US-led coalition troops raided a Taliban cell in remote eastern Afghanistan, killing four insurgents and arresting two, Afghan police said on Thursday. The troops stormed a house late on Wednesday in an area of mountainous Nuristan province that is near the border with Pakistan, provincial police said. They were acting on intelligence that a group of Taliban had gathered in the area to plan attacks on foreign and Afghan troops, police deputy criminal investigation director Abdul Ghani said. Coalition forces attacked the house and killed four Taliban. Two other Taliban were arrested alive, he said. The coalition said it had been acting with the Afghan intelligence directorate.
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pliars and truncheons, please!
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al-Rooters think a DShK 12.7mm machine gun is "heavy artillery"? And here I thought the dividing line was more than 105mm (medium), but less than 155mm (heavy). Silly me.
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Yeah, but a .50 HMG manned by jihadis is much more impressive than a 155mm self-propelled cannon manned by professional western soldiers, because they *do* makes very ferocious faces, while rolling their eyes savagely, and jumping up and down like the best of them... if THAT doesn't impress a reporter, especially a rooters one, then I don't know what will!
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Spectre is in Djibouti, along with a lot of US Special Forces and French Foreign Legion troops. Getting too froggy around those guys is a REALLY bad idea, since they might decide that they need a livefire exercise, with the Islamists as the primary OpFor.
And just for Rooters, the dead tend to bounce around, and up and down, a lot when a Spectre strike is grinding up an area.
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My browser has some bug where i can't load news.com pages, i think it's the javascript but i can't turn it off.
So I couldn't read your article, Oztralian.
Howevre i am not surprised ships hijacked off Somali Coast as Somalia is the new Afghanistan: Islamofascists won themselves a whole state!
Madrid, 3 Nov. (AKI) - Police in the Spanish coastal enclave of Mellila, in Morocco, have arrested two men suspected of involvement in the suicide bomb attacks in the May 2003 Casablanca attacks, the interior ministry said in a statement. The two men, of Moroccan origin, are believed to be linked to the Islamic Combatant Group of Morocco (GICM). They are alleged to provided logistical support to the group and had a role in the Casablanca attacks in which 12 suicide bombers struck five targets representing Spanish and Jewish interests killing 33 bystanders. According to Spanish investigators, the GICM is also suspected of involvement in the attacks on a Madrid train station on 11 March, 2004, causing 191 deaths.
One suspect, aged 43, was a Moroccan-born Belgian passport-holder, the other, 31, was born in Melilla. Police seized documents, a telescope, two metal suitcases, and a laptop computer, the interior ministry said.
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Police on Thursday detained a man who fired shots into the air outside the Italian consulate to protest an upcoming visit by Pope Benedict XVI, and the suspect later told a television reporter he wanted to "strangle" the pope with his bare hands. "I don't want him here, if he was here now I would strangle him with my bare hands," the suspect, who identified himself as Ibrahim Ak, 26, told a Dogan news agency television cameraman as he was detained by police.
"I fired the shots for God," Ak said as he sat handcuffed inside a police van outside the consulate. "Inshallah (God willing), this will be a spark, a starter for Muslims."
"God willing, he will not come. If he comes, he will see what will happen to him," Ak said.
Benedict was scheduled to visit Turkey between Nov. 28 and Dec. 1. It would be Benedict's first visit as pope to a predominantly Muslim country, just two months after he provoked widespread anger by quoting an emperor who characterized the Prophet Muhammad's teachings as "evil and inhuman."
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I can only suppose that Ak wants to choke Pope Benedict into admitting that Islam truly is the Religion of Peace.
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Inshallah (God willing), this will be a spark, a starter for Italians and Euros to stop tolerating assholes who preach assholes like this into acts like these.
ISLAMABAD - A car bomb explosion killed three policemen and a passerby in Quetta, capital of Pakistans restive Balochistan province, on Thursday evening. Media reports said the explosion took place outside the office of the city police chief.
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BAGHDAD (AP) - U.S. troops killed 13 suspected insurgents in a raid south of Baghdad early Friday, the military said. Troops were acting on intelligence reports saying a suspect with links to al-Qaida in Iraq was in the building in Mahmoudiya, about 30 kilometres south of Baghdad, the military said. The building was surrounded and stormed after those inside did not respond to demands to surrender, the military said in a statement e-mailed to media.
"You in the house! Come out with your hands up!"
