(SomaliNet) MOGADISHU - Civilians dragged the body of an Ethiopian soldiers in the streets of Somalias capital today after fighting with insurgents killed a second soldier and civilian, witnesses said, AFP reports.
In the grisly incident, more than 100 civilians stepped and spat on the scarred body as they dragged it for several kilometres on a pot-holed asphalt road from Mogadishus Suqaholaha district to Barubah, an AFP correspondent reported. "We will fight against the Ethiopia colonisers and we will kill them like this", "Down with Ethiopia, Allah is Great", they chanted in native Somali language.
The slain soldier - with only a camouflage trouser and his body badly scarred - was among two Ethiopians and a civilian killed in heavy fighting that rocked northern Mogadishus Suqaholaha district earlier in the day, witnesses said. "After the fighting, Ethiopian forces came and collected the body of one of their own killed in front of my door," said resident Ali Nur Yayah, referring to the second soldier. "Five civilians were also wounded in the fighting," he added.
Another resident, Hussein Mohamad, said he "saw the body of a slain man in civilian clothes at the battlefield."
The incident comes nearly a week after insurgents paraded three Ethiopian troops through the streets of Mogadishu in a scene somewhat reminiscent of 1993, when the bodies of US special forces taking part in a doomed operation were famously torn to pieces and paraded in the streets.
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One of the first moments I began to wake up from my leftist nightmare was reaction to the same treatment of Americans in Somalia. The United States, under United Nations auspices, volunteers its blood and treasure to distribute food. In return, its men are treated to this sort of spectacular barbarism.
But. When these savages were described as such after dragging a man's corpse through the streets how did "the left" react? With spitting rage at the supposed racism of describing such acts as savagery. The grotesque irony, of course, is that to real racists it does not matter what people do but their skin color or culture that determines their virtue.
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a MOAB in teh neighborhood might make them rethink this barbarism - the ones that live, at least. Not one f*cking thin dime for Somalia, nor any imigrants. We have enough cab drivers that can't speak english nor know the geography, thank you
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What is it with these ghouls?
2x4, it's a practice run, the Æthiopian Olympic Committee haz submitted up a Soldier Dragging as an Opening Event for Beijing 2008.
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Teh Modern Tug-of-War?
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Um, I have a feeling that the Ethiopian response might not be as "measured" as our responses to similar incidents. I predict lots of arty in that neighborhood. Enjoy that; you have earned it.
Oh, and I talked to a friend who was in Mog about a year ago or so... He said if you dropped a hydrogen bomb on the place, it would do a total of 300 dollars worth of damage.
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it would do a total of 300 dollars worth of damage
based on current Khat prices?
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Still, as I remember, a most painful incident that "Blackhawk Down" has left me with. I was so disappointed in Clinton's handling of the extraction (the buck stopped where?), and Les...Les, I'm still overjoyed he is soo dead!!! I still can't come to terms in watching the movie, it's still wrapped in cellophane. How valiant our troops were; how soo unappreciative the Somalian troglodytes were!
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How valiant our troops were; how soo unappreciative the Somalian troglodytes were!
It's why I'm willing to go with the box on the stagetu3031's suggestion. Little else will dissuade these cretins from such Neandertal behavior. And if it doesn't, hey, they're all dead anyway!
(SomaliNet) The traditional council of Hawiye clan in Mogadishu said on Thursday it is pledging that no attack would be launched if the Ethiopian forces withdraw from Somalia as heavy fighting renewed in north of the city on early this morning between the Ethiopian troopsand local Islamic militants.
Speaking to the local media, the Hawiye spokesman Mohamed Hassan Haad today that the Hawiye elders are ready to convince the insurgents to stop their fighting if the Ethiopian government pull its troops out of the country. No one will attack the Ethiopians if they go back to their country, said Haad. Mr. Haad said the Ethiopian forces are responsible for the civil crisis in Mogadishu and the solution might came when the Ethiopians withdraw the country.
Meanwhile, fighting broke out this morning in Suuqa Xoolaha village of Huriwa district between the Ethiopian troops and the insurgents. The latest gun battle began when the Ethiopian forces launched house-to-house search operations in the village where they clashed with heavily armed militants. The rival sides were exchanging heavy artillery weapons as all roads were cut off by the Ethiopians.
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Have the Ethiopians pull out, and bomb the Somalis back to the stone age, and keep them there. Anything more modern than an ox-cart will be immediately bombed. It won't do the Somalis much good, but it would put a stop to the rest of the stupidity from that area of the world, such as piracy, hijacking, and gun-running. Turn a blind eye to the "humanitarian cricis", since it's a direct response of not having a working government.
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(SomaliNet) The spokesman for the Banadir provincial authority has narrowly escaped from an attempt on his life on early Thursday morning after a bomb exploded on a car he was driving in north of the Somalia capital Mogadishu.
