Insurgents ambushed a police vehicle in southwest Afghanistan, and the three-hour gunbattle that followed left four policemen dead.
Two other police officers were wounded in Thursday's clash in Nimroz province, said Gen. Mohammad Ayub Badakhshi, the provincial police chief. Reinforcements were sent to assist, but the insurgents escaped, Badakhshi said. Afghanistan has seen a massive spike in insurgency-related violence, with more than 6,500 people dead in 2007, according to an Associated Press tally of figures from Afghan and Western officials.
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The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday recovered 46 grenades from Shimulia village under Debhata upazila of Satkhira district. Sources said a team of Rab intelligence went to the district on Thursday night following confessions of Mufti Moin Zandal, a top leader of Mufi Hannan led Harkatul Jihad (Huji), arrested in Dhaka earlier. In Satkhira, they picked up Nazrul Islam Gharami, 55, of Shimulia village from Nalta Bazar, five kilometres off the village.
The said three groups of Huji are active in the country. After the arrest of Mufti Hannan, Zandal, who hails from Narail district, had been controlling the militant group. On the basis of Nazrul's statement, members of the intelligence Huji are active in the country. After the arrest of Mufti Hannan, Zandal, who hails from Narail district, had been controlling the militant group. After the recovery of the grenades, members of the elite force raided several other places of the upazila, Rab sources said.
Police Superintendent Abdullahel Baki of Satkhira said the police were not informed about the drive conducted by the Rab. He said police, on receiving information, went to the spot and came to know about the operation. Lt Col Mestaul Islam, commanding officer of Rab-6 told The Daily Star that the grenades were recovered from the village following confessions of Nazrul. He said the Rab personnel also carried out drives at several other places taking the arrestee with them and recovered more grenades. But he declined to disclose the total number of the recovered grenades.
When asked, the commanding officer also declined to say whether Nazrul has any links with any militant or terrorist group. But sources said Rab arrested Nazrul suspecting his links with the militants.
Commander SMAK Azad, director of the Legal and Media Wing of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab), said they will provide details of the grenade recovery to the media today. According to local sources, arrested Nazrul Islam's two sons have shoe shops at Nalta Bazar and Parulia Bazar. One of them, Hafizur Rahman, took religious education.
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Is that the cover of Public Enemy's greatest hits album?
Spain's interior ministry confirmed Saturday that two men arrested by French police were believed responsible for a fatal bombing at Madrid airport in December 2006 by the Basque separatist group ETA. Mikel San Sebastian, 29, and Joseba Iturbide, 30, are suspected of belonging to the Elurra commando which carried out the attack at Madrid airport which killed two people in a multi-storey car park, the ministry said.
A couple also arrested in Friday's raid on a house southwestern French town of Saint Jean-de-Luz were named as Jose Antonio Martinez Mur, 58, a longtime member of ETA, and his partner Asuncion Bengoechea Arano.
The ministry said the raid was mounted after weeks of surveillance of the property, which was believed to be linked to ETA's financing. The house had been searched and evidence seized which was being analysed.
On January 6, police in Spain's northern Basque region arrested two other men -- Igor Portu and Mattin Sarasola -- in connection with the Madrid attack two Ecuadoran men in the car park. They said at the time they were searching for a third man also believed to have played a role.
The airport bombing came during an ETA ceasefire, which the group eventually called off in June 2007, 15 months after it had announced it was laying down its arms. Last December, ETA claimed responsibility for the fatal shooting of two Spanish police officers in southwestern France who were working on a joint anti-ETA operation with French counterparts.
ETA, considered a terrorist organisation by the European Union and the United States, is blamed for the deaths of 819 people in Spain in its nearly 40-year campaign for an independent Basque state.
A German man of Pakistani origin has been arrested in south-western Germany on suspicion of working for Al Qaeda, the office of the federal prosecutor said. The suspect, identified as Aleem N, made four trips to the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan where he handed over at least 4,000 euros to Al Qaeda operatives each time, it said in a statement. The trips took place between April 2005 and June 2007, and also served to smuggle radio equipment and binoculars to the organisation, it said.
During the last trip, Aleem N asked to become an Al Qaeda fighter and was subsequently sent to a camp in Pakistan where he was trained to use explosives, the prosecuting authority said. The 45-year-old man is also believed to have recruited another person in Germany as an Al Qaeda fighter in 2006.
Germany adopted a law in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, under which members of foreign terror groups can be jailed for up to 10 years.
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In reality 65% of the world are the sympathizer of Alqaida. how many they arrest,Now it is the war between USA & ALQAIDA but why Germans Involving as they should know that they have fought wars with USA, they should not side with Its enemy, Americans still thank of Germans as enemy,peoples of Super German nation should realize and retaliate.
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Wazdan! You're back! I missed you! Are you taking your meds again? Come on in and show off your ignorance. I am in need of a good laugh like the one I had when they killed that Mugniyeh guy over in Syria the other day. Or Mullah Deadullah. Or Rehman who was killed in Kashmir recently. Or Fayad blew himself up with half of his family in Gaza just yesterday. Or I read about how the Danish reprinted the Mohamhead cartoons a couple of days ago.
In reality 65% of the world are the sympathizer of Alqaida.
