The U.S.-led coalition said Friday it had launched an air strike on a meeting of top Taliban commanders in a militant stronghold in Afghanistan, and local officials said more than a dozen rebels and civilians had been killed.
The coalition issued a brief statement on the strike Thursday in a remote area of Baghran district in southern Helmand province, saying it targeted two Taliban commanders. It gave few other details and no word of casualties.
Afghan Defence Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi said the strikes killed three senior Taliban, including the commander for Helmand province, Mullah Rahim. About one dozen other militants were killed, he said.
Awaiting the severed head as confirmation ...
Purported Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi denied Azimis claim that Mullah Rahim was killed in the air strike. An even higher-ranked leader, Dadullah Mansoor, commander of the Taliban for all of southern Afghanistan, was present at the meeting hit by the strike, but his fate was not known, Azimi said.
Shrapnel wound to the gut? Blast injury? May I go so far as to pray for sepsis?
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I remember the Riverside (CA) paper would often run headlines like:
Budget may be balanced.
Iraq may pull out of Kuwait.
Just about anything may happen.
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Taliban militants were hanging two local people accused of spying for the government. Other villagers had come out to watch when the bombs fell, he said.
Sounds like the opening to "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly".
Pakistan said on Thursday it had no influence over the Taliban holding 21 South Korean hostages in Afghanistan, stressing it was at war with the Islamist militia and Al Qaeda elements within its own borders, AFP reported. Pakistan itself is a victim of such incidents, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtyar said after a meeting with South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min-Soon. Pakistan would like to help, Bakhtyar said, but was at war with Taliban and Al Qaeda elements at home, he said. Naturally we have no lines of communication with the Taliban, he said.
Meanwhile in Islamabad, a South Korean presidential envoy met Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao and Opposition leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman to plead for help in securing the release of 21 Korean hostages held in Afghanistan. Baek Jong-chun refused to talk to reporters after meeting with Maulana Fazl, and his aides requested a media blackout to avoid further problems for the hostages. But Rehman later told reporters Baek had asked for his help in securing their safe release. I have already issued an appeal to those who are holding the hostages, and today again I am issuing a second appeal to them, that (they) please release them, they were on a medical mission there, not for fighting, Rehman said. Earlier, Baek met Sherpao and senior security officials to request their help in ending the crisis, officials said.
Meanwhile, Taliban militants said in Ghazni they were ready to meet a South Korean delegation over the fate of 21 hostages held in Afghanistan. But the embassy in Kabul did not confirm that it would go ahead with such a meeting, which the Afghan government and the Taliban told AFP was already being planned. A South Korean diplomatic delegation is to meet the Taliban for face-to-face talks to look for ways and solutions to free the South Korean nationals, Ghazni governor Mirajuddin Pattan told AFP. This request from the Koreans has been accepted by the Taliban and now we are working on how, where and when this meet could take place, he said. Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi told AFP the group had selected a team to meet the South Koreans at a secret location.
Seoul was meanwhile seeking the help of the United States. The propaganda-savvy Taliban pointed to Washington as the main obstacle to the negotiations, with Ahmadi saying: The Americans do not permit the Kabul administration to free our prisoners. South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min-soon and US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte met on the sidelines of a regional security forum in the Philippines. They agreed that both countries will not use any kind of force, a South Korean diplomat said.
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Quite true, IMHO. The vise versa, however, is false.
(SomaliNet) An Ethiopian soldier was killed and four others were wounded in a grenade attack, which took place in Ex-control Balad, south of the Somalia capital Mogadishu on Thursday. Witnesses told Somalinet that an unknown local militant hurled a hand grenade bomb at an Ethiopian convoy passing the road around 10:20 am and the soldiers opened fire on all directions in response to the attack.
The Ethiopians sealed off the area of the blast stopping all people and cars to use the road. The soldiers were searching the surrounding areas to find the attacker but no one was arrested in connection with the latest bomb.
The attack on the Ethiopian soldiers came hours after insurgents launched a mortar attack on the Ethiopian positions in the capital which claimed the lives of eight civilians while dozens were wounded when the mortar shells slammed their houses last night.
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Egyptian soldiers killed four Sudanese refugees, beating two to death in front of horrified Israeli soldiers, an Israeli TV station reported Thursday, screening what it said was army surveillance video and interviews with the soldiers.
Egyptian police said that authorities arrested two Sudanese refugees Thursday, seriously injuring one when he scuffled with police. But Egyptian police Capt. Mohammed Badr did not report any deaths.