Witnesses said it was a roadside bomb which targeted on the vehicle as it was passing inside Karan district, north of the city around 6:50 am local time. After the explosion, Mohamed Muhyidin, the spokesperson told reporters that he had survived from a bomb attack as he was heading his office. I and my security guards escaped from the attack, it was a remote controlled roadside bomb aimed to destroy my car, said Muhyidin.
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The representative of the general prosecutor for Algiers court has sought death penalty against Houssein Koubi, alias The Blind, who led security services to dismantle the nucleus of the Islamic Armed Group GIA in 2002.
That doesn't sound like the height of gratitude...
Algiers criminal court has re-opened yesterday the dossier of The Blind, which was postponed last March under a request submitted by the defence which required summoning some witnesses who were released.
Moreover, 10 defendants, indicted with bombing a public places, killing, rape and fraud-related charges, have been heard. The representatives of the general prosecutor sought the death penalty against Houssein Koubi, 6 months sentence against 6 elements in the dismantled nucleus and life in prison against three others, while the court is to pronounce more verdicts today.
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Twelve people were killed when Yemeni tribesmen clashed on Thursday with security personnel for a Ukrainian oil firm during a protest, the Yemeni ruling partys Web site said. Six guards and six tribesmen were killed in the clash, which has ended, according to the Web site of the Peoples Congress Party, Tribal and security forces efforts have succeeded in containing the armed clash, it said adding that the incident occurred in the eastern province of Shabwa. The Web site did not give the name of the Ukrainian company, but quoted provincial sources as saying that the Bel-Hareth tribe has been pressing to secure jobs for its members at the oil firm and to secure contracts without consideration to professional skills and requirements. US ally Yemen is a small producer of oil with output of around 330,000 barrels per day (bpd) and exports of about 200,000 bpd. Tribesmen blew up a crude oil export pipeline on Monday, apparently to press for tribal demands.
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Belgrade and Skopje, 9 Nov.(AKI) Macedonian police clashes with criminal bands on Wednesday in which six ethnic Albanians were killed and 13 arrested may signal wider conflict in the region, political and military analysts said on Friday.
Gee, yet another region where an aggrieved minority seethes and rolls their eyes.
The police swept mountainous area near the town of Tetovo, bordering Serbias breakaway Kosovo province, in search of armed bands which have been operating in the area. After a ten-hour shootout, six criminals were killed, police said, and a cache of heavy and light weapons were discovered.
Taking lessons from the RAB, are they ...
The weapons seized on the Sara Mountain were to be displayed to foreign military attaches in Skopje on Friday, police minister Gordana Jankulovska was quoted as saying by the MIA news agency.
The police said most of the bandits involved in Wednesday's clashes recently escaped from jail in neighboring Kosovo, which has been under United Nations control since 1999. They bandits had been sentenced for various crimes and Macedonian authorities suspect they were helped to escape by ethnic Albanian guards, several of whom had been arrested afterwards.
They're all brothers in arms, after all ...
But despite Skopjes insistence on the criminal aspect of the Wednesday shootout, a mysterious Tetovo-based organization calling itself 'The Political-military organizational committee of Kosovo liberation armies' said in a statement they were forced to organise themselves into regular military units to defend the Albanian people and its territories. Islamist SOP: Grievance, then violence, then a militia, then an armed campaign of conquest. Rinse and repeat.
They need to come up with a catchy acronym ...
Ethnic Albanians, who make about 25 per cent of Macedonias two million population, rebelled in 2001, but the dispute was settled by the Ohrid peace accord which granted them greater rights and regional autonomy. Tetovo, with predominantly ethnic Albanian population, was the centre of the rebellion and the police said most of those killed on Wednesday were spearheading the 2001 uprising.
The Tetovo organisation said in the statement there would be no peace in the Balkans until all ethnic Albanians living in the region were free to unite with Albania.
So they're going back on their word of peace. Hmmm, there's a word for that, hmmm ...
The unrest in Macedonia coincided with growing support from Western powers for majority ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, who demand independence from Serbia, despite strenuous opposition from Belgrade.
A prominent Belgrade military analyst, Miroslav Lazanski, said Kosovo independence would provoke a domino effect in Macedonia, Montenegro and even Greece, which have a sizeable ethnic Albanian minority. Kosovo - the gift that keeps on giving.
That means Macedonia is next, Lazanski told Serbian news agency Tanjug. Encouraging separatism and Kosovo's independence will surely raise tensions in Macedonia and spread the conflict there, he said. The high tide of violence and separatist ambitions will later spread to Montenegro, Lazanski warned. When you encourage one, others come forward with the same demands and they will not stop until they are all united in a Greater Albania, he said.
Albania, Kosovo, muslim Macedonia and parts of northern Greece all combined, with 'friendly' ties to the Turks. I think I can see where all that's heading ...
