NATOs force in Afghanistan said around 70 people were killed in raids targeting the Taliban this week but was still unsure how many were civilians after reports that scores of ordinary people died. The International Security Assistance Force admitted in a statement late on Friday that a number of civilians were killed along with a large number of insurgents in the October 24 air strike in Kandahar province. ISAF believes that around 70 individuals were killed, the statement said. We are satisfied that we identified and targeted a group of insurgents, but it is uncertain how many civilians were among the dead. In addition, it is unclear how many of the civilians were killed as a result of insurgent fire.
Residents of the Panjwayi area have said between 60 and 85 civilians were killed in the late-night bombing raid, which started on the second day of Eid. Some have said none of the dead were Taliban, but ISAF has said it believed 48 were militants, including from a group that attacked a base.
On Friday it said 12 of the dead were civilians, while the police put the figure at about 25, with a presidential-appointed commission and a separate ISAF and Defence Ministry team investigating the incident.
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Why are we getting into this collateral damage debate? Paleos claim that nearly 100% of those killed by the IAF/IDF are "civilians." The truth wouldn't play on Arab or Euro-Street.
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Yup. bunches of ordinary people died. Some had RPG's. Some were carrying AK's. Some IED's. Others just grenades and ammunition. Nothing out of the ordinary, though.
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I recall an incident during the Vietnam War, where anti-war members of Congress complained of bombing of farm dikes. Then Melvin Laird, Defense Minister, held up pictures of Ack-Acks positioned feet away from dikes. Shut up time.
BAGRAM AIR BASE: The movement of militants from Pakistan into Afghanistan has increased since Islamabad signed a deal with tribal elders last month, said NATOs top military commander on Saturday. The ISAF was monitoring the situation after the agreement with pro-Taliban elders in North Waziristan, General James Jones told reporters. He said the ISAF, however, was still evaluating the situation and the first indications might not be conclusive.
NATO is building a new relationship with Pakistan to address the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, he added. ISAF commanders were due to meet with the Pakistan military in the coming weeks, he said, with the NATO-led force wanting to remove militant sanctuaries in the region and stop the cross border movement of fighters.
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I thought that use of infra-red technology would be effective against infiltration?
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I thought that use of infra-red technology would be effective against infiltration?
There are ways to foil even the best surveillance system. The US BDU uniform breaks up the infrared signature significantly enough to make the wearer all but invisible to anything but very close observation (within 50-100 feet). Crossing with a small group of animals, or crossing at "just the right time" of day will be enough to mask most infrared detection. You also need 150% sensor coverage to keep from having holes in the net. The Afghan-Pak border is a LONG border.
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Reactive defense is not going to work in that environment. You have to go after their staging areas.
Its time to play the game by their rules. Im sure there are a lot of unemployed Afghan whod like to go back to raiding and looting, an historical pastime and hobby. If Taliban can move one direction across the border, Afghans can move the other direction. Just need to have the plausible deniability in place.
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f*ck plausible deniability. Time to carry the fight across the border in hot pursuit and let the chips fall where they may. Perv's double game is getting our troops and Afghan civilians killed. Bomb them back to the stone age - it's a short journey
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I dunno what we're going to do when Gen Jones turns over command - Feb '07, IIRC. He's a veritable genius. We are prolly doomed what with Pervy's Wazoo Gambit, Blinky rejecting Karzai's peace-talks offer (whassup with that stupid idea?), the Brutal Afghan Winter approaching, and Jones going home to loll about his estates. Color me blue...
NDJAMENA - Chad accused neighbouring Sudan on Saturday of bombing four villages close to its border with the war-torn Sudanese region of Darfur. The Sudanese airforce targeted the Chadian villages of Bahai, Tine, Karyari and Bamina, destroying the homes of peaceful Chadian citizens and causing distress among the inhabitants of these Chadian border regions, Communications Minister Hourmadji Moussa Doumgor said in statement.
He gave no details of any casualties.
The Chadian government expects the African Union, Cen-Sad (states in the Sahel-Sahara region) and the United Nations to condemn these bombings against peaceful Chadian citizens and they work to bring an end to these repeated attacks on Chad.
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AT least three Australians with suspected links to al-Qaeda are facing terrorist charges after being arrested in Yemen for alleged arms smuggling.
