Militants have released 21 Afghans and Pakistanis, who were abducted in Afghanistans western Farah province three days back, a local official said on Wednesday.
The 21 people abducted by anti-government militants have been released after the efforts made by the Farahs administration, Noorullah Khan, an aide to provincial governor Mohaidin Baloch, said. Nineteen of them were released on Tuesday and the remaining two on Wednesday, he added. He said the abducted people were local labourers, adding that some of them were searching for jobs there, while others were hunting precious birds.
He denied press reports that some Arab nationals were among the hostages. Earlier, government officials accused Taliban militants for the kidnappings, but there has been no formal responsibility claim from the Taliban fighting the Afghan government and foreign troops.
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Roadside bombs struck Afghan security forces in two separate incidents, killing seven people and wounding five, officials said Wednesday.
Three Afghan soldiers were killed and four wounded when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb Wednesday in the Musa Qala district of northern Helmand province, said Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi, the Defense Ministry spokesman. US, British and Afghan troops pushed the Taliban out of Musa Qala late last year after the militants overran the area in early 2007 and held it for 10 months. Musa Qala lies at the heart of the country's opium poppy-producing region.
In eastern Khost province, meanwhile, four Afghan guards working for the US military were killed when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb Tuesday, said Wazir Pacha, a spokesman for the provincial police chief. Another guard was wounded in the blast in the Shinkay district, he said.
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Australian-led troops have begun hunting for rebel soldiers believed to be behind attacks on East Timor's two top leaders.
Soldiers backed by helicopters and armoured vehicles searched through jungle outside the capital, Dili, for suspects in Monday's twin shootings.
President Jose Ramos-Horta was shot three times, while PM Xanana Gusmao escaped unhurt from a separate attack. Mr Ramos-Horta is in a serious but stable condition in a Darwin hospital.
A state of emergency remains in place in the country and security is very tight, with UN peacekeepers maintaining a heavy presence. The UN force has been in East Timor since a wave of street violence in mid-2006.
A group of rebel soldiers with grievances dating back to that unrest are thought to have carried out Monday's attacks.
On Thursday, police were deployed to the home of rebel leader Alfredo Reinado, who was killed in the early-morning gun fight at Mr Ramos-Horta's residence. Supporters crowded into his home after his body was brought there for burial.
Reinado, a former military officer, had been on the run with a group of followers since the unrest almost two years ago. He was accused of being involved in several shooting incidents during the violence and charged with murder.
It is his armed followers that the Australian-led troops are now seeking out in the hills behind Dili. Eighteen arrest warrants have been issued and more are being prepared, officials said.
On Friday, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is to visit East Timor to hold talks with Mr Gusmao.
Australia despatched additional troops to East Timor hours after Monday's attacks, in a bid to ensure stability in the fledgling nation.
AN alleged home-grown terror group in Melbourne's suburbs who sought inspiration from al-Qa'ida planned to blow up football stadiums and train stations and talked of killing 1000 people, the Victorian Supreme Court was told yesterday. The court also heard that the group's leader and self-proclaimed Islamic cleric Abdul Nacer Benbrika believed such a terrorist attack on Australian soil, in the pursuit of Islamic jihad, was justified because Australia was "a land at war".
"The kind of terrorist act contemplated by the organisation included a bombing attack where maximum damage and loss of life could be inflicted, such as at a football ground or a railway station," prosecutor Richard Maidment SC told the 15-member jury on the opening day of an expected nine-month trial of Mr Benbrika, 47, and 11 other Muslim men on a series of terrorism-related charges.