Maybe your little uncivilized corner of the world. It seems well over 90% of the world's organized terrorists are muslim. Given that about 25% of the world's population is muslim, and even if every muslim was an AlQaeda sympathizer (which they aren't), that means less than about 25% of the world is on AlQaeda's side. That leaves 75% on the world not supporting AlQaeda. Now if you had to choose between being on the side with 75% support vs. being on the side with 25% support, which would you choose, numbnuts?
A question for you: Since AlQaeda is so popular and smart, why don't they wear uniforms when the real big boys with guns roll into town? Why do they hide behind women and children? Why do they have to commit atrocities when they go into an area to get the local population to do what they want? You know, like those Lions of Islam did to that Iraqi kid Yousif who is in the US getting his burned face put back together, or when they stormed into a school a couple of days ago and murdered a three year old then left. Given the way your kind are behaving, I'm sure Mohamhead the Pervert and Pedophile Prophet would be proud. But I don't know why. Can you tell me why? And why did he like little pre-pubescent girls anyway? And how come he got to do his daughter-in-law even though his son objected to it? Hope you don't mind it if your dad does your wife someday. After all, it's the way of Mohamhead, so it must be perfect! I'd give you the link to that one from a few weeks ago but I couldn't find it. Maybe someone else can supply it.
But that's neither here nor there because there are so many other things to talk about!
Now it is the war between USA & ALQAIDA
Europe is too polite but I'm sure it will wake up someday. China and India don't like terrorists either, but seem to be relatively neutral for now hoping they don't need to get involved if all goes "well". "Well" is defined from my super-majority point of view, of course! :-)
And just so you know, Americans don't hate Germans at all. They hate fascists. Germans are no longer fascists. Al Qaeda are basically fascists.
In any case, ignore Gadahn's propaganda. He was just a guy with mental problems trying to surround himself with the "big" AlQaeda types. So he told them what they wanted to hear. He was too young to have enough experience to know anything more than "Americans fought Germans in both World Wars", and he was too stupid to figure out anything more than that no matter how long he lived. Besides, he's dead now, too. So he can't be that smart. Heck, Muqtada Al Sadr is much smarter. He even stopped brushing his teeth because he finally figured out that toothbrushes are made out of pig hair! I wonder how long it's going to be before word about that hits the street! Not that it will make much difference.
Anyway, can you please tell everyone here why you are right and everyone else is wrong? Or is it just some big misunderstanding?
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wazdan the Pakhtoon. Y'all feel free to read his post and then gorb's, and then explain why the Punjabis despise the Pakhtoons (aka Pashtun across the border). Extra points will be awarded for historical references or cross-cultural references.
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More devastating to make them prove their words, they can't so are left to raving incoherently, more fun that way, and who knows maybe someday a real thinker will show up?
(I doubt it, but give them the chance.)
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ISLAMABAD (Rooters) - A suicide car bomb outside a Pakistani election candidate's office killed 37 people in the violent northwest on Saturday, the last day of campaigning for an election meant to complete a transition to civilian rule.
Separately, police in the south of the country said they had foiled another attack planned for polling day on Monday.
Campaigning for the elections to a new parliament and provincial assemblies has been overshadowed by security fears, especially since former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was killed in a gun and suicide bomb attack on December 27. Opposition politicians have also complained of vote rigging.
The poll could spell trouble for President Pervez Musharraf, a key U.S. ally who stepped down as army chief in November, if voters elect a parliament hostile to him.
Saturday's bomb attack in the town of Parachinar, in the Kurram region on the Afghan border, occurred as supporters of a candidate backed by Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party were going into his office after a rally, witnesses said. "We have rechecked and found that 37 people were killed and over 90 wounded," said Interior Ministry spokesman Javed Iqbal Cheema. He said it was a suicide car bomb.
The northwest has been hit by a surge of violence since July and while some attacks have taken place in all major cities there are fears of more.
Police in the southern city of Hyderabad said they had arrested three suspected suicide bombers believed to be planning attacks on polling stations and seized 10 kg (22 lb) of explosives and a suicide bomb jacket.
The violence in what has been one of the country's bloodiest election campaigns has unnerved politicians and voters, and turnout on Monday could be low despite the deployment of more than 80,000 troops.
Pakistanis are also concerned about rising prices and shortages of basic commodities such as flour, and ever more frequent power cuts. Many are disillusioned with politicians. "It'll be very difficult to change this country," said Mohammad Abbas, who works in a rice shop in Sabboki town in Punjab province. "Whatever the politicians do they do for themselves, not for change."
Campaigning ends at midnight. Sunday is a cooling-off day. + background on elections at link.
Ten members of the newly formed Tehreek Islami Lashkar-e-Mohammadi were arrested Friday with weapons, explosives, chemicals and poison, Jihadi literature, and hit lists of high-profile people, politicians, international and national NGOs and police officials. The organization is anti-Semitic. The police held a press conference with IG Azhar Ali Farooqui, DIG South Javaid Ali Shah Bukhari, DIG CID Saud Ahmed Mirza, SSP Raja Umer Khattab and SP Lyari Town Fayyaz Khan to disclose the findings.
We announce the promulgation of the Islamic Shariah Emirate Islamia Pakistan on behalf of Lashkar-e-Mohammadi. Following the promulgation, any act contrary to the provisions of the Shariah will not be tolerated anywhere in Pakistan.
