cBS Laura Logan [spit]
cBS) Mullah Dadullah is the Taliban's most bloodthirsty commander.
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cBS News chief foreign correspondent Lara Logan reports. [spit].
The one-legged leader promises to go beyond the battlefields of Afghanistan and hunt down Americans at home. [spit]. "Even if they go back to America, we will have to take revenge," he says. "America has humiliated our country and our people. We will never negotiate." glad to hear that goat boy
Mullah Dadullah is the military mastermind behind the bloodiest year ever for U.S. forces in Afghanistan. His ultimate goal is to overthrow Afghanistan's pro-American government. warms Laura's cockels to say that [spit]
In spite of heavy casualties inflicted by U.S. and NATO forces, Dadullah claims that Taliban success has led to a surge in morale and strength in recent months. happy to oblige the surge assbite. cBS Video here [as long as the link works]. I'll try and git another video soon as ima out of spittle.
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The one-legged leader promises to go beyond the battlefields of Afghanistan and hunt down Americans at home. "Even if they go back to America, we will have to take revenge"
That is an awful lot of limping you will have to do you silly named freak. Btw I think we should be loved by the Taliban, not sure what they have against us. We got them more virgins than a Dungeons and Dragons Convention.
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Article: The one-legged leader promises to go beyond the battlefields of Afghanistan and hunt down Americans at home. "Even if they go back to America, we will have to take revenge," he says. "America has humiliated our country and our people. We will never negotiate."
This guy has no brains. Imagine if Ho Chi Minh had said something like that. There would still be a South Vietnam today. Having said that, I'm grateful that the enemy is composed of a bunch of borderline retards.
Ethiopian tanks rumbled south from Mogadishu to attack Somali Islamists on Saturday after the religious movement's leaders called on their fighters to take a stand in the port city of Kismayu. Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, whose forces fled the Somali capital on Thursday, also urged thousands of residents gathered at a Kismayu stadium for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha to defend their country and faith from government troops backed by armor, soldiers and jet fighter planes from mostly Christian Ethiopia. "Our country is under occupation so we have decided to fight," he told the crowd as Islamist troops on trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns stood guard outside.
Ahmed said his Somalia Islamic Courts Council (SICC) remained ready to negotiate with the interim government, but that the Ethiopian soldiers backing it must leave. He said the Courts were set up to restore stability in a nation that has been mired in anarchy, torn to pieces and squabbled over by warlords since the overthrow of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre in 1991. "But now we are gearing up to kick these occupiers out of our country," the SICC chairman said.
Islamist troops abandoned the coastal capital they had ruled by sharia law for six months on Thursday in the face of a 10-day Ethiopian offensive of land and air assaults. Crowning the dramatic reversal, Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi swept into Mogadishu on Friday saying the fight for political survival had been won. On Saturday, President Abdullahi Yusuf landed in an Ethiopian army helicopter about 20 km (12 miles) outside Mogadishu and held talks with faction leaders and elders. "This government has a duty to return peace," he told reporters at a run-down military camp. "The whole country has become people and guns... We have passed 15 years of civil war. We now need to forgive each other and hold hands."
Sitting on a plastic chair under a large thorn tree, Yusuf said he would not enter the capital this time and would return to the government's base in the provincial town of Baidoa. "I will come to Mogadishu once everything is in place."
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"I will come to Mogadishu once everything is in place."
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Borrowed from Slappy White: Kiss me no? Kiss me yes? What's this 'kiss me yes business?' That's the way we greet you in our country. That's the way we keep a job in ours! Kismayu indeed, Sheikh.
(Xinhua) -- The forces of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) on Wednesday controlled two more towns, 40 to 60 km away from the capital Mogadishu, the official Ethiopian news agency reported. TFG Vice Defense Minister Salad Ali Jelle was quoted as saying the TFG forces controlled Bal'at town, some 40 km north of Mogadishu and Lego town, 60 km southwest of the capital. Several soldiers of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) have been killed in the fights to control the two towns, Jelle told a press conference in Baidoa, the seat of the TFG. Guess they didn't all lay down their arms, huh?
Jelle said UIC fighters began fleeing from towns in disarray, adding that UIC fighters also engaged in clashes among themselves. That'd prob'ly be the local boyz, who have a home to go to, versus the imported labor...
According to him, about 1,200 UIC fighters escaped by ship from Mogadishu to other countries. He said a second ship was loading UIC fighters at Mogadishu port on Wednesday afternoon. Could we maybe sink that ship?
Jelle said UIC fighters in Kismayo port were fleeing to Mogadishu.
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A senior Somali Islamist leader on Friday vowed his fighters will never surrender to Ethiopians and the government and warned of guerrilla ambushes on the allied forces. You think that Islamic courts have failed and the Ethiopian invaders have won in Somalia? I tell within days everything will be changed, commander Sheikh Mohamed Ibrahim Bilal told AFP, a day after the Islamists left the capital Mogadishu. We will never surrender to Ethiopians and the government of (President) Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, he told AFP from Kismayo, the Islamist last stronghold town about 500 kilometres (300 miles) south of Mogadishu.
