghanistan in less than three weeks. The soldier, whose name has not been released, was fatally wounded in a firefight with Taliban militants in a remote valley of Oruzgan province today. It's understood he is a married father from Perth and was recently awarded a medal for gallantry.
No other Australian casualties were reported, and there were no details of any Taliban killed or wounded.
Head of the Australian Defence Force, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, said the soldier had been shot while launching a ground attack on a Taliban sanctuary. We are taking the fight to the Taliban, and it was in one of these operations where we were going direct to fight the Taliban that this casualty occurred, he said in Canberra.
A coalition helicopter evacuated the fallen soldier to a nearby medical facility, but he couldn't be saved. Despite the best efforts of his comrades and the aero-medical evacuation team, the soldier succumbed to his wounds, Air Chief Marshal Houston said. The death of this courageous and dedicated soldier is a reminder of the danger faced by all our forces in Afghanistan.
The soldier's SAS comrades received special praise from the defence chief for trying valiantly to save their mate's life by administering first aid. Their courage under fire, and their determination to help a fallen mate, is to be commended, Air Chief Marshal Houston said.
It's the second death of an Australian soldier in Afghanistan this month, after Trooper David Pearce was killed by a roadside bomb, also in Oruzgan province, on October 8.
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It crossed my mind that this is one of the first casualties from Afghanistan in recent memory where one of the good guys was killed by an enemy bullet.
Of course there are others, but it seems so infrequent compared to fatalities by other means.
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Somewhere down the line, we Americans will find a way to show sufficient thanks to our Australian allies. Increased tourism will be a damn good start but, hopefully, simple gifts, scholarships or publicly sponsored grants will make their way to one of the few nations that truly seems to "get it". Bless Oz and her bonzer people.
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I'd say that Denmark just got a loud and clear wakeup call. Continued attacks upon members of SIOE (Stop Islamisation Of Europe), will most likely polarize Europe and cause it to militate towards its usual "solution" with respect to the Muslim problem.
(AKI) - Spanish paramilitary police early on Wednesday detained this morning six alleged members of an Islamist cell in the northern Spanish city of Burgos, who they believe to have been involved in recruiting jihadist to carry out terror attacks internationally, including in Iraq.
The cell was allegedly headed by Algerian national Abdelkader Ayachine and Moroccan national Wissan Lofti. All the suspects have ties to fundamentalist (Salafist) jihadi ideology, according to Spain's interior ministry.
Six houses as well as a butcher's believed to belong to members of the cell were raided in the ongoing anti-terror probe. Numerous computer items were confiscated during the operation, according to the interior ministry.
The group's alleged activities included organising clandestine meetings, fundraising for jailed terrorists, extremist prosyletism and distribution of audiovisual propaganda materials.
Many of these activities are alleged to have taken place via Internet chat rooms and forums, making it "The first Islamist terror cell in Spain to conduct their indoctrination and inspiration to global Jihad through the Internet," said the interior ministry in a report on its website.
The Spanish Civil Guard investigation has linked the cell with many other countries and Wednesday's arrests were made in collaboration with security and intelligence agencies from Sweden, Denmark and the United States.
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An Egyptian university student accused of making an Internet video demonstrating how to make an explosives detonator pleaded not guilty to federal charges Wednesday.
An attorney for engineering student Ahmed Abdellatif Sherif Mohamed, who has been suspended from the University of South Florida, entered a written plea of not guilty for his client. He was scheduled for arraignment Thursday. Mohamed, 24, will remain jailed on federal charges of distributing information relating to explosives, destructive devices, and weapons of mass destruction. He also faces additional charges with another Egyptian student, Youssef Samir Megahed, 21, of carrying explosive materials across state lines.
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But they're good boys, they just want to kill Jews for ACADEMIC PURPOSES.
Mohamed told authorities he made the video "to assist those persons in Arabic countries to defend themselves against the infidels invading their countries," according to the agent's statement.
Mohamed said "he considered American troops, and those military forces fighting with the American military, to be invaders of Arab countries," the statement said.
Hey. That's kinda like what we consider snot nosed Egyptian jihadi wannabe college kids who show up here and want to blow up Americans...
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These good boys are just victims of Amerikan reality TV: (show of hands, please) How many Burgers have watched ToolBelt Diva (known at the USNret house as Bob Vila with boobs), or any other POS Show where stuff comes out of cars and within 30 minutes becomes (Johnny Olson TV Voice)A BRAND NEW HOUSE.
how is carrying explosives for video show and tell any different than a load of #2 KD 2x4s?????
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You know what pisses me off about stuff like this? , I mean, besides nutjob jihadis running around doing typical nutjob jihadi things. It's that it gives the traditional boyhood pastime of blowing stuff up a bad name. In today's world, our little band of pyro-chemists would all have been in the slammer by junior high school.
Dreaded terrorist Noora was gunned down by the police after some of his associates tried to free him from police custody while he was being taken from the Lucknow district jail to the trial court in Lucknow on Wednesday.
According to police, Noora was first arrested by the police in 2000 but escaped in 2001 only to be re-arrested a few months later.
He managed to escape in 2005 again, but was nabbed by the Special Task Force (STF) later in the year.
Last year, during an appearance in a local court, Noora had admitted to links with underworld dons Chhota Rajan and Abu Salem.
Lucknow Senior Superintendent of Police Akhil Kumar told reporters, "Noora was of an Afghani origin, and had carried out several terrorist operations before falling into the STF net two years ago."
A blast tore through a truck carrying paramilitary soldiers in restive northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing 30 people and wounding at least a dozen more, a senior security official said.