Whats common to all Albanian political organisations is that they are a part of a single Albanian national plan in the Balkans, said another analyst, Aleksandar Radic.
Meanwhile, Kosovo ethnic Albanian leaders have warned that incidents like the one in Tetovo were detrimental to their independence drive and called for restraint. "We ain't greedy, we only want what jines our'n"
The Albanian foreign ministry in Tirana condemned violence in Macedonia and appealed to local authorities not to use excessive force in areas populated by ethnic Albanians. Islamist boiler-plate pap.
Especially the part where the coppers thump the heads of the jihadis criminals ...
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More on the events at the Radio Free Europe site : LINK
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In spite of the police description of the operation as an anticrime crackdown, others say it has broader implications.
Biljana Vankovska, a professor at the Institute for Defense Studies in Skopje, says that the police found more -- and more dangerous -- weapons than an ordinary criminal gang would possess. The police, Vankovska says, announced that they would need several trucks to transport the seized weapons, which include rocket-propelled grenades and other sophisticated equipment.
Vankovska also says that, while the group involved in the clash may indeed take part in criminal activities, they behave more like a guerrilla movement. Their members wear black uniforms, and last week they set up informal checkpoints on mountain roads in the area where they operate.
And Vankovska says that "the past relations between Kosovo fighters and [ethnic Albanian] Macedonian fighters are still very close."
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I've said it before and I'll say it again. Though I did not know it at the time I know it now. The USA was wrong to back the Kosovo muslims against the Serbian Christians. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Too late now to take it back. And we're (the USA) only compounding the problem by backing an independent Kosovo.
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WAFF.com >IHT.com > Bishop of Greek Orthodox Church in Thessaloniki calls for Greece to take back large Greek-antiguitous = historically [ancient]Greek parts of Macedonia and former Yugoslavia; + PARAMILITARY LEADER WARNS SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH ABOUT TO SPLIT.
In what one FBI spokesman described as "almost an annual ritual," the bureau has obtained uncorroborated intelligence indicating al Qaeda would like to strike shopping malls during the holiday shopping season, two law enforcement sources said Thursday.
Those sources confirmed there is intelligence dating back to August that al Qaeda would like to attack malls in Los Angeles, California, and Chicago, Illinois.
The FBI's information is contained in an intelligence report and is intended for law enforcement and intelligence partners.
"There is no information to state this is a credible threat," FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said in a statement.
The information is being shared "for situational awareness," he said, and the FBI is reminding people to "remain vigilant and report suspicious activity to authorities."
A spokesman for the FBI's Chicago field office, Ross Rice, stressed the intelligence came "from an uncorroborated source and it's non-specific."
Rice said there was no mention of particular malls in Chicago and Los Angeles that might be the focus of a threat. And he added that "it's almost an annual ritual" for information to come to light about mall threats at holiday shopping time.
A senior counterterrorism official told CNN that the credibility of the information is very low but is being passed along out of an abundance of caution. And a senior government official described the intelligence as very raw and meant to help law enforcement partners to build on if they have other relevant information.
The intelligence information about the threat to shopping malls in Chicago and Los Angeles was first reported by ABC News on its Web site.
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SHould correlate thai article wid the one of EGYPT [women, Xtians not allowed to be Prez of Egypt]and mine on NORTH KOREA [women under age 45 banned from street markets], + HOT AIR's from yestiddy.
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It's not AQ I'm worried about so much as inadvertently straying between the leading edge of the horde of shoppers and the mall's parking lot or entrance after Thanksgiving.
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The Bosnian jihadi that went on a shooting spree in that cute little mall in a Utah(?) suburb not so long ago was stopped and killed by an off duty policeman with concealed carry rights. All y'all who have concealed carry permits, please carry when you go shopping, and pass the word. The problem will quickly become self regulating.
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Personally, I'm more concerned about Aqua Dots than al Qaeda. AQ would like to hurt us economically and they think all they have to do is make a threat to do some damage. That makes me want to go shopping. But when I can't find anything at the mall that isn't made in China it makes me want to go back home.
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Last week a couple of robbers hit a convenience store here, the clerk reached down and pulled out a sawed off (Handle) M-1, the two crooks ran like hell, all on video. (Laughed like hell when it showed on the news).
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Jim: I'd like to laugh like hell, too! Got a link to the video? :-)
An empty plane was isolated Thursday at New York City's LaGuardia Airport following a report of a bomb threat, authorities said. The Port Authority, which runs the airport, said American Airlines Flight 382 from Chicago landed safely and 117 passengers and five crew members were taken off the plane before the search began. Bomb-sniffing dogs were sweeping luggage and the plane. No injuries have been reported. Additional details were not immediately available.