"You'll never take us alive, infidel!"
"Hokay"
Five people were killed inside the building, including one man wearing a vest rigged with explosives, while eight other men who fled were gunned down by troops on the ground and planes or helicopters circling above, the report said.
Final score: U.S. - 13, Curly Toed Slippers - 0
Several of those killed appeared to have been foreign fighters from outside Iraq, the report said. The report did not say if there were any American casualties in the raid. Explosives, hand grenades and other explosive-rigged vests used by suicide bombers, were discovered in a search of the area, the report said.
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I always grin at reading good news like this, and then I get the added bonus (and I don't have to pay $19.95) of LOL at .com's snarky self! I nominate that one for snark of the day, .com!
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We seem to have found the solution to prisoner abuse, torure, escape, and early release stories; note here 'five killed inside the building' and eight killed who fled, but NONE wounded or captured. I have been noticing a pattern.
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Can't be accused of prisoner abuse if you don't capture none. This had been going on for some time. Might want to check for correlations with SCOTUS decisions.
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Well, Dundee, I wrote up a nice response for ya, complete with personal anecdote and links - and got redirected to Roadside America. Unfortunately, I still haven't made a habit of copying my post to the clipboard... so it went *poof*.
I'll just say that if you'd ever taken one breath in a Saudi hammam at Aramco you would share my take, lol.
If you actually want to know the game, this is a good place to start, though I have no idea where the person asking has been in the "West" that lacked water in the frickin' water closet, lol. That the Toronto "scholars" didn't question him about it means they do, lol.
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Fascinating. Tried to submit a link to a Google search for "pebbles islam" and that is what sent me to Roadside America. The Ask search (above) worked fine as a link.
Try it in Google and note the first page of returned results... Lol. See Google return a page of hits without the text samples that triggered the hit, before?
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While the search went on we turned our attention to Butchs wife, obviously about seven months pregnant. Our corpsman broke out his medical kit and checked her vital signs while we proceeded. When we departed we promised that the corpsman would return during the next two days to check up on her again.
Any word on whether the Al Qaeda guys checked to see whether any pregant women were in the WTC? What was that a-hole Hersh saying about the conduct of military the other day?
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Tonight, we went out on another mission, a short one, to clear part of one of the main routes between here and all the other military bases in Iraq. Coming back, we had a bomb explode near us. However, this was no ordinary bomb. This one was a shell strapped to what appeared to be a roller skate, and it got pulled across the road in front of us. Apparently, the bad guys have been watching too many old cartoons, and called Acme with an order for bombs. My truck has now earned the nickname "Roadrunner", for having survived an attack by Wily E. Coyote.
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Next thing you know, jihadis will attack US convoys by rushing down hills slopes, skiing on ice spewed in front of them by a refrigerator tied to their back...
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And what with the wicked winter pakistan taliban offensive just days away, i am looking forward the the new IED-Luge being deployed.....( or maybe the 2 man bomb-sled)
BAGHDAD, Iraq A Coalition air strike killed a terrorist leader and his driver Wednesday in Eastern Ramadi, diminishing the al-Qaeda in Iraq network.
Rafa Abdul Salam Hamud Al Ithawi, also known as Abu Taha, was the Emir of Shamiyyah. He frequently harbored foreign fighters who entered Iraq illegally in order to assault innocent Iraqis and Coalition Forces.
Precision laser guided munitions were used to destroy the vehicle carrying Abu Taha and his driver.
This and other recent operations in the region highlight the deliberate, methodical dismantlement of the al-Qaeda in Iraq network and those who contribute to its illegal actions.
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Nice work - reminds one of Hellfires and motorcycles in Gaza. But it would be nice to hear more than, say, once a month about something the Coalition has done to the bad guys. A long, and long-lost, argument - we only report (without details) the US body count. And then there's the focus on AQ that refuses to die, vs. the sea in which they swim (recalcitrant Sunni Iraqi communities where the names and addresses of those who set the tone are always well known or knowable), but I'm whining again .....
AL-QAEDA has confirmed the death of a senior lieutenant to the movement's chief Osama bin Laden, according to a video posted on the Internet today which also announced a coming "victory" in Iraq. An al-Qaeda leader who gave his name as Abu Yahia al-Libi said in the video that the Kuwaiti-born Omar al-Farouk had been ventilated "fallen a martyr'' in Iraq, and detailed his career in militancy, which began in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The authenticity of the video could not be verified.
