Algerian security forces arrested a senior member of an Islamist armed group and seized 800 kg (1,765 lbs) of explosives, the official news agency APS reported on Monday. Bouderbala Fateh, the head of the Algiers section of the al Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, was arrested along with two accomplices in a raid after a tip-off from local people, the agency said, quoting a security source.
Security forces also recovered a rocket, 20 detonators and two schoolchildren's satchels rigged up as bombs.
The agency, which did not state where or when the arrests took place, said the explosives had been ready to go off and were intended for use during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan which in Algeria this year began on Sept 13. Security forces also recovered a rocket, 20 detonators and two schoolchildren's satchels rigged up as bombs.
Bouderbala, also known by the nom de guerre Abdelfatah Abou Bassir, had belonged to several armed groups over the past 14 years including the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC). Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb grew out of the GSPC in January after winning approval from Osama bin Laden to rename itself an al Qaeda affiliate.
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Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat
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al Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb
Bouderbala Fateh
al-Qaeda in North Africa
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A guy named Fatah carrying 'splosives? Surely you jest.
#2
The Sultan drove by in his red breasted fly,
Expecting the victor to cheer,
But he only drew by, to hear the last sigh,
Of Abdel(fatah) Aboul-bul Basseer (pbuh)
(panties be upon him)
A French appeals court sentenced a former imam Monday to five years in prison for involvement in a plot to stage attacks in France to support fighters in Chechnya. The Paris Court of Appeals stiffened Chelalli Benchellali's original 18-month suspended sentence, imposing instead a five-year prison term, and ordered him to return from Algeria to serve his time in France.
Benchellali, his wife and two sons were among 25 people convicted in June 2006 in the plot, apparently aimed at calling greater global attention to the cause of Muslim Chechen rebels fighting the Russian government. Their family was considered by prosecutors to be at the center of the plan, under which some members of the group traveled to a base for Chechen fighters to learn about explosives and chemical agents. The prosecution contended the group was plotting an attack in Paris, but could not identify the target. The Russian Embassy, a police station and the Eiffel Tower were mentioned during investigators' interrogations.
Benchellali, an imam at a makeshift mosque in Venissieux, outside Lyon, was expelled from France to his native Algeria after receiving his original suspended sentence. Prosecutors had appealed because they considered Benchellali's sentence too light. In Monday's ruling, the court upheld Benchellali's conviction for criminal association with a terrorist enterprise, and sentenced him to five years. It ordered an arrest warrant for Benchellali, and ruled that he would be banned from living in France once he serves his term.
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al-Qaeda in Europe
Hafed Benchellali
al-Qaeda in Europe
Hafsa Benchellali
al-Qaeda in Europe
Menad Benchellali
al-Qaeda in Europe
Mourad Benchellali
al-Qaeda in Europe
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN: At least two militants were killed and scores wounded when a fierce clash erupted between the Asmatullah and Turkistan groups in South Waziristan. The Turkistan group - backed by government authorities - Aqwam Naymat Khail Bhattan launched an attack on their rival Asmatullah group and their associates, the Ghu lam Jan group.
Heavy gunfire, shelling: The groups exchanged heavy gunfire and shelling in the Soar Gar Kalay and Hichi Kalay areas. Two militants from the Asmatullah and Ghulam Jan groups have been confirmed dead, while many injured were reported on both sides. Reports received here say some Uzbeks are also taking part in the fighting from the Turkistan group, which is comprised of 700 people. The fighting erupted after a jirga held earlier failed to forge a truce between the rival groups.
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A propaganda video shot inside a radical Maldives mosque and posted on the Internet has raised fears that Al Qaeda is gaining a foothold in the Indian Ocean tourist paradise. The video was recorded at the Dhar-al-Khuir mosque on the remote Himandhoo island. Under the catchline Your brothers in the Maldives are calling you, the trailer shows images of masked men praying. A follow-up feature is promised. Nick Grace, a counter-terrorism analyst said the propaganda video was an attempt to attract finance and recruits for militant activity in the Maldives.
Wow! Nick made the Pak Daily Times! I am sooooo jealous! (Hi, Nick!)
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The islands of the Maldives are easy targets for terrorists. Most of the islands are so small that a number of terrorists could occupy it and take the people on the islands hostage if they want to.