Somali government troops and their Ethiopian allies took control of the former US embassy building in Mogadishu on Friday, tightening their hold on the capital after Islamist rivals fled. Ethiopian troops and government soldiers have settled in the compound of the former US embassy. I can see more than 30 Russian-made military trucks, said Abdi Hassan, one of hundreds of local residents gathered outside the former US mission.
The embassy compound, in a western neighbourhood of the coastal city, was abandoned more than a decade ago after US forces made a humiliating retreat from Somalia following an ill-fated mission depicted in the film Black Hawk Down.
Government forces took effective control of Mogadishu on Thursday after a 10-day offensive with Ethiopian allies to reclaim much of the territory seized by the Somalia Islamic Courts Council (SICC) since June. Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamad Gedi said parliament would vote to declare martial law to maintain control of a country which has been without an effective central government since the 1991 overthrow of a dictator.
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(SomaliNet) Mohamed Qanyare Afrah, a member of parliament and among former warlords, who returned to Mogadishu capital on Friday under the protection of Ethiopian forces, said he was very happy about the new change in Somalia and he is welcoming the ousting of Islamic Courts Union from the capital.
Mr. Qanyare, who returned to his residence in Mogadishu, told the local media that he is against the plan in which the government wants to disarm the militias without giving their rights. The militias should see the government as their own, he said. In my point of view, I do reject to say to the militia put down the weapons and leave for good, because if the militias who have nowhere to go are ordered to do that, they would damage the security. I would suggest the transitional federal government to consider that and make the militias themselves as government soldiers, said Qanyare. The government should place the militia instead of discharging them.
Mr. Qanyare, once one of powerful warlords in Somalia, also welcomed the Ethiopian forces' entry into the capital without clashes. Ethiopian forces should be thanked for their military operation against the so-called Islamic Courts which made the country base for terrorists, said Qanyare. The rule of Al-Qaeda members in Somalia has ended in failure and Somalis got their freedom back.
He confirmed that he is fully working with the government for restoring the law and order in the capital. Mohamed Qanyare, an MP, said in a happy mood he had changed his position of being a warlord and is now ready to participate in reconstruction of Somalia.
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When you can still buy an AK for less than $80 in Mogadishu market and the stimilant Khat is trucked & flown in by the planeload from Kenya and there is no food except from UN handouts, then mogadishu if fucked! Period.
A Swedish businessman has disappeared in Morocco after men purporting to be police apprehended him in the coastal town of Tetouan. The man's family and Swedish diplomats in the North African country say they do not know why he was taken or where. It is also at this stage unclear whether the men who took him away on Christmas Day night were genuine police officers. "All we know at present is that a 54-year-old Swedish citizen was taken on the night of 25th December. Last time I spoke to the Swedish Embassy in Morocco we had no further information," said Sofia Karlberg at the Foreign Ministry in Stockholm to The Local.
TV4 reports that the man was taken from his home in Tetouan by men in civilian clothes. A female member of the family had answered the door to the men, who said they were looking for her brother-in-law. The men initially said they had a present for the man, to which the woman replied that he was not there. When she then tried to prevent them from entering they presented themselves as police. She says that they claimed the United States lay behind the action. They then, according to the woman, went to wake her father. "My father followed them voluntarily and answered questions," she said.
At 5am on 26th December the father disappeared with the men. One of the men returned the next day to promise that the father would soon be home if they were "reasonable", the daughter said. The men also left a phone number, which according to the family did not work. The family has contacted Moroccan police and prosecutors to search for the man, but so far with out success. They have also asked lawyers and the Swedish embassy in Rabat for help. According to a human rights organization quoted by TT, 40 people were rounded up by unknown men and taken to Rabat on the same night.
The small Swedish mission in Morocco has asked for help from the French Embassy in the country. The Swedish Foreign Ministry could on Friday morning not confirm whether the man was a permanent resident in Morocco. According to news reports he is Swedish and has lived in Sweden for over 30 years. His wife and six children, the youngest of whom is 6, remain in their home in Tetouan.
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Soon to be starring in their very own Crossfire Gazette.
TANGAIL, Dec 29: Police arrested two suspected Jamatul Mujaheedin Bangladesh (JMB) members from a bus after a brief gunfight at Rabnai area near a bypass crossing in the town Friday. Police Super of the district Israil Hawlader said the two arrested, Mohammed Fahad (24) and Saiful Islam (25), residents of Narayanganj, confessed to their involvement with the militant outfit.
Acting on a tip-off, a police team intercepted the Dhaka-bound bus from Meherpur district at the crossing. Four sophisticated revolvers, 80 rounds of bullet, 185 detonators and some bomb-making materials were recovered from their possession.
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"Sophisticated Revolvers?
The technology is over a Century old, closer to two Centuries.
Nothing "Sophisticated" about it.