The IGP said that the alleged militants had passed a message to the government, political parties, intelligence agencies, the police, NGOs, welfare associations, judges, lawyers, international financers and businessmen, clerics and scholars of religious parties: We announce the promulgation of the Islamic Shariah Emirate Islamia Pakistan on behalf of Lashkar-e-Mohammadi. Following the promulgation, any act contrary to the provisions of the Shariah will not be tolerated anywhere in Pakistan. They did not contact the media and the IG said he could not say why.
The IGP said that from the initial interrogations and the literature it became clear that they were first affiliated with the HM and then Jaish and were also involved in the fighting in Afghanistan. They formed a separate organization after the Lal Masjid operation and established contact in Karachi.
Funding was provided by a Mohammad Hassan Amir who had a business in the UK. Amir came to Karachi and started a business at the Karachi Stock Exchange. It was the responsibility to Asif alias K Area wallah to rob banks for funds. He is suspected of being behind the failed bid at a bank at Korangi No. 5 in 2007. They brought weapons from Swat and snatched SMGs after hurting policeman at Korangi. The police recovered a laboratory from Korangi Industrial Area. Wajahat alias Sami was in charge of the factory. Wajahat and Mohammad Hassan Amir alias Ali were the masterminds in bomb making.
They reportedly confessed: In 2007, the organization robbed a shop at Japan Plaza on the demand of Mullah Dadullah, a Taliban commander in Afghanistan, and provided him around 150 walkie talkie sets and other equipment such as lap tops, wireless sets via Tahir, another Taliban leader in Sohrab Goth, Karachi. This organization had links with the Taliban commander Tahir in Wana and Dadullah group in Afghanistan. They sent blankets, clothes, shoes to the Taliban in Miran Shah and Afghanistan. They have rented houses and storehouses for hostages in different areas of Karachi. They want to target charity groups for what they say are links to the Free Masons and other groups. The also reportedly had information about the members of a Rotary club.
The police recovered: 3 submachine guns, one 0.223 rifle, two TT pistols, four hand grenades, 30 detonators, two local bombs, black explosive rope, orange detonating cord, five kilogram petroleum jelly, five kilogram glycerin, five walkie talkies, ten kilogram RDX, fifteen kilogram readymade explosives in a drum, 48 CDs, maps, hundreds of bullets, a personal telephone diary of deceased Dr Hameedullah, two snatched motorcycles, hit lists.
This article starring:
Lal Masjid
Tehreek Islami Lashkar-e-Mohammadi
Aanatullah Khan alias Taufiq
Tehreek Islami Lashkar-e-Mohammadi
Abdul Wahid alias Zubair
Tehreek Islami Lashkar-e-Mohammadi
Asif Iqbal alias K Area wallah
Tehreek Islami Lashkar-e-Mohammadi
Dr Hameedullah
Taliban
Mohammad Arshad alias Asad
Tehreek Islami Lashkar-e-Mohammadi
Mohammad Asif
Tehreek Islami Lashkar-e-Mohammadi
Mohammad Bin Ahmed
Tehreek Islami Lashkar-e-Mohammadi
Mohammad Hassan Amir
Tehreek Islami Lashkar-e-Mohammadi
Mohammad Hassan alias Ali
Mohammad Jan alias Mustafa
Tehreek Islami Lashkar-e-Mohammadi
Mohammad Kashif Ehsan alias Sohail
Tehreek Islami Lashkar-e-Mohammadi
Mohammad Zeeshan alias Mastaan Baloch
Tehreek Islami Lashkar-e-Mohammadi
Mullah Dadullah
Taliban
Wajahat alias Sami alias Gulfam
Wasim Ahmed alias Wasim
Tehreek Islami Lashkar-e-Mohammadi
Yasir Afaq alias Nasir
Tehreek Islami Lashkar-e-Mohammadi
Zainul Abideen alias Zain
Tehreek Islami Lashkar-e-Mohammadi
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Not a Lutheran in the bunch... how strange.
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Police arrested 10 pro-Taliban militants planning terror attacks during the February 18 elections in Karachi, as six would-be suicide bombers were also arrested from Dera Ismail Khan (DIK), officials said on Friday. The [Karachi] militants were ex-members of different banned militant outfits who have now formed a new group, Sindh Home Minister Akhtar Zamin told Reuters, referring to the newly-formed Tehreek Islami Lashkar-e-Muhammadi. He did not say when the 10 were detained. Police seized explosives, electrical circuits, compact discs and hit lists of high-profile people including politicians, international and national NGOs and police officials from the militants, Zamin said.
They may have been planning to attack some political leader, carry out other acts of terrorism during the election and destabilise the peace of the country, he said.
The militants had ties to top Taliban commander Mullah Mansoor Dadullah, who was arrested and injured near the border with Afghanistan earlier this week, Sindh police chief Azhar Farooqi told a press conference. He said the men were arrested as a result of investigations following a raid on a militant hideout in Karachi on January 29 that nabbed other key Al Qaeda militants.
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Abdur Rashid, another suspect in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case, met with Islamabad's All-Truncheon Team and confessed before a court on Friday that he had provided weapons and explosives to Benazirs murderers. The accused was produced before Special Judicial Magistrate Ahmad Masood Janjua under tight security by the joint investigation team (JIT). He was then sent to jail on a 14-day judicial remand. No media was allowed to cover the court proceedings. Later, the JIT officials shifted him to Adiala Jail. Sources said that Rashid was arrested on Thursday from the limits of Pirwadhai Police Station. JIT head, Crime Investigation Departments Additional Inspector General Chaudhry Abdul Majeed, told reporters at a press conference that Rashid was a key member of the gang but was not at the scene of the killing. He said Rashid had confessed his supporting role in the assassination plot, AFP reported. He said the preliminary investigations had revealed mild similarities in the intentions of the five accused, adding that the JIT had yet to establish a link between them.