Channel 10 TV said the incident happened late Wednesday night. In the video, the refugees are seen running toward the border with Israel. Then, according to one of the soldiers, who was not identified and whose voice was distorted, Egyptian soldiers opened fire, killing two.
The other two tried to climb the border fence but were tackled by Egyptian soldiers, the TV report said.
Israeli soldiers were sent to the scene to try to help the refugees, and at one point they got into a tug-or-war with the Egyptians, each side holding on to the Sudanese.
"We pulled one way they pulled another, they pointed their guns at us," said one of the soldiers. He said the Israelis let go for fear that the Egyptians would fire at them.
Then the Israeli soldiers said they watched helplessly as the Egyptians passed the two refugees from one to the other, beating them. "We saw them gang up on them and beat them on the ground until they stopped moving," said one soldier.
Hundreds of Sudanese refugees, many from the war-wracked Darfur region, have crossed the desert border from Egypt into Israel in recent months.
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Frustrated and impotent at the plight of their Palestinian brothers, the Egyptians lash out at their nubian neighbors. It's all Israel's fault, you see?
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Algerian security forces have killed the mastermind of suicide bombings including a triple attack in Algiers in April that claimed 33 lives, a government-run newspaper reported on Thursday. Rachid Sid Ali, a military adviser to the al Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb, was killed on July 30 in the troubled Kabylie region east of Algiers, El Moudjahid said. He was killed along with his aide Haroun El Achaachi "thanks to the help of the local population of Iboudranene" village near Kabylie's main town of Tizi Ouzou, the daily added, citing a security source.
Attacks plotted by Sid Ali include suicide car bombings at the government headquarters and two police stations in Algiers on April 11 which killed 33 people, and a suicide truck bombing on July 11 that killed at least eight soldiers at a military barracks in Kabylie. "He supervised the entire operations and gave instructions to film attacks, and he was behind the acquisition of car bombs. He had plans for large-scale attacks," the newspaper reported.
Al Qaeda in the Maghreb, previously known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), swore allegiance to al Qaeda last year and last month vowed more attacks in the Maghreb region of Algeria.
That seems to be working well...
Algerian security forces have stepped up assaults on al Qaeda hideouts after the group switched its focus to high profile bombings in towns and away from hit-and-run attacks on police in the countryside.
This article starring:
HARUN EL ACHAACHI
al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
RACHID SID ALI
al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat
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Second photo of the fat ladies singing this week for me.
Bangladesh security forces arrested four suspected members of a banned Islamic militant group from a house in the capital on Thursday, and seized a 10-kg (22 lb) bomb and four grenades, an official said.
The militants belonged to the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen, one of the underground groups fighting for introduction of strict Islamic rule in Bangladesh, a mainly Muslim democracy. The raid was carried out by a team of the elite Rapid Action Battalion on a house in the Mirpur area of Dhaka, an official said. The captured militants have confessed they were members of the Jamaat-ul Mujahideen, he said. The Islamist organisations, blamed for a wave of bombings in 2005, were trying to regroup after six top leaders were hanged in March following their conviction for the attacks, intelligence officers said. Last month, security forces arrested four militants with three kg of powdered explosives and 15 grenades from Kishorganj in northern Bangladesh.
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A 23-year-old man will appear in court on Thursday in connection with the failed bombings in London launched two weeks after the July 7, 2005 attacks that killed more than 50 people in the capital.
British police on Wednesday charged Lukimon Sulaimon with failing to disclose information which might help in bringing a terrorist to justice in the UK, Londons Metropolitan Police said in a statement. He will appear before City of Westminster Magistrates Court in central London on Thursday. Sulaimon was arrested on Tuesday afternoon in Brighton, southern England by officers of the Metropolitan Polices Counter-Terrorism Command.
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I'll ask others to contribute their own opinions as to whether convicted terrorists should receive foreshortened sentences due to lack of success in their endeavours.
Terrorism is such a hideous enterprise whereby even an unsuccessful attempt should garner penalties equal to that of perpetrators who actually commit such an atrocity.
I've argued this before. In cases such as this, it is the intent that matters. Those who hold human life in such incredibly low esteem represent the absolute nadir of morality. Civilized society has little choice but to regard anyone willing to participate in such atrocities as one intent upon genocide.