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LAHORE: Pakistani police Friday sealed off a cancer hospital set up by Imran Khan as they sought to track him down, after he has escaped arrest under the state of emergency.
A police official was quoted as saying that police had cordoned off the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Hospital in Lahore "to search for Imran Khan." "We are still looking for him because we have orders to detain him" under public order legislation, police official Mohammad Omar said. Khan's house was also cordoned off.
Khan said in a statement from hiding that he was in contact with other opposition leaders and "we will soon launch a mass movement against Musharraf."
He demanded the reinstatement of independent-minded chief justice Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry, who was sacked by Musharraf immediately after the state of emergency was imposed. "We will continue our struggle," Khan said while talking to Geo television later. "We are also preparing our strategy to launch a civil disobedience movement against him. We will not let him (Musharraf) sit in peace."
He called for the reinstatement of all other judges who have been detained and spoke of setting up a legal support fund to help them. Staff at Geo News office said police later came to the channel's Islamabad bureau to inquire about the interview. "They came and said they were looking for Imran Khan but then they left without searching the office," reporter Mohammad Tahir said.
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They'd better ring the entire nation. Pakistan is a cancer on this earth.
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I just had the idea for a great black op. If we could send in a team to kidnap A.Q. Khan, and make it look like he had been taken by Islamists, it would solve a lot of problems.
First of all, he would have to do a Jimmy Hoffa, never be seen again. This would be our payoff for his proliferating nuclear weapons. It would also serve as warning to other ambitious scientists who would want to do the same.
Second, by implying that he was taken either by al-Qaeda or Iran, would allow us to justify actions that me might want to take against them.
Third, because he is a Pakistani national hero, it would piss off the average Pakistani on the street at al-Qaeda, Islamists in general, and Iran in particular.
ISLAMABAD: CNN and BBC transmissions have been obstructed countrywide once again.
Islamabad CNN sources said that the US tv CNN and the British tv BBC transmissions in Pakistan have been blocked in Pakistan few hours before the rally of the Pakistan Peoples Party Chairperson, Benazir Bhutto.
Following Saturday enforcement of emergency in the country, the government had closed all the local and foreign private tv channels, however, this ban on CNN and BBC was lifted yesterday, but hardly after 24 hours both these channels have once again been blocked, while the local private tv channels already remain obstructed since the imposition of emergency.
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Maldives police said 10 suspects in a bomb attack on international tourists in September fled to Pakistan and the Indian Ocean island nation is seeking Interpol's assistance to detain the fugitives.
The two prime suspects, Abdul Latheef Ibrahim and Ali Shameem, escaped the Maldives with the assistance of an immigration officer, Assistant Commissioner of Police Abdullah Riyaz said. Another eight entered Pakistan through Karachi before the Sept. 29 blast in the capital, Male, he said. The suspects targeted non-Muslims to fulfill their ``jihad,'' or holy war, Riyaz said, in a statement on the Maldives Police Service Web site.
The bomb exploded at a popular park while the tourists were on a city tour. The 12 people wounded included a British couple on their honeymoon, two Japanese and eight Chinese. The incident was the first terrorist attack in the country, President Abdul Gayoom said at the time. Assistant Commissioner Riyaz showed video footage taken by the plotters of the preparation of the improvised explosive device used in the attack, according to a police statement.
Police yesterday applied for an Interpol Red Notice to arrest the fugitives and are working with the Pakistani authorities on the case, it said.
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Well, pakiland IS the closest land that's likely to allow them. It's not like they could go to India or Oman. Interesting that they didn't go to Sri Lanka though. Given the area's history, THAT would have been interesting.
Reckie teams have already assessed the situation in the first bunker line of the LTTE, which was originally the second line maintained by the LTTE prior to the capture of the LTTE first line by the troops in September 9, 2006.
Therefore, troops were well aware of the ground which has been transformed into a death trap with trenches dug into a depth of eight feet and mine fields and improvised explosive devices to foil a Security Forces advance into their defences.
Troops were prepared to face these barriers in their bid to take the Tiger bunker lines at first light on Wednesday.
They were equipped with Bangalore Torpedoes to make inroads to the Tiger territory clearing mine fields. The Bangalore torpedoes, explosive filled pipes, were used to clear the mine fields by the engineering troops of the Engineering regiment.
At 5.30 am the troops of the Air Mobile Brigade broke into the Tiger defences surprisingly taking their bunker lines on the two sides of the Jaffna - Kandy highway around Muhamalai. A gripping, 2,000 word story about an infantry assault on a fixed position. The whole thing just happened yesterday. If you've got time I highly recommend reading the whole thing, and there are a few pictures too.
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According to Security Forces there was no intention by the troops to hold the ground. Our intention was to destroy their bunkers and return to our defences, a senior Army official told this columnist
The first part of the article made sense to me, but then I hit the bit above. If someone would be kind enough to explain why the Sri Lankan army chose to retreat rather than dig in, I'd be grateful.