The 12 accused are appearing before judge Bernard Bongiorno, each facing a charge of being a member of a terrorist organisation. They have all pleaded not guilty to this charge and to other terrorism-related charges. Mr Maidment said telephone intercepts revealed Mr Benbrika, in conversation with another of the accused, believed a large-scale attack was necessary. "He told (co-accused Abdullah) Merhi that the group should 'not just kill one or two or three', they should 'do a big thing'," Mr Maidment said. Mr Merhi then said "Like Spain?", an apparent reference to the bombing attacks on train travellers in Spain in 2004 that left 191 people dead and about 2000 injured. "Then as the conversation went on, in reference to the presence of Australian troops in Iraq, Benbrika said to Mr Merhi: 'When we are in Australia, when we do something, they stop to send the troops. If you kill here a thousand, the Government is going to think, because if you get large numbers here, the Government will listen'," Mr Maidment said.
The court heard Mr Benbrika was prepared to sacrifice "women, children and the aged" in any act of violent jihad. He believed it to be "halal" (permitted under Islamic law) to seize the wealth and shed the blood of the kufar (infidels), which he believed included all people who did not believe in violent jihad.
Mr Benbrika, described as the hub of the group, was a keen follower of Osama bin Laden, the court heard. "The organisation drew inspiration from notorious terrorist attacks carried out in other parts of the world by al-Qa'ida and other terrorists organisations of similar ilk," Mr Maidment said. "Benbrika described Osama bin Laden as a great man and ridiculed those who expressed contrary views."
The crown's case against the 12 accused men depended largely on material gathered from recordings of intercepted telephone conversations and listening devices, Mr Maidment said.
The group became suspicious about being monitored. Mr Benbrika used at least 10 different mobile phones, with eight of those registered under false details. Mr Maidment said that during the course of the investigation, an undercover policeman attempted to infiltrate the group posing as a Turkish Muslim man interested in violent jihad. The undercover policeman, known as SIO39, professed a knowledge of explosives and talked particularly of ammonium nitrate. "Benbrika asks SIO39 to teach him how to make an explosive device using the explosive fertiliser, ammonium nitrate," Mr Maidment said. "Benbrika asked how much of that explosive would be required to destroy a house, and he was told 50 to 75kg. Benbrika then asked how much would be needed for a larger building. He was told 200 to 250kg. Benbrika immediately asked SIO39 if he could obtain up to 500kg of ammonium nitrate."
Mr Maidment said the overt interest in the group by police and ASIO played a "not insignificant role" in slowing down the group's plans to launch a terror attack. The court also heard Mr Benbrika justified illegal activities such as car rebirthing and credit card fraud under his version of the Islamic faith as legitimate activities to raise funds for violent jihad. The court heard that videos found in the possession of some of the accused included sniper shootings of US soldiers and speeches by bin Laden.
Fadal Sayadi, 27, of Coburg, Ahmed Raad, 24, of Fawkner, Aimen Joud, 22, of Hoppers Crossing, Abdullah Merhi, 22, of Fawkner, Amer Haddara, 27, of Yarraville, Shane Kent, 30, of Meadow Heights, Majed Raad, 23, of Coburg, Hany Taha, 32, of Hadfield, Shoue Hammoud, 27, of Hadfield, Bassam Raad, 25, of Brunswick, and Ezzit Raad, 25, of Preston, are all facing various terrorism-related charges.
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The court also heard that the group's leader and self-proclaimed Islamic cleric Abdul Nacer Benbrika believed such a terrorist attack on Australian soil, in the pursuit of Islamic jihad, was justified because Australia was "a land at war".
The list of places that Islam is not at war with would be a much shorter list. But alas, I am sure that if anyone on that short list put up any sort of protest whatsoever, even the North Pole, they would quickly disappear from that list.
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We love Islam, long beards, "prophet" Mo and holy war
We hate cartoons, infidels, Valentines and so much more
We blow up football, railways, elderly, the sick and poor
We love Islam, long beards, "prophet" Mo and holy war
(to the tune of an old Holden car ad)
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No harm, no foul. Just like Miami. Unless they had the means to do it, it was just guys talking big to impress each other. Move along.
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Why are we f*cking around with these people? They contribute nothing to our societies and they pose a constant risk of mass murder, rape and degeneracy. Deport ALL OF THEM.