No probs, if they're wrong Farouk can just pop up and say so, with his GPS coordinates ...
Farouk's death on September 25 was announced by the British military, which said British forces killed a gunman who opened fire on them as they raided a house in the southern Iraqi city of Basra hunting for the militant, also known as Mahmud Ahmed Mohammed al-Rashid.
Farouk, who was 35 and also went by the name Mahmud Ahmed Mohammed al-Rashid, had been accused of leading the al-Qaeda Islamist network in Southeast Asia. Genetic tests on his remains proved his identity, the US-led coalition said last month.
"Dr. Quincy! Dr. Quincy! We got a match! It's definitely Farouk!"
"Nice going, Sam, you got all that from an eyebrow!"
Farouk was arrested in Indonesia in July 2002 at a time when he was allegedly planning attacks on Western embassies in Jakarta.
On July 10 last year he managed to escape from a US airbase in Afghanistan. Farouk's escape along with three other suspects from Bagram air base was an embarrassment for US authorities, and the militant appeared on Arabic television in a video to brag about his flight. He apparently made his way to Iraq, his parents' birthplace, where British troops tracked him down.
And killed him. Thanks Tony.
In the video, Abu Yahia - a Libyan thought to be among those who escaped from Bagram with Farouk in July 2005 - also said signs were emerging of an al-Qaeda victory in Iraq. "Your primary enemy (the United States) recognises with full humility that its entry into Iraq was a mistake... Persevere. The first signs of victory in Iraq are showing,'' he said.
The other two militants to have escaped from Bagram are Saudi Arabian Mohammed al-Qahtani and Syrian Abdullah Hashemi.
"And then I'd spend your ransom money,
But still I'd keep your sheep
I'd peel the mask you're wearing,
And then rob you of your sleep
Rob you of your sleep
I choose to steal what you chose to show
And you know I will not apologize
You're mine for the taking
I'm making a career of evil"
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(KUNA) -- The Higher Education Ministry said on Thursday that unknown assailants opened fire and killed the dean of Business Administration at the university of Baghdad Dr. Jassem Mohammad Al-Thahabi. A statement issued by the ministry today condemned the criminal attack that took the lives of the dean, his wife, and son near the college of Business Administration in Al-Waziri area in Baghdad. The ministry called on security authorities to protect the scientific and academic institutions in the country and to scuttle nefarious schemes of terrorists who routinely target college instructors and professors.
Unknown assailants also assassinated last Monday Dr. Issam Kathem Al-Rawi, President of the Iraqi teachers union in an attack outside of his house in western Baghdad.
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(KUNA) -- Thirty terrorists were killed yesterday in different areas in Baghdad as 200 Iraqi Interior Ministry officials, including police officers, were punished despite violence rate decline over the past week, Interior Ministry said Thursday. The officials were penalized due to the occurrence of two explosions at their working area, Ministry spokesman Brigadier Abdulkarim Khalaf said at a press conference. Other police officers were reassigned to different positions as a punishment, Khalaf added.
On volunteering in the police force, Khalaf said the ministry needs to recruit 90,000 volunteers and regulations regarding that matter are to be issued after mid-November 2006. A ministry report cited that 90 Interior Ministry's recruits were killed last week, while 160 others were injured.
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Decline? They obviously do not read the New York Times!
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A few minutes ago NPR reported it's the second worst month in ages for something or other. Troop death, perhaps, I wasn't listening closely. They do music/theater and local colour reports well, though.
BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed seven people and wounded 45 when it ripped through a crowded market in Baghdads Shia Sadr City district on Thursday, an interior ministry source said. The car bomb, detonated by remote control, was aimed at shoppers in the Shia slums Mureydi market. Police said the casualty toll could rise.
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I think it's a positive move by the paleo society, one step up from killing your daughter because she has deshonored you by letting herself be raped by her brothers. See, islam CAN make progress!
by Hana Levi Julian
Palestinian Authority terrorists used women to protect them from arrest by IDF soldiers at the cost of life -- on Friday. One woman died in Gaza.
Arab women in northern Gaza were urged in a radio broadcast Friday morning to go to a mosque in Beit Hanoun to serve as human shields for gunmen holed up in the Muslim religious building surrounded by IDF forces.
According to military sources a number of Arab terrorists who were wanted for Kassam rocket attacks had taken refuge in the mosque, which was also used as a storehouse for weapons and other materials.