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Since noone else answered, I'll take a civilian stab at it tw.
IIUC, the Tigers had artillery &/or mortar cover of the bunker areas. Had the reconnaisance teams tried to hold the bunkers they would have been in an extremely exposed position -- and they are a light force themselves. So what they did was to deny the use of the bunkers to the Tigers and then move back to rejoin the larger force, which will no doubt proceed against the bunker area as part of a larger attack.
SWABI: A bomb explosion wrecked the entrance gate of Government Girls High School Ismalia here on Thursday, sending a warning to all girls and teachers to cover up for purdah.
It was learnt that only a watchman was present at the school at the time of the blast. Police officials said the isolated location of the school has resulted in no casualties being reported, adding that the school was closed at the time of the explosion. They also recovered a letter warning all schoolteachers and students to cover up or suffer the consequences. DPO Zebullah Khan and DPS circle Said Imtiaz Ali Shah rushed to the site to investigate the blast.
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More courageous acts from the brave, Lions of islamTM defending allan from the ever dangerous apostates at the Girls' High School.
Masked gunmen on a motorcycle on Thursday shot dead a Shia cleric in Tank, a town already reeling from violence by pro-Taliban militants, police said. Ghulam Abbas, 50, was shot dead outside his home in Tank, police official Sultan Khan said. Police were searching for the assailants, who left their motorcycle behind and fled into a nearby forest, Khan told AFP. Abbas was in charge of a local mosque, he said, adding that the killing appeared to be linked to sectarian rivalry. Shia account for about 20 percent of Pakistans 160 million Sunni-dominated population.
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Sixty Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel from FCs Drushkhela camp on Thursday surrendered to Taliban militants in the Matta tehsil of Swat, Geo TV reported.
According to the channel, the militants besieged FCs Drushkhela camp on Thursday. After some talks, at least 60 FC personnel surrendered to the militants and handed over their weapons to them. These FC personnel will be treated like guests, the channel quoted a Taliban spokesman as saying. On Wednesday, dozens of paramilitary troops and police surrendered their weapons to the militants and retreated from Kalam early on Wednesday, a police official told AFP.
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Chinese engineers stopped construction work on three hydel projects on Thursday after police abandoned their station and 50 soldiers their survey camp, when militants from Swat began making their presence felt in Shangla district, officials and eyewitnesses said.
Chinese engineers from Dong Fing, National Water Resource Company and 600 support staff have left Shangla, and work on Khan Khwar, Allai Khwar and Dubear Khwar projects has been suspended indefinitely, Project Director (PD) Atta-ur-Rehman confirmed. The project director said Chinese engineers stopped work on security grounds as police abandoned Shangla police station late Wednesday night after threats from militants.
Official sources said 50 army jawans helping the Earthquake Rehabilitation and Reconstruction Authority also abandoned their camp and shifted to Abbotabad. NWFP Home Minister Shehzada Gustasip Khan said he had received reports to this effect but official channels had not yet confirmed the same.
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Taliban only attack Punjabi soldier groups, because they know that Pashtos and Waziris won't fight. However, now the talibunnies are threatening the Pak relationship with China. Elites won't like that.
The All Pakistan Newspaper Society (APNS), the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) and the Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) have all condemned the intimidation and threats directed against Mir Shakilur Rehman, owner and chief executive of Jang Group, the countrys largest media group.
Rehman is the chairman of the PBA and former president of the APNS and the CPNE. Briefing members of these organisations, Rehman said he had been subjected to great pressure and threats since the beginning of 2007, including an attempt on his life, for which he had filed a criminal complaint in a city police station in Karachi. He said that he had faced the pressures and challenges to the best of his ability but found it necessary to inform the media community of the threatening situation faced by him.
Rehman said the latest threat to the Jang Group was an email by a Taliban outfit, which had threatened to blow up the printing press and the staff of the Jang publications unless they stopped printing photographs of young women.
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BARA: The Frontier Corps (FC) attacked the positions of Amr Bil Maroof activists in the Barqambar Khel area of Bara Tehsil in the Khyber Agency, as the activists captured a stronghold of the Shaikhmal Khail tribe on Wednesday.
Amr Bil Maroof members were attacked to prevent them from looting their opponents houses. The FC also warned the activists to vacate the captured Takia area. The Shaikhmal Khail tribe claimed that Amr Bil Maroof activists had looted and burnt several houses, while Amr Bil Maroof chief Haji Namdar denied the claims.
A jirga is trying to persuade the Amr Bil Maroof to vacate the Takia area in order to avoid any government action. Haji Namdar told reporters at Qamabar Khel that people who had fled the area due to the clashes could return to their homes. Sources said Amr Bil Maroof activists had demolished 14 houses and burnt a market in Jan Khan Kalay. Meanwhile, a man injured in Wednesdays clash between the two rival organisations died on Thursday. Locals said the deceased belonged to the Shaikhmal Khel tribe.
