10/19/2007 - SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations Oct. 18, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here.
In Afghanistan, an Air Force B-1B Lancer released flares in a show of force in Ghazni. The on-scene joint terminal attack controller confirmed the mission was successful. During that same mission in Ghazni, the B-1B struck a cave with guided bomb unit-31s to limit potential use by enemy combatants. The air strike resulted in the destruction of the target. The mission was deemed successful by the JTAC.
A B-1B released flares in a show of force to support friendly ground forces conducting a patrol in Ghazni. The JTAC confirmed the mission achieved the desired result. Fell on a jihadi's head, did they?
A French Mirage 2000 successfully destroyed an enemy position in Nangalam with a GBU-12. The JTAC confirmed the mission was successful. "Relax, Achmed, the French hate the Americans as much as we d-" BOOM!!
Frenchies are using GBU's?
During that same mission, the Mirage 2000 conducted a show of force in Bari Kowt. The JTAC confirmed the mission was successful. "Eeek, Abdul! It's that same damn frog again. Run for your life!"
I humbly suggest that a 'show of force' works better when Abdul is lying dead next to Mahmoud, who's also dead. Not to be bloodthirsty or anything, but the job is to get the remaining mooks to toss their weapons to the ground and walk away.
In Kamdish, an Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle dispensed flares in a show of force to deter enemy actions against friendly forces. The JTAC declared the mission achieved its desired effects.
A Royal Air Force Harrier GR-7 successfully dropped an enhanced Paveway II munition on a position used by enemy combatants in Garmsir. The JTAC confirmed the target was destroyed and the mission was successful. Haji kibbles
In total, 35 close-air-support missions were flown in support of ISAF and Afghan security forces, reconstruction activities and route patrols. Eleven Air Force and RAF surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft flew missions in support of operations in Afghanistan.
In Iraq, a B-1B destroyed unimproved roads used by enemy combatants with GBU-31s and GBU-38s near Samarra. This will deter enemy activities and movements in the area. The JTAC confirmed the mission was successful.
An enemy vehicle was targeted by F-16s with a GBU-38, GBU-12s and a AGM-65 Maverick missile in Bayji. Just to be sure, I guess.
The vehicle was occupied by enemy combatants firing at friendly forces. Number not determinable.
The JTAC confirmed the mission was successful.
While conducting an armed overwatch, an F-16 performed a show of force to deter enemy activities in Baghdad. The JTAC declared the mission a success. Frightened some journalists back into their favorite saloon?
A RAF Tornado GR-4 conducted a show of force to deter enemy activities in Baghdad. The mission was deemed successful by the JTAC. Not a Reuterist to be seen the rest of the day.
In total, coalition aircraft flew 50 close-air-support missions for Operation Iraqi Freedom. These missions supported coalition ground forces, protected key infrastructure, provided over watch for reconstruction activities and helped to deter and disrupt terrorist activities.
Twenty-two Air Force and Navy surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft flew missions in support of operations in Iraq. Additionally, three Air Force and RAF aircraft performed tactical reconnaissance. Air Force C-130 Hercules and C-17 Globemaster IIIs provided intratheater heavy airlift support, helping to sustain operations throughout Afghanistan, Iraq and the Horn of Africa.
Approximately 164 airlift sorties were flown; 553 tons of cargo were delivered, and 4,280 passengers were transported. This included approximately 9,000 pounds of troop re-supply air-dropped in Afghanistan. Coalition C-130 crews from Australia, Canada, Japan and Republic of Korea flew in support of operations in Afghanistan or Iraq.
On Oct. 17, Air Force and RAF aerial refueling crews flew 41 sorties and off-loaded approximately 2.6 million pounds of fuel to 199 receiving aircraft.
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If they had telegraphs out that way we could telegram their mothers, just to let them know.
KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S.-led coalition soldiers and Afghan forces killed about 50 militants in two days of major fighting near a Taliban-controlled town in southern Afghanistan's poppy-growing belt, officials Saturday.