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If Mr. Sulaimon is not a citizen, he can look forward to being sent home upon completion of his sentence. Otherwise, I suspect he'll be closely watched (and rearrested as necessary) for the rest of his life... and no doubt his friends and relations as well. And of course, he's already labelled a failure. In some ways prison is easier.
But no, I don't think they should get time off for being incompetent at their chosen trade.
Three Turkish troops and six Kurdish rebels died in fighting in southeast Turkey, authorities said on Thursday.
The clash erupted when troops came under fire on Mount Mercan in Tunceli province on Wednesday, the provincial governors office said. Military trucks with mounted machine guns ferried dozens of Turkish commandos to the area, video footage by private Dogan news agency showed on Thursday. In a separate incident, five soldiers were wounded in a mine explosion near the town of Hozat, also in Tunceli province, the state-run Anatolia news agency reported. Attacks by Kurdish rebels have killed about 80 soldiers this year. Turkey is considering a military operation against guerrilla bases in neighbouring Iraq, but the US opposes such an incursion, fearing it might drag the relatively calm northern part of Iraq into chaos. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was expected to visit Ankara next week to discuss ways to prevent Kurdish guerrillas from using Iraqi territory to stage attacks on Turkey, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said.
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A militant and a policeman were killed on Thursday when security forces foiled a suicide bombing at a police school in Sargodha. The militant tried to enter the police training facility with seven kilogrammes of explosives strapped to his body as dozens of recruits ended their morning parade, Sargodha police chief Sheikh Omar told AFP. He was a suicide bomber but police foiled his attempt, Omar said, adding that casualties would have been heavy had he succeeded in entering the training area.
He said security officials at the gate of the school stopped the suspect, in his early 20s, who pulled out a pistol and opened fire, killing one police officer and wounding another. A hand grenade was also found on his corpse. A constable on duty shot him dead. His presence of mind saved many lives, local police officer Nasar Hayat said. The bomber apparently had full details about the mornings drill schedule but it was just by chance that the person in charge today called off the drill about five minutes early, Hayat added.
Police said the attack appeared to be a continuation of attacks on police and the army in apparent revenge for the siege and storming of the pro-Taliban. Lal Masjid in Islamabad, in which more than 100 people died. In another incident on Thursday a small bomb placed under a cart exploded near a traffic police office in Gujranwala, near Lahore, wounding five policemen and some passers-by, police said, APP reported.
Daily Times Monitor adds: The Crime Investigation Department (CID) has warned of suicide attacks in Karachi, Geo news reported. The CID said that three suicide bombers from Wana had entered Karachi and they may target important people in the city to avenge the death of pro-Taliban militant commander Abdullah Mehsud. It said that Abid Masood, the mastermind of the Nishtar Park blast, had planned suicide attacks in the Sindh capital.
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sounds like the 'suicide' portion was successful, but the collateral damage portion was satisfyingly light, but still too heavy by 1. Rest in peace, sir.
GHALANAI: Masked gunmen kidnapped a political administration official (muharrir), Shakil Ahmad, from the Khapakh Post, 18 kilometres north of Mohmand Agency headquarters Ghalanai, in the presence of Khasadar forces late at night on Wednesday, officials said. In retaliation, political authorities arrested seven Khasadar force personnel from the Sultan Khel tribe and detained them at the Ghalanai lock-up, political administration officials said.
The political authorities, under the Collective Responsibility Act of the Frontier Crimes Regulations, have also frozen the salaries of Khasadar force class-IV employees and monthly allowances and other expenses to tribal elders belonging to the Hanzakhel tribe, they added.
Assistant Political Agent Syed Ahmad Jan confirmed the arrest of seven Khasadar force officials who were deployed at the check-post at the time of the incident. He also confirmed that Khasadar force personnels salaries, as well as the monthly allowances to elders, had been frozen after the kidnapping. Jan said the political administration had started an investigation and would soon recover the political administration worker. No one has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping so far.
Online adds: Extremists launched another attack on a Levies check post in Bajur Agency on Thursday, but no loss of life was reported in the incident. According to a private TV channel, unidentified militants attacked the Levies check-post with heavy weaponry, including rocket launchers. Levies personnel returned fire, after which the militants fled. Army helicopters circled Mir Ali and Miranshah throughout Thursday night but no operation was launched.
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Kewl. Nail the politicians. No faster way to shoot to the top of the Christmas list.
