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Turkey: Muslim vows to 'strangle' Pope
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Afghanistan
4 Afghan Taliban killed in raid on cell
US-led coalition troops raided a Taliban cell in remote eastern Afghanistan, killing four insurgents and arresting two, Afghan police said on Thursday. The troops stormed a house late on Wednesday in an area of mountainous Nuristan province that is near the border with Pakistan, provincial police said. They were acting on intelligence that a group of Taliban had gathered in the area to plan attacks on foreign and Afghan troops, police deputy criminal investigation director Abdul Ghani said. “Coalition forces attacked the house and killed four Taliban. Two other Taliban were arrested alive,” he said. The coalition said it had been acting with the Afghan intelligence directorate.
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  pliars and truncheons, please!
Posted by: Frank G || 11/03/2006 8:05 Comments || Top||


Africa Horn
Somali Islamists reject U.S. warning, test rockets
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 11/03/2006 12:43 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  al-Rooters think a DShK 12.7mm machine gun is "heavy artillery"? And here I thought the dividing line was more than 105mm (medium), but less than 155mm (heavy). Silly me.
Posted by: Brett || 11/03/2006 13:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Yeah, but a .50 HMG manned by jihadis is much more impressive than a 155mm self-propelled cannon manned by professional western soldiers, because they *do* makes very ferocious faces, while rolling their eyes savagely, and jumping up and down like the best of them... if THAT doesn't impress a reporter, especially a rooters one, then I don't know what will!
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 11/03/2006 14:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Spectre is in Djibouti, along with a lot of US Special Forces and French Foreign Legion troops. Getting too froggy around those guys is a REALLY bad idea, since they might decide that they need a livefire exercise, with the Islamists as the primary OpFor.
And just for Rooters, the dead tend to bounce around, and up and down, a lot when a Spectre strike is grinding up an area.
Posted by: Shieldwolf || 11/03/2006 14:57 Comments || Top||

#4  Hope these asshats try using their bottle rockets on SPECTRE now that the "perjurer-in-chief" cannot withhold backup.
Posted by: Leonidas || 11/03/2006 17:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Islamists 'test' rockets; US forces don't need to - they know they work fine. Wanna see?
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/03/2006 17:45 Comments || Top||


Africa North
Arab Emirates Ship hijacked off Somali Coast
Posted by: Oztralian || 11/03/2006 18:28 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  My browser has some bug where i can't load news.com pages, i think it's the javascript but i can't turn it off.
So I couldn't read your article, Oztralian.

Howevre i am not surprised ships hijacked off Somali Coast as Somalia is the new Afghanistan: Islamofascists won themselves a whole state!
Posted by: anon1 || 11/03/2006 23:50 Comments || Top||


Morocco: Two Terror Suspects Arrested
Madrid, 3 Nov. (AKI) - Police in the Spanish coastal enclave of Mellila, in Morocco, have arrested two men suspected of involvement in the suicide bomb attacks in the May 2003 Casablanca attacks, the interior ministry said in a statement. The two men, of Moroccan origin, are believed to be linked to the Islamic Combatant Group of Morocco (GICM). They are alleged to provided logistical support to the group and had a role in the Casablanca attacks in which 12 suicide bombers struck five targets representing Spanish and Jewish interests killing 33 bystanders. According to Spanish investigators, the GICM is also suspected of involvement in the attacks on a Madrid train station on 11 March, 2004, causing 191 deaths.

One suspect, aged 43, was a Moroccan-born Belgian passport-holder, the other, 31, was born in Melilla. Police seized documents, a telescope, two metal suitcases, and a laptop computer, the interior ministry said.
Posted by: Steve || 11/03/2006 13:11 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Europe
Turkey: Muslim vows to 'strangle' Pope
Police on Thursday detained a man who fired shots into the air outside the Italian consulate to protest an upcoming visit by Pope Benedict XVI, and the suspect later told a television reporter he wanted to "strangle" the pope with his bare hands. "I don't want him here, if he was here now I would strangle him with my bare hands," the suspect, who identified himself as Ibrahim Ak, 26, told a Dogan news agency television cameraman as he was detained by police.

"I fired the shots for God," Ak said as he sat handcuffed inside a police van outside the consulate. "Inshallah (God willing), this will be a spark, a starter for Muslims."

"God willing, he will not come. If he comes, he will see what will happen to him," Ak said.

Benedict was scheduled to visit Turkey between Nov. 28 and Dec. 1. It would be Benedict's first visit as pope to a predominantly Muslim country, just two months after he provoked widespread anger by quoting an emperor who characterized the Prophet Muhammad's teachings as "evil and inhuman."
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I can only suppose that Ak wants to choke Pope Benedict into admitting that Islam truly is the Religion of Peace.
Posted by: Zenster || 11/03/2006 0:22 Comments || Top||

#2  Must want GABRIEL'S SWORD to slice 2/3's of the earth away into deep space like a Ginsu.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 11/03/2006 1:35 Comments || Top||

#3  LOL! That's pretty good, Joe.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 11/03/2006 10:33 Comments || Top||

#4  Inshallah (God willing), this will be a spark, a starter for Italians and Euros to stop tolerating assholes who preach assholes like this into acts like these.
Posted by: Ptah || 11/03/2006 10:50 Comments || Top||