A foreign affairs department spokesman in Canberra confirmed reports from Yemen that Australian passport-holders were among eight foreigners arrested in Yemen. But the spokesman said it was understood there were three Australians, not four as reported from the Yemeni capital, Sanaa.
A senior Yemeni Interior Ministry official said that Yemeni forces had arrested eight foreigners for allegedly smuggling weapons to Somalia from Yemen. He said four held Australian passports and one was a Danish national, but gave no details on the three others. The eight foreigners were arrested because they smuggled weapons to Somalia from Yemen, the official. Preliminary investigations indicate that they are members of al-Qaeda.
Four Australians smuggling guns from Yemen to Somalia. I'm betting their names aren't James, Peter, Roger and Jake.
Government sources in the Yemeni capital said that all eight had converted to Islam earlier this year and received religious instruction in Yemen.
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade spokesman Scott Bolitho said in Canberra that the department had been advised of arrests by Yemeni authorities. They have confirmed that they have arrested three Australians, Mr Bolitho said. At this stage they have not provided any further information.
With assistance from the British Commission in Yemen, consular officials from our embassy in Riyadh are seeking access to those detained.
Mr Bolitho said DFAT was aware of reports that the arrested Australians face terrorist charges, including smuggling weapons to Somalia.
Last month, Yemen said it had broken up an al-Qaeda linked cell that was behind foiled attacks on oil and gas installations.
Two members of the outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-Janajuddho) were killed during a fierce gunfight between the outlaws and the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Mirpur upazila of the district on Friday night.
Two more commie perps fail to dodge the bullet in an upazila you've never heard of. An amusing tale!
The dead were identified as Abir Hasan, 36, operations commander and the general secretary of the outlawed outfit, and his sidekick cohort, Taizal.
Got a big one, did they?
According to a Rab-12 statement, ...
They're up to 12 RAB teams now? Business must be good ...
... acting on a tip-off, a team led by Major Hafiz went to the house of Habib Uddin at West Duarpara in Mirpur upazila at around 5:30pm where the outlaw leader was supposed to be presiding over a secret meeting.
Sssssh! It's a secret!
Being confirmed about the presence of the outlaws, the law enforcers cordoned off the house and asked them to surrender.
This is no Saudi style surrounding, either.
At this, the outlaws in the house opened fire on the Rab personnel.
"Cheez it's the RAB! Get to the window and start blasting!"
One ASP (assistant superintendent of police) was bullet hit at this time, the statement said.
Oh that's not going to go over well.
Then the Rab asked the Khulna Range of Police for more troops and a fierce gunfight ensued at about 7:30pm that lasted for nearly three hours. Both sides exchanged around 500 shots during the shootout.
Other than the super, all those bullets only hit the two mugs.
At one stage, the Rab team set fire to the house.
There's a new wrinkle in the traditional cross-fire. Bullet-hit and charred!
After the fight was over, Rab found two dead bodies in a room of the house.
"I don't know, Sarge, they look pretty crispy to me."
"Toss them into the truck and take them to Dr. Quincy. He'll know what to do."
They also recovered one US made M-16 rifle, one shutter gun and 60 rounds of bullet from the spot.
Yes! A shutter gun! Even the RAB-12 has one!
Hailing from Jadabpur village in Alamdanga upazila in Chuadanga, Abir Hasan alias Nashar joined the PBCP in 1999. He was made operations commander in 2003 after another top PBCP leader Shoeb died.
In a previous crossfire.
A most wanted criminal in the police list, Abir was accused in 12 systems 60 different cases and also admitted responsibility for at least 50 murders in the region at different times.
And he's a commie so he was meat on a stick to the RAB.
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Not one, but 2 wrinkles: a crossfirecharbq and at an earlier more convenient time (by my count, some where before the 11 o'clock news). That still left time for the tradidional 0330 dark alley sortie.
(RIA Novosti) - Five participants of illegal armed units have given themselves up to police in Ingushetia, the North Caucasus republic's Interior Ministry said Saturday. Besides, another two militants have turned themselves in to police in Chechnya over the last 24 hours, the republic's law enforcement agencies said.