KHAR: Unidentified armed men kidnapped five political administration officials, including a tehsildar, in the town of Nawagai in Bajaur district on Monday. The masked men entered a residential colony in Nawagai and whisked away Shahriyar, a tehsildar, Baseer Khan, a muharrar, and three levies personnel in their car. The kidnappers fired in the air as they reached the Nawagai Scouts camp, witnesses said.
Separately, militants attacked two levies check-posts and a TV booster in the Alizo Dag and Barang areas. No one was killed or injured in the two incidents. The Associated Press, however, reported that militants stormed a government compound in Nawagai and abducted seven paramilitary policemen and an official.
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At least five people, including a security official, were badly wounded in two separate landmine explosions incidents here in Kahlu Kahan on Monday. In the first incident, Lance Naik Muhammad was on routine patrol when a landmine detonated, leaving him seriously injured. In the second incident, a tractor trolley hit a landmine, leaving four civilians badly wounded. They were rushed to a nearby hospital.
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Eight people were killed and 18 more wounded on the fourth day of fierce clashes in Kurram Agency on Monday, as security forces battled to contain sectarian violence that has killed more than 100 people in three days. The latest casualties have taken the number of those killed in Parachinar and Sadda to 94, while the total injured have reached 168, unofficial sources revealed. However, a security official told AFP that, The latest death toll has climbed to 107.
The eight civilians, all Sunni, were killed when several mortars landed in Sadda Bazaar. Residents said the shells were fired from the Ibrahimzai area, a stronghold of the areas Shia community. Several of the mortars hit populated areas in the sabzi mandi near Akbar Khan Market and the United Bank Limited building in Sadda Bazaar.
Also on Monday, two people were killed and three injured when a house was hit, witnesses said, AFP reported. Four others died and six were wounded when army helicopters fired at armed groups in Parachinar. The local tribesmen of Dara Adamkhel killed an attacker who allegedly opened fire in a mosque, injuring six persons on the spot, APP quoted official sources as saying.
Important locations: Meanwhile, the military continued using helicopters against those flouting the government orders regarding ceasefire. The choppers targeted buildings and trenches where armed men had taken positions.
Military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad told BBC that the army had taken control of several important locations in Parachinar, including a mosque and an imambargah, Online reported. Officials of the local administration could not be reached for comments. Earlier, security officials had said that 11 soldiers had died in the crossfire. Security forces have been targeted by both sides, the military said in a statement.
Meanwhile, sources said efforts were underway to organise an Orakzai tribe jirga to put an end to the clashes and bring calm to the area. They said the political administration was in contact with leaders of both the Shia and Sunni communities and a jirga would be organised in a day to restore normalcy to the region. AFP quoted a local administration official as saying that a 16-member tribal peace delegation has arrived in Parachinar under orders from the NWFP governor to mediate between the groups and try to restore calm.
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Pakistani soldiers and helicopter gunships enforced a security lockdown yesterday in a tribal area where nearly 100 people have died in three days of bloody sectarian clashes, residents said. Streets were deserted and shops, schools and offices closed down under an indefinite curfew after a weekend of violence that saw rival Sunni and Shia Muslim tribesmen shooting at each other from across rooftops.
The scale of the unrest has exposed the deep tribal and religious tensions in this mountainous region bordering Afghanistan, where guns and weaponry -- including rocket-launchers and mortars -- are in plentiful supply. People in Parachinar, the main town in Kurram district where the fighting was concentrated, faced shortages of electricity and drinking water supplies after wires were badly damaged in the shelling. "The whole of the city looks like a desert," one resident said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the tensions. "Everywhere is closed, the bazaar is closed -- only the army is moving on the streets."
The final death toll may exceed 100 as dead bodies were still lying in some houses and people could not emerge because of the curfew, a security official told AFP. "The situation in Parachinar area has improved," chief military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad said. "There was no fighting this morning and clashes have stopped."
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Pakistani government forces quell sectarian violence by providing the sects with a common opponent so they can quit fighting each other and unite against the government.
KARACHI: The Oct 19 bombing on Benazir Bhuttos procession in Karachi which killed over 170 people, was carried out by a person who used a one-year-old child strapped with fatal bombs, sources close to the PPP leader said.
The bomber repeatedly tried to carry the child to the back of Benazirs truck and hand over the infant to either Benazir Bhutto or any other PPP leader on the truck but something always prevented him from reaching close by.
At the point on Sharea Faisal where the bombs exploded, Benazir Bhutto herself saw the man with the child and asked him to come closer so that she could hug or kiss the infant. But someone came in between and a guard felt that the man with the child was not behaving normally. So the child was not allowed to come aboard BBs truck.