The vehicle, which was packed with ammunition, was travelling outside Mingora, the main city in the scenic Swat valley in North West Frontier Province, when the explosion occurred, the official said.
"Thirty people were killed in the explosion including 17 paramilitary soldiers. The damage was high because the truck was packed with ammunition," the official, who asked not to be named, told AFP.
A doctor at a local hospital said 10 bodies had been brought in so far.
"Ten dead bodies were brought to Saidu Sharif hospital, and 35 wounded people. Some of the bodies are charred," doctor Nisar Khan told AFP.
Security sources said a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near the truck, but the government said the truck's cargo could have triggered the explosion.
"The nature of the blast is not clear and it is being ascertained. There was ammunition in the truck which caused the damage," interior ministry spokesman Javed Cheema told AFP.
The explosion comes just one day after Pakistan deployed more than 2,000 troops to the scenic Swat valley to bolster efforts to stem rising violence linked to pro-Taliban militants.
The district was once one of Pakistan's premier tourist attractions, but the area in conservative North West Frontier Province, bordering Afghanistan, has become a stronghold of banned group Tahreek Nifaz-e-Shariat Mohammadi (TNSM).
The radical group has close ties to Taliban fighters who have been mounting attacks on government officials and security forces in the area.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for Thursday's attack.
Hundreds of Taliban militants fled over the Afghan border into Pakistan's nearby tribal areas after the fall of the Taliban in a US-led invasion in 2001.
Pakistan's military has suffered a string of deadly attacks since government troops stormed the Al-Qaeda-linked Red Mosque in Islamabad in July.
Most of those attacks have been suicide blasts that have killed about 400 people since July, according to an AFP tally.
The military said Wednesday that the deployment of troops into Swat was aimed at improving law and order in the troubled region.
Think the Indians know something most Americans don't know?
COIMBATORE, India - An Indian court sentenced 31 Islamists to life in prison on Wednesday for carrying out serial blasts aimed at a top politician that killed almost 60 in southern India a decade ago. Nineteen blasts rocked the city of Coimbatore on February 14, 1998, as then home minister Lal Krishna Advani arrived to campaign in support of his ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Syed Ahmed Basha and Mohammed Ansari, senior leaders of the banned Islamic Al-Umma group accused of masterminding the blasts, were among the first to be sentenced Wednesday. The charge is proved, Judge K. Utirapathi told the special court hearing the bombing cases, as he read out the sentences.
Twenty-nine others, out of a total of 158 people convicted in August, were also sentenced to life in prison, while four more received 10-year jail terms.
Unlike Y'urp, I think life means life in India. Perhaps John Frum can tell us more.
Another 35 defendants were due to be sentenced on Thursday. Over the last two months the court had handed down sentences ranging from two to seven years to the remaining 88 people who were convicted on lesser charges.
Basha lambasted the court after hearing the verdict. Only the Muslims are being victimised and punished like this, he said. Its a national shame.
Perhaps it's because the Muslims were the ones planting bombs. Just a thought.
Advani, who survived unscathed when the bombs went off ahead of his arrival, now serves as leader of the opposition, with the BJP having lost power in general elections in 2004. Officials say the blasts, which also wounded 250 people, were aimed at driving a wedge between Hindus and Muslims in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, where Coimbatore is located.
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The Indian Supreme Court has ruled that a "life sentence" means exactly that ... prison for the rest of the convict's natural life.
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Basha lambasted the court after hearing the verdict. Only the Muslims are being victimised and punished like this, he said. Its a national shame.
The Islamists and their supporters in the Indian Left make a great deal of noise about the Hindu Right. They attempt to equate them with Muslim jihadis. So if the LeT is bad, well so is the RSS, and the problem isn't really Islam, because the Hindus are supposedly just as bad.
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The Indian Supreme Court has ruled that a "life sentence" means exactly that ... prison for the rest of the convict's natural life.
what a concept!
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"How dare you put us in prison for following our "Religion"?"
(Huge cluebat needed here. Louieville Slugger size, minimum.)
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31 people(?) X average life-span left overall, (40 years, per individual, perhaps)? equals 1240 yrs, kill em, and tell them to get over it, save a lot of time.
(KUNA) -- At least seven persons were wounded Wednesday when their vehicle hit a landmine in Southwestern Baluchistan province of Pakistan, said officials. The incident took place in Killi Madd area, about 15 kilometers from gas-rich Sui district, said police sources. They said the landmine had been planted by suspected nationalist militants to target security forces vehicle, which was to pass from there after few minutes. They added that the explosion wounded seven persons, adding that two of them are said to be in critical condition.
Nationalist militants frequently target security personnel in Baluchistan province to pressurize the government to heed to their demand of maximum provincial autonomy.
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A PIA flight had to make an emergency landing at Faisalabad Airport after a bomb hoax on Wednesday. According to PIA sources, Karachi-bound PK-305 with 204 passengers onboard took off from Lahore Airport at 6pm. After the flights departure, the control tower at Lahore Airport received an anonymous call concerning a bomb on the plane and conveyed the information to the pilot. The pilot then made an emergency landing at Faisalabad Airport where, following a thorough search, the plane took off for Karachi at 11pm.
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Two soldiers were killed on Wednesday in a roadside bomb blast near their convoy as it was travelling to Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, a security official said. Another two soldiers were wounded, the official said, requesting anonymity. Fierce clashes in the area between the military and militants earlier this month killed about 250 people including 47 soldiers.