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Two Chitral residents, Ziauddin and Rauf, were taken into custody by Maulana Fazlullahs militia at an impromptu barricade set up in front of Charbagh police station on October 28. Released after a nine-day detention on November 5, Ziauddin on Thursday spoke of their ordeal to Daily Times. The nine days I spent in their [Maulana Fazlullahs mens] captivity were the darkest in my life, said Zaiuddin.
He said his friend and he were travelling from Gilgit to Chitral via Chakdara when they were arrested by Fazlullahs men. Around five armed militants stopped them at the barricade and took them into custody on the suspicion that they were intelligence agency personnel, he said. We were blindfolded, our arms were tied, and we were taken to a house. The following night, we were shifted to the Kanju Government High School, which the militants were using as a jail.
He said 25 odd people were imprisoned at the school. They were watched over by 15 of Fazlullahs special guards in two shifts, day and night. We were constantly guarded and even accompanied to the washroom. I was taken to a room with my hands tied behind my back. They took off my shirt and started thrashing me between my shoulder blades. Then, they asked me whether I was an intelligence official. He said they were taken to this torture room several times.
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Suicide bombers have infiltrated Rawalpindi where former premier Benazir Bhutto plans a protest this week against a state of emergency, police said on Thursday.We have very specific intelligence reports that suicide bombers have entered Rawalpindi, city police chief Saud Aziz told AFP.
Aziz said up to eight bombers may be in the city and could target big gatherings and kill innocent people. Police have also informed Bhutto there are serious, serious threats from the bombers, he added. Aziz reiterated that Bhuttos party would not be allowed to stage a meeting.
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UN: 2,000 Palestinians fleeing Iraq stranded on border with Syria By The Associated Press
...two thousand Palestinians trying to flee violence and harassment in Iraq are stranded at the Iraqi-Syrian border in precarious conditions with sick children unable to receive medical treatment, the UN refugee agency said Friday. Some 437 Palestinians are living in Al Tanf refugee camp....and another 1,560 have sought shelter in al-Waleed camp...
The estimated 13,000 Palestinians still living in Iraq ... [pre 2003, there were estimated to be over 100,000 in Iraq; including about 20,000 in one of Saddam's internal terrorism adjunct militias; the Shia milias are thought to have killed hundreds, maybe thousands of Paleos]
... face ongoing threats, he said. The Palestinian community there has become a target for persecution in recent years, largely because they are seen as having been favored under Saddam Hussein's regime.
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Kill em or push their sorry asses into Syria, I have no sympathy for the Paleo thugs Saddam used as enforcement gangs - Iran does the same.
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Paleos seem to be the lowest of the low in Arab World!!!!
Like the gypsies/travellers in Europe!!!
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But they have a homeland! Two of them in fact, and they can choose based on tribal affiliation, original family location (Yasser Arafat was born in Egypt, as I recall, just like Moses), or preference for a secular or religious flavour to the incompetently corrupt pseudogovernment. Surely all the UN need do is facilitate their resettlement there.
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Gee.... that's too bad.
Wake me when they declare peace with Israel and acknowledge Israel's right to exist. Then I might be willing to listen to their plight.
MOSUL, Iraq Iraqi Security Forces, backed by Coalition Soldiers, killed 14 enemy fighters and detained 44 in a series of intelligence-driven strikes and early morning raids that took place within the last 48 hours as part of Operation Iron Hammer.
On Nov. 5, Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 2nd Iraqi Army Division discovered a cache of 130 blocks of TNT, as well as several rocket-propelled grenades, while conducting a raid in the al Aruba neighborhood of west Mosul. Across the river in east Mosul, Coalition Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment detained eight suspected enemy fighters after finding improvised explosive device-making components.
On Nov. 6, Soldiers from the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Iraqi Army Division, in partnership with Coalition Soldiers from the 5th Battalion, 82nd Field Artillery Regiment, discovered 200 pounds of homemade explosives and detained nine suspected enemy fighters south of Mosul near Qayarrah.
Coalition helicopters from the 4th Squadron, 6th Air Cavalry Regiment assisted in killing four enemy fighters and destroying three enemy vehicles in east Mosul after the individuals were observed transferring weapons and demonstrating hostile intent.
Multiple secondary explosions were seen from the vehicles, confirming their cargo of illegal weapons and ammunition. Such a heartwarming story for a Friday morning!
ISF troops detained 22 individuals in operations throughout the province and Coalition Soldiers from 1st Squadron, 9th Cavalry Regiment added nine detained enemy fighters from the area west of Mosul near TalAfar.