Benazir Bhutto also believes that the explosion in the police van near her truck was caused by the infant who had bombs strapped all over the body. The PPP leader is said to have told her party men she recognizes the face of the man carrying the infant and she has requested several TV channels and camera persons to provide her the recordings so that she could identify the bomber.
These details of the bombing which are available with the PPP leadership have been gathered for presentation to any foreign investigative agency because the PPP does not trust the local investigators. That is why Benazir Bhutto has been demanding that the probe must be conducted by the FBI or the Scotland Yard so that she could provide them with the evidence, a PPP source said.
The PPP leader believes that the car which exploded near her truck was a planted bomb and somehow security agencies had left it parked for unexplained reasons. We saw at least 16 bodies with their decapitated heads on the spot and so it was impossible to claim that it was only a suicide bombing, PPP sources said.
The story of the infant is a chilling dimension to the bombing and PPP leaders believe that if Benazir Bhutto had picked up the child for a hug or a kiss, the entire leadership of the PPP on board the truck would have been eliminated.
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If true, Moslem babies are nothing more than powder kegs, and the rest of the world is what they hand them off to.
Too demented to even have anyone, ANYONE in ANY religious circle defend. It MUST be addressed immediately by the sitting Imams in this world.
Who paid for it, who preaches it, and who operated it?
It is one thing to molest kids and leave them in a tumult life, but another to wrap them in swaddling clothes of dynamite and hand them off as likable bombs.
#2
Take with salt. I take it back. There could not be enough bomb around that baby to kill so many. There is more to it than just this. But I can also have emotions.
#4
It MUST be addressed immediately by the sitting Imams in this world.
In your dreams, newc. Brace yourself for another round of deafening silence.
When The Twin Keys of Doom are about to be turned, it is the remembrance of atrocitieslike this one and those two infants strapped into that Iraqi car bombthat will give them an unhesitating twist.
#5
First Beslan. Then, the Israelis stopping that teenage mentally retarded Palestinian with a suicide vest. Now this? This is absolutely beyond the pale and will just be another nail in the coffin of Islam entirely if this news gets out. I've almost even accepted younger and teenage suicide bombers, but a farkin' 1 year old?
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I am still waiting for a single muslim who was not directly targeted to denounce this as evil. Just one moderate muslim. That is all God wanted from Lot; it is not too much to ask.
Coalition forces target al-Qaeda foreign terrorist facilitators, financier, courier and propagandist; five killed, 11 detained
BAGHDAD, Iraq Coalition forces killed five terrorists and detained 11 suspects late Sunday through Tuesday during operations targeting al-Qaeda networks in central and northern Iraq.
Southwest of Baqubah, Coalition forces targeted al-Qaeda in Iraq and foreign terrorist facilitators during a 24-hour operation Sunday and Monday. Coalition forces observed several men maneuvering toward their position and, perceiving hostile intent, called for supporting aircraft to engage the men, killing four terrorists. Coalition partners in the area discovered weapons, including missiles and grenades, ammunition and an improvised explosive device. and miscellaneous terrorist body fragments - air support is priceless!
Coalition forces conducted operations Monday and Tuesday in Rabiyah and northern Samarra. During the operation northwest of Samarra, Coalition forces captured a wanted individual while targeting al-Qaeda financial and courier operations. The captured individual is believed to be associated with propaganda operations and senior terrorist leaders. During the operation, Coalition forces saw one individual maneuver into the palm groves. Perceiving hostile intent, the ground force called for supporting aircraft to engage, killing the terrorist. Coalition forces detained three suspects, in addition to the wanted individual.
North of Samarra, Coalition forces captured a wanted individual believed to be a courier for senior al-Qaeda leaders. We hope he was carrying some interesting and valuable material!
During the operation, one suspect received minor wounds. He received medical care on site before being detained by Coalition forces. In addition to the wanted individual and the wounded suspect, the ground force detained two suspects without incident.
During the operation in Rabiyah Monday, Coalition forces captured an alleged former al-Qaeda in Iraq leader believed to be a planner of car-bombing attacks in Mosul. Coalition forces detained two other suspects, in addition to the wanted individual.
"These operations exemplify the continued success we're having in operations against terrorist networks," said Maj. Winfield Danielson, MNF-I spokesman. "With the help of Iraqi citizens and their security forces, we will succeed in defeating al-Qaeda in Iraq." Hopefully some names will be released soon to populate the Burg of Thugs.
