International military planes called in by Afghan security forces killed 16 rebels, apparently all foreigners, suspected of preparing an attack in the countrys east, police said on Sunday. Six rebels were injured and one was captured following the raid late on Saturday in the province of Paktika on Afghanistans border with Pakistan, provincial deputy police chief Farouq Sangari told AFP. The captured militant, an Uzbek national, told the authorities the dead were all foreign nationals from Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Chechnya, the official said.
The security forces had acted after intelligence reports that the rebels were preparing to attack the headquarters of the Sarobi district, he said. Insurgents linked to the Taliban movement and its allies in Al Qaeda are said to have bases in Pakistan from where they launch attacks inside Afghanistan as part of an insurgency against the US-backed government.
Suicide attack foiled: Meanwhile, a would-be suicide bomber was shot dead just steps away from a provincial police chief in his headquarters near Kabul on Sunday, chief Ghullam Moustafa told AFP. The attacker was wearing a police uniform and snuck into the headquarters in Logar province south of the capital, the commander said. Guards became suspicious when the man ignored warnings to stop. Our guards shot and killed him just behind my office door, Moustafa said. He was less than five metres away from me, he added. The would-be attacker was found to be wearing a bomb-filled suicide vest underneath the uniform. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed claimed responsibility, calling the man our mujahid (holy fighter).
The hardliners have vowed to step up attacks during the holy month of Ramazan, which started in mid-September. There have been several suicide bombings since then, including one late last month in which a man in an army uniform blew himself up on a military bus in Kabul, killing 30 people.
NATO shoots civilians: Also, a bombing and a gunbattle killed four police officers and four militants in Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday, while NATO soldiers in the east shot and killed three Afghans, AP reported.
Two officers were killed and two others were wounded when a bomb exploded under their car in Yaqoubi district in Khost province on Saturday, said police chief Wazir Pacha.
Also in eastern Afghanistan, a Taliban ambush in Nuristan province left two other officers dead, said police officer Muhammad Daud. Four militants were also killed in Saturdays clash, which occurred in the remote Kamdesh district.
Elsewhere in the east, two Afghan civilians were killed in Kunar province when they didnt stop at a checkpoint, NATO said. The checkpoint had been set up because intelligence indicated insurgents planned to launch an attack on a NATO base. In Paktika province, a suspicious man was shot and killed after being asked to halt, NATO said.
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A Darfur town has been burnt to the ground since it came under the control of Sudanese troops this week, the UN said Sunday. Observers who inspected the town of Haskanita say 15,000 civilians have fled since the army moved in.
The UN said Sudanese government forces took control of the area after suspected Darfur rebels attacked the nearby AU base a week ago, killing 10 peacekeepers. The destruction of the largely ethnic African town some 150 meters from the base appeared to be in retaliation for the earlier attack.
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That picture reminds me of the South Bronx back around 1970, but I don't remember any tanks.
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Nimble, a few were worse - nothing standing over one story. My dad had some photos of Worms that show the cathedral as the only building relatively undamaged. A couple of cities in the MME looking like this would go a long way on putting a stop to islamic foolishness, but we're too PC these days.
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Security forces backed by heavy artillery and helicopter gunships killed 65 militants but lost 20 soldiers in two battles in North Waziristan on Sunday, Reuters quoted officials and witnesses as saying. The fighting began on Saturday night when militants ambushed an army convoy in Mir Ali, 24 kilometres east of agency headquarters Miranshah, on the Miranshah-Bannu road. The security forces launched an operation against the militants, said Major General Waheed Arshad, director general of Inter Services Public Relations. Ten army soldiers were killed and 10 wounded.
Later at around 6:00pm, militants attacked another army convoy in the same area near Sokhail. Gen Arshad said the security forces killed 18 militants and injured 15 in the subsequent fighting. Ten soldiers were killed and 12 injured. Pakistani fighter jets also reportedly bombed the area. The military operation was continuing and helicopters were hovering over the area. The security forces also sealed the Mir Ali bazaar and the army was patrolling the area.
Three killed as shell hits house: Two women and a young girl were killed in Sokhail village when an artillery shell fired by the security forces hit the house of a tribesman named Hanif.
Separately the military said security forces arrested two militants in North Waziristan, AFP reported. The miscreants were fired upon by security forces when they were fleeing from the site after planting an IED (improvised explosive device), it said in a statement.