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(Interfax-AVN) - A member of an armed group has turn himself in to police in Chechnya's Achkhoi-Martan district, a spokesman for law enforcement services told Interfax-AVN on Friday. "A man living in the village of Katyr-Yurt has surrendered to the authorities. He admitted to having been a member of a militant group led by a person [identified only by his last name] Byutukayev between June 2005 and October 2006," he said.
A cache with ammunition was found outside the village of Alkhan-Yurt in the Urus-Martan district, the spokesman said. Another cache containing weapons and a radio receiver was discovered near the town of Argun.
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(Interfax) - The imam of a mosque in Makhachkala was killed on Friday morning, the press service of a city's department of interior affairs told Interfax. Magomed Saidmagomedov, the imam of a mosque in Abrikosovaya street, was found dead at about 5 a.m. near the mosque. He was shot dead after morning prayers, the press service of the interior affairs department said.
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Suni or Shia?
Inquiring minds want to know.
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Lots of questions - was he a long-term imam, or someone newly arrived? Was he a militant, or not? Did he preach aainst the violence in the Caucasus, or was he for it? PP "news" reporting - must have been done by a police officer.
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A good imam is a dead imam. No further questions asked.
(Xinhua) -- Czech police brought charges against a Russian passenger who allegedly threatened to hijack a Russian airplane early Thursday, Prague police spokesman Ladislav Bernasek said on Friday. "The foreigner has been charged with endangering the safety of the aircraft," Bernasek said. Police has proposed to take the perpetrator, 32-year-old Yevgeni Dagayev into custody, who faces up to 15 years in prison if found guilty. The questioning started this morning, according to CTK.
The Airbus 321 flying from Moscow to Geneva, with 170 passengers and eight-member crew aboard, was forced to make an emergency landing in Prague shortly before 11 a.m. (1000 GMT), as one of the passengers, Dagayev, who was allegedly under the influence of alcohol or drugs, threatened to damage the plane with a bomb explosion and demanded the plane fly to Cairo. "A drunk person was on board. He provoked a brawl with passengers, threatened to damage the plane and demanded that it change the course," Itar-Tass news agency reported.
After landing, the Czech law enforcement officers removed the suspect from the plane. None of the passengers or crew were hurt, and no bomb was found. Most of the passengers left for their original destination of Geneva late Thursday. Dogayev's relatives left for Zurich this morning.
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Pakistani troops backed by military helicopters on Friday dismantled several rebel bases in Balochistan, AP quoted security officials as saying. At least eight helicopters took part in an operation against rebel tribesmen in Zain Koh near Dera Bugti, said a security official. The helicopters achieved their target by destroying the positions of miscreants, the official told AFP.
He said the tribal militants had been active in the area in recent months. He said that it was an early morning operation and we have no information about any casualties. A purported spokesman for the militants said the tribesmen suffered no casualties. Calling reporters from an undisclosed location, he claimed that one helicopter fell during the raid and a dozen people were believed killed, but security officials rejected the claim. In another incident on Friday, police arrested a tribal militant wanted over bomb blasts, and killed his accomplice on the outskirts of Quetta, said a senior police official.
Daily Times Monitor adds: Unidentified assailants threw two hand grenades into the joint servant quarters of the Saddar police station and Quetta District Jail, but there were no casualties, reported Aaj TV.
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One person was killed and three others slightly injured on Friday when a powerful roadside bomb exploded in a middle-class neighbourhood of Srinagar in Indian-held Kashmir, police said. So far we have information about the death of one person. The area has been cordoned off and we are trying to ascertain further details, a police spokesman said.
The dead person was identified as a civilian who was on his motorcycle at the time of the blast, which occurred in Srinagars Hawal district and around 200 metres from an army camp. The improvised explosive device (IED) was planted by militants, apparently to target the nearby camp, the police official said.
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A bomb planted on a minibus killed 31 people in a fish market in a mostly Shiite town south of Baghdad on Saturday, and the man blamed for parking the vehicle was cornered and killed by a mob as he walked away from the explosion.
There was no indication that the explosion, in Kufa, a Shiite town 100 miles south of the Iraqi capital, was related to the execution of Saddam Hussein. The attack came on the eve of when Iraq's Shiites begin celebrating Eid al-Adha, the most important holiday of the Islamic calendar. Shoppers had crowded the market to buy supplies for the four-day festival.
At least 58 people were wounded, said Issa Mohammed, director of the morgue in the neighboring town of Najaf.
Television footage showed hundreds of men in traditional Arab headdresses swarming around the vehicle's charred frame, toppled on its side in the street. Ambulances and fire trucks pulled up to the site, and a coffin could be seen being loaded onto the top of a car.
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Ambulances and fire trucks pulled up to the site, and a coffin could be seen being loaded onto the top of a car.
A coffin? Are they kept on hand? Or was the attack on a funeral?
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The mob vengeance is a good sign. It means the public has had enough of lawlessness run rampant that the government hasn't stopped, and are starting to stand up to defend themselves. It also means they feel strong enough to fight back.