Pro-Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazlur Rehman) clerics in North Waziristan have decided to launch a silent protest against ongoing military operations against suspected militants by hoisting black flags at every house and commercial centre in all villages from Friday. This protest will continue until the army goes to the border, removes unnecessary check-posts and stops operations without any reasons, former JUI-F North Waziristan general-secretary Sadar Abdur Rehman told reporters after the decision to launch the protest was made unanimously at a meeting of clerics in a mosque in Miranshah. Every man in Waziristan will wear black arm-bands to protest the armys strong-arm tactics, the JUI-F leader added.
The move comes two days after 18 suspected militants were killed near Miranshah as the military stepped up operations against militants.
Maulana Syed Jan, ameer of the Taliban in Miranshah and prayer leader at Masjid Qazi Faizul Qadir, was prominent among the clerics who attended the meeting. After 10 months of peace, North Waziristan has seen renewed clashes between security forces and militants after local Taliban pulled out of a peace deal struck with the government in 2006, alleging the government violated the peace pact by re-establishing security check-posts in the area.
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The so called religious guys are the source/influence of all the problems we have with the MME whether Iran Saudi or Pakistan.
Lets start taking them out and their followers will listen!!!!!
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i like the black arm band idea. that way they can say that they where fighting for the taliban and their is no discussion on whether it is ok too kill them or not. happy hunting paki soldiers
Eight suspected militants killed in a clash with Indian troops were Pakistani nationals who were major leaders of a powerful rebel group, the army said on Thursday.
The eight were killed as they allegedly tried to sneak into Indian Kashmir from the Pakistani side of the region across a heavily militarised ceasefire line. India said it was the biggest single attempt by militants to penetrate the Indian zone this year. This group had major leaders of Lashkar-e-Taiba who were tasked to provide leadership to the terrorists in the (Kashmir) valley and coordinate their operations, an army statement said. Pakistan denies aiding the militants in the nearly two decade-old separatist revolt that has claimed over 42,000 lives. The army, which lost two soldiers in the fighting, did not divulge the names of the slain militants but said all were Pakistani nationals.
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Most importantly, the machines now come with kill switches, in case there's any odd behavior. "So now we can kill the unit if it goes crazy," Zecca says.
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Dang it, I duped this one over to the WoT-Background section. My only question is, if this thing can be "snuck up" on and tipped over? And, if it's about to get taken out, can it become a "suicide bomber" and take out whomever's coming close, so that they don't get the weaponry? I'm sure these issues have been dealt with.
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What is never mentioned by the folks at Foster-Miller is that the top weapon-bearing component (pan-tilt, weapon adapter assembly, aiming and wide-angle cameras, etc.) is made by my company, Precision Remotes. Yes, these are human-controlled systems.
They are very cool and very effective. They will be extremely difficult to sneak up upon given the number of cameras that are on the system.
Jihadi is not going to be happy when he comes upon this little beastie.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Coalition Forces captured two alleged al-Qaeda in Iraq emirs, killed four terrorists and detained 20 suspected terrorists during operations targeting al-Qaeda in Iraq media cells and senior leaders Wednesday and Thursday.
Wednesday night, Coalition Forces captured the alleged al-Qaeda in Iraq sniper emir of Mosul. As the assault force entered the two targeted buildings, a man approached the perimeter security element. Even after the ground forces used appropriate escalation of force measures, the man continued to advance on the security element. Coalition Forces, responding appropriately to the hostile threat, engaged the man, killing him.
Inside the targeted buildings, Coalition Forces detained the alleged emir, who was believed to be involved in a plot against the mayor of Mosul on March 9 and has allegedly claimed responsibility for at least one Coalition Forces death in the last month. The suspected terrorist allegedly supervises 10-15 operatives and has conducted kidnapping operations to bring in money for his own use. Ground forces on the scene detained one additional suspect and discovered a small cache containing body armor, weapons, a rifle sight manual and extremist propaganda.
In western Baghdad Thursday morning, Coalition Forces captured an alleged al-Qaeda in Iraq media emir tied to propaganda cells throughout Baghdad. During the raid, the ground forces found a large amount of U.S. currency and improvised explosive device-making materials. Two more individuals were detained for their ties to the suspected emir.
Coalition Forces targeted a media cell and its leader, also suspected of facilitating the movement of foreign terrorists, in a raid near Samarra Thursday morning. As Coalition Forces approached the target building, surveillance showed a man come out of the building and move to a tactical fighting position against the assault force. Responding appropriately to the hostile threat, Coalition Forces called in close air support. The man was killed by aircraft strafing, and was determined to be a foreigner. The ground forces found weapons on site and detained seven suspected terrorists during the operation for their alleged ties to the foreign terrorist network and media cell.