Five FC men return: Five Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel, among a total 21 men reportedly kidnapped on October 2 at the Rocha Post in Bakka Khel, Bannu frontier region, safely returned to Bannu on Sunday. They were identified as Hawaldar Azeem, Hawaldar Younis, Naik Muhammad Anwar, Jawan Mujtaba and Jawan Amir. Its not clear how they reached Bannu. However, Gen Arshad, the ISPR DG, said that no FC man had been kidnapped in North Waziristan over the last few days. He said the reports were based on misinformation spread by the militants as they had suffered heavy reverses over the last couple of weeks.
Bodies returned: Locals told NNI that the bodies of 10 Pakistanis killed in Afghanistan while fighting against US-led forces were brought to North Waziristan on Saturday. They said officials of the International Committee of the Red Cross, who had shifted the bodies to the tribal region, were detained by Pakistani authorities but were freed on Saturday. The bodies were sent to their families late on Saturday.
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"Three (women and children) killed as shell hits house"
Two Indian soldiers and six militants were killed in a clash along the border dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan as Indias new army chief wrapped up a visit, the army said on Sunday. The army chiefs visit to Indian-held Kashmir over the weekend came as the insurgency-hit region witnessed an increase in violence.
Indian troops shot dead six militants who had infiltrated our side from across the Line of Control (LoC), army spokesman Anil Mathur told AFP. Mathur confirmed that two Indian soldiers were also killed in the fighting on Saturday evening, which he said followed a major infiltration bid. The clash was the second along the heavily guarded border since army chief General Deepak Kapoor arrived in Kashmir on Friday, with three militants and a soldier dying in earlier fighting.
In separate clashes on Saturday, two rebels and a soldier were killed in other parts of Kashmir, army spokesman Mathur said.
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A helicopter carrying the new Indian Army Chief Deepak Kapoor takes off as Indian soldiers stand guard in a camp in Beerwah, 40 km (25 miles) north of Srinagar, October 6, 2007. Indian soldiers shot dead eight separatist militants when they tried to sneak into Indian Kashmir from the Pakistani side on Saturday, as the country's army chief visited the troubled Himalayan region, an army spokesman said.
Indian army officers stand behind seized arms and ammunition of suspected militants in a camp in Beerwah, 40 km (25 miles) north of Srinagar, October 6, 2007. Indian soldiers shot dead eight separatist militants when they tried to sneak into Indian Kashmir from the Pakistani side on Saturday, as the country's army chief visited the troubled Himalayan region, an army spokesman said.
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Newly appointed Chief of Indian Army General Deepak Kapoor after reviewing a Guard of Honour at the Indian Defence Ministry in New Delhi, India on 01 October 2007. General Deepak Kapoor took over as the Chief of the Army Staff from General J.J. Singh. General Kapoor is the 23rd Chief of the Indian Army
Outgoing Indian Army Chief J.J. Singh inspects a guard of honour before he hands over the charge in New Delhi, 30 September 2007. Singh handed over the charge to General Deepak Kapoor who will be the 23rd chief of the Indian Army . AFP PHOTO/ Manpreet ROMANA
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The table full of captured arms and magazines, the mag in the center has one hell of a dent in it, looks like it stopped a slug.
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BAGHDAD--The latest chapter in al Qaeda's war manual in their war against the Iraqi people and the Coalition is this: raiding remote peaceful villages, burning down homes and slaughtering both man and beast. It's a campaign of self destruction.
For about a year al Qaeda has been trying to build a so called Islamic State in Iraq. On several occasions al Qaeda has even declared parts of Baghdad or other places in other provinces the capital of this Islamic State.
But now that they are losing one base after another, their objective seems to have changed from adding more towns and villages to the "state" to destroying the very same towns and villages. Obviously, it's all about making headlines regardless of the means to do that.
This change in plans began to take shape with the battle between al Qaeda and the joint forces on Sept. 6 and 7 in Hor Rijab and then the massacre that followed in the same spot a week later and finally the attacks on other villages north, south and east of Baghdad in the last week or so.
Actually first I'd like to recommend reading a good post by Jules Crittenden about the flawed timing of this "Little Tet.