Although authorities have announced that the active phase of the counter-terrorism operation in the North Caucasus is over, violence continues to affect the region. Through a partial amnesty announced on July 15, following the killing of the region's number one terrorist Shamil Basayev, militants not involved in major atrocities were promised leniency. A law granting amnesty to militants and servicemen guilty of offenses during the North Caucasus antiterrorism campaign came into force in late September.
More than 300 militants have accepted the surrender offer since its announcement, mainly in Chechnya, according to Nikolai Patrushev, head of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) and the National Antiterrorism Committee.
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Heh - first glance I thought I saw: Militants turn themselves into police in Ingushetia, Chechnya
I was wondering how long before someone was burned in these bus attacks. According to France3 the inevitable happened at around 9:00 P.M. Saturday night, in Marseilles:
A 26-year-old woman was burned over 60% of her body, according to the Hospital of the Conception in Marseilles where the unconscious victim was taken. Three other passengers were treated for minor smoke inhalation.
Youts Adolescents set fire to the bus using an inflammable liquid, according to police sources.
Rat bastards.
Around 9:00 P.M. three teens, according to passengers' testimony, got on the bus by forcing the doors and poured the incendiary liquid. The attack took place in the 13th "arrondissement" of Marseilles, a district out of the center of town and "not particularly affected by acts of civil disobedience," according to the firemen.
So the youts are spreading out.
The bus left the downtown area en route for the northern neighborhoods, known to be more troublesome. The prosecutors for the city of Marseilles visited the scene and turned the investigation over to the criminal brigade of the Marseilles judiciary police, "considering the gravity of the act," according to a police source. Apparently, she was burned on 60% of her body; public transportation is halted in Marseilles, as the bus drivers won't go to work in those conditions, and galouzeau "de villepin" has announced an emergency meeting on security on Tuesday.
TUESDAY?????
Monday's not a working day in Y'urp, lotp, everyone knows that.
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Interesting. Now it is Marseilles. Anyone who has read Claire Berlinski's Menace in Europe knows that she portrayed Marseilles as a model city of inter-religious tolerance.
Now even that city is being put to the test by the brave *snark* Jackels Lions of Radical Islam.
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According to wittnesses, the arsonists were four "15 years old" Youths, who throwed flamable liquid in the bus with the passengers still inside.
This might be related to an altercation the female bus driver had earlier. The victim is a 26 years old student from a senegalese background, she's in critical condition, and will bear "heavy sequels" from this attack.
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This horrendous crime might represent a tipping point. Marseilles is much more culturally diverse than Paris. We may even see things take a significant turn, especially in light of how the victim was a minority. It appears as though the French authorities could finally abandon their usual policy of negotiation and resort to much harsher measures such as ...
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French media and politicians are beyond redemption and deserve whatever happens to them.
There are people in France who can be pushed too far though, and we may close to that point now.
The Battle of Algiers happened within living memory and all the PC and media handwringing in the world will not prevent a recurrence once the backlash begins.
The "yoots" should enjoy their immunity while they can.
THE Irish army has disabled an explosive device in southern Ireland, the police and defence forces said overnight. However, they declined to comment on a report by Irish broadcaster RTE that the discovery had foiled a plot by dissident Irish republicans, the Real IRA, aimed at disrupting a deadline for agreement on self-rule in Northern Ireland.
A police spokeswoman said the remains of a device were found in Kilbranish, Mount Leinster in County Carlow on Friday night. "The gardai (police) moved in and cordoned off the area and carried out a search," she said. The device was disabled by army bomb disposal experts on Saturday, a defence forces spokesman said. Neither could not comment on the RTE report linking the find to the Real IRA.
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SUSPECTED Islamic rebels killed one civilian and wounded 20 people, including three Indian border guards, when they hurled a grenade in a busy market in Kashmir overnight, officials said. "Militants threw a grenade at our vehicle which exploded on the road, injuring three of our men and 18 civilians," said a border guard spokesman, Manhas, who uses one name. Authorities said one of the wounded civilians died on the way to hospital.
Security forces immediately sealed off the area in Sopore town, 50 km north of Indian Kashmir summer capital Srinagar, and launched a search for the attackers, the border guard spokesman said. None of the dozen rebel groups fighting to break away Kashmir from India had so far claimed responsibility for the blast.