Taliban forces fired rocket-propelled grenades and small arms at a combined coalition-Afghan patrol near the town of Musa Qala in Helmand province, sparking a battle that lasted several hours and involved the use of military aircraft, the coalition said in a statement. Nearly three dozen militants were killed.
The battle was the second in two days near Musa Qala. The coalition said it killed more than a dozen insurgents Friday after the militants ambushed a patrol. Attack aircraft helped repel that initial attack, though the fighters tried to reinforce their numbers throughout the engagement, which lasted several hours, the coalition said.
Taliban militants overran Musa Qala in February, four months after British troops left the town following a contentious peace agreement that handed over security responsibilities to Afghan elders. Musa Qala has been in control of Taliban fighters ever since and is in the heart of the world's largest poppy-growing region.
This year has been the most violent especially for the Talibunnies
since the U.S.-led coalition ousted the Taliban from power in 2001. More than 5,200 people have died in insurgency-related violence this year, according to an Associated Press count based on figures from Afghan and Western officials.
(RIA Novosti) - Fifty-nine militants including six warlords have been killed in special operations in Chechnya since the beginning of the year, the republic's interior minister said Friday.
Ruslan Alkhanov said police in the troubled North Caucasus republic detained 291 suspected militants during the period, and that 127 gunmen voluntarily turned themselves in. "Only one terrorist attack has been committed in Chechnya since the beginning of the year, compared to nine in the same period of last year," he told an interior ministry meeting. Alkhanov also said 55 police officers lost their lives and 113 were wounded in special operations against militants.
Chechnya was devastated by two military campaigns, in 1994-1996 and 1999-2001, after which Moscow significantly scaled back its military presence in the province. However, sporadic fighting and terrorist attacks still occur in the area, despite a widely publicized amnesty campaign announced by Russian authorities. The amnesty followed the killing by federal troops of Chechen warlord and number one terrorist Shamil Basayev, who was behind the 2004 Beslan school siege and other atrocities.
More than 600 militants in Chechnya and adjacent provinces reportedly surrendered their arms last year in response to a six-month amnesty declared by the Russian government on July 15 for those not involved in any serious crimes.
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Unidentified individuals have for the fourth night in a row set fire to a car in Amsterdam West. This time the arson took place in the Burgemeester van der Pollstraat, a spokesperson for the police said.
The police have not made any arrests. The Burgemeester van der Pollstraat is in the Geuzeveld-Slotermeer district, close to Slotervaart. The police assume that the arson is connected with the incident on Sunday at the police station on the August Allebéplein in the Amsterdam district Slotervaart.
Since the shooting incident on Sunday the situation in this neighbourhood has been volatile. Since the weekend youths have set fire to five cars in total. On Monday they threw stones at the police. The disturbances took place when a police officer shot and killed the 22-year-old Bilal B. at the police station after he had stabbed her and her colleague with a knife.
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People downwind of the fires report extreme hunger pangs.
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Amsterdam PD isn't as meeching as the French. Though they are normally extra friendly, if you are violent or vicious, the police will track you down and neutralize you.
Not that I like much the police, which is politicized and often is very zealous in going after the rightwingers, but...
French police is known to crack heads when needed (doest Amsterdam PD have the equivalent of the french BAC, small teams of plainclothes policemen who go on "contact" with the Youths, tonfas & saps first?), and have no compulsion on not using deadly force when authorized to, though the Gign tends to try to avoid killing... but, appeasement is the word, and police is told "not to provoke".