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Wonder if they used waterboarding or something worse.
At least one Frontier Constabulary (FC) trooper and dozens of militiants were killed when unknown miscreants attacked an FC checkpost in the limits of Matani Police Station late on Thursday, police said on Friday. An FC trooper was injured in the attack. Matani Police Station duty officer Gul Muhammad told Daily Times that militants, armed with rocket launchers and other weapons, attacked the Kashan Ghar checkpost located close to the Darra Adam Khel region at around 1.30am. He said Subedar Abdul Samad died while Fayyaz was injured. Gul said it was unclear whether the militants had come from Darra or Peshawar.
In July 2007, around four police personnel had died when militants attacked a police mobile near the Spina Thana area in Darra Adam Khel, which was cleared of militants during a recent military operation.
Also on Friday, at least 17 militants surrendered to the security forces in Kabal tehsil of the restive Swat district on Friday, while police also arrested around 14 militants in a crackdown. The Aman Committee presented at least 17 militants before the security forces. The militants announced to join the Aman Committee and renounced militancy. Local police also arrested at least 14 suspected militants during a crackdown in the Koza Bandai and Bara Bandai areas and shifted them to undisclosed locations.
Separately, unidentified miscreants fired a rocket on the Agency Headquarters Hospital in Landi Kotal late on Thursday, but no casualties were reported. Political authorities told Daily Times that the rocket fired at around 12pm damaged the toilets of the hospitals ladies ward. Doctors and paramedics of the Landi Kotal hospital protested against the rocket attack. They shut down the hospital, marched in the nearby market and chanted slogans against the administration.
I'da a done that, too, had the administration rocketed my toiders... Oh. Wait. That was who dunnit, wasn't it?
Also, Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) personnel have taken positions on hilltops near Karamna Bazaar of the Zakhakhel area in Landi kotal. Tribal sources said the LI men had asked the locals to hoist LIs black flags on their houses, demolish the cemented graves and construct mud graves instead.
The TNSM dishpits are pretty much rolled up in Swat. Now it's time for Lashkar-e-Islam to raise its pointy little beturbanned head in Khyber.
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Security forces killed two and arrested nine people in Dera Murad Jamali, reports said on Friday.
Security forces, on a tip off, launched an operation and engaged in a gunbattle with some armed men in Goth Shahnur Parkani near Rabi Keenal. Ajab Noor Parkani and Hafiz Allah Noor were killed and Hadayatullah and Mehmood Parkani injured in the ensuing clash. The security forces also arrested nine people and seized weapons from them. The security forces later handed over the two bodies to Dera Murad Jamali Police Station.
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Not sure if this is a different 3000 pounds of explosives than the other day, or just more detail.
BAGHDAD Coalition Forces found a large weapon cache in two separate holes approximately 30 meters apart in Diddum, Iraq, Feb. 11. The cache contained approximately 1,000 pounds of unknown bulk explosives, barrels of ordnance containing 60 mm, 82 mm and 120 mm rounds, 107 mm rockets, OG-7, PG-7, OG-9, various fuses and mortar rounds.
In addition, approximately 1,500 pounds of unknown bulk explosives in white bags were found about 20 meters away. Soldiers from 3-7th Inf. Regt. were able to find the cache through intelligence given from concerned residents in the area.
I know this was definitely the biggest cache weve found since we got here, said Sgt. Scott Murray, 1st Platoon forward observer, 3-7th Inf. Regt. Were pretty relieved to get rid of this stuff and [get it] out of somebody elses hands.
I will always tell Coalition Forces about any weapons hidden in my area that I know about, said Sheik Satar Naim Lalau al-Janabi, a local leader in the Diddum region. Hopefully insurgents will learn that they cannot find a place in Diddum to hide things.
BAGHDAD Soldiers from Troop C, 3rd Squadron, 1st Cavalry Regiment seized a cache of explosively formed penetrators near Jurf Nadaf, a village east of Baghdad, Feb. 10. The cache was the second seizure of munitions in the village by Troop C within a 72-hour period. Finding caches like this saves Soldier and civilian lives, and that is an important part of what we do, said Sgt. Kenneth Storts, from Corning, Ohio, a cavalry scout with Troop C.
The cache contained five EFPs, three rocket-propelled grenades, 28 grenades and various materials commonly used in the making of roadside bombs. Soldiers were searching an abandoned home after a local resident informed them of the buildings use. While searching, Spc. Ronald Gardner, from Durant, Okla., found an infrared sensor. Infrared sensors are often used as triggers for EFPs.
At first we didnt know if it was hooked up to anything, Gardner said. That is when (Sgt. 1st Class Maxwell Donahue) told us to search the whole field.
It was during the search of the surrounding fields and nearby abandoned buildings that they discovered the cache.
On Feb. 8, Soldiers from Troop C seized a similar cache in Jurf Nadaf containing 13 EFPs and various munitions.
The 3-1 Cav. Regt. is assigned to the 3rd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division from Fort Benning, Ga., and has been deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom since March 2007.