Anyway, our interest today is more about the field situation and strategy than about timing since the latter seems to be not so friendly to al Qaeda. Well, actually timing is very important here too but at a rather different level. In my opinion al Qaeda found itself forced to start this villages war. It wasn't a choice as much as a last resort because villages are among the few fighting spaces that al Qaeda can still utilize as large cities become increasingly difficult for them to operate in. They know that without engaging the enemy--that's us by the way--their existence and influence would end and I'm almost positive that they feel bitter about having to fight this way. . . .
Mr. Fadhil and his brother Mohammed write a blog, Iraq the Model, from Baghdad.
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Don't get euphoric. One group of terrorists may be losing, but there are plenty of others who are not. I don't know if we will even fight them again in this war, but they will fight us again sometime. I am referring to the Iranian-backed forces.
Sadly according to every poll that I've seen, the Dems are winning politically because of the length of the Iraq conflict.
We may achieve a very low fatality rate this month and next month and kill lots of Al Q people and even bring most of the Shia terrorist factions under control but because of the length of the conflict, the cost in lives and money and the long deployments, the bulk of the voters will still see this as a bad thing.
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Sad that so many buy into 'polls'. That's a late 20th century creation of the MSM to make up news on the cheap. So according to the 'polls' both President Gore and Kerry won [well, at one self center Kennedy serving in Congress believes it should be because that's what the polls said]. Again, the 'polls' contrive their questions and don't try to gather real data. How many were 'feed up' with Iraq because they opposed the war and how many were 'feed up' because they perceived that it was being conducted badly, not because they want to lose? You'll never get that out of them. It's rigged. Otherwise, there'd be no news. It's all about drama, conflict, flash and bang. It's about entertainment, not facts. Polls aren't facts, though they're treated as such.
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Is this the same babe in the polka dot swimsuit Life cover that caused something of a furor back in '44 or so?
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Missed by that much...
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One group of terrorists may be losing, but there are plenty of others who are not.
Word, Glenmore. We really need to begin working on crippling the supply-chain and not just engaging wherever it happens to surface. Iran, Pakistan and then Saudi Arabia.
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You have to choose your battles, Zen. Don't enter a fight unless you can - and intend to - win. As a nation, I don't see any intent to win anything else right now. Painful though it will prove to be, I personally don't believe it would be wise to overtly escalate in Iran, Pakistan, or KSA right now (we shall not discuss covert).
Vietnam was a pointless waste of good people after we (the people) decided we could not win (or at least not at a price we were willing to pay) - that would have been around 1968 by my reckoning. Too many people in the US and around the world want the US to endure another Vietnam - better to store our powder safely and wait/work for public support before giving them what they want. We probably cannot survive another generation of destroying our military, but horrible as the thought is, we can survive even a one-off nuclear attack.
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As a nation, I don't see any intent to win anything else right now. Painful though it will prove to be, I personally don't believe it would be wise to overtly escalate in Iran, Pakistan, or KSA right now
You are absolutely right, Glenmore. However, this lack of political will in no way changes the dire need to choke off terrorism's support base.
We probably cannot survive another generation of destroying our military, but horrible as the thought is, we can survive even a one-off nuclear attack.
I believe it is this sort of totally repusive political calculus that is being used by our State Department. They are traitors for it.
The elite class has every intention of continuing to fight the war on terrorism without naming the enemy, without revealing his beliefs, without unmasking his intentions, without offending his accomplices, without expelling his fifth columnists, and without ever daring to win. Their crime can and must be stopped. The foundersof theUnitedStatesoverthrewthecolonial governmentforoffenses farlighterthanthoseof whichthetraitorclassis guilty.
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Zen,
The founders of this country had more testicular fortitude than the total possessed by 100 times the population today (military excepted - and they have taken an oath not to overthrow the government - and I believe them.) And there's no France of any significance to ally with whatever minor group might want to give revolution a try today.
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Agreed. To this day I remain totally stunned at the degree of foresight and vision displayed by America's founding fathers. That they were able to assemble such an enduring and superbly functional document as our Constitution is nothing short of a miracle.
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GREEN BERETS movie > ALDO RAY [paraphrased] > "The school that I attended taught me that it took eleven years since July 4, 1776 for the founders of a new Nation to come up wid a document of Nationhood that everyone could agree with - our present Constitution".
