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Crescents, guys, crescents. It's a muzzie snuff film. And allan has absolutely no sense of humor, or of fun. That's why the tallibunnies are out to shut down anything that's even remotely linked to fun. May their favorite goat develop herpes.
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good one thanks Mike. Ima off on errands...think lotto! LOL!
LONDON (AP) -- A senior Taliban commander says Osama bin Laden is alive and in contact with leaders of Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents, according to an interview aired on British television. Mullah Dadullah said he had not met bin Laden since the fall of the Taliban regime after the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, but said "we know he's still alive."
"He's not yet martyred. Such information would be easy to get _ his comrades stand shoulder to shoulder with us. They keep us informed," Dadullah said in an interview broadcast Wednesday by Channel 4 News.
"I met a guy who heard from his cousin that he heard a cab driver say he knew a girl who saw him. So I know it's true"
The authenticity of the information could not be confirmed. Channel 4 did not say how it had obtained the footage, and it was not known when or where Dadullah made the comments, which were translated into English. Dadullah, commander of Taliban operations in eastern and southeastern Afghanistan and a trusted associate of Taliban leader Mullah Omar, said bin Laden met outsiders rarely. Dadullah did not comment on bin Laden's whereabouts.
"Only his comrades see him; we exchange messages with each other to share plans," Dadullah said. "We also go to the battlefield together. We actually meet very rarely, just for important consultations. It's hard for anyone to meet Bin Laden himself now, but we know he's still alive."
Dadullah said the Taliban had "hundreds more" suicide bombers ready to attack NATO forces in Afghanistan. NATO commanders have said they believe the Taliban plans a spring offensive against alliance troops in the country.
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Taliban
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We know he is alive! We rarely see him, but we know he is alive!
Just pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
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If he is alive, he's not exactly in a photogenic state. The guy is a publicity hungry media whore. The only reason he has not made more video is looking really worse for the wear. Or death which does lend a certain ghostly pallor on film.
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Very dynamic commander. He is alive because Dadullah Caboola Mishigaboola sez so. I say, do what Rantburgers do best, make humor and Humiliate him to come out from under the covers, then boom-wah!
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And snark...lots of snark, Paul. Mullah Dadullah always reminds me of Rosanna Rosanna Dana.
KABUL - A bomb targeting a provincial police chiefs vehicle in western Afghanistan killed two people and wounded 53 Thursday while authorities found the bullet-riddled body of a kidnapped doctor.
The remotely detonated bomb exploded in the centre of the town of Farah, capital of the province of the same name, at a point where labourers had gathered for day work, they said. Two civilians were killed, the Farah hospital director, Mohammad Qasim, told AFP. Fifty-three injured people came to the hospital. Twelve of them are in a serious condition, he said, and were sent to a nearby NATO-led International Security Assistance Force base for surgery.
The interior ministry in Kabul said the police chiefs vehicle was the target. The bomb appeared to have been hidden in a garbage skip, ministry spokesman Zemarai Bashary told AFP.
Farah province has seen a surge in unrest in recent weeks blamed on Taleban insurgents or opium traders. The rebels captured the town of Bakwa for less than 24 hours last month before being forced out by NATO-led and Afghan troops.
President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday that Afghanistans opium production is fuelling unrest gripping the country.
Meanwhile, in the volatile neighbouring province of Helmand, the bullet-riddled body of an Afghan doctor was found dumped near the remote area of Garmser which has seen much Taleban-related activity. The doctor, who worked at a hospital in the provincial capital Lashkar Gah, had been missing since Saturday, provincial security chief Isah Khan said. He did not say who might have been responsible for the killing. The extremist Taleban have kidnapped and executed dozens of people working for the government or foreign groups, accusing some of being spies.
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Very sad. Have been working with Afghan doctors and trying to get the UK NHS to assist the development of a specific area of healthcare in Afghanistan. Their health service is even worse than ours. Afghan doctors(partic. women) are really putting themselves in harm's way - a thoroughly brave bunch.
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It's not sad, it's sick. The taliban represent the worst of humanity, and the mental illness we call islamo-terrorism. These sub-humans deserve no sympathy, no empathy, no (corporate) forgiveness, and no mercy.
A small advance team of African Union troops has arrived in Somalia, say officials in the country. Police sources and airport staff in the southern town of Baidoa told a BBC correspondent that 30 soldiers had arrived in the town on a plane. The group are believed to be Ugandans, although this is denied. Their forces will be the first to deploy in Somalia.
Some 8,000 AU peacekeepers are to be sent to Somalia to replace Ethiopian troops, who ousted Islamists last year. But so far only half that number have been contributed by AU member states.
Nigeria has said its 850 soldiers will be deployed from the middle of April in three phases. Other countries that have pledged to send troops are Ghana and Burundi. Uganda is to send about 1,700 troops, and President Yoweri Museveni has attended a ceremony in the eastern town of Jinja to see off the first contingent of troops. He confirmed that two battalions are being sent, one infantry and one tank support.
Mr Museveni said that they were going to support and empower the Somali government and insisted that Ugandan troops would not be disarming Somalis on the ground. Officials in the Ugandan military deny sending an advance party and maintain that their first troops will not embark for Somalia until the beginning of next week
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I thought the Ethiopian Army were the first peacekeepers in Somalia.
(SomaliNet) Mogadishu mayor, Adde Hassan Ali known as Adde Gabow has on Wednesday expressed his sorrow over the death of a local militia commander who was killed by unknown gunman last night. Mr. Adde Gabow described the murder subjected to Ahmed Hersi as an act of destabilizing the capital blaming the killing on what he called peace killers.
The citys mayor said the killed commander in NBC village, south of Mogadishu was fighting with insurgents that hit mortars into Mogadishu airport. Ahmed Hesri was among the money exchangers in Bakara market and also was commander of the vigilantes in Al-Baraka and NBC villages in Mogadishu. He was known to fight against the thieves and bandits in the capital. On Tuesday, Ahmed Hersi Mohamed known as Dhashane the commander of the local militia hired for the security in the parts of Mogadishu has been killed in south of the capital as he was coming out of mosque near Bakara market. A man armed with a pistol hit Hersi with several bullets after the Maqrib prayer around 6:40pm local time and the gunman escaped unharmed, eyewitness who declined to be mentioned told Somalinet.