The women rushed to the building despite the exchange of gunfire between the terrorists and IDF soldiers. Local sources claimed that IDF soldiers opened fire on the women, killing one and wounding ten others. An army spokesman explained that the soldiers had exchanged gunfire with terrorists standing among the women rioters at the scene.
Meanwhile, Israeli special forces surrounded a house in Bethlehem on Friday and ordered the terrorists to surrender. The armed Arabs opened fire and in an ensuing shootout, one soldier was wounded by a ricocheted bullet and evacuated to a hospital in light to moderate condition. Two IDF companies provided backup for the front unit.
Arab sources say that one woman was killed in the gunfire, but the IDF spokesman said that it could not confirm that its soldiers had hit any bystanders.
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I think the Israelis are keeping the Sheriff system in reserve against the Paleo tactic of running a herd of women and children against Israeli military positions. They don't want to use it for small stuff like this, figuring it will allow the Paleos to develop a counter-tactic.
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Local sources claimed that IDF soldiers opened fire on the women, killing one and wounding ten others. An army spokesman explained that the soldiers had exchanged gunfire with terrorists standing among the women rioters at the scene.
You mean they didn't stop and desist when the women decided to get in the way? I'm shocked! Somebody actually has the sense to keep firing! I wonder if after they first women went down, the rest tried to get out of the way?
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The fact that a thousand muslim women are killed while shielding our fighters while they run away and hide interests me only to the extent that the fighters got away and are in hiding.
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Who cares?
Seriously, who cares?
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Shouldn't that be "one terrorist factory" was killed in the cross-fire?
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Anyone stupid or evil enough to offer themselves up as a shield for terrorists needs to die. Period. This is one Rule of Engagement that must change forever when dealing with terrorists. If killing a single human shield ensures the death of a terrorist who would kill hundreds, then so be it. Due to their voluntary participation, these women were nothing more than accomplices. All of them should have taken the dirt nap.
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In a crawl (on Fox News I believe) that I saw this morning they were trying to say the woman killed was part of some peace organization - or at least implying that from what I saw.
A firefight between some 60 Palestinian Authority terrorists and IDF soldiers at a mosque in northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun ended Friday afternoon with most of the fugitives managing to escape.
A radio broadcast directive for women to rush to the scene to act as human shields for the terrorist cost at least one woman her life and resulted in others being injured.
A radio broadcast directive for women to rush to the scene to act as human shields for the terrorist cost at least one woman her life and resulted in others being injured.
The roof of the mosque collapsed on the terrorists shortly before dawn, and the IDF said it would investigate a report that one of it bulldozers destroyed a wall of a room adjacent to the mosque.
News agencies publicized Arab claims that the IDF had bulldozed the mosque itself, which was used as a storage place for weapons and ammunitions.
News agencies publicized Arab claims that the IDF had bulldozed the mosque itself, which was used as a storage place for weapons and ammunitions. An IDF spokesman denied the claim and said that all efforts were made not to damage the religious structure. According to the IDF spokesman, the shooting began after the terrorists inside the mosque opened fire at the soldiers. After the 19-hour siege, however, most of the terrorists escaped with the help of a rioting crowd which included many women.
The IDF reported that 34 people, most of them terrorists, have been killed since Wednesday in the IDF anti-terror operation, called Operation Autumn Clouds, the most intensive military operation carried out in recent years. Dozens were wounded and hundreds were taken for questioning by Friday afternoon. Speaking on Army Radio Friday morning, Infrastructures Minister Binyamin Ben Eliezer said, There will be no safe haven for terrorists. These are not girls from a dormitory in the mosque. They are the people firing the rockets. They are the enemy.
Israeli forces opened fire Friday on a group of women who streamed to a Gaza mosque to serve as human shields for members of rockets squads and gunmen holed up there, killing one and wounding 10, Palestinian officials and witnesses said.
The IDF has since seized control of the mosque. Some of the gunmen inside have been injured, while others have surrendered. The raid was part of an intensified effort to prevent rocket fire from Gaza on Sderot and other Israeli border communities.
The standoff at the mosque became the focus of the fighting in the town when gunmen fleeing troops -- estimates ranged from one dozen to several dozen -- sought refuge there, and Israeli tanks and armored personnel carriers quickly surrounded the building, the military and Palestinian security officials said.