It's a (deliberate) lack of will from the pols which spread down to the police hierarchy, not a supposed tradition of softness or restraint, just think about the parisian police's handling of commie and fln demonstrations during the algeria war. French Elites have decided than stamping down the drug industry managed by the Youths, and the violent sub culture of the "hoods" was too dangerous, and that the problem was now unmanageable, and the best was to leave them alone and keep the subsidies going their way to placate them. In 2005, the french police was very courageous and effective, in that the orders, as it is now known, were to avoid any casualties among the rioters to avoid a general uprising and agitation from the far left; so, the cops kept getting stoned, thrown molotov cocktails, sometimes shot at, and it went on and on, and they never reacted with "disproportionate force". For this, blame the pols, but kudos to the police for its discipline and professionalism.
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Plus, reading the kleinverzet blog and the updates, it's clear the reaction of the authorites is exactly the same as the french one.
Don't expect any kind of meaningful "Law & Order" response, much less an hypothetical "shoot to kill" policy, the authorities and the police will keep it under control, there will be some arrests, with the justice being very forgiving, and the eventual long term answer to that will be more appeasement, possibly somme arrangement with the local Holy Men to keep the Youths under control, and more money thrown at the hoods.
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In the future, all of Europe will be French for 15 minutes.
And then Islamic for generations.
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Last night also Amterdam Police commissioner, Bernard Welten, was on Television. He told the Dutch public that he was afraid of Paris style riots in Amsterdam. Thus defending his policy of do nothing, because so he said: we need to keep the peace at all cost.
Other news today: This week Dutch parliamentary restaurant started serving halal meals. And in an other part of Amsterdam Moslem's protested to get a mosque from the state.
Hello this is exactly the same thing going on here with the Mexicans and Muzzies in Detroit. It's going to take a full revolution with wipe out both the political and islamic problems.
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Yeah, it worked well for the Islamics in France. Their boy Chirac finally got the boot and Sarkozy was elected. And I suspect that the elections will keep shifting right. At least the good immigrants, the ones who just want to get a job and live life, should hope so. That's the only thing that will prevent a war that they are not equipped to win.
Youness Loukili (29), one of the main suspects in the terrorism trial currently being held in Brussels, has promised to tell the court the real story today about his part in fighting on the side of Al-Qaeda terrorists in Iraq.
Anti-terrorism investigators are convinced that the Moroccan Belgian Loukili actually fought and even lost his leg while fighting for the leading terrorist Al Zarqawi. During questioning on Tuesday, however, Loukili denied he had ever been to Iraq. Up to now he has also stubbornly kept silent at the trial. Loukili said that he lost his leg in a traffic accident in Syria.
Loukili and his five fellow suspects are on trial for taking the Belgian Muriel Degauque to Iraq. Degauque and her car loaded with explosives were blown to smithereens in a suicide attack on an American convoy.
Christophe Marchand, Loukilis lawyer, yesterday at 10.30 a.m. requested that the session be adjourned. Aftre the court session was resumed neither Marchand nor his colleagues were willing to comment why an ajournment had been requested. A reliable source has said that Loukili would like to shift his stance, and now wishes to tell what he was really up to in Iraq. That would certainly suit his lawyer.
On Monday Marchand said that the suspects on trial were "soldiers fighting a legitimate war against an occupying force." According to him the rules of criminal law are not applicable in their case. However, his own client undermined this argument by stating that he had never fought in Iraq. It now remains to be seen if what Loukili has to say will hold.
Loukili and his five fellow suspects are on trial for taking the Belgian Muriel Degauque to Iraq. Degauque and her car loaded with explosives were blown to smithereens in a suicide attack on an American convoy.
Yesterday was also the first time that the prime suspect Bilal Soughir attended the trial. Up till then he had always refused to leave his cell.
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A reliable source has said that Loukili would like to shift his stance
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Marchand's defense position 'that the suspects on trial were "soldiers fighting a legitimate war against an occupying force,"' should be quite sufficient to win an acquittal in Belgium, I suspect.
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Well, hell - blow yourselves all up at the same time and get it over with.
Then maybe the Packistani army will get motivated to completely wipe out anything and anybody that moves or breathes in the tribal areas - including the goats.