BAGHDAD Multi-National Division Baghdad Soldiers captured a key leader of a Special Groups criminal network in Baghdads Shaab neighborhood Feb. 15. What kind of neighborhood is Sha'ab?
Acting on multiple-source reporting, Neighbors? Or previously-captured colleagues?
paratroopers with 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division detained the suspect during an operation just before noon. Day shift; must be an IA operation.
Maj. Cameron Weathers, intelligence officer for the 2nd BCT, said that within the last month alone, the suspect allegedly played a leading role in planning and executing the kidnappings of four Iraqi National Police officers Feb. 2, and the kidnapping of three Sons of Iraq security force members Feb. 7. I wonder if a computer or useful documents were captured with him - the 'catches' have become so regular that I can't pick out a pattern of roll-ups.
The suspect is also believed to have masterminded the November bombing of a Coalition outpost and the 2006 murder of an Iraqi Police colonel, as well as numerous killings of innocent Iraqi civilians.
Weathers said the suspect has recently been engaged in weapons smuggling. He is suspected of being involved in a long list of additional crimes, including murders, kidnappings and IED attacks. Who gets to hold and question him - US military, CIA, Iraqi Army, or Iraqi Police? If Iraqi, will he be tortured or released with an apology?
We will continue to disrupt the networks of those who choose not to obey al-Sayyid Muqtada al-Sadrs ceasefire pledge, said Col. Bill Buckner, MNC-I spokesman. The people of Iraq have made it clear that they will not tolerate the criminal activities of these splinter groups.
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From yesterday; seems to be related:
Iraqi National Police engage criminal element in Shaab
Multi-National Division Baghdad PAO
BAGHDAD, Iraq Four Iraqi National Police officers were wounded during a firefight with approximately 40 armed members of an organized criminal element linked to the Arkan Hasnawi Special Groups Network Feb. 10 in the Baghdad neighborhood of Shaab After opening fire on an INP convoy, the suspected Special Groups members reportedly approached the convoy and demanded the police officers drop their weapons and become hostages.
The INP refused and a firefight ensued. The National Police were able to hold their ground despite the casualties and caused the attackers to flee.
The Special Groups leader believed to be responsible for the attack was later arrested by 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment paratroopers in an adjacent neighborhood.
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There is a HUGE difference between waterboarding and shredders, and you know it. One is torture and one is not. You should be ashamed to be so transparently stupid in a public area.
MOSUL, Iraq - A double attack on Friday by two suicide bombers outside a crowded Shia mosque in the northwestern Iraqi town of Tal Afar killed at least four people and wounded 17, police said. The attacks came during Friday prayers when the Shaikh Jawad Al Sadiq mosque was crowded with worshippers.
Tal Afar police chief Brigadier General Ibrahim Al Juburi said security forces shot both bombers but that the men still managed to detonate their suicide vests. Tal Afar is near the Syrian border in the northern province of Nineveh, one of the provinces where Iraqi and US commanders says Al Qaeda in Iraq has regrouped after being chased out of Baghdad and surrounding belts.
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Raids on al-Qaida forces in northern Iraq have resulted in seven insurgents being killed and more than a dozen arrests, according to the US military. But local police said Friday that two women and two US-allied fighters were among those killed.
The US military said in a statement that one target of the raids late Wednesday and early Thursday was an alleged al-Qaida leader in the Salahuddin province, north of Baghdad. It wasn't clear if he was killed or captured.
According to the military account released Thursday, troops got into a firefight at one spot, killing two insurgents, then called in air support, which killed another four fighters. One civilian was wounded and evacuated for further care, while troops detained 15 suspected insurgents. All those killed were "terrorists associated" with al-Qaida in Iraq, said Lt. Michael Street, a military spokesman.
An Iraqi police officer in the area, however, said Friday that the house that was bombed belonged to a Sunni Arab and tribal leader, and that six family members died. The officer, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information, said the bombing occurred about 55 kilometers (33 miles) southwest of Kirkuk and two of the victims were women.
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Gunmen have stormed a house in Saddam Hussein's native village in Iraq and shot dead nine members of his clan, some women and children, police say. The former Iraq leader, hanged for crimes against humanity a year ago, is buried in Awja village, about 180km (110 miles) north of Baghdad.
The past two years witnessed hundreds of tit-for-tat sectarian killings, but they have decreased since last June. The security improvement has followed operations by US and Iraqi forces.
A police official said the parents and a number of their children were killed, the only survivor being an eight-year-old child. A neighbour said the family were from the former leader's Bijat clan, which once dominated the government, but they had no political ties. "He was a simple businessman," the neighbour added about the slain father.
The bodies were taken to a hospital in nearby Tikrit, where police said the victims had included a seven-year-old boy.
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Yeah yeah, we ran it yesterday, but we mods enjoy this one ...
A powerful blast went off in the house of a senior Islamic Jihad terrorist in the Gaza Strip Friday, killing him him, his wife, a daughter and three neighbors.
"Honey, have you seen my bomb?"
"There were Zionists skulking around, dear. I hid it in the oven!"
"Mom! How long do cookies have to bake?"
Witnesses said the three-story home of Ayman Atallah Fayed was flattened by the blast, and that six nearby homes were badly damaged. At least 40 people were hurt, including nine who were in critical condition. The blast happened Friday evening in Fayed's house in the Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza.