As the two sides engaged exchanged sporadic fire Friday morning, a Hamas radio station broadcast a call to women to go to Beit Hanoun to shield the militants. Dozens of women left their homes to hurry to the mosque, and en route, came under Israeli fire, witnesses and officials said.
One woman, about 40, was shot dead, and 10 others were wounded, they said.
The army said troops spotted two militants hiding in the crowd of women and opened fire, hitting the two.
The IDF said on Friday that they suspected that Palestinian gunmen had dressed up as women in order to foil the army's attempts to gain access to the mosque in Gaza where Palestinian operatives were holed up inside, the Jerusalem Post reported.
Hamas radio station in Gaza broadcast a call to northern Gaza women to go to the mosque to serve as human shields for the operatives inside.
By mid-morning Friday, the military said a large group of women protesters had gathered outside the mosque. An unidentified number of militants escaped the building while the demonstration was going on, but some remained inside, the army and Hamas said.
Throughout the night, the two sides exchanged fire. Troops also threw stun and smoke grenades to pressure the gunmen to surrender. Witnesses said an Israeli army bulldozer knocked down an outer wall of the mosque.
It was not immediately clear if there were any casualties inside.
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A radio broadcast directive for women to rush to the scene to act as human shields for the terrorist cost at least one woman her life and resulted in others being injured.
MSM TV is flipping out Burka Babe images like falafels on this one.
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I saw images of the Burka Brigade coming to the aid of the Lions of Islam on NBC this morning. It reminded me of a National Geographic documentary on black bettles going to or coming from a dung hill.
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How manty times do they use Mosques to store arms bombs etc?????
The Israeli/US/UK should not treat these places as out of bounds!!!!
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People volunteering to be human shields should be considered a part of the enemy armed forces (such as they are). If the enemy is a terrorist organization, then their supporters are too, and treat as such.
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CNN - The group of women rallied outside a mosque in Beit Hanoun shortly after Hamas radio called on women and children to march in protest at the incident, IDF said.
CNN's slant makes it seem the wimmins and kiddies were out for a stroll. None of their report indicates they were demanded to arrive as human shields. No mention of the reality of the cowardice and moral bankrupcy of Hamas.
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The Israelis should have bombed the mosque with JDAMs - about a dozen or so. That would have prevented the "escape", and the secondaries could have been blamed for killing any paleostain "women" protesting.
This crap's gotta cease. It's been going on for 60 years now, and it's time to put a halt to it. The only solution I see is the "genocide" of either killing or expelling all muzzlimbs from Gaza and the West bank, and annexing the terrritory to Israel. The US needs to show it's a TRUE friend of Israel by helping out. The first help should be a 20-ship (each) arclight strike on Damascus, southern Lebanon, el Arish, and anywhere else "assistance" might come from for the ayrab side. We've been "nice" too long, and the rest of the world is laughing at us. Time to wipe some smiles off some faces.
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I agree, OP, the Palestinians repeatedly have proven that they have no intention of ever creating some sort of realistic peace with Israel. Their election of Hamas was a signal to all and sundry that peace was the last of their concerns. If the Palestinians do not want a two-state arrangement, so be it. Let Israel eject them in whatever fashion they see fit so this festering sore can heal for once. The Palestinians have been the beneficiaries of HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS OF DOLLARS worth of assistance and have absolutely NOTHING to show for it. They deserve nothing but a chance to see how it feels to be diaspora for a change.
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News agencies publicized Arab claims that the IDF had bulldozed the mosque itself, which was used as a storage place for weapons and ammunitions.
If it's being used as an ammo dump, it's no longer protected. Granted, bombs and generalized killing things are an essential part of Islamic rites, but that doesn't give them the right to stockpile arms and then whine about "holy places".
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As the day passed, MSM media has shifted quite firmly to the side of the Pal view. Earlier, IIRC Yahoo news even was reporting the call to human shields and escape under burkha. That was this morning.
I note tonights version on Yahoo's "palestinian women help free gunman" article has a whole new tone.
Get this:
The women, many with ties to the Islamic militant group Hamas, left their homes after daybreak in response to appeals on the local Hamas radio station or telephone calls from friends and relatives. By nightfall, they were celebrated as heroes, an unusual role in a deeply conservative society that tends to keep women on the sidelines. Until Friday, battling Israeli troops had been men's business in Gaza.
How precious is that. The wimmims get to leave the house. To die. How very precious. What heroines.