BAGHDAD Multi-National Division Baghdad troops captured two individuals believed to be part of a terrorist cell and a cache of explosively formed penetrators, rockets and other munitions in southern Baghdad Nov. 17.
Soldiers from Company A, 1st Battalion, 28th Infantry Regiment Black Lions, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, conducted the successful operation after several individuals were observed fleeing from a suspected point of origin of a rocket attack in the Aamel neighborhood of West Rashid. They were tracked to a house and immediately detained. A subsequent search of the building revealed the sizeable cache.
Confiscated by troops assigned to Attack Company were six complete EFPs, three 107mm Iranian-made rockets, more than 30 mortar rounds of various calibers, 12 57mm projectiles and other explosives and bomb-making materials. The suspects are being held for further questioning.
Soldiers assigned to the 4th Battalion, 64th Armored Regiment Tuskers, working closely with Iraqi Security Volunteers in the Saydiyah neighborhood of West Rashid, seized four separate caches of weapons and explosives after receiving tips from area resident Nov. 18. The troops seized a complete 82mm mortar system, more than 40 pounds of homemade explosives and several AK-47 assault rifles and pistols.
#3
Of course, these were Iranian "Ambassadors" and "Trade Commission" members as well. Expect demands for their freeing from the designated Iranian whore Iraqi Minister in the Maliki Gov't toot-suite
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Hussein was arrested and taken to Abu Ghraib, but no one knew who he was. Just another low-level insurgent, I'm guessing.
He had been sitting in Abu Ghraib for a month, and nobody realized that he was the AP photog who had snapped dozens of staged photos with al Qaeda fighters. The reader was in Abu Ghraib as an investigator working on an unrelated case when he saw Bilal Hussein and recognized him from the extensive coverage we had on The Jawa Report.
He reported it up the chain of command and within days Bilal Hussein was transferred to a different facility, NCIS got involved, and eventually a criminal investigation opened on him.
Let's all hope that "different facility" has an adequate water supply and plenty of boards on hand. This shitbag needs to wrung out like an old dishrag and then put through the tumble dry cycle several times. After he's done singing like a canary we need to feed him to the cats.
Anyone else ready to demand that AP's Pulitzer Prize be revoked on the grounds of fabricated submissions? These scumholes need to be found liable for facilitating Iraqi civilian deaths. Didn't they ever once question the astonishingly coincidental circumstances surrounding all the fauxtography sent in by this rutbag? Or were they too busy toasting each other on a major scoop that no one else could somehow manage to conjure up quite so neatly?
#5
Who cares about prizes? I give a rat's touche for these self-aggrandizing popinjays who think they are above God, law and justice. The only prize I am interested in is the one that goes to the guy who kills the most insurgents, terrorists, islamic fascist, mullahs, talibunnies, wakiPakiwakis and the other assortment of Persian Islamist fanatics and idiots. Lets call that the Michael Murphy Prize and hopefully we only have to give it for a few years.
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"Lets call that the Michael Murphy Prize and hopefully we only have to give it for a few years."
Does anybody know who has the most confirmed kills in Iraq?
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#4: we need to feed him to the cats.
Eeeewwww, Zen, do you hate cats?
I agree, pigs will eat anything, plus it's against their Pseudo-religion (Small "r" on purpose)a twofer.
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I still say a good dentist like the one Dustin Hoffman had in the ("Is it safe? Is it safe?
Is...it...safe...?") Marathon Man.
Dozens of militants loyal to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr were arrested in a massive assault by US and Iraqi troops in the central city of Diwaniyah, officials said on Monday. Iraqi security officials said that 3,000 Iraqi soldiers and policemen supported by military tanks and hundreds of US and Polish troops launched the assault on Saturday to flush out Shiite militants from the city.
Hussain al-Buderi, a member of the Qadisiyah provincial council, said that 49 militants from the Sadr group, including four leaders, were arrested since the launch of "Operation Lion's Leap". Witnesses said the city of more than one million people was under curfew and US aircraft were dropping leaflets urging locals to cooperate in locating militant hideouts. Sadr's office in the town of Nafar, south of Diwaniyah, was also raided on Monday as part of the crackdown, Buderi told AFP.