Something's a little...off...with the detonators and suchlike lately. Dontcha think?
Islamic Jihad claimed Israeli warplanes hit the house in an air strike, and added that the group would carry out reprisal attacks against Israel. But Hamas said the cause of the blast was not clear, and the IDF, which regularly takes responsibility for attacks on Gaza terrorists, denied any involvement.
"We didn't dunnit, but we're glad anyway!"
Witnesses reported seeing fragments of what looked like locally-produced rockets at the scene, suggesting the house may have been used to store arms.
"Honey, don't you think we should store the rockets at the mosque?"
"Hush, woman, I know perfectly well what I'm doi ..."
Health Ministry official Moawiya Hassanain said six people were killed, among them a woman. He said 40 people were wounded, including nine who were in critical condition, and that more casualties were being evacuated from the scene.
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Perhaps 'unexpected Gaza blast' would be a better way to say it. Or maybe it was expected. But by whom?
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Nah...
It wasn't the Israelis, Ayman was just having Gun sex with one of his guards on top of of a pile of Kassam Rockets stashed in the basement, when the guard hit the detonator of one of the rockets...
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To good not to repeat! IDF, CIA wet team, smiles all the way!
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Something's a little...off...with the detonators and suchlike lately. Dontcha think?
Sounds like Israel has managed to get most of the bugs out of that C-4 resonator they've been working on. Sweep the area with the beam on "high" and see what explodes.
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The Pattani Provincial Court yesterday handed down life sentences to five terrorists insurgents who torched a temple and burned a monk and two temple boys to death in a murderous rampage that shocked the country in 2005. The five, led by Arduenan Wate, were among 11 suspects detained by police following an attack at Wat Phromprasit in Panare district.
Officers found the charred bodies of the three victims. The attack sparked outrage across the country and threatened to further divide the Muslim and Buddhist communities in the southern border provinces. The remaining defendants were acquitted for lack of evidence.
The five men escaped the death penalty as they had confessed to police. However, their lawyer Korde Kortae, of the Association of Muslim Lawyers, said he would appeal the verdict.
In Narathiwat yesterday, a bomb aimed at a group of military officers sent to clear nails and spikes off a village road in Cho Airong district failed to explode, police said. The bomb was hidden near an electricity pole along the road where the nails and spikes were scattered. The device was wired to be set off by mobile phone but failed to detonate, officials said.
In Rueso district, police arrested Hamadsulyadai Bayo, 25, who allegedly killed a villager in the district early last month. Police said they had evidence linking him to the murder even though Mr Hamadsulyadai strongly denied the allegation.
In Pattani's Yarang district, four men ambushed a pick-up truck carrying security officials. The attack damaged the vehicle but no one was injured, police said.
DILI (Reuters) - East Timor's military and international forces have launched an operation against rebels hiding in hills near the capital following an assassination attempt on the country's president, the military chief said on Saturday.
Nobel laureate Jose Ramos-Horta, 58, is recovering in hospital in Australia after being shot and critically wounded at his home in Dili on Monday in an attack by rebel soldiers. Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao escaped injury in another shooting, also believed to have been carried out by followers of rebel leader Alfredo Reinado who was killed during the attack on Ramos-Horta.
"We know that residents are hiding them (rebels). We call on the people to stop protecting them because by doing so they put their lives at risk," East Timor's military chief, Brigadier-General Taur Matan Ruak, told a news conference. "We call on the people to contribute to a peaceful solution to the problem. For two years they supported Alfredo, but what have they got?"
Gun sex?
Ruak said security forces were questioning more than 30 people in relation to the attacks and would start going to people's houses to look for the rebels.
Sri Lankan fighter jets bombed and destroyed a Tamil Tiger forward operating and sea training base in the islands rebel-held far north on Friday, the military said.
However, there were no immediate details of any casualties from the raid in the northeastern district of Mullaittivu, a day after the air force said it had destroyed a rebel camp in the same area. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam were not immediately available for comment on the latest burst of civil war violence, and there were no independent accounts of what happened. We believe that it (the base) has been substantially damaged, said Air Force spokesman Wing Commander Andrew Wijesuriya.
Forward operating base: Basically its their forward operating base to launch operations in Welioya and it is also used to train sea Tiger cadres. Fighting between the military and the Tigers has intensified since the government formally scrapped a 6-year-old ceasefire pact last month. The government says the rebels had used the truce to re-arm and has vowed to crush them.
Sri Lankan forces are trying to drive the rebels from their northern stronghold and bring an end to a 25-year civil war, but analysts say neither side is winning and predict the fighting will grind on. The International Committee of the Red Cross said it was deeply concerned about the growing number of civilian casualties among more than 70,000 people estimated killed since 1983. The ICRC said 180 civilians were reported killed and around 270 wounded so far this year in bombings on buses, train stations and in the streets.
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See STARTEGYPAGE > THE HIDDEN WAR IN SOUTH ASIA [Sri Lanka], + LEADERSHIP: INDONESIAN GENERALS TELL THE TRUTH. "Equipment Blues" of the Indon armed forces.
Tehran is bent on avenging the death of its top terror tactician Imad Mughniyeh who was struck down by a bomb planted in his car in Damascus Tuesday, Feb. 13. Even before the high-ranking Iranian military investigation team, headed by Gen. Ghassem Soleimani, chief of the IRGCs al Qods Brigades, began a rush job the next day, Israel was singled out as the target for punishment by Iran, Hizballah and Syria.