#5  He boldly threatened to strangle the Pope you say? The only thing this idiot will strangle choke is his chicken!
Posted by: Lancasters Over Dresden || 11/03/2006 23:28 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Car bomb kills three in Quetta
ISLAMABAD - A car bomb explosion killed three policemen and a passerby in Quetta, capital of Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province, on Thursday evening. Media reports said the explosion took place outside the office of the city police chief.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/03/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Iraq
U.S. forces kill 13 in Iraq raid
BAGHDAD (AP) - U.S. troops killed 13 suspected insurgents in a raid south of Baghdad early Friday, the military said. Troops were acting on intelligence reports saying a suspect with links to al-Qaida in Iraq was in the building in Mahmoudiya, about 30 kilometres south of Baghdad, the military said. The building was surrounded and stormed after those inside did not respond to demands to surrender, the military said in a statement e-mailed to media.
"You in the house! Come out with your hands up!"
"You'll never take us alive, infidel!"
"Hokay"
Five people were killed inside the building, including one man wearing a vest rigged with explosives, while eight other men who fled were gunned down by troops on the ground and planes or helicopters circling above, the report said.
Final score: U.S. - 13, Curly Toed Slippers - 0
Several of those killed appeared to have been foreign fighters from outside Iraq, the report said. The report did not say if there were any American casualties in the raid. Explosives, hand grenades and other explosive-rigged vests used by suicide bombers, were discovered in a search of the area, the report said.
Posted by: Steve || 11/03/2006 13:38 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  TF-145 or just our regular soldiers?
Posted by: Brett || 11/03/2006 13:54 Comments || Top||

#2  TF-145, or whatever it is called this week, is probably roaming around the countryside of Paki^H^H^H^H Afghanistan these days.
Posted by: crosspatch || 11/03/2006 13:56 Comments || Top||

#3  Several of those killed appeared to have been foreign fighters from outside Iraq, the report said.

"Whatcha got there, Sarge?"
"A left hand. Stinks to high heaven."
"Hmmm. You thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?"
"Yep. Saudi."
Posted by: .com || 11/03/2006 13:58 Comments || Top||

#4  .com -
I am amused.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/03/2006 14:16 Comments || Top||

#5  LOL, .com.

When do these guys reach a "grim milestone"?
Posted by: Matt || 11/03/2006 14:53 Comments || Top||

#6  I always grin at reading good news like this, and then I get the added bonus (and I don't have to pay $19.95) of LOL at .com's snarky self! I nominate that one for snark of the day, .com!
Posted by: BA || 11/03/2006 15:19 Comments || Top||

#7  We seem to have found the solution to prisoner abuse, torure, escape, and early release stories; note here 'five killed inside the building' and eight killed who fled, but NONE wounded or captured. I have been noticing a pattern.
Posted by: Glenmore || 11/03/2006 15:19 Comments || Top||

#8  It's waaay early, yet, BA, lol. :-)
Posted by: .com || 11/03/2006 15:23 Comments || Top||

#9  Can't be accused of prisoner abuse if you don't capture none. This had been going on for some time. Might want to check for correlations with SCOTUS decisions.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble || 11/03/2006 15:54 Comments || Top||

#10  "Whatcha got there, Sarge?"
"A left hand. Stinks to high heaven."
"Hmmm. You thinkin' what I'm thinkin'?"
"Yep. Saudi."


After they've used their left hand as bum-wipe, don't they wash it?

Posted by: Mick Dundee || 11/03/2006 16:21 Comments || Top||

#11  Here, here.
I say, good show chaps.
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 11/03/2006 16:50 Comments || Top||

#12  Well, Dundee, I wrote up a nice response for ya, complete with personal anecdote and links - and got redirected to Roadside America. Unfortunately, I still haven't made a habit of copying my post to the clipboard... so it went *poof*.

I'll just say that if you'd ever taken one breath in a Saudi hammam at Aramco you would share my take, lol.

If you actually want to know the game, this is a good place to start, though I have no idea where the person asking has been in the "West" that lacked water in the frickin' water closet, lol. That the Toronto "scholars" didn't question him about it means they do, lol.
Posted by: .com || 11/03/2006 17:02 Comments || Top||

#13  x
Posted by: .com || 11/03/2006 17:21 Comments || Top||

#14  Fascinating. Tried to submit a link to a Google search for "pebbles islam" and that is what sent me to Roadside America. The Ask search (above) worked fine as a link.

Try it in Google and note the first page of returned results... Lol. See Google return a page of hits without the text samples that triggered the hit, before?
Posted by: .com || 11/03/2006 17:23 Comments || Top||

#15  Five people were killed inside the building, including one man wearing a vest rigged with explosives

Sounds like a University of Pennsylvania faculty Halloween party to me.
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 11/03/2006 18:24 Comments || Top||

#16  "They once made a Chuck Norris toilet paper, but it wouldn't take shit from anybody."
Posted by: .com || 11/03/2006 22:03 Comments || Top||


story about capture of "the butcher" by "Midnight"
Posted by: 3dc || 11/03/2006 09:51 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  While the search went on we turned our attention to Butch’s wife, obviously about seven months pregnant. Our corpsman broke out his medical kit and checked her vital signs while we proceeded. When we departed we promised that the corpsman would return during the next two days to check up on her again.