The Iraqi Security Forces and the Coalition are united in rooting out and destroying al-Qaeda and other enemy fighters wherever they are found, said Col. Stephen Twitty, commander of the 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, Task Force Iron. In addition, the Iraqi citizens have been actively providing information to the ISF and Coalition Forces to assist them in securing their neighborhoods, added Twitty.
A roadside bomb meant for IDF soldiers operating in the West Bank town of Nablus exploded Thursday afternoon, killing one Palestinian and wounding two others. Witnesses at the scene said the casualties were Palestinian laborers who were working on a home when the bomb exploded.
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casualties were Palestinian laborers who were working on a home when the bomb exploded
Work accident, then? Times are tougher without the SWCB (Saddam's Workers Compensation Board).
(PTI) At least 73 people including 62 Tamil rebels and 11 Sri Lankan soldiers have been killed in fierce clashes in the northern front lines, the army said here today. The encounters, which started yesterday morning when LTTE cadres attacked military posts in the Muhamalai forward defence lines in Jaffna, came barely hours after Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wicremanayake warned of a reprisal attack by the rebels following the killing of the Tigers' political head S P Thamilselvan. "We should be more vigilant in the aftermath of this victory," Wicremanayake told Parliament, adding "the possibilities are very high of a counter strike to avenge the loss to Thamilselvan on Friday".
The LTTE's death toll in the retaliation attack by troops in Muhamalai has gone up to 60, the defence ministry said in a statement today, adding 11 soldiers also lost their lives and another and 41 were injured in the fighting. However, a pro-LTTE website claimed 16 Sri Lankan soldiers were killed in the encounters with over 100 injured.
Meanwhile, in northern Vavuniya's Periyathampane area, troops killed two LTTE militants during a confrontation yesterday, the army said. During the gunbattle in Muhamalai, troops seized control of several LTTE bunkers to neutralise the continuous attacks on the FDL(Forward Defence Lines), the army said.
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Washington DC - November 3, 2007/RPS News/ -- Demonstrations in Qamoshli, called for by all of the Kurdish political organizations, has taken the lives of at least 3 people with as many as 20 people injured after the demonstrators went into the streets to rebel against the encouragement Assad has given the Turkish government, during his last visit to Turkey, in attacking the Kurds.
According to Kurdish sources in Qamoshli who contacted RPS, confrontations with the Syrian security apparatus also resulted in at least 120 arrested. Shots could be heard within the perimeter of the city and the demonstrations were fast expanding with other fringe villages and small towns joining a civilian population still seething from the lack of judgment of Baschar al-Assad in encouraging violence rather than attempting at mediating a political solution to the Kurdish problem.
(AKI) Two Iranian journalists, known for their criticism of the government and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have been stabbed in the past 24 hours.
Reza Avaspour, head of the sports weekly, Varzesh (Sport), was stabbed Wednesday evening in Kerman, in western Iran, while leaving the office. Avazpour was in surgery for four hours and risked losing a leg because of the wounds inflicted by two unknown assailants armed with knives.
While striking the newspaper editor, the attackers berated him for having criticised the president and called him a "servant of the Americans".
The director of Varzesh had received several threats in recent weeks from a group that calls itself Allah's Soldiers. Varzesh has published several investigative pieces in which they accused actual directors of the football federation and one of Ahmadinejad's deputies of wanting to sink Iranian football. While striking the newspaper editor, the attackers berated him for having criticised the president and called him a "servant of the Americans".
A few hours later, in Karaj, north of the capital, Abaselat Abed, the editor of the daily newspaper, Mardomsalari (Democrazia) was stabbed. The attackers took the journalist's file and his camera.
Meanwhile, Ali Nikunesbati, official spokesman of Iran's most important student organisation, Daftar Tahkim Vahdat (Office for the Consolidation of Unity), was arrested this morning. According to his father, the police arrived at Ali's house and took his computer and two boxes of documents and publications.
Nikunesbati who was arrested previously last July, was released at the end of August. With his arrest, there are now ten activists from the student movement detained in Evin prison.
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IRAN-DAILY > IRAn - US WARNED ON RETALIATION; + IRAN WARNS INDIA TO KEEP USA AT ARM'S LENGTH, WILL KEEP ENERGY DEAL.
OKINAWA > STARS-N-STRIPES > NEO PRACTICES SENDING EVACUEES TO MAINLAND.
Human Rights Watch called for the immediate release of Syrian dissident Faeq al-Mir on Wednesday who was arrested last year after he telephoned Lebanese leftist Elias Atallah to express his condolences over the murder of fellow anti-Syrian Lebanese politician Pierre Gemayel.
