An American convicted of running a prison in Afghanistan as part of a private hunt for terrorists left the country late Saturday following his release from an Afghan jail, officials said.
Court documents filed Friday in Washington, D.C., show that U.S. officials planned to help Brent Bennett secure a passport and a ticket out of the country, and an Associated Press reporter saw a man identified as Bennett board a plane for Dubai late Saturday.
Bennett, former U.S. soldier Jonathan "Jack" Idema, and Edward Carabello were arrested in July 2004 and convicted of running a private prison in Kabul after Afghan security forces raided a house and discovered eight Afghan men who said they had been abused.
Abdul Qayum, the commander of the Pul-i-charki prison where Bennett had been jailed, said the American was in good spirits when he left the prison on Saturday.
An Afghan airport official showed an AP reporter a copy of the passport of the man boarding the plane in the name of Brent L. Bennett. The official asked not to be named because of the sensitivity of the issue.
Idema, who is serving a five-year sentence at the prison, also told the AP that Bennett was being flown out of the country on Saturday.
No U.S. officials in Afghanistan would comment on Bennett's case, and an American lawyer filing paperwork on his behalf said he didn't know if Bennett was free or in U.S. custody. When Bennett boarded the plane he was not wearing any restraints.
"We don't know if he was forcibly put on the plane or not because they probably knew people would be watching," lawyer John Tiffany said by phone from the United States. "I'm hoping that there were no constraints."
Edward P. Birsner, the consul at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, said in Friday's court filing that the "embassy has no intentions of taking Mr. Bennett into custody."
A spokesman for the embassy declined to comment on the case Saturday.
Bennett had been sentenced to three years in prison. Carabello, who said he was a video journalist, was released in April.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A Canadian soldier was killed Friday in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, while an insurgent attack on a police checkpoint left three dead, officials said.
The soldier, who was not immediately identified, was killed in southern Kandahar province when he stepped on a roadside bomb while conducting a patrol, said Lt. Carole Brown, a spokeswoman for the Canadian Forces in Ottawa. No other soldiers or civilians were wounded.
The explosion comes near the end of Canada's deadliest month in Afghanistan, with 10 soldiers killed. In all, 37 Canadian soldiers and one diplomat have died in the country since 2002.
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Canada's making sacrifices our German and French "friends" won't. True allies. I suspect this strength of character in their military was there all along...grinding their teeth under the previous admins...
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Yup, I really am about ready to write off West/Central Europe in favor of an Anglosphere, with perhaps honorary membership to the Poles.
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There was an anti-war protest in Warsaw last weekend. 50 people showed up.
MADRID, Spain A Spanish university professor with a long beard and dark complexion said Thursday he was briefly forced off an airliner during a layover on the Spanish island of Mallorca by passengers who feared he was an Islamic terrorist. Pablo Gutierrez Vega said he was humiliated when three German passengers on an Air Berlin flight approached him during a layover in Palma de Mallorca on Aug. 30 en route from Seville, Spain, to Dortmund, Germany, and asked to search his carry-on luggage.
The men told him that other passengers were frightened by his appearance, said Gutierrez Vega, 35, a law professor at the University of Seville. "They treated me like an Islamic terrorist because of my appearance," Gutierrez Vega said, according to an account posted Thursday on the Web site of the newspaper El Pais.
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Either there is something not being mentioned in this story that relates to Vega's conduct and behavior, or else the passengers were out of line. They should have instructed airport security to investigate or directed this man to the attention of the flight crew.
While I'm certain that Vega will probably carry away either a renewed or newfound hatred for Germans, one can only hope that he learns to also begin hating Islamic terrorists for inspiring the sort of trouble that reached into his life that day.
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notice it happened a month ago and he's now coming fwd? I heard this on KFI yesterday as well....sounds like a hoax. Why wouldn't he have come fwd immediately? Delayed seething?
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I'm sympathetic to this guy if there's no more to this harassment than the fears of fellow passengers. However, my sympathy is tempered by that big hole in the ground on the west side of lower Manhattan.
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Another way to discover you look like a scary person is to fly Southwest. My row seems to fill up last. I think most people would pass up an open seat next to me for one placed between Charlie Manson and a cholically baby with a dirty diaper.
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What's that you say Pablo, "Jihad, Dhirka, Dhirka"?
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Seems like Europeans vacationing in the south, near the Islamic marches are a disposed to see Islam in violent terms.
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Beardy dudes can consider sacrificing their facial hairs as a private contribution to the WoT. After all there's suspiciously some element of personal vanity often attached to 'em follicles for infidels anyway, no? ;)
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A beard alone does not suspicion make. However, if you have a dark complexion, wear a beard, dress in a non-western or unusual manner for your circumstances, and otherwise attract the eye, you are asking for trouble.
I am reminded of the unintentionally ironic music video by 'en vogue', entitled "free your mind", with four women wearing garish outfits and weird hair styles complaining that people are staring at them because of their skin color.
"Uh, no. I'm staring at you because you look like you just walked off the set of 'Babylon 5'."
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...four women wearing garish outfits and weird hair styles complaining that people are staring at them because of their skin color.
It is my opinion that people go in for really garish looks (e.g. multiple piercings, unnaturally-colored hair) primarily so that they can attract negative attention, then get all self-righteous about it.
Those people will be growing beards (well, mostly the men) and wearing Islamic dress soon.
#14
If other airline passengers ask to see my bag cause I make them nervous, I'd say "sure". Would'nt even phase me. Might say, "if you guys buy me a cocktail, ok", but that's about it.
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Might say, "if you guys buy me a cocktail, ok", but that's about it.