Any word on whether the Al Qaeda guys checked to see whether any pregant women were in the WTC? What was that a-hole Hersh saying about the conduct of military the other day?
Posted by: Matt || 11/03/2006 12:43 Comments || Top||


New Tactics
Tonight, we went out on another mission, a short one, to clear part of one of the main routes between here and all the other military bases in Iraq. Coming back, we had a bomb explode near us. However, this was no ordinary bomb. This one was a shell strapped to what appeared to be a roller skate, and it got pulled across the road in front of us. Apparently, the bad guys have been watching too many old cartoons, and called Acme with an order for bombs. My truck has now earned the nickname "Roadrunner", for having survived an attack by Wily E. Coyote.
Posted by: Chuck || 11/03/2006 06:08 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  i would have hate too be the one who had to pull the roller skate.
Posted by: sinse || 11/03/2006 7:52 Comments || Top||

#2  You don't think they pulled it themselves do you? They are to holy for that.

The Lions of Islam probably got some poor kid to pull it for them.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 11/03/2006 8:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Next thing you know, jihadis will attack US convoys by rushing down hills slopes, skiing on ice spewed in front of them by a refrigerator tied to their back...
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 11/03/2006 8:21 Comments || Top||

#4  I've got an IED on a roller skate
You've got a new humvee
Posted by: Melanie || 11/03/2006 9:58 Comments || Top||

#5  Dammit Melanie, now I'm humming that damn tune!! :)
Posted by: Justrand || 11/03/2006 10:09 Comments || Top||

#6  And what with the wicked winter pakistan taliban offensive just days away, i am looking forward the the new IED-Luge being deployed.....( or maybe the 2 man bomb-sled)
Posted by: USN, ret. || 11/03/2006 14:08 Comments || Top||

#7  And somewhere there is a brokenhearted little kid with only one roller skate. Damn those evil terrorists!
Posted by: Zenster || 11/03/2006 14:23 Comments || Top||


Abu Taha (allegedly) Vaporized
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A Coalition air strike killed a terrorist leader and his driver Wednesday in Eastern Ramadi, diminishing the al-Qaeda in Iraq network.

Rafa Abdul Salam Hamud Al Ithawi, also known as Abu Taha, was the Emir of Shamiyyah. He frequently harbored foreign fighters who entered Iraq illegally in order to assault innocent Iraqis and Coalition Forces.

Precision laser guided munitions were used to destroy the vehicle carrying Abu Taha and his driver.

This and other recent operations in the region highlight the deliberate, methodical dismantlement of the al-Qaeda in Iraq network and those who contribute to its illegal actions.
Posted by: Bobby || 11/03/2006 06:03 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nice work - reminds one of Hellfires and motorcycles in Gaza. But it would be nice to hear more than, say, once a month about something the Coalition has done to the bad guys. A long, and long-lost, argument - we only report (without details) the US body count. And then there's the focus on AQ that refuses to die, vs. the sea in which they swim (recalcitrant Sunni Iraqi communities where the names and addresses of those who set the tone are always well known or knowable), but I'm whining again .....
Posted by: Verlaine || 11/03/2006 9:23 Comments || Top||

#2  Now he's in hell trying to collect on his 72 rasins.

Another good news story our MSM will not carry.
Posted by: Icerigger || 11/03/2006 10:31 Comments || Top||

#3  Do vaporized terrorists contribute to global warming?
Posted by: SteveS || 11/03/2006 11:25 Comments || Top||

#4  Tata Taha.
Posted by: Zenster || 11/03/2006 14:25 Comments || Top||

#5  LOL!
Posted by: Lancasters Over Dresden || 11/03/2006 23:25 Comments || Top||


Al-Qaeda confirms death of senior leader
AL-QAEDA has confirmed the death of a senior lieutenant to the movement's chief Osama bin Laden, according to a video posted on the Internet today which also announced a coming "victory" in Iraq. An al-Qaeda leader who gave his name as Abu Yahia al-Libi said in the video that the Kuwaiti-born Omar al-Farouk had been ventilated "fallen a martyr'' in Iraq, and detailed his career in militancy, which began in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The authenticity of the video could not be verified.
No probs, if they're wrong Farouk can just pop up and say so, with his GPS coordinates ...
Farouk's death on September 25 was announced by the British military, which said British forces killed a gunman who opened fire on them as they raided a house in the southern Iraqi city of Basra hunting for the militant, also known as Mahmud Ahmed Mohammed al-Rashid.

Farouk, who was 35 and also went by the name Mahmud Ahmed Mohammed al-Rashid, had been accused of leading the al-Qaeda Islamist network in Southeast Asia. Genetic tests on his remains proved his identity, the US-led coalition said last month.
"Dr. Quincy! Dr. Quincy! We got a match! It's definitely Farouk!"
"Nice going, Sam, you got all that from an eyebrow!"
Farouk was arrested in Indonesia in July 2002 at a time when he was allegedly planning attacks on Western embassies in Jakarta.