And being a criminal of any kind is a LOT harder when the public actively does anything to stop you, and doesn't just turn away.
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Heads UP. Iraqis are not going to take much more of this. I think you are about to see a sea change. Saddam is not the only one who will do a perp walk amongst the Iraqis. More later.
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Speculation: Kufa is Tater's "spiritual" home-base, and parked car-bombs are often non-AQ operations (no suicide driver) - therefore, seems like an Iraqi Sunni hit on Sadr. Not just a random market in a random town.
I'm skeptical that Iraqis will rise up and do what MNF-I and the Iraqi govt. have almost literally refused to do - secure the country. Too many players, no coordination or trust or reason for trust.
Meanwhile, I read that the two Al-Quds Iranian officers were released. I know - there must be a lot about this situation I don't know. But I'm tempted to say f**k it, I've had it - we nab two IRGC big-shots, red-handed dirty with info about EFP operations in Iraq, and we don't have them for the duration? There was even a quote from an unidentified "US official" touting the impact of the temporary detention, saying Iran would now realize there was a price to pay for their meddling. I'm NOT kidding.
It's gotten to the point that I really do wonder about the sense and ability of almost all the senior leadership. I've been puzzled and aghast at what the civilian leadership and MNF-I/CENTCOM leadership have accepted as tolerable for some time. This is the last straw. WTF is going on?
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Three more Marines were killed in battle in Iraq, the military said Friday, making December the year's deadliest month for U.S. troops with the toll reaching 106. The Marines, all assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5, died Thursday of wounds from fighting in western Anbar province, the U.S. military said.
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RIP. If there was Iranian complicity, I hope 3 State Dept staffers die this weekend
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Weirdly enough, Muslim terrorists have no problem killing GI's on Muslim holy days like Eid. But the critics seem to think that the Iraqi government should have avoided executing Saddam on Eid.
Nobody, nobody writes an obit like the Brits. This one is completely unsympathetic and exacting in recalling the thuggery, genocide and murderous zeal of the 'Butcher of Tikrit'. A must-read even as it takes the obligatory whacks at the U.S. (as any Guardian piece must).
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Well, da-yum, Steve. You mean al-Guardian isn't kissing his ass as usual?
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But a new American President, George W Bush, determined to find a scapegoat for the Muslim terrorist attacks on the US in September 2001, was in no mood to abide by the niceties of international law.
Don't know what else it said. I stopped reading there.
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#2 Angie - the Times (both NYC and UK) can go f*ck themselves.
Just on general principles alone....
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Barbara, they are already doing it. Have you ever seen a 5 year stock price chart of NYT? Check it out for a good laugh.
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ODA: Have you ever seen a 5 year stock price chart of NYT? Check it out for a good laugh.
Looks a lot like the stock chart of Dow Jones and Co. Fact is that free news on the internet is causing newspapers a lot of headaches. The moment news agencies stop selling their product over the internet to Yahoo and so on, the newspapers will regain all of their old circulation. Since that will never happen, it looks like newspapers will need to resign themselves to a permanently low plateau of circulation. But this has more to do with pressure from free news outlets than ideology.
Note that it was Conrad Black's conservative media empire (Hollinger) that collapsed, not the New York Times, Gannett or Knight Ridder. Note that most of Rupert Murdoch's media empire is stridently left-wing, like the Sydney Morning Herald and the Times of London. The one consistently conservative paper, the New York Post, also consistently loses money.
I, for one, will continue to believe the NYT is going down because it's evil. No more cold water, please!
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But a new American President, George W Bush, determined to find a scapegoat for the Muslim terrorist attacks on the US in September 2001, was in no mood to abide by the niceties of international law.
Oh, the same international laws that allowed Saddam to flout UN resolutions for 14 years and make billions during the Oil for Food program? The international community was united against Iraq, (except Russia, those wonderful assassins/nuclear proliferators and the French, that wonderful lot who only need America when their cowardly backs are against the wall). Ask the people in Darfur and Rwanda how they like the niceties of international law.
As long as we have the NYT, Tokyo Rose stands in the unemployment line.
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Zhang: I realize the reason why the NYT has gone down. I don't really care why. I just care about the fact they are doomed :). I am results driven :). BTW, they have lost more circulation than the NY post (which I think has somewhat gained circulation or stayed stable) - so there :).
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Everyone can feel free to be happy about the NYT's impending demise again :).
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I hope the NYTs fall results in a stockholder takeover. Right now, the Sulzbergers, who run the thing with "special" stock, are actually trying to drive the price down so they can buy back the paper and privatize it.
This would utterly screw their shareholders in the process, so some of the larger ones are revolting, and trying to overthrow the Sulzberger dynasty.
Either way, we can hope that it will be a long and nasty fight, with the newspaper reduced to running truss ads on page 5.