Better ask for $10 because if you asked for the drink they'd drop their complaint and you wouldn't get your cocktail! :-)
But yes, this is what happens when you sport Islamic looks. It's not so bad. Expect it. Just show them your bag and strike up a conversation. This wouldn't faze me, either, but some people seem to forget they are trading security for "pride". Stoopid.
Also goes to show you how much people trust security in the airports.
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reminds me of a friend who gets all bent out of shape when they ask for her ID at the major chains, like they should just look at her and KNOW she is honest.
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SH: For a really good time, try having a name that comes up on the terror watch list (I have a Dutch name). Every time I forget to use my middle initial when I make a reservation, I get "special treatment" by the airlines. Don't get me wrong - I approve - but it get's me some funny looks.
An explosion on a natural gas pipeline outside an Iranian border city has halted the flow of gas to Turkey, Iranian authorities said Friday. The governor of Maku, a town in western Iran near the Turkish border, Safar Aseri, said the fire broke out at 11:30 p.m. Thursday (2000GMT) and was extinquished an hour later, state-run radio reported Friday. Aseri was quoted as saying the cause of the explosion was under investigation. But officials at the Iranian Embassy in Ankara said they believed the explosion was an act of sabotage by separatist Kurdish rebels who are active on both sides of the Iran-Turkey border.
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"...Gee, Dinnerjacket, nice pipeline ya got there...would be a shame if anything happened to it, wouldn't it, Mister Cheney"
"Oh, indubitably, Mister Bush. For instance, someone couldn, oh, I dunno, drop a grenade - without a pin in it, yet - right here - whoops!"
Mike
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Mike - Dinnerjacket? Cheney? Are you having a liberal dream?
LONDON: General Musharraf has mixed rank self-righteousness with a remarkably stark warning to the West that it could be 'brought to its knees' if Pakistan withdraws its cooperation in the so-called war on terror.
Launching a fierce and finger-wagging attack on the West's growing doubts about Pakistan's role in fighting Islamist terrorism, Musharraf said the US and UK had to understand Pakistan is the West's "main ally...If we were not with you, you won't manage anything".
In his strongest warning ever on the issue, Musharraf declared, "You'll be brought down to your knees if Pakistan doesn't co-operate with you. That is all that I would like to say. Pakistan is the main ally. If we were not with you, you won't manage anything. Let that be clear. And if ISI is not with you, you will fail."
But sources here said Musharraf's passionate defence of his country and its infamous intelligence agency early on Saturday morning was yet again undermined after Mumbai's police chief firmly blamed the ISI for planning the 7/11 train blasts.
In an extraordinary coincidence, Musharraf issued his blunt warning to the West to cease doubting Pakistan's role and commitment to fighting terrorism just a couple of hours before the Mumbai blasts were formally alleged to have been masterminded by the ISI.
Commentators said that Musharraf's attempt to silence Western critics of Pakistan came across as blustering over-defensiveness after the Indian allegation.
Musharraf's firm denial of Pakistani two-facedness in the war on terror came just days after a leaked British report criticized the ISI for fomenting Islamist radicalism by indirectly helping the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
Late on Thursday, an angry Musharraf challenged British Prime Minister Tony Blair on the issue and received a public assurance that the British government does not doubt Islamabad's commitment to fighting terrorism.
But Musharraf, who remained in the UK over the weekend, has let it be known he is riled about Western doubts over Pakistan 's role in the war on terror.
With a visible sense of entitlement, Musharraf said the US and UK should acknowledge a "historic debt" of gratitude to Pakistan because it had helped "win the Cold War" for the West. Blaming the West for creating al-Qaeda, he said it had been foolish for the West to arm and train the mujahideen to fight the Soviets and then leave them to turn their rage - and weapons - on their creator.
Insisting that Pakistan was left "high and dry" by the West and left to deal with the purposeless mujahideen on its own, Musharraf argued that it was unfair to blame his country for all the evils of the world.
The stern rebuke and warning to the West comes as Musharraf assumes an increasingly combative and hectoring tone on the ever touchier subject of Pakistan's real role in the war on terror.
Late on Friday, the General delivered the same message in a speech to students and academics at Oxford University. He demanded that the West to offer assistance rather than criticism to Pakistan's battle against terrorism.
And he blithely batted aside criticism from Amnesty International that his government was illegally detaining innocent people on suspicion of terrorism, secretly imprisoning them and transferring them to US custody for money.
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from our knees we can still glass you over, asshole. What a delusional pretentious ass
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You'll be brought down to your knees if Pakistan doesn't co-operate with you. That is all that I would like to say. Pakistan is the main ally. If we were not with you, you won't manage anything. Let that be clear. And if ISI is not with you, you will fail.
Translation: you stupid infidels cannot resist anybody with a well developed sense of entitlement.
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But to what exent does Perv really control the ISI? My guess would be "hardly at all." I think it was a mistake to humiliate (and possibly weaken) him in this way; he really is the best Pakistani leader we could ever hope for.
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But to what exent does Perv really control the ISI?
No operational control over ISI and MI, defence ministry tells court
KARACHI, July 11: The ministry of defence exercises only administrative control over Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Military Intelligence (MI) and it does not have any operational control or jurisdiction to enforce the courts direction on these agencies, an official of the ministry informed the Sindh High Court on Tuesday.
Mull over that a second.
The Pak Government (Defence Ministry) has no control over Pak Military Intelligence and the ISI.
Or at least that is what they told the Sindh High Court
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I wouldn't mention kneecaps if I were you, Perv.
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and from our knees, the USAF will provide close air support for the Indian Army as they wipe you and your pissant midieval kingdom off the face of the earth and force the few survivors to convert to Hinduism. Think of the countryside covered with cartoons showing Shiva kicking Mohammed's ass to entice your "lions of Islam" out of their holes where they can be more easily killed.