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NWFP Home Secretary Badshah Gul Wazir said on Wednesday that Maulana Fazlullah was trying to establish a parallel government in Swat and had established a private force called Shaheen Force consisting of more than 500-armed men.
There are 59 villages in Matta sub division, the stronghold of Fazlullah, who has challenged the governments writ, Wazir told a press conference here. He said paramilitary forces had been deployed at sensitive areas in Swat to help establish the writ of the government. Paramilitary forces comprising police, Frontier Corps and Frontier Constabulary contingents will patrol sensitive areas, he said. He said that no military operation would be launched in Swat because the government wants to amicably resolve the issue. He said, however, the forces would come hard on those who resist security forces. He said the Maulana had been involved in several criminal cases and would be dealt with accordingly if he surrendered to the administration.
This article starring:
Badshah Gul Wazir
Maulana Fazlullah
TNSM
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Bury them all parallel to one another...
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Might be time for Fazl to...I dunno...run with scissors?
KHAN BANI SAAD, Iraq A concerned citizen led Coalition Forces to a large weapons cache yesterday in a home in Saada Village, Iraq.
This cache is one of the largest discoveries of explosively formed penetrators found in at one location in Iraq. The find included more than 120 fully-assembled EFPs,more than 150 copper disks of four different sizes used in making EFPs (including 12-inch disks one of the largest ever discovered in Iraq), 600-plus pounds of C4 and other explosive materials, 100 mortar rounds of various caliber, approximately 30 107mm rockets, two mortar tubes and 20 claymore-type mines.
A find like this helps keep my Soldiers morale up because they know theyve made a difference. It makes them feel good that they are saving Soldiers lives through their work, said Capt. Jason Rosenstrauch, B Troop commander, 2nd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment.
My first concern was for my Soldiers, added Rosenstrauch. I was worried that the room was unstable because it smelled like explosives and nitric acid.
Last week such information from Concerned Local Citizens in a village near Muqdadiyah assisted CF to unearth a weapons cache and detain one suspected terrorist.
Coalition Forces detained the homeowner in the raid.
Rosenstrauch said the citizens of Khan Bani Saad are now working closely with Coalition Forces to keep insurgents out of the city.
We have a lot of peace in the city center now, Rosenstrauch said. We have had [many] CLCs reporting on enemy activity. The people are turning on the insurgents and telling us where they are.
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Glenmore, Good Catch...Here's some more..
accomping video with the report VIDEO LINK
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This is huge and will save a whole lot of American lives. It will likely also provide more evidence of the trail of these weapons from Iran into Iraq. EFP's are nasty and there is no good way to stop them except to get them before they are used. Thank you CLC. Thank you 1st Cav for building the relationship that lead to the CLC trusting you enough to identify this cache.
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Local citizens are getting fed up with outsiders screwing up their lives. Despite Harry Reid's pronouncement and the rest of the "quagmire" bunch, it looks like things are turning around in Iraq for the better. This is a significant find. This find will save a lot of injuries and lives.
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Right then. We're good at finding the caches but not the stuff as it comes in. Evidently we can not spot the trade routes as it is being moved into Iraq. But then find the caches, with the intelligence attributed a local "concerned citizen."
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I thought the whole point of smugglers is that they're good at smuggling? But it could be I'm mistaken -- I'm not familiar with clever extra-legal activities.
(KUNA) -- Two bombs went off within seconds in the Iraqi capital on Wednesday killing eight people and wounding 22 others, police said. A police officer at the scene in Diyala causeway region said two bombs blew up within a few seconds. The explosions killed eight civilians and wounded 22 people including policemen.
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Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki yesterday ordered the closure of offices run by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), saying Iraq would no longer allow the terrorist group to operate on its soil. The PKK is a bad terrorist organization and we have taken a decision to close its offices and not allow them to work on Iraqi soil, Maliki said in a statement issued after talks with visiting Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan.
We are putting all our efforts to eliminate their terrorist activities that threaten Iraq and Turkey, said Maliki, who has been under increasing pressure from Ankara and Washington to act against the Iraq-based Kurdish rebel threat to Turkey.
Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, who is a Kurd, said earlier that Iraq had begun undertaking a series of measures to thwart the rebels, including restricting their movements, (their) funding and closing of their offices. Babacan used his high-profile visit to reassure Iraq that Turkey wants a diplomatic solution to the problem of Kurdish rebel bases but rejected a conditional cease-fire offer made by the guerrillas.
Babacan rejected a truce offer made by the PKK on Monday in return for an end to Turkish military action. Tens of thousands of Turks protested across Turkey yesterday during the funerals of the slain soldiers.
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(KUNA) -- Two al-Qaeda operatives were arrested in al-Diwaniya city, south of Iraq, a US military statement said on Wednesday. The statement said tips from local residents led to the detainment of the two insurgents.
Paratroopers of Troop B, 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, out of Fort Wainwright, Alaska, and Iraqi Army allies detained the two during raids designed to disrupt insurgent activities in the area, the statement said. The statement explained local residents reported that one of the detainees was using his business as an al-Qaeda meeting point. Coalition Forces searched the building, and found materials used to make improvised explosive devices. The other individual detained, also reported as being a member of al-Qaeda, was the brother of a known al-Qaeda member. Residents' sworn statements referred to him as an IED-emplacer and triggerman.
Al-Diwaniya city has been witnessing sporadic violence between US and coalition forces and Shia'te militias.