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Actually the reason the NYT is still alive is because the holding company has been madly buying small newspapers in flyover country. The add revenue in these small newspapers is profitable and keeps the "Flagship" newspaper afloat.
Al
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Some Arab media, including Saudi-owned Al Arabiya and the U.S.-financed Al Hurra, reported about an hour before daylight on Saturday (about 10 p.m. EST Friday) that Saddam had been executed. State-run Iraqiya television cited reports of Saddams hanging, but like the other television stations did not provide sources.
There was no confirmation from the Iraqi government.
A US judge on Friday refused to stop Saddams execution, rejecting a last-minute court challenge. US District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said US courts do not have jurisdiction to interfere in another countrys judicial process. The ruling can be appealed, but it was issued within an hour of the time Iraqi officials said they expected the execution to be carried out.
Saddam and others were convicted of murder in the killings of 148 Shia Muslims from an Iraqi town where assassins tried to kill Saddam in 1982. Also to be hanged were Saddams half-brother Barzan Ibrahim and Awad Hamed Al Bandar, the former chief justice of the Revolutionary Court, the adviser said.
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No, may the Lord pass judgment upon him for his crimes against his people, and for his arrogance. May God exile him to where he belongs - in Hell for all eternity.
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Which concentric circle of hell shall I show the new guest too?
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#2 Korora - The Lord (or somebody) had mercy on Sadd-ass, since he died quickly of hanging instead slowly and painfully from chemical weapons, as he so richly deserved.
As for his soul - that murdering bastard had no soul. Now he can burn in Hell forever with others of his ilk.
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Seafarious.
I'd leave the First Circle of Hell out. That's for the noble pagans; they still keep their dignity. Their punishment is simply the loss of hope.
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Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging at an unspecified location, reports say. Iraqi TV said the execution took place just before 0600 local time (0300GMT). It was witnessed by a doctor, lawyer and officials. It was also filmed. US troops and Iraqi security forces are on high alert for any violent backlash.
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Welcome Sammy
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Sic semper tyrannis.
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Burn in HELL, ya' worthless bastard.
No doubt you've met your 72 Virginians by now....
I've been trying for the last few hours to balance my checkbook and pay bills, but kept getting interrupted by checking for further comments on Rantburg.
1 bottle of champagne (good stuff, not the cheap rotgut most people buy), cheese 'n crackers, sesame toast w/butter, and lots of bacon later, I've finally finished. (paying bills, not celebrating ;-p)
Will check out other post-midnight posts, then goodnight, y'all. See ya' on the flip side. It's a GREAT day for humanity. Leftists - not being human or humane - can go to Hell. :-D
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Comments seem kinda light Barbara. I think you might as well go to bed and see what appears in the morning. :-)
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#4 Scooter - I'm just hoping I'm not embarrassed by my comments in the morning when I'm sober.
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Haaaalelujah
Halelujah
Halee lujah
Terrific news for all, hello Rantburgers I've missed you a lot, have been without connection. Am at internet cafe now but miss you greatly
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Save yourselves the blood pressure elevation - don't read Al-Beeb's 'have your say'. To say the fellow travellers are wailing and gnashing is an understatement - sheesh!...
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As Coroner, I must aver I thoroughly examined her him. And she's he's not only merely dead, She's he's really, most sincerely dead. - the Coroner
Let the joyous news be spread The Wicked Old Witch Dictator at last is dead!
With apologies to Frank Baum.
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Drat, and double drat! - I was just in the middle of a search for that GK! - good one!
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From CNN:
Rubaie, who witnessed the execution, said the former leader was "strangely submissive" to the process. "He was a broken man," he said. "He was afraid. You could see fear in his face." Rubaie said that Hussein carried with him a copy of the Quran and asked that it be given to "a certain person." Rubaie did not identify that person.
On Al-Arabiya television, Rubaie said the execution took place at the 5th Division intelligence office in Qadhimiya. He said Hussein refused to wear a black hood over his head before execution and told him "don't be afraid."
"It was an Iraqi operation from A to Z," he said. "The Americans were not present during the hour of the execution. They weren't even in the building."
"Saddam's body is in front me," said an official in the prime minister's office when CNN telephoned. "It's over." He said that celebrations broke out after Hussein was dead, and that there was "dancing around the body."
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Car-bomb already went off and Fallujah courthouse burned to ground. Although I wasn't aware Fallujah HAD a courthouse...
Oh well. I wonder if the sarcastic "Muqtada" was him thinking that Sadr wouldn't be alive much longer?
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Ali says he followed Saddam up the gallows steps, escorted by two guards. He stood over the hole and filmed from close quarters as Saddam dropped throughfrom "me to you," he said, crouching down to show how he shot the scene. The distance, he said, was "about one meter," he said. "He died absolutely, he died instantly." Ali said Saddam's body twitched, "shaking, very shaking," but "no blood," he said, and "no spit." (Ali said he was not authorized to disclose the location, and did not give other details of the room.)
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May Saddam Hussein's "72 virgins" all be half-starved dire wolves.