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It would probably do Pakistan a lot of good if those curs decided to attack the "city folk". Pakistan has a population of 165 million, the vast majority of whom would then be incline to throw all the "country folk" off of a cliff.
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Hundreds of SplodyDopes await in Breathless Lemmingesque Suspension...
/boo
consider this:
PakiWaki-Land population 164,741,924 (July 2007 est.)..surprised, not much different than USA.
Annually, about 1.2 million people die in road accidents. There are 15-20 million disabilities due to road related accidents.
Road crashes are now the number 1 killer of young people between the age 10 and 24.
RE: 10 and 24 year olds..
it's not funny but, with all the sick deadly shit that the passes for NORMAL human intercourse in Paki Waki Land...auto accident just now passed all other causes for mortality. We should wait till the latest "civil disturbance" is over.. it may change back..
Cost of the Epidemic
40,000 deaths in the USA cost 300 million dollars. What is the cost of one million deaths? Researchers have put economic values to the losses and the cost is between 1-5% of GDP. Now thats billions of dollars in value.
Another impact is the loss of the bread earner in a family. Not many families in the developing countries have multiple bread winners. What happens when the lone earner is no longer able to do so due to disability or death?
Many Pakistanis do not believe on wearing seat belts with in the city limits. Many more do no wear belts on any road where Highway Police does not have any influence. The more dangerous act we do is to place toddlers on the front seat without any car seats or restraining devices. The number of toddler deaths, or road related deaths are not known in Pakistan. But we can assume that toddler deaths due to this irresponsible behavior must be very high.
ISLAMABAD - At least 138 people were killed and more than 300 injured in an attack on former Pakistan premier Benazir Bhuttos homecoming procession, officials said on Friday, updating an earlier toll. According to latest figures 138 people died in the attack, ministry spokesman Javed Cheema told AFP.
Karachi police chief Azhar Farooqi said the number of wounded was in excess of 325 and many of them are in critical condition. Among those killed were six policemen, Farooqi told AFP, adding that the number could still rise.
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The Central Investigation Department (CID) sent Friday four heads found at the scene of Thursdays bomb blasts to the University of Karachi for DNA testing. The Home Ministry has claimed that there is only one head.
Well placed sources in the CID told Daily Times that the CID police collected four heads from the scene. These heads have yet to be identified or claimed. After the DNA is tested, if a family member submits a claim, verification will be carried out by matching blood and DNA.
Some sources in the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) said that the possibility of two suicide bombers cannot be avoided and investigation teams are focusing on the issue. A senior CID official, SP Raja Umer Khatab, said that the CID police are working on the case and that they are taking the finger prints of the body parts at the scene. Sources also said that the explosives used in Thursdays attack were the same used in the Nishtar Park bombing and the attack on MMA member and Shia leader Maulana Hassan Turabi. Sources suspected that Abid Mehsood, who is the right-hand man of Baitullah Mehsood, was the mastermind behind these attacks and that the attacks were carried out with the help of Mufti Ilyas of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.
According to witnesses, there was a suspicious man who was injured and brought to the JPMC. A group of plain-clothed men came in, interrogated him and then took him away. Witnesses said that they heard the man saying that his name was Sarfraz and that he was a resident of Landhi, however, the men surrounding him read out his ID card which revealed that he was from Shikarpur. Capital City Police Officer Azhar Ali Farooqui denied that this incident took place.
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The moral of the story? Quit while you're a head...
Security agencies that covered former prime minister Benazir Bhuttos entourage on Thursday are dumbfounded about the failure of mobile jammers in their vehicles.
Sources told Online that security measures were being handled by Rehman Malik, one of the closest aides of Ms Bhutto who was director general of the FIA DG during her tenure. It has also been learnt that mobile jammers attached to the truck carrying Ms Bhutto were not fully functional. Rehman and Makhdoom Amin Fahim were using their cell-phones without any problem, which is a clear indication of the failure of jammer system.