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(Al-Aksa's Gaza commander) Abu Walid insists there is no contradiction between his group's actions and talk of peace by Mahmoud Abbas, Fatah's leader
Palestinian militants are using Google Earth to help plan their attacks on the Israeli military and other targets, the Guardian has learned. Members of the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, a group aligned with the Fatah political party, say they use the popular internet mapping tool to help determine their targets for rocket strikes. "We obtain the details from Google Earth and check them against our maps of the city centre and sensitive areas," Khaled Jaabari, the group's commander in Gaza who is known as Abu Walid, told the Guardian.
Bringing up archive footage of rocket launches on his computer, he said that the group had modified the homemade rockets to travel longer distances by cultivating salt from the sea. "It's a secret process, but we're very excited by the results."
Abu Walid showed the Guardian an aerial image of the Israeli town of Sderot on his computer to demonstrate how his group searches for targets.
The Guardian filmed an al-Aqsa test rocket launch, fired into an uninhabited area of the Negev desert, last month. Despite the crudeness of the weapons, many have landed in Sderot, killing around a dozen people in the last three years and wounding scores more.
Al-Aqsa is one of several militant groups firing rockets, known as Qassams, from Gaza into Israel. A rocket attack by Islamic Jihad on a military base last month wounded more than 50 soldiers. Hamas's military wing, the Izzedine Qassam Brigades, is not believed to be firing rockets.
Abu Walid insists there is no contradiction between his group's actions and talk of peace by Mahmoud Abbas, Fatah's leader.
No quote here, he just "insists". Presumably the Grauniad chose not to report the Legitimate Right(tm) to Resist(tm) by Israel's partner in peace.
Bringing up archive footage of rocket launches on his computer, he said that the group had modified the homemade rockets to travel longer distances by cultivating salt from the sea. "It's a secret process, but we're very excited by the results."
The Google Earth mapping program includes satellite maps and detailed 3D models of some areas. Although the satellite images are only updated on an irregular basis - meaning that pictures of mobile targets would be unusable - some defence experts have said the easy availability of information can increase the risks for military organisations.
"There is a constant threat of reconnaissance missions to access our bases and using these internet images is just another method of how this is conducted," said British military spokesman Major Charlie Burbridge earlier this year.
It is not the first time that Google has been accused of unwittingly abetting the activities of militant groups or terrorist organisations. In January, British officials claimed that insurgents sympathetic to al-Qaida were using aerial photography in Google Earth to locate potential targets inside British bases around the southern Iraqi city of Basra.
When asked about the use of Google Earth by al-Aqsa militants, Google said it was aware of potential problems, but would not comment specifically on the case. "We have paid close attention to concerns that Google Earth creates new security risks," said the company in a statement. "The imagery visible on Google Earth and Google Maps is not unique: commercial high-resolution satellite and aerial imagery of every country in the world is widely available from numerous sources. Indeed, anyone who flies above or drives by a piece of property can obtain similar information."
The company would not confirm whether it had received requests from the Israeli government to block certain images or areas inside Google Earth, but said it was committed to working with officials to take public safety into account.
"Google has engaged, and will continue to engage, in substantive dialogue with recognised security experts and relevant agencies worldwide," it said.
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The company would not confirm whether it had received requests from the Israeli government to block certain images or areas inside Google Earth, but said it was committed to working with officials to take public safety into account.
It must be a far more complicated matter than I could hope to fathom, and will probably take months and months to even begin to balance out the weighty moral and legal issues involved in saving people's lives. /sarc
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"Google has engaged, and will continue to engage, in substantive dialogue with recognised security experts and relevant agencies worldwide," it said.
I guess its all in who you recognize right? After all Ham-Ass and the terrorist don't 'recognize' Israel's right to exist so....
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GLOBAL ANALYSIS > FAILURE TO STOP NUCLEAR IRAN BEFORE 2010 MEANS ISLAMIST VICTORY. Will be marker for = strongly indic America's de facto decline in national-global power. IOW, AMERS WILL BE SIMPLY "GOING THRU THE MOTIONS" OF THEIR PDENIABLE, INEVITABLE NATIONAL DEFEAT IFF NOT DESTRUCTION???
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If the complain was coming from the Arabs militants=terrorist, Google will fix the problem the same day. It seems that not all human life are equal for Google, are you surprise?.
The left can be as antisemitic as they want, after all, they are the good guys in their mind, that if what they have in common with the terrorist, no matter how evil they are, they think they are good people, and the other side has problems...
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Of course let's not forget what we found on Google Earth in Northeast Syria... Before Sept 6th... North-Korean style Nuclear Facility...
After Sept 6th - Big black hole-in-da-ground...
The good new is : Farmers downstream off the Euphrates have plenty of water for crops no longer diverted for cooling U-235 rods... Of course there probably have been a lot more mutant veggies showing up when the crops are supplied with that new water supply... ;)
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Google is run by college radicals who incorporate short-sighted attitudes of students, into the running of a capitalist enterprise. Its college radicalism in another form.
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Google paid $400 million to Yahoo, for pilferage of their technology. Yahoo should have held out for the whole Google package.
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I'm still thinking about improving rocket performance with sea salt.
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Speaking of GOOGLE, HOTAIR > FOXNEWS > US 70%-plus sure OSAMA BIN LADEN spotted on civilian? convoy heading out from Tora Bora this past AUGUST 2007. Osama's face, voice, other spotted or caught on various TECHWAR/SPAWAR systems-devices, etal. US JSOC, other Allied elements nearby but did not go after Osama - HOTAIR POSTERS/FORUM GOING BALLISTIC. VARI POSTERS ASKING OR DEMANDING WHY!