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Couple of thoughts (beyond the obvious grim satisfaction):
1) From the LATimes account:
The charged silence that settled over the execution chamber was broken by an exchange between Hussein and four guards, who were apparently followers of Muqtada Sadr, the militant Shiite cleric whose father was killed by Hussein.
"Muqtada Sadr!" they cried out.
That part disturbs me - not for any concern over Saddam but as an indication of how deep the Shia rot goes in the Iraqi government and society.
2) I'm wondering if CNN will be "too sensitive" to play any videos of the actual hanging when they become available.
A top Iraqi official said Friday Saddam Hussein will be executed between 5:30 a.m. to 6 a.m. on Saturday, an Iraqi television reported. The television Freedom Iraq quoted an Iraqi official as saying that the former president would be hanged at dawn Saturday between 5:30 a.m.(0230GMT) to 6 a.m. (0300 GMT). Earlier, Al-Jazeera English TV channel reported that Saddam would be executed before 6 a.m. (0300 GMT) Saturday. A top Iraqi government official was quoted by the TV channel as saying that Saddam would be executed before 6 a.m. Saturday, local time (0300 GMT). The time was agreed upon during an emergency cabinet meeting between U.S. and Iraqi officials, according to the official, who said on condition of anonymity.
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(Xinhua) -- A total of 17 people were killed and up to 60 others wounded in three bomb blasts in Baghdad on Thursday, an Interior Ministry source said. The death toll rose to ten killed and 25 people wounded when a homemade bomb detonated under a vehicle parking near a fuel station close to al-Shaab Stadium in eastern Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Earlier, the source said that four people were killed and 13 others injured. The fuel station was set ablaze, leaving several cars queuing at the station caught on fire, the source added.
In another incident earlier, the death toll rose to seven and up to 35 others wounded when two roadside bombs went off in a quick succession at Bab al-Sharji, a populous outdoor market in downtown Baghdad, the source said.
Earlier, the source said that six people were killed and 25 others wounded by the double blast.
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Palestinians fired a total of nine Kassam rockets at Israel on Friday. One missile landed near Sderot, while another five hit the western Negev. No one was wounded and no damage was reported. Two rockets landed inside Palestinian Authority territories. IDF troops reported that they did not identify the launching sites. Later Friday evening, a ninth rocket landed near a western Negev kibbutz. No one was wounded in the attack, although some buildings sustained damage.
The rocket fire came as Israel decided not to release Palestinian security prisoners for the Muslim holiday of Id al-Adha until kidnapped IDF Cpl. Gilad Shalit was freed. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert promised Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas last week that he would consider such a move as a goodwill gesture, but the prime minister has not yet held a meeting on the subject, and the Muslim holiday begins on Saturday.
Palestinian officials, including Palestinian Authority negotiator Saeb Erekat, expressed their displeasure with the Israeli government's decision not to release prisoners before the holiday. "It's unfortunate," Erekat said of the decision, adding that it would hurt Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's standing.
A senior official in the Prime Minister's Office responded to the Palestinians' complaints, saying "instead of expressing regret, if these officials would abide by the cease-fire, maybe they would get prisoners."
On Thursday night, Israel denied reports by Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh that a prisoner swap was imminent, citing problems that have arisen in the negotiations for Shalit as the reason for the government's failure to reach a decision on the Palestinian prisoners. However, security forces were easing travel restrictions for Israeli Arabs and Palestinians in honor of the holiday. Israeli Arabs were going to be allowed to visit family in the West Bank, and around 4,000 Palestinians were to be permitted to visit family in Israel. In addition, Israeli Arabs were being allowed to visit immediate family in the Gaza Strip.
The eased restrictions were going to be in force from Friday morning until Monday. Soldiers manning checkpoints were instructed to act with extra sensitivity during the Muslim holiday period. Earlier in the week, Olmert mentioned Abbas's request in the Knesset, where Vice Premier Shimon Peres, Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz and Defense Minister Amir Peretz expressed their support for the goodwill gesture; however, a follow-up discussion never materialized.
Peres told Israel Radio Friday that he believed there was still room to make such a gesture toward the Palestinians. However, Absorption Minister Ze'ev Boim said that a premature prisoner release would be unwise, as it was unlikely to be interpreted properly by the Palestinians. "I think that a gesture that in normal times is accepted at holiday time must not happen today because it would be misinterpreted," Boim told Israel Radio.
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What - did Olmert borrow some balls from a Texas cheerleading squad?
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In Texas, cheerleading is a blood sport. You may recall the whole cheerleader mom saga that that lead to 15 years in the slammer and a couple of made-for-tv movies.
As for Olmert, it doesn't matter where he got 'em. His people need a leader with a pair.
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Good thing he didn't try to borrow mine, or the entire middle east would be radioactive craters this morning. My sympathy meter for the "palestinians" measures 6.3x10-73.
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A Kassam rocket launched from the northern Gaza Strip just before midnight slammed into a field near a community in the western Negev, security officials said. The crude missile caused damage to property, but residents of the community escaped injury, Army Radio radio. Nine rockets have been fired into Israel since Friday morning.
