HEART: US-led coalition and Afghan troops shot dead a 16-year-old girl in a gunfight that erupted early Saturday as they were trying to arrest an alleged extremist in western Afghanistan, officials and relatives said.
A gun was aimed at members of the assault force from the top of a flight of stairs. Shots were fired, resulting in the death of a woman holding a loaded AK47 assault rifle...
The troops entered a compound in the city of Farah in the early hours of the morning to "capture a known Afghan extremist," a coalition spokesman said. While they were questioning some of the occupants, others ran into another building, Lieutenant Marcelo Calero said.
"When members of the assault force entered the building in an attempt to clear it, a gun was aimed at members of the assault force from the top of a flight of stairs. Shots were fired, "resulting in the death of a woman holding a loaded AK47 assault rifle," he said.
Life's tough. It's tougher, but shorter, when you're armed and stoopid.
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Headline should read; Afghan Girl has the drop on Troops, Troops drop girl
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Talibreeder Virgin Martyr Available!
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Something tells me she wasn't dressed like the girl in the graphic.
MOGADISHU - Hundreds of heavily armed Muslim gunmen moved on a key southern port in Somalia on Saturday as the lawless nations powerful Islamist movement prepared to expand its territory, witnesses said.
Backed by heavy artillery and machine-gun mounted pick-ups known as battlewagons or technicals several hundred Islamic fighters sped through towns south of Mogadishu to join forces already surrounding Kismayo, they said. I saw 30 battlewagons passing by and headed to Kismayo, said Ali Nuur Jiisow, a resident of Afgoi Yerey village on the road to the port, now held by a militia loyal to a top official in Somalias weak transitional government.
The fighters were heavily armed and they all had their heads covered so you could only see their eyes, he told AFP. He and others in Somalias Lower Shabelle region said the Islamists had told them they were going to take control of Kismayo to prevent the proposed deployment of an Ethiopian east African peacekeeping force to shore up the government.
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We will end up back in there. They will set up training camps and begin to export jihad.
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No problem Hose, Ill turn on the spigot you Hose them down!
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Naw, just give it time. Aids and the fighting will turn this place into no mans land in short order. A lord of the flies in the making.
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The training camps are reported to be currently in the setting-up phase, Super Hose.
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I heard the same TW, I hope this is not another Afghan in the making.
If it is, it is another example of our failed policy in the war on terror. We need to be going after the money and the nations that are supporting it. Back to wanting to take out Teheran and the others that support and finance this stuff. We are just chasing this around the world, not dealing with it at the root level, and I don't mean poverty.
I know I sound like a broken record here, stuck in the loop. But this is destroying our freedoms here in the US. It won't be long and we will get used to airport security and the patriot act. I for one hope not and hate the Patriot act, I support it but I want it to go away soon. we need to bring an end to this.
Thanks for letting me rant.
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well you may hate the patriot act but htis is not going too end umtil islam ends
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49 Pan, as you know Kismayo is down south towards the Kenyan border. Easy access from the frontier. A lot of the support is coming from that direction from sympathizers/ refugees/ UN camps.
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Agreed sinse. The very reason I advocate strategic bombing of Iranian and Kartoum governments, blockades of nations that support terrorism, and assinations of the mullas that preach terror.
Joe, and don't froget the UN money pouring through the camps.
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49 Pan, Bro, I know they (UN) hate Me.
I blew out a Birrkenstock, stepped on a pop-top,
Cut my heel, had to cruise on back home.
But there's booze in the blender and soon it will render,
That frozen concoction that helps me hang on.
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A little "shock and awe" from a dozen Buffs would put the fear of the REAL GOD into these nutcases in a hurry. I'm just sorry we don't have a Teddy Roosevelt in the White House. The war against islamofascists would be over. The rest of the world would probably hate us, but how is that different from now?
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OP rather than carpet bombing it would be interesting to set up a Khe Sahn style outpost in the hinterland with about 12 Vulcan Phalanx units and strings of accelerometers in the bush an obliterate all comers. Hue City seems less desirable.