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As for IRAQ, this article is saying that the Radical Islamists-Insurgents are not only losing the war for "Hearts and Minds", but now are engaging in "scorched earth" actions??? I STILL ARGUE THAT ITS PREMATURE TO LABEL AQ + THE SPETZIES AS DEFEATED. AS I'D WARNED/SAID LONG AGO, NO MATTER WHERE THE USA + AQ/SPETZIES FIGHT EACH OTHER, THE END-GAME FOR OSAMA WILL BE IN IRAN, BECUZ OF THE 12th IMAM/HIDDEN MAHDI MYTHOLOGIES OSAMA = AQ ADHERES TO. Osama > A US-IRAN Conflict will be the Islamist equivalent of GETTYSBURG or THE BULGE, etc.
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Risky indeed. As would be an attack on Syria without concrete proof of nuclear activities, given our 130,000 troops near by and the likely involvement of US technical support for the raid.
My deep respect and support for the brave Israelis who pulled this off.
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Concrete proof would be why the Syrians didn't scream right off the bat. It took them weeks to dream up the 'nothing happened' story.
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what do you think the U S should be doing?
Stating that we support the territorial integrity of Israel and every other democracy in the MME and its right to defend itself against enemies both declared and de facto. I would be warning Syria that the Israelis are crazy and we can barely control them. I would be expanding the Army and Marine Corps faster. Other than that, it's really up to the arabs to reconcile themselves to the existence of Israel and it's up to Israel to whack them if they won't.
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The new "two-state solution" - annex Gaza and the West Bank and forcibly relocate all Palestinians and fellow travelers to the new Palestinian homeland, Syria.
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and as part of the process, resume control over the Temple Mount, dismantle the al Aqsa mosque and only let the "faithful" visit the Dome of the Rock as tourists, just like Christians.
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Hoagland said the site of the attack was a plutoniumenrichment facility for the Syrian nuclear program
First, it's plutonium extraction. Second, to extract plutonium, you need to start with something that contains plutonium. The Syrians have no reactors that can produce significant plutonium.
So NK is shipping spent fuel rods to Syria? All they can do now (once they find them again) is grind them up and make a dirty bomb.
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Looking out for its best interests---which, right now, largerly overlap with the best interests of Israel.
Once the West truly gets serious about fighting Muslim terrorism, perhaps then we will finally show some real appreciation regarding the huge debt this world owes Israelnot just for near-saintly restaint in the face of moronically futile diplomatic efforts butfor her demonstrating the only sort of resolve and methods that will ever work to stop Islam.
Jordan's military court on Sunday convicted three men and sentenced them to five years in jail for conspiring to carry out terror attacks at an Amman factory that imports minced turkey meat from Israel.
Authorities said Adnan Smadi, 40, his brother Adel Smadi, 30, and Hamdi al-Fassooli, 30, planned to attack the factory, which also houses an office for the turkey meat company's Israeli representative, with primitive Molotov cocktail bombs.
In mid-March, the three Jordanians headed to the factory to carry out their attack but were surprised to see security forces inside the building, military prosecutors said in an indictment. The three men were immediately arrested, and their explosives where confiscated, the indictment said.
At the outset of their trial five months ago, the three pleaded not guilty to the charges, which also included transporting and manufacturing flammable material to carry out attacks. The verdict can be appealed.
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IDF forces attacked overnight Sunday a Palestinian cell whose members were firing mortar shells over the Gaza security fence at the western Negev. The army reported a hit, but did not provide details on casualties.
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The body of a Christian official who was kidnapped over the weekend was discovered in Gaza City early Sunday, Palestinian sources said. The man was identified as Rami Ayyad, 31, director of The Teacher's Bookshop, which is operated by the Palestinian Bible Society.
Although no group claimed responsibility for the murder, a number of Christians in Gaza City told The Jerusalem Post that Ayyad had received several death threats in the past from radical Muslims who accused him of missionary activity. His bookshop and the Palestinian Bible Society have been the targets of repeated attacks over the past two years. They noted that attacks on members of the 2,500-strong Christian community in the Gaza Strip have increased in recent months, especially since Hamas took full control of the area.
Two weeks ago, an elderly Christian woman living in Gaza City was beaten and robbed by a masked man who accused her of being an "infidel." In Bethlehem, Palestinian Authority police are still investigating last week's stabbing of a 27-year-old Christian man, who was seriously wounded in the attack. Shortly after the Hamas takeover, a local Christian school and a monastery were looted and set on fire.
News of Ayyad's murder shocked his friends and family and raised fears that the Hamas government, despite repeated promises, was not able to protect the local Christian community. Ayyad went missing over the weekend, and his family and friends rushed to lodge a complaint with the Hamas security forces.