It is not yet clear who was behind the latest killing and no one has claimed the responsibility of it. Earlier, there were strong warnings by the insurgent groups against anyone who is seen to be working with the interim government in Somalia.
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A man armed with a pistol hit Hersi with several bullets after the Maqrib prayer around 6:40pm local time and the gunman escaped unharmed, eyewitness who declined to be mentioned told Somalinet.
that didn't work out so well, now did it? I think something is lost in the translation
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Is this, like, one of thes computer translations?
(SomaliNet) At least four people have been killed and eight others were wounded in renewed clan fighting between militias in environs near villages of Laba-Bar and Bar-Magog in the Somalis self-autonomous province of eastern Ethiopia bordering with Somalia, also known as Ogaden region.
The latest fighting broke out in the rural areas around the two villages when militias loyal to Hawadle and Ujejen clan of Haweiye tribe clashed in gun battle causing human casualty on both sides. The tension between the rival sides of pastorals has intensified as efforts to prevent more bloodshed failed when traditional elders from Beledweine city, Somalia had been arrested by the Ethiopian forces an the border town of FerFer last week.
Meanwhile, around 20 clan elders have been released from the Ethiopian jail after they had been held in FerFer as they were heading to the warring clans to end the conflict through negotiation. It is not yet clear what initially caused their arrest but some reports say that the Ethiopian government accused the Somali clan elders of being responsible for the clan fighting and saw then as non-peace makers. The release of the traditional men came when authorities of Hiran province bordering with Ethiopia reached FerFer and succeeded to convince the Ethiopians to give the elders their freedom back.
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I need a high rez version of the illustration for me prototype RB Morning Madness Mug.
An army captain was killed Wednesday and another serviceman seriously injured in a suspected Islamist attack that came hours after a spate of nighttime attacks on roadblocks in northern Algeria, security officials said.
The captain and serviceman came under fire Wednesday near the village of Ain Rich, some 70 kilometers (43 miles) from the northern city of Djelfa, officials said. The Mohadjrine Falange, a wing of the Salafist Group of Call and Combat, or the GSPC, is thought to be responsible for the attack. The army was sweeping the area to find those responsible.
At least seven roadblocks in the town of Kabylie, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) east of the capital, Algiers, were targeted in simultaneous attacks on Tuesday, officials said. No one was hurt when suspected Islamists armed with Kalashnikovs opened fire on the joint police and army roadblocks, officials said. The attacks flew in the face of the government's bid to turn the page on a bloody Islamic insurgency that tore the nation apart in the 1990s. The violence left an estimated 120,000 dead civilians, soldiers and Islamic insurgents.
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Rest in peace and honour, captain, with our thanks.
Riyahd, 1 March (AKI) - Saudi Arabian police have allegedly identified one of the people involved in Monday's killing of four French citizens near the Muslim holy city of Medina. The man, Wlalid Mutlaq al-Radadi, is a well known suspect whose name appears on a police list of 36 most wanted terrorists, according to a report by Saudi newspaper, al-Watan on Thursday. Police believe a group of three or four gunmen took part in Monday's attack in Buat, some 50 kilometres north of Medina.
While the French government has not revealed the identities of those killed, news reports said that three men - two engineers working in Riyadh and the teacher at a French school in the capital - were killed instantly, while a fourth, the 17-year-old Muslim son of a French-Moroccan woman, died later in hospital from a bullet wound to his shoulder.
The victims were among a group of French and Belgian citizens who had been visiting historic sites and camping in Saudi Arabias scenic northwestern desert for several days reports. The attack is one of the most serious on Westerners in Saudi Arabia since another French citizen was fatally shot in Jidda in September 2004.
Accord to a police the attack took place when the suspects pulled up there car, a green Nissan Patrol vehicle alongside the vehicle the French were travelling in and sprayed it with machinge gun bullets. al-Watan reported. According to another Saudi newspaper, al-Okaz, one of the attackers first asked the group where they were from before opening fire.
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Riyadh - Western embassies in Saudi Arabia have advised their nationals to be alert after the killing of four French expatriates wondering if this might signal a resumption of anti-Western attacks.
Several residents on Wednesday said that while they were shocked by Monday's shootings near the Muslim holy city of Medina, they would only be alarmed if a further attack took place. "If it were to happen again, it would send a ripple of concern across the expatriate community and have a very negative effect," said Peter Howarth-Lees, the British manager of a residential compound inhabited by expatriates in Riyadh.
He added: "At the moment, we don't know if this was an isolated attack or a hate crime by some locals who don't like Westerners.
"Security forces since 2004 have made great strides in taking out a lot of militants operating in the country." More at link
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Think of what a shock wave would be felt in Saudiland if all the non-Saudis suddenly quit and left their peaceful little inbred paradise, and no one else came to fill their places. Why, Saudis might actually have to do physical labor! Wouldn't THAT put a crimp in Abdullah's shorts.
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Why, Saudis might actually have to do physical labor!
MADARIPUR, Feb 28 (UNB): An alleged extremist was killed in a shootout with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) members in the town early Wednesday. Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.
"We don't know who he is, but we're pretty sure he won't be doing any more extremist stuff."
Acting on a tip off, RAB members raided the Paka Masjid area where a gang of extremists gathered at about 5:00am.
If I was a Bangladesh extremist, I'd start holding my meetings in a downtown hotel during the day while the RAB was sleeping
But sensing their presence,
"Hark, I sense a disturbance in the force!"...
..the outlaws opened fire on the elite forces forcing them to fire back. "The unidentified man was struck by bullet and died on the spot", RAB sources said.
"He's dead, Jim."
A revolver was also recovered from the spot.