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#5's "Destroying our freedoms here in the US" - RIGHTWINGNEWS.com > Clinton accuses Bush of wanting to INSTITUTIONALIZE Abu Ghraib here in America [paraphrased]. IOW, to turn America into a Commie-style Police-Army State, NOT just a Nany State. ONCE AGAIN THE DEMOLEFT CRITICIZES WHAT IT SECRETLY DESIRES, PROCLAIMS TO HATE WHAT IT WANTS.
(KUNA) -- Three Russian soldiers were killed on Saturday in separate incidents in Chechnya, Interfax News Agency reported. It quoted Russian security sources as saying two Russian soldiers were killed and a third was wounded when an explosive device exploded as their patrol vehicle passed by in the Chechen mountainous region of Vedeno district. A third soldier was killed in another mountainous region in unknown circumstances, and an investigation was underway.
Meanwhile, the number of Chechen militants who heeded Russian calls to put aside their arms and return back to peaceful life had increased. Russian television reported that three militants headed for the security stations in Chechnya and surrendered their arms, thus bringing their number to 300. Moreover, a Russian newspaper reported that the State Duma, lower chamber of the Russian Parliament, passed a bill on September 22 giving legal amnesty to militants and servicemen who committed offenses during anti-terrorism campaigns in the North Caucasus.
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MADRID: A Spanish High Court prosecutor says six suspected Islamic radicals, arrested in 2003, planned to attack a US military base in southern Spain, the newspaper El Pais said on its Web site on Saturday. The prosecutor is seeking a 32-year sentence for the Algerian accused of leading the group, Mohamed Tahraoui, and 22 years each for the other five, also Algerians. They were among 14 people arrested in Spain in early 2003 on suspicion of belonging to a group of Islamic radicals, believed to be linked to Al Qaeda, and plotting attacks in Spain. Tahraoui's lawyer denied the accusations, according to the report, which cited the prosecutor's preliminary written conclusions.
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In 2003. I'm glad they're finally starting to catch up with the backlog.
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I don't think Spain, or much of the EU, has the concept of 'speedy trial' in their prime documents. You got to remember in America the government derives its power from the people. In Europe, citizens derive their rights from the state.
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That would be Rota Naval Base - guarded by Marines. I don't think they would have gotten very far. The base houses a squadron of P-3A Orion aircraft, which do sea surveillance and ASW work, as well as providing a port for both NATO and US warships near the Straits of Gibraltar.
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Rota usually has an "L" Class Amphib "gator-freighter" tied up; adding 2500 or so Grunts to the Station mix. Bring it on MFers!! (at)
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I thought Rota was a Spanish Base with US facilities located at it.
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We refueled there several times going or coming across the Atlantic, not much to see from the fueling dock.
Only stopped for gas, so to speak, wasn't there more than a day max, usualy only 8 hours or so.
No liberty.
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OSLO: A Norwegian court placed three men in provisional detention on Saturday on suspicion of planning attacks against the US and Israeli embassies in Oslo, news agency NTB reported. The court set the provisional custody period at one month for two of the suspects, one of whom is of Pakistani origin, and at two weeks for the third. Authorities did not reveal the identities of the men, aged between 26 and 29 years, whom they also suspect of spraying a synagogue with bullets last week. No one was hurt in the incident.
The three were arrested on Thursday together with a fourth man, a Norwegian of Turkish origin, who was not placed in provisional detention but against whom other lines of investigation may be launched, NTB said. None of the three has been charged. All have denied the accusations.
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Make Krekar the fourth and walk em into the North Sea
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Frank G - wait till February and take them swimming off the North Cape - if the water's not frozen solid.
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works for me, OP
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But Czechs do not adhere to the librul appeasement and tranzi kool-aid paradigm and culturally, mohamedans are still remembered for their raids to acquire janissaries, reaching as far as Southern Moravia. Not fondly, I may add. At all.
Twelve people, including three policemen, were injured when a bomb in a truck exploded in front of a police building in the eastern Turkish city of Igdir, police officials said on Saturday. The truck had been parked in front of the building, the officials said. Four soccer players and their coach from Ankara who were in the building were among the wounded, the police said. The state news agency Anatolian said two of the victims were in a serious condition.