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If so, JosephM, it's possible Mr. bin Laden was on the Pakistani side of the border, or even in the company of Pakistani troops. Or, he just doesn't matter any more.
The Hamas-controlled Interior Ministry in the Gaza Strip said Wednesday that members of a "very dangerous collaborators network" have been arrested in the Gaza Strip. According to the announcement, the four collaborators kidnapped Mohawah al-Qadi, a senior member of Hamas's military wing and a commander in its Executive Force militia, and handed him over to the IDF. Qadi is believed to be involved with the abduction of IDF Cpl. Gilad Schalit just outside the Gaza Strip in June 2006.
According to the announcement, the four men were recruited by Israel in the West Bank and then sent to the Strip to locate Schalit and his kidnappers. One of the suspects admitted to collaborating with Israel. He said that after being arrested by the IDF, the Shin Bet (Israeli Security Agency) forced him to help find Schalit's location. He was told to provide details on Qadi's location after he failed to locate Schalit.
Last month, the IDF denied involvement in what Palestinians claimed was an Israeli capture of Qadi. If the Palestinian reports are true, Israeli forces penetrated into central Rafah to nab the senior Hamas member.
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Machmoud, I've had enough of Hassan's guff. Go arrest him and three of his friends. We'll charge him with ... let's see ... spying, for sure, Zionist conspiricies, certainly. Can we open up an old wound, too, I wonder? I got it! Schalit! We'll make him the reason for the Zionist perfidy!
Assuming Gazans can use a word as big as 'perfidy'.
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IAF planes struck a Kassam rocket cell in northern Gaza Wednesday evening, moments after it had succeeded in launching two rockets into Israeli territory. Two of the three operatives were killed, the IDF said. Both rockets struck open areas in the western Negev. Nobody was wounded in the attack, and no damage was reported. Earlier in the day, two Kassams struck the Negev, also hitting open areas and causing neither damage nor injury.
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No word if Goggle was used to locate the site....
Israel killed a top Palestinian fighter with a missile strike on his car yesterday, prompting threats of more rocket attacks from Gaza on Israeli border towns. Mubarak Al-Hassanat, 37, was driving a black jeep on Gazas coastal road when his vehicle was struck by missiles. The jeep veered off the road onto the beach, with its roof sheared off and the front twisted. Two people were hurt.
Hassanat was the most prominent fighter to be killed in an airstrike in over a year. He was a senior official in the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza, which oversees the security forces. He was also the No. 2 in the Popular Resistance Committees, a loose alliance of fighters from various factions involved in rocket attacks.
Hassanat had gotten his start in the Fatah movement of moderate Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, but over the years established closer ties with Hamas and then joined the PRC. On Monday, Hassanat met with PRC members for five hours, said a spokesman, Abu Abir.
The airstrike came just hours after a Palestinian prisoner died of injuries sustained during a riot Monday at an Israeli desert prison, and after Israeli forces killed two members of the Islamic Jihad group in a West Bank raid. Hamas military wing hinted that in retaliation for the prisoners death, it might harm Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit whom the group, along with other militant factions, captured in June 2006. However, Shalit is a bargaining chip for Hamas, which seeks the release of thousands of Palestinian prisoners, and it was not clear whether the threat was real.
Palestinian prisoners held in Israel went on hunger strike yesterday to protest against heavy-handed repression of a prison riot, officials said. The Prisoners Club, the main group representing Palestinians held in Israel, said the one-day hunger strike was being observed by most of the some 11,000 Palestinian security detainees in the Jewish state. This is a one-day hunger strike to protest against what happened at Ketziot, said Palestinian member of Parliament Issa Qaraqi.
The prisoner who died yesterday was identified as Mohammed Al-Ashkar, a member of the Islamic Jihad group, who was serving a two-year sentence for harboring a wanted militant.
In London, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert alleged that Hamas prisoners instigated the Ketziot riot because they have no hope of early release, unlike inmates from Abbas Fatah. Ashkars death sparked rallies of several hundred Palestinians each in three West Bank towns and in Gaza City. We want the prisoners, not negotiations (with Israel), chanted a crowd of about 200 in the town of Ramallah.
Family members of the prisoners held demonstrations in the West Bank cities of Ramallah and Bethlehem, demanding the release of their relatives be included in negotiations aimed at reviving the Middle East peace process. In Ramallah some 250 people, mostly women holding pictures of imprisoned husbands and sons, chanted No peace, no surrender, while our prisoners are behind bars!
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Two Muslim men have been shot dead in Thailand's terror-plagued insurgency-hit south, police said on Thursday, just days after the army reimposed a night time curfew in some of the worst-hit regions. Police said they found the bodies of two men, aged 28 and 21, on the road in Yaha district, Yala province, early Thursday morning. Witnesses said the men were shot on Wednesday night as they returned home from a sports event.
In a concession to local concerns in the Muslim-majority south, the army had lifted a curfew imposed since March during Ramadan, which ended earlier in October.
Unidentified gunmen killed a woman and injured one man in Pattani on Thursday. Six suspected terrorists insurgents on motorcycles gunned down Prapa Thongpid and wounded Kuean Intharak in a house in Sai Buri district at noon. The attackers also torched the house. Police are investigating the incident.
Breaking: The 12th imami haz indiscrete accidents, squirts massive skidmarks from Iraq to Tehran, send Depends..
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Citing an "urgent operational need," the Pentagon is seeking funds to modify B-2 stealth bombers to deliver an experimental 30,000 pound (13.6 tonne), satellite-guided bunker busting bomb, officials said Wednesday. wooohooo heh if that don't warm your cockles nothing will..