Jordan's military prosecutor charged three Hamas men of a terror conspiracy involving attacks against Jordanian intelligence officers, Israeli visitors and unspecified sites in the kingdom, according to the indictment obtained Thursday.
Jordanian authorities arrested 20 alleged Hamas operatives in April on suspicions they were monitoring Jordanian intelligence officers and foreign tourists for possible attacks. Only three remained in custody and the other suspects were released apparently for lack of evidence. The draft indictment sheet charged Ayman Naji Daraghmeh, 34, Ahmad Abu Rabee, 27 and Ahmed Abu Thiyab, a mosque preacher, of illegal possession of weapons and storing ammunitions.
In his televised confession, al-Daraghmeh had said he received his orders from a high ranking Hamas leader living in Syria. The accusations were denied by Hamas, which said Jordan was trying to undermine the Palestinian government it now heads.
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Soldiers killed an Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade operative and wounded another in an operation in Nablus early Friday. The army said the operatives had been preparing a car bomb, and identified one of the men as Al-Aksa's Nablus leader.
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As Operation Autumn Clouds entered its third day, troops surrounded a mosque in Beit Hanun early Friday and exchanged fire with dozens of gunmen who had holed up inside. Palestinian witnesses reported that IDF bulldozers tore down one of the walls of the mosque, located in the center of the northeast Gaza Strip town, and that soldiers then used tear gas and fired stun grenades in order to force the suspects out. Reports indicated that about 60 people were inside the mosque. There were no reports of casualties among the troops.
Earlier Friday, three Palestinians were killed when the IAF fired missiles at two Kassam rocket teams in the northern Gaza Strip. Despite the intensified IDF action, seven Kassam rockets landed in the western Negev and south of Ashkelon Thursday. Most of them landed in open areas, but one slammed into a Sderot home, spraying shrapnel and starting a fire. One man was lightly wounded by flying glass in the center of Sderot, and a woman was lightly wounded, also by shrapnel, in the western Negev. Four other people were suffering from shock.
The Sderot parents association declared a boycott Thursday morning, saying the town's schools were not safe from the Kassams, Army Radio reported. Later, the IDF Home Front Command ordered schools closed in frontline communities. Lessons will only be permitted reinforced classrooms to withstand mortar and rocket attack.
A senior officer in the Southern Command said soldiers had reported 20 gunmen killed since Operation Autumn Clouds was launched. The officer said troops were moving at will from building to building, arresting terrorist suspects and seizing weapons caches, including several antitank missiles and night vision equipment. He said the operation would continue until its objectives were achieved.
IAF helicopter gunships fired missiles at a group of 10 armed Palestinians early Thursday morning, the army said. Palestinian Authority officials said two gunmen and a 75-year-old man were killed in the incident. Palestinian sources said more than 35 people were wounded in the fighting, 15 of them when an IDF tank shell hit a building. 15 men between the ages of 16 and 40 were rounded up for questioning, the IDF said. IAF helicopters also destroyed a Kassam rocket launcher ready for use, the army said. Two soldiers wounded by shrapnel were evacuated under fire to the Barzilai Medical Center.
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IDF bulldozers tore down one of the walls of the mosque
COLOMBO: Sri Lankas air force bombed Tamil Tiger targets near the rebels northern stronghold and in the islands northwest on Thursday, the military said, the second consecutive day of air raids in the wake of failed peace talks. The Tigers said the air force dropped four shells near a hospital around 3 km from the rebels political offices in their northern stronghold of Kilinochchi, destroying a house and killing its five civilian occupants. Nordic truce monitors confirmed the site of the bombing, which was just 2.5 km from their own offices and close to the hospital. It was the closest that air force bombs have fallen to the rebel nerve centre since a 2002 ceasefire. The house was smashed. A mother, a father, two children and a grandmother were all killed, Tiger military spokesman Rasiah Ilanthiraiyan said by telephone from Kilinochchi. This is state terrorism, he added. The military said it had targeted two Tiger military targets it viewed as threats to national security.
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In December 2001, as the investigation into the U.S. anthrax attacks was gathering steam, coalition soldiers in Afghanistan uncovered what appeared to be an important clue: a trail of documents chronicling an attempt by al-Qaeda to create its own anthrax weapon.
The documents told of a singular mission by a scientist named Abdur Rauf, an obscure, middle-aged Pakistani with alleged al-Qaeda sympathies and an advanced degree in microbiology.