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Musharraf himself already spends 24-7 on his knees. The General is gay for the Taliban and refuses to do the necessary house cleaning. What the towel head for Allah does not understand, America on its knees is worth 400 Pakilands.
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Perv should take a good long look around him at Afghanistan and Iraq to see what befalls those who change teams. I would welcome his realignment with terrorists. Nothing could please me more than to have Pakistan scrubbed clean of its terrorist madrassahs, be it with regime change or nuclear fire, I no longer care which.
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Wonder what he would say if we threatened to sell Pakistan back to India cost (being they occupy it and actually kill terrorist) take Balouchistan in the South give them independence and put Warizistan into Afghanistan so we can roll over AQ/Taliban once and for all.
I think Musharaf's flirting with China has made them forget who thier Daddy is. Time to check a b*tch.
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You are way behind the time, Perv. Back in the 40s, yes, our bombariers would aim our nukular weapons from a kneeling position.
Nowadays, it's seated in a comfy chair and turning a key. And that's what would happen eventually. We'll remember General LeMay "War is about killing people, and if you kill enough, they stop fighting." I hope it doesn't take 1.2 billion, but I would sleep just fine at night if it did.
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It looks that General Musharraf is in the last days as the ruler of Pakistan. He seems to be loosing his grip on his military. This is bad news cause who will own Pakistans nukes in the near future?
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This is bad news cause who will own Pakistans nukes in the near future?
Quite possibly, the USA. If Musharraf lost power to a genocidal mullahcracy it might well require us to come in and confiscate their nuclear weapons, quite possibly at the threat of pre-emptive nuclear attack.
Such a scenario would even push back the importance of intervention in Iran. Islam has proven itself so immune to logic and reason that there is no way to believe that Pakistani mullahs wouldn't either hand off a few nuclear devices to terrorists or launch them against Israel themselves. Iran has already made clear its willingness to commit mass suicide in such a pursuit, we must believe that other theocratic Muslim regimes could do the same.
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What a monumental maroon. The Brits created Pakiwackiland out of nothing, and gave it to the muslim nutjobs, partly as a snub to India and Mahatma Ghandi's activities. We've helped them create a nation in exchange for some "help" - a launch site for U-2 overflights of Russia, a chance to keep an eye on a left-leaning India, and listening-posts near the main Russian Cosmodrome as it was being developed. We've asked for a little help today to bring down the taliban. Instead, Pervert lectures us: it's our fault the ISI-backed (created?) taliban took over Afghanistan, we "can't win" without Pakland's help, and Pervert's our biggest ally in the GWOT. The guy needs an enema - he has to be constipated to be that full of sh$$. The pak military wouldn't last half as long as Iraq's "vaunted" republican guard, their air force and navy would be history in less than three days, and we could literally glass the country over if that was what we decided was necessary. Pervert, save your wind for someone who might believe it. You're a dead man walking from this moment on, either at home or wherever you choose to go into exile.
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Perv is in this up to his balding tip. Al Q's recent tape Zacki demands scientists with biologics and "dirty" bombs. That message was directed at Perv. Binnie and the lads pay him an amazingly pretty penny for the sanctuary and the support. This is their demand of him.
Perv is also taking an amazingly pretty penny from the West for his "assistance" in the WOT. And the poor boy can barely keep his lies straight at this point.
he's dead in six months. And India better be ready.
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Beyond the overheated rhettoric we in the West notice, does anybody think this is a bright move. Hes basically saying that Pakistan is the lynchpin to Al Queda victory and making himself somewhat of a target.
12 (or there-abouts)empty tubes; 12 (or there-abouts) lovely mushroom clouds, now it's "Miller Time". (Oops, Miller just went multi-natl. Make that Budweiser, Coors, Oly, etc.)
OTOH ISI demonstrated their power with the assasination in Balochistan. OTOH Iran is close to having a nuclear device of their own.
Looking at it from the perspective of domestic and Muslim politics, aligning himself with these forces looks like a winning move indeed. He thinks he's aligning himself with the winning side, at least in his own neighborhood.
Remember, this is the man who authorized the Pakistani army's attack on Indian forces at Kargil but brazenly claimed for a long time that it was the work of Kashmiris. He's not quite the wimp he appears.
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Perv is heading into an election. One of the biggest things the Islamists have been hitting him with is that he is "the US's lap dog". After the election, let's see what he has to say.
Pakistan's intelligence agency was behind the train blasts in Mumbai in July that killed 186 people, Indian police say. The attacks were planned by the ISI and carried out by the Islamist militant group Lashkar-e-Toiba, based in Pakistan, Mumbai's police chief said. AN Roy said the Students' Islamic Movement of India had also assisted.
Pakistan rejected the allegations and said India had given no evidence of Pakistani involvement in the attacks.
"Lies! All lies!"
"We have solved the 11 July bombings case. The whole attack was planned by Pakistan's ISI and carried out by Lashkar-e-Toiba and their operatives in India," Mumbai (Bombay) police commissioner AN Roy told a news conference. Mr Roy said 15 people had been arrested, and that some of the bombers had received training in Pakistan.
Tariq Azi, Pakistan's minister of state for information, rejected the allegations. "India has always chosen this path of pointing fingers at Pakistan without evidence," he said. "If they have any evidence, they should provide us evidence and we will carry out our investigations."
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So, what are they (India) going to do about it?
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These Pak attacks happen on an annual basis. When is India going to do a real smackdown ? It's way overdue. They need to apply some real hurt on the Paks, to really indicate their displeasure. Everyone's still waiting.
LAHORE: A religious organisation's activist was killed by two unidentified motorcyclists in Shadbagh on Thursday night. Jaffer Hussain Naqvi (45), a resident of Jaranwala, was an employee of the Jaranwala district government and the caretaker of an imambargah as well. He was visiting Lahore with his wife Jabeen and their children, and the family was staying at Naqvi's in-laws' house.