Police arrested three suspected Islamic extremists early Thursday in the northern Basque city of Vitoria on suspicion of promoting radical ideology among the Muslim community, the Basque regional government said in a statement. The three were not immediately identified. Police suspect them of distributing CDs and MP3 files obtained from the Internet, with calls for an Islamic "jihad," the statement said.
Basque regional police began the investigation last December and located two sites where the alleged distribution of material took place: an apartment and a telephone store, where people without fixed telephone phones often go to make calls or use the Internet, the statement said. The National Court in Madrid, which investigates terrorism, issued the arrest warrants, and Basque police detained the suspects early Thursday in Vitoria, the capital of the Basque region.
The arrests come three weeks before Spain's parliamentary elections on March 9 and just a few weeks after Spanish police in Barcelona arrested 14 suspected Islamic suspects, mainly Pakistani nationals, on suspicion of planning suicide attacks in Barcelona and elsewhere in Europe. A National Court judge later ordered 10 of the 14 to be held in jail, while four were released.
There was no immediate indication that the arrests in Vitoria and Barcelona were linked. But Spain's Interior Minister said recently the nation remains on "permanent alert" against Islamic terrorism. Al Qaeda communiquis regularly make specific references to Spain.
JAMSHEDPUR: Seven Naxalites, including an accused in the killing of JMM MP Sunil Mahto, were killed in an overnight encounter with security forces at Phuljore in East Singhbhum district of Jharkhand. Five men and two women Naxalites were among those killed in the gunbattle, DIG (Kolhan) Manoj Mishra, said.
Two ultras were killed in an exchange of fire with Nagarik Suraksha Samiti (NSS), a vigilance organisation formed by villagers with tacit support of the district police, at Phuljhore bordering Orissa, Mishra said.
When a joint team of CRPF and local police rushed to the area to assist the NSS, an encounter took place with the ultras in which five Naxalites were killed taking the toll to seven. Among them was Vikash who was accused of killing Sunil Mahto on March 4 at Baghuria in Ghatsila, Mishra said.
The incident was a major blow for the ultra outfit after the Lango incident in 2003, when 11 Naxalites were lynched by the villagers, police said.
Eight weapons and live cartridges were found from the spot, Mishra said. Fire-arms looted from the police in the past were also recovered from the spot, he said. "We are verifying the exact number of arms and ammunition", he said.
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Sorry,but Naxalites in a Jahrkand encounter sounds liek something L Ron Hubbard wrote in one of his bad sci-fi books.
Pakistan-based Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) has recently supplied a huge cache of explosives and weapons to United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) and other terror outfits to pep up their dwindling morale, suggest communication intercepts with Indian intelligence agencies.
These agencies have warned the Centre that this was the part of a plan to trigger major trouble in North-Eastern States where interlinking of various outfits and logistic support by the ISI to the local groups are established facts.
The intercepts suggest that the insurgent groups operating out of Bangladesh and supported by the ISI have recently received 100 tonnes of explosives and five lakh rounds of small and medium sized ammunition. The ship carrying mandated consignment of shoes, belts and other normal ordnance was sent by the Pakistan Ordnance Factory to Dhaka in a vessel registered in the Caribbean. The ship was apprehended in September last around Colombo port by the Sri Lankan authorities during routine security checks. However, after the intervention by the Pakistan Ambassador to Sri Lanka, the authorities allowed the arms and ammunition to be transferred to a Dhaka-bound Chinese ship.
"But strangely, instead of going to Dhaka it anchored at Chittagong, which is the hub of IIGs in Bangladesh,'' a senior intelligence official said.
The consignment included TNT, RDX and plastic explosives apart from AK series weaponry and grenades. Such explosives and weaponry have been widely used by the terror outfits across the country, especially in the trouble-torn North-East States.