North of Karmah Thursday, Coalition Forces continued to target senior al-Qaeda in Iraq leaders in Anbar province. As the assault force approached the targeted buildings, two terrorists armed with AK-47s drew their weapons on the ground forces, using a woman as a human shield.
Coalition Forces closed in on the armed men when one terrorist attempted to assault an element of the ground forces. Coalition Forces moved the woman out of the way and engaged the two armed men, killing them. Four suspected terrorists were detained during the operation.
A raid in Tarmiyah Thursday targeted a suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorist who has close ties to the al-Qaeda emir of Baghdad. The ground forces detained four suspected terrorists during the operation.
"The leaders of al-Qaeda in Iraq should know we are continually targeting them and will not rest until we have captured or killed them," said Lt. Col. Christopher Garver, MNF-I spokesperson. "Every removal of a leader of al-Qaeda, at any level, weakens the terrorist organization and strengthens Coalition and Iraqi Security Force operations against it."
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Sounds like we're winning, but unless and until we stop Iran and Syria from sending men and material into Iraq, we are simply engaged in a stalemate (quagmire). Cross border attacks are appropiate in these circumstances, and if they don't like it, then tell them to put an end to their support of al Q in Iraq.
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I sort of disagree. Here's a different view,consider it.
There are X amount of jihadis,especially among Arabs. IF we stopped them from travelling to Iraq to die there,isn't it reasonable to expect they would murder elsewhere? American civilians?
I think so. As it is,most their destruction is among fellow Muslims in Iraq. When they attack our soldiers,I am confident our soldiers prefer that to them attacking our soldier's mothers,wives or kids here or as civilians elsewhere.
Therefore,we need a quagmire as long as we have the upper hand and the success rate the jihadis did have in Iraq is GOOD for us as it caused the Sunnis to realize how awful these people are and I think it is helpful elsewhere as well for short periods of time.
Yea,we want the IA to take our place and eventually they will,but in the interim,it's good the Arabic jihadi is drawn to Baghdad.
Eat our garbage, Mahmoud!
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israeli forces have again bombarded the Gaza Strip, but this time the "forces" were civilians and their "ammunition" a mixed salad salvo of summer vegetables, fruit and eggs, the press reported on Friday. Up a hundred...left fifty. Fire for effect.
The real army put a quick stop to Thursday's barrage, but those behind the ad hoc artillery bombardment still got their message across. Hey! You could... put someone's eye out!
For six years southern Israel has been the target of deadly, though usually inaccurate, homemade rockets fired by Palestinian militants. Nine people have been killed and dozens wounded, mostly in and around the town of Sderot. Great Momements in the Palestinian Space Program...
"Since the government has done nothing (to stop the attacks), we decided to take things into our own hands," Yigal Tzur, who heads the self-styled Sderot Support Committee, told the Maariv daily newspaper. So they built a launcher from piping and filled it with inflammable liquid for propulsion purposes. Sounds...exciting.
Then, taking aim at the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanun close to the frontier with Israel, they opened fire -- with tomatoes, eggs, cucumbers, mangoes and even corn on the cob. Achmed! Jumina! Manna from Allah!
Tzur was wrong when he said the government had done nothing to stop the rocket fire, although it is true that all efforts have so far failed. Scores of Palestinians have been killed in retaliatory air and artillery strikes since the rocket fire first began. The army has also made occasional ground incursions in a bid to knock out mobile teams of rocket launchers. Screw the Death Ray, Shlomo. Show these people we mean business! Break out the Salad Shooter!!
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Time to fabricate a couple of Onangers!
My nephew has built some wicked potato guns though! Good for 300 yds or so.
DanNY
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Israel, listen, the US has a 20 year lead on you in the development of VPM's (vegetable projectile machines). Just Google "punkin chunkin" and you'll come up with loads of practice proven VPM technology. I'll bet, you could come up with dozens of volunteers to set up VPM's to bombard the Palestinians with vegetable matter.
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Actually, there is a wonderful subtext to this hilarity. The Israelis are also sending their cretinous Palestinian enemies the unmistakable message of: "There's so much food over here that we can blow it out our asses launch tubes at your worthless starving Palestinian pie holes."