Two motorcyclists shot Naqvi in front of his in-laws' house when he returned from a shrine late on Thursday night. His family rushed him to Mayo Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead. The body has been sent for an autopsy and police have registered a case.
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Do you know what this is?
I had to stop and think for a minute.
What cold game was he playing ...
How did this involve Nancy and ... How does he make his voice sound like that?
#4
Mayo Hospital is the oldest and largest hospital of the country, serving the humanity since 1871.
Mayo Hospital was completed in 1870 and it started patient care in 1871. It was named after the Earl of Mayo, the then Viceroy and the Governor General of India.
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Richard Southwell Bourke, 6th Earl of Mayo (21 February 18228 February 1872), known as Lord Naas between 1842 and 1867, was an Irish statesman and prominent member of the British Conservative Party.
Was appointed Viceroy of India in 1869. He consolidated the frontiers of India and reorganized the country's finances; he also did much to promote irrigation, railways, forests and other useful public works. While visiting the convict settlement at Port Blair in the Andaman Islands, for the purpose of inspection, he was assassinated by Sher Ali, a convict.
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Ummm, I just want to know, does the Earl of Mayo have anything to do with inventing Mayonnaise?
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Ummm, I just want to know, does the Earl of Mayo have anything to do with inventing Mayonnaise?
I'll put it this way. The Earl of Mayo met the Earl of Sandwich at Ham House
and the rest is history.
MUMBAI: An Indian court on Friday convicted five more Muslim men of conspiracy in a series of bomb attacks on Mumbai 13 years ago. Gul Muhammad Noor Muhammad Shaikh, Muhammad Hanif Muhammad Usman Shaikh, Shaikh Usman Man Khan, Shaikh Ibrahim Shaikh and Muhammad Sayed Muhammed Ishaq were found guilty after the court was told they had received arms training in Pakistan at the behest of the masterminds behind the blasts. "This judicial decision is crucial for it shows these people went to Pakistan for specific arms training camps set up ahead of the blasts," said chief prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam.
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PESHAWAR: The Taliban claimed responsibility on Friday for executing a man described as a spy for US and Afghan intelligence in North Waziristan. Leaflets justifying the slaying were distributed in the semi-autonomous Pashtun tribal region a day after Malang Rahim Jan's bullet-ridden body was found. "With Allah's blessing, Taliban captured this spy and gave him punishment according to Shariah (Islamic law)," read the leaflet, bearing a photograph of Jan, with his identification card pinned to his chest.
The dead man was said to be an Afghan. The leaflet was titled "Da Jasoosi Anjam", meaning "Fate of the Spy". "He had reported that 10 Taliban centres were here," the leaflet said. "He was working for Afghan intelligence."
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"He annouced our secret presence reads the leaflet."
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In other news, there are ten "Taliban centres" in North Waziristan.
So, what's a "centre"? Depot? Training centre? Barracks? Malt shop?
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SRINAGAR, India - Islamic rebels warned on Friday of dire consequences if India executes a Kashmiri Muslim convicted over a 2001 attack on parliament, amid a paralysing protest strike in Indian Kashmirs main city and a third day of clashes between demonstrators and police.
The turmoil erupted in the Muslim-majority state after a New Delhi judge ordered that Mohammed Afzal, found guilty last month of helping to mastermind the attack, should be hanged on October 20. We warn of dire consequences if the death sentence is carried out, said Sadaqat Hussain, a spokesman for the United Jihad Council, Indian Kashmirs main militant alliance which is battling New Delhis rule here.
"We shall have Dire Revenge!"
Hussain, who said Afzal was innocent, did not make any specific threats in the statement published in local Indian Kashmiri newspapers.
"Use your infidel imaginations!"
Shops, businesses and schools were closed in Srinagar to protest the planned execution of Afzal.
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Uh oh, "dire consequences". I'll wait for john's assessment...
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Who are these fuckwits and how is it that they think to steer an entire nation's policy via threats of violence? This extortion writ large and the regions or countries which harbor such terrorist organizations should begin facing retaliation every time these assholes pipe up with such twaddle.
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India doesn't execute many people. The Indian Supreme Court says that sentences should be "rare", for particularly gruesome crimes.
Killing or attacking Indian leaders is a sure way of ensuring that you go to the gallows.
India values its democracy and sees the murder of leaders as an attack on the integrity of the state itself.
The assassin of Mahatma Gandhi was hanged even though the disciples of the Mahatma begged for his life.
The assassins of Indira Gandhi were likewise hanged, the last time the gallows in Tihar Jail were used.
Only Nalini, one of the killers of Rajiv Gandhi was spared, on request of Sonia Gandhi, his widow, because executing both her and her husband (also a killer) would leave their child an orphan. It was decided that no act of the Indian state should deprive a minor citizen of their parents.
Out of all of the attacks on India, the one attack (which killed just a handful of people) that caused India to mobilize its army for an invasion was the parliament attack. This attack nearly wiped out the entire Indian political class. The Indian VP was seconds from death.
They are not going to forgive this.
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Oh, all right, then. Go and execute the imam in his hometown mosKKK, and all the instructors in his Madrassa. Fair trade?
MUMBAI, India - Four more people have been arrested in connection with the July 11 Mumbai train bombings that killed 186 people, police said on Friday. Three were arrested in Mumbai while a Muslim man was picked up in the eastern city of Kolkata. It was not immediately known if those arrested in Mumbai were also Muslims or if they were all held on Friday.
The new arrests took the total number of people in custody for their alleged role in the blasts to more than 15. They include an engineer, a journalist, a computer software professional and a doctor.
Anyone think they've got them all yet?