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QUETTA: A bicycle bomb exploded outside a police barracks in Quetta on Saturday, killing at least one person and wounding a dozen, security officials said. According to the details, the blast took place near Global Plaza on the Police Line in the highly sensitive area of Quetta Cantonment. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Asmat and the injured as Ghulam Raza, Attaullah, Mohammad Iftikhar, Imtiaz Ahmed, Yunus Khan, Samiullah, Ghulam Sarwar, Kamran, Nazir, Sanaullah, Asad and Ahmedullah.
Balochistan Deputy Administrator Manzoor Kakar said the bomb had been planted in a bicycle. One eyewitness stated, The blast was so powerful that it also broke the windowpanes of neighbouring offices.
Around four cars and six motorcycles, which were parked nearby, were also heavily damaged due to the blast. Doctors at the state run hospital where the wounded were taken said two of the casualties were in a critical condition. The injured persons were soon rushed to the Quetta Civil Hospital. There was no immediate claim of responsibility but police authorities said they were hunting for the criminals. However, they refused to single out any group for the incident.
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QUETTA, Pakistan - A bicycle bomb exploded outside a police barracks in Pakistans southwestern city of Quetta on Saturday, killing at least one person and wounding a dozen, security and hospital officials said. Deputy administrator of the capital of the gas rich but violence-racked Baluchistan province, Manzoor Kakar, said the bomb had been planted in a bicycle.
Doctors at the state run hospital where the wounded were taken said two of the casualties were in a critical condition.
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Time for the Balochi to stand up and destroy every damn pipeline in the country.
FOB BRASSFIELD-MORA Iraqi Army soldiers discovered multiple weapons caches during joint patrols with U.S. Army Paratroopers Oct. 21-22 in a village north of Samarra.
Iraqi Army soldiers from 2nd Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Brigade, 4th Iraqi Army Division, were patrolling fields outside of the village with the Company D, 2nd Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division Paratroopers when they came across five 130mm artillery rounds hidden in a hole. The Iraqis reported the find to their Paratrooper counterparts, which lead to a second, more thorough, search of the area.
They discovered one cache after another each containing an assortment of munitions throughout the countryside surrounding the village, said Capt. Brian Roeder, Company D commander. The weapons caches included 60 and 80mm mortar rounds, 130 and 155mm artillery rounds, grenades and rocket-propelled grenade launchers.
Spc. Joshua T. Pervis, infantryman, Company D, described the cache sites as a Toys 'R Us for terrorists.
Additionally, four of the 155mm mortar rounds were found rigged to explosives and ready for emplacement and detonation.
Approximately 240 mortar turned up during the searches, leading Sgt. 1st Class Miguel Antonio Ramirez, 4th platoons sergeant, and his troops to believe that his men have put a significant dent in the production of Improvised Explosive Devices in the area.
After finding the surplus of weaponry, troops questioned nearby villagers, which led to the detainment of three individuals, including one bomb maker. Credit to the detainment of the bomb maker belongs to his own brother, an Iraqi Soldier who serves with 2nd Company. The Iraqi Soldier informed the Paratroopers of his crooked brothers profession as a bomb maker. Arab saying: When Death knocks at your door, introduce him to your brother.
Identifying with the region/country and not just with your blood relatives is a big step towards success for Iraq.
With the aide of their Iraqi Army counterparts, the Paratroopers of Company D are the most successful company within the 3rd Brigade Combat Team in terms of numbers of insurgents and munitions seized, said Ramirez.
Being the smallest company in the battalion, Roeder says it feels good to be producing the greatest results. We have had success as a company. We went beyond catching the trigger man and going straight to the source. These guys are going to have a hard time replacing the rounds we pulled, said Roeder.
Ramirez added that if it were not for the intelligence received from the Iraqi Forces, discovery of munitions caches and the detainment of suspected insurgents would be more difficult.
When Roeder and his men first arrived to support joint-combat operations in the Salah ad Din Province, he noticed Iraqi Forces were struggling to overcome the challenges of being a new fighting force. However, over the past two months their Iraqi Army partners made drastic improvements and successfully handle combat operations in their sector, said 1st Lt. Zachary Kaye, platoon leader. Theyre definitely starting to hold their own in this area, said Kaye. You see them actively patrolling at least two to three times a day; theyre setting up check points on their own; theyre getting information from the local population on improvised-explosive device positions and information on the location of suspected insurgents.