Turkey has been on edge after a bomb killed 10 people in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir earlier this month, sparking protests by thousands of people. Turkish authorities blame the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) for such incidents in eastern Turkey. The PKK has denied any involvement in the Diyarbakir bombing. Far-left and Islamist groups have also carried out bomb attacks in Turkey in the past. Ankara blames the PKK for the deaths of more than 30,000 people since the group launched its armed struggle for an independent Kurdish homeland in southeast Turkey since 1984.
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Here is the boat info: The Navy had the 35-foot Riverine Assault Craft, built in the 1980s and similar to the military's Vietnam-era swift boats, in mothballs before they were needed in Iraq. Bristling with machine guns, including powerful .50-caliber guns at the front and rear, the aluminum-hull boats can run a river at 45 mph, powered by a pair of diesel engines and two waterjets.
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Now what the Navy needs are $5M littoral boats capable of handling two weapons systems, such as an artillery gun, mortars, AAA, torps, ECM, etc. They stay under the watchful eye of an expensive littoral ship, but are able to cover a heck of a lot more coastline and river faster.
When the enemy sees one coming, they have no idea what it's packing.
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Anonymouse, are you referring to this craft? I don't think it will fit in the Eufrates. I always thought that the PHM would be good for Gulf patrols.
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I tried to include a link to a craft more suited to river patrol - a mule pulled 19th century Ohio canal barge - but my joke kept getting me a trip to Roadside America, so I relented.
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September 24, 2006: Efforts to prevent any more Islamic terror attacks on American passenger aircraft have, on the face of it, been successful. Increased passenger screening, and heavy use of air marshals, appears to be the primary reason for the prevention of terrorist attacks in the air. Or has it? Aviation in the rest of the world has not been nearly as energetic as the United States, and they have also been free of terrorist attacks. In fact, the Islamic terrorists have been attacking other modes of transportation (as in Spanish trains and British buses and subways). In fact, interrogations, and captured terrorist documents and the like, have indicated this shift in target emphasis.
But the increase in air transportation security has had an impact. Fewer people are flying. The airlines don't like to discuss this, but customer satisfaction, and travel, surveys show that people, especially business flyers (the most lucrative kind of passengers) are flying less. The reason is the increased, and seemingly irrational, screening methods. These antics also have a negative effect on the security personnel. There are now 2,100 air marshals (versus 33 on September 11, 2001), and half of them are unavailable (all or part of the time) because of health issues caused by too much time in the air. The air marshals work a heavy schedule, averaging twenty flights a week. Not that it's doing much good. Until this Summer, air marshals had to fly wearing suits, despite the fact that most passengers go casual. Thus the air marshals stick out, giving any potential bad guys an easy way to identify, and take down, the law. To the TSA screeners at SFO, my 90-year-old mother-in-law must have looked suspicious. Because of her wheelchair it was difficult for her to remove her over-garments and shoes, however the screeners persisted. I guess gray haired English ladies profile as a threat in the Philippines
While the air marshals can now blend in, most flight personnel realize that it is more likely that a mob of enraged passengers is the best defense against any hijackers. Air marshals only fly a small (classified) number of flight, there are many passengers on each flight who are willing to risk all to take down hijackers. The airlines don't like to encourage that sort of thing, but there is it. And the terrorists know it as well, which is why they stay away from air transportation.
So what's the solution -- just give up and let the splodydopes and boxcutter-wielders on board?
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They gave the solution right there. The American public. Under the right circumstances, a random cross-section of Americans have several who are damn dangerous.
How many ultra-violent movies has the typical American seen? They have learned from those movies how to go positively ape-sh*t when they need to.
In a typical airplane packed with Americans, I doubt some screaming psycho could make more than 10 ailes before being tackled. And from that point, he would be lucky to wake up in a hospital.
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there are many passengers on each flight who are willing to risk all to take down hijackers.