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(KUNA) -- Five people were injured when suspected banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) rebels hurled a grenade at a crowded market in Tinsukia town in India's Northeastern state of Assam Friday. The blast took place at Tinsukia Friday evening, news agency Indo-Asian News Service reported. This is the second attack in Tinsukia district of Assam after the Indian government called off a six-week-old ceasefire and resumed military operations against ULFA last weekend. Seven people were injured including two Indian paramilitary personnel in grenade attack in the oil-refinery town of Digboi in Tinsukia district Thursday.
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(KUNA) -- One Iraqi civilian was killed on Friday and 12 others were wounded, including two policemen, when two explosive devices exploded in the National Theater Square in Karada district. An Interior Ministry source said that the two explosions took place just after each other and that the materials used to manufacture them were highly explosive. The blasts took place just before the enforcement of the regular Friday four-hour curfew aimed at preventing the targeting of mosques.
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OK, so not so slow. Three soldiers, one policeman, one civilian.
Prolly more murders in California....
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(KUNA) -- Three Iraqi soldiers were killed in Kirkuk on Friday, while a policeman was killed and two others were wounded in Mosul. A Kirkuk police source told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that three Iraqi soldiers were killed in the Kirkuk village of Rashad when unknown militants opened fire on a car they were driving. Of the three soldiers killed were two bothers, the source said, adding that they were driving on their way to join their unit.
Meanwhile in Mosul, unknown militants killed a policeman east of the city, while two policemen were wounded when an explosive device went off as their patrol vehicle was passing by the area.
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Another slow day in the sandbox. MSM comments?
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(KUNA) -- Armed confrontations broke out between tribes of Al-Anbar and members of Al-Qaeda, Al-Iraqiya state television reported on Friday. The television quoted Al-Anbar Rescue Council as saying that tribemen were engaged in armed confrontation with members of Al-Qaeda, but did not give details on causalities nor the exact location.
Al-Anabr Rescue Council had recently been formed with the membership of chiefs of Iraqi tribes and took upon itself to hunt down members of Al-Qaeda in Al-Anbar, western Iraq. Iraqi Armed Forces spokesman Brigadier Qasem Al-Moussawi said Iraqi forces would support the Council in its fight against Al-Qaeda in line with directions of Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki. Tribal chiefs had met with Al-Maliki yesterday and expressed support for his government, calling upon members of tribes to join police forces to bring security to their areas.
Meanwhile, Al-Anbar tribal chiefs' spokesman Sheikh Abulsattar Albureesha warned Al-Qaeda's new leader in Iraq Abu Hamza Al-Muhajer that he would be killed on the hands of Al-Anbar's tribes after statements he made yesterday saying his organization had pardoned their chiefs. Albureesha said, "We challenge Al-Qaeda and its leader Abu Hamza Al-Muhajer and all of his thugs." Abu Hamza had said that he had "pardoned" all chiefs of Al-Anbar's tribes who would no longer cooperate with the Iraqi government and join the militant forces.
He mocked the "pardon" of chiefs saying, "He is the one who is wanted by us and we will kill him in retaliation for his killing of the Sheikhs of Deleim ... How can he pardon us when we are in our own territory?" Moreover, he said that all "thugs" working with Abu Hamza would face death on the hands of Al-Anbar's tribes.
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So get it on, already.
The entire sequence of events that has transpired since the taking of Baghdad was pretty damned clear at least 2 years ago. From the Shia death squads to the Sunni Ba'athist alliance with alQ to the eventual partitioning and isolation from Arab insanity by the Kurds. Even the cowardice of the "insurgents" targeting regular Iraqis when they found coalition troops would adapt to attacks and make them pay in spades was obvious.
The government of Iraq declared an immediate and complete curfew in Baghdad Friday night, AP reported. A spokesman for President Nouri al-Maliki said the curfew was effective from Friday night until Sunday. No vehicles or pedestrians would be allowed on the Iraqi capital's streets until the curfew was over. The spokesman refused to say why the curfew had been imposed. Iraqi police found some 30 dead bodies scattered across the country Friday, many of them showing signs of torture.
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On Friday this raid and arrest in Baghdad may have had something to do with the curfew. A member of the security detail for an Iraqi Sunni government leader was arrested on suspicion of planning a multi-vehicle VBIED attack in Baghdad in the very near future. The quoted article states the suspect is believed to be an al-Qaeda member. Al-Jazeera reported the politician condemned the raid and demanded his man be released.
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Fox reported same. Sounds like a good grab. Tell him to f*&k off. The Sunni and Shia MPs seem to have their own death squad security teams. Go figure....
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A bodyguard detained at the home of a leading Sunni Arab politician is suspected of being a member of Al Qaeda in Iraq, thought to be involved in planning a major suicide car bombing assault inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, the U.S. command said Saturday.
Guard Khudhir Farhan was taken into custody Friday at the home of Adnan al-Dulaimi, the head of the largest Sunni bloc in parliament, al-Dulaimi told The Associated Press.
"The detained individual is suspected of involvement in the planning of a multi-vehicle suicide operation inside Baghdad's International Zone," the U.S. military said in a statement without identifying the suspect.
The zone in downtown Baghdad is home to the Iraqi government, parliament and the U.S. and other western embassies.
"Credible intelligence indicates the individual, a member of Dr. Dulaimi's personal security detachment, and seven members of the detained individual's cell were in the final stages of launching a series of (car bomb) attacks inside the International Zone, possibly involving suicide vests," the military said.
The man is suspected of having links to a car bomb network operating in the southern area of Baghdad, the military said.
"He is believed to be a member of the Al Qaeda in Iraq group," the military said.
Immediately after the arrest Friday afternoon, al-Dulaimi denied the guard had any terrorist links, but when contacted Saturday he seemed to be retreating slightly from his previous comments.