I have a feeling that it wont be long before the Iraqi Army assumes full responsibility of the area between Samarra and Tikrit, said Ramirez.
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I wonder if they have figured out how to mount some kind of metal detector on a helicopter. In most cases, if they could spot a concentration of metal a foot or two down, then fire a few large caliber explosive/incindiary rounds through the ground, they could take down a huge number of caches quickly.
Otherwise, if no boom, just GPS mark them for later investigation.
October 29, 2006: This month, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) sponsored a meeting of Sunni and Shia religious scholars in Saudi Arabia. The OIC issued a Fatwah calling on Iraqis to stop killing each other. This was accepted by the major Shia and Sunni clerics in Iraq. But the clerics agreed that their plea would likely be rejected by the hard core killers. There are several groups of these, each with specific reasons to keep up the mayhem. The Sunni Arab killers are largely motivated by a desire to avoid prison or execution for atrocities committed while serving in Saddam's government, especially in the security forces. That, in turn, has spawned groups of Kurds and Shia Arabs who are seeking vengeance. The Shias are the most lethal, because there are more of them, and some of the Shia death squads are working for the Iranian government. The Iranians are still eager to punish those responsible for starting the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war. For the Iranian government, those considered most guilty are the senior members of the Baath party. Saddam Hussein has led that party since the 1970s, but the Iranian death lists contain several thousand names. For Iran, there can be no peace until all these Baath Party officials are dead. For the Sunni Arab terrorists, there can be no peace until the revenge killing stop. Two years ago, most Iraqi Sunni Arab terrorists were motivated by the desire to put the Baath Party back in power. But now, just survival would be nice.
While the Shia and Sunni scholars agree on the need to end the violence, they don't agree on some fundamental religious and political issues. Many Iranian clerics believe that the Saud family, and their Sunni Arab allies, who currently run Saudi Arabia, are not legitimate rulers. The more extreme Iranian clerics believe that the Saudi Shias, who comprise about five percent of the Saudi population, should be in charge. The Iranian government is more circumspect on this issue, but would be under tremendous popular pressure to get involved, if there was a major Shia rebellion in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi Shias are concentrated in the east, where most of the oil is.
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While the Shia and Sunni scholars agree on the need to end the violence, they don't agree on some fundamental religious and political issues
Catch 22 isn't it. Religious and political "issues" advocate - nay, demand - violence. They'd like their enemies to die quietly and stop being violent when attacked. But, everybody is a enemy in islam. Or meat, left out to be eaten by cats. Violence drives this "religion". If they stopped killing, they wouldn't be pious muslims. Islam kills. It's what they do.
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Nothing but professional handwringing. These assholes have no intention of reaching any sort of peaceful compromise, because that it what it would require, compromise. Sharing power is contrary to all things Islamic and the sun will explode sooner than Sunnis and Shias ever learn to coexist. Not that I would particularly mind them continuing to slaughter each other, except these assholes have enough excess Killer Kapacity to keep sending their murderous thugs after us too.
2-4 Kassam rockets were fired at Sderot and the western Negev this morning, damaging a building and sending a woman into shock. Sderot residents protested outside their neighbor DM Peretz's home.
The IDF reported on two rockets, while other sources reported on either three or four rockets. At least one Kassam landed near Kibbutz Netiv HaAsarah, just north of the Gaza border, and another one landed in the city of Sderot. Several rockets were fired at Sderot over the weekend, including two on Saturday morning, and another was fired towards Ashkelon on Friday night. One missile landed in the Elite chocolate factory, according to Sderot blogger Mechi Fendel.
Close to 500 Sderot residents protested last night (Saturday) outside the home of Defense Minister Amir Peretz, Chairman of the Labor Party and a resident and former mayor of the city. They held torches and signs, calling upon the government to undertake a major military offensive in Gaza to stop the Kassam rockets. Sderot municipality spokesman Yossi Cohen said he regretted that more people - out of the town of 23,000 - did not come to the privately-organized protest. He said that Mayor Eli Moyal will be starting a different type of protest next week. Moyal will visit the United Nations in New York and the General Assembly in Los Angeles, in an effort to awaken American Jewry to the dire situation in Sderot.