(Mughniyeh's) death may have been fabricated to provide Iran, Syria and Hizballah with a strong casus belli to attack Israel without further delay and so repeat the Arabs Yom Kippur success 35 years ago in catching Israel unawares.
Syria also launched a probe to identify the long arm which hit the shadowy master terrorist under the noses of its security services.
Some of the theories and rumors swirling around these probes were planted to muddy the waters by Iran, Syria, Hizballah, Israel and some Lebanese quarters. Arab newspapers, for instance, claimed Saturday that new leads link Arab intelligence services to the crime; ex-Israeli undercover agents pointed the finger at Lebanese Christian Maronites.
Wait til we tell them about the grassy knoll.
An intriguing conspiracy theory emanating unexpectedly from Western sources was suggested by the veteran CNN correspondent Jim Clancy. In his view, Mughniyeh, the consummate master of deception, may still be alive. Others took the theory further and suggested his death may have been fabricated to provide Iran, Syria and Hizballah with a strong casus belli to attack Israel without further delay, and so repeat the Arabs Yom Kippur success 35 years ago in catching Israel unawares. According to this line of thinking, because Iran is forging ahead with the development of a nuclear weapon which Israel has said is unacceptable, rather than wait for Israel to strike, the clerical rulers of Tehran resolved on preemptive action.
Mughniyehs death, real or phony, provided the motive.
DEBKAfiles intelligence sources have gleaned some facts from the early stages of the highly secretive inquiries and separated them from the theories.
1. Tehran, Damascus and Hizballah are determined to inflict military-terror punishment on Israel whom they accuse of liquidating their key agent, Imad Mughniyeh. Most Israeli government spokesmen see this attack coming in the form of a terrorist strike against an Israeli or Jewish target overseas, on the lines of the 1992 bombing attacks on the Israeli embassy and Jewish cultural center in Buenos Aires which cost more than 100 lives. Nonetheless, the army, navy, air force and homeland defense forces are on a high state of preparedness on Israels northern borders.
Hizballah announced Saturday, Feb. 16, that it had placed 50,000 of its members on the ready for any eventuality (i.e. directives from Tehran). Personnel at the US embassy and other institutions in Beirut were ordered to be on their guard for attacks, keep a low profile and refrain from using their cell phones.
2. Irans supreme ruler Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave the order for Tehran to take charge of the inquiry to identify the hand which killed Mughniyeh, according to our Iranian sources. No time was lost in obeying him. Wednesday, Feb. 14, hours after the assassination, a military mission was in Damascus, led by Gen. Soleimani, whose al Qods Brigades are responsible on behalf of the IRGC for Iran-sponsored terrorist operations in Iraq, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Its other members are Adm. Mohammad Fadavi, Dep. Commander of the IRGC Navy, who set up the near-clash between Iranian speedboats and US warships in the Strait of Hormuz in January; and Gen. Morteza Rezai, former chief of the IRGC intelligence branch.
3. DEBKAfiles Iranian sources add that the appointment of Soleimani, a close crony of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to lead this sensitive mission, confirms the presidents dominance in national operational decisions, in concert with the Revolutionary Guards. Their decisions are submitted to Khamenei for final endorsement. Two people, therefore, Ahmadinejad and Khamenei, will determine the nature and scale of Irans retaliation for the loss of its high-value master terrorist and strategist.
4. Soleimanis preliminary report reveals that the damage was worse than first thought. Not only was Mughniyeh killed by the bomb planted in his car but also some of his bodyguards and senior Hizballah operatives. Syrias secret services have fallen down completely in guarding Iranian officials and officers resident or visiting their capital.
5. The national team directing Israels emergency actions was set up without publicity. Our sources disclose it is headed by the Mossad chief Meir Dagan and composed of prime minister Ehud Olmert, defense minister Ehud Barak, chief of staff Gaby Ashkenazi, and Shin Beit director Yuval Diskin. The only hint of Dagans key role came with the announcement Friday, Feb. 16, that his term of office as head of the Mossad had been extended for another year until the end of 2009.
Many will take this announcement as an indirect admission of the Mossads responsibility for killing the Hizballah commander and a reward for its director.
The Iranian and Israeli teams, keeping their cards close to their chests, are tensely watching events, poised to seize control of any unforeseen situation before it gets out of hand. Four days after Mughniyehs death, a military clash appears unavoidable.
An intriguing conspiracy theory emanating unexpectedly from Western sources was suggested by the veteran CNN correspondent Jim Clancy. In his view, Mughniyeh, the consummate master of deception, may still be alive. Others took the theory further and suggested his death may have been fabricated to provide Iran, Syria and Hizballah with a strong casus belli to attack Israel without further delay, and so repeat the Arabs Yom Kippur success 35 years ago in catching Israel unawares.
what the hell.... here's an idea lotp...
idea: Latent Pregnancy.
Perhaps Imad Mughniyeh was offed in an time honored, Islamic Honor killing?
He became preggers, or had a dream, false preggers.. and was stoned to death in Damascus?
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Interesting idea. But it would require everybody in the Iranian heirarchy be stupid enough to think that the world in general would accept as a causus belli the murder of a terrorist so toxic that the mourners had pretended him a nonentity up to the very moment of the news of his alleged death.