"That individual joined my residence as a guard no more than a month ago, therefore I haven't got complete data about his background," al-Dulaimi said. "Anyhow, they are only suspicions about his involvement, which have not been proved."
The military later issued another statement saying al-Dulaimi cooperated with the soldiers when they showed up to apprehend the guard.
"This operation in no way implies Dr. al-Dulaimi was associated with any illegal activity; he was not the target in this operation," the U.S. command said.
Following the arrest, the Iraqi government ordered a complete lockdown of Baghdad to pedestrian and vehicular traffic through Sunday morning. The curfew was put into place on the advice of U.S. forces, Interior Ministry spokesman Brig. Abdul-Kaim Khalaf told the AP.
"They have information terrorists entered Baghdad," Khalaf said. "The prime minister agreed to (the curfew) to give our security forces the freedom of movement to raid certain places."
GAZA CITY - Five people were wounded Saturday when a Hamas sympathiser tossed a hand grenade into a demonstration in the Gaza Strip of police protesting non-payment of salaries, security sources said. The identity of the victims was not immediately clear.
Except that they're not Presbyterians.
The incident occurred in Deir el-Balah, one of many locations in Gaza where hundreds of police were demonstrating. They were burning tires and setting up roadblocks to disrupt traffic.
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Muslims are dying to get to paradise, cause life following islam is hell. Just another day in Hades.
JERUSALEM - A total closure on the Palestinian territories ordered by the Israeli defence establishment ahead of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, was to come into effect on Friday.
"Happy holidays! Stay at home!"
The total closure on the Palestinian territories will come into effect on Friday after the Muslim prayers and will last until Monday evening at the end of Yom Kippur, a defence ministry spokeswoman said.
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(KUNA) -- One Israeli person was killed and eight others wounded on Friday in a bomb attack in the Israeli town of Rishon LeZion, Israeli radio said. The radio said that the attack, which sparked chaos among the residents, was a result of a booby-trapped car in the town, north of Tel Aviv.
The Israeli television was prompt to accuse Palestinians to be behind the blast as a large force of police and army personnel rushed to the scene backed by helicopters which were seen combing the area. Head of Rishon LeZion municipality was quoted by an Israeli television channel as attributing the blast to the Israeli Mafia.
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"Israeli Mafia"??? > HHHHHHHMMMMMMMMM, so now the Global WOT is also about the GLOBAL MAFIA/MOB STATE???
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The Israeli Mob is one of the most viscious, determined, and hard to penetrate that there is. The Russian mafia does not mess with them, nor do the Sicilians. The Israeli Mob is big in high tech crimes in the US, and for several years, were the major source of undetectable counterfit credit cards.
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Also, in the US, Dutch Schultz and Bugsy Siegel. Dutch was the head of Murder, Inc. Bugsy gave us Las Vegas. Look up Murder, Inc. - lots of its members were Jewish.
The IAF struck a building that served as cover for a weapons warehouse, the army said late Friday. There were no initial reports of Palestinian casualties in the strike. The IDF warned residents to leave the area in advance.
Earlier on Friday, IDF forces killed two Palestinians in the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanun who had come to the area to collect launchers used to fire rockets over the past week, the army said. Palestinian security officials, however, said the two were killed when the army carried out an airstrike on a car.
Meanwhile, IDF troops in Hebron shot and wounded a Palestinian man who was aiming a weapon at the soldiers on Friday. No IDF injuries were reported. The incidents occurred shortly before a full closure on the Gaza Strip and Judea and Samaria was to go into effect Friday afternoon and continue until after Yom Kippur. Defense Minister Amir Peretz called for the closure after he was informed that the security establishment was aware of 17 specific terror attacks being planned against Israel.
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Sri Lanka's security forces killed 11 Tamil Tiger rebels in a pre-dawn clash in the island's restive east on Saturday, police said, as the worst violence since a 2002 ceasefire grinds on despite peace talk pledges. Police Special Task Force troopers opened fire on Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) guerrillas who attacked a remote police post, Ampara Deputy Inspector General of Police Lasantha de Silva told Reuters. "The Special Task Force acted in self defence. Eleven Tigers were killed," De Silva said by telephone from Ampara. "A police team is taking photographs, video and fingerprints at the scene."
The LTTE was not immediately available for comment on the incident.
The clash came a day after suspected Tamil Tigers fired mortar bombs at an army camp further north in the eastern district of Batticaloa, killing three soldiers and a civilian. Also on Friday the bodies of three slain Tamil men, one of them decapitated, were found by the roadside in the east. The military said the trio were Tamil Tiger fighters who were abducted and killed by the rebels as they sought to defect. Pro-rebel Web site www.tamilnet.com said the three men had been abducted in Colombo by suspected paramilitaries aligned to the government in a white van and murdered.
White-van abductions are infamous in Sri Lanka. There have been dozens of reported cases in recent months amid a new chapter in a two-decade civil war that has killed more than 65,000 people since 1983. Many residents accuse the military of being responsible.
The Tigers and the government have both told peace broker Norway they are prepared to meet for talks after a five-month deadlock to end fighting that has killed hundreds of civilians, troops and rebels since late July. However, some military officials say they are keen to inflict as many casualties on the Tigers as possible to corner them and subdue them into resuming talks. Emboldened by the capture of strategic rebel territory south of the northeast harbour of Trincomalee, some officers are keen to push into Tiger areas in the northern Jaffna peninsula and recapture a strategic spit of land called Elephant Pass.
Both sides are poles apart over the central issue of devolution of power to minority Tamils in the north and east, where the Tigers demand a separate homeland. Analysts and diplomats are sceptical the talks will actually happen and fear the violence will only deepen. "Certainly it looks as though we will see more of the same," said one diplomat on condition of anonymity. "We don't see any signs that either side are ready to stop this. They both seem to think they are winning."