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I don't think a conventional plane conversion to UAV will ever be satisfactory, because the plane is designed around having a pilot. However, once we are beyond the "design gap", and have mastered the concept of high performance UAVs, we will be a lot happier with the outcome.
Ironically, this also means that the U2-altitude aircraft will be joined by an orbital spacecraft, that can act both as the UAV master control and transceiver.
Two more killed in latest shootings Wounded toddler succumbs to injuries
A three-year-old girl who was shot by insurgent suspects in Bannang Sata district died on Friday night after succumbing to a serious head wound, a doctor said. Pattama Janlekpat, whose parents were killed in a drive-by shooting on Friday, was immediately admitted to Bannang Sata Hospital and was later taken to the better-equipped Yala Central Hospital for further treatment. But the doctor said the gunshot wound was too severe to be resisted by the little girl.
Her body has been taken for funeral rites at a temple in Bannang Sata district. The ceremony was also held for her parents. Her father Akom, 32, and mother Aroonrat na Phatthalung, 20, who was pregnant, were gunned down by two men on a motorbike. The shootings occurred as the three were driving home after shopping in the district town. Yala deputy governor Karan Supavilekkarn gave financial help to the relatives of the three and said the government would provide counselling to them to relieve their grief.
The incident took place on the same day Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont made a quick trip to the southern province of Songkhla to visit five Buddhist monks and two soldiers injured in a bomb attack in Narathiwat last Sunday. On Thursday, Gen Surayud will visit the three southernmost provinces of Narathiwat, Pattani and Yala for the first time since becoming prime minister.
The insurgency in the three Muslim-dominated southernmost provinces continued yesterday with two villagers killed and one seriously injured, police said. In Narathiwat's Rueso district, rubber tree farmer Boonriang Ruangtong, 74, was shot dead by two men in a rubber plantation in Ban Balukahulu village. Police said the men called Boonriang, who was inside a make-shift shelter. When he came out, the men shot him in the eye and shoulder. Police believe his death was connected to the daily insurgent violence because the old man did not appear to have any conflict with others.
A villager in Pattani's Khok Pho district was also shot dead by two insurgent suspects as he rode a motorbike to work at a rubber plantation yesterday, police said.
In Yala's Muang district, a man who works in a clinic was shot by two men on a motorbike. He was taken to Yala Centre Hospital for treatment of wounds on the head and arm. Akapol Saijian, 25, was shot while riding his motorbike with his girlfriend to his workplace in Muang district yesterday. He was seriously injured but his girlfriend was not shot, police said.
In Bangkok Gen Surayud welcomed a group of 90 Muslim teenagers from Pattani, Yala, and Narathiwat who will stay with Muslim families in the capital and neighbouring provinces for 12 days under a state project to build relationships between Muslim groups in the two regions. The initiative, held for the fourth time, aims to introduce teenagers to the daily lives of Muslims in other regions. Officials hope their experiences will help mould them into good Muslim leaders in the future.
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From all these incidents no truthful meaning of the word terrorism can be discerned. The Thai's need to get with the program and seal the border with Malasya and start cleaning house.
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Meet the Parents - too bad, it was funny. You might have actually enjoyed it.
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Did you turn your clock back?
Dammit, I'm tired of this sexual innuendo!
I tell you what else I'm tired of: these bony-assed models. Just look at the way that gal's hipbones jut out. And her spine! You can practically count the vertebrae! Guys, that's just not healthy.
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Grew up in Iowa and it goes without saying that I can milk cows. However, I have found that shoveling manure was the skill most applicable to my professional career.
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My stepfather only raised Steers and Bulls - so while I know the theory of how - I haven't done it myself. Even I wasn't crazy enough to try on old boozer
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NATOs force in Afghanistan said around 70 people were killed in raids targeting the Taliban this week but was still unsure how many were civilians after reports that scores of ordinary people died. The International Security Assistance Force admitted in a statement late on Friday that a number of civilians were killed along with a large number of insurgents in the October 24 air strike in Kandahar province. ISAF believes that around 70 individuals were killed, the statement said. We are satisfied that we identified and targeted a group of insurgents, but it is uncertain how many civilians were among the dead. In addition, it is unclear how many of the civilians were killed as a result of insurgent fire.