The consignment was reportedly received by organisations like the ULFA, the NDFB, the NSCN (IM) and the PLA. The consignment is being used to bolster the weakening capability of the ULFA and other such insurgent outfits operating in the region. The same route has been used by the ISI to smuggle fake Indian currency notes to India in high volumes, the official added.
The North-East region, according to the intelligence agencies, remains a disturbed and sensitive area with a high degree of militant violence reported in Assam, Manipur and Nagaland last year, with the direct ISI support.
Lethality of ULFA violence in Assam has increased manifold with the killing of about 200 persons in about as many incidents in 2007. The outfit was responsible for three forth of the total killings by the insurgents and 50 per cent of the total incidents in the State.
The situation in Manipur remains most difficult with the continued rivalry between Naga and Meitei outfits accounting for more than 35 per cent of the total violence and 30 per cent of the killings. Likewise, the struggle for supremacy and area dominance between various underground factions of the Naga outfits have kept Nagaland on the boil.
According to the intelligence officials, all these insurgent groups are benefiting from the funds and weaponry supplied by the ISI.
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India will nuke your waki paki asses as the west cheers.
The Bajaur Agency Scouts Fort was attacked with heavy weapons on Tuesday and a bomb exploded on the Ghazi Pass road. Unidentified people attacked the Bajaur Scouts Fort in the Cutcoat area of Mamoond tehsil with small mortar gun shells and rockets, which fell and exploded nearby. The ISPR said 10 rockets landed in the area. No loss of life or property was reported. Bajaur Scouts retaliated, sources said, firing heavy mortar gun shells on suspected hideouts of the attackers.
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A new militant group calling itself Al-Hizb has emerged in the semi-tribal Darra Adam Khel area, which calls the local Taliban criminals and says it would act against them, tribal sources told Daily Times on Wednesday. The group distributed pamphlets carrying 11 points on Wednesday, vowing to behead the Taliban publicly. The Taliban in their move to eliminate criminals killed Amir Syed alias Charg, who was notorious for robberies in Darra, in August 2007. To avenge Chargs murder, the sources said, his supporters had now formed the Al-Hizb outfit. One of Al-Hizbs pamphlets said the group members would ambush Taliban commanders and target them with remote-controlled bombs. The note also named people working for intelligence agencies, and asked them to stop spying or face death. Al-Hizb also appealed to five local tribes and khasadars (tribal police) to come forward and help eliminate antisocial elements. It urged security forces to restrict their operations to criminal Taliban.
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Al-Hizb = Army or Militia
Not sure who hese people are, but whack-a-talimullah is good thing.
The note also named people working for intelligence agencies, and asked them to stop spying or face death
If I may guess what "intelligence agencies" they had on heir minds... thinking... ISI.
A roadside bomb blast hit an election campaign convoy in Swat on Wednesday, killing two people and wounding three. Mufti Hussain Ahmed, an independent candidate contesting for NA-30 and PF-86, was among the wounded. The injured were all rushed to Saidu Sharif hospital, where sources told NNI that Ahmed was in critical condition. Ahmed was traveling in a convoy of 8-10 vehicles on a campaign when the blast occurred, killing two people, said senior police official Waqif Khan. Interior Ministry spokesman Brigadier Javed Cheema told AFP that only one person was killed. The government has blamed several recent blasts on Baitullah Mehsud, but Mehsuds spokesman Maulvi Omar told Reuters on Wednesday that the local Taliban would not interfere in the elections and would not be involved in any attack before or on election day.
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perhaps they should concentrate on not dying where they are now. Losers
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Since of lot of them are bugging out of Iraq, and have no place to go, they are probably thinking about sneaking into Gaza. It has just the right amount of chaos for them.
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"Bugging out of Iraq" > not certain as this is a classic Desert-Steppe warfighting strategy agz perceived superior enemy forces. LEAVE ENEMY-CONTROLLED CITIES/AREAS TO "LIVE OFF THE LAND/DESERT" etc. WHILE REGROUPING AND REARMING FOR NEW ATTACKS OR OPPORTUN LATER.