Ultra-left party man killed in RAB shootout
This may be our unidentified stiff
A suspected ultra-left party man was killed in a shootout with the Rapid Action Battalion at a Madaripur village early Wednesday, taking to 779 the figure of such death from June 2004. The deceased, Obaidur Khalashi, was a regional leader of the Sarbahara Party and wanted in a number of criminal cases, the battalion said. The battalion said a team raided Mahiberchar in the district headquarters on secret information on an assembly of the ultra-left party operatives at about 4:30am.
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A revolver was also recovered from the spot.
This being an unplanned encounter, the RAB didn't have time to retreive the shutter gun from its home in the evidence locker back at HQ.
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Indeed, much more work could be done for the proletariat if the cadres would stop hanging around the warehouse districts in those less-than-tony-Upazilas. And lose the Che tee-shirts.
Lugano, 28 Feb. (AKI) - A court in southern Switzerland on Wednesday cleared seven defendants from Yemen, Somalia and Iraq of links to the al-Qaeda terror network in the country's first ever trial of al-Qaeda suspects, the Swissinfo website reported. The federal criminal court in Lugano rejected the prosecution's allegations that the defendants belonged to a criminal organisation run by the principal defendant - who admitted having had contact with a known al-Qaeda member Abdullah el Rimi, involved in attacks on the American naval destroyer USS Cole in 2000 and in Saudi Arabia's capital Riyadh in 2003.
However, the court did find six of the seven defendants guilty of violating foreign residency laws and handed down conditional sentences of up to 11 months.
The main defendant was found not guilty of the charge of offering to obtain a passport for el Rimi. Two other defendants were acquitted of charges they had maintained contacts with al-Qaeda. However, the court did find six of the seven defendants guilty of violating foreign residency laws and handed down conditional sentences of up to 11 months.
The defendants will receive up to 76,000 dollars in compensation for the time they spent in preventive custody, Swissinfo said, noting that experts had pointed out the lack of firm evidence in the case - consisting mainly of text messages and taped phone conversations. The trial, which opened last month in Lugano, is reckoned to have cost the Swiss state 820,000 dollars to hold.
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'Cos no terror attacks are ever planned thru phone calls and text messages. Ev'rybody knows that.
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I wonder what a 'contract' goes for these days - it's not too far from Sicily so travel shouldn't be too costly. Certainly less than the $900,000 spent.
Spaniard Moutaz Almallah Dabas, who was arrested in Britain for his alleged links to the Madrid bombing, on Wednesday lost his last bid to avoid extradition to Spain for trial. Five judges of the House of Lords rejected an appeal lodged by the Syrian-born Dabas, brother of Mouhannad Almallah Dabas, one of the 29 people currently on trial in Spain for their alleged roles in the March, 2004 attacks.
The nearly simultaneous backpack-bomb explosions on four rush-hour commuter trains killed 191 people and wounded nearly 2,000 others in the worst terrorist attack in Spanish history. Prosecutors contend that those who carried out the massacre did so as an act of "holy war" terrorism motivated by radical Islamic fundamentalism. The Chamber of Lords, which constitutes the highest court in Britain, rejected arguments by attorneys for Dabas that he might be subjected to cruel conditions or even torture in Spain if extradited. Dabas was arrested in March, 2005 in Slough, west London, on a warrant issued by Spanish Judge Juan del Olmo. The alleged terrorist collaborator previously had lost a bid in London's High Court to block extradition after a British magistrate had ruled that he should be sent to Madrid for trial. Spanish prosecutors say the Dabas brothers conspired with several of those implicated in the massacre.
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Worth noting that this case went all the way to the Law Lords. I think the potential Abu Qatada extradition (discussed t'other day) will take years of similar legal wrangling. Someone better hit the judiciary with a cluebat - there's currently a trial in Spain that could make use of Dabas' testimony. No?
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About that trial:
Something smells rotten in the kingdom of Spain Denmark Hamlet
The judge investigating the Madrid train bombings on Wednesday accused a new suspect of being a ringleader of the attacks. Judge Juan del Olmo accused Moroccan Abdelilah Hriz, 29, of being a material author of the bombings. Hriz, who is currently in prison in Morocco, was allegedly linked to the attacks by DNA found on a comb and blood-stained trousers found at the flat and a house where a number of the leading suspects were staying. Del Olmo went to Morocco to get a sample of DNA from Hriz last year. Hriz has now been charged in connection with causing the deaths of 191 people, the attempted murder of 1,811 people who were hurt in the bombings and helping to mount four terrorist attacks.
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that suspected al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla is competent to stand trial on terrorism support charges, rejecting arguments that he was severely damaged by 3 1/2 years of interrogation and isolation in a military brig. Padilla was in court when U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke announced her decision, but he showed no reaction. "This defendant clearly has the capacity to assist his attorneys," Cooke said just hours after she finished four days of competency hearings.
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Godie, Refused to listen to the paid lawyer-whores did he?
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MIAMI -- A college professor who pleaded guilty in a federal case involving allegations that he and his wife spied for Cuba's communist government and betrayed their fellow Cuban-American exiles by passing along information about community figures was sentenced Tuesday to five years in prison. District Judge K. Michael Moore sentenced Carlos Alvarez, 61, and his 56-year-old wife Elsa on reduced charges they received in a federal plea deal. Carlos Alvarez also received three years probation. Elsa Alvarez was sentenced to three years in prison and one year of probation. That was the maximum sentence both could get under sentencing guidelines.
Both Alvarezes apologized and took responsibility for their actions during a lengthy sentencing hearing. But they also said that they were not communists or supporters of Cuban President Fidel Castro, and were just trying to establish open dialogue with Cuba, where both were born before coming to the United States.
Several family members and friends offered emotional testimony on behalf of the couple's character. "We are extremely upset," said the couple's son, also named Carlos Alvarez, 40, after the hearing.
The government had asked for a 21-month sentence for Elsa Alvarez, but Moore exceeded that recommendation. "As we know, a good motive is never an excuse for criminal conduct," Moore said before sentencing. "Their behavior undermined U.S. foreign policy."