Considering how bad things are in Gaza, it must be enervating as hell to see perfectly edible food rain down in tatters. Especially after their ruination of the greenhouses. Pretty much the equivalent of: "Now go away, or I shall taunt you a second time."
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Slightly boil the potato, lace it with ball-bearings and paw's chopped up rusty razor blades, powered by vO5 through a spud gun works wonders for the neighbours. Am working on the Willy Pete version.
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The citizens of Sderot should check with the denizens of Guffey, Colorado to learn the finer points of launching chickens. About 20 years ago they
began an annual chicken fly in Guffey just for the fun of it. People pay to launch chickens off a 12-foot drop using a rural mail box with both ends removed and a toilet plunger to get them to fly. Of course, activists with United Poultry Concerns object to this fun, but I suppose the Israelis aren't bothered by this bunch. Guffey is also known for running a DemoCAT and a RePUPlican in the mayorial race.
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Jeebus, USN, Ret., whatcha got against good ole' sewage bacteria? Why would they wanna lower themselves into the land known as Gaza?
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Trebuchets aren't that hard to build, and one in England threw a Volkswagen over six miles. Any kind of catapult would work, of course. Cook up a big pig stew, put it in a thin plastic pouch that will splatter when it hits something, and launch away. Hamass will either collapse or surrender within a week.
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OP, I'd beleive 600 feet or perhaps 600 yards but I think 6 miles for a VW would be pushing it. I do think pig parts in a pigskin capsule would be a great ammunition. Just make sure it holds together til impact (unless a Time Delay fuse is available).
Two Thai Army Rangers and a local resident were slightly wounded in a bombing, and two gunmen clad in black clothing fired on a local government office but no one was injured in Yala on Friday.
The bomb was detonated when a vehicle carrying a Ranger patrol passed a village in the provincial seat. Two Rangers and a passing villager on a motorcycle sustained minor injuries and were rushed to hospital.
Pol. Col. Poomphet Phiphatphetpoom, superintendent of the municipality district police station inspected the Tase sub-district Administrative Organisation (TAO) office which was attacked by two gunmen on a motorcycle. After firing on the TAO office, the men left the scene, scattering spikes and dummy bombs on the road to impede police pursuit.
Meanwhile, in Narathiwat, joint military and police forces raided an area in Ruso district and detained two suspects on Friday. One suspect, Muha Mudsugree Uma, confessed to shooting village heads and villagers in Ruso and Srisakhon districts, as well as in Yala's Raman district. He was transported under guard to a military camp in Pattani for questioning.
His wife, initially detained as the other suspect, was released after the police determined that she was not involved in terrorism the insurgency. The police also seized a gun and some ammunition during the raid.
Meanwhile, the Internal Security Operations Command (ISOC) delivered an urgent order to commanders of the provincial police bureau and senior military officials in the four southern border provinces of Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat, and Songkhla to adhere to the rule of law in detaining terrorist insurgent suspects to build people's confidence in government officials' operations and to boost cooperation among local residents. Disciplinary action will be given to offenders and legal action will also be taken, according to the ISOC warning.
Twelve schools in Pattani's two district temporarily closed on Friday after students and teachers were left stranded at school on Thursday afternoon when suspected insurgents ambushed a teacher protection unit, felling trees to block roads, and strewing spikes on roads.
Teachers from six schools in Nong Chik district will discuss clear-cut security measures with security agencies and local authorities on Friday. They plan to keep nine schools closed until their safety is guaranteed by effective security measures.
The educators said Thursday's disturbance frightened teachers and students alike. Some 70 teachers and students in six schools in Nong Chik district are affected because roads were blocked by trees, spikes, and unidentified objects which might have contained bombs.
Because of the road blockages, the teachers, staff and students at the schools could not travel home on Thursday. About 100 security personnel spent three hours to clear the roads and remove the debris. Helicopters hovered over the roads to provide security, as the roads were cleared and teachers left school safely.
In Yaring district, three schools also close on Friday after a bomb killed a policeman and wounded five others from the teacher protection unit on Friday.
Soldiers have found suicide belts and cyanide capsules among a haul of arms and explosives seized from a Tamil Tiger rebel hide-out in northern Sri Lanka, the military said on Thursday.
Troops searched an abandoned house in the northern Jaffna peninsula Wednesday evening on a tip-off and found the cache, an official at the Defence Ministrys information centre said on customary condition of anonymity in line with policy. The cache contained five belts to have been worn by suicide bombers, five cyanide capsules, anti-tank mines, pistols and detonators, the official said.