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A letter from 1988 in which Iran's top commander says Iran could need a nuclear bomb to win the war against Iraq has come to light in Tehran. The commander is quoted in the letter, written by the father of the Iranian revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, to top officials in the final days of the war. It has only now been made public - by former President Hashemi Rafsanjani.
The letter seems at odds with Tehran's statements that Iran is not seeking a bomb because it is against Islam. The letter from Ayatollah Khomeini lists the requirements of military commanders if they are to continue fighting against Iraq.
It mentions more aircraft, helicopters, men and weapons, and also quotes the top commander saying Iran would within five years need laser-guided and atomic weapons in order to win the war. Some Iranian news agencies have, however, deleted the reference to atomic weapons in the letter. It is sensitive because Iran has always said it is not seeking a nuclear weapon and leading clerics say an atomic bomb would
Ayatollah Khomeini's letter also reveals how challenged Iran's economy and military were by the eight years of war against Iraq. The letter quotes the prime minister of the time saying the economy was operating at a level below zero and volunteers for the front were in short supply.
Ayatollah Khomeini's letter has been made public at a time when Iran is preparing for a possible confrontation with the US over its nuclear programme.
Ayatollah Khomeini's letter has been made public at a time when Iran is preparing for a possible confrontation with the US over its nuclear programme. But it also comes against a background of an argument between Mr Rafsanjani and a top military commander over who was instrumental in persuading Ayatollah Khomeini to agree to a ceasefire with Iraq that the Ayatollah himself likened to drinking a poisoned chalice.
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Where's the news in this? Islamic mullahs have always had wet dreams about acquiring nuclear weapons. It's our job to ensure that there's only one way they'll ever get any.
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I think that the news is that Rafsanjani would make this public not that Khomeini would want the bomb. It also demonstrates the most likely victims of an Islamic Bomb - other muslims.
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It also demonstrates the most likely victims of an Islamic Bomb - other muslims.
No news there either. Iraq has taught anyone with eyes that lesson years ago. Muslims love killing other Muslims. It must be a byproduct of their elitist complex. If a terrorist nuclear "work accident" doesn't consume some major Islamic capital, the Palestinians are sure to perish in any attempt to wipe Israel off of the map with atomic weapons. It's not like they'll be given advance notice or anything. One would think that the Palestinians understood how they are viewed by so many Islamic regimes as something a rung or two lower than cannon fodder.
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No big deal. The US military has many variations of computer games that let folks blow up any number of different Iranian targets. The difference is that the only way these bozos can think to do this is by sneaking around. No stand-up fighters these.
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I was under the impression that except for fleet oilers the US doesn't really have that many tankers, or much of a merchant marine. It was one of the first industries to be outsourced.
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The game, "Counter Strike", invites players to plant two bombs on the oil tanker to sink it and make the strait of Hormuz impassable,
Will this be followed by "Gasoline Refinery Tycoon" wherein the players try to build enough refining capacity to keep the economy from cratering after gasoline imports thru the now closed straits are cut off?
BTW, there is already an on-line multi-player game called "Counter Strike".
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I forsee a board game called "Glass". You just sit around it, stare at the board that's nothing but a flat piece of glass, and wonder what the Iranian leadership was thinking right before they were vaporized.
Al-Qaida No. 2 Ayman al-Zawahri condemned US President George W. Bush in a video statement released Friday, calling him a failure and a liar. "Can't you be honest at least once in your life, and admit that you are a deceitful liar who intentionally deceived your nation when you drove them to war in Iraq," al-Zawahri said in a portion of the video released by the Washington-based SITE Institute. "Why don't you tell them how many million citizens of America and its allies you intend to kill in search of the imaginary victory and in breathless pursuit of the mirage towards which you are driving your people's sons in order increase your profits?" al-Zawahri said.
Al-Zawahri also criticized Bush for holding al-Qaida leaders in prisons including top leader Khaled Sheik Mohammed, who was captured and held by US authorities since 2003. "Bush you deceitful charlatan, three and a half years have passed since your capture of Khaled Sheik Mohammed, so how have you found us during this time? Losing and surrendering?" he said, according to the SITE Institute.
The nearly 18 minute taped video statement called "Bush, the Pope, Darfur and the Crusades," features in two segments and was produced by al-Qaida's media arm, as-Sahab. The first part shows al-Zawahri in an office-type setting, while in the second part, shows him in front of a brown backdrop, according to the Virginia-based IntelCenter. The first segment also has English subtitles.
It was not known when the video taping took place. Friday's video was the latest to come from al-Zawahri since earlier this month. Al-Qaida released a string of videos for the anniversary of Sept. 11, showing increasingly sophisticated production techniques in a likely effort to demonstrate that it remains a powerful, confident force despite the US-led war on terror.
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"Which one of us is hiding? Which one of us has had their chain of command decimated? Which one of us sleeps in the same bed each night?"
Ayman is the epitome of failure and a liar to boot. His accusations are the product of consummate expertise. More than anything, guess which one will be dead real soon?
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Cat's out of the bag. Al-Zawahri is now the lead runner for the DNC's Presidential candidacy.
Translation: "I Ayman the Anal demand American conservatives join the liberal Jew and Christian haters in defending Islam. Extra points for conversion. Become a Muslim now and your first 72 virgin male camels will be yours for traditional Quranic buggers to please the Pagan Piggy Goddess Allah! PS, this video was Michael Moore approved.
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Lily was a respected actress in her day. She was also said to have been bi- and possibly tri-sexual.
She was married to a minor league Tasmanian chorus boy named Errol Flynn, kind of a Britney-Justin Timberlake arrangement. They were battling their way through a divorce when he got the lead in Captain Blood and she became Lily Who?