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OTOH, NEWSWITHVIEWS.com > THE NORTH AMERICAN SOVIET UNION, + THE END OF AMERICA AS WE KNOW IT IS AT HAND articles. * TECHCENTRALSTATION > article on THERE ARE TWO AMERICAS, FOR SURE. Whom knows, after 2008 the man will be hailed a patriot of prim-and-proper Regionalism? Communitarianism?.
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Wonder if being an unregister agent of a foreign government is a lesser included offense? Lobbying without a license could get you a cell with Jack Abramoff and maybe a Congressman or two.
Pakistani security forces have captured a high-ranking Taliban leader in the southwestern city of Quetta, a senior Pakistani security official and Taliban sources said on Thursday. The capture of Mullah Obaidullah Akhund marked the first time Pakistan had arrested a senior leader of the Islamist militia since it was driven from power in Afghanistan in 2001, and thousands of its fighters fled into Pakistan. The security official, who requested anonymity, and the Taliban sources said Akhund, the third most senior member of the Taliban's 10-member leadership council, was arrested late on Monday, hours after a surprise visit to Pakistan by U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney.
"Youse guys! We gotta give this Dick fella somethin' or he's gonna drop da heat on us!"
"How 'bout cousin Mahmoud? He's kinda shifty."
"Naw, we need someone better den him!"
The head of the Interior Ministry's Crisis Management Unit, retired Brigadier Javed Iqbal Cheema, denied Akhund had been detained when asked by Reuters.
"Lies! All lies!"
Aside from being on the leadership council, headed by Mullah Mohammad Omar, Akhund was defense minister in the Taliban government before it fell.
Cheney had asked Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to "do more" to stop al Qaeda rebuilding its network from safe havens in Pakistani tribal lands, and step up efforts to thwart a spring offensive by the Taliban against Afghan and NATO troops. The Pakistani security official said Akhund's arrest was the culmination of a planned operation, and was not a result of Cheney's visit.
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More from AP at 7:18 pm, dateline Islamabad Akhund was among five Taliban suspects arrested in a raid on a home in the southwestern city of Quetta earlier this week, said the official, who requested anonymity...The New York Times, citing two unnamed Pakistani government officials, said Akhund was arrested on Monday, the day Vice President Dick Cheney visited Pakistan... The intelligence official said the raid was carried out by Pakistani security officials, acting on a tip from U.S. officials. He said that seven more Taliban suspects had been arrested, also in Quetta, later in the week.
The presence of Taliban leaders in southwestern city, which is heavily populated by Afghan migrants, is hard to substantiate. The clearest public sign, prior to Akhund's reported capture, was the arrest there in October 2005 of a Taliban spokesman, Latif Hakimi, who lived in the city with his family.
In recent months, NATO has reported a string of successes in killing or arresting Taliban commanders in Afghanistan: most significantly, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Osmani - another top Omar lieutenant - who was killed in an airstrike in southern Helmand province, just across the border from Pakistan, in December.
In an interview with an Al-Jazeera TV journalist last week, Dadullah claimed he had deployed more than 6,000 fighters for a spring offensive. He said the fighters were hidden in tunnels and elsewhere in preparation the assault.
QUETTA, Pakistan - Pakistani police have arrested five Afghans with suspected links to the Taleban in a raid in the southwestern frontier city of Quetta, officials said on Thursday. The five men were seized late Wednesday during in a hotel in central Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, which borders Afghanistan, police official Qazi Abdul Wahid told AFP.
They appeared to be affiliates of the Taleban and we are interrogating the suspects about their links, Wahid said, adding that the arrests were made on a tip-off. The Afghans arrived in Pakistan few days ago and did not have valid travelling documents, he said.
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Suspected Islamic militants captured and beheaded an Afghan teacher whom they accused of being a spy for the United States, an official said Wednesday. The man's body was found early Tuesday in a large sack dumped by a road near Jandola, a town in the South Waziristan tribal district, the local security official said. He asked not to be identified due to the sensitive nature of his job. A note found with the beheaded man's body identified him as "Akhtar Usman, the one who spied for America," the official said. He said the forehead of the man's severed head was inscribed with the word for "hypocrite" in Urdu, Pakistan's main language.
Usman, in his 30s, was a teacher at an Islamic school in nearby North Waziristan and was known to have spoken out against militants in the area, the official said.
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Also, he taught the children how to solve a quadratic equation, which is an insult to Islam.
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TW, his real offense was to teach his students negative numbers. That's unIslamic.
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Flying kites and talking about complex numbers: now that will get you drawn and quadraticed quartered.
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Gotta keep 'em dumb and stupid, so they can be good splodeydopes. Edumacation gives 'em funny ideas, like building insead of tearing down, and learning how to create instead of just take from others. Can't have that, not in an ISLAMIC society.
Anyone that kills a teacher should be forced to clean out septic tanks for the rest of their lives - in France.
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Anyone that kills a teacher should be forced to clean out septic tanks for the rest of their lives - in France.
Indian police say they have killed a senior member of the Pakistan-based Islamic militant group Lashkar-e Taiba, near the northern city of Srinagar. A police spokesman says the dead man is Abu Talha, who had been accused of masterminding a massacre of 35 Hindus in Kashmir last year. There was no immediate comment from Lashkar-e Taiba, which has carried out a series of suicide attacks across Kashmir over the past eight years. India's authorities say violence in Kashmir has decreased since the launch of a peace process with Pakistan in 2004, but say daily shootings and occasional bomb attacks continue.
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After banning music in the tribal areas, local Taliban are reportedly fining taxi drivers and citizens Rs 500 for listening to music cassettes in their cars. I was stopped by the Taliban at Sarband village near Bara, Khyber Agency, last Saturday. They searched my taxi and found some music cassettes, and then asked me to pay Rs 500 as a fine, Khanimullah, a Peshawar-based taxi driver, told Daily Times.
Another taxi driver, Ali Khan, recounted a similar experience at Sangu near the Khyber Agency border two weeks ago, when men claiming to be local Taliban fined him Rs 500 because he had a Pashto music cassette in his car. They said music is a sin and prohibited in Islam, he said.