On July 10 last year he managed to escape from a US airbase in Afghanistan. Farouk's escape along with three other suspects from Bagram air base was an embarrassment for US authorities, and the militant appeared on Arabic television in a video to brag about his flight. He apparently made his way to Iraq, his parents' birthplace, where British troops tracked him down.
And killed him. Thanks Tony.
In the video, Abu Yahia - a Libyan thought to be among those who escaped from Bagram with Farouk in July 2005 - also said signs were emerging of an al-Qaeda victory in Iraq. "Your primary enemy (the United States) recognises with full humility that its entry into Iraq was a mistake... Persevere. The first signs of victory in Iraq are showing,'' he said.

The other two militants to have escaped from Bagram are Saudi Arabian Mohammed al-Qahtani and Syrian Abdullah Hashemi.
Posted by: tipper || 11/03/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They had to! It would be like the US admitting to Al-Qaeda that Abraham Lincoln was dead. Pssst, they KNOW THAT!!
Posted by: smn || 11/03/2006 3:54 Comments || Top||

#2  detailed his career in militancy

WTF?
Posted by: phil_b || 11/03/2006 5:28 Comments || Top||

#3  the militant appeared on Arabic television in a video to brag about his flight.

Twat.
Posted by: Howard UK || 11/03/2006 6:10 Comments || Top||

#4  wonder how much bragging he is doing now?
Posted by: sinse || 11/03/2006 7:55 Comments || Top||

#5  Phil B: think "Career of Evil" by Blue Õyster Cult
Posted by: Frank G || 11/03/2006 8:04 Comments || Top||

#6  which began in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Dose'nt that mean that we helped him in the last non UN sponsored battle we fault?
Posted by: plainslow || 11/03/2006 8:31 Comments || Top||

#7  think "Career of Evil" by Blue Õyster Cult

"And then I'd spend your ransom money,
But still I'd keep your sheep
I'd peel the mask you're wearing,
And then rob you of your sleep
Rob you of your sleep

I choose to steal what you chose to show
And you know I will not apologize
You're mine for the taking
I'm making a career of evil"
Posted by: Steve || 11/03/2006 9:24 Comments || Top||

#8  plainslow

The west supported the wrong side.

Clinton was wrong again.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan || 11/03/2006 12:00 Comments || Top||

#9  British forces, at least we kill the enemy.
Posted by: Tom || 11/03/2006 13:18 Comments || Top||


Assailants assassinate a professor at University of Baghdad
(KUNA) -- The Higher Education Ministry said on Thursday that unknown assailants opened fire and killed the dean of Business Administration at the university of Baghdad Dr. Jassem Mohammad Al-Thahabi. A statement issued by the ministry today condemned the criminal attack that took the lives of the dean, his wife, and son near the college of Business Administration in Al-Waziri area in Baghdad. The ministry called on security authorities to protect the scientific and academic institutions in the country and to scuttle nefarious schemes of terrorists who routinely target college instructors and professors.

Unknown assailants also assassinated last Monday Dr. Issam Kathem Al-Rawi, President of the Iraqi teachers union in an attack outside of his house in western Baghdad.
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Thirty terrorists killed as Iraq's unrest declines
(KUNA) -- Thirty terrorists were killed yesterday in different areas in Baghdad as 200 Iraqi Interior Ministry officials, including police officers, were punished despite violence rate decline over the past week, Interior Ministry said Thursday. The officials were penalized due to the occurrence of two explosions at their working area, Ministry spokesman Brigadier Abdulkarim Khalaf said at a press conference. Other police officers were reassigned to different positions as a punishment, Khalaf added.

On volunteering in the police force, Khalaf said the ministry needs to recruit 90,000 volunteers and regulations regarding that matter are to be issued after mid-November 2006. A ministry report cited that 90 Interior Ministry's recruits were killed last week, while 160 others were injured.
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Decline? They obviously do not read the New York Times!
Posted by: Bobby || 11/03/2006 5:41 Comments || Top||

#2  A few minutes ago NPR reported it's the second worst month in ages for something or other. Troop death, perhaps, I wasn't listening closely. They do music/theater and local colour reports well, though.
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/03/2006 7:14 Comments || Top||

#3  "There has been a decline in unsatisfied terrorists."
Posted by: Anonymoose || 11/03/2006 8:50 Comments || Top||

#4  NPR puke.

Well that will be 30 less rock apes to bother the local goats.

Allen Ackbard!
Posted by: Icerigger || 11/03/2006 10:32 Comments || Top||

#5  TW: It goes without saying that they don't ever report all the improved months in between...
Posted by: JSU || 11/03/2006 16:37 Comments || Top||

#6  ;-)
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/03/2006 22:05 Comments || Top||


Car bomb in Sadr City kills 7
BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed seven people and wounded 45 when it ripped through a crowded market in Baghdad’s Shia Sadr City district on Thursday, an interior ministry source said. The car bomb, detonated by remote control, was aimed at shoppers in the Shia slum’s Mureydi market. Police said the casualty toll could rise.
Posted by: Steve White || 11/03/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Shame those roadblocks were taken down.
Posted by: Grunter || 11/03/2006 11:56 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Palestinian Authority Terrorists Use Female Shields Against IDF
I think it's a positive move by the paleo society, one step up from killing your daughter because she has deshonored you by letting herself be raped by her brothers. See, islam CAN make progress!
by Hana Levi Julian

Palestinian Authority terrorists used women to protect them from arrest by IDF soldiers – at the cost of life -- on Friday. One woman died in Gaza.