Diwaniyah's police chief Major General Ali Akmoosh
Fallal Hassan Chanchal, MP from Baghdad's Sadr City
Hussain al-Buderi, a member of the Qadisiyah provincial council
Major Peggy Kageleiry, spokeswoman for the military
Moqtada al-Sadr
Mahdi Army
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Looking at that pic -- I have to admit, before his eyes, I would want to be in a burqa.... believe me when I say...... there is nothing I would want to even hint to this guy.....
Maybe I'm beginning to understand why Muslim women don't object to the wearing of the burqa...... they don't want men with the looks of this guy..... even entertaining any thoughts.....
I would never, in my "younger" days, would have wanted to do anything that would draw attention to me from this guy...... chills running up and down my spine....
I would be hiding..... the look of him and others like him ..... well, woman may only be safe, by covering up...
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.com used to tell us the tales from Soddiland. The menfolk know perfectly well what lies beneath the sack. He would describe how the young turks would drive s-l-o-w-l-y along the picnic areas and ogle the ladies in their chadors.
#7
Dental hygiene doesn't look like it's high on the list of priorities in muzzie-land. Somewhere down at the bottom of the list behind abusing women, facing mecca 4 times/day, booming, jihad, goat tending (and abuse), killing the infidel, lying to the infidel, etc. Did I miss anything?
#8
Gives you the creeps, huh, Sherry? But in civilized countries, animals like al-Sadr end up in prison so you don't have to worry about them. Does anybody remember before the first Desert Storm when Iraqis kidnapped an English boy in Iraq and held him hostage? They showed pictures of the boy in Saddam's office with Saddam holding the boy by the arm above the elbow. It frightened everybody because we all know what a monster like Saddam was capable of doing to a boy like that. In our country, even the president of the United States would go to jail for such behavior. Civilized societies punish brutes, bullies and rapists. But in Iraq Saddam was admired for it.
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Mike N.
according to several sources, a number of n african dialects of arabic have the 'th' sound
#10
according to several sources, a number of n african dialects of arabic have the 'th' sound
Just not any of the ones that Sadr happens to speak.
The digraph 'th' represents a voiced or unvoiced dental fricative. Curiously, it is not present in Scandihoovian languages. As Victor Borge wryly observedwhile vocalizing the sound and sticking his tongue out in the processit can be extremely cold in the Nordic winters and nobody wants to leave anything out longer than necessary or it might freeze and break off. However, the voiced or unvoiced dental fricative should not confused with the Labiodental Fricative*. (*Electric guitar accompaniment by Eric Clapton)
Cannibal chiefs chew Camembert cheese
'cause chewing keeps 'em cheeky
Big Fat Fred sticks fur to his head
'cause he thinks fur makes him freaky
Benjamin Bland and his Bugle Band blow the blues bi-weekly
(Yee hoo hoo!)
How many pies can a porpoise poise on purpose if she pleases?
I got up at eight, it was half past two
I said to myself, "Well, how do you do?"
I've gotta get on, so I soon got off
Stuck a clean shirt on, and had a good cough
Back at the boozer, a bloke I knew
Said he knew a secret no one knew
He pinched some snuff, and he sniffed and sighed
So I pinched his snout, and he replied,
"Cannibal chiefs chew Camembert cheese
'cause chewing keeps 'em cheeky
Big Fat Fred sticks fur to his head
'cause he thinks fur makes him freaky
Benjamin Bland and his Bugle Band blow the blues bi-weekly
How many pies can a porpoise poise on purpose if she pleases?"
Here am I a sailor
Seabirds fly above me
Listen to their cry
See them in the sky above me
Here am I a sailor
Fishes swim below me
Even while I sleep
Growing in the deep below me
I rode a long worm to the end of the line
I asked Tin Man if he'd tell me the time
He took off his hat, and he took off his head
Took off Max Bygraves, here's what he said,
"You take first right and second left."
The man in the moon says, "How's your chest?"
The man in the sun says, "Have another one!"
So we're all tanked up and singing along
Cannibal chiefs chew camembert cheese
'cause chewing keeps 'em cheeky
Big Fat Fred fixes fur to his head
'cause he thinks fur makes him freaky
Benjamin Bland and his Bugle Band blow the blues bi-weekly
How many pies can a porpoise poise on purpose if she pleases?"
Coalition forces captured a suspected senior Special Groups leader and detained another suspected criminal during operations late Sunday near Baghdad, in the Adhamiyah area.