I fly a fair amount, I have thought issue about this often, and had numerous conversations with fellow (white male businessman) passengers. Below are my thoughts on the subject. I believe my peers pretty much agree with me.
Flight 93 showed the proper path in such a situation. Once you know your life is forfeit, you only have a choice as to how and why you die. Those brave heroes decided that no matter what, they weren't going to their deaths meekly. They would fight to victory, or death. They stopped a much more hellish scene by giving their lives to save the lives of others and the honor of our nation and it's people.
What do I do? I always, always check out the other passengers, following my own threat profile (young. arab. male, behavior, etc.) and looking for any passengers which fit the profile. If I see one that matches my profile, I observe him very closely, looking for any 'reasons for alarm'. Even if I don't spot any reasons, I keep track of where they are during the flight. I always, always get an aisle seat so I have more 'freedon of action'. I have resolved that no commercial airliner I am on will only be used as a "weapon of mass destruction", unless I am dead.
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Brett's correct. Further, the TSA and everything spent on airport security is wasted, especially if they aren't going to profile ticket purchasers. Ask yourself, is this hassle necessary? Usually not. That's why I haven't flown in 3 years.
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It was foisted on us by the Democrats who wanted a big new jobs program and forced the President to create it and the DHS by repeatedly saying he was doing nothing to protect us. Then they got PO's when he wouldn't let these fine law enforcement personnel unionize so they could strike and shut down all the airlines at once like PATCO.
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Air marshals only fly a small (classified) number of flight, Well, the number of flights with air marshalls may have been a secret before old blabber mouth wrote this report. Let's see now,form the artical,there are a total 2100 air marshalls, but only 1050 are available on any given day. They each average 20 flights a week (20 X 1050) 21,000 flights. Assume air marshalls work seven days a week and also that there are two marshalls on each flight-- that's 1500 flights each day with air marshalls on board. Some secret.
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Assume air marshalls work seven days a week and also that there are two marshalls on each flight-- that's 1500 flights each day with air marshalls on board. Some secret.
The good news is that there is an unknown, but likely large number of Bretts.
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Flying was miserably unpleasant before 9-11; now it's sheer hell. Any would-be hijacker is truly committing suicide now. Trying to take over a plane full of cramped, crowded people gritting their teeth to get through three hours crammed in a space smaller than a coffin is quite simply asking to be ripped apart by a thoroughly enraged mob.
Hell, maybe that's part of the DHS plan--make every legitimate passenger so damned mad that any he/she would beat the snot out of ANYONE they got a legitimate shot at on the flight. I guarantee you it's been working for me because every time I fly I get so pissed off with the security procedures that by the time I get to my seat, if I had the nuclear football there wouldn't be anything left in the Muslim world but radioactive glass.
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There are somewhere between 2M and 5M retired military, and many of us fly at least now and then. Give us a nice, impossible to duplicate photo-id, and let us fly with a "weapon of choice" (but not a hand-gun). I'm gray-haired (what little hair I have left), and walk with a limp. Let me take my walking cane onboard. I dare anyone to try to get by me with that. How many other people would there be who would volunteer to fly as "auxilliaries" to the Air Marshalls, known or unknown? It easily solves the airline-hijacking problem without expanding the federal government or creating other nasty problems. And a few of us would be able to rightly say we're helping the war against islamic terrorism, even though we're "too old" to fight on the front lines. Other suggestions?
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Weapon of choice? Hell, I would smother that MF with a pillow. I would strangle with my bare hands anyone trying to commendeer that plane. Trust me, 9-11 can never happen again now that people know.
TSA nothing. PEOPLE make a place great, NOT a government.
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Just issue me an extra full can of soda instead of pouring it into a cup. I've got a sock. Also if sandpaper is not on the "no-no" list I could buy the $5box lunch and hone my spork into a shiv.
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JIM BOHANNON guestpert> components for 10 kiloton nuke devices have been secretly snuck SINCE 1998 into the USA on OBL's instruction via Mahico/Mexico, that several of these alleged devices are already assembled and ready for detonation at a PC time, Biowar andor Chemwar devices are also being prepared for detonation inside the USA. AMER HIROSHIMAS/NEW 9-11's WILL HAPPEN. * "SINCE 1998" > thus, of course, is Governor Dubya's fault.