The plea came as a Damascus court prepared to deliver its verdict in a case that could see him jailed for life. The New York-based human rights watchdog appealed to the court to dismiss what it called "politically motivated charges" against Miir for contacting a Lebanese politician who is part of the country's anti-Syrian governing coalition. "Syria's arrest and prosecution of Faeq al-Mir reveals the government's intolerance for even the slightest hint of opposition," said the watchdog's Middle East director Sarah Leah Whitson. "Mir faces the possibility of life in prison or even execution for phoning a Lebanese opponent of Syria's policies there."
Mir, who is a leader of the leftist People's Democratic Party, was arrested in his hometown of Latakia in December last year after he telephoned Atallah to express his condolences over the assassination of Gemayel. He is charged with "undertaking acts that weaken national sentiment" and "communicating with a foreign country to incite it to initiate aggression against Syria or to provide it with the means to do so." The latter charge carries a potential life sentence.
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at least someone's wearing rubbers....RB = public hygiene resource
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Reminds me of a funny story. Many years ago I travelled to Montreal with some Americans. The light plane couldn't take our luggage (overloaded) so we arrived at the hotel with no luggage.
The next day the absence of luggage made the hotel think we had checked out. So they cleared our rooms of whatever we had left in them. When we returned, one of the American's wanted to know what the hotel had done with his 'rubbers'. He needed them urgently (as it was snowing). Of course, an America urgently demanding his 'rubbers' because he needed to put them on now, met with alarmed confusion from the French speaking staff.
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I had a friend who was in Australia (I think) on business. The were eating a meal together and the food was good so she ate more than usual. When she was quite full she pushed back from the table and said "I'm stuffed!". She figured something was wrong based on the combination of blank stares and consolations she then received. Things were cleared up and all had a good laugh when they figured out the point of confusion and they explained to her that in Australia it meant that someone had forced themselves upon her, and she explained to them that in the US it meant that she was overfull!
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The representative of the general prosecutor for Algiers court has sought death penalty against 
Twelve people were killed when Yemeni tribesmen clashed on Thursday with security personnel for a Ukrainian oil firm during a protest, the Yemeni ruling partys Web site said. Six guards and six tribesmen were killed in the clash, which has ended, according to the Web site of the Peoples Congress Party, Tribal and security forces efforts have succeeded in containing the armed clash, it said adding that the incident occurred in the eastern province of Shabwa. The Web site did not give the name of the Ukrainian company, but quoted provincial sources as saying that the Bel-Hareth tribe has been pressing to secure jobs for its members at the oil firm and to secure contracts without consideration to professional skills and requirements. US ally Yemen is a small producer of oil with output of around 330,000 barrels per day (bpd) and exports of about 200,000 bpd. Tribesmen blew up a crude oil export pipeline on Monday, apparently to press for tribal demands.
Belgrade and Skopje, 9 Nov.(AKI) Macedonian police clashes with criminal bands on Wednesday in which six ethnic Albanians were killed and 13 arrested may signal wider conflict in the region, political and military analysts said on Friday.
Masked gunmen on a motorcycle on Thursday shot dead a Shia cleric in Tank, a town already reeling from violence by pro-Taliban militants, police said. Ghulam Abbas, 50, was shot dead outside his home in Tank, police official Sultan Khan said. Police were searching for the assailants, who left their motorcycle behind and fled into a nearby forest, Khan told AFP. Abbas was in charge of a local mosque, he said, adding that the killing appeared to be linked to sectarian rivalry. Shia account for about 20 percent of Pakistans 160 million Sunni-dominated population.
The All Pakistan Newspaper Society (APNS), the Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) and the Pakistan Broadcasters Association (PBA) have all condemned the intimidation and threats directed against Mir Shakilur Rehman, owner and chief executive of Jang Group, the countrys largest media group.
BARA: The Frontier Corps (FC) attacked the positions of Amr Bil Maroof activists in the Barqambar Khel area of Bara Tehsil in the Khyber Agency, as the activists captured a stronghold of the Shaikhmal Khail tribe on Wednesday.
(PTI) At least 73 people including 62 Tamil rebels and 11 Sri Lankan soldiers have been killed in fierce clashes in the northern front lines, the army said here today. The encounters, which started yesterday morning when LTTE cadres attacked military posts in the Muhamalai forward defence lines in Jaffna, came barely hours after Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wicremanayake warned of a reprisal attack by the rebels following the killing of the Tigers' political head S P Thamilselvan. "We should be more vigilant in the aftermath of this victory," Wicremanayake told Parliament, adding "the possibilities are very high of a counter strike to avenge the loss to Thamilselvan on Friday".
(AKI) Two Iranian journalists, known for their criticism of the government and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, have been stabbed in the past 24 hours.
Human Rights Watch called for the immediate release of Syrian dissident Faeq al-Mir on Wednesday who was arrested last year after he telephoned Lebanese leftist Elias Atallah to express his condolences over the murder of fellow anti-Syrian Lebanese politician Pierre Gemayel.