The targeted individual was reportedly responsible for smuggling and storing weapons used in attacks against Coalition forces, and supported Special Groups criminal elements through funding and training. The suspected criminal was also reportedly an associate of several other senior-level Special Groups members from Diyala to Baghdad who were involved in attacks on Coalition forces. We will continue to pursue criminal elements who fail to honor Muqtada al-Sadrs pledge for peace and we commend those who honor it, said Maj. Winfield Danielson, MNF-I spokesman. The groundswell of citizens who have courageously decided to oppose these terrorist elements are vital for improved security in Iraq.
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Coalition Forces killed eight terrorists, detained 13 suspects and found an alleged execution site, torture room and 16 weapons caches between Nov. 6 and 10 during a multi-day operation in the Diyala River Valley.
Nov. 7, Coalition forces observed several armed men maneuvering away from their location. Perceiving hostile intent, the ground force called for supporting aircraft to engage the armed men, zapping killing five terrorists. The ground force discovered a small cache of AK-47s, a pistol, grenade and ammunition at the suspects location.
Later that day in two separate areas, Coalition forces were engaged by armed men. Responding in self-defense, the ground force engaged the armed men, killing three terrorists. Coalition forces also detained 13 suspects during the four-day operation.
During operations Nov. 9, Coalition forces discovered what appeared to be an execution site. As they cleared the area they found the remains of approximately five individuals, as well as several 9mm casings believed to be used in the executions.
Over the course of the multi-day operation, Coalition forces located and destroyed 16 weapons caches to include: 13 complete anti-aircraft weapons, mounts, rounds and equipment; a World War II-era Russian T34 Cannon; 24 TOW missiles; 14 Saggar missiles; anti-personnel mines; 40 NBC masks; several machine guns and mounts; three jugs of homemade explosives; 10 anti-personnel mines; 35,200 feet of detention cord; one 25-pound bag of ammonium nitrate; several dozen mortars, tubs, fins, fuses and rounds; rifles; grenades and rocket propelled-grenades; ammunition; improvised explosive device-making materials; and two military-style vests. Two of the anti-aircraft weapons systems were found welded to the bed of a truck.
The ground force also discovered several buildings used for terrorist operations to include an alleged torture facility complete with chains, shackles, heavy-duty locks similar to those found in detention cell bunkers, windows cemented closed, terrorist propaganda materials, and kerosene heaters. Coalition forces found another building they believed to be an al-Qaeda in Iraq safe house containing additional terrorist propaganda and an alleged terrorist medical clinic with supplies, weapons and a hidden compartment in the floor.
I'm sure it's occurred to someone besides me that these goobers favor torture because they're perverts?
Because they hide their wimmin under sacks and try to build their society around men alone, they're left without even a normal relationship with Mom, much less with any other women. Their sexual selves end up stunted and ugly, or at best weird, like today's story about the Afghan dancing boys.
I can understand executing one's enemies, even chopping their heads off -- the old "swing of the chippy chopper on the big black block." Truth can be -- I believe it should be -- extracted using various flavors of giggle juice, alone or in combination. Somewhere between mild confusion and forgetting your name lies usable, verifiable, exploitable truth, without any broken bones or even a water boarding session.
Taking an interest in your enemy's pain requires a streak of sadism, and sadism is a sexual, not a military quality.
Nearby, they discovered what appeared to be a building used to create false IDs, complete with numerous ID-making materials and a small media cache. Reports indicate several of the rooms, including the torture room were recently inhabited. Coalition forces also found an improvised explosive device making facility inside one of the buildings, with numerous cylinders, tanks, tubes and car parts believed to be used in the production of IEDs. The ground force called for supporting aircraft to conduct an air strike to safely destroy the building to prevent further use by terrorists.
Al-Qaeda in Iraq members are ruthless terrorists who brutalize, torture, and murder innocent Iraqis in their campaign of senseless terror, said Maj. Winfield Danielson, MNF-I spokesperson. Iraqi and Coalition forces will continue to capture or kill these brutal terrorists who seek to deny Iraqis a future of their choice.
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possibilities
1. They favor torture cause theyre pervs
2. They favor torture cause it works, and they dont have access to superior cleaner methods that others use? (Forgive me, I really dont know how hard ir easy it is to aquire or make effective giggle juice)
3. They really, really, really hate their adversaries, esp Shiite devils, secularist apostates, etc, (and they dont have sufficient faith in Allah to punish the above after death) This level of hatred too is a perversion, but not necessarily a sexual one.