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Shouldn't the official MSM headline read "Fragile Peace Accord Holding"?
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Busby Berkley?
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#5 Frank - who else? ;-p
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and once again, the law firm of Dewey,Cheatham and Clark(Ramsey) loses yet another high profile client to juries laegely unsympathetic to the twisted logic of the left.
If Ramsey Clark shows up at your reception desk, its like getting a visit from the angel of death.
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Wow. That looks expensive Fred. Time to head to the tip jar and top off your scotch and cigar fund as well as help you keep up production values. I'm in a celebratory mood.
His daughter Raghd, who is exiled in Jordan, "is asking that his body be buried in Yemen temporarily until Iraq is liberated and it can be reburied in Iraq," a source close to the family said by telephone.
BAGHDAD A defiant Saddam Hussein was hanged at dawn today in a secret concrete death chamber here as the Muslim call to prayer echoed over the capital.
Hussein and 14 Iraqi government representatives were flown by helicopter to the site, according to Iraqi High Tribunal Judge Munir Haddad. Guards escorted Hussein into the room, where he denounced the West and Iran.
Hussein then climbed the high ladder to the gallows.
As his executioners placed a noose around his neck, Hussein blanched but betrayed no emotion, Haddad said.
Hussein refused to wear a hood.
The charged silence that settled over the execution chamber was broken by an exchange between Hussein and four guards, who were apparently followers of Muqtada Sadr, the militant Shiite cleric whose father was killed by Hussein.
"Muqtada Sadr!" they cried out.
Hussein scoffed in reply.
His last word was a sarcastic "Muqtada," Haddad said. "And then he was hanged."
No cleric was provided. But as Hussein's life ebbed away, Haddad said, some of those present uttered a Muslim prayer often used by Shiite congregations to express gratitude: "May Allah bless Muhammad and his descendants."
The deposed Iraqi president had been convicted of crimes against humanity Nov. 5 for the killings of 148 men and boys from the town of Dujayl after a 1982 assassination attempt a comparative handful among the tens of thousands of Iraqi deaths for which he was responsible during his nearly four-decade rule.
His execution officially ends a bloody chapter in this nation's history but is not expected to quell the sectarian civil war and violent insurgency that have racked the country since his overthrow by an American-led invasion in 2003.
As news of the execution spread, some Iraqis here celebrated with the customary gunfire into the air, and television channels As news of the execution spread, some Iraqis here celebrated with the customary gunfire into the air, and television channels broadcast Hussein retrospectives complete with film of his many victims. more
Ali Al Massedy was 3 feet away from Saddam Hussein when he died. "I saw fear, he was afraid," Ali told NEWSWEEK minutes after returning from the execution. Wearing a rumpled green suit and holding a Sony HDTV video camera in his right hand, "He was saying things about injustice, about resistance, about how these guys are terrorists," he says. On the way to the gallows, according to Ali, "Saddam said, Iraq without me is nothing."
He followed Saddam up the gallows steps, escorted by two guards. He stood over the hole and filmed from close quarters as Saddam dropped throughfrom "me to you," he said, crouching down to show how he shot the scene. The distance, he said, was "about one meter,"
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Nice Fred. I was trying to post that frame myself, but Microsoft (spit!) seems to have a new "feature" that prevents one from even copying a screenshot from a .wmv file....
U.S. troops cheered as news of Saddam's execution appeared on television at the mess hall at Forward Operating Base Loyalty in eastern Baghdad. But some soldiers expressed doubt that Saddam's death would be a significant turning point for Iraq.
"First it was weapons of mass destruction. Then when there were none, it was that we had to find Saddam. We did that, but then it was that we had to put him on trial," said Spc. Thomas Sheck, 25, who is on his second tour in Iraq. "So now, what will be the next story they tell us to keep us over here?"
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San Diego Union headline (of a NYT story): SADDAM HANGED - Chaos has now eclipsed brutality of his regime
*SPIT*
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KBK, Just watched Good Morning We Hate America and their 'experts' (aka correspondents) were hard pressed to contain their tears over his demise.
And of course they repeated the same 'so what will be the next story to keep us in Iraq' quote and then smeared that over all US Forces by added a 'american forces are further frustrated...'
I wonder how many hours AP spent finding that quote they wanted.
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Ethiopian tanks rumbled south from Mogadishu to attack Somali Islamists on Saturday after the religious movement's leaders called on their fighters to take a stand in the port city of Kismayu. Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, whose forces fled the Somali capital on Thursday, also urged thousands of residents gathered at a Kismayu stadium for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha to defend their country and faith from government troops backed by armor, soldiers and jet fighter planes from mostly Christian Ethiopia. "Our country is under occupation so we have decided to fight," he told the crowd as Islamist troops on trucks mounted with anti-aircraft guns stood guard outside.