Hard-line group Daawatul Mujahideen on February 25 distributed Pushto language pamphlets saying music was banned in vehicles plying in Bajaur Agency. The pamphlets warn drivers of private and public vehicles to avoid playing music, or face capital punishment.
Meanwhile, suspected Taliban militants attacked a video centre in front of the Mandan police station in Bannuhometown of NWFP Chief Minister Akram Durrani - on Tuesday. Niaz Ali, the video centres owner, said that armed men attacked the shop at around 8:30am and destroyed CD players and CDs of Urdu, English and Indian films. The men then dumped the destroyed CDs in front of the police station.
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The men then dumped the destroyed CDs in front of the police station.
So playing music is bad but leaving litter in a public thoroughfare is OK? Really.
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Might be a way to reduce cabbie discrimination in certain northern US cities, at the airport.
By Waleed Ibrahim BAGHDAD (Rooters) - Iraqi security forces killed dozens of al Qaeda militants who attacked a village in western Anbar province on Wednesday, during fierce clashes that lasted much of the day, police officials said on Thursday.
Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul Karim Khalaf said foreign Arabs and Afghanis were among some 80 militants killed and 50 captured in the clashes in Amiriyat al Falluja, a village where local tribes had opposed al Qaeda. A police official in the area, Ahmed al-Falluji, put the number of militants killed at 70, with three police killed. There was no immediate verification of the number of casualties from medical sources.
A U.S. military spokesman in the nearby city of Falluja, Major Jeff Pool, said U.S. forces were not involved in the battle but had received reports from Iraqi police that it lasted most of Wednesday. He could not confirm the number killed.
Another police source in Falluja said dozens were killed. "Because it was so many killed we can't give an exact number for the death toll," the police source told Reuters. Witnesses said dozens of al Qaeda members attacked the village, prompting residents to flee and seek help from Iraqi security forces, who sent in police and soldiers.
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Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul Karim Khalaf said foreign Arabs and Afghanis were among some 80 militants killed and 50 captured in the clashes in Amiriyat al Falluja, a village where local tribes had opposed al Qaeda. A police official in the area, Ahmed al-Falluji, put the number of militants killed at 70, with three police killed. There was no immediate verification of the number of casualties from medical sources.
IF just half of these al-Qaeda numbers hold and IF the Iraqi police and the IA did the job independent of Coalition air-power and forces then it's very good news indeed.
US troops killed eight suspected militants and captured six others in raids in and around Baghdad on Wednesday morning, the military said. US intelligence reports indicated that militants linked to small arms fire and rocket attacks on American troops were operating northeast of Taji, a town on the northern outskirts of Baghdad, the military said in a statement. Eight people were killed when American helicopters and fighter planes fired on a palm grove there, the statement said. Two suspects were detained. Four more suspects were captured in Baghdad, the military said. The raids targeted al-Qaida in Iraq, and locals suspected of harboring militants, it said.
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Yep, surged 'em outa the big city and forced them into the sticks where they stand out with their store-bought curly-toed slippers.
Bomb and mortar attacks tormented war-weary Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 23 people, as Iraq set the date for a security conference that could see Washington sit down with archfoes Iran and Syria.
The deadliest blast ripped through Street Number 20, a bustling commercial area southwest of the capital, killing at least 10 people, defence officials and state television said.
Elsewhere, a suicide car bomber charged a police station, killing two bystanders, and guerrilla mortar teams bombarded. The US military said eight Al Qaeda militants were killed and six arrested in air strikes north of the capital on Wednesday.
Gunmen killed two brothers of a prominent politician on Wednesday in the insurgent stronghold of Muqdadiya, north of Baghdad, police and the politician said. The moderate lawmaker Saleem al-Jubouri, spokesman for the largest Sunni political bloc in parliament, said that his brothers, Fuad and Ahmed, were killed instantly when gunmen opened fire on them in his volatile home province of Diyala.
Britain said one of its soldiers had been killed on Tuesday in an attack on his patrol in Basra. An American soldier was also shot dead on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, US spokesman Rear Admiral Mark Fox said, There has been a couple of weeks of reduction in the levels of kidnappings and extra-judicial killings. But there has also been an increase in the number of car bombs and improvised explosive devices, he added, warning that it would be months not weeks before anyone can tell whether the plan is working.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, fixed a date of March 10 for an international security conference where he would urge regional neighbours to put pressure on armed factions to halt the bloodshed.
The head of the Defence Intelligence Agency said on Tuesday the US had evidence that Iraqi extremists were being trained inside Iran in the use of armour-piercing explosives. Lieutenant General Michael Maples gave no details in his testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Defence Secretary Robert Gates said the US may have a military presence in Iraq for a prolonged period and drew a comparison with US bases in Germany and South Korea. He also asked a Senate panel for $2.4 billion to fund research into ways to defeat roadside bombs that have killed more than a thousand US troops in Iraq.
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By AARON KLEIN
TEL AVIV The ruins of two large synagogues in evacuated Jewish communities of the Gaza Strip have been transformed into military bases used by Palestinian Arab groups to fire rockets at Israeli cities, according to a senior leader of a Gaza militant group.
Immediately after the Israeli evacuation was completed, Palestinian Arabs destroyed most of the Gaza synagogues.
When Israel withdrew from the Gaza in August, 2005, it left intact 20 synagogues of the Gush Katif Jewish communities following an Israeli Cabinet decision against demolishing the structures. Immediately after the Israeli evacuation was completed, Palestinian Arabs destroyed most of the Gaza synagogues.
Mr. Abir blamed the Jewish state for the desecration, claiming the decision to leave the structures intact was an Israeli conspiracy. Israel "left the synagogues behind so the world would see the Palestinians destroying them."
Speaking to The New York Sun from Gaza, a spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees, Abu Abir, said the area in which the synagogues once stood is now used to fire rockets at Israel. "We are proud to turn these lands, especially these parts that were for long time the symbol of occupation and injustice, like the synagogue, into a military base and source of fire against the Zionists and the Zionist entity," Mr. Abir said.