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I do not believe there are jammers that work against all kinds of bombs. For instance, I cannot even think of a way to jam a suicide bomb triggered by a percussion cap, even theoretically. On the other hand, bombs triggered remotely by cell phone can be jammed fairly easily (and, at least theoretically one does not even have to prevent cell phones from working to do it.) If the bombers know (or guess) what the defenses are, they can usually work around them.
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I think what Glenmore is saying is that no jammer works against the homicide bomber with a vest. Jammers work against remote cell-phone detonated devices.
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MIRANSHAH: Security forces retaliated strongly to attacks from militants on Thursday night at two different checkposts south and west of Miranshah, security officials said on Friday. No loss of life was however reported during the two attacks, the security officials, who wished to remain unnamed, told Daily Times. The militants attacked Banda checkpost, five kilometres south of Miranshah, and Akhtar checkpost, 40 kilometres west of Miranshah, and the government forces strongly retaliated, they said. Artillery was used to return fire, the officials added.
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Two blasts in Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan left at least two people including a FC officer injured on Friday, police said. A man was injured when a bomb planted in his car went off at Momin Town on Dalazak Road in the Pahari Pura police precincts. Pahari Pura police station duty officer Khurshid told Daily Times that Munsif sustained injuries when the bomb exploded while he was taking his car out of the garage at around 10.10am. Munsif was rushed to Lady Reading Hospital where his condition was reported to be stable. According to the officer, Munsif told police that he had an enmity in his ancestral village, Bara Tehsil of Khyber Agency. However, he did not name anyone in the case.
An FC officer sustained injuries when a bomb exploded near the Dera Ismail Khan district police lines the limits of Cantonment Police Station. Cantt Police Station duty officer Muhammad Bilal told Daily Times that Nazeerullah sustained injuries when a bomb planted in a bicycle went off at around 9.15am. The condition of the injured was reported to be stable at Dera Civil Hospital. Cantt Police Station House Officer (SHO) Niaz Muhammad Khan told Daily Times that blasts target was yet to be ascertained. He said the blast scene was close to the Sessions Court, police station and the IB office, adding that officials were investigating to find out if sectarianism was behind the incident.
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The suicide attack on former premier Benazir Bhutto that killed 136 people may have been the work of Al Qaeda and the Taliban, AP quoted authorities as saying on Friday, as forensic experts studied the severed head of the alleged bomber to try to determine his identity.
"Dr. Quincy! What do you make of this?"
"Looks like it might be an elbow..."
A provincial government official had cited intelligence reports that three suicide bombers linked to pro-Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud were in Karachi. Mehsuds spokesman could not be reached for comment, but an alleged associate of the militant commander, Isa Khan, denied Taliban involvement.
"Wudn't us. We said we wuz gonna, but we din't."
The attack bore the hallmarks of militants linked to Mehsud and Al Qaeda, according to Home Secretary Ghulam Mohtarem. He suggested that Bhuttos camp had not taken the need for security seriously despite warnings.
They were moving her in an armored shipping container. That sounds like they took the security seriously.
Nobody from the thousands of people, including the PPP security force and 9,000 policemen, was able to recognise the bomber from his head.
"Faith! It looks like Murphy!"
"No, Pat! It's a close resemblence, I'll grant ye, but Murphy's much taller!"
The bomber had thrown a grenade to distract security personnel and ran towards Bhuttos bulletproof truck, said Karachi police chief Azhar Farooqui. The bomber was wearing a jacket loaded with at least 15kg of explosives as well as shrapnel, he added. An injured policeman said that he had seen a suspicious man carrying a child, who seemed dead, towards Bhutto, and that he suspected the bomb might have been fitted inside the childs corpse.
Ummm... Right. Hadn't heard that one before. I'm not sure how inconspicuous he'd be, carrying a dead kid.
Reward: The Sindh government has announced a Rs 5 million reward for anyone who helps in the identification of the perpetrators, Online reported.