OSAMA + RADICAL ISLAM > know that the longer the US-Allies continue their Regional-Global entrenchment efforts, THE HARDER IT WILL BE FOR RADICAL ISLAM TO MILPOL REMOVE THEM AND ACHIEVE THEIR OWG GLOBAL AGENDA.
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Joe, luckily, they (AQ & co) are somewhat, ahm... strategically challenged, so it is relatively easy to play whack-an-AQ. Other outlets, like MB-hood, are a bit smarter and using subversion applied on the weakest links in their enemy's territory. It's the quiet ones with a long term agenda I am more worried about.
And the 5th colon dhimmis... whether willful or naive--without their involvement, we wouldn't be having this conversation.
These UAHuntsville scientists hope to help secure $ 40,000,000,000,000. in research grants to provide a better intelligence posture on these asymmetric threats by developing computer models that identify trends in the behaviors of the adversaries.
Latecomers from Alabama following requirements $$$$$. Recommend you contact the "The Advanced Research and Development Activity (ARDA). Mention you'd like to be involved in their "Novel Intelligence from Massive Data effort." In the meantime, I'll put my money on the warfighter E-4 at Battalion and Brigade and his access to DCGS-I search tools and data-bases.
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I remember years ago a similar study was done in Vietnam. Colin L. Powell when told the results said that any military man could have told the egg heads that the Vietnamese like to fight at night.
Baghdad, Feb 13, (VOI) - Unknown gunmen on Wednesday stormed a school and murdered executed a 3-year-old child in south Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. Unknown gunmen broke into a school in Zafaraniya district, south Baghdad, beat the schools guard and murdered executed a three year old child, an Interior Ministry source, who requested anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI).
The source pointed out Iraqi security forces carried out investigation to identify the murderers gunmen and define their group affiliation.
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Confirmation? One anonymous source still leaves me a bit skeptical. We have seen stories of atrocities turn out to be fiction before (of course some are true as well.)
Having said that, I don't mind a good piece of propaganda fiction sometimes. Make your enemy look even worse than he is so you can persuade some neutrals that you are the lesser of two evils.
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Sample chapters from the Verein Trilogy (or "Barsetshire with Cypress Trees and a Lot of Sidearms" are also at my website. The trilogy won't be available for a while, so small tastes to whet the appetite are all there is at present.)
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Thank you SGT! From the publisher, I will make it so. Counting my modest purchase, which should go in over the week end, you've got only 199,799 remaining. Real estate in Georgia is becoming very reasonable by the way.
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Or maybe he was more like a suicide bomber except he used a gun, which would make him a suicide shooter. Friggen Islam is rubbing off on american kids... what next...
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Hey, sarge? Where do you want me to drop my grenades?
Bethlehem Ma'an Eighteen-year-old Ala Ubayat was seriously injured in the West Bank city of Bethlehem when a grenade left behind by Israeli soldiers exploded in his hands, sources in the Palestinian police told Ma'an on Thursday. Oh, boy! A Jooo grenade! This'll impress the chicks! Bethlehem Police Chief Dawood Abu Ghaith said the man was seriously injured when he tried to split the grenade open using an electric cutting machine in his father's blacksmith workshop. Must've been trying to get at the prize inside...
Ghaith added that police engineering unit rushed to the place and found another unexploded grenade, and defused it. Police have opened an investigation into the incident, he said. Well, let's see. Ya got a grenade, a power saw, and an idiot. Where do we start, Al-Muldoon?
He blamed the Israelis for the explosion and warned Palestinian citizens to be careful when they find unexploded Israeli ordinance, urging them to inform the Palestinian police immediately when they find any suspect devices. Awwwww, look what Da Jooos made Ala do...
Abu Ghaith said the Israeli soldiers deliberately leave behind such devices to tempt ordinary Palestinians to play with them and endanger their lives. Hmmmmmm...I doubt that's the plan, but it appears to be working.