Now, I'm not saying that isn't possible. The Iranians occasionally seem to live in Red Queen Land. It just doesn't seem very plausible out here in the real world.
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I'm sure Iran and Israel would have just lived in peace if Mughniyeh had survived. Iran doesn't even need a pretext, just a time.
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This ignores the obvious. If Iran plans to attack Israel, how?
The only offensive force in the area is Syria, and if they tried invading Israel, not only would the Israelis chop them up, but the US would conquer Syria before the sun set, with top combat division right next door.
Hezbollah has no capability for a ground offensive.
Missiles fired from Iran would have to cross Iraq and US air defenses, some of the thickest in the world right now, then contend with Israeli air defenses, also pretty impressive.
The Syrians and Hezbollah might try a missile barrage, but the Israelis have fortified the heck out of their northern border with both typical ADA but also Phalanx weapons. And after both Syria and Hezbollah shot their wad, Israeli missile retaliation would be a mother.
Something Israel has not demonstrated yet, but would leave a lasting impression, to say the least. And they wouldn't even need to go nuclear.
At least 11 Lebanese soldiers were allegedly wounded in a confrontation with rioters in Beirut, according to radio reports. The army command, however, did not issue any communique regarding the alleged development.
The report said 10 privates and a captain were being treated at the military hospital from wounds suffered while trying to prevent rioters from smashing cars in the Abdul Nasser square of Beirut the day before. The report said rioters attacked soldiers with batons wounding the soldiers and inflicting damage to eight U.S.-made M-16 assault rifles. The rioters, the radio report claimed, were supporters of Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri's AMAL movement.
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Insurgents ambushed a police vehicle in southwest Afghanistan, and the three-hour gunbattle that followed left four policemen dead. 
The Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) yesterday recovered 46 grenades from Shimulia village under Debhata upazila of Satkhira district. Sources said a team of Rab intelligence went to the district on Thursday night following confessions of Mufti Moin Zandal, a top leader of Mufi Hannan led Harkatul Jihad (Huji), arrested in Dhaka earlier. In Satkhira, they picked up Nazrul Islam Gharami, 55, of Shimulia village from Nalta Bazar, five kilometres off the village.
Spain's interior ministry confirmed Saturday that two men arrested by French police were believed responsible for a fatal bombing at Madrid airport in December 2006 by the Basque separatist group ETA. Mikel San Sebastian, 29, and Joseba Iturbide, 30, are suspected of belonging to the Elurra commando which carried out the attack at Madrid airport which killed two people in a multi-storey car park, the ministry said. 
A German man of Pakistani origin has been arrested in south-western Germany on suspicion of working for Al Qaeda, the office of the federal prosecutor said. The suspect, identified as Aleem N, made four trips to the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan where he handed over at least 4,000 euros to Al Qaeda operatives each time, it said in a statement. The trips took place between April 2005 and June 2007, and also served to smuggle radio equipment and binoculars to the organisation, it said.
ISLAMABAD (Rooters) - A suicide car bomb outside a Pakistani election candidate's office killed 37 people in the violent northwest on Saturday, the last day of campaigning for an election meant to complete a transition to civilian rule.
Ten members of the newly formed 
Abdur Rashid, another suspect in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case, 
At least one Frontier Constabulary (FC) trooper and dozens of militiants were killed when unknown miscreants attacked an FC checkpost in the limits of Matani Police Station late on Thursday, police said on Friday. An FC trooper was injured in the attack. Matani Police Station duty officer Gul Muhammad told Daily Times that militants, armed with rocket launchers and other weapons, attacked the Kashan Ghar checkpost located close to the Darra Adam Khel region at around 1.30am. He said Subedar Abdul Samad died while Fayyaz was injured. Gul said it was unclear whether the militants had come from Darra or Peshawar.
Separately, unidentified miscreants fired a rocket on the Agency Headquarters Hospital in Landi Kotal late on Thursday, but no casualties were reported. Political authorities told Daily Times that the rocket fired at around 12pm damaged the toilets of the hospitals ladies ward. Doctors and paramedics of the Landi Kotal hospital protested against the rocket attack. They shut down the hospital, marched in the nearby market and chanted slogans against the administration. 
Security forces killed two and arrested nine people in Dera Murad Jamali, reports said on Friday.
Raids on al-Qaida forces in northern Iraq have resulted in seven insurgents being killed and more than a dozen arrests, according to the US military. But local police said Friday that two women and two US-allied fighters were among those killed. 
Gunmen have stormed a house in Saddam Hussein's native village in Iraq and shot dead nine members of his clan, some women and children, police say. The former Iraq leader, hanged for crimes against humanity a year ago, is buried in Awja village, about 180km (110 miles) north of Baghdad. 
Sri Lankan fighter jets bombed and destroyed a Tamil Tiger forward operating and sea training base in the islands rebel-held far north on Friday, the military said. 
Tehran is bent on avenging the death of its top terror tactician Imad Mughniyeh who was struck down by a bomb planted in his car in Damascus Tuesday, Feb. 13. Even before the high-ranking Iranian military investigation team, headed by Gen. Ghassem Soleimani, chief of the IRGCs al Qods Brigades, began a rush job the next day, Israel was singled out as the target for punishment by Iran, Hizballah and Syria.
At least 11 Lebanese soldiers were allegedly wounded in a confrontation with rioters in Beirut, according to radio reports. The army command, however, did not issue any communique regarding the alleged development.