This article starring:
Baitullah Mehsud
Taliban
Home Secretary Ghulam Mohtarem
Isa Khan
Taliban
Karachi police chief Azhar Farooqui
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It wus the talibans, al-qaida, and all those muzzy "holey men" that want to implement sharia law that dun it. It's a HUGE conspiracy, I tell yaz! Where can I collect my 5 mil???
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The Indian Army Friday said that it had busted three guerrilla hideouts and seized a huge quantity of arms and explosives in the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. During a search operation in Kashmir's Anantnag district, the Army busted a guerrilla hideout and recovered six kgs of explosives, five detonators, four hand grenades, five AK-47 magazines, 300 ammunition and a radio set, the news agency Press Trust of India reported quoting an Army official today from Srinagar, summer capital of Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. In a search operation in Kashmir's Kupwara district, the Army recovered 15 hand grenades, one rifle, four magazines, 220 rounds of ammunition and a radio set, the news agency said. In a second search operation in Kupwara district, three rocket propelled grenades rounds with booster, 18 grenades, 198 rounds of pika ammunition, 570 rounds of AK-47 ammunition, 65 rounds of AK-47 tracer ammunition, 19 AK magazines and one rocket launcher were recovered by the Army, the official said.
I think that's just walking around money in Kashmir
BAGHDAD (Rooters) - U.S. forces in Iraq discovered nearly 19 tons of explosives in a weapons cache north of Baghdad this week, one of the biggest finds of its kind, the U.S. military said on Saturday.
The cache was discovered west of Tarmiya, some 30 km (19 miles) northwest of the capital Baghdad, in Salahuddin province where Sunni Arab militants have a strong presence.
The find was made up of 41,000 lbs of ammonium nitrate and 35 mortar bombs. U.S. forces destroyed the cache.
"It's a crippling blow against the enemy, it's really huge," said Peggy Kageleiry, a spokeswoman for U.S. forces in northern Iraq.
Paratroopers captured six members, to include two lieutenants, of an improvised explosive device cell responsible for attacks against Iraqi Security and Coalition Forces in North Babil Oct. 17. Paratroopers from Company B, 3rd Battalion, 509th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, detained the men during Operation Salcha, an early morning raid.
The men were members of an IED cell, said Capt. Eric Nylander, commander of Company B. The cell is a part of the al-Qaeda network in North Babil.
Last week, we arrested the leader of the cell, Nylander continued. After tonights operation, we have captured most of the cells senior leadership.
Nylander believes security in the area will visibly improve since paratroopers have begun to target the cell so effectively. I think we will definitely see a decrease in IEDs, Nylander said. I think it will also embolden the local population. We are seeing an increase in Concerned Local Citizens program participation and the people are standing up for themselves.
The two lieutenants were implicated by numerous sources for their involvement in several IED attacks along Iraqs Highway 1, as well as the bombing of another roadway east of Haswah. The incident near Haswah completely severed the road, making it impassable.
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Coalition forces killed 11 terrorists and detained two suspects during an operation Oct. 15-18 near Samarra along the Tigris River Valley.
Recent intelligence indicated villages in the area are used as safe havens for al-Qaeda in Iraq cells and foreign terrorist facilitators. Reports also indicated the area is used by al-Qaeda to operate illegal checkpoints, conduct meetings and to launch operations.
Upon entering the area late Monday, Coalition forces observed several groups of men from multiple locations gathering into positions in nearby palm groves. One group then began to maneuver toward the ground force. Perceiving hostile intent, supporting aircraft was used to suppress the threat, killing five terrorists and wounding one suspect who was subsequently detained. As the ground force secured the area they discovered a weapons cache consisting of 105mm artillery rounds, one homemade rocket firing mount and several AK-47 ammunition magazines.