Govt wants peace talks: Sri Lankas government is willing to resume peace talks with Tamil rebels as long as they end violence, its foreign minister said on Thursday. Rohitha Bogollagama told a news conference in Manila his government has not abandoned moves to end civil war through political negotiations but asked the rebels to show sincerity.
We can resume talks tomorrow, Bogollagama told reporters at a news conference after attending an Asian security forum. They should stop violence and give up terrorism. Sri Lanka became the 27th participant of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Regional Forum during its 14th annual meeting in Manila on Thursday. The government of the South Asian island republic has been fighting a civil war with rebels from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) for over two decades. The rebels have ruled out peace while President Mahinda Rajapaksa is in office.
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Al Qaeda-inspired militants battling the Lebanese army for more than 10 weeks hit a main power station in north Lebanon with Katyusha rockets on Thursday, disrupting electricity supplies to wide areas.
Security sources said Fatah Al Islam militants, holed up in Nahr Al-Bared refugee camp, fired half a dozen rockets at Deir Amar power station. At least two rockets hit the plant. Kamal Hayek, the chairman of the state-owned electricity company, told Lebanons official news agency that production at the 400-megawatt facility was halted while damage was assessed.
In Beirut, military experts defused a Katyusha rocket wired to a timer and set to explode, security sources said. The device was found near the Palestinian refugee camp of Sabra. The destruction of Nahr Al-Bared camp, usually home to 40,000 refugees, has angered Palestinians across Lebanon, although very few of them support Fatah Al-Islam. Separately, two Lebanese soldiers were killed in the refugee camp battle, a military spokesman said. Two soldiers were killed in the confrontations today, the spokesman told AFP. He earlier said one of the dead was an officer.
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Never had none of this infidel 'lectricity in Mo's day...
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Al Qaeda-inspired militants battling the Lebanese army for more than 10 weeks hit a main power station in north Lebanon with Katyusha rockets on Thursday, disrupting electricity supplies to wide areas.
Yeah, that's really gonna endear al Qaeda in the "Winning Hearts & Mindz Campaign". Electrical black-outs are an indisputable sign of Allah's love.
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I wonder how long it'll take George & Co to realize that backstabing Israel to promote "Nation Building" in Lebanon, was a miscalculation?
Probably right up until the first Hezbollah sponsored terrorist attack on American soil. But don't count on even that changing how he spews the Religion of Peace [spit] Kool-Aid.
The Lebanese army said on Thursday it had defused an explosive device in Beirut in an area that houses United Nations offices and a Palestinian refugee camp. A rocket with a set timer was found this morning near the City Stadium in Bir Hassan, the statement said. Bomb disposal experts defused it and an investigation is under way. The City Stadium is in the southern sector of the capital, between the Palestinian refugee camp of Sabra and a residential area where UN offices are also located. The incident comes amid fears of violence in the capital following a string of explosions in recent months that have scared away summer tourists. It also comes amid a continuing nine-month political crisis between the Western-backed government and the Syrian-backed opposition and a standoff between the army and Islamists at a refugee camp in the north. The most recent bombing in Beirut was in June and killed anti-Syrian MP Walid Eido. Damascus denied any involvement in the attack. US President George W Bush has meanwhile ordered freezing of US assets of those whom Washington accuses of undermining the Lebanese government.
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We've got the linens ironed and the silver nearly polished as the Rantburg staff stows the, er, emergency rations and battens the hatches for Rantapalooza IV.
There's still plenty of time to contact me for directions, and for those of you already on the list, PLEASE CHECK YOUR CONFIRMATION EMAILS CAREFULLY. Bobby, this means *you*. Our watering hole has several locations, and our hope is that we all arrive at the same one.
If you were expecting a confirmation email from me and didn't get one, please email me again.
And as for all that newly-polished silver? We'll be counting the sporks before anyone gets to crawl home.
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Y'all be careful. Take a cab if you get too much adult beverage. And have a damn fine time!
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Ah yes, the convening of the Rantburg Cabinet. Wish I were there, too. I'da bet ALL the world's problems are solved in the first 15 minutes, and THEN the fun begins. A lot more than can be said of the UN, HRW, et al. Have fun, be safe, and we'll catch you all later.
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Our watering hole has several locations, and our hope is that we all arrive at the same one.
