A U.S. helicopter that flew into Afghanistan to pick up a sick soldier crashed because of bad weather. The crash damaged the helicopter and injured the four-member crew, who were rescued by another helicopter. The downed helicopter was later destroyed by US. fighter jets.
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U.S. jets pounded the front north of Kabul night and day, elating opposition commanders, who said the bombardment was doing just what it should: weaken Taliban defenses of the capital. Opposition forces, meanwhile, claimed to be gaining ground at Afghanistan's other key front, outside the Taliban-held northern stronghold of Mazar-e-Sharif. The Pentagon confirmed it had lost an unmanned Predator spy plane over Afghanistan; it denied the Taliban had downed either the drone or a U.S. helicopter that went down overnight, blaming bad weather in both incidents. Opposition forces said jets hit Taliban tanks and a Taliban headquarters village on a hillside overlooking the Shomali Plain. (STEVEN GUTKIN, AP)
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U.S. forces in Afghanistan have narrowed the hunt for Osama bin Laden to a handful of cave complexes near Pakistan, where he transformed ancient irrigation tunnels into underground fortresses during the Soviet war in the 1980s. U.S. military and intelligence officials said that five suspected al Qaeda cave complexes located in the Paktia province, are now under 24-hour surveillance by U.S. spy satellites, U-2 spy planes and Predator drone aircraft while U.S. military planners debate how and when to attack them. (NY POST, by Niles Lathem)
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The AP reported that a university student was charged with burning the U.S. flag in a fire that charred more than two acres of woodland in northern Virginia. Officials said the boy, who is Russian, may not have been expressing support for the enemy, but may be a nut.
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A man suspected of vandalizing three Roman Catholic churches and placing a stolen religious statue near a mosque with material saying, "Allah is the only true God" has been arrested. Emad Ibrahim Saad, 35, of Los Angeles, was arrested for vandalizing a place of worship. (Sacramento Bee)
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National Guard troops could be helping protect the Capitol as early as next week under a preliminary congressional plan to relieve the building's police force.
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The FBI is searching for a rented Ryder truck that sped away from security at the Cambridge Galleria Mall after personnel there found drums and gasoline cans duct taped to the floor and walls. (WHDH Channel 7)
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Federal agents raided an apartment building in Trenton, New Jersey, as part of the nationwide anthrax investigation and detained a man suspected of possible immigration violations. Witnesses said the apartment was home to four Middle Eastern men, one of whom was taken away. Witnesses said FBI agents on Friday confiscated several bags of potential evidence after a three-hour search. (Reuters)
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A song by country music star Charlie Daniels has thrust the songwriter into the midst of controversy. Islamic groups and other civil rights advocates say the song, "It Ain't No Rag, It's a Flag," denigrates Muslim people with its reference to "rags" worn as head covering. (Fox news, by Catherine Donaldson)
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Specific references to a Nebraska patriotism law will be included in the state's school certification requirements under a draft approved by the state Board of Education. The board voted 4-3 to not only refer to the state's 52-year-old patriotism law, but also summarize some of its key requirements. An earlier draft of the requirements for state accreditation of schools removed a reference to the law. At last month's meeting, the board voted to put the reference back in. (AP)
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His French passport said he was 5-feet-11, but he stood an inch taller than an inspector who measures 6-feet-2. He said his name was Amadou Seck, the name on the passport, but he couldn't reproduce the signature. When asked in French what his real name is, he said, "It is too early for me to tell you that." And when asked why he was coming to the United States, he said "someone" had sent him to New York to observe what was happening there. He also said he was a computer programmer but refused to name his employer. An INS agent eventually administered an oath and Fall said he would swear on the Koran to answer questions. Then he refused to give his real name. When he finally did give it, he said he was born May 16, 1977, in Gabon, Africa. But he couldn't explain the two-year discrepancy between his birth date and the one on the license. After some checking, according to the affidavit, INS found a Manel Fall who is a citizen of Senegal but lives in Saudi Arabia. But that Manel Fall was born in 1958. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, by Torsten Ove)
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President Bush yesterday rebuked critics who charge the military campaign in Afghanistan is failing and asserted the relentless bombing and ground war is unraveling Osama bin Laden's terrorist network. "There are some that say, 'Well, shouldn't this have happened yesterday?' This is not an instant-gratification war," said Mr. Bush. Mr. Bush said the military campaign will not halt during Ramadan, and urged the Senate to pass his economic stimulus package, calling last month's 0.5 percent rise in unemployment "not good news for America." (Washington Times, by Joseph Curl)
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Michael Ledeen discussed the anti-government demonstrations that have been going on in Iran since October 12th.
"These events are unprecedented in the history of the Islamic Republic. They involved hundreds of thousands of people at a minimum. One secondhand account I received spoke of more than a million antigovernment demonstrators in Tehran alone. The first "victory" in our war on terror could be the fall of the regime in Iran."
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Syrian President Bashar Assad dealt a severe blow to Britain's bid to shore up the Middle East peace process and international coalition against terrorism during Prime Minister Tony Blair's visit to Damascus. "Assad ambushes Blair," read the front-page headline in the right-of-centre The Times. "Syria's Assad humiliates PM with attack on West and Israel," said the left-leaning Guardian, adding along with the right-wing Daily Telegraph that Blair had suffered a "public dressing down." The Independent simply called Blair's visit a âdiplomatic embarrassment.â (AFP/Jordan Times)
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A senior aide to Yasser Arafat criticized a U.S. official for equating the Palestinian uprising with "terror," saying such comments were misleading and biased towards Israel. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State David Satterfield said that a 13-month-old Palestinian revolt had turned into "an ongoing process of calculated terror and escalation." (Reuters/Haaretz)
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The Bush administration has tightened the financial squeeze on 22 foreign groups deemed to be terrorist organizations, including Hamas and Hezbollah, applying the same stiff measures already imposed on those suspected of having links to Saudi exile Osama bin Laden. (Washington Post By Alan Sipress)
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Maher Taher, a member of the political office of the Damascus-based Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, whose assets were just ordered frozen by the United States and Britain insisted that it was not a terrorist organization but a national liberation movement. (Haaretz)
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In Quetta, more usual demonstrations by supporters of Taliban in Balochistan were out protesting; thousands of activists of various groups, including JUI-F, JI, Jamiat-e-Ahle Hadith and Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, converged at Ayub stadium after Friday prayer.
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In Raiwind, Pakistan, several hundred thousand members of Tableeghi Jamaat" (Group of Preachers) gathered to beg God's forgiveness, while keeping themselves strictly aloof from what's happening in Afghanistan or on the streets of Pakistan. Unlike jihadi outfits and religious parties calling for holy war, the Tableeghis, known as the pacifist pedagogues of the faith, reiterated their commitment to peaceful preaching of Islam, rather than resort to violent means.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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.