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He blamed the Israelis for the explosion
Because it just couldn't have been the idiot with the electric cutting machine.
Abu Ghaith said the Israeli soldiers deliberately leave behind such devices to tempt ordinary Palestinians to play with them and endanger their lives.
That's because he acknowledges muslims have no control on their own acts, it's the others (infidels, wimmen) who must make efforts to prevent them from doing bad stuff. OTOH, I don't think the idea the average paleos are unsavvy and therefore fascinated with weaponry holds much water...
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They act like some innocent CHILD got hurt PLAYING with an evil Israeli trap. The child was 18, and his play involved power tools. With that in mind, I would guess the grenades were not left behind, on purpose or accidentally, but stolen. And that poor little Ala was working on his own bomb-making career. Guess now he'll have to apprentice to Hook in Muslim preaching. Maybe he caught enough shrapnel in the right place to earn him a Darwin Award?
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It's not like there aren't tens of thousands of grenades already in the hands of Paleos.
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That spin has precedence here in the US. The clinton administration included teenage gangbanger shootings in their count of children accidentally shot while playing with unsecured handguns. Some of the "children" were 25 years old...
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Unexploded Pali Ordinance, of course, is completely safe.
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...the man was seriously injured when he tried to split the grenade open using an electric cutting machine.... Did you mean to file this under 'today's idiot',tu?
Palestinian Authority sources quoted by the Bethlehem-based Ma'an news agency reported that Israel killed two Hamas terrorists in Egyptian territory in recent days.
According to the report, the Hamas gunmen crossed into Sinai during the period when the border lay open and were killed by IDF Special Forces as they approached Israel. These terrorists were the apparent reason Gazan families initially claimed it was their relatives that carried out the suicide bombing in Dimona. In fact, the terrorists were killed before they could cross into Israel; the Dimona bombers came from Hevron.
On Wednesday evening, An IDF force operating at Halat al Miya, southeast of Hevron, found a Carl Gustav recoilless anti-tank gun, as well as a handgun and three cartridges. The weapons were confiscated. Their Arab owner was arrested and taken to be interrogated by security forces.
A day earlier, an IDF soldier was stabbed of course in the back by an Islamic Jihad terrorist at a security checkpoint near Jenin. He is listed in moderate condition at Ramles Hillel Yaffe Hospital.
Army soldiers Wednesday night arrested 13 more wanted terrorists in Judea and Samaria, following the arrest of 70 terrorists the night before. There were no injuries, and security personnel are interrogating those arrested. Soldiers also discovered and confiscated a revolver and ammunition that were in a building where some of the terrorists were hiding.
(KUNA) -- A spokesman for the Israeli occupation army announced that Israeli soldiers arrested Wednesday about 30 Palestinians during an operation carried out near the Gaza International Airport in the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
The spokesman told the Hebrew Radio that the Israeli special forces, backed by tanks, penetrated this morning in the airport area east of the town of Rafah and arrested the Palestinians and took them to be interrogated inside Israel.
Palestinain eyewitnesses said that the Israeli special forces raided a large number of Palestinian houses in the neighborhood of Jeradat near the Gaza International Airport and ransacked them prior to the arrest of the 30 men.
Some of the arrestees were beaten, according to the eyewitnesses. They told KUNA that the occupation forces in the area were exposed to shootings by Palestinian resistance fighters who confronted the Israeli incursion, which continued for several hours.
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Some of the arrestees were beaten, according to the eyewitnesses.
Submit all your cell phone videos to CNN. We could use the laugh.
(KUNA) -- Two armed Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday said two fighters of their groups indulged in a clash with the Israeli occupation forces that left three Israeli soldiers wounded. A joint military statement issued by the Mujahideen Brigades, close to the Fatah movement and the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, said the clash occurred this evening with a Zionist force near Al-Suraij area near Der Al-Balah city in cebntral Gaza. "Our fighters have confirmed wounding three Israeli soldier before returning safely to their bases", the statement said.