Arab women in northern Gaza were urged in a radio broadcast Friday morning to go to a mosque in Beit Hanoun to serve as ‘human shields’ for gunmen holed up in the Muslim religious building surrounded by IDF forces.

According to military sources a number of Arab terrorists who were wanted for Kassam rocket attacks had taken refuge in the mosque, which was also used as a storehouse for weapons and other materials.

The women rushed to the building despite the exchange of gunfire between the terrorists and IDF soldiers. Local sources claimed that IDF soldiers opened fire on the women, killing one and wounding ten others. An army spokesman explained that the soldiers had exchanged gunfire with terrorists standing among the women rioters at the scene.

Meanwhile, Israeli special forces surrounded a house in Bethlehem on Friday and ordered the terrorists to surrender. The armed Arabs opened fire and in an ensuing shootout, one soldier was wounded by a ricocheted bullet and evacuated to a hospital in light to moderate condition. Two IDF companies provided backup for the front unit.

Arab sources say that one woman was killed in the gunfire, but the IDF spokesman said that it could not confirm that its soldiers had hit any bystanders.
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 11/03/2006 08:17 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I think the Israelis are keeping the Sheriff system in reserve against the Paleo tactic of running a herd of women and children against Israeli military positions. They don't want to use it for small stuff like this, figuring it will allow the Paleos to develop a counter-tactic.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 11/03/2006 8:39 Comments || Top||

#2  What's the Sheriff system?
Posted by: Jules || 11/03/2006 9:16 Comments || Top||

#3  No suprise here. Muhamhead (piece of pork be upon him) taught that women are worthless cattle. Why would Muslim men think anything different?
Posted by: Icerigger || 11/03/2006 10:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Local sources claimed that IDF soldiers opened fire on the women, killing one and wounding ten others. An army spokesman explained that the soldiers had exchanged gunfire with terrorists standing among the women rioters at the scene.

You mean they didn't stop and desist when the women decided to get in the way? I'm shocked! Somebody actually has the sense to keep firing! I wonder if after they first women went down, the rest tried to get out of the way?
Posted by: Charles || 11/03/2006 10:43 Comments || Top||

#5  The fact that a thousand muslim women are killed while shielding our fighters while they run away and hide interests me only to the extent that the fighters got away and are in hiding.
Posted by: henrich el himmler || 11/03/2006 11:15 Comments || Top||

#6  Who cares?

Seriously, who cares?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/03/2006 11:25 Comments || Top||

#7  Shouldn't that be "one terrorist factory" was killed in the cross-fire?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles in Blairistan || 11/03/2006 11:58 Comments || Top||

#8  Anyone stupid or evil enough to offer themselves up as a shield for terrorists needs to die. Period. This is one Rule of Engagement that must change forever when dealing with terrorists. If killing a single human shield ensures the death of a terrorist who would kill hundreds, then so be it. Due to their voluntary participation, these women were nothing more than accomplices. All of them should have taken the dirt nap.
Posted by: Zenster || 11/03/2006 13:50 Comments || Top||

#9  Well, I can't top that.
Posted by: .com || 11/03/2006 13:53 Comments || Top||

#10  Methinks you can, .com. Go for it!
Posted by: BA || 11/03/2006 13:55 Comments || Top||

#11  In a crawl (on Fox News I believe) that I saw this morning they were trying to say the woman killed was part of some peace organization - or at least implying that from what I saw.

Posted by: FOTSGreg || 11/03/2006 14:54 Comments || Top||

#12  they were trying to say the woman killed was part of some peace organization

She's real peaceful now. All the Palestinians should be so peaceful.
Posted by: Zenster || 11/03/2006 15:00 Comments || Top||

#13  In a crawl (on Fox News I believe) that I saw this morning they were trying to say the woman killed was part of some peace organization

Good.

Or is that impolitic to say?
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/03/2006 15:42 Comments || Top||

#14  All jihadis are part of some peace organization, don't you know, it's called Islam.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/03/2006 16:38 Comments || Top||

#15  The Washington Post's headline was "Two Palestinians Killed in Gaza Mosque Standoff"
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 11/03/2006 16:41 Comments || Top||

#16  Seriously, who cares?

Well, RC, I care. I'm glad for it. I've gone over the tipping point. But I'll try not to post it, since the Mods don't need the irritation.
Posted by: Jackal || 11/03/2006 20:36 Comments || Top||


Terrorists Escape IDF Siege on Gaza Mosque
A firefight between some 60 Palestinian Authority terrorists and IDF soldiers at a mosque in northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun ended Friday afternoon with most of the fugitives managing to escape.
“A radio broadcast directive for women to rush to the scene to act as ‘human shields’ for the terrorist cost at least one woman her life and resulted in others being injured.”
A radio broadcast directive for women to rush to the scene to act as ‘human shields’ for the terrorist cost at least one woman her life and resulted in others being injured.