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On a more optimistic note, another JIM BOHANNON show > Author[forgot name] of ROARING THUNDER = America may see within 10 years techy planes which can leave an airfield conventionally and FLY DIRECTLY INTO SPACE. The abovesame author also believes that the USDOD is giving up too many programs and warfighting assets [e.g. F117/SR71] which America still needs to effectivle fight the WOT, and that America as a consequence is being steadily and detrimentally "being virtually disarmed" in favor of SPACE at a time the WOT has not yet been won.
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Hell, I'm pissed off enough about not being able to carry on any lotions, gels, etc aboard a flight, (don't get me started on having to remove my dangerous flip flops to satisfy TSA) that if anyone acts up, I'd be willing to get medieval on their asses with little provocation.
I am not looking forward to my next flight at all, and coming from an airline brat that's major.
Jammu and Kashmir: In a move that will once again create a fear psychosis among womenfolk in Rajouri district, a Hizb-ul-Mujahideen area commander on Saturday threatened them to follow the Islamic dress code of wearing a burka and a veil while moving in public places and warned that they would be killed if they failed to comply, officials said.
They said a poster of ultra Alamgeer Hafiz Gazali had come up in Chokiya village of Darhal tehsil in this regard.
Giving them one week to comply, Gazali, said the throats of those defying the order would be slit. Women not wearing burkas were un-Islamic, he said in the poster
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This should immediately result in two things. First, all women should only go out in public when armed, in groups, or with an armed male escort. And second, if another male shouts anything at them, or approaches them rapidly, their escort should immediately attack and stab him. Not with intent to kill, but just to stab once then retreat.
The women must learn to automatically stab any male who approaches them aggressively. Either that, or accept life as slaves who can be murdered at whim.
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I can think of a good counter to this bullshit, Have our troopies issue a loaded 9mm and one box of ammo to any woman not wearing a burkah, get their name and register the gun to them,
Anyone found with that 9mm except the woman it's issued to is arrested, grilled, and if the woman cannot be summoned alive and unharmed, the gun holder is executed.
Gun is then cleaned, examined and reissued to another burkaless woman.
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We have the ability to provide Indian forces with satellite surveillance photos of this area, or at least the final coordinates of their training camps. Clean these maggots out, kill every one of them. Send in one of our own AC-130 Spectres if needed. Make it so that whenever some Islamic turd issues an edict of this sort, the next thing they know, they're dead.
Two suspected Islamic militants were killed and two paramilitary soldiers were wounded on Saturday in separate incidents in Indian held Kashmir, said police. The two rebels were killed in a gunbattle with soldiers in Chati Bandi, a village north of Srinagar, said Superintendent of Police Viplav Kumar. Soldiers cordoned off a house in Chanti Bandi after receiving information that some militants were hiding there. He said that as the soldiers closed in on the house, the militants began firing and the soldiers retaliated. At least two rebels were killed, but there were no casualties among the soldiers, he added.
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PESHAWAR: Qari Fazle Amin from a small village in Charsadda district has become the talk of the town after reportedly blowing himself up in Afghanistan. He, who went to Afghanistan to kill kafirs (infidels)? asked a nine-year-old boy from Akhun Zafar Baba village in the Shabqadar area, 25 kilometres north of Peshawar, when Daily Times inquired about Amins house. Did you know him? the boy asked.
"When I grow up I wanna be cannon fodder, just like him!"
Amin was one of eight boys of the locality who went missing in Afghanistan some time ago and the third to have reportedly conducted a suicide bombing in that country.
But really, the Taliban is an Afghan problem. It's not like Paks are conducting warfare against a supposedly friendly neighboring state.
The news of Amins martyrdom reached his village on September 17 and thousands of people including Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) leaders have visited his house since and offered fateha for him.
I'm sure Fazl was just proud as punch to see the JUI-F flag flying briefly over Garmser. Not that there were any Paks or Pak domestic organizations involved in that little fiasco, of course. It's not like JUI-F was an ISI front or anything...