The likely purpose of the new weapon is to strike Iran's underground nuclear facilities, experts said. no shiite, seriously it's High Stakes Poker and Prez Bush just played an impotant card in a timely fashion..
"It raises a red flag," said Representative Jim Moran, a Democrat from Virginia who called for hearings on the request. "My immediate assumption is that it is a target in Iran, rather than Iraq or Afghanistan." heh a G'D genius.. Jim Moran Moron a partisan hack if there ever was one, watch him do a "Pelosi" just to spite Prez Bush.
The air force has asked Congress for nearly 88 million dollars to complete development of the so-called Massive Ordnance Penetrator and modify B-2 bombers so that they can deliver it, an air force spokeswoman said. Loving it..
"This program is an effort to satisfy an urgent operational need for the Massive Ordnance Penetrator, a 30,000 pound (13,608 kilogram) GPS guided penetrator weapon on B-2 for hard and deeply buried" targets, the air force's request budget said.
The item was buried in a 42.3 billion dollar request for "war on terror" funding submitted by the administration last week, raising suspicions about the rush to field what would be the largest satellite guided conventional bomb in the US arsenal. "I do know they got interested in this around the time the Iranians began backfilling the large uranium enrichment facility at Natanz," said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.Org, which follows military issues. Heh.. possible clue..
The bomb is currently under development by Boeing under a "technology demonstrator" contract with the Defense Threat Reduction Agency that concludes this fiscal year.
A first test was conducted in March at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico using a "statically emplaced conventional weapon within a DTRA tunnel," according to the agency. Tests from a B-52 bomber are planned for next month and in July 2008, the agency said in a fact sheet on the bomb.
Pike described the bomb as "a big dart. It's basically just a long skinny pointy chunk of steel." I'll have to calculate the joules again..
Its massive weight would drive the weapon through rock and reinforced concrete, he said. Fuzes could be used to detonate the explosives as it breaks through a ceiling into a void.
The Defense Threat Reduction Agency said the MOP is approximately 20.5 feet (6.25 meters) long, with a 31.5-inch (80 centimeter) diameter and a total weight of slightly less than 30,000 pounds. Made In The USA p0rn, best kind..
"The weapon will carry over 5,300 pounds (2,404 kilograms) of explosive material and will deliver more than 10 times the explosive power of its predecessor, the BLU-109," it said. It has been designed to be carried inside B-52 and B-2 Stealth bombers. Impressive, inside the the bomb bay of a B-2.. No warning no where to run no where to hide! Meester Dinnerjacket.. Knock Knock...
The funding request includes 83.5 million dollars to continue development of the weapon and 4.2 million dollars to modify the B-2s so that they can carry it, an air force spokeswoman said. Pure Home Made p0rn
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So will the Dems block this funding request and allow Iran the bomb?
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LUCIANNE/TOPIX > US has denied that these bombs are for IRAN - however, TOPIX/REDDIT > request for more B-2's is being interpreted as for conflict wid Iran. *Iff NOT Iran or other US requirement, that leaves NORTH KOREA???
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If he opposes this then he is a pure traitor - by just having such a weapon it forces the Iranians to deal because their bunkers are no longer safe. If he prevents this weapon from being adapted, then he is directly and completely endangering the saftey of the US.
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B-2. Suggests to me where the MOP is going to be used in the grand scheme of things: First! As it ought to be. When operations are in full swing, hopefully. Get the technical folk and the rest of the program dies out. Hopefully there will be room somewhere for a few Bunker-Busters in the payload for use along the way back, too.
And I had no idea Afghanistan had such a robust air defense network. :-)
I'll have to calculate the joules again..
What terminal velocity did you have in mind, RD? :-) Seriously, though, it seems for a deep strike you would need some altitude, which may be a problem near Iran's nuclear facilities.
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AMERICAN THINKER > DID KIM SEND NUKE MATERIALS TO SYRIA? Kim knows how to smuggle + NK has Yongybon, i.e. reportedly already has plutonium and uranium nucmats. As for Radical Iran and Islamists, they can choose to make their own or better yet buy from NK andor Pakistan, etc. IOW, ANTI-US-WESTERN NUCTECH/NUCMATS PROLIFERATION WON'T STOP BECUZ OF 9/6. SUB-IOW, WAR IS COMING + HIGHLY LIKELY IN NEAR TERM???
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The only thing I don't like about this is that some lucky Basij is going to get to see it before me. But I guess he'll see it coming through his ceiling at 2a.m.
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Puzzling. Remember the "deep digger" weapon? The deep penetrator that had cannon mounted in its nose, and could penetrate for more than any other bunker buster?
The tested it, and it worked great. And I haven't seen word one about it since.
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Theyâll never see the left hook that hits them. The Haliburton Earthquake and Tsunami Division just needs them to locate their facilities at the proper depth to in order to seal them permanently, equipment and personnel, in oâmother Gaia for archeologist to find in about a thousand years. Just keep releasing reports like this for another few months, keepâm diggin and HETD will have the fault lines aligned. :)
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For grins, I'd like to see the Air Force release a drawing of how the weapon works with an example of it hitting a bunker system that looks just like the Russian command center in the Urals...
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How do you like American jihad Mamoud? F#ck you very much.
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It needs a rocket engine in the tail, to increase its kinetic velocity. Raise it up to about 2,000 KMH just before impact. Harden the nose with titanium, let it burrow in. Put a second fuse in the tail with a timer, just to make sure it goes off, no matter what. Watch Ahmahdinnerjacket join the 12th Imam in that well...