#2
The US government should have long ago produced a horror movie showing how grotesque and sadistic al-Qaeda is, then distributed it anonymously over the Internet in Muslim and adjacent non-Muslim countries, in their language. Real choke and puke stuff, showing lots of dead Muslim victims, especially children. And an awful lots of mutilated al-Qaeda, covered in flies.
A picture can be worth a thousand words. It is a lot harder to think of virgins in heaven when you see lots of mutilated corpses, captioned with the details of their hideous deaths.
The movie could be punctuated with Imams and al-Qaeda leaders talking about how wonderful al-Qaeda, jihad, and being a martyr is, to show them as the evil bastards they are.
The US military learned during Vietnam that there is *no* way to show enemy or friendly dead that does not demoralize the public and turn them against both the military and the war. It had that effect on Americans, and the effect should be a lot stronger in Asia.
If they really wanted to go for the gold, they could even include some subliminal imagery and audio to associate al-Qaeda leaders with demons and hell.
#4
LiberalHawk,
I'm afraid it's #1, and it's not only AQ. Several years ago a blogger in the PG wrote about the latest fad among young Arab men:
It was downloading clips of women being raped onto their cellphones. They could then watch the woman being degraded at work, in the mall etc.
You can think of AQ as simply acting out the fantasies of many Moslem males.
Al
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But these are all just "quaint customs of the local culture" as far as leftists, feminists, dems and academics are concerned. It's only torture, murder and degradation when we Americans do it.
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Oh, and remember, it is a superior culture because it is not our culture, say all the usual suspects...
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4. Being pious muslims by emulating Mohammed.
Q5:33 Those who wage war against God and His Messenger and strive to spread corruption in the land should be punished by death, crucifixion, the amputation of an alternate hand and foot or banishment from the land: a disgrace for them in this world, and then a terrible punishment in the Hereafter.
One of many torture and murder hadiths: When he [Muhammad] asked him about the rest, he refused to produce it, so the apostle gave orders . . . "Torture him until you extract what he has," so [the torturer] kindled a fire with flint and steel on his chest until he was nearly dead.
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Ma'an A standoff between Palestinian Authority forces and fighters affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) has stretched into a second day in a West Bank refugee camp near Nablus, a PFLP official said. PFLP leader Jamil Mizhir said some of the group's leaders are among the fighters still holed up in Ein Beit El-Ma refugee camp, besieged by Palestinian security services since Sunday. Mizhir accused the security forces of "trying to achieve what the Israeli forces failed to achieve when they besieged the refugee camp and attempted to arrest those leaders."
Israeli forces invaded the camp in mid-September, fighting pitched battles with armed Palestinian groups, including PFLP fighters.
300 Palestinian security officers were deployed in Nablus earlier this month, part of a US and Israeli-backed multimillion dollar plan to establish order and dismantle armed groups in and around the city. Mizhir said the siege by what he called "[Palestinian Prime Minister Salam] Fayyad's services" came to fulfill Interior Minister Abdur Razzaq Al-Yahya's pledge to dismantle the military wings of Palestinian factions. Mizhir said Yahya was "obeying orders" he received from the American Security Coordinator Keith Dayton to implement the first stage of the Road Map peace plan. That plan, said Mizhir, aims to "end Palestinian resistance."
This article starring:
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
American Security Coordinator Keith Dayton
Interior Minister Abdur Razzaq Al-Yahya
Jamil Mizhir
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
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Ma'an Hamas-allied police in the Gaza strip said they arrested two Fatah members on Monday on charges of attempting to steal weapons from Hamas' armed wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades. The men are accused of "ambushing" the Al-Qassam Brigades forces before they were taken into police custody. According to the police, the detained men have admitted to the attempted robbery.
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Army explosives experts disarmed a powerful homemade bomb Saturday in a southern Philippine city that has been a target of attacks blamed on al-Qaida-linked militants and extortion gangs.
The bomb, rigged from an 81 mm mortar shell, was found hidden in a cigarette carton outside an auto repair shop at dawn Saturday in Cotabato city. A security guard from a nearby gasoline station called police to report the suspicious box, said Cotabato police chief Senior Superintendent Willie Dangane.
The improvised explosive device may have been intended for another area but because of heavy police and military presence around the city, the would-be bomber may have abandoned it to avoid detection, Dangane said. Security officials have said such mortar bombs are typically used by the al-Qaida-linked Abu Sayyaf group and the Indonesian-based terror network Jemaah Islamiyah.
Unless I get bumped for the physical or the drug test (probably for blood pressure medication abuse), I'll be starting back to work in a week or so on a project at Johns Hopkins University. After four months out of work, I'm looking forward to it.