NDJAMENA - Chad accused neighbouring Sudan on Saturday of bombing four villages close to its border with the war-torn Sudanese region of Darfur. The Sudanese airforce targeted the Chadian villages of Bahai, Tine, Karyari and Bamina, destroying the homes of peaceful Chadian citizens and causing distress among the inhabitants of these Chadian border regions, Communications Minister Hourmadji Moussa Doumgor said in statement.
AT least three Australians with suspected links to al-Qaeda are facing terrorist charges after being arrested in Yemen for alleged arms smuggling.
Two members of the outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-Janajuddho) were killed during a fierce gunfight between the outlaws and the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Mirpur upazila of the district on Friday night.
(RIA Novosti) - Five participants of illegal armed units have given themselves up to police in Ingushetia, the North Caucasus republic's Interior Ministry said Saturday. Besides, another two militants have turned themselves in to police in Chechnya over the last 24 hours, the republic's law enforcement agencies said.
THE Irish army has disabled an explosive device in southern Ireland, the police and defence forces said overnight. However, they declined to comment on a report by Irish broadcaster RTE that the discovery had foiled a plot by dissident Irish republicans, the Real IRA, aimed at disrupting a deadline for agreement on self-rule in Northern Ireland. 
SUSPECTED Islamic rebels killed one civilian and wounded 20 people, including three Indian border guards, when they hurled a grenade in a busy market in Kashmir overnight, officials said. "Militants threw a grenade at our vehicle which exploded on the road, injuring three of our men and 18 civilians," said a border guard spokesman, Manhas, who uses one name. Authorities said one of the wounded civilians died on the way to hospital.
QUETTA: A bicycle bomb exploded outside a police barracks in Quetta on Saturday, killing at least one person and wounding a dozen, security officials said. According to the details, the blast took place near Global Plaza on the Police Line in the highly sensitive area of Quetta Cantonment. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Asmat and the injured as Ghulam Raza, Attaullah, Mohammad Iftikhar, Imtiaz Ahmed, Yunus Khan, Samiullah, Ghulam Sarwar, Kamran, Nazir, Sanaullah, Asad and Ahmedullah.
QUETTA, Pakistan - A bicycle bomb exploded outside a police barracks in Pakistans southwestern city of Quetta on Saturday, killing at least one person and wounding a dozen, security and hospital officials said. Deputy administrator of the capital of the gas rich but violence-racked Baluchistan province, Manzoor Kakar, said the bomb had been planted in a bicycle.
FOB BRASSFIELD-MORA Iraqi Army soldiers discovered multiple weapons caches during joint patrols with U.S. Army Paratroopers Oct. 21-22 in a village north of Samarra.
October 29, 2006: This month, the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) sponsored a meeting of Sunni and Shia religious scholars in Saudi Arabia. The OIC issued a Fatwah calling on Iraqis to stop killing each other. This was accepted by the major Shia and Sunni clerics in Iraq. But the clerics agreed that their plea would likely be rejected by the hard core killers. There are several groups of these, each with specific reasons to keep up the mayhem. The Sunni Arab killers are largely motivated by a desire to avoid prison or execution for atrocities committed while serving in Saddam's government, especially in the security forces. That, in turn, has spawned groups of Kurds and Shia Arabs who are seeking vengeance. The Shias are the most lethal, because there are more of them, and some of the Shia death squads are working for the Iranian government. The Iranians are still eager to punish those responsible for starting the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war. For the Iranian government, those considered most guilty are the senior members of the Baath party. Saddam Hussein has led that party since the 1970s, but the Iranian death lists contain several thousand names. For Iran, there can be no peace until all these Baath Party officials are dead. For the Sunni Arab terrorists, there can be no peace until the revenge killing stop. Two years ago, most Iraqi Sunni Arab terrorists were motivated by the desire to put the Baath Party back in power. But now, just survival would be nice. 
2-4 Kassam rockets were fired at Sderot and the western Negev this morning, damaging a building and sending a woman into shock. Sderot residents protested outside their neighbor DM Peretz's home. 