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what are the chances this was deliberately leaked to make everybody (in Teheran, in Moscow, etc) think harder?
I hope that's the case.
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Drop it from fucking orbit...it's the only way to be sure. Plenty o' kinetic energy that way.
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"Back of the napkin" calculations suggest it would probably be made of DU to be that heavy and still conform to those dimensions. 5300 pounds of explosives and a guidance system would take up a lot of volume.
there's lots more interesting stuff out there, bring sum back with you..
*one amusing part of this whole rock penetration story are the numbers of studies and papers by University physicist/experts who have put down actual numbers [depths] of rock, types of concrete, soil etc. that couldn't be penetrated due to the limits of Physics.
Funny thing is most if not all of the different NO-GO limits have been blown passed as in surpassed by the US Defense engineers, scientist and machinists! LOL!
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TOPIX/REDDIT > WHY DOES THE US NEED BUNKER BOMBS? article and similar. * ION, FLIGHTGLOBAL.com > CHINA'S NEW DARK SWORD UNMANNED AIR VEHICLE PROGRAMME RAISES SOME QUESTIONS. Design specs and early protos pointing at possible future STEALTHY AIR-SUPERIORITY/COMBAT UNMANNED DRONE??? PLAAF going all-out for the UAV gusto!?
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It needs a rocket engine in the tail, to increase its kinetic velocity. Raise it up to about 2,000 KMH just before impact. Harden the nose with titanium, let it burrow in. Put a second fuse in the tail with a timer, just to make sure it goes off, no matter what.
Word, OP. Our new hyper-sonic missile technology needs to be directed towards making final-stage vehicle munition deliveries arrive at insanely high velocities. We can do it. Recent advances in ablative shields and high-strength alloys should overcome a majority of issues.
The only other alternative is using precision guided selectable-yield nuclear devices and those should ALWAYS be reserved for Response In Kind and not first use. Fortunately, America has the scientific and technological resources to overcome such puny obstacles that otherwise confound the majority of our enemies.
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I hope this doesn't mean we can't jury rig some sort of deep bunker buster plus delivery system if we need it sooner. It makes me uncomfortable to think we can't do anything about Iran before this thing is built.
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We can most likely do it, tw. It's just that hyper-velocity delivery vehicles can produce such incredibly more spectacular results. America can defeat its enemies on so many different levels at the same time that it almost becomes ridiculous save only for the opposition we face from sub-morons who refuse to accept our greatness. They do this with such undaunted determination whereby it seems most likely that honest citizens will need to subdue them by lethal force.
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YNET OP-ED > ISRAEL WILL HAVE TO ATTACK IRAN. Time is running out on the Iranian Bomb issue, and Israel can't afford to completely place its survival in the hands of diplomacy. Israel must prepare to act and stand alone.
Fires raged on Wednesday for the second time this month across hectares (acres) of forest in Lebanon, threatening the natural wealth of a country once known as the Switzerland of the Middle East. Interior Minister Hassan Sabaa pointed an accusing finger at unidentified assailants charged of starting the fires. "The big question is: how did these fires start late at night and in areas that are not linked to the road network," Sabaa told Voice of Lebanon radio.
When residents observed smoke billowing from the nearby mountain, they innocently headed to the source of smoke to extinguish the blaze, but they were shot at.
He disclosed that in the "Eioun al-Samak region of the Minyeh district residents observed smoke billowing from the nearby mountain, they innocently headed to the source of smoke to extinguish the blaze, but they were shot at. This supports suspicion that these fires are intentional."
Earlier this month, more than 2,500 hectares (6,200 acres) of woodland were destroyed in fires that swept through several regions of Lebanon, leaving one woman dead and dozens injured. Experts have warned that seasonal forest fires in Lebanon are further threatening to destroy the country's natural wealth -- among the richest in the Middle East. "The consequences of forest fires are disastrous on the natural environment and ecological systems, not to mention the population, by worsening poverty and lowering the quality of life," said a report by the Association for Forest Development and Conservation (AFDC).
Lebanon is known as a tourist destination for its scenic green mountains that offer cool summer vacations, mainly for wealthy Gulf Arabs escaping the heat in their desert countries. The country's natural wealth, including its large water resources, have traditionally been a main source of income for residents of tourist regions and local farmers.
Zeina Tamim, an official at the agriculture ministry, said that forest fires were slowly destroying green zones which account for 23 percent of the country's territory, including 13.5 percent of forests. "The fire claimed approximately 0.25 percent of Lebanese territory (earlier this month). It is estimated that at least 2,500 hectares of forest were burned, which equal five times the total reforested area during the past 17 years," said the AFDC report. "As a result of these fires, the forest cover has been burnt down to 11 percent. Replanting the 2,500 hectares would cost 10 million dollars," said the report based on a study funded by the European Union.
The ADFC report said forest fires in Lebanon are mainly caused by climatic conditions: prolongued hot summers, lack of water and violent winds. "Also, the general public through their lifestyle or livelihood activities is an important initiator of forest fires," mainly due to the clearing of agricultural fields using fire, it said.
Many parts of the torched forests are lost without any possibility of natural regeneration, as pine forests that are damaged by fire twice within a period of 10 years can not produce any more cones. "Lebanon's green areas are a wealth that is threatened with extinction if there is no quick salvation plan that includes the reforestation of the burnt-out areas," an environment ministry official warned.
"The erosion of green areas has dangerous consequences: the destruction of floristic species diversity, soil erosion, the decrease in underground waters and desertification," the official who did not wish to be identified said.