I want to thank everyone who's kicked in on my beg-a-thons. Even with your generosity, it'll take at least six months, and more likely a year, to get back on an even keel. Without it, we probably would have gone under. In fact, strike that word "probably."
That being said, there's still another three weeks at least before I see a pay check, so if you've got spare change, please kick in. I'm hoping this'll be the last beg for a good long while.
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Congratulations, Fred! It is amazing that you were able to find a job (any job) in the worst economy since before the Depression. :-)
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Fabulous news, Fred! Admiral, the Paypal button is in a straight line down from the list of recent posters, underneath the bright blue Rantburg thingy. It is smallish, so you may want to put on your extra strong glasses. ;-)
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Congrats Fred!! I'm sure you will get the post.
Do me a favor though- Could you email me and confirm that my smallish donation (between jobs) went through? PayPal gave me an obscure message that I didn't understand. BEST!
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Best wishes! Consider it a Holiday gift, but don't worry about the begging.
I used to do it every night, but now I'm so old, I'm down to once a week. [rimshot]
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Congrats, Fred! (Fingers crossed for you until you actually walk in that door - not that I'm superstitious or anything....)
Check's in the mail (no, really, it is). I'll try to send something closer to Christmas, too.
Y'all have a GREAT T-day!
And the same to all Rantburgers. :-D
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^5 Fred! Best of luck to you with your project and the holidays as well. I will definitely hit the tip jar soon. And, may I remind readers who plan to do holiday shopping on Amazon, be sure to get to Amazon.com through the link here at Rantburg. That's what I plan to do.
P.S. LOL Rambler (comment #1). Maybe brother John Edwards can spare Fred a dime too.
#2
Boy, those bubbles are way above the Lawrence Welk standard.
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McZ
One right-leaning blogger, Atlas Shrugs has a photo of herself on her web that shows she has a better figure than most of the starlets Fred shows on the good morning page
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Algerian security forces arrested a senior member of an Islamist armed group and seized 800 kg (1,765 lbs) of explosives, the official news agency APS reported on Monday. 
A French appeals court sentenced a former imam Monday to five years in prison for involvement in a plot to stage attacks in France to support fighters in Chechnya. The Paris Court of Appeals stiffened 
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: At least two militants were killed and scores wounded when a fierce clash erupted between the Asmatullah and Turkistan groups in South Waziristan. The Turkistan group - backed by government authorities - Aqwam Naymat Khail Bhattan launched an attack on their rival Asmatullah group and their associates, the Ghu lam Jan group. 
KHAR: Unidentified armed men kidnapped five political administration officials, including a tehsildar, in the town of Nawagai in Bajaur district on Monday. The masked men entered a residential colony in Nawagai and whisked away Shahriyar, a tehsildar, Baseer Khan, a muharrar, and three levies personnel in their car. The kidnappers fired in the air as they reached the Nawagai Scouts camp, witnesses said.
Eight people were killed and 18 more wounded on the fourth day of fierce clashes in Kurram Agency on Monday, as security forces battled to contain sectarian violence that has killed more than 100 people in three days. The latest casualties have taken the number of those killed in Parachinar and Sadda to 94, while the total injured have reached 168, unofficial sources revealed. However, a security official told AFP that, The latest death toll has climbed to 107.
Pakistani soldiers and helicopter gunships enforced a security lockdown yesterday in a tribal area where nearly 100 people have died in three days of bloody sectarian clashes, residents said. Streets were deserted and shops, schools and offices closed down under an indefinite curfew after a weekend of violence that saw rival Sunni and Shia Muslim tribesmen shooting at each other from across rooftops. 
Dozens of militants loyal to radical Shiite cleric 
Coalition forces captured a suspected senior Special Groups leader and detained another suspected criminal during operations late Sunday near Baghdad, in the Adhamiyah area.
I'm sure it's occurred to someone besides me that these goobers favor torture because they're perverts? 
Ma'an A standoff between Palestinian Authority forces and fighters affiliated with the 
Army explosives experts disarmed a powerful homemade bomb Saturday in a southern Philippine city that has been a target of attacks blamed on al-Qaida-linked militants and extortion gangs.
Unless I get bumped for the physical or the drug test (probably for blood pressure medication abuse), I'll be starting back to work in a week or so on a project at Johns Hopkins University. After four months out of work, I'm looking forward to it.