Amins father Maulvi Aleem, who is a prayer leader in the nearby Aranda village, said Amin had sought his permission to go to Afghanistan, but he did not allow him.
"No, no! Certainly not!"
Aleem, however, prayed that God may accept his sons sacrifice. He said that Amin had gone to Rawalpindi in April to find a job, but he did not return. I received a message in June this year that Amin has been killed in Afghanistan, but it was wrong, Aleem said. Amin was misguided by Aminullah of the nearby village, who too blew himself up in Afghanistan, he added.
"He wuz a simple, misguided yoot..."
Aleem was delivered the message of his sons death by a group of some 20 men unknown to him. Amin conducted a successful suicide attack against the enemy in Afghanistans Helmand province on August 28, Aleem quoted the men as telling him. I have no more details of his death, he said in a choked voice, adding, I dont have his body . . . , no grave, no funeral, nothing.
The definition of "successful" seems fairly fluid there in the Pak hinterlands. Qari Fazle boomed himself at a market, killing 17 and wounding 47. If "success" is measured by corpse count, then Qari Fazle done good by their lights. If success is measured by actual military value, it was a nuisance killing.
Aleem said his son was a Hafiz-e-Quran and took little interest in worldly affairs. I had to end his engagement after he refused to get married. He said he would have 72 wives in heaven. Aleem said that Amin had refused to work with his cousin in a shoe factory because his cousin did not offer prayers regularly. This is how he was and all my attempts to change him failed.
Almost a cliche of misplaced Islamic arrogance, wasn't he? I'm glad he's dead.
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weeding out the mentally sick and morally infirm. Islam is Darwin writ large
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A whole slew of tooled-up Afghans reading this story and deciding to go to Akhun Zafar Baba village and start dishing out some hard core payback.
I wonder how long it will be before villages like this are held responsible for the actions of the 'martyrs' they produce? This piece of offal seems a particularly odious specimen. Such a shame that he took 17 innocents with him.
Talk of the friggin' town indeed!
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A bomb claimed by a Sunni Arab extremist group killed at least 37 Shiites in Baghdad on Saturday as they stocked up on fuel for Ramadan, just days after the U.S. military warned that sectarian bloodshed could worsen during the Islamic holy month. The group said it carried out the bombing to avenge a Friday attack by a suspected Shiite death squad on Sunni Arab homes and mosques that killed four people in a mixed Baghdad neighborhood.
The Sunni extremist group Jamaat Jund al-Sahaba Soldiers of the Prophet's Companions claimed responsibility for the bomb attack on Shiites in Sadr City, a sprawling slum that is home to more than 2 million people and a stronghold of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Police said the bomb went off as people crowded behind a kerosene truck to buy fuel for Ramadan, during which people gather just after sunset for a communal meal to break a daylong abstention from food and water.
Dhiyaa Ali, a 24-year-old college student, said he heard the explosion from his nearby home and ran to the street to help people. He said bodies and blood were everywhere. "I went into the flames just to get anyone left out of the fire," he told The Associated Press. "I saw a mother holding her child, both of them burned and dead."
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The free Peopleof Iraq begin their Ramadan celebrations.
An al-Qaida-linked group posted a Web video Saturday purporting to show the bodies of two American soldiers being dragged behind a truck, then set on fire in apparent retaliation for the rape-slaying of a young Iraqi woman by U.S. troops from the same unit. The Mujahedeen Shura Council _ an umbrella organization of insurgent groups, including al-Qaida in Iraq _ posted another video in June showing the soldiers' mutilated bodies, and claiming it killed them. It was not clear whether the video posted Saturday was a continuation of that footage, or why it was released.
It was impossible to identify the bodies, but the footage was believed to be of Pfc. Kristian Menchaca, 23, and Pfc. Thomas Tucker, 25, who went missing after being attacked by insurgents on June 16 at a checkpoint south of Baghdad. Their remains were found three days later, and the U.S. military said they had been mutilated. The video showed masked men dragging the corpses, first by hand, then behind a truck, beheading one of them and then setting them on fire. Below the graphic footage is a subtitle: "The two soldiers belong to the same brigade of the soldier who raped our sister in Mahmoudiya."