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#13: Lily was a respected actress in her day. She was also said to have been bi- and possibly tri-sexual.
Yes, but in the Getrude Lawrence and Tallulah Bankhead (not to mention, the divine Miss Garbo) mold.
Basically, they didn't play by the rules of Girls Gone Wild videos.
They just had fun, without calling it those tedious post-beatnik nicknames.
She was married to a minor league Tasmanian chorus boy named Errol Flynn, kind of a Britney-Justin Timberlake arrangement. They were battling their way through a divorce when he got the lead in Captain Blood and she became Lily Who?
Hey, she almost because the de facto if not de jure Empress of Germany.
For when Kaiser Bill's grandson did a tour of the United States (where he was offered a contract sight-unseen by Louis B. Mayer), young Prince Louis-Ferdinand fell head over high heels in love with Lily Damita.
His aghast parents ixnayed the romance, and he later married his suitably Romanov bride, but even he didn't escape the bisexual rumours, either.
In the parlance of the day, Damita's friends said he "smelled very powerfully of scent".
Sounds like whoopsie to me.
Cheers,
Victoria
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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
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A Canadian soldier was killed Friday in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, while an insurgent attack on a police checkpoint left three dead, officials said.
MADRID, Spain A Spanish university professor with a long beard and dark complexion said Thursday he was briefly forced off an airliner during a layover on the Spanish island of Mallorca by passengers who feared he was an Islamic terrorist. Pablo Gutierrez Vega said he was humiliated when three German passengers on an Air Berlin flight approached him during a layover in Palma de Mallorca on Aug. 30 en route from Seville, Spain, to Dortmund, Germany, and asked to search his carry-on luggage.
An explosion on a natural gas pipeline outside an Iranian border city has halted the flow of gas to Turkey, Iranian authorities said Friday. The governor of Maku, a town in western Iran near the Turkish border, Safar Aseri, said the fire broke out at 11:30 p.m. Thursday (2000GMT) and was extinquished an hour later, state-run radio reported Friday. Aseri was quoted as saying the cause of the explosion was under investigation. But officials at the Iranian Embassy in Ankara said they believed the explosion was an act of sabotage by separatist Kurdish rebels who are active on both sides of the Iran-Turkey border.
LAHORE: A religious organisation's activist was killed by two unidentified motorcyclists in Shadbagh on Thursday night. Jaffer Hussain Naqvi (45), a resident of Jaranwala, was an employee of the Jaranwala district government and the caretaker of an imambargah as well. He was visiting Lahore with his wife Jabeen and their children, and the family was staying at Naqvi's in-laws' house. 
MUMBAI: An Indian court on Friday convicted five more Muslim men of conspiracy in a series of bomb attacks on Mumbai 13 years ago. Gul Muhammad Noor Muhammad Shaikh, Muhammad Hanif Muhammad Usman Shaikh, Shaikh Usman Man Khan, Shaikh Ibrahim Shaikh and Muhammad Sayed Muhammed Ishaq were found guilty after the court was told they had received arms training in Pakistan at the behest of the masterminds behind the blasts. "This judicial decision is crucial for it shows these people went to Pakistan for specific arms training camps set up ahead of the blasts," said chief prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam.
SRINAGAR, India - Islamic rebels warned on Friday of dire consequences if India executes a Kashmiri Muslim convicted over a 2001 attack on parliament, amid a paralysing protest strike in Indian Kashmirs main city and a third day of clashes between demonstrators and police.
MUMBAI, India - Four more people have been arrested in connection with the July 11 Mumbai train bombings that killed 186 people, police said on Friday. Three were arrested in Mumbai while a Muslim man was picked up in the eastern city of Kolkata. It was not immediately known if those arrested in Mumbai were also Muslims or if they were all held on Friday.
(KUNA) -- Five people were injured when suspected banned United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) rebels hurled a grenade at a crowded market in Tinsukia town in India's Northeastern state of Assam Friday. The blast took place at Tinsukia Friday evening, news agency Indo-Asian News Service reported. This is the second attack in Tinsukia district of Assam after the Indian government called off a six-week-old ceasefire and resumed military operations against ULFA last weekend. Seven people were injured including two Indian paramilitary personnel in grenade attack in the oil-refinery town of Digboi in Tinsukia district Thursday.
(KUNA) -- One Iraqi civilian was killed on Friday and 12 others were wounded, including two policemen, when two explosive devices exploded in the National Theater Square in Karada district. An Interior Ministry source said that the two explosions took place just after each other and that the materials used to manufacture them were highly explosive. The blasts took place just before the enforcement of the regular Friday four-hour curfew aimed at preventing the targeting of mosques.
(KUNA) -- Three Iraqi soldiers were killed in Kirkuk on Friday, while a policeman was killed and two others were wounded in Mosul. A Kirkuk police source told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that three Iraqi soldiers were killed in the Kirkuk village of Rashad when unknown militants opened fire on a car they were driving. Of the three soldiers killed were two bothers, the source said, adding that they were driving on their way to join their unit.
(KUNA) -- Armed confrontations broke out between tribes of Al-Anbar and members of Al-Qaeda, Al-Iraqiya state television reported on Friday. The television quoted 
JERUSALEM - A total closure on the Palestinian territories ordered by the Israeli defence establishment ahead of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, was to come into effect on Friday.
(KUNA) -- One Israeli person was killed and eight others wounded on Friday in a bomb attack in the Israeli town of Rishon LeZion, Israeli radio said. The radio said that the attack, which sparked chaos among the residents, was a result of a booby-trapped car in the town, north of Tel Aviv.
The IAF struck a building that served as cover for a weapons warehouse, the army said late Friday. There were no initial reports of Palestinian casualties in the strike. The IDF warned residents to leave the area in advance. 
Al-Qaida No. 2 