Mr. Abir blamed the Jewish state for the desecration of the Gaza synagogues by Palestinian Arabs, claiming the decision to leave the structures intact was part of an Israeli conspiracy.
Israel "left the synagogues behind so the world would see the Palestinians destroying them," Mr. Abir said.
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Mr. Abir blamed the Jewish state for the desecration of the Gaza synagogues by Palestinian Arabs, claiming the decision to leave the structures intact was part of an Israeli conspiracy.
Israel "left the synagogues behind so the world would see the Palestinians destroying them," Mr. Abir said.
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Mr. Abir blamed the Jewish state for the desecration of the Gaza synagogues by Palestinian Arabs, claiming the decision to leave the structures intact was part of an Israeli conspiracy.
Over and over again we hear muslims complain about how they have no self control -
Women must cover themselves since men can't control their urges
Dont say/print/draw anything bad about islam/mo/terror cuz there's no telling what we're likely to do
Israel made us _______.
They need to ask their imams whether something is good/bad/other. Is there no ability on their part to actually THINK?!
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I hope Israel is getting as tired of these idiots as I am, and wipes the entire Gaza area clean of anything resembling human habitation or humanity. It's time for Gaza to disappear from the world scene. Let it become just another part of Southern Israel, full of "good ol' boys" - with big, fancy guns.
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OldPat, I was waiting for my countrymen to realize that peace with Arabs is impossible. and go for the possible: peace without Arabs, since 1987.
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Sad - the greats of world Muslim history turned or converted many non-Muslim religious sites in things of beauty, to glorify God + their faith. As said or prmeised times before, iff Muslims prove unable to control or resolve their hatred, nor to want even proactive self-reforms, they'll end up destroying themselves + their faith + their civilization + the World in general. THEIR HATRED AND REFUSAL TO REFORM WILL INDUCE THEM TO PREFER THE DESTRUCTION OF ALLAH + HEAVEN THAN SEE COMPROMISE OR PEACE WID ANYONE. THEY'LL DESTROY "THE GOOD" ALONG WID "THE BAD".
Debka so salt to taste
The plot for 10 airliners to crash over US cities by detonating liquid explosives, hidden in hand luggage, disrupted British and transatlantic air traffic last August.
Six months later, the Lebanese police report the confiscation of the first batch ever found anywhere of these explosive devices at the S. Lebanese Palestinian camp of Ein Hellhole Ain Hilwa, near Sidon port. DEBKAfile revealed last year that an al Qaeda network had infiltrated Ain Hilwa.
British security detained 21 suspects in the mass murder conspiracy but had not laid hands on any of the liquid explosives they were to have used.
A Lebanese police communiqué said each device consists of two tubes filled with blue liquid fitted on a board and connected to a time-detonator.(See picture) The 31 sets confiscated included sophisticated electro-chemical timers-detonators that can be timed to explode after 124 days. They were described as being of East European origin.
The sets were assembled and waiting to be smuggled and used in terrorist acts, the communiqué revealed - only they were busted 12 days ago. The Lebanese police delayed its report on the seizure in order to track down members of a major terrorist network operating in different parts of Lebanon.
British and European intelligence have been hunting the liquid explosives since last August. Almost all western airports now ban air passengers from carrying liquids in their hand luggage.
Yeah, some of their stories are so good that I wish they could be true. Trouble is that most, if not all, turn out to be bogus. They are sort of the Weekly World News of WoT reporting.
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first batch ever found anywhere... camp of Ain Hilwa
How on earth would they know? This is the first time I recall that the Lebanese police (or army, either) ventured successfully past the gates any of the camps.
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Liquid explosives mean produced by some government.
Typically, if made by the terrorists themselves, they first try homemade acetone peroxide, because it is so easy to make. aka the "Mother of Satan", it is also as unstable as hell, and they often end up as a hook hand after their first batch.
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I can tell you my first attempt at acetone peroxide didn't work out too well... nobody hurt, but 3 rednecks MUCH to the wiser and the world short some kitchenware. We pretty much stick to spud guns now...
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A man who takes his work seriously and takes pride in it.
Chief superintendent M., a company commander in the Border Guard, on Wednesday morning killed the commander of Islamic Jihad in Jenin, Ashraf Sa'adi, who was responsible for launching several suicide attacks in 2005 and 2006.
The company was operating in the Jenin refugee camp. M. describes the morning's events for Ynet: "We received specific information about a vehicle. When we noticed it, we tried to capture the three terrorist inside.
"They escaped into one of the alleyways and started to shoot in our direction. We returned fire. I felt something hit me in my shoulder but continued fighting. I then saw someone run away from the vehicle. I shot and killed him. That was Ashraf Sa'adi."
The other two gunmen, also wanted terrorists, were shot down by the company.
M. was lightly injured in his shoulder but refused to be evacuated for medical treatment. "I did not want to leave until it was over and everyone was out. I went to hospital when we were done," he explained.
Atta boy, just rub some dirt on it!
This is the second recent successful operation for M. The same unit was responsible for last week's killing of Mahmoud abu Abid, who was responsible for sending the suicide bomber caught by police in Bat Yam .
M. shot the terrorist last week too. He is not trying to conceal his satisfaction: "This is a terrorist cell that will do anything to harm Israelis. I am pleased that I was the one who eliminated the cell."
When asked about his fears he said: "Yes, there is always some fear, but I try to keep a low profile. But if there is another operation tomorrow, my guys and I will be there, because we are doing the right thing."
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Wasnt it just yesterday when begging for money from the Ruskies Mashaal vowed to keep a lid on this type of shit? Guess youll say just about anything when your desperate for cash eh Khaled.
When Lieutenant Colonel Jirasit Lormae arrived at the scene of the murder of a Muslim man in southern Thailand and asked what had happened, villagers told the policeman in faltering Thai they knew nothing. However, whispers in the crowd in the local Malay dialect suggested they had noted an unusual absence of military patrols on the day the man, who was on a government list of suspected Muslim separatist rebels, was gunned down.