The U.S military has charged four soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division _ Spc. James P. Barker, Sgt. Paul E. Cortez, Pfc. Jesse V. Spielman and Pfc. Bryan L. Howard _ in the March 12 alleged rape and murder of 14-year-old Abeer Qassim al-Janabi in Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles south of Baghdad. Sgt. Anthony W. Yribe is accused of failing to report the attack but is not alleged to have been a direct participant. A fifth suspect, Pfc. Steven D. Green, was discharged from the army because of a "personality disorder" before the allegations became known. He has pleaded not guilty to rape and murder charges and is being held in a civilian court in the United States.
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posted another video in June showing the soldiers' mutilated bodies, and claiming it killed them. It was not clear whether the video posted Saturday was a continuation of that footage, or why it was released
I assume they are posting old horrors because they haven't any (or enough) new ones. A good sign?
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Maybe if we followed the Geneva Conventions more strictly they wouldn't do this kind of thing. And maybe they would put on uniforms. And maybe they would treat their prisoners humanely. And maybe monkeys shooting bottle rockets would fly out of my a$$ too!
(KUNA) -- Iraq marked a bloody start to Ramadan on Saturday, with at least nine Iraqis killed and eight others injured when a motorcycle bomb exploded at a restaurant in Baghdad and an attack at Neayriya suburb. In addition to fetching 34 bodies just hours following a car bomb that killed 32 people and wounded 30 others in Al-Sadr City. A security source told Kuna, that the police rushed the injured due to the motorcycle bomb that exploded at a restaurant in northeast Baghdad, to the hospital, noting that the health condition of three is critical. Militants killed eight Iraqi civilians in Neayriya suburb because they were posting the photo of a cleric.
Just hours after that attack militants lobbed Othman mosque at the same suburb with missiles causing serious damages. The source said that the police cordoned off the vicinity of the mosque but the assailants escaped.
An Iraqi police officer said that armed gangs are attempting to create a sectarian schism by agitating specified groups to a fight by eve of Ramadan. At least 32 people were killed and 30 others were wounded today, mainly women and children at a gas station explosion in Sadr City in eastern Baghdad. An extremist group calling itself "Jund Al-Sahaba" claimed responsibility for the explosions according to a statement carried by the Internet but the source was not yet confirmed. In addition the Police found 34 bodies bearing signs of torture and bullet wounds, in different parts of the small town of Mahmudiya just south of Baghdad.
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GAZA - Several Israeli tanks entered the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday in a raid the army said was aimed at stopping Palestinian militants from firing makeshift rockets at the Jewish state. Palestinian witnesses said tanks had moved on to farmland near the town of Beit Hanoun. There were no clashes.
The Israeli army said the troops were still in the area several hours after they had entered in the early hours of Saturday, and their operation was continuing. We are trying to stop cells from going into these areas and carrying out rocket attacks, an army spokesman said. He added later that militants fired one rocket into southern Israel after the tanks entered.
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Rumors and rumblings in well established al Qaeda venues of communication are that we should be hearing from the al Qaeda leadership soon in a speech to be released on the internet, possibly through the al Jazeera network.
So they had to put the Anamatronics back together to put out a Bin Laden video. Pirates of the Carribean in Disneyworld is on full alert for beard theft.
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Hopefully this is a version of the evaporator problems on Midway.
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So they had to put the Anamatronics back together to put out a Bin Laden video. Pirates of the Carribean in Disneyworld is on full alert for beard theft.
If, in the middle of the rant, he breaks out with "WE WANTS THE REDHEAD!!!", we'll know what happened.
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So they had to put the Anamatronics back together to put out a Bin Laden video.
Hope he doesn't start singing: "It's a small world after all..."
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God, Zenster, is it really that esoteric a reference? So sad.... Perhaps the most pivotal event of WW2...