Ihab Ghissin, spokesman for the Hamas Interior Ministry - the institution responsible for security - said the body was discovered in an agricultural field known as Dunum Abu Daf, near Gaza City's Zeitun neighborhood. He refused to specify the cause of death, only saying that the body had been transferred to a local hospital for a forensic examination. However, Palestinian reporters told the Post that Ayyad had been fatally stabbed. "This despicable crime won't pass without punishment of the perpetrators," Ghissin said. "We will pursue all those involved in this case and make sure that they are severely punished."
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I have to admire the courage and faith of anyone trying to be a Christian in Gaza these days.
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Evacuate all the Christians from Gaza, and then give Israel the assurance that we will support and defend them when they begin shelling the whole enchilada with all they artillery they can bring to bear. Dammit, I wish we still had three or four battleships to do some intense "land reform" and "urban renewal", to help out. Oh, well, maybe we can "lend" Israel a dozen or so Buffs and the crews, maintenance, and armaments to support them while they do their thing in Gaza. Ditto to using them on the West Bank and anywhere between Israel and Beirut, regardless of whose borders are "violated".
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Ditto to using them on the West Bank and anywhere between Israel and Beirut, regardless of whose borders are "violated".
There aren't any borders to "violate". Tyranniesespecially Islamic oneshave no soveriegn rights. They are fair game for any free nation to depose at will. There is no obligation upon our part to do so but neither is there any morally compelling reason not cream the ever-living crap out of all these Muslim shitholes.
Thai security forces killed five suspected Muslim terrorists militants and arrested 19 men and women after a brief clash in Thailand's rebellious far south on Monday, an army spokesman said. Police and soldiers also found three rifles and a pistol in a Muslim village in Songkhla province, one of four provinces where more than 2,500 people have been killed in the three-year jihad insurgency, Colonel Acra Tiproch said. "They came to threaten people in the village not to cooperate with the authorities and we clashed with them," he said.
Since July, security forces have launched almost daily raids on suspected terrorist insurgent hideouts in villages and towns and have detained dozens of people without charge. Human rights groups are critical, saying detainees are exposed to potential abuses by the army, which is operating under martial law that grants soldiers immunity from prosecution.
Sri Lanka's navy says it has sunk a ship used by the Tamil Tiger rebels, killing at least 12 people on board.
It was the last seaworthy Tiger vessel, as seven were destroyed recently, navy spokesman DPK Dassanayake said. The sinking has not been independently confirmed and the Tigers have made no immediate comment.
Fighting has intensified in recent months between the Tigers, who want an independent state for the Tamil minority, and the government.
The sinking of the 3,000-ton ship took place about 850 nautical miles (978 miles; 1573km) off the southern coast, Cmdr Dassanayake said. He said vessels were used by the Tamil Tigers as floating platforms to store and smuggle weapons.
"This is a serious blow because destroying eight ships within a 13-month period - this is not a small thing," Cmdr Dassanayake said. But he warned that with their overseas fundraising network, the Tamil Tigers could purchase more craft.
Elsewhere in Sri Lanka, military officials say eight Tamil Tiger rebels and one soldier were killed in the latest fighting.
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This is the one that got away from the big raid a few weeks ago. To refresh your memory, the Sri Lankan Navy found the Tigers' oceangoing ships somehow (how?) and mounted a bluewater search operation far from their port (SLN is a coastal force). They sank three transports, but the fourth got away. This was the fourth one.
The Tigers still have ships. Heck, as long as Tamils fish on the ocean, the Tigers still have a navy.
Iranian students protest against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's visit to Tehran University October 8, 2007. More than 100 students scuffled with police and hardline supporters of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday on Tehran University campus and chanted 'Death to the dictator' outside a hall where the Iranian president spoke.
As already suggested by the posters above, the Leftists & Liberals in the USA have the audacity to think they have the same courage as these students in Iran.
Spit.
I havn't checked, but don't be surprised to read at DK , Moveon, or DU that the Iranian student protesters are paid for by BushHitlerHaliburtonCheney.
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Too bad there's no way of putting weapons directly into the hands of these good Persians. They are one of Iran's only hopes. I dread to wonder how many of them will perish in the Muttawa's next few dormitory raids.
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pretty obviously they don't have the proper "intellectual understanding" to transfer to Columbia
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Too bad there's no way of putting weapons directly into the hands of these good Persians.