The case shows why authorities in the predominantly Buddhist country are struggling to contain a three-year rebellion in the provinces of Pattani, Narathiwat and Yala, where 80 percent of people are ethnic Malay Muslims and have few ties to Bangkok. Fear of reprisals from either the police, the army or the mysterious militants behind an insurgency that has claimed 2,000 lives since 2004 prevents anybody from talking, leaving police with little to go on.
"We can't rely on witnesses because they don't know what will happen to them after they talk to police," said Jirasit, who is a rarity in the force -- an ethnic Malay Muslim who speaks the dialect. "They just lie to you."
The lack of cooperation from the public goes further. Increasingly, whenever police take people into a station for questioning, crowds of veiled Muslim women and children lay siege to the building, demanding their release. Invariably, police let the suspects or witnesses go to avoid violence.
Jirasit, the senior officer in Yala town, said it was also common for officers to arrive at the scene of a crime to find evidence has already been tampered with or removed. "We didn't find any bullet cartridges as villagers were spraying the road with water," Jirasit said, recalling the shooting of the Muslim man.
Militants are also becoming more sophisticated, luring bomb squad officers with a small explosion, then hitting them with a follow-up blast, detonating it with a mobile phone, or a remote-control if the police and army are jamming phone signals.
Jirasit also complains about a lack of cooperation between the police and soldiers in the region. Martial law means police have to seek permission from the army every time they want to raid a house.
And unresolved cases are piling up on desk of Jirasit and his 15 colleagues -- most of them junior officers paid just 8,000 baht ($230) a month, who have to go out to buy their own cameras, firearms, flak jackets and even transport. "Our lives are hanging by a thread so we have to buy flak jackets for ourselves," said newly graduated Sub-Lieutenant Kittpong Pooduangchit, who sometimes has to ask his parents for money to get by.
Jirasit says the contrast with Bangkok, which was hit by a series of small blasts that killed three people on New Year's Eve, could not be more telling. "There are 200 investigators with several police generals working on eight bombs in Bangkok, but down there are 15 of us handling dozens with me as the most senior officer," he said.
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Increasingly, whenever police take people into a station for questioning, crowds of veiled Muslim women and children lay siege to the building, demanding their release.
But the majority of Muslims are against terrorism, and want the terrorists punished! It has to be true! The press keeps telling me that!
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Those Brave Jihadi Pussies sure do like to hide behind their women and kids, don't they?
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Sounds a little like what happened in Kosovo. They just keep moving in and causing trouble until the government is forced to cede the territory to them. Any Thai Bhuddists in that area will have to leave. Everybody freaked out when Milosevic went medieval on them but what choice did he have? It was either that or let them take over which is effectively what has happened.
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The next time women and children pull this stunt, round them all up, put them on a leaky ferry, and send them to Indonesia. Rinse and repeat until the area is pacified. Shoot any armed men that attempt to stop you.
The only way to deal with muslims and win is to use massive force. They understand that. Even Mo understood that. Time to crush the muzzie "resistance" like the crate of rotten eggs it is.
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A military patrol unit and a group of students were respectively ambushed in Thailand's southernmost provinces on Thursday morning, injuring at least two rangers and seven teenagers.
The attack aiming the ranger unit occurred at 8:40 a.m. (0140 GMT)at an intersection on the Yala-Betong Highway in Bannang Sata district of Yala Province, when about ten rangers patrolling the road on foot were returning to their base. The suspect insurgents detonated a homemade bomb which was planted on one side of the road. At least two rangers were injured and were rushed to the Yala hospital, police said.
Meanwhile, in nearby Narathiwat Province, a group of students were ambushed by gunmen Thursday morning while they were returning from a sight seeing trip in Songkhla province. A total of seven students were injured by gunshots and one of them was still in coma till Thursday afternoon, doctors said.
On Thursday, a Muslim man was arrested for allegedly planting a bomb at a Yala hotel when a series of coordinate bomb attacks were launched in the three southern border provinces last month. Police said Adul Meenah, 25, was arrested for allegedly planting a bomb at the Sri Yala Hotel on the night of February 18.
Sri Lanka escalated sea and land attacks against Tamil Tigers and killed at least 18 people Wednesday, a day after the rebels shelled helicopters carrying diplomats and a minister, officials said. The navy engaged a flotilla of rebel boats off the northeastern coast in a pre-dawn clash, sinking two craft together with at least 15 people, navy spokesman Commander DKP Dassanayake said. The three-hour confrontation with the Liberat on Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) off Pulmoddai wounded at least two navy sailors, he said. There were about 14 Sea Tiger boats. The navy destabilised two of the boats. We believe about 15 to 16 people were there in the two boats that were destroyed, Dassanayake said. In southern waters, naval patrol craft fired at a large ship which exploded and burnt for over two hours, Dassanayake said.
We contacted the vessel on radio and the information they gave us turned out to be wrong, he said. The vessel had no identification marks and after we fired warning shots, they began to attack our patrol craft. We retaliated. He said the 75-metre (250 feet) long vessel was believed to be carrying a large haul of arms for the Tigers. However, there was no immediate word from the rebels.
Military spokesman Prasad Samarasinghe said three suspected Tiger rebels were also shot dead by a foot patrol of the elite police Special Task Force commandos in the northwest district of Mannar early Wednesday.
The land and sea battles came a day after the Tigers shelled two military helicopters carrying ambassadors from France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States, European Union and the heads of UN agencies. The attack was a pre-determined, pre-planned attempt on the lives of the diplomats by the LTTE, Government defence spokesman Keheliya Rambukwella told reporters on Wednesday.
Rambukwella said his initial information was that the German ambassador was also wounded because witnesses had seen him fallen, but the embassy here said their envoy was not hurt. The Tigers said they were unaware diplomats were visiting Batticaloa and blamed the government for risking the foreigners lives. At least 20 civilians were wounded in the military shelling, the Tigers added.
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TEHERAN - Iranian security forces killed 17 rebels in the latest clashes in West Azarbaijan province close to the Turkish and Iraqi borders in northwest Iran, a Revolutionary Guards commander said on Thursday. Seventeen rebels who entered Iran to carry out sabotage work have been killed, Colonel Jalil Babazadeh of the elite force told the IRNA news agency.