During operations Tuesday, time-sensitive intelligence led Coalition forces to the location of a suspected improvised explosive device cell member. The targeted man and another suspect surrendered to the ground force without incident. The men also positively identified the suspected terrorist that was captured on Monday as another member of the cell.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, Coalition forces discovered several weapons caches in marsh areas that were connected by a series of small trails and tunnels. While searching one of the caches, the ground force was engaged by a man with an assault rifle. Responding in self-defense, Coalition forces engaged, wounding the man. Following the engagement, a group of men in a truck drove toward Coalition forces, demonstrating hostile intent. Supporting aircraft engaged the threat, killing six terrorists.
As Coalition forces cleared the area, they discovered additional weapons caches with mortar systems, mortar rounds, 20mm ammunition rounds, homemade pressure plate mines, and homemade mines filled with nails for projectiles. All weapons were safely destroyed on site.
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a group of men in a truck drove toward Coalition forces, demonstrating hostile intent. Supporting aircraft engaged the threat, killing six terrorists.
*KA-POW*
heh
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They were just innocent farmers out checking their date crop. The weapons cache wasn't theirs - probably left over from a past war or something.
Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldiers captured an alleged high-ranking leader of an extremist cell along with three other suspected insurgents near Sab Al Bor, Iraq, Oct. 18.
During an operation to locate extremist members and gather information on the Al Qaeda in Iraq network, Soldiers from Battery C, Fires Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, attached to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, and Soldiers from Troop A, 1st Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, worked in a concerted effort to capture the cell leader and three of his alleged accomplices.
Aviation assets from the 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cav. Div. assisted in the operation. When the operation began, the Battery C troops moved toward a house from which the cell leader and his accomplices were allegedly operating.
As soon as the Battery C troops entered the house, two men ran from the building.
As this occurred, Troop A, 1-7 Cav. moved in and isolated the two men who were trying to flee. Shortly afterward, they were able to move into another nearby house and capture the cell leader and one other suspect.
The extremist leader is part of a cell which is allegedly responsible for numerous murders in the Sab Al Bor area; the making of improvised explosive devices and conducting kidnappings in the area. The cell has been known to launch attacks against innocent civilians as well as on Iraqi Security Forces and Coalition Forces.
The combined efforts of the Iraqi Army, Iraqi Police, U.S. Army with the attached Estonian Platoon, and citizens of Sab Al Bor and its adjacent villages over the past three months has led to the capture of a criminal gang leader who terrorized the citizens of Sab Al Bor on a daily basis, said Lt. Col. Kevin MacWatters, commander, 1st Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment and a native of Mustang, Okla. His capture is another example of the continued progress of both Coalition and Iraqi Security Forces to bring criminal elements to justice and improve the security situation for the citizens of Sab Al Bor.
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Palestinian gunmen fired an anti-tank missile at IDF troops operating in southern Gaza Friday evening. Nobody was wounded in the incident, and no damage was reported.
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A person who claimed to be the spokesman of the Rajah Sulayman Movement (RSM) on Saturday said the group was responsible for Fridays attack in Makati City that left nine people dead and scores of others injured.
A person who claimed to be the spokesman of the Rajah Sulayman Movement (RSM) on Saturday said the group was responsible for Fridays attack in Makati City that left nine people dead and scores of others injured.
In a text message to ABS-CBN News, the person who said he was RSM spokesman Ruben Omar Lavilla, alias Sheik Omar, demanded the release of founder Hilarion del Rosario Santos, alias Ahmed Santos.
RSM is a terror organization whose members are allegedly composed of Christians who have converted to Islam and reportedly operates in Manila and northern Luzon. It was suspected of carrying out the Rizal bombing in 2000 and Valentines Day bombings in 2004.
The text message said RSM had sought the help of Assistant Secretary Severo Catura assigned to the Office of the Executive Secretary but its demand had fallen on deaf ears.
National Security Adviser Norberto Gonzales, meanwhile, said the government will verify if RSM was indeed responsible for the attack.
Authorities are still verifying the authenticity of the sender and his claim.