The roof of the mosque collapsed on the terrorists shortly before dawn, and the IDF said it would investigate a report that one of it bulldozers destroyed a wall of a room adjacent to the mosque.
“News agencies publicized Arab claims that the IDF had bulldozed the mosque itself, which was used as a storage place for weapons and ammunitions.”
News agencies publicized Arab claims that the IDF had bulldozed the mosque itself, which was used as a storage place for weapons and ammunitions. An IDF spokesman denied the claim and said that all efforts were made not to damage the religious structure. According to the IDF spokesman, the shooting began after the terrorists inside the mosque opened fire at the soldiers. After the 19-hour siege, however, most of the terrorists escaped with the help of a rioting crowd which included many women.

The IDF reported that 34 people, most of them terrorists, have been killed since Wednesday in the IDF anti-terror operation, called ‘Operation Autumn Clouds’, the most intensive military operation carried out in recent years. Dozens were wounded and hundreds were taken for questioning by Friday afternoon. Speaking on Army Radio Friday morning, Infrastructures Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer said, “There will be no safe haven for terrorists. These are not girls from a dormitory in the mosque. They are the people firing the rockets. They are the enemy.”
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 11/03/2006 08:16 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A slightly different story on Israeli Insider..

Here

Israeli forces opened fire Friday on a group of women who streamed to a Gaza mosque to serve as human shields for members of rockets squads and gunmen holed up there, killing one and wounding 10, Palestinian officials and witnesses said.

The IDF has since seized control of the mosque. Some of the gunmen inside have been injured, while others have surrendered. The raid was part of an intensified effort to prevent rocket fire from Gaza on Sderot and other Israeli border communities.

The standoff at the mosque became the focus of the fighting in the town when gunmen fleeing troops -- estimates ranged from one dozen to several dozen -- sought refuge there, and Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers quickly surrounded the building, the military and Palestinian security officials said.

As the two sides engaged exchanged sporadic fire Friday morning, a Hamas radio station broadcast a call to women to go to Beit Hanoun to shield the militants. Dozens of women left their homes to hurry to the mosque, and en route, came under Israeli fire, witnesses and officials said.

One woman, about 40, was shot dead, and 10 others were wounded, they said.

The army said troops spotted two militants hiding in the crowd of women and opened fire, hitting the two.

The IDF said on Friday that they suspected that Palestinian gunmen had dressed up as women in order to foil the army's attempts to gain access to the mosque in Gaza where Palestinian operatives were holed up inside, the Jerusalem Post reported.

Hamas radio station in Gaza broadcast a call to northern Gaza women to go to the mosque to serve as human shields for the operatives inside.

By mid-morning Friday, the military said a large group of women protesters had gathered outside the mosque. An unidentified number of militants escaped the building while the demonstration was going on, but some remained inside, the army and Hamas said.

Throughout the night, the two sides exchanged fire. Troops also threw stun and smoke grenades to pressure the gunmen to surrender. Witnesses said an Israeli army bulldozer knocked down an outer wall of the mosque.

It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties inside.



Posted by: 3dc || 11/03/2006 9:32 Comments || Top||

#2  Muz!

Waddaya gonna say?
Posted by: kelly || 11/03/2006 10:02 Comments || Top||

#3  A radio broadcast directive for women to rush to the scene to act as ‘human shields’ for the terrorist cost at least one woman her life and resulted in others being injured.”

MSM TV is flipping out Burka Babe images like falafels on this one.
Posted by: RD || 11/03/2006 10:46 Comments || Top||

#4  I saw images of the Burka Brigade coming to the aid of the Lions of Islam on NBC this morning. It reminded me of a National Geographic documentary on black bettles going to or coming from a dung hill.
Posted by: Mark Z || 11/03/2006 11:04 Comments || Top||

#5  How manty times do they use Mosques to store arms bombs etc?????

The Israeli/US/UK should not treat these places as out of bounds!!!!
Posted by: Cheregum Crelet7867 || 11/03/2006 11:45 Comments || Top||

#6  People volunteering to be human shields should be considered a part of the enemy armed forces (such as they are). If the enemy is a terrorist organization, then their supporters are too, and treat as such.
Posted by: Ptah || 11/03/2006 11:47 Comments || Top||

#7 
Posted by: RD || 11/03/2006 11:55 Comments || Top||

#8  CNN - The group of women rallied outside a mosque in Beit Hanoun shortly after Hamas radio called on women and children to march in protest at the incident, IDF said.

CNN's slant makes it seem the wimmins and kiddies were out for a stroll. None of their report indicates they were demanded to arrive as human shields. No mention of the reality of the cowardice and moral bankrupcy of Hamas.
Posted by: Shuns Uleating3851 || 11/03/2006 11:58 Comments || Top||

#9 


CLICK PIC FOR PALLYWOOD VIDEO
Posted by: RD || 11/03/2006 12:06 Comments || Top||

#10  #7, the one in front, that's a MAN, baby!
Posted by: docob || 11/03/2006 12:24 Comments || Top||

#11  The roof of the mosque collapsed on the terrorists shortly before dawn

Don't you love good news. Allen Ackbard!
Posted by: Icerigger || 11/03/2006 13:24 Comments || Top||

#12  The Israelis should have bombed the mosque with JDAMs - about a dozen or so. That would have prevented the "escape", and the secondaries could have been blamed for killing any paleostain "women" protesting.