My God, don't tell me you're going to Chucky Cheeses!
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May I join? I used to work at A.J., a mile away from Savage. Just tell me which of the rooms it's in.
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Please do. Ask for "Fred" at the desk, not sure yet where we'll be.
#7
Really wish we could be there to join you folks. Always wanted to be up a deep creek. Oddly enough we have an in-law with a place there. Beautiful local.
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The U.S.-led coalition said Friday it had launched an air strike on a meeting of top Taliban commanders in a militant stronghold in Afghanistan, and local officials said more than a dozen rebels and civilians had been killed.
Pakistan said on Thursday it had no influence over the Taliban holding 21 South Korean hostages in Afghanistan, stressing it was at war with the Islamist militia and Al Qaeda elements within its own borders, AFP reported. Pakistan itself is a victim of such incidents, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Makhdoom Khusro Bakhtyar said after a meeting with South Korean Foreign Minister Song Min-Soon. Pakistan would like to help, Bakhtyar said, but was at war with Taliban and Al Qaeda elements at home, he said. Naturally we have no lines of communication with the Taliban, he said.
(SomaliNet) An Ethiopian soldier was killed and four others were wounded in a grenade attack, which took place in Ex-control Balad, south of the Somalia capital Mogadishu on Thursday. Witnesses told Somalinet that an unknown local militant hurled a hand grenade bomb at an Ethiopian convoy passing the road around 10:20 am and the soldiers opened fire on all directions in response to the attack. 
Algerian security forces have killed the mastermind of suicide bombings including a triple attack in Algiers in April that claimed 33 lives, a government-run newspaper reported on Thursday. 
Attacks plotted by Sid Ali include suicide car bombings at the government headquarters and two police stations in Algiers on April 11 which killed 33 people, and a suicide truck bombing on July 11 that killed at least eight soldiers at a military barracks in Kabylie. "He supervised the entire operations and gave instructions to film attacks, and he was behind the acquisition of car bombs. He had plans for large-scale attacks," the newspaper reported.
Bangladesh security forces arrested four suspected members of a banned Islamic militant group from a house in the capital on Thursday, and seized a 10-kg (22 lb) bomb and four grenades, an official said. 
A 23-year-old man will appear in court on Thursday in connection with the failed bombings in London launched two weeks after the July 7, 2005 attacks that killed more than 50 people in the capital.
Three Turkish troops and six Kurdish rebels died in fighting in southeast Turkey, authorities said on Thursday. 
A militant and a policeman were killed on Thursday when security forces foiled a suicide bombing at a police school in Sargodha. The militant tried to enter the police training facility with seven kilogrammes of explosives strapped to his body as dozens of recruits ended their morning parade, Sargodha police chief Sheikh Omar told AFP. He was a suicide bomber but police foiled his attempt, Omar said, adding that casualties would have been heavy had he succeeded in entering the training area.
GHALANAI: Masked gunmen kidnapped a political administration official (muharrir), Shakil Ahmad, from the Khapakh Post, 18 kilometres north of Mohmand Agency headquarters Ghalanai, in the presence of Khasadar forces late at night on Wednesday, officials said. In retaliation, political authorities arrested seven Khasadar force personnel from the Sultan Khel tribe and detained them at the Ghalanai lock-up, political administration officials said. 
Pro-Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazlur Rehman) clerics in North Waziristan have decided to launch a silent protest against ongoing military operations against suspected militants by hoisting black flags at every house and commercial centre in all villages from Friday. This protest will continue until the army goes to the border, removes unnecessary check-posts and stops operations without any reasons, former JUI-F North Waziristan general-secretary Sadar Abdur Rehman told reporters after the decision to launch the protest was made unanimously at a meeting of clerics in a mosque in Miranshah. Every man in Waziristan will wear black arm-bands to protest the armys strong-arm tactics, the JUI-F leader added.
Eight suspected militants killed in a clash with Indian troops were Pakistani nationals who were major leaders of a powerful rebel group, the army said on Thursday.
BAGHDAD, Iraq - Coalition Forces captured two alleged al-Qaeda in Iraq emirs, killed four terrorists and detained 20 suspected terrorists during operations targeting al-Qaeda in Iraq media cells and senior leaders Wednesday and Thursday.
Al Qaeda-inspired militants battling the Lebanese army for more than 10 weeks hit a main power station in north Lebanon with Katyusha rockets on Thursday, disrupting electricity supplies to wide areas. 