On the subject of Midway, my GF's father just gave me a copy of a book titled Sole Survivor-Torpedo Squadron Eight by George Gay. It is signed with an inscription which gives me chills:
6-4-92 To , Best of the good luck I had at Midway. /S/ George Gay Keep America Strong
And on another military tangent, the book had a small insert that was lost/taken from some other publication about Carlos Hathcock. 14 photos of his tours through Viet Nam and his military career.
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Mike Ledeen of NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE [NRO] > believes from his sources that Osama is dead, that Osama died in IRAN due to non-combat/medical raesons, and is BURIED IN IRAN UNDER A WOMAN'S GRAVE MARKER. Iff true, I personally would find it sad and revolting that my old friend Osama, as dedicated to Islam as he was, would end up doing a MICHAEL JACKSON [wearing women's clothes in Yemen] in death.
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..If I might put in a request for a Page 1 girl - the one, the only, Mamie Van Doren - who is not only still out there, she's still having a great time AND blogging to boot.
(http://www.mamievandoren.com/, but most definitely NSFW)
Mike
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HEART: US-led coalition and Afghan troops shot dead a 16-year-old girl in a gunfight that erupted early Saturday as they were trying to arrest an alleged extremist in western Afghanistan, officials and relatives said. 
MOGADISHU - Hundreds of heavily armed Muslim gunmen moved on a key southern port in Somalia on Saturday as the lawless nations powerful Islamist movement prepared to expand its territory, witnesses said.
MADRID: A Spanish High Court prosecutor says six suspected Islamic radicals, arrested in 2003, planned to attack a US military base in southern Spain, the newspaper El Pais said on its Web site on Saturday. The prosecutor is seeking a 32-year sentence for the Algerian accused of leading the group, Mohamed Tahraoui, and 22 years each for the other five, also Algerians. They were among 14 people arrested in Spain in early 2003 on suspicion of belonging to a group of Islamic radicals, believed to be linked to Al Qaeda, and plotting attacks in Spain. Tahraoui's lawyer denied the accusations, according to the report, which cited the prosecutor's preliminary written conclusions.
OSLO: A Norwegian court placed three men in provisional detention on Saturday on suspicion of planning attacks against the US and Israeli embassies in Oslo, news agency NTB reported. The court set the provisional custody period at one month for two of the suspects, one of whom is of Pakistani origin, and at two weeks for the third. Authorities did not reveal the identities of the men, aged between 26 and 29 years, whom they also suspect of spraying a synagogue with bullets last week. No one was hurt in the incident. 
Twelve people, including three policemen, were injured when a bomb in a truck exploded in front of a police building in the eastern Turkish city of Igdir, police officials said on Saturday. The truck had been parked in front of the building, the officials said. Four soccer players and their coach from Ankara who were in the building were among the wounded, the police said. The state news agency Anatolian said two of the victims were in a serious condition.
September 24, 2006: Efforts to prevent any more Islamic terror attacks on American passenger aircraft have, on the face of it, been successful. Increased passenger screening, and heavy use of air marshals, appears to be the primary reason for the prevention of terrorist attacks in the air. Or has it? Aviation in the rest of the world has not been nearly as energetic as the United States, and they have also been free of terrorist attacks. In fact, the Islamic terrorists have been attacking other modes of transportation (as in Spanish trains and British buses and subways). In fact, interrogations, and captured terrorist documents and the like, have indicated this shift in target emphasis. 
PESHAWAR: 
A bomb claimed by a Sunni Arab extremist group killed at least 37 Shiites in Baghdad on Saturday as they stocked up on fuel for Ramadan, just days after the U.S. military warned that sectarian bloodshed could worsen during the Islamic holy month. The group said it carried out the bombing to avenge a Friday attack by a suspected Shiite death squad on Sunni Arab homes and mosques that killed four people in a mixed Baghdad neighborhood. 
GAZA - Several Israeli tanks entered the northern Gaza Strip on Saturday in a raid the army said was aimed at stopping Palestinian militants from firing makeshift rockets at the Jewish state. Palestinian witnesses said tanks had moved on to farmland near the town of Beit Hanoun. There were no clashes.