This crap's gotta cease. It's been going on for 60 years now, and it's time to put a halt to it. The only solution I see is the "genocide" of either killing or expelling all muzzlimbs from Gaza and the West bank, and annexing the terrritory to Israel. The US needs to show it's a TRUE friend of Israel by helping out. The first help should be a 20-ship (each) arclight strike on Damascus, southern Lebanon, el Arish, and anywhere else "assistance" might come from for the ayrab side. We've been "nice" too long, and the rest of the world is laughing at us. Time to wipe some smiles off some faces.
Posted by: Old Patriot || 11/03/2006 13:53 Comments || Top||

#13  I agree, OP, the Palestinians repeatedly have proven that they have no intention of ever creating some sort of realistic peace with Israel. Their election of Hamas was a signal to all and sundry that peace was the last of their concerns. If the Palestinians do not want a two-state arrangement, so be it. Let Israel eject them in whatever fashion they see fit so this festering sore can heal for once. The Palestinians have been the beneficiaries of HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS worth of assistance and have absolutely NOTHING to show for it. They deserve nothing but a chance to see how it feels to be diaspora for a change.
Posted by: Zenster || 11/03/2006 14:05 Comments || Top||

#14  Seems obvious to us, but not to the important people. I hate to see this administration sucked into the Paleostinian Punch and Judy Show.

Condi: Master of Cognitive Egocentrism

Posted by: SR-71 || 11/03/2006 14:40 Comments || Top||

#15  News agencies publicized Arab claims that the IDF had bulldozed the mosque itself, which was used as a storage place for weapons and ammunitions.

If it's being used as an ammo dump, it's no longer protected. Granted, bombs and generalized killing things are an essential part of Islamic rites, but that doesn't give them the right to stockpile arms and then whine about "holy places".
Posted by: Rob Crawford || 11/03/2006 18:39 Comments || Top||

#16  As the day passed, MSM media has shifted quite firmly to the side of the Pal view. Earlier, IIRC Yahoo news even was reporting the call to human shields and escape under burkha. That was this morning.
I note tonights version on Yahoo's "palestinian women help free gunman" article has a whole new tone.

Get this:

The women, many with ties to the Islamic militant group Hamas, left their homes after daybreak in response to appeals on the local Hamas radio station or telephone calls from friends and relatives. By nightfall, they were celebrated as heroes, an unusual role in a deeply conservative society that tends to keep women on the sidelines. Until Friday, battling Israeli troops had been men's business in Gaza.

How precious is that. The wimmims get to leave the house. To die. How very precious. What heroines.
Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 || 11/03/2006 22:28 Comments || Top||


Jordan: 3 Hamas men indicted for terror conspiracy
Jordan's military prosecutor charged three Hamas men of a terror conspiracy involving attacks against Jordanian intelligence officers, Israeli visitors and unspecified sites in the kingdom, according to the indictment obtained Thursday.

Jordanian authorities arrested 20 alleged Hamas operatives in April on suspicions they were monitoring Jordanian intelligence officers and foreign tourists for possible attacks. Only three remained in custody and the other suspects were released apparently for lack of evidence. The draft indictment sheet charged Ayman Naji Daraghmeh, 34, Ahmad Abu Rabee, 27 and Ahmed Abu Thiyab, a mosque preacher, of illegal possession of weapons and storing ammunitions.

In his televised confession, al-Daraghmeh had said he received his orders from a high ranking Hamas leader living in Syria. The accusations were denied by Hamas, which said Jordan was trying to undermine the Palestinian government it now heads.
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Troops kill Al-Aksa terrorist in Nablus
Soldiers killed an Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade operative and wounded another in an operation in Nablus early Friday. The army said the operatives had been preparing a car bomb, and identified one of the men as Al-Aksa's Nablus leader.
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Troops clash with gunmen holed up in Gaza mosque
As Operation Autumn Clouds entered its third day, troops surrounded a mosque in Beit Hanun early Friday and exchanged fire with dozens of gunmen who had holed up inside. Palestinian witnesses reported that IDF bulldozers tore down one of the walls of the mosque, located in the center of the northeast Gaza Strip town, and that soldiers then used tear gas and fired stun grenades in order to force the suspects out. Reports indicated that about 60 people were inside the mosque. There were no reports of casualties among the troops.

Earlier Friday, three Palestinians were killed when the IAF fired missiles at two Kassam rocket teams in the northern Gaza Strip. Despite the intensified IDF action, seven Kassam rockets landed in the western Negev and south of Ashkelon Thursday. Most of them landed in open areas, but one slammed into a Sderot home, spraying shrapnel and starting a fire. One man was lightly wounded by flying glass in the center of Sderot, and a woman was lightly wounded, also by shrapnel, in the western Negev. Four other people were suffering from shock.

The Sderot parents association declared a boycott Thursday morning, saying the town's schools were not safe from the Kassams, Army Radio reported. Later, the IDF Home Front Command ordered schools closed in frontline communities. Lessons will only be permitted reinforced classrooms to withstand mortar and rocket attack.