Using his membership in a prestigious scientific organization to gain access, Rauf traveled through Europe on a quest, officials say, to obtain both anthrax spores and the equipment needed to turn them into highly lethal biological weapons. He reported directly to al-Qaeda's No. 2 commander, Ayman al-Zawahiri, and in one document he appeared to signal a breakthrough.
"I successfully achieved the targets," he wrote cryptically to Zawahiri in a note in 1999.
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But officially he remains free, and Pakistan now says it has no grounds for arrest.
Yet one more example of Pakistani unhelpfulness. When will they become sufficiently unhelpful whereby we decide to help their whole rotten shithouse of a government come apart at the seams?
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The undisputed Queen of the Pin-Ups.
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Dang it, we're only getting 19" LCDs here at work next week, or else I could have Ms. Grable AND the Rangerup.com girl on one screen! I can't believe how long it takes to get the first rant on the "Good Morning" posts nowadays. I attribute it to the Rangerup.com girl, myself.
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Rangerup girl for the RB D-S&T-P cardiac kick starter....
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
US-led coalition troops raided a Taliban cell in remote eastern Afghanistan, killing four insurgents and arresting two, Afghan police said on Thursday. The troops stormed a house late on Wednesday in an area of mountainous Nuristan province that is near the border with Pakistan, provincial police said. They were acting on intelligence that a group of Taliban had gathered in the area to plan attacks on foreign and Afghan troops, police deputy criminal investigation director Abdul Ghani said. Coalition forces attacked the house and killed four Taliban. Two other Taliban were arrested alive, he said. The coalition said it had been acting with the Afghan intelligence directorate.
Police on Thursday detained a man who fired shots into the air outside the Italian consulate to protest an upcoming visit by Pope Benedict XVI, and the suspect later told a television reporter he wanted to "strangle" the pope with his bare hands. "I don't want him here, if he was here now I would strangle him with my bare hands," the suspect, who identified himself as Ibrahim Ak, 26, told a Dogan news agency television cameraman as he was detained by police. 
ISLAMABAD - A car bomb explosion killed three policemen and a passerby in Quetta, capital of Pakistans restive Balochistan province, on Thursday evening. Media reports said the explosion took place outside the office of the city police chief.
Tonight, we went out on another mission, a short one, to clear part of one of the main routes between here and all the other military bases in Iraq. Coming back, we had a bomb explode near us. However, this was no ordinary bomb. This one was a shell strapped to what appeared to be a roller skate, and it got pulled across the road in front of us. Apparently, the bad guys have been watching too many old cartoons, and called Acme with an order for bombs. My truck has now earned the nickname "Roadrunner", for having survived an attack by Wily E. Coyote.
BAGHDAD, Iraq A Coalition air strike killed a terrorist leader and his driver Wednesday in Eastern Ramadi, diminishing the al-Qaeda in Iraq network.
AL-QAEDA has confirmed the death of a senior lieutenant to the movement's chief Osama bin Laden, according to a video posted on the Internet today which also announced a coming "victory" in Iraq. An al-Qaeda leader who gave his name as Abu Yahia al-Libi said in the video that the Kuwaiti-born 
(KUNA) -- The Higher Education Ministry said on Thursday that unknown assailants opened fire and killed the dean of Business Administration at the university of Baghdad Dr. Jassem Mohammad Al-Thahabi. A statement issued by the ministry today condemned the criminal attack that took the lives of the dean, his wife, and son near the college of Business Administration in Al-Waziri area in Baghdad. The ministry called on security authorities to protect the scientific and academic institutions in the country and to scuttle nefarious schemes of terrorists who routinely target college instructors and professors.
Jordan's military prosecutor charged three Hamas men of a terror conspiracy involving attacks against Jordanian intelligence officers, Israeli visitors and unspecified sites in the kingdom, according to the indictment obtained Thursday. 
As Operation Autumn Clouds entered its third day, troops surrounded a mosque in Beit Hanun early Friday and exchanged fire with dozens of gunmen who had holed up inside. Palestinian witnesses reported that IDF bulldozers tore down one of the walls of the mosque, located in the center of the northeast Gaza Strip town, and that soldiers then used tear gas and fired stun grenades in order to force the suspects out. Reports indicated that about 60 people were inside the mosque. There were no reports of casualties among the troops. 