The AFDC report said "Lebanon's forests have undergone continuous degradation, which has intensified in recent years." "Between 1990 and 1995, more than 30 percent of Lebanese forests were deforested or burned, leading to fragmentation and loss of the fundamental nature of these forest ecosystems," it said.
Wild fires raged across tinder-dry forests of north and south Lebanon Wednesday as choppers from the nearby Island republic of Cyprus tried to help combat tongues of flame threatening population centers.
Police blocked traffic along the Zghorta-Ehden highway, which penetrates the region's forests and olive groves to avoid civilian casualties. In south Lebanon tongues of flame shot up in the sky from pine and oak forests of south Lebanon's Bisri-Sfarai region, according to police. Civil Defense teams operating fire engines sprayed olive and orange groves surrounding the region with water to prevent the spread of fires as other teams of volunteers tried to help in combating the spreading inferno.
An official at the Civil Defense directorate reached by telephone said: "We are carrying out a double mission, on the one hand we combat the forest fires and, on the other, we try to prevent the blaze from reaching population centers."
He attributed the fires to the long summer and dry land. "Winter is late, we need rain, God is the best firefighter," said the official who asked not to be identified by name.
In the Muslim villages of north Lebanon the elderly clergymen called for special "rain prayers." "Only Allah's Mercy can help put off the fires. God Directs rain," said Farouq Ashi of the Akkar Atiqa village.
Wild Fires Swept across more than 6.000 acres of forest land earlier this month killing one person and injuring scores.
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Once again, muslims demonstrate that they are "the death of the land". They dont even have the excuse of slash and burn agriculture.
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Lessee... Smoke is chock full of particulates, right? And particulates block the sun's rays, yes?
So smokey fires help fight global warming! Light one today! Do it for the children!
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Am I the only one who's Spider-sense is tingling regarding our own California fires?? They've arrested one and killed another in connection with these events -- yet -- no names or pictures of the individuals. Could they be asian?
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There have been jihadi threats to start wild fires in the west, IIRC .... I'm on the run today but maybe one of our perspicacious readers could dig up a reference.
OT: Am I the only one who's Spider-sense is tingling regarding the California fires?? They've arrested one and killed another in connection with these events -- yet -- no names or pictures of the individuals. Could they be asian? Democratic Congressmen sons?
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Jean Crain has a very beautiful face, and if I remember correctly, a soft, soothing speaking voice. Definitely an improvement over the whining, bitchy voices of most of today's "stars". I married another Jean that looks somewhat like Jean Crain 40-odd years ago. Still happy with my choice!
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Please ignore. Testing new gmail address thingy. (Thanks to Free Radical and trailing daughter #1, who made it happen!)
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KHOST, Afghanistan - The governor of Afghanistans southeastern province of Khost survived a suicide attack on his convoy on Wednesday, officials said. Three people, including a bodyguard of governor Arsala Jamal, were wounded in the raid which happened on a road in a district of the province close to the border with Pakistan.
Two insurgents were arrested Wednesday in Ingushetia on suspicion of bombing a passenger train traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg in August, the Interior Ministry said. If the suspects prove to be both insurgents and train bombers, it would mean militants have again begun venturing out of the North Caucasus after a lull of more than two years.
Investigators have identified the woman who blew herself up in a minibus in Dagestan this week as 18-year-old Sidrat Gasanbekova, Itar-Tass reported Wednesday.
AN Australian Digger has died in Afghanistan less than three weeks after a roadside bomb killed Brisbane soldier David Pearce.
(AKI) - Spanish paramilitary police early on Wednesday detained this morning six alleged members of an Islamist cell in the northern Spanish city of Burgos, who they believe to have been involved in recruiting jihadist to carry out terror attacks internationally, including in Iraq. 
A blast tore through a truck carrying paramilitary soldiers in restive northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing 30 people and wounding at least a dozen more, a senior security official said. 
(KUNA) -- At least seven persons were wounded Wednesday when their vehicle hit a landmine in Southwestern Baluchistan province of Pakistan, said officials. The incident took place in Killi Madd area, about 15 kilometers from gas-rich Sui district, said police sources. They said the landmine had been planted by suspected nationalist militants to target security forces vehicle, which was to pass from there after few minutes. They added that the explosion wounded seven persons, adding that two of them are said to be in critical condition.
A PIA flight had to make an emergency landing at Faisalabad Airport after a bomb hoax on Wednesday. According to PIA sources, Karachi-bound PK-305 with 204 passengers onboard took off from Lahore Airport at 6pm. After the flights departure, the control tower at Lahore Airport received an anonymous call concerning a bomb on the plane and conveyed the information to the pilot. The pilot then made an emergency landing at Faisalabad Airport where, following a thorough search, the plane took off for Karachi at 11pm.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki yesterday ordered the closure of offices run by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), saying Iraq would no longer allow the terrorist group to operate on its soil. The PKK is a bad terrorist organization and we have taken a decision to close its offices and not allow them to work on Iraqi soil, Maliki said in a statement issued after talks with visiting Turkish Foreign Minister Ali Babacan.
IAF planes struck a Kassam rocket cell in northern Gaza Wednesday evening, moments after it had succeeded in launching two rockets into Israeli territory. Two of the three operatives were killed, the IDF said. Both rockets struck open areas in the western Negev. Nobody was wounded in the attack, and no damage was reported. Earlier in the day, two Kassams struck the Negev, also hitting open areas and causing neither damage nor injury. 
Israel killed a top Palestinian fighter with a missile strike on his car yesterday, prompting threats of more rocket attacks from Gaza on Israeli border towns. 