A senior officer in the Southern Command said soldiers had reported 20 gunmen killed since Operation Autumn Clouds was launched. The officer said troops were moving at will from building to building, arresting terrorist suspects and seizing weapons caches, including several antitank missiles and night vision equipment. He said the operation would continue until its objectives were achieved.

IAF helicopter gunships fired missiles at a group of 10 armed Palestinians early Thursday morning, the army said. Palestinian Authority officials said two gunmen and a 75-year-old man were killed in the incident. Palestinian sources said more than 35 people were wounded in the fighting, 15 of them when an IDF tank shell hit a building. 15 men between the ages of 16 and 40 were rounded up for questioning, the IDF said. IAF helicopters also destroyed a Kassam rocket launcher ready for use, the army said. Two soldiers wounded by shrapnel were evacuated under fire to the Barzilai Medical Center.
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  IDF bulldozers tore down one of the walls of the mosque

Is that new bahaviour for the Israelis?
Posted by: trailing wife || 11/03/2006 7:16 Comments || Top||

#2  no safe refuge in the charnel house
Posted by: Frank G || 11/03/2006 8:12 Comments || Top||

#3  "IDF bulldozers tore down one of the walls of the mosque"

Well it's a good start.
Posted by: Icerigger || 11/03/2006 10:34 Comments || Top||


Sri Lanka
Five killed in Sri Lanka as Tiger posts bombed for second day
COLOMBO: Sri Lanka’s air force bombed Tamil Tiger targets near the rebels’ northern stronghold and in the island’s northwest on Thursday, the military said, the second consecutive day of air raids in the wake of failed peace talks. The Tigers said the air force dropped four shells near a hospital around 3 km from the rebels’ political offices in their northern stronghold of Kilinochchi, destroying a house and killing its five civilian occupants. Nordic truce monitors confirmed the site of the bombing, which was just 2.5 km from their own offices and close to the hospital. It was the closest that air force bombs have fallen to the rebel nerve centre since a 2002 ceasefire. “The house was smashed. A mother, a father, two children and a grandmother were all killed,” Tiger military spokesman Rasiah Ilanthiraiyan said by telephone from Kilinochchi. “This is state terrorism,” he added. The military said it had targeted two Tiger military targets it viewed as threats to national security.
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2006 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Terror Networks
Suspect and A Setback In Al-Qaeda Anthrax Case - Pak Scientist goes free
In December 2001, as the investigation into the U.S. anthrax attacks was gathering steam, coalition soldiers in Afghanistan uncovered what appeared to be an important clue: a trail of documents chronicling an attempt by al-Qaeda to create its own anthrax weapon.

The documents told of a singular mission by a scientist named Abdur Rauf, an obscure, middle-aged Pakistani with alleged al-Qaeda sympathies and an advanced degree in microbiology.

Using his membership in a prestigious scientific organization to gain access, Rauf traveled through Europe on a quest, officials say, to obtain both anthrax spores and the equipment needed to turn them into highly lethal biological weapons. He reported directly to al-Qaeda's No. 2 commander, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and in one document he appeared to signal a breakthrough.

"I successfully achieved the targets," he wrote cryptically to Zawahiri in a note in 1999.

Continued on Page 49
Posted by: john || 11/03/2006 05:39 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  just locate him and kill him
Posted by: Frank G || 11/03/2006 8:14 Comments || Top||

#2  ISI man?
Posted by: 3dc || 11/03/2006 8:52 Comments || Top||

#3  But officially he remains free, and Pakistan now says it has no grounds for arrest.

Yet one more example of Pakistani unhelpfulness. When will they become sufficiently unhelpful whereby we decide to help their whole rotten shithouse of a government come apart at the seams?
Posted by: Zenster || 11/03/2006 14:33 Comments || Top||


G'morning...
Al-Qaeda confirms death of senior leaderTurkey: Muslim vows to 'strangle' PopeSomali Extremists Threaten BombingsPamphlets 'warn' against polio dropsAmnesty reprimands Pakistan over 'extra-judicial' killingsTerrorists Escape IDF Siege on Gaza Mosque4 Afghan Taliban killed in raid on cellFirebug May Get Stuck on Needle
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2006 08:33 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The undisputed Queen of the Pin-Ups.
Posted by: Mike || 11/03/2006 14:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Dang it, we're only getting 19" LCDs here at work next week, or else I could have Ms. Grable AND the Rangerup.com girl on one screen! I can't believe how long it takes to get the first rant on the "Good Morning" posts nowadays. I attribute it to the Rangerup.com girl, myself.
Posted by: BA || 11/03/2006 15:15 Comments || Top||

#3  Rangerup girl for the RB D-S&T-P cardiac kick starter....
Posted by: USN, ret. || 11/03/2006 16:26 Comments || Top||

#4  That's not Betty Grable. Jane powell maybe?
Posted by: Gluse Chesing2178 || 11/03/2006 17:58 Comments || Top||

#5  That's Betty.
Posted by: Fred || 11/03/2006 18:50 Comments || Top||

#6  Betty baggybutt badgrin.
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