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Israel has killed two Hamas terrorists in Sinai who were planning to carry out a suicide bombing, the Palestinian Ma'an news agency reported on Wednesday. The two Palestinians reportedly entered Sinai from the Gaza Strip and were killed in recent days by Israeli elite police forces inside the Egyptian territory.
Last week, a woman was killed in a suicide attack in Dimona after two terrorists reportedly infiltrated the area via the south Hebron Hills. Various groups scrambled to claim responsibility for the attack, including Hamas in Gaza, even though the terrorists were seemingly dispatched from the West Bank. Army Radio reported that Hamas's claim of responsibility, together with the public appearance of the families of the purported terrorists in Gaza, seemed to expose the activities of a separate terror cell which was on its way to Israel. However, following the high state of alert declared on the Israel-Egypt border, Israeli forces were reportedly waiting for the terrorists and gunned them down.
Meanwhile, IDF soldiers arrested a Palestinian near Hebron with a handgun, a rifle and other military equipment on Wednesday night.
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Five people were killed and seven were wounded in shootings and bombings in Thailand's jihad violence-plagued southern provinces Thursday morning.
In Narathiwat's Ruso district, two workers of a rubber latex company were killed and another was wounded in an terrorist insurgent ambush. The workers were transporting latex in a pick-up truck from early morning rubber plantation collections.
Meanwhile, in Narathiwat, two villagers were shot dead and one was wounded.
In Yala, Madae Apibanbae and her daughter were shot while they travelled to work at a rubber plantation in Bannang Sata district. Wounded, they were rushed to hospital for emergency treatment. In an attack elsewhere, rubber tapper Rofee Gaya was killed but his wife was unscathed when they were attacked while going to a plantation on Thursday morning.
Meanwhile in Pattani, three soldiers were wounded in a bombing Wednesday night while they were patrolling Yarang district.
(KUNA) -- At least 40 rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and eight government soldiers have been killed in Sri Lanka's battle fatigued northern region. As many as 17 LTTE rebels were killed yesterday in separate clashes in Koilmoddai, Umavarthuvarankulam, Alakallapottakulam, Mullikulam and Periyapantrichchhan areas of Vavuniya, the news agency Press Trust of India reported Wednesday, quoting a Sri Lankan Army officer. Another LTTE rebel was shot dead at Muhamalai in Jaffna peninsula yesterday, the news agency reported quoting Sri Lanka's Media Centre for National Security (MCNS).
In Mannar, five LTTE cadres were killed yesterday, the Army officer said. At Thalladi in Mannar, six government soldiers were killed and 10 injured in seperate clashes yesterday, the news agency said. Seven LTTE rebels were killed in Kokkuthuduvai and Andankulam areas of Welioya yesterday. At Vilattakulam seven more rebels were killed yesterday, the MCNS said. One LTTE cadre was killed at Nagarkovil in Jaffna. In northern Wanni's Navathakulam area, soldiers killed two rebels yesterday. Meanwhile, two soldiers were killed in LTTE triggered explosions at Thaddankulam in Vavuniya, the Army officer said.
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Haj Hussein Khalil, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah's political deputy, also died in the Damascus blast that killed the head of the organization's military wing Imad Mughniyeh, the Iranian FARS agency reported Wednesday. The report was yet to be confirmed by Hizbullah.
Second source for this guy's departure from the gene pool...
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What can I say. He associated with the wrong kind of people. He should have listened to his mother.
Hajj Hussein Khalil,
deputy director of political affairs for Lebanese faction Hezbollah.
Stratfor hints at other terrorist VIPs, possibly offed.
#1) Lebanon, Syria and even Israel: How many VIBEDs in the Next Week? I just hope that more asshats get it than the "good guys" do.