Lavilla, a former professor at the University of the Philippines in Diliman, Quezon City, is considered RSMs religious, political and strategic leader.
Based on the record of the intelligence community, Lavilla allegedly trained RSMs recruits in the groups hideout in Pangasinan and Tarlac province. In 2002, the military stormed RSMs training bases in both provinces.
It was reported that before the raid, Lavilla received P10 million from Abu Sayyaf leader Khadaffy Janjalani. The money was purportedly meant for RSMs "operational expenses."
Since Santoss capture in 2005, Lavilla served as the groups spokesman.
A bomb blast at a food shop wounded five soldiers and two local residents in this strife-torn southern province on Friday.
Private Abdultolae Masama, 22 was seriously injured. He suffered shrapnel wounds in the torso, and his right leg was almost severed. Pvt. Abdultolae underwent an operation and is being treated in hospital. Four other soldiers and two local men sustained minor injuries and were released from hospital.
The soldiers were providing security at a technical school and were having breakfast at a nearby food shop when a bomb hidden under a bench exploded.
Eight people were killed and as many as 89 others wounded Friday when a powerful explosion ripped through a shopping mall in Makati City, the Philippine capital's financial district. "This was a bomb," the country's police chief, Avelino Razon, said at the scene. "But we can't say anything else yet because we are still investigating."
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, in a statement, instructed the police to leave "no stone unturned" in its investigation.
An initial police report attributed the destruction to the explosion of a tank of liquefied petroleum gas, but that theory was soon discounted. Razon said that the police in the Manila area were on full alert. He said he had ordered more checkpoints and deployed more police officers to shopping malls.
The explosion on the ground floor of Glorietta 2, a mall popular with young professionals and other affluent Manila residents, occurred early in the afternoon. It destroyed a portion of the mall's roof and damaged several shops. Debris littered the street, some of it damaging cars parked near the complex.
Icy Marinas, a shopper, told the radio station DZMM that she had been only 15 meters, or 50 feet, from the explosion, which she described as being like an "intense earthquake." Marinas said that had seen a pregnant woman crying and others rushing for the exits.
A taxi driver told The Associated Press that the blast slammed two women who had just gotten out of his cab back against it, killing both of them.
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10/19/2007 - SOUTHWEST ASIA (AFPN) -- Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations Oct. 18, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here. 
(RIA Novosti) - Fifty-nine militants including six warlords have been killed in special operations in Chechnya since the beginning of the year, the republic's interior minister said Friday. 
Unidentified individuals have for the fourth night in a row set fire to a car in Amsterdam West. This time the arson took place in the Burgemeester van der Pollstraat, a spokesperson for the police said. 
The Central Investigation Department (CID) sent Friday four heads found at the scene of Thursdays bomb blasts to the University of Karachi for DNA testing. The Home Ministry has claimed that there is only one head.
Two blasts in Peshawar and Dera Ismail Khan left at least two people including a FC officer injured on Friday, police said. A man was injured when a bomb planted in his car went off at Momin Town on Dalazak Road in the Pahari Pura police precincts. Pahari Pura police station duty officer Khurshid told Daily Times that Munsif sustained injuries when the bomb exploded while he was taking his car out of the garage at around 10.10am. Munsif was rushed to Lady Reading Hospital where his condition was reported to be stable. According to the officer, Munsif told police that he had an enmity in his ancestral village, Bara Tehsil of Khyber Agency. However, he did not name anyone in the case. 
The suicide attack on former premier Benazir Bhutto that killed 136 people may have been the work of Al Qaeda and the Taliban, AP quoted authorities as saying on Friday, as forensic experts studied the severed head of the alleged bomber to try to determine his identity.
BAGHDAD (Rooters) - U.S. forces in Iraq discovered nearly 19 tons of explosives in a weapons cache north of Baghdad this week, one of the biggest finds of its kind, the U.S. military said on Saturday.