(Xinhua) -- The forces of Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) on Wednesday controlled two more towns, 40 to 60 km away from the capital Mogadishu, the official Ethiopian news agency reported. TFG Vice Defense Minister Salad Ali Jelle was quoted as saying the TFG forces controlled Bal'at town, some 40 km north of Mogadishu and Lego town, 60 km southwest of the capital. Several soldiers of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) have been killed in the fights to control the two towns, Jelle told a press conference in Baidoa, the seat of the TFG. 
A Swedish businessman has disappeared in Morocco after men purporting to be police apprehended him in the coastal town of Tetouan. The man's family and Swedish diplomats in the North African country say they do not know why he was taken or where. It is also at this stage unclear whether the men who took him away on Christmas Day night were genuine police officers. "All we know at present is that a 54-year-old Swedish citizen was taken on the night of 25th December. Last time I spoke to the Swedish Embassy in Morocco we had no further information," said Sofia Karlberg at the Foreign Ministry in Stockholm to The Local.
(Interfax-AVN) - A member of an armed group has turn himself in to police in Chechnya's Achkhoi-Martan district, a spokesman for law enforcement services told Interfax-AVN on Friday. "A man living in the village of Katyr-Yurt has surrendered to the authorities. He admitted to having been a member of a militant group led by a person [identified only by his last name] Byutukayev between June 2005 and October 2006," he said. 
(Interfax) - The imam of a mosque in Makhachkala was killed on Friday morning, the press service of a city's department of interior affairs told Interfax. Magomed Saidmagomedov, the imam of a mosque in Abrikosovaya street, was found dead at about 5 a.m. near the mosque. He was shot dead after morning prayers, the press service of the interior affairs department said.
(Xinhua) -- Czech police brought charges against a Russian passenger who allegedly threatened to hijack a Russian airplane early Thursday, Prague police spokesman Ladislav Bernasek said on Friday. "The foreigner has been charged with endangering the safety of the aircraft," Bernasek said. Police has proposed to take the perpetrator, 32-year-old Yevgeni Dagayev into custody, who faces up to 15 years in prison if found guilty. The questioning started this morning, according to CTK. 
Pakistani troops backed by military helicopters on Friday dismantled several rebel bases in Balochistan, AP quoted security officials as saying. At least eight helicopters took part in an operation against rebel tribesmen in Zain Koh near Dera Bugti, said a security official. The helicopters achieved their target by destroying the positions of miscreants, the official told AFP. 
One person was killed and three others slightly injured on Friday when a powerful roadside bomb exploded in a middle-class neighbourhood of Srinagar in Indian-held Kashmir, police said. So far we have information about the death of one person. The area has been cordoned off and we are trying to ascertain further details, a police spokesman said. 
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Three more Marines were killed in battle in Iraq, the military said Friday, making December the year's deadliest month for U.S. troops with the toll reaching 106. The Marines, all assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5, died Thursday of wounds from fighting in western Anbar province, the U.S. military said.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Some Arab media, including Saudi-owned Al Arabiya and the U.S.-financed Al Hurra, reported about an hour before daylight on Saturday (about 10 p.m. EST Friday) that Saddam had been executed. State-run Iraqiya television cited reports of Saddams hanging, but like the other television stations did not provide sources.
Reported from al-Arabiyah, via Fox News at 22:12.
A top Iraqi official said Friday Saddam Hussein will be executed between 5:30 a.m. to 6 a.m. on Saturday, an Iraqi television reported. The television Freedom Iraq quoted an Iraqi official as saying that the former president would be hanged at dawn Saturday between 5:30 a.m.(0230GMT) to 6 a.m. (0300 GMT). Earlier, Al-Jazeera English TV channel reported that Saddam would be executed before 6 a.m. (0300 GMT) Saturday. A top Iraqi government official was quoted by the TV channel as saying that Saddam would be executed before 6 a.m. Saturday, local time (0300 GMT). The time was agreed upon during an emergency cabinet meeting between U.S. and Iraqi officials, according to the official, who said on condition of anonymity.
(Xinhua) -- A total of 17 people were killed and up to 60 others wounded in three bomb blasts in Baghdad on Thursday, an Interior Ministry source said. The death toll rose to ten killed and 25 people wounded when a homemade bomb detonated under a vehicle parking near a fuel station close to al-Shaab Stadium in eastern Baghdad, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. 
Palestinians fired a total of nine Kassam rockets at Israel on Friday. One missile landed near Sderot, while another five hit the western Negev. No one was wounded and no damage was reported. Two rockets landed inside Palestinian Authority territories. IDF troops reported that they did not identify the launching sites. Later Friday evening, a ninth rocket landed near a western Negev kibbutz. No one was wounded in the attack, although some buildings sustained damage. 
A Kassam rocket launched from the northern Gaza Strip just before midnight slammed into a field near a community in the western Negev, security officials said. The crude missile caused damage to property, but residents of the community escaped injury, Army Radio radio. Nine rockets have been fired into Israel since Friday morning.