If we had a CIA, the weapon of choice would be DVD's dropped into all the major cities of Iran that focus on the grievances of the broad majority of people. It seems like they could be dropped all over the cities from pg-pallets. There would be the double humiliation of the contents of the DVDs and the fact that we could deliver them unopposed.
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The only nukes I would ever be comfortable with Iranians having are a couple of tac weapons in the hands of these students. God bless and protect them!
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basij and pasej
Thank you, twobyfour. I'm not quite prepared to devote another several hundred hours in memorizing all of the separate nuances of Shi'ite lunacy versus Sunni idiocy.
Syria's State Security Court on Sunday convicted five Syrians for belonging to a secret Islamist organization aimed at changing the nature of the state, sentencing them to up to nine years in prison, a local human rights group said in a statement.
The National Organization for Human Rights in Syria said that the court sentenced Mohammed Said Dahman to nine years in jail, while four others received five years each. In a separate case, the court postponed until November 8 the trial of Faiq El-Mir, who was arrested in December 2006 over charges of insulting the Syrian regime and belonging to the outlawed Syrian People's Party, NOHR's statement added.
Initially upon coming to power in 2000, President Bashar Assad freed hundreds of political prisoners and passed laws aimed at liberalizing the state-controlled economy.
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"Syria Jails 5 for Belonging to anthe wrong Extremist Islamic Group"
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International military planes called in by Afghan security forces killed 16 rebels, apparently all foreigners, suspected of preparing an attack in the countrys east, police said on Sunday. Six rebels were injured and one was captured following the raid late on Saturday in the province of Paktika on Afghanistans border with Pakistan, provincial deputy police chief Farouq Sangari told AFP. The captured militant, an Uzbek national, told the authorities the dead were all foreign nationals from Pakistan, Uzbekistan and Chechnya, the official said.
Suicide attack foiled: Meanwhile, a would-be suicide bomber was shot dead just steps away from a provincial police chief in his headquarters near Kabul on Sunday, chief Ghullam Moustafa told AFP. The attacker was wearing a police uniform and snuck into the headquarters in Logar province south of the capital, the commander said. Guards became suspicious when the man ignored warnings to stop. Our guards shot and killed him just behind my office door, Moustafa said. He was less than five metres away from me, he added. The would-be attacker was found to be wearing a bomb-filled suicide vest underneath the uniform. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahed claimed responsibility, calling the man our mujahid (holy fighter).
NATO shoots civilians: Also, a bombing and a gunbattle killed four police officers and four militants in Afghanistan, officials said on Sunday, while NATO soldiers in the east shot and killed three Afghans, AP reported. 
A Darfur town has been burnt to the ground since it came under the control of Sudanese troops this week, the UN said Sunday. Observers who inspected the town of Haskanita say 15,000 civilians have fled since the army moved in. 
Security forces backed by heavy artillery and helicopter gunships killed 65 militants but lost 20 soldiers in two battles in North Waziristan on Sunday, Reuters quoted officials and witnesses as saying. The fighting began on Saturday night when militants ambushed an army convoy in Mir Ali, 24 kilometres east of agency headquarters Miranshah, on the Miranshah-Bannu road. The security forces launched an operation against the militants, said Major General Waheed Arshad, director general of Inter Services Public Relations. Ten army soldiers were killed and 10 wounded.
Two Indian soldiers and six militants were killed in a clash along the border dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan as Indias new army chief wrapped up a visit, the army said on Sunday. The army chiefs visit to Indian-held Kashmir over the weekend came as the insurgency-hit region witnessed an increase in violence.
IDF forces attacked overnight Sunday a Palestinian cell whose members were firing mortar shells over the Gaza security fence at the western Negev. The army reported a hit, but did not provide details on casualties.
The body of a Christian official who was kidnapped over the weekend was discovered in Gaza City early Sunday, Palestinian sources said. The man was identified as Rami Ayyad, 31, director of The Teacher's Bookshop, which is operated by the Palestinian Bible Society. 
Sri Lanka's navy says it has sunk a ship used by the Tamil Tiger rebels, killing at least 12 people on board. 
Syria's State Security Court on Sunday convicted five Syrians for belonging to a secret Islamist organization aimed at changing the nature of the state, sentencing them to up to nine years in prison, a local human rights group said in a statement. 