Four members of the Guards were also killed in the clashes, including one commander, two lieutenants and a rank-and-file member, the commander said, without specifying when the fighting took place. West Azarbaijan province has been the scene of a string of deadly clashes in recent days between Iranian security forces and rebels linked to the Kurdish separatist group Pejak.
Guards chief Yayha Rahim Safavi said on Wednesday around 30 rebels had been killed by security forces in the clashes, which have coincided with an upsurge of unrest in the Sistan-Baluchestan province in the southeast of Iran. The authorities have repeatedly accused the United States and Britain of seeking to stir unrest amongst ethnic minorities in sensitive areas close to the Turkish, Iraqi and Pakistani borders.
Fourteen Iranian military personnel were killed in a helicopter crash last week during an operation against rebels in West Azarbaijan province that the authorities said was an accident due to bad weather. Pejak, a group linked to Turkeys outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), claimed shooting down the helicopter and killing 20 soldiers and senior officers. Safavi on Wednesday warned that the Revolutionary Guards reserved the right to pursue Kurdish rebels inside Iraqs frontiers if Baghdad failed to expel them from border zones.
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Militants killed four Iranian policemen and kidnapped at least one other in a late-night ambush in a sensitive border province before fleeing towards Pakistan, officials said on Wednesday.
The clash in the southeastern province of Sistan-Baluchestan follows an upsurge of violence in the area. Interior Minister Mostafa Pour Mohammadi said that four police were killed, one abducted and another wounded in the clash on Tuesday. Local police chief Esmael Ahmadi-Mogadam said earlier that four were taken hostage and two killed. The rebels who were in two cars fled towards Pakistan, Ahmadi Mogadam told the IRNA agency. He complained about the lack of cooperation from Pakistan to fight against these rebels adding that this position is unacceptable.
However, a border official in Pakistan said he had no knowledge of any such incident and dismissed Iranian complaints that its frontier security was lax. We intercept any illegal movement and the two sides have signed several agreements for strict border control and counter-narcotics cooperation, said Captain Shahid, a spokesman for the Pakistan frontier security force in Quetta.
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Ooooh, a little red on red. Sweet!! Looks like
AQ 4
IRG 0
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Better keep an eye on your pipelines Mullahmob, the Bugtis are on the move, haveing destroyed every cylinder-like object in their moutain home, their cylinder-demon must now feed on foreign sources.
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LONDON (AP) -- A senior Taliban commander says Osama bin Laden is alive and in contact with leaders of Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents, according to an interview aired on British television. 
(SomaliNet) Mogadishu mayor, Adde Hassan Ali known as Adde Gabow has on Wednesday expressed his sorrow over the death of a local militia commander who was killed by unknown gunman last night. Mr. Adde Gabow described the murder subjected to Ahmed Hersi as an act of destabilizing the capital blaming the killing on what he called peace killers. 
Extremist killed in shootout with RAB
Lugano, 28 Feb. (AKI) - A court in southern Switzerland on Wednesday cleared seven defendants from Yemen, Somalia and Iraq of links to the al-Qaeda terror network in the country's first ever trial of al-Qaeda suspects, the Swissinfo website reported. The federal criminal court in Lugano rejected the prosecution's allegations that the defendants belonged to a criminal organisation run by the principal defendant - who admitted having had contact with a known al-Qaeda member 
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The judge investigating the Madrid train bombings on Wednesday accused a new suspect of being a ringleader of the attacks. 
A federal judge ruled Wednesday that suspected al-Qaida operative 
Pakistani security forces have captured a high-ranking Taliban leader in the southwestern city of Quetta, a senior Pakistani security official and Taliban sources said on Thursday. The capture of 
QUETTA, Pakistan - Pakistani police have arrested five Afghans with suspected links to the Taleban in a raid in the southwestern frontier city of Quetta, officials said on Thursday. The five men were seized late Wednesday during in a hotel in central Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, which borders Afghanistan, police official Qazi Abdul Wahid told AFP.
Suspected Islamic militants captured and beheaded an Afghan teacher whom they accused of being a spy for the United States, an official said Wednesday. The man's body was found early Tuesday in a large sack dumped by a road near Jandola, a town in the South Waziristan tribal district, the local security official said. He asked not to be identified due to the sensitive nature of his job. A note found with the beheaded man's body identified him as "Akhtar Usman, the one who spied for America," the official said. He said the forehead of the man's severed head was inscribed with the word for "hypocrite" in Urdu, Pakistan's main language.
Indian police say they have killed a senior member of the Pakistan-based Islamic militant group 
After banning music in the tribal areas, local Taliban are reportedly fining taxi drivers and citizens Rs 500 for listening to music cassettes in their cars. I was stopped by the Taliban at Sarband village near Bara, Khyber Agency, last Saturday. They searched my taxi and found some music cassettes, and then asked me to pay Rs 500 as a fine, Khanimullah, a Peshawar-based taxi driver, told Daily Times. 
By Waleed Ibrahim BAGHDAD (Rooters) - Iraqi security forces killed dozens of al Qaeda militants who attacked a village in western Anbar province on Wednesday, during fierce clashes that lasted much of the day, police officials said on Thursday. 
US troops killed eight suspected militants and captured six others in raids in and around Baghdad on Wednesday morning, the military said. US intelligence reports indicated that militants linked to small arms fire and rocket attacks on American troops were operating northeast of Taji, a town on the northern outskirts of Baghdad, the military said in a statement. Eight people were killed when American helicopters and fighter planes fired on a palm grove there, the statement said. Two suspects were detained. Four more suspects were captured in Baghdad, the military said. The raids targeted al-Qaida in Iraq, and locals suspected of harboring militants, it said.
Bomb and mortar attacks tormented war-weary Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 23 people, as Iraq set the date for a security conference that could see Washington sit down with archfoes Iran and Syria. 
Militants killed four Iranian policemen and kidnapped at least one other in a late-night ambush in a sensitive border province before fleeing towards Pakistan, officials said on Wednesday.