#2) What were the subjects and plans laid down between the super killers and super terrorist during the meetings in Damascus during the last few days??
Beirut - A car bomb tore through morning traffic below an overpass in mainly Christian east Beirut on Friday, killing a senior Lebanese police intelligence officer and at least nine other people, police said.
Captain Wisam Eid, whose vehicle was caught in the blast as he was on his way to work. A bodyguard was also killed.
Eid worked for an intelligence unit which is widely viewed as close to anti-Syrian ruling coalition leader Saad al-Hariri.
"Eid had a role in all the files linked to terrorist bombings," the police chief told reporters at the scene.
Eid took up his post after his predecessor Samir Shehadeh was wounded by a roadside bomb south of Beirut in 2006.
The police intelligence unit has been closely involved in the U.N.-led investigation into the 2005 assassination of Hariri's father, former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, and in a crackdown on al Qaeda-inspired militants. more at link.
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To date I've heard way too many folks speculate wildly about some grand deal where Syria went in kahoots with Israel etc. and helped kill Imad Mugniyah etc.
It does not pass logic or ME spycraft, in my notsoinformed opinion. :)
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You just gotta love Meir Dagan...That guy reminds me so much of the character Dr. Strangelove, but without the leather!! As I indicated previously, that man without a leash, has to be watched (Hopefully Not)!! This has all the 'hallmarks' of the Mossad's Metsada Division. The overt denial by Israel is designed to allow time for counterintelligence confusion and/or the inserted assets to be retracted, such as was the case in Syria last September. Way to go Meir!!
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June is (almost) bustin' out all over...
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June Lang was married to John "Handsome Johnny" Roselli in 1940. They were divorced in 1943. Roselli was a reputed to be a mobster and that he and the CIA had planned to assassinate Fidel Castro. Kennedy conspiracy buffs also think he was involved in the assassination of JFK (the first). Roselli was deep sixed in a 55 gallon barrel and dumped into a Dumbfoundling Bay near North Miami Beach.
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Australian-led troops have begun hunting for rebel soldiers believed to be behind attacks on East Timor's two top leaders. 
AN alleged home-grown terror group in Melbourne's suburbs who sought inspiration from al-Qa'ida planned to blow up football stadiums and train stations and talked of killing 1000 people, the Victorian Supreme Court was told yesterday. The court also heard that the group's leader and self-proclaimed Islamic cleric Abdul Nacer Benbrika believed such a terrorist attack on Australian soil, in the pursuit of Islamic jihad, was justified because Australia was "a land at war". 
Baghdad, Feb 13, (VOI) - Unknown gunmen on Wednesday stormed a school and 
(KUNA) -- A spokesman for the Israeli occupation army announced that Israeli soldiers arrested Wednesday about 30 Palestinians during an operation carried out near the Gaza International Airport in the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.
Israel has killed two Hamas terrorists in Sinai who were planning to carry out a suicide bombing, the Palestinian Ma'an news agency reported on Wednesday. The two Palestinians reportedly entered Sinai from the Gaza Strip and were killed in recent days by Israeli elite police forces inside the Egyptian territory. 
(KUNA) -- At least 40 rebels of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) and eight government soldiers have been killed in Sri Lanka's battle fatigued northern region. As many as 17 LTTE rebels were killed yesterday in separate clashes in Koilmoddai, Umavarthuvarankulam, Alakallapottakulam, Mullikulam and Periyapantrichchhan areas of Vavuniya, the news agency Press Trust of India reported Wednesday, quoting a Sri Lankan Army officer. Another LTTE rebel was shot dead at Muhamalai in Jaffna peninsula yesterday, the news agency reported quoting Sri Lanka's Media Centre for National Security (MCNS).
Haj Hussein Khalil, Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah's political deputy, also died in the Damascus blast that killed the head of the organization's military wing Imad Mughniyeh, the Iranian FARS agency reported Wednesday. The report was yet to be confirmed by Hizbullah.
